The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-26
THE HARVEST Is LARGE
Bill Arp Writes About tho Crops and
Looks for Better Timcs-Politics
Has Nothing to Do With 1t.

| W IiCIl tilc Lotus SCnu ram,
| When the tanks in the sky run over;
| For the rain you know
| Makes the corn to grow,
Amt gives lift to the clover"
But my humble friend Cobo SAYS
wo've had bout cnuf aud he wants It to
stop right now. "We've had a 'bund- =
anco," says Cobe, "and Pm afecrd thore
} won't be any nubbins to feed the stocrs
} on this winter and no seed tators to
plant next spring."
, Another One-horso farmer SAYS he
Is afeord ho will make moro cotton
} than ho can get picked out.
| Was there cover such q b0untiful
crop year? Wheat, corn, cotton, potu-
!, toes and fruit e.. Mr.. Roberts, who farms
on Pumpkin Vino Crock, says ho fools
suro OF 200 bushels OF corn from ono
Held OF ten acrcs--that he can select
one or two acres that will yield I2O
bushels each and thcro arc several
square rods that Ill make bushol to
the ROD. That would make 100 bushels
per acre, III every rod was as good. MIR,
Rooerts is no brag. Ho is Il conscrva-
tive, truthful man and good farmer
Mr.. Akerman made twenty-five BUSH
els OF wheat to tho aero right in tn @
suburbs OF the town and he has moro
beautiful fruit than was evor grown
hero before. Our market is running
over with good things--apples, peaches,
pears, grapes and melons. Country
wagons drive to tho residences evory
day loaded with delicious fruit and YOU
can buy at your own price, for the sup
ply Is greater than tho domand. We
luxuriate on soft peaches and cream,
which is the next bcst thing to straw
berries and cream, and VIC buy fine,
large cantal0upes at u nickel apiece.
OLD folks lose their relish for mont, but
they ncver get tired Of fruit | was
Illuminating about tho kindness OF Prov
ldcnce In arranging tho succession to
suit our heal TIL and appetite. Straw
berries, raspbcrries, dewberrics, huck-
lebcrries, black berries, Juno apples,
cherries and thcn peaches and grapes,
with melons thrown in, and before long
tho town will be Hooded with apples
on. the jelly and jam and preserves
that my lolks have put up, and tho
sugar that have had to pay for Thank
goodness, bought 1t before tho Nc
kinlcy trust corncrcd the market. A
clever Republican noighbor told me
that tho Almighty was smiling on tho
land because good mon were now in
power and he quoted Scripture which
said whenithc righteous arc in pOwcr
the people rejoice.
''Hes," said |, tho devil can quote
: Scripture to suit his purpose. David
/; understood tho situation when hc said
! u have seon the wicked in great power,
= spreading himself like green hay
= tree, yet he passed away, and 10 ho was
: not"
: don't think tho Lord Is paying
( much attention to Congress or the ad-
D ministraJiOn, but He does seem to have
{ pity on the people, and is showcring
: blessings upon them.
There was campmoeting story that
Old Allan Turner told whom | was boy
that ! have not forgotten. Ho was
preaching about tho perils OF riches
and said there was good old darky
who had kind but un-Christian and
skcptical master, and he tried in his
humble way to convert him, but his
master only laughed at him and ono
d!ay, said to him: "Now, Uncle Jack,
II the Lord Is SO wiso and so good ana
loves us all SO much as you say, what
makes him let m Austin get so rich
and keep on buying moro land and moro
nlggers and mules, whom you know that
Jim Austin is the mcancst man In the
county. He swindlcs his ncighbors and
opprcsscs the poor. He drinks and
gambos and curses, but everything he
touches makes him richer and richer.
How dog you eXplaino that?"
, Master mastor" said Uncle Jack,
o"o 10 bli JOo 0o hIll III b DCcuuS uC
; Lord don't kccr nothin' about i'm Aus
} tin, his name amt on dc book No, sir,
dc Lord amt payin' no 'tention to him
at all and dc debil Is runnn' him. No,
master tell yoa how it is. When
do Lord take likin to man and got
his name on do book, He don't let him
git fat and slick like Jim Austin.
Whom dc Lord lOvcth Ho chastiscth,
and dats de reason your giphousc git
burned up and your buggy marc die,
and may be dats why Miss Juliann take
sick away of at school and come home
in dc colin. She was q blessed child,
she was, and seems to mo dat some
times away In de night | hear her
callin' you. Master old Jack don't like
to trouble you about desc tings and he
wouldcnt If your namo wasscnt on dc
book"
Uncle Allen used to finish up the
story with the masters conversion and
Jim Austin being killed.
Bettor'Limcsarc coming, suro enough,
but politics has nothing to do with it.
wheat and short crop in Europe. My
friend kirkpatrick, Of Atlanta, says
these rovulsions in trade and prosperity
go by cycles OF seven years and that
our cycle OF distress and disaster has
about expired. He almost proves 1t by
reference to tho past and tells how the
failure OF Jay Cooke prccipitatcd tho
panic Of T3, and our trouble lasted
seven years, and the failure Of Barring
Brothers brought on tho next panic
and that lasted seven years.
J But wheat and cotton arc filling the
farmers pockets with money and by
the time this cotton crop Is marketed
d now era OF prosperity will be fairly
on us. Within the last thrco months
the mining business has revived in our
county and labor is in demand nobody,
neither white or black, Is going about
begging for work in this region. /
haven't sccn tramp in six months.
The gardens arc tecming with vegcta-
bles and the llowcrs are m ore beautiful
and moro abundant than ever before,
but Mckinley didcnt do It, nor the
tariff. nor his party. If they won't
t undo it is all we ask. Juet let thingf
D alone. They arc determined to humil.
late the South, but as long as the Lord
8 smiles on US wo will bo content.