Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-09-19
Arp Says Day Should Be Set Apart
for Them. -,
EVERYBODY OUGHT TO GIVE
Mrs. Arp Says She Is Willing To
Give a Dollar If Bill Will Work
Ii Out.

oHPPOSe we cttIl one or tnem orphans
lay. We have n Labor Day and Wash
ngtons birthday and independence
lay and other days set apart for OBJ
servance. why not have a day for the
orphans OF Georgia? The orphanage
At Decatur is in great need and the
good men in charge have asked the
people to give. the 29th day OF this
month to their service the labor and
earnings of one day. What better can
we do with it? Madam DeStael said
mat our bank account in heaven would
ne made up OF the money we gave away
IN charity while we lived upon the
earth. Huntington died worth $50
100000. but he could not take it with
hlm. and it is feared that he will have
very small bank account up yonder.
tie could have endowed 4 hundred or.
pranages and had plenty left for his
Kindred. Surely we can all Civ.
something on that day. | am going to
give 81. Mr.. Crumlcy shan't shake his
Methodist locks at me- He that
giVeth to the poor lendeth to the
Lord" And now, if you like the
security down with the dust" AS the
old Scotch preacher said when he sen.
around the hat for charity. The word
fatherless means an orphan-a chile
bereIt OF protecting parent. either
father or mother, or both The word
motherless is not in the Bible but the
word fatherless includes it.. and il is
found in the scriptures thirty-eight
times, and is always coupled with
reward to those who befriend the o.
phan. or some calamity upon those
who oppress them. Job says. If
have lifted my hand against the .ath-
erless, may mine arm from my shoul-
der blade and st. James says. "Puro
religion is to visit the fatherless and
She widow in their afniction. Good
friends, 1t will not do to say you have
never wronged the orphans. Neglect
OF them is wrong. If nobody gave
what would become OF them? Every
body ought to Give-give according to
your purse-giVe as the Lord hath
blessed you. 1t is a peril not TO give
st. Peter keeps the books, and want
him to find my name on them wioh y
good bank account attached.
| had funny conference with NV
wife about this. She says she will
give dollar if | will work it out.
What do you want me to do?" said /.
The window cord is broken" she
said, and the sideboaru lock is out OF
order, and the longhandled broom that
4 brush down the spider webs with is
worn out and needs another broom ON
IL. is that all?" said L. OH no
l ne nall papering is pealing off and
needs repaSting. and there is a leak in
the roof over the dining room" rs
that all?" said l. We'll. YOU can
finish the day sitting the ashes and
putting some around the rose bushes
Mr.. Berchmans's book says that ashes
are good fertilizer for the roses" |
pondered awhile and then ventured to
ask where she was going to get the
dollar to pay me- why, from Won of
course" she said. Where did Won ey-
pect me to get it? Didn't | give you
everything had, and didn't YOU prom
Use to give me everything You had.
Didn't you say, With all my worldly
goods thee endow? what's mine l.
mine and what's yours is mine too
according to that" But my dear"
said /, haven't l supported you and
maintained you for all these years and
responded to every want and wish !
could?' why, yes. of course Won
have; but if wife was to keep ac
counts with her husband she would
bring him in debt every time. Board
and clothing don't pay ior nursing and
night watching and sewing and darn
ing and housekeeping and raising up
ten children through infancy and
childhood, and doctoring measles and
whooping cough and boils and collie.
etc. l made thousand little gar
ments for them with my needle before
there was ever sewing machine in
vented" YES" said |. II remember.
and You made your own clothes aud
my shirts-my plated bosom shirts.
with pearl buttons-yes, | remember,
| cant find any aus good now" Then
she remarked: You couldn't get a
good housekeeper for less than SlO0
per year. could you? And that would
make over s., 200, and the interest con-
pounded woI.d make five times as
much more that you owe me. and yon
ask me where | am going 20 get the
dollar" But. hold on, dear" said .
you forgot that | had to support and
educate your ten children-you always
call them yours-and that old Abe
Lincoln set all your 'niggers' free. and
that the war broke me all up and I've
had to scuffe for living ever since.
and | give you money whenever you
ask for it and keep you in cologne and
camphor and liver medicine and mis-
sionary money and little presents for
the children and grandchildren On
their birthdays. Didn't give you I'VE
dollars last week to buy amber beads
for Mary Lou. When the conk quits
or gets sick, don't l get up and make
n Gre and cook the breakfast and move
around on tiptoe to keep from weak
ing you-and-and-an -and-havent
made you a marble chip walk to the