The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-11

csvs when a Preacher Advises People TIC
Fight there Is Trouble Ahead.
atlanta Consultations.

thoughtful love of country and home
NOT that kind which is . p%retense
and which DIR. johnson said was the
last refuge Of a scoundrel. Politics
and greed and religious fanatacism are
often COMPOUNDED with it and woman
is always the chief mourner, both in
victory and defeat when war aflicts a
country.
Nations make war in haste and re-
pent at leisure. The saddest picture
ever painted vas that of o mother
With a babe at her breast hunting over
a battlefield for the body of her hus-
band.
"The child Of misery baptized iii
tears. But enough of this. I'm
afraid | am becoming a confirmed pes
simist. ! will go out in the garden
with some Of the little offsprirgs and
pick strawberries. These little chaps
always comfort me. / don't see what
we grow up for, nohow, for the scrip.
lures say unless we become as one Of
these little ones We shall not enter the
kingdom Of heaven. What faith,
what trust, what confidence they have
in US. Grandma" said q little off
spring, "Dident God make every
body?" eyes," said my wife.
SWELL, dident Jesus help him some?"
II reckon So" said she. The boy ru-
minated e minute, and then said:
Grandma, I reckon Jesus carried the
dirt, dident he?" And so they amuse
and perplex III all the time. No won
der that parents all love J. Whitcomb
Riley, for lie loves their children, aud
his sweet poems make everybody else
love them. He is their Santa Claus
all the year round. Ihad rather 60 to
St. Peters gate with lis record than
that Of the greatest warrior that ever
F; lived.
But the negroes interest me. They
=re scre!y peFpie4ed, out they have
some good ideas. Nose says he never
could fight until he got mad and amt
mad yit; nobody hain't dun nothin' to
him.
DR.. Calhoun told Squire that Mr..
Mckinley had called for 1000 negroes
to go and take the Canary Islands.
"Well, sir" said Squire, Il is not
agwine onder no SIGH a call. Il is not
a spectacle call, sir; I is willin' to do
sum ightin', sir, but Dc white folks
must go long wid me-wheye dey &C.,
sir, l will go-whar dey fight, I will
fight, but Mr.. Mckinley cant shove
ne off on an island wild nobody but
niggers. I been Twin wild my white
folks all my life, and %dependin' on
EN-, sir, and I am not willing to 60,
sir, not unless they go, sir-no sir-I
am not gwine onder no SIGH call as dat
its not spectacle"
And Squire meant it.. But We are
all waiting now-waiting for some big
thing &c h~srrrre Old GGso7s;s VII! &c
her part, and the south will furnish
generals in whom the nation has con-
Gdence.
And now here is a letter from Dill.
j. 9. PRESLEY, Of Abbeville, who
says he is coming to the veterans re-
union in July, and wants to meet his
comrades Of old Tige Anderson's bri-
gade and especially of the Seventh
Georgis regiment. He wants to know
what became of old Major Minton,
who fought with the Eighth Georgia,
though his son was in the Seventh.
Why, he is dead, of course, for he
was near seventy when. he joined the
Eighth "s an amateur. and he fought
all day at the first battle. of Manassas
and received q slight wound in the
head and that night he went to DR..
Mile. and said, doctor, I've fought
enough; give me a discharge and let
me o home" The doctor gave it,
and le came home aud rested on his
lau els, and moi long afterwards "re-
gu ,acat in pace
And here is another letter about the
war. w. J. Ballard, Of Septus, s. c.,
. ishes to know if any veteran can tell
him what became of his only brother,
). d. Ballard, who was wounded ct
Nashville, and captured and taken to
Camp Chase in February, 1865. He
belonged to the Twenty-Ninth North
Carolina regiment.
BILL ARP.