Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-02-12
ARP HAS The GRIP
Says he is Busy Taking Medicine
Til sc Days.
HE SNEEzES AND yiHEEZES.
Mrs. Arp Gives Him Everything
Good for a Cold, Including Large
Doses of Castor

knew hlm well. hOrallO. man
OF infinite jest AID most excellent
fancy"
1t has been years since l met MY
friend Mark Blanford. l see by the
press dispatches that he Is dead-died
In Columbus last week. II grieved me
for time, although he was old enough
to die. Eiehty years is a good old
age If the mon is good Every time one
of these old trees falls It shocks me.
George barnes died not long ago in
Augusta. and was greved. for loved
him and | unconsciOusly whispered,
Next" Only three Of us left OF the
Senate Of 1865. There were forty
four, but the Old reaper has cut down
all but our Chief Justice Simmons, our
chaplain. Brother Marlborough, and my
sclf-and | am sick
But | was ruminating about Judge
Planford-mcn called him Ma~k-we
who knew him hest. He was. Is Ham
let said OF Yorick. man of infinite
Jest and most excellent fancy. When
the spirit moved him he could enter
tain his friends most pleasantly and It
was our delight to get him and Judge
Underwood and Judge Buchanan TO-
gether with Evan Howell as teaser
and spend tho evening Aovrs during
the session of the supreme court when
Mark was one of tho judges. During
tho court hours Chief Justice Warner
was sitting there as serious and solemn
as Presbyterian preacher drinking in
the record and diCCstins the law o. tue
case. while Mark took in the surround
lnSs and absOCpcd % humorous side
or everything. He was good lawyer,
but jumped to conclusions lie a wo-
man and never saw much difference
between the plaintiff and defendant
unless one OF them was woman or q
widow. One night we visited Mark In
ms room and he regarded us with his
eXper enceS In justices courts when he
was young and devilish. The old time
justice court was a good school for
young lawyer. He not only practiced
law In it. but the arts CT oratory and
could use big words with mpunity, for
neither the old squire nor the Jury
knew their meaning. but were impres-
sed with their learned length and ling.
eTlng sound. [ still remember the Fret
man case that Mark rehearscd that
night. A yankee school teacher from
the Nutmeg stc had sued jim jenkins
ior SIS worth o. schooling fec his two
Loys. TrOup and Calhoun. Jenkins
wouldn't Day It because the two little
lulihcrS hadn't learned anything hard
ly and they told him that Fretman
gave powerful long rocesses and car
,lI9u Oh WIN the mig girls amazing
especially with Sally Amanda Jones.
II tetman was a Sood-looNing yam 'lee.
with pink checks and winning ways
and was popular with the girl scholars
Sometimes Salamander. as they called
lher. didn't go out at recess. but pre-
tended she had some sums to do. and
wanted the teacher to show her how
lroup oaid he heard her suueal o-e
Gay, and peeped through the crack and
saw Fretman squeezing of her. She
WAS redheaded gal.
old Phll Davis was the justice court.
Marks plea was that Fretman wasn't
scholar. and not fttin' to teach. and
mat he couldn't read writin' nor write
readin' nor spell all the words IN
Daniel Webstbr's blue-back spellin'
oooX. and he made motion to put
MIN On the stand and spell him. Fret
man s lawyer fought II. but the Old
squire said he must spell. Fretman was
scared. He trembled all over like a
cold. wet dog. Spell Phthisic" " said
marx. and he spelt 1t correctly. Ha
tnen spelt him right along on all sorts
OF e words and little words and long
words ana afterwards. but Fretman
never a. missed until finally Mark says.
man drew q long breath and sa;d u
WASH t in the book. But Mark proved
Dy an old preacher that it was IN tho
book. and so old Phil spoke up and
sdiu' Mr. Fretman. you must spell IL
sir. he was then sweatin' like a run.
down hlly He took one pass at II and
missed. "You can ccme down sir :,
said Mark, you've lost your case"
ana sure enough old Phil gave fude-
ment against him and he had the cos.
10 pay. But he was good grit. for he
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der.
At the next court Mark moved ~
nonsuit doctor who had sue1 a fei,er
shd ne MED a plea OF malpractice and
GeHianoed a rrofert OF his diplom,
Ihe doctor said he had one at home
and begged for time to 90 after On,
Phil gave him time. and he rode z
miles and back as hard as h. cou,J
lick IL. and shook it in Marks face
triumpbantly Mark smiled and sai3.
NOW. doctor. please take the s.arj
and translate this furrin' language into
English. so that his honor nav know
whethcr II Is n diploma or not. n
looks To ne like an Old revolutionary
grant or land or course the doctor
souIun I translate 1t. and lost his case
III yhy. l don't believe VIC have as
sood anecdotes now as we use to hava
don't know anybody who has tnkon
the place OF Howell Cobb and Charles
j. Mcdonald ana Cincinnatus PeoD,r5
and Hope Hull and the Others have
already named. am wri Ing about
them now because | am sick and n
cheers me to think Of thcm. II II
were not for the bright little grand
ehildren who come to see me should
90 10 bed and rive up the ship For
TWO weeks have lad the grip and am