The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-09

five feet high and six to ten feet in width
Wherever the earth could be got st the
stones were heaped up to make room for
cultivation. The laboreIs in the vine
Yards on the Rhine were mostly women.
What the men were doing it would be
difficult TO say, but we rather think they
were at the beer gardens.
Bill Arp-What He Thinks of Binding
The Shelves.
Mr.. Editur: The harvest is over.
Great expectations have not been real.
led Farmin' is a good deal like fishin'
every time you start out you can just
see yourself catchin' 'em, but after irwin
every hole in the creek you go home
sorrOwiully, with q fsherman's luck
But we are not complainin' by no means,
for we've got wheat enuf for biskit every
day and hght-bread On Sunday, and 8
few bushels TO spare for them angel,
that's cum along unawaTes sum of these
days.
We finished cuttin' the oat crop thi:
mornin', and what with them and the
clover already housed, the cattle are SAFE
for another year l imagine they look
sassy and thankful but, as for me, Mr.
Editor, l am a used up individual. Durin'
harvest l have had to be a binder, and II
you don't know what that is, ask Harris
The ends of these fingers which are now
inscribln' this epistle are in bad fix.
Skarifide and stuck up with bull nettleS
and briars, they are as sore as a school
boys bile. There was sum variation to
my business, such as catchin' young
rabbits and findin' partridge nests and
pickin' dewberries; but the romance
wore off the first day, and, by the end oil
the next, my wife says / was as humble
a man as any woman could desire. IT,
nifty party thing to write about and
make up Dads and PONIES. The COLDER
grain, the manly reapers, the struttin
sheaves, the song of the harvesters, and
purity Miss Ruth cOquettin' around the
fields of old man Boaz, and chow jokin
did they drive their team afield," is al
sweet and nice to man up tret
with an umbrel; but if them poet
had to tie wheat half day in Jun,
sun their sentimentality would hence
forth seek another subiek.
| tried swingin' the cradle awhile, bu
somehow or somehow else / couldn't ex
actly get the lick. 1t wasent the kin,
of cradle I've been used TO, aud IN
too old dog to learn new tricks now
The swing of the reaper's cradle Is
very peculiar motion-very regular il
| its irregularity, and goes for the weed
and bushes and briars and the wheat al
/ the same. Somehow or other it Re
minds me OF an independent candidate
/ side wipin' around to get Off in a TWIST
| fed way Well, I ike independence
and that's why I like farmin'--nC
/ body to look to Tor a Twin but Pro
violence | like to see a man indt
pendent in opinion, and in action. toe
and if he suckseeds it show
/ that there Is gum in him but it won
/ do to run that schedule too long or 10
/ far in politics or religion. Bonapart
and Beecher tried it, and if they couldn'
/ keep it up, nobody can't. Everybod
has got 20 fall into line some time. Fo
a while all sorts of people will pat q
independent on the back and say, d" G.
it, my Iarkey-bully for you - but b,
fore long til ~ begin to think owe
what good. az ,ia ms got, and the
humsn nature. which you know is s
mean as the devil will crop out, and tn
next time they'll drop him so easy h
went know it. On the whole, the aspirin
man had better go along smoothly wit
his party or his church or his cOpartner
as the case may be.
General Black says he to me, SAYS he
'BIll, as you are goin' TO iarmin', L
me give you piece of advice Don
go of on new lines, but watch YOU
Majors, and do purity much a they do.
Well, he didn't mean If the nab0
went barfaoted in the summer time an
slept in a shirt and washed their feet
a skillet, and their darters worked in IL
field and dipped snuff, we must do
| too, by no means But he meant 10 "a
that the kind of farmin' that is susfaine
by the majority of farmers was nifty al
10 be the best.
Jesse with gettin' ofis-the best wa
the old way. 1t may be, howeve
that Providence does raise up & man 8
an instrument to reform societ,
but the in trument is veI
likely TO think he is doin'
all on his own hook and he'll keep c
reformin' till the millennium If the pc
pie will let him. ! think it would I
well enough for him to report progre
some time, and maybe the good Lol
would let his servant depart in peac
But you let Teller git taste Of Was
ington, and it does look impossible
even get him away from there. 3" wi
stand for reelection" OI course /
will; but it does seem to me that if
had held Iotaten Office right straigl
along for forty years / would hunt Il
shade of Liberty Hall and quit. VIII
there's forty men in that district bee
patiently waitin' twenty years for h
chance, and he's now propOsin' to outli,
'em all and himself toe. S'pose he do
want to die in harness, what's that
Berry Houck2 There's sum other ge
tlemen worthy and well qualified, wi
would take the gears kindly, and woi
in 'em, too. But if I had a horse TIL
wore out his breachin' holdin' back L
hill, and hadent pulled nary pound
seventeen years, he wouldn't die in n
harness, shore. He mout hunt anoth,
wagin. I've no idee OF toadying a ms
who toadies everybody and every thin
l don't like, from General Grant dow
to a patent medicine and there's q he,
of folks my way of thinkin'. Eve
time l think about it I hear myself e
claimin', Time out-next -
Yours, BILL ARP.