The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1886-03-25
FaETTiNa AND aaUMBLINa.


Written for the PosT.
Many very excellent persons, who
are honorable and whose characters
are noble, pass numberless hours OF
sadness and wearuess OF heart. The
fault is not With their circum stances,
nor yet with their general characters,
bat with thomselvee that they are
miserable. Everything goes wrong
With them because they make it so
Tho smallest aunoyauces chafo them
as though they were unbearable az.
gravGtions. Pleasure, they never
seem to know, because they never get
ready to oujJy it. Even tho com
mon movements OF Providence are
all wrong with them. Tue weather
is never as it should be. The climate
is always charged with q multitude
Of vices. The earth is ever ont Of
humor--too dry or too wet, too
muddy or too dusty, and the people
are just Ike it. Something is wrong
all the time and the wrong is always
just about thom. They have seen
moro than other folks know anything
about, They arc never SO we'll as
their neighbors, and they always
charge all their uahnppiness upon
those nearest connected to them
never dreaming that they are tLems
selves the authors Of it all Such
people are to be pittiod. They are
good people in many respects, very
pious, very benevolent, and very
good officers, but, withal, very au-
noying TO Themselves and others
They cannot be led TO sec that they
are the fault. They do not, perhaps
ovetestimato their virtues, but they
fail to SEQ what they lack, and. this
they always charge upon others.
A frettlpg man or woman is one Of
the most unbcGrable objects in the
world. A wasp is comfortable
bousomate in comparison. 1t only
siings when disturbed, but an habit.
ral fictter buzzcs if be docs Mt sting
with or without provocOtion. Chils
drcn ard servants cease to respect
the authority of II complaining, war;
rlsome, eXactlng paroaDt or master
They know that barking dogs don't
bite aud frctters don't strike, and
they conduct themselves according.
ly. We never knew II scolding person
that was able TO govern q family
What makes people scold? Because
they cannot govern Themselves. How
can ;hey govern others' The man
or woman who goes through the
world gruubling and frettng is not
only violating the laws of Go bat is
a sinner against the peace and bar
mony Of society, and is, and Of right
ought to bo, stunned accordingly.
They are always in hot water aud
forever in trouble, They throw the
blame of their misdeeds and want of
judgment upon others, aud if one
might believe them, society would
he found in Il shocking state. They
rail at everything, and when they
LNve no grumbliug to do they begin
to dcprlcate.
They ondcayor to make good
actions seem contemplate in other
mems eyes, Gad try TO bClittlo every
noble and praisworthy enterprise by
casting suspicion upOn those cou-
uected with them The best way
to pNralyze their efforts to create
discord, il to ignore them altogether.
Lot grumo!ers form u select circle
by themselves. Let them herd to.
gcther, give them tho cold shoulder
when they appear and make them
uncomfortable during their sojourn
Grd ii they cannot be cured, they
may be more easily endured, and
perhaps discover the error of their
Ways and reform,
ANDNVNIDJTc