The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, September 05, 1884, Image 2
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VOL. 1.] EASLEY, SOUTH CARQLINA TRDY E~EMBER 5, 1884. N 8
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MESS~NGi ER, E sle, S. C.
BILL ARP.
The Philosopher Talks on Every Day
Subjects.
The crops are laid by, bUt there
is no rest for thrifty farmerand it
is a blessed thing that the thrifty
farmer don't want any. A change
of work is all the rest he wants.
Some folks are constitutionally la
zy and work only when they are
oblimed to. and they are actually
glad of anly excuse to stop. 1hey
like to go to mill and they like to
go to town, but they dolnt like to
work. I know a farmer who is a
good, clover man and behaves him
self decently, but he loves to talk
so well he can't work. le will
talk about. the weather for half' an
hour without Stopping. He ae('ll
to my house the other day t) bor -
row ai Spade and said that he was
inl a powerful hurry t) get back.
Without thinking of the conse
(luences I just asked him if the
storm damaqged his corni any., and
that started him. ie tol mne about,
sitorms and hurricanes from way
back to his boyhood, and how aj
man hung to a saplin h nd
never got nary bruise, but th
wind blew his breath away and
didnl't give him time to draw an-1
other, and so he died for want of
breathl, just like a cow (lies when
She loses her eud. lie could n't
work his bellows in suc awind.
And he told of another stormr lew
an old (ow head foremost against;
ai poplar' tree andl stuck both her'
horns in it so deep they couldent
pull1 her Out by the tail, and hadI
to saw her horns1 off and leave 'em
in the tree and they are there now.
Andc so he kept onl until I told hiim
[ had to gor, for I wais in a hurry
too. Tfhat mani has lost half his
life talking. 'lt always scares me
to see him coming.
But there is p)lenlty to (10 be
tween lay ing-by the crop and1 gath i
ering time. August is the best
month to ont winter's woodl. It will1
burn freer, and even the red oak
that sometimes burns black and
goes out, will burln well if cut
down in August and seasoned
awhile. I've got the boys cutting
my winter's wood now and will
haul it up and stack it. Two of
the fire places want woo( two and
,, half feet long' and the others will
only chamber two foot sticks, so I
have the wood cut four feet and
ive feet, and then we cut in two
as we need it. Fifty cords will
rn. us through a winter. Then
there is the stove wood to get up.
and that is a careful job for I nev
er let my wife or the girls have
any cause of complailt about wood
or water in the lkitchen. The wood
must be diry and split up fiIne an
not too long. I saw up hiekory
and ash with the cross cut and nf
ter splitting it up )ut it away un
der shelter, and I hauIil uip the chips
from the woods to spriikle in. It
is not much -trouble to prepare a
fr'ug'al meal it everything is hau-:
(lv. he boy s ('Itch the chickens
and fix them all ready. I wont
let fly womm folks do t hat. It is
not a sight ly job. jnd nobody
ought to have it to (M but Ini ggee's
niobow, confounihd 'em. But. I be
lieve in ilndepenAdnce. I like to
see a f'amilv il(dependeit and self
ieliant. I know faumilies who are.j
always alarmed for fear their c00k
will quit, a A they don't know
where they will g)et anoth-r. And
the young mari'ed olk' nIowadys
are in the same fix about
forw their halbies; well,)usigi
hard work, I know-nursing a
fretful chill is the hardest work I
know of. I've had a hand in that
busiless for thirty years and I
wolidenit go through it again for a
house full of' gold. MNV a night
have I wal1ked tlte flooro in my long
white garment, with a baby,
singing '41 little ImIonotonous son,
while I was so spy 1 cod harl
ly walk Straigrh t. Mrs. Arp had
done her share over and over and'
when she hadI trie1 and tried tol
quiet the little thing, anid worried
over it, anl patted it and nrised 1
it on both sideCs, and~ aut last, in a
fit of dlesperationI, straightened up
and said. ''HeIre, Wil1liamin, takel
your child.'" I al ways unde~lrtood
her', and toolc her adlvice prlomfptly;
she aulway s said "yourii child'' on
such occasions, but whenever' I
v'entured to puniish one of 'em she
looked indignantan si "m
child." She will let mewn 'ern
someltimies. I am sorry f'or these
young folks who have about t wo
onu hand and arejust beginning to,
get a fair taste of the consequences
of comnubi alh bi ss. I sa w one thme
other night trying to qutiet a little.
two year-oldl alg1 after liog an~d
patient efforts, 'he exclaimed in
mnortaul agony; '"Oh ,please. Iso
sa, doC Please ston~or om;n frm. thm
Lord's sake." I was sorry for him,
I was, but I couldent keel) from
laughing to save my life, and I
wanted to exclaim ; "Stand up to
the rack my boy, fodder or no fod
der, for its your child." There are
inventions, but nursing children
and raising them has to be done in
the same old way, and happy are
they who canl go through it with a
philoso-phic smile. It is great bus
iness of life anil Can't be dodged,
and it has its coniforts and its re
wards-rewards that are sweeterI
and pure.r a.l rieher than any, for
they come to man when he is o'd
and needls them. Good children;
who honor and love their parents,
2 re treasurVes t hat gold . cannot
buy, an(l they imtke sweet aldi
pleasant the Way that leads us to
the grave. There i-i no prettier
sight inl all iature th'an an aged
couple who live inl h:tr-imony and!
have their chiltiren and grandehild
dr en around them to give them)
coifor-t. Brn never wrote a ten
derer verse than
"Now ve mu1'ist totter down, John
But Liamld inl )ald we'll go,
Anid sleep toget her aicit the foot.
