The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-15
DIFFERENCE IN FOLKS.
An Every Day Study Elaborated by iii
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There are folks and there are folks.
There are fathers aud mothers and chill.
dren aud grandchildren. There are folk,
whom you meet by day in tho stores and
Offices and counting rooms and work
shops, aud there are folks whom YOU
meet by the domestic hearth, and there
am much difference betwixt 'em. Only
TINS, when you meet 'em by day yui: DON'T
know what they arc by night. dident
know that anybody vas very much like
me and my folks, but went TO sec an old
friend in Rome the other night, and |
hadent becu in the family room ten min.
utes before there was IN everlasting suuall
III the next room, and he jumped up aud
run out aud thrashed around smurtly and
restored domestic tranquility. and when
he came back remarked that n child and
agraudchild had had little hostility, and
about AS soon as he sat down the fight
opcued afresh, and he went back again
to subdue it, and shortly thereafter one
OF them came in aud began to explore
his pockets aud he held up his arms and
talked away to me ~ though nothing
unusual was going on, and afte- tho little
chap had searched his coat po, xets and
his vest pockets, and his side pockets
and his Pantaiooa pockets aud found
nothing but q piece Of tnbacco lie hand.
ed that over saying: Grandpa, don't
want your tabacco." "My friend" said
|, do you all"w them to search you that
way?,, Every night" said he, from
the oldest to the gest-sometimes
have candy, or an apple, or knife,
or something: and they go through
me Ike conductor goes through rail.
road car. My dear sir, aln the submis.
siye gentleman you have read about.
submit to anything for peace. but Lord
help me, don't get it. These children
these children, but you know all about
children: There are two sets here and
I'm afraid there will be three sets befuro
die. These children nearly run me dis
tracted. A lunatic asylum ain't no
wherc. used to think man would run
through and fight his battle and be dis.
charged and get pension, but Pm worse
on now than ever. worry along
through the day with my customers, and
get tired and want rest and peace, and |
come homo and these chaps begin on me
right straight, and its pa this, and grand
pa that, and I've got to lot 'em get on mo
and waller all over ME and search all nv
pockets, and then 60 off to fighting like
a passel Of wild Camanchees, and it takes
about two whippns apiece to got 'cm off
TO bed, and then they get up in the morn.
ing before the fire is built and begin TO
cRrort around and pull the cover all off
me and have 10 get up before want
TO, and III tell you what is :. inct, if
there amt heaven for IL man in my fix,
shall always think there ought tc be.
How In the world do you get aloDs with
yours Jesse, jesse, said |. understand
you. I'm working for that same heaven
and hope to reach it by an by-by and
by:
Not long after met another old friend
"a time honorcd friend, subducd look.
ing friend, and hailed him with glad
salutatiou and says /, chow do you do old
roman-old patriark-how is tho goud
wife. and how many children have you
got? lie squeezed my hand affection
etely and sadly, and says he, :'FiIliam,
am glad to see you, for misery loves
company. have no children to spare
and none for sale, but we have got nine,
only line, and the LmG last are coupIe
OF t"ins only three months old, and we
have to feed en- on the bottle, aud Pm
about wore out, l am. Lord help mo,
I've been up most all night toting EN-
around, and its no new thing, tell you,
it's no new thing. When he left me to
climb the court house hill he pulled his
legu after him like there was bay of
shot i'll his shoes. I went across the
street TO see another familiar face, and he
was weighing out dollars worth of
coffee for country man, and after he
was through slapped him on the back,
and says l: Hello, Old fellow, how
does the world ,.se your 'Tolable,
tolable, only tolable," says he. How is
many of the little treasures have you got
so brighten up the family heart end make
you happy?
He showed the coffee scoop away down
in the sack and said: "She's we'll, she's
very well, aud we haven't got but eight.
They are all Of Hizs pretty much, and
you can't tell em apart hardly. They are
smart and good looking, but tell you it
keeps me diggin to support en-" And
he showed the scoop down little deeper
as he looked at me and inquired: "How
in the world did you manage to raise
dozen ?" Splendid" says /, "splendid.
You will get use to it after awhile-it's
| no trouble-no trouble at all when you
| get the hang Of it." "You see since
have got out of the woods am beginning
TO holler and put on patFiarchial airs."
"You know, my dear fellow" said I,
"that David says, blessed is he who hath
his culver full" "Yes, yes, l remember
reading that" says he, "but l reckon
that was one of David's jokes"
The next friend met didn't have any
children and had been married long
time and he wanted to know if we
couldn't spare him lamb from our flock
"a little girl 10 raise and leave bis money
to. Why the biggest Law suit they ever
had in Rome was about little orphan
girl that TWO good families who didn't
! have any children wanted and it mighty
nigh killed the ones who didn't get her.
jesse. It's power of care and trouble
and responsibility to raise 'em, but no.
body is happy without 'em. met a
cotton buyer and he IL working just as
hard as ever and hasent got but one-a
nice boy of ten years or thereabouts, and
bis father is digging away just as hard
for him as it he had dozen, and ever
and anon when he thinks that the boy
may lay down and die, it comes over him
like dark shadow, and he feels like he
would want TO die too and go with him.
/ know good old mother who has chill.
dren and grandchildren and great grand
children all around her. But there is
one of the original flock away off in the
west, and as the good old mother sits by
the evening fire, silent and thoughtful,
with her teary eyes looking into the blaze,