Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-06
Free ballot and fair count.

Another week gone with put httle
plowing done.
The Anderson Daily Mail wants to
know If Anderson county cannot win
some Of the school Improvement prizes.
We feel quite sure that Anderson can
come in If it can beat York. York has
already carried off one first prize ana
will take some more.
Mr.. Jeff D. Whitesides of Hickory
Grove has handed The Enquirer an in
teresting souvenir in the shape or re-
ceipt given by the late Capt. l.. M
Grist to Mr. J. M. Whitesides, evidenc-
ing the payment of a subscription to
The Enquirer from Jan. l, 1858 to JAN
1. 1859. The price Of the paper in those
days was $3.50 a year. The paper at
that time, however, was weekly and did
not contain nearly so much matter as
does one issue Of the semi-weekly OF
today.
"As soon as the season opens up,
advises the Southern Cultivator, do
not go out and commence to burn off
the vegetable matter on your fields
Our soils need humus, and 1T is a mis-
take to burn grass, corn stalks or cotton
stalks. If you are able, buy a stalk
cutter and cut them up, so they Will
not be in the way of the plow or the
growing crop. If you do not feel able
to purchase a stalk cutter, take hoes or
hA etn @ nipOpG
Many farmers think, when they go out
some windy day in the spring and set
fire to all the stubble and stalks on
their farm. that they are doing some
thing-and in fact they are, burning
up money-for any ton Of stubble Is
worth $5 to the soil as manure, while
the ash from this stubble would not
weigh over eighty pounds and not be
worth exceeding fifty cents"
Like many other church observances,
says the Carolina Spartan, Lent Is a
man-made institution. In the early
DAYS the church borrowed much from
the old mythologies and religions.
Somehow the observances Of feasts,
fasts and holy days crept into the wor-
ship and humaniZed it to a great de-
gree. There is no more reason why
forty days after Ash Wednesday should
be observed as d period Of fasting and
humiliation than forty days after the
Fourth of July. 1t Is a perfunctory and
worldly way of worship. The meaning
Of tbis nhCarVonpp iS ahOnt
this: We will put the bride off forty
DAYS before Ash Wednesday and have
most hilarious run of fun and frolic,
forgetting the requirements of pure re-
ligion and undefiled Then when Ash
Wednesday comes they cease their
gaieties and pray most devoutly for the
forty days to end so they can surrender
their forced religion and enter the gay,
bad old world again and enjoy them
selves. Now that is the spirit with
which many people observe Lent. or
course, there are some very good people
that would not dance or play cards and
in the world and they spend the forty
DAYS most devoutly in worrying and
badgering shopkeepers and dressmak-
ers and getting ready for a grand rush
to Joyful Easter. The man who ex-
poets to even up the shortcomings of
325 days by keeping Lent in a perfume
tory and formal sort of way in pretty
short on the requirements and constant
privileges and blessings of pure spir-
itual life. Every day is a holy day
because God made it. No one is better
than another, and no one requires fuller
and more cheerful service than another.
There is no work and worship Of super
erogation in his kingdom which is here
in this world and at this time. joy
full. cheerful service he desires. If you
wish to know how to keep the Lenten
spirit the year round, study the first
chapter of Isaiah and the thirteenth
chapter of First Corinthians and live
in harmony with the instruction therein
and get in tune with the Infinite and
every day will be a holy day to you.