The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-09
THE MANNING TINES.
WEDNESDAY, September 4, 1881,
BILL ARP.
The Country Philosopher.

The Country Philosopher.
"Fret not thyself because of evil
doers." The philosophic MIR should
always be calm and serene, though in
these dog-days it is right hard to be
composed when Sirius is exhaling his
malignant influences, and the bad
spirits are filing tf'ne air and Matching
dlscord among rnen. Paracelsus says
that the air ss not so full Of flies IN
August as it is with invisible devils.
But know some that are visible, and
the Jewish Talmud says they did not
c4escend from Eve, but that Adam had
another wife called Lilis, and OF her
nothing was born but devils, and they
overrun the country until the food.
How they lodged the deluge the Tai
mud does not tell Us, but l reckon
some of them had boats Of their own.
Certain it is that the germ of mallg-
nifty was not altogether destroyed,
and it has multiplied and replenished
like bacteria, and has impregnated
the souls of human kind to an alarm
ing extent.
The wicked plotteth against the just,
And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
7 was Illuminating about this be-
cause I had just received a paper from
Hutchinson, Kans., called the Interior
Herald, which seems TO be the mallg-
nant Republican organ of that region,
and it's editor came straight down
from Madam Lilis, I reckon, and is
quite proud of his pedigree. One OF
my random letters about pensions
was his text-one of my mild, good
tempered, harmonizing letters, that l
thought would find q tender spot in
the Northern heart, for I was asking
for pensions for our Confederate wild
ows; but it seems to have disturbed
his tranquility, and he gnasheth upon
Us with his teeth, and gives my letter
great, big, double-column head lines,
and then goes to using language upon
Us with malice aforethought. He is
mad because we build monuments
and decorate graves and make speech
es and put into requisition ssrivers OF
oratory, and clouds and waves and
cyclones of eloquence to laud the
cause and the rebels and JEFF Davis,
a numbering, thieving old rebel and
traitor" His liver seems to be in
famed because some of the Northern
Republicans are crying out forget
and forgive"
sLet byegones be byegones," and
he says they are in line following al
fer Polk and Livingston and Terrell.
{ who once led the rebels, and that eff
justice had been done, every murder
ing rebel would have been hung"
Good gracious! what sight OF
rope it would have taken. I'll bet
this Herald man would have got up a
corner on jute.
Well, of course, all that sort of talk
would be funny and fantastic If
Hutchinson wasn't Alright smart town
of 5000 people, and this paper the
leading paper in it. What an Editor
says nowadays is Of but little conse-
qnence if it expressed his individual
opinion; but, as 8 general rule, the
editor does not lead the people-he
follows them-and so it looks bad to
see the sign of so much hate end ven
ON still existing among our Western
brethren. But certain it is that some
of his subscribers have put off the red
shirt and put on white one, and
swern off from the party, and that is
what is the matter.
I thought that all these sentimental
questions were settled, and that it was
generally agreed that we might love
and honor our dead, and build mon
uments and throw flowers and have
reunions and hurrah for our side,
considering that nothing but senti-
ment was left US. If a big boy whips
a little boy he ought to be willing for
the little fellow to cry some, and shake
his fist and threaten-many school
boy has vowed to whip the teacher
when he got to be man. That is
about al we are doing-when we get
grown we'll lick you. See if we don't.
Well do it anyhow, if you'll walk out
side the corporation. Ill bet the ed
itor of the Herald never was in the
war, or he wouldn't talk so big about
hanging US. I'll bet he imposed on
little boys at school, and Judged mhen
he played marbles. He is in a perfect
rage about that Confederate monu-
men5 at jackson, Miss.-wish he
would go down there and talk like he
writes. He says that Northern man
is not safe down South, and ''is in
danger of assassination or open, bru-
tai murder, unless he proclaims his
love for the lost cause and it's treas
on" That is the same old lie that
has been denounced hundred times
by Northern Republicans who live
here, but it is no lie as far as the edi-
tor of the Herald is concerned. He
wouldn't be safe. His old carcass
wouldn't hold shucks by the time he
got off the depot platform-our boys
can stand SANDER and lies afar of,
but man must not bring it to them.
So let MIR. Herald stay at home and
sEinney on his own side, and We viii
send some missionaries up there as
soon as we can. We have no Ian
guage 6tten to use on him. He can
consider himself called all the appro-
pirate things that Falstaff called
Prince Hal, and Prince Hal called
Falstaf
We've got to send missionaries up
No,.kh a.. 4ho doz-:l Ill czo4 xoa,o 4La,,.