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COTTON VS.. CORN, OATS,
An Interesting Letter From our Min.
ty.Six Correspondent as TO What
the Farmer Should and Should
Not DO....COunty Commissioners
TOEn Notice.
NINETY Sry,S. C., May 30, 1901.


NINETY SIX. =. C.. May 80. E9l.
MIR. EpIToH:--AS you have been kind
enough heretofore to publish my letters, be-
lievc will risk the waste basket, and come
again with q few scattering thoughts.
| will not say anything about the history OF
old Cambridge this time, because it seems
that everybody has their own history about
this good Old place. You would think it the
garden spot OF South Carolina, If you could
See the beautiful ripe fields of oats that Mr..
Galpnin now has around there, all ready for
the reaper. Corn Mt one dollar and hve cents
per bushel, one can appreciate good ieid OF
oats, yet SO many of our people, neSlecllnS
oats and corn, and going on raising cotton NJ
IL &c, and getting poorer every yenr. IL LOOKS
like laws will have TO be made. yet, 10 require
our people 10 plant certain number Oh
acres OF corn and outs to given number oil
acres OF cotton, before they Will do the rlght
thing.
The prospects for a good crop down here are
not tlattering, yet, as clods and bad stands OF
cotton are found in good many places.
How the grass Is going TO stir our people now
for awhile, Is astonishing.
Well, IT looks to me, as read lhe papers
and watch the movements Of our people who,
ut any unusual event, get extravagant In
their dolngs-the alliance making trcmendu-
Gus strides, big town lot sales In OLD billy
cities, and | saw In yesterdays News and
Courier where South Carolina must make n
big advertisement in Chicago at the World $
Fair To be held there, to induce people 10
industries OF various kinds. These things are
all we'll and good II properly managed, none
of them, however, are going TO make our Peo-
pie Il large rich. few will doubtless pront,
but the onl.' thing that can possibly help the
masses, Is for every man to go to work and
practice economy, and what mean by econ
omy Is TO never spend as much as he makes.
and then, and not Till then, will our people
State now, If they will work. and take care oil
what they make, TO keep South Carolina up
with any State in the Union. How on earth
can others coming in add to the pleasure and
profit of those ofus here? Every Individual
must work out his own prosperity, and then
l will. guarantee the whole will prosper, and
the sooner this lesson Is learned, the better
If our people walt for something to turn up:
or for some big corporation to come along and
take us In and make us rich, we will die poor,
and at last be buried in the Potter''s Field.
want 1t distinctly understood that am
no old fOgy-I believe In railroads. factories,
and Industries Of every kind, but the day has
come when the poor people can no longer pay
their thousands to the rich combinations in
the way Of subscriptions and taxes, when
nothing but the convenience OF such institu-
ions nre given In retnrn.
And then, what do we want with more peo.
pie when those OF us who are here now, and
was born here, cannot agree. Look At the
terrible scramoling for office, and the fusSlng
about equalization of assessments and taxes,
and the case Of the asylum, and then the
trouble of the State College.
Friend DuPre is having good bridge built
over Wilson S creek, on The road leading rom
Ninety Six 10 the free bridge across Saluda
river. II our good county com misSioncrs
have no oblections, wi i'll make suggestion
or two for them to think about. a few days
ago drove out seven or eight miles south OF
this place, and came TO place ahout iour
miles from here, Just beyond where our friend
James Griffin has built him Il neat new cot
tage. Where the road turned ut right'angles
to the right, and went west for about one.
fourth inlle and then turned square to the left
and went about half a mile. and Then bore
gradually to the left, when, II the road had
been made 10 run direct south, would have
been made nearer, very level and beautiful
road. Now. why should The public be made
to go this round forever over such rough,
hilIy road? better by far buy, If necessary, a
while life lasts. The world Is moving too fast,
now, in every sense, for us TO continue going
these rounds when time Is moving, and yon
know everything IS getting on a moving ba.
TO drive TO Edgefield G. H.. and In going saw
bridges so numerous concluded | would
count them on my return. took pencil and
paper and l, set down every every time we, would would
and small, from two planks up to the largest,
a distance of twenty-eight miles, flfty-five
bridges. 1t Is true the most OF the distance
Is in tolerable good condition, yet a few
and last for a long time hope our common
wealth will not think 1 ain making any COM
plants, but simply suggestions.
If my letter Is not too long already, would
like to ask any one, In position to know,
what effect opening up fish ways In our rivers
have had in giving the up-country more fish.
have not heard ofa single shad being caught
In Salnda near here; ! presume all the dams
have been provided with fish ways. If SO,
what Is the matter? l am told shad are
TO be caught along the rivers this high up.
The frost left us good deal Of fruit In this
section, and we are glad. Justice.