The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 13, 1912, Part Three, Image 17
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1 HII>AY, l?K< imiii i; la, luia.
NUMISKU
fHAT A NORTHERN FARMER
HAS DONE IN THE SOUTH
jgry of Pluck, Perseverance and
iuttry That is Now Resulting
is Well Earned Success.
|r J !'? Hopkins of Colerain, wh
l^nouat rated In a most practl
way how the northern man can
pt ulDiH<ilf to southern conditions
a Huccetm on the la mi,
jji the city a day or two ago.
i tho "Come South" edition of
progressive Farmer published
Kaleigh, N. und which spoc
^dit ions wore sent to uome (>0j
faroiliet* in the north and west
e appeared a most Interesting
Mint of Mr. Hopkin's oxporience
jie development of his farm the
I 0f which cost him only |3.60
acre, hut by improving it it is
valued at 1 100 an acre, und he
just begun ;to make it valuable
get the results of rotation of
* and benefits of having the
s ail fenced.
bo article referred to is repro
M below : ? , I
The North has developed, the
it bad its day, the South haw a
ire for every home-seeker who
cotne, und 1 caro not how poor
may ho, If you are willing to
B, if ou are honest and want a
Re of your own, I say from expe
?ee that here in the South today
?filling, welcoming and helpful
Ik, land is cheap, but prices are
pacing, great manufacturing en
Wm are going dp, old log
W houses are replaced by up
Bate buildings with modern equip
It I am pr<?ud to say that the
?1 1 has made greater strides in
?ational advancement ' than In
? one thing. No man North or
Bt need hesitate on coming South
?fear his children will not be
Bated. The climate is delight*
I' The soil responds wonderfully
to intelligent treatment I Uav<
seen depleted barren Southern soil*
change hand* and in three to five
year* of good farming yiold a hun
dred fold
"WhiJo 1 buy Jo my Nortlnm
friends, com? South, while (ho ad
vantages here in the South . are
greater thun elsewhere for tho
home soekor, i also say -your nuc
eess dupeuda upon your honest en
deavors. Millions of acres of mi
d?-v?doped land^t grown up in I
and briers, lie today Waiting for
i Ik land to till. Largo land ownor?
and real estate men and bankers
are waiting and ready for to help
the honfest industrious home-BeekerH
Such I know to be the fact.
"Again, whilo I Bay come South,
I Bay in making tho change be care
ful. You will expeot a different cli
mate, soil, a different condition in
crops and the cultvatiion and har
vesting of tlie same. You will have
to adapt yourself to tho conditions
here. Learn these new conditions
first on coming South. This Is
where bo many Northorn people fall.
After studying Southern solla and
climate, conditions, crops, etc., you
will find yourself in a land of op
portune lea, a wonderful soil, a de
lightful climate and hospitable peo
ple. V <
"1 was born in Michigan, in
1879, came South in 1897, my fathe
and brother two yearB soi^ner, aB 1
was in school. My father had some
money, bought a tract of land, paid
two-thirds cash, bought horses,
feed and implements, seed, and with
his Northern Ideas about farming,
without first studying Southern con
ditions, crops and climate set out
to make five-cent cotton.' The re
i suits were that in a short space of
[three years he lost all, went back
to Michigan, disgusted with the
South, but his oldest son, J. P.
Hopkins, age 21, stayed on, seeing
a future for the south aftd desir
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Jug a hum., of iiiu own. lie bought
49 l-ii acres of land at $3.60 per
WW, barren an. I abandoned, pkld
one dollar down an<| had to bor
fow this oih- dollar.
"All my dclghbors said 1 would
PWllb '<> tl.-JHh on 1 1 . t>ut I wuh
Willing to work, I round plenty
l?J < n ?ln .iii.i ti'lriidrt that werewlll
Ing to help me. .Till* was 11
yoaiH gao. Today this barren tract
bas Kood ijalnted buildings, ?very
Part under fence, cutup in fields,
r,? ning j it hor an tfi r? go by.
Thlg ?i u J -2 acres baa and is feed
ing a family of six, three head
i. ii li<;id < a! t If. I tliav ik?
