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

Santuc, S. c., Feb. IL am in a
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 rainfall of 6.57"
but about a 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, l 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 week at least to dry
off 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
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 beat,
the devil has a field rich unto harvest
and he certainly runs his moving
machine. One can see young negroes
idllng around and going from plac>
to place, never trying to get a 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 trifling 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 penitentiary.
L guess our own country has some of
that class and they must be an in
cubus on any community. I was
taught better than to loaf and I find
it 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
dldates because of idlencss, but we
nave none of these young whites with
us.
There is an outbreak of cholera
IN this section now and is ASSUMING
quite formidable aspect. Just ar
ter Christmas Mr.. Travers Jeter had
a young Berkshire sow to get sick
and he tried to get the State veti-
nary here to diagnose the case but
ne would not come. A short while
after another one was taken sick
no one thought it was cholera. Sat
urday morning a 500 FOUNDER and a
hne specimen of the Berkshire noc
died. And the fact that Mr.. Stark
Austin had several sick in town, they
got busy to get the veterinary here, If
they had to ask the governor for
him, but the county Demonstration
Agent, Mr.. f. w. Carnell, came down
The dead hog was cut up and ey-
amlned and the case was pronounced
cholera. Then 1t seemed that some
thlng was providential, for the porter
or the special No. 27, got q passenger
on here for Union through some mis-
take, Mr.. Goodwin, graduate of
Clemson and who had studied vetar-
nary science and he visited the Aus
TN herd of hogs and pronounced the
affection cholera. We can hear of
more hogs sick and dying all around
us. Some have been thrown to the
dogs and buzzards and this malady
may clean up the hog business in this
section. People are preparing to
inoculate, but many hogs already
have the germs in them. There are
some fine hogs in our country. Ny
next door neighbor, DR.. Jeter, has
a 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.. Jeter's
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.. CARMEL and is
inoculating 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