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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-02-16

PROTECT YOUR BUILDINGS.
Which may be done with one-fourth tho
usual expense, by using our
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(FifteSn Years Established.)
MINED READY FOR USE.
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A roof may be covered with very cheap
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TO last from 20 to % years. Old roofs can be
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slate, for
One-third the Cost Of Re-shingling.
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as may be easily tested by any one.
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This Slate Paint is
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Two gallons will cover hundred square feet of
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surface, and although the paint has heavy
body it is easily applied with n brush
No Tar Is used in this Composition,
-thcrefcrc, ~ neither cracks In Winter, nor runs
in Summer.
On decayed shingles, it fills up the holes and
pores, and gives new substantial roof that will
last for years. CrRLHp OR WARPED shingles it
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and although slow dryer, rain docs not at
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Pay Up or Go Dry.

respectfully ask all persons indebted to me to
l. make payments Immediately. | am greatly
in want Of money, and having accommodated u
large number of persons with credit, think
The least they could ito is to pay portion if not
all, of what they owe me.
am in dead earnest in what I say, and here
hy give notice that don't intend to give credit
for 10 cents to any man who owes me- unless he
comes forward and makes some kind of n show
ing that hc>is honorable enough to pay.
And further give notice that i"fcnd 10 make
coHcchons, in some way, pretty soon.
". II. DAVIS.
Jan 10 Q ~
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Pure Corn Whiskey,

DURE Mountain Corn Whiskey, for medicinal
l. purposes, for sale at
a. IRWIN, & CO.'S
Feb s &c
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DISSOLUTION.

HNHE partnership heretofore existing under
Il the firm name Of J. n. Moore g. Co. is this
day dissolved. The Accounts due the firm are
in the hands of Messrs. Munro s. Munro for
collection. All debtors are required to make
payment on or bcfoye 18th February
We cordially recommend Messrs 4. Irwin G
Co., who have purchased our Stock to the pa.
tronage of tire public. ~.
J. y. MOORE, & co.
Jan 10 In,
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CRACKERS.


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Lemon Cream, Ginger Snaps, Cream, Noyelfy.S
CAKES. TEA CAKES, JUMBLES,
Sugar Cakes, &c., at b. +. RANLS & cos
NO. STORE.
Nov. 10 l6 A.
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NEW YORK CASH PRICE LIS

10 lbs, cement for bad lcaks............... l25
We have in stock of our own manu- facure.
roofing materials, etc, at the following low
prices:
1000 rolls extra Rubber Roofing, ut 3 cents
per square foot. (Or we. will furnish Rubber
Roofing. Nails, Caps, and Slate Paint for en-
tire new roof, at A. cents per square foot.)
2OO0 rolls 2-ply Tarred Roofing Felt nt II
cents per square foot.
5000 rolls 3-piy Tarrcd Roofing Felt, at 2l
cents per square foot.
200 rolls Tarrcd Shcathing nt cent per
square foot.
5000 gallons fine Enamel Paint, mixed ready
for use, inside outside work ut 50 per
gallon, all shades.
lOOO Bbls Slate Flour.............pcr bbl 81 90
1000 Soapstone Flour........ " 800
1000 Grafton Mineral. " " 800
1000 Metallic Paint, dry. 4" 800
Special prices per ton or CARLOAD lots.
All orders must bc accompanied with the
money, or subject to 80 days draft OH well
known parties.
NJ. Y. SLATE PAINT COMPANY.
l02 & l04 Maiden LANE, New York.
Feb 3ms
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Notice of Final DISCHARGE.
WEST SPRINGS INSTITUTE

:O:--
HNiiE Spring term of this institution will open
l. to Males and Females, with a competent
crops of Instructors, on the Sth of January and
close on the 10Th of June.
The location is fine. Situated in Union County
twelve miles from the c. H., near the Spartan
burg line Its hcathiulncss is UNSURPASSED and
the Mineral water inferior to none in the state
Tuition for term Oftwcnty weeks:
Primary Glass. .........................S so
Intermediate. ....................l, |, 80
Higher Branchcs....... .......... .. w l5 90
Board, with fuel, for females, in the Institution
$1,000 per month for males, in the community,
5000 per month.
For further particulars address
Rev. q. 5. ANDERSON. Principal
Glenn Springs. S. C.
Feb 9 ,r
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Sherif'S Sale.

