The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1913-07-03
Hon. Fred Williams Last Letters

-L.H N. l
The following article is pub
lished this week by request of
the family of Mr.. Williams:
NEWS ITEM From THE EAsLEY
MILL"
Mr.. w. A. Harris, who lives
at the Easley Mill, has gone in.
to the chicken business for
pleasure and profit. He set one
hen on thirteen White Wyan-
dotte eggs he got from a farmer.
The old speckled hen set four
weeks and Matched ten fine
ducks. He also has a black
hen sitting on three door knobs
and two base balls. Some
smarty may think this is a
creation of Andy Burgess ina
gination but is the truth. If
Harris"
Mr.. Editor: We clip the
above from your issue of the
18th inst. There are always
two sides to all questions. and
before a person states things as
the truth" he should get in
possession Of all the facts con-
nected with both sides of the
subject. lest he does some per
sons an injustice. An injustice
done in mirth wounds just as
deep and it's effects are as last !
ing as one made with the most :
solemn gravity. y
"A farmer" does not know Z
what material was given the a
writer of the above clipping or Il
from whence he got it. Let "a L,
farmer" state some of the q
truth" for he shall not go into %
detail, on the other side: A few I'd
weeks ago "a farmer and his OF
wife went to the city of Easley, pc
carrying, among other things, "
ten dozen eggs. Some Of these SD
eggs we bought and some were Ia
from vi own poultry yard. IN Sd
the lot of eggs there we're chick ye
N eggs, duck and guiena eggs, ia
arge eggs and small eggs. AS m!
0 color, there was every shade Coi
layed by those fowls. ~
The eggs We're left in a store in lCe
he city, and "a farmer went WI
bout the city attending to his Pc
'arious businesses and thought Ii
or heard no more Of those eggs, SO,
ntil the above clipping appear sa
Then "a farmer's'' wife lte
him that several per ~
)ns came into the store and or
eggs, one person, a show on
IAN she thinks, came the sec re
nd time to get more Of those W
large white eggs" At that Ill
oint few remarks were made
bout the eggs, "a farmers" tc
wife stating that some of those b
gigs were laid by White Wyan- n
ottes." She states that moth b
ng whatever was said to her e
bout q setting of eggs. Ger ',
no ono paid "a farmer" +
or any eggs that day except t
the owner of that store. If Mr.. t
Harris got any of those eggs. t
which l am Informed he did, he {
bought them from a merchant
and not from "a farmer" Here
we will leave the ten dozen
eggs, and take up another lot.
A few DAYS after the above in
cident (eggcident) "a farmer"
went to the city again, this
time with three and a half doz-
ell eggs. AS to origin. size, and
color about as varied as the ten
dozen lot. When some distance
on the way "a farmer met his
son, neither of them stopped,
but his son said to him, IF you
take those eggs to a certain
store, (naming store,) you will
get twenty-five cents for (one)
"a understood by a farmer
dozen" The eggs were taken
to the particular store. learning
that Mr.. Harris wanted one doz-
en- only. "A farmer" sat on
the counter on the other side of
the store room, nothing what
ever passing between him and
the merchant or anyone else in
regard to eggs of any kind or
LOT eggs Tor any purpose. A
farmer did not see the eggs
that he took out. The merch-
ant paid for all Of them, allow
ing twenty-five cents for one
dozen. Why did not Mr.. Har-
ris send a note to "a farmer's"
wife stating what he wanted
instead Of the vague message
delivered to a farmer" or why
did he not inform "a farmer
of his wishes in the store at the
time he took the eggs? Exit
the three and a half dozen eggs?
The statement in the item
that "a farmer" sold Mr.. w. A.
Harris White Wyandotte eggs
for any purpose falls and is