The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 30, 1898, Image 8
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YOU
SHADE FRINGE
awarded, but in the 1
W ithout looking
mas present to any o
their sake, for our se
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" 7
Bailey I
XMAS
"WONDEE
SEWING MACHINE
KeptbyS. >1. RIC
SANTA CLj
From now
Here you can get any tiling for 5
lc connter you can get many things
places and pome things lOe at other f
There are many, many things
counters that will cost you double thi
lieving," so just go and see for yoursi
It is just simply wonderful how
Store." Now is the time to get your
chine, Piano or Organ, while his price
When you go to the "Wonder St
tionaries there too?Candies, Nuts, ai
a few a his special bargains. For le
5c und 10c: Tea strainer, pint cup,
sharpener, scythe stone, nut meg grc;
etc., etc. For 5c just too many thing
box coffee mill, 1 gallon coffee pot, ho
big lino of tin and agate ware. For 2
agate ware. Big values in
Dolls, China Ware
For 5c a good handled axe and i
In short, if you do not co
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anything that you may want,
likely miss the bargains of you
CUSTOI
S. M. Rice
I Am Running A
First Class Market.
I have also a nice line of Groceries.
?I also have a?
FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT.
Ruben Jones' Plant Fender
Fresh Fish twice a week.
Polite attention to all.
I am paying the highest
price for good beef cattle and
all other country produce.
AH persons indebted to the flrra of
BAILEY & SEXTON will please settle
me same win me ai once.
H. G. BAILEY.
HERE...
YOU ARE
J. T. SEXTON
Is Headquarters for
Heavy and Fancy Groceries
Fruits and Vegetables
FRESH BREAD
Always on Hand.
.T OF
CAN'T
2 was the name of the
3argains we are offer
j over our elegant sto
ne, big or little, large
ike, for your own sa
n n
yj 1 1
I Furniti
.-.
AT THE
l.J-. . -. -J.~!.J -I - - L_ 13P55W8B
I
I STORE" ;
AND IVLU5IC HOUSE
3E, JH., E. U.is old
<UJS' HOME
until Xmns,
!
hintn Clans from le up: and from his ]
you will have to pay 5c for at other
daces.
on his 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c*, 50c, and $1
s price at other places?'"seeing is be- i
jlf.
cheap every thing is at the ''Wonder i
wife or daughter u nice Sewing Mas
are down to rock bottom,
ore" don't forget to get your eonfecnd
all kinds of Fruits. We name just
you can get these items below worth
1 quire paper, 1 pack envelopes, pencil ]
ater, watch chain, key chain, tin pans,
;s worth 30o and more; for 10c a good
lir brush, shoe brush, soldering set, a
5c many very large pieces of tin and
and Xmas Goods.
Tinny other things of equal value.
me to the "Wonder Store" for
except dry goods you will
r life.
VLER OF
Jr., E. U.
I
Our Last Circular
j Told the Tale.
I Since it was issued we have been so
1 busy that we have hardly had time
to eat our meals* The prices
quoted in that circular were
such that people just could
not resist them, and came
to see if such things
were possible. They
found itjustasthe
circular said.
| Here are some of the prices from it
Mens' good overcoats $1.75 to $<>,
! were sold at $3.50 to #8.50.
\ ? 1 tf?Q r A 1. A4
.Yiens neuvy uisiers 90. ov 10 9?,
worth $-r> nnd $7.
Good calico at 2? cents a yard.
Sheeting 4 and f> cents a yard.
Ladies fine button shoes at <>8 cents
a pair.
Mens' heavy shoes at $1 a pair.
Mens' fine shoes at $1 a pair.
We advise all who want any of
these goods to come at once for we
do not guarantee that we will hare
them long.
J. 0. ffBAY, M'i'r.
GUE
N DECEMBE
AFFORI
r article drawn from tl
ing from now until Jai
ck, which is full and cc
or small, fat or lean, c
ke, for goodness sake
E A N E
ire H &
treasure hall and poverty inn.
Side by side they stand to-da.v.