Nov. 10, 1876
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
EoW IT Is DONE.

"What kind of house will we play?"
asked one little girl of another. "Oh play
calling" replied the other. "Mary, here,
she can be Mrs. Brown and sit on the step,
and me and julia will call upon her and ask
her how she is, and how her husband is, and
it the baby's got over the measles, and tell
her how nice she looks in her new wrapper,
and hope it won't hurt her much when she
has that tooth filled. And then We'll say,
''Good-bye. Mrs. Brown, come and see us
some time or other, and bring the children
and your sewing; and you're such a stran-
ger we don't see half enough of YOU" And
then me and Julia Well courtesy and walk
off a piece, and I'll say to Julia, "Did you
ever see such q horrid old fright as she looks
to be in that wrapper" And then Julia
she'll say, ''The idear of anybody having
false teeth filledW And then I'll say,' Yes,
and what a homely lot of dirty little brats
them young ones of ller'n is" Let's play
it what do you say?
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
now TO GET c

Nothing is more easy than to grow rich.
1'l only to trust nobody-to get all you
can' and save all you get-to stint yourself
anu everybody belonging to you-to be-
lflena no man, and hay'e no man for your
'flend-to heap interest upon interest, cent
upon cent, to be mean, miserable and de-
'p'sea Tor some twenty or thirty years-and
iiches Will come as sure as disease and dis
appointment. And when pretty nearly
enough wealth is collected, by a disregard
u all the charities Of the human heart, and
''e expense of every enjoyment, death
.ones to finish the work-the body is bur-
~ III 9 mole, the heirs dance over it, and
lac spirit goes-where?
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
The no I CIR Z.
CULTIVATE FAIRLY AFFECTION.

can imagine no condition that carries
with it such a promise ofljoy rs the farmer
IN the autumn; with his cellar full, with ev-
.ry preparation made for the winter, with
,he prospect of three months of comfort and
re.t. three months of tireside and content;
three months of home and family, three
months of pure, solid comfort. Make your
houses comfortable. Dc not huddle togeth-
or in q little room around q red hot stove,
with every window fastened down. Do not
live in this poisoned air, and then when one
of your children dies put a piece in the pa
per commencing with, "Whereas, it has
pleased Providence TO remove from our
midst" Have plenty of air and plenty OF
warmth. Let your children sleep. Do not
drag them from their beds in the darkness
Of night. Treat them with infinite kind
ness. There is no happiness in a house not
filed with love; where a man hates the wife,
or the wife the husband; where children fear
their parents, or where parents dislike their
children. Every such home is simply a hell
upon earth. There is no reason why farmers
should not be refined and kind. There is
nothing in the cultivation of the soil to make
men cross, Grabbed and unjust. TO look up
on the sunny slopes covered with daisies,
does not tend to make men cruel. Whoever
labors for the happiness Of those he loves,
'eleyates himself; no matter whether he
works in the shop or plows in the perfumed
fields.
In conclusion, let M say to farmers, do
all you can to make your business attractive.
Col. Robert MgersoN.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE.

who are the most disagreeable people TO
live with? One will answer, "Those who
are irritable or wantonly unkind." Another,
''Those who are jealous and suspicious"
Still another, ''those who are so hopelessly
energetic in word and action as to render re-
pose impossible in their vicinity" Few will
say "Those who are vicious;'' for it is true
that those qualities which come under the
head of toibles rather than of vices render
people most intolerable as companions and
coadjutors. For example, it may be observ-
ed that those persons have a more worn jad-
ed and dispirited look than any others, who
have to live with people who make difficult
ties on every occasion, great or small. It is
astonishing to see how this practice Of ma
king difficulties grows into a confirmed hab-
it Of mind, and what disheartment it occa-
sions. The SAVIOR of life is taken out Of it
when you know that nothing you propose
to do or suggest, hope for or endeavor, will
meet with any response but an enumeration
of the difficulties that will lie in the path
you wish to travel.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
WHO ARE THE BLESS RID.

