The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-01

were gong nome, Iney met poor,
half-clad woman with child hugged
to her bosom, and she was struggling
along through the snow. Fisk stopped
her and felt in his pockets andfound
them empty, Turning to Gould he
said: 'What have you got?" Gould
says:"I drew out a roll of small bills;
I never did know how much, and was
hunting for dollar, when Fisk
snatched the pile and handed it all
to the woman, and said to me, as we
fastened away, :D-n it, Gould, [
wouldn't count charity money on a
woman like that, charge it to me and
Pll pay you tomorrow
Our Presbyterian folks took
notion last summer that they would
remodel and refurnish the old brick
church. It was about forty years
old and had memories, hallowed
memories, clustering around it. 1t
had great big crack meandering
down one of the walls. But old
Father Miner loved the crack be-
cause it heightened and widened
with his own decay, and he loved
the hard old pews and the amen
corner and the faded carpet and the
ting-a ling of the old tine bell The
old church had steeple that it was
no sin to worship, for it was not The
likeness Of anything that was in
heaven above, nor in the earth be-
meath, or in the waters under the
earth. Old Father Miner loved
that, too, becapse itpointed toheaven.
He was one of the original builders,
and the old man :elt like everybody
was dead but be and the church, and
he would like for the same old bell
to toll bis funeral and his coffin to
rest for little while in front of the
humble altar where he bad so long
and so devoutly worshiped. But he
meekly surrendered to the work we
proposed, and a committee was ap-
pointed to see how much we could
raise. We did not have faith ike a
grain OF mustard seed, but we all re-
solved 20 do something. We are
poor folks here, We Piesbylerlans,
and:there are MOI many of us, but set
to raise 81, 800, and Sam Jones heard
of it and came along and made iun
of US and said, 'Yol fellows can't
raise that much money without hep,
and so you may put me down for
$3.50 as STA ter.' Thea another
man put down $3.50 because he didn't
warS Sam to beat hin, and then :oec
more got mad and did Ghe same
thing, and before we were thinking
about it we had 81, 800, and in a :ew
days it was $4,000, and we went 10
work, and before The church was lalf
done we had $500 more, and When
it was finished and furnished we SUI
owed S700, and we thought The Dot
tom was Knocked out and we had
cotton The last do1lac we could get,
buS the ve-y first day we had se"v4ces
in it, ocr preacher made talk and
We raised $500 more on the spot,
and the whole Ching looks more lie
miracle of grace than anything
else. We never wrote to Jay Gould
nor Joe Brown for a dollar and taey
never sent any, because they didn't
know We were building church.
We just got in way of giving
that's all. ''Heaven helps those who
help themselves" and so our Baptist
brethren and Methodist brethren and
others came modestly around and
asked the privilege of helping Us.
The truth is, our church people are
mighty close Lin in this town, and
all poll together. Old Father Simon
Peter Richardson is coming here TO
preach next yea, and between him
and Sam Jones the sinners Will have
to HIDE out or leave or reform Car
ters7ille mus have had bad name
10 the conference or surely they
woulden't have doubled up on Us in
that style. It is going to be like two
fellows cross ss-mauling on tough
old loo where thev come down over
hand upon the glut, you are going
to hear something crack.
But don't forget the orphans at
Clinton. Gainesville has got two in
charge, and sends the money every
month, and that makes S12O year.
There are thirteen towns in Georgia
larger and richer than ours. If they
will take two apiece and twenty-five
more towns will take one, that will
be caring for the biggest half, and
Georgia will be proud. I wonder if
Alabama and Mississippi and Arkan-
sas haven't got some cranks who will
start some orphan asylums on DR..
Jacobs plan Every Southern State
ought to have one for each denomi-
nation. They turn out heroes. DR..
Jacobs keeps a record of his gradu-
ates, and they are all doing well.
But there is an orphanage worse
than that made by death. A poor,
unhappy mother wrote to me not
long ago that she had been divorced
from her husband, and was awarded
the child, but he had stolen the little
girl twice and she feared he would
do SO again and take her away off,
and she begged me to have some
body come and take her to an orphan
asylum. Her preacher and her doc
tor endorsed what she wrote and
said the man was a brute and a
drunkard. That little girl is safe
now, I reckon. I remember that away