The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 10, 1955, Image 3
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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& TEN-MINUTE BREAK
By F. L. Rowley
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Conductor George Owens liked
the kmg, level stretch between
HQlcrest and Shelbyville. He called
tt hia ten-minute break.'
Today one of his passengers had
ghren George an exceptionally fine
cigar, and he was eager to try it.
First, however, he had to take
tickets from a young couple and
an elderly gentleman who had just
boarded. George couldn’t remem-
ber when he'd taken on fares at
HOIcrest on the late trip.
The old man seemed ordinary
enough, but George stopped when
he came to the young couple. The
conductor had a big heart, and
when he looked down at the two
white faces and their pitifully light
luggage he was touched.
"So you young’uns are eloping,"
he said with a smile.
"Bow do you know?" asked the
boy nervously as he looked across
at the old man who had gotten
aboard with them. That white-
haired gentleman was already fast
asleep.
"How do I know?" repeated
George, thrusting the precious cigar
- Into his breast pocket and taking
• a aeat opposite the youngsters. "I
know because I did the very same
tiring when I was a young man.
It'was great fun too, until—until—”
£ "Until what?” urged the girl,
opeaking for the first time.
"Until Nellie died. It happened
* a year after we ran away from
home."
"How terrible!" The girl’s blue
ayes were moist.
"That was bad, but then my
real trouble started."
"Such as what?" asked the boy
suspiciously.
"My town disowned me. When
X went home no one would speak
to me. The more I tried to ex
plain the worse things became.
Wheh I called on Nellie’s family
they called me a 'sneak’ and a
‘murderer’.’’
1 "Will you please leave us
alone?" asked the young man
coldly.
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As George rose to go the girl
caught his sleeve.
.‘‘Would—would you elope again
if you had it all to do over?” she
asked.
"Sure thing. Especially if my
folks were cruel, like yours must
be.’’
“Now see here!’’ said the boy,
bristling. “We’ve listened to all—’’
. She placed a child-like hand over
his mouth. “Our parents aren’t
CRUEL," she explained, turning
to George. "It’s just that they
don’t understand. They want us to
wait another whole year."
George feigned surprise. He
hoped he wasn’t overdoing-it when
he stood up with his mouth open,
his eyes popping: "Your folks
aren’t mean? All they want you
to do is wait a year? Then why
elope?"
"You make it sound like we’re
a couple of crooks,’’ said the
young man gruffly.
"That’s just about what they
called me,’’ said George reminis
cently, "Why I didn’t listen to
Nellie I’ll never know.”
"To Nellie?" asked the girL
"Sure. Nellie always talked
about a real wedding gown with a
long train—and flowers. She loved
flowers. Sometimes I think Nellie
died of a broken heart—being cut
off from her folks like she was. It’s
lonely in the city."
The girl had real tears in her
eyes now.
“It looks like you win," said
Henry, looking steadily at George.
Then to the conductor’s surprise
he held out his hand.
At Shelbyville a few minutes
later George smiled happily as he
watched the young couple get off
to wait for a train for Hillcrest.
As he was turning to leave he col
lided with a fellow conductor.
“Careful George!" laughed the
other man. “Say, I hope you’ve
been a good boy on this trip—no
drinking or smoking? You’ve had
a gumshoe with you!" He pointed
significantly to the old man who
had boarded the train at Hillcrest
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
“DROUTHS OR DOLLARS?"
The Carolina Power and Light
Company made a survey of re
sults from irrigation on the farms
in their area of the Carolinas.
They have been published in an
attractive booklet entitled
“Drouths or Dollars?”.
The summary shows tobacco
yields were upped from Ifi to 200
percent, pastures from 25 to 1,000
percent, alfalfa from 25 to 100 per
cent, cotton from 10 to 30 per
cent, cucumbers from 50 to 1,000
percent, sweet potatoes from 15
to 50 percent, sorghum from 20 to
50 percent, home gardens from 25
to 200 percent, peanuts from 20 to
50 percent, and so on.
One of the irrigation farmers
interviewed, S. R. Bryant of Lo
ris, said, “If I didn’t have the
money to buy & system, 1 would
mortgage something to get enough
to buy one.”
TURKEYS FOR EASTER
/ J. K. Brogdon of Clarendon had
an idea about turkeys, and it
worked.
There are few if any fresh
dressed turkeys for Easter time.
Practically all grow theirs off in
the fall. If you serve this fine
meat in the spring, you’ll most
likely have to use a bird that has
been in storage a good while. And
some folks prefer a fresh killed
bird.
So Mr. Brogdon puts in several
thousand poults in December.
Then they are prime and ready for
the market out in late April and
early May. He made enough on
these the past bad turkey year to
rescue his total operation from
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Distributing the risk, more even
employment for labor, longer use
for facilities, and less competi
tion are some of the advantages
he found in this practice, accord
ing to Qounty Agent Grainger.
His 12,000 turkeys are started in
three equal batches of 4>M)0 each,
getting them in early October,
early December £nd February.
HOME GARDEN NOW
At a recent meeting of exten
sion workers at Clemson, Roy
Ferree called attention to some
important angles of the vanishing
home garden.
