The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-07-18
year foI good standard papers for his

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family. A good religious paper of his
oxn religious crced-a good metropolitan
weekly newspaper of his own polilics--a
standard literary for the home circle, an
agricultural paper if he isa farmer-a
paper for the little children, and his
own county paper for county news
and official advertising and general
reading. If to these he would add q
magazine or two it would complete the
| roll of text books. 1t would be an edu.
cation without going to school. But
when o paper stoops to personal abuse
from personal motives it is all outrage
upon those who have no paper, and [
have thought it would be a good law if
when an editor lampooned a man be
should be required 10 give the man al
equal amount of space in his own col.
umns to defend himself and reply to the
charges. If the editor should call man
thief or scoundrcl, the man should
have space enough in the next issue to
say, "You are s. liar, you old flop cared
hound; and I can prove that you stole
an empty guano sack and used it for n
table cloth, you dirty old ilea.bittcn
dog"
The like of that would keep down q
personal encounter. Just let two men
have an equal chance to talk aud they
will not be inclined to fight. This is the
reason why lawyers get along so harmon.
iously out of the court house. They
expend and exhaust all their wrath i'll the
court house while tbejudge and the sheriff
are near enough to maintain the dignity
and the majesty of the law and keep down
collision. The judge and the sheriff are
like the paling fence that is between two
dogs as they run up and down the line
as though ifthe fence was not there they
would eat each other up, tail and all.
Most of the fighters want some palings
between them.
Wha! q world of papers there are.
What world Of readers. How eager are
the people for news and for knowledge.
Even the Sabbath is day Of rest for the
body only, but not the inquiring mind.
Young man, WHY do you leave Sunday
school before it closes Because l
want 10 get the mail before church be-
gins" be said. The mail is the biggest
thing out whether Sunday or week day,
Not long ego our preacher took his text
in Nehemiah and at the close Of his in
teresting discourse closed the Bible ard
said: "Now, I want you to read the re-
naming chapters Of this bool- this even.
ing, if you have time after reading the
Atlanta Constitution. You will find it
quite as romantic aud more instructive" )"
Our preacher still hears the tbunders Of
Mt. Sinai and his faith is the faith Of his
rs-"Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy" But as Paul found it at
Mars Hill, the Athenians still outnumber
the saints and spend their time in hear
ing or telling some new thing; and go it
becomes you, gentlemen of the press, 10
be more circumspect in giving them
news that is fit to hear and to tell not
only on week days but on the Sabbath.
Let your lotteries, and murders, and
scandals, and patent medicines, and mad
dogs, and snakes be double sandwitched
with maxims and paragraphs intoxicating
virtue and piety and truth, Let US all
keep to the landmarks Of our fathers and
write nothing and print nothing that
will make memory ashamed of our life
when we linger and lauguish at its close.
BILL ARP.