The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 16, 1905, Image 8
1 DR. McCREER
EYE SPECIALIST. E
Office, M. & P. Dank Building.
Hours, 9 fo I
\ HAIR &
DENT]
2 Crown, Bridgework and 1
2 Office over Mutual Dry G
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Humor and Philosophy j
By DUNCAN M. SMITH
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PERT PARAGRAPHS.
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Another lesson we en it learn from
the honeybee is to keep sweet.
When the eat is away the tuiee will
just as like as not go snooping around
nutil they tin<l a mouse trap. I
The real hero is the man who enn
bring home his pay elieek every week
nnhrokeu.
A girl who knows she is pretty likes
to have her own good judgment eonlirmed
hy tlie nien.
Speaking of interior decorations, pie
is one of the most popular we run think
of at tin* present moment.
Some people Just think that they
think, and others think that they think
they think.
Von may have noticed that the ice j
trust isn't subsidizing any of these
north pole expeditions.
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The real joy of labor comes regularly
once a week?on pay day.
If everybody who thinks lie could elevate
the stage had a clianee it would
at least have to be enlarged.
A fisherman never carries a tape !
measure and a pair of scales along, as |
they might hold distressing Joiut de- '
bates with some of his guesses.
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It is said to be easy to get in debt.
but the man who is busted doesn't al- '
ways find it so.
Fatal Ammunition.
A eat sat on a buck yard fence
And sang a cheerful song;
His voice was
rasping and i /
Intense \| .
And. for n kit- /
ten. strong. ? . * lA '
A would be sleep\
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er vainly tried v il ' A A
T > snatch a lit- . x '/s,,
tie rest, ^ ^VU'^IrtV
And then be tluna
the window ^ /
wide A J/fffAJ*
And made an I/"* Acy'V^'
awful test. C^ - ~ ?>.
His bride's first w N
biscuit was at ?
hand.
A>>d with his pood arm stout
He sent an Incurve where he planned?
That cat's nine lives went out!
Talking Eyes,
I'oets must have about seventeen
senses that tire denied to the rest of
us. They talk about laughing eyes,
but, as it matter of fart, if an ordinary
person were to hear a pair of eyes utter
a merry ha. ha! he wouldn't know
whether to send for the eye doetor or
eall up the bug house.
When the poet said to the girl,
"Speak to me only with thine eyes." it
wasn't because be was tired of hearing
toe sound of her musical voice, ill
though the foxy gentleman might have
been afraid that she was going to say
"No." whereas if she talked only with
her lamps he could interpret the answer
any way he saw lit.
Youth is romantic, and doubtless the
girl thought it was a line sentiment.
However, we can see where an aeeoniiill-hment
like that in after life could
prevent lots of suffering. Suppose a
married man could get his wife to talk
to him that way. He could let her go
oil for a few hours and then turn out
the gas and tell her to proceed and enjoy
herself.
Deserve* the Title.
"I'a, what is a diplomat?"
"A flInlfimnt niv cnt? lu r* wI*a
ran live with his mother-in-law with
out pnjin?^ board."
Quite a Difference.
"I beard that he had broken himself
of the habit of drinking."
"N"o; he Just broke himself at the
habit."
In Theory.
Ho wrote about the joy of work.
Hut when his weekly pay
Was handed to him by the clerk
He took his joy In play.
Cause and Effect.
"That story the old innn told was a
corker."
"Buy him a few driuks uud perhaps
he will uucork uuotUer."
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Men tvowsiw"
Y C'LYMPH, 1
yes tested fkee.
Take Stairway on Main Street,
and 2 to 6.
H AIR, :
ists. :
Regulating a Specialty.
oods Co., Union, S. C. *
EXPENSIVE FLOWERS.
The Tulip Crone In llollnti?l In the
Xinctecnlh Ccnlur*.
1 Miring Hip tulip era/.e in Holland in
tlic l.-ist century in one your tiio sales
aggregated U>.(h>o,(h:0 llorins. Holland
went tulip mad. The bulbs were ijuotod
on the Stork Exchange. Ownership
in them whs divided into shares. Speculators
sold thciu short. At one time
uiore tulips were sold than existed. At
Lille a brewer sold his trade and good
will in exchange for a bulb, which was
thereafter known as the brewery tulip.
In Amsterdam a father gave one by
way of dower with his child. Thereafter
the variety was known as the
marriage-of niy-daughtor. At Rotterdam
a hungry sailor, happening on a
low, mistook 11 icii i lor onions aim
ale them. The repast liorume us famous
as Cleopatra's pearls ami probably
exeeetletl it in cost. At The lluguo
a poor follow managed to raise a black
tulip. Tbe rumor of that vegetable
marvel spi-jpid. Presently bo was visited
by a deputation from a syndicate.
