The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-21
OGE PROSPERITY LETTER.

| NlsltlDY 'riel!uS ana relatives Ill tNWll.
Mrs. W. D. Maylield, wife of our
| Superintendent of Education for South
Carolina, Spen. last night il town.
DIR. T. G. Duke, OF itidgway, S. c.,
has taken charge Of the prescription
and pharmaceutical department. of
Drs. Julian & Wyche's drugstore.
The Anderson train, the "caAnt n
ball." has again made Prosperity its
terminus instead Of Columbia. 1t
leaves here at SO in the morning and
arrives at 1.333 in the evening.
The recent rains have been just of
the character suitable to all things.
! Wheat and oats are saved hv the time
ly effects. In factsall vegetation was
needing the rains badly. The stands
of cotton are not good and much re-
planting, or "p!antiug overt Is going
on.
Our friend and fellow traveller in this
vale tears, Mr.. Kenneth Baker, leaves
for Charlotte to-day. Mr. Baker has
been liberal cotton buyer here for the
he has made host of friends here who
will be proud TO see him return here
next season.
Prosrerity's canning company are
getting down to work in a business like
manner. Work on the building begins
to-day. \ charter has been obtained,
and under its provision a Board of Di-
rectors and permanent officers have
been elected. The Board consists Of
the following persons: d. H. Wheeler,
Dr.. a. J. P. Julian, DR.. a. +. Lang
ford, \. q. Wise, a. H. Kohn, 4. II.
Hawkins, L. s. Bowers and II. S.
BooZer. The officers are 4. II. Haw-
kins, President; DIR. \. +. Langford,
Vice President; y. H. Kohn, Secretary;
and w. A Moseley, Treasurer.
Last week this correspondent was
left in the soup, and left in realistic
soup, when / began to realize to the
fullest extent that imam that is born
of woman is full of trouble" The
boys in the army USED to say "man is
of few days and short ra:ions." My
rations were not as short as some peo-
pies pocket books, but my trouble was
of the highest order. Firstly, our cook,
after having served faithfully for thir-
teen months, and in the mean time
putting on about fifty pounds to her
avodupoise: concluded that she would
vacata for while-would rest week
or so-in fact, she said she believed
that she was taking the dropsy. Well
I knew the nature Of her drOpsy very
well. The true cause of her corpu-
lency was the regular dropping of all
sufficient quantities of good, rich ra-
tions into her gastric organ. My larger
half and concluded that we could get
along for a while at least, provided
that would give her such little assist
ance as making the coffee, frying ham
and steak, bringing the water, getting
the stove wood, (oh, for something to
take the place Of cutting stove wood
attend to the baking of biscuit, getting
milk, scour the knives and forks, feed
ing the chickens, killing the chickens,
cooking hominy, pealing potatoes, boil
ingeggs, sweeping the kitchen, washing
dishes-horrible thought--I wouldn t
wash dishes in the army,-and divers
other little etceteras known only to
good house wives. l signed the con-
tract and all things moved along
swimminglyfo for few days, when anOth-
er ''wave of trouble rolled across my
not peaceful breast" My "schwartZy"
nial, whether I was willing or not, and
away he went, and now that porter is
sent-ennially away. In addition to the
aforesaid duties named, of the old
cook in the kitchen, the new duties
of porter and waiter now devolve
upon this feeble frame Of mine
The trains must be met, the drummers
and drummers baggage brought to the
office, meals 10 be carried on the waiter
to the table for the bOarders and drum
| -ners, water to be carried to the rooms
rooms to be swept-ofice and dining
room to be swept, silver to be cleaned,
table to be set, doylies to be hotelically
arranged and more dishes to be washed.
Oh borrow of hurrows! What must |
do? My brain reeled, my hands always
got to the wrong dish or place first
my legs trembled worse than they did
at Gettysburg or Chicamauga. The
biscuits We're burned, the hominy
scorched, the coffee put in the teapot
and the tea in the cofee-pot, the
chicken too brown, the steak burned
on one side and raw on the other, the
coffee and the tea SET en- the wrong side
of the guest, the teaspoon in the sugar
dish and the sugar-spoon in the tea,
cup. Or my! oh my! What will de-
liver me from this bondage? have
often said that four years of dreadful
war was enough for me. Not any
more in mine, but really I prefer a
small, very small, skirmish, to the
ordeal through which I have just
passed. This is my excuse for not
writing a letter to The Herald and
News for the last two weeks, and il
his is not a valid one, I should like ftl
the Editor to mention one that i
valid and III write it up. But the old
cooks vacation is out-she is back al
her post of duty and have brand
new porter, and we are all happy and
serene now, especially so am ].
GU-BE.