The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-22
BILL ARP'S PEACE PICTURE.
LOOKS AT FLOWERS AND BIRDS.
He Agrees With Bishop Heber That
Only Man Is ViIo An English
Editor Makes Him Mad.

He Agrees With Bishop Heber That
"OnIy Man Is ViIo"-An English
Editor Makes Him Mad.
Last midnight that samo mccking
bird was singing-maklng sweet music
TO comfort his mate who was broodipg
| upon her nest. This morning ne Is
singing again, and seems supremely
| happy as he makes mis- little flights
upward and returns to his perch with
out break in his song. There is q
tiny wren not far away whose song Is
very short, but just as swoet, and he,
too, Is comforting his mate.
Down in tho pasture that fronts our
grove soc the milch COWS grazing
peacefully. In our front yard there Is
Il hydrant and the crystal wator Is
allowed to leak just enough to keep u
basin full and it Cvorllows to u little
grass-hidden pool whero the pigeons
drink and bathe, and where the jay
birds and thrushes and English spar
rows come and sip ard go and ncver
contend. Sometimes the peacock wants
drink and the birds retire from his
magnificent presence and await his
lordshlp's pleasure. a neighbours par
rot has left his cage and is cawing in
one OF our tree tops. ~ eighbor's
chlckens arc scratching in the leaves
nearby. Fleecy clouds aro passing over
head and give us alternate sun and
shadc. hear the distant whistle of u
locomotive and tho trembling, rumb-
ling sound OF tho train as it crosses the
river bridge. | SEQ children dressed In
thoir Sunday clothes going happily to
the city hall to take thoir part in COM
mencement exercises. Along our gar
den fence tho varicgatcd cunnas lift
their proud heads In peaceful beauty,
and not lar away Is row of towering
peas arrayed in rainbow colors and ex-
haling sweet odors to tho air.
Apple, gcranium and lemon vcrbenas
swcetcn tho brccZcs at our window.
Looking northward from the vorandah
whero l sit, the distant hills are piled
upon each other in regular irregular.
ity, while more distant mountains give
back ground of cerulean blue TO the
beautiful picture. Here am ruminut.
ing-calmly and sercncly happy in q
big arm chair. Half a hundred mupni-
licent oaks stand like Gods scntincls
In the grove before me. lifting their
leafy branches towards tho sky in ad-
oratlon CT their creator. The twining
madeira vines and Virginia creepcrs
intorlace the TROLLS AT MY hand and
shelter me from the gun, while two
dear little grandchildren arc merrily
swinging in the hammock not far away.
There is nothing in sight this morning
! the DIR, tho sky, the fields. the Lraes,
the birds and flowers and children--a
tho good Bishop Heber wrote:
Here every prospect pleases
And only man IL vle.'
Only man not women Cr children,
or beast or birds or flowers man
is vile. What u contrast to tho Wow
before me Is found IN the columns OF
the morning paper, which has just been
handed TO me. How shocking arc tho
big head lines that tell OF g single days
misery and disaster! Whom, oh, when,
will oil these horrible things cease to
be? Only man is vile. Ifhe was made
in the image OF God, why should he be
doing tho deeds of tho devil ? The
| cost Of crime in money is u fearful sum.
The cost of courts and prisons and
guards and police the cost in loss Of
time and labor but this is nothing
compared with the cost in grief ana
misery. Hero Is q lcttor that is but q
sample OF what comes to inc in my
daily mail, for the poor creatures think
t.. at l can do something
Lebanon, Fla.-My Dear Sir: Win
you please give me the name and ad-
dress OF some orphan asylum in Geor-
gia that would probably take three
poor little orphan girls into their
| home.
Their mother is dead (died of a
broken hearO and the father is in jul
and has been sentenced to be hanged
He is much distressed about his
helpless children, and bcgs that you
get them into some orphan home
Tho family are OF no kin to me, but !
| thlfI u iyn xfif I,n IL "a
phan girls In their very sad condition
"Please answer nc worry soon and
let rue know II they will be shut out
because they live out Of your State.
"C. G.. GAINES,
| "POstmastcr at Lebanon"
| Now, Mr.. Hemphill and Mr.. Crumley,
can't you make room for these chill
drcn May the good Lord have mercy
upon them
" hat IS the world coming to? The
old Mosaic law was: 81 will visit the
sins of the fathers upon the children D
but the new law Is: "Su(fcr little
children to come unto mo, for OF such
Is .hc kingdom OF heaven" Some.
times sigh like the poet, Cowper, and
say, " Oh for 81 home In somo vast
Wilderness" where rumor OF oppression
and deceit might never reach me
When ! read OF murder and suicide,
and burg glaries and arson and horrible
Outragcs 1t makes me sad and ther
thero is always something in the same
paper to mako mo mad--BOmc lies
and slandor or some Northern devil
mcnt.
Governor NOrthen mad, % great
speech in Boston, and | am glad 1t ha,
been printed In pamphlet form, AID Il
was the State | would order enough
OF them to give copy to every child
in the State that could read, and
would make every negro school teacher
in the State reed q page aloud cvcrS
day to his pup'ls until he had read i,
all, and II he didn't read it to thcm
and read it well and tel them that Il
was the truth, ! would turn them our
-d0gon him, confound him am tirct
paying tax money to educato negroes
to hate people. ! don't believe there
is 30 negro teacher Ia She State who
tries to train tho negro children II
these thi0Us Nor dn | hnliov, th,