Woodruff County news., 1901-06-27

picture of that dinner is darker than the one 1 drew. Here it is tomiting personalitSes): The feastjng was interspersed with addresses, one of which was on Craps and Crap-shooters, anoth- ier young man spent most of his time locking for q thin glass. etc, also the gentleman from Cork was greatly abused, being thrown around promiscnously, and it took three porters and the cook i ten minutes to gather together lis scattered renalns. Is that what you caL a quiet, orderly dinner? Again, you refer to the great barbecue last Sunday at Fakes Chapel as a violation of the Sabbath day, etc. Now I want to say that we had no bar becue last Sunday We had re- ligious services at ten o'clock a. 3n., and then dinner on the ground prepared by the good ladies the week before, which consisted in many good things, one of which was barbecued meat, and which was not a vio- lation of the 4th commandment. as you charge.
 The Sabbath was set apart by God to be observed as a day of worship, in which his people are commanded to repair to his house to worship and adore his holy name. But since you and some of your readers cannot see the difference between the two dinners, l will try to tell you. At the dinner last Sunday the peo- pie of God met at their place of worship, and spent one hour or more in singing Gods praise and other religious services, after which we gathered around the food spread out on the ground. where we offered up thanks to God, and invoked His blessing upon the food we ate, after which we had another religious service. which closed with the benedic tion, and the congregation dis persed. The Sunday dinner here the week before, consisted not in songs and prayers, and religious services, but in ad- dresses on Craps and Crap shoot CTS, hunting thin glass and the flying of beer bottle corks, all of which you think was @ quiet, or 1 derly dinner. l may have a beam in my eye, but for the life of me, 1 can t see, from your re- port of the banquet, how you could call it a qniet, orderly, and gentlemanly dinner.
 $. L. COCHRAN.
 First asking our readers their indulgence, we wish to say a few things in regard to the Big -Four dinner, that has so 1 greatly irritated the preacher and the account of which he read with bitter regret. " We will first say, as we said before. we arenot defending Sunday dinners but there are good, upright, and pure men who enjoy a dinner on Sunday as well as any other day. This is one of their faults, and I claim that we are all fallibie. ] Some more so than others, But whenever and wherever a com munity is living in peace and con- cord, it is not desirable or polite to disturb those conditions. We think you will agree with us on that proposition. Again; wher- ever community is torn with bitter hostility and constant strife. it is wise in the interest of peace and good fellowship to (as far as possible) remove or amend all irritating causes, and restore harmony.
 Some people imagine it dead easy to run" a paper and all those who so think would run it in the different ways peculiar to themselves, and as. we said be- fore, were we to ask 100 different people how a paper should be run we would, no doubt, receive just so many different ways. We will therefore run the News just as C.. W. Kramer would run it. Were we to find objections to everything everyone does con