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

any nation are never responsible for
war. Some man or ii limited number
OF men--arc always instigatores-and
upon their head pOurs the blood of
slaughtered thousands. While / have
never been a believer in the old fash
ion orthodox Methodist hell, | have
| about concluded that If there is none,
the Lord has made a mistake I'm not
creating real frst-class one.
If you want to forget your troubles,
get pair of tight shoes.
care absolutely nothing about
the name or character of mans re-
ligion, jnst SO H. suits him-and he
doesn't try so force ne 10 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.
It Is mighty poor consolation to an
editor to hear his paper praised by
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 a 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 othhr
useful and money producing crops, $50
| they will have a little money of their
own and be more contented to stay on
| the farm. h
Here's to love. a thing so divine,
! Description makes it but the less:
| Tis what we feel but cannot define,
'Tis what we know bnt cannot ex-
| press.
DR.. Acker was telling the story of
little girl who had been much ILL
treated, says: She said she had been
whipped as far back as she could re-
member =" That is about where most
children are whipped, as we under
stand it.
Inc 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
ly, asking about the adNisability of
cross-breeding. OF course, we know
that the first cross OF two pure
breeds give us a cro3s-bred offspring.
| A.
this cross-bred stock, we are left abe
soluteiy in the dark as to the knowl-
edge OF what the offspring will be.
They evidently will be genuine mon
grels or scrub stock. I 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 q deal OF this kind your
chances are OF losing something and
gaining nothing. To cross-breed and
start new breed is all right as
pleasure and opportunity to fool away
time, but entirely unsatisfactory for
man hoping to make a living out of
chickens. II you desire to gain no.
toriety take up some of our older
breeds and again bring them into
favor.
| Next time sufragist delegation
calls at the White House II may be
informed that grandpa is too busy
playing with the baby to receive COM
pany.
can stand for the man with the per-
sonal hobby.
And live through the rawlings of
those who have fads;
But my temper Is short and inclined
to be knobby
With the person who says that. he
never reads ads, s
am we'll along In years. Some
people would call me an old man. but
feel thnt ain 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
Our creator intended that we should
enjoy life. that we should be happy;
but In order to be happy. we must do
our part, we muat fight despondency
as we would the attack of a wild
beast. We must look on tho cheerful
side of things. We must be hopeful.
We must expect good things. When
winter comes, we must look forward
to the spring. In the spring. we
must look forward with Joy to the
coming summer. In summer. we
must anticipate the beauties OF
Autumn.
! UNCLE DAVE.
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