Poverty Inn and Treasure Hall.
Whcrt' pilgrims sad and traveler* gay j
May cat their honey and drink their
gall;
Ilefuge of righteousness, shelter" of
sin. ,
Treasure Kail and Poverty Inn. I
|
Side by side they will ever stand.
Poverty inn and Treasure Hall:
Kiekety dwelling and paiaee grand
Hut wliieh holds the most of honey
or gallV
Which covers most of virtue or sin.
Treasure Hall or Poverty Inn?
? l.ife. j
A CURIOUS COUPLE.
"Von see that cottage over there':" I
said Mr. Kathborn. pointing to a dismantled
hovel in the corner of the
Held where 1 had pitched my canvas,
fur i am an artist.
1 nodded.
"A most remarkable hlstorj" is"
taehed to it." he went on. "Not a Ie- a
trend, but a fact. <>t" lids 1 can assure
you. because I myself had a hand in <
finding it out. It centres round a rot- a
tain couple who lived there the most t
extraordinary old folks thai I ever '
en me across. 1 should like you to r
I have seen them. I think yon would t
have admitted them to he the ugliest
i pair in England. as they certainly e
| were the most close and unfriendly. I
| I Miring the sixteen years that they t
j lived ill that cottage. they never ottee f
i asked a neighbor inside." 1
I "Cinplt! Hermits, indi e>l," 1 oh tt
! served. i
1
"Absolute hermits. There was. how
ever, some slight excuse for their es '
chewing all outside eoinpatty. Kaeti s
suffered front a severe physieal intir
mity. The woman was nearly stone '
deaf: the man was dumb.
"When they tirst eatne here -eigh
teen years ago now. I think my tun I >. '
I who was then reetor. trittd to tlnd out '
| what lie could about them. He oiilv :
, learnt a little and that little was notli- s
| ing out of the way. It transpired that 1
i the man was an ex sailor of the Koynl '
Navy, who liad lost his speech after a v
severe at lack of yellow fever in the i x
West 1 udies. lie was now entitled to J 1
a pension, which he drew half yearly | 1
and which my uncle only knew about
by the fact that the old fellow had I
to come to him periodically to got Ids *
papers signed. The woman was his I
sister, so lie gave the neighbors to tin I
derstand. and so also might have been 1
inferred from a certain family likeness I
which was noticeable between them, j I
She was a most ill-favored hag: shrivelled.
unkempt, and dirty beyond do- '
scripti.hi. Although she must ha\c t
been nearer 70 than 60, her long, ton- >
zlcd hair was >ii!l as black as a coal, t
and hung in hideous untidiness ahotp :
her hawk like face, which, with Its ' I
i dark eyes, and its hooked proboscis | i
! was most iim-oiiiuioiily forbidding. j
! The poor people all pronounced Imt a I
! witch: and for that reason gave her a
' wide berth. Probably the woman en- '
1 ,...in-.i..,.,i in,. I'm- 111.i- irreat aim <
! niiil object. evidently, w:is to be left i ?
i alone.
' Aliliniiuli Iter brother's pension. i ?
nMKMiminyr to about two .shillings .1 1
<l:iy. was ample to keep two old folks '
decently, ;iml even comfortably. in , I
111; 11 I'lio.'ipost of neighborhoods. these ! '
two always gave tho impression of
j being half sliirvi'il. mid I do inn be- :
| lleve Unit either of tliein purchased a 1 I
' new article of clothing nil 11n* lime
j limy llvi'd in It . From this poop!" ?
I began to infer Mint limy wciv misers. i
I niul. 11 s lime wt'in on. 111:1 ny tilings
! Iltippelti'ii to si religl lli'll till' ilifereiiee. I
j Ali along lliey tin 11 iliseovereil tin* 1
greatest anxiety mid .'ippreliensioii 1
when mi.v one 11 ;i 11 tried lo gain access 1
| lo their hovel. Indeed, in.v uncle has 1
I often told tne Mint the expression of 1
! the old people's fines when he culled
I there. 11111I one or the other of tliciii I
' 11:111 peered nroiind the cluiincd door lit
him. was really iptite coniical in its |
suspicious trcpitlatioii: and the ohler 1
they grew Hie l.'jore prouoeuced did .
