The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-08-25
THE SUNDAY PICNIC
lPeek's Sun.f

The question wha, shall be done v the Sunday p:cnic IS agitaung the ,., pie of the yves. as well as the GAS. -. me discussions are interesting. -. years |, has go; 50 at the eas, ,ha: !; much as man : life Is worth 10 live -A ! large ci,y where steamboat excurs can land. and every Sunday ,imid oea5. pack up their Eoveables and 20 ;3 =. woods, far away from their homes. h. any momen, an excursion boa. Is h. to land anywhere from a hundres thousand persons. who proceed 10 IL. possession of grove. ge, up dance .-. nght. In these fights the country oe, pie are hauled. and in some cases i..e The excursions are in the main ser respectable. but enough roughs crow:
 10 make i, dangerous. Nothing t.,
 not locked up in a burgIar-proof safe
 liable to remain when the excursion sas away. The crowd is teo large to be l-. timidated by the village marshal. and :. goes of somewhere and hates himse.,.
 mixes in with the crowd and tries to 3e good fellow, and has his nose punca. for his pains. The west is learning
 beware of the Sunday picnic, and rg,. citizens who are alive Sunday nigh: ], Monday morning. feel as thoug there h.: been misdeal somehow. In eye, direction from Chicago, parties go la the country on Sunday, and terror. residents. Last Sunday party of eley.. went ou. in an express wagon. On |. way home, after becoming drunk. ,a. entered farmers orchard to help the- selves. when he interfered and they k.... him with brick. The party was ; rested, and admitted the killing. bur h: said. IF manner tha. lief. no doub, .a. they though, they had only done as ,n. would be done by. tha; de old dus. wouldr' Ter Us have l few apples
 ever case Of lynchins was )ustiried would be ln ;als instance He are
 Q envy the lie ot the tatmer, ard ;o , ;.;:e ms peacete. condition. sgireuH .e oy a.. ;ha. s.so~.t make h!m happy
 .h.s words goo1s. wi;h klad nei sh ,
 .ne al- ;ha:. e.. ate, ouaday p.z.. aas gone tavo.sn h.s plaee. leaving or ne melon pa;e.,. ;ne life somea .oses IS charms. Nay Y s ;La; d s.na.; A.ecS saoe.d become a O
 o.oaied m1:Gere; wher he pG:s or c.ean shirt Tor qaie: day ln he eoug;.s mas never been explained. bU. very ike .ntoN:cating drinks have much ,o do VI. l.. None of them start ou, from tow 2 with the deliberate purpose of murder.n. any detenseless rural citizen, bu, wae1 they ge, deckioad Of benz;ne. repro. from farmer IS looked upon as a dead insG.,. which Is too often wiped away n 5leod. "Wha, is to be done:" is the question country people are asking, an II Is hard one to answer. IL woul. hardly do for farmers 10 band togethe and arm themselves and make a raid On Sunday picnics, as the mortality wou. . De greater. but farmers are tempted ;o do something desperate. The picture .. the poor dead farmer of the Chicag suburbs, killed by city roughs on his re turn from Sabbath school last Sunda. for obJecting to having his orchard p..- iaged, bodes no good to Sunday picnics ,ha, so out of town 10 pain, the coun:sy red. and unless there IS change ye.N soon in the manner ofenjoying the Lord day, |, will be necessary for excurs:oc steamers and trains ,o carry along ie. boxes h which 70 bring back t.eir de,
 l; Is getting so ina, par. of the b1s- ness Of country officials Is the coliec,ins oi cofpses after picnic.