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K. <r j* <?> <e> <?> ^ . THE 1DLEK. <$> !?> ? > vi> . > : ; ; < > ?; I1 reckon the good women nave not 1 time to have meetings of thei-.* ions and sundry organizations just l so ti.at they might act upon ^suggestions that they get together do someti ing about tnat old graveland the building of that park. I Bure that wi en they do take the r under consideration that there Be something doing, and the old Wveyard will be macie a thing of J|beauty, and the park will be a joy forever. I was just reading the other i. day in some newspaper that the little town o! Lancaster was to have a children's playground. 1 toe never been to Lancaster, and should r.ot make comparisons, ami I am not intending to do it in any offensive sense, but as an encouragement to the people of | Aewberry. If Lancaster can get tob getter and have a playground for the children, surely Newberry could get to^Lgetrer and have a park. The thing to Hdo is to get together. That is the first rstep ana inen me oi^er sieps are I surely will hear from some of the good, women within the next week, j You know, I am getting old and a lit-1 tie bit nervous, and rave not quite as much patience as I once possessed. I^et some one get busy, is my plea, and get busy right now. j I see the towr council ft as passed an ordinance on the eallon-a-month law. It is a pretty searching ordinance. I don't see how a man is to get anything : to drink at all now. He certainly can't go down to Peak and Chapin and bring it i ome any more, even for his own ** use. Not even a go!Ion a month, bur "be can ship in a s^llon a month if be buys it out of the State. Well, I wish while they were at it they toad run the stuff completely out of the State, alcohol and all. And jamaica ^ ginger and essence of lemon and ail r em othrr essences that will make drunk. And beer, is absolutely out of the question. Why, one gallon a month would scarcely be enough for one setting. I don't know, but 1 reckon that is 16 little bottles. Why, that is only a half-bottle a day. Just think * of it. It is horrible to contemplate. And I see from an opinion by tie attorney general's office that the druggists can't ship but one gallon a month rwf air-r?hni Wasn't it Hobson. who de \_Ai U. * v v w ? , livered a temperance lecture here once, who said trat alcohol was not necessary for t; e compounding of drugs, and whiskey was not a stimulant, and he knew what he was talking about. Of course he did. He said it made all that little army of molecules that were mustering up and down in your blood dead drunk and they could not keep t'eir proper posts, but got all mixed lip, and tiie Diooa uia nui run smuuu , or something like J at. If that's so, and I reckon it is or lie wouldn't 'or said it, why the quicker we get rid or the stuff the better for t.'ie i uman race. But what's the u?e. We are going to regulate everything by statute now, and we are all going to be s;ood. ; I was reading t.te othor day "Aunt Jane of Kentucky," a book that war published some fifteen years aso. but somehow I had never read it. It is fiy 'Eliza Calvert Hall, it is the story of a dear old philosopher in homespun, ? J T 11 ? ? ~;f T ? Ana ontpr ana i eiijuj m who vuuyw. of the book she delivers herself on "Sweet 'Day of Rest," and says some mighty good and true tilings. n ev had been discussing Sunday observance and finally they surrendered themselves to happy silence. And then there came all the faint sweet sounds tihat break the stillness of a Sunday in the country?the lisp of the leaves, the chirp of young chickens lost in ti e mazes of billowy grass, and the rustle of the silver poplar that turned into a mass of molten silver whenever the breeze touched it. >Tfi:<e chunk of philos A <- T - ? - fAll/vnr/irt TC opny rrom Auni jane tuai iwuvntu * <> a little long, but I am going to quote , it, and if tT:ere is any reacter of this column that doesn't care to read it, | why he can skip it just like he used . to do in l is reading lesson at school. It is not compulsory upon any one to, read anything that I write, I have no doubt t-'^at some time in the near future some wise legislator, when his attention is called to this column m , The Herald and News, and J'.'-e is made ; fully to realize the good and great and ; wise things that appear in this column, j will arise up in his seat in that august assembly and pass a law making it compulsory upon all those who claim tf.e right of citizenship to read this column religiously, and will also pass ! a law that every one of a certain age j must go to cnurcn ai leasi ouut; . every Sunday. Tsat would not be a bad law. But here is what Aunt Jane i said: , "When you have lived as long as I ( have, child, you'll feel that you've lived | in two worlds. A sftort life don't see I many changes, but in eighty years you ! can see old things passin' away and new ones comin' on to take their places, and wf.en I look back at the v. ay Sunday used to be kept and the 'way it's kept now. it's jest like bein' .in another world. 