For that owe lamb of bis the fieptitation
offered I.imhi florins, which be refused.
lie was offered 10,000 tlorlns.
Still lie refused. Cascades of gold
were poured before his resisting eyes.
Finally, tormented and tempted, he
suooutnbod. There and then the deputation
trampled that tulip under their
feet. Afterward it ap pea ret I that the
syndicate had already grown a gem
precisely similar and, unable to bear
(lie idea that a rival existed, had authorized
the deputation, if needful, to
offer ten times the amount which It
paid.
TWO CLASSES OF OAKS.
line *, Cor tin W'ootl. the Other
Itn nrllIittncj- of ColorliiK.
The great oak family might be divided"
iu'o two classes?those that ripen
their acorns in one season, such as the
white, post and mossy cup oaks, and
those which require two full years,
such as tin- red, scarlet and black oaks.
To (lie tirst class belong the chestnut
oak and the live oak of the south. This
latter tree for generations played an
Important part in shipbuilding, but bus
now been superseded by iron and steel.
The loaf, which is an evergreen, is entirely
without indentations ami is thick
and leathery. The wood is very heavy
and strong, lias a beautiful grain and
is susceptible of taking a high polish.
At m i' time this wood was so valuable
that our government paid $20o,(J00 for
large tracts of land in the south, that
our navy might be sure of a supply of
live oak limber.
To the seeotid class of oaks we are
largely indebted for the gorgeous colors
of our autumn leaves. The red,
scarlet and pin oaks, with their brilliant
reds, scarlets and browns, are
close competitors with the maple in
giving our American landscapes the
most wonderful autumn colorings lobe
found anywhere in the world. These
three trees have leaves which at first
glance are quite similar, but by careful
examination may always be distinguished.?St.
Nicholas.
lllnotiMCM of A ii 1 inii 1 *.
Household pets are susceptible to a
l'ar greater variety of diseases than
most people imagine. Parrots arc
known to lie susceptible to a disease sc
peculiar to themselves that It is called
from the Creek word for parrot, "psit
tacosis." A number of fatal eases In
human brings of what was at first sup
posed, to he a malignant influenzal pueu
nioitia were in Paris traced to the lined
lus at present thought to he causative
of thy parrot disease. A certain pro
portion of parrots are known to die
from tuberculosis. Cats are known
sometimes to have tuberculosis, and
that tlicy have in many cases been carriers
of diphtheria and other of the
ordinary in ructions directly and Indirect
iy is more than suspected.--Kansas
City Journal.
Strangely enough, the man who can
keep his temper hasn't any to keep.
Somehow or other the man who plays
the races can't get it through his head
that he is paying all expenses of the
track and bookmakers.
It Is plenty of
A square meals
that make a
j man round.
A ,,r'^ ,l,uc'1 Pu*
. \ iy L ' out because It
? 1H>/''* so hard to
/m>. gJfr. heat a board
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An automobile must have some Kense
of humor, Judging from the way It
turns handsprings in the hand?; of a
novice.
In accordance with a nice adjustment
of our language the dead gauie sport
is u live one.
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The Quarrel
By KEITH GORDON
Copyright, 1006, by Francos Wilson
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There were two Hides to the question,
of course. There always are two sides.
He, being a man, saw oftiy the masculine
side, while she. being every Inch a
woman, could see only the feminine as- I
pect of the matter that rose between
them like a wall.
According to his reasoning, the great
pearl that beamed softly on the third
finger of her left hand?his gift?was
the solemn, final expression of his
faith, his choice. It was the official seal
affixed to his avowed belief that she
was the supreme woman.
In his deeper, finer moments he would !
relive the moment when he liad put It j
there, when the splendor of his own
destiny had sobered nnd steadied him j
till his whole being had gone out in the
wordless prayer, "God grant that I may |
make her happy."
From that moment she was the fixed
star of his life. Indeed, she scarcely j
seemed to him n separate entity, but
rather the finest part of himself. And
tills was where the trouble began. He |
was dashing and debonair, and the J
firmament of his life was strewn wlfh ]
stars of lesser magnitude, mere pinheads
beside her, but In the aggregate
by 110 means without Interest and beauty.
That they were feminine stars goes
without saying, and If there were moments
when they shone and twinkled
for his especial benefit how could he
do less than to acknowledge the compliment?
To him it seemed 110 more than u
laughing byplay, (he light, graceful
variation of the grund love theme of
his life. But the fixed star saw It differently?saw
it with eyes that deepeu
ed niul darkened with tragedy wliloh,
after n few weeks of smoldering, hurst
luto the tlame of uuger.
