The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-20
PEOPLE WRo TIRE Us.
They Are Always Taking About Them
selves and Their Affairs.

amy AEo always u KING = DOuL Luen-
selves and Their Affairs.
Copyright, 1892, By the United Pressl
NEW YORK, March l9.-What an amount
OF unhappiness clouds tho lives OF the hosts
Of men and women who "borrow trouble, "or
as some people phrase it. inject trouble half
way.n
There are people we know-and there are
very many of them-who always look on the
dark side Of things; prophets OF evil they
are. and miserable do they make their own
and their associates lives by their predic-
tions of cAlamities, and the preparations
they make to receive and entertain coming
woes, and torturous tribulations,
ing care corrugates their brows,
traces wrinkles around their eyes, and
| blights their lives. L. Is interest in ad-
vance, and a tremendous interest, too, that
they who borrow trouble pay for the loan.
IL they or their friends are i'll forsbodings
OF death make them still more Ill. With
their minds eye they SOS pictures OF the old
scythe-man coming for them. and instead
Of doing what they can to repulse him they
60 out TO meet him
In connection with the thoughts of a sea
voyage, they picture shipwreck and drown
ing and they see their bones whitening in
the coral caves Of ocean deeps. II their
bank account is being depleted they look
forwerd to bankruptcy and poverty ahd in
their gloomy iulaginatlons they feel the
panRs or starvation to come, gnawing at
thsir vitals. When they eat pie. or absorb
a chunk Of cheese, they enjoy-it really
seems enjoyment to them-in anticipations
the pains OF dyspepsia.
When their children laugh and romp and
| play. with the thoughtless abandon Of youth
they shake their beads and worry over the
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| their Imagination as the sure heritage Of
their little ones when they reach maturity.
II daughter is going to be married, they
do not wait for the domestic unhappiness
that may follow. They at once borrow
cruelty. desertton. divorce, and thus poison
their present lives with thoughts Of what
may be.
Their houses will surely burn, the train
they travel in will run of the track the
bank in which they deposit will break and
their ships will never come home. They
make Of earth purgatory. and even their
heaven is 1oyless, lightless aud songless,
| and they fear that their hRrps will be out Of
tune.
We would not care so much IL they would
only borrow trouble for their own use. but
the mischief is that they insist on sharing 1t
with their friends and aoquaintances.
These mental dyFpeptics are q nuisance.
pEAOAAh EAAON iDENOkS.
The man who is always having provi.
denoe interfere in his behalf is another I'M
lovable creature He is an egotlst, and he
is always tiatterlng himself that the creator
OF the universe is neglecting other things to
give attention to his affairs, even to the ex-
tent Of violating laws that wers made be
fore the foundations Of the earth were
laid.
Don't you know himl He is the man who
AWkAN l~1e a. . A.
st sea. Providence stepped ia and sto Dped
his watch over an hour one morning, so that
he missed the steamer. That was "a special
providence" he says, but be does not say
what kind Of a providence" it was that
allowed the steamer to carry off to their
death three or four hundred people Just as
good, probably, as he was.
While his special providence" is busy
saving him from all sorts of disasters by
food aud field, that same special provi-
deRce" is evidently allowing millions Of
other people to look out fer themselves, and.
as q consequence, come TO grief in many
ways, but that this is probable never seems
to occur 60 him.
do not like the man who monopolizea
the attention OF providence, but he is very
| numerous.
SOME BRAGGARTs.
The Dragging of some newspaper pub
fishers is becoming exceedingly tiresome
How they reiterate what great reforms
they have been instrumental In bringing
| about and what improvements in municipal
government and In social affairs, are due to
their dislnterested efforts for the public
good. WEAKNESS vanity, stuff, al of it. II
| you are good and great the public will find
1t out, and to repeatedly proclaim how good
and bow great you are, Is not likely - in
crease the public's estimate of you. Itis
certainly so in the case OF an Individual.
and don't see why it should be different in
| that OF a newspaper.
10 this connection haven't you noticed
that whenever an interviewer calls on a
prominent person, he finds the prominent
person reading (''sbsorbed in" he calls il
| the paper that the interviewer represents.
1t is always so. The reporter Of the Morn
ing Star always finds his victim reading
the Star, and never by any chance "glano-
ing over" the Eoening Planet or'any other
paper.
Snpposing an individual would COPY the
idea. Suppose Dr. Talmage would say,
yes Brother Jones is quito i'll. l called on
him this morning. l found him reading
| one OF my sermons, etc, " or imagine Phil
Armour saying, II dropped in on the presi-
dent of the board OF trade last evening and
discovered him gnawing one OF our justly
celebrated spare ribs, etc"
But sh II not ask you to suppose any
more. leave it with you to say IL YOU do
not think with me that the people above re-
ferred 70 are tiresome.
J. Annoy Knox.
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