The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-23

China pay $4,000, 600 because she
destroyed 1000 chests of opium that
had been stored there by English mer-
chants. In 1853 Russia grabbed all
the Amoor country, containing 600, OoO
square miles, aud when the United
States grabbed the Philippines the
suspicious Chinaman said, "The
Christians are coming; they want
more" No, it is none of my war
The blood of it is on somebody's
hands.
1 see that General Gordon is going
up yonder on another mission of peace
trying to mix up the blue and the
gray and make a compromise color
that will satisfy both sides. He can't
do it, but maybe he enjoys the fun OF
trying. Here and there you will find
a good hearted, clever federal pension
er, but most of the clever ones come
down here and stay. The malignant
ones don't come; they are afraid to
come. That is all fright; let them stay
there; we had rather live with
the negroes than mean yankees.
Here is an Ohio paper, The Monroe
Chronicle, that was sent me last week
3 marked copy-that is mad because
our people talk about building Confed-
derate memorial at Richmond, and says
j. ought not to be allowed, and that
our loyalty to the union is all a pre-
tense, and that Bill Arp, noted reb-
ell 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 odious; every,
Confederate monument is a bloody
shirt, and the Republican party ought
to die, and die eternally, if it ever
allows the return of those rebel flags
which are an insult to the union dead
and to our disabled veterans. he de-
nounces our rebel songs and rebel
tributes to treason; and there is lot
more of such stuff, and it is in keep
ing with General Shaw's utterances in
Atlanta about what we shall teach our
children. Old as I am, can lick that
fellow IN three minutes by the clock.
and as he he's singled me out, it would
do me good to maui some grace into
his malignant soul.
I am afraid we will have to whip
them again. But I am not going to
let every fool up there make me mad
i haven't got time-Id rather work
in the garden or play with the grand
children; they keep me amused, and
can love them without a strain. Last
night I had to play Trimbletoe with
them, and had to be the elephant and
let them ride home on my back. How
far away that sounds-"Catches 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
yesterday aud was promised whip
ping. MARY Lou, this is the second
time you have opened the ice chest.
and turned over the cream. 1 told you
that if you did it again you'd 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 fol-
lowed along out of sympathy. Mary I
Lou saw her and said, "Now, Talliney
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 pack, Talhne," and
she laid herself across her mothers
lap ready for her "pisness. " The mother
couldent stand that; she relented and
kissed her child, and the little thing
promised again.
And so it 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. BILL ARP in At
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