The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-21
ARP A CHILD AGAIN
PHILOSOPHERS ATTENDS AN EIGHT
YEAR.OLD BIRTnDAY PARTY.
He Takes Pert In tReH Games Tho barlow
Man Tiros orDabics and Writes OF Gen-
eral GRANTS Tomb and Of General Lee

~ Another birthday in the family.
There are ten children and nineteen
grand children and somehow every
one Of them has a birthday about
once year.
My wife remembers them all Just
like she knows her alphabet, but the
alphabet keeps lengthening out as
the years roll on and she says her
memory is weakening.
There is but one orphan in all the
lot--a little black eyed girl who
lives with us, and SO it was agreed
that she should have a birthday par
ty, for she was just eight yea old
today. It was mighty big thing
for a little girl and will last her as
long as she lives, I reckon, and she
will never have a happier Gao. She
goes to school .andr~all her little
friends had to be invited. Forty
little notes had to be written and
forty little envelopes had to be back
cd and put in the postoffice aud this
afternoon at 4 o'clotk forty little
boys and girls came up the winding
way through the grove and in course
of time were playing on the lawn as
happy and rs noisy rs flock of
black-birds. They played every
thing except baseball and football
and other college curricuiums and
wound up with "many, many stars
are in the sky" 1 broke into the
ring myself in that game and kissed
apretty littlo girl and got kissed by
another. Age has it's privileges and
these are of them. By and by the
piano announced that the party was
prepared, tho feast was ready and 80
all these little folks were soon circled
around the long table and the side
tables, where tho ice cream and the
Strawberries and the cake and the
flowers were nestled in luxuriant
abundance. Eight little rod wax
candles were burning in the center
and eight vases filled with flowers
significant Of hope that tho little
girl might have a-light to her path
and hor way be strewn with roses.
My observation was that all these
children behaved woll and have good
training at home Of course the
boys are always hungrier than the
girls, and it takes moro to do them.
1t is said that one time the queen of
sheba had forty boys and girls all
dressed alike and brought before
King Solomon to see if his great wis
dohl aeald pick out the boys from
the girls. And 80 the king called
for bowls of water and towels and
had them passed around for each
ono to wash their hands IN. The
girls carefully turned up their cuffs,
but the boys just sloshed their hands
in the water regardless of spattering
their sleeves. But I would have
sent ice cream around in saucers,
for know that the girls would be
satisfied with two, while the boys, as
general rule. could be persuaded
to taks one more. I don't blame
them. Good strawberry ice cream
surely is good thing and harmless
and three moderate saucers have
never hurt mo yet. My wife will
have another birthday in two weeks
and I shall insist on more ice
: cream.
Well, we have had an evolution at
our house that has astonished the
nativss. We have five acres Of land
in front of our house, and it has long
been l. pclosed with 700 feet of fence
y,eaiong the two streets that bound two
sides Of our domicite. That fence
was getting old, and had been often
repaired, but recently the city faith
ers passed tho cow ordinance forgood,
and forthwith in day I had re-
moved every vestige of that fence.
1t looks very odd; in fact it looks
like South Carolina. My wife docs
not know whether she likes it or not:
says the place looks undressed, and
she feels like taking cold, but it will
save me about $50, and that is big
thing with lis, now. So let the evo.
luton 60 on. It . sign of pro.
gress. Since 80 have lived here,
hogs have been abolished; next the