Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-06-28
Comments by Mr.. Cook.

FORT MADISON, Juno 23.--Thore Is so
much rain VIC can't work. 1t is moro than
twenty-five days since tho land was dry
enough to plow OH tho Tugaloo bottoms,
and It is still raining, with no indications
Of a lot up. About half tho cotton crops
have not been thinncd to a proper stand.
Tho grass and weeds are rs high as tho
cotton, and | have got tho blues.
was coming home from tho mill tho
| other day when | saw two mon driving
! through their corn field with Il two horse
wagon. | asked another man, who was
| standing near tho roadside, what those
fellows were doing in their corn with n
two horse wagon. lIo said: "Boss, VIC
arc building pasture horo; we can do
| nothing wild dat corn now. 'Mudy grass
donc been took it.'' Thus tho condition
of the crops can better be imagined than
| described. These mems crops were in no
worse condition than tho average crops
| in tho vicinity.
We went in town tho other day and
| happened to meet up with some littlo
jug-hcadcd cotton spectators, who bo-
tween tho puifs of the smoke from their
| cigarettes, could toll us precisely how
many million bales of cotton would DC
made and Just how much surplus, and all
about the bulls and tho bears, tho longs
| ana tllc SiOltS, Cue. DuI ulu nOC ask
them whether they were Jersey bulls or
common scrub stock, or white bears, or
black or grizzlcy; or how long was the
| longest or how short tho shortest.
know that those little swclls mover make
their calculations for less than Il, ,000, 900
| bales, no matter what happens to tho
crop. They seem to think that wc can't
make less than 10000 900 bales, and that
we won't get moro than five cents per
pound for ii next fall The truth is, thcy
don't know much moro about tho price
of cotton next fall than Il hog knows about
Il prayer book When they wcro selling
guano to us about three or four months
ago, they seemed to think cotton would
bc ten cents this fall; but their opinion
to mo that it would be just as much borc-
fit to the merchants and cotton buyers to
| keep the price OF cation up, as it would
| be to the farmers. OF course, if the
| farmer gets low price for his cotton the
merchant cannot make good collections
| if the merchant fails to collect from the
| farmer the banker cannot collect from
the merchant. If tho cotton spcculator
has to pay good price for cotton he can
also sell it at Il good price. Therefore,
none Of them are hurt with high prices,
but the whole country is benefited.
! We'll, the census cnumcrator has been
around, asking hundreds of unnecessary
| INCSllolS. buI nB WIS II very nice,
manly follow, and rs he is the only man
whU has Il lawful right to mcddlc and
pry into other peoples business, we did
| not raise any muSs with him. We were
: Il little sorry for him. We know he has
Homc hard nuts to crack, and tough
! job before him. We understand that he
! went to Il certain house on his rounds
and was asking the lady Of the house
the necessary questions about the chill
drcn. She showed him two Of tho chill
! drcn, and told him that they were twins.
He asked tho name Of one Of them and
whether it was born in South Carolina
or Georgia. lie was told that it was
born in South Carolina. llo then asked
If they were both born i'm South Carolina.
some of the boys arc telling this joke
Wen, must tell you of II monstrosty
that saw the other day. Johnson Jar
rctt, =. c., who lives at 'alson Station,
on the Southern hallway, four miles
from this place, has Il calf with only
three legs. has TWO legs in front and
only one behind. 1t is a nice hcifcr
calf, good shape, and about two weeks
old, and it is surprising how easily il
can get up, and run around over tho lot.
llUrrah for lIOyt and Prohibition.
Good luck to TIE COURIER.