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THE UNION TIMES. Ijt VOL XXVII.?NO- 3. UNION SOUTH CAROLINA JANUARY 17, 189C. $1.50 A YEAR. ' t. M. FARR, GEO- MUNRO, ' President. Casbie r. muk ? ' lSs.a& Or XJ3STI03ST. -:o: Capital Stack $60,000. Surplus SC0.00 taakiivtlders liabilities $00,00?Total? 170.000 f AT PARTING. J iwi ' --WW Bo, with a last goodby, . j In this gray hour you die To us, as wo to you; Parting is dying, too, Aad distance, heart to honrt despairing with. In but a namo for death. Tomorrow wo shall say, "Our thoughts refh ot today Bis quiet room up stairs. The lonely look it wears; Tor all s houso seems desolate and dim With want of only him." What household things shall stand Hollowed brcauso your hand ! TTou 1 Wo uV.,,11 m\mm I Your holp in that or this, Jjtd treasure even trivial words you aaid Ab memories of the dead. You will bear with you thus Remembrances of us; And. writing now nnd then Of stranger lends and men, Your tidings from afar afc.11 r -aoh us bar* As from another sphere. Just as if you, at last, ^ * That greater sen liad pnnsod Whose winds and waterr yearn Outward and never turn, ill, leaking through thn waste of alienee Vm% You called from tin* unkuown. Evan death is nothing raoro Than opening of a doc-r Through which man pass away As stars into the day. And we, who aee it not, blinded by the light, Cry, "They are lost in nlghtl" Thus ever, near or far, Life seems but whero wo are; Yet those wo bid goodby 1 Find death is not to die. As you, departing from our daily strife fiom life to lifo. QUp bands, and now furewelli The word a a passing knoll, Si" *#*jd?tnlng your by year, JUtDr tsftbmpfc* there as h"re, I'ktarK jt nor afle'nt would the diatanea be 1' Oould we bnt boar and see. ?A. St. John Adcocic in Spectator. 1 Story of a Careful Man. J Ge was a careful and thoughtful I man. In fact, it may ho said that I he was an oxtroniely caroful and thoughtful man. Ho "was rosting comfortably ip hie easy chair with his foot rosting on a foolrost when bo discovered that his poncil needed sharpening. Any other man would liavo taken out his knife and hogun \\\.rk at once, but he was too thovghtful for that, al^o too caroful. He sighed, got up out of his chair and wont across the room for a little wnsto paper baskot that was standing in the corner. Then ho returned to his sont in tho easy chair and plaoed tho basket on tho floor between his logs. His wife smiled approvingly, and he felt proud of himself. Ho opened his knud, lo rl ovor his basket and beg:in :,or . on the pencil. "It is just as easy to bo careful and thoughtful," ho said as ho dotaohed tho first shaving from the end of tho poncil. "It is," ropliod liiswifoas she followed tho shaving with lior oyo and it ^ 4,over his shoulder and land on the carpet hohind him. But why continuo? There aro fow who have not triod to sharpon a ponOil over n small basket in somo moment of temporary insanity. Whon ho had finished, thore were thrco shavings in tho basket, and the rest wore on tho floor. That is usually tho way it hap. pens.?Chioago Post. IHtCUlMd. A certain German professor of music to bo mot with in English Iarawing rooms is iin emcriuiuing old gentlonion. To him rooontly a lady said, w^bon ono of his compositions had juflt heon romlorod by ono of tho guosts: "How did you liko tho rondoring of your song, professor?" "Vasdot my song?" replied tho jnrofossor. 4,I vas not know him."? London Tit-Bits. The Pronanolatlon. Thoro nro so callod cheap stores in Jersoy. 1 happened to bo in one of them. In tho buck part of the store I saw a tub stonoilcxl "Bnttcrino." 1 asked tho olork whether ho pronouncod tho "iuo" like tbo "ino" in "nine,"or liko tho "oon" in sixteen. I 4,Oh, no, "wo do not pronounce it all," wus the smart answer. 44Wo ?|?11 it butter."