The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-22

w YHEN AhaShnoruS was KING oi L u
w STA he got 50 mad with Hannah
| V one day that he walked out into
! the garden to let his choler down-not his
shirt collar, but to cool off his anger, for
fear he might do something undigniiied,
| Then he came back and had Haman
| hanged on the gallows he had built for
| Mordecai.
Well. | walked out in my garden yes
| terday the first time in a month, but l
| was not mad with anybody In fact, |
| am pleased that | am allowed once more
| to walk outdoors and peruse the flowers
and vegetables and pick few straw
| berries. My wife and the girls watch me
! and have kept me penned up for months
while the east wind chilled the air. but
now they help me down the steps and up
! again and arm me around among tn"
! flowers They are very beautiful from the
window but more when you are near
| to them. We never had so many beau
| tirul poppies betore-all colors-all sizes
double and treble and large as saucers.
| We had our first mess of wbcrries
| April "a and had a good mess yesterday,
and have not missed a day. Our vegeta-
| ,
| but the garden is not mine. The girls
! planted it and with a little help have
| grown everything.
1.-THE world was sad. the garden was a
wild;
And man, the hermit, sighed TIL woman
| smiled
We are enjoying the fruits of their la
Dor every day for we have potatoes,
beans peas squashes onions, beets and
asparagus every day if we want them or
have company. A little bacon with the
beans and two spring chickens completes
the first course. and then comes straw
berry shortcake, which is always wei
come. We live we'll at our house, and are
not extravagant either. \ bountiful dim
ner for twelve persons costs not more
| than 81. and the grandchildren consume
| half of that bless their hearts. | do love
to see them enjoy a good dinner, and they
| love to come here and always have KISS
for poor old grandpa
! was II years old Monday June is fun
OF our family birthdays MY wife was Il
or the list and was Il on the 18th and
my Oldest grandson. who has my name,
has my birthday. Ny mother has the
Gath and our granddaughter, Caroline, IS
med for her and has her birthday
And there are some more in June that /
have forgotten Two little granddaugh-
! tiers brought me some nice linen (h'd'k fs)
! before breakfast. These little gifts are
sweet and help to smooth the wrinkles
from an old mans brow Our little >
year-oid loves to climb on my knee and
pat my old check and call me san pa and
| that gives me more pleasure than gold
under the shadow of His wing
OH the horror Of horrors away out IN
Oregon. VIII cloudbursts and fires and
floods and shipwrecks never cease? Every
/ day brings some new disaster, some wreck
Of innocent child life some mother torn
away. Lord good Lord. have mercy-upon
the people and forgive all their sins Like
! the poor fisherman l would say. Lord.
good Lord, l am a fool to speak to Thee
but save the children from storm and
flood and fire and pestilence." When I
read the days disasters my old heart
throbs with pity and like the weeping
prophet I eXclaim, oh that my head
were waters and my eyes river of tears
that l might weep day and night for the
slain of the people" TO- So 100 200 400
~ cry day adds TO pain and misery aud
anguish and dcsolatiOn. Loved ones are
gone and homes. Somehow when I look
around me at all these happy hearts and
faces and the flowers lifting their petals
to the sun and the pigeons bathing in the
rco. and see the young people playing
tennis down in the court and the con
tented negro blowing my neighbours com
! and the COW grazing in the pasture, l feel
like II is almost sin to be happy while
SO much grief and heartache abound all