The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-08
UNION G. HI, SOUTH CARoIaNa, FRIDAY JANUARY s. 1892

men they wcrc-whilc he studied phil
oSophy and chess problems, living the
life of n guilclcss lord and Christian. But
his lands paid him little or no interest on
his money invested and every year wit
messed the process of exhaustion and pow
erty in the soil. We saw Things going
from bad TO worse in the Cncroach-
mcnts Of swamp. sassafras and the bam-
boo, and in the fearful work of floods.
And so, abaudopi rg all hope or success
full farming, he sold his place to Mr..
Gwyn, the price paid, it is said, being
$1,000 in hand, perhaps more than half
of this sum having been expended by the
Englishman in putting up an elegant
residence on the place t; residence with
the ideal walnut and oak wanscoting
and gothic gabcls in abundance His eX-
ample was n living illustra ion Of failure
in the principle of Poor Richard that
He, who by the plow would thrive
Himself must either hold or drive.
Mr. Gwyn was raised on farm, and
he had always mpnilcstcd Il fOndncss and
aptitude for agricultural pursuits. But
in the progress of cotton manufacturing
in the south, he had gotten into the cur
rent, and ut the time that he resolved to
exchange the spindle for the plow, lie
had accumulated the spare money ncccs-
sary to buy the "lIolIy Lodge" farm
this the christening of the Engishman's
place. "What is he going to do with
that old worn-out and swampy place,
that has kept men poor all their DAYS in
trying 10 work ia This was the 0ucs-
ton that disturbed many of the mans
friends. There were plenty of people
who considered the money as simply
buried in real estate from which postcri-
ty alone might realize the profit. There
were also ncighbors who ridicu!cd the
man when he moved his family to tn,
r,I-ys, ,rr'3 'yvs,ou- spouufuT- rnreo-SNeTe
thousand dollars in the work of fencing
and cleaning out swamp and thickct.
There were some things sid about him
that cmb: accd the word II ol."
A string OF plank fencing over q mile
long fencing sawed ont of white pine
and with split locust posts, each lot of
lumber worth some forty dollars the
thousand feet in New York this was
the great expenditure that eXemplilicd fol-
ly, so it was more than limited. Then
there were thickc.s through Which even
| birds could not lily, and Il swamp given
| over to snakes, frogs. crawlsh and rab-
| bits. These next swallowed up the err
ring brothers money and his time for
| day after day, year after year. from carly
morn to dcwy eve, he kept right along
with his work, realizing the truth of the
maxim that
De boss in fcr he'Sclf
| Is WORT Il dozen hans,
even if he didn't put his fingers on spade
| 10 ln,, tI,nrn al hn
aidiRf d&iiR3fffnfdl dirs"i =, na in nii: 80, ~ "m,
lesS 1%e %HSlng Vets TO rflegate or trust to an
Law, of money still went on some of III
expenditures being borrowed dollars, bu
still no return.
FINALLY the wand of the en:hanter wa:
seen. The old ruins now stood out III
snrcod of blossoming and golden snlcn
dor. and where there was once the aDan
doped old fields and deserts, with her
and there the narrow patch that attcssc'
life in the feeble COrnstalks the work c
th. old-timc butcher AMI shirk--thcrc
now bchcld q beautiful and broad c.
porsc of 300 acres Of Yadkin bottom Ill
, hroLen by blot or blcmiSh, and ov'
= cvc-y suunrc foot # which the mown
: inn machiuc can be run without let
: bindraucc 20 the cutters, save only
those areas where the new barn has arr
1 on. or where the shapcly walnut rcarS l
annie arms to shelter the animals tn
+ rcst and cool under the lcafy folia
r in the long summer days. Aud the VI
: ue of the property to-day is placed
o $40, O,OOO-this against st ol Slo,o'
It embracing improvements and the We
of restoration all in period OF J.
II than ten wears. The owner says now l.
q IL he had i'm the meantime made nothl
TO whatever i'm the sale of single bushcl
: grain or a pound Of hay or meat he
/! made more money in seven years larm
)y than anv other man around win III
ne and better land originally, and VINO
ID bccn all the while selling the meats
ut thc Grains and the profit has been sii
ly in the incr, asc in the value oil the IN
ne and still; the owner will indulge
ng satisfactory smile when he tells yo'
lh has actually sold both meat and gran
he half of his nciwhbprs who once prol
lst sled bis ruin. or discussed his 'Ioiiy
/. Now, wherein lies here
,,e TIE SECRET OF SUCCESS,
'nf and what is there in the example be
'I nc from which the southern favmcr &c
~ NV can learn n lesson of usefulness
of value? What, also, is tho aVa'laDle
lor sical element in this history whicl
ayo brought life to that which had been
in en- over 10 the province OF the dead!
From the word go, wherever the
and pea could be induced To grow on
n,rt worn out land, it was put in and thc'
Growth turned back into the clay
;ooI the ground was too poor to sprou
49, nsa il was Coaxcd into life with an
.;nni @ fertilizer. As the peas ripcncd
nart @ were partially picked, and then the
pMmS with the remainder of its fruit, was
,.ho Jhn cd in deeply with the heavy two,
nnv, mm plows. This sowing aud turning
amt Of the pea has been going on
onoS while since the man took tho pl
;cort hand. Wherever small, select areas
',,"' ,,nr he induced 10 grow other crops in
,ion @ isc. they were devoted to the proc,
''On On of wheat, corn, rye and oats. Tod
,r;crs @ whole place is in high state OF IL
the the generally, yielding rich and abb
and crops that pay handsome divide
mo,l @ tho Investment in cultivation
once sec what is tho present oulpn'
o"So | -. ,,,,or,tionS prOncrly--th