The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-05-04
OLD FATHER TIME.
Arp Thinks He is a Horrible Looking
Creature
WITH AOTHING ON But HIS BONES.
He Eliminates Over the Past and the
Present--Invites Mr.. Rouss
to Come Down South.
For The Constitution.

doctor. Long before he cuts ms down he be-
! gins to soften and soothe the passions and
/ asperities of life and to prepare our better
nature for the only solution of life's prob
! lem, which is love to God and TO our fellow
men, but very few old men carry bitter
| ness to the grave. One dav | observed an
/ old man for whose talents the community
had great respect talking to friend His
| eyes flashed and every lniament or ms
! face betolsened anger. As he struck the
| end of his cane to the pavement he said:
| u ought to have killed the scoundrei.
| Cautiously / approached and inquired: 'Had
/ a difficulty with somebody, colonel?' on
| said he II was just telling Brown about a
/ little affair that happened about-let me
! see-yes, just forty-five years ago But
| even he mclowed down some years before
| he died Now if we lived as long Noah
| or Methusaleh, or even as long as Abraham.
we might feed and cherish bitterness for
| hundred years, but three score years and
ten is too brief "a time to be wasted in pas
! sions
| Thirty-onc years have passed since the
war; and / was Eliminating over the differ
| ence between now and then. We veterans
remember when were all accused OF
! treason and many Of our leaders had TO fee
| The country for fear Of arrest and trial and
! condemnation and death. When to possess
| or exhibit confederate flag provoked i'm
! prisoumcnt; when We had to defend the lost
cause or lament its failure in whispers, and
| when every mar who was worth $4,000 had
! his property coQiiscated unless he petition
cd for pardon and paid well for it, rhe
! pardon brokers at Washington made mill
! lions out of our wealthy citizens.
But Time has diluted the bitterness OF
| those who were our most malignant enc
| mics. Reflection has tempered the prcju-
! dices of our northern brethren. ana now we
/ see General Gordon ana General Lonsstrcet
! given glad and willing welcome as they dis
course tcmpcrately and truthfully of the
! war. its causes and it's results Nowhere
| is the carpct-bagser who figured i'm recon
struction times more denounced and de
| spsed than at the north. More than all.
this, a monument has been bult on northern
ground in memory of the confederate dead.
Brotherly unions of the blue and the gray
have been held at various times and places,
and thousands of the grand army are NOV
ing southwark and frateruizinS with our
people. There is only one .,or" that does
not heal. and that IS the hard fact that
while we pay our own pensions we have 10
help To pay theirs and get nothing back.
The estimate is that it tall,s half u million
annually for Georgia 20 pension ncr ron
federate widows aad disabled soldiers. and
ten times as much To pay her part of
the union pensions. This five millions goes
into their hopper and We get no toll but
even This will pass away. Old Father Time
is slow up there. but he is sure. Gnucu-
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sous anu STORY. ~ IS lhe Watch"ord oI
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tht american a'ibl'i" az uota "fHl',7' i7
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'iih't' mas come South 10 WORK TOT iHr
memories OF lhe loS' cause anu 10 Ten as
ABOUT H'ltEShGfG. Did not our hearts h"rn
Wilhh us as ne described the thriliuG
scenes iiai absorbed his vision and mag
netizcd every hher OF his being Who can
ever forget the exalted emotions that
great battle inspires? Then. let every vet