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rp's Old Letters
ness or medicine. The rich pass such
people by and say, "they are no account?they
are lazy and trifling."
This Is a mistake. The trouble Is
they cant't get a start and the?r
hopes are crushed. There Is many a
Cinderella In the ashes whc would
make a princess if lifted up. The
inner life of the poor Is known onlv
W of Bill A)
From Home and Farm.
Some of our readers have suggested
that it would do them good to
read occasionally some of the letters
of "Bill Arp." which some years ago
they read with so much pleasure.
1UOBV iouci o a illUSl MI1U1V
philosophy, and ey touch in a general
way on the events of every-day
life. No other series represent in a
more attractive way farm life in the
South than do these letters of Bill
Arp, which appeared for years in
Home and Farm. If our readers
want more of them, let them ask for
them and they will follow:
ON PAYING THE LABORER.
I heard a young man say to his
employer: "Mr. Jones called again
and has gone hack to his work. He
said he had called three times and
you were not in."
"Well, let him call again, I can't
stay in all the time Just to accommodate
him. I wonder if he expects me
t?tftake his money to him?"
^Tes, my friend, that is exactly
what Mr. Jones has a right to expect.
He ought not have been forced to
call at all. You hired him to do that
work. He did it, and it was your
duty to have hunted him up and paid
him. You should have called on him
promptly and paid it. You are rich
and he is poor. He can't afford to
lose the time. You can.
This is the too commop tyranny of
capital over labor, and this is the
cause of the conflict between them.
Money is the king and labor the subject.
Just let a man get rich and he
gets tyrannical. There are but few
exceptions to this rule. Woe unto
the man who lias to depend absolutely
upon the rich for his living. His
manhood is crushed and he feels that
he is helpless. Not long ago 1 saw a
ntruirclltiE vnnnp man n-rlthlnir n?
der the tyranny. fie had worked
hard 1n the broiling heat for a month
and had well earned his money and
It took him three weeks to get it.
His employers were rich and the
money was in hank, but one partner
referred him to the other and the
other was off on a trip, and when he
returned said he would attend to it
as soon as he had time, and after
several failures the young man was
referred to the boss of the work for
a certificate, and so his patience was
tried for days and weeks.
This is all wrong; a man ought to
f be Just as anxious to pay the laborer
L as he was to get his work. He ought
^tqghunt him up and pay him. The
*pfrf|hwoman ought not to call for her
I money but 6nee. If you haven't got
I it or are not at home, then send her
I the money. Honest labor is full
equivalent for money, and is entitled
to just as high consideration. Indeed,
there is something about the labor
and toil of the working people that is
sacred. It is a sin against heaven to
withhold their Just reward. I know
men who keep back the wages of the
poor. They pay but they pay late.
They keep the money as long as they
can. "Does he pay you for your
work, Uncle Sam?" "Oh, yes, sir,
he pay, he pay when he gets shamed
to see me standln' round. I has to
stand roun' on de street and about
the postofflce and get in his way
sometimes and den he pay. His
money mighty good money, dey say.
y It draws interest in his pocket."
V The lawyer or the doctor can afford
to lose his fee. The merchant
L expects to lose a certain per cent In
Mbad debts. The capitalist takes the
P risk of fortune and fire and flood and
K strikes and pestilences, but the tollera
can't afTord any risks. Their food
| and clothing depend npon the prompt
E payment of their daily or weekly or
monthly wages. There is too much
J, Indifference about this thing. Even
^ the great state of Georgia that is so
(ealous of her Ananclal honor, does
not pay her public servants as
promptly as she ought. There are no
tollers who work harder or are more
?:*le8ervlng than her teachers, and
gf they do not draw thiir pay for
I; months after It Is due. The school
noards of some of the public schools
jjjlire equally Indifferent, and their
f teachers have to stay at home dur'
|ng the long summer vacation for the
? lack of means to "Isit their kindred,
i. 1 know some that have not been paid
' For Ayp months, and are not likely
to WtT Schooling Is cheap, but
teaching Is cheaper.
ON THE SORROWS OF THE POOR.
