The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-08-28
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
HOT WEATHER UNITS WILLIAM
FOR HIS WORK.
An Explanation a. to tho Origin Of July
and August.

ana August.
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
Julius Caesar was q great man. He
was q Democrat and the leader Ut his
party when only thirty-threc years
old, and held the highest Office before
lie was forty. But | don't understand
what made him cut slice out OF the
middle OF the year and name 1t July.
And his son Gus did the same thing
and named it August. II they want.
ed to dismcmber the year and add two
more months why didn't they take II
of the tail end and lap them on IT,
December. don't like July nor Aug
tlst nOhOw. It seems to me they get
hotter and hotter as the years roll on.
| can't work in my garden. 1t is so
warm that l can't gather the vcgeta-
blcs nor NOW the grass for the COW
with any comfort. l sweat all over
with perspiration and have to change
my garments every day. We don't go
to bed until II o'clock and can't sleep
good for an hour after, but l reckon
It will come all right again before
long. reckon so. 1t always does.
Whatever is right.
My wife borrowed the baby again
last night. Ever and anon she has to
have u baby to stay over night and
sleep with her to remind her Of the
good old times when she nurscd her
own and fondlcd them and pattcd
them in the restless night. So little
Caroline, who Is the youngest grand.
child, was left with her to comfort
her and IL made both happy, for the
little thing loves her grandma and
hardly knows which mother she be-
longs to. l got to sleep about mid
night, but my OlfactOries or esopha.
gus or larynx or throttle valye or
whatever you call it was out OF order
and suppose was snoring pretty
lively when l heard a voice calling
me: william, william" Asleep or
awake that uxOrian voice always
makes me jump with alacrity. / has
tened over to her corner Of the room
| TO see what was the matter and ran
against the center table and Il chair
and awaited orders. Suddenly she
whispered: II just want you to turn
oyer. You sn0rc so loud you will
wake up the baby. Don't snorc So"
With u subducd feeling l started
back to my bed, but it was awfully
dark and couldn't find the round ia
bic that was in the middle OF the
room. Slowly and cautiously / felt
my way, when suddenly my nose col
lidcd with the top OF the mantelpicce.
This guided me to my little bed again
land l assumed tired and recumbent
position and ruminated on the battle
0f life. But mustent snOrc was the
order. The baby mustent be dis
turbed. This injunction weighed 50
heavily upon me that ! was afraid to
fall into u deep sleep and OF getting
sonorous again, so l slumbered along
and dreamed was travelling to heaven
or some haven OF rest, and on every
barn and board fence and rocky clifl
there was u red letter sign like u pat
ent medicine sign and itsaid, "Don''
snorc! Don't snorc! Don't snore"
and by and by We reached higl
mountain and there was a youth
climbing 1t with banner aud
thought 1t was the excelsior chap w
used to see In the blue.back spelling
book, but as the breeze unfolded tht
banner l saw 1t was Don't SnOre
Don't Snore." Just then l was awak
ened by q gentle and sOnor0us ol
factory sound that came from thu
other corner OF the room and 50 l ven
tured over there and touched her tcp
derly and whispcrcd: Don't snore
you will wake up the baby"
This baby.raisiny business is abou
the biggest business / know OF ant
the most responsible. ! was one 0
ten that my mother raised, and nj.
wife has raised ten, and we have rails
cd ten, and 1t looks like some Of on
p0stcrity are on the same ancestra
limo. But there were no grandparcnt
| In our family and We little folks ha'
to rough It like Cain and Abel did
| Nowadays II takes two parents AM
thrco or four grandparents and scv
eral aunts and a nurse and baby cai
rlagc to raise a child, but that Is al
right II the child Is blessed with sue