The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-06-07
MRS. ARP VISITING THE KIN.
THE FAMILY rs DEMOltAl'lIfD'
Bill Says II He Writes That some on
tho Children Are Sick Shc WIZ
Hurry Home.

Bill Says II He Writes That Some I"
tho Children Are Sick She WI
Hurry Home.
SO many letters come to me oi lalt
asking about The Confederate Neterat
that am constrained to answer through
the press. 1t is Il monthly published II
Nashville by Captain $. ~. Cunning
ham. This reminds me TO say thht SAN
Davis is not the only kcro OF his kind
William Nj. Eormby writes me IRON
Louisville, Ark, that there Is IN llt
tie Rock the grave OF David Z. loda
who when only eighteen years OF ag'
was arrested near there Is spy hn'
important papers found on his person
General Steel Was in command oi tn"
post and offered him q pardon il h'
would disclose the names OF those IRON
whom he got the informatlon 'lk'
Sam Davis, he refused and said h'
would die first all he did die. IL,
wrote u letter to his mother, who then
lived ia Atlanta, Cnss County, Ten.
telling her Of his untimcly tate. Ny
friend says he has n copy OF that letter
and has seen the grave in Little ltock,
which some friends have marked with
plain white shaft. | have written 10
him to send copy OF the letter to The
Veteran and il possible q photograph
of the marble shaft. Such loyalty ana
fidelity must Dc preserved ana pat on
record.
We are all dcmoralilcA at our house
and home, for the maternal ancestor
has gone OF on u tri p to ltomc anu Will
stay there, | reckon, until | write 10
her that Jessie or her little children or
some other member Of the family IL
sick. Then she will come on the first
train She mas 20: kindrCdand friends ,
over there, lots Of them, and they will !
keep her until she goes the grand |
rounds, for she lived there twenty. !
seven years. She and were among |
the pioneers OF the Hill City. In fact,
we arc the only living persons who
were living in Rome when we moved
there fifty years ago. inst think Of 1T
and ponder it. iiow surely and stealth
lily population pnssrSS away. How
insdi0us is Time, the unrcicntng old
rascal. Only fifty years, and not man
or woman left but my wife and |
There were then about 800 people in
Rome aud now there are ten times that
number. Every old settler is dcnG save
Colonel II. w. Alexander and he came
three years after did. Every lawyer,
CT, every merchant and mechanic arc
dead. Old Judge Underwood, j. w. IL.
Underwood, Judge Wright, General
Black, Alexander, Sloan. Shorter, DR..
Battey, DR.. Underwood, all strong and |
notable men. could write book |
about each OF them. And then there |
was Old Jake Hcrnd0n and Big John,
the Munchauscns OF the town, who
were ready to swear that whom they
first settled there away back in the
thirticS the COOsa river WAS IS little
spring branch. Old Jake declared ne
had seen Is frcshct that rose to tho gum
tree on the court house hill, and the
was 24O in the shade. He.
always said thermom etcr and accented
The first syllable. My little boy had an
Did hiOned rubber ball and showed
It to Uncle Jake and he remarked that
he once had q ball made out Of " shore
enutf injun-rubbcr," and 1t would bounce
)ut Of sight, and one day he bounced
II uncommon hard and 1t never come
down till next day, and then his little
dog grabbed it and 1t rcbOundcd and
took the dog up with it and nc had
never seen the dog or ball since. Oid
Jake believed his own lies. heard
him say once that when hog killing
time came round he heated rocks on
each side Of his millp0ud and threw
them in and drove the hogs through
and they camc out clean on the other
side. Big John kept the only saloon in
town. saloon was callcd q grocery
then and Big Johns grocery was a
!andmark-thc loafing placc--for he
Kept comfortable bench on each side
OF the front door. They were outside
on the sidewalk and were generally oc.
cupied. Ola Jake nerndon could be
found there half the day and Big John
gave him his whiskey free rs an at.
traction. lie was n drawing card and
drew the thirsty men like mOlasscs
draws ilics. Sometimes wonder where
they arc now and what they are doing,
for Swcdenburg says that folks will
pursue the same occupations In the
next world that they do in this, out
with greater diligence and to greater
perfection.
My venerable friend Major Aver
lives on Howard street, the 'cachtrce
OF Rome. 1t extends from Broad street
to the bridge and was thickly settled
thlrty.livc years ago, and Is yet, but
this Is the only family that lived there
thlrty-twO years ago, when he built his
house. Ttink OF it. All gone within
thirty-twc years. Rome is thirty miles
distant from Cartersvi.lle and the river
lands are all occupied by farmers, but
not one Of them lived along the line
before the civil war, and the river still
sings as 1t flows.
For men may come and men may go,
But go Oh forever"
My wife will cone home to spond her
next week, l know. She
knows that many OF her numerous OF.
spring will gather at the paternal
mansion and have gift OF some sort
and kiss her classic brow and stroke
her raven hair. That is where she
triumphs over me. Not a gray hair on
her head, nor dark one on mine, but
she is catching up pretty fast. | re-
member when / was six timea as old ae
she was and six years later was just
twice as old, and now | am seventy.
four. Now let the school boys ano