The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-04-11


the comfort of mankind. The worl'
would make slow progress withou
them, but when they begin 10 unloat
their vast profits mankind will criticize
the manner Of it. Generally they un
load it OH their children, who neve
earned dollar of it. Some of then
would carry it all to heaven with then
If they could. Many of them give {
part of it to some church or charity as
kind Of passport to heaven. An ole
friend of mine who was pretty hard ur
borrowed 25 from me one morning to
pay one of these darn little just debts,
as he called thom. He said his creditor
was annoying him, but before he left
my office a committee from the coun-
try called and asked US to help to build
a country church. l gave them dol
lar, but my friend subscribed 35 and
handed over the bill that ! had loaned
him. After they had left asked him
why he gave so much and he said:
" Well, l always give that much to
help build church. do not belong
to any, for l have not yet felt good
enough to join, but have lived in five
counties and practiced my profession
in fourteen and have helped to build
country churches in all of them. 1t
may be that death will catch me un-
awarcs before 1 do join the chm ch and
st. Peter will refuse me admission into
the heavenly gate. But l will have
one credential, for l can say ST.
Peter, know l have not beer a good
man and am not fit to mlngle with the
saints, but l have got little stock in
every country church from Rabun's
Gap TO Tallapoosa-and maybe he will
let me ln-maybe so. Major, could
you lend me another IS without incon-
venience ?' or course l did, for he
was one friend whom l never refused
He did join the church and believe
he is in heaven now.
Charity is the greatest and most
blessed Of all virtues. AS the poet
says: cit is twice blessed. 1t blcsseth
him that gives and him that doth re-
celve." But when man with $780,
600 income gives away 81 900 of it to
ease his conscience and secure pass
port to heaven, he makes a mistake.
1t will do neither. A mans standing
in the community is determined more
by his charity than anything else.
How much does he give to the church
and how much to the poor is discussed
by his neighbors and he is rated ac-
cordingly.
Not long ago l gave problem to
the young people. If man sells a
SOW and pigs for SlS and gets as much
for one-tenth of the SOW as he did for
mne-tcnths Of pig how many pigs
did she have? L have received scores
of answers-most of them making it
nine pigs and some say ten pigs-one
smart girl makes it seventy-two pigs
and one smarter man proves that the
SOW had 1901 pigs. Strange to say
every answer is correct. Nine pigs
Civ es 80 for the SOW and ! each for
the pigs; Seventy-two pigs gives So
for the SOW and 1 l 20 cents for pig
and it would take the seventy.two pigs
to make the ZIG. Nine cents for the
SOW would give l cent for each pig,
and therefore require l,791 pigs to
make up the $lS. 1t is sec.saw sum.
AS the price Of the SOW goes down the
number of the pigs goes up and any
number is correct. Now let me ask
the school boys and girls to hold up a
little on compositions and speeches.
Please excuse me for have not the
time. 1t would take every hour in the
day to comply with all their requests.
BILL ARP.