The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-10-16
MIND YOUR owl BUSINESS.

people to mind their own business
First, because they have no business to
mind. They are oilers, hence, idle
brain is the devils workshop" Hav-
ing no business OF their own they feel il
incumbent upon them to NEEDLE with
the affairs oil others. Secondly, If they
have a business they have no mini to
attend to it strictly, letting others alone.
The number who belong to this class
is much larger than those who have no
business s. 1t is truly marvellous to see
the number OF persons with such d dis
position to interfere with the bushes
of others. 1t is, in fact, a common
practice. With many it becomes a
habit and habits become u chronic dis
ease OF the mind.
So when we find persons who are al
ways modelling with our affairs, WI
should remember it is a disease OF the
mind, and should pity rather than CEN
sure them. While this is true, we
know quite well hat this is the bane of
society. 1t keeps it in a state OF dis
order, leads to contention, and some
times to the taking of human life. OuI
first class who NEEDLES in other peoples
business will keep a whole community
in a state of contention. Let every ont
mind his own business. What a blessed
state of society what a pleasant world
this woald be shonld every n practice
this. How much more love, peace and
COOL will there would be in every COM
munity.
Let us notice q few of the causes
which lead men and women to NEEDLE
with the business of others.
l. Envy. This is one of the CON-
OF causes. Individuals wish to mo-
nopolize all the reputation for honor
and praise, therefore they car conceive
of no other way of securing honor than
by trying to detract from others. To
do this, they are compelled to NEEDLE
with thu affairs of others.
2. Another cause is curiosity. This
often leads persons to ''stick thei'
noses'' into other peoples business.
Some people know the business Of
| ,thers a great deal better than their
own. Their bump of curiosity is well
developed. Shakespeare says: with
open mouth swallowing a tailor's news
| Ali, curiosity! The cause OF all our ills,
and yet the plague that torments us
| STILL" Some people delight in asking
questions. This is the diet they sub
sist on. Silence is torture to them, and
by constant application to their calling,
they become masters of all sorts of queer
history. They mover miss anything for
the want of asking. Such persons can
| tell you OF all the weddings that are to
come off, and who the parties are; of all
| the engagements that are broken and
what the causes are whose property is
now mortgaged; who borrows money,
| and from whom, and how much inter
est they pay. They know the amount
| of every ones income, what everybody Is
worth, and what every one is in debt.
| They can tell you what their neighbors
eat, drink, wear, say or do; when they
sleep, when and where they call, when
they walk and when they ride. They
keep posted in all the domestic trouble
Pin the community, and pride them
selves on having the earliest inforina-
tion. To obtain all this they are con
tinually at their profession asking ques-
tions, pumping you or your children to
find out something they don't know.
They are careful in watching others,
gathering up chance remarks and I'M
studied expressions, then they weave
them into a nicely spun story, and start
it on its errand of mischief. Such per-
sons become the tunnels of
tons, taking in nothing for their own
benefit, but simply to pass it to another.
They are the channels through which.
all that is spoken OF others is conveyed.
Simply tunnels.
Application. Let none of you suffer
as a murderer, or a thief, or as evil doer,
or as a busy body in other mems mat
tiers. Therefore, all things, whatso-
ever, We would that men should do to
sou do ye ever 80 to them" ''Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."-
ridings.