The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-04-16
ARP's TRAVELS.
His Meeting with old Fr.e=aa in rera.

a. Ahete sfo more .ooGds than one to bind
ene traveller to strangers whom he meets.
sometimes mere casual remark to a
Iel'oW:: passenger 10 the cars induces con.
ssersation and acquaintance, and even
friendship, and this is the bond of lone.
Illness, for we are both far away from
home and passing friend is better than
none. Many a time have listened at
my fellow passengers talking and Joking
with each other aud wished that some ono
would turn around aud talk to me. J
have thought that I was moro amiable in
this regard than other people, but maybe
not, maybe the other silent passepge
were thinking the same thing. People
differ much about tllis--people from diff
ferent sections and ,,f diHsrent callings.
The universal cosmopolitan drGmmer Is
never at loss for boon. companion
He seems to know them by instinct, and
he is not going to sit there in stately
silence. Common people are more com.
munlcatiye than the wealthy and refined.
But of all people upon earth the negro
is the most ready and willing to answer
your question. It seems to give him
unalloyed pleasure. 1t is real luxury
to meet an old fashioned darkey on the
road and discourse him about the neigh.
borhood. You can get more out OF him
In hve minutes than white mau would
tell you in an hour, and he feels highly
honored with the interview.
Then there is the bond of State pride
and State memories. Whenever I 20
into Texas the Georgians hunt me up
and talk of the good old State and tell
me what County they came from and
who they are kin to, and if I don't hap.
pen to know their kindred / know folks
that they know and they will talk about
them with an JUNCTION that is tender and
true. No wonder our State is called our
mother, but TIVE do not realize the strength
of our devotion until we leave her and
get away off in distant land. The
Georgians out here are clanniah, but not
more 80 than the Kentuckians or the
Alabamians.
Then there are the war bonds or the
soldiers bonds which are strong, more
especially if tho soldiers who happen to
meet wore from the same State and in
the Same army. An old soldier rode ten
miles to see me just 60 talk about old
Georgia, and old Tige Anderson, and old
Hook and old Luffnan, and he did hate
to haze to quit and go home. When !
asked him how many children he had, he
answered, 1.-TWO, only two. Georgia and
Joe johnson. Bob Lee is dead. lie
was mighty fine boy, but we lost him.
He's gone up yonder where old Bob is"
q native Texan asked me yesterday
about the 18th, Georgia. Said he, II
was the colonel Of the first Texas, and
the 18th Georgia was in our brigade, and
they were the out-fghtenest devils ever
saw in my life. Our boys were good
fighters too, aud true grit, but them 18th
fellers could get up quicker and get at it
quicker, somehow. Why, sir, when a
fight was on hand they would march ten
miles and be fighting half an hour before
our boys could get started to save their
lives. They said they had to keep up
with Wofford or he would just be fool
enough to charge battery all by him
self. 1t used to do one good to hear
them mountain fellers say 'yon'uns aud
we'una.' One night they plundered
man of all his honey, and as our regi.
meut was camped right close to the honey
it WAS laid on our boys and we officers
were assessed 10 pay for it, and then we
collected 1t out of the mon aud it made
them mad for they swore they didn't get
the honey. And that evening. as our
regiment was marching by the camp Of
the 18th the confounLed scamps sang out,
'we'uns eat the honey and you'uns paid
for it, and 1t made our boys powerful
mad. What has become of Wofford?''
There is another bond that is stronger
still for it began in our youth when the
sunshine Of life was upon US, and we
saw no clouds of sorrow or trouble in tho
dim horizon of the future. Our play.
mates and schoolmates and collegemates
are not all dead. but they are scattered,
widely scattered, aud it is q surprise when
an old man comes up to me and taking
me by the hand looks earnestly into my
face and says, "William, do you know
me 2" Sometimes do, but ottener I
don't and perhaps he will cay, 81 Usad to
go in washing with you in old Billy.
Montgomery's mill pond," or perhaps,
II was in your class at Athens 10 1845."
Forty years agoi Just think of it !
And then he begins to inquire whore is
Briscoe, and Beverly Thornton aad Cody
aud McIves, and 80 on, and I huveto say
of most svery one, dead, dead. How
fast the world dies. Most everybody is
dead aud there is q new. set now. Joseph
ia dead, and there is another. Phario, who
knew not Joseph. There are new ways,
and rev methods, and new morals.
There is no Sunday to speak Of, over
here in Texas. If n merchant. wants to
keep his store open he does It. The
saloons are aseer closed neither night nor
day. In some towns public opinion
closes thom bnt tb1 law docs nut. In
Ellis County the pe,ple are ali for good
morals, and they hays voted whiskeI out
Of tho County. iWsraAahncihes IL the
County; seat and Is thriving town. onr
Rome. boy, VIII Griffith, is there and is
prosperous and happy. Well he ought
to be, for he has q sweet little wife and
q sweet little girl, and as Cobe would cay
couple Of. pair of twin boys. Cohe
always says q couple. OF pair Wien he
means two, Mira: Griffith does her osn
cooking and Homework aud thinks II no
hardship. Negroes are at o diacount
here, nobody wants them, Most every
body docs their own work and afe not
ashamed oil. It, either. The washing is
done everywhere by the heathen, Chinee..
There are one or more iaundries In every.
town. Most every family where ] have
been o. gueat takes boarders and this
helps keep up the family supplies. I
stayed with DR.. Oliver at Ennis, another
prohibition town. A town Il years Old
ard aith 8 900 Inhabitants and handling
18, 900 bales Of cotton, and corn and oats
too numerous 10 menti ion. DIR. Oliver Is
the atsp son OF Dr. j Joo Thompson oil
Atlanta E.and d brother In law Of yotr
Judge Calhoun. He is the chairman of
the Ssste Medical Board ard Is solid,
tsnlSd aa 4 rS,rf ~ IA Is iaH n 1arfye family