Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-17

Welsh Legend.
There san ancient weather tradition about |
the month of March borrowing certain days
from April, which she pays back, not in the
same weather that she borrows, but in one
of her own glorious gales, at later date,
and this is perhaps the most poetical express
sion of the borrowing of trouble that we
have Those who borrow trouble, however,
are seldom in the habit of paying it back
with the scrupulositv Of the month of March
in the tradition; they keep it for themselves,
they roll it over and let it gather accretion,
they make much of it. and they grow so
weary with the weight Of it that when real
trouble comes there is no strength to bear
that, and the nervous powers fail at the time
when they IRE most needed.
Is there to be that most festive of all festi-
walls in the family, wedding, the trouble
borrower is SURE that the bride is lamb led
to the slaughter, Or that the bridegroom ii
now to be lost forever to the family in being
adopted into the new wife's family, and that
nobody knows where they viii all be a year
from that dav Or else the trouble borrower
is sure That the church VIII be cold and they
will get their deaths or the dress will never
come from the dressrnaker's in time, or, with
the lovers well known dIlatory character, he
will be sure to be late o, his own wedding.
Not even a funeral satisfies this trouble Dor
rower-an occasion when one might feel as if
there were already on the spot trouble and to
spare; it certainly could not be expected that
any one could be late at ones own funeral,
in spite of the feelings of the heirs f rich
men no persist in living; yet there as well
| as elsewhere the borrower Will be sure
TO find reason to antcnate disaster At
the Christening. again. it is the borrower
who. if not the bad fairy of evil gifts in per
son is the one who sees that fairy coming
| never hy any nossIbilitv the bright fairy. the
good fairy: and a child does not undergo
I teethinr in the family where the borrower
makes home. for which, from the first
| tooth TO the last. troubl, is not TO be ex-
| tracted. An urcnin cannot be sent to school
from that family where the borrower does
| not foresee an overtaxed brain and nervous
| disease and it cannot stay away from school
where there is not ut once forecast OF a
| Ounce.
| In business matters it is as bad; this debtor
| is not going to pay, that creditor is going to
be inexorable In all the concerns of life, in
| short, the borrower Is drawing on the future
always a bankrupt future in~everything
/ but sorrow; and even when it comes to
| death the borrower illustrates this life with
| the lurld light OF the h1mes OF the hottomless
/ pit, although more often concerned in that
| light for others than for ones self, it may be
said. This borrower OF ours extends operations
| even into the outer affairs OF nature. There
is never sunshiny, baimy day Of south
| winds but it is a weather breeder, and the
borrower sees no sun today for the cloud and
storm Of tomorrow. Are the first buds early,
| the bluebirds here, and all things promising
genial spring9 Then it is untimely weather,
and the premature buds viii all be nipped by
the frosts to come, ana there VIII he no frult.
| On the other hand, has the bad weather held
its own till late, knowing apparently, with
that strange intelligence Of the elements,
that everything will come on in the stronger
ard longer sunshine with about the same
celebrity as if it had not had its own freer and
lingering play, the great law oil compensa'
tions acting with inanimate as with all other
of the departments of naturet Why, then
the summer is never going TO be long enough
TO rlpen ahybhlng' anu Il there suoulu hoI x
real famine IN consequence, YET prices vii
| put food out OF the reach OF the poor. anc
the balance of trade between the continent:
will be disturbed, and there will be change
In the rate Of discount of the Bank of Eng
land.
| Nobody Is made so uncomfortable by al
this borrowing of trouble as the borrower
himself, although, of course, everybody il
the region is disturbed and vexed by tn
habit. 1t is habit that takes On serlou
freaks sometimes. IF die, said q womal
of this sort just before breathing her last, =
forgive her, but if get well mean to hav
a reckoning with her" which seems ike
draft for trouble on Iuturity worthy OF a
altogether unique borrower.
There is, too, an ancient story of Wells
legend which has always seemed 10 us cas-
IN point, grandlose case, "here tne trouoi
was anticipated, borrowed ana received on