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

Mrs. Smith Davis, of GrccnviIie, i,
visiting friends and relatives in town
Mrs. W. ID. MaylieId, wife Of oul
Superintendent OF Education for South
Carolina, spen last night IL town.
DR.. r. G. Duke, OF Isidgway, $. c.,
has taken charge Of the prescription
and pharmaceutical department OF
Drs. Julian x Wyche's drugstore
The Anderson train, the "cannon-
ball." has again made Prosperity its
terminus instead of Columbia. 1t
leaves here at $40 in the morning and
arrives at 7.333 in the evening.
The recent rains have been just of
! the character suitable to all things
+ Wheat and oats are saved hy the time
ly effects. In fact all vegetation was
needing the rains badly. The stands
Of cotton are not good and much re-
planting, or 'plantipg over" is going
on.
Our friend and fellow traveller in this
vale Of tears, Mr.. Kenneth Baker, leaves
for Charlotte today. Mr.. Baker has
been liberal cottcL buyer here for the
last nine months, during which time
he has made host of friends here who
will be proud to see him return here
next season.
Prosperity's canning company are
getting down to work in business like
manner. Work on the building begins
to-day. a charter has been obtained,
and under its provision Board of Di-
rectors and permanent officers have
been elected. The Board consists OF
the following persons: D. H. Wheeler,
DR.. A. J. ?. Julian, DR.. 4. +. Lang !!
ford, a. G. Wise, A. H. Kohn, 4. H. !
Hawkins, l.. S. Bowers and H. 5. |
Boozer. The officers are \. H. Haw-
kins, President; DR.. \. +. Langford, !
Vice President; 4. H. kohn, Secretary;
and w. a Moseiey, Treasurer. |
Last week this correspondent was
left in the soup, and left in realistic
soup, when l began to realize to the
.:sl!eSt. extent that imam that is born
of woman nis17diL Is idL of trouble" The
boys in the army used % say S:2.an 2.1s,1- is
of few days and short rations.n My
rations were not as short as some Deo-
ple's 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-Wouid rest a week
or so-in fact, she said she believed
that she was taking the dropsy. Well
[ knew the nature of her dropsy very
we'll. 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 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
ing eggs, sweeping the kitchen, washing
dishes-horrible thought wouldn
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
swimminglyfor few days, when anoth-
er ''wave of trouble rolled across my
not peaceful breast" My "schwartzy"
porter concluded to take ip the centen-
nial, whether I was willing ornot, and
away be 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 deyolve |
upon this feeble frame of mine. |
The trains must be met, the drummers |
and drummers baggage brought to the
office, meals to be carried on the waiter
to the table for the boarders and drum
mers, water to be carried to the rooms
rooms to be swept-office and dining |
room to be swept, silver to be cleaned,
arranged and more dishes to be washed. |
Oh borrow Of horrows. What must l
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 were burned, the hominy !
scorched, the coffee put in the teapot |
and the tea in the cof1ee-pot, the
chicken too brown, the steak burned |
on one side and raw on the other, the
coffee and the tea set on the wrong side |
of the guest, the teaspoon in the sugar
dish and the sugar-spoon in the tea
cup. Oh my! oh my! What will de-
liver me from this bondage? I 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 l have just
passed. This is my excuse for not
writing a letter to The Herald and
News for the last two weeks, and if
this is not valid one, I should like ft r
the Editor to mention one that is
valid and I'll write it up. But the old
cooks vacation is out-she is back at !
her post of duty and l have brand
new porter, and we are all happy and
serene now. especially so arm I.
GU-BE.
A Safe Investment.