The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-09-19
BILL ARP is KEPT AT WORK,

BILL ARP is KEPT AT WORK,
HIS Wife Reminds Him When
Necessary--He Always Obeys
Orders.
/ Atlanta Constitution
My wife said she had n premonition
That we would have an early fall and l
had better prepare for 1t right away.
She reminded me that there were some
broken glass on the roof of the flower
pit and the sash needed rcpainting and
the shelves renewing and | might
whitcwash the brick wall and so forth
and 80 fifth, and 80 on. Well, | have
done all that and was humbly waiting
for the next order when she told me
that Sam, the darky, wascnt coming to
run the lawn mower over the grass in
the front yard and maybe l could do it
and save rs cents. Well, | have done
that, but nobody paid me the rs cents
and next thing l knew she sent one of
the grandchildren to me for rs cents to
pay her debt to the aid society. These
women have got nearly as many clubs
and societies as the men, but they stay
at home of nights and that is bettor
than the men do. There are the
Masoms and Odd Fellows and Nights
Of Pythias and Nights of Damon and
the Royal Arcanum and the Elks and
the Nights Of Jericho and Nights Of
Labor and they are all nights, or mid
nights, and the women have to stay ut
| homo nI nj, 7
was Il marrying woman l would strike
cut the word obey and put in promise
for the man that he wouldent join any
thing that 1" took him away from home
at night" It's bad cnou gh for young
folks to tramp around at night hunting
for the moon. They are crazy about
the moon, and that's why crazy folks
are called lunatics-for luna means the
moon and the ticks are not far off on
moonlight walk in the woods. Last
Tuesday night there were six couples
of our lunatlcs who went up the river
road in search of the moon. They
wanted tC see it rise from out the water
and they had to get out to The big, flat
rock in the river to see it, and they had
to slide down the bank to reach the
rock, and the young men cooncd it
down first to clear the way and the
yallcr jackets were waiting for them
and by the time the girls were on the
slide the little devils began the attack
and they took 'em ON the slide III the
flank and in the rear, III the face and
shirt waist and arms and legs, and took
the young men, too, and such scream
ing and scrambling was never heard or
seen in that part of the country. The
young men did not desert their part
ncrs, but showed them up the slide again
with great alacrity. The whole party
were bungcd up amazing. Eyes and
ears and noses and hands and legs be-
gan to swell, and they never got to see
the moon at all. The girls cried with
anguish and the boys moancd and
groaned and there was no ammonia,
no soda, no doctor and no house with
in mi.e. They could just see enough
to find the horses and by tho time they
got back home some were blind in one
eye and some in both, and you couldcnt
toll hand from foot, nor a nose from
a turnlp beet nor the ankle from calf
calf Of the leg, 1 mean. Well, they
got home about midnight and that s.
mile ride was the longest and most
miserable of their lives. The young
men have not yet reported for duty
nor have the girls dared to look into a
mirror, for fear Of breaking it, 1t is
wonder that those girls with such thin
apparel were not stung to death, but l
suppose that the stuiliing and padding
about the breastworks saved them.
| \Vo old arhpol hn,o lnnuy o,,>, ~
about yellow Jackets. IL is bad enough
to tackle nest in the daytime in open
ground where you can run and fight,
tut to slide down into one near The
water on dark night must be awful
in the extreme. The last time | came
in conflict with tho spiteful lhings
located the nest and went to the house
and got the wire fly catcher and set it
over tie holes. 1t worked beautifully
and was fast filing up when an out
slider took me, "ker- bim,' on the back
of the neck, and departed those coasts
with alacrity. BY and by the bows
came and built little fire not far away
and set the fly catcher over The smoke
and killed the whole concern. Blu,
you must look out for the outsiders
the scouts and sharp shooters. Bees
can't sting but one time, but Jacket
can keep up as long as the poison lasts
The sting of bee is bad, that of a
jacket is badder and wasp is the bad
dcat OF al except hornet or, perhaps,
the. devil's packsaddlc on fodder
blade. They do say in Texas that a
tarantula is worse than all the rest put
together and frequently proves fatal.
They say, too, that any sting is 8 cure