The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-27
MRS. ARP TAKES A VACATION
Bull TELLS ABOUT HER TRIP.

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His Wife Had n Pleasant Time Until
the Nows Came that He Was Siok
-Her Visit Was Shortened Thereby.
MY wife, Mrs. Arp, hadent been away
from homo for two years. 1t Is said
that Il setting hen mover gets fat, but
these human hens do, and 80 the girls
thought their mother ought to rouse
up and 60 somewhere and take rest.
1t was a great undertaking to got her
Off. 1t took whole week to got her
apparel In trst-class condition for she
wasent raised on common clothes and
won't wear them now, especially when
she goes abroad or to church. We
finally got her Off, though the train
liked to have left her while she was
saying goodby and kissing all the little
grandchildren. One Of the girls went
with her, but | was to scatter around
at home. Two weeks WAS the time she
gave herself, for she says that Is as
long as anybody ought to stay any
where on a visit, for some times folks
wear out their welcome and don't know
1T. In TACT one week Ia the safest. She
went to Rome. whore our Oldest boy
and his family live and where she lived
Tor tWenty-seven years. Some of her
early friends are still there and they
came to SOC her, of course, and talked
about the dear old times until their
eyes got teary and they drew thoir
chairs little closer and were merry
and sad by turns as they talked of tho
living and the dead. On Sunday she
went to the same old church and eat
music from the same old organ, but
the preacher and the choir were
changed. After service she WAS forced
to hold reception in the vestibule,
whore old friends and their children
and grandchildren gathered around
her, the friends to greet and their
children to look upon theis matron OF
the olden time of whom they had
heard. Yes, this wonderful woman
who 30 gently dominated her lord and
master and kept him 80 sweetly sub
dued that he liked the subjugation.
She spout a delightful week and the
programme for another was already
arranged when on Saturday some bird
OF the air told her that | was sick and
she could hardly wait for the evening
train. 1 had been sick, very sick, but
the crisis had passed and for fear she
might heer 1t and cut short her stay
| wrote her that was getting we'll and
to finish her rest. She Is not that kind
about 6 p. m, happened to look out
OF the window and saw her coming up
the lawn like she feared | would die
before she got here. Then l had to
cell her as how l was taken down on
Wednesday, for my same old kidneys
got belligerent again and wrestled
} with me and threw mo, and l had vert
go and lumbago and embargo and my
eye balls ached and how the doctor
treated mo heroicslly and scandalously
, and dOsed me with something every
| hnnra-a11 1tHarnnt-- nd n5v
can tell what cured me.
But all's we'll that ends WE'LL and now
| ain in for another lease. OF course
an old wagon will break down ever
and anon aud has to be patched up and
kept creased, or it can't 60. BY and
: by it will all collapse and turn to dust
like the one-hoss shay.
And now hare comes The Philadel-
phia Record just to disturb my tran
guilty and aggravate me into using
moro language on those Yankee edi-
tors. J have already used up all my
adj jectlves on Boston and never dreamed
| would need any for the Quaker City.
The Record pretends to be Demo-
cratic paper, but 1t has got a whole
column abou: the Andersonville prison
and its horrors, which it says have
created q sentiment that will last as
long IS time, and how the poor Great
ures were shot down like dogs and
starved and had to dig wells twenty
scraps of shells In vain effort to get
water to drink, etc. Well. 1t ID awful
7 to read, but | would like to know
. where those shells came from-must
have fed tho boys Oh oyster.
Yes, Blaine charged all those hor-
rors upon us in q terrible speech, and
Ben Hill replied to him in one Of the
; greatest speeches OF his life and re-
J futed every charge and did it from the
war records and proved to the world
that Grant and Stanton and Lincoln
we're responsible for every death and
3 all the distress that occurred at Ander-
sOnville. They utterly refused 10 OK
change prisoners with US when i'm
o portuned to do 80 for the sake Of hu-
: manity, for Grant said that our men In
Northern prisons would 60 back to Il ght.
. ing again. We begged them to send us
l rations and medicine for their mon
and told them that both might be dis
! tributed by their own of1lcsrs aud sur
l geons. They refused to do this, and of
course, their mon died like sheep, .or
we had no medicines and our own ra-
, tiOns were corn meal and salt pork.
. But those prisoners had just what
their guards had. Ask the guards who
still live. Ask Captain Hudson, OF
Marietta, one OF the best OF men, and
he will tell you that the prisoners had
everything that he did and there was no
inhumanity, but pity and sorrow for
them and indignation at the heRrtless-
ness OF their government. Read Percy
Gregg's chapter on this And@rsorville
and you will wonder that such indtf.
ference to the misery OF their own SOL
diers could be found in any government
upon earth. Mr.. Gregg declares that
[ II the great powers OF Europe had
have known it they would have been
horror struck--that the authorities at
Washington were really the murder
ers Of their own soldiers and they had
to appease the kindred OF these Dol.
diers by making scape goat OF poor
, Writ and hanging him after q mock
trial.
And yet q man who signs himself an
Atlanta Yankee writes me an insulting
| letter and tells me to hold uD awhile