Never, perhaps, had she appeared to
him so superl>T~so obviously queen of
the world, as at that moment when she
had faced him, white with scorn, and
accused him in plalu. brutal, everyday
English of being a tlirt.
At first sheer amazement held him
silent. But from the torrent of words
that rushed from her lips be was soon |
in possession of the sum of his of- 1
fenses?his attentions to Miss Lincoln,
his evident enjoyment of the society of
Mrs. Colin Stuart, not to mention Betty
Pell and Lucia Armitage!
As Van Pelt listened to the cutting
words of his fiancee hU first amazement
gradually congealed Into something
else, lie had paid some attentions to
Miss Lincoln, who was a visitor and
friend of his sister, and Mrs. Stuart
had asked him for a dinner or so, and,
as for Betty nnd Lucia, ho never missed
a chance to Join them. Had tliey
not been comrades since the days when
tlicir nurses wheeled their perambulators
to the park side by side?
And, though he had frequently encountered
Fin via under these circumstances,
no hint of his possible displeasure
had ever occurred to him. Shewas
she not the only one, so near, so
much a part of himself, that there was
no more need for explanation than
there was to his own soul? So at these
encounters his eyes had leaped to meet
hers without self consciousness and
without apology.
umi npr connnenee met his
nobly. Then little gnawing doubts
crept In. She wouhl have liked him to
protest, for, alas, she was but a woman!
And sometimes the high, white
place of his soul, where lie kept her
enthroned, made her shiver and long
to be petted and scolded. And in
place of that he made her a goddess,
supposedly with the power of reading
hearts.
"You have?quite finished?"
Ills cool, drawling voice filled her
first pause with an Icy suavity, and the
i steel of his eyes met the fire of hers
unflinchingly. Involuntarily she caught
? her breath. Ho not oulj' showed no
1 inclination to explain, to exculpate
himself, but he had the look of a man
i who has received a mortal wound,
wlio?e deepest feelings have been
- mercilessly scoffed at, Jeered at, trampled
in tlie mire.
At the words her heart turned to
Ice. Truth to tell, her outbursts had
nothing more serious than the quick
i resentment of a warm hearted, high
I spirited woman at a fancied neglect
from the man she adored. A pair of
' open arms and eyes that loved back,
begging for tolerance and forgiveness?
i that was what she wanted and expected.
Rut this man with the hard
glance and the Incisive, cokl voice?
what had she done?
I lesplte her terror, the world old battle
between pride and love was raging
in her heart, and It was pride that won.
"Finished?" she queried bitterly,
witb an inflection tliat convej'ed that
if she ceased it was by no means because
she bad reached the end of the
list. "We will call it so at least." And
with the words she drew off the ring
nnd held It out to him. lie received It
with n low bow.
Obviously the episode was ended.
But nt the door ho turned buck.
"When you have thought the matter
, over more calmly you may possibly
have something to say to me. I give
you one week to reconsider."
Ills mastery of himself, his unyielding
resistance to her, thrilled her
through nnd through. Never had she
loved him so absolutely, but there was
! no trace of her feeling In her mocking
I reply.
"A week's grace! So good of you!"
I she laughed rather wildly. "And yet,
do you know, It 1s seven days more than
< I shall need. I shall never"?
( Qui he had gone. \ moment later she
feenrd the street door close with nn ominous
bang. She Htooil stupidly in the
middle of the room trying to realize
j that there was no future?nothing but
j a dreary waste that belled the name
\ ahead of her. Thou she looked at her
left hand, now so bare, so naked, no
longer n hand consecrate, but simply a
woman's hand shorn of all i's sweet
aignlfleanee. Its badge of den.* dependence
gone.
A clock struck the hour In silver
: tones, fetching her back to the dull
j present. Oh, yes, Mrs. Colin Stuart's
tea. She must go to that whatever hnp'
pened; she must go to everything and he
I gay, gay, gay! Otherwise people would
| say that she cared. He might even
think that she did. The thought made
her cheeks burn. And gas* she was, so
gay Indeed that more than one of her
friends turned long. Inquiring looks upon
her, looks full of puzzled questioning.
Once during the week of respite she
met him, but nt his cold. Impassive
greeting the little choking gladness that
the sight of him had brought and which
for a fleeting second shook her with its
expectancy flickered out, lie had bowed
with cold courtesy?and passed on.
But one thought stood out clearly in
the general confusion of her despair.
