The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-23
BILL APPS LETTER
Has Full Larder and Will Take
a Rest Accordingly.
lie DISCUSSES The CHINESE MIDDLE
williams synpathies are With the Box
ers, who, He Says, are Fighting
For Home and Country.

WH6IC the Hcdit AS ohN
the most of mine is here. The epicure
filled his stomach with choicest food
and exclaimed, Fate cannot harm
me, have dined today" and so have
filled my heart with the sweets and
comforts of home, and feel defiant of
human misery. Fate cannot harm
me, for my home is my castle where,
as Blackstone says, "the king OF Eng
land dare not enter unlimited. But
an old man did enter not long ago and
said he came to stay few days if it
was convenient. I saw his baggage on
the iron seat in the verandah. He
said, 81 travel free and lodge free
and mix with none but the best peo-
Pile, and so have come to abide with
you for few days. I hope it is con-
venient." "Well, it wasn't conven-
lent, for my wife was at Rome and my
daughters away, and I had never heard
of him, and SO I told him it was not
convenient. He seemed surprised and
asked me if I was Virginian. I told
him no, / was Georgian, and he said
Virginians seemed to be scarce in this
region and he feared that old Virginia
hospitality had not reached here; that
Bishop Nelson had entertained him in
Atlanta, and he had found welcome
among all Virginians.
"What are you going to do with me'"
he asked. II am lame and can't
walk; 1 was told you had carriage
and would drive me anywhere wished
to CO." "No, sir" 1 have neither
carriage or buggy, but / will go down
town and get vehicle and take you
anywhere you wish to CO." Then he
said Brother Bealer told him that if l
would not take him, there was poor
widow across town who would, and he
would speak to her. So l took him
there and left him, and will pay his
bill if Brother Bealer dident. There
are religious tramps as we'll as sinner
tramps, and they are not angels un-
awares. l was down in the wiregrass
region for nearly two weeks, and have
most pleasant memories of my new
found friends, but the last day was the
best, for 1 was on my journey home
and counted the milestones as we
speeded along. Happy faces and low
ing kisses greeted me when l came,
and here I am going to rest until the
larder gets low and my wife insists
that / had better make another ven
ture. And now let the procession
proceed. Let the war go on. 1t is
none of my begetting; it might have
stopped at Santiago, but our yankee
brethren seem to love the niger afar
off and have bought 8,000,0 900 at two
dollars and half head, which was
cheap enough if Spain could have de-
livered the goods. But they have cost
ten times that now and are still in the
woods.
We used to advertise our runaways
and FAY "Ten dollars reward-Runa-
way from the subscriber my boy Dick,
25 years old, feet 10 inches high,
black complexion and very fiat nose.
The above reward will be paid on his
delivery to me or his lodgment in the
nearest jail" Why not try that on
Aguinaldo and the other runaways?
But if they catch them l don't know
what they are going to do with them;
they wouldn't let Aguinaldo set up
barber shop in Manila no more than
they would in Boston or Chicago.
Professor Council, who is president
of the colored agricultural college in
Alabama, understands this. He is
the smartest and best leader of his
race, and when he speaks or writes to
the public always says the right thing.
l have great respect for him.
But this awful muddle with China.
which was precipitated by our agrees
sion upon the Philippines, seems to
have no end in sight. Rev. DIR. Hal
derman, of New York, who is said to
be a very learned man, says that he
demonstrated year ago from scrip
- orophecy that the present year
woulu md all the nations at war. and
there would be mighty struggle be-
tween Russia and China, and that
Russia would eventually gain the SUI
premacy; but that for time the hordes
from China will break in an awful ava
| lanche upon the western uHtlobs anu
the greed, the rspacity, the Chrstless,
Goddess selhshness of European ma.
tions will get it's reward, and there
will be terrible balance sheet against
those Christian nations who have
poisoned Chins with opium and made
them look upon all Christians as
rapacious foreign devils.
He says that the Chinese are fight
ing for their homes and institutions,
and know that the Christian nations
are seeking to rob them, and that THEN
missionaries are backed by guns and
swords and Goddess soldiers ready tc
kill and slay. This infuriates them,
and they look upon any white man as
a devil who should be slain. He says
that while this impending and destruc
tive war is ordained OF God and fore
told by His prophets, yet the sin of j
lies at the doors OF Christian nations
Offenses must needs come, but wo'
untO those nv whom thew come Tht