The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-09-05
Santuc Siftings.

IL the situatiuu's puZz' ing,
Athi the prospect kurier grim,
And perpltxities keep pressing
Tul all hope ia nearly gone,
just brlstle up and grit your teeth,
And keep on keeping on"
Applicable to many clndidates in
the second race, as we'll as with farm
ere in perplexities.
The days are growing shorter and
every twenty-four hours we get
nearer our winter coats.
We have seen some fogs in Aug
ust, but do not know whether to book
ssnow or not. If they are like rain
Ing on dog days they will slip up.
Cotton is opening, we will soon
hear the sing of the cotton gin, a
little money will be let loose, and
people can then dance little to its
jingle.
There was a "drizzly drozzly"
rain of several days last week, roads
were made muddy, laud wet, peas
spurted in growth and bad fodder
was damaged in many instances.
There has been some fine water
melons raised by several farmers
around here this year, and many on
the vines, though it was thought the
yield would be light. There are
some fine late patches coming on.
Rust is bad on cotton Just now
and often large areas are seen with
no leaves on the plants. This will
affect the yield. 1t goes without
saying that vet weather does not
always cause rust, for we have had
dry weather down here.
The chaingang is here, and Mr..
Hancock is doing some excellent
work with it. Some work he did
near here several years ago is stand>
ing we'll, with little or no expense to
outlay in kesping it in repair. The
machine is agood thing.
cannot get all the "personals"
this week; people have been coming
and going.
sMr. j. 81. Moore and wife have
-retofned, and Mr.. Moore will teach
the school again.
Mr.. W. H. Harris, Jr., telegraph
operator, who has been on visit to
his parents, left for his work in
Georgia Sunday.
Miss Hattie Moss is off on visit
to relatives at Blaoksburg.
Messrs. j. P. and Rivers Thomas,
Of Charlotte, are here on visit.
There was party, sooiable or
dance given at DR.. P. P. Buffers on
the night of August 9th, but very
few attended, the weather being any
thing but pleasant or suitable to
travel to aud fro-it was raining.
Negroes love watermelons without
any pretense. saw some melons
roll off wagon few days ago and
negroes were soon upon the broken
ones, one taking a seat on the clear
post at the railroad and enjoyed q
melon. Another said 'the Lord will
provide" and sauntered off with one. |
Of course they helped to fix the good
ones on the wagon.
More horses feet are ruined by
keeping them always shod, than by
neglect of shoeing. Owners are
afraid to lot them travel short dis
tance barefoot, pull off shoes, put
more right back, until the hoof is
brittle, rotten and split to pieces.
Going barefoot makes feet tough and
resistable. A physicians horse needs
more shoes than others, but I am
convinced that some people have lit.
tie judgment about q horses feet.
l try to study them by observation.
Ifany of you ever see Tom Jones,
. sixty four year old negro, who
lives near this place, just get him to
climb tree backwards for you. I
saw him do 50 recensly, but forgot to
mention it. lis a strange looking
sight to see man going feet first up
. tree, and coming down head first.
He crawls down ike q big lizard
and can change ends up the tree
With all ease if it is not too large. I
heard that if he went up a tree to get
. squirrel out of hole, and found
that the hole ran down the tree so
that he couldn't get his hand into it,
he would come down, change
!. and start up feet first, and when he
got up to the hole, run his hand
in and bring his squirrelship out. 1t
is q wonder the squirrels have not