The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-09-01
JOSH Killings Cmpcrs.

] iHe hul " u mtBny footed Insect
They live about one thousand five
hundred and fifty of them Unore or
less in the same hole in the ground.
and hold their property in common.
They have no holy days, no cigh.
hour sysl IN, nor never strike for any
higher wages. They are very cheerful
h,'ic tol'ef', and have no malice. nor
back II oi ,o thcir hearts.
Thcr, II no sedenDnry loafc.s IN onc
them, aud You never see ope out or a
JOB
They git ur early. 20 10 red late.
work al the time and eat on The lun.
You never Jaw tWo anita arru'as
some foolish question that neither OF
them didn't underS'anl they didn't
care wnc Ner the moon !, Inhabited o.
/. not whether fish weighing two
"ounds, put into pail Of water already
will make the pail slop over OF
weigh more.
I Y amt hunting after the phil
osophc \ stone, nor Citing crazy over
&C Of the sudden earthquakes.
Thcv don't care whether Jupiter il
thirty or thrty-iyc millions Of mile up
10 'hc air nor whether the earth bob.
around on i's axes or not, 80 long as il
don ! hub over their kuru crib aud spiI
thrir barley.
They arc simple, little ants. foil ov
faith, working hard, living pradenllv,
committing no sin. rrazeing God Lv
mndiug their own business. nnd dyip,
when their time comes, to make rom
for the next lot Of ants.
They are rcproach to the lazy. an
encouragement t, the industrious, "A
rebukc TO the vicious, and study 10
the Christian.
II you want to take q lesson in mr.
kitecturc, 90 and ii, down 6y the side
of their hole in the ground. and wonder
how SO many can live 50 thick.
your pashuns needs cunsolaslInn.
watch the ants and he atrcng, bcncn.
lfa man had added to bis canacity,
the rashuns and grit of these atoms of
animated nature. every mountain ON
the bu2zom Of the earth would, before
this have been levcled, and every inch
of surface would scream with fruitful.
rcss, and countless OF human critters
would have been added to The inbabi-
tants of the universe aud hin fed ou
corn and other sasp.
! have sot by the hour and q half
down near an ant hin, and marvellcd
have wondered at their instincts, and
have thought how biz must be the
iackass who was satisfied TO believe
that even an ant, the least Of tho bugs
could have been created. made bi2zy.
and sot to work by chance.
Oh. how ! do pity the indiv'dlal who
believes that al things here arc tho
work of an accident He robs himself
OF al pleasure on earth and all right
in heaven.
| had rather be an ant (cvcn nm
humble, handy legged proflnc swearing
anti .han to look upon thing, Of this
world as | would upon the throw of
the dice.
Ants are older than Adam.
Man (lor very wise rcasons) weren't
built until other things were finished
and pronounced good.
1t a man bad been made fIist. bc
would have insisted upon bos,ing tho
rest Of the lob.
lie probably would have objected
to hav'ng emmy little bizzy ants at all,
and various other objections would
have been offered equally green.
! nm glad that man wuz the last
thing made.
II man haden't Of bin made at all.
you never would hav heard me find
emmy fault with il.
| haven't much faith in man. no,
because he kant do well, but because
he wont
Ants have by laws and constitution
and they mean something. Their
laws, ant like our laws, male with n
hole ia them, so that man kan steal
hoss aud ride thru them on n walk.
They don't have any whiskey ring,
that is virluous, simply because Il
hooks by the million, and then legali-
2cs its own axis.
They don't hav emmy legislators that
YOU kan buy, nor emmy Judges LAWN
around on the half shell, reddy to DO
swallered.
rather like the ants, and think now
| shall sell sell ont my money aud real
esl te aud iine them.
had rather jino them than the bulls
or beurs. | like their morals better.
The bulls and bears handle moro
money, il is true, and make great deal
more noise on Wall Street, ono of en-
sticking his horns into habhy piece
of Erie and tossing it up into the air,
and the other ketchiog Il when it
comes down aud tramping it under his
baws,
This may be phun for the bulls and
bears, but is wuss than the cholera
morbus for poor Erie.
Ants never disturb Erie !; ye coaldn't
sell one emmy Erie emmy more than you
could sell skrip on the Goldfish banks
of Nufoundland.
Ants are honest. hard tugging
little people, but whether they marry,
and live in marriage, IL beyond my
strength; but If they don't they are
no wuss oph than they arc out West
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