Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-06-27
SAYS We WORRY TOO MUCH
This is the Opinion of the Barlow
Philosopher.
FRETTING WILL SHORTEN LIFE.
Americans Should Contrast Their
Condition With That OF Oiher
People.

Fret not thyself because OF evil
doers.
Fret not thyself against him WHO
deriseth iniQuity.
Trust in the Lord and do good. Wait
o. the LORD
Those are good sermons and there
are others like them in David and Sol
mon. A man can shorten this life
and wear himself out by borrowing
trouble, and fretting and worrying
about the iniQuity of other people.
There is a sight of devilmcnt going
on-more than ever before ! reckon
more war, famine, pestilence, unrest
and discomfort all over the world, and
here in our own blessed land crime is
on the increase in our cities, and what
with the negro and the corruption Of
politics and the strikes as sidcshows
there is enough to run worrying man
crazy. OF course we should feel con-
ccrned about crime and do what we can
to prevent it. but worrying does not
accomplish anything. Let us preach
and practice and be happy still
"Carpe diem,' enjoy the day. saith the
poet Horace. Why can't everybody III
this country be as contented and law
ABIDING as our people here in north
Georgia. There are no murders. no
outrages, no lynchings. no fights here
in Barlow county. There are no di-
Norces nor burglarics, and no stealing
of any consequence. \ good old ante,
bellum darky did come TO see me tho
other day to get me to sign his sons
bond and get him out of jail. What
is he in there for?" said /. Well,
boss, You see de mans corn was miss
in and he find de basket at Inns
house, but he didn't fine no corn. But
Jim aint 'euSed of stealin de basket"
The basket is to be the witness. |
reckon" said |. "Jes' 50. boss-dat all,
and de basket can't talk and tell how il
got dar."
| was Illuminating how easy it is ror
any we'll man to make a fair living III
this region. During harvest coed
worker white or black. gets Cne dollar
n day. and at other times ~ cents
day. and there Is a demand for labor.
Uncle Sam is very old but lie gets -
cents every day for working around in
the gardens. His four girls cook and
wash and each makes about two dol
lars a week. There is about $l2 a week
earned by that family and they are al
ways happy and don't give themselves
any tOuttIn ABOUT pOlllItS VI SOtlGi
equality or Bishop Turner or Booker
Washington. II is the high-strung. Ia
zy negroes who are making all III"
fuss. Now. just contrast the condition
of laborers here and in other 9)untrios.
In India they arc starving by the mill
lion. In the Philippines and South Af-
rica they are fighting and dying in
battle or from disease and pcstilenCC.
In Germany peasant is rich if he has
two or three acres of land. and his wife
and daughters carry heavy loads OF
vegetables on their backs TO market,
while the sons are serving in :he army.
In Italy the poor work III malar:ul
swamps or beg in Naples. In Mexico
the poems get 81 IL cents day in
Mexican silver. which is worth about
half as much as ours. In England tie
| poor are kept alive by charity and in
| Ireland the peasantry lose a crop about
| every third year and the little children
90 hungry and in rags. What is the
{ matter with our people? Why don'j
! they quit fussing-quit enVying the
rich? Why not lift up their voices and
thank the Lord for His mercy and
| goodness unto us? \ diligcnt man or
woman can live for five or six months
from a good garden-and besides the
Sdluti lHt tJNllNlN fADOhH'i' III IL Ai's
! Peaches, apples. grapes blackherries,
dewberrics and huCklebcrri" | never
saw the like. From our own garden
we can have eight different vegetables
every day besides berries for a dessert
! 1t makes me p:oT 20 gather chem and
! show them around 70 the family before
| breakfast, 10" il IS my garden. |
| cTU55cu - nTc oiG r-a,iler Adam did
| Eden. I'm still jhe hoy ! am the man
| with the hoe and | don't esteem it anv
| hardship. either. Ny Markham need
ent preach HIS fOolishness to me, nor
| do I like the tone of that picture-a
| pitiful man leaning on mis- hoe and be-
moaning his hard lot Work. labor.
| toll. sweat is the common lot and they
| are the happicst who do it Solomon
said the sleep of the laboring man is
sweet I love TO work witI the hoe |
! love to get all over in sweat oi Ior-
spiration. 1t opens the pores and
saves medicine. ! love the smiles Of
approval when | find new blown rose
and bring it to Mrs. Arp and hear heI
say Isn't it beautiful" She re
preached me gently yesterday for cut
| ting down her poke stock down by the
garden fence. She said she liked to
| look at it when the berries were ripe
for it reminded her of the ho.ue of heI
| happy childhood, when .ae AMI her 1T
tie brothers used to pick the berries
and make red paint from them and
paint dogs and cats and monkeys on
the smokehouse and dAi;y. Well. there
is another one coming and / will lci
that grow for her sake. ! want TO see
her painting dogs on OF" sInoRehouse
They remind me Of the time when Polk
ran against Clay for President AMI cy-
cry farmer Democrat who came Ia