?Retail Grocers' Advocate. . I*. .* l r.ojaltr at the Pawnbroker's. Kh.gs and queena are far more frequent oustoineraof tbo pawnshop than most people would ho willing to believe. Thus, Queen Isabella of Spain has repcatodly lmd hor jewels in pawn, while tho silver plato of the late ex-king of Naples and of his heroic queen, a sistor of tho empress of Austria, has been for yoara at a time reposing in the vaults of the great London pawnbroker Aitor.borougb. Evon the Prince of Wales has known what it is to havo his time kept by his unole, for when visiting tho battlefields shortly after the Franco-German war ho found himself stranded at So<lau without money enough to pay liis hotel bill or to oontinv.o his journey. IIo had no timo to telegraph for funds, and even if ho had thoro was tbo danger of disclosing bis identity, which, with respect to Fronch susceptibilities, ho was anxious at all costs to keop secret. So ho handed liis watch and chain to his oquerry, Genoral Teosdalo. who. addiuit thereto bis own and that of tho prince's valet, who accompanied them, proceodod to tho local inont do pioto, or pawnshop, whero ho raised enough monoy to enable tho prince to continue his journey.?Philadelphia Press. Called Hack. A commercial traveler for a London firm sooured an order for ?1,000 in the west offcn gland, and, as it was not duly acknowledged, wrote a letter to tho firm calling special attention to it and saying, "I thought you would consider such an order quite a feather in my cap." In reply ho received this note from his principal, "Wo have filed your order, and inclose for your cap the one fcathor you require." Aftor about a fortnight canio another letter from tho firm: "Tho noonl? wlio pnvn vnn the ?1.000 or dor have failed, and wo lose the goods. Wo bavo this day sont to you a bagful of feathors for you to fly home with, as wo do not want you out on the road for us any more."?Strand Magazine. Yctith ia not the age of pleasure. We then expect too much, and wo are, therefore, exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older and liavo brought down our wishes to our ex' per ion oe, then wo become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves.?Lord Liverpool. Gold pens are now usually tipped with iridium. Tho hits of this metal are laid in notches at tho point of tho pen, then fastens! on with flux, : being afterward ground and polished for uso. Germany stands next to Great Britain in the number of pensioners, thero being GS8 soldiers of tho civil war who regularly draw their pensions from tho United States government. Mother of Pearl. Mother of pearl is tho hard, sil vory, brilliant suhstaneo which j forms tho intornnl layers of sovoral i kinds of shells. Tho interior of our common oyster shells is of this nature, hut tho mother of pcnrlused in tho arts is much more variolated with a play of colors. Tho large sholls of tho Indian seas alone have this pearly substanco of suflioiont thicknoss to bo of use. Cauttn and Effirct Thoro is a good story told of ? Hertfordshire farmor. Ho wonl , homo late ono night and drank r | pint of yeast in mistake lor butter milk. He rose throo hours carlioi I next morning.?Cardiff Mail. FINANCIAL. MONITY TO I O A N In 511 ins of$30t). unil iipwftHa upon improv o I roul OHlalo iu Union Comity. Long Iiin j ?ml easy payment.i. Apply to II V I) HI K .v SAW 1 KR, At.ornrys a! I.aw, Union, S. C GUAM 0! We offer to the fanners o Union County the well knowi ; brands of fertilizers. i Edisto Soluble Guano | Edisto Acid Phosphate Also tiie guanos made by tlv Union. Qi! & Mfg. Co Fant Bros STORIES OF EUGENE FIELD. tales of tho Poet That A re Told Aaoag His Chicago Friends. During one financial crisis that was especially sevoro Eugeno Fiold could see so way out of liis difficulties except to ask for a raise