The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-10-25
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Items ofInterest From 11is Hus.
Ting Little. city.

At61nS or interest From This HuS.
ting Little. CITY.
have just returned from Grseu-
land. Times are not as dull in that
country as they are here. The mer-
chants out there don't do like they do
here. They just take mortgage on
a one1eyed mule worth about ten dol
lars, and then advance about two
hundred dollars worth of guano and
three hundred dollars worth Of meat,
flour and dry goods, aud lot the man
who owns the land get his rent first,
and then it gives the owner of the
aforesaid mule good chance to go to
all the picnics and shows and get
drunk on Saturday night and holler
and curse and keep folks awake that
is compelled to be out late at night.
Those Greenlapd folks have the ad.
vantage of us in many ways they will
let man, have lien for four hund-
red dollars, while the man mule end
buggy aint worth cuss, and thereby
cause some one who is able and will
ing to pay them for their work to
loose their crop. just because they
could give lein and not have to
work only when they pleased to do 50,
and then it is SO nice to furnish these
so called farmers guano and get their
pay in dead grass, better know as hay !,
and then it gives the clerks chance
to get fresh air and drink new wine
while they nre out hunting the scat.
scrlng cotton ard milcl cows and
then it gives everybody y good chance
10 lcil lis ttn.h aDous selliinE .,oolls
at cost. Melody ia Greeuiapd ayert
sells goods above cost; thoy always tolH
,ne .rath and Sell tnoil goods ..s jus.
what it costs them to get them in the
house, and some Of them will even 60
80 far as to give poor old negro who
doesn't know the figures on the scales
10 ounces Of meat for lb and then
tel the poor old fellow he is loosing
money; and then if man out here
tries to build up an honest business
some old cuss will write back to the
U. s. and toll the Wholesale men not
to credit that fellow. he is going to
bust any how; he is too young and
hasn't had experience enough in bust
ness; and then they do mighty funny
about this matter. The wholesale man
always sends the .etter that this old
cuss writes back to the young unex-
perienced merchant and puts him on
his guard SO to speak.
Greenland is favored spot, Why
the preachers out there don't have to
10 like our preachers do. If church
member gets drunk out there they
just let him stay in the church. A man
out there can curse, lie, get drunk,
stab bis neighbor in the back, send
his brother church members ten year
old son to the Depot after q Jug of
whiskey in the night, sit on the front
bench in the church and cry. pray in
public, 60 home drunk rs a fool at
night and talk about every body but
his own folks. say man can do all
this in Greenland and if he only lives
in white house with green blinds he
is called leading citizen out there.
They don't make the preachers
talk plain like our preachers do. They
know if they do this thing the people
won't pay their assessments.
Then the good women don't have
to do like they DO here visit Tic sick
EAnd dposy GET thappy once q year. Trey
dont have to - TO sec any body out
there aitlY tlcir own kin folks l'hcy
don't havo to sing 'l'll do what yon
want no 10 30 Lcar lor0," 'and then
never do 1T. only at big meeting times.
tell you that is an easy country to
live in if you haven't got any con
science. If you have got ono and try
to live like those people you won't
sleep good at night Paul says "what.
soeyor things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever tLings
ore pure, whatsoever things are Of
good report il there be any virtue and
if there be any praise think on these
things"
| guess if nothing happens we will
all 20 to the circus just to see the ami.
mails. Nobody in Greenland ever gees
to a circus only to see the animals.
They are all too faithful to their obli.
cations out there.
Mr.. Jack Herring will leave this
week for Battle Creek Michigan, to
spend awhile for treatment in the cele.
brated Hospital at that place.
This is fine weather we are having
now. It looks like Sunday everyday.
The cotton is all nearly gathered,
trade is no good and everything is
low in the gourd. I guess everybody
will manage to pull through some
way or other, but some of us will
have TO 60 through a mighty small
hole in the wall if we ever get through
at all. | will let you have some of
my experience when I get on the
other side Of the wall, if I ever do;
but right now the wall looks high.
the holes are scarce and mighty badly
scattered and very small ones ut that.
Oct % 1901. j. +. McG.
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