The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-21
BILL ARRPE'S LETTER.
Arp Loves Children.--Their Presence is q
Great Comfort, Says He.
Atlanta Constitution.


State is torn and disgraccd and I say
now that no gentleman or patriot
would have done it. Goebel and Tay-
lor and the whole concern should have
said: We'll, dident know that my
candidacy was going to get up all this
bitter and dangerousO sOfuss and make
enemies that will never b. healed,
and SO l will Withdraw from the con-
test | ASSERT boldly that gentle
man and a patriot would have said that
and done it. 1t is mean. contempt
bic, selfish ambition that has produced
all this trouble in that grand old State
and revived its ancient name of the
dark and bloody ground. 1 wish that
| was another little child and dident
know it. Hamlet said: "a politici an
would circumvent God" So reckon
this kind of corruption is no new
thing. It goes back to the time when
Brutus killed Caesar. Yes, it goes
back to the time when cAbsalom tried
to circumvent his own father and de-
pose him from the throne and Jacob
cheated Esau out of his brirthright.
Selishness is the cardinal sin of man
kind-the trump card of the devil in
seducing us to his allegiance.
There is another antidote to melan-
cnoiiy; it is work, and 1 long to 60 at
it. The winter has been long and
hard and I am impatient for the sime
TO come when the flowers shall appear
on the earth and the singing Of birds
shall come aud the voice Of the turtle
be heard in the lands. l want to
straighten up things in the garden and
dress it off and see how many roses
have been killed. Iwant to fork up
the ground and plant some more seeds.
L planted peas month ago and they
are coming up, sweet violets are peep
ing out and found solitary straw
berry bloom. The elm tree buds are
swelling, the crows arc cawing in the
tree tops and soon some imprudent
peach trees will be in bloom. AS the
poet saith spring is getting ready to
unlock the flowers and paint the
laughing earth. But there is some.
bad with every good thing. My wife
has just called my attention to the
neighbors chickens that have taken
up IN our garden and the neighbors
dogs that are roaming over out lot and
fighting in our back yard. They are
colored mostly-thc owners, mean
and I'm going to declare war; see if I
don't. / hereby give warning to all
owners of gallinaceous and canine ami
mails to keep them at home or the race
problem will break out in these parts.
They say they passed dog law and
now they say it does not go into effect
until Mey 1901, aud never IL the grand
juries don't indorse it. The law
makers were politicians and wanted
the negro vote and so they showed the
law into the grand jules. see that
the grand jury CT Gordon county have
already killed the law. They like dogs
and sausage-don't like mutton.
Beware Of dogs saith the script
ure. The last legislature was miser-
able abortion. If Carlysle were here
80 write it's history he would say:
"The last Georgia legislature had 22O
momtsrs-mostly fools." Again I
wish that I was little child and
dident know anything about these
ahings. We 81! know too much any
how, such as it is. Too much about
the rascality and devilment that is
going on in the world. believe I will
quit reading the daily papers and read
only the weeklies and the magazines.
BILL ARP.