The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-09-26
BILL ARP AND THE ORPHANS.
EVERYBODY OUGHT TO uELP
THEM.

Out
Come now, let's divide out. There
are 300 good working days In the year.
Suppose we call one OF them orphans
day. We have Labor Day and Wash
ington's birthday and independence
day and other days set apart Tor obSer-
vance, why not have day for the or
phans Of Georgia The orphanage at
Decatur is In great need and the g0ol
men In charge have asked the people
to give the 29th day OF this month to
their service, the labor and earnings
OF one day. What better can we do
with it? Madam DeStael said that
our bank account In Heaven would be
made up OF the money we gave away
In charity while we lived upon the
earth. Huntington died worth $780, |
600, 900, but he could not take 1t with |
him, and 1t Ia feared that he will have |
very small bank account up yonder |
He could have endowed hundred or
phanages aud had plenty left for his |
kindred. Surely we can all give some
thing on that day. ! am going to give So.
Mr. Crumley shan't shake his Metho-
dist locks at me. He that giyeth to
the poor lendeth to the Lord" "And
now, II you like the security down with
the dust" as the old Scotch preacher
said when he sent around the hat for
charity. The word fatherless means
an orphan-a child bereft OF q protect
ing parent, either father or mother,
or both. The word motherless Is
not in the Bible, but the word father
less includes it, and 1t is found in the
scriptures thirty-eight times, and is
always coupled with reward to those
who befriend the orphan, or some cal
amity upon those VINO oppress them,
Job says, eff have lifted my hand
against the f. herless, may mine arm
fall from my shoulder blade" and St.
James says, "Pure religion Is to visit
the fatherless and the widow in their
aflliction." Good friends 1t will not do
TO say you have never wronged the
orphans. Neglect Of them Is wrong.
II nobody gave what would become OF
them. Everybody ought to give-glve
according to your purse-give as the
Lord hath blessed you. 1t is peril
not to give. ST. Peter keeps the books,
and | want him to find my name on
them with q good bank account at
tached.
had a funny conference with my
wife about this. She says she will give
u dollar il l will work it out. What
do you want me to do ?" said I. 1.-THE
window cord is broken" she said, land
the sideboard lock is out OF order, and
the long. handled broom that | brush
down the spider webs with is worn out
and needs another broom on it," Is
that all ~ said l. "Oh no. The hall
papering is pealing off and needs re.
pasting, and there is leak in the roof
over the dining room. "Is that all ?"
said I. We'll, you can finish the day
sitting the ashes and putting some
around the rose bushes. Mr.. Berck-
mans book says that ashes are good
fertilizer for the roses" | pondered
awhile and then ventured to ask where
che was going to get the dollar to pay
me. why, from you OF course" she
said. Where did you expect me to
get 1t? Didn't | give you everything
had, and didn't you promise to give
me everything you had Didn't you
say, With all my worldly goods | thee
endow p What's mine is mine and
what's yours Is mine, too, according to
that" But my dear" said l, "haven't
l supported you and maintained you
for all these years and responded to
every want and wish could ?" "Why
yes, OF course you have; but If a wife
was to keep accounts with her hus band
she would bring him In debt every time
Board and clothing don't pay for nurs.
Ing and night watching and sewing and
darning and housekeeping and raising
up ten children through infancy and
childhood, and dOctoring measles and
whoopipg cough and boils and collie
etc. made thousand little garments
for them with my needle before there
was ever sewing machine invented. /"
"Yes," said |, remcn ber and you
made your own clothes and my shirts
my plated bosom shirts, with pearl
buttOns-yes, | remember. | can't find
any as good now" Then she remarked
You couldent get a good housekeep-
er for less than 500 per year, could
you? And that would make over 81, 900
and the interest compounded would
make five times as much more that YOU
owe me, and you ask me where | am
going to get the dollar" But, hold
on, my dear" said !, "you forget that
had to support and educate your ten
children-you always call them yours
and that old Abe Lincoln set ali your
niegers free and that the war broke
me all up and I've had to scuille for a
living ever since, and give you money
whenever you ask for it and keep you
In cologne and camphor and liver med
icine and missionary money and littlo
presents for the children and grand :
children on their birthdays. Didn't |
give you two dollars last week to buy
amber beads for Mary Lou. When the
cook quits or gets sick, don't get up
and make the fire and cook the Break
fast and move around on tiptoe to keep
from waking you-and-and-a and
haven't maue you d marble CHIP walk
to the street for your number 2 shoes
to walk on ?" Is that ALL" said nv
wife, and she laughed at me and said
"Oh, you know | was just joking.
know that you have done the best you
could. | wouldn't swap you of for any
body. Now go and see II you can't
climb that new ladder you made yes
terday and get some squads for supper
tonight. There must be dozen Or
more up there, and the girls have in
vited company to tea" Ladders and
squads Well, | tried the new ladder.
1t Ia fourteen feet long and and reaches
up to the gable end OF tine smok ehouse,
where the pigeons live, and by the time
got nearly within reach didn't know
whether my head was swimming or the
ladder careening, and just my eyes
and slid down with alacrity, like fire.
man, and liked to have had fit OF ner-
vous prostratiOn, and my wife Just
laughed at me when told her. am
the boy, and she hasn't yet realized
that l am growing old. I go to the
butchers and the bakers and the post
Office and dig the potatoes and hunt up
chickens and eggs and bring her fresh
roses every morning and look after the
little grandchildren while she takes
her evening nap. have lot OF letters
to answer every day, and before / can
finish one somebody wants something