The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-10-13
From King 70 Patriarch.
Bill Arp, In Atlanta Constitution.


When man begins to get along in years,
he gradually changes from being . king In
his family to . patriarch. He 10 more tender
and kind to his offspring, and instead Of rul-
ing them, the nst thing he knows they are
ruling him. Ny youngest children and my
grandchildren just run over me new, and IL
takes more than half my time to keep up
with 'em, and find out where they are and
what they are doing. Sometimes get msd
and rip up and around like was going to do
something desperate, but Mrs. Arp comes
a.slipping along and begins to tell hsw they
didn't mean any harm, and they are just like
oil other boys, aud wants to know II didn't
do them sort Of things when was . boy.
Well, that's . fact--I did--and got lckin
for 1t, too. You see, I was one Of the oldest
boys, and they always catch 1t, but the
youngest one never gets lickin', for by the
time he comes along the old man has mel
lowed down and wants . pet. The older
children have married and gone, and the old
folks feel sorter like they have been thrown
off for somebody no kin to 'em, and so they
twIne around those that are left all the
closer, but by and by they grow up, too, and
leave them, and it's pitiful TO see the good
old couple bereft Of their children and living
alone in their glory. Then 10 the time that
grandchildren nnd . welcome In the old fam
lily homestead, for, IS Solomon saith, the
glory Of an old man 10 his children's chill
dren. Then 10 the time that the little chaps
Of the second and third generation love 70
escape from their well-ruled home and for q
while find refuge and freedom and frolic .,
grandpa's. A child without grandpa and
grandma can never have Its share Of happi
ness. Pm sorry for 'em. Blessings on the
good old people, the venerable grandparent.
Of the land, the people with good old hones
ways and simple habits and limited desires
who indulge in no folly, who banker after nj
big thing, but live along serene and cove
nothing but the happiness Of their children
and their children's children. said to ,
good old mother not long ago:
"well, I hear that Anna is to be married.
eyes, SIR" said she, smiling sorrowfulIy
II don't know what will do. The las
daughter I've got Is going to leave me. "
nurssd her and petted her all her life, and
kinder thought she was mine and would al
ways be mine, but she's run Of arter felle
she's no kin TO in the world, one who neve
did thing for her but give her ring and
book or two, and little French candy no'
and then, and II does look so strange and ur
reasonable. couldn't understand It at q
if-if hadn't done the same thing myself
long time ago." and she kept knitting ava
with smile and tear on her. motherly fac
But I'm not going to slander these litt
chaps that keep US 90 busy looking aft'
them, for there IL no meanness in their mil
chief, and II they take libert les 1t is bscsu.
we let 'em. Mrs. Arp Gays they are just Il
sweet to live, and 10 always narrating son
Of their smart sayings. Well, they .
mighty smart, for they knew exactly how
get everything and do everything they war
for they know how " manage her, and th'
know that she manages me, and that settl
. 1t. A man 10 the head Of the bouse abo
! some things, and shout some other things
Is only next to the head, II he amt . foe
A man can punish his children, but it's 9
: ways advisable to make an explanation
due time and let his wife know what he d
1t for, because, you see, they are her ch
dren, sure enough, and she knows 1t n
feels II. The pain and trouble, the nursi
:. and night-w atching, have oil been hers. T
washing and dressing, the mending n
: patching -.ieing up fingers snd toes, a
: sympsthizing with 'em In all their great b
little troubles all falls to her while the fatt
Is tending to his farm, or his store, or his
o Gee, or his friends, or may be his billiard tab
: When . woman says, " This 10 my chile
3 II carries more weight and more meant
8 than when man ssysit, and I've not
much respect for = law that will give N
the preference Of ownership just because
n Is man. .@a.. ..-.-r, ,..t.E