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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
She Got the Needle After All.

Nineteen years ago this month q
woman residing here accidentally
pushed q needle into hcr breast. She
had been sewing on fino muslin and
she pushed the peint of tho needle
through the lapel of her basque while
she inquired the causo of quarrel be-
tween two children who were playing
near by. In paroxysm of tears the
younger child threw herself into the
arms of the lady, and as she did 30 tho
needle was pushed so far out OF sight
that only the eye was visible. A quick
movement to rescue it resulted in an
entire disappearance of the fine bit of
steel. No Inconvenience was expert
enced and the incident w:s entirely
forgotten. A few evenings ago the
woman, who had carried thS needle
about her for 30 mT years, was
awakened out of-a Sound sleep by o
peculiar pricfing sensation in the
throat. Rising up in bed she began to
cough. The prickipg became more
severe, but the sharp substance ap-
peared to be rising IL her throat.
Thrusting her fingers down as for as
possible, she caught hold of an object
and drew it out. 1t was the needle
that had been journeying about under
the surface for nineteen years.-Kings-
ton IN. ~ Freeman.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
Cost OF Armies.

An Ingenious writer has been igur-
ing out the comparative burden of the
national debts and war expenditure Of
the chief European nations and that Of
the United States. Taking France
and England together, he shows that
they pay some $5O7 ,0O0, 900 o year on
the public debt, and $340, ,O0O, 900 for
army and navy, besides giving up to
military service the productive energy,
of 73O, 900 able-bodied men. Estimat-
ing the value of this labor at 800
each, there is another ga, ,O0O, 600 to
be added to the annual charge which
France and England pay for their
armies, navies and debts. This, IL will
be seen, reaches the appalling total of
$3.50, ,OOO, 600 to be paid by popula-
ton only 25 per cent. greater than that
of the United States, and one certainly
very much less able to bear such o
burden. As against this, we pay q
little moro than $3.50, 900 q year
for army, navy and debt, leaving $780,
OOO, 900 a year in our favor as COM
pared with France and England to-
gether. That, under such conditions,
this country must go ahead in the race
for world supremacy rs rapidly and rs
surely as European nations must fall
behind, needs no prophet to forctell.
Militarism and progress are not In
these days convertible terms.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
Our Far Alaskan Citizens.

A writer familiar with the uncivil-
lied Esquimaux of far Northern Alas
ka says that they are the most abject
beings he ever saw. They neither wash
nor comb their hair, and they wear
dirty, filthy garments year in and year
jp,it. Esquimaux means "raw fish
eater" their diet is chiefly fish and
game, kept until it is in state Of pu-
trefaction, when to them it is most de-
icious. Raw blubber OF the whale is
great delicacy. Their manner of eat
ing is dog-like. Fixing their teeth in
piece Of blubber, with q dull knife
they saw off the portion which tho
mouth will not admit. The men huat
and fish, while all othcr work is done
by the women. They know nothing
Of marriage vows; they cohabit. sepa-
rate and take new partners at pleasure,
one man often having succession Of
wives. The old-time custom of tattoo
ing the face, arms and breast is still
practiced. The women wear ivory
studs in the lower lip in which is in
serted their sewipg-needle for convent
ence when not in use. The men also
have these apertures with bone or ivory
studs in their ears, in which rings are
inserted. This same fashion prevails
largely In Southeastern Alaska. "Out
of the fashion, out of the world" is as
true of them as of us. There is much
caste among them, aud it would be
hard to find more conservative and
conventional people.-SitkG alaskan.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
A USEFUL PREpARATIoN.

