The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-25
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Arp Writes of the Great Yield of Cotton,
Corn and Fruits.
q Constitution.

C0In anu FRUITS.
Itlanta Consultation.
II don't complain
When the Lord sends rain,
When the tanks in the sky run over ;
For the rain you know
Makes the corn to grow,
And gives q lift to the clover"
But my humble friend Cobe says
we've had bout enuf and he wants it
to stop right now. "We've had a
'bundance," says Cobe, "and I'm afeerd
there won't be any nubbins to feed
the steers on this winter and no seed
taters to plant next spring.
Another one-horse farmer says he is
afecrd he will make more cotton than
he can get picked out.
Was there ever such a bountiful
crop year? Wheat, corn, cotton, po-
tatoes and fruit Mr.. Roberts, who
farms on Pumpkin Vine Greek, says
he feels sure of 1000 bushels of corn
from one field of ten acres-that he
can select one or two acres that will
yield 100 bushels each and there are
several square rods that will make a
bushel to the rod. That would make
100 bushels per acre, if every rod was
as good. Mr.. Roberts is no brag. He
is a conservative, truthful man and a
good farmer. Mr.. Alderman made
twenty-five bushels of wheat to the
acre right in the suburbs of the town,
and he has more beautiful fruit than
was ever grown here before. Our
market is running over with good
things-apples, peaches, pears, grapes
and melons. Country wagons drive
to the residences every day loaded
with delicious fruit and you can buy
at your own price, for the supply is
greater than the demand. We luxu-
rate on soft peaches and cream, which
is the next best thing to strawberries
and cream, and we buy fine, large can
talopes at a nickel apiece. Old folks
lose their relish for meat, but they
never get tired of fruit. I was rumi-
mating about the kindness Of Provi-
dence in arranging the succession to
suit our health and appetite. Straw
berries, raspberries, dewberries, huck-
leberries, blackberries, June apples,
cherries and then peaches and grapes,
with melons thrown in, and before
long the town will be flooded with
apples. Oh, the jelly and jam and
preserves that my folks have put up,
and the sugar that I have had to pay
for. Thank goodness, I bought it be-
fore the Mckinley trust cornered the
market. A clever Republican neighbor
told me that the Almighty was smiling
on the land because good men we're
now in power and he quoted scripture
which said when the righteous are in
power the people rejoice.
eyes," said l., "the devil can quote
scripture to suit his purpose. David
understood the situation when he
said j have seen the wicked in great
power, spreading himself like a green
bay tree, yet he passed away, and 10
he was not.
I don't think the Lord is paying
much attention to Congress or the ad-
ministration, but He does seem to
have pity on the people, and is show
ering blessings upon them.
There was q camp meeting story
that old Allan Turner told when I was
a boy that I have not forgotten. He
was preaching about the perils Of
| riches and said there was a good old
darby who had q kind but un-Chris.
tian and skeptical master, and he tried
in his humble way to convert him,
but his master only laughed at him
and one day said to him: CHOW, I'm.
Gle, Jack, if the Lord is SO wise and
so good and loves us all so much as
you say, what makes him let Jim
Austin get so rich and keep on buying
more land and more niggers and mules,
when you know thatJim Austin is the
meanest man in the country. He
swindles his neighbors and Expresses
the poor. He drinks and CANDLES and
curses, but everything he touches
makes him richer and richer. How
do you explain that p
"Master! master!'' said Uncle Jack,
"dat is all jes' so and it's becaus' de
Lord don't keer nothin' about Jim
Austin, his name amt on de book.
No, sir, dc Lord amt payin' nc ten
ton to him at all and de debil is run
min him. No, master [ tell you
how it is. When de Lord take a
likin' to a man and got his name on
de book, He don't let him git fat and
slick like Jim Austin. Whom de
Lord loveth He chastiseth, and OATS
de reason your ginhouse git burned up
and your buggy mare die, and maybe
OATS why Miss Juliann take sick away
off at school and come home in de
coffin. She was a blessed child, she
was, and seems to me dat sometimes
away in dc night I hear her calm
you. Master, old Jack don't like to
trouble you about desc t'ings and he
wouldent if your name wasent on de
book"
Uncle Allen used to finish up the
story with the master conversion and
Jim Austin being killed.
Better times are coming, sure
enough, but politics has nothing to do
with it. Politics didn't give us a
great crop Of wheat and a short crop
in Europe. Myfriend kirkpatrick, of
Atlanta, says these revulsionsin trade
and prosperity 60 by cycles of seven
years and that our cycle Of distress
and disaster has about expired. He
almost proves it by reference to the
past and tells how the failure of Jay
Cooke precipitatcd the panic of '73,
and our trouble lasted seven years,
and the failure of Barring Brothers
brought on the next panic and that
lasted seven years.
But wheat and cotton arc filling the
farmers pockets with money and by
the time this cotton crop is marketed
a new era of prosperity will be fairly
ON us. Within the last three months