Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-04-18
UNCLE "IV" WRITES.
Expresses His Views on War.
Raising Food Crops. Com
mends President VIII
son and Congress.

| 49,
s pressing themselves or their view
8 on the war, will splode my splatle
ments by telling of an incident tina
: took place many years ago.
g There lived in the neighborhoo
!. OF large school man that had
! few young men boarding at hi
home, and they on one occasion
complained about their fare at th
table, and the man with whom the,
were boarding said that he coult
eat crow. The young men sait
no more just then, but decided on /:
plan to get even. So one of then
went out and killed crow, anc
took it to the cook and told lei
that her master Git was in the days
of slavery, and the black nanny did
the cooking) wanted a crow and
told her to cook it right, and at the
same time gave her pepper shak.
er with snuff in it, and told the
cook to put plenty of pepper on it,
and she did as she was told to do.
And when meal time came around,
there was that crow, and the man
of the house asked what it was and
was told that it. was crow, and it
was prepared for him as he said he
could eat a crow, and he replied
that he could, and helped himself to
some of it, but he soon begun to
make ugly faces, and do as if he
was about to vomit, and finally
gave it up, and one of the young
men said 10 him: / thought you
said that you could eat crow, and
he replied; I can, but lam not hank
ering after it.
I have had taste of war, and am
not "hankerng" after it, but as far
ta44sss
aIresd n az 9s aI IW594 sEs:LlE q uE9eq lou op 1el
acres in corn, oats and wheat. I
mean oats sown after the freeze, and
with seasons to suit next month will
make good oats. Yes, will finish
planting cotton today. Not as
much as last year, and corn at least
twice as much as we planted last
year to the two plows that | run(or
the boys) and in every row of the
corn will put peas or velvet beans
and some peanuts, too; and have
also. Ribbon cane and sorghum fol-
the stock, with some early corn to
help out for early feed for mules,
hogs and COWS. and some sorghum
to make up into syrup, and at least
an acre in sweet potatoes. In that
way l am trying to help my country
in trying to raise something to ea'
for man and beast, and with seasons
to suit, some to spare for those who
are dependent on the farmer fol
their living.
In letters I receive from those
with whom l correspond, I am ask
ed the question as to what / think
about the greatest war that ha'
ever been waged, and my reply i:
something like this: Try and no
get excited, but plant something tt
3 eat; for as to when it will clos
God alone knows, and tits useles
for anyone to speculate about it.
But in my poor judgment it vii
{ not close until the central power
, in Europe have to succumb to thos
who are allied against them-bu
E that the central powers of Europ
will be oYerthrown-I haven't
doubt, from the very fact that
can't and don't believe that 60
ever intended that one man or
: few should rule world or nation
9 No sir, those flibusters in the U
S. Senate are fair type in my min
r of the Kaiser Of Germany and hi
T advisers, and like them the peopl
of those countries that have no say
so in the government, will eventua
ly rise in their might and clair
their freedom as Russia has alread
y done.
I am proud of our President c
: these United States and also of ou
Congress. They have and al
= quitting themselves like men tina
every American citizen has a rigt
and ought and are proud Of then
Now I close with this. BE sti
and know that I am God"-Psalm
4e-lo, and again; wait patientl
for Him''-Psalms 37-7. No, | al
b no preacher, but if there was ever
timewhen we ought to wait.patientl
ts it seems to me that time is nov
Almost the whole world at war, an
h the end not yet and may not be fe
sometime. I, nor any one else know
re but God knows, aud in His ow
good time He will'in the right wa