A very useful and simple preparation
that have found beneficial to the plants
is made by mixing two pecks of sheep
manure, one peck of SCOT and two quarts
of guano in hogshead of rain water.
Smaller amounts can be made by mixing
the ingredients in the same proportion.
The mixture should be stirred up thor
oughly for day or two and then quart
of quick-lime thrown in. The mixture
will then be ready for use. Weak and
tender plants should be treated with an
application of this manure about once a
week during the Towering period.
Strong, healthy plants can stand an ap-
plication every day or two, but it is usu-
ally safer to dilute it with one third of
clear water when such frequent applica-
tions are made. Orchids, roses, heaths
and other flowers will show marked i'm
provement, both in the growth of the
wooded stalks and in the production of
flowers and foliage. AS soon as the
Towering period is over the applications
should cease. If kept up the plants will
be unduly stimulated and their growth
retarded in the end. Amateurs always
have tendency to go to extremes in u.s.
ing such strong solutions. Washington
Star.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
ANTIDorE FOR ANTS.

. tried several methods to prevent ants
molesting bees, and found the following
far tho most satisfactory: BY use of
crowbar make hole in the middle of the
anthill down to the bottom, which is
easily found by the moro open or less
compact earth. Then turn into this hole
n gill of bisulphide of carbon, aud fill and
crowd down with earth. AS the liquid
is very volatile, and cannot pass out ct
the now compactly filed hole, it quickly
evaporates and kills all the ants. If clay
be near, always use this to crowd into the
hole, as it is more impervious than is sand,
though by firmly pressing with the foot
the sand can be made to hold the liquid.
Kerosene may be used instead OF the car
bon, but it is far less effective. SO, too,
of carbolic acid. BY means of syrup, SO
covered by gauzc that bees ale excluded,
the ants can be trapped in great numbers
and destroyed. Ihave often done this,
end by adding Paris green have poisoned
the ants.-NeU York Tribune.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
An Editors Experiences.

Motor Sidney Herbert. well-known joarnsstst IN
agricultural circles wrltos April 18th. 1880: some
fvc years AFRO wrote letter stating that Swift's
Specific had cured me of ecvcre rheumatism. Since
that timo hive had no return Of the rheumatic
troubles although frequently exposed to the infu-
cnces that produced former attacks. Several Of my
friends had similar experience. and firm In thcr
conviction that 8. s. s. brought permanent euro.
The searching power Of this medicine is shown In
the fact that It developed acrofuous tant that was
conspicuous in my blood over thirty years ago and
has removed tho last trace of II. have nso tested
fever. which lecpt mo In bod for thrcc months, aud
am convinced that its curative and strengthening
properties insured my recovery from that illness,
was In very low condition OF health.
SIDNEY uHRBnRr, Atlantis, Ga.
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THE POINTS OF A GOOD BUTTER COW.


What are the fine points that make up
a good creamery COVE is a question am
asked to answer. l presume butter
cow is meant, as the volume of cream
does not determine the butter value.
Cream separated from milk by intense re-
frigeration or by the centrifugal machirn
requires about one third more in voluJ Ie
to make pound of butter than cream
raised in silo pans at temperature of
sixty-two degrees, and yet either of the
other processes may produce more butter
from one hundred pounds of milk than
silo pan.
A good butter COW should have long
face, wide between the eyes, the eye alert
and expressive, and placed long way
between the horns. A cow with eyes
near the top of the head does not know
any more than man with eyes so placed.
She should have large muzzle, slim
neck and yellow skin, especially inside
the ears; the breathing should be regular,
the back and abdomen strong, the udder
wide where it connects with the body,
the teats squarely placed, and the tail
slim. Over and above all these points,
she must have the dairy form. The points
at best are only indications. The desira-
BILE dairy form is always seen in the best
types of Jerseys, Guernseys, Ayreshires,
and Holsteins. The best beef Is
presented in the Shorthorns, Here
fords and most of the polled breeds.
The intelligent dairyman, with knowl-
edge born of experience, desire and capac-
ity for the business, never makes the mis-.
take Of choosing his cow with beef
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
SAVE THE NATURE HENS.

