The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-06-03
GUYS LETTER.

tha, year. And behold the men so called
bears will arise and will bear upon the price
thereof even unto Gerah pound and all
the people with one accord will lift up their
voices and-howl. Now gerah is the
one half part OF nick.-Hez. iv-xv-
Let US p-sing go, what viii the harvest
De-" The prayer will be postponed until
fall, when we will doubtless ask the good
Lord to forgive us for acting so much like
the animal that browses upon the thistle
AS special exponnder of the book of Heze-
kiah we anhesitatingly pronounce the above
prophecy as referring to this present year OF
grace and cotton. eyes, the die is cast"
But we fear it's die that wont stamp out
much coin for US. A trip through the
neigbboriug township aid adjoining coun-
ties will prove to any one that great efforts
are being made 70 fulfill The above prophecy
ve:ily, verify the cotton farmer liveth upon
hope: but we'll be doggoned if its a fa'seo-
ing diet unless we'll seasoned with hog aed
hominy. We don't mean 20 Indicate that
the provision crop and stock are being ne
elected as in former years, for we've noted
some very promising crops OF both. Tne
acreage in tobacco is also largely nenaeed,
but progress with that crop has been oadly
handicapped by the dry weather. Appollas
has been very partial in the distribution of
moisture this season and some of Us have
suffered much. We notice strenuous efforts
being made on the Rosenil plantation to
move the mill pond mp into the tobacco field,
and they had nearly succeeded in moving
considerable portions of it. Water appears
10 be very precious fluid under certain cir
cumstances, whether ;'chemically pure" OF
not. Some Of the tobacco planters that
we've caught on the fly are Messrs. Neil
O'Donnell, near Mayesvlle, 10 acres D. W.
Josey, 4 acres j Bullock, acres; McKa-
gen l. Mooaeyhan, acres Geo. McCutch-
eo, barns R. 81. Cooper, barns; A.
Brearlyr l Darn +; Ryttenoerg, Rosehill, 80
acrea, 10 barns Thomas McCu,chen, IS
acres; H. n. and G. T. Evans, II acres ; j.
D. Evans, I acres T. j. Baker, or 10
acres; Wiley McKain, 5 acres John Kelly,
5 acres Clarence Duraut, 20 acres 4. A.
Strauss, 2 barns. There are many others
that we have not ye. caught. Will try aud
repor, any interesting features as We wander
around.
Well, we'll, this world ough. to be big
enough for US all and the good LORD un-
doub;edly intended that there should be
crops enough and money enough and room
enough aud range enough for US all, but it
really looks as if there aint and that we're
getting crowded, Judging by the way some
people act But it is simply too hot to dis
cuss-or to cuss-auything. We wish the
propri:ies would permit US to reduce our cos
tune 10 hat brim and spurs, or that we
could find some ''endless contiguity OF
shade" with spring and ice house in it, We
would retire into state of ''innoccuous
disuetude," but We learn that rations are
oot produced in that state, and goodness
gracious knows, they are scarce enough here
aow. We eat breakfast three times day,
leastways there's a mighty sameness, as
vegetables are not fully ripe aad scarce, and
fruits and berries scarcer. Not even the
belly-acbe plum has specified this year ; but
,he political plums will ripen later on,
though the crop will not near supply the de-
mand, and there will be bowling there also.
Too much plum causes the small boy to howl
and no plum causes tie dig candidate TO
howl. We are rot running for any Office.
We wouldn't walk after one except 10 the
shade but we wish it understood that il
any Office is seeking the man, the man is not
far aud will accept readily and on very
moderate terms. Coroner would have suited
US in the recent past, for there have beer
number of fatalities around calling for in
quests but we be dad fetched if our luck
amt such that we verify believe if elected
corooer everybody would stop dying except
legally and regularly under doctors Ger
.:6cate, and we'd die of starvation, cut of in
our youth and beauty and furnish the first
Inquest over oar interesting remains. We
would discuss the financial question as we've
received much information and many origi-
nal ideas FROM varied sources; but the
torridity OF the atmosphere has produced
,o,pidity of the cerebrum ct cerebellnm and
we must postpone until change Of weather
and Of the above organs also. Suffice it to
saw that the ''unit of value is mighty
good thing by Itself, but is much improved
by the X ray, and some contend that there's
''C' ray that is 100 times better, but very
difficult to obtain. l6 to is also good, pro-
vided we get the l6 and tother !ellow the !
We are much like Long. Long says, "I've
pondered and considered and calculated and
reckoned aud opined and thiuked all over
from head to foot and after mature delibera-
:ion have reached the decided couclusion-
damphiuo - We don't know how this word
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