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BILL ARPS’ LETTER
William Had Heart Trouble and
Thought His Tim3 H\d Dome*
TOOK MORPHINE, DEEMED DREAMS
-A,
An Hallucination He Cuotea Jingling
Poetry—Say* H e Will Survive the
Wreck of Matter and the Craeh
of Worlds.
m anyone else was concerned I
would not write this side letter, but
it may benefit others who are similar
ly affected. ~ I have been a very sick
man and hardly expected to see my
next birthday, but I have scuffled
through and am now on the upgrade.
One of my far-away boys wired to
me -to work on 'my stomach and I
would get well. He might as well
have wired: "Keep on living and you
will keep living on."
Mo, it wasn’t my stomach. It was
higher up, where the left ventricle of
the heart had got walled in and the
trouble was what the doctor calls the
angina pectoris, and my left arm was
helpless. For two days and nights I
suffered more real agony than I ever
suffered in aU my life. Our doctor boy
was here from Florida, and knew ex
actly what was the matter, and I took
all his medicine, but got little relief,
and I was willing to die to get out of
pain. Finally he gave me morphine
in both arms and I went off to sleep
and rest'. Those morphine dreams
and visions are always a miracle .to
me. I thought that in his -talk about
my trouble he called it angellna pec
toris, for I don’t hear well now, and
I got the refrain on my mind, that
pretty verse from Ooldsmlth’s “Her
mit.”
“Turn, Angelina—ever dear—
My charmer turn to see,
Thine own, \ thine long-lost William
here,
Restored to heaven and thee.” ’ - .
Ever and anon I could hear It rain
ing on the tin roof, but it didn't rain
a drop. All night long I was mumur-
lng, “Turn, Angelina, dear." I couldn't
stop it, nor think of anything else to
say, but I wasn’t restored—next day
I got some better, and as I hadn’t
taken any nourishment for three or
four days I craved something acid, and
like a foolish boy eat a small piece of
huckleberry pie for supper, which they
told me not to do. That set the dogs
to barking about mld-nlght and set
me back just where I had been, and
the doctor’s work all had to be done
over again. Emetics and hot baths
and hot water bags and more mor
phine finally brought relief. That'
night after supper the young people
had the dining room table cleared off
and were playing that pretty little
childish game called ping pong or
ding dong or Hong Kong, or some.out
landish name with Its tinkling balls,
and so I got another refrain and wad
murmuring ping pong, ding dong and
ding dong bell all night. One of my
boys, who Is always punning, told his
mother that huckleberry pie business
was simply a case of too much pie-
eaty, and they (tried to make me
smile, but they couldn’t. I was past
all wit and humor and puns and jokes.
But I am done with huckleberry pie
and huckleberry cordial and Huckle
berry Finn and any other huckleberry.
Only last Saturday my only brother
died suddenly of heart failure away off
from home. His time was not out,
for he was nearly twenty years young
er than I am, and now, alas! I have
no brother, and he was always a good
brother to me. But almost everybody
Is threatened with heart failure now,
and so I am looking out for it, but
don’t want it to come along the Ange
lina line. The heart Is the most won
derful and mysterious organ of our
anatomy. It is called the seat of af
fection, the desires and the emotions.
The organ of love and hate and joy,
but it Is not. It Is mentioned in the
Bible more than six hundred times,
and always in connection with our
good or bad traits, but It has nothing
to do with feeling or emotion or
character. It Is nothing but a fleshy
,pulpy organism, a mechanical contriv
ance, ..and has to be carefully nursed
or It will rebel. It is the engine that
drive's the whole anatomical machine,
ii overworked, or overfed with ice or
tobacco or anything else it will work
on faithfully until it can’t work any
longer, and then gets discouraged and
dies suddenly at its post. The book
says that but little was known to med
ical science concerning the heart until
the eighteenth century, and that with
in the last fifty years many books have
been written, and now no part of the
Human system Is better understood
or more satisfactorily treated. The
disease called angina pectoris Is de
clared to be the most dangerous to
which It is subject because of its dis
tressing pain and a sense of impend
ing death. If I had read that while !
