The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-05-15
wrote the " Emigrants' Lament" and

| "hoIc Iuo ~ LmlSTantS La"cnI anu
said:
| I'm lonely now, Mary.
/ For the poor mako no now friends
But oh, they love tho better far
Tho fow our Father sends"
The millionaires deserve little credit
{ for their gifts to colleges and libraries
while the poor are starving in the
great cities and arc benned up In gar
rets and novels and earning scantv
living by working for the rich. was
ruminating about this whom read that
MIR. Holderby, that consecratcd min
lister i'll Atlanta, was getting up an ice
fund for the poor. What a blessino
that will be to the tired toilers who can
only afford the tepld water that comes
from the city hydrants. How refresh
ing to the sick who langulsh on hard
beds aud have no comforts that the
rich enjoy. The poor we have always
with us and most Of them will suffer
rather than beg. Mr.. Holderby is al
ways dong good and can balance his
books every night and lie down to
pleasant dreams. Education is a good
thing and we are gratllicd at the re-
cent movements of Northern philan-
q
the poor and give them Il chance would
DC more blessed thing than to educate
them in books. Peter Cooper and
George Peabody have a higher scat in
heaven than Rockefeller and Carnegie
will ever reach. George Peabody built
whole blocks of tenement houses in
London for the poor. The rooms were
all ventilated and supplied with pure
cold water and the windows looked out
upon grassy lawns and flowers and
shade trees. There were bath rooms
attached to every tenement, and a few
pretty thromos on the walls and the
rent charged was only Il pittance--
enough to make repairs and pay the
taxes. This was doing more for the
poor than education could do.
n clean shirt and comfortable
home will lift boy up quicker than
books. 1t has been said that right
hungry man can't get religion, and |
reckon a hungry child can't study to
40 much good. Education is not al
ways haG in the schools. 1t is the life
work of every one. Education comes
by contact, by absorption from others,
by reading and thinking, and by ex.
pcrlcnce and observation. Some of the
greatest men in the United States
never had years schooling; and nv
own observation has been that not more
than ten college boys in Il hundred
made good use of their education.
They lived and died and made no sign.
But for the sake Of the ten we must
give the ninety chance. These
y Ort harm ,rnt lamar,
seem intensely IN earnest and their
speeches were in good tone and in
good temper. Judge Blcckley's speech
was the shortest and best of all. "We
will receive it not as a charity, but as
a measure of JUSTICE" and MIR. Bald
WIN said, eyes, that's il, Justice" and
| suppose implied that they owed us a
debt and were going TO pay it. That
came pretty near being an apology.
Well, just let them shell out The money
and we will dispense with the apology.
This morning had backset. The
Old mare got into my garden and
tramped around and wallowcd IN three
placcs-on my strawberry bed and on
my squash bed and onion bed. Dig
SlnS wouldn't pacify me. But my
"S>''S't wiz "ShI w Nlliil lCStOn ana
had Il two weeks vacation from the
care of her children, returned safe and
happy and refreshed. | set that down
at one hundred to balance OFT the old
mares trespass on my garden. An
other married daughter, who has been
sick for month, has recovered and
cah now take up her bed and walk,
She came up to spend the day and
brought her children. Put that down
at two hundred. A dear sister who
lives ut College Park is coming to see
us tomorrow. That news is worth a
credit OF fifty. The mail has brought
good, cheerful letters from two of the
the far-away boys. That is worth fifty.
good ncighbor sent me some fine
tomato plants; that is twcnty-Iive; ami
1t ls worth twenty-five to look at nv
strawberry garden, and look several
times day. a visiting friend said it
was worth twenty-five a day to see the
long trains go by with their double en-
Slne3. can SIT on my veranda and
count the cars, from forty to sixty on
every train, and not strain my mind.
| tVcry evening after school is out a
dozen or more children gather on nv
| lawn under the big oak trees and play
tennis and hide and seek, and romD
and swing, and it is worth twenty-five
TO see them 50 happy.
Ihcrc are three roses in bloom this