The Osceola times., 1878-08-03

Deoutliul W0rlu. let m6, NJ ieeet, tIy
70 be as happy as I CAM Margaret E
Sangster.. WISH ,ia'
Bill Arp-What He Thinks Of Binding
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Mr.. Editlir ,5i The harvest is over.
Great expectations have not bsen real.
lied. Farmin' Is good deal like 6shin' ;
zee yourrelf c6tc6i6 EN-. tdt xsvsYtryin'
every hele u Ebe Geet ecs - kD9e
sorrowfully, witb 50 fshirYa4ss luck.
But we are not complaininP byHb means
for we've got wheat enuf for biskit every
day and light-bsead on Suhdsy, and {
few bushels 10 spare for then anssls
that's cum along unawasss suM a .thast
days boa OF ytiayDl nj .yi~a1 80
We finished cuttin' the oat crop thia
mornin', aud what with them and he
clover already housed, the cattle efe bafe
for another year I imsgine they look
ssssy and thankful bat, Is for me. Mr..
Editor, ! am . used up individual. Dusin'
harvest Ihave had to Be- hinder, and II
you don't know What that b, ask HsPria.
ithe ends OF these 6ngess which are now
inscribin' this spistle are in q bad fx.
Skaritide and stuck up With bull nettles
and briars, they are - sore a . school
boys bile. There was sum vsriation 10
my business, such a scstchin' young
rabbits and fndin' partridge nests and
pickin' dewberries; bal the poasnce
wore off the first day, and, ,by the spd ot
the next, my VIE says I wae q humble
q man as any woman could desire. IT.
. nifty party thing to write about and
make up oads Aud -pomes.s The golden
grain, the manly sssapess, Ahe strussih'
sheaves, the song OF tbs asvsttesu, md
purity Miis Rath0 anqysttip' aronud ths
fields Of old man Boaz, and "how jokin'
did they driys their team aAeA,p 10 all
sweet and nice 70 man UP . tree
with an umbrsl; but IL them r,oets
had to tie wheat half a dry ina June
sun their sentimehtality would hence.
forth seek another subjeky ya.t odi .iih
/ tried swingin' the cradle awhils, but
somehow or somehow else ] couldp't en-
actly get the lick, , 1t wsaent the kind
of a cradle I've been used to, and Pm
too old \ dog to learn new, tricks now.
The swing Of the fsapers cradle ID q
very peculiar motion-vefy regular In
its irregularity, and goes ior the weeds
and bushes and bhars and the WHEAT sli
the same. Somehow or other IL re-.
minds me of an Independent candidate q
side wipin' around to get off, in twists
fed way. Well, ! IKE Independence,
and that's why I like fhrmin'- n'--no-
body to look to for lvin' but Pro-
vidence. / Nike ID 49, b man lnde.
pendent in opinion, and in action, too,
and If he suckseeds It shows
that there ia gum In him but It won't
do to run that schedule too long or too
far in politics or religion. Bonaparte
and Beecher tried II, and II they cuuldn't
keep it up. nobody can't. Everybody
has got to fall into line some time. For
q while all soFtsi Of people will pat an
independent ON The back and say, "Go
it, my lsrkey--bully for you !" but ,he.
fore long they'll begin to think over
what q good, tat thing he's got, and then
human Datrre, which you know IL ~
mean a. the devil, Win crop out, md the
next time they'll drop MN % eusy he
went know It. On she whole, the asp@rins
man had better 90 along sn0othly with
his party or his'chprch or bis copaiinen
a. the case may BE-, Had - 1.it,f.l,
General Black says he TO me, says be
"Bill, as you are goin' to iarmin', Let
me give yon a piecs Of advice: Don't
90 Of on new hines, but watch your
nabors, and do purity much - they do"
Well, he didn't mean 10 the nabom
went barfaoted In the snmmsr tins and
slept in Q shirt and washed their feet In
. skillet, and their darten worked In the
6eld and dipped snuff We must do 20
too, by no means But he meant TO Asy
that the kind Of hfnin' that b sustained
BY the majority Of fAFnefs was nifty apt
TO be tie best. sil ioi ,xiigpDsa llnl q
jesse with gettip' olRs- the, best ,w>g
8 the old way. 1t may be, however,.
that Providence does raiSe up 4 nan =
an instrument TO reform society,
but the In trument il very
likely 70 think he enpi h ddoin'L &
all on his own hook and hen kesp o.
seformin' till the millennium ii tha peo-
pie wilt lot him. think Il wunldehe
we'll enough for him TO report progress
come time, and maybe the good, Eord
would let his servant depart in peace.
But you let a feltr git 4 taste Of Wash.
ington, and it does look onposrible 10
even get him sway from there. ~ will
stand for rs-slection ~ Or course be
will; but IL does sesm to me thst II !
had held Q iotAtsn ofioe right straight
along for forty ,years ! would hunt The
shade Of Liberty Hall and quit. Why,
there's forty men 10 that district besn
patiently waitin' twenty years for his
chance. and he's now proposin' 70 outlivs
EN- oil and himself, too. Spose be doss
want to dis In harness, what's that to
Berry Houck Z? THERE'S sum other gan
tlemep worthy and well qualified, who
would take the gears kindly, and work
in 'em, too. But If hyd ! horse that
wore out his breachin' 1 ho3din' back up
hill, and hadent pulled nsSy pound in
seventeen years, be wouldn't die In ny
harness, sbore. he mout hunt smother
waein. I've no idee Of. toadying q man
who toadies everybody and every thing
don't like, from General Grant down
TO patent medicine and there's heap
OF fofks my way Of thinkin'. Every
time think aboutit hear myself ex-
chinin,. "Time out--nextv'
Yours, .a -lrr BILL Arr.
PsonABLv the most upsxceptienable
explanation Of tbe cause of the sscent Of
the sap in plsuts hss been that advanced
By NJ. Joseph Boehm, Evaporation
ls-s..~ H~rp;v>d xhn sss renSo. <1l1a ~ 4