was suffering I should have surren
dered, but the doctor wouldn’t tell me
nor let me read it. He says it Is
to minify rather than to magnify the
apprehensions of his patients. But
the young people ought to be told, told
often and earnestly, that they cant
fool with the heart. A boy who smokes
cigarettes on the sly is storing up
trouble that will surely come home
and sap his manhood and shorten his
his life. This is so well known now
that good men will not employ boys
dren is their disobedience to their
parents dnd it Is most generally the
mother's fault. They will do things
that are forbidden, but she overlooks
their disobedience and so when they
get sick they will not take the physi
cian’s medicines without force or
struggle, and If the doctor Is not there
to force it the mother lets fhe lime
pass rather than hear the screams or
cartes of the child. Not half the pa
rents enforce obedience from their
children. Prompt and willing obedi
ence should be. the first lesson taught
a child.' Their happiness depends up-
who smoke. One vice calls for an-
. other and a news manager told me
the other day that one of his news
boys skipped some of his patrons
every week so as to have a paper or
two to Sell and get money to buy ci
garettes. Of course he discharged
him.
It is pleasant entertainment to lis
ten to a doctor tell of his varied expe
riences and this one uttered a truth
the other day that ought to provoke
serious thought in every parent’s bo
som. He says that his greatest foe
in the treatment of diseases of chit
on it and so does the mother’s peace.
We old-fashioned people have but
little patience with a generation that
is trying to reform the world with new
methods—abolishing the ways of their
forefathers—raising children on love
Instead of discipline and filling a., the
schools la the land with athletic sports
and Intercollegiate contests. Wlhat
honor, what manliness Is there in
kicking a ball or batting one or wrest
ling or rowing a boat? These sports
have*gotten to be the most Important
part of the curriculum and fill the
dally papers with pictures ana thrill
ing reports of the games.' It is all
an “Ignis fatuus” that fools the boys
and make them think they have ac
quired an education. When they went
to college their parents had fond hopes
of them—when they came out that
hope is gone, tof they are unfit for
business or the duties of life.
While I was half recovering from
the morphine state I got to ruminating
about the value of things and I com
pared good health and domestic hap
piness and the love and devetlon of
wife and children with fame and pow
er and wealth and ambition and the
very thought of them sickened me.
I wouldn't give a good shower of
rain just now for Roosevelt and all he
has got or ever expects to be. But I
love Roosevelt because he hates Miles
and I love Miles because he hates
Roosevelt, and I despise them both—
“Turn Angelina”—ping pong. And
last of all came Satan. They are for
war. They kill a thousand negroes to
our one. They make a land desolate
and call it peace. They have trampled
the love of liberty In the dust and
all for lust of power and place. A
woman from Kansas City sends me
a paper with a speech of a Grand Ar
my of the Republic orator on Deco
ration Day, In which he states that he
wishes every Confererate monument
was buried in the bottomless ocean,
and other vindictive things, and she
wants me to .answer it. No, it Is no
use. That Grand Army of ihe Repub
lic 1b full of just such contemptible
creatures, and I can’t answer tbem all.
It Is a standing curse to the peace
of the land. Let the ball roll on. Turn
Angelina—ping pong, ding dong, ding
dong bell. We will survive the wreck
of matter and the crush of worlds.
And so I went off to sleep murmur
ing, there Is no Grand Army. It is a
two for a nickel or four to one con-
.cere. If I couldn't fight better than
that. I'd apologise and hide out Some
of them down -here In Atlanta would
like to make friends, but they have
never apologized and the way they do
romlnds me of the old couplet:
“I know that you say that you love me.
But why did you kick me down stairs.”
Ping—pong—ding—dong—Turn. An
gelina—Wish I was well enough to
work in my garden.—Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution. < ,
| GEORGIA. {
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INSISTS ON KKIN.Vf Al'KMENT.
