The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-13
Vale Mills.
The Trinity Supper and Lecture
Receipts $40.

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tain of March, and that we shall
soon get a smell of some such odors
as delighted the olfactories of our
first parents as they sat weaving
love-knots in the gay bowers of
Eden, or picking the violets that
surrounded the cradle of new born
spring. Natures though compare
lively dormant, is not dead. Every
day exhibits new symptoms of re
turning animation; and you will
soon see her habiled in a new dress
of green, and with the young buds
of promise wreathed in her ringlets.
How peculiarly favored by a merci-
full providence should we all con-
slider ourselves, that we are permit
ted to see the opening of another
spring. For my own part | roll up
my eyes in wonder and thus colo
quize with my own mysterious self
Can it be possible that l am to en-
JOY the mid day of another year?
How many times more will yonder
sod clothe itself in green before il
shall be uptorn by the sections
spade and planted upon my clayey
cold bosom? All! we are all march
ing with a double-quick step to-
wards the battlefield of death, and
when you and l have spilled our
selves upon the ground, the earth
will be in her teens and the sweet
lassie spring viii trip it over our
graves with as lightsome a step as
when she first came dancing into
the world with garlands gathered
in the gardens of Heaven. l hail
the return of spring with rapturous
delight, and l have no doubt but
that all of your readers do the same.
L glory in its coming, because it
breaches moral sermons to the heart
more eioquently than any preacher
discourses to a worldly minded and
penurious congregation. 1t tells US
of the watchfulness, the mercles
and the wise provisions of Him
who feeds the young raven, and
tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb; and it says in plain English
that man is not to lie forever frozen
up In the wintry grave, but be
thawed out, revived and renovated
BY the warm and gentle breezes of
an eternal spring.
But l set out to tell you some
thing of the supper that was given
by the ladies of the neighborhood
last Tuesday night for the benefit
of Trinity Church. The preceding
day was so purely beautiful that
"God alone was to be seen in the
sky but under the sky angels in
human form were cutting most fan
tastic tricks. If you had just
passed by Trinity las l did) that
evening and seen Miss Alice Smith
son, MISS Bette Patterson, Miss
Agnes Rose and others decorating
that church you would have thought
it was no wonder the ancients wor-
shipped the beautiful. / am not GO
ing to try to do justice to the good
taste or the kind heartedness of the
young ladies who worked so faith
fully for two days to try to please
and make the occasion not only en-
ioyable but profitable; nor how well
they succeeded, for l could no more
do 1t than an elephant could climb
lightning rod. But | hope they
will allow me to make one personal
remark and then I'll pass on. Lit
tie did that Hebrew woman think,
when she placed the infant Moses
in the little ark of bullrushes, that
he was destined to be the leader of
the children of Israel from Egyptian
bondage; but methinks not less
holy would have been her task nor
less divine her mission had that
child's destiny only been to feed the
focks of Jethro upon the plains of
indian, and though the giving of
forty dollars to a church does not
seem to be a great matter, yet who
knows that it may not transmit your
names and cause you to live in the
memory of posterIty long after you
shall have ceased to be susceptible
10 it's praise or censure. Duty is
ours; events are Gods. Now for
the supper. Oh, there is something
so fascinating in the first blush of
evening. just after the sun has
shaken his last golden feathers
upon the hlIltops. 1t is enough to
make one strip OFF his jacket of NOR
tally and swim the gulf of death
for the sake of reaching the splen-
diferous splendors that decorate the
opposite shore. just as twilight
threw down its witching smiles the
crowd began TO gather in and con-
tinued to come until about seven
0 clock. The house was pretty we'll
filled as we trust with a highly ap |
preciative audience. 1t was then
announced that there would be a
lecture by the Rev. j. d. Barbee,
who Immediately came forward and
commenced his lecture, and such a
lecturei Well, l am not going to
try to describe 10 either. Suffice it
to say that he Glled eVsrybody's
most extravagant expeditions.
Then came the summons to the well
spread feast, and all hungry ones
cried Havoc" and "let slip the
dogs of war;" to partake of all the
delIcacIes of the season. After it
was all over 1 thought about what
somebody, l have forgotten who,
said:
s. We may live without schools, we may live
without books.
But civilized man cannot live without
cooks"
And if any young man wants a
good one just tell him to pick out
one that had a hand in that supper,
and if she don't suit him he ought
to be coarted by iends all his life
and welded to the devil at last, for
he is a lack brain in wisdom and a
loggerhead in learning,a formula for
the making of monkeys AID a foun-
dation for an edifice of folly, par
ody on Adam and Eve and a dupli-
cate of the devil.
After supper DIR. Gsrdner was
called on by come Of the audience
for a talk, with which request he
very kindly attempted to comply, |
but was so interrupted by the talk
ing and laughing of some inconsid
crate ones that he had to desist.
know it was not intended as any