of snli ?ry, and that was as abhorrent to Awn nntnt>n no if b^on ftjic uiiu uaiui u un iu n uuivi iuiyu uuvu to do a mean action. Several days in suocesaion ho cumo to tho offico resolved to make appeal to Mr. Stone, and each day ho v.ert homo having failed to nerve himself up to tho speaking point. Finally ho formed a thoroughlyhaructcristio resolution, and for ?a w ot k was not soon in the offico at all. Then one afternoon he marched into Mr. Stono's offico followod by four of his littlo children, the five of them presenting such a pitiable appearance as would bavo wrung tears from his employer had his heart and his namo been synonymous, which was far from being the enso. Father and children were dressed in tags and tattors from head to foot; tli i children's toes wore sticking out l aro through boles in their shoes; their faces woro unwashed and their eves red, as if they had been crying. Field himself was in ro better plight, and there tho five stood in front of Mr. Stono, speaking not n word, but looking at him with apnnnlinr* nlnnant.' All 11< *\P /i/mi | vr?. iiu tiuo ui I bad been enrofully rehearsed by | Fiold during tfco week of conspiracy, and tbo result was simply overwhelming. At last Field broke tbo eilenco, looking at bis employer, who was also his best friend, out of thoso big eyes so full of human kindness, and said: "Do you think you can soo your way, Mr. Stone, to raising my salary?" Noodloss to say ho got tlio raise. Field's eccentricity showed itself in the books ho purchased, many of which had no possible bearing upon j his work and indeed had small inj trinsio valuo. "My library," ho used to say, "i9 full of fool books," and there was some truth in this. For oxamplo, he had hundreds of volumes containing tbo works of unknown and or tbo most part unworthy poets. Nothing phased him morothan to buy some liltlo volume of oxcorablo verso produced by c poet in Peoria or Cohlwater or any i other insignificant place, and theco j ho would rai.^p proudly with tbo ' 1 * nt?a ami tnvn n*vm | uiuvjio UIJVI bin u *j \ kt.& lU'J ; pages "just to boo liov bail tlioy i wore." Ho mid that things had to bo either voi y good or very bad in order to plcnso him. Ono of tlie quoer things ho did at Tho Nowsoflico was tlio< stabhsldng of what ho called Ibo "Field memorial window," really a po> 'no of a glass door ovor which lie had an t artist draw a cherub with thoorthoj dox wings attached to his own head and fuco. Under this eii< rub's head ho took delight in pasting all tko disagreonblo clippings ho could anther from nowspapors and po.kuicals regarding any ono in tlio offi :o and I especially about himself. This winI dow caino to bo regarded as a regaI lar bullotin board of spleen, and many a quiet cbucklo Field would i liavo watching tlio long faces of his ' companions as they read sarcastio I or facetious romarks about thorn. 1 Fiold never cared how much fun 1 ! was mado of him, and ho was tlio 1 first to applaud when the la igh was j at his own oxpenso.?Now York Sun. fie Dodged. k ! "Bo suro your sin will find you ; out, "said a man who has a weakI k ness for high hats, which is inconsistent with his general modo of dross. "At tlio instancq. of my wife, | who did not liko his stylos, I aban! doncd my old lmttor not long ago and got a hat at. another shop. For foar ho would discover this I went around tho blook rather than pass ; his shop when on my way to busi?i noss. i '"I only postponed tho evil day. I \ took a seat in a restaurant yestor| da}* at tho very tablo at which ono j of his salesmen was seated. Ho , started as lie saw my hat, but at * ! one? looked the other way. "When i he got up, ho said p.oasantly .liar 1 ho hoped I would come bac k to tliom | heforo long. Ono comfo-t, is tluit I I won't liavo to go around tho block p , uDy more."