The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-09
L(E)Es' MISBRABLEs.
Near Santa Carlos, {
Lee County (Limited).
0otohar 81 1903

world would grow insuferable.-
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Our summer joys have terminated
like the laughter Of the wicked. brief
liyed Gas the cracking of thorns uu-
der the pot -
The many days of toll and tillage
were cbeered by hopes and anticipa
.ions somewhat underlined hopes. it
is true /; but they were the best we
had. and we enjoyed 'em. and so
long as the heavens were clear and
the sun was bright and the crops
grew and the lien hei' out, we smiled
q wide. wet. broad gage grin and
were filed with gladness and grace
and had pic MICS and protracted
meetin' and pike fshin' and pious
resignation. But behold, the heav
ems were darkened aud the rains de
scended and the foods came and we
enjoyed huge share of fallin' weata.
er and moisture, mud, mold, mildew,
Mushrooms and muskeeters. Mote
What a muskeeter uses when be
bites. is made up of his antenne. his
clypeus. his hypopharyx, mis- labium,
his mandibies and his naxill@ We
thought he toted brace and bit and
jews harp, out didn't know he took
along such a "rig" and so many
organs to make one note. and to
make one bite and to make one
cuss We aint small enough to be-
grudge muskeeter one meal, but
when the whole feet want to board
of'n us we kick
Well after many days; after the
fodder was damaged and the bottom
crop rotten and the gardens drowned
and choked out, the rains ceased and
the waters dried off the face of the
land, but the mortgages didn't, and
cotton began to fall and cur spirits to
fall and fell from grace and alto
gether it's as dismal fall as we've
ever enjoyed ; until it just seems as
though fate had singled us out as a
receptacle of what job lot of tribu-
Iations, sfaictions and assorted woes
she happened to have on hand, and
we feel like crying out, 0 doggon,
and more But we try to be thank.
fuI. we do try. even if we have sit
mp at night to do it. We are salts
fed that we could bear our neghbors'
trials with a greater degree of forti-
tude and equanimity and Christian
grace than they seem to be doing
it's our own troubles that disturb our
resignation We are 10th to observe
that grace don't seem to be com.
plete substitute for green backs.
though Long says "tbey works
mighty we'll together .
Long is ordinarily, about 6 ftl |
in but his face has lengthed 80 lat.
serly that he looks as though he'd go
6 # L., in his stockings He says
be don't have headache any more be
cause;his head is out of reach of the
ache aud it stops in his stomach He
says the ache is caused from having
to eat breakfast three times day and
that the days are so much alike that
he can't tell whether it's tomorrow
or yesterday and burned if be cares
We quoted to him that some one bad
written that when things got to the
worst they always mend and be
wanted to know what in Be-elzebub
and Thos. P. Walker else could they
do We've just asked Short to
tel! as tie time, and be said be hal mt
sound bis clock in two weeks and
wa'os goiog TO wear i, ou; Working for
4 ceos cottoo, and he did 'ns care a Gura
what iime it was anyway, 'ceps that be
wished to the Lord it was last January.
jesse With ali Of 'em everywhere
There is a sort OF deadly li7eliness
aaou, the railroad, stores aud gins. bat
the countenances wear pale blue,
greyish, dornisb cast tba, don't look
healthy or lucrative, and carries that
pathetic expression Observed 90 the
fa,e Of mu,e-wa'erorry wa,ch. We
observed Stout tquas'i"g on a board
With ooe bard 30 Ills jaw, as though be
aad Tic-doa-lourcux. aod cipheriog oD
the ground We eoquired if be was
working SUN aud ne lifted up a
lagubrious apd neuralgia coun:epsoce,
libe fortitude poddiDg 10 execution,
aud said. in sepuicbral tones. be was
trying how uaoy ;!mes 0 went into
We told hin the answer was in6uity,
aud for 40 instant pale and sulpbu
,oua g'eam of comfort seemed to fash
soross nis sa,urnine features. but
quickly vanished as be failed to grasp
the occul, perspicuity OF our lucid reply.
There's Head S:ropg who swesrs