The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-08-15
Squire Fewell Talks About Crops,
Politics. Etc.

I have read somewhere in book that
saws "blessed is he that maketh two blades
of grass grow where one grew BEFORE" so
I reckon we will all be blessed this year,
for think the most Of US have more than
that in our corn and cotton. / know the
man who tends that field on the south
side OF tho road, just this side of Piedmo ont,
has more than that in his corn.
We have had an abundance of rain for
the last month. but it has Stacked up now,
and we hnvn't had any to speak of in over
a week, but We have got about the best
crops We have eyer had. l don't think
that ever saw corn any better, and cotton
looks we'll, but we can never tell what cot.
ton will he until 1t is all picked, ginned
and sold. If we didn't have so much poll.
tics in this State now, and if our people
were not 80 split up in their opinions OF
government (of which very few Of us know
anything ut)-if We could become har:
uaonized-I don't see why we should not
be the most happy as well as the most
prosperous people on the earth. 1t seems
that kind providence has blessed US with
the finest crops, or as good, as we have
ever known in the history of the State.
Then why should We keep this everlasting
racket about hard times, and money
panic, and Wall street, and gold bugs, and
so on and 80 forth. It seems to me that it
is more imagined than real. I havn't got
sls much money as would like to have
in fact, havn't got any to speak of-but
ne have got plenty of roasting ears and
fried chicken and some flour and wheat
and corn and bacon, and good appetite
TO eat it with, and, the fact that we have
been worse of, ought to be enough to
make us feel contented, and really have
\ 10 fno1 hot
body else does or not, for / am happily
seated on the fence watching the process
sion 20 by, having lots Of fun over the
scramble for Office, not caring very much
which one gets it. It looks like we Con-
eeryatiyes are about in the same line with
the niger, now that we are not allowed to
participate in elections and conventions
like we use to. We are suspended. re.
strained or epjoined, as lawyer would
say, from taking any part In politics, and
I reckon it Is best for US, for it gives us
better chance to enjoy life as We find it.
We don't have to be bothered about who
ia going to be elected, for We have no
choice among the candidates, and you
can't imagine how peacefully and serenely
It makes person feel to be entirely tree
from bias in an election of your fellow
citizens, but that is our position and we
can't help it, nor don't want to if We could.
Mr.. Williams, of the Greenvllle News,
says he Is going to nominate ticket II 1t
don'tfget but one vote. reckon ne Will
vote that one, and l reckon !! will vote
with him, for ] am use 10 being among
small minorities; 1 don't mean small
men, but few of them. So far as the men
are concerned, I always pick out the big.
eest ones can find to go with, and go
along, If there is but one of them, II
think he ia on the right road, and they
generally are. I am going right along
with MI. Cleveland, when nearly every.
body SAYS he is wrong, but am so blind.
ed up in him that can't see 1t that way,
so I will continue to follow until l am
convinced that he ia wrong, then I'll let
loose. I think 1t good plan for US to
hold off altogether in the primary, 30 that
we will be- free to do as we please after
ward, That is what I am going TO do;
others can do as they please. IT they get
Office who are now running and make
laws that don't suit US, reckon they Will
have to stand as much Of it as we will
So let her roll. The lucky man wins the
money, az the wheel el-of-fortune.man says.
Mr.. JEFF. King gave another one OF bis
festivals. or fruit suppers, on last Saturday
night, and we regret very much our ina
biiity to attend. We learn that there was
large crowd there, and that they had q
yery enjoyable time and plenty of good
things to eat. Jeff don't have no "half
way doings" about it when he goes In to
@oes Our nIu neighbor, ieaS T Nj. w. E. Long. has
such fine, large cotton that the birds Of the
air find lodging in Its tall branches, and
build their nest, hatch and raise their
young, and teach them TO fly by Jumping
from bough to bough of this tall, large,
tree-like cotton. No doubt but the young
birds think it a young forest coming on.
~ SQUIRE FEwEL.