The southern sentinel., 1901-10-18
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Barlow Philosopher Rsverts to
Weather Conditions.
Course President Roosevelt 10 Pursu.
Ine Seems to Go Against the Grain
So Far - the q. A. r.
u Concerned.

The elements are unsettled. The
wind seems to be veering southwark.
Roosevelt keeps on saying kind words
about us and the republicans are In a
state of apprehension. The G. A. RS
made the first assault on him because
be dared to exalt the bravery and pa
triotism of our people; but he answer
ed them back nobly. And now they
are in CONSERVATION because he in
vited Clark Howell to dine with him.
The City of Shushan is perplexed. II
looks like there Is q power OF good po
litical fun ahead Of us, and We can't be
worsted. Mckinley wanted to be kind.
and they wouldn't let him. but my
opinion Is that Roosevelt is going to
run the machine according to his emo
tons. He is . man of emotions, good,
generous emotions-and our emotional
nature IL the best part Of our nature.
That is the reason that women are bet
ter than men; they are more emotion
al. A selfish man. . greedy man or
politician per sc" have no emotions.
They plot and scheme for personal ad-
vantage. Hamlet said that q politl
clan is Q man who would circumvent
God. They bribe and deceive to gain
their end. But Roosevelt Ii outspoken.
candid and fearless. The politicians
utterances are cautious and come from
his head; Roosevelt talks from his
heart, and II he feels like inviting
Clark Howell to dine he Is going to do
II without consulting Mark Hanna OF
the @. A. RS or for . moment consid-
ering what the party will say about It
like Roosevelt because he has q
wife and children: in fact. he has been
married twice and has two sets Of chill
dren. That's all right IL the children
harmonixe and the last wife is as gooc
to the children of the first wife as she
ID to her own. Our nearest neighbor
TOR long years had three sets Of chill
dren. Colonel Bayard. q widower.
with two children. married Mrs. Hand,
4 widow with three children. Two more
children were born to the last mar
riage, and all was peace and harmony
In that household This reminds me OF
another family. where there were
three sets. and they didn't harmonize
and one day when they were quarrel
ing in the beck yard. the wife came
running in and said to her husband:
John, you'd better go out yondei
with switch; your children and my
children are fighting our children"
I am pleased to learn that our presi
dent is coming to Georgia next fall
and will visit his mothers old home nj
Roswell. Think l will meet him there
and show him around. for almost ev
erybody else is dead but me that was
there when his mother was a girl. ]
will show him where We boys played
bullpen. end town ball. and where his
uncle half Dan. or half OF
his Uncle Dan and played
sweepstakes and Dan always
won my white alleys. Yes. will show
him around. But ;f,t colony Of fine
Savannah people. al blooded stock.
are not there now. There were the
Kings. the Dunwoodys. who were In
college with me. Not all the King boys
Of course. fer there were nine of then
and only one sister for the whole
crowd beautiful girl. have a very
dear couein In birmingham who has
nine girls and one SON. What . pity
that those two families were not neigh
bors and contemporaries, so that the
children could have mated and inter.
married. I like families with numer.
ous offspring. II had the making Of
he constitution. whether federal or
state. wouldn't let bachelor hold .
public ONCE; he shouldn't be eligible
TO 90 to congress or to the legislature.
II II not possible for him to feel deeply
concerned about TIE perpetuity Of gov
eminent II is the children and the
grandchildren We fathers are living
for. An Unmarried man lives for him.
self. He may be smart and moral and
we'll edursted. bat. as Kiplirg says. he |
can't understand the paternal anxiety. |
All these Roswell boys were manly |
and well favored. They made good
preachers, good soldiers. good archi- |
tects and Manufacturers and were |
good citizens. Poor Tom King had his !
leg shattered at Manassas. and as soon |
~ he could walk was In the fleld again |
and was killed at Chickamauga- He
was bright, cheerful. handsome man, |
and everybody loved him. Old Barring |
ton King sent north for teacher and |
got one BY the name Of Eels. but the
boys didn't like him. They said he was |
. hypocrite and IN abolitionist and
vas Just fooling papa Thsy called |
HIN slickfsh and guyed him until he
was sent back to where he came from- |
Colonel Bayard married Darlington |
Kings sister. the Widow Hand. and |
moved to Rome. He was . courtly sen
telnen. descendant Of Chsvalier Bay
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