The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-24
ARP SHUT INDOORS,
BUT HE WATCHES THE YOUNGSTERS
PLAY FIN THE SNOW.
The Hired Boy Gives BIZ Trouble In Locss-
Ing the Axe-The PHILOSOPHERS Has
to Clean Out n Path.

1t strains an old man to see much 1un
In the beautiful snow. He can't play IN
1T. nor slide nor walk about with any
security; but he knows that he can't help
himself and so must try to be happy De
cause the children are. What q glorious
thing it is to be Obvious 10 trouble ana
apprehenSiOn--what reckless JOY lhese
children feel while rolicbing In THIS
miracle OF heavenly beauty, Wnle aiti
here thinking about the coal ana Woou
that are nearly gone anu tnere Is ho
more in town, and how the COOK says
she reckon she have to quit 1ot eho
can't hardly git UP de hill any more anu
how | had to shovel a path to the coai-
house ana the cowlot and dig UP some
Iightwood and couldent find the AK LOT
n long time, for the hired boy dideit
come and he never has any parlcuiat
Mace for anything, and the young Iolhs
framn snow ali over the hall ana the
Garnet and get their shoes and StockihSS
wringiny wet. and Mrs. Arp declares
that every one of them will be sick
Rut if is beautiful-that Is fact-
whan the morning sun dispersed the
lingering clouds and sent his genlai rays
an over the fields and LAWNS
and housetops, l thought IL was
the most charming IahuScape
that / had ever sSeh- Az" -.
w GAN dame nature change our feelings
from gloom and apprehension TO JOY anu
eIaduess. The peaiOWls have come hoWh
from their roosts in the treetopS Tor the
first time in forty-eight hours ana lie
Direons are circIing around and the niue
hi3.dS have come from their hiding places
The sleigh bells are jinGilnS ana lile
boys are coasting down the steep Hills
and everything seems happy as''h'
I reckon now the winter Is broken, anu
;n . few weeks the spring flowers ana
the naach trees will be III DlooIi' tlS
Is the first real pleasant suhShlily gay
since the day after ChrlS'lnaS' IL h''E
been a hard, long, wintry speii, anu poor
folks have suffered, ana SO hdIe III,
Iahoring men who follow the ran aEC
have to take thelr places by ua! anu ~
nigbt | never hear the whistle dow nol
- tho r,InhIin. shock of the loadet
trains rs in the dead OF night they move
e. and fro past my house but WHAT
think of the engineers and the hfelllgi
ana the brakemen. Maybe. when III
"Cotes are ajar," they win run trains II
booven where they will never ne to'
cold or too hot and 10 COWS Oh 'iie ~,
end everybody have a free pass over LII
line. 60 roo,
II is curious how old folks love TO rea'
en1 pondpr the memories OF tite pao'
wrote n letter about Andrew JdchSoH
end had many letters responsive 10 III
subiect-mOSt of them were ir"in oN
men who still love to dream over w
racoIIecti0ns of their youth. lau vi l'
from a veteran in Atlanta "no W" We
horn i'm 1911. and is still hale ana heart
81 ,+tands regularly to his merchandise
Wa, no was n youth, tie halo OF Jach
SONS victory was still radiant. lie zen
how q famous comedian named barhC
.gpo a song in the thCater III savanna"
near seventy years ago. IL was cdlle
srI,ha Hunters OF Kentucky, ana baIit
wore coonskin vest and cap ana ha
nm oId-time rife and powder horh' an
one verse of his song was:
A letter from a friend, who is prou
of being a tarheel says that Generi
jackson was born in North Carolln;
lust over the line in the WaxhaW settle
ment, but that his mother, who was the
q widow, was over there on visit lie
home was only Il few miles away, m
was in South CarOlina-and so both state
claim him. He narrateS some unWritte
history Of the family, and says tina
General JackSonS father died Il fey
weeks before Andrew was born, and on
cold day when the funeral had to com
corpse to the graveyard that was two 0
three miles away. The road was YER
rough, the day was cold, the wage
shacllly and 'grOg' was plenty, and whe1
they arrived at the graveyard and wen
to the wagon for the corpse it was not L
there 1t had spilled out on the way
and they had to 90 back after it. Til
writer says these are facts that hav
long been verified in tie Waxhaw settle
menL"
You can't tell q mans age exactly b.
his Christian name. but in great man!
cases-yes. thousands of them-you ca
tell the period-the decade in which b.
was born. From 1915 TO 1925 Their
were more southern boys named fo
Andrew Jackson than for any other man
Ny father was merchant for forty years
and the A. is were numerous upon hi.
books. and there was no great disparity
in the ages Of those who bore them
For a period of thirty years before this
the G. VS. and T J's and J. II s were
che popular initials But the charm, the
halo, of these names has passed away
and now you will find in the families OF