John Anderson, my Joe.."
Woman's rights and man's rights
have nothing to do with such part-i
ners. In fact. all hunian laws are
deald letters to-. the g),ood. They dov1
not leed them. LaWs are Inade
for the had. and the frail, and the
envious, ani the jealous. I was
thinkinfg about1 this the otIher dI
in your' towi when 1 paid -I friend
Iy vi sit to a good man-a coulrte
olns gent leminIi-a waIy up ill the
thirl Story where he kept his in -
SiranceeW ofice, (o as to have quiet
and time for work. Butl he can't
dodge the ca lle rs and importuners
even there. I never vi it himi but1
what somebody comes al wants
something, for they know that he
is genterous and he is kind. There
was a stroig-n inded woiman there
who iid come all the way from
Chicagvo With a petition for 1'onians
rights. She talked pathetically
about Woiarn's insignificant condi
tioni before the law. She declared
that woman was a nonennity, a1
creature without a soul, an incor01
p~oreal thing, a slave, a serf a nothi
ing, an 11s he ha (d pre~tprd a bill for
the legislature to pass for' woman's
relieft and( prIotection. She t :alked
about n1onenhtity so much~i that thle
colonel stoppled4 her foi a momaen
and .said1, with emotion : "My good(
womian, that may all be so up in
Chicago, buit it is not so at my
house--b no means. My ife is
ani enltity-a1veritable livin(, movQY
ing creatu re. She has all the rights
she wants. and I have all I want.
We are a mutual protection) socie
ty. It is my right andl hap)py pri v
ilege to keep my wife in money,and
it is hers to '- 'pj tme ini a stte of
Sweet humility and derofion. iRa
ally, madam, we do not need vouir
law, and you must excuse mc.',
The strong-minded woman did
not subside or wilt, but proceeded
with her philanthropy with more
vigor than ever, and her black eves
flashed as she expatiated upon 'her
own unfortunate alliance With a
) reacher who imposed upon her
and had her put into the luiatie
asylum. Finally the gallant col
onel hinted that his time was prec.
ioUS aId said he would take her
pamphlet and refer it to his law
yer, and if his lawyer said sign it
he would sign it. rhei slhe turn
cd her attention to me aiid askeI
me to sign it and I sai-ld I was
aWay from home and (didn' t live in
the cointry and never signed such
papers until I got Mrs. Arp's con -
sent an( so I took a paiphliet to
look at when she opened her grip
sack and pulled out two hooks OI
Vom1ianfl's rights anid N waited to sell
them at $1.50 apiece. but we re
spectfully declined. I dident want
to be buying Chicago books from
a Chicago woman without consult.
ing Mrs. Arp about it, for Chica
go is a bad place for such litera
ture to coie from, and I was
afraid that tle Iok might work
upl) a divorce in my family. Last.
ly, she asked us for a dime for ti
pamphlets, "id we gave hera dimro
and a blssn ll( the CololcI ill
timated that if slie would ( depart
those coasts she might find more
congenClial victims.
What a comfort it is that we have
not got such voieni down South,
lor such preachers to marry 'em.
When I told her WC(lid not need
such laws in Georgia, that our
wives were all happ all( content
e, and when they did not11 have
laws enoiugl they made thcm at
home, and wheni my wife wanted
anyth ing she simply said , "Be it
enacted" aid it was eiaicted
strai ghtwayv anid torthiwit h 'The
Woman looked astoiishedl and said.
"It is not that waw where I came
from.'' Maybe it aiit.
As she seemed reluct-ant to go
the beneficent colonel took an idea
that she was tired and sick, and
needled refr'eshment, and( so he r'ung~
a little bell and! ordered a punch
for the philanthropic lady ; but she
r'espectfiully declined by s: ying~
that she was b) no means old
enloug h to fneed a stimul an t. She
was smart, that woman was-:nd( as
reasonably good looking as a Cli
eagoY( woman can beC. She would
m3ake a goodl wife for Johni Jenkins.
who said, "'I want a wife old
enough to have sense, and1( ugly
enough to stay at home.'' She is
going to take the war pathi any
ho0w. Busl Any.
*-T'herec is a factor'y iI Glreen
Island, N. Y., wh~ere nice (cotlins