The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-11-30
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Arp Says He's q Boy---That is he Makes
Himself Useful About the House.
.Atle.nta Constitution.


as Calhoun and Toombs and Stephens
aud Lamar were produced under the
regime of slavery aud VIC have all dcr
generated under the influence OF free
dom, why not go back to slavery again
and stop that degencracy? But there
is no use in replying to such men. 1t
is a waste Of time. They have fat
tened on the last war, and would pre-
cinitatc another if they could. That
New York Press fought Roosevelt
bitterly until he was nominated, and
I reckon it was because he was an
illustrious scion Of Southern stock,
great grandson of Georgia $ first rebel
governor and son Of noble lady
who was born and reared in Georgia.
Georgia had to furnish the rebel stock
for their Governor aud Sonth Carolina
had to furnish New York city amayor,
and it is the prevalence of Southern
men and Southern blood in the city of
Gotham that makes it so overwhelm-
ingly Democratic, Tammany or no
Tammany.
But no more Of this. I cannot
ruminate upon it with serenity. Reck-
on I had better go out to my garden
and plant some more strawberries;
and, like King Ahashuerus, let my
choler down.
Well, I came back molli6ed, and
when my mail brought me the Balti-
m ore San and l read DR.. Carlton Lee,
of Johns Hopkins University. on the
negro, I was jubilant. 1t is great
paper-a bold, strong, truthful paper
on the status Of the negro and how to
solve the race problem. Nothing SO
forcible, SO convincing and SO conscr-
vative has ever been published. Let
everybody read it.
But this cooking business is getting
rather monotcnous to my folks. 1t
suits me very we'll financially, for
Ben. franklin said ''that penny
saved was two pence gained,' aud as
l paid Aunt Ann two dollars week I
now gain four dollars week. The
trouble is that nobody pays me for my
work and nobody pays my folks for
theirs. When the cotton picking is
over we can get cook without beg
ging. Cold weather will run them in,
but they are the same uncertain crea-
lures they always were. They come
when they please and quit when they
please and don't care darn for the
future. There isn't race upon earth
that SO enjoys to-day and has so little
concern about tomorrow. "Carpe
diem is their maxim. Enjoy to-day.
"Suficient unto the day is the evil
thereof" 1 think we are getting
along splendidly without them, for we
have less cooking done and things last
longer. Warm breakfast and supper
and cold lunch for dinner is enough
unless you have company and my
opinion is that during these hard
times and scarcity of cooks company
ought not to circulate to any alarming
extent. 1t is an awful misfortune to be
poor and have rich man S ways, and
it is still awfuller for women raised in
luxury to have to come down and 60
from the parlor to the kitchen. AS
for me it doesn tmatter. was raised
poor and. had to make the fires and
chop the wood and go to mill and ride
the mail, and SO am only being q boy
again-that' all. I am the boy.
BILL ARP.
P. S.-Mr. j. w. Gardner writes me
from Tiller's Ferry, S. c., and says
GAS returned from the army in
1865 aud was looking over the ground
where Sherman s forces and Wheeler's
cavalry had a fight I found lone
grave with a neat little headboard
"'W. j. L. Mahaffey, supposed to
belong to company Il, Cobb's Legion.
II made note Of it in my memo
randum book y
Maybe this concerns some friend or
relative. B. A.
A Boys Essay on Breath.