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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Eirtow Man Delights to
From His Aged Contemporaries.
RECEIVES MANY LETTERS FROM THEM
Most of the Writers Were William’s
“Chums" In the Long Ago.—Tries
to Answer All of Them.
They arc, not all dead. In fact, they
seem to multiply aa the years roll on—
my contemporaries, I mean. I receive
more letters from old men than I over
did, and they write well and give long
epi3tles. When a man gets along In
the seventies he feels lonesome, not
withstanding tho near presence of
children and grandchildren. The com
panions of his youth are gone, and so
some of these old men unbosom them
(■>. lvrs to me for sympathy. I like such
letters and try to answer them all, but
rheumatism in my arm and hand
cramps my replies. One old gentle
man from Alabama says he feels bet
ter after he han written, for he is a
native Georgian and love-s her people
and her old red hills and the sweet
memories of Emory college and his
visits to Athens, where his Uncle Ell
zar Newton lived, and how he met me
rh^re In the forties and John Grant
and Dan Hughes and Jack Brown and
Billy Williams, who married my,
friend’s cousin and took charge of the
blind asylum—and how he heard Dr.
Church preach and was charmed with
the music cf tiie choir, where Mifis Ann
Waddell and Roe a Pringle and other
pretty girls sang, and how a tall, long
high man, with a big hooked nose and
a huge "pomum Adamus” on his throat
sang bass, and bow he was a room
mate of Tom Norwood at Emory and a
class mate of Bishop Key and Judge
A. B. Ixingstreet, the author of "Geor
gia Scenes” was the president; and
how lie removed to Alabama in 1849
and married and has seven daughters
and no sons, and has ten orphan grand
children, and has to work early and
late to support and educate them, but
never sees and rarely hears from any
friend of his youth and Is at times sad
and depressed and longs for sympa
thy. Poor old man, I wish that he
lived near me, for I would visit him and
cheer hhn up, and tell him anecdotes
and antidotes, and we would talk over
the old times and swap college stories
and brag about the good cld days
when there were no telegraphs or tele
phones or bicycles, and we did nr*
want any; no sewing machines or
store clothes, and we didn’t need any;
no football or baseball or hazing or
suicides or appendicitis. And in those
days dame Toombs and Stephens and
Judge Dougherty and Howell Cobb and
Walter Colquitt and spake to the peo
ple face to face, and such eloquent
men as George Pearce and Bishop Ca
pers and Jesse Mercer and Dr. Hoyt
and Gouldtng and Ingles preached to
them. - Yes, we would talk about the
days of onr boyhood, when there was
no gas or kerosene or friction matches
—nothing but candles to give us lighV
and no Prometheus to steal Are from
heaven to light them with. Shake
speare knew how it was, for he wrote:
"How far that little caisdle throws Its
beams!
So shines a good deed In a naughty
world.”
If Shakespeare wrote by candle
light, why shouldn't wo? And he,
too used the flirt and steel to make a
spark to light them. "Pick your flint
and keep your powder dry,” was Gen
eral Jackson’s order at New Orleans.
When 1 was a young merchant gun
flints were as common as marbles, and
1 sold them at the same price—10
cents a dozen. Wonderful, wonderful
are the changes, and we old people
fall in with them and adapt them to
our use and opr comfort. I wouldn’t,
e set back to the good old times if
could, but I would enjoy seeing this
generation all set hack about seventy
cars, just for about a week. My Ala
uma friend and other veterans would
be tickled to death to see the univer
sal dismay—no railroads or telegraph,
no mail, but once a week—and 25 cents
for a single letter. No daily newspa
pers in the state and only four week
lies, with no sensations, no suicides
or lynchings. There would be no cook
ing stoves, no coal, no steel pens or
envelopes, no No million-
aires or free niggers. I remember
when cotton was packed In round
bales with a crowbar. The long bag
was made first and was suspended
from a hole In the gin house floor and
Uncle Jack got down In It and packed
the cotton hard as it was thrown to
him. He packed two bales a day and
they weighed 400 pounds each. Two
of them fllied the bed of the big wag
on and five more were crossed on top
and fastened down with a long pole.
All the Httle spaces were filled with
corn and fodder, the big cover put on
and with a four or six-horse team we
were off for Augusta. It was a ten
days’ trip and we boys were happy to
go along and camp out all night and
listen to the nigger drivers tell about
gnosts and Jack-o’-Lanterns and
witches and raw head and bloody
ones. It was great fun. We brought
back sugar and molasses in great
: i:gsheads. It was brown sugar, fo;
white sugar wasn’t invented, except a
kind called loaf sugar, which was put
Hi; in five-pound cones and covered
•h bine pap- That kind was for
l'.cii folks and was very precious. It
was crystallized like these little
square lumps that are common now.
