Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1903-05-27
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BILL ARP


The bantam hen has hatched and
three little grand children are happy
They can't talk fast enough to tell m"
about them. There are little things in
our domestic life and there are big
things. but l believe the little things
are the biggest
For month or more these children
have ben watching and watching Tor
the bantam men to lay her litter amt
hatch her little brood and this morning
the telephone bell rang furjously and
it said: Our bantam hen has hatch
ed ana soon they came running to
tell It's about them but they didn tstay
five minutes. They had to so back ard
look after tho bautams. We'll, there is
nothing prettier in all nature than :,
little brood OF bantam chickens and
my faith is they We're created specially
to make little children happy 1t seems
that they originated in little town OK
that name on the island OF Java and
have been traasplarted to other coun-
tries. They are game bird and a
bantam rooster will attack and whip
an ordinary game cock of five tiiaos its
weight. These little children some to
see me every day and to comfor. me
while am sick and their prcsy.cc is
tho best medicine | have found The
happiness OF our children is the biz
gest thing in life and my desire t. live
is mainly for their sake. Tho papeYs
are fun Of big things. but th4y von't
compare with The little ones.
clark Howell went a tbCucooJ ,ot-,..
10 make a big speech about Grant.
! lhat wos all right | have more re-
spect tor General Grants memory tran
FOR any big man who was on thai side.
but | still fail - understand how -
com came 10 appoint Il slave holder a.;
general or the army. But time .lu.Bs
lo!!irS on and Grants attitude on the
I race problem seems to be the po9i:a-
one now among our No. thern brethirn.
The census and result OF nero cSu
ton has at last convinced the neg
lovers Of their mistake
| couldn't Imagine what B00.ltr
Washington was to do with that $500.
600 of Carnegie's last gift. hut | sea nv
booker's late card he is going TO %
pend it in manufacturing tocth brushes
and he says he can reform the wholc
, race by supplying them with toolh
brushes. That is all right-anythin.:
pi!ing up. He might add side factor
for tOothpicils.
But, speaking about General Grant
reminds me. of his magnificent tGmD at
Grant park, and that reminds me of i
good thing on one OF my boys who
when in New York not long ago. was
invited by some congenial friends to
take ride with them and see tAr
tomb: They stopped in front and my
boy heaved a sigh and said. "Ycs.
that's old Bob Lee-the greatest sui--
dier who ever lived. and there's Wat
he said at AppomatoX when ne gave
Grant back his sword. Let US hive
peace When informed OF his MIS-
take he said: well. l.sAt
there. of course. but my fIthq
was. and that's what happen oJ--S1 hc
told NO General Grant surronicrvG IS
sword . General Lee and old Bob gave
1T back TO him and said: LIT ~ hl..a
peace
Bat we want no mistake made abaut
the negroes down here in Dixie uc-l
want no more slaves. We wouldn't
nave one as free gift. We are ready
10 give them away 20 aEyhoaJ vhI-.
wants them. The last Genus roDO:t'.
says the negro is much the most rr.,n.- :
Lal or our population and is incraas ng 4
In crime with fearful rapidity. 2 10 rc-&
Sroes who can read and w.i.c arc r.t|
more criminal than those who caau0t
The negro is four and onc-half simes
as criminal in New England, where he
Is educated, as he is in the South,
where ne has not been educated. VIVA;
Is to be done about this. "Too.h
brushes says Booker Washington
surely the man was Joking, but that's
the way 1t read over his own signaG GiIe
reform the race with tooth brushes
If there is anything in the world tnAt
negro does not want il is too.h
brush. There is Sam Henderson wCrk-
Ing III my garden now ana envy him
his mouth full of big. sound tccth.
Never had one pulled or plugged or to-,
ache. | love to see him mouthing n
watermelon.
NO. 1T seems to be now admitted IN
porthern philanthropists that the
southern negro has been pretty wcil
ruined by their blunder OF forty years.
ago, when there was not a criminai
negro in Georgia. and now there ne,
near 1900 in our chaingangs. Bring loS
the tooth brushes, DR.. Scale Harris of
Alabama, published not long ago n.
the Constitution the unanimogs oIiri-
ION OF the mc deal profession tina, tu,s
NEGRO was rapidly uegencrating as ~
race, both morally and ptysicrliy. AMI .
was dtst'ned to extinction as sure as
the t>2rtn American Indians Old DIR.
Calhoun. or our town, a man of large
and long experience, told me that be-
iore the war ne mad an extensive prac-
.ice Oh lhe negro plantations and ne7er
hdd hdd case OF tuberculosis or consunfn-
tlon' Dut now they were common and
as Tor other diseases, not to be me,s. b.
t..