The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23
ARP'S TRIBULATIONs.
Company Coming and tho Cook Gone.
atlanta Constitution.

| atlanta Constellation.
AIN very busy now. Literature Is al
discount in these parts. The cook quit
US last week and company coming to.
morrow--c0mpany. have had chunk
of darkey boy hired all the year and he
was right handy. He got up the stove
wood and brought the water and milked
the COWS and so forth +; but ell of sud.
den his daddy "sont after him" to hoe
cotton and he left on ten minutes notice.
These darkies are right clever and good.
natured, but they have no more idea OF
o contract than hog. They will break
1t whenever it suits them. They will
quit you without warming aud not feel
mean about it bit. The grass got ahead
Of Mr.. Jordan franklin, aud he just
sends wcFd to our chunk, Edward Frank.
lin, to come home. When remonstrate,
and remind him Of his contract, he says
he Is just obleeged to have him, and will
send him back "jes as coon aB he is done
with him." That's all, and SO Ned cute
out without ceremony. We are doing
our own lingering now, and It keeps me
busy. Our big boy has got q baseball
nose, and it was getting well. It was
sorter swaiging down until yesterday,
when q bee atupg him on 1t, in the
peach orchard, and now 1t is bigger than
ever, The orchard 10 full of bees, for the
peaches are ripe, and the storm blew lots
OF them on tho ground, and Carl gol
stnng on the foot, and SO the more work
redoak in the grove aud aawed 1t up with
cay cit wont burn good, and we had to
work up q Iead sycamore and the sun
was powerful hot and come down with
power on my unsuspecting back. + for.
got that 7 had on locust back shirt, for
never wear one If I can find any other
in the drawer, and now there is blister.
ed streak running down my spine, and
am sorter used up generally. But there
ia no chance to stop now, for company ia
coming. This jelly business has got to
proceed. have to gather apples, and
plums, and blackberries to make Jelly,
and get wood to keep up the fire TO make
jelly and jam, and gather peaches to put
up In the fruit jars, and bring water to
wash up the piazza floors, and ever and
anon it is more peaches and more apples,
or more water or moro wood, and they
want three spring chickens caught, and
the old Feahen, with her fine young ones,
has strayed of, and must hunt them up.
They all worked hard yesterday
hard, and knew they would oversieep
Themselves and so got breakfast thfa
morning, and right good ono. I have
long enjoyed reputation In my family
for making biscuit, and they do praise my
biscuit capturously. Mra. Arp frequent.
ly says when she sits down to the table,
/ wish / had some of your pas biscuit
this morning. It is n dangerous thing
for man to know how to cook. I learned
how to cook in the army and Mrs. Arp
says that Is the only good thing that ever
came out of the o;a war. wish I had.
ent have learned or had Kept secret, one
or the other. She says that can make
up the best bed in the world. The only
trouble I have about the beds is in get.
ting her and tn children out of them,
If I had b5S darkey in 10 old d'Sles; slavery
times, my wife says she would have given
moro money for me than any ten ahe ever
saw, for she could have controlled me
then. But I don't sec any difference 80
far as the controlling is concerned, and
abe got me for nothing. p
| More water they say. wonder what
upon earth they do with 80 much water
The boys gone to town after supplies,
fruit jars, and jelly tumblers, and sigar,
and Horsford's powders, and new broom,
and I don't know what all, and now they
keep me trotting. 1 wish there wasn't
any town nor any supplies. Man that Il
born of one woman aud tied to another
iH of few days and full of trouble. But
it might Have been worse heap worse
for he might have been born woman
and been tied to man. That 10 the
most perilous condition. ID all nature.
Nevertheless it has to be doue, trouble OF
no trouble, and Fam content. And now
they want some potatoes dug end some
beans picked, and there ete more cucum.
bers on the vines ready for picking.
These old bodies of ours are sight Of
trouble. wonder If they have no gar.
dens nor orchards In the next world 2
am not sule about that, for there Is o
heap Of scripture that tells about trees
and cities and streets and horses, and 90
forth. I reckon we will have all the
| good and none of the bad-no rotten
peaches no bee stings-no stove wood to
get-no water TO tote up hill, no chick.
ems to catch. Well, don't mind catch.
ing the chickens for the dog does that
and never hurts them, but l do despise
TO "fx en- If there is anything bette,
| SuuA Oiu ahsntUuSu ItSu CutCASu UOu
know It., but want somebody else to"fiz
em." Everything that is good has bad
| side abouS IT,. IF I was 70 find q rich
| gold mine on my branch I know I. would
bring some trouble, but still I would
risk 1t. Getting rich is like getting mar.
sied. Everybody Is willing to riak it
Calling me again-want to know II ]
sent for salt. 0f course dIdn,t. why
ehould Iknow the salt was out. There
| is something out forever aud ever, but
| didn't know It was salt. Have to send
4 to nabor Freeman's and borrow. Thai
Is what o nabor 10 for--to borrow from
Folks are not naborIy unless they LEND
and borrow. My folks may make ont Q
list OF everything tlst is out, ANA nez,
| day there will be Gornethi1g wanted
Old Major, Cooper told me that he could
live comfortably on ten cents q day. Ht
said ha had D. COW and she furnished mill
knd butter and buttermilk, and he had
-four and all he bought Has coffee and
sugar., Hs dideht eat any meat, and he
figured hitt all Up and II, was ten cents
i Why should anybody beg or star @ ir
| this country, Who Is there 30 feeble
but Whit can make ten cents o day? An
old Woman can mako IL knitting socks
But want more than that. IA man has
4 TO get older than I am TO be contcnt with
4 snch- limited diet. And now they Van,
i me- to put d handle TO the slop bucket
IF Can't find one Mrs. mp thinks 4 eat
4 Just 'etep' to the shop and make one
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