?Exchange. | Rnnulng th? Gantlet. j Running tho gantlet ns a military , | punishment was, it is sahl, origbiated by Gustavns Adolphus to punish ' ; thioves in his army. It was bor. ' rowed by tho English fro: i tho (Jcr! mans, who copied it from Gust ivus, | and hoing ouiplovod in tho Jji itif1: I regiments in America was readil} > taken npby tho Indians of tliiscoun ' try. r."V k v't MISTAKEN IOENTITV. There Wu a Tut DUTerenee la th? Twa Cum fa QomUob. | The other day at Montezuma wbilo two citizens were conversing ; at the depot a negro approached and addrossod one of them as follows: "Kurnel, I h'ar yo' wants to git a man out on de plantashun." 1 "Yes, I wnnt a man out there," replied the ooldnel as he lookod the negro over. "Seems to mo I've seen you before." "Reokon not, sah. I'ze now roun hore." ' f uui i insure i ve scon you somewhero. Lot's see. I was over at Porry the other day." i "Yoa, sah, yp' wuz ober to Porry." "And while there I cailod at the jail." "Yes, sab, yo' called at do jail. Dey has got a powerful nico jad obor to Perry." 1 "And while at the jail I sawn col1 ored man who was serving a sen. tonco for stealing a hog." 1 "No doubt.of it, kurnol. Yes, yo' i dun saw a oull'd pusson right in dat j jail at Porry." "And you aro tho man," said tho colonel as ho laid his hand on tho negro's shoulder, i "Jos'so, kurnol; jes' so. I was i right in dat jail at Perry, an I dun 'members of seein yo' pass along. I Curious what a mem'ry some whito i folks has in deir heads." "But you don't suppose I want a I man who has been in jail for steal! ing, do you?" exclaimed the colonel, i "No, sah; no, sah. Of co'so yo' don't. Dat'a what I'zo horo to dia . plain abou{. Yo' got it all wrong uuut uuu >iju^, liuuiui. jJua^ujLi ' who <luu stole do hog wuz asleep ; when yo' called. I wuzn't in dnt I jail for stefelin no hog. I'zo no such { man as dai." "Then what woro you in for?" "Why, dey said dorn two bags er ! cottonseed meal what doy found in my cart muz tookon from do dcpoV* j "Oh, 1 sea. Well, what's the dif i forcnce?" j "Wbat'p do differonco? Ueap3 I o' differonco, sah. On do one hand, ! I'zo loau 'n, up a bar'l o'salt arter t -darken dtim bags jos' tumbled into j ray cart wliilo ray hack wuz turnod. On dooddor hand, a pusson goes out by daylight an runs a hog nreun' do woods for obor two hours boioro j bo cotchos a bind log. ?euso mo, kurnol. I did rookon like to I work on yo' plantashun, but. if yo' ! am do sort o' man who can't ceo do differonco botweon a pusson restin iu jail to obleogo do jury an boin sent to jail for stoalin n bog I , couldn't trust ray reputasiiun in yo' bands. Good mawnin, kurncl; good mawnin."?Atlanta Constitution. li? Built A Don]. All kinds of animals do wonderful things without over boing taught. Each in its own lino inherits an education which in common lnntruago ' goes by tlio narao of instinct. The Woman's Journal gives this story of ? lufl'tl V ux A eollego profossor in Maino tolls how lio convinced a friend who did not believe tlint beavers could build a dam. IIo bought a baby beaver of a hunter and sent it tohisskoptioal friend. The creaturo bocamo a groat pot in tho house, but showed no signs of wanting to build a dam until ono Monday morning a leaky pad full of wator was put on tho floor of tho back kitchen. Thoboavor was tboro. IIo was only a baby, to bo sure, but thomomontho saw tho wator oozing out of a crack in tho pail ho scamporod into tho yard, brought in a chip and began lii9 work. His owner was called and watched tho little follow, very much astonished at what ho saw. Ho gavo orders to have tho pail loft whore it was, and tho industrious b -avor kept at his work four weeks, when ho had built a solid dam all around tbo pail. A Royal Editor. Ono of tlio most interesting of newspapers is tho Now Zealand To Pnkio Matariki, or Pleiades, or Sovon Star-. 