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A WOMAN’S VIEW OF THE
SITUATION,
“THE LAST ear OF CORN.”
1 read what my ole man had writ in
the paper at At lan ty,
Erbout oar troubles, losq and debts,
and ‘Christinas without Santy.’
I red it ter the chilluns and they
wuz sich mightv proud
Ter see poetry dad writ; but
Jimmie up and lowed:
“Hit’s mighty pretty, that’s a fac’,
but Law, what would folks say,
Ef ma would write the truth on pap,
and tell hit yore own way !
Altho’ you’re not what they call an
eduicatad lady.
The Constitution ’ll give you room,
jes’ trus’ ter Mr. Grady.’'
An’ then that boy fetch peu and ink
an' hunted up iny specks
“Come, ma.’ he. sez, “now do it:
speak for the female sects.”
“But, Laws!” I sez, “why Jimmie,”
1 ups and sez I then,
“Why jes’ fer think uryore ole ma
er saesin uv the men!
Tho’ I have had ihy ‘pinions^ I’ve
For forty kept them mighty still
b’iieve year or ino-e, hut now, I I
raly I will—
I’ll grab that pen yer daddy used,
fer wunst 1’il make her talk,
But, Jimmie, ef he tins hit out, yore
have ter walk!”
So, Mr, Grady, this is how I’m
writin’ you this letter,
Ter tell t he truth about our craps,
my ole man k no wed no better
Than ter lay our loss on drouths an’
floods, when he was sich a shirk;
When craps were ruined long afore,
lie sed jes, fer the lack er work !
our cotton “shed hit’s fruit,”
and hit was “powerful short,”
Bdl Law! sura naybors jiuiu' us had
They quite ernuther sort..
lef never sot up in er porch, and
hit fer er nigger
Ter make er crap, an’ then cussed
round bekase kit wuzzent bigger,
Erbout that “drouth” the truth is;
ttffe drouth hit don’t
When a good nea t mule, an’ man he
ui* keeps stirnn’ up the dirt.
But when er man gives up the fight,
au' sets down in the shade,
I tell you, sir. hit are a fack, no hon
est iiveu’s made!
The flood hit cum, I’ll not deny, that
we had trouble, which jes 5
Oum frum this.t hein low lands drown
ed whar he’d not cleaned er ditch;
An’ flopped then he down plum gin up, bed. he did, an’
on ther
“Hit’s the lawd’s will,” do you be
lieve, was what the crit ter said.
But when I red what lie has writ
erbout our plow mule’s deth,
I tailed and c: ied together till I like
ter los’ my broth :
Why, sir, he kilt that po’ ole beast,
he broke her clean plum down,
Eir ’tendin’ ’Jiance meoiin’s,er riding
‘herter town!
Er skeleton she were, with a so’ upon
her back,
An’ she died uv thirst aud hunger,
hitched to er town boss rack.
Er nuther pint he’s touched upon,
our killin’ Jimmie’s steer,
But raiy, now, that poor # old ox, he
didn’t so much keer.
He had no pleasure in this life, it
had bin monny a day,
Sense he had er good squar’ meal, er
jest er bite er hay, truthj
Altho’ last summer, *tis the
in our bermuda fiel’.
Three tons ter every acre would er
bin erbout the yield.
But law! he never cut it; you see
that warn’t his way,
That grass grew rank and pretty,
but hit rotted whar hit lay,
An’ when ’twas ripe and reddy,
what did my|ole man do?
He rid off in er buggy ter ’tend er
bobby-cue!
Now do you think hit’s strange, sir,
we’re nongryaud forlorn,
An’ the bailiff’s cum and tuck er
way the last ear of corn?
He says -‘we have no bred to eat,”
but some one tell me why
My ole man raised no wheat nor oats
No no taters barley, peas or rye, shotes
within the and no i sorghum, no
He pen?
jea’ wnz plagued lazy, sir, like
He plenty luved yuther men.
his ease and pleasure, and
He •orne had days nr the fishia’ week in that
to go er down
Char creek.
He luved ter^kotch the' rabbits, the
foxes an’ the *
coon;
“OUR AMBITION IS TO MAKE A VERACIOUS WORK, RELIABLE IN I -STATEMENTS, CANDID IN ITS CONCLUSIONS, AND JtJST IN ITS VIEWS, -
He lured ter rock in rockin’ cheers,
an’ go to sleep at noon.
My husband quotes the Bible erbout
the ‘sparrer’s fall,”
But bnn that quotes the Scriptures
had better quote it all.
Aanuther tex’ that’s plainly writ,
» Hit cams to me just now,
Er man must earn his livin’ by the
sweat uv his own brow!’’
That tex' don’t say er man can strut
ter round ’noeth an umbreller,
An’ have his sweatin’ fer him done
An’ by git some other feller,
his cloze and vittles from er
man that works in town.
An' pay him back in cussin’ when
lie sends hi* bal around,
Now, who must hear our loses, my
husban’ or this man,
Who’s fed and clothed us all the
year, since fusi the year began?
I , ve studied on this subject, I’ve
think er long time sbo’,
An’ I’ve persued the merchant when
I’ve traded in his store.
And I will tell ther truth ef they
The hang farmer me to er limb,
hns er easy time, now
jes’ compared with him.
He takes no rest from weary toil, fer
him no holiday,
And ef at last he gets Ins dues, the
laborer’s wuth his pay,
Altho’ he sent the bailiff that luck
We’d away our corn,
eaten more than that ot his as
sure which as you are born;
1 raiy- blush we never for paid a cent; and
shame
hear our people *bu6in men that
hazzent been ter blame.
