The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-09-16
SARGE PLUNKETT.
HAM, CUsTARD and FRIED CHICKEN
ATA FODDER PULLING.
Story of "Svnshine," the Little Engine that
Blew GY Near Cedsrtown During tho
War-Other "reminiscences.
For The Constitution.

out-the corn crop Is enough 10 Hahe 10
| all rejoice and pretty nigh all the country
people rejoicing.
There is just such n state of Things III
| the rural districts as should cause US all
| to throw up hats and feel GOOD. inc
| boys that follow the plows have learheu
| that the old home and country pursuits
| is not just the low thing that many were
| led to believe "a few years ago re"
| years ago the country passed through an
| ordeal of hard times that was trying anu
| that many were not brave enough 10
| stand. Fathers, mothers and the chhureh
/ got to think that the country and a couh-
| try life was the hardest lot of the human
! family This feeling is fast disappearing.
| Those who were brave enough have seen
| n change. until today they pity the town
| folks and thank God for the prosperity
! that is seen on every Georgia farm. inc
| towns are now passing through stress
| of hard times that the country felt a lew
| years ago and that caused so many 70
| fec from the country homes. Many VIII
| return to the country before Al IS over
with, wiser and sadder FROM having lelt'
But / would add nothing to the depFes-
| sion that hangs over the towns ana that
| feel they cannot escape. If l could say
| something to cheer the situation l wouid
| gladly do So Really the town people are
not in so bad a fix as they feel them
| serves. II you will all look rack over inc
| gloom of 1850 | think it would help you
| The old confederate soldiers came nome
broken in health, broken in spirits ana
| wrecked in fortunes Without food and
| without raiment save ragged gray suit
| they found no time TO murmur. NOT Il
! horse was theirs. not an OK, and credit was
| out OF the question. With bbstered leel
! and feeble hands these old soldiers set an
example that should ever quiet the NlgoF-
| Gus manhood that is now hcwling from
| enc side OF the country to the other.
| The hardest thing to do is for these young
! people to come down off their high horses.
| Your big notions must be curtalled. your
| false brides must be suppressed. To live
/ within your means and to labor at what
ever your hands flndeth to do must be
| your study / know that it is mighty
| hard for one of the young gentlemen 10
acknowledge that he has failed; / know
| that il is hard for their women folks to
| say that they are not able to keep up a
| style that they have been straininG to
assume but you must-thls is half the
| fight. Just act sensible and all the family
| ahree that they are running too big a
schedule and that they will come down
to live according to their means, and pref
ty soon you Will see the marks of anxiety
begin to pass from the "old mans face.
a cheerfulness Will pervade where the cry
OF hard times is now to be found, and al
together you will gain credit and prosper
ity that you neither deserve nor can ever
| attain under your present ways OF living
and thinking.
/ knew an old confederate soldier just
after the war who had lost both his arms
close up to his shoulders. Upon coming
home he found his place swept of every
thing. Not a horse, an on, COW, hos-not
even chicken was there. His wife had
kept few bushels of corn hid ana TINS
was all that could be counted on. In TINS
condition there was not a murmur Of hard
times. The wife ANA tine children gathered
about the ;Fralcss cid soldier ana showed
that they were willing for any sacrifice
and thanked God that it was no worse.
The question was to make crop and there
was no time to be lost. The old soldier
at once decided that he could play the
part of a horse and pun the plow. 1t was
great fun FOR the children when they had
thu old man htchcd ana Inc began
To prance and shy from whatever he saw.
The good mother put her hands to the
plow ana that family made a plenty 10
DO them the next year. The children of this
old soldier are now grown and prosperous
and all the family gather every year at
the old home and tell about the year when
the father played horse so well and 50
cheerfuny. 1t is said that he got so full of
pranks toward lay-hy time that they had
TO put a bic in his month to manage him.
If we would all cheerfully set In together
to live within our means and 10 work at
whatever we could ind to do there would
be no hard times in Georgia very much
louger-leCs try it,
Winnie the soldiers had leatileu hiuch anu
to suffer much the women OF the cohledefd-
cy had learned with them This IS what
should he pressed. Without womans CO.
nper,t ION man cam do nothing. / am glad
~ ''3i, fsart - hein,. made 10 have
:" :, - ,4s,,,,,,., ,gnrl, shown ~
the confederate women WORK SHOWN a.
the exposition. They had their snare OF mo
suffering, they performed their share OF
hcroism The confederate armies would
- ,,+ a.. ,,ie,,.s tnu,~ bafore they did if
nay w. ~ -, - ~, sacriti,,s ~
II ma" ioe nav ~, ~ -. ~ a,t,.,aI
many things that were made by the women
Of the war that would tell in Cloquence the
most sincere OF their devotion, of their
i''oae ', - ,t,ir. GOOD e.nse in adapt-
So .i'e ~, -, 80, Ills ~ tha times
ms thtii9eiNe9 " - 49, - ,,',a,
And who VIII not SOY t''tt 49,
have been neglected. TINS lnNi'alioh ol t4e