SSING
:r the iot
D TO P
ie list, and as no one
luary 1st, 1899, every
>mplete in every depj
>ld or young, sick or
and for your pocket 1
> SEE
V
m LrUlll
heir precautions to prevent outsiders'
ntering become.
"At fust they luul sometimes ventur
<1 to lock their house and make an exurslcu
together into ! *- ?. tlie adjoin
ng market town. Hut by and by
hey gave up stieh recklessness entirey.
and whenever on-* of them went
ut. the other remained on guard at
mine.
".My ustele was greatly exercised
Iiout his two strange parishioners,
iany rectors would have cons'ulercd
hontselvcs absolved of all ohligaions
towards people who not merely
ever attended church, hut refused to
ven admit their clergyman into their
niisv when he called. Hut that was
ot niy uncle's way. Every poor man
i ito lived in ids parish he held to he
aider his pastoral protection; and he i
elt himself hound to look after liis itie
rests.
"When I succeeded hint here. 1 went
a call, now and tlion, on the old penile;
meeting, however, with the same
reatmeut that my uncle had always
xperieneed. Sometimes, they would
mt open the door ?t all; at others,
hey did so with ihc chain up, and conersed
with me through a narrow ;
pert tire.
"In reply to my inquiries whether I '
onhl do anvtliiug, or give them anv 1
sristame. I always had a negative re- j
union: uu111 hi inst i gave up trying
u make headway in so hopeless a di- j
cot ion. and lol't the two hermits prot- I
y liinch to themselves.
-1 ho man ouiuo to mo regularly
vorv hall yoar to slot hi* potislon pa
n't*s signed; and I took advantage of
hose opnofiunitios to give him sonto
riiiul!\ advioo, and remonstrate with
tint on his folly in starving himself '
ind wearing sitoh inadoiptato clothing
n the coldest woatltor. At lirst I made j
lint a prosonf of sonto old ooats. trotts- '
>rs and tlannol shirts. Hut 1 soon .
rave up that, for lie never wore them;
I ltd I formed the impression that lie
tail prolmhiy converted them into
ash.
"In fact. I asked hint otto day what '
te had done with them all. He oti'y
united oiiniting. affected stupidity, and
nado sonto unintelligible signs. l?o- i
pile his nntuhnoss. Ito ootthl mako mo
indorstaiid things very well when he
iked- i specially anything eoiinoclod
villi his pension papers. It was only
\ hen lie did not wish to make himself '
tndorstond that his signs hail no \
neaning in tlietn.
"In this matter of eoining to have |
lis papers signed, he was, as 1 haw j
aid. always absolutely punctual. On
daroh 25 and September 20 Ito up
cared at the rectory as regular us
loekwork. taking me on the way to
. where ho had to present his paters
at the (tost otlioe.
"I always looked for hint on the
iteming of those days, and always
ook ilie precaution to have my study j
viihlows wide open. The old man and
valor had long been mutual strangers. I
mil the atmosphere which attended i
tint was, to say the least, rather op
iressivc.
"lie was always, as I have said. >
muctiial in coining. Ami when one j
Michaelmas day it was just two
rears usro imw eanie and wont with- 1
Hit Ills I til I I i IIS ill till il|?|M'JirSIIHV. I lit
>neo remarked ii as n very iiotieeahlo I
ircillusliihee. The next day I expert- 1
d 11iin with open windows and the
lexl. :ind the next: hut lie did not iiirn
;p. At length. after waiting n week
I fell sure that lie must lie ill. and
tveiit over to the shanty to inquire.
"1 haiiiniered at the door. Nobodv j
illswi-red. I haiiiniered louder and
under, with the same result. In the
lid. as a last resort, I tried it. To iii.v
nirprise. it was unfastened. I pllshe I
I open and went in.
