Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-08-08
the flag has to be stained with blood
IL docs NOT rnattar'

it does not matter"
These are my convictions. and hence
l can't work up any enthusiasm nor
any revenge. In 1S41 England took
Hong Kong. In 1S4S England made
China pay S20,00O.0O0 because she de-
stroyed 10000 chests of opium that
had been stored there by English NOR
chants. In 1858 Russia grabbed all
the Amoor country. containing 600 900
square miles, and when the United
States grabbed the Philippines the sus>
plcious Chinaman said. The Chris
tians are coming; they want more"
No, it is none of my war The blood
of it is on somebody's hands.
| see that General Gordon is going
up yonder on another mission of peace
trying to mix up the blue and the
gray and make compromise color
that will satisfy both sides He can't
do 1t, but maybe he enjoys the fun of
trying. Here and there you will find
a good-hearted, clever federal pen
sloner, but most of the clever ones
come down here ana stay. The maIig-
nant ones don't come: they are afraid
to come. That is all right: let them
stay there; we had rather live with
the negroes than mean Yankees. Hero
IS an Chio paper CThc Monroe Chron
icle) that was sent me last week-a
marked copy-that is mad because our
people talk about building a Confed-
crate memorial at Richmond. and say
1t ought not to be allowed, and that
our loyalty to the union is all Il pre-
tense. and that Bill Arp. a noted rebel
and writer, shows no love for a re-
stored union. He says that such "A
memorial is an insult to the nation
and makes treason honorable and
loyalty odiods; every Confederate
monument is bloody shirt. and the
Republican party ought to die. and die
cternally, if it ever allows the return
OF those rebel flags which are an in
suit to the union dead and to our dis
abled veterans. He denounCCs our
rebel songs and rebel tributes to trea-
son; and there is Il lot more of such
stuff and il is in keeping with Gen
eral Shaw's utteranccs in Atlanta
about what we shall teach our chill
dren. Old as | am, can lick that
fellow in three minutes by the clock.
and as he has singled me out. it would
do me good to maui some grace into
his malignant soul | am afraid we
will have to whip them again. But |
am not going to let every fool up
there make me mad haven't got
time-Id rather work in the garden or
play with the grandchildren; they
keep me amused and can love them
without strain. Last night had to
play Trimbletoe with them, and had to
be the elephant and let them ride
Co..
sounds-''Catchos his hens and puts
them in pens; some lays eggs and
some lays none; wire, briar. timber
lock, three geese in the flock" etc.
One of these little girls. not yet four
years old. disobeyed her mother yes
terday and was promised whipping.
Mary Lou. this is the second time
you have opened the ice chest and
turned over the cream. told you that
If you did it again would whip you.
Now come along in the other room"
She is good child, loving and smart,
but willful. Mamma. peas don't vip
me hard" Her older sister, Caroline.
had followed along out of sympathy
Mary Lou saw her and said. Now.
Talline, you go back; me don want you
to see mamma vip me and hear me
guy It's none of your pisness; it's
just my pisness. You go back. Tai
line and she laid herself across her
mothers lap ready for her bisiness.
The mother couldent stand that: she
relented and kissed her child. and the
little thing promised again.
And so ii goes on in every loving
family-promising and repenting-
from childhood to old age. we sin in
haste and repent at leisure May the
Lord forgive us all and bless the chill
dren, is my prayer.-Bnl Arp in At
lanta Constitution.