The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-05-01
SAMPSON'S BILL ARP.
A Farmers Trials.--These New
tangled Days.


in a new ground where the roots
are not all picked up, and a
plenty of clods and they keep
the planter knocked off about
every ten steps, and your sus-
penders work down off of your
shoulders and you feel like your
pants were OH a strike for a rest
spell, and your shoes are full of
dirt and got your toes cramped
up so you cau't walk good, and
got an old mule that has had all
the fine hair cut out of his ears
to make him look younger and
they then have filled up with
dust 50 bad he can't hear good
and looks like lie had a good
case Of dyspepsia and don't feel
good no how Your planter
runs off and you hallow woe
and the mule don't stop; you
set back on the lines, the mule
throws up his head, you fall fat
Of youl back, the mule runs
back with the vim of an OK
when he is thirsty and starts to
the head of a branch on a hot
day, knocks the planter over,
punch the handles in your side,
the traces come unhitched and
the mule goes over to the corn
patch, nibbles at the corn that
is up and looks like he had done
nothing. What would you do ?
Would you lay still and grunt,
Or gi: up and fix your suspend
ers, or sit down on the planter
and knock the dirt out of your
shoes, 20 for the doctor catch
the mule, quit forming, or abuse
the planter for being new fam
gled thing and not worth any
thing because you could not
hold it to its work. That is
just about the farmers fix; he
don't know what to do. I tell
you what lets do. Let US go
back to first principles, get us
an old wooden jack dagger, burst
that ridge right wide open, put
the seed down by hand, way
down in the moist earth, where
the drouth won't touch them
and get a roller and roll the
earth on and see if we don't
make a. crop. These new fan
gled things are all right if we
have got the first principles, but
somebody has got to get out
these roots and clods. We cant
quit the farm, so we might as
we'll prepare for it. Our faith
ers prepared for us and we hai
better look sharp, for all the
work they have done has grown
up in brier patches and old fiel6
pines, and if we don't begin te
hustle we wont leave our child
rem any more of a start than W.
had when we first discovered
America. Not as good, because
we have used all the timber an(
wore out the soil. These new
fadgled ways and things WI
have been using have jnst abou
ruined the country. We hav'
got new tangled everything nov
a days. There is new fanglei
machinery. Why tie stean
mills have run all the water
mills out of existence, and
amt had no good bread in tel
years. Then amt got no wher
to fish when I go to mill, unles
it's around the valves and cock
of the engine. and then the fire
man hallows at me to quit be
fore / blow the thing up. Ney
tangled politics, you can't tel
a Democrat from a Republican
this swivel service allows hin
to stay in Office as long as h
keeps his mouth shut and pay
both sides campaign funds. Ne1
tangled religion. They preacl
; so much love until some mem
bers of the congregation fall i
love with each other and CON
nit more sin than if you wer
to preach a little hell-fire a
them. Better make them afrai
of the devil if they neither Low
God nor respect the laws or mo-
ality. New faIgled education
l saw a little child the othe
j, day take up book and rea
right along, and l did not thin
he had time to learn his letters
) / covered up the picture at tn
: top of the page and he coul
= not read a word, and he coul
S not spell out the word becaus
4 he did not know his letter
t / thought there would be glt
7 rious day TOR artists drawin
t pictures for the coming gener
= ton to read by. We will hay
: a literature of pictures. The'
t is another case of trying to p'
= the seed in the ground befol
t we break the clods. You teac
e the child to read by sight an
t not to think.
e They have a new tangled We
s of making US keep mp the pu'
e lie schools. The white childrs
a have t., stay home and work tt
e land to pay the taxes on it, :
y the negro children can 20
i school, and his NANNY TAX
n out of your kitchen enough