"<Tom-hing against the wall, upon
lie damp and mouldy Hour, was a lb;
ire eovered Willi ail old sack. I went
learer. At first I eolild not see which
if lite two ii was. Itut oil looking !
more elosely. I made it out to he lb. ?
?!d woman. The tangled hlaek lia'r.
whieli had always striiek me so ahoiil
her. was ik.w hot rayed as not being
her own. It was a wit; half on mid
half off at that moment, giving her a
fearfully grotesque appearnnee. and
i-learly revealing her hald pate, si-ant
COIN
ASS US
> guessed that numb*
body who trades wit!
artment. If you interi
well, handsome or u
book's sake
U S.St! :
ber M C
lly fringed witli n few wisps of gray
hair beneath.
"Where is your brother?" I shouted.
"Has he left you alone?"
" 'Well, you shall hear.* she went on.
'I'm Just going the same way myself,
and it's im use keeping sorrels any
longer, lie's dead.'
"'Head!' I exclaimed, supposing
that her wits were wandering, for I
had seen liitn at hts hovel door not 1
less than a fortnight before. 'When did
he die?'
" 'Fifteen years ago.*
"Now, of course. 1 saw that she was
raving, ller hawk-like eyes, fixed on
my face in a most forbidding leer, at i
once read my thoughts.
"'No. I ain't mad. It's the truth, j
Fie died fifteen years ago and I buried
him myself under yonder hearthstone. :
Cot them to dig it up, and you'll tind
his bones.
"As she spoke, the hag clutched mv ,
sleeve and half raised herself by a su- i
preme effort. She leered into my face j
with a look that I cannot forget.
ir\ ^ fx. sue siuu. .\u i rue?an i
true. 1 hid it, uud uo one knew. And.' 1
with :i hideous ehncklo. 'I've dror'd !
Ids pension uiyself for (ifteen years.'
* *
"And were her brother's hones found j
there?" 1 asked the rector, in the I
course of a subsequent conversation j
on the .subject.
"Yes. He had been buried scarcely i
a couple of feet below the surface, j
And In a hole in the chimney we found |
the miser's savings more than 500
pounds in gold and notes. It was I
paid over to the government. in return
for the fifteen years' pension out i
of which they had been cheated."
PLAYED WITH THE WRONG MAN.
Students Paid Well tor the Fun litcy Mad j
with an Elderly Pans'e tiger.
Half a hundred students of the
incdlc.il department of the Northwest- j
ern I'niversity had a jollification the !
at her night. relates the Chicago Times- j
Herald. They took posessiou of an j
Alley "I." train at Twenty-second ;
street and held high jinks all the way |
into ton n. In their own words, they j
"played horse" with the other passen- j
gers, and they thought themselves !
very smart, indeed.
Hut they were not quite so smart as j
they thought. There was an old man
aboard a nice old man. with a white i
mustache and a silk hat who beat |
them at their own game. The stud- j
cuts are not saying much nltout the i
affair this morning. The occurence
happened in I lie smokim: ear. As the
passengers tried to got out of the
1'iir tho students assisted. "Pass him
Miotic!" was the cry. and the unfortunate
passenger was lifted hodilv
over the heads of the students, tossed
in tiie air. and finally thrown out upon
the platform. The guards told the
unruly students to erase their rough
behavior or leave the train, hut rhe
admonitions fell on unfruitful ground.
The fun grew more and more hilar!
oiis until Adams street was reached.
At this point the old man with the
white mustache got up to leave, lie
was in the extreme etui of the ear.
awav from the door. "I'ass him
along!" shouted the students. "Ilelp
the old gentleman out." They helped
him out. They tossed him up to the
ceiling, they dropped him to the lloor.
they wedged liini here and there, they
played horse with him. And after
they had tossed him out at last they
felt so hilarious that they smashed
each other's hats with their canes.
At s o Murk p. in. :i young man who
saiil his name was I?\ I M ake Whltfol'd.
slinlenl. eaine meekly into the
Central I'olice Station and reported
that an old man with a white niusfaehe
and a silk hat had pieked the
pockets of four of the students on the
train, securing four heautiful gold
watches and a poekcthook or two. "It
will he a area I favor." he said, "if
this Utile affair can he kept out of the
papers."
