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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Philosopher Rejoices
Over Advent of Spring.
ANCIENT ORIGIN OF APRIL
Cleveland is Rcundiy Scored for His
Recent Laudation of Beecher.
Mrs. Arp “Aprii-Foeled” With
a Deceased Snake.
April has come again—a blessed
.month, for it is the first that follows
the long and dreary winter. How in
spiring is the earliest breath of
spring, when nature, like a blushing
maid, is putting on ker pantalets and
preparing to bang her silken hair,
what harmonious feelings spring up in
our bosom ana gush forth to all man
kind. The chambers cf the soul are
filled with music that Is not heard and
poetry that is not expressed. The
sweet south wind is breathing upon
the violet banks. Nearly 3,000 years
a.go Solomon felt its genial influence
when he wrotes "The winter has pass
ed—the rain is over and gone—the
flowers appear upon the earth—the
time for the singing of birds has come
and the voice of the turtle is heard in
the land.”
Now, boys, you must not imagine
that the turtle that Solomon heard
was this ugly, crawling hardshell thing
that lives in muddy water and lays
its eggs in the sand. That is properly
a tortoise. The turtle of Egypt and
England is the same as our dove. It
has a plaintive, affectionate note an 1
is devoted to its mate. In the scrip
ture it is a sacred bird and an emblem
of the holy ghost. I would not shoot
them for sport, and yet I read recently
where some hunters in south Georgia
killed 400 in one day. The English
poets always say turtle when they
mean dove. Goldsmith, speaking of
lore, says it is "on earth unseen, or
only found to warm the turtle's nest.”
But Solomon couldn t. write such
poetry on spring as I used to know. 1
think that mine would suit the boys
better.
Hark! I hear a bluebird sing,
And that’s a sign of coming spring;
The bull-frog bellers in the ditches—
He’s throwed away his winter britches.
The lizzard is sunning hifself on a rail,
lamb is Shaking his new-born tail.
. darkey is plowing his stubborn
mule
And gaily hollers, "Gee, you fool!”
And all the dirty little sinners
Are digging bait and catching irjnners.
And so fourth and so fifth', and 20
on. Solomon didn t write that, but it’s
a fact nevertheless.
But what about April? Two thou
sand years ago it was the second
month in the year, but Julius Caesar
got proud and vain and stuck in .anoth
er month and called it july, and his
adopted son, Augustus, thought he was
as good as Julius, and so he stuck one
in and caled it August, and that gave
us twelve months, or 360 days, which
lacked five clays of making a full year.
So they had to give one more day to
each of several months. April didn’t
have but twenty-nine days and they
made it thirty. Later on old Nero, the
tyrant and fiddler, came along and
said he was just as groat a man as an”
of the Caesars, and so he changed the
name of April to Neronius, and it re
mained that way for thirty years, un
til he died, and then it was put back
to April again. i
April was named from the Latin
word aperire, which means to open,
for then the earth begins to open and
the grass and the flowers to spring up
and the little leaves to come forth
from the buds on the trees. The old
Anglo-Saxons called it Ooster, or Eas
ter month. The Dutch called it grass
month. The foolish custom of April
fooling people still prevails in many
countries among the young people.
Its origin is unknown. Some say it
is a relic of an old heathen festive 1 .
Some say that in the middle ages they
acted a play taken from the life oi
Christ, where he was sent from Annas
to Caraphas and from Pilate to Herod,
and so an April fool is one who is sent
all about on an errand, as, for in
stance, for some pigeon milk, or for
book giving the history of Adam’s
grandfather, or to stop a horseman
and tell him his saddle girth is on
buckled, meaning unluckled, so he
gets down to buckle it and they then
run off and shout April fool. The Hin
doos practice the same thing, but their
All Fools’ day is tne 21st of March.
My folks killed a snake in tne flow
er pit today, and oefore I knew it our
mischievous school girl had coiled K
on the front steps and everybody who
came cried out, "Here’s a snake,''
while the children watched from the
window. The snake was dead, but the
fools were alive. My wife was spend
ing the day in the country and know
ing her horror of snakes they tele
phoned her, “Snake in the flower pit
and grandpa is afraid to go out and
kill him. He says you told him to
stay in the house. What must we do? ’
She answered promptly, "Kill him'
Let your grandpa go out ana kill him
and look for his mate.” She always in
sists that every snake has a mate.
Maybe it has, but the.- don't go abou.
together. Even the mother loaves her
,‘oung as soon as. they are hatched or
born and they have to shift for them
selves. Some snakes are oviparous
and lay eggs and some are viviparous
and are born in their mother and come
forth from her mouth. But all snakes
are horrid creatures and the curse that
Is upon them is a strong proof of the
scriptures. "And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman (that is.
my wife) and between thy seed and
her seed. It shall bruise thy head and
thou shalt bruise nis heel.”
