The Dawson Journal, 1883-06-07

BILL ARP'S 'ARPING. The Southern Parmer's Life. "On the Fence" - Trouble with Logs and Trouble with Dogs - How an old Steer is like some Folks - Bil} says driv driving - ing driving Steers is not his 'forte' - He knows more about building fences. Variety is the spice of life, and if a man can get any fun out of trouble he had bet better - ter better do it Farming is an everchanging employment. There is something new turns up most every day, something unex_ pected and out of general run. It aint so with storekeeping, nor carpentering, nor any mechanical business, for with those pursuits one day is pretty much alike an another, - other, another, and that is, why I like farming. There is more play for a man's ingenuity and contrivance and more gratification in his success. If a farmer contrives a good gate, or a good stall for the stable, or makes a good wagon tongue, or singletree, or plowstock, he is proud of his labors and thinks more of himself. I have been mighty busy of late fixing up fences. Fences are a big thing in these parts, and 1f a man aint careful it will take about half he makes on his ffarm to keep 'em mule high and bull-strong and pig tight. Ihad about a mile to build this spring, and timber was too scarce to make it all of rails, so I went to work and cut down a lot of pines forstock, and borrowed a carrylog and began to haul 'em to the saw mill. The pines were on the side of a rocky ridge, and the steers were sorter bull headed and took all sorts of roads to get town, and run over saplings, and againgt stumps, and my old darkey couldn't do much with 'em and the iron dogs would come out of the log when the hind end roll rolled - ed rolled over a rock, and the log would stop and the steers go on, and it took all hands to head 'em with sticks and thrash poles and make 'em turn around and go back and straddle the log again; we had to swing one big log five times before we got it down the the big réad - and it was *'gee Dick," and "haw Tom," and "come back here," and ''wlmr you gwine" a hundred times, and the key come out of the bow, and the bow dropped down, and 'old Tom thought he was loose 2ud started for home, and we had a time of i; all around. After a while I noticed that the dogs were too straight and dident swell around the log as they oaght to, sol sent 'em to the shop and bent 'em and after that we could drive 'em in deeper we had no more trouble on that line - when we got all the stocks down | to the big road, we began to haul 'em to the saw mill, and there was a right smart hill to go up, which was the only hill on the way. Old Tom is a mean old steer, He is just like some folks, he has fits of | pulling and fits of not pulling, and when he does hie wants to pull as hard as he can. He took a notion that the hill wastoo much for him, so he wouldn't go worth a cent ; we hawd him, and gee'd him, and whipped him, and hollored at him and twisted his tail, but he got sullen and got down on bis knees and played off, and we fooled away half a day without moving a stock. Then I sent after the mules and @ double tree, and fifth chain, and hitched the mules in front and a!l hands hollored "'get up there," and I cracked the long whip and old Tom come down to his work, for he saw he had help, and the way we jerk jerked - ed jerked those Jogs up the hill was a cortion. We had no more trouble after that. until the time to go home, and I concluded a ride on the carrylog tongue would suit me

The following extract from a re recent - cent recent letter, written by a forwer cit citizen - izen citizen of Woburn, Mass . who now re resides - sides resides in Georgia, speabs for itself, and is 4 rebuke to the old campaign. cry of "bloody shirt," sg well known in late politieal specSlges, The wri writer - ter writer says: "I have wandered through the Caroliuas, I have lived in th wilds of Florida, and have visited every section of the grand old State (Georgia); that is now my home, and I have yet to witness a single act of oppression or willful mistreatment on the part of the dominant raee to toward - ward toward those whom they once claimed aud reeognized only as property. The negro to-day is free - free to work, free to think, free to act for himself in all matters velating to hig own individual comfort and well be being. - ing. being. Fuarther than this his freedom does nothing for hin. Socially he is no moro a part of the southern faw!v than the mule he drives, and, whein e en lewvors to overstep the line of social distinetion, he makes an enviny of those with whom he comes in eontact. 1t i+ there he starts the ery uf "persecution," which is echoed by bis brethren of the North, and final'y drops into the hearts of the Northern people, there o be cata-* logued with a thousand other mis misrepresentations, - representations, misrepresentations, as a new instauce of Southern oppression. Politically he is ot to be trusted, as his ignorance aid greed makes him the tool of po political - litical political tricksters. "Ihe black incubus on the white civilization and enterprise in the Southern Sta es is no more like him than he is like the southern planter whose cotton he piecks. Andlam finally convineed of the falsity of the lessons I received regarding him. All mon are born free and equal, it is true, but they don'tstay so ;. and it is only when oil and water mix, and the ice clad mountains of New Eng England - land England areto be found in the orange groves of IMlorida that the freedman will become tlie social or political equal of his white neighbor." The gentleman who writes the above has been a resident of the South for seven years, and states that his impressions of the state of society were drawn from reading from a "radical press," and from hearing partisun representatives wave the bloody shirt of sectional hate and *'to inisrepresent a people, noble in their infegrity, grand in their devo devotion - tion devotion to all that is worthy of the ven veneration - eration veneration of a true people and sublune in their love of independence." ety A . Brick Pomeroy's Advice to Boys. : You are learning a trade. That is. a good thing to have. It is better than gold. Brings always a primi. um. Bot to bring a preminm, the trade must be perfect - no plated sil silver - ver silver affair. When you go to learn a, trade, do so with determination to win. Make up your mind what you, will be, and be it. Determine, in your own mind to be & good work workman. - man. workman.

