The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-05
BILLS BLOOMS.
Mr.. Arp Laments the Frost Nipping
OF His Peaches.
HE ALSO CONTINUES HIS LAMENTA-
TIoNs AND TALKS WISER THAN USUAL
HE TELLS SOME GOOD STORIES,
TOO, ABOUT JUDGE LoCHRANE
TEXAS RANGER AND THE
INDEPENDENTS.
From the Atlun,a Constitution. ]

Nipped in the bud. 1t looks like there
is no security from anything. Ours was
no secondhand orchard: we planted it
and the blooms for three years have
looked 30 sweet and promising, and now
this is the third year the fruit has been
killed. suppose we could have built
little fires all about, but who knows
when to build 'em? 1t is poor comfort
to build 'em when there is no danger.
Reckon we will Just have to keep the
orchard for the flowers, like we do a
crab.apple tree, for they are mighty
pretty. One of my neighbors lives UNI
der the western slope of a mountain and
his fruit is never killed. He had plenty
last year, but the sun don't rise at his
house till it's about two hours high, and
that wouldn't suit my folks at all. Well,
it might suit the folks but it wouldn't
suit my business. 1t would be dinner
time before breakfast. The peach crop
is very uncertain among these Cherokee
hills but most everybody can have a few
trees around the house where they are
protected, We can't expect to have all
the good things in our place. My Irish
potatoes were killed down the other
morning, and that hurt my feelings, for
was little proud that ] was ahead of
my Majors. But they will come out
again, and so there is some comfort left
and good deal of hope. Hope says
the peaches are not all killed, for man
can't examine all the blooms, and may
he there will be enough for the children.
That is the main thing after all enough
for the children is what the world is
working for; enough money, or land, or
food and clothing; enough pleasure and
happiness. How we do love 'em and
worry over 'em by night and by day.
If we had no children think would
Just quit work and toll right suddenly
amigo fishing. But there is not
much time To frolic on farm at this
| season of the year, for my almanac says
"About this time plant corn, and we
are doing it all around these parts. ]
can sit on my PLACER and look into five
farms and see the darkies and the mules
and hear 'cm, too, and its gee and haw,
and git along Pete, and whar you gwine,
| Nell, come round dar, ] tell you; and
there's no end to this kind of affection.
ate, one.sidcd discourse until the horn
blows for dinner, and then the most
knowing mules give bray all round
It's astonishing how much they do know
and can be made to understand. | had
a big mule who would never give but
one pull at root unless the darkcy who
plowcd him hollcred out Rotten root,
tell you" and then he would break
that root or something else, for he had
confidence in the niger. 1t always did
seem like there was a kind of confden
tial relation between niggers and mules
Il sort of treaty of peace and equality,
for there is no other animal can stand
the darkey, and there's no othcr human
can get along in peace with mule
| When they are alone together in a big
field with long rows, the darkey talks tC
him all along the line, and the mule
| listens in respectful silence, but if two
darkies are blowing together they tall
to one another, and the mules arr
snubbed. There is power of corn be
ing planted this spring and not mdci
more than half crop of cotton so fa
as my observation goes. l hope we cal
make enough food for the country, fo,
we can do with less clothing better thai
be stinted in vittels. There is n powc
of folks dependent upon the farmers ant
great responsibility upon us. Politics
raises mighty rumpus and takes up
sight of room in the newspapers, but
when YOU compare it with farming, it al
seems sorter like monkey show that il
going on for amusement, and the farmers
feel like doing like Stewards Texan Ran
ger, who went to see an amateur musica
performance in Rome one night during
the war. He was a rough specimen
six feet and two inches, ard a hat likt
an umbrella and boots like stove pipes
and spurs that jinglcd like trace chains
couple of navy pistols to set Off hi
beard, and he paid his half dollar ant
tooka stand behind an empty bench in tn
rcar, and looked on with a lofty con
tempt, and whenever the performer
closed piece and the cheering bcga
! the ranger ratified the bench most alarm
: lngly and exclaimed, "souy, souy, souy,
like he was driving hogs, and nc kept
=, up until he monopolizcd the show an
had it all to himself, These prematul
candidates for governor, and so fort
J, reminded me of Judge Lochranc's stol
II of the Irishman who thought he had
y fast horse, and 50 he put him in Il
h races and bet on him. He run pref
~ well, but seemed 10 run better behir
. than before, and the Irishman clappt
Is his hands with delight and exclaime
Gath and st, Patrick, just look no
he drives 'em." But its all right. l.
% glad to see the independents waking II
u It's all for the good of the people al
u will keep the old democracy on its 60,
:, behavior. There's nothing like havil
" sentinels on the watchtowcrs. Som
l. times the party goes too fast, and the
q independents act like balance wheel
y regulator, brakc-sorter like Tin
L. Fuckers yearling, for they say VIII
10 Tinny was boy he tried for an hour
20 drive yearling cut of the pasture, a
- finally he got him by the tail and tn
to run and run and beloved and run I'm
u. somebody followed to him and sal
On You can't hold that ycarling, Tim
ho what are you trying to do 2" Z" | KIN
~ / can't hold him." said Tinny, "but c
0 u, make him go Slow"
oil Jesse. That is all these independe
no are after. They don't expect office,
raj they have more Astounding patriot
IA. than anybody, and are holding on
ID the tail of the concern just to make it
40 slow. Some of 'em, Ircckon, are lii
disappointed because the train went
and left 'em, and it don't do any g
IA to laugh at EN- no matter whether Il
w =. 49,. fort onolnh or stnrtod