1 hear folks talkin' about ow wicked the world's growin' > k.,?i. f^ ,1 anu \\ imuii lucy i;uuju nam v/iw times, but it looks like to me there's jest as much kindness and goodness in folks nowadays as ti ere was when i was 'young: and as foT keepin' Sunday, why, I've noticed all my life that the folks t at strictest about that ain'r always the best. Christians, and I reckon there's been more foolishness prcaci ed and talked aDout keepin' tne Sabbath day holy t ai^about any otliei cue tains:. i "I ricol!ect some fi.ty-odd years ago the town .oiks got to keepin' Sunda.v mighty strict. They hadn't i ad a . preacher for a long time, and the (hurch'd been takin' taings easy, and finally they got a new prean er from ! down in Tennessee, and the first thin*: he did was :o draw I e lines around 'em close ;; d tight about kc-epin* Sun. day. Some o' the members had been in the 1 abit o' havin' their wood chopped on Sunday. Well, as soon as t .e new preacher come, he said that Sun.rinv wnn.l flmnnin' hni fn amongst UW J " W* V V ?, V. ? <J-~ his church-goers or t e'd have 'em up before t':e session. I ricollect o'd Judg<Morgan swore he'd have 1.is wood chopped any day that suited < im. And he had a load o' wood carried down cellar, and nobody ever would 'a' found it out, but pretty soon they got up a big revival that lasted three months and spread 'way out into the country, and, bless your life, old Judge Morgan was one o' the first to be converted; and when he give in his experience, he told about the wood choppin', and how i e hoped to be forgiven for breakin' the Sabbath day. "Well, of course us people out in the country wouldn't be outdone by toe town folks, so Parson Page got up and preacned on t>:e Fourtn i. omm,\nument, and all about that pore man i! at was stoned to death for pickin' up a .few sticks on the seventh day. lAnd Sam Amos, he says after nleetin' broke, says he, 'It's my opinion that fc':at man was a industrious, enterprisin' feller that was probably pickin' up trv mobfl V>ic? u'ifo *j fi A.11IUHJU " ? VVU IV xawuc XHO '? a. i,v U V and,' says he, 'if they wanted to stone anybody to death they better 'a' picked out some lazy, triflin' feller that didn't have energy enough to work Sunday or any otrer day.' Sam always would i ave is say, and nothin' pleased him better'n to talk to the preachers and git the getter of 'em in a argument. 1 ricollect us women ta'ked that sermou over ai the Mite Society, and Maria p?ftv rjivs- T don't know but it's a wrong t? ing to say, but it looks to me like that Commandment wasn't intend-; ed for anybody but them Israelites. It was mighty easy for them to keep the Sabbath day holy, but,' says soe, 'the Lord don't rain down manna in my yard. And,' says s<:e, 'men can stop plowin* and plantin' on Sunday, -but they don't stop eatin.' and as long as men ? ave to eat on sunaay, women u have to work.' "And, Sally Ann, she spoke up, and says she, 'That's so; and tnese very; licarhers that talk so muoj about'' kee; in the Sabbath day holy, they'll walk down out o' their pulpits and setj down at some woman's table and eat j fried chicken and hot biscuits and corn ; bread and fr.e or six kinds o' vege-1 tables, and never think about tne work ?? tn t tho /linrxir tn sav TTfvthin' 11 IW XV tw ? VW / j o' the du? -washin' to coiUh alter.' "There's one tning, child, that I never told anybody by Abram; I reckon it was wicked, and I ought to be ashamed to own it, but?I never did like Sunday till I begun to git old. And the way Sunday, used to be kept, it looks to me like nobody could 'a* been expected to like it but old folks and lazy folks. You see, I never was one o' fnllrc fi at's horn tired. I loved tc work. I never had need of any more ' rest than I got every night when 1 slept, and I woke up every mornin', ready for the day's work. I hear folks j prayin' for rest and wishin' for rest, but, honey, all my prayer was, "Lord,: give me worK, ana sirengui eiiuugu iu do it.' And when a person looks at ? all the things ti%ere is to be done in ' t&is world, they won't feel like restin', when they ain't tired. "Abram used ro say he believed 1 tried to make work for myself Sunday and every otl.er day; and 1 ricollect 1 used to be right glad when any o' the neighbors'd git sick on Sunday and for mp to n^ln nurse 'em. Nursin' the sick was a work o' necessity, and j mercy, too. And then, child, the Lord don't ever rest. The Bible says He rested on the seventh day, wl.en He: got through makin' the world, and I reckon that was rest enough for Him* j For, jest look; everything goes on on. Sundays jest the same as week-days, j The grass grows, and the sun shines, i and tre wind blows and He does it all." "For still the I>ord is Lord of might; j In deeds, in deeds He takes delight.'' > '^That's it," Aunt Jane concluded her I dissertation on "Sweet Day of Rest."j - - - - . 