The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-10
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
HE IS WORRIED OVER MANY
AGITATED QUESTIONS.
Wcmen of Fifty and Over 200
Pounds Should Shun the Bike.

! down so that We may get the trl'h and the
/ facts. was rumina'ing about this in conucc-
| ton with the glcat battle Of Manassas that was
foH=ht thlr'y-ftur years ago last Sunday. This
Is on" time that the day Of the W, ek and the
! cay of the month respond with the ann
vcrsarf Of that battle. Thltv-rour years have
| pas cd and this generation is just beginning to
| understand what the war Was about. Northern
histories have been so partial and one sided
! THAT the young folks have be e surprised and
HStonshed that oar people fought 20 hard and
s. ling with so little 10 fight for. But the
| truth Is gradually dawning upon the nation.
! Southern histories have been written and ln1ro-
lucctl into southern schools and our children
are becoming our defenders. l see that Mrs.
| Susan rcndi' ton Lee the gifted daughter OF
| Gen raj Pcnlietnn, has written history of the
United States AMI has without reserve :old the
| story of the late civil war and tho Unied Con-
| fcdcratc Veterans. in their great meeting ut
! Houston. have as fearessly Endorsed it. In
| few ears more the south will be vindicated,
but it takes A lcnG time. Eighty years have
| pa. sed since Napoleon figure in Europe. and
even now historians differ widely about events
and motives conce: ming him. Marshal Ney was
shot in 1919 CT he died in North Carolina in
1873, nobody knows which.
For several Years We have been waiting for
he truth about the Hawaiian islands, but 1t
| has not yet been written from u Eon-psrtisan
standpoint. Conservative peop'e don't know
what to believe. The missionaries used to tell
IL hat the Sandwich islanders were cannbais
| fifty yeaIs ago, hut had all become Christians
ard had schools and churches like we have.
Later accounts say Lat political schcn:ers and
unWincipled scoundrels from orr country have
lundcred that unhappy land and r,ducc!
those natives to beSgars and suhject!cn. And
| now we read that another set are armlng yes
| Sells to drive the first set ont under prctenSc or
helping :iic natives. l wonder what are the
facts IN the case?
And what about Cuba? Who knows? The
prt valirg idea is that Spain is trrant and has
lot those Cubans by the throlt and they want
to govern themselves and ret up republican
| form of government Ike ours. Put knowing
man, who has been there, tod me that those
Cubans were mostly negroes Of the mos de-
| graded kind and Were not fit to govern tht m.
selves aid all this rumpus was being raised
| by few fllhust ring Americans, who
want to capture the island and divide out
tie Offices aua get rich off the sugar Planta-
tions that the Spanairds are cu]tivatinG. There
was a bi < fuss raised and lots Of sympathy eX-
tended about an editor whom the Spani rds
mad confined in Moro castle. but Homer Reed
says he found ont the her day that the editor
was a Goa black coon who had been very scan
dalcus in his paper. And SO the question
comes rr, s's Gu worth helpingY'
David wrote. Il said in mine haste nj men
are liars" and the old Scotch preacher took
that for bis text and remarked: "Ab, David,
David, if ye had lived till now ye might have
said it at yonr leisure. me- mon"
Arc we nation of liar? Read the papers
and say Who knows what to believe? While
was in Florida The other dav read from tho
New York Recorder an awful account about
Tavares being attacked by rattlesnakes and tho
people had to turn out with guns and rocks and
thrNshpoles and they killed over 400 in e
s'rccts one Sunday morning and in two days
had killed over thousand and the people were
terror-siricken. The article went into many
details and told about woman who put her
infant child in tub while she washing in an
other tub AMI big ratt!er got his head over
the edge OF the tub and she had to kill him
with her battling stick. I asked Tavares
man about it and he was amazed. "Why,"
saip he, ''it is lie-a lie without any founda-
ton. Some lying repor er made it up for
sensation" And not long after / read that
tl:tre was yellow fever in Tampa and the peo-
pie were flting from the city. was III Tampa
that very day and knew it was lie. Ofcoui 80
the paper took it all back the next day and
aid it was a stake, but there is no telling
the damage that such mistakes do. II re-
porter who is running around for news gets up
a lie for d sensation he should be turned off in
stanttr.
