The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-10-19

before tho peotilence begins. Ii seems
to me that 5000 |, about right, for that
number snaurss good schools and per-
haps college OK two. 1t ensures good
churches of at least four denominations
with good preachers who are fairly we'll
paid-churches that living do no! Ian.
guiIh and preachers whose families are
no. plnohed with poverty. Church a..
ssmbliss are invited there once or twice
year and their ministers and laymen
mix and mingle with the psople in their
homes and leave the influences of their
good example es bcnsdiction upon the
community. For those Who like secular
pleasures 1t secures good halls and opera
houses, good shows and troupe1 and con.
osrh, good orators and letcu1ezs. 1t Be-
cures good streets and Ldswalks, and
uassruorks and guworks, and Ice ho-
tories and other luxurlea that prosper.
ou. people can afford TO indulge In. 1t
secures good market, good butchers AID
baksra, laundry and, last but not lsaat,
daily newspaper.
was Illuminating about this because I
am here in Marshall, which has that
many people, and Is just such place.
1t is big enough and everybody seems to
be content. They dom. want 10 atraiu
the town With boom, for they say it
grows fast enough from the natural in
creass, and they don't want prosperity to
go up so high that they can't pay the
taxes on. 1t is the outspreadinest town
for its size I ever saw, for most every
family Of any pretentions has got an acre
or two enclosed and grove Of shade
trees somewhere. Many Of them have
from two to FIVE acres and fruits and
flowers abound everywhere. The me:
chanlc. and the unprstending people
generally own their residences where tho
good wife and daughters can plant their
vines and shrubbery and hang few
pictures on the walls and re.paper the
room and fix up the kitchen without
feeling that they will have to move when
Christmas comes. III was king and a
Croesuu, my highest ambition would be
to ses to 1t that every family, however
humble, ahould have home, home
that they could bsautify and adorn and
love, q home that the children would
love TO think about when they grew up
TO manhood or womanhood and become
transplanted to some other less hallowed
spot. There is no purer pleasura in this
life than in adding to the little comforts
in and around home. 1t is far better to
make tbe.e improvements from time to
time as the pure will admit of than to
buy them already made. 1t is better for
the children to make them if they can,
and let their own handiwork embelish
and adorn the house and the front yard.
/ thought of this the other day when our
girls called me up stairs to show me their
days work. They had bought a beauti-
fal -pepering for 90 cents aid had made
the paste and put it on their room and
the entire cost, including the bordering,
was only s1.so, and they bought a little
can of paint for half dollar and re-
coated the mantel and the doors and
window castings and everything looked
go new and clean. Most anybody can do
these things if they will try and there is
refinement and pleasure in it. "Make
home happy" should be the motto of
every family. 1t is common, or 1t used
to be, to see in frame over the mantle
worked in crochet or painted with a
brush, the prayer "God Bless our Home,"
but better thing is to 60 to work and
bless 1t yourself. A Marshall man told
me that there wM but one rich man
within her limits and not half dozen
poor onos. No bsggara for charity and
nobody utterly poor. Old Agnes's prayer
has bssn answered to this people. A
magnificent courthouse il the only sx-
travagant thing I saw, but that is Texas.
If they dident have that, Marshall would
be Just over the line In Louisiana. The
railroad shops add a good deal to the
prosperity Of this place. They are very
extensive and employ several hundred
hands and pay out not less than $4,000
week for labor, and all this is expended
and circulated in the community and
keeps things lively. Without them the
town would lsnguish and soon go into a
state of innocuous desuatuds, or words to
that effect. I never did know what Mr..
Cleveland meant by that, but 1t must be
something mighty bad. I hope 1t won't
catch him in November.
Considering the great benefits of these
shops to the prosperity of Marshall, I
supposed that almost every citizen would
be for CLARK for governor, but they say
he WAS fairly nominated and they will
vote for him, and they say he will be
moro friendly to railroads and to capital
than he has been. But shall take no
part in the contest. Mr.. Cleveland and
have concluded to keep our hands off
Of this faotional quarrel.
Last evening I Baw the cows milksd.
Mr.. Lotkop, whose guest I am, has .
small hord OF seventeen beautiful Jar-
seys, besides the calves. They are said
to be the finest in the State and no finer