The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-07-22
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THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN.
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THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN.
The county campaign opened last
Wednesday at Pomaria. Wehave given
a full report of each meeting and will
continue to do so to the end. We have
done this on several former occasions
and find that the people are interested
about as much as in anything else we
could give them. There were three
meetings held last week-at Pomaria,
jolly Street and Little Mountain. The
candidates so far as we have been able
to observe are enjoying the canvas and
everything is moving along smoothly.
Everybody is in a good humor and
everybody expects to be elected. The
disappointed after the election will have
the consolation that they are in the ma
jority. There will be an intermission
in the canvas now until the 18th of
August when the party will start out
again at Prosperity.
It was a pleasure to us to attend the
three meetings last week and to meet
the people. It brought back the mem
ory of other and happy days. There
was tinge of sadness, to be sure, for
to the mental vision we recalled faces
that we knew in the days gone but that
we shall see no more in the flesh. We
were also reminded that we are not as
young as we used to be and yet when
we were at Jolly Street it seemed a
short time since we used to live at the
old home just mile away and we could
recall the old mill and the people who
brought their grain as vividly as if it
were but yesterday. The old roads and
! the fields and the woods and the brooks
all looked natural, but there were faces
we could not recall. The young have
grown older and many of the older have
passed away in the twenty-five years
since our boyhood days in this portion
of the county. Boys, have become
young men and young men have be-
come old men since those days. The
greatest change we believe is in the old
homestead. The old mill is gone and
the fields have grown up and scarcely
anything looks natural but the old
spring at the foot of the hill and the
brook which goes on forever. We
never know the happiness of childhood
until it is passed and gone. Free
from care, free from worry. It is
well that it is so. The child should have
the freedom of the sunshine and the
fresh air for the years of care and of
responsibility will come soon enough.
It should not be made old too soon if it
is desired to have the fullest develop
ment of the mental, the moral and the
physical nature. A little work is good
and healthful but all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.
AT Pomaria and Little Mountain we
were also amid the surroundings which
reminded Us of these same days that are
gone. During all the, years since these
days, we have never missed an opportu-
nifty to return and renew old acquaint-
ances and revive old friendships, and
while we have not beef far away we
have had little time to go back. The
further the years take Us away the
more fondly do those memories seem.
q We wanted to get to old ST. Paul's
and see if the old school house is still
there. where we sat under the tutelage
of ]. a. Sigh, Jno. F. Banks, U. B.
Whites and many of the old time teach
ers. We hope to get there before long.
The reader will pardon this reminis-
cence. When we started out we did not
intend to write it, but only to speak of
the campaign and to say that it has
been pleasant, and to express the hope
that it will continue so to the end.