Mcenuso we are as strong as Sampson.
we are as Schley as a fox, we are
Miles long, we possess Merrill, we tire
lfobson's choice, what more Dewey
want?- Sample Hug
m
ITEST
J
BY
jr the prize was not
1 us gets a prize,
id to make a Christgly,
rich or poor, for
Company.
A BLOW TO THE OLD MAN.
How n Bank Cashier Won a Wife and dot
l(is Salary Raised.
You can never loll whore you nro
going to onoountor a romance. The
oilier evening half a dozen gentlemen
sat smoking after a dinner given by
one of them at his handsome residence
on Woodward avenue, relates the Detroit
Free Dress.
"No." said tin1 host, in response to
an inquiry, "I .married her down east
long before I thought of coming to Detroit.
Didn't I ever tell yon about it?
At that time 1 was easliier in a haul;
with lit Hi' hope of ever getting a better
hold in the world than that of a salaried
employe. The president, who
praetieally ran the entire institution,
never had much to say to ills men, exeept
by way of reprovaj, and I had
special reason to think that lie did not
look upon mo with favor. This made
it the more surprising that he should
come to me with a proposal to raise
my salary to the extent of $500. provided
I wmild iref married within the
next Hirer months. Ho preferred having
men about him that were settled
in life and felt the responsibility imposed
in earing for a family. I
studied for a moment, had an inspiration
and before we were through he
had bound the bank to make ine the
raise, to keep nte for live years, provided
I did my work properly, and to
raise my salary handsomely each
year.
"Two weeks later I asked for a vacation
and told him I hoped to return
with n Wife, lie was delighted and
granted my request. On the tenth day
1 wired him that the deed was done
and that I would be lmine nt or.ee. lie
responded with congratulations and
an invitation to dine with his folks on
our arrival. We went. As we entered
ihe old gentleman almost foil
in a faint. 'Von. you- * he stammered,
'are you married? You-?'
" 'Yes, papa,' began my wife, but 1
broke in with: 'Yes, sir, we're married.
You knew that we were 1st love: you
sent your daughter on a long visit to
the south to get her away from me.
and then tried to bribe me into getting
married during her absence. I checkmated
you, that's all, and your son-inlaw
is your cashier for the next live
years.' He simply Hi row tip his hands,
and ho was a father to me as long
lie lived. It did him a whole lot of
good to heat him at ids own game.''
How Japanese Woo.
s a long way off. and this
eh.**vning story of how courtships are
carried on among the elite of their society
conies to 11s from this far-away
land. In certain districts, in houses
wherein reside a daughter of marriageable
age, an empty tlower pot is
encircled by a string and suspendfd
from a window or the veranda. Instead
of serenades by moonlight and
oilier delicate ways of making an impression.
it is etiquette for the Japanese
lovt r to approach the dwelling of
his sweetheart bearing some choice
plant in his hand, which he reverently
proceeds to plant in tin* empty vase.
This takes place when he is fully
aware that mother and daughter are
tit home. This act of placing a plant
in the Mower-pot is equivalent to a
formal proposal to the lady of his
choice. The lover, having settled the
plant to his mind, retires, and the
lady is free to net as she pleases, if
he is the right man. she takes every
care of his gift, waters it and tends it
carefully with her own hands, that all
may see that the donor is accepted as 5
a suitor. But if he Is not the favorite,
or if the stern parents object, the poor J
pliint is lorn from tlit* vase and tiio <
next morning lies limp ami wit lie red
on I lie veranda or in the patli below.?
Dot roit Km? Press.
\
SSiot an Albino Deer.
Aimm;' tin* deer brought to Bangor
was a handsome albino, or white deer,
with a good set of antlers, shot on the
east branch of the Penobscot by Fred
Hubbard of Knst Berlin. Conn. The
deer will be mounted whole by a Hall*
Kor taxidermist.?Maine State Press.
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