7^ oujoys tho distinction of having a king for an editor. Ilis royal highness Tawhiuo is not, it is true, an independent sovoroign like Emperor William, bnt when l.o descends from tbo royal tlirono to , the editor's "easy chuir" then, in. ! deed, is bo monarch of all bo su:*! veys, even of that othorwiso indo pendent personage, the "printor s devil." ! '.I bo Pleiades is a small eight pap a paper, tlireo columns on a pngo. 11 is pjiutcd in tbo English and natit o tonguos. Sometimes tbo trauslatic i is in tbo center column, sometime 1 in one of tbo outside columns, j Tho Maori language is a Polyn. ' sian dialect. It closely approach* i I that of tho Kandwioh Islands, of tl ) 1 W" A. Mich t BANE I TJ JSJ - J IT i tully soli?'i< \ oi RE?K^lNT OOMPANU* WH ; Navigator's groui) and of Rarotonga. i Natives of tlii oO mutually under; stand 0110 another.?Strand Maga' eino. No, Ho Wasn't Oat. ! Ho?And aid you sso Monto Carlo while you wore at Nioo? She?No; pupa oalled on him, I ; believe, but fr??:n his disappointed ! appoarar.ivlr u I-' r turned to tho j hotel I t'.iirik ( lo rauat hr.70 ' ; been out."?Lon 1 "r.n. THE COER WOMAN. riAlo Cbod^Ii, but liififcd 1 rum the Craillt to the Grave. 11 The B?or woman is unlovable in j i appearaneo. G- ices and mode, n ac- I 1 oomplishments aro unknown to hor. ( 1 Handsome sho is not, nor is hor temper angelic. Her rooking would I ' often kill an ostrich, and licr voioo fs not attuned to harmony. All that notwithstanding, tho most 1 kissed being on earth is tho Boer | ! woman. | From tho cradle to tho pravo she ; is kissed?hy great-grandfathor and great-grandmother, by lior grandfather and grand-not ior; of course sho is kissed by hor parents. She is ' kissed by hor grand uncles and aunts, by cousins male and female ! ' to tho last degree of kinship. SSlio >, is kissed hy the relatives of the , above and by their relatives. Her I brothers and brothers-in-law, her sisI ters and sislcrs-in law and all thoir : obildron kiss hor. So docs her sweet, heart and all her femolo friends and ; acquaintances. Her nusband and ' ! children and all her relatives and io! male trionds, residing long or short 1 under her roof, kiss hor repeatedly j I every day. Whether sho and her husband are ; ! in good circumstances or not, lie . o ui m lis jj< M 11 ii t?; ? iuiuiii ur ; ing horadvico and uLnling by it. llo t undertakes no work without her i sanction. Sho commands her mar- i ! ried son of i>0 in tbo same way that | sbo did when ho was 5. He obeys . I and kisses her just as cbildliko. She I calls her husband l?.y his Christian J J name to her friends. To others .-ho i speaks of him as "the baar." . | her if ho is her "bans." "No," ? \ I is her "ninn." "What whito won,. t an," sbo asks you, "over had a innsj tor? Do you tako ino for a HnfTir ' | woman?" 1 Tho Boer woman could not conj coivo tho idea of having a mas* r. In poverty most, dire sbo has bad j from infancy at least one black servant. Like her mother before hi r, sbo would soo her daughters per ,<h ] with hunger bolero she would nii w , them to go as domestic servants. Thoy aro in her eyos tho equals of i tho most high born dames in any land, and servants they snail never bo. Sho detests tbo thought of lier j . sons working for an employer, hut of ton has to give way on that point. Tho Boer woman has often been hold up as lii/.y, dull, stupid and dirty*. A greater calumny has nov- ' or beon uttered against any woman. Her intense niido and lovo of in :e- ' pendonco make her rj.poar so to ::io ! European lady or gentleman \> .kj : knows nolMing of the conditions of ' < lifo that have lormed her customs and made her v 1 at she is at ]?j ose it. 1 Tho Boer woman, with her o". il? (Iron, would roliro to tho