1t is the custom of some farmers who
plan to make the most out of their poul-
try, to sell off the old hens when the
hens are fat, through laying and in de-
mand at good prices. This plan is a
conmendable one, but care shouTu pe
taken not to sell the too young old hens,
If regard Is had for the stock of the next
season. 1t is none too early to lay the
plans for next springs crop of early birds.
The reason why the young old hens
should not be sold off now will be made
apparent by the following from the pen
of that poultry authority, 2. H. Jacobs.
He says:
The pullet Matched in spring, say April
er May, will often begin to lay when she
ia six months CID ior sooner if of small
breed), but she will not be fully matured
until she arrives at the age of one year.
The consequence is that while she will
lay she will be growing at the same.time,
and Is therefore not competent to
produce eggs that will give salts
factory results when used for in
cubation. Her powers are doubly taxed,
and her offspring will break unless sbr =
eosk %"1ed with v'gsE2Asst Strong and active
who have taken pains to
secure fine, healthy pullets, have been dis
appointed in raising them on farms where
incubators are operated, as they lay small
eggs, and often begin to lay so early as to
produce eggs no larger than those of a
pigeon. If eggs are desired for Matching
purposes, use hens that are in their second
year lover one year oldD, and mate them
with cockcrel that is at least one year
old, and the result will be that greater
proportion of eggs will hatch, while the
chicks therefrom will be strong and easy
to raise. 1t has been said that her. be-
comes less valuable af'e- she is two years
old, but it is safe to assert that she will
lay we'll until she is four years old, and
although she may not lay quite as many
as a pullet nearly grown, yet her eggs
will hatch better and larger number Of
chicks be secured from her. But, it may
be added, do not forget the fact that
pure bred, strong, vigorous cocks must be
used in the fiock.-Farm, Field and Stock
man.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Air-slacked lime is a sure remedy for
the Shiny pear slug, and an easy one to
apply.
If the little chicks are droopIng, look
for lice. You will be apt to find them
about the chicks head.
From observation and experience we
are persuaded that more young chicks
arc killed by lice than by skunks or
minks.
In shipping hens and roosters have
them in different coops. Have shipping
coops high enough so the birds can stand
up in them.
Professor Golf, of the New York
Station, finds the really valuable novelty
in tomatoes tested the past season in the
dwarf champion.
Ground from which crop of potatoes
or early cabbage has been taken can be,
proftably sowed in July to turnips OF, e
intermediate or early varieties.
XsI the isilss nil = Il SfssssspSsilf3bed Silfbed or when
for any reason the setting must be de-
layed, no method of creaming gives as
satisfactory results as the centrifugal.
When shipping live poultry to market,
see to it that the coops are in good con-
dition, for they are sometimes handled
roughly, or a slat may come loose and a
fowl or two become lost.
Are you crowding too many chickens
in one roosting place9 Are you permit
ting chicks under four mouths to roost
other than on floor or coop2 If so, cor
rect at once these mistakes.
If you are sending mixedslot of hens
to market it will pay you to grade them
as to quality and color. so. rs to have
each coop as even as possible. They will
sell more rapidly and at better prices.
Boxes in the kitchen win,;ows provide
probably the best and most convenient
way to raise plants from seed for the
home garden. Sow seed about six weeks
before time to transplant to the open
ground.
A veteran peach grower states his be-
lief, concurred in by as good authority
as w. G. Barry, that if trees arc fed
pretty we'll with barn yard manure and
ashes they will not be troubled much with
yellows.
In the early fall months some of the
vegetables that sell well early i'll the
season prove attractive. A market
gardener suggests that lettuce should be
sown so that the crisp, green leaves will
prove palatable when cool days come
again.
There are three friends of the farmer
that wage incessant war on the aphides or
plant lice. These are the lady bird, the
syrphus fly and the lace fly, and every
farmer should make their acquaintance
and do oil in his power to protect
them.
For permanent pasture Peter Hender-
son recommends either for fall or spring
sowing orchard grass instead of timothy
as the base grass, with other sorts in
their proper proportion, to give compact
ness of sod, view differing from usually
accepted practice.
Dame Nature plants her plums in
thickets. The opium thicket" is a
familiar childhood phrase. Therefore an
Illinois horticulturist argues that plum
trees should never be planted singly, but
will do best in clumps, including different
varieties that will aid each other in
| fertilization.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
INYANTILE VICTIMS.