24* head bogs old and young, 40
bead Angora goats. 1 plant to mako
ore bale of cotton, 800 gallons too
lassos, all the com and peus 1 eau
itwiku. Ho 1 have several sources -of
Income. 1 raise" my own work-stock
I have now a pair of mated colts
raised QO i?y farm. All my land
lb s In fields, no bed blanket patoheft
1 have two-horse turning plow, har
rows, cultivators, planters, mowing
machine and rake. I never stand
back on buyiug an Implement that I
can uso profitably. 1 realize the
fact that no man can get above his
soil, so I make all the manure 1 can,
rotate my crops, sow peas, plant peas
peas everywhere. I want no Other
bank than this 62 1-2 acres, it hon
ors my checks without fall." ? ~U??lQn
Progress.
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Harbarq, Lqo Has Something to Hay
About the Single Mad.
One of the curious points in the
pharaseology of today is tbe pass
ing of the words "old maids" and
?the retention, of the title , "bache
lors," says Barbara Lee la The
Philadelphia North American. Some
4ay, Yery soon. I am going to talk
about old maids; today the single
gentlemen who pretend to like their
unattached, unincumbered Btate hav
hoot; ? ? *
A bachelor is a man who some
day will regret it. ?
He may laugh at hie married
friends and scorn his enemies, but
far down in his heart. If ho Is a
real man, there will be a yearning
for his own home, with' a wife for
Mb llfo'H compaulon.
lit) Uiay make facet* and u few
stale Joln'H when asked to hold a
of hla sister's but you run t
make any aaue person believe llidt
Mobolor feel m gripping at
man's heart and a longing f *>t a lit
tie kiddie of hits < > \s ii iii. thought
less bachelor will attribute tht (hai
uh affecting ?h th? frosted poach
uud the poach crop \h atwayH being
frosted.
1 know one man who boaats that
ho much i? refers his liorao to any
wife that he could ever dream about
Horses are ao tractable, ao loving,,
intelligent, easily trained, ao little
trouble, < t< He beams when in*
dilates on the qualities of hla faith
ful steed. Doea h? really believe
th^t? lie, 1h young now, and 1 pray
that lit t to KroB will conaplre with
liymen and divorce that man from
hi# "wrong idoaa. He Httio knows
bow poor the day a are m hla alngle
Iff?!
Another bachelor fairly atlflea me
in clouda of tmioke aa he puffa out
his derision at the "shackles." Ho
little guesses the duat under the
Oriental nig lit hla library and in
far from realising that u woman
such uh ho would naturally aeloct la
far more companionable In Joy and
aorttow than the hooka that lino the
walla. He scoffs at married bllaa,
and says the call of the cigar la
sweeter than that from a kitchen of
hia own.
"A woman i? only a woman.
Hut a cigar is a smoke."
Ten yeara hence that bachelor
will Sing those lines In a minor key.
Sport ia a cunning and powerful
rival of fair women. The bachelor
that heeds thft call of Jtb? gee-g???.
the stacking of the chips, the call oij
th? quail or the baying of the houn
fills hia day with exercise and en-,
joyment and ia too tired to think
of the sou I math that is wandering
around waiting for his recognitions.
But some day he will not be thrilled
by the shining .barrel of a neat rifle.
Some day a shary twinge In the
Joints will emphasize rheumatic ten
denclea; and red, white and blue,
although a very patriotic combina
tion, grow tiresome In the ivory
disks. Some day, perhaps when the
rain Is letting down a dreary cur
tain outside, he. will turn from the
window and the awful truth will
strike ? I was going to say home,
but home is not In a bachelor's vo
cabulary. He will not have his wife
or his family to crown hla days.
There will be no supreme Joy In
working for his loved oiios that be
long to him alone. Can you tell me
of a more pitiable condition than
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(hut of being alone?
I have discussed tho varloiiM ivn
sons of bioNloh liviU, to Hk?
the point of my pwotl. They were
serious ami otherwise; inuny hinted
at tho high cost of living and ai
tholr restriction tiloug lines ?>r mow
ey. Marriage has 1m tho majority
Qf ciiei ih?< making of men. a
new responsibility brings now
pain above- the diaphragn to last
night's bubbly or to lb# u eg
posuro to draught {-'but wo know be*
tor.
Hacheioi's have /.ex 1st od since tho
time when tnen wore either too liiy
to hustle out of tholr comfortable
caves in search of wives or women
f I rut leu r nod to fitly no. It 1h diffi
cult to plane the chronological flngo
on this point in tho world'# history.
