Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-12-19
ARP AND CHILDREN.
Bill Likes To See The Little Ones at
Play.
ALL LOVE THEIR GRANDPA.
Arp Sees Great Many Beautiful
Things in si.e, and Does Not SIGH
for Death.

These little chaps alarm me-alarm
me with their innocence. their hanoi-
ness thelr love. for / have a forebod-
ing that it cannot last. Life is full M
sorrows and they will have their
share. 1t is the common lot one mel
ancholy poet says: Man was m;da
to mourn" Another SAYS: 81 would
not live always but like that one
bctter who wlOte The world is very
lovely. Oh. My God. | thank Thee
that l live" From my window al
most every day see two little girls
only four and six years old. turning
the corner and coming IN through tho
grove To see grandma and grandma and
he petted and OF course. he feasted
with biscuit and jelly and apples and
10 nurse the cat and play with their
little cousins fine Paris doll. They al
ways come hand in hand and with
clean faces and ribboned hair and we
meet them at the door. for they bring
sunshine 10 our hearts and home |
loNe 10 nave them climb into the back
ol my big chair and bother me while
write. and have to stop and draw
pictures for them and to hear thc llt.
ne one call me her good old for moth
ing gran'pa. The other uay met
them going another way and they sai1
they were soinS TO see their other
grandma. Yes" said J. Won have
TWO grandmas. but you haven't got but
one grandpa" The little one looked
mp lovingly to me and said: I'VE don't
need any more" | bought n fine tur-
key for the boys who are coming and
the little girl surveyed him and said:
Gan pa. he is running at the nose and
us bloody" 1t was the older one
WHO said the turkey is sick. | reckon
for he keeps vomiting.
Dean Swift was a cynic and had no
ioVe for children. He said that an
author who talked about his own
bcoIS was rs silly as a mother who
was ever telling something smart
Aoout her children. reckon he woulJ
say that grand parents were more
SHY than mothers. | confess that il
is good part of my happiness now to
minSle with and To pet the little grand
children and that is why feel alarm
ed Tor fear some thing will tlppen TO
them before | die or that | will dio
Do!ore they get Old enough to love mo
with love that will not forget and
think of Tom Moore and mis- pozelle
that died. | don't know whore my
p!r!t will be but it seems TO me now
tEat | would like to have these ,,ttIe
ones bring flowers o my grave some.
times and talk about me. What would
the world be without children. for NJ
Such is the kingdom of heaven. Int
imagine for Il moment the desolation
he despair that would peryade tha
rome and society and trade and com.
merce-not a day school in all fine
iand nor Sunday school: not n lttIe
Shoe or stocking. nor a little hot NOR
a "o!l or toy in any store: no castorla
or soothing syrup or other infontiIe
medicines; no fireworks, no Christmas
nor Santa Claus; no nothing hardly
Tor II is fact that the world is work.
ing Tor children. The cynics saw that
marriage Is a failure. Suppose il is
N many cases. Children are not fail.
ufeS. Divorces may stine the love of
man and wife. Jut they still love the
ch!ldren and contend for the posses
sion of them
Good schools build UP towns and
mmunitleS and the children make
the schools. Country people move 10
town to educate them. What won
become OF the 1000 teachers i'm me
state Of Georgia? What would the nub
hsherS DO with all their schoolbook,
and picture books? Who would go to
picnic or monkey show? What ey
caae would mcn folts have for roinc
10 the circus? WCuldent il be 4 lone.
some, no account world?
Hut nar.i. sc is not a failure II
could not be, for it was Ordained iy
COD. One or two unhappy marriage
IN community se.s all the dogs bark
ing. DIVORCES are multiplying. bu1
only among the very rich or the drum
ken poor. Money or whiskey are the
cause of most OF them and IN nine
cases out OF ten the man is to bla.rc.
There is bat one scriptural ground for
divorce and nine men are guiltv OF
that 10 one woman. Poor. long suife~-
ing woman. How silently, cretly and
sadly YOU have to endure what Won
know, but cannot tell. and ali you cin
Go is to hug your children all The
closer to your bosom and trust in
God
| was ruminatng about children be-
cause AN away Oh from mine and on
my way here / passed a country school
house just IS the children were pilling
out Tor recess and they came like b Is
out or a hive. As long rs the train
stopped at that station " tcheI TIA N
at their merry plays and sports in the
pretty grove near by and | almost
wished that was a boy again so that
! might join them. Good grao.ous
how | could run and jump and climb
and shout; how long and happy was
the day.
The sun, ne'er rose a wink too soon.
Nor brought too long day.
But now | Oxen wish the n.gnt
Had borne my breath away"
Tom Hood wrote. that, poor fellow. /