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Miss Taylor Writes Letter of temand
to the President.
Miss Rebecca J. 'Taylor, the. clerk In
the war department, who was dismiss
ed for public criticising the adminis
tration's Philippine policy, has written
to the-president and secretary of war
demanding reinstatement in office
within three days, falling which she
says she wlli take the necessary legal
steps to secure her rights.
Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the States
Kick on the Elkins Bill.
Resolutions have been passed by
the Atlanta chamber of commerce and
by the Atlanta freight bureau con
demning in strong terms the Elkins
kill to legalize pooling by railroad com
panles, now pending In the United
States senate.
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Mills Will Nqt Consolidate.
Carrollton oil mills, Mandevllle cot
ton mils and Free State Fertilizer
works, owned and operated by local
capitalists, which recently made appli
cation for charter of consolidation,
have withdrawn the same and aban
doned the project to consolidate with
in the-past few days.
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Reduced Rates Wanted.
Chairman E. T. Brown, of the state
executive committee, has applied to
the railroads of the state for a reduced
rate for delegates to the state conven
tion, which meets in Atlanta on July
2d. It is very probable that the rate
will be granted as it has been tjie cus
tom of the railroads to give reduced
rates to the state convention for sev
eral years.
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The Marietta Chautauqua,
The Marietta Chautauqua will open
June 29 with the brightest prospects
of any year since its organization.
The utmost care has been exercised by
the management In the selection of
lecturers and other attractions.
The Crescent City band, of New Or
leans, under the leadership of Profes
sor Carl Leake, will furnish music dur
ing the week.
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Central's Highest Trewtlo Burned.
One of the highest trestles on the
Chattanooga division of the Central
railroad, located at the foot of D^g-
down mountain, between Felton and
Youngs stations, about 9 miles south
of Cedartown was destroyed by fire
last Saturday morning. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but It is supposed
to have caught from sparks from an
engine passing.
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Rural Delivery for Carroll.
Carrollton and Carroll county are to
have three free rural mall delivery
routes on July 1. One has been In
operation since January 1st This one
to the northeast in a populous and
thriving district, serving 475 people.
Another one will go to the south, by
Bonner’s mines and Lowell, serving
425 people, and still another to the
southeast serving 425. Two special
box delivery star routes have also
been provided for the county this sea
son.
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Nature Study Recommended.
Chancellor Hill In his annpM report
to the board of trustees strongly rec
ommended several very Important
changes in the agricultural course of
the University of Georgia. He recom
mended a course of nature study
which will place the student in closer
contact with all forms of vegetation
and animal life. (
Another Innovation in this course,
he suggested a correspondence course
with the young farmers of the state
who are unable to go to college for
their Information yet. are anxious to
farm on scientific principles.
The third and most Important rec
ommendation in this course was for a
shorter term In the agricultural
course.
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Will Not Resign 8oon.
It Is now stated that Justice Hal T.
Lewis, of the supreme court, will not
send in his resignation to the governor
before the meeting of the state con
vention on July 2. Should Justice
Lewis determine to resign later, on,
the question will arise as to whether
the present governor or his successor
will have to make the appointment.
This, of course, cannot be determined
until the contingency presents Itself.
At all events, the fact that Justice
Lewis will not resign before the meet
ing of the state convention, makes It
impossible that that body should have
anything to do with the matter. As a
result the race for the position which
has so suddenly sprung up is necessa
rily all off; and thersome ten or a
dozen candidates will have to . await
another time to make an effort to se
cure supreme court honbrs.
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Editors to Meet In Quitman.
The 16th annual meeting of the Geor
gia Weekly, Press Association will be
held in the city of Quitman on the 15th
and 16th of July, and from there the
party will go to Tybee for a week's
outing at the coast.
