The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-24
bad, BAD" THEY CBY.

N~b SA~S $500 va
49, .sg... - - .a.
In Col. Olds' special article in yes.
terdsv's paper occurred this para
graph:
"At the railroad station l saw an
Orange county merchant and nil
man and one from Johnston. The
former said the crops in half his
county were good, and In the other
half poor, but that she mill business
was good. He WAS in high spirits.
The 9th r man, a r1Oh one, too, wal
dOleful, and sang u oheerleSs note.
He said nothing was right this year.
Bad, bad, was the mill business;
and with a heavy sign he declared
shat the hardest thing for him 10
bear was TO have to spend money he
had made in previous years. Ono
would have Thoughts him in just tbo
position to be happy, having 90 much
stored up, but no, ne wNS as SORROW.
full as the poor devil VINO IveJ from
saturday night to Saturday ulght.
THIS presents u phase vi humanity.
When .:':hWrd times" come tLere ia
not 30 much lHmeut&5ion Over them
from any GLASS as from that which iG
best able TO hear them-IFOm that
GLASS, in fact, to which they make no
practical difference Ut all. The tar
mer whose crop fails and who, hnv-
ing nothing laid up in banks, does
not know how he 10 going 20 maze
buckle and tongue meet, experiences
u natural Depression; 10 does the
merchant who secs Ills trade falling
Of and his bills falling due; SC, Of
course, do all those classes, t1ude,
mechanical, professional and other,
whose years incomes bear q close 1e-
,l&tlOn TO the years expenditures.
But theSe seem to have the faculty
Ut pulling themselves together and
brHcing. themselves tor the future.
They talk Of the hArdships of UhelF
respective lots but they do not bent
their breasts IN the public places and
rend the air wltu their lamentations.
This is left TO those who have cash
and stocks and bonds laid up-mUEs
than they know what 90 do with;
those to whom q few tens of thou.
sands of dollars more or less are Of
no practical consequence; those who,
If they never made another dollar,
could still have everything they
wAnt while they live and leave their
families r1oh when they die. Moth.
ing is right with them the year thAt
times are ''haTd." dad, bad"
they say and their chief grief is
that they must spend some of the
money theV made ia previous years;
while compared with them the p0'r.
de vii who has already ppent the
money he made in previous years.
spent it, in fact, each year rs he
made its moderately cheerful. One
Sunday the preacher at the ohurOh
which Cyrus W Field and Russell
Sage attended made q strong APPEAL
Al D0u14l O1+& DOu0 "C8UEo Va ~
church. Reaching oVeF TO Sage, who
Eat juet In front Of him, Field whis-
pered Chow much are you going 30
give?'' 81 Oan't afford 60: give . dol
lar" was the answer "'YOu r6mem-
Der that three million you paid noe
ak months ago on thO LFOSd dsSIt
Well, 1t has boen lying in bank ever
since without hGvtng drawn . GENT
OF interest" 1..E" -. Eh- y. e -.
The. mental .pFooesaaq<of the aFie-
toCraoy Of wealth Gfe inComprehensi.
BILE, and les idea Of the measure OF
gratitude which Is owes TO Almighty
God 10 stranger still. Il looks SS II -
would realise that i4 Of least owes
Him the gratitude Of dumbneNs wnen'
occasionally, for brief periods, every,
thing stops goingits way.-Ch@riO''
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