Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-06-30

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have a better time"
Third boy: "Let's win US one a
piece, make it one bridal tour, and
we can have a best ttime.'' Win
boys; always have the best.
FARMER Dox.
Mine Creek Dots.
Mr.. EDITOR: Our Mine, Creek
section is on a boom. You know
we can't be behind. But while we
are on this boom I hope we will.
not endanger the progress of re-
liglon, for Iheard q fellow say the
other day that he came very near
not coming to meeting that day. I
asked him why? EIe said: 81
didn't want to leave my little
baby : Iwonder if all men love
their babies this way. Wonder if
"John Blake" could give me any
information on the subject.
The old sap-suckers keep on
bothering me. l know l ought not
to pay any attention to them, but
the other day one excited my curl
osity. was going along leisurely,
and all at once I heard very keen
whack up in a tree. | looked, and
behold, a sap-sucker had stove his
bill into the tree hard and fast,
and couldn't getit out. 1 studied
andthought over such phenone-
non for some time. / first tried to
solve it by the laws Of philosophy.
You knc--. :l>c l>c-o : all,swi II. '.afus@l
Iphilosophg .&t speaks Il ti.e "
Edistruct u IA creaged
lthiings; Sax. s,;l,,sg---pot et:el
one ate a--isas ira eFs'AieEs :,
|destroyet ;e ti}r' cffa'lt'' q 81
things; - -,.,-- ---zssffva'v-sup: sup;
stances are constantly changing
their form. So I tried to reason
that, perhaps, this issap-sucker had
meditated changing his form, but
that did not give me satisfaction
and I continued my study, ponder
ing over what such thing coulc
mean. I was walking along wher
suddenly I happened to think o
the solution to the problem, ane
the happiness I enjoyed at my
great discovery cannot be esti
mated. The solution was that a
the sap-sucker stuck his bill in tn
wrong place and couldn't get i
out, and would be, in a short time
physically dead, SO Mr.. John shep
pard had stuck his bill in ct tn
J wrong place and the wrong time
and he too was, and is, politicall
dead. But Gov. Tillman lives
yes, lives in the very hearts an
souls of his one-gallus boys. Boys
stick to your man. | don't believ
, there rs another man in'the Stat
!, that would have fought your ba'
e ties for you as he has done. Civ
! him courage. He knows the des
, old farmer, raised to toll and hare
5 ships, will stick to him, therefor
, he. doesnot hesitate to fight for u
e The farmer must support tt
!, world, and why not rule it? 1t
. an absurd thought that our kl
n glove friends can boss us polit
e cally always. If there be an hone
d. class of men it is the farmer
There can be no cheat in diggir
your living out of the land. Wh'
g you get is what God gives you as
: reward for your labors.
!, Again, the SO poll tax law wou-
n be a blessing to us. Who wou|
mind paying that small amoY
m for the education and elevation
n the young. If that had been|
suggestion of Mr.. Sheppard thd
/ Journalists" and demagogues wi
oppose it would have advocated
of because any reasonable man mu
IN admit it to be beneficial, as
Id would make the negro populatil
lie of this State support their oy
schools as we'll as the white. Iha
- =, heard a few honest Sheppard M
" say they advocated the SO poll ia
Those were men that were not
is biased in their views, and relel
ds less in their hate, that not even t
wants of the poor orphans, or t
T; helpless could move their syl
~ pathy.
We hope the people of our dc
le p old State will be united after t
II il election, and work together for
,onorol ooo& realizing that