Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-06-13
ssUNCLE w" WRITES.
Refreshing Rains. Three Sons
Register for Military Service.
Celebrated Seventy-Third
Birthday.
Dear Old Advertiser:

1t has been some time Since last
sent greetings to loved ones and
friends through you. | am now
doing something that seldom
do-write to any one or the paper
on Sunday. But please excuse me
this time. 1 had intended writing
you yesterday, but don't tell on me.
I must confess to having the blues.
Why? Well, it was awful dry down
here, and the wind had been blow
ing so hard most of the time for the
last three or four weeks, and the
sands flying through the air till yon
had to turn your back to the clouds
of dust and sand to save your eyes.
The crops and even the grass had
taken on a dove color from the dust
and want of sap, but last night we
had good rain and this morning
all vegetation looks green and fresh,
and instead of having the blues
(which l ought not to have had) l
feel as fresh as the vegetation looks.
The crops have been growing very
little for the last two weeks, but
they have been taking on root that
will drink in the moisture like a
thirty animal, and will grow off
pretty fast now, as all crops have
been well worked up, and are clean
of grass and will only need the
plow and seasons to make the crop,
as the hoeing is about done with
most of the farmers, and this week,
if weather admits, good deal Of
the first planting of corn will laid
by.
There was three things that the
dry weather did not seems to effect
much, squashes, cucumbers and wa
termelons, and if seasons suit there
will be watermelons to eat by the
first of July, but they wont do to
work, on, but with the good q raiH 2
last night and seasons to suit cab
cage, beans, beets, tomatoes. etc..
will, and never saw the like plant.
ed, and every one seems to have
caught the fever called live at
home" So much for the war. We
fool farmers it seems never learn
anything till forced to it by circum'
stances that we can't control.
Two years ago 1 was asked by a
man when l thought the war would
close. I told him | nor no other
human could tell, but that would
not be surprised if the world was
involved before it closed, and il
looks now as if the prediction nigh,
be coming true.
Registration to fad out the g. S.
war strength has past, and it does
me good to know that the young
manhood of to-day equals up to, OF
even surpasses, that of the sixties
and that is putting it pretty strong
On the day of registration I wai
hoeing cotton near the road, anc
one of my sons drove by on his way
to register, and his sister called tt
him and told him to put on his shoes
(for he was barefooted), and hi
called back Il am on my way te
Germany. 1t made me feel a little
sad when he made the remark tina
be was on his way to Germany
Yet at the same time it made MI
feel proud of my boy. Yes, have
three that come under the selectivt
draft law, and | would be ashamed
of either one of them if I were tt
know that they were a Stacker.
To-day is my seventy-third birth
day. I will pass on then to th'
next mile store that l may neve
reach, and as l write there come tc
my mind many fond recollections il
the past, and some very sad ones
And / am convinced of one thing
that life is not a bed of roses. Oh
no! But even roses some of then
have thorns; and life, too, has it
thorns, but if we try to live the life
God would have US live He will SEE
after the thorns, for He knows where
and what they are, and can and will
remove them in His own good time
A life without some thorns in i
would make. us love this world too
good for our own good, and We
would not want to leave it all, ant
Heaven would lose some of its at
traction.
Love to all from
Uncle Iv.
Harlem, Ga.