President W. S. Coleman, of the Ce
dartown Standard,.Is arranging an In
teresting program for the meeting In
Quitman, and the hospitable people of
the town are making extensive prepa
rations for the entertainment of their
guests. Quitman is a great convention
city, and the 125 editors and their la
dies will receive a genuine Georgia
welcome from this south Georgia city.
The presence of the ladies at the meet
ing and at the seashore will add much
to the pleasure of the annual gathering
and outing.
All those who desire transportation
to the meeting in Quitman and to Ty
bee should write President Coleman
at once so that their requests may be
filed immediately with the roads. No
delay should be made by any who
wish their applications to receive at
tention by the roads.
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Augusta 8trik e a Fiasco.
In more respect's than one the strike
of the textile workers of Augusta,
which is now practically ended, has
been a most peculiar one. It hps not
been declared ended officially and
probably never will be, but more than
half of the strikers have returned to
work and-the probability is that all
will go back' except a few irreconcll-
ables. The mill has practically all the
help Its needs, and even an overplus
In some departments last week.
There was no concession made by
the mill management, and the strik
ers returned to work just as they had
quit it. But It was a costly lesson to
learn that a strike ordered by an out
side party where the workers con
cerned have no grievance and where
arbitration Is rejected, cannot succeed.
' The mills were ldfe about six weeks,
entailing a weekly wage loss to the
operatives of about 935,000.. The mon
ey sent from Fall River to the strik
ers amounted to about 96,000, which,
of course, was all lost.
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Can Find No Authority.
Unless Col. J. H. Estlll, of Savan
nah, can show Chairman- Edward T.
Brown, of the state democratic com
mittee, some law or party precedent
or submit some good, sound reason
which would indicate, the committee
has no authority to order a recount of
the counties named by Colonel Estlll
In his protest, there will be no rqcounf
of the votes In the counties mentioned
by the defeated Savannah candidate in
forma! appeal to thS'state committee.
Chairman Brown-replied to Colonel
Estlll’s letter requesting a recount, ex
plaining neither he nor the commit
tee as he understood the situation had
authority on which to order a recount
The letter is practically the same as a
declination on the part of the state
committee, and.lt Is now up to Colonel
Estlll to show precedent by which the
committee can be guided, or some law
under which they can proceed.
Hon. Dupont Guerry, of 1 Macon, judg
ing from a telegram which he sent to
Colonel J. H. Estlll Saturday, evident
ly desires a recount of the votes in
certain counties.,
Several days ago, when Colonel Es
tlll made his protest to Chairman Ed
T. Brown, cf the state executive com
mittee, Mr. Guerry, In an Interview,
stated that he did not have sufficient
Information, to approve or disapprove
of Colonel EsttU’s course. Saturday,
however, the Atlanta Journal received
the following telegram from Mr. Guer-.-
ry:
*’ “Macon, Ga., June 14.
“I have, on my own motion, wired
Colonel Estlll as follows. T consent
to a recount in every county you may
name.’ DUPONT GUERRY.”
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Diggers and 8to *ne Indicted.
The grand jury at Atlanta, Ga., Sat
urday morning indicted both Willis
Blggers and H. I. Sterne for the mur
der of William H. Simpson, United
States mail carrier.
The bills contain two counts. In
the first both Blggers and Sterne are
Indicted tor murder In the first de
gree, both as principals. In the second
count Blggers is indicted as princi
pal for murder In the first degree, and
Sterne Is indicted as principal in the
second degree for being present, aid
ing and abetting.
Charges against Mrs. Claude Goza,
Mrs. Willis Blggers and S. H. Craig
as accessories were not considered by
the grand jury, and they were later
released from jail.
WALLKll “DlllJirr SAY IT.”
Major. Denlo* Sou Francisco Interview
Crediied to Him.
As has been the custom In the case
of very officer of the navy to whom
have been attributed utterances which
the navy department considered out
side the pale of professional discretion,
Major Waller, of the marine corps,
who recently returned from the Philip
pines, has received an inquiry from
the secretary of the navy as-to wheth
er the published statements concern
ing the campaign In Samar were au
thorized by him. Major Waller has re-
pli'td that when asked for interviews
by press representatives he declined
to oblige them. This explanation, it
is understood, is satisfactory to the
officials, and it is stated at the navy ’
department that the case is regarded
as closed.
