The news & observer., 1905-12-03
Stirs the Bile of Corn Crack
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use this in the church but will get in
groups, rub "store-snuff,' and gossip.
Every now and then. some braZen
but brainless cuss who wears some
kind of an outlandish cap and loud
I,ecktie, VIII poke his stick into some
body's ribs. chatter like a magpie, and
bray IN idiotic laughter. This VIII be
the bill of fare where they meet at
church.
In the hunting diversion, and this
takes seven-eights of those who
make any pretense of observance in
this region, women have no part or
privilege.
Four -fifths of the people work here,
Just as they do on the goth of May,
or 4th of July. OF the remaining fifth
part are in school, and the rest
bird hunting. fox hunting, and meet
ing the wagons that haul whiskey to
our Sabbath observing and law abid-
| ing citizens.
If this is published many will think
| it an overdrawn picture. The jays to
whom this refers never read any thing
| but the county paper or a medical al
manac.
1t will be "A sad day for the read
ing oublic, whom we can't learn once
| a week. that Bill ones has accepted
a situation as chamber-maid of a liv-
| ery stable; or that the charming, beau
tiful, speckled- faced and accomplished
Sallie Ann Mudfence is visiting friends
at PolkVille Cross Roads.
| The conclusion Of the whole matter
1 is, with most of us, the word Thanks
] giving is = mis-nomer. What few of
| us that are able to read the procla-
| nation never stop to consider, in the
! true sense of the word, we owe any
! allegiance to God and we make it
| a day for orgies and revelry, just as we
| do Christmas.
| This festival, we are told, is to
| commemorate to birth of Jesus of
! Nazareth. He went about ministering
! to the Door in body and spirit, but
we say the poor be damned, and
| get drunk. At Thanksgiving we
| should remember the poor and minis
| ter to their wants and actual necessi-
ties. but we do nothing of the
| kind Il we give a dinner we are
| careful to invite nobody not able to
set as good a feast. This was not the
| injunction of the Son of Man, for he
told us to invite the poor the lame,
the halt and the blind.
We are all powerful people to say
we believe the Bible, and we have
been told early and often by demag-
ogues, that we are religious, law
abiding and God-fearng.
We may pound some preachers who
get a good salary, especially if he
burns incense under the nostrils of
n cigarette trust magnatc, but if he
is a man who has devoted his life to
the cause of real christianity and has
no money he gets not a bite of the
Thanksg. wing turkey nor cent OF
money.
No preacher who fails to pander to
the vulgar rich shall be honoreo
among men, nor shall he sit in the up
permost room of feast and be called
Rabbi
The same yard-stick shall be placed
on the school teacher if he opens hi:
gills about graft, misrepresentation o
funds, or spiritual wickedness In mgr
places, let him be accursed as an evil
doer, stumbling stone in Zion,
pestilent fellow and stirrer up of Sedl
ton. If this ever crawls up you
columns, l can, in fancy. see certain
class of sky-pilots who burn incense t
mammon, the ''perfessor," who don
care a blank how much the poor child
rem are robbed if he gets his salary
all skinning their sanctified eye
heavenward and praying that Cor
, Cracker" the graceless pagan, an'
blighting iconoclast, may be "remov