The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-11-23
BILL. AR


with those who rejoice and weep
with those who weep. | am trying,
to do it, but it is an awful strain.
When | meet n Mckinley man | try
to smile, but it is only sickly grin
and is only skin deep. They arc
pretty thick around here now since
the election and so between mourn
ing with tho Bryan men and rrioic,
ing with tho republicans my counto-
nance has lost its normal and natural
condition and it is hard to tell
whether | am crying or smiling. Wo
did not know that there were moro
than dozen respectable Mckinley.
ties in tho community, but it turns
out that there woro scores Of them.
Ncarly all Of the plutocrats voted
that way Oh the sound money plat
form. They lend money and want
it paid back in gold. A good many
farmers who have somo cotton on
hand were led TO believe that !.
would go up again to 10 or - Gen.
if Mckinley was elected, hut it
dropped 10 points tho day after the
election. But it is all over now and
the woels krep rolling on. Let them
roll. The millionairts and plutocrats
can't cat their mnnry or wear il out
1t is obliged to 90 back TO tho toll
ers, the people IN somo way. The
Standard Oil Company declared
dividend yesterday Of 10 per cent,
but Rockefeller don't hoard it. lie
gives away Il big slice TO education
and utilizos the rcst. What blessed
thing 1T is, that man can't take his
money with him when he dies. If
he could | recon wo J.oor folks would
perish out in generation. After all
it is not money that brings happi.,
ness. ~ good living, competency
honestly earned, brings far moro
happiness than riches. This kind of
talk is 1000 years old, but people
don't hellcve it yet; everybody wants
money, big pile Of money; l would
like it myself. L want some for
rainy day and rome to give away,
| but we arc not in distress, and never
have been, though for some years OF
the war and just after we were on
the ragged edge.
Talk about prosperity, saw it last
week over IN South Carolina. There
is nice little town over thero called
Prosperity, but I didn't SEQ it | won't
to the old town Of Darlington. [
was their eighteen years ago. It
Was good old town thon, but it has
renewed its youth and taken on now
life and l hardly know the place.
Cotton mills and oil mills and good
farming have done it. The cotton
crop of that county is 10000 bales
and the tobacco crop was 100000
pounds and it brought half as much
money as the cotton crop. Fifteen
years ago there was not a pound for
sale raised in tho county. They
didn't know it would grow thoro.
Now there are three large warehous.
os, whore it is auctioned off every
day. I attended the auctions and it
was revelation to mo. The farm
ers' wagons wero unloading all
around and their tobacco was piled
up neatly in long rows and their
names and the number of pounds
written on card and stuck in tho
split end of a little white pine stick
and that was stuck in the center of
the pile. For an hour or two before
tho auction begins tho buyers from
Richmond and Winston and Durham
and Liverpool and other markets
went all around and examined tho
quality of every pile and took notes
The auctioncer talked so fast could
not understand him, but the buyers
did reckon thero were two or
three hundred piles in each ware
house and tho auctioneer and tho
buyers went from pilo to pilo and
sold each ono where it was | heard
some knocked down as low as 8 cents
and some as high as 81 cents. There
is one curious rule about tobacco
auctions that do not apply to any
other auction. Tho farmers can re.
ject the highost bid and keep his to.
bacco. If he and his boys havo re-
solved that their croD sholl brino %