The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-11

q | INJURY upon the "nOte Stal|. beI Ii'
e attend to his own Constitutional dulie
9 and leave the people to govern them
v selves. He is not wiser than all tn
II people, nor more parkiotic than th
D majority" A. E. GONZALES.
e Some sickness, together with th
] pressure of my farm work, has causet
5 my delay in writing.
Mrs. Lizzie Hunter is visiting rela
: tives at Slighs.
. Communion services were held a
: Colony Church on last Sunday. Rev
. James D. Kinard, of the Seminary
, preached for Rev. Prof. w. K. Sigh.
There will be communion at Bach
man Chapel on Sunday next, with pre-
!. payatory services on Saturday previou:
ats p. N.
The principal part of the upland corn
is planted and few of our earliest
farmers have begun to plant cotton.
There are various opinions in regard
to last weeks freeze Some think the
early grain is ruined, while others
think that, with favorable weather
from now on, it is not very much in-
jured. We only hope that the, latter
opinion is right. We know it has put
an end to the fruit crop and placed all
the carly gardens on level with those
who have never started.
The cold snap must have got next to
lone of our farmers last week. He went
to blowing one morning and got to the
field before he discovered that he did
not have his gears. For further infor-
nation ask Tom.
| There seems TO be an epidemic of
distemper among the dogs of this, Sec
ton. A number of them have already
died from this disease. II would be q
good thing if it would thin out few
of the worthless bread eaters. But Sam
says be would much rather have lost a
milch cow than his fine bird dog.
The Bible says blessed are the pure
in heart. So they are, aud equally
blessed are those who attend to their
own business and let other folks busi-
| ness alone. Oh! what q happy country
We would have, and what prosperous
and happy people We would be, if
everybody would just live up to this
| rule. But we have a certain class of
people in the world who it seems are
never satisfied unless they are on the
CAD, letting their tongues slip at both
ends. telling all they know on their
neighbors, and about as much again Of
their own make. just this kind of
stuff always springs from the devil
and is what continually keeps our peo-
pie in wrangle and confusion. Two
or three real first class gossips in a
community can do more harm than
half dozen of our best ministers of the
gospel can do good. Now it is useless
for me to 60 over the different kinds of
sin in gossip, unless some one desires
TO hear further from me on this SUBJ
ject. I do not think there is anything
on earth abhor more than one Of
those old gossips, rneddlers, or tattlers,
whichever you please to call them.
And it is with much regret that I say
our female sex is not, altogether free
from this sin, for it has not been but
few weeks since one appeared in our
community. If she had been at home
or somewhere else attending to her
domestic affairs, debating for the gen.
eral good Of her own family, I know
the Lord would have blessed her ten
fold more, and she would have been a
great deal more respected by us. The
writer, with everybody else, has bis
own faults, and we never let our eye
become too blinded to see them. Our
worst act on earth has been open and |
naked to the sight of the world, and |
We have nothing upon our own merits
to boast Of, but we thank our God that |
we are still, aud ever hope TO be, found |
trying to attend to our own business, |
hoping that everybody may do the
same.
A few more dear lives have been lo t,
and several widows and fatherless chill
dren remain to battle their way through |
this troublesome world, on account of |
the great liquor question, which seems
to have the whole State in a perfect
uproar. It is great pity that the
time has come when the people cannot
talk, suggest and reason matters with
out being so full of party spirit, preju-
dice, malice, envy aud hatred toward
one another. Ever since the spring of
'S6, when Ben Tillman struck the KEY
note of Reform, I have been battling
upon the same principle, always with
view never to allow my prejudice to
ovefrule my senses. Let US take
view of the liquor question from nom
political standpoint. Two years ago
this matter was put before the people
to vote upon prohibition or no prohi-
bition, and each ana every candidate
from this and other counties all over
the State, so far as we have heard, that
jumped the stump for legislative hon.
ors pledged himself that if elected be
would urge a prohibition law if the
people voted it, and that be would not
support it if majority voted against
1t. Now this was promise, and was
what the people looked for; aud the
ground that we stand upon is, there is no
more reason why this promise should
not have been carried into effect than
any other promise that ever was made.
But anyway, here we are now in trou-
BILE and in bloods6ed, with the militia
force of the State out, for what? Sim
ply to bring violators of the law under
If we mistake not, little
more than 10000 majority of the good
white citizens of the State voted pro-
hibition. Now, whether total prohibit
ton was the thing that the people did
VI OlA uOG uetU, SUOulQ nave OeeQ Ie1t |
to their own choice. But the matter
ln question is this, they voted for it,
and it was promised to them, and I
contend that they should have had it.
This would have settled the whole
matter and would have left no grounds
for great big stir. But let the cut go
as it may it is law, and SO long as it
remains upon our statute books it
should be observed just the same as
any other law; and it would be if there
were not set of men in the State who
are 80 prejudiced against the party
that made it that they just don't in
lend to abide by it. We want it un-
ierstood that we are still on the same
plank that we have always stood upon,
out We never intend to let our preju-
dice blind US so as not to criticise a
wrong when we know it. / do not
mean to say that the dispensary law is
wrong as a whole. I say, with Gen.
q. L. Farley, that the dispensary law
could be made better by knocking out