The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-05-02

be, but as no pis'ols were present the
participants have whole skins anc
may live to fight another day if the,
can find something to fight abou. a.
they did on this occasion. Two nearly
grown negro boys had repula,
"fist and skull" fight about week
ago, l heard, and it was all about q
mule track. Now that mule was
perfectly innocent oft all. You NAV
abuse the mule, accuse him of bad
tricks, of kicking and refuse to view
his hind legs unless you look through
the tlues of a boiler, but how could a
mule avoid making track? So don't
blame him of particeps criminis in
this case.
Farmers are talking that they
are going to try not to have to buy
corn next year. l hope seasons will
be favorable to them. But seasons
are not all, nor is the lack of planting
all. Sometimes it is the planting Of
too much Improbable land, land that
cannot make much, planting too
close on it and working too poorly
before and after planting, or depend
ing too much on risky bottoms. Bet
ter let poor land rest. Some is not
worth the rent for planting. One
thing | believe farmers are cursed
with is too much land to work. It
ought to be cut down to what can be
worked proftably. 1t is not too late
to turn about 70 redeem ourselves
from buying corn. / do not. know
what is done with bought com as we
get it. 1t must ~ soaked until
nearly all is damaged. We buy by
weight and if We dry it there is /
loss OF one half of peck to the
bushel. Try it and see. This is
running US farmers. The merchants
want to see US raise corn. Wonder
It 1t don't ruin American trade ship.
ping this waterSd corn to foreign
The Editor in speaking of Presi-.
dent Roosevelt being a hard man to
beat because of his every evident
!rlendliness to tho South" but he
not Believe hal. i. IL he tJhs Jasst tiqsv ! dc
friendliness and how he loves it be-
of his mother, etc. Then in
public speeches in the north refer to
the Confederate soldiers as anarchists.
Calls Jefferson Davis an arch traiter,
sells the G. A. Rs. that they as
soldiers put down anarchy in the
South. He is the man who Mai.
Jenkins would accept sword from
and nobody else, and the people
kicked up big fuss because Of what
Jim Tillman did and yet Roosevelt
called Maj. Jenkins father an an
archist. 1 have little faith in him.
Don't trust him too far. If there
ever was a two-siled man I believe
Theodore Roosevelt is the one. 1
am not saying this to excuse Col.
Tillman. OF course We must show
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his position, even if he does call our
fathers, as Confsderates. bad names
and eats with niggers, perhaps we
may do so for policy if nothing else,
while we sre the little dogs and he
the big one with bone. But don't
be quite SO "rowdy" about it. But
isn't he slashing among the big men.
Dewey, Schley, Miles, Funston, etc.
Soon a man will be afraid to speak.
Some catch it from the President
and some catch thunder from their
people at home. Bill Arp of tho At
lanta Constitution, said that he was
glad that the President snd Gen.
Miles has fallen out, but whether it
is because Miles put Jefferson Davis
in irons or Roosevelt called him an
arch traitor he does not know. Let
them fight, perhaps Mr.. Editor, it
may help US.
HEY DENVER.