AMI here is the silver question that has been
the subject of more eIag3eratlon than Will ever
be forgiven in the day of jndgment-morc
elimination and SANDER and suppression OF The
'ruth, and nothing is yet settled about It,.
Who knows what is best2 When we sec
such statesmen as Morgan and Vest and Harris
and Daniel and George and Blackburn and
Crisp and Black and McLaurin and a host OF
o ht rs or one 8 de. and as many notable men
OF the other side, what right has common
man to jump up and swear that he knows all
abuut it and that those who don't think with
lin arc fools. But IT exon the next election
will settle it, and wish 1t was over, for the
people are getting mighty tired OF tine whole
buSints IS.
And there is another question that comes mp
pc, iodicaly and has recently come up again.
Does education lessen crime? Some phllan-
ihTopists arc getting concerned about this, and
we'll they may, for the statistics Of every state,
in the Union establish the fact that education
of the kind the pupils are getting increases
crime-nnt little, but immensely, and yet VS.
20 on and on with it and the clamor comes Tor
more and moro. Just look over the daily ps-
pers and see how the record OF crime ID In
reastng-not mlsdemcanors. but the most aw-
I II! crimes-not only away off in Ohio, but
irht here in Georgia. But forbear. 1 wrote
lis all mp two years ago and gave the figures
rom the approved reports OF the penltentlary
mi the prisons and the jails and the work
l uses from Massachu-cttt to Texas, and they
we're all alike, so far as increase was concerned
lIalent we better stop and think about thls
and take les Oh from Prussia as TO the KIND
# education that will diminish CRIME! VINO
,Isll the gcoI and yirtuouS girls marry nova
Laws? Where are the young men VINO are
worthy of them? There are at least forty, young
maria: cable girls in this town OF good faml-
lies who woald make good wives, but where
a! c The young men to whom the fathers would
entrust them? There are not ten-a'e there
five? Marriage is at d'count-not because
these girls are fast or exrravagant or ride bl-
cycc but because the Young men are generally
no account. or dissipatCd or can't support
fc Some of them will spree all night long
md 60 to q dance the next night with re-
svcctable girl.
How many young married women have sapa-
"atsd from their husbands or been divorced or
ahandOned?
About that bicycle craze as it is called. I
confess that cannot see anything wrong or
immo1est about it when the dress i modest.
II all depends upon that I saw two young
iris in Tampa ride up the street and a'lSht at
l,c pos.t fticc and set their mail and mount
lg;ln and dc away and nobody th'uiht IL
any hing wrong or immodeSt. am sure IL
my occurred to me- and was oblis to I'D.
mae tl,cm and tn" cric. of their erolutionS. l
.Iol't think tia MARI cd women. who are ST
c !. n, they Y. Tor v'ry lar 2co,.pounderS,
houl ri lc them. Titre are many things that
Young girls may do that their mothers slioul
OF; As to the dress we are all the or ntllres
nf prt judicc and The costume OF the country
we live in has much to d. with our prejudice
In Italy and Sw nilard and Andalusla the
grown mp mnidens all dress in shorv skirts that
how the ankle and a pretty cross laced hose
,bove it, and it is all right over there I've
reen the pictures of these pretty maidens and
Ike their costume, but it w"uld be shocking
ever here 1 will make another confession
! can see no good reasom-Save cu'iom-why
ladies' should not ride hor like
lnan if they ride at II. 1t is L
lany the safer way. l CAM sec any
good reason why woman sh"uli h"t
lrract;cc med cine among lcr own TX.