The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-06-05
this time. have been living here svse

20 years.
And now let me ask the good char
table ladies who seek to do some
thing for some good cause to seno
No more endless chain letters to me.
They are a Nuisance and have an
moved me greatly. / thought tnas
when that common cheat and SWIM
dler. Joel Smith, of Monticello, fla.'
was broken up and arrested tho
endless chain business had stopped
hut of late it has revived ana re-
ceiyed three last week. One OF them
started in Canada for so-called mis-
sionary work and got all the way
down to Louisiana and from tnere
to me, wanting me to copy two ie.-
ters and send ten cents In Christ
name. and under no circumstances
to break the chain. Well, L broke II
and shall break every one that comes
to me, and shall burn the letters'
for they never contain any return
hostage. Some years ago the good
ladies of Fredericksburg, Va, wrote
to me, saying they wanted about sooo
or $500 to place headstones to the
graves of go Georgia soldiers VINO
were buried there. / made an earn
est appeal to our people ana asked
for a dollar from each good man
or woman, and i raised $500 in three
weeks. Adit. Gen. Phil Byrd sent me two
dollars all the way from New bruins
wick. / bought the marble, all leu
tered nicely, from the northern man
who owns the works at Marietta
bought them at one dollar each,
which was less than the cost, for
the company said they helped to put
our boys there and they ought to
help mark their graves. The rail-
roads shipped them free. There was
no endless chain in that business.
Three thousand neglected confederate
graves at Marietta! Our boys, our
dead buried on our soil, died in de-
Tense of their homes, their state,
their people. On the other side OF
the railroad are about as many VINO
were trespassers on our soil - van
dals who came as invaders with arms
and torches, and their graves are
adorned with gravel walks and now
ers and evergreens, and there IS
grand entrance to their city OF the
dead, all done by the national gov
eminent, and a keeper employed.
And yet it is now settled we were
right and they were wrong. On, I'D
ertv and union, what crimes have
been committed in thy name.
But Secretary Root seems to be q
good man and is going TO help US make
M the roster, the muster roll of our
living and our dead. Maybe he will
oct a little closer to us and help
the Marietta women I'D make tneli
confederate graveyard just as elegant
and ornamental as the one on the
other side. Why not try him? Deao
soldiers are not enemies to each
other. and il theirs could speak may
he they would say: Give us YOU
hand. brother" Is it not about time
for our women to make an appea
; to the government for aid in Thu
patriotic work? Not only for Mari
eta. but wherever our soldiers arr
buried. Marietta has many north
! ern visitors who spend their winters
there, and it seems tn me IL the,
brought along a heart and sou
. with them, they would go to thes'
ladies and say: Here are Slo
, Please mark ten of those graves TO
!. me-" But reckon most of them jus
i bring their bodies and leave thei
$ hearts at home.
Why not do as our Mr.. Grange
. did? Just as soon as our iadle
: started a move to build monumen
to Gen. Young and our Barlow hs
: roes. he was the first to ask the priv
+ lege of subscribing SIS to the cause
He has gotten it all back already J
: our good will and gratitude. d
. brought his heart with him whe
4 he moved down here and his wit
e Brought her whole soul. She Is a
d ways doing something for somebod.
yl-Bal Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.