Early and Late Marriages. If early marriges are often fail failures, - ures, failures, from a wide difference in men mental - tal mental growth, does maturity dispell all the dangers? Certainly not ; there are too many chances of tailure to be removed by avoiding difficulty. Nav Navigators - igators Navigators on the sea of matrimony have laid down on their charts innumera innumerabie - bie innumerabie shoals, quicksands and breakers, and still new ones are tound on ev every - ery every fresh voyage. The varying for tunes of those who embark are so great that the enterprise has been well called a lottery, and so it is,in a qualified sense. As no skill or ex experience - perience experience is sufficient for the sailor n real life as a guarantee of unvary unvarying - ing unvarying success, so nothing positive can be predicted of any ceuple who lauuch out to test their skill as nav navigators - igators navigators on this sea whose shores are lined with so many wrecks. No chart that wisdom ever devised, no stately ship, no abundance of world worldly - ly worldly stores laid in for rainy days; nor remedies for the sea sickness which comes to so many souls on that sea of joys and sorrows can be depended upon as infal ible pauacea for the ills with which theyv are beget. No interference of fawily doctors, nor the prayers of the priest, nor anxie Ly of relatives cango far of them themselves - selves themselves as one to rebuill a family al altar - tar altar once broken down throuzh thos, incompalibilities which develop be between - tween between people inconipatible. There is no remedy in that reserve (} wisdom and patience by which sonfe minds always make the hest of a bad bar barg - g barg in, anl no hope cin be held ont to those who are about to embark not founded in their ability to bear and forbear. In other respects it may indeed, be "all a lottery" to the ma mature - ture mature as well to the immature for the indolescent couple red-hot with love and stilliness, many snceeed almost as often as those who fancy that a study of each other's character for many years have solved the problem of safety. When in recent years, Charles Summer warried at the age of 56, who would have predicted that he in year or two would have rea reasoun - soun reasoun to repent & step which so many take inconsiderately? And so of thousands of others who might be named, long Lesitating and studying - laying up wisdom as they imagine, from others' failures - and then reaching but for ,the fruit which turns to ashes ! ° After all the wise advice that can be given, it is uot easy to decile that the young who Afall into each otlier's arins without a 'why or wherefore except that, "they want to" are any iess safe than the lplod\iing reasoners who coolly an analyze - alyze analyze and s'udy each other's traits until the frosts of age warns themn that the time to choose is growing short.

pretty well, for Ralph, my fourteen year I old boy, said it was good riding, andso I mounted on the little plank seat, and took | the lines and the whip and give the word of command, and suddenly Old Tom took a ' notion to run away for amusement. It ' was a gentle grade for a quarter of a mile, | and there were little deep ruts im the road and pine roots crossing it ever and anon and some turnoats around the bad places, and so I began to pull on the lines and holier, ~'wo, wo, wo, I tell you, wo Tom, wo Dick," but they paid no more attention to me than if I was a hog in the road. They just went a Kiting, and didn't miss a big stump half an inch, and the ruts and the roots bumped we up and down like a churn dashier. I never was scared so bad in my life. The darkey and Ralph come arunning as fast as they could to got ahead of the brutes, and] that made em worse. I didn'tdare to jump oft for f(':arl the big wheels would get me, and then there was those confounded iron dogs with their big hooks hang,down, and I expected every minute to be jolted off, and have em catch me in the slack of myjpants, or sowe sowewhere - where sowewhere else, and drag me home a mangled and lifeless carcass, I dropped the long whip and let the lines go, and hung on to the tongue with arms and hands and legs for dear life, when suildenly a turn in the road brought the infernal beasts right square up against a wagon that was com coming, - ing, coming, and they stopped. I left that tongue before you could say Jack Robinson, and sat down on alog to be thankful, Driv Driving - ing Driving steers is not my forte, and 1 shall here hereafter - after hereafter let all such foolishness alone. The folks have not got done laughing about it yet, Carl drew a picture on his slate of a carrylog and steers and two big hooks ahanging down, and a man hugging the tongue, and when I came nto the room Jessie was cackling, ard the girls a giggling, 'and Mrs. Arp laughing like she had found a'circus; but I can't see any more fun in it than in a last year bird's nest. = I am building fence now, % good fence, and, a cheap fence. We got out one hund hundred - red hundred chestnut posts, six feet long, in one day, and bauled em home. I put em twenty-two inches in the ground and twelve feet apart; my plank is twelve feet long. The base is ten inches wide, and the next three six inches 'then come the barbed wire two in in| - | in| ches below the top of the post, and this makes the fence m feet

