New-York tribune., 1903-08-30
SUNDAY.
AUGUST go, 1909

ring and blessed interval OF fond hopes and
happy dreams. and then the happy day Is fixed
Then comes the license. the permit OF the law
which says you may marry. The State approves IL
and the law allows IT, and It will you only
, 81 p. Cheap. amt tt? And yet it may cost very
dear. Then comes the minister and the happy pair
stand up before him and make solemn
and listen to prayer and benedictlon. and they
In a moment the trusting maid has lost
her name and her free VIII and is tied fast to
Well he is tied fast. too. so it all right
all around. I reckon. but somehow I always feel
more concerned about the woman than the man.
A man and his wife ought to be alike IN most
everything. 1t is said that folks like their Op-
posites. their counterparts, and they do IN
respects. \ with blue eyes goes mighty nigh
distracted with hazel eyes did.
and I'm distracted yet. But in mental qualities and
emotions and tastes and habits and principles and
sether.
and Keep her IN good humor II she has been
petted by her parents A young who never
company and make visits and go TO the theatre or
the dance win never make good wife This wife
these do-nothins women can't stand it. II she Is a
her and il it wasn't for condensed milk the chill
born and sorter Ike the cows in Florida
"Bin Arp had his ideas about money and these
some of them:
Money is a right good thing. and no sensible
win turn up his at it. Money brings com
fort and leisure and solomon says in leisure there
is wisdom. who has 70 be digging away
TSed and reject and ruminate Money promotes
domestic tranquility. and that is the biggest and
best thing 7 know. But money ought to be hard
to set. Money has to be earned to be priced"
'Bm Arp did not regard the negro question as
does Booker T. Washington. His views were those
of the typical planter. In regard TO negroes he
I've got no pathetic sentiment about the Niger.
The Yankees passed a whole lot OF amendments
to the Constitution to put him equal footing
with US. socially and every other way. and they
were the first to break EN- Some folks to
think We owe him good deal because he didn't
cut up and rip around during the war. but don't.
He didn't anything about IT. and he don't
The Anglo-Saxon is the dominant We
don't want the Clnaman nor the Indian TO make
our laws. and We don't want the niger. This sym
pathy for the poor negro is wasted Why not have
IL for the Indian2 We robbed him OF his land and
run him off, and have been cheating him ever
! The katydids on his farm once aroused ''Biu
Arp's'' reflections. of which the following char
acteristc:
! THE sweet little katydids sing all the day long
| Earlier the season they happy only at
! night but now the woods full OF their music
| by day. If could sing as loud IN proportion
to his size I suppose could be heard across the
Atlantic Ocean. But these little screech owls are
a nuisance. and enough to make a nervous
woman have fits and Mysteries something
shot one the gate post night while he
! complaining about what we had done to him. but
| another came back and set UP his mOurnfUl wall
| Well they We're made for something but don't
( that when the Hood covered the earth It was a
mighty good time for Father Noah to have left out
! snakes and whangdoOdles that mourn forever for
their first born