Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — What Bill Arp Is Going to Do. [ARTICLE]

What Bill Arp Is Going to Do.

Now lam home again and having a good time telling my wife and children all about my journey, and what a good time I had among those noble people, and how I met old schoolmates and old army friends, and I feel 1 letter and younger, and now I am going to get Mrs. Arp off to Florida where she can renew her youth like the eagle, and just as soonas I get rich I’m going to buy her a winter home down there with orange groves, and pineapples, and bananas, and cocoanuts, and lemons, and guava, and a summer home away up here among the mountains, and a railroad and palace cars between the two and a free pass over the line and plenty of money at both ends of it. I think she would like that, and with a half dozen or & dozen of her numerous and lovely posterity to travel with her I think she would be happy. It is good for a man or woman to leave home occasionally and be petted and munched up abroad among kindred and friends, and it is good for them to come back again and rest and enjoy the quiet and peace of the family fireside and bask in the sunshine and smiles of the loved ones at home. I like to go, but I love to return. God bless our homes and protect them from envy and discontent and from fire and sword. —Atlanta Constitution.