The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-02-07
SANTUc SiFTINcS.
Inhuman Treatment of Animals.

Inhuman Treatment of Animals.
"Toil swings the axe and forests bow,
The fields break out in radient bloom;
Rich harvest smile behind the plow,
And cities cluster around the loom"
Toll is swinging the axe, forests
are bowling in places and / hope rich
harvest will smile behind the plows
everywhere.
IF it be possible live peaceably
with all men," but we are not told
what to do if it is not possible. I
wish / knew.
When wagons are we'll made they
generally hold their tongues. In that
they have greatly the advantage of
some people.
In all kinds of trades you can find
men outside who know more than the
masters of the trade. There are
other men who know more than the
carpenter, the blacksmith, the farmer.
the merchant, etc.
Last week was one of cloudness
snd rain in which 5.9S inches of rain
fell. Friday and Saturday and night
being the heaviest fall, 3.81 inches
falling in a little less than 36 hours.
Greeks were swollen and out of their
banks.
Some lands with the makeshifts of
terraces are badly washed. Gullies
sometimes waist deep or big gullies
and many on hill, and it looks as If
q fine newground would have to be
cleared to get brush to stop them.
This may BE- only where one is cover
cropped" with land and several of
this kind are letting their land 60 to
ruin
We had big sleet here last Tues
day evening and night. The only
damage done was some limbs broken
of trees and it was hardship to
stock necessarily or unnecessarily ex-
posed to it.
A goodly amount of cotton was
sold last week here to a contract
buyer. The cotton had to be de-
kvared Last Monday and Tuesday,
9Th and 28th. 1t was raining and
leeting both days and it was very
hard and c3ld on both men and stock
hauling. There is only ono lone bale
at the station here.
There can be some oats seen on
limited areas of the first sowing and
if there is no more very severe
weather there may be enough to more
than make the seed sown on those
areas But this would be small pay
for the farmer but better than moth
ing.
Telephone in his last letter says
the deep freezing will loosen up and
benefit the land, but look at it that
the hard beating rainswe had last
week, and We always have in the
spring. will pack this as tight as ever.
That Is one thing in this country
against US. The land may freeze and
pulverize in winter but hard rains
will pack it so hard that we have to
hustle in the spring to keep it from
hardening on us.
On the night Of the 3lst some one
broke into a small house kept as q
restaurant and store by John Greg.
ory, colored. and stole box of TO-
bacco and hen out Of q pot. l sup.
pose the hen was cooked being in Q
pot. That niger, guess it was 9
niger, had hen for breakfast and
somsthinejfree to 'chaw' on. But from
what can see somebody must steal
beg or stsrve and when q tighte,
pinch comes they may not be satisfef
with hen and tobacco. John ha,
had his window fixed and this is mo-
too late. With so many stores bein,
broken open, safes cracked, train
robbed, ETC., we ought to stop pokinl
devision at the "Wild West"
Speaking Of "range" horses an,
cattle ont ,Wsst, but this country
oepiss y she front Kissing stock