The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-23
SARGE PLUNKETT.
THE PRETTY WEATHER HAS CHEER
ED THE TARMEfS.
Brown is Batting the Fish Ebles-1he Oio
Man Want the Town People to Relax
from Enthusiastically h9Coantry'

has done US, me and Brown propose u
Just let the wide world wag 1t will,
Wen be gay and hapnv still.
Everything is bright ard cheerful on tne
farm, now that we are sure the winter ~
over The ROSTERS or W louder, the hens
sing all the day. the turkeys strut ana the
guineas are looking for nests-ts1cre IS noth-
ing to mar the delights but the wlthereo
flowers and the backward garden truck me
countryman has many things to charm MN
as he carries on his work. The fresh plo"eo
ground is soft to his tread and sweet 10 tis
smell. and It is delightful to watch the
young plants breaking through the crust
aud showing up along the rows. Ana II 10
charming to get hungry as the pio"ihe'i
does and TO eat with the RELISH that ne
does. Brown turns his eye toward the hltch-
an chimney about 10 o'clock on THESE uas9
and a spell of anxious care spreads all over
his brown face for quite while some titles'
but when a little wreath Of smoke curls up
from that chimney such reaction comes
In his looks and his actions that woulo I'M
press you that he is well paid in JOY tor I'll
his anxiety. He knows that the smoke l-ol'i
the chimney means dinner lie StnheS ATOMS
to the end of the row and bobs his heao as
il lzecpipng time to the churn dasher. AT
the end he throws his pIow stock away
round before old Kit has had time to grao
mouthful of grass, and bawls with strong
voice and a slap OF the line for her to Get
up, you lazy thing, don't be SO SLOW:
The countryman is all right He can
manage to have something to eat ana an
appetite to relish whatever it is. he may
get to the house at night with wearled
limbs, but his rest is sweet and refreshed
In the morning he goes again TO his held IN
cheerful mood There are many IN the
great cities today who pine for the rest ana
health OF these countrymen. Many OF theih
know what it is, but they lost it IN thelr
greed for gain, or lured by the glitter OF city
life. Some have grown poor by the change
so poor that they cannot return-While
some have grown rich and weighted down
with business they cannot return. Many OF
these would like to come out with me ana
Brown and walk barefooted in the fresh
plowed ground, or walk over the
woods. breaking off the doGWooo
blossoms and pretty honeysuckles,
but they are too poor, or too rich
and busy, or else too fashionable we SYM
patfise with the poor and are sorry Tor the
hard worked business man VINO has not
TIME to relax, but it Is the fashionable VINO
need most pity. The poor may De
forced a blessing in disguise, 70 come cut
and taste of these country sweets the buSl-
ness man may learn that he should relax
and come out and romp over the fedS
and woods and drink buttermiik and other
wholesome food. but for the faShionaple'
poor things, they must follow fashion
Tney must go OF TO the seashore or water
ing places and strain o keep In the SWIM
/ used to steal off fishing on Sundays along
with Brown, and the thoughts of taking
our whipping When we returned home was
anything but pleasant, and l think that
these people who live in q STRAIN TO De
fashionable feel somewhat me and
Brown felt-it is worse than taking q whip
ping with many CT them. If these people
VIC Id only have the nerve to break away
from their sets and come down to cheap
and healthy recreation somewhere in the
country near home, there Would be Il fail-
ing off in suicides and many home made
hapny.7
.Fa1stness. business, and fashion, fashion.
.lvO1iG is tunntug miid o.. ..ies@ tAitte, $
/ heard q good MAN say few Saturdays
ago, God bless Sunday" He told me that
wer6 II not for the rest he gets on Sunday
he would be in the asylum in iess than
month. [ believe him; the world is over
worked Night must be lit Up and turned
into day The great wheels must turn and
the clatter of machinery so on. 1T takes
millions of dollars TO satisfy now where
hundreds used to satisfy. Ihe rcheSt man
L knew in all OF Georgia before tIie Wal
was rackOned to be worth 500, UUD. rms man
was a wonder in those days; ne stool hlsi1-
than Vanderbilt stands now. man
starting out to get rich now Woudn tihnK
about stopping al $GJJ0Oo. STRAIN al the
time, overWOrk all the time, never a time
to go out in the country, never day to
rest and all for more money than they
know what to do wth-money to make
them the more anxious. The man OF
million cannot rest nor can the man who has
his heart set making IL million rest. No
attitice can take the place of the relaxation
needed. Peaceful rest can lind no substitute
in excitement. Prize lighting, pail playing,
theaters ar Whatnots, cannot give the rest
You may go on till you have the spanish
bull fights or anything else, but 1t won't
ease the tired brain nor it won't improve
the morals Brown says, and / say, put out
Aln ntYtt Esrn nan
shut down business, go to bed with the
chickens and lay there without schening to
make more money DO this, and once and
awhile go out to some good country home
and spend week, or d month would be bet
ter. This is what the busy town man needs
and the fashionable had better do likewise
at least live within your means without
strain.
Brown wrestles with the weather all the
time. When it is cold it is mighty nigh i'm
morning Ege5 to N af fsrorb fire s a gs1 th bf
when the earth begins 10 get warmed UP he
takes upon. his face grin that continues
there more or less till time to go to shiyering
again. He looks distressed as he shvers in
the. winter, and looks distressed as he grins
in the summer, but he is never much dis
tressed about anything. He is down batting
a fish hole and is happy in the thought
of how he is going to draw them out. lie
is happier than any town folks will ever
be while the craze to follow fashion and to
make money Is at such tension.
a good Jones county friend writes me
that he ana IrlS1tlS OIL mis- ti1eQ my cat
racket on the crows in his section, and that
ii would not work. He says that our plan
may do for our crows, but that 1t will not
work in Jones. am mighty sorry about
this as some of his friends seem to take
1t as joke themselves. / am sure it
was intended no joke, it works well
on DeKalb county crows, but will state
a circumstance that happened to me and
Brown, just to show how these things do
change in different localities. Jones
county man came along one day while
and Brown were both bandascd up from
the kicks of a mih COW had. This
Jones county man knew exactly how to
keep a cow from kicking-oh, yes, sure. He
gave US the recipe and the next morning
We proceeded to use it with great faith.
Brown held the cow by the nose and one
horn till had run a strong leather strap
around her and buckied it tight just in
front of the leg. When / had finished my
buckling ] holered to Brown to let her go,
and she went. She never did KICK any
more after that-she killed herself and
con e mighty near cleaning out the Brown
and Piuhkett 'amiiea. too. Right through
the fence she plunged, kicking with both
feet to turn ana plunge through another
panel to get back into the lot Rails flew
and her feet too, and me and Brown dldnt
know what to do, but we were mighty ac-
tive 7 have never seen the Jones county
man frcm that day, to this, but n ne was
in the crowd at the crow hunt, tell nm we
are even. Locality docs make dif&rg nlce.
~ SARGE PIIJNKE,TT.