The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-06

cost Of production. Said he, Here
I've got a carload of wheat right here
in town for sale, and all I can get is II
cents a bushel, and I've kept an account
fair and square and it has cost me over
50 cents to raise it, and my cotton is
worse than that, and I've worked
harder last year and this than I ever
did in my life, and you can just look at
my hands, and I tell yo' Major Arp
there is no use in talking something
has got to be done for the tarmers-T
cents won't grow a bushel of wheat in
this country"
Just then a carpenter came along and
said: "Well, I'm glad to hear wheat
has come down. I hope now we will get
flour alittle cheaper. Pm getting ulighty
tired paying s. a hundred for -four"
and he hurried on to his work. And
so, Mr.. Editor, don't know what to
do. would fix it all right if I could.
[ would arrange matters so that every
man could sell high and buy low; but
don't see my way clear, and so, like
Uncle Simon Peter, I believe I will
give all people my benediction and
leave these troubles with the Lord.
But these youngsters don't care cent
about the the price of flour nor the
third party, nor where the money is to
come from. They have about lun away
with the country. Tomorrow there is
to he another baseball match game.
They have had three this week, and
because l slip around the back way
and get in the back ground and look
on they say Pm in favor of it, but
amt. If they woulden't play I wouldn't
go; but I don't want to see Dalton of
Cedartown or Marietta come up here
and beat our boys, and so I slip around
to do little hollering and sick the boys
on. The boys oughtent to lead an old
man into temptation. They can't play
mucL ohow. They don't hit one ball
in ten, but we boys used to knock the
old town ball quarter Of a mile, and if
We ever missed one we were caught out
behind sure. And the girls are just as
crazy about tennis. They play all the
shank Of the afternoon, and sometimes |
don't get back in time to fix the table |
for supper, and my wife has got to go |
down town nearly every evening for a
spool of thread or something, and I've |
just found out she slips over to the
tennis court to see young folks play
next thing know she will be playing
football. She takes rides with the
children and says they ought to have
some sport while they areyoung--some-
thing to look back to when they get
old and full of care and trouble. 1t |
has been forty years." said she, "since
had any time to enjoy such things,
for there was always baby in the way,
and now I am going when I feel like
.t.u
Well, let her 60. I don't care. Let
her new her youth, as Milton says.
She ought to have pension right now
Is confederate widow; but she is spoil
ng these children. When I came home
rom Missouri I inquired for Carl, and
he said he was at Chickamauga with
he military. "How is that?' said I.
He diden't belong to any company"
No." said she, "but he went over to
Rome, and Captain Byrd took him in
N the tail-end of his company, and he
borrowed a uniform and I let him go.
lie has been studying very hard, you
NOW, and needed rest" Well, I had |
wo grandsons up there-military boys
light fresh from Auburn college-and
hey got into the company, too, and
wanted to rest, and so I acquiesced and
animated, and sung my old song:
Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy
ometh in the morning" !
'Well, it didn't cost a cent, for the
tate footed the bills, and the boys say
hey had a splendid time-never had
, much fun in all their lives. Two
them belled a cow and rode her
through the camp one eve
ing, and never got in the guard house
'r it. Only had to do double guard
uty for two days, and that wasent
othing they said. A new company
ON the wiregrass got there one night
bout ten o'clock, and the cadets found
ut they were pretty green and met
lem at the depot and marched them
mile away and drilled and double
tucked them for two hours just as .
lough they had orders to do it. They q
It up all their own rations and stole
else's that were not under
OK and key. They kept the whole :
mp in an uproar, and Pm afraid my .
neal descendants were at the head of v
Captain Phil Byrd, of The Hus- +
er," had better mind how he attaches !,
e Arp family to his company. 1t
IS been 46 years since helped to take
e clapper out of the college bell and
'ist billy goat into the tutors room,
I'd now the sins of my youth are be- IL IL
6 vented upon me in the devilment +
my children and grandchildren, and r.
e State and the governor and the Ia
yislature and my wife are responsible 81
: it. But it's all right, reckon, and d
Is well that ends we'll. "Sorrow en- o
reth for night, but joy cometh in
e morning" BILL ARP. 81 81
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