> If capital was more respectful to
labor there would be no strike nor
' unions. Indeed, there would be no
,, alliance, for there would he no necesSeity
for such organizations. The avfierage'working
man does not envy the
rich because he is rich, but becnuse
.his riches make him proud and overshearing.
I heard a lady Bay, "Those blackjfberry
peddlers are a nuisance. 1 just
MBit In my window and scream 'no
berries, don't want any,' before they
^?ome In at the gate." Some of these
Spoor country girls have worked hard
;.to gather those berries, so as to
1 make a little money to help the
mother or get a calico dress, or a
cheap hat, or pair of Sunday shoes.
Who knows how many humble
plans they have laid and how fond
were their expectations that somebody
would buy, and it Is right hard
oh their humble hopes for a lady to
scream out:
"No berries?don't want any."
I would buy some beries If I didn't
have a cent of money and had to pay
in sugar or coffee or children's
clothes. Wo know very well that
there is nobody suffering for the
necessaries of life in this blessed
blessed country, but the poor and
humble have some aspirations, some
desire to better their condition and
their appearances.
Some of these poor girls can't go
to church or school for lack of comely
garments. Some have no father
*vad some have no mother. I know
one whose father works all day in
Mthe mines that ere three miles away.
He goes early and comes home late
u*d saves hta dollar and It goes for
food and clothing and fuel and rent.
Me la the only brt id-winer In a famly
of nix, all femalen but one. That
I loll a r fv<uioogh for living, hut nothing
for^Sorafort?nothing fo?" sick
to Ood, but His curse Is upon all who
neglect or defraud them, and His
blessings upon those who defend
them.
"The spoils of the poor are in yom
houses."
I "Ye do grind the faces of the
poor."
| "Fllessed is he who considereth the
poor."
The good book is full of such passages.
No poet ever wrote a ^weetii
song or sentiment than Lady Duffcrir
in the "Emigrant Lament."
"I am very lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no new friends
But oh, they love the better far
| The few our Father sends."
The man or woman or a child does
not have to be a beggar to be poor
Some are too pfoud to beg, and will
suffer on. An educated stranger has
been working in our mines for a
month at a dollar a day, working
with pick and shovel, and keeping
his own secret. But he CQuldn'l
stand it. Of course he rrnilHn't fr?i
ho was frail in body and not used tc
i toll. He bad a good, kind, 'careworn,
intellectual face, and refused
our offer of help as long as he could
work. But was at last forced to say:
"I cannot dig, to beg I am ashamed.'
| And so we raised him a purse ami
sent him home. He wrote poetry
and wanted me to sell it for him, and
hen I realized how utterly poor hr
was. There is a luxury in doing
good. If you don't know it just give
a poor half-clad blackberry girl a
silver half dollar for her berries and
watch her as she shuts it tight in he!
stained hand and leaves you. She
will take a shy glance at it several
times before she gets out of sight
It is a small matter to you, but it if
a mint, a gold mine, to her. Maybe
it is the first half-dollar she evei
earned. I remember the first I evei
earned, and I have never had any
since that would compare with it.
It is too hot to talk politics; it if
dangerous. Dr. Hicks says that il
will be hotter. There is a conjunction
of the planets. The hot and
fierv Mars has rnt In hotwoun tin:
earth and the sun and is making oui
people mad. They are ready to flghl
in Carolina, and there is some big
bulldozing down about Augusta, and
they say there is blood on the moon
up in this region and it all comes
i from politics. Better quit talking,
; if they can't talk in peace. If our
i people are obliged to abuse somel
body, let them abuse Ingalis. He is
; afar off and can stand it, in fact, he
i likes it. *
ON KEEPING COOL.
We must keep cool during this
weather. I got hot yesterday, awful
hot, and didn't get over it for a good
while. A little grandson is over here
and he is smart and he knows it.
While his grandma was taking her
evening nap, the chap asked me to
let him ride old Molly around the
yard. I consented, for I could watch
. him from the piazza where I was
writing. He wandered around the
house for a while and then I missed
him, and found that he had opened
the gate and enlarged his boundaries.