When our mother would unwrap the
loaf She would let us children lick the
sweet white tissue paper that wa,
next to the suKar. It was good. Mont
anyth Ini? was good then. A stick of
striped candy was a rare treat. So
was half an orange, or a bunch of
"resins.” as the niggers called them,
Most anything was good then, for our
appetites had not been surfeited with
cakes and sweetmeats, as they are
now. We loved sassafras root and an
gelica and sugar berries and locusts
and wild cherries and the inside bark
of chestnut treefi and slippery elm. We
were always hungry and hunting for
something. My Alabama friend is
sad, not only because he has lost his
youthful companions, but his youthful
appetite. Even ginger cakes have lost
their relish and a game of sweepstakes
and town hall and bull-pen their fas
cination. I envy the happy children
ssrirr:
py, for I know that there is trouble
enough ahead of them, for man that is
horn of woman Is of few days and full
ol trouble. The best we can do Is to
do the best we can to fortify against
it. and take the bad with the good.
Try to be calm and serene, for life is
full of blessings and we should school
ourselves to magnify them and be
thankful. I have not forgotten the
poor little boy who slept under the
straw, and one cold windy night his
mother laid an old door on the straw
to hold it down, and he said, Motherj
I reckon there are some little boys
who haven’t got any door to put over
them.” It is a good way for us to
think about those who are worse off
than we are, and my Alabama friend
knows there arc thousands of them.
But I must stop, for It is hard to
write a cheerful letter these gloomy
days. The weather is depressing and
that helps my Alabama friend to feel
sad. Cobe says that, a long wet rain
is worse on a man than a long dry
drought. We have not seen the bless
ed sunshine for four long days and the
wind has blown down my pretty but
ter bean arbor flat to the ground.—Bill
Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. i
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Llst of New Industries Reported
the Past Week. •
Among the more important of
new industries reported for the past
week are brick works at Birmingham,
Ala., and Lexington, Va.; a canning
factory at Ocala, Fla.; a carriage fac
tory at Valdosta. Ga.; a chair fac
tory t Athens, Ga.; a $40,000 chemical
company at Paris, Texas; a $500,000
cigar factory at Richmond, Va.; two
cold storage plants at Birmingham.
Ala., one to cost $25,000; a $5,000,000
cotton compress company to do busi
ness at Montgomery, Ala; a $50,000
cotton gin at Nash, Texas; cotton gins
at Denison and Itasca, Texas; an $80,
000 cotton mill at Middleton, Ga., and
Itasca, Texas; a cotton mill at Gaines
ville, Texas; a $25,000 drug manufac
turing company at Paris, Texas; elec
tric light plants at Sebree, Ky., Lau
rinburg, N. C., and Winnsboro, S. C.;
an electric power plant at El Campo,
Texas; a 50-barrel flouring mill at Mt.
Carmel, S. C., and flouring mills at Da
vidson and Macon, Ala., and Dunlap,
Tenn.; a furniture factory at Norfolk,
Va., and $25,000 furniture factories at
Hickory, N. C., and Norfolk, Va.;
glnners’ machinery company at Dal
las, Texas; a glass factory at Rich
mond, Va.; gold mines at Liano, Tex.;
a $50,000 Ice factory at Paragotild,
Ark.; a knitting mill at Fort White,
Ark.; a $20,000 laundry at Palestine,
Tex.; lead mines at Midway, Ky.; a
$20,000 lumber company at Taylors
ville, Miss.; a lumber company at
Greenwood, S. C.; a $30,000 lumber
mill at Tampa, Fla.; a $25,000 liunber
mill at Asheboro, N. C.; a $1,0*,000
mining company at Condor, N. C.; l a
$ 20,000 mining company at Comstock,
Ky.; a $25,000 oil company at Scotts
ville, Ky.; a $25,000 oil company at
West Nashville, Tenn.; a $500,000 oil
company at Fort Worth, Texas;
$300,000 oil company at Grand Falls,
Texas: a $50,000 oil company at Mar
shall. Texas; a planing mill at Shuqua
lak, Miss.; a $50,000 saddle and har
ness manufacturing plant at Fort
Worth, Texas; saw and planing mills
at Claxton, Ga., and near Ruston, La.;
a $15,000 telephone company at Ozark,
Ark., and telephone companies at Ca
Ga.. and Emory, Texas.—Trades
man (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
MILLIONAIRE FLAGLER WEBS.
Makes Miss Kenan His Bride at Ken
nnrlUe, North Carolina.
Henry Morrison Flagler, of Palm
Beach, Fla., and Miss Mary Lily Ke
nan were married at noon Saturday at
Kenansville, N. C„ by Rev. Peyton H.
Hoge, of Louisville, Ky., in the pres
cnee of the Kenan family and a smill
circle of friends,
The marriage license sets forth the
age of Mr. Flagler as 60 and Miss Ke
nan as 34.
The Kenan homestead was decora
ted for the occasion with bamboo and
white roses. The marriage was a quiet
and simple affair and was devoid of
the usual formalities attendant upon
such occasions. All press representa
tives were evcluded.
