The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-04
AN OLD PAPER
FURNISHES BILL ARP THE SUBJECT
FOE HIS ULAR LETTER.
Bill Reads tho Paper and Rehects-Every-
body Mentioned in tho Publication IS
Dead-He Talks About the Crops.

= A last years birds nest is Of no conse-
Quence but it is emblem OF the deao
past 1t points moral if it does not adorn
a tail But the most suggestive and impress
eive thing Of the past is polltlcal Jews
paper that is about fifteen or twenty years
old-just old enough for you to remember
the people who figured in it. | CHANGED on
one about the house and it made me sao'
zoe nearly everything II it was dcau-detid
issues, dead candidates, dead ISLANDERS. dead
advertisements, and even the editors are
dead. Some great men figured in this paper
and the people were as wild about them as
they are now over present issues Ben hill
and Alec Stephens were before the people
then and so Toombs Herschel V. john
son and Alfred Coquitt and Ex-Governor
Smith and a host of lesser lights. Henry
Grady was there, too, power in politics.
These are all dead. Even the advertisers are
dead and most of the typesetters. Grant
and Garfield and Arthur and Blaine all fig
ure in this paper and they are all dead.
How paltry and insignificant seem al!
those issues now. Fifteen or twenty years
from now how will all the present turbu-
lence and violence Of politics seem to those
who then live and look back? Most all OF
the factors will be dead and there will be Il
new set to Jump up and down and cry
40 here" and 80 there" 1t is we'll to look
back occasionally and learn lesson. There
is food for thought in q last years birds
nest or an old newspaper Politics is q
tiresome thing and We feel relieved when
the issue is over and the questions settled.
I don't blame Mr. Cleveland for going fish
ing. Fishing is the best medicine i'll the
world for tired mind. have tried it and
am tired. would go to Clear Water one day
in every week if it was not so far away. 1t
is good for a man to get away off the
water where he can't hear any news
nor read about murders and lynchings and
stealings and runaway matches and the
fralties and follies of society. Watching the
cork does not strain the mind, but it keeps
it from other things And so l would advise
General Evans and Colonel Atkinson to
raise q. flag of truce and go a-fishing. They
might go together and agree that who
ever caught the most fish should be the
governor.
But there are bigger things than politics.
I see the farmers blowing up the withered,
wlted cotton and planting corn. That looks
pretty hard on the farmers, but maybe it
is all for the best. have noticed that there
is always some good mixed up with the
bad. The mules and the hogs will have
more corn to eat next winter. L never saw
finer gardens than there are around here.
Beans and potatoes and peas are abundant
and my greatest pleasure is to go with my
two little grand children to the garden
every morning and gather vegetables and
pick Strawberries, LETT from the freeze to
give us a small feast every day, and they
are the finest we ever had. They are the
buback variety, the best berry in the world
for home use, but too delicate for ship
ment. There is greater luxury than
home made berries with homemade cream
to cover them. L have been thinking that
the blackcap raspberry was the hardest
kind, for sometimes L find them in the
fields and fence corners, but the last
freeze killed them all in my garden and
did not kill the red antwerps. This sur
prised me. The grape is after ALL the most
certain and reliable OF up-country fruits.
Dame nature locks up the grapes IN en-
bro for they are not in existence until
the new shoots come from the Old woods
Our blackberry crop is unhurt and VIII
soon be ripe and give the small darkleS
employment. Sugar is cheap tariff or no
t5aT.ifY trust or no trust, and every house
wife is getting ready TO put up the berries.
don't believe that newspaper yarn about
senators being bribed by the sugar trust.
Most Of our senator's are milllonalres al
ready and don't need the bride, and L don't
believe that senator would put himself IN
the clutches Of any rascal, for, oil course,
a man who would offer a bride is rascal
and no rascal will do to trust. But the
nation stil lives and there is life III the
old land yet--tariff or no tariff
BILL ARP.