The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-04-08
SARGE PLUNKETT.
The Promise Now Is for an Abundant
Fruis Crop This Year.
atlanta Constitution.

and grows with the heat OF summer
that grin is just sprouting now.
This old friend of mine is a queer
genius when it comes to weather. lie
wrestles with the weather all the
time. When it is cold ii is almost
impossible to get him up in the morn
ings, and he shivers and complains
through all the day, but when the
earth begins to warm up he takes upon
his face a grin that continues there
until time to go to shivering again.
That grin is the safest sign | have
ever planted shall plant corr to-
morrow.
Everything is bright and cheerful
on the farms, considering that the
people are just entering upon a heated
political campaign. 1t is just the
time in country life to be cheerful if
you ever can. The roostera crow
louder and hens sing ali she day, the
turkeys strut prouder and the guineas
sauuter around looking up a nest
which gives promise of plenty of eggs
in the near future. The fruit trees
add their charms of beauty with the
promise of a bountiful yield, and who
would not be cheerful? There has
been a large increase in pillow stock for
this season, and the ground is being
turned in a hurry. Here is another
delight. What is nicer than to walk
over the mellow fields and smell the
| fresh turned earth? All these things
have charms for the countryman, and
we venture that there are many in the
| cities who would be glad to come out
with US and walk barefooted in the
fresh earth-such could but stir up
the most pleasing memories. How
many would take delight in romping
over the woods and gathering dogwood
blossoms just as they used to do2 A
stroll up and down the clear branches
among the honeysuckles and a sip
from the cool springs on the way
this is one of the delights of spring
time in Georgia that could but stir
the sweetest memories. How many
there are that fail in appreciation Of
these country delights we cannot say,
nor could We say how many OF fine
city people there is that would be glad
to take such a romp, but they are too
busy or too fashionable. Some very
rich people really think that they can
not lose the time for a short rest in
the country, and there are others who
do not think it fashionable enough.
I can tell these busy people that there
would be nothing lost in taking an
outing as suggested, and I can tell the
fashionable people that no sweeter
%pleaures are to be had at the grand
resorts. 1t is these fashionable peo-
pie that need the most Of our pity.
They cannot come out with plain
country people and live cheap and
romp over the fields and woods among
the wild flowers and cooling streams
from purely fashionable easors. They
must 20 to the seashore and watering
places, and many of them are strained
to keep up a style that TREY could be
relieved Of by just going to some of
the prosperous farm-houses right close
home. I think these fashionable peo-
pie must feel somewhat as. we boys
used to feel when we would steal off
fishing on Sundays. The thoughts of
getting whipped upon our return
marred the pleasures. A number of
people live in a strain to keep in the
fashionable whirl that could get all
the benefits Of a rest in the country
cheaply and close by their homes.
Last Sunday we went out to church
and everybody seemed to be inspired
with good cheer. Like to watch
these cheerful gatherings. 1t done
me good to watch the young couples
strolling to the spring and sitting out
in the buggies during the recess.
What they told each other there
some of them-we will never know,
but pretty spring dresses and sweet
young buds make the girls so charm
ing that | am most surc the boys said
Just such things as the spriDgtime
naturally calls for from the young
men-
"In the spring the young mans fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts of love"
This is as it should be. There is
no more charming picture chan the
groups Of young people at a well regu-
lated and prosperous country church
Little country children seem to look
more cheerful now than has been their
wont for a few years past. They are
learning that to live in the country
and to work on the farm is not so bad
a thing as once was thought. The
parents are entitled tc credit for this
most desirable turn. They have quit
%bemoaning the hardships of a country
life in the presence of their children.
There is a great deal in Imagination,
and the children of a few years back
had the right to imagine that any
business was better than farming.
The whole talk OF the young people
tended this way. Lately there is
mighty little grumbling. Farmers
have got to believe that they are as
good as any other class, if not a little
better, and this is a healthy condition
and will leaven the young idea in such
a manner as to stop the flow from the
country that could result in nothing
less than a great misfortune to the
human family.
There never was any excuse for this
great rush of people to the towns. nor
was there eyer any truth in the belief
that once prevailed about the town
people having such an easy time. The
pressure on town people has been very
much greater Than many thought. |
heard a good old gentleman say: "God
bless Sunday He told me that if it
was not for the rest of Sunday he
would soon land in the asylum. This
came from a man that I had thought
almost free from care, and it put me
to thinking. Business. Business. The
world is running wild on business.
The world is overworked. Night
must be turned into day. The great
wheels must turn and the %clatter of
machinery go on. 1t takes millions
of dollars to satisfy now where a Few
thousand used to satisfy. The richest
man I knew before the war was rated