The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-02-22
The News from Sanfuc.

Ii eacn man thought
He was sent to the spot
To make it bit more sweet.
How soon we could gladden. the world
How easily right all wrong,
II nobody shrkei
And each one worked
To help his fellows along,"
When, oh! when will the roads be
made twenty feet wide?
when the farmer and editor in car
riages ride.
When we find in politics only one side,
When the groom refuses to kiss his bride,
When this generation all have died,
When we cross over Jordon to the ott er
side,
When the moon ceases to govern the
tide,
Or when in the air we all shall ride,
Then will the roads be twenty feet
wide.-Ed.
If there is so few small pix cases about
why cry vaccinate, vaccinats 1t is
your only safety" thought 1 hal to
be dodsing, and doiged. Because
vaccination is the only sure preventive.
Ed
On, yes, Indiana towns are running
out the negroes: making them "get."
Familiarity breeds contempt" Perhaps
their own pill is too bitter for them.
Rabbit gums are not only rabbit gums
but have heard of several o'p 1ssu n,
being cought in them this winter, and on
one occasion a mink had to poke its Of
fensive self into one.
learn that dog was on raid below
here recently biting other dogs, but they
say it was not mai. The hest dog law.
with all strange and suspicious dogs, is
good shot gun properly used. 1 have
become shy of meeting strange dogs. l
ran risk not long ago.
A negro man down here had the mis-
fortune to cut off two of his toes with an
axe. AN Axe Is bad tool to put to "'--'-
foot.
Mr.. Godfrey B. Fowler, of Jonesville,
came down to repair Jeter's mill, which
temporarily broke down some time ago,
and has been doing bad since, but Mr..
Fowler will soon right it for he knows
how. There Is no other mill round
about that can make customers better
meal. Everybody in this section misses
this mill when there is break down. l
would like to throw out the hint that
new dam is needed, for there will bs
grinding to do as long as people farm
Things are not moving along IN a
"without-a-j jar" way do Tn here, 1t rains
very often, and while it is not hard rains
it retards farm work. But we don't eX-
pect to have all fair weather so we should
not begin to grumble yet. There are
some who want to SOW oats but the
ground does not get dry enough before
it rains again. 1t has gotten TO be very
risky to put off sowing until after Christ
mas, but around here it begins tn look
as if,some people won't SOW in the fall 20
their stock can tramp over the grain their
neighbors sow. Fall oats, where they
have not been appropriated for grazing
lands, are looking very well.
More than one town or city is not
pleased with the census. Union has
been doing a little Dragging about her
growth, but the census out her down a
little. But perhaps her census enumera-
tor was caring only for the money he
could make out Of the job. | believe
Union is bigger than he said she is.
Kansas City,. 80 reports say, has $4,000
and over, more than the census enum-
orator gave. That many were never
visited by the census taker. II some
cities and towns want it correct they
will have to take their own census, am
thinking.
Well, I see that the cotton mill in
Charleston that was to be run by negrO
operatives has ''broke," and will now be
moved to Georgia and whites employed
Was it mere than you expected? Any
body who ever noticed them on farm
knows that very few indeed can work a
machine Many do not know how tt
| plow right or run cotton seed planter.
| A white man can make a smoother cot
ton row with hoe, can cut better
stump with an axe, can do everything
nicer, even to trimming peg with
pocket klife. have noticed it and neve
did think they could make profitable
mill hands. They are entirely too care
less, and their carelessness ona farm cOs''
the farmer, il all was summed up, ;
handsome pile "f change.
President William Mckinley is vir-
tually the Commander-il-ohief OF th'
United States of America, Hawaii aut
the Philippines, and the Prostit ute-i n
chief of the Philippine Island. Don't
bring a hot blush Of shame to youl
cheek for your country, and make YOU
face burn with Indignation, that tn
chief executive officer of our own countr
will willfully allow such things to go G.
in the army as he does with that in tt
Philippine Islands. With his knowledg'
his sanction, his advice perhaps, sue
houses as he is allowing to be opened u
for the benefit of his soldiers, foIsootf
he could do no more than to murde
some Of those women for the good
their souls. If the reports be true, tt
worse hell-holes of negroes around hel
is no worse prostitutes normally than b
is at heart, because, one thing he
superior by reason of race, and should |
better.
Lam not going to try to even attemI