Woodville Republican., 1903-04-18

this time. have been living here oves
20 years.
And now let me ask the good char
liable ladies who seek TO do some
thing for some good cause 20 send
no more endless chain letters to me.
They are a nuisance and have an
noyed me greatly. ! thought that
when that common cheat and swim
dler, Joel Smith, OF Monticello, Fla,
was broken up and arrested the
endless chain business had stopped,
but of late IL has revived and l re-
ceived 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 there
90 me, wanting me to copy two LETT
ters and send ten cents In Christ's
name, and under 40 circumstances
TO break the chain. Wen, | broke Il
and shall break every one that comes
20 me, and shall burn the letters,
for they never contain any return
postage. Some years ago the good
ladies' OF Fredericksburg, Va, wrote
TO me. saying they wanted about $500
or $500 to place headstones TO the
graves of 260 Georgia soldiers who
were buried there. made an earn-
est appeal TO our people and asked
for a dollar from each good man
or woman. and raised $500 In three
weeks. Adit. Gen. Phil Byrd sent me two
dollars all the way from New Bruns-
wick. l bought the marble, all let
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 20 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 Mariettal 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 nre about as many who
were trespassers on our soil - van
dals who came as invaders with arms
and torches, and their graves are
adorned with gravel walks and flow
ers and evergreens, and there IL u
grand entrance to their city OF the
dead, all done by the national gov
ernment, and keeper employed.
And yet IL is now settled we were
right and they were wrong. oh, llb-
erty and union! what crimes have
been committed In thy name.
But Secretary Root seems to be a
good man and Is going to help ms make
up the roster, the muster roll Of our
living and our dead. Maybe he will
Qet little closer TO us and help
the Marietta women TO make their
confederate graveyard just AS elegant
and ornamental as the one on the
other side. Why not try him? Dead
soldiers are not enemies TO each
other, and IL theirs could speak may.
be they would say: "Give us your
hand, brother" Is II not about time
for our women to make an appeal
TO the government for aid In this
patriotic work? Not only for Mari.
eta, but wherever our soldiers are
buried. Marietta has many north
ern visitors who spend their winters
there. and it seems to me II they
brought along a heart and a sou
with them, they would go to these
ladies and say: Here are $40
Please mark ten OF those graves foi
me-" But / reckon most of them just
bring their bodies and leave thell
hearts at home.
Why not do as our Mr.. Granger
did? just as soon as our ladies
started a move to build monument
to Gen. Young and our Barlow he
roes, he was the first TO ask the privi
legc of subscribing $25 TO the cause
He has gotten II all back already II
our good will and gratitude. IL,
brought his heart with him wher
he moved down here and his wife
brought her whole soul. She is al
ways doing something for somebody
bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
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