Blessed is the man who minds his own
business.
Blessed is the woman who never SAYS to
her husband, 81 told you So"
blessed is the man who can sew on his
buttons when the baby is crying.
Blessed is the woman who won't marry a
widower-providing he's your own father.
Blessed is the mother-in-law who never re-
minds you that you married above your sta
ton.
Blessed is the rich relation who never looks
Gown on you-when you are in the gutter.
Blessed is the poor relation who never
looks up to you-for money.
Blessed is the old maid that don't hate old
people and children.
Blessed is the old bachelor that don't hate
cats and pincushione.
Blessed are the married people that don't
wish they We're single.
Blessed are the single people that are con-
tent to remain SO.
Blessed is the husband who never says his
mothers pies were better than his wife's are.
Blessedis the wife (formerly a widow who
never calls up the virtues Of her ssdear de-
parted'' for No. 2 to emulate.
Blessed is the man who gives his wife 10
cents without asking her what she is going
to do with it. ;
Blessed is the woman who don't scold
when the stove pipe falls down on the
Hfpnoy tn hla opI hJoo,oI =, 4ho --l-
can fix it up without swearing. :
Blessed is the friend who never requires
the loan of your umbrella.
Blessed is the neighbor who is SO busy
with his own affairs that he has no time to
pry into yours.
Where are the blessed?
Echo answers, :Where.?'
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
TRIALS OF LEE.

We start life's journey full of hope, full Of
gladness, and full of joyous ambition, conf
dent in our own strength and in the support
of friends and kindred stationed round about
us, on whom we lean with great satisfaction;
but as years pass On one of the outposts, the
supports, falls; and then another and anoth-
er, each succeeding year, leaving ona or
more the less. For q while w e scarcely miss
the acquaintance and friends of our child
hood, for we have so many; but as time rolls
on the number becomes so small that each
additional loss makes a greater old Faith
er, mother, brothers, sisters, our old neigh
bors, all gone; the minister OF our youth
has grown gray before us-he, too, has pass
ed away; and beyond a schoolmate here and
another there, nothing is left to connect lis
with the times and the home of our child
hood, and such a feeling OF desoIation M
over us that we are ready to sink fin perfect
helplessness and dispair. To the old who
NAV chance to read these lines, the sugges-
ton is made, which. if wisely needed, may
save the body from sinking under the WHEEL
ming load, and it is this: He who made us
is the Father of us all, and the dispensations
of this life are designed to prepare lis the
more certainly for a beautiful existence be-
yond the grave, and to enable US to make
the transition with the least violence, and at
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
rp0DDEN FLOWERS.

come hearts that like the loving vino,
sho.o .n 70 upkindly rocks and ruined towers,
" ,1.s ,bat suffer and do not repine-
n,t;ent and sweet rs lowly trodden ho"ers'
s.o,n the ~passors' heel arise,
1hH' > ~ hack odorous breath instead OF signs.
other hearts that will not feel
hm lonely love that haunts their eyes and ears;
.o,,d fond faith with anger worse than steel,
nc" .va ont of PHYS spring draw idle tears.
n.ture shall it ever be thy will
o"n 49, with good to mingle, good with i'll?
,cbv should the heavy foot of sorrow press
~" willing heart of accomplishing love
80. ob.ritxa tn at shrinks not from distress,
e,nt,eness, 10th her tyrants to rcproVe?
un .,,rb virtue weep forever anti lament,
"uN so hard heart turn to her and repent?
uhv should the seed be broken that will bend,
,,d they that dry tne tears in Others eyes
$40, t,e;r own anguish swelling without end,
rhoiv summer d arkened with the smoke Of sighs ?
..mo Love TO some fair region of his own
s1,, 400 ot last and leave us here alone.
r ove veepeth a~lway-weepeth for the past,
ror wocs that are, for woes that may betide;
WIN should not hard ambition weep at last,
rnvv and hatred, avarlce and pride?
r.te whispers that so low is your poor lot,
r,sv woulo be rebels love rebelleth not.
Ihc
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
GROWING OLD.

