The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-07-23
FrONl N0adnOra.

corn and cotton in this section
Crops have grown very rapidly fo,
tho past three weeks. If cotton sells
for 10 or Is cents pound this fal
and the frost don't get it before il
opens, we may be in the swim yet. 4.
Mr.. Elbert Perry, OF the Georges
Creek section, has some of the finest
peaches we have seen. ~Ho has q
large, we'll kept orohard Of pears,
peaches, etc, and finds the business
very profitable.
W. A. Morris, of Greenville, and
his father, of Greers, were the guest
OF N. A: Christopher last week.
Mrs. Dutch Williams, son and two
da@gntFrs, are spending the summer
with Richard Lenhardt, Mrs. Viii.
liahs' father.
Byrd Hunt, of San Antonio, Tex,
is visiting his brother, Jas. w. Hunt,
of the Mt. Carmel section. Mr. Hunt
has been blind 81 years and has
travelled nearly all over the United
States and enjoys hmself wherever
he goes in spite Of his blindness.
The Lenhardt school opened Mon
day with w. A. christopher as prin-
cipal.
Sambo says you may hear from him
soon. He will write on divers sub
Jects, which he says the people must
have if they succeed in their different
pursuits. He says ho hasn't as much
education as some of the Bostonian
dude reporters, but he will wager two
artichokes and al onion that he has
more experience than printing office
full Of 'em. He is now. out Of the
beo business for the rest of his days,
II he lives to be as old rs Methuselah.
He's been very busy of late doctoring
his sickly looking cotton and corn.
He says there's only one kind of med.
icine that will kill grass and make
cotton grow, and that is elbow grease
but he don't much like to apply the
dose tho sun bothers him. He SAYS
this country is far different from the
garden of Eden anyhow. He wishes
he could have been in old Adams
place; he bets he'd never sinned, but
would havo stayed there and kept
that garden of paradise forever. He
says everything is contrary here for
when you try to grow cotton tho grass
will grow knee high, when you try to
grow hay the weeds grow knee high,
and whom you feed the weeds to the
COW she looks high, brings a sigh, |
kicks high anl goos dry.
l have Leen trying to persuade |
lin to 60 into the dairy business, but
le is such n pessimist when he is in
he grass that he'd swear white was
black, and vice versa, aud that every |
loud was n "sly coon," Monday was
sunday, aad so on into infnity. He
'ays COWS are all rogues and he be.
leves they all sprung from Achan.
who stole the Babylonian garment,
silver and gold from the enomy's
camp during the conquest of Canaan
~ Joshua. He says 1T will take four
nen with axes and double barrel, au-
omatic, round lock, self.loading, she'll
attracting, breech loading shot guns
o keep two, like the ono he has, in
he pasture. He says dairy COWS can
nmp q ten rail fence and not touch
!, eat up two acres of corn, or an
Gro and three.quar rters Of oats, bar.
~ or rye before you can run them
ut with the best cur in the country,
nd can kick the shortening out of a
iscuit before you soy scat and eat a
eek of bran OF cotton seed meal and
ulls before you milk one teat dry;
eller for the calf till it would run a
ead man crazy and make the sky
a%y' II smart man lazy, sober man
'oozy' till ho would call his wife Susy.
'ont'you get me-a.little supper sweet.
1llk and-sodn- etc. I saw l. woa M
SO to argue with him, but T suaoes.
ed he raise beef cattle and fie"red
out for him and told him he coulI
lake $5, hide aud tallow clear profit
says he,.. hides! no money
hides since they've gone to skin II
ing negroes in the North" "Cow
athor won't be worth as much as
raw md shucks, for them Northern
egro lovers will all have belt, cap
'd boots mndo out of nigger hides" {
Well | loft Sambo just then and he :
hlstlod for Sancho, wcnded his way !
yer the hill humming "Au'd Lang !
yhe' as he went and in littlo while IsP
Appeared with his mule.cyclone on q
little knoll and began to lay rocks J
round his cotton. He whistled
.lSss (bnt meyer Yankee Doodle and
IS old yaller dog yelped lazily around
ter cotton tail. Tho horn blew, y
yciolne brayed, backed his ears and !,
arted for tue honse will, Snmbo. 7
ow stock and oil. It was a circus J
ID s.i1an cnss:a.muie, but i had b :
feed the pigs and didn't soc the : :
lal so round, 3lfs !,