The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-06-19

ically and materially. The south is doing
we'll. For twelve months past there has
been less crime committed in Georgia
than any year since the war. Colonel
Towers tells me that even the negroes are
behaving better, and are reducing the
percentage of convicts to the cha;n-gang.
The race problem is quieting down. Even
Inghll's slime and slander have ceased to
disturb US; but I notice that whenever
he shoots off his venomonous mouth, there
is negro outrage committed somewhere
about the same time.
But the south is prospering. Every
day and every train brings good people
from the north, who wish to prospect and
see what is the matter-and every one
goes back a friend. They are investing
their money with us and are not hard to
please. One told me yesterday that hill
full of ore that was worth ten thousand
dollars here, would be worth ten times as
much in Pennsylvania, and that the
farming land in our valleys would be
worth hundred dollars an acre in
Lehigh. The formation of The northern
society" that met on Thursday in Atlanta
an index of the good will that Northern
people who have settled here have
toward us-I wish that we could have
accepted their kind invitation which was
sent to my wife and myself. loo believe
that Mrs. Arp would have surrendered to
theis kind words and genial hospitality,
aud given the right hand Of fellowship.
She has held high head and a proud
defiance for 10 these many years. Let
them apologize and give US back our
things and pension our widows and or
phars," said she. but believe she is
relellting. Old father time is good
doctor and we are growing old. Sunday
was her birthday, and she wouldn't men,
ton it before hand for fear some of us
would spend some money, and 80 we did
not let her know that We remembered it.
Fifty eight years have come and gone
since, she was born, but don't believe
she will tell it to the census man when he
comes-she says it is none of his business
When she came in to breakfast We gave
her Kiss all round and surprised her
with lot of nice things like cologne and
pearl handled hair brush and pair OF
slippers. Fifty eight years. She doesn't
care who knows it. She never did.
There are grown grandchildren stepping
around her and she can't hide them and
doesn't want to, for she is proud of them.
She is not ashamed of her age. All that
she cares about il to be younger than I
am and to live as do. What a time she
has had with all these children She was
teaching them yesterday about the flow
ers and the origin of their names, and was
readvto answer all their questions with
out dictionary. She told how geranium
meant cranes bill, and took its name
from the little, long, sharp seed pods that
stick up out of the flower, and how pc
largcnium meant q stork's bill, and
chryuanthemum golden flower, and the
fucbsia was named for DR.. Fuchs, an EN- :
inent botanist, and the dahlia for DR..
Dahl, another botauist, and the tulip from
Persia, and means turban, and took its
name from the gay, fancy colors that the
Persian turbans had, and the sweet little
daisy that opens with the morning light,
was corruption of days eye, and the
nasturium meant nose twister because
it had a pungent odor that inclined one
who smelled it to twist the nose out OF
shape. "Where did you learn all that?"
said ]. "Why, from my botany, ofcourse,"
said she. ave had to study when I was
a girl, and haven't forgotten what /
learned. I believe | would have been
somebody if l hadn't married you when
I was nothing but a child, and I've never
had time since to do anything but nurse
and worry with all those children" !"
Like true woman, you have served
your day and generation" said /, "and it
has kept you we'll and strong and renew.
ed your youth, like the eagle. 1t is wo
mans natural state, and she is not happy
oui OF it."
/ was thinking about the origin OF
words and names, and I wish there was q
schooIbook that gave all the words in
common use and their derivation. !
would like to know where Smith and
Jones, and Akin and Milner and Howell
and Gordon, and Holt and Hutchins and
all such names came from. Iwas reading
not long ago about the word slave, that at
frat meant glory and freeman, and now
means servitudo. The Slayoniaus were
once q proud, free people, and it was an
honor to be called a slave, but when they
were conquered and subdued by the Ger
mans the slaves became servants to their
conquerors. Then there was the word
cynosure, which used to mean the tail OF
q dog, but now is applied to beautiful
woman, upon whom all eyes are turned
in admiration. Not long sgo very
learned preacher was talking on this sub.
ject ard said the first translators of the
old testament found that the same word
meant so many different things that il
perplexed them greatly. For instance, it
is said that the ravens fed Elijah with
bread and flesh, morning and evening
but the word that means raven means a
robber-a Bedouin Arab-the very peo.
pie who inhabited the eastern country 10
which Elijah fled. They robbed the rich,
but were kind to the poor and friendless,
and so it may have been that they fed
Elijah, instead of the ravenous birds.
Ravenous comes from raven, which means
to rob; to destroy. Old Jacob said
"Benjamin shall raven as wolf" It is
a curious study, this origin of words, and
the schools do not pay enough attention
to it.
The schools will soon close for the
summer vacation and the children are now
counting the days. Of course they are
tired and the teachers are tired and the
bell rings tired. Our teachers have been
faithful and the children willing. We
can all tell what the teachers are by the
way the children do at home. What Q
blessed life is that Of a school boy or girl
who is willing to study and acquire
knowledge and mixes it with play and
ffolic end pleasant intercourse with their
companions. How free from corrodiDg
care and anxiety!
What if the clouds don't bring rain (?
What if ingalls, does spout venom What
if politics gets red hot and the candidates
sling ulud and make the fire hy7 What
is Livingstone or Northern to them, OF
that other grand old patriot and states.
man, Tom. Hardeman Who does not
love and honor him? He may never be
governor of Georgia, but he will go down
to the grave with the affections of biz
people clustered close aud thick around
him. Would that every city and town
and hamlet had one such man fol
the children to look up to and emulate
his noble example!
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