The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-06-06
MRS. ARP VISITING THE KIN.
THE FAMILY Is nEMoKAIIzED.

the Children Are Sick She VIII
Hurry Home.
80 many letters come to me OF late /
asking about The Confederate Veteran
that am constrained to answ CIR through
the press. 1t is u monthly published in |
Nashville by Captain 8. A. Cunning.
ham. This reminds me to say that Sam
Davis 10 not the only kero OF his kind.
William NJ. Eormby writes me from
Louisville, Ark, that there is in Lit
Tie Rock the grave OF David &. Todd,
VINO "heh only elghteen years Of age
WAS arrested near there Us u spy and
important papers found on his person
General Steel WAS in command OF tnat
! pest nnd offered him u pardon If he
would disclose the names Of those from
whom he got the information. Like
| sam Davis, he refused and said he
would die first ana he did die. lie
wrote f" letter TO his mother, who then
lived in Atlanta, Cass County, Tex,
telling her Of his untimely fate NV
! friend says he has copy Of that letter
and has seen the grave In Little Rock,
which some friends have marked with
plain white shaft. | have written to
MIN To send copy OF the letter to The
Veteran aud il possible q photograph
of the marble shaft. Sucn loyalty and
fidelity must be preserved and put on
record
We are all dcmoralizoA AT our house
and home, FOR tho maternal ancestor
has gone on on u trip TO Rome and will
stay there, | reckon, until | write TO
her That Jessie or her little children or
some other member OF the family ia
sick. Then she will come on the first
train. She nas got kindred aud friends
, over there, lots OF them, and they will
keep her until she goes the grand
rounds, for she lived there twenty
seven years. She and were among
the pioneers Of the Hill City. In facL
we are the only living persons who
were living in Rome when We moved
, there nifty years ago just think of it
, anu ponder IT. How surely and stealth
lly population passcss away. How
insidious is Timo, the unrclenting old
rascal. Only fifty years, and not u man
: or woman left but my wife and T.
There were then about | 800 people in
= Rome aud now there are ten times that
number. Every old settler is dead save
' Colonel i. w. Alexander, and he came
. three years after did. Every lawyer,
. every doctor, every preacher aud teach
q cr, every merchant and mechanic are
dead. Otd Judge UnderwOod, j. w. Ii
\ Underwood, Judge Wright, General
: Black, Alexander, Sloan. Shorter, Dr.
. Battey, DR.. Underwood, all strong and
a notable men. | could write book
, about each Of them. And then there
5 was Old Jake Ierndon and Big John,
. the Munchausens Of the town, who
were ready TO swear that when they
: hrst settled there away back in the
. thlrtlcs the COOsa river WAS little
(: spring branch. Od Jake declared he
!. had seen frcshct that rose TO the gum
!. tree on the court house Hill, and the
;, thermometer WAS 2lO in the shade. lie
r always said thermometer and accented
q the hrs' syllable. My little boy had an
y OLD iashlOncd rubber bali and showed
!, 1T to Uncle Jake and he remarked tha,
d he once had bail made out OF q" shur c
II cuull inJun-rubEcr," and 1T ould bounce
out OF sight, and one day he bounced
y 1T uncommon hard and it never come
4. GOWN I'LL next day, and then his little
y dog grabbed it and it rebUunded and
e took the dog up with it and he huu
y never seen the dog or ball since. Oll
:, Jake believed his own lies. heard
him say once that when hog killing
, time came round he heated rocks or
n each side Of his milIpoud and threw
h them In and drove the hogs through
and they came out clean on the otht
!. SIDE. Big John kept the Oniy saloon In
+ town. A saloon WAS called grocer,
4 then and Big Johns grocery WAS /
!. andmark-thc loahng place for h,
u kept u comfortable bench ON each sid,
!. OF the front door. They were outsid,
q on thc sidewalk and were generally oc
cnpied. Old Jake Ilerndon could b,
v found there half the day and Big Johr
= gave him his whlskey free as an at
|. traction. He waa a. drawing card and
l. ore" the thirsty men like mulasse.
=. draws Mes. Sometimes ! wonder where
l. thcy are now anal What they are doing
V Tor Swcuenburg says that folks viii
y pursue the same occupations In the
next world that they do in this, bu,
win greater diligence ana to greater
perfection.
My venerable friend Major Ave,
lives on Howard street, the l'eachtree
- Oh home. 1t extends from Broad stree
10 the bridge and was thickly settled
lhlrty'hVe years ago, and is vet, bul
J.. tnls Is the only family that lived there
, thlrty-two years ago, when he built hie
- house. Think Of it.. All gone within
n thlrty-two years. Tome Is thirty miles
. distant from Cartcravi lie and the river
lands are all occupied by farmers, but
not one of them lived along the line
a before the civil war, and the river still
= sings as it lows.
! For men may come and men may go
| But 80 on forever"
|
My wife will cone home to spcnd her
: birthday next week, | know. She
Y knows that many Of her numerous of
/ spring will gather at the paternaI
, mansion and have IL GIFT OF some sort
, ana kiss her classic brow and stroke
= her raven hair. That is where sbe
. trlumphs over me- Not Il gray hair on
. her head, nor dark one on mine. but
} she Is catching up pretty fast. re-
member when | WAS six times as old IA
sho was and six years later was iust
. C"'cc as old, and now | am seventy.
|, Iour. NOW let the school bows and
glrls 40 that sum and tell how old NV
, wife is. 10y
, But the sensation Of the day Is about
INC negro. Like Banquo's ghost, he
VIII not down. DR.. Lilly, the able acc
retary Of the Stilman institute for me-
, groes, at Tuscaloosa, reports to the
iresbytcrian general assembly that no
progress has heen made in colored
, eVangeilHatlon, and that Industrial
training is failure, and out of ,2i3
negroes educated to mechanical nur.
suits, only three are following tho
trades they have learned. He declares
mat agriculture is the only calling onon
10 the negro and the only one that viii
keep him out OF the cities and ont of
crime and the chaingang. These nre
inc results at Stillman's and Booker
Washington's schools. We are Glad IN