Wichita eagle., 1888-10-05
TROUBLE BORROWERS.
PEOPLE WHO PERSIST IN eROPHE-
SYING UNPIEASANTNESS


Men and Women Who Live in Continual
Authorization Of DisasterA Long List
Of Forebodinss-An Ancient Story az
Welsh Legend.
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 q 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 scrupulosity Of the month Of March
in the tradition; they keep it for themselves,
they roll it over and let it gather accretiou,
they make much Of it. and they grow so
weary with the weight Of it that when real
trouble comes there is no strength 70 bear
that, and the nervous powers fail at the time
when they are most needed
Is there to be that most festive Of all festi-
walls in the family, a wedding, the trouble
borrower Is sure that the bride Is lamb led
to the slaughter, or that the bridegroom Is
now 70 be lost forever TO the family in being
adopted into the new wife's family, and that
nobody knows where they VIII al be year
from that day. Or else the trouble borrower
is sure that the church will be cold and they
viii get their deaths, or the dress will never
come from the dressnakers in tine, or, with
the lovers well known dilatory character, ne
viii De SIRE to be late az his own wedding.
Not even funeral satisfies this trouble Dor
rower-an occasion when one might feel as II
there were already on the spot trouble and 70
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 Of rich
men who persist in living; yet there as well
as elsewhere the borrower Will be sure
to find reason to anticipate disaster. At
the christening, again, 1t is the borrower
who, if not the bad fairy of evil gifts in per-
son, is the one who sees that fairy coming,
never By any possibility the bright fairy, the
good fairy; and a child does not undergo
teething in the family where the borrower
makes e home for which, from the first
tooth to the last, trouble is not to be e1-
tracted. An urchin 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 ct once forecast Of a
Ounce.
In business matters it is as bad: this debtor
is not going to pay, that creditor is going 10
be ine1orable. 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 lurid light of the flames Of the bottomless
Dit, 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 a sunshiny, balny 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
a genial spring. Then it is untinely weather,
and the premature buds will ell be nipped by
the frosts to come, and there viii be no fruit
On the other hand, has the bad weather held
its own till late, knowing apparently, with
that strange intelligence Of the elements,
th7t everything win come on in the stronger
and longer sunshine with about the same
CELEBRITY as If it had not had its own freer and
lingering play, the great law OF compensa-
tions acting with inaninate as with all other
of the departments Of nature! Why, then
the summer is never going to be long enough
to ripen anything, and If there should not be
g real famine in consequence, yet prices VIII
put food out of the reach Of the poor. and
the balance of trade between the continents
will be disturbed, and there viii be a change
in the rate Of discount of the Bank OF Eng
land
Nobody is made so uncomfortable by all
this borrowing of trouble as the borrower
himself, although, Of course, every body ii
the region is disturbed and vexed by @he
habit 1t is q habit that takes en- serious
freaks sometimes If die" said woman
of this sort Just before breathing her last, II
forgive her, but If get well mean to have
a reckoning with her" which seems like a
draft for trouble on futurity worthy OF an
altogether unique borrower.
There is, too, an ancient story OF Welsh
legend which he's always seemed TO Us a case
in point, grandiose case, where the trouble
was anticipated, borrowed and received on a
gigantic scale which would open the eyes Of
the common household trouble borrower with
arnazemeut and with chagrin, too, on account
Of the feeble opportunities Of today.
There were two kings formerly in Brit
ain,n the legend says, named Nynniaw and
Peibiaw As these two ranged the fields one
starlight night, See said Nynniaw who at
this point seems something of poet, what a
beautiful and extensive field I possessp
Where is itP said Peibiaw. The whole
armament said ! yuniaw, FAR a5 vision can
extend And dcst thou see said Peibiaw,
what countless herds and focks Of cattle ard
sheep have depasturing thy fleldF Where
ere theEr said Nynniav. Why, the whole
host Of stars which thou seest,' said Peibiaw,
and each OF golden eFulgeace, with the moon
for their shepher1ess 70 superintenS their
wanderings' They shall not Craze in my
pasture said Nynniaw who now appears to
have been fly named. They shall, said
Peibiaw. They shall not said one; They
SHALL said the otber, repeatedly, bandyug
contradiction, until at last il arose 70 wild
contention between them, end from conter-
ton 1t cane to furious war, until the armies
and subjects OF both were nearly annihilAsed
II the deso.ation- n-Harper's Bazar-