1t is a solemn thought connected with
middle life, that life's last business is begun
in earnest; and it is then, midway between
the cradle and the grave, that a man begins
to marvel that he let the days of youth go
by 50 half enjoyed. 1t is the pensive au-
tumn feeling; it is the sensation of half sad
ness that we experience when the longest
day of the year is past, and every day that
follows is shorter and the light fainter, and
the feebler shadows tell that Nature is has
tening with gigantic footsteps to her winter
grave. So does man look back upon his
youth. When the first gray hairs become
visible, when the unwelcome truth fastens
itself upon the mind that a man is no longer
going up hill, but down, and the sun is al
ways westering, he looks back on things be-
hind. When we were children we thought
as children. But now there lies before us
manhood, with its earnest work. and then
old age, and then the grave, and then home.
There is a second youth for man, better and
holier than his first, if he will look on and
not look back.-F. ". Robertson.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
ASoTHER EXPERIMENT IN PITCHING
A CURVED RAIL

an experiment was recently tried in Gin
einnad to demonstrate tina. a pitcher can
p,''" curved balls. 1t was a success. 1t was
a'so demonstrated in Danbury the past
aseA' out in a more simple way. A slim
~ was standing on the corner of Manson
sAa rine streets when the clubs were COM
s M Seeing the ball in the hands of a
ha ,''a' ne invited a pitch. The holder of the
his pu. one foot ahead of the other, shut
roa,. Ups ush together, glared with awful fe-
wv, .. his friend, and her twisting his
-" Twice from the shoulder to the elbow.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
GOLDEN EAVES.


Sweet dreams of our childhood;
Thy loneliness fills us with memories
Ofall that was brightest and best;
Thy peace and serenity offer
A fortress Of heavenly rest.
business makes a man, as well as tries
him.
Misery requires action; happiness, re-
pose.
Good manners are only the absence ~
s%elfishness.
Time is almost the only thing OF which
it is a virtue to be covetous.
The more tender and delicate the bios
SONS Of joy. the purer must be the hand
that will Gull them.
Debt is a horse that is always throwing
its rider. Fools ride him barebacked, ard
without o saddle.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

'ne same time to train us to those habitudes
"a heart which will the more elevate us in
'ne world beyond; he arranges that We shall
learn 10 lean less on ourselves, less on 9TH
CTS ahd more on Himself, as the weary man
leans On a staff; and the sooner we BEGIN
thus to lean the happier we shall be in time,
ahu the more ready shall we find ourselves
70 Jake up the returnless journey without Il
"'ufmur and without a sigh.-HaWs Jour
nal Of Health.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
MOCK MARRIAGES.

Mock marriges for the fun of the thing
sometimes turn out not to be the joke they
were supposed to be. A Miss Clara Man
ming of Brooklin, and a MIR. Brundage, of
Unionville, in New York State, at a social
gathering in the house of the latter, last Au-
gust, went through this joke to her, but, as
lie now claims, reality to him. He says he
meant it, and she says she did not mean it.
The marriage service was read to both by a
minister, and both publicly assented to the
contract by the appropriate response. Mr..
Brundage procured a certificate of the fact
that the parties had been united in wedlock
according to the laws ofthe State. The step
mother of the unwilling bride applied TO the
clerk OF one of the courts of Brooklin to know
what could be done about it; and the clerk.
after ascertaining the facts advised that the
bride should accept the situation and make
the best oft, especially as Mr.. Brundage was
a substantial farmer who understood 1.-THE
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

