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ARP’S CROPS.
What Bill Had to Say this Time
—He Site in His Piazza in Peace
Having Laid by His Crops, Both
Grain and Children—He Dis¬
cusses Politics, Both State and
National.
[Written for the Atlanta Constitution.]
When a fturner has laid by his crop
and the seasons have been kind and
corn and cotton looks green and vig¬
orous, and the sweet, potato vinos
have covered the ground, what an in¬
nocent luxury it is to set in the piaz
ser in the shades of evening and with
one’s feet on the bannisters, contem¬
plate the beauty and bounty of na¬
ture and the hopeful prospect of an¬
other year’s support. It looks like
that even an Ishmaelitc might then
feel calm and serious, and if he is still
ungrateful for his abundant blessings
he is worse than a hcathern, and
ought to be run out of a Christian’s
country with the Chinese plank in the
democratic platform. Every year
brings toil and trouble and apprehen¬
sion, but there always conies along
rest and peace and the ripe fruits of
one’s labors.
In the journey of life the moun¬
tains loom up before us and they look
high and steep and rugged, but some¬
how they always disappear just be¬
fore we get to them and then we can
look back and feel ashamed that we
borrowed so much trouble and had
so much anxiety for nothing. What
a great pile of miserable fears we
build up every day. It’s good for a
man to ruminate over it, resolve to
have more faith in providence, and 1
am ruminating now. I was think¬
ing about the crop that, has been
laid by and that brought to mind
another crop that was pretty much
done with and is able to take care of
Itself with a little watching. I mean
the crop of children that for 30 years
has kept us a working and worrying
by day aud by night, in summer and
winter, peace and in war, but, it’s all
over now thank the good Lord for
His mercies. The last tender shoot
is about laid by. No more nursing
and toting around and warming the
milk by the midnight lamp. No
more baby songs or paregoric or
teething or colic or catnip tea. No
more washing and dressing and un¬
dressing and putting to bed. No
tiptoeing round the room when they
are asleep or playing horse and bear
and monkey when they are awake.
Never again will there be two or
three of em crawling all over a man
or under his chair, or riding on his
back or trotting on his weary knees
as he sings the samu old songs that
be has Sung a thousand times before.
Our last and youngest, lias passed
the rubicon. Bless her little heart,
If it was all for my sake, I wish she
would never grow any more or any
older, for she is the comfort of my
declining years. She can now wash
and dress, and undress, and say her
own prayers and put her little self to
bed. She can sing her own songs,
and look at the picture hooks, and
saves us many a step, for she waits
on us now like a fairy and fills the
house with sunlight. The crop is
laid by, thank goodness,and I would
ent undertake to make another for
a house full of gold. In the heyday
of our youthful vigor a kind Provi¬
dence enables us to bear up splendid¬
ly under these sort of burdens, but
an old man
—it’s against the order of nature.
Many a time have I watched the old
blue hen that lays and sets and hatch¬
es her little brood, and works and
watches for em a conple of months,
and then lays by the crop and goes
to laying again for another. We
can’t do that, and I don’t want to,
for I tell you I’m tired. If there’s
any peril in life that is like a linger¬
ing suicide, it is for an old widower
who baB raised one crop to marry a
youug wife and go to cropping again.
I don’t think they will ever get to
Heaven, for the Arabs say that Par¬
adise wasn't made for fools. If ever
I am a lone widower which the Lore
forbid, I’ll flee from a marrying wo¬
man like I would from the wrath to
come, for my time is out. I’ve serv¬
ed my full term, and now that I am
luxuriating in the long shadows, I
don’t want anybody but her to sing
John Anderson my Joe to me. I’ve
been trying to get her off to Catoosa
for a week or so to recuperate her
feelings and enjoy society. I offer¬
ed t*sell a yearlin and raise a fen
dollars, but she is afraid that some¬
thing might happen. Little Carl if
her idol and yesterday he was fooling
around shutting up bumble bees in
gimpson weed blossoms and got
stung and his hand and his arms are
all swelled up and my wife, Mrs. Arp,
she had read about a little bee sting
killing a man and of course a big bee
sting could kill a little boy all the
easier. Then again the grapes afe
i ipe and the apples are green and the
children hanker after em and might
get sick, and there’s some little cloth¬
es to make, and the winter socks are
to be knit and so on and so forth, and
lastly but not leastly, there seems to
be some trouble about something to
wear. When she puts on her best
clothes she always looks mighty pret¬
ty to me but still I suppose I’m no
judge of sucli things. I told her
that every blessed woman at Catoosa
was exactly in the same fix. They
had nothing to wear. But after all,
that is a little pardonable weakness
that we men have no right to corn
plain of, for they are a heap better
than we are whether they have got
anything to wear or not. We must
all do the very best wc can to clothe
em decently. When old mother Eve
had to leave home she made the same
complaint and father Adam did the
best he could—he got her some fig
leaves and a few straws and fixed her
up.
A farmer has got leisure now to
ruminate upon his state and country.