most . rid desert of Afiica and livoonair so >ner than dwelt at nso ar.d in lux. ;,y wliero she co itvast d unf.wcra !y . with hernei;:l..jv rs. olios -oras no ' slightest pntronugo extended to b 1, no matter from whom, i She has inherited an inuato lovo of bright colors and beautiful things. When slio cannot obtain t hoso 1 a in s, she is content to wear tho saddest colorod garments and not ho trou bled by tho most sordid and droary surroundings. she rules bor "man" kind with a rod of iron, 'llieyd,. v.ot know it, kowovor, nor does sho suspect ir. All of 'b in v .1.1,1 Mko oath tl it tho exact reverse was tho case. / k bor to speak in clmr"h or on a platfo' ia nnywb< re, and oho woi.ld i no?ino you to bo ci r-y. "That i.i t, roan'a business," t- i<> would er /. Novortbcl s Mis. 11 icr would >00 to it tbat nor "man"' or son wo; id sav in ohiin b i . on .. plattor.u j< >t exactly v?afc shu wish. (1 : . <i \Y? : i.ui's *i;:bt i as in id or s to' id >y 1 ibo America i ,v< mai. would l-e ut| ten Iv iMConijiiuIuaisbdo to tbo I?o. r w< man worn tboy ever so clearly explair.cJ. ?Uc-t toe k i anacr<pt. OLSON & SON, CESS ;; s. c. , , nr FIREISURANOE. :H 140.000.000X0, CF AbSITS. lie Druw the Line. Littlo Johnny Fizzlotop id a Manchester bo^ who lias boon obliged for many years to wear tho cast off clothing of lii.s elder brother Bob. Johnny never pets anything nntil Bob bus linbhod with it. A (ow days ago B ib had a dreadful toothache, and it was decided that tho aching tooth should bo oxtraoted. "You may pall all bis tooth out if you like," said Johnny, "but I ain't going to chow with them aftorward. I can toll you that straight-"?London Globo. i ITata In War. Tho bearskin liats of somo British regiments were at lir.st devised with . tho idea of striking terror into the hearts of their enemies. Tho same i i-i- i- -t .11? 1 pnui'ipiu im mhjwji in uiu uruuuiui tigurcs worn by tho knights on their holmets and sometimes emblazoned on their shields. Tho anoiont Germans wore liornod helmets to in6piro terror in tho enemy and carried figures of strango animals aa standards. * rxz' Ferinh Hie Thought! A man named fcbnith killed a man named Jones at Niagara Falls. Lot us hope that this is not tho beginning of a feud between tho Smith and tho Jones families.?Koclioster Union and Advertiser. lSricks. There is no building mntorial eo durablo as well mado tricks. In tho British museum are bricks taken from the buildings in Nineveh and Babylon which show no sign of decay or disintegration, although tho anoiont did not burn nr hnV? thorn, hut dried them in tho sun. Tho baths of Cnraealla and of Titus in Rome mnl tho Therm? of Diooletian havo endured tho ravagoa o? time far hotter I bun thostono of tliar Coliseum. A. Vt-tovfiii'H Opinio*. "A9 you ru.vanco further in your art," said Gounod to a young poet, "you will enno to tliink of tho groat [wots of tho l as 1 now appreciate! tho great m us; inns of former times. Whou I was \ our ago, I usod to say I;'at *5, 1 said 'I and Mozart;'*9 10, 'Mozart and I;' now I say 4Mo* enrt.' "?Eposa. W A G O N S! We have just received a car* load O: reMiies-.ee Wagons which is tlie best wa^.n manufactured. Pricks low. Please call and examine before buying. Pant Rwio A. ia u JLSJL V/U> BUGGIES! We have ji:sf received a car-load o: the v hrated . llayiiock hs.ie.ji s, v. hi :h is the best hn ' iiti.nul'ucuircd. Any kind o! i> is.^y you want. i \ : ;ei:s :.o\v. Please call and examine before buying,. Farit Bros THE UN.ON REAL ESTATE AGENCY Is til.1 la st nieiliinn through which to !my or sell property^ They are aiMpuiintei! with prospeal1 vi.' buyers and sellers, ami will bo their host lbi vou. List vciir property with thcu. (M IJi Ov.. < >1: '?V !?ITIi TO i'. M. COMKN, IVest. E. 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