When my wife came home they
showed her the snake (it was a striped
garter snake), and told her we
couldn't find its mate, but I am going
to put this one back in a day or two
and kill him again for a mate—but I’ll
bet she won’t go in that pit any more
this summer.
But there are worse things tha*i
snakes. I want tu know who started
this late move to idi-.ize and ovate tho
memory of Henry Wxerch Beecher in
New York. It nas been forty-four
years since he sent old John Brown to
take the arsenal at Harpers Ferry and
raise an insurrection among our ne
groes. What did they wait so long
for? How came old Grover Cleveland
Into it? What did old Beecner do to
command his admiration? He got old
Brown to take all the risk, and he
and thirteen of his comrades were
hung for it, and the negroes wouldn't
rise at all. Beecher and ms sister did
more to precipitate the terrible war
than all other causes combined. Is
old Grover lauding him for that? The
lecherous old scoundrel debauched the
wife of an elder in his church and
ruined his home and his happiness.
That was twenty years ago. I won
der of Grover is ovating him for thaC’
We are done with old Grover now and
forever. Let him hunt ducks if he
wants to. We have no use for presi
dents who hunt ducks or bear—or who
love Beecher or love the negroes bet
ten than the southern white folk-.
Great heavens! Are they fixing for
another war, and have we got to whip
’em again. Thank goodness I'm not a
duck nor a bear. So 1 reckon I'm safe.
—BILL ARP. in Atlanta Constitution.
CELELRATllON ENEE3 PI BLOODSHED.
<if CltisefHs Have Fkjht With Police in
City ot Monterey, Mexico,
At Monterey, Mexico,' Thursday, dur
ing the celebration of the victory of
General Diaz’s republican troops over
the French at Pueblo on April 2, 1367
after the disbanding of the grand pa
rade on the Zaragasa Plaza a mob of
about 15,000 citizens, who are parti
sans of Francisco Reyes, who is one
of the opposing candidates of General
Bernardo Reyes, late minister of war
in President Diaz's cabinet, marched
in a body to the residence of Governor
Reyes anil began to heap abuse upon
the governor, greeting him with a
shower of stones and yells of “Death
to Reyes” and other cries.
The governor, in the meantime,
called upon the police by ’phono for
protection and v squad immediately
responded and began the work of dis
persing the mob. A pitched battle en
sued in which stones, sticks and pis
tols played a prominent part. A largo
number of shots were exchanged he
tween the police and the riotous mob,
and when the mob had been disperse!
it was found that two policemen and
two citizens had been killed and a
large number of persons more or les3
serious!;' wounded.
WSt. C«(jM 10 KLS.GN JOB.
outer** Collector ot Ctearleeton is Promised
a More Congenial Rerih.
According to a Columbia, S. C., dis
Patch, Collector Crum has been asked
to President, resign, but not in peremptorily by the j
a persuasive manner ,
by a close friend of the president.
The genaeman did not assume to
speak for Mr. Roosevelt, but he a-s
sum! Crum that a favorable consider
ation of his suggestion would be grati- :
tying to a great many persons very
lose to the president, and that Crum
would undoubtedly be the gainer. The
President’s friend, who had recently
heen in Washington, told Crum that
Mr. Roosevelt had no intention ol’ de
sorting him, but be would be relieved ;
from a trying position if the Charier- i
ton collectorship was made vacant. |
Crum was told of a place in the diplo
malic service that would he open to
him.
When Crum told his visitor tha*. !
the office was not vacant, the presi- :
dent’s friend assured him it could i>e
made vacant. This is a place that
would cause no criticism, and it was
not in Liberia. Crum promised to
give the subject consideration.
F)immock Guilty of Pack Steal.
The jury at San Francisco in the
"Tse of Walter N. Dim mock, accused !
of stealing *30,000 from the United
■'..ators mint, reached a verdict of .
guilty. 1
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iw the Southwest. V
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Alone the Cot Tieit Route, where,
Ihuii ca,, bum. .in $!, *3. So an acre
good up—c„t-t^ rouge 1 for timV-r live stock; land that rich bottom afford*
lands for corn, wlitut, outs, cotton, up
lands for fruits and vegetables- peaches,
pears, plums, atrilwjlierries, tomatoes, po
tatoes, onions, pices melons—finding good
markets at fa m y In the Norm on
account ing ahead of exeellenjipuilities and market
of otner sections. A land
$8 where iivi g in chei(;> -lumber ut 5)7 to
a thousand, fuel f ir the cutting, range
tor the stock nearly too year round, gar
den truck for the table from March to
December. The, farmer who pays high
rent in the North, or tills wornont soil
in the East, is missing some of the host
things of life by not securing a home in
Hie Southwest.
