The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-07-04
RAINS.
and too
HOInOn Said,

& >. = !, - 8 Rain and too
= lomon Said.
ght, genial sunny
- have had in three
.<s lyOue days it has /
4 s s; save one. The crops
= ~. Inc corn and cotton
s ,1 grass and weeds, and
u for the negroes are
mines. Most OF the |
IA cut, but how much OF
M < ed cannot yet be told
Z, 81 election OF fifty years =
~ 10 much rain in harvest |
3 (. j. ng to Scripture, it seems |
= Rs old story, for Solomon
}n in harvest SO is honor |
~ j q fool" They had too
I: a too many tools then just
Maybe Providence sends |
n :; y the iarmers-to make !
!, " and shlfty. travelled |
n q u and West railroad last
Is S xty miles and | noted
98' hat were clean and nice
$ sH cotton chopped out and
i. "a hooked In the field one OF
Il s ed to q widow, and she and
Z ~ s. - 5 rls and one boy were lust
). be cotton. Markham dident
q 4. si.,, ing about the woman with
"A Is thrgirls, but one of these
s Irry enough to waive her
hebody on the train besides
jarmers sit down and wait
/. ~ .6w5 sun to dry of the
but tomorrow's sun dident
s, V Id so they wait till next day.
: = Itp In at every chance and do
!. ~ isf's y. | know one who began to
4 peat Monday morning lust as
ndsy was gone-for SUNDAY
- ay 1T did not rain. He cut
II 3 s. night and all day Monday and
$s s. fgh with his thirty acres, and
u, e viii make 700 bushels. An
81. 3 ~ gent farmer made 400 bushels
4 IS on twenty acres, and SOW ed it
ay to cowpeas and sold his pea.
s ~ Tor more per acre than be got
s heat. That is business-and
s says, "Seest thou man dill
bis business; be shall stand be-
gs.' am no braggart but let
~ that II had waited for the
ISL ut | would be singing that
!; 4 sIs3 Y a man Of words but not OF
Se q garden full Of weeds" |
i s. IA tween showers, and some-
& Mrs. Arp called and called
y 4 YIN out OF the rain | pre-
+ 81 &. pt hear her, and struck u
ID Ks for Mr.. Markham. |
1 -, 5uid see my bean arbor-nOt
Beans, but the best and most
bean have ever planted; [ had
\ asst year on my corn patch, but
NJ 81 better on poles or over "a cane
: ~ Plant two rows OF beans five
part, and when they are well uD
s s a5rn with canes. Lap the small
q Il the canes together on the
s<|i' ind get your wife or daughters
Z, S. ~ lem in three or four places--all
5 ..tli;{t q IN length-thcn arch them over
u nI t,,ra 4 -,
:. >< A ,rsaw half rs many beans as hang
81. my vines. OF course, the rains
0"tmutated the growth Of every
{I< 1.;y21szsa and It's lucky that vegetables
pward instead OF outward.
my potatoes n Il trench that
- s 3p)veled out and manurcd with
wood and coal mixed then Gov
ith pine straw and some earth
3: ~. They are the finest ever
IS. 'i< and come ont Of the straw almost
= s. enough to cook without was hing.
Rz traw Is very valuable in garden
cheap, costing only 30 cents for
80 load. 1t is good mulch Tor
sa{> berries, and | am experimenting
NJ under lew tomato plants; most
EN- have trained up to stakes,
W saw market garden near Mem
az. and all the tomato vines hal tum-
over on wheat straw, and made
lIult, tHouSH uOI 50 largo, and
fAs when staked. A garden is Is snail
5brimental farm, and is as much
pc quence and more pleasure, espc-
<3a y II you mix flowers with il. Don't
jow away your coal ashes; mixed
<3 b wood ashes they are u fine ferti-
Il pr. Mr.. Berckuan says that ashes
Il (duce fruit, whilo stable manure
Pduces vine and foliage. Ashes "! i'll
}lble the quantity OF straw berries.
s II let's generally come up too thick.
ain them out and transplant cut oil
53 TT OF the tops, and the transplants
& 3sS ii make the best bccts. Just so with
'2 lery But don't propose to teach
sf>9d gardeners, for some OF them can
<< ,ach me--my neighbor, Mrs. Fields.
~ the best gardener ! know OF, and
- IN satisfied il can keep up with her,
N3 have some OF my wonderful beans
u planted to poles, The poles are from
fbight to Ten feet high, and it interests
Nne to see the bean vines reaching up
fto find something higher to cling to.
3Ihe tendrlls are now two or three feet
3higher than the poles, and still reach
Ping up and feeling around in the air.
am going to give them some fishing
poles fifteen feet long. They remind
1'me OF Jack and his bean vine nv
children and grandchildren never tire
OF that good old story. How q poor
WIDOW had little boy named Jack who
was good to his mother, and one dav
Jack saw an old giant coming. His
head was as big as a small barrel, his.
yes as big as saucers, his nose as big
as my arm, his mouth like the end OF a
big stove pipe and his teeth like iron
spoons. He came up the road snorting
like horse, and was singing,
" ! smell the blood of an Englishman;
alive or dead must have some"
Jack ran in the house to his mother
and she pulled up 8 plank in the floor
and dropped Jack down in the cellar
and put the plank back, and moved her
chair and table on it, and sat down and
went to knitting. Here came the old
B,2PssHufling and blowing ike steam.
bSS,S~Ar uident eat anything but little
boysS he peeped in at the door and
said: I'm hungry and Pm hunting for
D. boy" JacKs mother told him she
dldenL have any boy for him and to 90
on or she would set her big dog on him.
Then he walked all round the house
and looked down the chimney, for he
was as high as a tree, but he couldent
hnd Jack. When he went away and
was out ot sight, Jacks mother took up
the plank, and reaching her hand dow n
she pulled Jack cut o! the cellar. Soon
after this poor old woman came along