The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-09-26

make thread Of all of them together,
and having fastened that thread to q
reel close by we would turn the reel
just like our grandmOthers used to
turn IL In winding spun truck-turn 1t
until 1T clicked and thea take the cut
on ana begin again. Just 50 we reeled
inc raw silk and kept putting more CO.
coons in the hot water. In this way
we reeled off every bit OF the winding
sneet ana left the ugly dead chrysalis
hoatlng on the water. When thew ac-
cumulated so as to be in the way we
away. 'N
ihis is only an outline OF the busi-
ness ana l want the young folks to see
i;ut itoW 'ne thlng 1s done from the tiny
nnS oS'o togg 10 the raw silk upon the reol
uho from there to the loom. NV In
ther was pioneer in the morus mnlti-
caulus craze, as it was called, and I
thlnk the only man in Georgia who
made silk and sold it. | rememhau
that one year he sold 5000 worth Mt
one Shipment and he sold some other
smaller lots. He would have con
tinued the business, but his trees took
tne dle back " or something and he
had TO give 1t up. 1t was said that tho
continued stripping of the leaves viii
XIII them in about three years, for the
leaves are the lungs Of plants and thcy
cant keep on making new lungs lust
10 please the silk worms. These trees
were grown from cuttings and we be.
gan to strip them the second year,
Wnen they were about as large as q
broom-handle. They had no branches
and wore about as far apart Us young
apple trees in u nursery. We stripped
them like pulling fodder, coming
down with both hands and leaving
only few leaves at the top. 1t would
have been good fun if it had not been
so monotonOus and required so much
OF Bon Franklin's advice about "early
to bed and early to RISE" etc. havn't
gotten over that habit yet, but it
hasn't made me wealthy or wise. |
never found out how one worm can get
red silk out of mulberry leaf and an
other one will get white or yellow.
| heard Capt Evan Howell make q
speech once and he got eloquent and
humble "s he said: MY friends, we
are helpless and ignorant creatures.
We know moth 'ng hardlyabout the mys-
tories or nature that are all around us.
The good book says: Great is the mys-
terry of godlincss.' We can't tell why
it Is that when IL goose eats grass the
grass turns to feathers and when q
horse eats grass it turns to hS;r and
when u sheep eats grass it turns into
wool" And he might have added and
when worm eats mulberry leaves it
turns to silk.
Tho exposition has been great
strain upon Atlanta, but that town is
smart and gamey and will make it a
grand success. When the scheme was
first proposed we outsiders never said
| anything to discourage it, but we
smiled and whispered was there ever
such check. Right after the great
Chicago fair and right in the middle
OF financial panic for little city Of
only 100, 900 people to propose such an
absurd scheme Is perfectly ridiculous.
Aad to think of the impudence of
asking for the patronage Of the nation
al govern ment and an appropriation.
But the managers kept right on and
have never faltered for moment.
And they got the Smithsonian institu-
tion and the Liberty bell, and they Sc
riously discussed the practically of
borrowing the Bartholdi statue Of lib
erty from New York harbor and put
ting it up in Clara Nicer.
| see that the hotel department is
all right and that the visitors will be
sheltered and fed decently. There has
been little ilirtatiOn going on about
the street car lines charging 10 cents,
but that is all buncomb, | reckon. It
is right big rumpus about a very lit
tie matter and | reckon will die out
after a few more have had their saw
1t is Il very amusing idea for q South
Carolina uan and Il Brunswick preach
or to write up and say they will not
| come to the fair nary step if the street
car fare is raised to 10 cents. Why,
this is free country and those gentle
men can stay at homo Or they can
| come and prtroniZe the Southern rail
road that will charge 10 cents, too 1t
does not seem to be the price, but it is
| the raise that arouseS their indigna-
| tion. But this little episode will all
settle down. 1t reminds me, however,
| OF the time when we proposed to build
u public academy in Rome and it was
to cost 81 800. The boys had put me
| forward to run for mayor and the issue
was academy" or mo academy"
| or course | was for progress and the
/, noisiest and bitterest enemy had to
| contend with took the streets and de-
clared that | would tax the people to
| death, and he for one was not going to
| stand it. Looking over the taxbooks at
his sworn return Of his property found
that his part OF the academy would be
II cents. So l pleasantly showed him
the figures and told him | would pay
his part If he would husband he
hushed. Now let every body hush
about this car fare business, for the
people are tired of it and in these
parts are not making any fuss about it.
1t Will cost our people from 81 to $3
each to go to the fair and enjoy the day
and come back home and talk about it
for month and we are not going to
miss 1t for . cents; we are not built
that way. | should think it would re-
mind newspaper man Of those anus
ing follows who ever and anon got mad
with the editor and write to him to
stop their paper. But don't reckon
the fair will bust up on account of the
absence Of any nan who swears he
wont come If he has Co pay 10 cents to
the street cars. | hope not.
Bill. ARP.