The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21

said I would. and she Knows. She
has got but two flaws for NE. Ooe IL,
I must work III the garden il l am
we'll, and the other is 1 must be well
The war doesn't bother me while ] am
at work. but l hoe and dig anal ponder
while I dig. ] am rerplexed right
now about very mysterious force of
nature that I do not understand. II
is the lifting power Of li,tle tender
plnnts.
never have understood how il is
that the pea OF IA bean OF potato patch
or an okra seed can crack the clcddy
ground and lift the clods and part
them and find way upward. These
little tender shoots that will bend and
break at the tonch can lit a weight Of
pounds, and I am salts ed that there
s some mysterious force that helps
them do-some electric influence that
.mara.es from tie plaut-Eome dyna-
mic power. What farmer has not
wondered that a shooting grain OF
corn could rpheave and split asunder
II clod that he could hardly break with
his horny hands. Then, again, what
\ preservative is our mother earth.
How safely it keeps the roots Of vege-
alton from frosts and freezes and zero
,.nld. We hal sixty-six rose bushes,
al of choice varieties, and have taken
world of comfort in their beautiful
flowers, but this last winter they were
all killcd--killcd dead to the ground,
and / cut them down and fonnd no
sign of life. 1t made us all sad and L
wrote about it, and good man, n
florist, of Chambersburg, Pa, Mr..
William E. Reed, read my letter, and
surprised me by seudipg sixty-six new
plants of the best varieties, and 1
planted them carefully between tho
dead ones and they are springing up
beautifully, aud now, 10 and behold,
the old ones are sending up strong and
vigorous shoots from near the surface
and most of them are above the budded
Joints. SO if all of them live and
grow, there will be wilderness of
roses, and We can take our choice. I
am ready TO certify that Mr.. Reed is q
grent big hearted man.
And now Mr.. r. X. Robertson, of
Chickamauga, has sent me 300 straw
berry plants. Lady Thompson and
Louise and Candy varieties. All are
fine, and the Candy are especially
wanted, for they are n very late variety
and bear bountifnlly after all other
kinds have passed away for the season.
I'll bet ho is n good man, too, and my
wife makes it rule to believe that
everybody is good who is good to us.
So now let the war go on. 1t is none
Il Ill a
in hopes that Mckinley & Co., who let
slip tho dogs of war for political pur-
poses, would see their mistake and
call off the dogs, but most of the
preachers tell them that it is Gods
will and manifest destiny and the
doors to the hCathen must be opened
and be kept open. And so we COM
mon folks can't do anything. heard
pre- achers talk that way for war thirty
seven years ago and we thought they
had the Trim and Chummin in their
hreeches rockets, but they dident.
One thing is certain, this war has done
the nation no good morally or finan-
cially, and it has lowered our esrect
for the army and for military affairs in
general, and army beef in ! articular
When our boys once get ont of it they
will be apt to stay out and if we have
to send 100, 900 more troops to fight
nipgers in the Philippines they will
not go from this part of the country
certain.
7. SIN my last did not say thai
the Virginia editor was hypocritical
No, I would not be so disrespectfnl.
wrote very plainly that he was hyper
critical. Your typo changed it.-BLL
AEP in Atlan'a Con stitrticn.