Old age is even a nobler sight than a ship
completing a long, long voyage. On n sum
mer's evening the setting sur is grand TO
look at. In his morning beams the birds
awoke and sang, men rose for their work.
and the werld grew light. In his midday
heat wheat fields grew yellower. and fruits
were ripened, and..a thousand natural pnr-
poses were answered which we mortals dr
not know of. And in his light at setting all
things grew harmonious and solemn. BIT
what is all this to the sight of a good lite In
those years that go down in the grave? III
will begin again. Sublimer than the settiap
sun is the old age of ajhst, and kind, ara
useful life.
And the poor soul, cmancipate by Death.
The Enlarger, shall attain its end predoomed,
The eternal newness Of eternal joy.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20
A CRY FOR SIMPLICITY.

We are obliged to the New Century ARA
Publication Company for one of their exqui-
site chromos, but we feel compelled to re-
turn it with the request that they send us
some less elaborate study in its stead. This
picture. "Autumn Scenes on American
Farms" is beautiful enough; the atmo.-
phere Is marked with rare transparency, the
foreground is a marvellous copy OF nature.
the perspective is perfect, the high light.
middle tint and background are all good, the
drawing is accurate and the coloring delicate
and natural, and we will say the other
things about it when the company sends us
the other art slang. But we cannot hang 1t
up in our house. We have a son who in all
probability will be raised in the city, and we
cannot, without doing violence to the feel
ings of Il father, permit the hope and staff 81
our declining years to grow up, and, by con-
slant study OF that picture, tall into the be-
lief that American farmers, in tight boots
and claw-hammcr coats, and their wives and
daughters, in Princesse dresses and Valen-
ciennes lace and kid slippers, 60 out in the
autumn with a pair Of blooded horses and a.
basket phaeton and gather blood-red and
golden apples off the same spreading, gnarl-
ed and rugged oak tree, glowing in all the
flaming splendor of the autumn-glorified
maple. Take back your picture, and give
us a David and Goliah, with green grass and
red blood. Don't put in much grass, but
pile on the bleod.-Balington Hawk-Eye.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

management of pigs and cows" and was "a
much better match than some city swell who
carries his fortune on his back" Whether
such a marriage is valid in law is q q question
TOR the courts to decide. The lesson is that,
If the parties do not mean the thing. they
had better keep clear of the form. If they
go through the form the presumption of law
is that they mean it.
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ana tour times from the elbow to the wrist.
LOT driuo the danal.u .A.1 IN !,

and four times from the elbow to the wrist.
let drive the deadly missile. The slim man.
who had intensely watched this mysterious
preparation, Saw the ball was coming to his
right, and laid in that direction; but was i'm
mediately convinced that it was turning to
the left, and, while striking out in that direc-
ton, was %astonished to observe that it was
about to plank him in the middle of the
back, and promptly whirled around to inter
cept it; but not seeing it at all in that direc-
ton, and being dreadtully excited, he jump
ed about again, and just in time to catch the
ball Oh the bridge of his nose. There being
plenty OF pavement back of him, he was
saved from falling any great distance, and
is Thus preserved as Il living evidence that a
ball curves, although it is not likely he will
ever smell again with any sort of precision.
-Danbury News.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

"Gentlemen, Introduce to you my friend,
who isn't SO stupid as he appears to be-" In
troduced friend, with vivacity-.'that's ex-
actly the difference between my friend and
myself"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

A man who has been travelling in the s.far
vest says-but he probably misrcpresent4
the matter-tl,at when an Idaho girl is kiss
ed she Indignantly exclaims, Now put tina,
right back where you took it from"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

The Hawksye thinks ''the great objection
to Goldfish is it's ''foreign accent" What
does it mean by foreign ac?n The rest is
plain enough.-G7uphic
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-20

anew YORK firm hung out a sign read
ing: "In God we trust-everybody else,
cash.