The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-15

if a crop was clean III y u'ic '-'e
was over. May was favoraole haoi''ii
save that it was cold, but Is IS not enough
now to make up for it all and the niue
cotton leans toward the sun and follows
it around through the day. Inc only
complaint to De heard is that crops are
small. The oat crop was good and wheat
also. an unusual thing. Nearly all the
farmers Will make enough wheat TO 90
them and it makes us feel good to LOOK
AT the shocks IN the fields and near tho
tbreshers humming and the men hustlng.
A home where enough Of everything TO
| live upon is raised has an air or cheer-
fu.ness that is never found among those
who go to the west for their supply %
| meat and bread
1t does me good TO watch the young
people All of them are living III happy
anticipa ton of the good times just aheau'
and Brown says that there is fully as
much pleasure in pursuit as III posses
sion. one more month and the work Will
be about over and the big meetings ana
picnics will begin. Then the hours VIII
be brought forth from where they Were
hid away to await this very season,
chickens were long ago set aside to feed
the company and the preachers. Inc
young men are sleeking up their horses
| and the girls are getting ready their
| pretty ribbons and sashes and such q
time as they will have has never been
felt by those who ride the cycles and aM-
tomobiles. Street car rides and automo-
bile excursions may get over ground
fully UP to horses. but none of these
riders can look as fresh and sweet as
the girls of the country who congregate
/ in the shade Of the trees around the Old
/ churchs during the times just now ahead.
While the young folks are having their
good times old people will not fail In
receiving their full share Of these rural
blessings. The old man of the country
is in his glory at the big meetings and
the wrinkles clear from face as he hears
the rain patter against the old churches
and he lives in the consciousness of
having done his work well and that
now the rain would give the Increase.
The old people Of the towns can never
hope for such feelings as comes to the
cCuntryman under these circumstances.
In fact. the old man OF the town Is a
back number. There are mighty few
places for the old man of town to fill
The railroads do not want him, nor
the street cars, nor the police, nor the
stores, nor the trades-all the town po-
I sitions are filed by young men al least.
young men are preferred. II is the ten
dency of the times to do without the
| services of the old man in matters of
the towns. and to such an extent has
this become apparent till It may well
be asked what Is to become of the old
/ folks Of the towns? There are many
/ things to be seen in the city that makes
this question pertinent. and it involves
I the old woman as well as the old man.
An the world is ready to give out work
and sympathy to those who are strong
and who might be able to make them
selves felt in the affairs or the schemes
4 Of the day, but there IS precious little
/ for the feeble to do but to wait for
/ the summons "over the river" and to 20
without much regret at the going. II
may be sad for Old folks to contemplate
such conditions as | have mentioned, but
they had wen understand it and put
the blame to the towns.
Brown and 1 passed q poor woman on
the road that we used to know and va
know that she deserves TO prosper .
reward Of her faithful and patient life.
She was loaded down with garments that
she had Just finished for some firm that
( gives out sewing and we could see that
she staggered under the load and heat.
Mighty hot" said I, as we drove up by
I her side, Yes" said she. as she shifted
her load from one hip to the other,
mighty hot, mighty hot"
We remembered this woman as one We
used to know She is the widow Of AZ
good a soldier as passed through the
war, and she tod US of many things 10
connection with her sort Of work that ne
/ had never dreamed. First, these sewing
women must go to the place Of business
and from there lug home the work Tina
load must be large, when We think that
4 r,a ,r1l,- r,,sff.a l.
/ performed and live such a distance out
as precudes their visiting the place as
often as to make their loads light When
/ they have made the garments. then they
must lug them back to the place Of bust
ness. Then comes an inspection Of their
work. They hardly get enough to pay
| them for this Juggling of the goods, but
there would be no complaint from this
Some of the employers of these women
are harder upon them than the heat or
worry or the Juggling. The inspectors
are the dread. If the stitches are a little
long when the inspector views the
work, then the woman is "docked." If
the buttons are not sewed just as these
inspectors think they should be, then
there is some more docking" Often. We
are told these inspectors" catch q gar
ment and rip it from eud to end VITA
So it goes: with the small price paid
for the work. and then these bookings"
these poor women are nearly starved. and
this is the price of living in the city
Night and day these women of the towns
have to work. There is no eight hours
nor ten hours, nor from sun 10 sun.
1t is work all the time that they possibly
can. While the sun shines they work and
when the sun goes down they must light
their lamps and keep on with the work
And they must be thankful that they
may work. If they were to complain. the
man of business would cut them OFF his
pay roll. At last the poor house" is all
that these women may expect eventually
No such poverty or hardships and no
such absense of hope can exist in coun-
try life.
We must all begin now to look forward
to a glorious Fourth Of July 1t used to
be a great occasion, and it should be
again. John Dorm has presented me and
Brown with a fine pig apiece, and we will
have them in fine fix by the Fourth Any
countryman can have a shoat for the
day if he will. and chickens and fruit. and
work being almost over in the crops. all
can enjoy the occasion with such a free
dom from anxiety as can never be felt
save upon the farm
SARGE Pill NKETT