The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-18


entire crop, and he was complaining
bitterly to nnr of oar merchants and
said that he farmers wnnd perish to
death in aun,h"r year If there Wa>n I
some cIianrc ini the better 4 ms
Ghlt,nu- drummer. standing hy, said
"Wcil. my friend, yn' must pnl,
raisiug cotton ur els bn. some mon
keys 20 pick il out O.cr in India
ana Egypt they mas the unnhry>
pick their co,;nn apd That j. vht
che matter. y monl = sill I,'ck Il
thousand pounds Day and he feed
on the seeds 50 II Gusts hardly any
thing over there tn ral>" cotton, and
our farmer, in Mississippi and T,xns
have sent over I"r hundrcd thou
Sand monkey and they will he over
here in time to pick the next crop
and the price will 30 lnwcr sill, aud
il sou don't :,rt You a monkey ,r two
you had better quit .rowinv cntt"n,
for you can compete wih monkey.
The old man tool. it al! in ,crlnusly
and said "Wcll, what IS . pnor farm.
or TO do ii be- ha,n got the money to
buy the monkcy
"Grow something else, said the
drummer ''Grow corn and wheat and
sorghum an'i potatoes. Plant apple
and peach trees, raise chickens and
eggs, and a ycarlin cali or two to sell
Get up Son and stir around lively
and make every member Of yoir fam
lily work. Work at something, for if
you don't you will perish out. e."
back home and take new start. Don [
sit down and grumbIc apd'bamc some
body else with you. poverty Quit
cotton until you .an bny half dozen
monkeys
The man went back home and cir
culatcd the monkey story, and for ten
miles around the one horse farmers
have sworn OFT from raising any more
cotton. That's what they tell me
They say that brf"-r the war the poor
man conldn compete witt, the rich
man nlggcrs, an,. now since he has
loft his niggcr> he is huyin monkeys
DO take their places, ..nd the poor man
won't have any chance at all
OF course there is Nv truth in this
story, but there is 4 good deal Of
philosophy. New methods, new plows
and new machinery arc the monkeys,
and II the poor farmer does not work
carly and late be will keep poor
know some country women who make
more money on their chickens and
eggs and butter than their husbands
do on their cotton and wheat. Little
things we'll nurscd count up more
thar big ones. The thrifty farmer
always brings with him something to
sell when he has to come to town.
Some fowls OF eggs or potatoes or a
shotc Or some frni. in its season.
There is good home market FOR all
these little things In fact. If We
leave ont cotton everything the farm
cr crows brings about the same old
prices uf ten ycai. age, aud everything
he has to buy except coffee is mucl,
cheaper now :han i, was then. Every
thing that i made of cotton is 80 per
cent cheaper and everything made ot
iron o. steel or tin is 100 per cent
cheaper. Beef ana porl and chickens
and turkeys and eggs anu wood and
potatoes and apples and pcachc. have
not come down nicklc i'll ten years.
Labor is little cheaper not much.
We still pay the same for cooking ami
washing and work in the garden Ii
anybody has Il reason for complaining
Of hard times it is the town people
who have everything 30 buy. The
farmer who is not in debt and owns
his sarm is better off than he ever WIS
ana the prudent reuter- can pay rent
and make money farming
But oil course there Is 4 large class
OF shiftlcs.. "n,lrif,y people who will
not succeed as anything. and they
blame evcryh ~ -: tlul themselves.
Cohc says tha. ,hc l.py': hal e. make
poor FOLKS t. keep ,vi. toi,s IN money,
and so Cobc is contcnt IN Lrius rnor.
for it is the Lord wiil know folks
who have never planted fruit tree
and who will not even plans, - garden.
Poverty makes some folks ,hifty and
others Indifferent and dcspairing
There is an old negro woman comes to
our house every Saturday aud brings
us a gallon Of big hominy -old-fash
ioned lyc hominy, and it is luxury.
We nay her IL cents for it and she
has seven other customers. One peek
Of cora that costs her 10 cents makes
foul pccks Of hominy, for which she