The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-30

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and he said the bottom WAS about tc
drop out Of farming as business, fol
everything he raised was below the cos
of production. Said he, "Here I've got
a carload of wheat right here in town fol
sale, and all can get is II cents BUSH
ell, and I've kept an account fair ano
square and it has cost me over so cents
to raise it, and my cotton is worse thar
that, and I've worked harder last yeal
and this than I ever did in my life, and
you can just look at my hands, and tell
you Major Arp there is no use in talking
something has got to be done for the far
mers-77 cents won't grow a bushel ol
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
-four a little cheaper. I'm getting
mighty tired paying 50 hundred for
-four" and he hurried on to his work.
And so, Mr.. Editor, I don't know what
to do. I would fix it all right if I could.
I would arrange matters so that every
man could sell high and buy low but
don't see my way clear, and go, like IN
Gle Simon Peter, believe I will give all
people my benediction aod leave these
troubles with the Lord.
But these youngsters don't care cent
about the price of -four nor the third
party, nor where the money is to come
from. They have about run away with
the country. To morrow there is to be
another baseball match game. They
have had three this week, and because I
slip around the back way and get in the
back ground and look on they say I'm in
favor of it, but I amt. If they would.
emit play woulden't go; but I don't
want to see Dalton or Cedartown or
Marietta come up here and beat our boys,
and 80 slip around to do little holler-
ing and sick the boys on. The boys
oughtent to lead an old man into temp
tation. They can't play much Dohow.
They don't hit one pail in ten, but we
boys used to knock the old town ball a
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 60 down town nearly
every evening for spool of thread or
something, and I've just found out she
slips over to the tennis court to see the
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 are
young something TO look back to when
they get old and full of care and trouble.
"It has been forty years." said she,
"since l had any time to enjoy such
things, for there was always a baby in
the way, and now I am going when I
feel like it,"
Well, let her go. l don't care. Let
her new her youth, as Milton says. She
ought to have pension right now as a
confederate widow; but she is spelling
these children. When I came home
from Missouri l inquired for Carl, and
she said he was at Chickamauga with the
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 on the tail
end of his company, and he borrowed a
uniform and let him go. He has been
studying very hard, you know, and need.
ed rest" Well, I had two grandsons
up there-miitary boys right fresh from
Auburn coilrge-and they got into the
company, too, and wanted to rest, and 80
I acquiesced and ruminated, and sung
my old song: "sorrow endureth for a
night, but joy cometh in the morning"
Well, it didn't cost a cent, for the State
footed the bills, and the boys say they
had splendid time-never had SO much
fun in all their lives. Two of them bell.
ed cow and rode her bareback through
the camp one evening, and never got in
the guard house for it. Only had to do
double guard duty for two days, and that
wasent nothing, they said. A new COM
pany from the wiregrass got there one
night about ten o'clock, and the cadets
found out they we're pretty green and
met them at the depot and marched them
q mile away and drilled and double
quicked them for two hours just as
though they had orders to do it. They
eat up all their own rations and stole
everybody else's that were not under
lock and key. They Kept the whole
camp in an uproar and I'm afraid my
lineal descendants were at the head of it.
Captain Phil Byrd, of "The Hustler" !"
had better mind how he attaches the Arp
family to his company. 1t has been 46
years since I helped to take the clapper
out of the college bell and hoist billy
goat into the tutors room, and now the
sins of my youth are being vented upon
me in the devilment of my children and
grandchildren, and the State and the
governor and the Legislature and my
wife are responsible for it. But its all
right, I reckon, and all's we'll that ends
we'll. "Sorrow endureth for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning"
BILL ARP.
What Your Great Grandmother Did.
She hetcheied the flax and carded the
wool, aud woye the linen, and spun the