The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-24
BILL ARP.
he Spends Day at the Great Atlanta
Exposition.
atlanta Constitution.


get up more things and more ways to gel
the people there and make them spend
their money than any town of its size in
the union. If this thing don't stop she
will gobble up all sooner or later, and
there will be no remedy but to move
there. Bill Glenn says he is going to
move there rightaway, for he knows ii
will have to come. It is like Newt
Tumbin's politics. he said that the on.
ly way to get even with the republican
party was to join 'em. But Newt. dident
join 'sm. he Joined the church and
went to preaching, which is better. ]
like Newt. 1 like his big bosom and his
big heart; like to hear his big mouth
roll out language. 1t comes in such a
stream and so honest and unprecedented
and go full of human kindness. I love
to meet him on the cars and feel the
warm grasp of his hand and hear him
say, "Wby; howdy Bill, God bless you /;
how is the wife and The children2 Why,
I amt seen you since the woods WAS
burnt. Where are you going and where
have you been? Did you say that your
folks were we'll, but of course they are or
you wouldsnt be travelling around How
is Sam. Jones and where is he now? I
see that DR.. FELTON, is hammering away
in the legislature. used to be mem-
ber and had power of fun. It is good
place for fun but the poorest place on the
face of the earth TO serve the Lord and
cultivate piety. It took tie ave years to
repent and get forgiveness and get back
to where I was before I went there. The
road to the bad place is all down hill and
slick as ice, but if feller stops before he
gets there and tries to turn round and go
back, dog my cats if it amt the hardest
work in the world to climb that hill
again. It's slip up and scotch, and slip
down and scotch, every hundred yards,
and the devil pullin' at your coat tail
every step Of the way. How did you say
your wife was, I think about you and
about her every Sunday And there is
Henry Grady, who got me in that scrape
with the English Lord, wheD did you see
him i? He's running the exposition.now,
and he'll run it for all it's worth, and
more too, I reckon. Did you ever see
such feller to run thiugs2 I'm lookin'
for him to run for governor, and he'll do
it if he gets a fair chance, and the boys
will elect him, too. Hes no. dark horse
nor scrub, and he's a climbin' all the
time. But Henry is young yet-wby,
yes, he amt nothin but boy, aud he
has got time enough yet, plenty of time.
What pity he didn't buy him about ten
acres of land and farm a little-just
enough to get into the Alliance and head
the concern, and then the farmers would
have whopped him up and right into the
governors chair, when Gordon got out Of
it. But Jno. B. Gordon is the biggest fish
in the sea, amt he? I tell you, Bill, he
is a. whale, and if there is any bigger
fish then he is that believe you said
that Mrs. Arp was we'll"
Yes, T love to hear Newt. talk. The
cars nay rattle and the locomotive puff
and snort and scream. but yon can hear
Newt. I would like to set sway off on q
hillside and hear him at camp meeting,
as be thundered hia warning voice to sin.
ners. No man who talks as fast and as
earnest and as loud as Newt. Tumlin can
be hYpocrite. He is the very type and
symbol of sincerity. A hypocrite or a
designed man or a politician always
studies his words, and is careful and eau
tious in language. he can say one thing
and think another just as easy.
The Atlanta folks made such fuss
over the exposition that I told my folks ]
would run down as scout and recouniter
and come back and report, and now they
are worse off than ever, for it is a good
show, and I had to tell the truth about
it. 1t is good show. The exhibit from
our own county of Barlow is show OF
itself, and we'll worth the time and mon
ey it takes to see it. The minerals are
just splendid, and ought to be, for every.
body knows that this county is the rich.
est in mineral wealth of any county in the
limits of the American union. But we
are not vain or covetous about that. Let
the people look at our agricultural
products. Look at those thirteen pump.
kins that grew on one vine, and weigh
700 pounds, and there are seven more on
the vine that are green, and they will
weigh 300 pounds more. One thousand
pounds of pumpkins on one vine, and it
didn't grow on Pumpkin Vine Greek
either. Look at our samples of corn and
wheat and cats and potatoes. We didn't
send down anything but samples. Sone
counties sent all they had, but. we dident
This is the banner county for grain, as
will be seen in the last census reports
Our town of Gainesville was named fol
old Sam. Garter who raised 80 many oats
80 many that he couldn't find room
enough in his field to shock 'em all aftel
he had cut 'em and had to shock about
half in another field, and so when a fel
low has got heap of anything he says
he's got as many as Carter had oats
What a pity We couldn't take down 8
slice of our rivers and let those Atlanta
people see what river is, and if WI
could only transplant one of our maguif
cent springs that come gushing from thu
rocks in silver streams big enough to turr
mill. 1t is right pitiful TO see those
Atlanta people dancing and prancips
around that little Ponce De Leon that il
about big enough to water the chickens
in and yet they call it a spring. Oh, N.
I wish we could take down one of ou
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