He had gone to town and the
old mare had got her dander up. I
hurried on my coat and shoes and
J started out in hot pursuit.
| It was about 4 o'clock and sun
and Mars had got close together.
When I got on Main street I said to
a friend: "Have you seen anything
of a little scrap of a boy on my
mare?" "Oh, yes. He went up this
street while ago like he was shot out
of a gun, and his feet were rammed
up to the sockets in the stirrup
leathers." "Oh, Lordy!" thought I,
"that oy will be killed," and I hurried
on with my heart in my mouth.
When I passed the livery stable I
: asked again, and Boh Anderson said:
"Yes: he went hy here and old Molly
was just humpin' it. He turned up
College avenue."
I With desperate energy, I struck a
I fox trot and kept it awhile, and then
j tried a sort of buzzard lope for a
quarter of a mile and met a feller
who said he's gone on down the Cassvllle
road, like ha wan n hnntlno f r? ?
a doctor. Ry this time I began to
cave in and took a rest on the steps
at the Raptist church. After awhile
a preacher came along and said he
knew the mare but didn't know the
boy, for his riding was like the riding
of Jehu, and he rode up and
down as well as forward and was
pumping In the saddle like a Jockey
on a race track. "I will trust him
to Providence," said r
Some years ago, when his brother
was a little scrap; I let him rfde
around the lot a little and he fell ofT
and lit on his head and took the comatose
and the whole family sat up
with blm all night and said that his
brain was affected and I got the
blame of it. If his brain is affected,
I suppose I am responsible, and now
here Is another load for me to carry.
[ Mrs. Arp had no business to go to
! sleep no how while those grandchildren
are orillalnnr nrnnnd A /il?? linn
hasn't got very much horse sense
when he goes to the country. I kept
on ruminating over this until I got
home and the little rascal met me
with an impudent laugh and said:
"Grandpa. I heat you home. I've been
here for a quarter of an hour."
Well, he got a big piece of my mind
as soon as I could find language appropriate,
and sure enough his
grandma took his side of the whole
business and thought it was ever so
smart, but he mustn't do it any more,
and that's what made me so mad.
BILL ARP.
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QIK LANCASTER NEW S,
i Why Advertising Rates
Should Be Raised.
' Ralner (Oregon) Review .
1 Very seldom, yet upon occasion,
The Review has judged it necessary
1 or wise in the course of its career,
L to take Its readers Into Its confidence
1 even at the risk of seeming to thrust
upon their attention, information
and considerations of a character
1 usually regarded as quite personal
and wholly private. Another such
occasion presents Itself now.
It has been said that The Review
should not have raised its ad vert ls1
lng rate, by a person more or less
unresponsible, who claims to have
( witnessed the historic hike of Ponce
de Leon In search of a fountain
" spouting eternal tonic, which has
contributed to the gayety of all na1
tions ever since. Closing the musty
doors of past history and coming
down to things of more recent issue;
can anyone furnish us with a good
and sufficient reason why we should
not have raised the rate over the old
rate after increasing our subscription
four and one-half times? Are
5 our advertisers not receiving four
and one-half times the value of their
' money over the old rate?
5 The newspaper business is the only
1 business In this country that has not
> nearly doubled its prices in the past
ten years. rne equor pays double
; the priee for all material used in the
office that he did ten years ago; he
pays double the wages for help and
double the prlre for everything he
puts on his table or on his hark.
Is it any wonder that we find editors.
as a class, while working more
hours than any other business men.
having the most severe struggle to
keep the wolf from the door?
With a few exceptions you gef an
advertising at the same price In a
weekly paper as you did when the
editor got his eggs at five cents per
dozen and potatoes five cents pc-r
bushel.
When provisions^, clothing and labor
were cheap, but few editors ever
became wealthy. Did you ever know
one that did? Now. since everything
has doubled and trebled except the
price of your subscription and advertising,
the question becomes a
serious one with many editors how
to make both ends meet.
Can some one solve the problem?