I think that mon aro Btlllliuilnod to
place their slippered feet upon tho
mantlepioce, throw their coats to
the winds and stgh ''CuibWo?'' In
their lu*y fashion. When there 1h u
dotting mother to ww on button*
and put away thoir winter suits* In
camphor, a bachelor doesn't fool the
need of a wife. When Mrs. O'Flan
nigan the landlady, take* pity on
t Im" third floor back and empties the
u?h tray out of her motherly inter
est in tho "poor, lonely man," all
goes well* But there will como a
dark duy whon mother'H hands aro
quiet forovor and whon even a land
lady doesn't fill the bill. Thon the
bachelor wakes tip; but it Is ubu
ully too Into.
There are so many Mood, excel
lent bachelors going to waste for th
mere picking thai 1 weep when I
think of the loat opportunities. . (I
am not speaking for any personal
Mob, please Young Imehelors, mid
dle-aged and elderly oneB, show
slgiiH of potential husband* that are
strength, generally, lie does not
travel the faBter who travols alone.
The comradoBhlp, tho helping hand
and the IovIuk heart of a wife will,
In love's mysterious way, lighten a
seemingly doubled task. Cut out a
few cigars, brother, and turn down
the glasses. I do not urge neglect
ing the barber or forgetting the
laundry, but 1 would like to capable
the statement that tho sacrificing
of a few frothy pleasures and a lit
tle extra effort of a man's parf v^ll
make negligible the deterrent fac
tor of his salary.
I am sorry for my bachelor that I
blinks in misguidod ignorance of
what ho Is miBslng. Any man who
really prefers the solflsh loneliness
of a bachelor's den to ttte compan
ionship of a wife Is In danger of
be-rtR flooded out. of his quarters
by my tears.
"SVhat If 1 nlako a mistake?"
ftikfid onu qynic, And when 1 Haiti .
"You are. making'* mletako now,"
b*? mild that a woman always wanted
tho hut word.
Would tbttt OUI 1 1 ai in- 1<> r t rl<>tid?
would kIvo noma excellent ^womo*
whogr thoy really Iov? a chanco.
M) W KXOimsiON hatkh
Via .\Uu title Lino, A?'?un?
(IIii'InIiiiuh U)>lld?yN,
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Reduced rato Hound Trip tU'.l^itA
will bo on ?alo at all ututlmiH on
tho Atlantic Coant Lino to all points
Hoyth of tho 'Ohio and Potomac and
I'-uhi of the MIhbIhhIppI' rlvor?, In
eluding Washington, l>. (),, Cincin
nati, Ohio, and Mvansvlllo Indiana, ,
for all train* on December 18, 14,
17, It), JU, Si, 22. 28, 24, 26, 8 1 ,
and January 1, limited returning,
to MftCh original Htartiug point ro
turning not lator than midnight of
January 0, 1913.
For further bartlQUlafs, schedules,
rates, r< lotvutfoiii, etc., ?? i?i?iy to
Atlantic Coant Lino ticket agents, *
or addroHH, W. J. Craig, Passenger
Tmffio Manager, Wilmington, N.
C., or T. C. White, Ooneral Passen
ger Agent Wilmington, N. 0.
ICXCTUR8ION 11ATKK
Via S<?utlK>rti Hnilway, Premier Car
rier of tho South.
Account Ohrlatmaa Holidays
So ut he ru Hallway announces attrac
tlvo Round 'trip Excursion Fare*
,from all points to destinations in
"Southeastern torrltory. Tlokets
will he on Bale December 18th, 14th,
17th, 18th, 20th, "2lBt, 22nd, 23rd,
24th, 25'th and 31st, 1012, and Jan
uary 1st, 1918, limited good to
roach original starting point re
turning not later than midnight,
January 6th, 1913.
For information concerning ratoa.
tickets, etc., call op ticket agonts,
or address: W. E. McQee, Assistant ,
General Passenger Agent, Colum
bia, H. C.. or W. H. Caffey, Divi
sion Passenger Agent, Charleston,
Box tapper*
A box supper for tho benefit of
tho Antioch school will be given at
Poplar Camp Hall, Woodmen of the
World, on Friday night, December
13. Public cordially invited to at
tend.
We have recently purchased the old sta
bles formerly occupied by Bruce, have re
modeled them, and have just received the
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finest lot of Horses and Mules ever brought
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into Kershaw County and we want you to
call and see them. Any kind you want and'at prices sure to
please you. There is no doubt that you can And among this
lot just what yod are looking for. It will be a pleasure to us
to show you What we have and will do anything in o^power
to accomodate you in any
LEWIS CONDER
W. W. KING