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VOL. 1.1. NO 1. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 4. 19017 Ol.QQ A YEAR.
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IriE GOOD OLD
PAYS OF 1801.
I BY O. LUTIIKK LANG DON.
\
\l -IT IS so difficult when the mind
?1 J is filled with modern environ>rti
i incut-to nppreliend the com
9QQ6 parntlve poverty of the past
thaFttls necessnry to no to sleep nut
dream In order to look bnckwurd t<
New Year's. 1801. (Jrectlngs for tb<
day l?etwecn friends only i\ couple o
hundred miles npxpt came to hand i
week or ten days after they were pen
ped?tbH* 's. U *Ue uipH coach dldu
blocker! by snowdrifts. In tbr
r.n Rome much traveled roads, to<
>-T ...
they Wight Me over until the sprln
hre*K up.
Fortunnto dwellers In New Yorl
\ Philadelphia and Boston read ncn
f -> anywhere from n week to three montl
Pt * V>hl In a newspaper prluted on a har
inachlne much resembling a letter cop
* lpg press of today. Other folks we
\ ^ glad to have a weekly or semi week
*" delivered through the mails a week
ao after It was printed.
The average man who set his hei
upon turning a new leaf for 1801 a
the nineteenth century began by coi
Ing up his bedstead with ihe aid of I
oldest sons to, grlv? wedge pins at <
sry twist pf t^e He opened
Ijfew Xeftf* records In a book made
Smper birch bark, using a quill pen e
(pk pressed from wild berries.
g regions where Dutch customs j
led Industrious Marthas rccel
their callers while tlicy plied the s|
MT nlng wheel or kuit or sewed by he
J and the Marys who cultivated
' Ideal side of
played on the h
jCew slcord, with i
311 Jl
I grasi
t^> old mail coach f i'llgxi^
2rely a piano. At <Ss25^~|r;
Igbt the long,
road sitting room,
embracing half tbe a*o its bdoci
frpflt Of tbe oolonial mansion,
lighted with tallow candles, and
tbe crane bad been swung back
per being over, logs were piled b
tbe fireplace to furnlsb both bet
light. Tbey did bave fiddlers, an
did bare tbe minuet la 1801, v
otltutlons to enliven tbe mooot<
a sparsely peopled bind q^d ?*no
i . socio bi o w?^*.
ff \fb.e WS,r with France, fought
fe*. was a staple topic of couvcr
Jgp aid Commodore Trux ton wse tb<
hero whose exploits were celeb?
' fireside tales. Tbe stnncbneM
wooden ships, tbe closeness of
fjeas. tbe daring of tbe board<
In the Twenti
Will lovely woman do the propoi
Will woman bosses run politics j
Will men wear birds on their ho
t Will the housemaid be a housemn
Will horses be exhibited as curio
Will politics be ran on a phllantt
Will the Boston woman discover
Will little nirshipa be provided f
Will men wear frilled shirt Wais
Will the estimable Mrs. Orundy
Will the college girl carry a cam
Will there be free lunch stands f
Will men go to church evenings
Will the wife kiss her husband %
Will women either wear short sh
Will squirrels wait just a quarte
hunter?
Will rich noblemen marry poor j
Will hornets and other stlnglnj
llielr nests are pulled?
Will the grain be extracted from
a magnet and save the labor of harv
Will there be a law compelling
Will cows come home at mllkln
supper?
And will those same 4*ows semlo
of milk?
Will there be nuy escape from t
Will every busy man wear an 111
Will mind reading furnish a kej
ties and villainies?
Will the automatic principle be
selves? \
really exterminate?
Will pounds be pounds and qua
i Will women be compelled to fl
that men may see the play?
Will nil consumers of anthract
t winter stock In midsummer at any
1 Will the creatures that build gi
> fly over the impoverished farms ol
P Will our beloved country still b
f political orators howling for votes
a Now, candidly, wouldn't you Ilk
i- ers thinking, writers writing, doeri
t the next hundred years?
it ????
(HLJncle Ezra's 1
is ^ ??? ??
id Eleven thirty. New Year1! E%
y- The clouds acre wespia o'er hi
J"e Old Doctor Time hv give hi
JT HLr breads corner sheet mm
ttot phthisic,
irt gvt the' I kasw he's boohed
nd There'll be no west spea m
J* For when I've lived. ?e he k
^ I think I'll smy tor Dearth. ?
bis pleasure 1*
of
ind And yet he's been a smart <
Ter see ead greJk a brmjaATml
>rt** Before he come ydow cksl
And cranky wlnd^
mdt But now. great Sctm^tnr r
the And -rteamerv^ithroer Jffi
1,fe Tkr tclcphofl^ee3teUgm>pfr
re? M ***** J?h^P?3!
W neighbors. _ _
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I The X ray itgms a cne*
^], l Tke afty tyyawitto priat/
The phonograph ??..< > h
|J3 squegkla.
jth :(h aovin pkiiat^ mm hi
M! Cloctric ranges* cook hi* f
?~k Ar J through electric Ught
0M* And If 0105,^ 'm rww h
5?m****
gallon. What oqeLgi brin? l\i
? naval What MagK tricky is uj
eftd in4 Will our graadchildloa f
^??j??3f
>ra and
ldltll A_ iAloriiMH
** eMMRKnttP ' v,r *
|
iy HBMWBBmKBMB^^ *
ieth Century?
sing?
?s they now run the home?
ts and crochet?
in?
elites?
iropic basis?
the north pole?
or messenger hoys?
ts and women trousers?
be driven Into a convent?
e and smoke a pipe?
or women?
instead of to the clnb?
roodby before starting off to business?
drts or hnve pages to carry their trains?
r of a second longer to make faces at the
American girls? ^
5 things arbitrate Instead of fight when
?\
i the heads of wheat and other cereals by
cstlng straw?
bur be re to remain silent?
g time as eagerly as field hands come to
ccaslonally turn grass into butter Instead
hefBoou song save suicide?
lumlnatcd collar button?
7 to the Intentions of hens as to their duadjusted
to taxes so that they pay themrts
be quarts In weight as well as In price?
atten their pompadours at the theater so
te have the common sense to lay In their
sacrifice?
lano mountains at the equator oceoslonallj
f North America?
? noing to the "demnitlon bowwows" ant
to save it?
:e to know what sayera will be saying, think
s doing and plotters plotting at the end o
New Yew Reverie J
e?M* Nineteenth tantuty'/ mytrni
Ls bed. end tad th* wind a Mghtat
iwhe
tbkt in^^ave Mr
wkboyy4lx|?'i b>ia f?w g?kt quickai
m wpUf qiiJu our wheels go /Uckar.
y wjj iw frpil M* locomotion,
il fSd lor ihov^Y 'ci?at Mr ocean.
kilmiLJ^k U r nu fg every nation.
flV'rtuM Mr |V|j lie concaraed creations
U^JlT^ni^ leTt JtST ***?n>
f[^i<ie end shows framework in H.
Mi woed^ a hundred ter Mr minute,
i/ -if eech m teaas that's plain, tho*
m now he aookeci wnwi he wus ipvun
0?i electric kunchty float him.
o4 streets electric wagon* tote him.
Im gown eg dee* k|/ vital* sever,
r eoe^Mm betWe ever^jj
MIL > ii^ V
> .
WUt w*ter burn. I wonder? And
WUl no thin be impoMible ?9 ?k
I wonder If? But there! I*U st
And. seel 'tis on Mr stroke qf tw
"Tht Nineteenth Century's dend*'
tickin.
He's dend end gone fer good end
Ring up tk* curtain! deer tto /tt
You're welcome. Mister Twentiet
the effectiveness of the American bull
hots were features of the fighting to
glory /?ver. The land battles talked
about were border skirmishes between
men la buckskin bearing flintlocks and
painted savages armed with tomahawks
and bows.
Kentucky was on the wild border in
' 1801. and the Mississippi valley, as
maII no ?Iia M.?l# a II
wtru uo IUC 14uii nui,
the ftockles w-n ",,u u" w.'?uu
uocaies. ?ns peopled with inNp"9'
^?n,ards flnd French. The
New^nglander called It "going west"
on "P v,IOme b ^ond th? HudJJJJ"
N*w Yo* or Penn's wood.,
folne had no political existence, be-'
ng a part of Massachusetts, and the
Mexican west const was scarcely
known to the people of the states
Hence the phrase. "From Maine to
California had yet to be Invented to
?x,ont of ll>o 'and of
knocking ,/ ^
while Indiana, Michlga(i"and Illinois,
also Minnesota, were in the Northwest
Territory. Chicago was undreamed of
then, for Fort Dearborn hadn't been
built.
t Communication between towns was
by means of common dirt roads, foi
I the principles of Telford and Mncndau
had not yet been adopted. Water wa
; supplied In towns and villages by prl
# vate and public wells, and the tow
pump was n rival for the tavern as
gathering place for gossips. Thet
were no artificial means for lifting w 1
ter above Its level for dlstributloi
Water was the only power outside <
muscle for driving machinery. Lui
ber was cut by upright saws, and pla
Ing was all done by hand. Mowing ni
reaping were done by hand, and t
songs of the haymakers and harvei
era; as they swung In Irregular II
aoross the fields, filled with music t
valleys which now tremble under t
clamor of the modern machine.
Far easier I. It for the dreamer
1001 to conjure up the picture of 1
, dawn of the nineteenth century tt
" ?l>o rvnst to look I
for tlie cirerwiit?r u?
' ward a hundred years. For that <
illuminating gas was a startling Inv
tlon when it pushed aside the oil la
r for public lllumlnntlon. The can
however, held Its place for 50 y<
until petroleum cast It Into the shi
Electricity wns n power to be fea
not to be utilized, and It required
generations of experience with tbe
egraph to reveal tbe motor power
the Illuminating qualities locked u
> the Invisible currents that sclentis
? today declare fill the air above an<
i earth and waters beneath.
( Tbe locomotive and the stean
belong to about the same period a
telegraph, and. If not Invented to
er, their Introduction Into genera
was con tempo
ougi an(J
n e>w years
the oldest 1
tb; t raiXTtNo fiikss ^itjrjh
itai Ha of some se- /
clu? led vales, havlag
passed four- acot
w or even four- or 1801 and
scot re and ten, ventured out to t
firs t view of the V<.?rH>tlve or i
a first ride on m :> )>nm car
^ for bicycles, liA^ nrrlaf
the transmission V?tn?
by wire for hundreds ot, miles
Mf j yen tor who predicted/ them
might have escaped burning fc
. ^ era ft, bt/t be wouldlbave bees
m ***** Ana
J **!?
I
I
will fire be cold fwwyT
edey eeor?
op: my "wonderer''? gitiin tired,
elve! The Old Y?M hot expired.
' So Mr eld clock with its j
ell. but |jm olive amd kickis.
kge! I'm reedy fer Mr dremv.
HI Naw ?terl vatit ao. > oee m I
JOE LINCOLN.
OtUer marvels Hint xvoultl have shocked
the most credulous Id 1801 are the
typewriting machine, the typesetting
machine and the six and eight decker
printing press, three stories high and
turning out 50,000 or more complete
folded newspapers per hour. .
Tbo projector of cars for city streets
on the surface would have been looked
upon ns a dangerous schemer. Much
more would the Idea of elevated tracks
or swift motors for busy thoroughfares
have been looked upon as a harebrained
invention doomed to ridiculous failure.
Republicans and Federalists were
the chief opposing political parties in
1801, and Jefferson was the prophet of
the former, having been elected on that
ticket In 1800. Burr was the prince of
Intrigue and the prince of notoriety ns
well and sat In the vice presidential
' chair. Hamilton was a lending Feder~~The
"center'8?ftr??<?va- brew,nff which
ginning of the century
i land, nenr Baltimore, and It took au
yenrs of progress westward to transfer
i it as fnr ns about Parkersburg. W. V a.
r The people sprend from the Atlantic
i const between Boston nnd Pbilndelr
nitin north and south, but emigration
?r^
** the hedge.
fMr neighbor of the thatched eot, ??
With glolra de Dijon cluttered gab!*
,rom P,ot lo Plot
fain the Rrugw- f*bl<a j
And our two garden* made Wh? -.'J?.. ^ (
But "Not" crici Wiadom. "Spare the fence, j
The thorn, the ivy blackbird* neat in;
Leave something for the finer arnac.
Some dream of joy to hope and re*t la* )
'I
"Some glad surprlae, aome myatcry
t Of inconceivably tweet meaning I"
Wisdom is wiee. My friend and I
Scarce preaa the topmost twigs by leaning.
9 ?O. D. C. in Good Word*.
