The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-02
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WORK OF THU LYCEUNi BUREAU.

nens Leoturros and Enjoy Fine
| Concerte.
| There is q way open to every COM
munity to elevate, redne, entertain and
instruct their young people and give
pleasure to the old. But few from the
unpretending towns are privileged to
to Atlunta or any large city to hear
distinguished men lecture or to witness
| scientific exhibitions. Small towns
have the samo pardonable envy Of the
| large cities that country people have
| of tho towns They feel like aro shut
out from many innooont pleasures and
privileges that they could enjoy II thoy
only live There.
Well, now, | have beon Illuminating
about this because OF the gratifying
succese OF our Home Lyceum in Car.
tersville. Our white population ia only
z .S0O-a smaller city than Marietta,
Dalton, LRGrange and q dozen others
In Georgia, and many in our sister
States, and 30 when there was any
epecial attraction billed for Atlanta
only fow could afford to travel fifty
miles to attend It. But where there is
Will there ls way, especially II IL is
q woman's will. A fow Of our progress
sive womon investigated tho lycoum
business and thcn plotted against their
fathers and husbands and brothers.
and before wo know it they had secured
zoo mombcrs at SO each, and promised
to give In return six entertainments
during the winter mouths, and each
ticket WAS TO admit two persons. This
was only 26 cents for each and has
proved to DO tho best investment our
people have ever made 70" pleasure or
instruction. We have already had i've
OF tho series and are yot to have Kenan,
T. hn rto al I,l TO-, l.,
made 1t q succCsB and even Old man
Dismal, who always predicts disaster,
ls now attending the entertainments.
Tho series began with Thomas concert
and since then we have had Harmon,
tho electrician, and Bob Taylor and
DR.. Head]ey.
OF course our Bob brought out every
body who could como and packed tho
house, and ho made us laugh and cry
and laugh again through our tears
He gave us the fiddle and the bow, but
both wcro imaginary, for he has not
handled either In ten years. Hc says
but used to fiddle and sing fairly we'll
Ho won't through all tho motions and
! his word painting OF tho charms and
power OF music was close akin TO Dr.
Bagby's wonderful description OF GLOW
Ruby Played tho Piano" Mr.. Editor,
| wish you would publish that exquisite
gem once moro.
Last night wo had Dr.. james Hcadloy
with US, and his beautiful thoughts on
tho sunny eido Of life will lingor with
us long and DO us good. Thcy reache,
tho hoart and the hearthstono Hi
earnestness, his sincerity and patEio
affected us all, and l know will prov,
moral lesson to tho young people they
cannot forgot. l looked upon Tho faccl
OI Sumo Cniiuron aud youth " no uoro IL
front OF mo and could sec how eagorl,
and tenderly they drank IL In. Hit
tribute TO tho toiliug, humble army OF
minister's who arc tho pioneers OF a
Christian civilization In the great Wcs,
and arc holding tho forts IN tho long
sottled eastern portion Of this country,
living and working on scanty salarios,
but never complaining, was grand and
beautifuE He impresses you as a groat
big-hearted, Christian gentleman, who
llko Abou Bon Ahdam: loves his follow
! men. He says he Ia Methodist chiefly
because nc likes TO ride on train thnt
will stop and back up to you and take
you on again II you Ifnll Of. His lec
ture is, OF course, interspersed freely
with 6tting anecdotes and illustra lions
Sucn man does good as we'll AS gives
pleasure as he goes. His beautiful
teachings elovato and refine the com.
munity and bring tho young people tc
a higher grade OF intellectual and emo.
tonal pleasure than they can find In q
minstrel show. The sunny side OF life
should be cultivated just as We cult.
vate dowers to make them lovely and
attractive. Enjoy tho day. EMO,
every day. One poet sayo:
IL! would not live alway-I aok not tt
otey
Whero storm after storm riseo dark o'o
tho way"
But / like best another poet, VIII,
says:
thank thee that live"
Oh, these women What would be-
| como OF us II thoy did not pilot us in
the way that VIC should gop Whom
would tho mon OF CartorBvIlle havo
planned and worked up lyccun bu.
reau2 Whom would they have given
us q park whorc wo can rest undcr the
shade OF tho treos and 500 tho children
play upon tho grass and look with
never-ceasing wonder upon tho passing
trainsp Whom would tho mon Of the
} church havo raised tho money to buy u
parsonage? Who kcops up tho prayer
meetings that living do languish
and languishlngly do llvop Who are
| J.
and who nurse and care for tho infant
children and ncvor tire OF their .Oving
work In training them up to duty ani
good conduct?
l Illuminating about our histori :al
: neglect OF tho noble, faithful, long
euf&ering mothers OF great men, who
have lived and died In oil these oen.
} turtles. 1t 10 tho mother who makes
! tho man. Just rs the twig is bont,
tho tree 10 inclined and it In tho
, mother who m0ulds the emotional char
l acter OF tholr children. While Che
, father 10 In his counting room or hit
: Workshop. or at tho pillow, tho mother
10 at homo with them, and day by dsy
, shielding thom from harm and guardin9
thotr tender hearts from evil Influences
Our emotions arc OF far moro impor
} tanco than our intellects, and these
are moulded at our mothers breast am
developed at her knecg. Then, VIII,
this historical neglcct2 Who know,
anything OF the mothers Of Clay, Cal
houn or Webster, or any OF the Presi
Qonts, or OF any OF our Govornar. ~,