The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-03

rather.
A little child of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Willard has been sick /. re
time with fever, and is now improv-
ing slowly.
Miss Stella Hobson, who has been
on visit Of over three months to DR..
E. G. Jeter, of Fairfield, returned
home last Thursday.
Rev. j. D. NIahon filled Lis an.
pointment at the Baptist church
last Sunday. Two Deacons we're
elected, Mcssrs. j. S. F. Adams and
J. G. S. Vaughan.
have recently received the Year
Book of the Department of Agricul,
ure and it is good book, according
to my thinking. 1 am getting a
right decent library of year books,
bulletins, etc.
A puppy weighing $50 pound, is
big one. Miss Mary Sartor brought
from Georgia a young St. Bernard
log of that weight and l guess he is
eormid BILE as far as weight goes, but
| believe they are considered docile.
Voltaire may have been q very
'ard atheist but he could say some
sel'iug things, towi': "IIow mex
press:ble il the mesnness of being
nypocrite! How horrible it is to be
mischievious and malignant hypo.
critic"
am getting to be a very good
rate whee!wright, but 1 do not wish
TO brag. You see fate mas decreed
hat / must work in a shop or some>
where f,r livlihood, as I cannot or
wont beg, am not..given to loafiug.
money don't grow free, am not al
object Of charity yet, nor the reverse,
wealthy enough to live without work,
and % just now am trying to make
myself ust fll as we'll as ornamental"
IN a workshop, and being somewhat
of born mechanic, you ought to see
bow am learning to put up wheels,
and do various things. For my
knowledge to use tools, 1 would not
part for nice sum of money. It is
a pleasure to know how to use them.
Some people ought not be allowed
to use horse or mule, to say moth
ing about owning one. A few days
ag) | saw negro driving a mule,
whipping it, and the mule was in a
gallop, but the negro didn't seem to
know it, and wanted the animal to
% faster; and p'rhaps really did not
know he was acting cruelty towards
the beast. That, however. did not
mend matters so far as the good of
the mule was concerned. But am
persuaded that some people have no
feeling for stock, and abuse them be-
cause they can.
To say the least, little darkey,
with a great big Topped hat, big,
long coat, and pants like two cities
in France. Toulong and Tolouse, the
seat nearly dragging the ground,
is quite an amusing little fellow.
Anyway a negro may not be so
mean thing as some people try to
picture them, there arc soma mean
and lazy, but if all races do right,
they are about the best rae, We car
have among us for labor, and gener-
ally seem we'll satisfied they are here
and it is only the hair Drained of
their race who try to make them be-
lieve they are persecuted. They
will look to the whites as their very
best friends.
The Government Crop Report
shows that the cotton in sight Sept.
End was over one hundred thousand
bales, short of the same time las.
year. l do not think that out of
sight must be any way great, the
reports puts about G4 per cent,
short crop. I know it is short, here.
1t is getting now where is is not safe
to cry out, overproduction. That
used to be dinned in the farmers ears
until some had such q ringing tn ere
that l suspect they thought they had
catarrh.
l believe now the farmers s.holler-
ed too soon about peas not barring.
Judging from tho bloom and embryo
peas, the crop will be a good one if
frost does not come in month. 1t
may and it may not. On an aver
age Of nine years, the general killing
frost came near the 18th of Novem-
her. Anyway the crop of vines are
fine and We may get the peas. The
carly varieties have about nada their