Write for copies of our “Homes in the
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souri, Arkansas mid Northwest Louis
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,‘Fortunes in Growing Fruits and Vege
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On first and third Tuesdays of March
and April, the Cotton Belt Route will
sell one-way tickets from St. Louis,
Thebes, Cairo and Memphis, to points in
Arkansas, Louisians mid Texas, at half
the one-way rate, plus $2, or round trip
tickets at one fare fur the ’mind trip, plus
32. For full information, rldress,
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St. Louis. Mo.
BIG CREVASSE IS US ALLY CLOSED.
Jy Vnllinrit Work, Break in Ilymefm I evee
Near New Orleans is Throttled.
A New Orleans special says: With
:he successful joining of the ends oi
he crib work leading from either Hide
if the broken Hymelia levee, an
ichievement which was accomplished
jarly Thursday morning, the critical
stage is considered to have been pass
id in the attempt to ein:-<4 the crevasse j
tow 700 feet in width. Only the most I
unexpected misfortune resulting in the
tarrying away of the cribbing can pr ;■
vent the lasting success of the under
taking.
MOTHER’S HORRIHLF DOIJBLF GRIME.
With Deadly Carbolic Arid She Kills tier
Bobe end [hen Suicides.
At Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. Susie
McMillan, wife of a policeman, gave
her 8-month sold baby hoy a large
dose of carbolic acid and then corn
ml tied suicide by shooting herself
twice in the breast.
She was found lying dead on the
floor, while the baby was lying deal
on the bed with his face terribly burn
ed by the acid.
Mrs. McMillan was badly By burned
by fire, which was started the di
cflarge of the revolver. No motive »
assigned for the deed.
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New Turk mid Florida Limited, via
Danville, between New York nml Augus
in. Savannah and Jacksonville, carrying
Pullman vestibuled Drawing Room Sleep
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without change. Only 23 hours Augusta
to New York.
SUPERB DINING-CAR SERVICE ON
ALL THROUGH TRAINS.
The Southern s Palm Limited
between New York mid St. Augustine,
r rryinp through Pullman ]>uble Draw
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reduced rates.
For information, literature, time tables,
rates, etc-, apply to nearest ticket agent,
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Tilt' Southern's Taint Limited.
Willi the inauguration of tin Southern’s
!‘<il m Limited, i fTectiye Iiuuinrv 18th.
HH1.I, the fcoiitlii'in Railway odors ttspa
troiiM greatly improved sehcilulcH and ser
vice bet wen a Augusta and Washington,
New Turk mid ilia EaU.
'1 hi* magnificent tiain leaven Augusta
every day, except Sunday, at p. in.,
and arrives at \\ ashingmii 10:15 next
morning, New York 4:18 p. in., carrying
the Pullman's latest improved double
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gust* tu N. w York. At Rlaekville, S. C.,
this Augusta-New York sleeper is attach
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Elmlled" running solid through to New
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This famous train is luodernty and hand
somely equipped with I’lilliiiun Compart
ment curs, drawing room sleeping ears,
chili («rs and library observation ears; al
so superior dfiiing cars, serving all meals.
Tills excellent service does not Interfere
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Yoili, leaving Augusta 3:00 p. m,, arrive
Washington 7:40 a. m.. New York 1:43 p.
rn , all meals served In dining ear.
Connections made at, DlmrloUe, at 6.20
[). in., wit.lt through I’uliniaii sleeper for
Richmond and Norfolk; arrive Richmond
6:55 «. itt., Norfolk 0:55 a. M.
With the Inauguration of the “South
ern’s I’aim Limited” direct connection?
tire malic from Augusta to Savannah and
Jacksonville, and all Flotilla points, leav
ing Augusta 7.00 a. m., arrive Savannah
30:20 a. rn., Jacksonville 2:20 p. in., St.
August,inn 8 30 p. m.
'I liese improved schedules on the South
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to all points North mid South, with ser
vice unexcelled, and any one eonli-mnhtt
miiking a trip, would do well to confer
with tV. E. McGee, Traveling Passenger
Agent, 739 Broad St,., Augusta, Gu.,
Plumes 315 and and 1214.
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Washington, Georgia.
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Farming In
In The South.
The Passenger I)ep iilnf'Ut of tin: Illl
md- Central Railroad < otnpauy is Dsulnrr
monthly circular.-, < nn cndu fruit u ..dug
vegetable garileiiinv, stork rni ins', dairy
ing, etc., In file Stains of Kentucky West
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1, 2, 3, 4, and other * a> the) are published
from month to month.
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ent, Illinois i entrnl Railroad, No. 1 Brown
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lanta, has been repaperd and the
house much improved. It is the
most home like hotel in the Gate
City and all who wish to spend a
pleasant time while in the cily
should not fail to stop at. the Ad
kins. Jt is in the third block
from car shed aruj second block
rorn I ‘eachtree street.