The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-09


ty and its beautiful sentiment. In
this season of bad weather and the
scarcity Of all sorts of things to eat
and the cry Of hard times l like to
see a man care and have thought for
the dumb animal. In fact it is nice
always and the man who does not
care for the brutes or the beasts OF
burden and the animals which are in
his control is lacking in something.
His heart is not right or is in the
wrong place.
The Men / Like to Meet.
There are many pleasant people
Whom one would like to know.
Editors and BARRIERS
And men who shovel snow,
There are laymen, there are draymen,
But the ones l like to meet
Are the men who pat the horses
When they pass them Oh the street.
It's jolly, on the avenue,
To bow and raise your hat
To someone so distinguished
That your comrade says, Who's
that?'
But the man l really honor
When the stinging north wind blows
Is the one who always stops to stroke
Some horses frozen nose.-Life.
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I read in the papers this morning
q don't mind saying this is Sunday
that.I am writing because l like to
write on Sunday. 1t seems to me that
I can think better and be less dis
turbed on Sunday or at night. Well,
l say l read in the paper this morn
ing where the president has signed
the Reed amendment, and that from
now henceforth until the Quart-a-
month law goes into effect we are go
ing to have the real thing in South
Carolina, and I dare say the supply
is rather short, and there will be
real dry feeling in many places, be-
cause a lot Of people were under the
impression that even if the Reed
amendment should become effective
it would not sbe until after July. But
the paper said it went into effect at
once in the prohibition States. AND
South Carolina is a prohibition State
until the quart-a-month act goes into
effect. And then you can get it for
medicine. 1t will be curious to see
how many people will be sick and
have to have a little. This ''bone dry
proposition will test the grit of lot
of people who have been in the habit
of taking little toddy, to see how
far they can make the body OBEY the
mind. and do without what they have
been laboring under the impression
they have needed. And this reminds
me of a little poem l read some time
ago on quitting.
On Quitting.
How much grit do you think you've
Can you quit thing that you like
lot?
You may talk of pluck; it's an easy
word,
But can<you tell to iot or guess
Just how much courage you now
possess?
Don't boast of your grit till you've
tried it out,
Nor prate to men of your courage
stout,
For it's easy enough to retain grin
In the face of a fight there's chance
to win,
But the sort of grit that is good to
Is the stuff you need when you're all
How much grit do you think you've
got? 80.
Can YOU turn from joys that you like
lot?
Have you ever tested yourself to
How far with yourself your will can
go?
you've grit,
Just pick out a JOY that you like-to
quit.
It's bully sport and it's open fight
It will keep you busy both day and
night,
For the toughest kind OF a game
you'll find
Is to make your body obey your mind.
And you never will know what ls
meant by grit
Unless there's something you've tried
to quit.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Now, that's pretty good stuff, amt
it? A lot of folks talk whole lot
about grit and all that sort OF thing
who have never been put to the test.
The people down in this favored land
do not know what it is to do without
things they want. Some few Of the
old people who lived during the trying
times of the civil war can very we'll
recall that then was time getting
things to eat and to wear. They even
had to dig up the dirt in the smoke
houses to drain it to get salt / new
er will forget lecture heard
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