Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-08-08
BILL Will Not Lecture Until Victuals
Ae Exhausted.
TALKS ABOUT CHINA MIDDLE
Arp Sympathises With The Boxers,
Who, He Says, Are Fightiug for
Their Homes.


and exclaimed. Fate cannot harm me.
j have dined to-day" and so | have
filled Sly heart with the sweets and
comforts of home, and feel defiant OF
human misery Fate cannot harm me.
for my home lis my castle where. as
Blackstone says, the king of Eng
land dare not enter uninyited" But
an old man did enter not long ago and
SAID he came to stay a few days if it
was convenient. | saw his baggage on
tne iron seat in the verandah He
SAID, Il travel free and lodge free and
mix with none but the best people, and
so have come to abide with YOU for
q Few days. | hope it is convenient"
WGil, it wasent convenient, for my
wife was at Rome and my daughters
away, and | had never heard of him.
and SO told him it was not conven-
lent He seemed surprised and asked
me If | was a Virginian. | told him
no, | was a Georgian, and he said that
Nirginians 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 Il
am lame and can't walk; | was told
you had carriage and would drive
me anywhere | wished to 60" NO.
sir, / have neither carriage nor buggy
but Will so down town and get Il We
hlcle and take you anywhere you wish
10 go. Then he said Brother Bealer
told him that if would not take him
there was poor widow across town
who would, and he would speak to her
| IA i'm H.
VIII pay his bill Of Brother Bealer
dident. There are religious tarmps as
well as sinner tramps, and they are
not angels unawares. | was down in
the wiregrass region for nearly two
weeks, and have most pleasant mem
orles of my new found friends. but the
last day was the best for | was on nv
journey home and counted the mile
stones as we speeded along Happy
faces and loving kisses greeted me
when | came, and here | am going to
rest until the larder gets low and my
WIFE insists that | had better make
another venture And now let the
procession proceed. Let the war 20
on. III is none OF my begetting: il
might have stopped at Santiago. but
our yankee brethren seem to love the
Niger afar off ana have bought S. 900.
Geo at two dollars and a half head
winch was cheap enough if Spain
could have delivered the goods. But
they have cost ten times that now and
are still in the woods. We used to ad-
Nertise our Iunaways and saw Ten
dollars reward-Runaway from the
subscriber my boy Dick. % years old.
feet 10 inches high. black complexion
ana very fat nose. The above reward
Will be paid on his delivery to me or
his lodgment in the nearest Jail" Why
not try that on AgU.naldo and the
other runaways? But if they catch
them | don't know what they are go.
ing to do with them; they wouldent
let Aguinaldo set up a barber shop in
Manila no more than they would in
Boston CT Chicago. Professor Council
who is president of the colored agri-
cultural college in Alabama, under
stands this. lie is the smartest and
best leader OF his race. and when he
speaks or writes to the public always
says the right thing. | have great re-
spect for him.
But this awful muddle with China
which was prccipitated by our ag gres-
sion upon the philippines, seems to
nave no end in sight. Rev DR.. Halder-
man, of New York. who is said to be
very learned man, says that he demon,
strated year ago from scriptural
prophecy that the present year would
find all the nations at war, and there
would be mighty struggle between
Russia and China, and that Russia
would eventually gain the supremacy:
out that for time the hordes from
China will break in an awful avail
anche upon the western nations and
the greed, the rapa city. the Christless.
Goddess selfshness OF European ma
tions will get its reward. and there
will be a terrible balance sheet against
those Christian nations who have
poisoned China with opium and made
them look upon all Christians as rapa-
cious foreign devils.
He says that the Chinese are fight
ing for their homes and institutions.
and know chat the Christian nations
are seeking to rob them and that their
missionaries are backed by guns and
swords and Goddess soldiers ready to
kill and slay. This infuriates them
and they look upon any white man as
a devil who should he slain He says
that while this impending and de-
stTuctve war is ordained of God ana
foretold by His prophets yet the sin OF
il lies at the doors of Christian ma
tions CffensCs must needs come but
woe unto those by whom they come
The love of money is st;ll the root of
all evil Trade will follow the flag"
is the shiboleth OF commerce, and if