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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1898)
Bill It'S KIM ran. . MBS. ARP’S BIRTHDAY OBSERVED APPROPRIATELY. GIFTS OF KISSES. GOLD AND ROSES. The Bartow Philosopher*# Helpmeet Is Not Vet Reconciled or Friendly Toward " Yankees.’* Old Anno Domini keeps rolling on. It seems but a little while since my wife had a birthday, but here is an¬ other and we had to dine out and eel ebrate it with a feast and thank the good Lord for His mercies. Not since the last one has any affliction or ca¬ lamity befallen her or those who are near and dear to her by the ties of kindred or affection. She has good health and strength and her hair still shines with its raven gloss and she still speaksto her numerous and lovely offspring and me. too, with the same queenly toue voice, reding « - the centurion who said: I say unto this one go and he goetb and to that one come and he eometh.” Sometimes she is sad because of her absent chil¬ dren and says she feels like this will be her last birthdav and she wishes they could all gather at the homestead once more before she dies. But I don’t kpp see nnr any such such siens signs and and surelv surely pinect expect to leave her a widow some of these days and have her grieve for me a lit tie while-only a little while-and then come on. “We've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather, ‘Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps ‘twill cost a sigh, a tear, Kav not good night, but in some brighter clime Bid me good morning.” I waited this morning till she took her accustomed seat at the breakfast table and then gave her a kiss on her classic forehead and placed a white rose in her hair and a gold piece on her plate. It was a good mixture she said of kisses and roses aud gold. The roses will fade aud the kisses may be forgotten, but the gold, oh, the gold, how much comfort it will give. How many a little preseut she will buy for the grandchildren. Sixty-six years intensifies a mother’s love for her pos¬ terity, but it does not paralyze her love for ornament aud beautiful things. My wife still loves to look at pretty goods and price t cr em and talk gushingly about t nr em and how wornlei fully cheap they are, but she won’t wear common goods herself. She says she never did and she never will, and I say so too. And she wants the best of everything that is in the heavens above or the earth beneath or the waters under the earth. The best fruits, the best coffee and tea and iee cream aud silver cake ever and anon. Her good taste and appetite show now no weakness or decay and her solicitude about the poor heathen in foreign lands graws stron ge at every missionary meeting. She takes but little interest in the war for she says it is made up of big head lines and nobody knows whether there is any war going on or not. When she can hoar the cannon roar and have to get up in the night and refugee from the fowl invader she will be sure there is another war. “Why,” says she, “the newspapers have had the in¬ surgent army up to thirty, forty aud fifty thousand all the time for six months,and now it has dwindled down to 2,000 or less and one account says 300, and they have never had any more except at the junta in New York, and it may be that all this starvation business is another fake and the whole thing is a scheme to make money for somebody. ” “And I said in mine haste all men are liars,” snith the psalmist. If he had lived until now he might have said it at his leisure. I try very hard to reconstruct Mrs. Arp and to reconcile her to the situation. “My dear,” said I, “McKinley has ap¬ pointed General Lee and General Wheeler and Colonel Gordon and Governor Oates and other rebels to high positions, and it does look like the yankees are trying to make friends with us.” “That is, all very well,” said she, “but they have never apologized,” and she draws the thread of her needle with a quicker aud more defiant strain. “If a gentleman does another au injury he repents of it and apologizes,” says she. That reminds me of Bill Glenn’s divorce ease. His client was a darky named Jack,and Jack had sued his wife, Mandy, for a divorce because she left him aud tuk up with another nigger. Glenn had Jack ou the witness stand and proved his case. There was no de¬ fense. Jim Brown was the judge, and he always takes a hand when the de¬ fendant is absent and not represented. Jack was about to come down from the stand when Judge Brown said: “Stop, Jack, a minute. Where is. yonr wife now?” “She’s at home, jedge,’' said fn-t. jedge, me and Mandy have done made U P- You s ® e ’ i ed p’ how lt “• M aDf 3y got sorrv bout her conduct, , and 1 she 1 come back one night and ’pologized, and what could a poor nigger like me do but tak her back?” “ a m « friends, the yankees, have never apol¬ ogized and Mrs. Arp’s opinion is that the divorce case should not be dis¬ missed until they do so. The other day I received a clipping from a Charlotte paper arraigning me for lack of Americanism and calling me a suspect about the war. The friend who sent it says it was written by a ubiquitous penny-a-liner who has the cackleethes seribendibns and will write all day in the shade and can change his politics or his religion to suit the paper he writes for and have no strains of conscience. Why he does not rush frantically to the front, he do s not disclose. And I re eeived a war-lik« b‘“«>r f>-nm •inntVio' man on the same line, in which be seeks to teach me a lesson of patriotism about what he calls this just and holy war. I replied in three lines, saying that I was surprised to learn that he ‘ wo uld be dated in Cuba or the Philip p i ne islands. No, -I am not an enthusiast about the war, for some of our brave boys are going to be hurt and somebody will be to blame for it. If it was a war of defense, like ours was in 1861, the case would be very different. Then mothers and and sweethearts smiled through f tears ap fhev the bovs goc d . g but they J don’t now. The 4 Question , and will not dow „ what are we fighting for. ” But there is one answer, and that is manifest destiny. Perhaps the cod of nations has willed that a new and bet ter civilization shall control the islands of the sea and thereby advance the cause of Christianity all along the missionary line. This is the broad and philosophic view of the war and the only view in where there is com fort to "the thoughtful minds of aged people. History is repeating itself, The old are serious and doubtful. The young are enthused with patriotic ar¬ dor and wish to fight. One of my sous ami one of my grandsons are get¬ ting ready for the camp, and just so it was in 1861. Experience is the best schoolmaster, and so let the boys learn what war is and what it means just as their fathers did, and thirty years from now they, too, will be in the cautious state. Then let the proces¬ sion proceed. But it is all over now, and the loving family is broken up. Maybe "there. they *1 will all go home and stay reckon they won’t be about Atlanta in July when the veterans meet.