The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-05-08
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY Letter.
FIFTY YEARS AGO WILLIAM MADE
4 PROPHETIC SPEECH.
TALKS OF HIS OLD ScHO0LAATES
u.,ov xyarren,s Trip to Florida was
Moral Mistake According 10 'no
philosophers Standpoint


49,, uso,,,e are thankful that we began
~. W olr t. Ike century and have lived 70
eIoae ~ No such period OF progress De- n
49, snired since the world was mace. TT,
rese IN art and science, the 00t ina
knowledge and the spread OF aa for
progress in invention ana con- nnd Measures
better living and the comforts anu Pc infel
- Iife. nroeress In mental and moral M -
iigerca There is no equal comparison 20
t,sear the last sixty years and any ina. pa
cedcd them. Progress has mauo to
leap forward and seems TO nav nav tss world
halt We cannot imagine that tne ,mvan-
needs ANYTHING more in the way OF IN. Nv n
tton INIT It will In few years, anu tneH IT.
iii come. kind Providence never adns
MS. One by one the doors are uns''
the my s.eries of nature are revsa a, unior
Just fifty years ago was chosen "a Erank-
orator frcm the Phi Kappa Society IN rhh onor
| In college. Il was esteemed grew nroud
| then TO To one OF the four ana anl I5ohU
even row to tell my children ana erahu - ne
dren about it. There were ior r:c fo1,r Tho
| in NV class and was one OF the looI. foy
honor was not for my oratory, out nioa' nv NJ
my scholarship and popularity aa =. did
society members. l did not expec, ~, sonnc
not deserve it, and was grieVea .n''1 ,nred
| of nv low-country classmates whoM "a ~
Wers left out and I was chosen. In that Gay
The eayannah boys We're not popular IN 20 20
IesA They were looked upon as sweis o a.tN
aristocrats, and from then until nov n 49,,
ing in the way OF honors or Offices nas s shia
| given to Savannah. l have lamen.Su
r. ali these wears There are no nopleI poo
ME in all the state than Savannah peuple.
ssdynirs them and respect them and whenever
one of them offers for office am ior mn ,i,a
general principles. The good pr'nvl ,IE Carn-
= infeCriiy of the old Hugueno's ana Cai2
iinisns who settle in that It gion las oes ~,
al 10 their posserity and thsy are sun t III!
, hest peopIe we have in the state Inc cfauto
. Of liberty was there, and il ever we nav "
fall back on men to Perpe.uIsaeo danend up-
I ON the oid-time people of Savannah tnan any
q others. was in college With john Screso1s
d ana Charley Hardee and Henry Law ana
Il Monroe Mofyer and many from safann"N'
i and they were the best boys VIC haa.
u Put started to tell that the slbject 0. my
l. ,unior orators speech Was "A HehorJia
70 Fenrs Hence 1t was pr0phetic spese1,
le and OF course got my father 10 hsip liS
u write it, All the boys do that: IL was 49,
y speech and made an impression, put Ia. ";
10 often thought how little We then Knew "a
Ip whn. was to happen In the next hlty seais'
20 No telegraph, no telephone or phohos as
10 no air|brakes on railroads, no ahtisep.iie
"A remedies in surgery, no rays, w 60 no
u lichts no oil stoves no re1rlSera'of S S1..
OF frnit or vegetables from Florida or cantor
ST min no ice factories no elevators 10 pieycies,
mo manufactured fertilizers. My pr0pie' M
's speech was not prophetic, though II oiu .J,
20 that less than fifty years the peopio 1T
"a travel in the air on flying machlhes- ous We
os afty wears ago traveledto college NJ Athens !,
- on q mule train from Union rom. a',.,
ha thought was doing pretty weii Iof We
nae perched on the top OF caboose anu 10y a,,
rec ample time to peruse the county, s on T forty
20 miles. but took all day to make 1t. Ieiiel
80 her that had on boots-home-made poots-
80. and wore straps to keep my paiits NV =! -
% % THAT wss the fashion then-leather strap
ma that were butoned on the inslus s Sopvn :,
,Se They kept the legs OF the pants ooMn y
TT straight that the kneepan made aepressio,i
Ia, La. and looked like goose had LAID an egg y
% them. What rnomentous eventit was ior a DO.
