The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-08-28
BILL ARP.
The philosopher Talks on Every Day
Subjects.
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The crops are laid by, but there is no
rest for the thrifty farmer and 1t IS
blessed thing that the thrifty farmer don't
want any. A change of work is all the
rest he wants. Some folks arc coDsti!u-
tionallv lazy and work only when they
are obliged, and they are actually glad
of any excuse to stop. They like to 60
to mill and they like to 90 town, but they
don't like to work. know y farmer who
is good, clever man and behaves him.
self deccntly, but he loves 10 talk SO we'll
he can't work. He will talk about tie
weather for half an hour without stopping.
He came to my house the other day to
borrow a spade and said lie was in 81
powerful hurry to get back. Without
thinking of the consequences ] Just asked
him if tie storm, damaged his corn any,
and that started him. He told me about
storms and hurricanes from away back
to his boyhood, and how man hung 10
Il sapling and never got nary brulsc, but
the wind blew his breath away and didn't
give him time to draw another, and so lie
died for want Of breath, just like COW
dies when she loses her cud. lie couldn't
work his bellows in such Il wind. And
he told how another storm blew an old
COW head foremost againsta poplar tree
and stuck both her horns in it so deep they
couldent pull her out by the tail, aud
had to saw her horns off and leave 'em IN
the tree, and they are there now. And
so he kept on and on until told him
had to go, for WAS in q hurry too. That
man has lost half his life talking. 1t
always scarcs ME to see him coming.
But there is plenty to do between lay
ing by the crop and gathering time.
August is the best month to cut the
winters wood 1t will burn lreer, and
even the red oak, that sometimes burns
black and goes cut, will burn we'll if cut
down in August and seasoned while.
l'ye got the boys cutting my winters
wood now and will haul it up and stack
it. Two Of tie fire places want wood two
and half feet long and the others will
only chamber two foot sticks, so | have
the wood cut four feet and five feet, and
then we Gu. it in two as we need it.
Fifty cords will run US through winter.
Then there is tie stove wood to get up,
and that is careful job for | never let
my wife or the girls have any cause of
complaint about wood or water in the
kitchen. The wood must DE dry and
split up fine ant. not too long. ! SAW up
hickory aud ash with the cross Cut ami
after splitting j. up put it away under
shelter and | lIall up the chips from the
woods to sprinkle in. l. is not much
trouble to prepare frugal meal if every
thing is handy. The boys catch the
chickens and tx them all ready.
wont le. nv women folks do that. /. is
not = slightly Job, and nobody oaghi to
have it to do but Ii Egers nuhom, con'
found 'cn. But believe in independence.
l like to see family Independent and
self.reiant. | know families who are
always alarmed for fear their cook will
quit, and they don't know where they
will get another. And the young mar
ried folks nowadays are in the same fix
aUou! nurses for their babies we'll,
nursing is hard work know-nursing Il
fretful child is the hardest work know
Of I've mad hand in that business for
thirty years and | wouldent go through
! it again for house Iui of gold. Many
:: night have | walked the floor in MY
ioug, white garment with q baby in my
arms singing little monoiouous song,
while | was 50 sleepy | could hardly
walk Straight! Mrs. Arp had done her
share over and over and when she had
tried and tried TO quiet the little thing,
and worried over il, and pattcd it, and
uursed it on both sides, and at last, in a
fit Of desperation, Strengthened up aud
said, "uere, William, take your caild.'
| always understood her, and TOOK her
advice promptly; she always said 'your
child" on such occasions, but whenever
| Iventured to punish one OF EN- she looked
indignant and said my child" She
will let me own EN- sometimes. | am
sorry for these young folks who have
about two on hand and are just begin.
ming TO get fair taste Of the consequent
ces Of connubal bliss. saw one the
other night trying to quiet little two
year.old and after long and patient efforts
he exclaimed in mortal agony: "Oh
please, Rosa, do please stop crying for
the Lords sake" | WAS sorry for him, |
was, but | couldent keep from laughing
to save my life, and wanted to exclaim
stand up to the rack, my boy: fodder or
no fodder, for lis your child" There
are inventions and inventions. bit
nursing children aud raising them has to
he done in the same old way, and happy
are they who can 90 through it with Il
philosophic smile. 1t is the great busi.
ness of life and can't be dod dged, and ii
/ has its comforts aud its rewards-rewards
that are sweetcr and purer and richer
than any, for they come to man when
he is old and needs them. Good chill
dren who honor and love their parents
are treasures ,ha. gold cannot buy, and
they make sweet and pleasant the way
that leads US to the grave. There is 80
pret,er sight in eli nature than an aged
couple who live in harmony and have
their children and grandchildren around
them to give them comfort. Burns never
wrote tenderc. verse than
"Nuw we must to,tcr down. John
But haid in hand wei! gn,
And Sleep together At i!!c foot.
John Anderson, :,iy Joe
Wo,uan'i rights and mans rights have
nothing to do with such partners. lii
fact, ali human laws are dead letters I"
tho good They DO not need them. Laws
arc made for tie bad, and the frail, aud
the envious, and the jealous. was
thinking about hi, ;'c other ';ay in
yonf Town when paid i lf!e!dly visit l.
a gu3d nian--a courteous =+ntie e'hnii--
away Vi, IN the third story wi'efr he k"rl
hi, Insurance. Ciii:c, - as - have quiet
and limc lor work. But he can't dodge
the callers and ir,por.nncrs even there.
never visit him hut what somebody
/ comes and want; something, for thc:'
know ila! he is generous and lie Is kind.
! There WAS Il strong minded woIn"n there
who had como all the way from Chicago
with petition fer ~unan's rights. Size
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