The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-04-11
HOME Circle COLUMN.
COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN
THE HOME CIRCLE Al
EVENING TIDE.
To Edit a Newspaper.


ITO publish newspaper requir-
es the SKILL. the precision, the bold
ness, the vigilance. the strategy oil
a commander in chief. To edit a
: newspaper requires that one be a
a statesman, an essayist, geograph-
er, a statistician, and, in acquisi-
ton, encyclopaedia. To man, to gov
ern, to propel a newspaper until it
shall be fixed institutional national
fact, demands more qualities than
, any other business on earth. If you
feel like starting newspaper, sec
ular or religious, understand that
you the being threatened with soft
} ening of the brain or lunacy, and
} throwing your pocketbook into your
wife's lap start for some insane asy-
} lum before you do something des-
lperate.
| First of all, newspapers make
knowledge democratic and for the
multitude. The public library is a
haymow so high up that few can
reach 1t while the newspaper throws
down the forage to our feet. Pub
lie libraries are the reservoirs whei 9
the great floods are stored high up
and away off. The newspaper is the
tunnel that brings them down to the
pitchers OF all the people. the cniel
use of great libraries IS to make
newspapers out OF. Great ibar.es
make few men and women very
wise. Newspapers lift whole nations
into the sunlight.
You cannot Iind ten literary men
in Christendon with strong minus
and great hearts but ale or nave
been somehow connected with the
newspaper printing press. While the
book will always nave its place, the |
newspaper Is more potent. Because !
the latter is muitituolnous do not ia
clude IL is necessarily superficial. |
Ii man should from childhood to |
old age see only his Bible, Webster's
Dictionary and his newspaper, he
could be prepared for ali the duties |
of this life and all the happiness
of the next.
There Is not single doctrine of
theology but has been discussed in
the last ten years by the secular
newspapers of the country. They
gather up all the news of all the
earth bearing on religious subjects
and then they scatter the news
abroad again. The Christian news
paper will be the right wing of the
apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of
the Christianized printing press win
be the front wheel of the Lords
cnariot."
The Fireplace.
Notwithstanding all the modern !
for heating tell you /
there is nothing so full of geniaiity {,
and sociability as the old-fashion-
cd country fire place. The neignbors
were to come in for a winter even
ing of sociability. In the middle of ]
the afternoon, In the best room in ]
the house, some one brought In a I
great back log, with great strain ana
put 1t down on the back Of the I
hearth. Then the lighter wood was /
put on armful after armful. Then a /
shove' of Goals was taken, from an i
other room and put under the dry
pile, and the kindling began, and {
he cracking, and 1t rose until II I
became a roaring flame which filled
III the room with geniality and was
from the family pictures
IN the wall Then the neighbors
anne In two by two. They sat down,
heir faces to the fire, which ever
N anon was stirred with tongs and Il
eadjuseed on the andirons and "
here were such times of rustic re- N
'artee and story telling and nirth a Il
he black stove and blind register Il
ever dreamed Of, meanwhile the "
able was being spread, and 30 fair N
gas the cloth and so clean was the vi
utlery they glisten and glisten In d
ur mind to-day. And then the bes Il
luxury of orchards and firm yard H
Tas roasted and prepared for the "
able to meet the appetities sharp III
ned by the cold ride. We heartily D,
Jish for a return OF the old fire X
lace. Our readers. whose locks have al
fhitened by the frosts of many win :.
ers, know that this pen picture of W
he fireplace is true to life. IL
$3.50 m
Dom be afraid to do your duty q
ecause some one ridicules or OPP s.
oses you. A man who has opin- d.
ons of his own and the courage to Il
dvocate them will be sure to have T
opposition In the world because he te
uns contrary to other peoples opin- o.
ons; but Just keep right ahead IL u
our cause is right and your con-
cience clear. Don't bother yourself
bout what people say; life is too
hort for that. Some Will abuse you
through envy. others for the want
II principle. and some because they q
honestly differ from you; but II you y
Keep right ON openly. manfully and .
ntelligently and with proper dignity a
ind character. honesty OF purpose d
Ind self-respect, those who differ r
rom you will respect your opin- 2
ons. Ii
An idle and vacant life, even with a
III the aid amusement can give, Is L
not calculated to be a happy one; =
ane this simply because Providence u
has constituted us with a view to 3
activity as that was to be the means Ii
Of accommodating the raw materials Il
of the physical world to our needs. n
Idleness. therefore, Injuries and dis D
organizes, while activity alone will X
preserve health and prolong life. a
Who, are the happy people of this v
world? Those who have something b
and not too much, to do; that some N
hing haiuO qiiitahIa IN THAR taafQq | A