The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-09-27
TITS BLOWING OVER.
Arp Says He Can Already See Bright
ening Skies and Hard Times Dix
appearing Time Will Set All
Things Aright-PeOple In the
rouusry Not Much Affect.


Country Not Much Affect.
ed by the Panic.
The times certainly look more hope
ful-we feel it in the air-the caldron
has been boiling and bubbling-the
froth and scum have been thrown over
and we begin to see the bottom of the
pot through the clear liquid that has
been 80 dark and muddy. Time is a
good doctor, in little while the pa
tient will convalesce. Old folks can't
be fooled and alarmed like young
folks.
When was in Texas last year / met
hundreds of good, honest people who
were wild with excitement about Clark
and Hogg. The cry on one side was
''Turn Texas loose" and it seemed
like the great state was bound and
gagged, and her ruin was inevitable if
HOgg was elected. The newspapers
and the people in the towns and cites
cried in frantic tones, Turn Texas
loose"
But Hogg was elected, nevertheless,
and Texas is there yet in all her glory
and all her strength. l never took
sides, for it was none Of my fight, and
I was too old to be alarmed.
Memory goes back now to great ex-
elements, both political aud inan-
cial, and when I hear the wild screen
of the politician as he predicts ruin!
ruin ruin ! If they don't do his way,
I feel like it is history just repeating
itself and the storm Wilt blow over as
usual. A little time Is all that IL
wanted-time to reflect, and rest, and
recuperate. =,
The great DR.. Abernathy was asked
the secret of his success as aphysician,
be replied
II amuse the patient and let nature
do the work."
But parties cannot remedy three
evils. There is O law now in our code
forbidding the carrying of concealed
weapons and yet half Of the young
men of the town and the country carry
them habitually. Just let row or a
quarrel begiu anywhere, even at a
camp meeting, and see how many pis-
are drawn. The trouble is that the
courts do not execute the laws. The
courts fling this charge back upon the
people and say why don't you prose.
cute-why do you fail to come up AID
testify? And 50 it seems that every
body is to blame more or less for every
thing. Our preacher said last night
that he had been a close observer OF
the troubles and aff1ictions Of mankind
and in nine cases out of ten they were
the crop that was planted. What ye
SOW, that shall ye also reap" Even
the poverty that many of our people
COMPLAIN of is the result Of their own
planting. If young man spends
most of his time hunting and fishing
and frolicking with little whiskey
thrown in, and after awhile marries
some thoughuess girl and children are
born To them the family starts out on
the down grade and soon comes to pov.
erty. They reap what they sowed and
they try to lay all the blame on other
people, especially on the rich.
No, we can't regulate everything III
this sinful world, but we must DO the
best we can both by precept and ex'
ample. A bumblebee stung me on
my bald head this morning. 1 said |
reckon it was for some of my mean.
ness-some crop that I had sowed, tut
i'm few minutes one stung my wife Oh
her head and can't account for that
He made mistake reckon. The lit
tie varmints have got a nest under the
floor in the upstairs piazza and because
I stopped up their hole the outsiders
are 50 wage and would sting all ange
unawares. l don't know what such
things were made for, but maybe IN
know some. time. l hope 81. The
body might be an accident, but the
sting in his tail wasn't. AS the law
yers say, "it was put there with malice
aforethought" and that's the way he
uses it. BILL ARP.