The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-25


fault Of the institution. It's the fault of
one OF both of the parties, and they would
have been just as unhappy as if they had
not married at all. You are engaged
in q good work, my friend, and you
must stand up to the rack, fodder or no
fodder"
MY friend opened wide his mouth and
yawned and remarked: "Oh, yes, that's
all very fine ifa mans children are healthy
and good, but when they are mixed up
with collie and paregoric and sore heads
and earaches and mosquitoes and original
sin and total depravity and you are up
half the night and have to go to your
business soon in the morning aud things
don't work right all day and your taxes
are to pay and some other little just debts
man don't care much what happens
He can't work up an interest in Sam
Jones, nor Culpepper, nor the tabernacle
and he don't care cent whether FELTON,
or Everett is elected. Old Hicks may
predict cyclone or an earthquake, and
he says, Let it come-lay on McDuf or
has thought to that effect But I know
very we'll that after the storm then comes
the sunshine and so am hopeful. I'm
fighting as hard as J. can. About how
long did your battle last 2"
Just forty years, said I. It takes shout
that long to raise full crop-an honest
crop of ten or dozen-not one of your
Massachusetts, crops, where they raise on
ly one or two children, just enough to in
herit the estate, but q crop big enough to
keep man fighting all the time for meat
and bread aud clothing and schooling and
DOCTORS bills, and taxes and something
for the preacher and missionary, and the
poor, and something for wedding presents
as the children marry off and leave you.
My wife was one of ten children, and I
was one of ten, and we have got ten of
cur own, and it is impossible for man
to get rich on that line. There is no sur
plus to accumulate in the treasury. He
lives on strain, and right there the law
of compensation comes in, for if an old
man hasn't got but. a small pile of filthy
lucre his children are willing for him to
live on. The most selfish will divide with
him. Ifa man has but two or three chill
dren and,is worth q $100, 600 and holds on
to it gretty tight, they get awful tired of
waiting. A man. who is neither poor nor
rich has the most comfort with his chill
dren. He works hard and lives comfort
ably and divides out his little surplus
among them according to their needs, and
they are stimulated to go to work and
earn their own living, for they have no
great expectations from the old mans
death. The true idea of The family should
be that the parents should maintain the
children as long as they are young and
helpless and the children should maintain
the parents when they get old and unable
to work. / wouldent trust man with
my pocketknife who would neglect bis
parents in their old age. a thankles:
child will never get to heaven.
But the old folks never get free from
care and anxiety If they lay by their
own crop, there is a crop of grandchildren
coming on who have to be looked after
and cherished aud petted, and all that is
a comfort to both. Solomon says that the
glory Of q man is his children's children.
The other night one of my children was
about to whip one of her children, aud
came ir as Is mediator, and the mother
and her child were glad Of it, They are
awful bad sometimes, but they Inherited
some of that from their paternal ancestors
and some from original sin, and are moi
altogether responsible. The stock raisers
say that bad trait in horse will skip
over two or three generations and crop
out in the fourth. And so, when we re-
member that child has two grandfathers
and two grandmothers and eight greot
grandparents, and thousand away back
and has small streak Of all their blooG
in its veins is it a wonder they can be-
have at all. The other evening / cams
home and missed my dog, and nobody
had seen him all day long. | went dowr
to the barn and heard a whine in the
buggy house, and there l found the dog
on the floor and the cat on top of The
buggy. Some of the chaps of the thirt
generation were on hand and I inquired
very solemnly who shut the dog up in thu
buggy house. The nearest explanation
got was that they saw the dog running
the cat that way. "|Fho opened the Grill
door aud let the cst get in and stuff, her
self 10 death ?" said 1. They said the.
heard hen cqckliDg in the crib ant
and thought she bad laid and coulden
get out, but they were sure they shut tht
door again. Reckoned the COW must have
horned it open. "Who left the back gat
open and let Molly get out? Who turne;
!be wcll-rope the wrong way on tn,
windlass? Who had been boring will
my eugur bit and bent It? Where is m,
horseshoe hammer!"
When raise rumpus among thes'
chaps they put on q look Of innocen
surprise, aud remind me Of 8 member 0
the legislature, who had his feelinps hur
and says: "Mr. Speaker, I rise, sir, to
question OF privilege" These grandchil
dren and nephews and nieces are privi
eyed, and they knew. it. Their idea o
our home is that it is place of priviieg
aud it is. But tue school has begu
again and all of these little chaps hay
got to fall into liue There is no mediate
tbere-no cat, no dog, no COW, no grand
nla. The school is nachiue-a tread
mill, and if q boy learns nothing else b
learns restraint. He leans submission
AMI that is u lesson for life. 10 man ca
ever make q good, successful husban
unless he learns submission in his earl
youth.
Politics is still lively in these parts.
am waiting for it 10 settle down before
join party. l SOC that nearly all th
Alliances up North have got a plank j
favor OF the Conger bill. 1t is a no
against cotton seed and Pm afraid th
hog will whip the fight, and our cotto
seed go down To ten cents a bushel.
see that Texas is against the subtreasur!
but Georgia is for il. I sea that TeXa
aud Kansas are for the government tax
ing charge Of the railroads aud telegraph
I see that Macunc is against Geuer'
Gordon, because the general is again
the sub treasury. see that North Care