Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-10-23
Murders of Sunshine.

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blotted out, all animal and vegetable
! life would soon die and the Torrid
Zone turned into the Frigid. Sum
shine is synonym of that which is
bright, cheerful and benefcent. a
| disposition possessing this kind of
nature will find tranquil happiness
under all the various circumstances of
life and also a dispenser of happiness
to all who come within their charmed
circle. You are always glad to see
these kind of people, they never come
untimely. they are always welcome.
Like a CLEAN of sunshine, they make
every place they visit warmer, bright
er and more cheerful.
| A peevish, morose, fault-hnding
disposition will murder human happi-
ness. These fault-hnding people will
look at other peoples imperfections
with the finest microscope, and at
their own faults with Lick telescope
turned upside down. They will
strain gnats of other peoples imper-
fections, swallow huge camels of their
own faults. These people whom you
shut up in jail or string up on the
gallows do not do the amount of mis-
chief in the world as morose, fault
finding disposition in the household,
church or community.
| Unfortunately, you can't shut such
people up. You have to let them go
on blighting peace and assassinating
happiness. Your inspiration may be
ninty degrees in the shade, but when
you come in contact with such char
acters, it will drop down to fifteen de-
grees below zero. Put these two
principles down as having no excep-
tons, viz. The people who see the
most faults in other people are them
selves the most full of faults, and the
more you see the faults in yourself
the more lenient you are with other
people.
These fault-fnders with a super
cilious, pharisaical and always bias
phemous air will spread on their vic
tins the lather of soft expressions of
pity, sympathy, and half-praise and
then.will sharpen their razor of criti-
cism and Misrepresentation on the
hone of their own hard hearts and
sprawl at full length upon their vic
TINS cutting mercilessly. A fault
finder never has happiness himself or
gives happiness to anyone else.
Pride murders happiness. People
who go around pulled up like wind
ball with their own merits are never
happy. Such people never find any
thing in the world quite good enough
for them. The struggle to keep up
appearances and the vain desire to be
rated somewhat clever, richer or more
important than one really is, has
hardened many heart, soured tenn
pers and caused much turmoil.
This desire for conventional recog-
milton, the thought of what people
will say, the sigh for fame or notorie-
ty will fill ones soul with mean dis
quietudes and fantastic disappoint-
ments. Pride will easily slide into
covetousness and jealousy. Life is
hell to everyone who will let such
evil spirits predominant. Jealousy
and covetousness works the mind up
to such fever that its judgements
are rash and calculations inaccurate.
The sight of house better than our
own, of a dress more costly than ours,
of jewelry and of stately equipage is
fuel that will make the fires of
jealousy and covetousness burn hotter
and hotter. A jealous and covetous
person is saddened to see pleasure
and sorrowful in the presence of
cheerfulness and JOY not his. Life to
a jealous and covetous person is like
a nightmare; it is like cave full of
crawling vermin and venomous rep
tiles.
Another thing that murders happi-
ness is a fretting, complaining dis
position. These are sins that beset
all classes of people. 1t is as com
mon as the dir you breath. In fact,
it is SO common that it has to rise
above the ordinary monotone before
you observe it. You just observe an
ordinary gathering of people on the
street corner, in the parlor or on the
car and how few moments will pass
before someone will begin to com
plain. Someone will soon say it is
TOO hot, or too cold, too dry, some
body broke an appointment, meal
is poorly cooked, or there is stupidity
bad faith on the part of somebody
Some people are such chronic
grunters, they will complain under
any condition and circumstances
They are like the old farmer who