The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-12-19
For TuE CAUCASIAN
NOTES AND REFLECTIONS.
Hard Times.

are lard, very nard. Ii Is
so often repeated, reiterated
that it forces even the most
skeptical to the conclusions into
which the public mind seems
to have settled down. And yet
there are some things strangely
at variance with this public
clamor, and which seems partly
to contradict this conclusion of
the public mind. 4 laboring
man can get so cents per day for
his work. Let us say then that
he makes this one day; with
this he can buy ten pounds of
pork. He works another day,
and with this he can buy a
bushel of corn. Here, then,
with two days work he has pro-
vision 10 support him comfor-
tably for a month, with three
days work in the month he can
clothe himself. OF the twenty
six working days in the month,
if he work five days, lie makes
himself independent of the
world. Then, for the other
twenty-one days, he can live,
if he chooses, the life cf an In
dian cLief. Or, if ne chooses to
work these twenty-one days,
he can support a family com
fortably and save money be-
sides. This is not utopian or
visionary, but is III reach of
any Industrious, frugal man.
Now, if life is so easy to every
industrious man, it contradicts
fatty the notion that the times
are hard. Besides this, people
are as extravagant as ever they
were. A young lady the other
day showed me her new hat. 1t
weighed four ounces. How
much did it cost, said [. Just
four dollars, she said. So our
ladies wear hats that cost their
weight in silver-and other
parts # their dress correspond.
Ladies' could not dress in this
style if the times were hard.
And when a circus comes along
there is money a plenty TO pay
COA vAAO ,tIoaICiAo v, sAiS VsO
This year. they say is the most
unfavorable ever known for
farming, and yet in Wayne coun-
ty one man made eightyfive
barrels of corn On five acres of
land-just eighty-iive bushels
per acre. Why did he do this =?
The Agricultural Department
offered a premium for the best
corn farm. He worked wisely
and made the corn and the pre-
MUM. Now nature offers a
premium every year, aid those
who work for it get it. But it
is never taken by those farmers
Who spend half their time loaf
ing in the villages, keeping up
the public sentiment in favor
Of hard times.
There is hardness somewhere.
but it is not in the times nor the
seasons, but in the people. Iu
them there must be change
must be reform; or we will &C
down to the deepest depths OF
poverty. We will soon be toe
poor to buy ink enough to dot
our is and cross our It's. Some
things our people must learr
or there is no redemption for us
We are doomed. Among these
the following are Of first i'm
portance
1st. Stop spending other men:
money. If You owe your neig h
bow twenty dollars and have
ten dollars in your pocket, that
money is not yours, but his, anf
you cannot spend it without hi:
consent. Remember that tht
vice closest kin to debt is lying
for lying "rides on debts back
End. Spending more money
than you make. He who make;
ninety-nine cents and spends g
dollar will surely come to want
"rhe Indies did rot make Spa il
rich because her outgoas were
greater than her incomes"
3rd. Stop spending money be
fore you make it. Many do til. :
then sit down and hope for bet
ter times. Remember that "ht
who lives on hope dies fasting,
and that It is diligence thai
gives good luck" and that COCO
helps them that help them
selves. and to-day is worth tw'
tomorrows.'
4th. Take heed to the follow
ing wise sayings: ado not squan
der time, for time is the stuff
that life is made Of "fht
sleeping fox catches no poultry
CAT the working mans house
hunger looks in, but does no
enter" Handle your tools with
out mittens; the cat in glove:
catches no mice" "a littls
neglect breads great mischief
In the want of a nail the shoe
was LOST; and for the want of ths
shoe the horse was lost; and for
the want of the horse the vii
lage was lost" IF you would
be wealthy, think of saving, s.:
well as getting. A fat kitchen
makes a lean will" "Wha1
maintains one vice will bring
up two children off you wan
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