The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-10-27
What Say You, Farmers!

ME. EDITOR: That the time has fully
come tor farmers to change their policy
or sink into bankruptcy and starvation
must be patent to even casual observers.
The all cotton system has been suffi-
ciently tried and found miserably want
ing.
No doubt scores of farms in the County
have already gone down under It,. and
scores more will follow suit in due time.
1t is believed by many that it takes the
bulk OF the cotton crop annually in An
derson County to settle the supply bills,
while large proportion of these sup
plies could be more easily and cheaply
made at home. If this be true, why then
not lessen the cotton crop and increase
the supply yield? A reduction of even
twenty-five per cent. in the production Of
cotton would doubtless make remarka-
Bile difference in the price.
With large proportion of their sup
plies at home, farmers could be more in-
dependent and realizs remuneratiye
price for their labor in making cotton.
We have looked to and trusted agricul-
tural conventions, prominent men and
various other sources of relief, but all in
vain. There is an old saying that if you
want anything done send, butif you want
it done right 60 yourself. So the farmer,
the plain. humble followers ofthe plow,
will have to take the matter in their
own hands and free themselves from the
shackles that bind them.
Now, Mr.. Editor, with your permis-
sion and little help, I propose to lead'of
in proposition, that if carried out, will
bring some relief at least. 1t is this
Every farmer in Anderson County who
will pledge himself to make, as far as
possible, home supplies, and let cotton be
entirely surplus crop, sigh his Eame
and address on postal card and send to
the ANDERSON INTELLIGENcER to be
filed away by the editors. Then, when
sufficient number Of names have been
received meeting can be held atsome
suitable time and place for general CON-
ference, and for making an appeal to all
other Counties and States in the cotton
belt to pursue the same or similar plan.
What say you, farmers Of Anderson?
Let US be up and doing.
As am neither candidate for Office
nor seeker of notoriety, I will for the
present sign myself FARMER. (
Any fool can make money, but it
takes wisdom to know how to spend it
we'll.
= Woman is superior to man. Two
women cen talk to each other at the same .
time.
After a man secures girls hand he
sometimes finds she has him under her
thumb.
= The distance of the earth from the
sun is about 100000 miles less in De-
cember than it is in June. ~.
Life insurance statistics 60 to show
that total abstinence prolongs the average
life more than seven years.
= The Bible was written by degrees
during a period of LOGO years.. 1t was
anciently called 'The Books" but for the,
past 700 years the "Bible."
- The watch carried by the average
man is composed of 9S pieces, and its.
manufacture embraces more than 1000
distinct and separate operations.
"A st. Louis woman has sold her hus-
band for $4,000, on the theory that she
can geta far better one. for much less
money. She is taking chances, though.
"A gushing poet asks in the first line
of recent effusion, Glow many weary
pilgrims lie7" We give it up ): bat e1-
perience has taught us that there are a i,
good many.
- One of the stations Of the railway,
which is to be built from the Red Sea to.
the top of Mount Sinai will be on the spot
where it is supposed Moses stood when
he received the two tablets. Of the law
from Jehovah.
-sThere's no such thing; as perfect
contentment," remarked the Widow
Milligan. "When John was alive was
half the time worried as to his where
abouts; and even now there Is an un-
certainty that still makes me uneasy
The eyes Of bees are made to see
great distances. When absent from their
hive they 20 up in the air till they see
their home, and then fly toward 1t In
straight line and with great speed. Tho
shortest line between two places is some
TIMES called "bee-line."
y fsany one were to undertake to
walk, one way only, through all the
streets OF London, he would be obliged
to go distance of 900 miles, or ss far as
it is across the American continent from
New York to San Francisco. This will i.
give an idea of the distance one would
have to go to see thoroughly even the
greater part of the city of London-the
largest city in the world.
- The average Of human life, according
to Prof. Warren, is about SO years. One
quarter die previous to the age of II, and
those who pass this age enjoy felicity
refused to one-half the human species.
To every one thousand persons only one
reaches 100 years of life, to every 100 only
six reach the age Of 65, and not moro than
one in five hundred lives to so years.