The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-15
Jerusalem Street JottiUgs.

Jerusalem Street JottiuGs.
The region around about Jerusalem,
has beeu visited by small slice OF
frigidity for the last few days.
There will be no occasion for "going
down into Egypt for corn" next year,
from this 7etrdrchy, mot Bailiwick) as
the crop will be ample to meet all ra-
tional demands. So, no opportunity
will be given to any lost, strayed or
stolen Joseph, who may have risen to
| the vice-gerency Of the land Of the Pha-
raohs to work the queer on his unso-
phistocated brethren for many moons.
The cotton crop is short and ''still a
shortening and Notwithstanding all
that may be said to the contrary, the
returns from Judea will substantiate
her claims to honorable mention, for the
part she is performing i'll rolling up the
deficit Of two and one quarter millions
of bales Of cotton, as compared with the
crop of 1890. Cotton will be selling on
the streets of Newberry before the Goth
of December for o. or 10 cents. So con-
fident am [ of this that am not pick
ing with both hands. Right here Mr..
Editor I would like to make a sugges-
ton, |. e., if my merchant is a sub
scriber to your valuable paper, that
you leave out of his copy, the above
mentioned fact.
Times change and we change with
them. Time was, when the non
producers lived off Of the fortunes
of the producers, but now, presto!
change! and the misfortunes of the one
become the basis of the rapidly accu-
mulatirg fortunes of the other. Want
proof? well, take cotton, that is worth
9 cents to-day, selling at S and less sim
ply because the financial world knows
that the larger portion Of the obliga-
tions of the farming element will ma
ture in October and that he is COM
pelled to sell in order to lift his paper.
Financial sagacity! says one class,
whilst the other class who have an
opinion of their own, say, with equal
conclusion financial rascality!
Jerusalem is fast developing into the
Pittsburg Of the South, as manufac-
turing center. Eleven steam engines
are within sound of the 'pallatial resi-
dence" of the writer, and from deWy
morn till chilly eve, we are kept mind
full of our retrogade progress, by oft re-
peated whistlingS, ranging from the
basso- -profundo of a 20 horse return t1ue,
to the split silk y-e-e-p!!! of LADY OF
colour" under full Roadway "a comm
| though at camp meeting time.
Several establishments for element
ary sugar work entitle us to some little
pecuniary notice from the government,
unless our product comes under the
mead of raw material, which feel au-
thorized to say would be doing justice
to the article, for, if it is not raw, the
fellow who eats much Of it: generally
is.
Our academy will soon bein full blast
under competent corps Of instructors.
Quite a tiattering attendance is eN-
pected. Come down some time Bro.
Editor and write us up, and we will I'LL
YOU up to the rafters with fresh corn
| Dread, saur-kraut, roasting ears, turnln
green's and potatoes. Note-If you are
fond of much seasoning in your rations,
you had better bring along small slice
of bacon, as 9 cents per pound is slightly
too rich for our blood.l
There is plenty Of elbow room here
for several families of white people who
wish to settle where they will be with
in reach of good school-in healthy
section, Inhabited b,v hard-worklng.
tend-to.t .their-own-b l. less-sober-moral
set of folks. Don't let them stay away on
account of poverty, if that is the only
drawback, just load up and roll right
in, and if they can prove that they are
any poorer than we are, they vii! be
unanimously elected by reclamation,
Tycoon of Bailiwick."
As further inducement, would say
| that we rarely ever fail to have super
abundant crop Of blsekberries along
this elevated plateau.
~AiIow me through you to compli-
ment the citizens Of NeWberry Z. H.,
on the evidence of progress that is em-
phasized in brick-their Graded School
building. Such an edifice is au honor
to any people, and a prophecy for their
children, which will not fail of fulfill
ment in the days that are to come,
richly meriting the 'well done" OF fu-
turity.
There are some incipient symptoms
of pecan fever in this, and neighborlng
| tribe s; whether it will assume diagnos-
| tic proportions or not will be matter
for subsequent determination, but this
much I do know, I have never seen the
time before, when I put the least con-
| fdence in the assertion that smaller
area would be devoted to the culture OF
cotton during the succeeding year, nor
do I now, expect to see the erea re-
duced to profitable din eusions, but l
| fear that grim necessity will soon pro-
nounce it thus far and no farther" to
this delusive textile that enrlches every
one who touches it, except the man
who makes it. What matters 1T how
many bales we market, fellow-farmer,
| if it IS all required to meet the obliga-
tions incurred for such things as we
| should produce-and can produce at
| twenty-five per cent Of the price paid
for them. And here comes in a few
questions that we should answer as
! men. husbands and fathers. Have
we q moral right to persist 10 a
| course that is wearing out our families,
| and entailing upon them Illuminating
existence of semi servitude? Are we
not cultivatiug the animal IN our cbil-
dren-to the exclusion ofevery propen-
sity that elevates aud ennohles? Are
we doing what we know to be right? IS
there a prospect Of better times ahead:
When is the proper time to reform:
Reduce the area in cotton to ten acres
TO the horse-plant as much OF every
thing else as YOU can, and raise plenty
of beef, mutton and bacon. Let's have
change. Let's help to kindle the
lights in the eyes, and call back the
roses in the cheeks Of our helpmeets.
Let's take time to make companions
of our children and tell them what we
expect of them, and give them both
time and opportunity to come up to
those expectations. Let's set fiat down
on every man who is trying to build
himself up at our expense and hold
him down till be repents, and then
help him up, dust off mis- clothes, and
tell him IN fatherly way, go and do so
no more. Let's - we'll let's do any
thing but play the fool by planting TOO
much cotton agaiu. II.