The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-09-27
BILL,
"REMINISCENCES AND REFLEC-
TIONS ON THE LONG AGO.
There Is No Place Like the Beautiful
and Classic City Of Savannah.

Memory is . strange faculty. It seems inde-
pendent OF the mind, but is mysteriously con-
tcted with it. Tho forgetful witness is right
when he saws 'I didn't charge my memory
with it," When We were children memory was
strong and the mind was weak. As We get old
| the mental power grows stronger and memory
weakeus, hut the memories that fastened some.
where in our crauiums in our youth do never
| fade remember we'll tho scenes. names and in
cidcnts of my childhood. remember when
| wore aprons and how old Aunt Mnty, the cook,
| looked and how nv father killed the dog be-
! cause he foamed at the mouth and was thought
| TO be going mad. I was only three years old
| then. When was six years old my mother
| found her long lost brother and I remember
the meeting aud how they embraced each other
and cried for joy. Their parents died in
| Charleston Of yellow fever and were buried in
one grave aud tie two littlo children were hur-
| ricd away during the panic aud got separated,
| for they had no kindred to care for them. The
| boy was put on ship and sent to Boston-the
| girl on another vessel and sent to Savannah.
| Each placed in an orphan asylum and they
never fluid each other until some years after
| they were grown and married. Diligent search
was made in Char eston, but no clew could be
found, and as last resort my father advertised
| in u Boston paper and 1t was seen and letter
came that was written i'll tears. l remember all
the excitement and how her brother came and
wnat Il handsome young man he was and how
| tho people of the little village joined in
| the rejoicing. l remember how the next year
my father aud mother, with my brother and
! myself went to Savannah in . carrlage-S50
miles-and took sail vessel there for Boston
| to visit that brother and his family. was
rumiuating about this, for was in Savannah
| last week and recalled the river and the wharf
| and the vessel that we took passage on and the
| long VOYAGE of thirty-seven days. remember.
| ell the long wide street and 1t had double
| row of immense china trees that Oglethorpe
planted. Those trees are all gone and other
| kinds have taken their places was told that
their old trunks werc planted in tho water to
| support the wharyes and that some OF them are
| there yet for the sea worms will not touch
! china wood. AS / mcandercd along the streets
! L wondered how many pcnplo were living in
| that city who were there sixty years ago when
first visited it. Probably there arc not fifty =
| perhaps not ten. There are not but hve In
| Rome who were there forty-d years ago when
1 settled there. What people we are to die or
| move away
Savannah is a lovely city. How clean, how
| shaded. how ornamentcd with evergreens anu
| flowers. What beautiful parks with the green
| grass growing all around where the happy
children frolic and the baby carriages abound.
| Monuments are there, too. to commemorate
| noble men-Pulaski and Jasper and w. w.
! Gordon and Others but none to Oglethorpe.
What grand people used to adorn this his
torc aud classic city. 1 remember the times
when the Hsbershams. Hardees, Elliotts, Bull.
| locks Joneses Houstons. Laws. Jacksons and
| Telf ,irs lived there. Some of their descend
| ant, live th-re now. and wear the mantle of
their fathers in tone and manners and high
moral principles. They are gentlemen by in
Ia, rtance and training. Who ever saw noblrr
gentlemen of the olden times than Generals
| Lawton and Jackson? Who ever saw a finer
! spec men OF younger manhood than Fleming
duBignon. the most classic and eloquent young
| man in orgia-a lawyer, statesman and
orator, and always gen leman!
When was a college by l did not ut first
mix with the boys from Savannah, for it was
said they were stuck up and proud, but in time
| was undeceived and was pleased to rank them
| I nnUerdtand tl0ir I, =
cuiar pronunciation. hey said pa and ma
\ like pad and mad, while we up country BOYS
said pa and ma like par and mar and our back
woods boys said paw and NAV. The low coun-
try boys said &, url for girl and We thought it
was affectation. Savannah has the same pecu-
liar folklore yet AID like it. II sounds gentle
and soft and refined Even the negro lingo
has charm about 1t. heard all old nurse say
tn a ch,ld in the park: Honey. your mar say
came dare to her; run long chile fore de bucltri
man cotch you.
There is no rush in Savannah. Everybody
and everything take their time. A dignted
leisure prevails among the business men and
they will take time to give courteous attention
to visitors whereas in Atlanta they have nC
time sor the courteses OF life. "How are you
howdy do; are you well? Come around and see
me" and your friend will hurry on. Atlantis
gets her manners from north Georgia mainly
The people are kind, liberal, progressive and
desperately in carr" st, especially after money
Savannah people are more scholarly and elias
founded there and has been 80 long and 80 lib
orally sust aimed. In our coll'ge days Henr,
Law and Monroe McIver were the most gifted
orators, and the Grafton OF the former on Pau
at Mars Hill" is still remembered by those wh(
heard it and are vet alive.
was ruminating about that long journey OF
six days to Savannah by carriage, and how the
other night l took berth in sleeper at
o'c ock aud awaked next morning in Savannah
and found breakfast awaiting me at the DeSott
hotel. l was thinking about that stormy voy
age Of thirty seven days to Boston, and bov
suffered partial shipwreck, and my fsthe
would not return by wafer, but bought . car
riage and span OF black horses and we came al
the way to Georgia overland, and II took us ri
lonE weeks maze the Trip; aud how we nevc
| crossed a railroad, for there was none to cross
! a., this is wi hin my recollection, and l still
remember il it were not very long ag
how my father held me by the feet as lait
down to peep over the brink of the natura
bridge in Virginia into the awful chasm below
Well all these memories make me feel sad, TO
OF all my kindred who then lived only an
left Father aud mother and uncles and aunt
and cousins all dead. What an eventful lif
have | lived. and what an advance i'll the world
progress have seen. The time was when
had to do all my reading and studying at nigh
by the light OF talow dipped candle-no
only that, but and my brother had to di
them, and if had corner i'll the exposition
would like to show the boys and girls how !
was done. We thought We had good time
and we did, but it would he awful to live tina
way now.-BILI. ARP in Atlanta Constitution
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