ths to enter college. At that time It took .nse
10 years 10 90 around the world, but this was
80 Niger thing than the world-bigger 10 III
~ bigger to my dear mother who hao ZOE
,sist cherished the idea that WAS TO either pc
preacher or president. But now am =
most alone and have been neither. Amos. ICY e'
ervbody then knew is dead. Brlscoe III
Cody an6 Terrell and Thornton end Mon
oomery and Henry Law and Grant ana !. !
,ciai King boys, and not long ago Wlhougn,l
in Turnpkin died-the boy whom espeelai
our loved, for he was always iovapie anu "a; ~
3 OF Chess Howard and jim Warren arc slln
they tho land of the living where peace nay
use. sought and pardon found Chess Is a,"n
isia- genial and kind. and / bad hopes Q, 81
may Warren for he is as solid as rocK ana
and ,soa,, ,,ovarnors secretary for about TWEEN
l
one among the few who have prospefeu ~
maintained their integrity. But on Ia'e
change seems to have come over hlni, :,
part has been TO florlaa on w ,San ean 90
now fallen from grace; Du. .t ,taryr.rda I 6
&c on FLORIDA ana teii tne lu'. staadv unexc
fleets by the papers tnat JIM -. Iior,dc CT
from and writes back that he caught string
mar sheepshead and a conger eel IN ioe-j
nd n threw out o line in a tampa pay hIils :.
| : I, n+-ire
three caught whole string, tnnin Irbrn
sions fishing in the water, puI io'inu W.
i the ro,st lifted that he was half mile from
These inlet and had been fishing in the log.
its on beats Bud Kernodle, who swore tnat the
lently were SO eager that he had to get BENIN
y the tree to bait his hook. Iexpected the INK
dren, | tbat from Eernodle but from jim war;
their mover. I have been referring my Srahas
,se of IN him as an example of truth and integr
alco- Tim and are about the same age, an
wanted us to go along down together
have the same epitaph, but there Is no
ance on a man who goes fishing Ia florl
-. The devil, who is the father Oh iiarS'
sa atfi live there or thereabouts.
gainst SPeaAins VI
letting ing about the advantages that we Vetei
! race. have over the present rising generation. ,
brings never knew the want of modern invent. =
These Young people who were porn u
your AGE of electricity and newspapers ana " !
airy to wjthout number and store clothes ana
dige5- who was reared poor can all the PETER {
les tho riches. A prisoner appreciates Ilpor.y
d slim sick man enjoys good health when II g
after TO him. We read Of man VINO aiter
al heat OF confinement in gloomy dungeon w
Even oyerjoyed at being suddenly released "a
irritant devoted all his earnings to buying tne
in every cage that he saw and giving
purse, their liberty. Ia
i spena IT was prisoner myself, &c Saio'
'eit pan know how 1t feels.
1t VIII But habits are like chains, and we olo
urse OF still stickto the ways OF our fathers. "
/ might dav / bought a homemade basket ire
to tins old darky. and I had respect Tor hin
in the because he continues to make BASKETS
DC lead said that nary one OF bis children or
, wouia children knew how and didn I want 10
q rainy 20
but that he could yearn quartz, OF
n from every night and not miss the time.
n of be- And now the spring is upon us agar
thought. the robins are on dress parade Il
, one, 80 grove. The peachtrees are budding.
plum trees arc in bloom, and all nat
te START putting on her vsrnal robes. Every
or.s al that Is artificial changes and decay
ne land Dame Nature il The same u her rotr
Ok back Spring follows winter row Just as
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