The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-27
BIN Arp Discusses q Privilege Ouess

Mr.. EDITOR: It IL not my disposi
tion to complain much about ANYTHING
but then 1t sometimes becomes On neces
hairy for an umble individual to Get him,
sell right before the public as it is 70,
Alex. Stephens, or any other member OF
Congress who has TO publish q weekly
personal card. I therefore rise 20 Z
question of privilege. when was com.
menting6n my last upon the hardship,
and severity Of the cid blue lava oI
Connecticut, and mentioned one OF 'en1
that fined man twenty ahillings for
kissing" his vic on GNnday, some Ia.
G'vldual In your office, iI.sss,,.-1...ed by
Satan, made me TO say "killiugn instead
OF kissing; and the idea has gone forth
to your numerous readers that my opinion
isshat the fiEs was too much, .ass.. Il was dis.
proportioned &c the ofIense. Then, again,
ita q reasonable inference that if it1 was
only twenty shillinge for killing n wife
on Sunday, it wouldn't be anything on q
MoD5ay. I'm afraid I'll never rat over
Chit. That type setter 80, + reckon: q
UniverBalist, and haa no fear of the bsd
place, or else he's tied to o wife ia iay,
that he cant manage no better than he
does his mother-in-iaw, and II med ba.
cause the old blue lava are out of date.
b mons think that the intention oE the
auti.Sunday wife kissing law was good,
considering that those old puritanB
wanted TO force q man 10 be extremely
humble and abjcct on the Lords day.
1or II man has got o pretty. wife, and
she comes out arreyed in hor., best
clothes with Q little touch Of, cologGe :n
the hair and Q sweet Sunday ami,e HS!n
her lips, he had bettor not occulgte much
y he is eerionsIy trying to be humble,
for there 10 o degree Of exhaltation about
that business that knocks up. ell hui
mility: Well, the scriptures do cay that
when Jacob kissed Rachel he lifted up
his voice and wept, but reckon that
was because she wasn't his wife, right
then, and he was afraid she neves would
be. Or it may be she was the firsh vo.
man he ever did kiss, and it oyen.onis
him 30 he wePt for joy. I've often ,.an.
dered nt the poor fellows devotion to ,.e
girl-worked for the stingy old father
fourteen yeers for nothing, and had TO
take the girl in rotati9n,' at that. Miss
Rachel Laben must have been the pret-
hese girl in all the country TO have In
.??EEiHFsa that long suffering suTe,, foF tttns
IKE OF It don't happen now. O Jays, pei.
tber among Jews nor Gentiles. The main
thing now 10 not how pretty ebe Ia, bus
how much boot willthe old, man throty
In. wish could SEQ younp I man
dead in love with purity girl, and when
he aaked for her hear the old man saw.
well, that's oil right, you may have her.
but yon must set in and plow and hoe
and dig on my farm for eeven years first.,'
why he would take it aa an insult, and
run away with her in two weeks. / cav
seven years He would'n work nary iicE.
but, he would want the old man to work
for. him willie he and Angina we're
spending the summer at Cstoosa Springs,
But reckon its all right, only [ don't
IKE TO hear OIL young man examining
the old mans tax returns before he courts
his daughter. One day I was called be.
fore the war to help an old man parcel
out his property; thought be wanted to
make will, but no, he wanted to ad-
minister on bis own estate Just like he
was dead, for he had an itsea that some
OF his children were getting little inn
patient. He said be wa,ited to please
'em, but he didn't want to do to do It and
80 ne divided his negroes and, his lands
snc his stock and notes as 4 money gil
into ak lots, Eve for the children and
one for the widow, and he gavo is to 'em
by deeds and bills of sale, and then he
went home happy and lived with his
widow till he died. I reckon that's q
very good way, for when 8 man gets old
and tired, its we'll enoughato cut loose
from cara and business and execute his
Own will, provided ne keeps enough to
make hir1self comfortable. It is q piti.
full sight to see G man work as hard as
A. I. Stewart did, and as soon ms he dies
some fe'.er, no kin to him, stems in and
gobbles up his earnins, and then some
.yandals come along and steal his bones
and hide 'em. That's bad, amt Ii? 7
believe I'd rather be what I am D On ,uul.
bio farmer with good pleasant home
and not enough Of this worlds Goods TO
o1oitto any b0dy 8 envy. y
I've worked hard to.day. harder than
usual, and Pm tired, and when I'm tired.
I feel honest and happy. I've been
setting out potato slips. and had TO ss,,
down to it,. It's back bendiup 'eG;;
knee bending business. MIR. Mof,,a
sent me ahes,t 1000 from Vine Hill, and
q awhole LOT of tomato plants. and as tls
day was cloudy, mo and Ralph. ioSa
Oeli @OioS osi0CLtUUk tu0 JOY. rtHG
don't raise ouch slips down here; they
were nearly two feetlong I thought at
first they were some Of last years vfpes
he had enBillated and kept over. I be.
iieve 1t would pay me to 90 up and STAY
o month with him and learn how TO- do
things. If was young man I would
choose horticulture for ny n;sossesaSori;
there's HioTe refinement about il than
farming. s.i d ~
/. Now, if somebody viii tell my wife
how TO- raise young turkeys she will.be
perfectly happy !, abe has g sick cue
every day wrapped up in sgfag by the
fir9 end It. die5 every time, and tie chill.
dren dig another little grave and bury
IL and stick up two more sticks. MyWiie
gives ,en black pepEefand onions mir.
cyl with c.ss ::s. thing else thu thu
the old women tell her, but they lust
keEp dying like they did last year. It
gfieves the good woman to see the ,itsle
thinga suffer so. md it gfieyes NE TO
think ! wont have any for Christmas un.
less buy 'em. Yours,
Bill Arr.
Gainesville, Ga. May Is, 80.
n ~ 5tas, .st
- Henry Watterson deals with story
long current in political circles that iii.
dsn held mortgage for $3.50, 900 on the
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