The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-27
VOL. xIII--NO. 81.
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what 40 Thinks Of ninaing tao sheavs,
lfon tAs Atlaata Cbas.ifalioa.

what Ho Thinks OF Hainaing the sheaves
tfcns chs Atldata Cbas.ifelioa.
MR. EpITUR: The harvest is over
Great expectations have 1.et besareai.
lied. Farmin' Is a good deal like sishin',
kyery time you start out you can Just sec
| yourself catchin' EN-; bus after tfyin'
every hole In the craalc yop no home snf-
rowfuliy, with @. fisherlnan'a luck. Bot
We are not coEaplainin' by 80 means, foE
we've got wheat enuf for bisait every dsy
and light bread on Sunday, and q few
bushels TO spare for them angels tlat Is
TO cum along unaware5 sum Of these daya
We finished outtin' the oai crop thie
rnornin', and what with them and the
clover alresdy hnlsed, Eha cattle are cafe
for another year. Imagine they look
sasoy and thankful but as for me, MIR.
Editur,. am used up individual
Durin' harvest have had TO be Q binder,
and If you don't know what that 10, asE
Harris. The ends of these fingers which
.ase, now inAcribin' this epistel are in Q
bad fix. Skarifido and stuck up with
bull nettles and briere, they 'as sore
variation to my business, such &c catchin'
young rabbits, and Andin' PARTRIDGE
nests, and pickin' dewberries !; b,t the
romance wore of the first day, and by tho
end of the next my wife Gays was hupa.
BILE mon az any woman Haala s&2Ass.e. &
Al a nifty purity thing to write about and
mako up osds and PONIES. The goiders
grain, the many reapess; tha struttini
| sheaycs, the song OF the harvestsrs, end
purity Miss Ruth coquettin' around the
fields OF old man Boeg, and "how iokin,
did they drive their team aaeid, " is ail
so sweet and nice to o man up tree with
an umbrel, but If them poets had to tic
wheat half dey In juno sun, their
sehtimentality would henceGorth seek an!
other Bnbjek. / tried swingin' the cradle
awhile; but somehow or eomeheR olse,
couldn't exactly get The lick. It wasenS
the kind Of cradle I've been used to!
and I'm too old o dog TO learn new tricks
now. The swing of the reaper's cradle ID
Q very PECULIAR motion---very regular In
its irregularity, and coca for the weeds
and bushes and brsars and the wheat>-alE
the Same. 9puehov or other it reminds
mo of an independent candidate aside
Wipin' around to get offs In @ twissifdd
way. Well, I like independence, and
that's why like farmin' 70 look
70 for livin' but Providence. I like I'd
500 o man inGapendentsin opinion and i1
action, too, and If he suckseeds, it shows
that there ID gum in him-hut it won'g
do TO run that skedule too long or tod
fur. in politics or religion. BonaPaEt and
Beecher tride 1t, and IL they cou.dn't
has got TO fall into line some time. FcY
| @ while all sorto of people will pat an in
dependent on the back and gay ''go it!
my larkey, bully for yon," but Before
long they'll begin 70 th.nt over what d
lgood, fat thing he's get, and then human
nature, which, you know is as mean aa
the devil, will crop out, and the next
| time they'd drop him 90 easy he won't q
know It. On tho whole, the asairin, man
had better 60 along smoethly With hid
party or hiR church or his copartneru. I'd
tho case may be-. General Black Gays he
i 70 me, says no, Bill, as you are goin' To
farmin, let sae give yon q piece OF 'ad-;
vice: Don't go of On new lines, but
watch your nabora and do purity ninch ihs
they do" Well, he didn't mean that Il
the naborB went bar footed in the sum.
mer time and slept In Is shirt and washed
their feet IN 9 skillet, and their daftefs
worked in the field aud dipped snuh,, We
must do 30 t0o--by no means. But he
uaeant TO say that the kind Of farmin,
that Is sustained by the. majorityo Of far
mers was nifty apt TO be tho best.
Jesse with gittin offis--the best way is
the old way. 1t may be, however. that
Providence does raise up q man as an in
stsument to reform society, but the In
stsunent is very likely to think he 10
doin' it all on his own hook, and he'll
keep on TetoEmin' III the millennium is
the people will LEI him. I think is
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