The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-10

who hefriend them.
"The spoils of the poor are in your
! houses"
"Ie do grind the faces of the poor
"Blessed is he who consdereth the
poor.n
The Good Book is full Of such pas
sages.
No poet ever wrote sweeter song or
sentiment than Lady Dutferin in the
Emigrant's Lament
Pm very lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no new friends,
But oh, they love the better far
The few our father sends.
A man or a woman or a child does
not have to be beggar to be true.
Some are too proud to beg and will suf
fer and suffer on. An educated stranger
has been working in our mines for a
month at dollar day-working with
pick and shovel and keeping his own
secret. But he couldn't stand it-of
course he couldn't for he was frail in
body and not used to toll. He had
good, kind, care-worn intellectual face,
and refused Our offers of help as long as
he could work, but was at last forced to
say, II cannot dig-to beg I am
ashamed" And so we raised little
purse and sent him home. He wrote
poetry and wanted me to sell it for him
to the Constitution and then I realized
how utterly poor he was.
There is luxury in doing good If
you don't know it, just give a poor,
half-clad, bare.footed blackberry girl
silver dollar for her berries and watch
her as she shuts it tight in her stained
hand and leaves you. She will take
SLY glance at it several times before she
gets out Of your sight. 1t is small
matter to you, but it is a mint-;t gold
mine to her. Maybe it is the first
whole dollar she ever earned. I re-
member we'll the first that ever
earned, and I have never had any
since that would compare with it.
1t is too hot to write politics now,
and so 7 write something more sooth-
ing. DR.. Hicks says it will soon be
hotter. There is conjunction of the
planets. The hot and fiery Mars has
got in between the earth and the sun
and is making our people mad. They
are ready to fight over in Carolina, and
there is some bulldozing near Augusta,
and some blood On the moon in this
region, and it all comes from politics.
Better quit politicking till the planets
move round little. Ifyou people are
obliged to abuse somebody, let them
abuse ingalls,. He is far off and can
stand it. In fact, I think he likes it.
We must all keep cool this kind Of
weather. I got hot myself yesterday
awful hot-and didn't get over it for
good while. Our little grandson is over
here on visit, and while his grandma,
was mapping the chap asked me to let
him ride old Molly around the lot, and
I consented, for knew that I could
watch him from the piazza where l
was writing. He meandered around
the house for awhile, and all Of a sud-
den I missed him, and found that he
had opened the side gate and departed
these coasts towards town. I hurried
on my coat and shoes and started out
in hot pursuit. 1t was just + o'clock,
and the sun and Mars were in line
When I got to the square inquired
for scrap of boy riding my mare,
and John Goode said: "Yes, he went
up main street while ago like he was
shot out of gun. The old mare had
her back up and was making it in
about three minutes to the mile and
the boy had his feet rammed up to the
sockets in the stirrup leathers."
"Oh, Lordy," thought I, ''that boy
will be killed." and hurried on with
my heart it my throat. When passed
the livery stable I asked again, and
Bob Anderson said yes, che went by
here, and old Molly was just a humpin
of it. He turned up College avenue,
but you'll not catch him unless you
get on faster move than that" With
desperate energy I struck foX-trot and
kept it awhile, and then tried a sort of
buZzard lope for a quarter ola mile,
and met a feller who said Eyes he's gone
on down the Cassvillc road like he was
huntin' for doctor.n
About this time I caved in, and took
rest on the Baptist church steps and
blowed like porpoise. Pretty SOON 8
preacher came along and said he knew
the mare, but didn't know the boy,
and bis riding was like the riding of
Jehu, and he rode up and down as we'll
as forward, and was pumping in the
=, saddle like 4 jockey on race track.
"I'll have to trust him to provi-
dence," said |. Some years ago, when
his brother was a little chap, l let him
ride around on the horse Il little, and
he fell off and lit on his head, and took
the comatose, aud the whole family set
up with him all night, and declared
his brain was offpctn6 and | uot thl