Year: 1876

Aue Oluer uaY uOllceQ an article In HE NEWS on Knowing People, one sentence of which struck me forcibly, viz: No en. terprise was ever started but what was en- tirely contrary to their views Perhaps every place has it's proportion of meddlers. but Kent has, am sure, more than its share of these disagreeable persons, who never seem happy when they are not find ing fault with some one or some thing. Just now our set of meddlers, which is composed of about half dozen of old masculine grannies, find plenty to keep them busy, and are making themselves gen. erally disliked and unpopular. The cause of their wrath is very simple. Last fall the young people of this place started Village Improvement Society for the two-f fold pur- pose of occasionally passing a pleasant evening and raising funds for public li- brary. With two eminently worthy minis ters in the society, it is not probable that there was anything particularly criminal in the constitution or bylaws; but notwith- standing this, these few men-most of them members of churches and calling themselves hristians-immediately began saying that it was started wrong that 1t would never succeed, etc., meantime doing their best to break it up. Sensible people would consider this small thing for men calling themselves intelligent to harp about and so it would be-but the truth of the matter is, there are some people whose minds can entertain but one Idea at once. This is the case here, and this idea is all they can or will comprehend. One of them, who professes to teach men the straight and narrow way, recently remark ed in an article to 8 paper, that.a certain public entertainment given by the society was not success, owing to the way in which it was gotten up, and more to the same effect. This know to have been a direct falsehood; the night was very stormy, consequently the audience was not large; but l also know had the evening been pleasant there were enough expecting to attend to have more than filled the hall |. Started in this way, the enemies of the so- ciety have been growing bitter and more bitter, until it has become almost impossi- ble for the two clergymen belonging to the society to appear in public without being insulted by some of this set. No one but an imbecile would suppose that these rev erend gentlemen (both of whom are, judg- ing from their daily walk and conversation, consistent Christian ministers, are account. able for the doings of all the members of society; as well say they are to be held re- sponsible for the actions of each individual members of their churches, and this every one will admit, would indeed be a heavy burden. Those who are so certain that a revival of the devil is being begun in this village, are doing their best to aid his Sa- tanic majesty in his work and seem willing to act s his chief agents. In conclusion, l would say that neither of the above men, tioned clergymen have complained to me or any one else. They are as far as l know, men who keep their own counsel, but have seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. l am not mem Der of the society, but have attended their public entertainments, and enjoyed them. l have not been requested to defend them, but am only doing them justice. Such a society has long been needed in Kent, and through all this warfare it's members have held their own, min ling their own busi- ness and wishing that others would do the same. would assure them that they have the good will of all sensible people, and urge them to go on in their way, undis- turbed by these jealous meddlers whose malice hurts none but themselves, and who will if left unnoticed soon die out.

 ,TUSTICE