Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-10-29
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
The Philosopher Receives Another
Communication.
HEARS FROM 0RTHERN ADMIRER.
Notes That Northern White peopIe
Object to Sending Their Children
to Negro Teachers.

hold up on the negro and let him 20
dead has sent me a clipping from
Newport paper and says: Here is g
good text for your next letter. 1t reads
as follows: Newport. October Ia
AT meeting Of the school committee
today, George Ellis and wife objected
to having their sen taught By n col.
ored teacher and said that if their son
was not admitted to another school
where Che teacher was white they
would keep him at home. The commit. |
tee refused to change him and ordered !
the boy TO be arrested as n trust The |
rather filed a plea of not guilty and
the case will so 10 the higher court
and be tested" They have compul. |
sorry education there. 1t seems that
this teacher is the daughter OF a
preacher, who is the American consul
at st. Thomas. He Is n loyal Republi. !
can and there is politics in il. and the |
lily whites are in the minority. She /
may be one of the 400 that Watterson
is troubled about and so | will turn
over the text to him. The same mail /
that brought me the text. brought a
letter from my grandson. who is in the
employ of the Westinghouse Company
CT Pittsburg, and is an electric en-
SiEcer and is now putting down a
plant ct Utica y. y. He writes that
his contractor had a number of white /
men employed, but as labor was
scarce he picked uD an jilc NJ -ro and
told MIN 10 20 20 work. The white men
rcbcllod violently aEains; This ana
threatened to quit. and so the negro
had 10 be sent off. When | was last
in mississippi tte barber who shaved
me said he Camc down from Illinois
on account Of his health and va
amazed 10 find white folks down hes
patroniZe negro BARRIERS. and that ii
one dared to open u shop in an town
in Illinois he would be mobbed anl
run out Of the place. Lake Ranquo's
ghost, this race problem wiz not
down. 1t has as many phases as there
are times and places. Shortly after
the war the yankee school marms hur-
/ ried down here to educate the negro
but they soon tired OF il and went
back. Now q negro woman has gone
up there to teach their white children
That Is all right We don't care As
Cobc says: ITS all optionary with
me-" Now I will let the negro 20
dead for awhile. II will take man"
years yet to settle the problem. ru-
1t viii be settled. The TWO races l,c ),
together very harmoriously IN Cu-
town and county and We arc rcco.-.
ciied 10 the situation. wish thay cv-
cry community h2i a. many blcssir2s
as we enjoy. No suriNos. no murHers
no. outraSos OF 2ry hmd--ao a,oo.
lights. no cursmy. 40 cyclones nor
floods nor famins--no po5til,acc. ~
fires. We have EoOd schools, good
churches. good preachers and soot
humble congregations. Every chnrCh
has Il nice comfortable homo for tn
preacher and there is one more ~,
the presiding elder. We have = good
sHciabie community with no stuCkup
families. Not even San Jones' folks
put on any airs over the rest of US.
l visited them on Sunday eve and was
treated with the most cordial hos
pitality. Their home is q palacc anu
their garden and grounds little para
disc. | am getting strong again an5
walked 20 town last week for the first
time in three months-when | cane
home my wife shool, her fist at me
and said: 81 believe YOU viii outlivC
me yet From the tone of hcr voice
J thought maybe she was mad about
it. We have nearly completed the
finest court house III the State. II Is
in full view from the window where
| write and | never get tired of look.
ing at the beautiful dome that shines
like silver in the sun. "A thing of
beauty is a JOY forever" Our Carde.
is now adorned with beautiful roses
and cut them every morning and my
wife allows me to send them to the
pretty girls-no. ! mean to the ancient
mothers in our noighborhood NJ wife
is peculiar about that At night have
to help a pretty lassie with her arith-
Tn0f1c nIUnhrn | rot
stalled sometimes. but we generally
get through all right We have a tele-
phone and my daughter, who lives
mile away, has one. So when her
daughter gets stalled she telephones
here and our laSsie tells her over the
phone how to do it. Sometimes 1t
takes many figures. multiplying and
dividing, etc, and If there is a mis-
take made OF only one figure near the
beginning it runs through to the end
aad gets bigger and bigger as 1t goes.
And so my lassie Is disappointed be-
cause she did not get the answer.
Then l go over all the figures care
FULLY and find the error, and she has
1t to do over again. Just so 1t is with
our habits and conduct II little boy
tells fbs or stories. the habit will
grow on him and by the time he is
grown he will tell lies If boy swaps
knives with another boy and cheats
him. he will get into habit of cheat.
ing In trade and nobody will trust
him. When Tom Benton was for the
first time candidate for Office, Ii was
told on him that VIXEN he WAS a school |
boy he stole a knife from another |
boy and had to give it up and take q |
whipping. And so he didn't get elected |
My father always said that knit |
story was just a political lie, but ] |