Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-22

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OF her many weeks from today; be-
cause it will be many weeks before the
news that she has gone Home is circu-
i lated all over the world. There are
those in almost every section Of the
world who will be affected by that
news Practically every boy and every
girl who has gone TO school in Yorkville
during the past twenty years was at
some time or other her pupil. Every
one who was her pupil, or who came
under her influence, is a"better boy or
q better girl for the privilege. There
are boys on slips somewhere under
Gods canopy who were taught by her.
There are men and women in practi-
cially every state in the Union and in
most of the countries Of the world that
at one time or another sat at little
oak desk in the third or the fourth
grade and received thorough training
from her; not only in reading and
writing and arithmetic; but in things
moral and things spiritual with view
to further cquipping them for service
and for life She never did believe in
sticking to the prescribed curriculum
Ones mind goes back seventeen
years. One sees slip of lad in her
school room. The floor is new and neat
and clean. The school building is
practically new. The lad spills a big
drop of ink on the school rom floor The
rule is that he must pay for damage
to the school building. 1t would cost
quarter to remove the big blotch OF
ink. The lad sobs and says he hasn't
quarter. A quarter then looked
bigger to- him than $40 would now. The
lads father didn't have many quarters
then, either. The lad tells her he'll
stay after school and try to remove the
ink. lie tries but fails. She brings
chemicals and securing brush and
she gets on her knees and does most oi
the scrubbing. The lad drys his tears
She smiles and she bids him go ana
l. more careful next time. That was
!
hcr-aIl the time helping somebody
Csc.
Day in and day out shesWcnt to her
school roorn-a school room brighter
and more attractive than the average
school room She often drew from her
own meagre SALARY to make'it SO.
Day in and day out she gave the nun
drcds Of boys and girls who have come.
and gone in those twenty years all her
time and all her attention. Thinking
about them. Planning for them, work.
ing for them, dreaming about thCm-
praying fox them. Just her way
AS one said about her just before she
met the Great Teacher: Her daily
walk all these years; hcrr,lfe> and cX-
Eamp.e: acknowledgements and
! rcncwa ones faith in another lirc IL
couldn't do anything else.
They'll miss her in the school room
! this week Those who haven't bcen IN
her school room in ten years Will miss
hc,. weeks and weeks from now. Ftcr
kind arc SO few that the void made d!
her passing will be q void until Il part
of lcr unsefish self will be rc-inclrna-
ted in some one she taught IN take her
place.
The flowers are banked high over inc
sod out there in Gods acre where all
that is mortal of her who loved noHs
and girls and who served them. lie. The
usu,Ilv wild hrcrZeS III March neccss;l-
rilv hcccmc gentle and sonthinEiy slill-
cd when they pass over her grave be-
r,nsn she was gentle and soothing ana
kind and her influence still lives. The
earth lies light upuH her out there uh-
der the sky and tho, sands tlllt cn'"f
| i,r,. arc soft. There is pracc u hcr
soul. Her cpitaph willie not "n toi'lH-
.,orr ycl I. written on the minds "i
hundreds who knew her; and III me
hcart Of one at least who knew hcr IL
is written thus:
Where lies the road to Parad So?
nv Mossv bank of sylvan stream.
nrnrnth 1hc uc;.ks of Hills of Dreams,
Tbrre lies the road 10, Paradise!
vhcrc lies the road to Paradise!
It runs across Il sunny pam .,
T,w;ird the castles of distant Spain
There lies the road to Paradise!
Where lies the road to Paradise!
Ecyund the arch nf the fair lilli'"""'
Deep in the shadow Of It's gov"
There lies the road TO luradlsr!
v.hcro Iics the road to Paradise"
The truth To tell It's the heart
nf each who durlh well his part
There lies the road 10 Paradise!