The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-10-03
BILL ARP's RUMINATIOys.
Three cf the Old Philosophers Friends
Died the Same Day.


III at, and TRACED it back to something
wholig irrelevant. but leading on by
shadowy lines. But little while ago
was sadly thinking about the sudden
dea;a cf three more Of my good friends
-fiieDds whom loved ard every hoty
lovrd who knew them. Nr. Moore. tf
Auburp; Cn'onc! Mynait. f Atlanta,
and D. GGe!c;,ius, OF Rome LEFT lis on
the same Gaq. Iaey were good men.
and /: : vcril vas u:a&c better ~ the,r
p:es"acc.
sas thinking especially about d..
Goetca;us, the preacher, whose Jour
o.y and s,ina'ion Vas 50 suddenly
chanred, fcr he had bought his ticket
for Ta!lu!sh Fails, there 10 srend bis
vacation. and vas 10 take toe train It
3 o=!ccs. He rose fro'E bis bed at 2
srG 1T 3 he was DEAF AID bis spirit
saarip. G;avrnwsrd 'Tnep thought
abaut Mrs Barhau;d's lines, that fit SO
yell:
'.Lif,. we have heeH lnrg togethe7.
In pleasant AID III cloudy weather:
P.rhaps ';wil cost sigh o: tear.
fhsn steal aea.-give iitt:e Earning:
| Choose ibipe own .;u!e,
Soy not goodnight, bit in some brighter
Cline
Bill ne good morning.
Then rumipared about that Won
ierful woman HAw she WAS the first
20 write Story books for the children
aud hrmus Cor th" church, ard ho. her
life was spent in tie schoo!coom among
trc children that she loved ArG then
recalled ;l.at heauti'u; hymn that she
| Er0te:
How best the righteous when he dies,
When sinks Inc wesry soul to rest,
How mildly hea Il the closing eyes,
How gently heaves the expiring breast
Ard then thought Of the words Of
Bal4am. upon which that hymn vas
founded: oh! mag die the death Gf
the righteous. and may my last end be
ike His And this reminded me of
the ether words of Bslaam: What
hath God wrought?" That was the
frst message sent over telegraph
wire Il was sort from Wa hioyton to
Baltimore, By Miss Anna Ellsworth,
the daughter Of the commissioner Of
rateDts She had been very kind to
Professor Morse, arc be had promised
that she should send the first message.
This was sect on the 24.h day Of May,
1871, and two days laser tie second
mes. age vas sent from Baltimore to
Washios:or, announcing that James
k. Polk hsG been nominated for pres.-
,iert. remember al this, for was
in college thcn Bar sill the people
we're ipcreGulaus, and waited for the
mail train to bring the news. Then |
runiaated on the hard lot Of great IN
venrors, snd how Morse spent all OF his
small estate and received but little en-
oouragenent, being so utterly poor that
be had to 60 without food at times for
twenty four hours, apG how he pleaded
with congress for three years in vain
FOR en- appropriation to help him per
feet ard build lire to Bsltimore-and
how at the very last, when he was iu
Despair ard hsd given un 81 hope, con
srcss did e. riGnisbt, Oh the last day
of the session, pass the bill for $780,
600 AID Anna Ellsworth came run
uing 10 him in delighted haste and told
him the good news. What an agcn
izipg life ne had led during al these
years, for he had been refused help at
home srd had hesn to England and to
France IN search Of it and found it not.
Now just shiDk CT it. Af!er he had
built his frs; lines ard his success Tas
established he offered his patents to he
United Ststes fer sI00 0G0 ard It vas
refused. aud he was c5r$5rsiped 10 sell
% private parties sn igvertion taat
soon came tc BE- soIth oDe hdrdrsc
millions But be died full Of years
ard full Ct hoacrs, and even France
uaGe him donation Of 400 600 francs
Via, wonderful msn-psrhaps the
greatest all around man that ever
iVcd-for he vas painter of di> tins
ton aad reoo9n, ,be pupil and the
peer Of Ailstou and West, ana the city
Of Charleston was his best friend and
patron, and has now bis portraits Of
Monroe and lafayette. He was a
sculptor, an architect, q philosopher
and poet, and he sould have reaahed
the tep IN all had he rot become 50 sb
sorbed in haroessipg ,ae lightning AS
= matter Of course he vas kept IL li;,-
satioa several ,c2rS, AID cther parties
| !-;ed to steal his inyeutien, but the
Supreme Court CT the United States
did finally affirm evscythioe thst he
claimed. He died ia 1872 II his
eighty first year.
Here ny thoughts rested for awhile,
and then rc:urDed to D.. Hoetca:us
and the nsDy other fricEds who hsse
gone bsfsrs aud have left NE a]mos;
slauc. Hos fordly OUT minds cling to
the friends OF cur youth-opr school
mates aud college mates and ererg
now and then We hear Of anoth@r wao
has droprsG cut Of line, and like the
barber in barber Shop old Father
Tine whisper. 'nezs Ny dear o'd
friend Jim Na.rcn etil; lives to erect
me when cauc, AID so does Chess
Howa7: and Dr.. Alexander apd MS
brother ard Evan Howcii. Tnea re-
calico the crao,3 sad beautiful wcr's
Of Ipgajls, srokea in bis eu!cgy Oh
Seuator Beck: The Ii.ht TO live is,
10 human estimation. the most sacred,
the cost ir,v;2labic. the most inalieu-
sb G. The joy Of living is such a
soleadid and luminous day as this is
incoaceivable. TO exist is exultstion,
To live forever is our sub?ineSt hone.
To knoF, to love, to achiive, 70 ri
umrh is rapture. and y@r NC are al an
der fen:cncc Of death. Aiihouss a tlial
or opportunity Of defense, with 10
kuoyIeGge cf the accussr or tie nature
| and cause cf the sccmsatiaN: without