The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-11-21
BILL ARP TRIES TO BE GOOD.
MEETS ENEMY WITH A SMILE

tNahJ'
Tho Scriptures tell us to rejoice
WITH those who rejoice and weep with
those who weep, am try.ug to do it,
but II Is al awful strain. When | meet
a Mckinley man | try 10 smile, but it
ls only q sickly grin and only skin
deep. Ihey arc pretty thick around
now since II election aud SO between
mourning with the Bryan men aud re-
joiclng with the Republicans my couu-
tennnce has los! it's nOrmal and natural
condition and it Is hard to tell whcth-
CT : am crying or smiling. We did
not know that there were more than "a
dozen respectable McKtnloyites in the
community, but IL turns out that there
were scoresO OF them. Nearly all OF the
plutocr@ts voted that way on Tho sound
money platform. They lend money
and wanti 1t paid back in gold. A good
many farmers Who have some cot .Dn
on hand were led to believe that il
would 80 up again to 10 or - cents il |
MCKINLEY was elected, but it dropped
10 points the day after the election.
But II Is al over now aud the wheels
keep rolling on. Let them roll. The
milllonaires and plutocrats can't eat
their money or wear it out. 1t is DO.
llgeu to go back to the ]tOiters, the PEG.
pie, IN some way. The Standard Oh
Company declared u dividend yoster-
day Of 10 Per cont, but RJckcfellcr
dOn't hoard IT. He gives away % big
SLIGO to education aud u~tilizss the rest.
what a blessed thing it is, that Il man
cant AXE his money with aim when
he dies. II he could [ reckon we poor
lolks would perish out in Il generation.
Al.cr al IL Is not money hat brings
happiness. ~ good living, u cOmDe
tency honestly oarued, brings far more
happiness than riches. rnis kind Of
talk Is ! 900 years old, but the people
don't believe 1t yet everybody wants
money, " big Pile OF money; | would
ike 1T myself | want some for u rainy
!, day and some TO give away, but we are
not In distress, "Hd never nave been,
though Tor some years OF the war and
!, Juat alter we were on the ragged edge,
: Talk about prosperity, | saw it last
week over in South Carolina. There
Is u nice little town over thore called
: Prosperity, but | didn't see it. | went
t to the old own OF Darlington. was
s there eighteen years age. IL was u
good old town then, but 1t has renewed
, its youth aud taken on new life and |
hardly knew the place. Cotton mills
l and oil mills and good farming have
done 1t. The cotton crop Of that couu-
ty is 30, 600 bales ana the tobacco crop
was 5000, 600 pound and it brought
half as much money rs the cotton crop.
l. llpSNh gNelS aSO lhSTC WAS nOb |.
pound Tor sale raised in the county.
They didn't know it wUuld grow there.
Now there are three large warehouses,
where 1t is aurti0ned oil every day. |
attended the auctions ana it was q re.
velation TO nc. The farmers wagons
J.; were unloading all around and their
C tobacco WAS piled up neatly in long
rows and their names and the number
J. OF pounds written on u card and stuck
- in Tho EnIiI nnn nj a littin V.#,t, 49,
stick aud that was stuck in the center
=, OF tho pile. For an hour or two before
u the auction begins the buyers from
EtchmCnd and Winston aud Durham
y and Liverpool and other markets went
l. all around and examined the quality O
~ every pile and took notes. The auc
tioncer talked so fast [ could not un,
derstand him, but the buyers did.
; eek there were two or three hun
Z dred piles in each warehouse and the
auctionccr and the Gro sd went from
2. pile to pile and sold each one where i
was. | heard some Knocked down a:
low as . cents and some rs high rs 81
cents.
There Is one curious rule about TO
Is bacco autiOns that does not apply IL
g any Otner auction. The farmer car
e bacco. II he and his boys nave resolved
that thel crop shall E"ing 20 cents q
pound and 1T brings only - he turns
the card down and takes his tobacco
home or maybe hauls it around to an.
10 other warehouse, where the same buy
ers lind it next Gay and maybe bld over
q 20 cents for IL. This il one OF the
It tricks OF the trade. The difference be.
tween the grades was hardly DcrcsDyi-
n Bile to my eyes, but the buyers know,
- 1t was all d bright yellow, but some
was brittle and wormcaten aud some
was soft aud plant as a kid glove.
u rms was bought for wrappers. This
c evolution has como within ten
IL years, and i9 increasing every year for
an acre OF good tobacco will bring 800
C and 1t costs only SO to cultivate it,.
My friend, MIR. Williamson, the bunker.
. old mo he had thirty five acres plant.
= cd this year and 1T melted him $I7 per
l acre.
t There is another evolution in Oar.
llngtOn County. Ten years 400 no
wheat was grown there. Now every
farmer sows wheat and q largo nour
mill has recently been built. 1t WIS
the same W a 10 middle Georgia. I'm.
TIL about five years ago all thai repion
| was under the ban, and the farmers did
not pretend TO grow wheat. Now they
make moro wheat to the acre, al
around Griffin and Barnesvillc, than
we can make in North Georgia. And
so evolution aud revolution is going on.
but they don't give Mckinley credit
for 1T in South Carolina. It is amusinp
to hear them tell about the Der
negroes over there. Between cotton
and tobacco they pocket u pile OF mon.
ey, and spend nearly every dollar be.
fore they leave town. One man SOFA
them thirty-scven Rock Hill bugcies in
one week, and Mr.. Williamson told me
OF a darkey, who drew $57 and spent S35
OF 1T that day for Il fine gun ana q
pointer dog. He will be begging his
landlord for an advance be ore Christ.
mas.
had a delightful time at DARLINGTON
and Benrcttsville and BishopyiIle
and last at Rock HUI. Bishopvme
ought to be named "Sweet Auburn, the
loyeliest village OF the plain" found
ola friends and acquaintances at eyerv
place aud was hOnored far beyond nv
deserving. My wife hasent got me
BACK In the traces yet. Near Blsbon.
Vile L found an old time friend, Mrs,
lteld, the sister Of my schoolmates,
Ned Goulding and John, and of Frank
Goulding, who wrote tho young
Aarooners." She is now eightv.ninee
years old and came nimbly down tho
steps to meet me. Her husband preach
ed In Mt. Zion church, noar by, for
iorty.four years and is buried in the
Milton graveyard, where that eminent