The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-02-02
THE MONEY NELL Spent.
Bill Arp Writes About the cators.
vile lyceum Bureau.
Is THE WORK OF THE WOMEN.
For Q Small Sum the Members Hear En!aeNt
Lecturers and Enjoy Fine Concerts-N0'
man Is Fast Coming TO the Front.

huu I0sLIuct tAeh young Poopio soo
give pleasure TO the old. But few from
the unpretending towns are privileged
to go to Atlanta or any large city to
hear distinguished men lecture or 70
witness scientific exhibitions. Small
towns have the seine pardonable envy
Of the large cities that country people
have of the towns. They feel like they
arc shut Gu. from many innocent
pleasures and privileges that they |
could enjoy il they only lived there.
Well, now, i have BEN Eliminating |
ABOUT this because OF the gratifying |
success Of our Home Lyceum IN Car
tersville. Our white population Is only !
2, 50O-a smaller city than Marietta, |
Dalton, LaGrange and . dozen others |
in Georgia, and many in our sister
states, and SO when there was any
special attraction billed for Atlanta
only few could afford to travel fifty
miles to attend it. But where there 10
n will there is way, especially If 1t il
wonan's will. A few OF our pro-
gressive women nvestig ated the lycsum
business and then plotted against theii
fathers and husbands and brothers. aud
before we knew 1t they had secured 2OJ
members at SO each, and promised ~
give IN return Blk ENTERTAIN ments
during the winter months, and ecch
ticket was TO admit two persons. Thu
was only % cents for each aud has
proved to be the best investment our
people have ever made for pleasure OF
instru ton. We have already had tive
Of the series and are yet to have keusn,
the Siberian traveller. The ladies have
made it success and even old man
| Dismal, who always predicts disaster,
is now attending the entertainments.
| The series began with thomas concert
and since then we have had Hannou,
the electrician and Bob Taylor aud DR..
Eeadley.
Oicourse our Bob brought out every
body who could come aud packed the
house and he made US laugh ana cry
and laugh again through our tears. lie
gave us the fiddle aud the bow, but
both were imag mary, for lie has not
hg2dled either III ten years. lie says
Eo never professed TO play the vi0-
lin, but used TO fiddle and sing fairly
we'll. He went through all the motions
aud his word painting OF the charms
aud power Of music was close akin to
DR.. Bagby's wonder description OF
"Gow Kuoy Played the Piano" Mr..
Editor. / wish you would publish that
exquisite gem once more.
Last night we had Dr. James Hedley
with us, and his beautiful thoughts on
the sunny side of life will linser with
us long and do us good. They reached
the heart and the hear thstone. His
earnestness, his sincerity and pathos
affected u, all, aud know will prove a
moral lesson to the young people they
cannot forget. looked upon the faces
Of some children aud youth who were
III front OF me and l could see how
eagerly aud tenderly they drank it in.
HIS tribute to the toiling, humble or my
Of ministers who are the pioneers OF q
Christian civilization in the great Yves,
and are holding the forts iu the long
settled Eastern portion Of this country
living and working on scanty salaries
but nevor complaining, was grand ant
beautiful. He impresses you as a great
| biS-hearted, Christian gentleman, who
. like Aboi Ben Alden, loves his fellow
men. He saya he is Methodist chiefly
because lie likes to ride on train tina
will stop and back up to you aud tax
you on again if you fall of. His lee
ture ia, Of course, interspersed freel,
with fitting anecdotes and illustrations
Such man does good rs we'll as give
l | plcbbuIO uo SOCS. Ills pcautllu
, teachings elevate and refine the com
. munity and bring the young people t
: higher grade of intellectual and emo
tional pleasure than they can find in
. minstrel show. The sunny side of lif
!, should be cultivated just as we cult
D vate flowers to mako them lovely an
o attractive. Enjoy the day. Enjoy ever
day. One poet says:
81 would not live alway--I ask not
atay
al Where storm after storm rises da,
Ger the way"
But / like best another poet, who say
This world is very lovely. Oh, N
God,
I thank thee that I live"
Oh, these women! What would b
come OF US if they did not pilot us
the way that We should 60? VIII.
would the mon of Gainesville ha
planned and worked lyceum bureau
When would they have given US
park where We can rest under Il
shade OF the trees and see the childr,
play upon the grass and leok wi
never-ceasing wonder Upon the passi,
! trains? When would the men Of Il
!. church have raised the money to buy
parsonage? Who keeps up the pray
meetings that living DO languish a.
~ lenguishingly do live? Who arc t
- most faithful in the Sunday scho.
"A and who nurse and care for the iufa
90 children and never tire OF their lovi,
.; work in training them up to duty Al
Is good conduct.
es l was Eliminating about our histo
W cal neglect Of the nobo, faithful, lon
On suffering mothers Of great men, W
he have lived and led in all these CO
he turtles. 1t is the mother who max
ed the man. Just as the twig il bel
ill mother who moulds the emotion
,ss character of her children. while t
". father is q actor of her children. VIII
RI. the father is in his counting room
a. his workshop, or at the pillow, F.,
~ mother Is at home with them, and
on by day shielding them from harm a
as guarding their tender hearts from e
es influences. Our emotions ore of
ty more importance than our intellec
is and these are moulded at our mothe
es, breast and developed at her kue
nd Then, why this historical neglect? "
IN knows anything of the mothers
lor Clay, Calhoun or Webster, or any
ial the presidents, or of any of our %
Of errors, or di tingushed statesmen?
Perhaps one person in q thousa
knows that George Washington mo
er's maiden name WAS Mary Bell, b
what else do they know about b.
y. The best biographical cyclopedias v
. give you the raternal ancestors
great men from away back, but no
line on the maternal side. They {
not mention that John Wesley.
Whitfield, had mother. Apple,
and the Century do sometimes ma
\ meager mention OF VINO these or
As mon married. For instance, Applet
says that Elm June, 1908, Daniel w,