Mr. and Mrs. Flagler left on a spe
eial train for Mainmaroneck, N. Y.,
where they will spend some time at
Mr. Flagler’s palatial summer resi
deuce there.
There are fabulous stories of gifts
of the groom to the bride and to mom
hers of her family, but tone of them
is authentic.
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STRIKE LEADERS
IN CONFERENCE
Secret Heeting Is Held In
Pittsburg.
°f overtures revived
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Both Factions In Big Steel Strike
Seem to Be Satisfied at the
Present Situation.
A Pittsburg special says: A sum
mary of the steel strike situation up to
! Friday night shows about the follow
iug conditions:
In Pittsburg-Star mill: Two mills
running; strikers say five more men
Jeff. the p] an t and joined their ranks,
but management positively deny the
statement.
Painter mill—Four mills running;
fires lighted in bar mill furnaces, but
failed to start as expected.
Pennsylvania tube works—Mill idle,
machinists say they will quit,
All Carnegie mills running full.
McKeesport—Demmler plant idle
an( j no attempt will be made to start
;t before next week. Everything is
closed down.
Irondale—Mill running with same
force, making two turns and assur
ance from the manager that more
men will be added at once.
Wellsville—Situation unchanged,
twelve mills running.
Lisbon—Fires started in tin plate
plant. Manager Evans says every
thing in readiness for start soon with
plenty of men. Strikers voted to rc
main out and mill is strongly picketed.
Wheeling—Everything tied up and
no apparent indication of an attempt
to start any of the mills.
Bellair—Tile National Steel Compa
ny’s idle plant will, it is said, be start
ed early next week by a full force of
men.
Labor Leaders Confer.
The conference of the labor leaders
at the office of the Amalgamated asso
ciation in Pittsburg Friday was the
leading feature of the strike during
the day. The officials of the organiza
tion seemed pleased with the way
things were moving and one of them
said somewhat mysteriously:
, “In another six daVs wou will see a
decided change in the strike that will
tell with great effect on the trust and
aid in hurrying the final outcome of
this struggle.”
Just what this change is to be was
not said, but it was inferred strongly
that the coming event hinged upon
the conference that was taking place.
: President Shaffer said in reference
| to the meeting that it was not a pre
concerted one. but “just happened.”
Nothing of importance was accom
plished. Mr. Snaffer said no arrange
ment had been made to submit, a new
peace proposition to the corporation
or a further proposal for arbitration,
adding, however, that he did not know
what individual action the conferences
might take in the future. No men
tion was made of the miners or other
trades taking sympathetic action. It
is believed that as a result of the
meeting another effort will be made to
induce tho United States Steel Corpo
ration to tender another conference.
The Strikers make the claim that
very little actual work has been done
In the combine in any of its plants
since the strike began, and that what
product has been turned out has been
of an inferior character. Notwith
standing this the steel official declare
themselves well pleased with the con
dition of affairs and say all the mills
started are working satisfactorily and
turning out good product.
ravish eh kills woman.
Sheriff and Fosse on Hot Trail of Black
Fiend In Tennessee.
Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a
prominent farmer of Franklin county,
Tennessee, was shot and killed Friday
by Henry Noles, a negro, who attempt
ed to criminally assault her. After j
shooting Mrs. Williams, the negro j
f ire d upon her little son, grazing his
head. The negro fled, with the sheriff
and a posse with two bloodhounds n
pursuit,
BIG ESTATE IN COURT.
Burnes Heirs Sue For IMvlsiou of For
tune Estimated at 912,000.000.
A suit for the division of the j
Burnes family estate In Missouri, esti- :
mated to be worth $12,000,000, has ,
been filed at St. Joseph by Mary B.
Moore, one of the heirs, wife of Gen- j
oral Milton Moore, of Kansas City. A
receiver is also asked for the estate, :
of which Lewis C. Burnes, president of ,
the national bank c? bt. Joseph, is ad
ministrator. Mrs. Moore claims one
sevenths of about one-third of the es
tate. which covers valuable ■ property
in St. Louis. St. Joseph and Joplin,
Mo., and Leavenworth and Aatehison. 1
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Effect May 26,1901.
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“ Helena tt “ 4 05 pm.
“ Savannah “ “ 8 25 pm.
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“ South Pines“ “ 10 05 a m.
“ Raleigh tt “ 11 50 a m.
'* Petersburg “ “ 4 38 p m.
*’ Richmond “ “ 5 40 pm.
“ Wash’ton Penn Ry 9 30 p m.
“ Baltimore “ “11 25 pm.
“ Phil’delphia“ “ 2 56
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“ New York “ “ 6 13 am.
Ar. Cordele S A L Ry 2 10 p m.
Lv Portsmouth “ “ 5 50 pm.
Lv # Cordole “ “ 2 10pm 900am
Ar Americus “ “ 5 10 pm 10 02 am
“ Richland “ “ 4 0-1 pm.
“ Columbia “ “ 5 20 p m.
“ Hurtsboro “ “ 5 46 pm.
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