The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-01-27
A WORD ABOUT THE CARRIERS.
VILE LYCEUM BUREAU.
WORK o. WOMEN COMMENDED.
Entertaining Lectures and Fine Concerts
Are Enjoyed By Members For
Small Sum

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 to witness scientific exhibi-
tions. Small towns have the same
pardonable envy of the large cities that
country people have of the towns.
They feel like they are shut out from
many innocent pleasures aud privileges
that they could enjoy if they only
| lived there.
Well, now, / have been ruminasipg
about this because of the gratifying
success of our Home Lyceum in Car
tersville. Our white population. is
only 2,5OO-a smaller city than Ma
rietta, Dalton, LaGrange and dozen
others in Georgia, and many in our
| sister states, and so when there was
| any special attraction billed for Allan
ta only few could afford to travel so
miles to attend it. But where there is
Will there is way, especially if it is
a woman's will.
A few of our progressive women in
vestigated the lyceum business and
then plotted against their fathers and
husbands and brothers, and before we
knew it they had secured 200 members
ut S3 each, and promised to give in re-
turn six entertainments during the
winter months, and each ticket was to
admit two persons. This was only %
cents for each and has proved to be
the best investment our people have
ever made for pleasure or instruction.
We have already had five of the series
and are yet to have Kenan, the Sibe-
rian traveller. The ladies hayr 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 Harmon,
the electrician and Bob Taylor and
DR.. Headly.
OF course our Bob brought out ev-
erybody who could come and packed
the house and he made us laugh and
cry and laugh again through our tears.
He gave us the fiddle and the bow,
but both We're imaginary, for he has
not handled either in ten years. He
says he never professed to play I'll, vi
olin, but used to fiddle anH'sing fairly
we'll. He went through all the mo-
tions and his word painting of the
charms and power of music was close
akin to Dr. Bagby's wonderful descrip-
tion Of Glow Ruby Played the Piano"
Mr.. Editor, / wish you would publish
that exquisite gem once more.
Last night we had DR.. James Head
ly with us, and his beautiful tholghts
on the sunny side of life will lAger
with us long and do lis good. They
reached the heart and the hearthstone.
His earnestness, his sincerity and
pathos affected us all, ana / know will
prove n moral lesson to the young IIeo-
pie they cannot forget. looked upon
the faces of some children and youth
who We're in front Of me and / could
see how eagerly and tenderly /they
drank it in. His tribute to tn toll
iEg, humble army of ministe s who
are the pioneers of christiar< civili-
Zation in the great west and ne hold
ing the forts ill the long settled cas-
tern portion of this country, living
and working on scanty salaries, but
never complaining, was grand and
beautiful.
He impresses you rs a great, big
hearted, Christian gentleman, who,
like Aboi Ben Ahdem, loves his fellow
men. He says he is n Methodist
chiefly because he likes to ride on
train that will stop and back up to
you and take you OH again If you fall
off His lecture is, of course, inter
spersed freely with fitting anecdotes
and illustrations. Such man does
good as we'll as gives pleasure as he
goes. His beautiful teachings elevate
and refine the community and bring
the young people to n higher grade of
intellectual and emotional pleasure
than they can find in minstrel show.
The sunny side of life should be culti-
vated just as we cultivate flowers to
make them lovely ana attractive. En-
joy the day. Enjoy every day. One
poet says:
Il would not live Away ask not TO stay
Where storm after storm arises dark Ger
the way"
But like best another poet, who
says:
This world is very lovely. Oh my God,
| thank thee that live"
Oh, these women. What would be-
come of us if they did not pilot us in
the way that we should go? When
wouid the men of Cartersville have
planned and worked up lyceum bu-
reau? When would they have given
us a park where we can rest under the
| shade of the trees and see the children
| play upon the grass and look with
never-ceasing wonder upon the passing
trains? When would the men OF the