The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-03
Helena EerSldinSs.

Mrs. John Sheppard is on visit to
her old home in the village.
Mr.. Thomas Wright, Of Anderson, is
visiting his sister, Mrs. Mcdowell.
Miss Maggie Jones has gone On a
visit to relatives and friends at Grove
Station, Piedmont and elsewhere in
the up-country.
DR.. Theodore Johnstone has returned
from the Dental Association and will
quiet that nerve and settle your neu-
ralgic pain. BY the way, several young
men have recently cut their - teeth
in Newberry. =
Mrs. Corrie Greneker and Mrs. c. c..
Davis with her pretty baby boy, left
the city last week during the intense
heat for few pleasant days with rela-
tives amid the delicious groves and
cool retreats of our suburban village.
It is to be hoped that some of the
delegates from the Helena Sunday
school may End it convenient to at
tend the county convention. 1t hap
pens that they are all teachers and in
terested in the Institute now in session.
The Helena Sunday-school recently
sent ten dollars and piece of cloth as
contribution to the Clinton Orphan
age. We learn that another building
will soon be added to the Orphanage,
and that family of orphan children
from this county will find a welcome
home in the noble Institution.
After long and beautiful season of
refreshing showers, which produced a
wonderful growth of luxuriant vegeta-
ton, there suddenly fell upon US the
intense heat of almost tropic sun, whose
brilliant, blazing beams were rapidly
burning up vegetation as with the hot
breath of the sirocco! And another
week of such terrific heat would have
told the sad tale for US. It would have
been too late for the stunted crop to
have put on q maturing growth before
frost. We are speaking more particu'
larly OF the cotton crop, upon which
the hope of the farmer depends this
crucial year-small as the money yield
may be-in order that they be enabled
to straighten the tangled threads of his
business and tide over the troubles OF
another season so the heavenly rain
did not descend a minute too soon.
We believe in the providences OF God,
and would hereby express our graft.
tude for the mercy vouchsafed to help
less, dependent man. Farmers are not
the only ones interested in the rainfall.
If there be no seed for the sower, there
can be no bread for the eater. We are
also gratifed and thankful for the
showers because of the relief from the
heat afforded the children as well as
sweltering humanity in general. 1t is
to be hoped that the backbone Of the
summers almost torrid heat is broken,
and that we shall continue to have nor.
NAL seasons and happy "harvest
home"
Mr.. Houseal told this correspondent
last Saturday afternoon that he thought
Sans Souci would have some happen
ings as be had that afternoon happened
to break the "head line" Helena Her
aldings twice while adjusting his type:
On reaching home that night said cor.
respondent was furnished two items,
both happening to ladies:
A mother was singing lullaby to
her babe in the cleaning as she sat
rocking upon the porch. Suddenly
there was a thump and a bump, and q
confused, rushing sound for a moment,
and all was tremulously still. Thesong
was very abruptly broken in the mid
die when the rocker came loo danger.
ously uear the step. The baby was on
the off arm and its weight, if not the
mothers would have tilted it. It went
over and then over again, and that de-
voted mother thought that she and the
rocker would stay that child, but she
picked herself up in a silence that was
felt, and the baby unburt and still in
the embrace of that off arm. The acci-
dent only awoke the little sleeper. II
was the outstretched wings of the en-
camping angels that kept the infant
from icing hurt.
The following is the other item: q
lady lost her spectacles, and after Civ.
| ing up the search, her husband was in
the act of buying another pair when q
gentleman, living more than a mile
| away and just hearing of the eireum'
stance, came up and said: 'Tell her tc
look on the right hand side of the door
and she will find them in the grass"
She did so, and sure enough, there they
were. That is remarkable happening,
as the gentleman certainly knew moth.
| ing beforehand of the loss of the spec.
tacles. Strange things happen some'
times. Did be dream it? Or was he
| in fun when he said it and just guessed
at it? Or do the majority OF people lose
their spectacles in such places? How
do you explain it? It just happened so
perhaps, but still it is very funny.
SANS SoUCI.