The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-10-06
BILL APPS LETTER
Has Full Larder and Will Take
a Rest Accordingly.
he DISCUSSES THE CHINESE MUDDLl
Williams Sympathies are With tho Box
ers, Who, He Says, are Fighting
For Home sld Country.

Ills home where the heart is, and
the most of mine is here. The epicure
hlled his stomach with choicest food
and exclaimed, "Fate cannot harm
me, I have dined today" and so have
filled my heart with the sweets and
comforts of home, and feel defiant oil
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 q few days if il
was convenient. Isaw 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-
| pie, and so have come to abide with
you for few days. hope it is con.
venient." swell, it wasn't conven.
lent, for my wife was at Rome and my
daughters away, and had never heard
OF him, and so told him it was moi
convenient. He seemed surprised and
asked me if l was Virginiap. told
him no, was Georgian, and he said
vlrginians seemed to be scarce in this
region and he feared that old Virgins
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; l was told you had carriage
and would drive me anywhere wished
to 60" ''No, sir" I have neither
carriage or buggy, but I will go down
town and get vehicle and take you
anywhere you wish to CO." Then be
said Brother Bealer told him that If l
would not take him, there was a poor
widow across town who would, and he |
would speak to her. So I 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. I 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 I was on my journey home
and counted the milestones as we
speeded along. Happy faces and Low.
ing kisses greeted me when I came,
and here I am going to rest until the
larder gets low and my wife insists
that I 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 5000, 600 at two
dollars and half q 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
We used to advertise our runaways
and say ''Ten dollars. reward-Runa.
way from the subscriber my boy Dick,
% years old, 8 feet 10 inches high.
black complexion and very fiat nose.
The above reward will be paid on his
delivery to me or his Judgment in the
nearest jail" Why not try that on
Aguinaldo and the other runaways?
But if they catch them I don't know
What they are going to do with them;
hey wouldn't let Aguinaldo set up a
barber shop in Manila no more than
hey would in Boston or Chicago.
Professor Councill, who is president
i the colored agricultural college in !.
Alabama, understands this. He is
be smartest and best leader of his 9
ace, and when he speaks or writes to 4
he public always says the right thing. c
have great respect for him. Z
But this awful muddle with China. I
Inch was precipitated by our agrees a
lon upon the Philippines, seems to a
ave no end in sight. Rev. DR.. Hal v
of New York, who is. said to S
g very learned man, says that he G
demonstrated a year ago from scrip p
lral prophecy that the present year s
ould find all the nations at war, and p
lere would be mighty struggle be- a
veen Russia and China, and that s.
ussia would eventually gain the su- II
remacv; but that for time the hordes CT
ON China will break in an awful ava 81
nche upon the western nations and +,
lie greed, the rapacity, the Christless, m
odless selishness of European No. A
ons will get it's reward, and there m
i'll be terrible balance sheet against d,
ose Christian nations who have | ia
,isoned China with opium and made ii
EN- look upon all Christians as OF
pacious foreign devils. b.
He says that the Chinese are fight. l.
G for their homes and institutions. nj
d know that the Christian nations til
9 seeking to rob them, and that their be
lssionaries are backed by guns and
lords and Goddess soldiers ready to
IL and STAY. This infuriates them. o,
d they look upon any white man RS II,
levil who should be slain. He saws :.
at while this impending and destruc- n.
70 war is ordained of God and fore -
ID by His prophets, yet the sin of it ia
q at the doors of Christian nations. TO
lenses must needs come, but woe Is
to those by whom they come. The an
ve of money is still the root of all to
il. 'Trade will follow, the flag" is su
3 shibboleth Of commerce, and if the &C
6 has to be stained with blood it RI
es not matter. ne
These are my convictions, and hence sp
ant work up any enthusiasm nor pr
revenge. In l841 England took an
ing Kong. In 1S4S England made du
ina pay $4,000, 900. because she Pa
,,troyed 10000 chests of opium that tn
been stored there by English mer- ma
'nts. In 1858 Russia grabbed all We
AMOR country, containing GOO, 900 tn
lare miles, and when the United DR.
ties grabbed tho Philippines the "E
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