The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-07-27

His reply was, and in Inst 10 me is the
mystery and not the cruelty of present
financial conditions, "becau.e the bank
viii pay back our money on demand
and our neighbor will or cannot.
That this farmer spoke the exact truth
i haye abundant testimony Of recent
date. Take such example n this: a
farmer who has been renting land and
saved some money, wants to buy land
and own his home. Laudable and
noble we all say, and when he finds
the place to suit him he has only
enough Of ready cash to pay One-third
Of the purchase price. But the party
who offers TO sell wants all cash The /
would-be purchaser hears Of a farmer |
reported to have some money. He |
goes to him, explains the situation and |
offers to give first lien on the land to
secure balance Of the purchase money,
and to pay per cent. for its use. The
excuses for not accommodating him
run in this wise: Gust invested all
my surplus" "Just bought piece Of
property myself and it required all the
ready cash on hand to pay it," "My
money is all tied up" dc, dc. A lit
tie deeper probing ELECTS this reply:
"The fact is | am afraid of my neigh
Dor with real estate security, and pre-.
fer to put my money in bank at per
cent, pay per cent to the tax gatherer
and feel safe" My brother, that's your {
high privilege, but when you have ex-
ercised it, it does not become you to !
complain of the city richer and the j
country poorer You help to make it l
50. | believe that the time is coming
in this country when the earth, out of .
which we dig our living, and in the .
bosom Of which we will rest after death, g
,CW be cOnsidTcd the best security .
tnOWn 10 man, and | could give the 4,
reason for my faith but that these let I,
iers are cOnsecrated to farmers and &
farming interest and Farmvile rather q
han to finances. Not one line of pol
tics in them.
-. d." reminds me that reporting q
he wheat yield 10y the acre and by the v
)ushel are two vastly different things, Il
md so we confess. Will be more care de
al in future. W
Speaking Of town and country, while sc
have been noting a number of I'M Ok
'rovements IN each, | have failed to
all attention to the striking contrast
'etween Farmvilles old-time and i,
'armvlles present-day printing Office. Il
When first entered the Journal office -,
found an antique printing press, m
moved only by hand, and from which, Ct
y hard and persistent work, one side
T the usual edition Of the paper could
{ gotten out during long summers be
fernoon. With the new press, moved sa
y water, the same results can be at
aimed in - minutes. An order for
900 posters, with a job press moved
y the foot, struck terror to the heart
the printer, but now you can do ~
0thing which so delights him as to ex
'der by the tens of thousands. With 90
lch an office, aud full stock of paper,
ii heads, envelopes, DC, to select ITO
ON, do not see how the people Of or
and surrounding country
IN afford to send away to have PRINT WI
u done, and pay express charges tiv
Everybody is rejoicing at the COM
& Of the magnificent rains. 1t is gen. NC
ally agreed that it is in time to save
e tobacco but that much Of the corn
OPP has been cut short and beyond the
,pe Of relief. Still the promise re- lOO
aims, "Seed time and harvest" a ch'
lmber Of our farmers have sowed peas,
I'd they are now looking we'll Those
e wise farmers On THE Go.