The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-26

4 on Tue DIG tapa. " W0uttt have: been
taken as sign OF incompetency on his
part as e. opening UP new ground. AZ
tirst II may seem rs If 1t was foolish TO
put Eve or tea dollars in fertilizers on, an
acre when fresh acre could Bes bought
Tor the same money; but what has been
tue fruit OF this policy A planter in
/ my neighborh0od preached this doctrine
70 me when commenced TO farm. When
our laboE Institution vas awept; away as
by the stroke of the pen was not this,
our part of this Cur Sunny South, almost
o brcomsedge and piney old field? Was
it not necessary 20 own three acres in or
der 20 have oee 10 cultivate? IKE casual
| reader of Ramsey's History of South
Carolina viii find that 'Whcn the upper
belt OF this State was settled, bufialoss
were so plentiful that three or four mon
with their dogs could kill from ten to
twenty o day, Deer were more nume-
rous than rabbits at this day. Turkeys
abounded on all sides; The waters
abounded in beaver, otter and fish. There
was great facility for raising stock from
the great profusjon of native grass end
cane. Now do not pfetend to demand
that our predecessors should have saved
the game for US, but lido syeptuIejto de-
maud that their system-as It destroyed
go many virgin acres-should have occa-
eionally restored one to lis original fer
Utility. You hare looked on the picture
lgof ascountEy Units yirginity pow loplt on
| this. Was not the prospect gloomy, ih-
deed, when at Appomattox Gen. Grant
gave johnny Reb O broken down horse
land told him to GO home, build up his
waste places, dc something for. himself
aud his country? With sad and heavy
heart he set out on that journey. Let US
ljoin him az he nears that home. We
know it can't be far off by the broom
sedge and piney old field. Here ON our
right is the fresh fields; the trees and
stumps are still standing in. it, yet il has
bald spots and gullies. It has been sown
in wheat, We know, by the stripes of
deeper green running up and down the
hills far away, where the grain had fallen
/ more thickly between The cotton rows.
1 Yes soWn in wheat to restlit; rest by
making an exhaustive crop, and then be
pastnred by all the stock in the neigh.
borliood during all summer aud =. lrter.
And here is the house. a rail fence has
taken the place of the ONCE neat palings
fThree.foot boards withiabout six inches
turning UP towards the beans, makes o
| roof instead of the onca close, shingle.
Several old quilts have taken the place of
the shining lights. You gdinthe portieo
by stepping on various logs piled pro-
miscuously, having cut tho pigeon wing
ssveral times before you reach the floor.
There 10 every indication tlias the rude
hand of war. has been abroad in e'iand.
That is th.s lot, Sand that must be, what is
left of the stables, for we see the head of
n disconsolate horse now and then stick
ing out between sundry fence rails, which
are {jammed into tho door. A wagon
bodyfs trying to getsonithe fence, whilst
the running gear stands taking it coolly
with its tongue lolling out upon the
ground. Attic gate stan 5eqnal llingaa
fraternity of razor backs, But they can't
get in atthat gate, foriit iB OF it's h:3ges
and propped hard and fast With liaifIal
dozen rails. From the direction a few
eow.franies are taking it can't be far to
the cup pen on some bleak knoll, SO as
TO be high and dry Inpsigns of manure
are I ars lying around OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
takes half a day to find them. Is this
some fancy sketch, or can some places like
it still be found in this South land even
| in this late day? But our Johnny, brave
in peace as in war, could not be discou-
ragged, went earnestly to work, and soon
| had old Bail SO that he could do full
days pi0ughing, when, one day, along
cane some. Federal lso,diers from ihe gar.
rison Of town, who, after due gexatiiina-
tion, found the inevitable u 3 S. brand
on Balls fnreshonlder, and informed
Johnny that that was q govsrnmant
| horse, and that if he did not 70 to town
and pay for him he would have to give
| him Up. They replied with smiles when
he told them that Gen. GrasE had given
| him that horae at the surrender, aud so
Sary Ann had TO give. up haSii(iieslot
OF gold she had hid away SO safalyrfof
the Eext war, that Johnny had drawn as
tho, breaking up. But, nothing daunted,
4 he returned TO bis plough. His expe-
riehGe in reyerses had bean pretty thor
Tough. Our Johnny's frat yeercails quite
trying. When the juno and July suns
1 came he just thought he could not statid
It, and slightly parap fasipg on .he great
Nelilngton, who. IN; Ills slispense : nc
Waterloo egclpi ned u 8 7gpnld : that
lnight or Blnehert Sere' come e d itil ntir
sbade nt I'll end or his row, ext IL ain ma
HE famed himself Would That niGht
i or niggeg VI sre come y y But our JOHNNY
has solved tho pEo,. ;lein, has sxpIo ded the
| idea that he could not stand our summer
l,snns, that he could not take tilap place OF
pes. Pes. &. that he could lot
troll free labor. He has astonished the
! man that could not nor would not accept
c'sitiiatinu, who could onI talk s!6ort
/ how. many negroes he had lost and sigl,
:sss1is dry out: SO . are ruined VT ARE
ruined Oh, yuli car, y max e Co TON With
/ free negroes or white labor; tile county
] is gono TO the devil, we are all r:iined.p
say he has astonisnad those croakers
I WITH q crop or over: llFe afiEI n half iiiis5
lions hales Of custoti.s Hs hass (ieruon-
4 stfatRd the fact thatRithi1 liiaf lies the
/ power TO hniid up and rscuperate our
i .ygsse places, Ia 40 by guard drains, to
/ prevent our land from washing, subsoil
| ploughing, toresist drought, alienation
-. Z. e :. By ..-s
jfgreen vegetable mstter, our old lands
/ may be made to bloom and blossom equal
to nnys OF the beauti snl hills of Ohio or
Pennsyi yiyania. Our johnny has atown
i the croaker who said he was Only &c 10
4 side and drive fahuy hoEses, wear lid
1 gioYea and fancy clothes, keen an tl:n-
1 brells over his Grant q. as he went round
!. 10 make love 10 the fair EIofas Of the
! land, that he Is about asSaear all horse
i and half alligator as was eve. old Dasy
4 Crockett, and that he can do as much
i hard work In the hot SUM as ANYBODY
elae, regardless of any psesiora condition
of eergitnde, race or color tiInk as for
! hin him sand hls. horse, they ara going 90
work this life pEob bIeui out he has iiis