Costs are high and Farm income
is low. In this squeeze there is
one thing each farm can do to
heip itself. And that is, have a
good, small, well-kept, producing
garden of quality vegetables.
In the past we have been prone
to say, “Oh, I can buy ’em cheap
er than I can grow ’em.” And may
be that was so during flushed
times. But is it so now?
A small -well kept, producing
home garden can easily save a
hundred or so dollars a year you’d
otherwise have to spend for store-
bought stuff. And it will add just
that much to your income. Of
course, it would cost you some
thing to grow those vegetables.
But not nearly as much as you’d
have to spend for Inferior stuff
otherwise.
You will note I have stressed a
“small’’ garden. And I do that for
a purpose. Most gardens are en
tirely too ibig. You plant them with
enthusiasm that comes with
spring. You have so ,much early
stuff it just wastes there. Soon the
?iot weather arrives and you let
grass take iL Then by late sum
mer the garden hfs become a
snakey place, overgrown with
weeds and grass the fertility stim-.
ulated there. j
It is amazing what you can
grow in a very small garden that’s
made very fertile, watered, and at
tended to properly. Before one
vegetable io finished,, you can
have another planting already
coming along there in the middle.
Then take the old one out just as
soon as it begins to fade, and
work the soil to the new one that’s
already coming there between the
ol'd rows.
, Another reason for the small
garden, it’s not as much work,
and you can handle it with noth
ing but a hoe, if you have nothing
else. You can afford to mulch it
too, which helps hold moisture
and keep down weeds. And you
can also afford to irrigate it as
needed. Nothing insures your gar
dening efforts like water at the
right, time. For that makes quality
stuff as well as quantity yields.
THE WINDS OF MARCH
This is a dynamic time of year.
The winds of March are blowing
winter away. The miracle of
growth is writhing in awakening
bud, limb, root, bulb, and seed.
And very soon now the drabness
of winter will be swallowed up by
mircle that's spring. My, it's gqod
to’ be' alive and abroad' in the
land!
. . . Egyptian dancer Sarnia Gamal,
Baba" movie set in Frankfnrft. Germany, gives "
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Bov. Robert XL, Harper
Frmyr m the CMstisah Life.
Lesson for Mortb 13: MoSSbew 6:
y-8i 7: 7-11; femes 5: 13-16.
Golden Tests: 1 John 3: 14.
When the disciples asked Jesus
how to pray, he first exposed the
false notions of those who loved
to prey on the corners of the street
that they might be seen of men.
Prayer is to be made to God and
not to men. Therefore the disciples
were told to enter into their closets
when they would pray. And Jesus
declared that men are not heard
for their much speaking. • Some
men In their praying deliver long
addresses unto God as if he needs
to be informed about conditions.
God knows all about us and all
our needs before we ask him any
thing.
Jesus used the form of Hebrew
poetry, using a double triplet, as he
was speaking of prayer. We are
to ask and seek and knock, as
sured that we shall receive and find
and have the door opened (Mat
thew 7: 7-8).
Through trust in an earthly fa
ther, Jesus taught men to look
with confidence toward the Heav
enly Father, as knowing that He
will not give them a stone when
they ask for bread but will, out of
his infinite goodness and wisdom,
grant them all good things.
James believed in faith healing
and wrote the disciples to avail
themselves of it, not only for
themselves but also for others.
Healing by faith has been neg
lected by the present church. We
would not abandon all the fine
means of healing of the time. But
when we avail ourselves of the
means* let us depend for the out
come upon the Heavenly Father.
\yfY FAMILY once owned a
1VI beautiful dog of the Cocker
Spaniel type that was just a big
bundle of nerves. Whenever a
stranger entered the animal would
dash under a chair or couch and
remain there for hours unless
coaxed out with constant pleadings.
The local dog expert (he sold us
the animal) said: "Don't worry
about that. It's a sign of his high
intelligence. He’ll get put of it as
he gets older. If he wasn’t so
smart, he would sleep in the mid
dle of the floor and people could
walk all over him."
I was rather young at the time
and couldn't see what the fear of
people had to do with high Intelli
gence, but the expert proved right
The older and smarter the dog
got the longer it took to coax him
out of his hiding places.
If the old Grammar school teach
er had a ruler a thousand miles
long she would whack me on the
ear for even bringing 19 such a
thing, but I wonder if maybe the
present generation, like the Cock
er, isn't just too smart for its
own good.
Time was when two farmers
met en the street they started
talking about crops, the weather,
and the price of fertilizer. Busi
nessmen compared sales and prof
its. housewives discussed food
prices and soap box operas,
still do these things, of course,
but such banter is only a "side
dish." The main course consists of
an objective session of "war wor
rying" and “Did you see the front
page this morning?"
Sure, we'd be dumber—but a
lot happier; if Russia was a word
we associated with .caviar and
china nothing more than table
paraphernalia.
COSTLY BULL*. . . Ft. Worth,
Texas, millionaire Jack Danciger
(left) pays $100,00# for one-third
interest in Aberdeen-Angus bull.
Prince 105-SAF, to other owners,
J. V. Hampton of Ft. Worth and
Urban Simon of Madison, Kansas.
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