1 "There ain't any religion in restin' j unless you're tired, and work's jest as i i' oly in His sigf:t as rest.'' And there is son?e good and wholesome philosophy n what Aunt -Jane says. Of course, I U' n't want any one to conclude for one moment t at I don't believe in the Fo rt:i (. mimandmpnt hppaii?f? T r1r> hi t snmp of tile people who talk so much about its observance. and prt'uch about it. m ou.d practice sometimes what they preach. I think it was the Groat Teac .er woo said something about the Sabbath be ing made for man an.l not man for the Sabbat' , when them Pharisees got after him about o!?s rving riie letter cf t, e law. Anyhow, 1 want to see every one observe the Sabbat:? day. but when they preach about it they should not be so ready to 20 avl ?at ti em big dinners without remembering - ey are canning some one to work in the i.reparation of the dinner, not to speak of the dish-wasMn' that cor::o- ;:fter. The Idler. ? o? P. S.? boar T. lakr:?1 want you 10 be a lit tit* more careful about our facta when you make statements in your articles. You had a w?.oie lot to sav ue oilier day about the old graveyard and its condition. You should get out and look around a little before you shoot oft' your lip. A number oi' J e ladies of the town have been to nie to say that they wisa. I would whisper gently in your ear that you walk down and Iook at the condition of tue place just now. I am told that tfte Civic association has persuaded the city council to ha' e the place cleaned up and that it is in pretty good condition. You cad better go down and take a look for yourselil'. And be more care ful in the future. !The Editor. ?o? I have just received the above. Well, that is coming it some. Tt.ose ladies must have got in behind the editor pretty hot. To tell the plain unvarnished tri;tn, 1 have not been down to the old graveyard in about a year or , mo:e. And it gives me inexpressible joy and real gladness of ueart to know that somen iug has been done on this long neglected and forsaken spot. 1 suppose the ladies and the city council ^ awI f T nro p? crr\in cr JUclU ct prcbcuuuitriil liia. u a nao = to get alter them and ti ey went down and got bus., and it is well. It has net been done any too soon. Now, I hope t:.ey will keep up the good work. I am going down that way pretty soon and see for myself w! at has been done. I wonder if the fence has been put up and if the place has ivaiiy b v.i lit in nice condition. It is a beauti ?*?! Vvir nnflipn If T i ? ("1 T1 lUi D pU L UJ uaiuic. ax x ? V, uwiivany one any injustice I most humbly beg liis or her pardon. My only purpose is to help the town and to do and to say that whic-t will result in good. Now for the park and the playground I told you t'-.e ladies could do it. W.hai they determine to do is just as good as done already. Bless their dear U ^ \r ~ - - ?"? a >.!? j-* ro'i ntfcii is. i on can uiai\e uitr |/m i\ a i taliving (; ing if you just will do it. ; believe you will. Won't you. T. I. PUBLIC PLAYGROUND FOR THE CHILDREN Ladles of the Presbyterian Church Perfect Plans to Pill Long n-ii. nr^.ii. r en t? ?tuu Lancaster, Feb. 25.?A public playground for the children of Lancaster is now an assured innovation for this place. While such a need for the youth of the community l':as long been felt and wished for by all the people interested in the welfare of the children and in affording them wholesome amusement, until now no definite and catisfnrtnrv nprano-pments for this have been completed, but it was announced til:is week that the ladies of the Presbyterian church, working with their pastor, the Rev. Hugh R. Murchison, have perfected plans for a juvenile playground, to be appro-; priately equipped, on their large lot j near the First Baptist chure\ which.' tliey recently purchased from the j Lancaster Mercantile company. This place was bought by the Presbyterians wit: the object in view of erecting XI (V,? 'J 11PUT li CrCUIl ill illc acai luiuir " ( house of worship, plans Sfor which. Will in all probability, it is said, be arranged for when an advantageous disposal of the old church can be had. In the meantime tilie lot will be suitably prepared and fixed up for a playground.?The State. T! e children of Newberry need a public playground. The Civic association has some money on hand to be used for that purpose. Now, if the J different church organizations in town would only contribute a small amount to assist the association in this work , | a well equipped playground would soon be an assured fact. It is our j duty to protect the children, rather j (l an reclaim them after them have gone astray. Member of Civic Association. Ho*r To Give Quinine To Children. | FEBRILINE is thetrade-rnark name given to an j improved Quinine It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleasant to take and does not disturb the stomach, children take it and never know it is Quiniae. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor I cause nervousness nor ringing: in the head. Try ! 1 it the next time ?ou n.*ed Quinine for any r**r- | pose. 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