The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1896-03-21
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are the thousands OF restless, heart
less, unprosperous people who say they
can't be worsted but may be bettered
by war. People talk about the can.
ker Of calm world and long peace,
and one noted writer says ttat every
country ought to have war at least
once in forty years 30 as to kill off it's
worthless population. This is cold,
hard and heartless philosophy. II we
could pick out tho vagabonds and
place them to the front it might do,
but we can't. In the last ar we lost
the flower Of our youth, and it is
always so. The vagabonds and skull
kers and dodgers escape. II is gener-
ally rich mans war and q poor mans
fight.
But now it ia about time that the G.
A. H. were resembling their action
declining to play with the boys in gray
next July in New York. When the
war with old John Bull was imminent
our northern brethren were very low
ing, and invited us to come over, and
so we fixed up for loving reunion of
patriots in New York next summer.
and the programme wes oil made out
10y Editor Dana. But the clouds of
war dispersed and our brethren con-
cluded they wouldcnt need us, and
10 onn,hrr ,yor in,n;non, - - ,ne
,bn,, ,,;II ali 49,, -, 10 20
borI 70 Loor rriandi,, rr;.,, t.oh go
bors. Not long ago / was riding over
land through the country md counted
thrce double fences in n trip of ten
bor They were .t ouiso,J ooob Ln;I,
n mean man, Ono line fonce 10 nrorn% m
between neighbo,e, and when Won see
two it's tai sign. But reckon
We can stand 1t if they cnn. If
war does come on our BOYS will have
10 do n ricbt smart of tho fob,;nr and
,Len the npns:on money viii dron
down this wny. and maybe that's what
ia the matter, we oro Glad 70 coo tbat
snmo Of that money ~ circn1a,;rc
down this wav already That Fity9
gerald settlement is an enisodo that 10
as unnccountnblo n, il is sudden Over
G. COO pcon,a--f,m;Iies of nnnsiorod
soldiers have dronncJ down mn ns
witbout wornipg sn5 ara bp;Ii;n, :.
citv in our pipo woods Their non.
sion money tits said. amounts to nearIy
"A million dollars n veor. md tbe;r
comrades keen cominG Thev are
said to be good. industrious neonle
and sound in wind and limb and no.
body can see from the outsido wbere
The pension business comes in, bnt
neyer,hel,ss they ar, drawing the
money nnd our pcople are bound IN
get some of il SiY ,boroor5
move are on Tho vov md
before long they will own The
,o,n,v opd bo voiirr ,ho domoo,;o
ticket So let them como ronaat
il sir Let |bem cnmn -. Pa,r;at pr Ten
nv said Tbev have sottlo5 !, a.
best rortion Of Gcoroio w. didn,t
know il uptil recently Tba nino
woods bayo for half n century be.p mn
der the han. Tba fcv reonio VIZ go
fled there were consid.rad hoIT toa
tallow.fac lopg.lecoed crack ers wbo
raised n few poor cattle and razor
back hogs, and lived on 'taters and
,haSll,s n. h.u..rf1igiq>Y.,. RI. I},,.
! belt from Lincoln through Putnam
and Houston aud Irwin md Snrter
md Randolph and ON wc.tward into
Alabama ia now known to be n most
fruitful and productive region. and the
climate perfectly delightful. It Is
like fairy tale to read what tho las,
ten years have developed in that
belt Of country that is underlaid
with n clay subsoil and overdressed
with pino forests. In recent
yenrs l have been watching the fruit
industries OF Marshallville and
Cycionetto and Tifton and Cuthbert
with amazemont, and delight, and my
Information is that the adjacent coun-
try Is equally productive and delight
iul. The Georgia Southern railroad
splits this region right in the middle,
aud along its line has been planted
within ten years, by actual count,
TAP, 600 fruit trees, covering orchards
OF $4,000 acres. The land devoted to
melons is much more, and besides this
the growers raise corn aud cotton and
sugar cane and potatoes and ground
peas enough to sustain all family cx.
Densea-a thing Of beantv and N ;,y