The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-03-06


you can find every kind Off scrap
almost that you can think of, and a
few others.
MIR. r. S. 'TAonas, Sr.,. over
taken by night: recently going home
from Union, and near his home his
horse took q side path which he was
in the habit of riding to keep out of
the mud. 1t. being too dark for him
to see we'll but finding he was too far
out reigned in his horse which went
down a steep road bank, turned over
the buggy and threw him out, badly
stunning him but causing no bruises.
but he got home after some trouble
in trying to get straight again as to
self and vehicle.
Ihave been helping to break a
young mule tho past week. l do
not object seriously to breaking a
sensible animal, even if "wild," and
in fact | rather like it, for | like to
have some honor of training one to
be quiet and gentle that it may have
future satisfaction of standing at
the head of his class, and be sort of
practical animal. 1 can somewhat,
as the negro said, congratulate"
myself in having patience when train.
ing young stock. l think that is
pardOnable.
"A. brother of the writer had
bad fever blister on his mouth, and
tried to blow dinner horn, but it
hurt SO he put it down and tried an
other, put it to the middle of his lips
but with no better results. lie put
it down and said this was one time
that a man could not "blow his own
horn" and someone else would have
to blow it for him.
Mr. l.. D. Jeter, the principal. cot
ton buyer here, informed me that at
this place there were near seventeen
hundred bales of cotton sold the past
season. sudsthat .tRe price compared
favorably with other markets. A,
large part Of the Goshen Hill town
ship crop usel to come he,e but now
thsfe area shipping points, nearer,
namely Delta and Whitmire on the
g., G. Nm. trailroad. : This has al
ways been a good shipping point and
there is a good farming conntry sur
rounding it.
The last three or four rains being
hard, beating ones, the road has been
packed down surprisingly and the
washing has smoothed over places,
but has caused some gullies to wash
in places. Awhile they were so
muddy and sloppy that we thought
We would have to do like old "Afri-
can Sam" an old negro who used to
belong to my great uncle, DR.. John
Jeter. When asked how he crossed
a swollen streamThe said, by blood
l tim (swim. so we thought we
would have to tim" BY the way,
that was good piece of poetry "B.
X. ID. wrote about the mud.
=" think 4 have, invented a. plan to
keep the ':>pesky" chickens from fly
ing. in the gardens, and if it works
they may, think you are playing
Yankee trick. on them, but never
mind that II is to fix bracket on
each post letting it project outside
about five or six inches, and two or
three above the pai!ings and stretch
a, small wife. along, which can be
braced at each, c5rnet. /, Now whom
the chicken aims to'ily on the pail
iDgs it will inot notice the insignifi.
cant wire, s,ricking which, it will be
knocked back. If the old hen is not
avery good.shot she will not be able
to ''shoot" the space between wire
and pailings'and will no. be able to
account for what ,ails b,r, or she
would not calculate on going ever
without tipping the top.
[ cannot agree with Mis- E. A. G..
exactly on what she says about that
SOCIAL equaIi.y etc, for us the editor
says, the White House is not Roose-
velt's, and : besides, he ( is not our
boss, or ought not to be, and if he is
representing US, as a nation, he is
representing US to tie world as
nation on social equality with an in
ferior race, who sit down and dine
with them, while as to us az nation
practicing,it, it is. a lie. True, she
has in there things that tjolts US if we
look at it right, for if you look around