Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Sage of Red Oak Grove Writes
interesting Letter From Pig
con Texas" Advertiser
Commended.


am / doing? Trying to collect my
thoughts after reading your. paper
of the 9th inss. How didI read 1T!
Well, from A to z and as an old
man that / knew. always called the
letter q, not even overlooking quite
number of advertisements, and
also the announcements for public
Office. Pretty soon to begin to trot
around, kissing babies and making
promises. While think of it, | do
wonder if the hens knew thatit wls
election year and went on strike,
: or was it from the want of food
that they refused to lay eggs? Any
way fried chickens will be late in
our section, but I heard fellow
say "a few days ago, that brother
iin-law or his killed a hen for dinner,
and before night on the same day
: every hen on the place had laid an
egg and even the roosters went on
the nest. Next!
We had for several days real
spring weather, and some plowine;
done, the first since Christmas. Some
oats are being sown by those who
failed to SOW in the fall. Fall SOW !,
grain, both wheat and oats, have be-
gun to grow Some, and better stands
than were hoped FOR, are left on the
ground.
There has been great. deal of
sickness among us since Christmas.
mostly LaGrippe and few cases OF
pneumonia. Mrs. Il. NJ. Dorm has
been quite sick but at present is able
10 be up again, also Mrs. Mamie
Morgan, wife of Jno. Ed Morgan,
has been seriously i'll, but is better
and the doctor says on the road to tYo
recovery
And; the writer Of this is not to
say sick he Is not to say vel, kIndz
st,is or wore s,llt e guess bu ifes the:
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Did yon know, Editor, that
J, one Of the S. G.. G. I. gifls is
teaching onr school at Flat Rock;
this year? is a. fact, and not a
word from any one about her, not
even from her fellow whom we all
do wish she would make an Aero
plane outof for two years more, at
least, for we are all jealous because
we want her at least two years more
to teach our school; SO / just say [
would rejoice if that fellow gets
kicked hard enough to last him two
years.
The two old bachelors Of our sec
ton are still waiting for some fair
maid to propose. from the fact that
neither knows how, but just take
up their hats and leave when their
girl says no, but possibly intends to
say yes next time. Why, sir, they
actually went nearly to Columbia
prospecting, they say, but did not
say what they were prospecting for.
Well, they are both fine old men.
If they are a little bald. 3. r. Till
man says there are none SO old or
grey but that goose may come that
way. So mote it be!
Yes, we are going to plant more
corn, use more manure and, try to
, work it better, and raise more meat
too with potatoes, goobers and mo-
lasses, for when potatoes are plen-
tiful the -four in the barrel lasts
longer, or It does at my house, and
nothing helps more than a garden
of good vegetables. Winter greens
are always good eating after frost
falls.
Old man, John Sharpton used to
say he did not want to be buried
alive, and to be sure that he was
dead, just pass across his lips leaf
of well cooked winter collards and
if he did not snap at it why just
bury him, for if he wasn't dead he
ought to be buried anyhow.
That was indeed a sad affair that
took place at the court house, on
last Monday. When men will go
armed some one is almost sure to be
hurt or killed. Why do they carry
them? Tis not necessary. / am six
ty-6ve years old, and excepting six
years since seventy-six, have not
owned or carried one, and the six
years that l did was while y con-
stable for Brunson and Dobey, and
then / never carried one unless 1,
thought it necessary. During that
six years, excepting three times. |
had no use for one, and, strange to
say, on those three occasions | WAS
: nnarmed and / am glad that it WAS
SO, for it proved clearly to me that
being unarmed does not place US in
avery dangerous fix, from the fact
that itwonil be a sorry man who
would shoot one whom he knew
was nnarmed. ] certainly sympa-
fflize with both families of the sad
affair.
~ Mr. Ed;tor that memorial day