The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-02-05
SANTUC NEWS

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hurry, are you?
If one sits up and takes survey
OF things, he will note that we have
done very little work the past month.
January had a rainfall of 6.57"
but about normal mean tempera-
ture of 42.3. February started with
first days rain of 2.19" in about
twelve hours and streams were re-
ported to be very high. No doubt
land has been badly washed, 1 have
not yet been out.
Many of the latter fall sowing of
oats was killed by the freezes and
that necessitates much to be sowed
over If the weather will permit in
time, and is so very wet now, that
1T will take a week at least to dry
Oft sufficient with plenty of sunshine.
One OF the truest sayings extant
is 'idleness is the DEVILS workshop.
This holds good even with mules and
horses, If however, Satan ever tempts
a dumb brute to do bad things. They
are mighty hard to manage after a
few days idleness. But when it
comes to people, especially young
people, chronic idler or dead bear.
and he certainly runs his moving
machine. One can see young negroes
idling around and going from plac>
to place, never trying to get job
and often hiding form the officers
of the law, that ought to be doing
service on the gang. But the worst
thing of all is for the young whit.
people to become trifing that they
Will not do lick of work and who try
to be too genteel to turn tramps or
who wear out their welcome as dead
beats, and when one can no longer
furnish money and food to support
them, then the devil takes a hand
and leads them into rascality, straight
to the chaingang or the penitentiarv.
l guess our own country has some ofl
that class and they must be an in-I
cubus on any community. | was
taught better than to loaf and find
1T Is an uphill job getting anything
done when one puts in full time, al
the time. ] have my mind on more
than one young negro who are can.
didates because of idlencss, but we
have none Of these young whites with
us.
IN this section now and is assumin,~
quite formidable aspect. Just ar-
ter Christmas Mr.. Travers Jeter had
young Berkshire SOW to get sick
and he tried to get the State veti-
nary here to diagnose the case but
he would not come. A short while
after another one was taken sick.
no one thought it was cholera. SAT
urday morning 500 FOUNDER and a
fine specimen of the Berkshire hoc
died. And the fact that Mr.. STARK
Austin had several sick in town, thov
got busy to get the veterinary here, II
they had to ask the governor for
HIM, but the county Demonstration
Agent, Mr.. f. w. Carnell, came down.
me dead hog was cut up and eX-
amlned and the case was pronounced
choiera. Then it seemed that some
thing was providential, for the porter
of the special No. 27, got passenger
Off here for Union through some mis-
take, Mr.. Goodwin, a graduate OF
Clemson and who had studied vetar-
nary science and he visited the Aus
TN nerd OF hogs and pronounced the
affection cholera. We can hear of
'''OiS 'OSS SIGN ana dying all around |
us. Some have been thrown to the
dogs and buzzards and this malady
may clean up the hog business in mis- |
section. People are preparing to
inoculate, but many hogs already |
nave the germs in them There are !
some fine hogs in our country. Ny |
next door ncighbor, DR.. Jeter. has
d fine sow with six as pretty three
weeks old pigs as one need wish to
see and they are on the adjoining
lot to where the other Mr.. letters
hog died and in easy reach by the
germ carrier, the english sparrow,
an easy medium to spread the disease
to every pen in the community.
Since writing the above, Mr.. Davis,
Mr.. Allan Nicholson's farm manager
came down with Mr.. Carnell and is
hogs and there may be
about a hundred that will receive
the treatment, but as has been said
many may already have the germs
in their systems and will die.