She must got away. Plteously she realized
that she must not run the risk of
constant meetings. The Brnnhams were
sailing on Saturday. Why not go with
them? i
At the thought she started up, her
blood whirling through her veins In
the old fashion. That would he tit for
tat. On her Inst day of respite he
should see her name on the list of out- !
going passengers. Then perhaps he
would regret that he had passed her j
with nothing but a perfunctory lifting
of the hat. A lively ringing of telephono
bells, a scurrying back and
forth of passengers, and the thing was
accomplished.
It was Friday night. Her trunks
had gone to tlio pier, and In her d!s- i
mantled room she battled with the '
lassitude that follows a whirl of feel- j
lng. She was dull, emotionless, ox- j
hausted. The quarrel, licr flight, life i
Itself, had oonsed to matter, and she
dropped luto a chair. It was then thnt I
her eyes fell upon the sampler.
The small mottled square of brown I
canvas, with Its fading letters, had In !
?V>MV ?i.j viivui>cu un uuruilUU UI1UI ]
now and remained pinned against the
wall. For an appreciable time she j
stared at Its alphabet and figures, its
stiff tree, Its astonishingly alert birds,
and at last at the inscription that always
held a pensive interest for her,
"Amy Castle, aged eight years, 1808."
More than once sho had dreamed of
that namo. Who was Amy Castle?
The sampler had been found In a chest
of inherited stuff, and no one could
recall the owner. The small hands that
had wrought those bedim mod llgures
were now dust, but what had come to
them before the last resigned folding?
Had Amy, too, loved and suffered and
lost? llad her woman's pride smiled
out on the world from a face drawn
with pain? Tragedy or comedy. It
mattered little now. All that remained
of licr passing was this small, mottled
sampler. This was what it all
came to In the end?this?
With a swift, eloquent gesture she
arose and literally ilew along the corridor
to the telephone. "Quick, Central,
quick!" she was urging a moment
later. "It's?It's a matter of life and
death!"
Ilut all she could say when she got
her number was a broken "Oh, Donald!"
A Good Foot note.
Hearing that a large boot and shoe
establishment was giving away a
present of a foot rule with every pair
of boots or shoes It sold, a man told
i his wife about the bnrgaln and said
that as her shoes were nearly done he
would give*her money to buy a new
pair If she gave him the foot rule when
she came back, as he wanted to sell
it and so get back part of the money
paid for the shoes. Ills wife went to
the shop and after a great deal of
trouble got a pair to please her. As
she was leaving the shopman gave her
a small box, which, he said, contained
a foot rule. She went home delighted
with her bargain and, seeing her husband
at the door, gave hhn the box.
When he opened it he found, to his disgust,
Instead of the foot rule he wanted,
a slip of paper on which was written,
"Avoid tight shoes."
IlnnRlnK In Chnln*.
One ol' the last instances in England
of an order being made for hanging in
chains is that of a chimney sweep who
in 1827 murdered a man on the highj
way. The culprit was tried bj* Mr.
! Justice Host at Lincoln assizes. The
I>oor wretch's body never underwent
the proposed indignity. The inhabitants
of llrlgg took fright and thought
that the gibbet standing so near the
highway would terrify people and
hinder them from coming to market.
I They petitioned against the judge's order
being carried out, and the authorities
remitted the horror. The last perI
son hung in chains was a man named
Cook, who suffered for the murder of
a Mr. Pans. Tills occurred at Leicester
in 1S3-I, the very year that the custom
was put an end to by statute.
The Iffiiornnt I.amlnnmn.
The captain of an ocean liner was
entertaining n little group of passengers
with sea stories. lie said: "In
Bremen one day I saw a farmer look!
Ing at the shipping In the harbor. A
longshoreman was explaining the shipping
to him. Finally I heard the longshoreman
any. 'It Is low water now,
sir.' The farmer took his pipe out of
his mouth und pointed It solemnly toi
ward a heavily laden tramp steamer
| that was passing.
" 'It's a good thing for that vessel
going past that It Is low water,' he
ieald. Tbo water's near over the edge
tof her now.'"
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How dparrowt Were Cauarht.
Iu nil old game book published In
England In 1820 appeared the follow- |
lug fornutln for the lessening of the
sparrow jiest: "Tuke some loos of wine
nml hemlock Juice, temper thein together
an 1 steep a quantity of wheat j
therein for the space of one night. Theu
place the same In a spot where the
birds resort to feed, anil when they
have eaten thereof they will <lrop down
detnl drunk. Too much hemlock should
ix?t he used or there will be a danger
of poisoning the birds uud rendering
them unwholesome food."
