The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-03

the land and there'll be dumplings fo,
the chicken and crust for the berry
pies without running to town for the
-four.
No man in our neck Of the woods
ha5 any s;ssAA.. &c complain. This :s
one time that a good wheat crop does
not mean sorry oat crop-this sell
dom happens, and so the most chronic
grumbler finds it hard to find any OBJ
lection with the seasons Of 1901 up to
the present writing. The truth is
that the present harvest has seemed
to have more Of the good old times in
it than anything we have noticed for
years. Even the girls hunted for par
fridge eggs along with the reapers and
some Of them got their aprons full.
One pretty girl that we know found
eighty.seven eggs in one nest and this
was something like old times. Of
course all the girls did not find eggs,
but these joined in lamenting over the
passing Of the birds from what they
used to be and secured the promise
that hereafter they would give no en-
couragement to the destruction Of
birds, either FOR plumes or otherwise.
And those failing to find a.patridge
nest was most sure to side up to one
Of the reapers now and then with an
apron full Of nice large dewberries,
and before she returned to her hunt
after nests you could see tee young
man with her hand in his trying to
pick briar or treadsalve from one Of
her fingers. Perhaps this sort of thing
delayed the work Of harvesting just a
little, but it went TO spice the occasion
with sweetness that must be felt to
be understood. AS old as i am, ] can
look back and say that there are pre-
cious few sweeter things than to hold
pretty girls hand and pick out q
briar from her finger. The signs are
all good in this neck of the woods for
girls and boys to soon understand that
life on the farm is not the hard and
pleasureless thing that they heard it
was. Of course few fools will still
insist that opportunity" lies in the
towns and respectability in the profess
ions, but these,fools will go and low
er the intellectual standaTd Of the
professions and raise the intellectuali-
ty oe country folks by their absence
till the world will look for the man
with the hoe and the girl Of the coun-
try home, when tits out in search Of
brain and Drawn Of the highest and
most precious quality. This is COM
ing to be, and it will be quicker than
youimsgine, when to be farmer is che
highest title Of . gentleman, and the
women Of these country homes will be
the "ladieo Of the land.
But the thrasher--even now ] hear
the zoon Of one Of Browns and the
whistle ef the little engines are sound
ing far and near. I don't like these
little old engines. It strikes me as
something irreverent 70 q DDS great
plans to have one Of these little old
engines tooting around on the hot and
barren hills drawing custom from the
cool and inviting water mills that sit
in such delightful hooks along the
streams. So it is-give one Of these
engineers a barrel Of water and cord
Of wood and he will grind more corn
and furnish more power than the
prestiess mill sites in.Georgia, aud the
smallest among them can make more
fuss than the falls Of Niagara and not
half try atsthat, srS, So 3s
Things all work in Gods own way.
| reckon. Gf you had told % farmer
fifty years ago that q wheat crop could
have been thrashed and carried to
mill without the use Of oxen he would
have thought you crazy. An OK was
Dig thing In the oiden harvest times.
A yoke Of oxen was absolutely indis-
pensahle in. getting the wheat out of
the field and away to some ginhouse
where the thrashers we're then located.
Bless you, o common old Georgia OK
is only fit for the poorest people Of
the towns to eat now. 1 venture that
there hasn't beena piece Of Georgia
raised beef eaten on Peachtree street
IN Atlanta in twenty years. Rich
iolks turn up their nos.s st a Georgia
OK in this DAY, aid there is no use for
him in other ways, and SO be is q
thing OF the past, justas the mule and
the horse are doomed to be. This is
wonderful for an old man to contem-
plate, but it comes easy with the
young. The change has been made
seemingly 80 easy that cur old.time
Ways seem bns q Joke to the youthfa::.
a few OF the younger SET hays aypet: