The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-06
TH.L AZ" on 4 CRAZE.
He Pays HIS Respects TO the Everlasting
AsselnblaSes of Not Very Great I'm
porta2ce that We endure.
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Z. "Sorrow endureth for night, but JOY
cometh in the morning" That is un
less, the cook has quit and you have tc
rise before sunup and cook breakfast
yourself. But I don't mind it much
and it's 4 fair compromise for me tc
cook breakfast and the girls to clean ul
after my messing and cook the Other
two meals. In fact, I would enjoy the
trclic, if the cranky stove would bake
the biscuits brown on the bottom, out
this morning they were as white as
cotton and We're blistered on top, and
Mrs. Arp said it would take me two OF
thre. days to get my hand in, and she
hinted that the old stove was about
burnt out ar, now and that it had to be
fired up and an hour or two sooner so
as to get properly hot in the lower
chamber. So reckon I will have to
rise with the chickens and flap my
wings and fire up. The children beg
me to wake them up and let them do
it ali, but their mother says, it nearly
kills them to get up so soon, and she
had rather do it herself But it is most
astonishing how late at night these
children can set up at q party or frolic
and still keep their health, and I have
admired the alacrity with which they
rise when they are going on all exGur-
sion or picnic and have 70 take an early
start. There seems to be :; power of
stirring around this summer, consider
ing the hard times, and l have thought
that maybe all this going to and fro
had something to do with the lard
times. It don't cost so much to travel,
but there is always some fixing up to
do beforehand, and that costs money.
My folks told me last summer that the
excursion rate to st. Simon's and back
was only Sc, and the children had never
seen the ocean, and it did look like we
could afford that little sum and ought
to embrace the golden opportunity.
And so 1 sur endered, and prepared my
finances for the Sc apiece and two or
three days board, but they stayed ten
days, and that with all the preliminary
fxings, I never got over the golden op-
portunity and the strain for six months
But Mrs. arp declares it was worth it,
and she wouldn't mind going again
this summer if I had the money to
spare, which I haven't and never ex-
pect to have again.
Old DR.. Kirk says that these excur-
sions and conventions will break the
country, and that nobody can stand it
but the negroes. And here they 60 and
there they go, like a fiddler's elbow
the lawyers to Columbus, and the doc
tors to Augusta, and the editors to New
York, and the dentists to Atlanta, and
the Royal Arcanum to Savannah, and
the Masons to Macon, and the conduc-
tors to Gainesville, and the school
teachers to Brunswick, and the military
to Chickanlauga. and the legislature to
Salt Springs, and some more editors to
Chicago, and the college boys and the |
college girls everywhere in squads, and
then there are the Odd Fellows and the |
knights of Honor and knights of |
Pythias and Knights of Labor and |
knights of Jericho and Scylla and |
Charybdis, and the baseball teams that |
are all on the 60 somewhere, and |
besides all these there are a big lot of |
women and girls and fancy fellows
visiting thesprings, and heap ofthem
dance and gamble and drink and carry
on scandalous, and heap Of them
don't, but it all costs money, and our
young men haven't got it to spare, and
they come home broke and don't lay
up dollar, and they can't marry, for
they haven'tgot anything to marry on,
but they fiirt around amazing and make
a mash and go home and brag about it.
Why there are boys in all these towns
that are clerking or working for thirty
or forty dollars month, and it takes
it all for clothes and buggy rides and
and they are not laying up
a dollar, and the old man is kept bowed
down and hard run to help them along,
and its all wrong, all wrong, and the
boys ought to put on the brakes and
stop it," /
And the good old doctor came down |
With his cane hard on the brick; and
about this time old Uncle Simon Peter /
'ame along and took up the subject as ;
he doctor left off and said: eyes, they
nave got too many societies, and I used | t
o be as big fool as anybody and joined {
very one that came along-the Ma
ons and Sons of Temperance, and |
5ible societies, and I don't know how {
Eany more, and what with preaching !
nd travelling and the conference and i
Ii the societies [ like to have never got t
cqualnted with my family, for was t
ut somewhere every night; and one /
ay my wife saw notice in the news t
aper that there was new society h
lst come for the protection of hem a
ecked husbands, and she called INV il
tGent!on to it and asked if hadn't 0
etter join it and run for president; and t
lat put me to thinking, and quit for Ilt
while, until it occurred to NE not f
'ng ago that l could do some good by a
lining the Alliance and helping them d
} reform the world and save the coun- Il
y, and so [ Joined, and I've been
liking to them about whiskev and
'bacco and extravaganza and corrup- r.
Oh at Washington, but my ideas don't 81
EN- to be popular, and they say nv y
ews are all right, but they are I'M =
'acticabie. There are $500, ,Om, 900 spent ,
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