Th.ipkprnr'it Ilont cf Ch?rMrter?. I
Xotue oue who has been looking at the
list of characters enumerated hi the
lust volume of an edition of Thackeray's
works has calculated that their number
totals uti to between ".000 and
3,r?00. We have not chocked the estimate,
hut, accepting it as accurate,
share the discoverer's astonishment.?
London 1'ost.
(iuarded.
A mother of four daughters, of whom
one had recently married, asked a young
man sitting beside her in the drawing
room whom slia would like for a sonin-law,
"And which of my girls do you
most admireV"
lie (lighting shy)?The married one.
Lucky.
Stubb?No. 1 can't get along with my
wife. To everything 1 say she retorts
"I beg to differ with you!" Tenn?You
are Ireky. old man. My wife Just differs
without taking time to beg.
Purest
ICE CREAM
W ? m i
(OUR OWN MAKIj.)
Send Us Your
Orders.
Phone 73.
DUKE DRUG CO.
' Under Hotel Union. Union, S. C.
A MILDER CLIMATE.
In Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas.
Stock ranges ton to twelve months
in the year, two and three crops grow
in a season. Now is the time to look
up a location while the land is cheap.
On February 7th and 2Lst and March
7 th and 21st, Cotton Belt Route will sell
round trip home-seekers' tickets from
St. Louis, Thebes, Cairo and Memphis
to points in above named states at rate
! of $15, or one fare plus $2 where it
: makes less than $15.
j One way colonist tickets, February
. 21st and March 21st at half fare, plus$2.
j Write for map, time table, and ask
about rates to any point.
L. P. SMITH, T. P. A.
! Cotton Belt Route, Atlanta, da.
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big barbecue at Lockhart
July 4th.
We will serve a first class
barbecue and fish stew, also
ice cream and lemonade at
Lockhart on July 4th, 1905.
Special attention to ladies and
r hilHr^n
J. H. Rogers & Co.
I 23-4t
| BOILERS AND ENQINES.
Tanks, Stacks, Stand Pipes,
| and Sheet Iron Work; Shafting,
Pulleys, Gearing, Boxes,
Mangers, etc. Mill Castings.
Cast every day; work 200
hands.
Lombard Foundry Machine and
Boiler Work and Supply Store.
Augusta. Georgia
WHIPS
AND
POCKET
KNIVES
CHEAP
AT
J. T. SEXTON'S.
T H E a
Cash bargain Store 1
White Jap Silk, 24 and 36
inches wide, at 25c and 50c . j|
the yard. '.jM
White Lawn, 40 inches wide, . w
at 10c.
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Fancy Neckwear and Belts. M
Collars 5c, 8c, 10c, 12ic, 15c,
25c and 50c each. .
KEEP COOL! ..
Open and shut Fans from lc
to 50c each. i
White Silk Fafis 25c and 50c
each. ;
Fancy Emb. Shirt Waist Patterns
98c and #1.50 each.
May Manton Patterns and Catalogues
all 10c each.
MRS. D. N. W1LBURN.
Drugs and
Medicines.
v.
Goods always fresh and
clean. Toilet Articles,
Perfumery, Fancy Soaps^g,
Hair and Tooth Brushes,
Rubber Goods, Stationery,
etc. Careful and Prompt
attention given to compounding
all physicians*
prescription.
Palmetto Drug Co.,
Huiet & Rcnwick, Owners.
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From Frigid to Torrid
From Coal to Ice you
think, one is no mora a
luxury than the other,
both are a necessity
I will deliver |(? at your door
Buy your ticket, it is
economy and saves you
trouble. Jfc
Ice house opposite Southern
Passenger Depot.
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J. D. KILHAKU5.
fine Decorated
TABLE WARE EREE.
I have now put into effect a system
that I have had in mind for years,
believing that a customer who pays
for his or her goods at the time C
they buy them, is. entitled to a lit- ^ "
tie difference in value. Bo I have
hit upon this plan to give prpmiums
for paid business. This you may
not think will amount to much, but
if you will take your pencil and
figure it out, you will see that it is
equal to about 4 or 6 per cent, on .d
\\r Kof v/4ii Kiitr hVv
uiiuv jiuu muj 1' VI VIIVW3 pit/UJlUIIlS ,'fl
I have chosen a full line, of Pecorated
China. I give coupon^'with
each cash purchase. My pricetr^jre dL
always low and usually lower than
the same quality of goods can be \
Ismght elsewhere. It will not take
any family long to own a fine dinner
set absolutely free by confining . J
their trade to my store. Remember
that you do not have to wait "!
until you have traded enough to get Vi
a dinner set, hut can get one article
at a time and as often as you have j
the required nuntber of tickets.
Trade here, save your coupons and 'j
get a fine set of dishes free.
GEO. W. GOING.