The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-25
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Try to be Content---Tl;st is the Advice Arp
Gives During Troubous Times.
Atlanta Constitution.

will be the outcome Of this old war
you'll know by waiting and the
days are coming this way. But the
eager people don want to wait. Aunt
! Ann, our old Guinea African cook
came up this morning wild with cx
citcmcnt. She declared that two
trains went up the road bout day
brake dis nornin' all loaded down wild
400 dead soldiers carryin EN- to
Chattanooggy to bury en- Dcy just
iillcd in dc fust battle and hadcnt
Occn put in no collins. Blood runnin
from en- through de floors Of de cars
jcs like hogs. Dat $ what dcy tells
me. -
We are having birth days and other
episodes at our house nowadays Just
like there wascnt any war My wife
has been saying for a long time that
she owed some social debt to our good
ncighbors, and was just obliged to
give dining and she did We had
given the anonymous pcafowls away
and sent them to the country, but
they all came back in IL few days aud
we managed to catch them and coop
them, and so We had couple for the
dining. They were round and fat and
beautifully roasted. There we're
twelve good lady women or womanly
ladies at the table besides my wife
and one man. | was that man.
The prophet Isaiah tells us of
time coming when seven women shall
take hold Of one man, but there were
thirteen after me, and l felt as meek
as Moses and as humble as dead
Indian. | got along pretty well,
though, considering age and inGrmity,
and stood by my colors until the
Strawberries and ice cream were
served, which was, l believe, the
fourth or the fifth course, and then
heard the door bell ring, or thought l
did, and left the festive board. These
swell dinings are hard upon me, and
upon the children. Two dear little
granddaughtcrs had waited and waited
and pcepcd through the crack Of the
door dozen times, and when | went
out one Of them said, "Grandpa, ain't
they done yet q 1t reminded me of
the old Scotchman who got tired Of
waiting 10. his wife IL come homo
from mcctinE-so he went after her
and as she was near the door he tip
tocd in and whispered, "Ain't he
doom yit YES" said she, "hc be
doom some time, but he won quit.
My old friend, Eugene Harris, says
he has watched the Methodist preach
crs at his mothers house during
quarterly meetings watched them
through the crack of the door until
they had eaten up the last gizzard in
the dish, and then they would sit and
s0t over their coffee for half an hour.
and mt last get up and say amen and
amen and pat their stomachs and 60,
and then. and not till tkcn did we
boys get 4 chanc, at what little was
left.
And our little organ grandchild had
Il birthday. She rose up to nine years
and gave little outdoor party to her
little cousins. Everything was home
made, and I'D was nice, and l was in
vited and enjoyed the cake and ice
cream and strawberries as much as
they did. And she got some nice
little presents from home and abroad,
and believe that if had my way
She should stay rs young and pretty
and happy and innocent as She is now
all the ycst of her days But reckon
that coulhcnt be did could it?
Bill. ARR.