The Hickman courier., 1878-07-05

sic DSVeIIs "a Season Among
The E'aIrIarchs.


ATLANTA (Ga.l Constitution
Mr. EDITUR-rhis is a most bless
land-when everything grows that
man is obleeged to have and power
Of good things throw in just to min
ister TO his pleasure. The summer
sun Is uOw iipeuing the fruits of the
earth, and wheu / see children and
nefews aud neeses rejoiciu' ia their
wander in ; over the held and orchards
II clrries me back to the blessed days
OF childhood The old field plums
aud the Wild straw berries and cherries
mulbeIries aud black berries were worth
more shan gold, and it made no diff
erenee who was priest or president, or
how rich was Astor of Girard or any
OF the nebos or whether Sal jackson ;
bonnet was purifier than MeIyann
Thompson or not W hat a glorious
luxtury it was TO go bare footed and
imb trees and hunt birds nests aud
carry the corn to mill aud leave it.
lust 10 get to run hoss race home
again, ! know now that those days
were the happies, and so | won't rob
ray posterity of the same sort, il /
eau help it, | want'em to love the
old homestead, aud want children 5
children to gather around it aud cher
i,h its memory What burlesque
on children 5 joy it must be to visit
grandma and graBdpa in crowded
city penned up in brick walls, with a
few sickly flowers in trout, aud a
garden in the rear about as big as IA
/ wagon sheet But that's the way the
ll4hipg is drifting 'iEil,s~a,aalep.atin
! III i 'tiifisres Ia ve-7UrTgserRas.sss sr-@a )
/ with the old hack log aud the blazing
! hearth stone, aud substituted furnice
( IN the basement and o few iron pipes
running around the walls and hole
+ in the floor TO let in the heat All
/ that may be economy. but in my opin
ion man cant raise good stock in no
such a way. They'll be picayunish
aud nice aud sharp featured and gim
lety, butthey won't do to bet on like
them children that's been bro't up
round a fire place on a hundred acre
farm end had plenty Of fresh air and
attitude
Mr.. Editure, pleasiu the children
is about all the majority Of mankind
are livin' for, though they don'i know
it, and if they did they wouldeut ac~
knowledge it, 1t is emphalieally the
great business of lite We look on
with wonder and amazement at the
busy crowds in great city that are
ever goin 10 and fro like a folders
elbow, aud eight out OF ten of EN- are
workiu and struGglin' to please aud
maintain the children. Is the ex-
cuse for all the mad rush Of business
that hurries mankind through the
world It's the apology for nearly all
the cheated and stealth aud lyin' 10
the laud, 10 heap of such cases
have thought the good angels would
drop tears euuf on the biz book to
blot 'em cut forever. The trouble Is,
Mr.. Editur, that mos people are al
ways livin tryin to do to much for
children, and scuffein, against wind
and tide to git just little a head of
their nabors Some Of 'em won't let a
ten year old boy go meetin or to Sun /
day school il be can't fix up as fine as
other boys. They won't let him 20
bareiootcd nor ride ba ack nor go
dirty, and so the domestic pressure for
iinery becomes tremendous Jesse T.
with bonnets and parasols and kid
gloves and silk dresses aud chanyware
and carpets and wiuder curtains and .
a thousand things that cost money aud .
run up the cutge a hecp bigger than
the incum Generally speakin this T.
home ptesS0re amt noisy Que, but,
On the contrary, i very silent aud {
sad--so sad that body would think .
here was something dead in the house.
and so after awhile sumhow or sumhow .
else the fnery comes and thus for
awhile all is screen Buc the collapse /
the children amt to blame for it +
Sumtimes when ramiGate upon the .
meaness Of mankind | wish the chill +
1ren never got grown, for they don't /
get mean or foolish until they do /
Just think what sweet time Of it old
IN tier Eve an, irs. Commodore Noah .
and aunt Meihu,aler had with thirty
or forty OF 'em weurin bibs and apern>
until they were fifty years old, toggin
along after their daddies until they
were a hundred l dou't think old
Faher Woodruff could have stood
that. When man who amt no
yearlin' gifts married and ten or a
dozen of EN- cum right strnisht along
in a row, and by the time he gets on
the piazza, tired aud srunty, they be
gin 10 climb all over him and under
him and betwixt him and on the back
OF his chair aud top of his head, its a
little more than his venerable nature
caE stand On such occasions It aio t
10 be wandered at that he gently shake>
himself aloose aud exclaims Lord
have mercy upon me But then, the
like of this must be endued It's
part Of the bargain, implied, If not ex
pressed, rs the lawyers says, and no
man ought to dodge it, llumor "em.
play hoSs and froic with EN-, wash
em'undreSs, tell EN- stories about Jack,
and the beanstalk, and what you
done when yOu was little
boy; scratch their backs and put EN- to
bed, aud. if they cant sleep get up
with EN- away in the night aud nod
around in your night gown until they
can. Let 'em trot after you heap in
week days and all day Ola Sunday aud
don'ttry to shake eff the trouble and
the possibility on the good women
who bore EN-. Solo non says;
Children are the chief end Of a
man and the glory Of his declinin
years, and rni-in Of en- Is the biggest
business | know of il this life, and
the most responsible in the life to come.
Yours BILL ARP.
a Reformed Burglar.
Charles ID Ilildebraud, reformed