I
NIGHTMARE.
i*
S The Sensation Tlint Always Mulcee m
k Man a Coward.
it "Strange that we are always so cowI
ardly In nightmares." remarked a New
Orleans lawyer who has a taste for
the bizarre. "I don't believe anybody,
ever lived who flood up and made a|
r- square sut?d against the amorphous
id horror that invariably pursues us In
to such visions. When I have a nlght-j
ere mare and the usual monster gets on
hs my trail, my blood turns to water, and
? " "''"'f would disgrace a sheep. I
wO* 111/ WUU XV ? _
ite am beside myself with stark* down-,
is- right fear, and I hare no idea left in
at my head except to run like a rabbit,
m- All pride, self respect, dread of ridicule
ar- and even the instinct of self defense
ley are scattered to the winds, and I bepie
liere. honestly, I would be capable of
>tb- any Infamy in order to escape. I have,
no hesitation in confessing this, because,
as far as I hare been able to,'
find out, everybody acts exactly the
aid- same way in the throes of nightmare,
that and I feel certain I would not make
t It such a pitiable spectacle of myself in
real life, no matter what might befall. '
iter. "I think that the explanation of the
n to nightmare panic is to be found in the
old fleet that the dream is almost Invariably
accompanied by a sense of suffocation.
It is well established that
g of choking?the 'shutting off of
>tlng wind,' to use a homely phrase?has an
1.000. effect upon the mind which Is entirely,
1 and different from that pro
Off IS Wn?
paid dnced by any other form of pain or
parlL It Alls the victim with such horror
and distraction that he Is for the
cnpl- moment insane. He will do anything
was to get relief. This has boon brought
out on more than one occasion In the
defense of men who have been choked
and killed their assailants, and Judges
ig you hare held that the circumstances of
ouch an attack should be given special
consideration as extenuating the deed.
w?- la dreams the entire nervous system is
MW| relaxed, and It Is natural to suppose
e It? . that the mental effect of suffocation
ind let would be intenslied. At least, that Is
I. the beet apology I have to offer fyr my
en you sprints through nightmare land.**-?New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
w-ort T?
V wwevea.
* tool can ask more questions than
in the s wise man can answer. Ain't that so?"
Atlanta MI answer yod."?Indiana potts
JfaMUmal* \ tli.'nrdjj-' jg'
' tsfi- *
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' beyond the Ohio wns very slow.
n And, after all, the most startling fact
n of the nineteenth century, one unparal
'? leled In the history of civilization, h
i" the development of the United Statei
u. of America from a narrow belt of po
lltlcally disorganized, weak and Jeal
ous colonies Into a realm stretchln
n- across a continent and holding ran
3(5 among the nations of the earth as fin
he iq wealth, first In enterprise, first In U
9t* telllgence.
ne "HZ 7"
be Usfk* and MlakFM.
he What queer things the average pe
son laughs at If some one slips at
of falls or Is unfortunate enough to mal
the any awkward blunder, the averai
tan person thinks It very funny and laugi
'or- and repeats the affair for a funny si
lay ry. If some one makes an unfortuns
en- remark accidentally, his embarrai
imp ment Is always a theme for merrlmei
die. Women, who are supposed to be sy
?ars pathetic, are the ones who have the 1
rule, gest stock of such funny stories. Tt
red, always seem to be a success. Peo
two love to laugh at the misfortunes of c
tel- era.?Atchison Globe,
and
ip In The Inexperience mt Tonth.
ts of "Look here, sir!" exclaimed the mi
1 the en lady. "1 want you to take back 1
parrot you sold roe. 1 find thn
ishlp swears very badly."
s the "Well, madam," replied the dei
geth- "IPs a very young bird. It'll lenr
1 use swenr more perfect when It's-a bit
rane- er."? Philadelphia Press.
i but
sine* Itul?eu? received for h'<* i>aiiitSn
nhah- the grand celling at the bono in
house, Whitehall, the sum of
I The space covered by this palntli
I about 40O yards, so that he was
"" ' *TiO a card.
B BrnarcH, Indln. was an ancient
=aSf^ tal before Babylon or Nlueveb
jL founded.
gn k The Va? m4 Mr. Pr?il.
SPffj Mr. Fresh?What's the best tblo
jLMrtp? srer read on amies?
The Was?This:
5JB5 lb* InHtr ohwnrfi at Km* at he pan
Ban. aa alaevrhar#. the women ran alter
Fresh-That's good. Who wrol
1001. Wag? Why, Owen Meredith, I
ake the me tell yOU |,e knew bis business
perhaps Fresh-Wlid was It said. "Wb
*.? AS aee a beautiful woman, run?"
{os aod Wag?Old man Socrates. the
lh voles In *hc Athenian barn.'
, the In- Fresh-Was he?
in 1801 Wag? Sure, but the trouble
<f witch- boys run the wrong way. ?
i In dan- journal.
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