The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-05-28
BILL ARP.


three little grand children are happy
| They can't talk fast enough to tell me
| abour them. There are little things In
our domestic life and there are big
things. but l believe the little things
ere the biggest.
For a month or more these children
have ben watching and watching for
| the bantam hen to lay her litter n
hatch her little brood and this morning
the telephone bell rang furiopsly p
II said: "Our bantam hen has hatch
ed" and soon they anne running To-
| tell us about them. but they didn' tssay
five minutes. They had to go back =
look after the bantams. Well, there Is
nothing p~rettier in all nature tnan z
little brood o. bantam chickens q
nv faith is they were created specially
to make little children happy. 1t seems
that they originated in a little town O.
that name on the island OF Java anu
| have been ~transplanted to other ccun-
tries. They are a game bird q q
bantam rooster will attack and whip
an ordinary game cock OF five times its
weight. These little children come 10
see me every day and to comfort a
while I am sick and their presence IS
the hest medicine I have found. The
happiness OF our children is the big
gest thing in life and my desire to live
is mainly fer Their sake. The papers
are full Of big things, but they won't
compare with the little ones.
Clark Howell went a thousand miles
70 make a big speech about Grant.
That was all right. l have more re-
| spect for General Grants memory than
for any big man who was on that side.
but I still fail to understand how Lin
| coin came to appoint a slave holder IS
general of the army. But time keeps
rolling on and Grants attitude on the
race problem seems to be the popular
one now among our Northern brethren
The census and result Of negro educ1-
ton has at last convinced the negro
lovers of their mistake.
l couldn't imagine what Booker
Washington was to do with that $780,
900 of Carnegie's last gift, but see by
Booker's late card he Is going to ex-
pend it In manufacturing tooth brushes
and he says he can reform the whote
race by supplying them with tooth
brushes. That is all right-anything
to get rid Of the money that keeps on
piling up. He might add a side factory
for toothpicks.
But. speaking about General Grant
reminds me, of his magnificent tomb at
Grant park, and that reminds me of .
good thing on one of my boys who.
when in New York, not long ago, was
invited by some congenial friends TO
take a ride with them and see tbs
tomb. They stopped in front and my
boy heaved a sigh and said, yes
that's old Bob Lee-the greatest SOL
der who ever lived, and there's what
he said at Appomatox when he gave
Grant back his sword, Let us have
peace" When informed of his mis-
take he said: We'll, wasn't
there. of course, but my father
was. and that's what happened-so he
told ne General Grant surrendered his
sword % General Lee and old Bob gave
it back to him and said: Let as havs
peace"
But We want no mistake made about
the negroes down here In Dixie. Nc
want no more slaves. We WOULDN'T
have one as a free gift. We are reauy
to give them away to anybody VINO
wants them. The last census report
says the negro Is much the most crimf-
ral of our population and Is increasing
in crime with fearful rapidity. The nc
sroes who can read and write are far
more criminal than those who cannot
The negro is four and one-half Zines
as criminal in New England, where he
is educated, as he is in the South
where be has not been educated. What
Is to be done about this. Tooth
brushes" says Booker Washington
Surely the man was joking, but that's
the way it read over his own signature
Reform the race with tooth brushes
II there is anything in the world that
a negro does not want 1t Is a tooth
brush. There is Sam Henderson work
ing in my garden now and envy him
his mouth full OF big, sound teetn.
Never had one pulled or plugged or TO
ache. | love to see him mounting .
watermelon.
No, II seems to be now admitted W
rorthern philanthropists that the
southern negro has been pretty we'll
ruined by their 3lunder of forty Yeas
ago. when there was not a criminal
negro in Georgia, and now there are
near 5000 in our c~haingangs. Bring On
the tooth brushes! DR.. Scale Harris, OF
Alabama, published not long g In
the Constitution the unanimous opin-
ion OF the medical profession that the
negro was rapidly degenerating as .
race, both morally and physically, and
was destined to extinction as sure IS
the North American Indians. Old Dr.
Calhoun, of our town, a man OF large
ard long experience, told me that be-
fore the war he had an extensive prac-
tice on the negro plantations and never
had a case of tuberculosis or consump-
ton, but now they were common anf
as for other diseases, not to be meH-
toned, they were found in most fami-
lies and in both sexes.
am constrained to mention this as q
rorn;no m those who have to hire