The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-07-10
SANTUC SIFTINGS.
Hey Denver Kills Grass on the
Glorious Fourth. Talks of the
FOufth.

/ NCi'ht, Iotl iidIflS ttIlu walt,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
L rave no more 'gainst time nor fate.
For 10! my own shall come to me-"
l stay my heart, 1 make delays,
For what avails this eager pac-?
l stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine, shall know my
| face"
Two many of us fold our hands and
wait and stay haste, make delays; but
what avails too much eager p,ce, that it
even comes to work on Sunday.
| Beautiful weather we have b en- hav-
ing for "star gazing" and while the
moth is raver.
| We like songs of the birds, but when
the ''skeeter" comes with it's subtle song,
whispering in our ear, ooh! get out :"
Mr.. ID. j. FAINT. an engineer on Il fast
| mail train on the Air Line railroad spent
two days with his brother, Mr. J. Mel.
FAINT last week.
Mr.. Will E. Cromwell who has been
in Alabama two or three years, has Sc
cured position with Mr.. Geo. o. Ten
| ney and is here at Neal'd Shoals as as
sistant timekeeper.
Fleas are a plague around our prem
isas it seems just now. They are III
stantly sitting around on somebody sur
veying the landscape.
We have been having stea 'y hot
weather, away up III the 90'S. but the
| nights have been comparatively pleasant.
LOG inches of rain fell Sunday even
ing. Hard for few minutes, bat
mostly steady and with no damaging
wind. 1t was very timely. Crops will
be benefited if no more follows imme-
diately.
Peaches and apples this year are mostly
small and generally very wormy.
believe worms in fruitare getting worse,
and see plainly diseases of the tees
are, and people will have to begin spray
ing like they do in the fruit growing
regions to save the trees and fruit.
Garden truck and watermelon patches
have not been doing very well, but gar
dens of late have been improving. The
market bean patches seem to have been
quashed aud the large watermelon lieIl s
are about run into the ground, bugs have
been bad, stands irregular and they are
very late. They arc disappointing,
surely.
l thought heard negro knocking
plOw on plowstCck on the 4th and
looked earnestly for some time to SEE if
could fDd him, and to see who he was,
but was mistaken, it must have been
children playing.
There were acres and acres and acres
Of grass left unmolested last SATURDAY.
because it was the fourth of July, IAN
ideal day for killing grass) but yesterday
| it got a good rain aud today, Monday, is
too wet to work III crops and that grass
Is just fiourishing. l do not wish to
| blow my old horn too loud, but believe
! am the only one in our section who
en sS sRx sShuSh MS56 6r 5aat goWyn Say oily hfye
punches of grass to chop out, and am
feeling pretty good over the result this
to arraign any one for taking holiday.
but am only Dragging over my "doins."
Ar'n't you getting tired OF seeing so
much about the change of VENUE? All
of the says" concerning it do not
amount to much, each expressing his
personal feelings and others following,
whole lot of ''me too's" and really knows
no more about the case than you or l.
am just weak enough to believe all of
his saying and copying is more because
of men than the crime, ard L hope we
can now have a rest.
Negro Dear, see, has been punching
at Roosevelt and Capers and Jenkins,
Republicans. Well, recond the people
of Charleston and others of South Caro-
lima who frothed and foamed because
they feared Micah Jenkins would not
get sword are all o. X. OH that. |
care little about that, but l do wish
jenkins, who IS "a son OF his fathe"'-
noble man l am told-ha1 remained
true to his father in politics, true to )
q. Democracy, and had not prostitutcd
himself to ROosevelt's politics for the
money he could get out of it. | would
have had more confidence in him, fame"
Or no fame at Santiago, sword or no
sword. hate u zee man so back Oh
his good raising'' do not care how
much the people brag Oh him.
The Fourth of July came and went
and was taken in many ways. L do not
know how many ways. But if L we've Il
clerk, or an office employee, i would
take" every one. But in farming, if
grass is gnawing at the vitals of the crop,
] the fourth Is no more TO me than the
| tenth, when rest from my labor is just
as sweet. l observed the fourth iu many
ways. was thankful our fo1efathels
saw lit to rid themselves OF king rule ard
then finished doing lot OF grass in a
potato patch like they did The British,
signed a declaration OF Iudepend nt Q
when l left it, then in the great neat ol
the day L acted like log by laJing up III
the shade. and On the turn Of the even
ing, l tinished pastures, put few
| touches to the mules, turned them III
aud spent more time in Watching item
Il uraZ, in great Satisfaction Th.n u.v a.