The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-20

There has been an oEei "
rain and it disturbed the threshing OF
wheat some little. but no farmer IN TINS
noel, If tho woods has any good right to
complain The wheat yield mas not oeel
the very best. but the fall OH IN "hea.
has been more than made up by the sooo
oat CROP. and so the most chronic Srum-
bier finds very little to base mis- com
plants upon in this year or our Loro'
1903. .
The truth is that the grain harvest
Just now being wound up seeiiiS ~ .t
more Of the good old times IN II thah
anv we have had since the war. Even the
pir1s went out into the harvest neids
This wear and brought water and cheereo
4ha bovs. and hunted for partridge eggs
lust as they used to do when plrdS were
everywhere and we had no thought VI
their destruction. That these Dlros are
being protected now more than TOT l"eh-
tx wears back may be guessed from the
fact that one pretty girl that kho"
found a nest this year with forty-seVeH
eggs in it and she refused to dsturp tieni
herself or allow any one else to do 30
This struck me being so pretty III
the girl that l stood and looked at her
as Young fellow held her hand and
picked "treadsalve" out or her hngef
and wished that l was young again that
T might court and get closer to her than
7 can ever hope to get as old as l am
il is bad to grow Old, especially for some
reasons.
Perhaps these girls going out in the
harvest fields did about as much to Delay
work as it did to inspire the workers, but
It goes to spice the occasion with
sweetness that must be felt to be under
stood, and l will remark by way OF paren-
theses, that a man as old as me has no
hope Of ever feeling that way again, but
as old as l am l can remember how II
used to be and / rejoice to see the same
sweet things going on again.
The signs are all good in this neck Of
the woods to the effect that boys and
girls are soon to understand that a life
on the farm IS not the pleasureless thing
that they had come we'll nigh believing
1t was OF course a few fools will still
think and insist that all the opportunities
lie in the towns and responsibility and
prestige lies in the professions. We VIII
lust let these fools go on to town and
let them join in the ranks of the profess
sions till 1t won't be long till to be a
countryman will mean that one has sense
and manhood and prosperity. The towns
as a town don't care, but the professions
had better mind how they lower their
fools The day is not far distant, and !
predict with confidence. when those seek
ing for intellectually will go TO the men
of the hoe and to the women of the
country homes This Is coming, and 1t
will be quicker than you imagine, when
to be a farmer will mean sense, prosperity
aud that will sound the highest title of a
gentleman. And the women of the coun-
try homes will be the ladies" Of this fair
land
But, to return to the harvest and the
work of the threshers Even now
can hear the zoon of one of these ma
chimes over at Browns, and the whistle
of their little engine squeals as If striv
ing to thrill the whole settlement. l
don't like these little old squealing en-
gines. They strike me as something ir-
reverent to Gods great plans. When
they are footing around on the hot and
barren hills they are inviting custom
from the cool and inviting water mills
that sit in such delightful hooks along
the streams. But there is no use for
to object and there is no denying the
fact that one of these little old engines
with a barrel OF water and cord OF
wood will thresh more wheat, grind more
corn, furnish more power and kick up
more fuss than the prettiest mill tina,
stands upon the best mill site in Geor-
gla. The one at Browns today squeals
and fumes and surges to make more
noise than Niagara ever dreamed Of
Things all work in Gods own way. /
reckon. If you had told a farmer fifty
years ago that a wheat crop could be
gathered, threshed and carried to mill
without the use of oxen. he would have
thought you crazy. An OK was a big
thing in old-time harvests They got
the wheat out Of the field and away to
some gin house or mill to be threshed
put now these little old engines roll into
the fields and do the work with such
hustle and self-importance till an old
time Georgia OK is too sorry to even
be eat by the poorest folks Of town
they want western beef now and So the
Georgia OK is a thing of the past. Tho
mule and the horse will go the same way.
before very long. but am still boxer
ana a boxer I'll remain.
All mis- Is wonderful to an old man but
II mas come so easy that young folks con-
slider 1t nothing-our old-time ways are a
'ohe TO them. While the most of old peo-
pie are silent on these old-tfma tbines IN
rear or being laughed at, vet YOU may he
sure that they remember il all and that
1t IS very sweet memory. too. and IN
-heir hearts they doubt if the world has
grown any better by the passing Of the
oId ana the coming of the new
can remember when people only had
BISCUIT once or twice a week If children
n those days got biscuit on Sunday morn
he ior breakfast they were satisfied and
lellghted. Now they get biscuit three
lines day Or they will know why they
ION ana move on to find a more pros
ferrous place or abode. So ways the world
nave watched and considered ,Intil nv
lead gets dizzy on these things. to at
asst conclude that it is not what We
iSed to be nor what we are going to be.
'ut what we are right now that counts
As all the signs are good and a spirit of
dlshed contentment is taking possession
II the country homes and country life
rest myself content that all things will
york out for the best
The coming of these threshes as thew
10 come Is matter spiced with a va
lety Oh sensations. You learn that it is
coming, but you don't know exactly
vhen 1T Will come. l. might come ff-
cen minutes before dinner. breakfast or
upper or at midnight. We profit bv the
uncertainty of their coming and have
a little extra from the time
ne squealing engine gets in hearing
hree days ago we thought they would
'e at our house for breakfast. and so
We mad threshers' breakfast Then we
we're certain they would be on hand at
INNER and so we got a threshers' din
lex. we would have sWore-n fact wa