The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-19
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Hc Feels Good, Then Sad, Then
Feels Good Some More.

Feels GOOD some MORE
1t /, curious how a man can fool hin
self. Two or three days before the elec-
ton | had made up NY mind aud became
reconciied to Qtieat, tor | hIi tV en- r. aC-
ing 10th sides pretty Hose aui hal gwen
i up. - | mustered up si ny phlIost-
phy aud Imagined | wa pref AIRED ter
anything. Bur | wI~eni, | Vas foo.lcg
myself. / wouldeut 90 10 Atlanta Tues
day 10 see The Constitution : ]ack-o-my-
l~4utcrn. | went 10 town ard voted and
anne back home cary Tor | dideut want
10 stag aud hear bad news Next mora
ing | went out OF the Otg road 10 TX a
broken gate and | thought maybe some
body would come along anu tel me the
news without my asking, but nobody
came but a darsey and he dIdent know
anything. | went to the hOuse and RI.
minated and tried to be calm aud serene
but | couldent and kept looking down
the big road for somebody 10 come and
break the news and | was afraid some
body would come, and the news would Dc
bad. I've been 10 the dentists aiore now
10 have an aching tooth pulled aud was
glad TO find the door locked and the dem
fists gone. So | waited another hour tor
somebody to come from town and .hen
went of to the field 10 work. About
noon a man came along IN a buggy and
hailed NE with a hurrah for Cleveland
and be hurried on before | could ask hmm
the news But It sounded favorable nd
hoped me up some. At two O'Clock
another man came by and said Cleveland
was elected, but ! wasent satisfied and
50 | diient cut up nor e~volute, but 10y
and BY when | got my mail and read
Victory In great big letters at the head
Of the column | was overwhelmed with a
thankful and a Joyful surprise. There
was not a soul at home but me and the
dog and the cat and IN "a much as they
couldn't understand any gymnastics !
just kept my seat placidly by the fire aud
felt good all over all by myself as | read
the Growing and the chuckling and the
rejoicing that filled the columns Of Tie
Constitution. was just thinking about
going over to tell the news to nabor Nun
ford for he said that if Cleveland was
elected he knowed he would have a fit
ald | wanted to see what kind of a fit 1t
would be. General Young told me that
The first thing he would do would be to
indulge for a day or two III some artificial
%elation and then subside and reform and
join the church, for reform was the watch
word of the party and We all ought to re.
form out of gratitude.
But it does look like the GOOD things
of this life don't last long. ! hadent re-
joiced very long before | got TO feeling
sorry for the other side. Sorry for some
clever men who were in office and would
have to step down and out. | was even
sorry for Mr.. Blaine. The good book
says we must rejoice with those that re-
sA,,n 81 u.o,Y xrrtb .IAa, that ,-aA,N
and | was trying my best to do both. |
don't care 50 much about the men but
it hurts me to see heir wives and child
rem disappointed and distressed When
a good man is in office and needs it for
the support of his family don't think
could turn him out, | dont think | could
and that is one thing that made me like
Grover Cleveland, for they say that
when he WINS first elected governor Of
New IOrk he never turned out hut one
man. Well, that may do in New York
but it wont do at Washington. The
r~ascals must all so and there are lots of
them. MIR. Cleveland will be doing
enough for them to pardon them out of
the penitentiary when they get there.
Reform is what the nation wants The
tariff is a little thing compared with it.
bui NV 4 lutiIlIittCdo VII tllCSC liiiiI8o
and was feeling comfortable ard COM
placent over my own generous feelings
towards a fallen foe, a teller came along
with the news that New York had gone
for Blaine and so | just collapsed and
wilted and felt as humble and helpless
as a dead niger. | lost all my philo-
sophy in halt a minute and felt like |
dident have a friend in the world. Mrs.
A ~, ,rn u ~ n ~ n, Dnp,o .nrI ln ,5,Ie
were III town and the children were at
school. The dog come creeping in to
the fire and | kicked him out and then |
got sorry for him and called him back
again. When the children came home
| dident indulge in my usual loving
greetings nor ask who was head and how
they got along but | moped around and
looked solemn until JEST said, Papa,
you are sick amt you?''
BY and bT nabor Freeman droppsd
in. | knew he would come if Blaine
was elected for he is sorter on that side
Of the fence and l never join issue with
him in an unpleasant way about it, for
he is a good nabor and that beats poll
tics and he has just as much right to
his opinion as l have to mine. But
knew that if he found out Blaine was
NANChS' IN ''HAN ~'iiN O"h ~ lubAldbS
a little and see what | had to say about
it. SO / never let on but frightened
up and made out like it was lust what |
expected and it dident make any differ
nee either to him or to me. l never
gave him any chance to crow over me,
but l vas home-sick all the same, ! cant
bear to be lifted away up yondcr and
then have all the props knocked from
under. | don't mind coming down on a
sliding scale but it hurts me to fall so
far and so heavy of a sudden.
Now here it is again, another paper
and the same old Victory at the mast
head and both sides claiming 1t. But
my faith is now shaken and I'm going
to stay down on the ground until | know
more than | do now. I'm sorry for
nabor Munford for they say he has a fit
every morning because Cleveland is
elected and another in the evening be-
cause he amt, and General Young is in
a bad fix too, and nobody knows when
he will be ready to join the church.
GETTING THERE 1t does take a great
while to get a boy out of a place where