Eli Perkin's Hinglishman. The typical Englishman who adds an 'i' to every word beginning with a. vowel arrived in New York yesterday. He said he was glad to visit Hamerica, the new World, that he has read so much about in the Hinglish newspapers. When I asked him what theatre he was going to attend in the evening, he said: 'I really kant eI, you know. Perhaps it will be the Hacademy of Music, or Habey's park theatre, or 'Averly's or 'Aragon and Art's. In the evening I saw him buying tickets et Wallack's. When I came up he was looking at the box-sheet. He was run running - ning running his finger down on the rows marked 'K' and 'L, and remarking : Yes, T want a warm place, aving just got off the steamer with soment of a cold. Do you mind telling me if you think it would be warm enough in hell ? 'Hell? why yes,' said Mr. Moss, the treasurer. 'Hell is a swarm place, I pre presune. - sune. presune. I have never doubted it.' : 'Well won't you be kind enough to give me two warm seats in hell 7 continued the Engiishman, still looking at the diagram. Then he added to the startled treasurer, 'Let them be low down in the middle.' 'Where 7 'ln hell, sir - two seats.' 'What ? _'Two seats - two," and the Englishman keld up two fingers and added, 'in a warm place in hell - low down - ' 'I don't understand wou," said Mr. Moss looking through the window in bewilder bewilderment; - ment; bewilderment; 'do I understand you to say - ' 'Yes, hexactly - two seats in hell, and I'm in a hurry.' 'But - ' _ 'Blust your eyes? Don't 'but' me! If I don't & seat in hell I don't want any . 5 "TLiook heére! exclaimed Mr. Moss, in indignantly - dignantly indignantly ; 'you lunatic, get away from that window. I've wasted enough time on & confounded crazy man. Come, get! Do you think we kecp the box-sheets of hell here in New York ? 'Blast your Yankee eyes! I didn't say you did. T simply asked you for a seat in hell. T'ma Hinglishman and - and'O, 'O, and'O, ah!" exclaimed Mr. Moss, as a new light seemed to dawn on him. 'I see you want & seat in 'lg - row 'L" "To be sure, sir, hell. That's what I said. Right in the middle of hell, where its warm, you know.' 'Confound you Englishman muttered Mr. Moss to himself as he marked off the seat in the middle of 'L;' 'that's where you ought to sit and where you will sit in the next world, and you won't have to fight to get a seat there, either.--Eli Per Perkins - kins Perkins in Chieago Tribune.

The Year without a Summer - Summer-1816. -1816. Summer-1816. January and Febroary were mild; March was cold! April began warm, but ended in snow and jce. Ice formed an inch thick in -May, and fields were planied over and over again till it was 100 late to rveplant. June was the coldest ever kuown in thislatitude ; frost and ice were com common. - mon. common. Almost every green thing was killed; froit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven in Main, three in ' the in erior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. There were few warmn days. But little rain fell. The wind blew steadily from the north cold and fierce. Mothers knit extra socks and mittens for their children in the spring, and wood woodpiles - piles woodpiles that usually disappeared dur ing the warm spellin tront of the houses were speedily built up again. Plantuig and shivering were done together and the farmers who work worked - ed worked out their taxes on the country roads wore overcoats and mittens, lln a town in Vermont flocks of sheep 'belonging to a farmer had been sent §t'xs asual to their pasture. On the IT7th of June a heavy snow fell in 'New England. The cold was in in'tense - 'tense in'tense a farmer who had a large field | of corn in Tewkebury built fires 1 around it at night to wards off the frost, many an evening he and his ueighbors took turns watching them. He was rewarded with the only erop of corn in the neighborhiood. C(on C(onsiderable - siderable C(onsiderable damage was done in New Orleans in consequence of the rap rappid - pid rappid rvise of the Mississippi river. Fears were entertained that the sun was cooling off, and throughout New England all picnics were strictly pro hibited. July was accompanied with frost and ice. Indian corn was nearly destroyed ; some favorably situated fields escaped. August was miore } chieerless if possible than the summer mouths which preceeded it. Tee was ' formed half an inch in thickuess, Indian corn was so trozen that the greater part of it was ent down and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was destroyed in this country and in Europe, On the 30ih snow fell at Barnett, forty miles | from London. Very little corn ripeu- l ed in New England and the middle States.® Farmers supplied them- ' selves from corn produced in 1815 | for seed in the spring of 1817. It | sold at from 34 to %5 por bushel. !