* Whv whon ntt ntlmr linnj nf Kncinaaa
men double their prices, the editors.
' who ordinarily are as sensible as average
citizens, kept perfectly mum.
; and turned their faces toward the
* county farm without even an effort
; to get a fair compensation for their
| labors?
No one can dispute the fact that
' prices for all lines of work that
1 comes from fhe printing office should
be doubled what It was ten, or even
Ave years ago. How many'editors
have the courage, even at this late
1 date, to double present prices? No
honorable, reasonable, thinking patron
can make an objection. The editor
has not a patron who Is not hlm,
self receiving double the price for
his labor that he did a few years ago.
The dawn of the twentieth century
| caught all men prosperous but the
printer, for the reason that all other
. men kept up with the times and ad,
vancpd prices as the advance de,
manded.
A live, up-to-date newspaper never
! fails to make a live, up-to-date town,
, but It Is next to Impossible for an
editor to Issue a live paper on half
rations. If every editor would lust
double their present prices their
, compensation would then be no more
than lust and every patron would he
benefited as well as the editor, for
there would bo now life and ginger In
Its columns and the town and community
would take on new life.
We have a few advertisers who
realize that they are getting their
money's worth, and results from
their ads. hut they are precious few
for a town of this size. Think of It,
brethren! only three merchants In
Ralner who advertise to any extent.
Is It any wonder that the department
stores In Portland are pulling
such a trade away from this city?
We have received offers from these
same department stores for a years'
contract for one-half and full page
ads. They know the value of advertising
and are anxious to pay a price
greater than our local advertisers.
Rut we stand always for Ralner and
its enterprises and therefore have no
space at any price for foreign department
stores. But does It pay us?
BREVITIES.
Rural New Yorker.
A corn crop gives little chicks the
shady side of life.
Texas has an "Onion Day" in the
district* where trucking Is caried on.
"Onion pie" Is said to be a great delicacy
at this celebration.
The conservative father often
thinks his son tells a tale of woe.
The progressive son thinks father's
story a tale of whoa.
Now the Kansas College claims
the earliest planted corn Is least nijured
by ear worms. The theory is
that the ears finish "silking" before
the worm gets ready.
Now they say that the experts perform
"a slight surgical operation" on
the throat of a rooster and provnt
his crowing. The vocal chords are
cut and the bird goes through the
motions in silence.
We have no record of any professional
agriculturist who has talked
the "two blades of grass" theory for
the past six months. It's good work
to cut such talk out with a scythe
until the one blade cuts a fair figure.
Here %ls an instance of^ how habit
or rasnion arrects trade. The Chinese
men began cutting off their queues.
Then they began to wear hats, and
the export trade in hats from Japan
Jumped from $50,223 in 1910 to
$804,704 in 1912. Then fashion decided
that women ahould wear
switches and wigs, and this Chinese
hair took on millions in value.
If you can learn to meet today's
trouble with a placid soul, tomorrow's
problems will come to you with
their answers in their hands.
JULY 15, 1913.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
Annual Meeting to be Held al
llethleliein Church August 30-31.
The following Is the program ol
the flft'h annual meeting of the
Lancaster County Sunday School
Association, to be held at Bethlehem
church August 3-0-31:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30.
10:15 a. m.?Song Service.
10:30 a. m.?Devotional Exercises,
Rev. W. S. Patterson.
10:45 a. m.?Enrollment of Delegates
11:00 a. ui.?Report of President,
Secretary and Treasurer.
11:15 a. m.?What Advantages
are to be Derived from Enlisting the
Grown People in the Sunday School?
Rev. W. S. Patterson, Rev. E. T.
Hodges, Rev. T. W. DeVane and
Rev. H. R. Murchlson.
12:5 p. m.?Dinner.
1:45 p. m.?Song Service.
1:55 p. m.?Prayer by W. C
Kelly.
2:00 p. m.?Sabbath School At
tendance and How to Get It. Mr
W. L. Croxton, S. E. Bailes, S. D.
Bailey, W. F. Estridge, W. II
, Drattin and J. E. Craig.
