The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-12
An Interesting Letter from Broadway
Township.

An Interesting Letter from Broadway
Township.
MEssRs EDlroRs That we have never
communicated anything fer your columns
from this section everybody knows. We
have frequently promised ourselves, as
we'll as the many readers of your valuable
paper. that we would try to give them
something to read, but from causes too
worthless to mention We have not done so.
A great many little events have happened
here and there over the Township, the
effects of which have passed away unno.
ticed, which if they had been clothed in
suitable phraseology would have been, no
doubt, of some interest to many of your
readers, but they now belong to the things
of the past, and we have no desire to bring
them back from their quiet resting places
before the public eye.
We are regular farmers in this section.
There is not q man in our Township, of
whom we have any knowledge, who is not
either directly or indirectly farmer, and
we can boast Of some Us good farmers as
any Township in the County, although 9
good many of us have to get Our bread
and meat from Bleckley, Brown & Fret
well, and elsewhere yet we are farmers.
We are dependent upon the farm for liv-
ing. Almost all the money we have for
the various purposes of our families comes
from the proceeds Of the farm and if it
ever happens that we have anything to
from the farm, and we hardly ever fail to
have something to give whenever we ara
called upon so to do, although it has been
said in high circles that the reason that the
farmers OF our country never have any
thing to give, is because they only work
by "lts" That may be so, and it may not
be so. May be that is the reason why we
have never written anything to help the
;. unior Editor out. We have never had
writing fit. Well, all men are liable to
fits at times in their respective occupa-
tions. Frequently necessity demands az
We saw one of our neighbor farmers the
other day suffering under severe fit in the
cotton field, and he was giving the grass
fits too. He would first dig it up, then
pick it up, then give it a terrible shaking,
and then hang it on stump to cure. And
ifyou were to go into the printing office OF
the ANDEsoN INTELLIGENcER on certain
days of the week, you would think that
everybody in there had fit. Politicians
at times have political fits. The whole Of
Merchants, too, sometimes have some kind
of good spells to come over them, and will
sell you goods wonderfully cheap "as long
as it is you" When you hear one say
that, be certain to buy the article from him
but be sure not go back there any more,>
for lie will give you o spell next time.
Horse traders are subject to fits. We saw
man not long ago at the Rocky River
bridge suffering intensely from q tit
which he took soon after horse swap,
which he made at one of the livery stables
at Anderson. We have never heard
whether he recovered or not. We hardly
think he did, for it would take whole
horse from beginning to end to have cured
him. We used to think that our honored
school teacher had fits and he had way
of giving them. to us which would make
us spin around like the wind mill which
neighbor w. has on his gate post for the
amusement of his little crippled boy.
Since have been thinking about it, this is
a powerful titful world. Barroom keepers
and distillers are liable to fits, and men who
visit such places and patronize such insti-
.tutions will catch fits sure enough if they
are not very cautious. We saw man one
day who was suffering from such fit. He
caught it by going into barroom too often.
He was running. like wild man through
the field. He said the devil was after him.
He finally laid down in mud hole in the
big road and wallowed like hog. He said
that he was burning up both inside and
outside. Poor fellow we were sorry for
dead. He died soon afterwards. Wonder
where be went? We once heard the Rev.
James G. Vernon say at Meals Creek, that
no drunkard hath eternal life abiding in
him.
Then, again, here comes the candidates.
They take fits for public offices. Almost
every week some one comes out in the
papers, land he gives five dollars to get to
tell it,) saying that he is suitable man
for certain office. Well, that may be
true. We are not going to dispute it, but
the voters of the County can settle that
matter more definitely and satisfactorily
than he can. We know that it does an
Editor great deal of good to announce a
candidate. It is equal to a barrel of -four
for his family. But the Junior Editor has
no wife, so We are creditably informed.
Wewould advise him to take marrying fit
Just as soon as possible. for it is charac-
teristic Of his family to turn grey at an
early age. and grey hairs have no charms
for maid.
Here is the Sunday school workers.
They take fits about the religious training
of the young, and will exert every power
and strain every nerve for the good of the
cause for little while, and all at once the
spell leaves them, and the children are left
to look out for themselves.
What On unfortunate world is ours I!
Even Christians have some kind of spells.
They get reused up, or as it Is more com.
monty expressed by such people, they get
into glorious revival. They sing, pray,
talk, cry, shout, and exhort sinners to i'm.
mediate repentance before it is finally and
thing you know they have fallen from
grace, or have Sided backwards clear out
Of sight of the Kingdom. Well, we do not
know just exactly what to call it, but from
some cause they quiet down. We are
now writing about something that we do
not know very much, if anything, about.
1t always has been mystery to us-we
mean religion. 1t appears to US, however,
that people ought not to overload them
selves with it's influence They ought to
put on just what they will be able to carry
through life. Ifit gives out in this world,
they will be in bad fix in the next. We
have never seen man take on too much
religion, but what the devil or some one
else persuaded him to throw the whole of
it away. We remember once to have seen
preacher take fit in the pulpit, brought
on by the influence of an unpaid salary,
and he gave his members perfect fits"
Christ said to his followers, Continue ye
in my love-" If that is so, and We guess
the preacher knew, we think that it is
strong argument against irregular religion.
Continue in my love''-stay in my reli-
gion and continue in my precepts. We
are Just guessing at the meaning of what
the preacher said. a match, by way of
illustration, will give light in a sick room
at night little while, but in bad cases of
sickness the nurse needs a steady light all
night. So, if what the preachers say be
true, O man needs burning light in his
sin-sick soul all the time, till that bright
and glorious day Of eternity, of which the
preachers love so much to say, dawns
upon their immortal souls.
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