The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-29

There isan 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,
ard this is perhaps the most poetical express
sion Of the borrowing of trouble that we
have. Those who borrow trouble, however,
arc seldom in the habt 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 il gather aecretion,
they make much Of it, and they grow SO
weary with the weight OF il that when real
trouble comes there is no strength to bear
that, and the nervous powers fan at the time
when they are most needed.
Is there to be that most festive Of all festi-
vals in the family, wedding, the trouble
borrower is sure that the bride is lamb led
TO the slaughter, or that tho bridegroom Is
now TO be lost forever to the family in being
adopted into the new wife's family, and that
nobody knows where they will all be a year
from that day. Or else the trouble borrower
IS sure that the church will be cold and they
will get their deaths or the dress will never
cont. from the dresSmaker's i'll time, or, with
the lovers we'll known dllatory character, he
will be sure TO be late at 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 aud to
spare: il 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
10 find reason TO anticipate 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 secs that fairy coming,
never by any possibility the bright fairy the
GOOD fairy; and a child does not undergo
teethng in the family where the borrower
makes a home. for which, from the first
tooth TO the last, trouble IS not to be ex-
tracted. An urcniu cannot be sent 20 school
from that family where the borrower does
not foresee an overtaxed brain and nervous
disease, and it canuot stay away from school
where there is not at once forecast Of
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 TIE borrower IS drawing on 'Ie la'u'e
always n bankrupt lutA'e IH every '"l'5
but sorrow; and even "A.l 10 c'i'.a" 10
death, the borrower J.. .ii''t'i.' lHi. IIe win
the .urld Light Of the fame, o, tie bot. alle,S
pr, aitAoneh more o.',' .''. ''' ''-',
lighctor others than ior one SELL 10 may De
said. THIS borrower Oh ours tA'e'''' '''A
even into the outer affairs oi h1.u:e. IA-'e
is never sunslinr, ha.WF day III souin
winds bu IL is n weather breeder and the
borrower secs no sun t1ia" for the cloud and
storm of tomorrow, Are tine first buds carly,
the bluebirds here, and au Things promising
genial spring. Then d. D, unt!me!y weather.
and the premature bcds w... all be nIpped by
the frosts to come, and there viii he mo- lruit.
On the other hand, has Tie bad weather held
il, own till late. knowing apparently, with
that strange inteliSeucs Of the clements,
that everything will come on iu tie stronger
and longer sunshine with about the same
CELEBRITY as if it he'd rot had IFS own fraer and
lncerjpr ulay. the great l4w OF compeus7-
tioUs netting with nani.nate rs with all other
If tho dopqrtmeits Of uaturct Why, then
rho spr-r,or il never roing 70 be long enough
n rinen anvthinr. and If there should not be
q real for,,no in consequence. yet prices will
INIT food o,. Of ,ho reach OF the poor. and
The balance Of t-ade between the continents
viii he disturbed. and There will be change
in tho rate Of lis cunt Of the Bank Of Eng
lord
VoboJ,. e mad, 90 uncomfortable by all
.,t, bl.,,.o,,i,o, If trouble as the borrower
he ',,r oltro@.,b ~ course. everybody in
,ha - ;s distrrbed aud yexed by the
babit r. is a habit that takes On serious
froots sometimes. oil die, said a woman
~ t,is so,.t inst before breathing her last. Il
fo.riye her but if | get well mean to have
n rec.onir, with her" which seems like q
diff for trouble on fuurity worthy Of an
ALTOGETHER uniquo borrower.
TFcre is. too. an ancient story Of Welsh
legend which has always seemed to Us q case
in point. q crandioso case, where the trouble
was ANTICIPATED, borrowed and received on
qi9antic scale which would open the eyes Of
no