The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-11
Bill Ar]p'@ L@tte2.
Bill Takes Passage on Another Line and Cot
Home an Hour Late.

brick buildings have been ..
more are being built.
springs from the mounta.n .
niSh abundant pure water -.-
thing. There IS a dairy far..
and vegetable gardens and .,.-
moves like clockwork.
Prof. IoWrey Is a man Of ......
energy and says that work r- t.
recreation. He took me ON .n
drive to the top of the mu.rt..
the village graveyard. ami t...
returned he called for his r.....
children. including the baby. ...
them to ride. l liked thar H..
not take me long to diaero-.
husband and kind father. TH.-.
no barber in the village ...
brought to me his fine lawn -
razor that cost s.. and wnar. .
how awkward and nervous r..
said: "Oh. let me do that" ...
moved the gray stubhle off IL.
nte Ever hear Of Il COLLEGE r.-..
doing that? l was specially .r...
in n young man. Ernest |,j.l.... .
only boy in college. He is totaI... .
but is getting a first class ....
through his ears He lister. ,...
10 Tie ItNiltil'llS, htt t~ IIf A... ..
foremost and Is now studs . &c.,.
His mother or sister reads Fl.
every night and the family ...
proud of him, for he is not only ...
mentally. but cheerful and larr..
He told me that being blind u..,-
tressed him and he WAS haun. .. ...
time, for every body was 80 ..r.. -.
him. How kind Proyidcnr, IS ..r..
afflicted.
Those Mississippi woods are ... .r
Georgians. Scores of them ~1a..t .
and with q natural and pHrur~.
told me where they anne from.
who they were kin 10. WIS a..
at one old man who said ne ram. ....
from Cass county before the Wan. ...
he asked me where Barlow u.."r.
was. He had never heard thar r.
name of old CaSS was change I'D. .
tow in honor of w General I|It...
who was killed at Manassas.
An unknown friend has sent ...
poetic gem called 'The Change iu N..
mer joe" by Sheldon Stoddard. Iw.
that it could be read by every hr-.a.
in the land, for it tells i'm brauf. .
and pathetic verse how Joe had ....
pursued money for money! sake .".
gave his loving, long suffering M..
few comfort and none OF the ...
ries or ornaments that brighten U.
woman's home. For years SIN. N
from time to time limited that ...
would like a new carpet for her ru.n#
for the old one had been turned a".
patched and beaten until il "a~ 'a.
and ~threadbarc, and the "U"@".
shades worn out But i. .
said no, he couldn't afford it, "~u F.
worked early and late and Wiz
cumulating The poem t..
how he left her one mOrnlng .n. ".
ticed a tear in her eye as 1T aI"..'.
down on her male check. and he -u' IA
thinking about it in the cornNrId, ".
that ear haunted him and he rrua..
ed the long Years Of their married
and how patient h had b""H #.
him and the little children and nHE .
him when sick and watched tH"" .
night and by day. Suddenly hr r".
to himself and stopped his mule no IT.
middle of the row ana hurried |.|+
and hitched up the buggy and "..
to town like he was going for 1 u".'..
He bought a nice carpet and some '.'
tains and other comforts and 'f'.
home like .Jehu and tumbIcd them "
at the front door. Here. Sally. ''..
here, bless your dear heart; you -...
cry n more" And he hurried ...
to the corntield. Well, ] liked '..
and | feel now like going to t"Nn FL.
buying a new carpet for my ".i..
men forget that a woman A"- ''
at home all the time. Sin" loves "..
ments, for God made her so. a".
she can't have these things hrf ...
IS not a home, but a prison
BILE ARP