The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-13
GROWING BETTER.
ARP SAYS TIMES ARE BETTER SINCE
THE ELECTION
A. He Predicted 1t Would IL Cleue!and
Was Elected-He Talks Of Old Times
In an Interesting Manner.


soon as Cleveland was elected. Sveral men
and one woman have taken offense at this
and write me rather Indignantly about the
sin of deception, and the good woman says
she had always esteemed me to be a gen
tleman and a Christian until ROW. She
says that unless l am an idiot must know
that ID was the short crop that made the
price advance.
Well that is so. / take it all back. I
was just jubilating. That's all. Her par
ty jubilated so much before the election
that we couldent keep from Growing little
afterwards. 1t did us so much good. am
just as sorry for my republican friends as
the circumstances will admit of, especially
for the women, and l remember them my
prayers and hope they may receive an album
dance of resignation and take comfort IN
that scripture which says The Lord loyeth
whom he chaSteneth.' Let us rejoice with
those who rejoice and weep with those who
weep. Sometimes the good things we haven't
got are more comforting than those we
have. 1t is sorter like our preacher who
had to get up away in the night and nurse
his little colcky boy for two long hours, and
when at last he had sobbcd himself to sleep
the fond father patted him gently and whis-
pcred you dear utte suffering darling.
Papa wouldcnt take Il million dollars for
you; no he wouldent--but he Wouldent give i
nickel for another.
Light cents is a fair price for
cotton in Texas-just as fair us 8 cents
IS here in Georgia. 1t is a pity that the
price couldcnt be regulated by the cost OF
production and let every man make 80 per
cent. Some farmers right here in Barlow
county swear they can't make il for less than
s cents, but I was talking to Mr. Sheda-
a * f.,
and always has little money to lend. lie
made nine and Il half bales ten acres this
year and did it with hired labor, for he has
no children and he says lie keeps a strict
account of every cent and knows exactly
what he is doing and that the crop cost him
+ L. cents pound. He sold it f0ro IL
and IS satisfied. He has something to sell
all the year Troublesome corn, or hay, or Il
COW, or some potatoes. He came here poor
and has improved his little farm ana built
Il new house out OF the profits OF farming.
He cnTies nobody, troubles nobody, and is a
good citizen.
Another farmer who sold a few bales at
8 cents told Mr.. Milan that he dident
know what it cost him for his little chaps
chopped it out and picked the most of it,
and if they hadcAt done that they wolildent
have done anything else. Counting fair
wages for the children he said he rcckoned
his cotton cost him about cents, but not
counting the children IL cost about . CENTS
A sorry farmer on sorry farm is very
solTy spectacle and If it waSent for his wife
he would perish, but somehow, i'll the dis
pensation of providence, most every no ac-
count, or unlucky man is tied onto a bust
ling, hustling woman who never surrenderS
and manages somehow to maintain the fam
lily. This is not fancy, but it is Il fact that
the more trif1ing or unlucky the man the
more dligent is the woman From time to
time | had various tenants when L was
farming and l noticed that the most lndlf-
fcrent men had the smartest women tied
onto them.
Farming with diligence aud good man
agement is the best business | know of, and
i am glad to say our farmers are improving
in their methods and their industry;
heard an observing farmer say today that.
as a class, they We're % per cent better or
in this country than they were three years
ago They are generally out of debt and
own good stock and good implements. 1T
healthy man with a healthy wife has
Il good little farm that is paid Tor he has rs
good chance for happiness and success as
anybody. ] shall never cease to cherish the
when the children gather, around the
fireside they love to recall and relate
the trials and tribulations, the pleasures
and delights of the ten years they lived
upon the farm. They worked nara ana
made good crops and mixed a little sport
with their labors and kept everything live
" and cheerful. Almost every night we
had music and neighbors would drop IN
to enjoy it, | listened to them last night
as they alternated with each olher Ill re-
freshing memories
Don't Won remember when Old Bess
kicked me over backwards and put her
foot square down in the milk bucket
Eyes. and YOU mauled her with the hoe
handle and broke it and you used 10 MAKE MAKE
me set upon the fence while YOU were milk
ing and hold Old Bess's tail to keep her from
switching YOU in the face with 1t. and the
way you pulled the milk from her with
both hands vas a sight. She was COW, she
was Do you reckon you could milk one
now or have you lost the lick since you We
got stuck! up 50 fine i'll New York.
..And don't Won rcmembcr when old AleG;
fell on that stob and made Il hole in her
breast that you could hide a rabbit in
Yes and didn't | run my hand IN ii anu
wash it out with I've soap and turpenune
and then sew it up with bagging needle
and she got we'll and that was my hrst
experience in surgery, and right there papa
said he was going to make doctor OUT
of me- .,o, oo--,
Mr. Jenkins three merino sheep for that Old
Ionc-horned goat and how he knocked the
breath out of me the first day and papa
got mad and sent him back to Jenkins.
'And what fun we used TO nave Win
Old Pete, the merino ram, and now we
trained him to butt and nobody dared 10.
cot in fifty yards of him, and one day papa
was going along on his dignity Ike Ne
thought Old Pete wouldn't dare to interfere
With him and before he knew it Ola fete
was after him and [ never saw a man run
like papa did--you could have played mar
bles on his coat tail ,..u
and don't you remember when Ralph 4 fell
ont of the top of that tall perslmmon tree
in the meadow and we all took him up Tor
dead and carried him to the house ana the
blood and froth run out OF his mouth
Eyes. and | rode Molly five miles to toWn
in twenty minutes after the doctor ana II
che hadcnt been the best mare IN the Worlu
It would have killed her. And don you
remember how Molly used to stan Wnc4
She took a notion and one morning When L
had on a load of clover down IN the l S'I
ground She took notion and AFTER nad
Begged her and whipped her and W W
with her for an hour l unhitched ga Queen
and rode her home and left Molly thert
hitched to the wagon all day long wl,nou9
food or water, and late in the evening L
went back with Queen and M'cheu neI
alongside and got up. on the wagon ana
said, Get along Molly and she stirt Yea llgn.
away and pulled every pound all the WAY
home and Queen could hardly keep up win
her That's the best way to break up a
stalling horse that ever tired, ana IL las'S'
For Molly never did stall again
"And don't you remember how the Guyton