The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-19
Uncle DQUe's Letter

Il me BiSdl LldSSeo W the DpOplO OIL
any nation are never responsible for
war. Some man or u limited number
Of men-are always instigatcrea-an
upon their head pours the blood of
slaughtered thousands While | have
| never been q believer in the old fash
ion orthodox Methodist hell, I have
about concluded tina. If there Is none,
| the Lord has made mistake in not
creating Il real first-cIass one.
II you wart TO forget your troubles.
get pair uf tight shoes.
care absolutely nothing about
the name or character Of a mans re-
ligion, Just SO 1t suits him-and he
| doesn't try to force me to accept mis-
| theories.
II every rich man paid taxes in
proportion to the poor man. national.
State and county vaults would have
! TO be enlarged.
1t Is mighty poor consolation to an
editor 70 hear his paper praised by q
man who owes seven years back
subscription.
This keeping one eye on Washing
ton and the other on Mexico is rapid
ly making us crosseyed.
A good way in which tc make farm
Ing pay Is to encourage and help the
women and children on the farm to
run some kind of little industry
which will be both pleasure and a
profit to them: Encourage them to
| raise poultry: help them TO sell milk.
eggs and butter; to plant fruit trees.
grape vines. strawberries and other
useful and money producing crops, so
they Will have a little money of their
own and be more contented to stay on
| the farm.
Here's to love. a thing so divine.
Description makes it but the less;
lis what we feel but cannot define
lis what We know but cannot ex-
press.
Dr.. AckeT was telling the story Of
little girl who had been much ILL.,
| treated. says: "She said she had heen
whipped as far back as she could re-
member" That is about where most
children are whipped, as we under
stand It.
The boy stood on the burning deck:
Felief ships bley their horns;
Alas. he could not move. because
The heat had popped his corns.
am receiving many Inquiries late
iy' asking about the adNisability Of
cros3-breeding. OF course, we know
that the first cross of two pure
breeds give us q crc3s-bred offspring.
When we come to breeding together
this cross-bred stock, we are left alb
solutely in the dark as to the knowl-
edge Of Whist the offspring will be.
| They evidently will be genuine mon
grels or scrub stock. generally ask
these people why they wish to cross-
breed. They generally say to improve
the breed they have, or some stan
| dard breed. They evidently think that
they can keep all the desirable quail
ties Of one and add the desirable
qualities of another: Not so my
! friends. In g deal OF this kind your
chances are of losing something and
gaining nothing. To cross-breed and
start a new s-eed is all right as
pleasure and opportunity to fool away
time, but entirely unsatisfactory for
man hoping to make:S living out OF
chickens. II you desire to gain no.
torie.y take up some of our older
breeds and again bring them into
favor.
Next time sufragist delegation
calls at the White HouEe it may be
informed that grandpa Is too busy
playing with the baby to receive COM
pany.
I can stand for the man with the per-
sonal hobby,
And live through the rawlings of
those who have fads;
Put my temper Is short and inclined
to be knobby
With the person who says that he
never reads ads
rsS,.
am well along in years. Some
people would call me an old man, but
feel that I am but boy. have
had my troubles. and yet. can say
that in every year Of my life have
felt the Joy of living. and. never more
have felt the Joy OF living, than in
the last few years when / have been
approaching old age.