The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-28
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
HOT WEATHER UNITS WILLIAM
FOR MS WORK.
An Explanation as 90 the Origin Of
July and August

julius Cmgar was O very great man.
He was democrat and the leader OF
his party when only thirty-threo years
old, and held tho highest Office before
he was forty. But j don't understand
what made him cut q slice out Of the
middle Of the year aud name IL July.
And his son GINS did thosnmo thing and
named il August If they wanted 10
dismember the year and aid two more
months why dident they take it OF the
Fail end and lap them on 10 December.
don't like July nor August nohow.
It seems 10 me they get hotter and
hotter as the years roll on. 1 can't
work in my garden. IL is so warm
that ] can't gather the vegetables nor
NOV the grass for the COW with any
comfort. / sweat all over with pers-
pirntion aud have 10 change my gar
menta every day. We don't go 10 bed
until II o'clock and can't sleep good
for an hour after, but reckon It will
come oil right again before long. /
reckon so. Italways docs. Whatever is
is right
My wife borrowed the baby again
last night. Ever and anon she has 10
have a baby to stay over night and
sleep with her to remind her of the
good old times when she nursed her
own and fondled them and patted
them in the restless night. So little
Caroline, who is the youngest grand
child, was left with her to comfort her
and 1t made both happy, for the little
thing loves her grandma and hardly
knows which mother she belongs to.
got to sleep about midnight, but my
olfactories or esophagus or larynx or
throttle valve or whatever you call it
was out Of order and 1 suppose / was
snoring pretty lively when 1 heard n
voice calling me: civilian, William. +"
Asleep or awake that uxoriau voice al
ways makes me jump with alacrity. /
fastened over to her corner of thereon
TO see what was the matter and ran
against the center table and q chair
and waited for orders. Suddenly she
whispered: 81 just wanted you to
turn over. You snore 80 loud you will
wake mp the baby. Don't snore 80. "
With a subdued feeling 1 started
back to my bed, but it was awful dark
and / coudent find the round table
that was in the middle of the room.
Slowly and cautiously I felt my way,
when suddenly my nose collided with
the top of the mantlepiece. This
guided me to my little bed again and
/ assumed a tired and recumbent DO.
sition and ruminated on the battle OF
life. But ! mustent snore was the or
der. The baby mustent be disturbed.
This injunction weighed so heavily
upon me that l was afraid to fall into
q deep sleep and of getting sonorous
again, so l slumbered along and
dreamed l was travelling to heaven OF
some haven of rest, and on every barn
and board fence and rocky cliff there
was red letter sign like q patent
medicine sign and it said, "Don't
snore Don't snorel Don't snorer
and by and by we reached high
mountain and there was you'll
climbing it with a banner and
thought it was the excelsior char
we used to see in the blue-bacR
spelling book, but as the breeze un-
folded the banner / saw it was "Don't
Shore, Don't Snore." Just then
was awakened by gentle sonorous oil
factory sound that came from the Other
corner OF the room and SO l ventureC
over there and touched her tenderly
and whispered; "Don't snore; yor
will wake up the baby"
This baby raising business is abou
the biggest business I know of and til,
most responsible. I was one of tel
that my mother raised, aud my wife
has raised ten, and we have raised ten
and it looks like some of our posterity
are on the same ancestral line. Bu
there were no grandparents in oul
family and we little chaps had to rough
it like Cain and Abel did. Nowaday
it takes two parents and three or fou
grandparents and several aunts and
nurse and baby carriage to raise
child, but that is all right if tn
child is blessed with such priv
ileges. The dear little thing
ought to have a good time il
infancy, for trouble will surely com
when they get older, and 1 reioic
that the modern children have bet
ter time than we did. remember th
little brown cradle that we were al
rocked in, and when there wasent
baby carriage in the town. remem
Der when the average child had n
nurse save its mother, and she did th
homework and made all the garments
too, and dident know she was having
hard time. The little chaps diden
have their faces washed nor thei
clothes changed but once or twice
day and they were set down on tn
floor or the ground and given som