Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-14
AT the End of the RQinbop
WOES OF THE PEAcEMAKER.
ny walt Mason

your doesn't look quite natural this morn
Ing" observed the hotel keeper you been try
ing to drive nails with t?"
NO. replied the retired merchant. mournfuly. II
went into business peacemaker and the results
we're not encouraging. My neghbors Gooseworthy
and Rinkelshaw, quarreng at the tops of their
voices and disturbing the whole neghborhood so
went over with the sunniest kind of smile and tried
to point out that lions should lie down with lambs
and all that sort Of thing They didn't pay much at
tention remarks kept on shouting as though
1 wasn't there. and presently they began throwing
clods and large hit me and spread my nose all
over my face" gem
You ought to have more sense" commented the
hotel keeper IT'S all right an aIecky young man
to take up the peacemaking graft, he hasn't had
much worldly experience and is expected make fool
breaks. But when mans head all covered with
bald spots and can't corn off the cob he's old
enough to know that he ought to stay his own res
ervaton when there's instruction in the neigh bor-
hood.
when young was fearfully brash oft
en- shudder when thnkIof the way I used to mix in
every private disturbance that came along There was
a man named Bung who lived next door to me shortly
after married. My wife and got on together
serenely that thought everybody else ought to do
the same, being too to realize that some men
aren't happy unless they are in trouble This man
Bung used to beat his wife regular intervals and
he made secret Of It, That used to make my blood
boil in my veins. and was often the point of go
ton and have Bung and HIS wife sign up peace prO-
tocol, but wife wouldn't for it, She said nv
best plan was to attend my own woodpile and let
the neighbors amuse themselves pleased arR,.
Ing that they seemed to enjoy their pranks and IL
was not for outsiders to interfere with their innocent
sports
my wife always did sense in a minute
had in year. and I'd have sdestepped 81 vari-
trouble, from first to last If listened to
her. but generally is too bull-headed to be guild
ed by his wife. One day Bung and his wife were
having hand-to- hand combat in their yard and Mrs
Bung seemed to be getting the it. 1 watched
their scrapping until couldn't stand any longer I
there regardless of the enreaties of my
wife, who told me chuckehead and would be
to get into trouble
THE ardor Of all the generations of ButtinsRs
burned in my bosom went to Bungs When
there he ducking his wife's head barrel
rain water and she had both hands tangled in his
whiskers. began explaining that the white-winEed
dove OF peace is good bird have around Present
~ Bung broke away from his helpmeet and took me
by the shoulders and pushed an old empty
cistern about 20 feet deep. think the is
bottom Of that cistern yet to show where 1 landed
ITO add to my hunliations Mrs. Bung came to the
edge of the cistern and looked down and loaded me
with taunts 1t pity she said IL people couldn't
have little harmless diversion their premises
without having suffer intrusion smart alexis
meddlesome Matties. Ever and anon she dis
coursed she threw brick old shoe me-
1T never put in a worse time. 1 might have been
party and fished me out"