It’s every patriot’s duty to reflect
upon the political situation and pros¬
pects and get all the light lie can.
For several years we have been most¬
ly concerned about our state—priz¬
ing her out of the mud. But now
she is all safe and its a fitting time
for us to consider our national af¬
fairs.
Our national politics is a big tiling.
It always was a big thing, but it
seems to me now that the coming
presidential contest is bigger than it
ever was before. I’v been hoping
for a change ever since the war, but
it wasa weak sort of a hope that
was prepared in advance for a disap¬
pointment, but now I’ve got an abid¬
ing, consoling faith that the end of
the lane is in sight—that we are
bound to whip em, horse, foot and
dragoons. My hopes are so pregnant
and exhilerating that I could hardly
bear up under a defeat. The calam
ity to the nation and to me would be
awful. As one of the only two ori¬
ginal Hancock men, maybe I take it
to heart too much and feel more res
jonsibility than I ought. Me and
Mr. Stephens got on the same line
together somehow and started the
Hancock boom. Wc arc the only
two pure and unadulterated orginals.
Jim Waddel comes next, lie was
mighty close on behind. We three
will live in history like them fellers
who arrested Major Andre in the
revolution. They saved the country
and so will wc. The democratic par¬
ty took our advice and now, if it
don’t make any mistakes or blunders,
the country is safe. Another revo
ution is going on. Office-suckers
and office-seekers are fleeing from
the other side in gangs. I hear the
flutter of their wings and their plain¬
tive screech sounds like the wild
geese flying south in the fall of the
year. Its most astonishing how
some men can diagnose an election
and how shifty they suddenly be¬
come. I hear men hollerin for Han¬
cock now who have been side-wipin
around Grant and and Sher¬
man and company every since the war
They are trying to imitate the regu¬
lar democratic yell, and arc ready to
swear they never was anything but
a democrat. These otfice suckers
and seekers are they best sort of di¬
agnoses. Itis a good sign to see em
slipping and sliding back into ranks.
I’ve knowd men to go about, abusing
Governor Colquitt and his adminis¬
tration who are now sailing around
and fanning him with their wings
like a vampire fans his sleeping vic¬
tim when he wants to suck his blood.
They think he is going to bo nomi¬
nated, but if he ain’t then they can
prove they never was for him. I
saw a fellow toting him round
last week who would betray him like
Judas, and then swear ho dident
know the man. Such is life, and
such is that feller. But the time is
at hand. A few more days will set¬
tle it, and then we will see what he
will see. Mr. Candler’s bill of indict¬
ment is pointedly blunt, but would
specification. Its got but one stat
which is that the governor goes
bout haranging the people. Well
dont like that myself, but then its 1
crime and is altogether a matter
taste. Candler harangs em on o
one side, and don’t like it because
the governor harangs em on the
other. So go ahead—lay on Mack
duff. A little blood letting will
purify the system. The state is all
safe in any event. It’s the nation
now that concerns me and Alek. Ex¬
cuse us if we let the state alone for
we have bigger things to look after.
Yours, Bill Aep.
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Citation for New Road.
s TATE OF GEORGIA— Johnson Co.—
Whereas certain petitioners have made
their application to establishing tills Court praying an
order granting the of a new
road, commencing at the Emanuel county
line, near Mrs. Bartow,'C. Bradys, R. and R running and running in the
direction of ,
by A. W. Wiggins, Thomas Stapletons, S.
Abram Guins, Henry Stephens, A. the
Pauls, B. Powells and Joe Taylors, to
Jefferson county line; and,
Whereas, Commissioners appointed for
the purpose have reviewed and marked out
said contemplated road and of reported pub¬ to
me that said road will be one much
lic utility and convenience, now this is to
cite and admonish all persons that on and
after the second day of August, 1880, said
new road will be granted, if no good cause
is shown to the contrary.
Given under mv hand and seal this 5th
day of July, 1880. W. W. MIXON,
jyl0-4t Ordinary.
Citation for Dismission.
OTATE OF GEORGIA— Johnson Co.—
O Whereas, A. Guin, Administrator of
Sliadrick Wheeler, represents to the Court
in his petition, duly tiled and entered on
record, that lie has fully administered
Sliadrick Wheeler’s estate. This is, there¬
fore, to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, why said administrator should not lie
discharged from his administration and re¬
ceive Letters of Dismission on the First
MONDAY in October, 1880. This July
5th, 1880. W. W. MIXON,
jvlO-Sm Ordinary, J. C.
Johnson Sheritt’s Sales.
Will be sold, lit fore the Court House
door, in Wrightsville, Johnson county,
within the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in August next, the following pro¬
perty, to-wit;
Forty acres of land adjoining lands of
Jonas Meeks, J. I. Renfroe and W R.
Pool, levied on as the property of said W.
B. Pool, to satisfy one fi fa. in favor of
Nancy W. B. Snell, Pool vs. security W. B. Pool, appeal. principal, Property- and
on
pointed out by defendant. This July 5tli,
1880. W. B. SNELL,
jylO-tds Sheriff Johnson County.
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