Announcement of Committees
SUNDAY, AUGUST 31.
9-3I) a ni ?
9:45 a. m.?Devotional Exercises
B. F. Carson.
10:00 a m.?Prayer Life. Rev. H
R. Murchison and Rev. J. W. H
Dyches
11:00 a. m.?Sermon, by Rev. H
R. Murchison.
12:00 m.?Dinner.
1:30 p. m.?Song; Service.
1:40 p. m.?Prayer, by Dr. J. II
Holdridge.
1:45 p. ni.?Charts and Reports
2:15 p. in.?Qualifications ol
Sunday School Teachers, Dr. J. II
Boldridge, Rev. \V. C. Kelly, Rev
C. P. Carter and Rev. II. C. Monzon
Election of Officers.
Kershaw Era please copy.
After School.
"Yes, we shall have Mary with uf
next winter, and in February William
comes home from college. He ex
pects to find business rather slow
after all the athletics and festivities
at the university. Mary is not goinp
to do anything but keep up her mush
and be happy at home. It will seem
good to have the young people back
again after these years without
them."
Something like this goes eacl
year through the minds of the pa
rents of the 600,000 boys and girl;
who are in our private high schools
writes Elsa Denison. These are tin
children who are to have every ad
vantage, whose parents somehow
find the $60,010,000 which goes foi
tuition ami board, not to mention tin
large amounts for traveling expense!
and pocket money. What proportior
of this vast sum "comes hard" cam
not of course he estimated. Rut yoi
and I know of many instances when
parents have deprived themselves ir
?l. 11 .? t
nun men * miuirii ui?i> uuv*
a little better start In life, more ol
a share of the world's knowledge
more social advantages than tlie>
themselves had.
The spending of over $60,000,001]
a year, which is the income of $3,000,000.(\00,
deserves the attention
of thoughtful people. Is the country
receiving for this large amount ol
money an added return which il
WOUld not get if these 600,000 hoys
and girls stayed at home and went
to public schools? What is the net
results of taking them away and
spending all this money on them?
You hear over and over again that
the colleges and so-called finishing
schools spoil our young people for
the life in the smaller cities and
rural communities to which they return.
The problem of the girl who
leaves an active, varied existence
with lectures, athletics, plays and
scores of friends and comes home to
do nothing, with a gap between her
and the friends whom she had not
seen for years?this problem is crucial.
The distressing results in many
lives make parents declare that it is
too dangerous a risk, this over-education.
RESOLUTION OF THANKS.
Passed by Confederate Veterans at
Gettysburg to Pennsylvania and
the Government for Splendid
| Treatment.
At a meeting of the Confederate
Veterans at Gettysburg the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted
:
44Resolved, by the ex-Confederates
at Gettysburg assembled that our
thanks are due and are hereby tendered
to the state of Pennsylvania
for initiating the movement which
has made it possible for the survivors
of the two great armies which
fought in this illustrious field fifty
years ago, to meet in friendship here
today and plant a monument of
peace, a monument which shall stand
as the symbol of American valor,
manhood and brotherhood.
"Resolved, that we thank the government
of the United States for the
magnificent and munificent manner
in which it luis seconded the efforts
of the state of Pennsylvania in carrying
forward this great work of
peace and fraternity between the blue
and gray; and without any selfabasement
whatsoever, we desire to
reaffirm and plede not only ourselves,
but all our brother ex-Confederates,
and all the people of our loved Southland
to the utmost loyalty to the
government of the United States and
to the (lag of our country.
"Resolved, that we take pride In
the fact that to the armies of the
Confederacy Is due the credit of demonstrating
the utter Impossibility
of the dismemberment of the Union.
When we consider that 600,000 men
of the very flower of chivalry, as
good material as was ever organized
in a fighting force, and directed by
such commanders as our beloved
Robert K. Lee and his lieutenants,
inspired by a sectional devotion such
as has not elsewhere been known in
history, failed to separate the states,
we see that the demonstration was
i
. complete, that the thing was not to
be done, aud our failure must give
pause to those who in the future
would contemplate such an undertaking."
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