Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-21
ARP Ar HOME.
The HOmsIy Philosopher With His
Family Again.
Troubles of the Children While the Old
Folks Were Down South--A New Yer
sion of an Old Shakes
pearean Phrase.
Riu Arn IN ADMIN Car,titutton.

, ster began his great speech: when tn
mariner has been tossed for many days II
} thick weather and on an unknown SEA, b
! syails himself of the first pause IN the
! storm-the earliest glance OF the sun-tc
take his latitude and ascertain how TAR the
tempest has driven him from his course
Now that we have united the broken family
and rested for few days, and exchanged
the family news, and every one has had
} a chance to talk and my wife, Mrs.
Arp, has almost dried up her tears as she
told of trials und troubles and tribulstions
We begin to look round and take our lati-
tude and see where We are. Inside the
house we find the walls covered with new
paper, and the overheading ceiling paint
ed and the long msntets adorned with
home made LAMP skins or some such name
that the girls fixed up, and the pilssters
have been painted with vines and birds,
and lust over the fireplace is q motto
in graphic letters. The ornaments OF
this house are the friends who visit
IL" These children did it all, and it kept
them employed and happy. They have
recovered the lounge and made tides tor
the chairs and put some more lamb skins
over the windows, ard patched up the old
CARPET and turned it round and turned 1t
over and they have painted the window
and door castings and the wsshboard and
the FIRE place Jams, and sent the broken
chairs to the shop to be mended, and have
hemmed some new sheets and made Carl
and Jessie some clothes, and now their
mother has nothing to do but sit in the
corner and talk and talk and talk and tell
the neighbors all about Florida and the
orange groves and the beautiful lakes and
the great long river that runs up hill, and
so forth and so fifth and so fifth upto
hundred. find big lot of ietters to an.
svsr most Of them with kind words and
full of sympathy, and some begging for
help and charity, and some few clamorous
for that little pascal of money that has been
due long time.
THESE DARNED LITTLE JUST DEBTS
that worry a man aud take away his sppe,
lite. Sometimes when the same mail
brings beg and dun feel like answering
the first BY sending the last, for there is no
other way to convince them that l have got
rich mans ways and q poor mans
purse.
| have been looking around the premises
and found a water gate gone and the
uabors hogs in the meadow, and I've got
TO fix the gate before Carl can dog the
hogs. A big tree has fallen across the
grape arbor. My new axe that was all
steel hes disappeared. The big buggy
must have g new wheel, the
cabin must have q new board
roof, the orchard needs pruning, the gar,
den must be broken up and made ready
for peas and potatoes and lettuce and
rsdishes. The children have kept the
stock 10 good order, and there is new
calf and some lambs aud the
sick boy wanted to see them
and we had to carry him to the
south piazza where he could see the barn
and the horses aud cattle and the spring
branch and we propped his grssshopper
legs on the banisters aud he was happy
40 happy that he soon was humuiug
The S word of Bunker Hilr' and Willow.
tit.willow," and other songs he used
| to love. By and by he struck on Dixie.
I'm gwins bsckto Dixie-Im gwine back
to Dixie, where the orange blossoms grow,
and he stopped and smiled as he said,
Not vet swbile-no more orange bios,
SONS for me" The children had high old
time during the cold spsll. One morning
Carl found hat one Of the calves was sick,
and so they all went down in the sieet and
slush and gave it sweet oil and turpentine,
and hot lard and lye and soap, and salt
water and sslta, and then they remembered
that after l had given all that to sick
mule / rubbed him with rail and 80
THEY RUBBED THE CALF WITH PLANK
and lef. it to tender mercies OF time and
destity-sure enough it got well. The
same Ssy he sheep got in the apple or
chsrd and began on the young tFeasi end
Carl had gone to town and the girls had to
wade in aud run round and round till they
got them out, and BY the time they had
got on dry shoes aud stockings, word came
that the fish pond dam had broken,
and that capped the climax. They
looked ct each other in mute despair, and
did not know whether TO CRY or to laugh,
but the laugh prevailed, and so they went
over 10 tenants house and got him to
come aud drive some spiling down aud
atom the leak. Sometimes when the night
was dark aud gloomy, they got alarmed,
and Csrl kept the gun loaded 10 TIE cioset,
and they locked aud propped the doors,
and nailed down the windows, and tried to
feel secure, but one night some negroes
who worked in the ore bank were going
home with torches, and they had got hold
of some whisky somewhere, and went
whooping and cussing along by the house
! srd stopped near the gate, and the children
waited no longer, but Ged in q panic out
the back door, and through the orchard,
and over the barb wire fence to Nsoor
Freemaus. They are right fearless chill
dren, under ordinary circumstances, but
there is no Nancy Hart at my house, and
Carl saws he can't undertake to fight a
dozen nigCers all ut one time. and at that
time in the night And while they srs
merriiy reci6ug their adventures Mrs
Arps big eyes are watering up as usual
and she has Jessie on one side and Car
on the other, and right then she would
FIGHT NIGGERs AND WILDCATS
and shed oil her blood, drop by drop, and
mine, 100, ! reckon, In their defence. 4
good man would save his wife first, but
GOOD woman would 90 for her children, and
, e, her husband take his chances, especial
II il he was as old and seedy as | am.
wish everybody was good and kind. VIVA
, a happy world it would be! No courts
nor ;sils, HeE chain gengsI nj
, locks nor bsrs; no wild alarms
? nor fesr of thieves or robbers
, no looking under the bed for man.
: never see lockin door but 1t makes MI
feel bad For Q po1ent fcF j: is 2 silept e
; Election on humanity. 1t is Q nstiona
proof of dishonesty. The poet says thai
, Mans inhumanity to man
Makcs countless Thousands mourn.
And there is no GOOD reason for it. /!
ana or two man can be good and kind !
: looks ike asethsE could 4forisiDsl sin haI
/ infected the human race II looks like every
body would be mean alike, but they ar,
not In fact some are not mean ct oil
Thew are born kind and full Of sympathy
, and there are more Of them thai