The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-07-20
SKIDMoRE, MO,

This is an unusually warm day.
Coatless, vestless, shoeless and
nearly as sockless as Jerry Simp-
son, with doors open and windows
up | am by no means cool, and as
soon as these lines are written |
am going to the river TO 90 in a
swimming. never think of swim,
ming without remembering the
times when it used to be said,
come here son, how came this
sand in your hair?' Then holy
Moses deliver me
Times are hard here as to money,
but there is absolutely no suffering
in this section of country that /
know Of from want of clothing, nor
hunger. Most people have plenty
tv among both rich and poor.
Thank the Lord. There will be
fruit enough to supply the home
demand. put none to spare. The
wheat is all harvested, much of il
stacked, and is being threshed.
There is more than an average
yield, and of a better quality than
usual. Oats an average crop.
Hay is not an entire failure, but
hay will be hay here next year.
There never was more corn planted
than this year, and there was new
er better prospect for a good crop.
Northeast Missouri against the
world for farming.
We feel keenly the effects of the
railroad strike. Cattle and hogs
have been held in the stock pens
here at heavy cost, and the road
has had to refuse 10 carry grain
and other produce. We are living
in awful times. The wickedntss
OF the people Is great. Avarice,
drunkenness aud lust are eating like
acancer at the heart of this nation.
Think of convention OF laboring
men drinking thousands OF dollars
worth Of liquor and beerl No
wonder their families suffer. Think
of SIG per head for every man
woman and child in Louisville for
beer, wine and liquor annually ! It's
awful Nothing but the religion
of Jesus Christ infused into the
hearts and homes of the people
can preserve this nation as a free
and independent people. There
ought to be and must be a stop TO
sabbath dissertation. drunkenness,
and sin. Let everybody pray and
work for this, aud God will bless
and prosper our land. No man
can be Christian and knowingly
vote for bad men for Office. "Wh,n
the wicked rule the nations
mourn / declare before God
that | have known local preachers
in Lawrence county to 90 to cleo.
\ tions with doodle money in thei;
pockets. With such men as these
as moral guides we cannot expect
anything but corruption aud ruin
For shame that such men should
be set as leaders in the church o.
God. Brethren. look well to thest
things.
The current conference year '93-94
is drawing toa close. Six weeks
more and it will have gone. The
year has been crowned with bless
ing, in some respects this has beer
the happiest, gladest year of my
life. The Lord has sent US many
kind friends, good meetings, hap.
by conversions, donations, swee
little baby girl TO brighten oul
home, and blessings and mercie,
immunerable. All these things
make one feel like living on, enC
laboring on, and trusting more
The worst calamity and the onl,
one that | know OF that has befal
len me this year was getting
swamped IN a horse trade. Idon'
think l will ever trust any man,
word in a horse trade if / can reas
onably avoid it,, 1t might Re sal,
to do so. beiieve it would o,
safe sometimes, but it is no use
and it is generally as dangerous a
fooling with an old pistol.
| Permit me to quote a few line
from one of the popular writer's o
our day for the benefit of some o
my personal young friends in Law
renee Co. 1t may nettle a little a
first, but, boys, do not he hasty, g,
off to a cool shady place, lit dow,
on an old log ard think about !.
awhile once every other day for
week. Then # you blame me al
right.
The boy who can not summon
/ the neral courage some day to un
coil the tendrils of his heart from
| the clustering idols Of tho house
hold to grapple with nuirageou
fortune, ought to be taken Ivy III
ear and led away out into the un
tried realm of space.
While the great world throbs on
be signs and refuses to throl
While other young men put o.
their sealbrcwn oyerhlls AM
wrench the laurel and other yegt
lablesfrom cruel fate the yoni
who bangles near the old nest an
eats the hard-earned groceries 4