Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-03-24
Iv Morgan Writes In
teresting Letter.

Dear Old Advertiser gness
Pindar wv. J. Rochelle of Texas)
hasabout come to the conclusion
that my fingers are a long time get
ting. limher. Well, really have at
laat found out that not only my fin
gersa are not so nimble as ther used
to be but that / am in almost every
sense not as l used to be. But while
on5a visit a few days ago | chanced
to see the following lines hanging
npoyer the mantel and they put m"
to thinking about old friends. The
chain of friendship, stretching far,
links da,s 8 that were with days that
are And as / read those lines my
mind went back to the days that
were, and brought to my mind the
facNthat very few of those friends
insihe days that were are living and
thatthose who are, are like myself,
getting old and their steps are like
my own not 50 elastic and my mind
goesio the 18th chapter of Ecclesias-
tes from the first to the 9Th verse.
Yessoon the friends of the days
that were are very near to the con-
tents of the 7th verse.
Vet love to think of those days
andpf those friends but as the days
go and | come face to face with
facts that we know are facts, | am
made 10 believe that the friends Of
to-day are not as true as in the days
thaIswpre. There is not that unset
fshness in the days that are as in
the days that were, and l often won
derwhy it is so. But we don't have
to look far or long to reason why it
is so. We are living in day Of
inoliey getting, in a day of get mon
ey. Yes, get money any way just SO
we are getting. Am l wrong? 1 wish
thatl could believe that | was, but
I may be wrong, if so | am looking
through the wrong eyeglasses and
had better take them off.
Iil the days that were human life
was mot so cheap and when human
life was taken as a general thing
the one who took it was made to
giiye;pp his own. Not 80 in the days
ttls ire. OH no, kill and go to the
5a5s sshfiary II you haven't got the
money, but if you have the money
then what. ! leave it unsaid and yet
again there is not that high regard
for truth and law in the days that
are as 1.-The days that were. No, Jones
oath is not go sacred, there is not
that noble manhood in the days that
are. Now who is to blame? Must l
say it, dare say ii? Yes do dare to
say it. In many instances neigh
borhood is to blame for the lawless-
ness in it because they wink at it
and do not raise their voices against
it much less make an example of
some of the lawless ones. What do
I mean? just whiskey is sold,a man
gets drunk, beats his wife and be-
cause her brother asked him not t.
repeat it he is killed. When if the
sale of whiskey had been stopped
possibly there would have been
none of it. Yes, all in a neighbtr-
hood ara ofLilnes to blame for an
awful affair.
Another thing one commits a
crime and another person tries by
false means to help him out of it by
changing something or doing some.
thing to clear the guilty party. Is he
not All accessory after the fact. If 30
why should he go unpunlshed.
Who's business is it to see that he
too gets his share of the punish
ment meted out to the guilty party.
But say you old man you must re-
member that you are living 10 the
days that are. That is 80, but the
days that were, were better days or
| believe they were, and would well
come them again.
Bnt you say, enough Of such. we
want TO hear something else. Uery
we'll. Winter is still in full blast
down here yet, but some are plant
ing corn and most Of the farmers
have their lands broken for the
crops, but very few have bauled any
fertilizers yet and from what | can
hear very few are going to use any
thing like the quantity as last year
and most of that low grade. Some
say they are not going to use any
at all and | hear on every side that
the acreage in cotton will be moth
ing like as large as last year, and
with low grade fertilizer don't
see how anything like as large crop
as last year can be made. There is
good deal of wheat and oats sown
and it looks we'll but the cold win
ter has made it keep close TO the
Ground. but il will look ND as soon