Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-12-25

Chrlstmas-.-The OLD end !hs New, yyasf
..-POlyteohnio Schools for the Young
liking Cotton and the Men who
Rule it.--Oranges and Wheat In the
Piedmont Belt--.POtatoes and Snow
StOrms---Text Books and Old Field
Schools.
TUeALoo HOME, S. G., Dec. %, 100.
DEAR COURIER: "Time and tide
wait for no man" and tho fiery or
deals of the old and the now year
come and go! How important that
We "redeem tho time"
Hon. r.. ID. Vow, of Avalon, Ga,
who has succeeded in building a de-
pot on the Elberton Air Line Rail
road, is II Of old Franklin's best
tinanciers and wears his Representa-
tive and Senatorial dignities with a
plain farmers style. In his expert
cnco and observation he is forced to
SEQ the necessity of polytechnic
schools. He was partly raised in
Oconce, if our memory serves us
right.
1t is education or training that
makes the man. Give the young the
guiding hand Of culture in all tho de-
partments of life and we become
new creatures! Old things pass
away; all things become new. Men
and women, boys and girls need
training. They should know how to
eat and why, how TO cook and what!
1t is the simple things of life we
need drilling in, and if there is one
thing the American people need
more than any other it is the train
ing how to do without stimulants
and narcotics.
Cotton is king. Maj. S. X. Cannon
sold II bales of long staple cotton at
10 cents, making over $500, to say
nothing of SO bales of short staple.
This man came from Oconee county
and like our honored friend, Mr..
Vow, started with nothing after the
war. Mr.. Joe Vandiver, near Fair
Play, proposes to make his 100 bales
in the near future. Primus Jones in
the cotton belt was the "first bale
man." but what about the 100 bale
man in the Piedmont Belt, Just I'M
der the shadow of the "dusky splen-
dor" of the Blue Ridge? Talk
about the Cotton Belt The Pied
mont Belt will beat the world for
variety. Here We raise all the ce-
reals, clover and the grasses. Or
anges and flowers. cotton and straw
berries, fruits from California to
New York in a genial climate, so
spring-like that ever and anon the
spring bird may be heard as sweet as
Apolo's lutte. We have not the de-
b~ilitating effect of the "Land of
Flowers" or the c~ongealing influence
of the icy North. The writer even
here has pluckcd the luscious blush
ing peach with it's sweet aroma from
May to November, to say nothing of
the hardy Mickajak, the Ames, the
Yates, the Shockley, the Wine Sap,
Towards Seeding and a host Of
other winter keeping apples, with
the spring varieties: Early May,
EARLY Harvest, Caroline, June and a
host of summer and fall varieties
too numerous to mention.
With all of this variety we have
the gist to mention yet. The writer
has a cotton patch that has never
been picked W yet! We have
had n respectable snow of 3 or 4
inches deep, had the ground been
dry, yet "Tom" Reese and "Mack"
IIcrndon are still digging potatoes
(sweet and yams) from the patch
the 22d of December! Last year
Tom Reese drew his potato slips
from among his cotton, the potatoes
having lain in the ground sound all
winter, to say nothing of the hardy
Irish potatoes, which we have the
year round.
Mrs. |. l.. McCurry has an orange
tree with clusters of apples Of gold
in pictures Of silver.
Miss Mag Carson and Mrs. Hood,
of Banks county, Ga, have the same.
Why do not our Northern friends
come to the Piedmont section? We
beat California. We've got the land
of flowers right here in a nutshell.
Why hesitate? Come and help us.
We've got the climate, you have got
the capital. The red shirt is buried.
Come with your family; come with
your colonies. See what our Ger
man friends have done. They came
among us, we entertained them una
wares and we trust some of them
have turned out to be angels. The
DR.. of Divinity, the M. d., the Nor
mans, the Ansels, the Biemanns have
added not a little to build up our
section, secularly as well as reli-
giously, financially and educationally
1t is true, the German likes his Ia
ger and toddy, but sec the younger
generations + falling into line, and
are being educated out of this former
training. Let us hope on, hope ever,
and now after this hasty sketch, we
wish the readers n merry Christmas
and a happy New Year. b.. f. X.
No graduate of Vassar College
has ever been divorced from her hus,
band. Such is the statement of q
man who married one of them, and
who declares that the young ladies
who hovo bnnn oluooto1 Of tho ,oI