The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-10-30
m. HOW sHIFTLEss.

r,,. leaders of that phenomena
aS M Uncle Toms Cabin, remembe
~" u'o1' Yankee lady who, when "dowr
M ,,h saw things not at all in &C
T'"I" aance with the ways she had beer
% 'r"nrht up to. Such ways'of course
p'v' r;th her indignant condemns
as' ',a md often drew from her the ex
'v". '."..ion, "Oh, how shiftless!" Since
r a words were uttered by Mrs
~ .."w.s parsonage, several circum'
,ance. toward which "Uncie Tom
',n.eIf contributed, occurred, and
,"n.p circumstances have been sue.
'od.d by changes they helped t.
',,luce, but still many people in the
xorth are exclaiming with as muri'
.,or A. ever, "Oh, now shiftless"
Matters Va that meet the ears Of the Wis.
nors North, and come out in thei'
.rations and uewspapers,b ,betray this.
T., /. i,urnal before us We find it stat
II that Southern people do not know
how to work, and if anybody woulo
.sach them they are too proud topui'
,vth.ir coats unu learn. Men Ioa.
,hout and depend lpon others 10 tee''
them, and the women sit in thei'
rsekins chair chewing tolu gum alId
.s.ding novels. Such people can bc
huud of course. They exist every.
where. We have seen them IN th,
North, aud ne'er.do-weels aud skim
miles can be found even in Bustoi
sod Concord. How little those wh'
init out their "Oh. how shiftlessW
soow what has been done aud en'iur-
ad in the sOuth Let the NortlIer,
reader imagine The southern planter,
=, the conclusion OF the war, return.
iup To lis home. As he approacbe.
he hDds the fences gone, his soil COY
cred with lofty Wee,is, " Nhat lew cat
tie appear ale roaming AT will. a dcs
olatIun worse than tina. of the eterlia
desert lies before him-w"rse, ,becuus,
he remembers the scene Of smiIil;
beauty it was u Nlith he left it. I'll"
hardsIips Of war have brdnzed an'
hardened him, but If some tears fai
dow n the bronzed cheek are they no
Iustifabie? But this is not the worst
1t is within the house that the Iron
enters his soul! There are the lalie,
Of the house, whom, he left surround |
I'd by refinement and supplied witt !
comforts, il not eiegancies, of life
Now Chloe and Dinal and he rest
thpm are scattered nobody knows
where, and those ladies are sweepin,
and making beds and tookins,aud $,
on, hnsy IN the henhouse, at the ha,
pen and in the Kitchen. No rOckin;
chair and novel there, but coarse,
hard work. Aud he mhst work Il,
hard as they for the fences have to b,
restored, the fields renovated, tn
cotton to be- grown aud got To market,
Was all this done by inOneyless me.
and women who were too proud t
pull their coats Off or put an apro
IN? No. Those fields are white witt.
roton to-day, those horses are no"
beat, and good taste has added eIe.
sance, often out of small materials
md The cattle are in the yard and tht
horses in the stable, and prosperity i.
ividently On visit to the spot. Has
III the change been made without
york OF head and hands, early morn
ngs and late nights, and many pri-
'ations endured? Who could look u,
he change made since the devasta.
ion OF war made, by Southern mus.
lie and Southern brain, not "NOrtl-
IN capital" and say, "Oh, how
But not all had farms
mi homes, many the war had wild
wed and made fatherless, and as We
write very many Southern men and
'olnen, nursed in plenty, toll every
ay for living. We know some of
hem, and when we see tiit IN calmly,
heer!uliy and brasrly enduring ana
nling all inquisitOr's rack could not '
iake us say, sob, how shiftless. ~
appeal.
The cotton picking machine Of the
Jason Cotton Harvester Company,
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