The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-01-23
Scentiuatfons From Santuc.


small,
And he swore aloud in an awful way,
AS ho reached for his birch switch
tall''
And when it was over the guilty youth
stood
And rubbed his pain away,
But as he rubbed the place tanned by
the wood,
He said, reciprocity don't pay"
All fellows have once felt the birch
switch reciprocity 1 guess, but that is
not the kind SO many wants for Cuba
hope.
We have been having an Sat home''
almost every Sunday since Christmas,
at least the rains fell and we staid at
home.
l reckon when a young man goes
courting he goes to the dispensary-goes
to dispense affection, but it does not dis
pense with treating on same.
A mule! what will he get at next? 1
know good mule that takes notion
at times that he has got to "siddle off"
from places on the ground just for con-
trariness, and he keeps seeing things to
sidle from until it seems that he is going
to find enough to "sidle" him until he
sets himself up against the Blue Ridge
Mountains or into the Atlantic Ocean if
he is not put to work, then he gets tame
again and he can do the work too.
Farmers generally have girded up their
loins and gone to work again and are
working. They are certainly a hopeful
set. do hope, guess all our people
do, that they may make something this
year. They are the bone and sinew of
this world. The mndsill of everything.
Who will dispute it? This year found
them in much better circumstances than
they were at the beginning of last year,
much more feed stuff in their possession.
Bat / am afraid many will get too big
notions and try the expansion act and
get their hands too full before they get
on their feet we'll as to food crops.
Cotton seed has gone way up, but alas,
farmers mostly have sold all they had to
spare and at prices offered them-no
matter how low they sold last fall, they
let them go. Some thing about this seed
buying business will not coincide with
my views of things. The buyers will
say their limit is lower and they are "not
making a thing out of the Seed" Yet
they run themselves nearly past trotting
after wagons with seel. believe they
make lots of money out of them, for it
is not consistent that they work so hard
if they were not making anything and a
good thing. Farmers do not get what
seed are worth but they will sell.
l noticed in THE TINES that the
County Commissioners were trying or
rather experimenting to improve some
muddy pieces in the roads with sand.
). Well that has been my opinion for few
y years and have told several that 1 believe
/ that was cheap method. The Editor
will remember 1 told the same to him
g personally some weeks ago. got the
), idea from observing the roads while
!, travelling over them, and noticed when
}. pure sand washed over mud, got mixed
;, and then tr:ckling water was kept off 1t
would pack very hard. I believe it will
prove very successful if sand free from
pure mud is used. 1t is the smoothest
a mud that makes the muddiest roads if
J. travel is done.
It The threshermen in the middle west,
e principally Illinois, are forming lcca
d anizations-trusts-- to co-operare will
Q the tbrashing machine combine, and will
8 raise the price Of thrashing. Trusts are
q being formed OF everything, or rather
d everything is being combined. Farmers
It had better turn about and combine il
! self defense. So far we have no such
combines forming here as the threshsr-
v nuns combine. 1t is to work in a m IN
q ner that manufacturers will not sell
machines or repairs to no one not in that
5 combine. That is getting the faru.ei
: "where tn, WOO, is short'' surely
e 1t is good thiag to try to s,e every
thing coming along and Try to broaden
a your "range Of visioA" 50 to speak. A
few days ago freight train left off al
9 this station derrick car, and though,
s LwOuld examine the "critter" to see
how it was made. 1t certainly is made
as strong as the "iro1 works" and IN lde
to stand graphing aud tuyging at over
turned cars, and to see how it is ar
:. ranged to steady it, to glip the track to