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Cream of News. :
Brief Summary of Most
v Important Events
of Each 'Day.
—Governor Candler, of Georgia, has
received a letter from President Spen
cer, of the Southern railway, and will
call the Atlanta depot committee to
gether in ten days.
—Comptroller General Wright, of
Georgia, rejects tax returns of West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph Com
panies.
—Tuesday was alumni day at the
Georgia State university. Miss Lollte
M. Smith had the honor of being the
first woman to participate In com
mencement exercises.
—The Interstate convention of Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Georgia
bankers opened in Savannah Tuesday.
—A cotton factory and mill village
to cost 91,250,000 will be erected dur
ing the next year near Greensboro,
N. C. It will be the largest plant of
the kind in the world.
—The mammoth mall ship Korea
started Tuesday for a trip around the
Horn. It Is believed she will' make
record time from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean.
—The annual state educational con
ference of Alabama was opened Tues
day in Birmingham with the largest at
tendance In the history of !he body.
—No mention Is made of the Kansas
City platform or of Mr. Bryan in the
resolutions adopted by the Illinois
democrats. Carter Harrison was beat
en by Hopkins In the fight for control
of the organization. , -
—In an address at the University of
Chicago Charles Francis Adams, of
Boston, eulogized General Robert E.
Lee as the highest type of man-and
urged the erection of a statue to him
at Washington.
—It Is alleged that a plot to assas
sinate'King Edward has been discov
ered In London. It Is said that the
king feigned Illness in order to with
draw from public functions owing to
discovery of the plot.
—It is stated In London that King.
Edward has decided to pardon Mrs.
Florence Maybrlck during coronation
week. The report is confirmed by
Mrs. Maybrlck’s relatives at Mobile,
Ala.
—United States grand jury at Atlan
ta, Ga., investigates charges against
railroads of violating the anti-pooling
clause of the Interstate commerce act.
—President Egan, of the Central,
says that road wlli move from south
Georgia nearly 1,400 cars of peaches,
or about 200 more than last year.
—Severe wind, rain and electrical
storms were experienced in several
parts, of Georgia Monday. One man
was killed at Richland. Crops were
greatly damaged.
—Mrs. Louis Westrope, of Copiah
county, Mississippi, in a fit of Insanity
killed her six .children, burned her
home and fled. She was pursued and
when found shot herself with the rifle
previously used In committing the
murders. She may recover.
-‘-The recent Illness of Mrs. Roose
velt was more serious than reported,
ff’here will be no Interesting event at
the white house.
—The statements made by Major
Waller In his San Francisco interview
have angered the president, and the
chances are that the major will face
another courtmartlal.
—The race trouble at El Dorado,
Ills., continues. The homes of negroes
are stoned and warnings sentto occu
pants to leave.)
—The bodies of seven American
soldiers recently captured In the Phil
ippines have been found hewn limb
from limb. The bodies were so muti
lated as to be unrecognizable. *
—The health of King Edward Is so
precarious as to cause grave anxiety.
There has been an advance In the pre
mium on the chance of bis being
crowned.
—President Roosevelt’s answer to
the Thurber disclosure regard Wood
Is a message to congress urging Cuban
reciprocity. The message has anger
ed many of the republican senators.
—The melon crop In south Georgia
is reported to be very large and the
fruit fine. ’ Shipments will begin next
week.
—The house has passed the Irriga
tion bill, which commits the govern
ment to a great water works scheme
in the west.
—Major Waller, who made a howl
ing wilderness of Samar, has reached
San Francisco. He makes sensation
al statements regarding affairs in the
Philippines. He says hell is wintry
compared to Samar.
—The supreme court of Mississippi
decides that tbo Noel primary law Is
constitutional.