The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-10-11
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Health, as usual, is good in this COM
munity. The doctors are getting to be
strangers, gloomy strangers. Perhaps it
1s because their prospects are gloomy.
The farmers are busy from early till
late gathering cotton. Every hand on the
farm. and every child from the cradle up,
must go to the cotton field. The old mau
himself, who complains all the time OF q
stiff back, must be there to make the full
number. He says: 30, if I was young
like you all are, would never want to
rest"
The farmers seem to think that the
price of cotton is higher now than it will
ever be again; consequently they are
crowding the gins with SO much cotton
that some of the ginners are compelled to
rur their gins nearly all night.
A. great many Of our neighbors are car:
rying cotton to Pelzer. They claim that
it pays in both price and weight.
Cotton is opening very rapidly now,
but as jack frost has already been seen, it
is feared that he will return soon with
re.inforcements, and capture a large per
cent of cotton.
Some of the farmers in this section have
been sowing oats.
Ifthe turnip forms part of tho corn
shucking dinner this year, as is generally
the case the time is some distance off yet.
but as the potato crop is good, and the
cook can turn the potatoes into custards,
slice pies and the frying pan, there will be
no Ego back" in the dinner. Corn -shuck.
ing business is gradually becoming
thing of the past. Several years ago when
the farmer made corn their principal crop,
it was customary to invite all the neigh
bors for two and three miles around, both
black and white. There were generally
number of lively young ladies present,
who, with jug Of whiskey, always
made things as happy as the occasion
could afford. When the darkey took his
dram, and the young man took his seat
by the prettiest girl in the neighborhood,
it was considered no task for the hands to
shuck five hundred bushels of corn in one
night. Such times have passed, and 1t
seems to us that our fathers enjoyed
pleasures which We are deprived of. We
know our father, (he is in Texas now
who went 10 corn.sbucking one night,
and sat on an icy pumpkin by the side oil
young lady, who afterwards became bis
wife, and we doubt that his sons will ever
have such enjoyment.
It has not been hundred years since
young man, who is fayorite of a number
Of ladies, went to see his favorite girl.
About nine o'clock in the night he made
preparation to start home. he took the
young lady's hand to bid her good night,
said: won't you give me a kiss
before leave?" Her answer was a posi-.
tive mo" but the embarrassed interro-
gator still held the hand, and continued
to beg and plead for '.just one kiss" till
the clock struck ten, when the old man,
who was in an adjoining room, was
aroused. he heard the the young man say,
Il cannot, and will not, go home till you
kissme." This saying was repeated until
the old man became tired, and he roared
out sdaughtor, for. the Lords sake give
him a kiss and let him CO." Tho only
thing that disturbed the old man then,
was the noise the young man made as he
went over the yard paliug near the gate.
The young man says accidents will hap
pen, and has written to Fred D. Bush to
know the price of second class tickets to
Texas. CRATE.