The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-28
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llow steadily ems: surely h%yo SO hee1
dri!io. away from the ciaen customs.
..ma !.o# steadily ard surely has inc
current of trade, OF industries a.. Of
population bee! pointing toward central,
ization.
There aoi.. nc but three or fc.:r.c;,ies
le!: in the United Statenndcr tbs ays,em
of concentration. Chicago butchers FUR
njsh Geofgiars their steeks aud chops
today, s. .i.oui; and Cincinnati will fur
nsh Tic Bread. same other place will
supply farm implements an1 vehicles
and another place sill concentrate on
clo:!, and leather goods, ard so IN, till
the whole business OF the country will be
centralized. This disposition first showed
Itself when the cross roads blacksmith
ard shoemaker and wagon maker began
10 hoc!. to the !owna. 1t was stesdy
current frcr2 The country to tho towns,
then fro,a t;.e smaller to the larger town,
then from, !lcst :srger iown3 70 the city,
aud Gox ihe smaller cities inlisi Gri;t on
10 greater cnes, which sill resolve 81 last
into q concentration of trade ard indus
lrica tia: will force The current back and
let i, ::ncal itself over the rura? districts
and ..iI will be prou1 of being s. country
man.
What great hopes were bui!ded upon
the prospect of more schools and better
schools. of more towns and bigger ;o%ns,
Of railroads ard great inventions; al
lllcsc things wero locked forward 70 aa if
::,.v were the salvation cf tie country
aid great comiug opportunities; people
run to meet j: and took near cuts TO get
to it. The children were taught to believe
that the plodding life CT the farmer wss
great hardship and the balance OF the
world had au easy life, How sadly mis-
taken these ideas have proven you have
only to look at the suffering and discon-
ten. that IS rife in the land to be con-
vinccd. The railroads that were expect
ed to bring the worlds products right to
our doors to be had for song have
proven a disappointment to the masses.
Meat and breadstuffs are higher and
harder TO get cow than before. Meat
that uster be driven through Georgia on
foot ard sold in towns at three cents 3
pound, now sells at ter cents brought
here by fast !reights. The oid-time hog
droyer was not very polished fellow but
he sent sunshine into Tie poor homes by
his libefali!y. Then The butcher;ns was
done in the town where the ;aeat was to
sell, and poor people we're welcome to
flock to the pens and get hogs feet, livers,
melts, chitlings, all such as this, the poor
could get just for nothing. Them were
old ways in Georgia and ii would be a
blessing if the same old ways was here
to-day.
Who knows how many thousands Of
people there is to-day who are ycarnlDg
for return of the old-time customs :?
How many have strained through prime
10 old age in the hope that something
would bring relief, but it comes not.
Hope, the phantom that it is, pointed
to the polish and accomplishments that
was being dossed to the children by that
great thing "opportunity," and he!d the
old man up while the children were
sm.l., but steadily end surely demands
have grown, incomes have fallen off, and
this hard winter weather fiDds many n
family stuffed with big notions and with
not thibg to keep the sitter going nor
warmth to cheer the freside.
If there was ever family that needs
TO be pitei il i. the poor folks of town
who have :e;rred to crave modern style.
When think Of one Of them a. shiver-
ing in this bad weather, it brings to mind
the roaring fires of the country homes,
ihe od.limc country homes, where the
bright blaze throwed out its light from
the old fireplace, lending warmth to the
great old room snd making cheerful the
maids who spun and the ma'rons who
knit and the boys who scrambled over
walnuts in the corner and giving to the
old folks q freedom from anxiety that
poor people Of the towns haye never
known.
What contrast is there in these piL.
time iirradc scenes rs compared with :ne
poor folks of the towns There is 40
cracking Of walnuts, no zooning OF tie
spinning wheel, no plying..of the k:lit;n:
needle. A kerosene lamp g;yeo out q
dim light :or the young people e read hy
aad the old folks droop ever the ccle in
the CRATES. Anxiety is impressed upon
tie faces of lie old ard y Banging" IT
the hair in paper rolls is the cniy in!!-
cation Of a thought for to morrow amprg
the young. Calico eau be bought 50
cheap now, is the argument, cheaper
than they can make it, and they can 5"..'
stockings that reach sway above ac
knee tor ten cents, and get them !!ngel,
streake.l ard striped al the boot. y 80
mans ,re!.y stockings is thing swcy; to
look upon, hut the white, hoac Unit and
home 81 IN aad a ca;:o: at'iug for gar
Ter answered e7eTy purpose ana S:'cl': 'Ee
ten cents st hon:c.
The bays of these days mus: jim Glib
for an opportunity to exercise thcin'al, s
II lick!es Tie 10 sec them struggling viii
grea; dumb balls &c create q muscle and
Jumping poles i'll the gynlnasiums for the