The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-31

being investigated. We wOnld like tN
rrmmrn, further but time will not per-
nit. lRU'S.
Angus, 81. 1897.
Things seen aud uirArd /" n Railway Walt
ing Room.
Dear EIiin': Homo. Swrc, llomr.
Sometimes the homo is only ,rmpora-
ny, rented room, perhaps. Or \ small,
square. ha~r den which holds our trunk
and n! earthly possessions. Still, to Il
rontrnted mind. it is "homr." Well.
This SCI ihe is "hoH'c" fromH two weeks
visit ~ tho old North State The pro-
Grammc WAS going to pro,ractrd meet
ing, eating goodies, visiting friends,
relatives, etc. OF course the time
passed PLEASANTLY. except that most
trying part OF travelling, waiting for
the train that is always late. Still. il
i interesting sometimes to sit Quietly
IN a waiting 70 M and listen to strange
voices. noting the difference in tone
and modulalion-S some low, >o't. sweet
ana soothing: Others loud. harsh. raSp-
ing and very trying TO sensitive nerves.
Ii was nj WadcShoro. y. c.. that this
little incident occurred which | am
ahoui to relate. Several strangers
came in the waiting room ladies and
gentlemen. We had been listening to
the soft rarrS>ing voice of a mother
soothing an impatient youngstcr. How
gentle. loving aud patient mother can
hv, She will kiss where others will
switch. We wondered il any love could
equal mothers. We have better
lor worse, half and some babies and
! have never boon able to satisfactorily
solve that problem. We were listening
and thinking when suddenly a harsh
note made n terrible diScord. \ young
cir! was talking lcudly and using slang
| IN nearly every expression. Say,
! girls. III h.-jumpcd-up if didn't have
Il time Yesterday evening. | went down
| 10 old long noScd, Mats and YOU may
bet your buttons | had time eating
grapes and watcrmclons. That's what
| went for. Iou may know from your
knowledge of such matters in the past
that did tha thing up in style: Mats
house didn't look like it had seen Il
broom in month. III bcswitchcd if |
ever thought she'd keep such II house.
She brought out some Of the dandicst
cake and wine and cat - big hunk ui
cake, you bet, and II glass Of wine, too,
though had to fight ilics and gnuts
like forty to get it, y young man
standing in the door bit his lip and his
eyes flashed Indignantly as he listened
to this hcartlcss girl who possessed
such an enormous appetite and showed
no signs Of indigestion. | SAW puincd
| look on several faces rs the girl I'LL un-
conscious, chattcd on: "Ycs. Mats
house was Il mess. She said she had
kept half Il dozen brats---'dcar little
| children she called EN- for their mann
mics to go to church and had let them
do just rs they pleased to keep them in
the house. They had just gone and
Mats baby was tecthing aud cross as
creation, and she was trying to get it
to sleep before she cleaned up. That's
what she said. But doesn't every lazy
woman excuse herself with baby is so
sick.'"
Cruel, heartlcss girl! Oh, that I'M
ruly tongue, author of so much nnhap-
pincss, so many heartachcs. The
young man in the door turned round,
crossed the room, and faced the bcvy
of girls.
''Sistcr," speaking to a quiet modest
girl, 'sstcr, am not going on the en-
cursion Uncle will take care of you"
"Oh, Harry, not going. What in the
world! Did anybody ever! Why, Har-
ry, we wouldn't give fig for the cx-
cursion without you. Why arc you
not going? What are you going to do?"
exclaimed Miss ChatterboX He replied
very gravcly in low distinct tones: 81
but think IN go tend poor Mats baby
for her to tidy her house. It's quite
early morning and perhaps she isn't
through yct," and bowing he went out
The CONSERVATION of that girl is bet
ter imagined than described. How easy
it would have been for her to lend poor
tired Mat helping hand. Ten or ff-
! teen minutes would have accomplished
I lots, and would have hurt no one. We
! thought OF Talmages sermon on "Half
Hours" He says, "thc most trcmcn-
dous things in your life or mine we're
: certain half hours" Oh, the half
/ hours! This flashed across my mind.
| suppose it is from Talmage too: "Thc
: right or wrong things you can think in
/ thirty minutes, the right or wrong
| things you can say in thirty minutes,
the right or wrong things you can do
| in thirty minutes are glorious or bale
! ful, inspiring or desperate"
| II we are not mistaken that girl will
! always remember that half hour in
which she go cruelty slandcrcd her
neighbor and received snch Il singing
reproof.