—B ixl Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. CLARK WINS D1STICTION. Was First to Land An Armed Force On Cuban Shores. A special from Port Antonio, Jam¬ aica, says: The invasion of Cuba by the American forces began Saturday. Six hundred marines pitched t4 eir . tents about the smoking ruins of the outer fortifications of Guantanamo, and the stars and stripes for the first time float from a Spanish flagstaff in Cuba. To Captain Clarke, of the battleship Oregon, belongs the honor of accom¬ plishing the first successful landing of the war. Forty marines from that battleship went ashore and occupied the left entrance to the bay until the troopship Panther arrived with 600 marines. These, under command of Lieutenant Colonel R. W. Huntington, arrived at 3 o'clock Saturday, and withiu half an hour they had burned the buildings of the Spanish camp and had set fire to the miserable little village which crouches on the beach under the hilltop of Guantanamo. flORE SUSPECTS ARRESTED. Two Spaniards Taken From Outgoing Steamer at New York. Eduro Montici, a Spaniard, and an unknown man of the same nationality, were taken off a trans-Atlantic steam ship at New York Saturday on suspi cion of being Spanish spies. The ship was on tne point of sailing from her dock. It is said by the ... detectives that , pa pers were found in the baggage of the men that would convict them. They were brough back to Governor’s Is¬ land and locked up. Montici is re¬ ported to be a wealthy Spaniard. DEWEY SE.ND5 LETTER Giving Details of the Great Battle at Manilla Bay. The navy department , received . , , Mon- r day afternoon its first mail advices from Admiral Dewey since he reached Manila. Under the date of May 4 ?u the y x^ battle dI ?\ Manila 6 , S a .?°V bay. M,ed ?f It C is .° n in . nt the ° f main an elaboration of his cablegram Its special feature is the terms of high praise in which be speaks of the crews of the ships, saying that never liau an officer so loyal and brave crews. REVENUE BILL niMiAwpe DJUlJvlllDlJ t lili jm II • President McKinley Puts His Sig¬ nature to tiie Measure, BOND BIDS CALLED FOR. Circular Issued By Secretary of Treasury Gage. A Washington special says: The war revenue bill is a law. President McKinley signed the measure Mon¬ day. Immediately upon receipt of infor¬ mation from the whitehouse that the bill had been signed, Secretary Gage issued a circular explaining to the public the proposed bond issue. The circular is in part as follows: The secretary of the treasury invites . subscriptions from the people of the United States for $200,000,000 of the bonds of 3 per cent loan authorized *£%£25Zt received sub at par for a period of 34 days, the scription being open from this date to ^ 0 c l° c ^ P- m - on the 4th day of July, isl¬ The bonds will be issued in both coupon and registered form, the cou P on bond6 bein 8 in denominations of $20, $100, $500 and $1,000, and the registered bonds in denominations of §20,$100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 $10,000. They will be dated August 1, 1898, and by their terms will be redeemable in coin at the pleasure of the United States after ten years from the date of their issue and dne and payable Au gust 1, 1918. The bonds will bear interest at the rate of 3 per cent annum, payable quarterly; the inter est on the coupon bonds will be paid by means of coupons to be detached from the bonds as the interest be est becomes due, and the interest of the registered bonds will be paid by checks drawn to the order of the payees and mailed to their addresses. The law authorizing the issue of bonds provides that in allotting said, bonds the several subscriptions of in¬ dividuals shall be first accepted aud the subscriptions of the lowest amounts shall be first allotted. In accordance with that provision allotments to all individual subscribers will be made before any bonds will be allotted to other than individuals. In order to avoid a too rapid absorp¬ tion of funds into ths treasury with a possible consequent evil effect on in¬ dustry and commerce, and subscribers for more than $500 will be permitted to take his allotment of bonds in in stallments of 20 per cent, taking the first installment within ten days after the notice of the allotment, and the balance at four equal intervals of forty days each, in four installments each of 20 per cent of the bonds allotted. Delivery will be made in install¬ ments as payment for them is receiv¬ ed and payment must in all cases be made in full as the bonds are taken. The 2 per cent deposit will apply on the first allotment. Any subscriber may pay for the whole amount allotted him within ten days from the date of the notice of his allotment. Interest will be adjusted from the time of the actual payment, whether paid in one sum or in installments. The secretary of the treasury will receive in payment for the bonds post office money orders payable at Wash¬ ington, D. C., and checks, bank drafts and express money orders collectible in the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago,* St. Louis, New Orleans and San Francisco. All money orders and bank drafts must be drawn in favor of the treasurer of the United States. The bonds will be dated August, 1898, and they will be delivered to subscribers free of expense for trans¬ portation as soon after that date as possible. The bonds will be accom¬ panied by a check for the amount of interest due the subscriber from the date of his payment to August 1,1898. ^jj subs criptions must be received at ^ be j reasU ry department, Washington, D C ., not-later than 3 P .m.Wednesday July 4,1898. No subscriptions received after that date and hour will be consid ered (Signed) L. J. Gage, Secretary. * TEX DAYS’ DETENTION. 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