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

And the pa,spact kinder grim,
Aud perplexit'es keep pressing
Till all hope Ia nearly gone,
just bristls up aud griG your teeth,
And keep on keeping on"
Applicable to many candidates in
the second race, as well as with farm
ere in perplexiries.
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
asnow 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 it's
jingle.
There was a "drizzly drozzly"
rain of several days last week, roads
were made muddy, land 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 viii
affect the yield. 1t goes without
saying that wet 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 good thing.
l cannot get all the personals"
this week; people have been coming
and going.
Mr.. j. III. Moore and wife have
retul ned, and Mr. Moore will teach
tho school again.
Mr.. W. 81. Harris, Jr., telegraph
operator, who has been on q visit to
his parents, left for. his work in
Georgia Sunday.
Miss Hattie Mess is eff on visit
to relatives at Rhcksburg.
Messrs. J. P. and Rivers Thomas,
Of Charlotte, are here on visit.
There was party, sociable 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 scat 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
lafraid 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.r A physicians horse needs
more shoes than others, but am
convinced that some people have Lit.
tie judgment about o horses feet.
1 try to study them by observation.
Ifany of you ever see Tom Jones,
a sixty four year old negro, who
lives near this place, just get him to
climb tree backwards for you. I
saw him do so recensly, but forgot to
mention it. Itis a strange looking
sight to see q man going feet first up
. tree, and coming down head first.
He crawls down ike q big lizzard
and can change ends up the tree
with all ease if it il not too large. I
heard that if he went up q tree to get
Q squirrel out of u 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. II
eNis wonder the squirrels have not
made him break his neck hefnra this