The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-02-13
Corrssponderee Of Upion TINES. =.
Notss from the Pea Ridge Metropolis

NoCSs Iou hoe 80 0so8s .osSRS
KELros, FEE. 1O.-Farm work 10 at Q
very low ebb at resent.
Ii hiss been raining on the Ridge almost
every day for the lsst Two weeks, and the
mud in far move ~. -. ...... I.Ivnvy rounu
and about Ke'ton. The roads are in on
awful condition for travelling either on
horseback or in vehic'es, the mud in places
being almost up to the sxle'ree.
| do not feel much like writing to-day,
but will try to give you few dots
Pneumopi, is raging very strong on the
Ridge just now; We also have gre't many
cases Of Ia Grippe. There is more sickness
in this section just now than has been Tor
some time.
Mr.. ]. T. ADan died last Friday evening
from Pneumonia. and two Of his children
are quite sick, one with Pneumonia and the
other with = dsep-seated cold.
MIR. Editor, in your last issue you said
something about farmers and cotton buyers
but in the last paragraph ycu did not, &C
cording to my judgment. give the farmer ms
due in saying, ave have often beard that
in farming there was more in the man than
in the land, and we suppose the apborism
no ds good iii the sale Of farm products"
Now, Mr.. Editor / do not mean TO say
that you intended to do the farmer an inJus-
tice* but you are not accustomed to seihng
cotton, and perhaps do not know that the
farmer is not allowed TO hold his sample in
his own hand and make it show up as be
would like to do, but cotton buyer cuts his
cotton, and then handles the sample to suit
himself, often tearing it 50 that the next
buyer will not better his bid. This l know
by s4psrjsRss in selling cotton:
| "dander." but it is fhct. undcuiable, that
cotton did not sell according to grades this
season rs it should have done. Why is cot
ton not rs cool from one mans hands as
another.
Mr.. Editor, 1t is q shame upon any cotton
buyer to bid on one sample of cotton TWICE
in one hour and pay more to the last mnn
| that presents the cotton than ho ohere1 10
| the f, st. 1t either shows that he is a sorry
| ;udcc. or that there Is injustice attached to
| the BUYER, one of the two things is certainly
| 50 il seems TO me. have known cotton l"
| sell SOC per lO0lhs moro in the second man
| hands than the first man could get for u.
| Now, cir, / say there is no justice in such
| ns that. and think you will agree with me.
I will endcavor to answer Nox's sum:
If it will take holes three and three
| ffths hours to empty a vessel it will take
| 324 holes to empty the same vessel In three
6fiecnths of m hour. If l am not right
| hope Vox will correct me and show me
where 1 an wrong.
| KELToN WHEEL.
The ten trees in four rows problem was
published and answ cred in the TINES las
year.-ED.
*we contend that VIC did no injustice t'
the farmers by intimatng that there is grca
difference in the linen offering cotton O.
any other product 70, sale. We have seen
man get ! cent pound more for cotton from
a merchant ny intimatng that be "wishe'
TO trade some" and after selling bales h
bought only 50 cents worth Of goods iron
the buyer. If man knows how to cell cot
ton, he will rot allow buyer to tear or il
any way injurc his samples. little per
sistent pleading often brings n slight advsnc
on cotton, and some men have neither tn
staying or pleading qualities to get tn
highest price. 1t is no more injustice to
class of citizens to say that some of ther
have better faculties for selling at the high
ca, nud huying ut the lowest prices tha
others, than il ia to sny ono mon 10 oc"s
Judge OF a horse than another or can get
better pricc fc- !:orso Than his neighbor.
The nphorism holds good, FREUD Kelto
Vince, there's rs much in the seller rs tn
buyer, particularly when there are three o
four bidders for the same article.