The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-10-25
ARP'S OBSERVATIONS.
a Lesson of Content Taken From Nature
Atianta Constitution.

Lesson of Content Taken From Nature.
Ahanta Constitution.
a man don't know how he is getting
along unless he compares himself with
MS neighbors. Comparison is big thing
IN this life. # Mr.. Lowry hasen't got
any better crop than have am content,
Tor Mr.. Lowry is good farmer. Some.
times step around his fields and look
owe: Tie fence, and if his cotton ia low
anu thin and his corn pretty much all
nuobins can't to save my life feel bad
about it. | wish | could, and | reckon
could IL my own crop wasn't so much
like his. Human nature is powerful
mean about the like of that. They say
that woman is right we'll satisfied with
her new dress and new bonnet until her
nabor comes TO meeting sith s little fiacr
one, but reckon that is q mistake.
read in the Constitution, not long aro.
about n Boston lady taking arsenic
because she saw her nabor at a party with
o new set of diamond ear rings. She
was about to die when they told her that
the ear rings were hired from jewelry
store, and then she got we'll. 1t takes n
power OF grace to make a man rejoice
500 hhoca
l was perusing the big books that
Governor Brown sent me. containing the
last census and all the statistics OF all
the products of all Tie Stntes, and Of
every county IA every State, and /
couldent hel p comparing Georgia with
the other States, and | found right smart
to be proud of and some things waseut
proud of.
The general health of country is
about the most important thing to look
at, for health is worth more than wealth,
or power or anything else, and find that
our State has the smallest death rate
among the white population. The diff:
erence between the whites and the negroes
is set down at 25 per cent, but the com.
pi!er says ii il more than that, for it was
impossible to get true returns from the
negroes at the South-we all know very
well by the sections reports in our South
ern cities that it is at least SO per cent.
and in many places Il hundred.
Georgia has fewer insane persons and
idiots in her asylum in proportion to pop
ulation than any other State. Ohio has
$50 per cent more and New York 200
per cent. more, and ali the Northern
States from SO to 200 per cent. more.
Georgia has the least number of white
prisoners serving in the penitentiary and
the chain gangs than any other State. If
it wasent for the crimes committed by
the negroes our prisoner account would
be less than any State in the union.
The death rate when compared with 9TH
er States is very curious when we look at
the diseases that people die of. Georgia
had only 81 deaths from scarlet fever,
and Illinois had 1869, Georgia had 59i
deaths from diptheria and illinois had
2422, Georgia had 100 deaths from con.
sumption aud Illinois had 1858 The
population of Illinois is about double
that Of Georgia.
Georgia has only 23l white prisoners
in confinement and Illinois has 1886.
These two States make very fair com
parison between the North and the
South. New York has 10000 prisoners,
and not quite four times the population
of Georgia with her 23l prisoners, and
yet The Northern papers are always
abusing Us about our iawlessness. They
have ten suicides to our one. Massachu.
sets has 1892 paupers and Georgia has
only 385, and there is but little difference
in the population of the two States.
Georgia is in much better condition
than any Northern State, 80 far as con.
Germs her health, her morality aud the
sanity of her people. Her pauper
population is not to be mentioned when
compared with the Northern States.
But when we compare our industry
with theirs we have nothing to brag of.
One county in Illinois made more wheat
than all Georgia. Two counties made
more corn. Just think of State max.
ing 450 million bushels of corn this year.
Illinois made 325 millions in 1879. and
the estimated crop Tor this year is $50
millions. Georgia will make only 20
millions. But then, we have cotton and
they have none we have rice and sugar
cane and they have none. Nevertheless.
they have rye and barley, and hops, and
hay, and oats, and hogs, and beef cattle,
and butter, and cheeze, and thousand
things that we have not, and their ag-
gregate is much larger than ours in val
ue, according to area and population.
They work harder than we do, they get
up sooner and save more and spend less.
They put more in the basket and less on
their backs and in their stomachs than
we do. When they spend any of their
it is on their houses and barns
and orchards. The average farmer up
there is in good comfortable condition,
but they have lots Of vagabonds, lots of
tramps, lots of crazy people and deafand
dumb, and blind, and paupers and cranks.
There ere wandering beggars all over
that iand, but we don't have them here.
/ have been living in the country seven
years and have never had but one visit
from beggar. have never locked my
front door at night. My family some
time 60 from home on visit to a nabor
aud stay all day and leave the house
unlocked, and nothing has ever been
stolen that we know of. My stable and
corucrib ie never locked No hnnesier
people never lived than live around us.
My opinion is that our people are most
too lazy to steal and wouldent 90 after
corn unless it was shucked and shelled
and sacked. l believe that if was to
put bag full of nice corn out at my
front gate some feller. would take it and
carry it off; but they won't go to tho crib
after it. 1t is too much trouble. Bayard
Taylor tells of canton in Switzerland
where the merchant marks the price of
his goods and goes of to his little farm
and leaves the store open, and when
man wants anything he goes in the store
and measures it or weighs it and puts the
money in the drawer. That is a good
way and saves clerk hire, but wouldent
advise our merchants to make the exper-
iment for fear of accidents. The books
might not exactly balance when he took
account of stock.
But there is food for reflection when
we compare the education of our people
with that of the Northern States. Edu-
cation makes people smarter and more