A merchant holds a mortgage now,
he hoi’s it in his ban’,
On this roof erbove my chillen’a
beds, and on our little lan’,
Yet he never has foreclosed it, but
has struggled year by year,
To ( pay iiis own creditnes’s and nevei
aturbed us here.
Lord knows that I am'grateful, an’
I want our folks to know,
Ef it hadden been for him they cuss,
I’d perished long ago.
He’s vakenl .lcito net got, an d
never made er moan,
An’when at last they’ve laid h im
low, Fit put ou his headstone
Er message fer the farmers ef enny
one attends;
•‘This honest merchant’s heart was
broke from trusting of his friends”
An’ now I'll say m ending, I know
how wimmen feel.
Ef we wuz men, an’ had their chance
we wouldnt starve nor steal,
Nor beg, nor whine, nor make sich
fuss; Lord knows for one I’d try
Ter make my bread by honest toil—
I’o do it or I’d die.
The folks that work with all their
might from dawn till set of day,
On Georgia soil, has got enough ter
eat and give ei-way,
Tbo sum has got no corn bekase,
They though they have delved and dug,
never put no corn in sacks,
they kep' hit in er jug!
Perhaps I’d better say no more, my
meauin’ you can guess,
And so I’ll stop right here, hit
maybe is the bes’, husband's
But jes" one word—my
writ uv leaving this yere worl’,
An’ settin’ round them golden streets
ergin them gates er pearl.
But law! he is so lazy, ef the angels
don’t look sharp,
He’ll take er long or nigger fer to
And help him play his harp! I
now as ter any uv my name,
druther you’d keep shady,
Aq’ don’t you toll my ole man, for
the Lawd’s sake, Mr. Grady.
—Atlanta Constitution.
There are forty two states now
the Union.
We have heard of a man’s run
ning so fast that it took his shadow
ten minutes to catch up with him,
we heard a man say the other
day that Ben Cause and Dawson
Smith were so slow that their
moved off from them every
time they got in the sunshine and
they have to take a shady path to
to catch it, or they would be entirely
a shadow. Several of our
ladies are of tbs same opinion
these young men, as they have
failed so far to join the army of bene
Say, young men, get a move
on you and put a stop to these re
marks.—Milledgeviile Chronicle,
GRAY, GEORGIA, MARCH 9, 1889.
The largest peach orchard in Cal
forniais near Marysville, it cos
tains 4256 acres.
In the great museum at Londo
a small watch, one hundred yeaj
old or more, in tho shape of 4
apple. The golden outside i
adorned with grains of pearl- ;
lion. Ben Terrell, a prominei
Allianceman. of the Lone Star Statj
is in tiie State of Georgia and v.i
remain until July next, durin
which time he will address the fai
mers throughout the State in tl;
interest of their oocupation.
After a hard rain at Ihe site q
old Andersonville prison it is easi
to collect trinkets worn by Unioj
soldiers who were confined in th
prison. A dozen brass buttons and
belt clasp with the letters U. S. on i
were picked up there the other day
A woman in PittsBeld, II!., fora,
number of years has been lookin'
under the bed every night belore rj
The tiring, to see if a man was ther.
other night I ho man was then
He was a big, ugly tramp, and th
woman had the satisfaction ot put
ting to route those people who wei-<
This disposed ought to make be light of her habit
to other to who very encouraging
women have the same
habit.
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The yearly subscription of the
GEORGIA FARMER is 50 cents.
To any one getting us a club of ten
at 35 cents each we will send the
Farmer free six months, and for a
club of twenty will send the Farmer
ree one year. Address,
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A PIANO TO BE GIVEN AWAY
THE GEORGIA MUSIC HOUSE
Macon, Ga., with its characteristic
progressive spirit, will this year
give some lover o 1 music a hand
some Upright Piano. This is a big
stroke of enterprise, and those who
would like to have an elegaut piano,
free, should write at once and learn
particulars. It will cost you but a
postage stamp.
QUICK TRIP TIME.
Send brother, send with care.
Three nickels to VickofRochestare,
And in quick’trip time you’ll get
from there
A book full of seeds and plants so
rare,
Seud, brother, send with care
For The Floral Guide from
Rochestare, (N.Y.)
Vick’s Floral Guide contains a
certificate good for 15 cents worth
of seeds.
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of the route via Savannah, by which
they will avoid dust and a tedious
all-rail ride. Rates include meals
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For further information apply to
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To it once iiubllih
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person in each locality,(be very
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We wilt alee tend Wren a complete
line of oar eoctly and valuable art
•ampler In return we nek that yon
show what we eend. to those who
may call at your home, and after t
imonlbs all shall become your own
r,property. This ilugrr grand marhiue it
made after tbo patents,
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Excelsior and^Capitola Cook
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Rodgers Worsham & Co.
420 and 422 Third St., Macon, Ga
We offer our services to the farmers of Jones and Jasj e
Counties for the season 1888 and 1889.
We have now in stock pure TEXASIRUST PROOF OATS
GEORGIA RUST PROOF OATS, RYE and BARLEY.
WttALfY» avb* i LARGE STOCK OF
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FLOUR, GRAIN, BACON, TOBACCO’S
etc., at the LOWEST PRICES.
We have made the best trades of our liyes in
fertilizers
and we assure planters that their interest will be served by
calling on us before buying elsewhere.
For next season we are GENERAL AGENTS in Middle Geor
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‘ PLOWBOY’S BRAND” a complete fertilizer.
"SOLUBLE BONE DUST” the best acid sold.
xMACON OIL and FERTILIZER CO., cotton seed meal.
W® have also; imported a very large lot of genuine
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Estimates made to Alliance Clubs. All farmers are cordially invited
to call or write us for prices etc.
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