Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-11-12
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
The Philosopher Talks of Yankees
and Negroes.
HIS WIFE IS NURSING HIM.
Speaks of the Past and Its Heroes
The Memory of Days That Tried
nen's Souls.

Lord Bacon said. Wives are young
mems mistresses. companions for mia
die age and old mems nurses" There
is truth in that and my wife is nursing
me now. Our girls have gone ofs. cne
TO a wedding and the other to Atlanta
on a visit. | told them 10 go for tn "
had been pennel up here with me for
four long months and their mother
said she would take care OF me until
they returned | get along pretty wCll
during the day. but at night my cough
is distressing ana my wife has TO dose
me with various remedies until | 20 TO
sleep. The rain has come at last ar
purified the air and feel better. Yes.
we two are alone il great big house
She sits in her accustomed corner and
sews most all day long. while sit op-
posite in mine anu write or read aloud
to her and when meal time comes size
sits at one end OF the table and at the
other, and that's all.
Ola Father Gibbons came . miles
yesterday 10 see me and to invite mo
and my wife to his birthday dinner.
Next week he will he so years old and
still sets about lively and takes com
fort in meeting his friends and abusing
the yankees. 1t is hard to reconstruct
these old veterans. especially when they
ther moved TO Georgia just after the
close of the war. lle settled in this
county on 4 SOCd farm and his brother
located in Rome. | never was at the
old gentlemaU's house but once and
that was in 1866 His brother was a
game man and had been colonel in
the confederate army. When the car
pet-baggers and mean niggers oYerrUn
their section and plundered every rob-
els home the colonel organized band
of avengers and played kukluX among
them and whipped them and ran then
off and later they camc back with fed
eral officers and the colonel and his
band had to leave to save their lives.
Not long after the colonel had settled
in Rome the Virginia carpet-baggcrs
got military order for his arrest and
transportation to Virginia for trial. A
deputy marshal and another fellCw
came secretly TO Rome, but the colonel
had already been advised of their CON-
ing and so one dark night about lC
O'Clock he came to my house and told
me his peri! and said he could go l.
his brothers place in this county and
hide out until the pursuit had blown
over. So | hitched my horse to our
rockaway and we left in haste ] knew
the road to Kingston and he knew the
rest OF the way. 1t was abou. 3 O'Clock
when we reached the place and saw the
gin house oUt in tho field. There we
stopped and he took refuge in it and
told me to tie my horse out in the
bushes and then go down and rouse up
his brother. This is the old man who
asked us to come and dine With him.
When knocked at the door he came in
his night clothes and said Who is
that and what do you WANT" | whis-
pered my business and told him to talk
low for we didn't want the family or
the negroes to know anything He put
on his clothes and went to his brother
and | got In my conveyance and made
for Rome. where | arrived about sun
rise. The colonel kept hid in the gin
house under the cotton for nearly a
month and then dared to return for the
officers had departed. | never see this
fine old Virginia gentleman but what
think of that ride and the narrow Cs-
cape his brother made. Verify recon
struction was worse than war But il
is all over now, thank the good Lord
and we can hold our reunions and carry
our battle-torn banners and build our
monuments and lay the corner stone
Tor Winnie Davis and lynch the brutes
that assault our wives and daughters
ana MS Governor Oates said to our de-
iaihers IN congress, What are You 60
49, >'""' ~ EAiAd stS lOs ~ INn-
ing. | repeat what have said before
Let the good work go on. Lynch EN-,
hang EN-. Shoot 'cmi Bum 'em" Is
rae! Futnam went into a cave with n
torch to shoot the wolf that had de-
voured the lambs of mis- flock. and lust
so l would lyach the brutes who ont
rage our women. lie Is not a human.
He is brute. beast and all these
demonstrations by governors and judg-
es ana sherifs are hypocritical and per-
fun2tory. In their breasts thev reioice
In the lynching.
And there is another set of hypo-
critics who infest our southern land. |
mean those who for the sake OF filthy
lucre and nothing else invite Roosevelt
10 N'Sit their city and they promise him
an ovation. He comes nearer bing u
hgure-he2d of the president than any
We have ever had. f5o i- o~~r ...---
siaAderer Of great and good nan and
ht knows he si-AGt4.
retract or apologize. Ou. women n..yA
just laid q cCrne" stCle FOR Iaonu-
ment 10 his lameAteu daughter and our
veterans and mem beIS or the legisla-
turc approved it by their presence. and
yet some OF the same creatures would
Invite Roosevelt TO Savannah ana Ma
con and AuguSta. | wouldn't invite
any man to MY town whom wouldn't
invite to my house and 20 man who
fought for the lost cause or respects
Mr.. Davis would do that There is
more patriotism today among our wo-
men than among our men. a friend
wrote me from Atlanta that he was 60
ing TO have 5000 copies of General
Jackson's great speech on the Wan
derer" printed in pamphlet form for
distribution at small cost among cur