The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-05
Trumps From Various Quarters.


cooked to perfection, and tho hashSwas
SO fine that one couldn't help eating Il
littlo moro than he wanted
The new Baptist church is nearing
completion, and the workmcn deserve
credit for the way they have pushed
tho work along; but, then, the new
Lutheran church in the same locality
was built in q much shorter time.
| The Methodist Quarterly Conference
convened in O'Neall Street church last
Sunday night. Rev. J. w. Speako in
| his report made Il crcditable showing
| being dono on this side Of town. Among
other items of interest, Presiding El-
der Harmon made an excellent. talk OH
the question, "What is being dono for
the cause Of cducation?" 1t is unfortu-
nate that SO many promising young
mon who need advice and encourage
ment on this subject were hindcred
from or rather failed to como out on ac-
count Of the rain which fell about dark.
The talk would doubtless have put
them to thinking.
This is such day Of speech making
that no gathering, however small,
seems to be satisfied unless somebody
makes Il speech. This custom has be-
come so prevalent that, instead Of be-
ing pleasant pass-timc, it seems to be
becoming IL self-imposcd burden, which
it would be q sin to omit. One of tho
happy exceptions to this rule was the
correspondents picnic last Saturday
at Spearman's Mineral Spring. The
speakers appointed by the committee
are to be congratulated for having re-
Trained from pouring out their clo-
quence and marring the happiness Of
innocent pleasurescekcrs, though it
seems to us that they could have hit
upon some other plan Of sparing the
people this unpleasant ordeal than the
one they adopted. Their sclf-denial,
however, deserves the highest COM
mendation; but for fear that some of
our weaker brethren may yield to the
strong impulses OF nature and unstop-
per their bottles OF concentrated, soul
stirring, panic-stricken eloqucncc on
some future occasion, we feel it duty
which we owe to the welfare of our lit
tie band to suggest, a year in advance,
the following programme for our next
picnic:
Time:-
The Governor is not expected to be
present.
No welcome address by
No response by Editor-
Plenty Of Dinner.
No speech BY
No speech by
No queries for general discussion.
Everybody is invited, except horn
blowers and gas manufacturers.
COmmittce:-
We are very sorry that some Of the
correspondents objected to the place.
but if the committee had known that
the Harris Springs would have suited
better, that place would certainly have
been selected. OF course it is cutie the
fashion for editors and others connect
el with newspapers to meet at some
such summer resort, and the commit
tee thought it had done fine piece Of
business when the nearest and most
popular resort for many miles around
was selected. Tho weather was rather
warm, but we believe the day was en-
joycd by everybody. Editor Aull was
nflt nd ,r1n L.,
looking so we'll. He was as cordial and
lively as ever, and seemed greatly re-
lievcd when he found that the corre-
spondents had thrown the speech
making overbOard-hc was on the pro-
gramme. About | o'clock dinner was
spread on the table, and the little
| crowd gathered around, and after the
blessing was asked by Mr.. Spcarman,
Sr, everyone seemed to understand his
duty to his ncighbor and to himself
The undersigned has but one thing to
regret, and that is, that those self-do-
nying, self-bound Promethcuses did
not tie themselves within full view of
the table, so that they could see us cat
picnic dinners, drinking crystal waters
from cool fountains, and talking with
pretty girls, on rocks moistencd by the
silver spray of leaping, laughing brook
lets, are pleasures which thrill the
heart as if
"a charm from the skies seems to hal.
low us there,
Which seek through the world, is not
met with elsewhere"
During the evening the crowd grad
ually dispersed, and we believe every
body went home feeling that the trip
and the pleasure were fully worth the
| trouble. JOSH TRUMP.
September 4, 1899.
Flynn says he is going to do the bust
| ness this fall, if the best goods, the
newest styles and the lowest prices on
| earth will do it, If.