Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — The Grumbler. [ARTICLE]

The Grumbler.

There is nothing in the world that hurts a man so mush as the habit of grumbling. Some people are like snarling dogs that never see a stranger, whether he be friend or foe, without snapping at his heels. The good in life is never good enough, and the bad is always worse than it is. The Lord couldn’t fix things right for some folks whom we have known, because whichever way a thing is done they always want it the other way. An old sinner of this ilk once confessed on her knees that she had had a heap of trouble in her life, and that most of it never happened. It is a good rule to never suffer from the toothache until the tooth begins to ache. Gen. Withers, the Kentucky horsebreeder, says that the best Btock follows the limestone rather than clay and sandstone formations. It forms a perpetual fertilizer for land, and gives out a pasturage upon which is knit tho bene and firm muscular tissues.