Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — Wouldn’t Borrow Trouble. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn’t Borrow Trouble.

He was an elderly man, says the Louisville Courier-Journal, but his well-pre-served countenance expanded in a genial smile that made him look ten years younger as he said: “I never allow myself to borrow trouble. Some people are always trying to effect that Joan, but I am not of their sort.” And again he smiled, diffusing light and -cheerfulness oyer the group with whom he conversed. Some five hundred milea away the poor, overworked sister of the happy man was boarding, and striving to bring under control his six worthless and troublesome children, and at the same time seeking to teach her own ill-clad, ill-fed and numerous progeny to walk in the ways of righteousness. This was why the elderly man with the genial smile spoke so cheerfully, and when his**good sister’s health finally departed from her and she lay down and died he still borrowed no trouble. During the recent heavy floods that laid under water an area of land in Somersetshire, England, twenty miles across, the rats were driven from their haunts in vast numbers. Some of them found refuge in the trees, anti others took possession of deserted houses. One instance is recorded where a laborer had occasion to visit his cottage to rescue some property left behind. He moored his boat to the chamber-window, and was about to enter, when he found the room filled with a swarm of rats, which were so ravenous with hunger that they were like a pack of wolves. Their savage demonstrations compelled the man to beat a hasty retreat to save himself from being eaten alive, Imhusonmekt for debt will soon be abolished in Florida. Landlords are purchasing boots with soles three inches tflick, and if any debtor expects to make a gain he will be sadly disappointed.