If a young man loves a girl as he should love her to marry her, a look of disappro disapprobation - bation disapprobation from her of any act of hig will be enough to break Lim of any hebif that he has that she does not like. If the words: "Please don't drink, Charie," frow the lips of Charlie's girl, are not enough to spoil his appetite for benzine. ''Farewell Charlie, forever," would be the next and last remark she should ever make to bim. Marry & man to reform him hés nevef been 8 successful enterprise on the purt of woman. Girls are worth too much unmar unmarried - ried unmarried to sacrifice their lives to beat sense in into - to into the head of any wan on God's foot footstool. - stool. footstool. Too many girls take the chances of marrying a young man who has gn uncon uncontroliable - troliable uncontroliable appetite for liquor, thinking that the surroundings of a home will wean Kiw. Such a man does not weat 80 easy &s a cf. He will go home only to soher up, ul then not till the other places are closed. ¢ Five years of such a married life will mike a middle aged womsn out of the bandsomest, sweetest dispositioned giry thut & mother was ever proud of. A girl will marry such a man l'u;ping that next Year he will be better, but next year he will be worse. The nose willbe red the eyes bleared, the clothes carelessly worn, and the wife who would have been such & proud and happy mother, with a husband that had sense, becomes ashamed to look at herself in the glass, and had almost rather have g fit of sickness than be visited by any of her friends, for fear h(ir husband wil give them all away. Whiskey may be right in its place, and we hope it ig, but the blace for it is not in the stomach of a young man wkho contem contemplates - plates contemplates watrimony, and the girl ¥ho takes such a young man for life, for fear all the young men will be gone, makes a foolish foolishness - ness foolishness of herself and will regret it as long as she lives, There are sure to be sober boys ¢nough for all the girls, and there isno neel of marrving a drunkard, and the girl who does 50 against ine 'advice of her mother \Yill deserve all the. unhappiness ghe mar-

high. There is a strin of six inch plank nailed up and down in the 'middle of every panel, which is near nearly - ly nearly as good as if there wasa post in 'thie middle. This strip keeps the plank in line, and keeps them from warping. The nails should not be driven in straight ? a little slant slanting - ing slanting to make thewm hold better. I built a halt mile of this kind of fence two years ago, aud can find no fault with it. The wind cau't bléw it down, and stock ne¥er try to jump it. My lumber cogt me five dollars a thousand for sawig - my wire cost half a cent a foot #d that makes the fence cost me twenty-eight cent a rod besides my lat or,and a rail fence can't be built much cheaper consid considering - ering considering the value ot timber. Fences are generally made too high and top too Lieavy, and the winds rock them about, and the posts getloose, and the rain drips i and rots them. Gates are most- slways made too heavy- - a gate should be uiade wide, say nine feet, and very light. Use Golts instead of nails at the corners and middle of the brace. Dont lét tlge gate swing when it isshut. Tet the bottom of the latch-post rest on a piece of scantling, bevel the scant scantling - ling scantling a little and let the gate slide up uponit - onit uponit as it shuts. Aa iron roller put in like one is put in a bed post is a cood thing, for then the gate will roll up instead of slide up. A gate is open very little conpared with the time it is shut, and if it rests on something when shuts it will never swag when open. A gate should be no higher than the fence, but I make my farin gates with the hinge post three feet higher, and run a brace from the top of it down the opposite ' corner, and another brace across that one from the other corners, Pack post well at the bottom, especi especially - ally especially on the front and back. The plank will hold them the other way. I think I knéw right smart about gatbes and about fencing, but I don't know how to drive steers, and I don't want to learn. BmL Are.