The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-29
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Editor The Manling Times:

Editor The Manaing Times:
It's hot weather where we live and
we might very well eXclaim like that
fellow that said, son for lodge in
some vast wilderness, a contiguity OF
shade" and he went on to say some
thing about the old maids being IN the
way, but we won't bother the Old maids
if they will just keep on cooking some
thing for US 10 eat. Yes, sir, with the
scales pulling down to 100 IN the shade.
if it amt hot weather it's most.
Crops are suffering for rain just now,
and the damage will be serious If we
don't soon get some rain. But through
all the hot, dry weather General
Green" hourishes. Up to now this has
been pretty tough year on the wool
hat brigade. We seemed to be making
very good progress until the hailstorm
struck us, and that just seemed to set
all the dogs of nature "agin" us. It's
been good many years since grass was
so hard to kill. You could plow up
big bunch, of grass and it would take
root on the other side aud grow right
on. I've seen some punches OF grass
that had been turned over so many
times that they had roots on all four
sides and both ends and it fourishlpg.
So I don't think there will be any fam
inc in the hay market this fall, unless 1t
is for the poor fellow that cuts, cures
and hsuls it to market for 25 cents per
hundred.
The hail did the tobacco crop very
bad around this community. Some OF
the farmers that had tobacco shoulder
high, and would not have sold for less
that $l00 per acre the day before the
hail, will have nothing in the world TO
sell but scrap, won't make enough to
paw for the fertilizer used. That's hard
luck, amt it? But the hailstorm didn't
do us half as much damage as that big
trust is going to do. People generally
Judge gun not so much by The fuss it
makes, but by the damage it does when
it shoots. Well then, somewhere away
up North there is one of the "golbust-
inest," biggest guns that ever has been
made or invented by man. That gun
is now owned and controlled by the
Engiish-American Tobacco Company.
Sometime last fall them fellows up there
loaded up that old gun, and instead OF
using common gunpowder they must
have filled her about half full of gun
cotton dynamite, and if there is any
thing that can tear up creation. some OF
that too, and nobody has ever been able
to ''fgger" out what they used for shot
in that gun. Anyhow, when they got
her loaded to their satisfaction they
turned the muzzle OF it down South and
hollered out, Everybody that don't
want 10 git hurt, git out the way"
When that gun fired it did hit, wound,
penetrate and cripple every tobacco
farmer in Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
and heap more that amt been heard
from vet. They do say that the con-
cussion from that gun Jared milk
down in the hominy pots in China.
tReckon they must have been cooking
breakfast when the gun fired. Well
now l Just want to tell you that a gun
like that is dangerous weapon. en-
tirely too dangerous to be owned or
controlled by any company OF men.
Nothing but government like Uncle
Sans or John Bulls ought TO be al
lowed TO have a gun that could create
so much devilment as that. Why, just
suppose Stonewall Jackson had have
had gun like that when he was
fighting them Yanks, he could liave
Just relied her down in Florida some
where and pointed ner back this way
and said, Everybody take care of your
selves and let l,er slide.' The only
trouble he would have had would be to
load her with something that wouldn't
kill anything but Yankees, and I think
he could have managed that alright, for
them fellows that shot that other big
gun managed it o. k. They didn't hurt
anybody much but tobacco farmers. [
wonder if the warehouse men are going
to have any mercy ON the fellows that
the hail hit. They ought to, but the
presumption is the other way.
Yours truly,
JOHN SLAB.