The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-12-26
BILL ARP AND CHILDREN.
ALL OF THEN LOVE GRANDPA.
he Likes to See the Little ones at PLAY.
There are Great Many Beautiful
Things In Life

Things In Life.
These little chaps larm me-alarm
me with their Innocence, their happi-
ness, their love, for | have fore bod
Ing that 1T cannot last. Life is full OF
sorrows and they will have their share.
1t 10 the common lot. One melancholy
poet says: Man was made to mourn
another says: 81 would not live al.
ways, but like that ore better who
wrote ''rhe world Is very lovely. On,
my God, | thank Thee that | live. "
From my window almost every day I
see two little girls, only four and six
years old, turning the corner and com
ing up through the grove TO sec
grandma and grandpa and be petted
and uf course, befeasted with bis
c&it and jelly and apples and
to nurse the cat and play
With their little cousins fine Paris
doll. They always come hand in hand
and with clean faces and ribboned hair
ana we meet them at the door, Tor they
Drlng sunshine to our hearts and home
love to have them climb into the back
OF my big chair and bother me while
write, aud L have to stop and draw
pictures for them and to hear the little
one call me her good old for nothing
gan pa. The other day | met them
going another way and they said they
were going to see their other grandma
les, said |, you have two grand
mas, but you haven't got but one
grandpa" The little one looked up
lovingly to me and said: I'VE don't
need any more | bought fine
tui key for the boys who are coming
and the little girl surveyed him and
SAID: "dan'pa, he is running at the
nose ard it's bloody" twas the older
one. who said the turkey was sick,
reckon for he keeps vomiting.
; Dean Swift was u cynic and had no
love for childron. He said that an
author who talked about his own books
WAS as silly as mother who WAS ever
telling something smart aoout her
children. l reckon he would say that
grand parents were more silly tnan
mothers. l confess that it is u good
part OF my happiness now to mingle
with and to pet the little grand
children ard that is why feel alarmed
Tor fear something will happen to them
before die or that | will die before
they get old enough to love me with a
love that will not forget, and | think
OF Tom Moore and his gazelle that
died. don't know, where my spirit
Will be, but 1t seems 10 me now that
would like to have these little ones
bring nowers to my grave sometimes
world be without children, for of such
is the kingdom or heaven. Just
Imagine for u moment the desolatlon,
the despair that would pervade the
| home and society and trade and COM
| merce-not a day school in all the
land, nor Sunday school; not little
shoe or stocking nor little
hat nor doll or toy in any store; no
castoria or soothing syrup or other
| lnfantiie medicines; no fireworks, no
Christmas nor Santa Claus; no nothing
hardly, for it is fact that the world
is working for children. The cynics say
that marriage Is a failure. Suppose it
is In many cases. Children are not
failures. Divorces may stias the love
OF man and wife, but they still love
| the children and contend for the
possession Of them.
Good schools build up towns and COM
munities and the children make the
schools. Country people move to town
to e lucate them. What would become
OF the 1000 teachers In the State OF
| Georgia? What would the publishers
DO with all their schoolbooks and
picnic or monkey show? What ex-
cuse would men folks have for going
to the circus? Wouldent it be a lone.
some, no account world?
But marriage is not failure 1t
could not be, for 1t was ordained by
God. One or two unhappy marriages
In community sets all the dogs bark
| Ing Divorces are multiplying, but
| only among the very rich or the
drunken poor. Money or whisky are
the cause OF most of them and in nine
cases out Of ten the man is 10 blame.
There is but one Scriptural ground for
| "A a nd mir
that to one woman. Poor, long suffer.
ing women. How silently, secretly
and sadly you have to endure what YOU
know, but cannot tell. and all YOU can
GO is to hug your children all the closer
| to your bosom and trust in God.
was Illuminating about children be-
| cause am away OF from mine and on
my way here | passed country school
house just as the children were piling
out for recess and they care like bees
out of hive. AS long ~. 0jhe train
stopped at that station l watched them
at their merry plays and sports in the
pretty grove near by and almost
wished that | was boy again 80 that
| might join them. Good gracious,
how ] could run and jump and climb
aud sh )ut; how long and happy was
the day.
"The sun ne'er rose wink too soon,
Nor brought too long a day,
But now | often wish the night
Had borne my breath away"
Tom Hood wrote that, poor fellow.
| do not say 1t, for love to live and
have few regrets to distress me. am
here In OkOlOna, a pretty town with q
pretty name. This good old State, a
daughter OF Georgia, Is full of Indian
names OF towns and counties and
rivers. These names are all tnat ia
left OF the tribes-the Chickasaws and
Choctaws and Crooks and Matches.
They were proud and happy people,
but had to vanish when the pale faces
came and coveted their lands Colonel
Gordon, Il Confederate veteran, live,
here and Interested me greatly ia tho
history OF Mississippi, for ho and his
father before him could say "magna
pars full" "a good part of it was"
He gave me the origin and meaning OF
these Indian names, such as POntOtoc
and Tupelo and Okolona, and also of
Aberdeen, which his father, who was
Scotchman, had named Dundee, but
got mad because our people would call
1t Dundy and 30 changed 1t to a name
they could not mispronOunce. His
father was very wealthy, owning
! thousands OF acres OF rich prairie land
tlat he had bought from the Chicka.
saws before they signed the treaty that
| ceded their lands to the United States
government.
| ] said that his father WAS a native NJ
Scotland. OF course he was or he
could never have bought those lands.