The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-04-03
SIMPSONS BILL ARP.
Breaking--EaIIlt Find
er> and idlers--The Farmers
Troubles.

| Especial Correspondence 10 TIE CAUcAsIAN.l
When | complain of hard times
they tell me to work. When can't
raise money out Of men who owe me
they tell me / don't work. And
when it's bad crop year and my
horse dies with the staggers and |
have to hay another on fall time
and can't pay my debts, they say l
have not worked hard enough.
When the old lady gets sick | have
to attend to every thing about the
house, tie cook goes on a strike, be-
cause she thinks she has got me I'M
der her thumb. They say you must
work more. When | go to town
Saturday evening to see Tom Smith
to get the pay for the corn let him
have to feed his family on, them
fellows who set around town say |
ought to be be hOmea at work. When
[ go out to see my nei !hbOrs, and
dis cuss politics with them and get
man to vote for to represent us in
the legislature, they say the count
has gone to ruin, the farmers don't
woik, but are dabbling in politics.
And when Mary puts on Il calico
and gees to Sunday School and looks
neat, because the dress looks we'll on
pretty figure, they say eXtIavagant
dress. And Which, my boy goes to
school, learns Il little Latin, and
wants to get into society, and can't
do it because he has to pillow and hoe
for a living, he becomes discOur-
aged, leaves the farm, goes to town,
hires to q merchant to clerk, or goes
into machine shop Or works on a
railroad and spends all ms spare time
and money t1Olicking with society
girls who would not give pop OF
their finger for him, but receives his
attentions as a matter of conSceiece.
They expect to marry Il millionaire.
SO he has worked all the week, and
Sunday to boot, and spends his mon
ely and lives and dies \ disappointed
bachelor. When the newspaper men
see the deplorable state of a flair they
rise up and, with one voice, say say
MI lllC lttI IIIo tblNt w vi ~ nc
is the country is worked to death
people, stock and soil. Let us stor
and think a little, one day in the
week at least. The mails al carried
on a Sunday, and we read them and
never think the Government recOg-
niZeS the violation Of the fourth
commandment. The trains are run
on Sunday because the public de
mands it. The judge have to tray
el ali day Sunday to meet their APP
pointments because the Legislator,
says 50. The houses we have ploWed
all the week have to be driven
to the buggy all day Sunday
because the children want to 90
on trOlic. Let Us blow down
breaks, stop this restless roaring
world, and praise the eternal God
who made us all. Let the earth be
still and the winds moan through
the long pine leaves piece Of glory
to our thoughts as we sit III SccluSiOn
and praise the eternal jehovah fOl
our creation, redemption and prese.
walton. Then will the earth bring
forth her increase and God will bless
US. Yes, a humOriSt anda jester has
a God and prayer, as | have read :
1.-The royal feast was done; the king
Sought some new sports to Danish care
And to his jester cried. Sir Fool!
Kncel down and make for us prayer.
The jester dotted his cap and bells.
And stood the hooking court before
They could not see the bitter smile,
Behind the patient grin he wore.
He bowed his head and bent his knee
Upon the monarch's silken stool.
His pleading voice arose: O Lord.
Be merciful to me, a fool
Earth hath no balsam for mistakes:
Men crown the nave and scurge tn,
tool.
That did his will; but thou, OLord,
Be merciful to me fool
The room was hushed. in silence rose
The king, and sought his garden cool
And walked apart and murmured low.
BE merciful to me. a foOl!/'
Yes, he will fix it for us Just as he
has the Young Mems Chris, ian AS
ISOLATION, to break down all tn,
chickering's and bubbles that have
. arisen between the churches, and
bring us all on one grand plain Of
brotherly love. Let us forget the
old fedus of our fathers Through
respect to them,) find something t.
, laugh at and gather all the happiness
: we can. We have not got Away:
4 to live in this world. Let us be a
peace with all mankind, and if The
world is not disposed to treat u
kind. we will gather around the fire
side ID there discuss with our wive
the best plan to rear our children t.
, be ladies and gentlemen-to liv
- honest and fear their God, and low
= the land that gave them birth-dea
old North Carolina.