The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-12-25
ANDERSON S. Co. THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER %, 1890
BILL ARP'S CHAT.
Eill Arp Makes a Strong Appeal for the
Orphans.
dNdnta Consultation.

Orphans.
Atlanta Constitutions.
Now is the time-the time to remember
the orphans. There are 104 in the
Thornwell orphanage, and they would
enjoy q Christmas dinner, and reckon
the little chaps would like to hang mp a
stocking. Sam Jones will take care Of
his pets, at Decatur, know, but the
TEornwell orphans has no man to travel
and talk for them. As the lrishman said
when he had lost his almanac, they will
have to take the weather as it comes.
They have never suffered yet, but some
times it is a close rub to get along. 1t is
close now-too close for them to be calm
and serene. It takes S5 a month to
maintain an orphan, and the total re-
ceipts for October were S4G5 for Sl04
children. Cheap boarding that-food and
clothing and fuel and room rent for $3.50
month, and washing and lights and
castor oil thrown in. Carls dog costs
that much, and he furnishes his own
clothes. I wonder how DR.. Jacobs man
ages that? I've been reading the little
monthly magazine that the boys print,
and there is not word of begging or Ia
mentation in it. The doctor writes like
he had Aladdin's lamp somewhere. He
seems to rather brag than beg. He says
that ten years ago the orphanage had 1875
acres of land and one house and s. 900
endowment money, and now it has four
handsome stone dwellings and three stone
public buildings and concrete printing
Office, all furnished, and $4,000 of en-
dowment money. He won't spend that,
but is letting it grow until the interest
will do some good after he is dead and
gone. He says he is going to put up 8
little canning factory, go that the children
can save for winter the vegetables they
make in summer. The factory will cost
about $3.50, and the money will come.
He is preparing to build q technical
school attachment that will cost $4,000,
and has already got s31 of the money.
Good gracious, what start That mans
faith has never tlickered from the day he
conceived that orphanage in his mind and
hesrt. He just goes along on trust-trust
in God. He is crank-that is to say he
is unlike the rest of US. Maybe we are
the cranks, l don't know. It is a tre-
mendous responsibility to have the care
and maintenance and education OF 100
orphans and no money except what comes
aloug hanhazard through the mails.
Sometimes there is shower and some
times a long dry spell, but he keeps on
taking in the orphans all the same six
more have just arrived, and that makes
ITO. There is no blow made about tho
institution-no footing ofhorns.-no boom
no pitiful appeals, but the money comes
about as fast as the orphans come. There
is no sectarianism about it. In fact,
there are more children of Baptist and
Methodist parentage than of Presbyte'
rian, and'yet nine-tenths cf the money
comes from Presbyterian sources It was
close bit in October, and the good doc
tor began to snuff the air and wonder,
but the good people Of Clinton found it
out, and they just poured in with -four
and meal and meat and fish like mer-
chandise, like surprise party at a
Methodist preachers house. Two men Of
our town got hold of the little magazine
the other day, and saw that the whole
State of Georgia, with fine crops aud a
sub.treasury in sight, didn't send but SIT
in the month OF October, and they said
it was shame upon the State, and they
rustled around aud picked up SIS in q
few minutes, and one Church sent SlS
more and we have been supporting two
orphans besides and so we all feel better
now. Arkansas sent more than Georgia.
and so did one woman in New Jersey. II
is not the stiDginess of our people, but
it is their forgetfulness. They want to be
punched up by somebody.
Now is the time. Let us all send
something to pay for Christmas dinner
and take some stock in the stockings.
Send money order to DR.. William P.
Jocobs at Clinton, S. G. Don't be afraid
of sending too much and making tuo
children sick. If there is surplus, it
will help build the canning fnctory.
Giving to charity is hard to start with
some folks, but when started it grows on
man and becomes g habit, just like
chewing tobacco. There is good feeling
that follows the deed and makes a man
have more respect for himself. You see,
the next world is q very uncertain coudi.
ton to most of us, and every one admits
that a little stock in the bank on the
side of the river might prove to be good
stock, and there is no way to buy it ex-
cept IN charity. asked a man one day
for some charity money, and as he hest
tated l quoted scripture to him and said.
"Cast thy bread upon the waters, aud it
will return to you after many days" He
looked at me hard and said, "About how
many days?" "The day after you are
dead" said I. He looked serious and
handed me a $40 bill, which was more
than I expected. Sam Jones says that
the most ridiculous performance in the
world is for woman to dress in q $50
silk and SO bonnet and get in 3 $500
carriage and carry 10 cents to Church to
put in the missionary box. All that fine
rigging to carry dime to God, and the
dime was his before she started with it.
Jay Gould says that Jim Fisk taught him
his first lesson in charity. Fisk's hand
was always open to the suffering poor, and
one cold, bitter evening, as they were 60.
ing home, they met poor, half-clad
woman with child hugged to her bosom,
and she was struggling along through the
snow. Fisk stopped her, and felt in his
pockets and found them empty. Turning
to Gould, he said "What have you got?"
Gould says: 81 drew out g roll of small
bills; l never did know how much, and
was hunting for dollar, when Fisk
snatched the pile and handed it ali to the
woman, and said to me, as We fastened
away, 'D-n it, Gould, l wouldn't count
charity money on o woman like that
charge it to ME and I'll pay you to-mor
row."
Our Presbyterian folks took notion
last summer that they would remodel and
reluruish the old brick Church. 1t was
about forty years old and had memories
hallowed memories, clustering all around
it. 1t had great big crack meandcrine
down one of the walls But old Father
Miner loved the crack because it length
ened and widened with his own decay
aud lie loved the hard old pews, and The
amen corner and the faded carpet and thf
ting-a-ling of the old time bell The old
Church had a steeple that it was no sin
to worship, for it was not the Likeness o
anything that WAS in heaven above, or in
the earth beneath, or in the waters under
the earth Old Father AIiner loved that
because it pointed towards heaven. He
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