The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-14
Bl LII ARP AT THE EXPOSITION,
HE SAW THE WILD WEST SHOW.
lie Gets TO Talking About Money,
In the Olucn TincS GOiu aud Sill
vrr Were Plentiful.


| witnessed the street pageant Of iut-
ialo Bills Wild West" show. sup
pose there were 10000 people who uiu
the same thing. That much WAS free,
and quite enough for me. Somehow |
have lost my appetite for circusrs ana
other spectacular umuScmcntS. The
time WAS when | ncVrr missed one il
could help IT: but now | prefer to sec
things that provoke Thought instead
ol smiles. The wonders OF the cXui-
DTS IN tic exposition, the progress of
mankind IN thcs.rts and sciences, fill
the mluu %ith plcasuut contemplation.
Nhcn tho telegraph wires first reach
ed our town we felt tsurr tnut there wus
( nnlhlnG else TO invent on discover, that
nolhlnS moro was needed. But SO many
! wonderful and useful things have piled
up on Ms since, that now we live in q,
state OF expectancy. What will come
! next:
! When ] was Il boy wc studied Il rhil-
| oSophy which said that the load must
br near the power, and there WAS n
| picture OF Il horse trying to pull II bag
ol sand by rope that was 100 yards
! iung--And he couldn't move IT. Now
we read that the power from the rirc-
| irlc plant 1T Niagara IL soon 70 Duli
alt lhc hoals on the great Eric canal
ANA the lhuusIuuS OF nDr.., y and iunIrs
are 10 Ia diHcnar4cd from tHrir nOuOt
unOnS service. More lhan ,:ti,--y,.
read that THIS same power Is soon TO
| supcrcrdc all utnrr powers IN lpadiru
| ami untoA,ilnG tho Vessels III New
ork harncr. If this pow.t' c..u reach
New orH from Niagara, why not reach
| across the continent? How tong be-
lorc all oar railway trains vail be
1 ,,,, .,.I t.,r f
ter power riEnt mere near Cur;ursvillr
to operate Il pant that wpuld move all
the wheels In Gcorgiu. Tuc children
now At school will live to laugh III the
simplicity ana stupidity OF Lncir fa-
thcrs and srAnufathcr, ju&t as now
smile at t!IC rccOliuctlon Oi the time
when my father kept Il Mint anu steel
ana Il piece Ut punk IN Il little tin box
anu would strike spark uuu light Il
candle when be wanted Il light in The
night. IT. Ii tunny to think Of the
time when there wcru no matches.
What would these cigarette boys do
without matches!
Every decade brings cheaper moth
Ods and more comforts. The old rule
that Adam Smith taught us in n.s
" Woaith Of Nations" was that Prov
dence had wisely orduipcd tt.at the Ia
Dor ot one man would easily. support
eight persons, meaning himself and
wife and sin children. But he wascnt
lntiug on SG shoes ior the boys and
5 hats and balloons sleeves for the
girls and a college education for both.
The labor OF tho average man will not
support eight persons now, for not
wlthstandipg the cheapncss Of things
our wants arc decreased tcn-fOll |
Stcphcn Girard said that the way to
get rich was to buy nothing that You
are not Obliged to nave. but we reverse
tho maxim and buy too many things |
we are not obliged to have.
While ia the exposition did want
to buy lot OF those beautiful alumni
iu,n wares for my wife, for she does |
love pretty things and fine things, but |
didcnt have tho money. let hor look |
at them and only bought her q pop
per box. Now, that reminds me of our
trouble In tne South. That alumni
ium clay Is all about in our hills and is
pclng mined aud shipped every day to
flttsbnrg and there II IL reduced aud