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

''Sorrow endureth for night, butjoy
con tn in the morning" That is un-
les, the cook has quit and you have to
rise before sunup and cook breakfast
yourself. But I don't mind it much
and it's fair compromise for me to
cook breakfast and the girls to clean up
after my messing and cook the other
two meals. In fact, would enjoy the
frolic, if the cranky stove would bake
the biscuits brown on the bottom, but
this morning they were as white as
cotton and were blistered on top, and
Mrs. Arp said it would take me two or
three days to get my hand in, and she
hipted that the old stove was about
burnt out anyhow and that it had to be
fred 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 all, 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 party or frolic
and still keep their health, and have
admired the alacrity with which they
rise when they are going on an eXcur-
sion or picnic and have to take an early
start. There seems to be a power-of
stirring around this summer, consider
ing the hard times, and have thought
that maybe all this going to and fro
had something to do with the hard
times. 1t 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 S6, 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 surrendered, and prepared my
finances for the IS apiece and two or
three days board, but they stayed ten
days, and that with all the preliminary
fxings, 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 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 go and
there they go, like a fddler'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 Chickamauga. 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 go somewhere, and
besides all these there are a big lot of
women and girls and fancy fellows
visiting thesprings, and a heap ofthem
dance and gamble and drink and carry
On scandalous, and a heap of them
don't, but it all costs money; ard 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't got anything to marry on,
but they flirt around amazing and make
mash aud 50 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
excursions, 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 Oh 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 |!
came along and took up the subject as
the doctor left off and said: "Ees, they
have got too many societies, and I used
to be as big fool as anybody and joined
every one that came along-the Ma
sons and Sons Of Temperance, and
Bible societies, and T don't know how
many more, and what with preaching
and travelling and the conference and
all the societies like to have never got
acquainted with my family, for was
out somewhere every night; and one
day my wife saw notice in the news
paper that there was q new society
just come for the protection of hen
pecked husbands, and she called my
attention to it and asked if I hadn't
better join it and run for president; and |
that put me to thinking, and quit for
a while, until it occurred TO me not
long ago that l could do some good by
joining the Alliance and helping them
to reform the world and save the coun-
try, and so I joined, and I've been
talking to them about whiskey and
tobacco and extravaganza and corrup-
ton at Washington, but my ideas don't
seem to be popular, and they say my
views are all right, but they are inn
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