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

Z he ant is n mCnny footed insect.
They 1--we about one thousand livo
hundred nnd fifty of lhcm tlnore ar
less in the same hnlc ip the ground.
and hold their property in common.
They have no holy days. 10 cig'.
hour syst IN. nor never strike for any
higher wages. They are very cheerful
ht'io to,'ets. and have no malice. nor
bach Il oi tu lLcir hearts.
Thor, II 10 srdunLary loafc.s au.onr
'hcm, aud You never see one out ol a
JOB
They g't az early, 20 to bed late.
work al ihc time, and eat on the tun.
You never Jaw two anita arcu'as
some foolish question that neither OF
thcm didn't understand they didn't
care wnC Her the moon !, iJhabi,rd 90
net, whether fish weighing two
"ounds. put into pail Of water aIrcldy
j, will make the pail slop over OF
weigh mare.
! y uin't hunting after the phil-
osophc. : stone, nor citing crazy over
&C Of the sudden earthquakes.
They don't care whether Jupiter il
thirty or thrty-iiyc millions Of mile up
10 'hC air, nor whether the earth bob.
around on i's axes or not, 80 long as it
don ! bob over their korn crib aud spill
th0'r barley.
They are simple. little ants. foil ov
faith, working hard, living prndenilv.
committing no sin. prazein. Col IS
mindiuc their own business. nnd Jyip..
when their time comes, to make rom
for the next lot Of ants.
They are rcproach to the Iazy. an
encouragement e. the industrious. "A
rebuke To The vicious, and a study 10
the Chriiiln
II you want to take q lesson in ar
kitecturc, go and sit down 6y the side
of ihojr hole in the ground. and wonder
how 50 many can live 80 thick
lfyour pashuns needs consulashnn.
watch the ants and he aircng, ,bcncn.
lfa man had added to Lis canacityl
the pashuns and grit II these atoms of
animated nature. every mountain ON
the buzzom Of the earth would, before
bis have been levcled, aud every Incl;
Of surface would scream with fruitful.
rcss and countless OF human critters
would have been added to The iqhabi-
tan's of tie universe aud lin fed on
corn aud other sasp.
! have So. by the hour aud y half
down near an ant hill, and marvelled 3.
have wondered at their instincts. and
have thought how biz must be the
jackass who was satisfied 10 believe
that even an ant, the least Of tho bugs
could have been created. made bisgy.
and so; to work by chance.
Oh, how ] do pity the indiv dual who
believes that al things here are the
work OF IN accident he robs himself
OF al pleasure on earth and all right
in heaven.
| had rather be an ant Cevcn an
humble, handy legged profine swearin,
anti han to look upon thing, Of this
word as would upon the throw OF
the dice.
Ants are older than Adam.
Man (ior very wise reasons) weren't
built until other things were finished
and pronounced good.
II man had been made fIist. be
would have insisted upon bos,ing tho
rest Of the JOB,
lie probably would havc objected
to hav:u, emmy little bizzy auts at all.
and various other objections would
have been offered equally green.
] am glad that man wuz the last
thing made.
If man baden't OF bin made ut all.
You never would hay heard Inc 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 somCthinr. Their
laws. aint like our laws, male with y
hole in Them. SO that q man kan steal
hoSs aud ride thru them on a walk.
They don't have any whiskey ring.
that is virluous, simply because /.
hooks by the million, and then legal-
zcs it, own axis
They don't hav emmy legislators tha,
YOU kan buy, nor epny judges LAWN
around on the half shell, reddy to bc
swaIlered
| rather like the ants, and think now
| shall sell sell out my money aud real
esl te and jiue them.
I had rather jine them than the bulls
or beers. like their morals better.
The bulls and bears handle moro
money, i; is true, and make a great deal
more noise on Wall Street ono Of en-
sticking his horns iutoa hsbby piece
Of Erie and tossing it up into the air,
and the other ketchiog Il when il
comes down aud trsmping it under his
baws.
This may be pbun for the bulls and
bears, but is wuss than the cholera
morbus for poor Erie.
Ants never disturb Erie We eoaldu't
sell one euny Erie emmy more than you
could sell skrip 90 the Goldfish banks
of Nufouudland.
Ants are a honest. bard tugging
little people, but whether they marry,
and live in marriage, iz beyond my
strength but If they don't they are
no wuss oph than they are out West