The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-11
BILL ARPS LETTER
Bilrs Wife Reads the Papers and Raaps1 IN
With the Times.
Atlanta Constitution.

9LaNHhS " rs N,-Af&e t5tseS41A} .}FAg24Esf$s
had It's share Of happiness.
What q beautiful verse 10 the last
one Of poor Tom Hoods poem:
III remember I emes.ss sss Al tIess,
dark and high,
used to think their slender tops were
close againat the eky,
II was Q childish ignorance. and row
4 Ills Diistle joy
To know I'm farther off from heaven
than whom WAS, o boy-n
Last summer the little baby boy q
sick. We feared ne would die. As
he lay upon o pillow In hia mothers
LAP, the little 4~-year-old went up close
and whispered to- her mother. MA
ma, il. baby dies mayn't i keep him.
for Q doll?" J never tire Of the child
ish talk. It is always sincere, and
that is truth, for sincere means With
out wax-unsealed, "sine cerum'-
pc secrets, open and read il you wish.
tits an old adage that s'children and
fools never lie" and this reminds me
OF George Washington, who, tradition
says, out down q cherry tree, and
when his father inquired who did IL,
replied, Father, I cannot tell a lie.
Ididit with my little. hatchet." /
don't believe that. IL must have
been q mighty little tree shat q little
boy could cut down with q little
hatohst. And il he was bad enough
to do IL and knew better he ,wouldn't
have made such q sanity speech as
Father, cannot tell lie." MY
history says that many Of these little
stories came from The nursery. But
that he did; when yet in his teens,
undertake 60 mount and subdue an
unframed FLOODED horse, and the
horse reared and ran and plunged so
f~nriously that he burSteda blood yes
sci and fell dead with George on top.
His mother was greatly Sgrieved, and
seolded him severely. never knew
until reopHsly that he took the small
,pox ON Barbados island, aud was
slightly marked all his life. George
says in his letters that his negroes
gave him much trouble and great con.
Germ, for he had to be away on public
business most Of the time and could
not look after them. He inherited one
hundred and forty and six hundred
acres OF land and his wife one hundred
and fifty more and seven hundred cores,
OF land, and Ireckon they did give him
trouble. he never bought or sold
any, and set them ell free in his will.
aass-s. Robert e Z s7a, regent for the
Georgia room Of the confederate mu-
senn st Richmond. wishes me 20 give
notice that next month (ApriD the
confederate bazaar will be held there
for; the beneit3ofthe museum and the.
Jefferson Davis memorial arch. Mrs.
Park asks for special Georgia contri-
buttons for She Georgiarosm, and all
the regents Of the Southern States
ask for help from every man, woman
and child5 so that the entire South
may share in the honor. The circular
is much too long tos be- appended to
myletter. but will ifnclose it to The
Constitution. s
And now please excuse my mention
iof q matter personal 20 an old soldier,
WE Lee. private Of CompanyD
id Hampton Legion. He hes Lost his
horn, d large, long beautiful horn that
while ii eamr below Richmond lie
dressed and polished and engraved
With his name and awreath. He took
she horn from the head OF . Texas
steer at 8 butcher pen in the rear or
Grant army. He SAINT Il home in the
fall oe 1864iby his brother, who stop.
ped over night at Columbia aSg tReWay4
side Home andthere lostit. HSshys,
Major, am growing old, awaiting
tha blast Of the last trump, but /,
would like to blow my own horn once
moro before / die.
Do please somebody send him that
horn GO. .. to- Piedmont. 8. %.
Bill Arp.
Cancer Cured by Blood Balm.
ALL@SkIN AND Brood DISEASES