The children sing: .'Tremblc, King Alco-
ters: you'll have to grow fast for Pm after
you now" Then he provides little stools I'm
front Of his counters as in certain Chicago
saloons, SO that wee little ones, who come Of
pitchers. He also sends henchmen out , as in
Philadelphia. to sprinkle choice wine and IL
luor on the sidewalk. so that school children
must inhale the odor when going home, wlIis-
pering in his servants ears that the money
Is well spent for the children will soon be
theirs. and will amply repay for the seeming
waste.
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form. Neither will the intelligent beef
breeder choose his animal from the dairy
form with cat head and relaxed expires
sion. Physical structure and natural
adaptability embrace tho possibilities,
and therefore increase the probabilities OF
success with the butter cow.
While IL Is not difficult for dairyman
with q knowledge of his business to select
a COW that make ten pounds Of butter n
week, provided always such cow In
-s:th:n the drove or herd he Is inspect
iug, cows that will make fourteen pounds
of butter week arc not to be found IL
the droves that arc driven about for sale.
Such cows are seldom for sale except at
breeders prices. A novice might by
chanca- -salsot. eevv-- sfsse was making ten
pounds Of butter week under the right
treatment, yet If he kept her in cold
stable aud gave her ice water to drink
and fed her on timothy hay and ground
barley and corn meal, all of which are
lacking in protein, the cow would soon
run down to three and ohe-half pounds
week and stay there, or make less and
less. Another man who knew his bust
ness might have selected the same COW
and kept her in warm stable, given
warm water, warm ensilage made from
pounds of clover hay and plentiful sup
ply of wheat bran or middlings, ground
oats and peas, or little oil meal or any
other food containing protein in liberal
proportion, and the COW would probably
have increased to twelve pounds q week
if her limit permitted.
Cows have their limit as sharply de-
fined as trotting horse. Pasture grass
is the only single feed known that con-
tains ono part of protein or nitrogenous
food to five pounds of starch and sugar
(carbhydrates) in its dry matter, and it
is therefore good food to test an ordi-
nary cows limit. But just rs good ra-
tion as pasture grass can be made from
the article just mentioned, and this ration
will be much cheaper than pasture grass
on high priced land.
Dairy knowledge that enables man
to make selections of good cows from
among poor ones, and shows him how tt,
feed and treat them so that they will do
their best, is not n commodity that can be
ratified off to n novice like Widow Be-
dott's recipe for making potato pudding,
but is the slow outcome of natural obser-
vation, experience and capacity. Such
man may bc accurate in his Judgment,
and still be unable to make another man
accurate. A butcher can judge tho
weight of dozen or twenty bullocks
Within the fraction of a pound, but he
cannot instruct novice to do likewise,
any more than the poet Whittier can tell
Upper how to write good poetry.
The theory that the young calf reveals
the future cow is based on the form and
on the heredity of the calf's ancestors. II
the calf has the beefy form, and her an
cestors were noted fol their beef quail
ties, it is safe to say that such calf will
not make profitable butter COW. But
if the three days calf has the marked
dairy form and is descended from long
line of butter cows and sircs, she can be
developed into good butter cow The
theory is based on the fundamental prin-
ciple of all scientific but practical breed
ing that like begets likc-Amcriean Agri-
culturist.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16

SoF INTEREST RELATIVE
ITO FARM AND GARDEN.
BLASTING LOGS.

Select some straws and cut them of
between joints. Bend one end to keep
the powder from running out, and ali
with fine powder for fuses. Bore an inch
aud Q half hole TO the heart of the log,
and put in some powder. Make q tight
fitting plug; cut a groove in .sase side of
the plug for the straw. Lay the straw
fuse in the groove, and drive the plug in
tight. Place piece of lighted paper
over the end of the. straw. and .pa. -a..s.~r
-Aa-~-.vsy. nave blown up hundreds Of
logs and stumps, aud never had one to
miss.-Farm and Wreside.
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ITS pKsrnucr,os INEVITABLE.


The saloon seems to have frightened its grip
on some communities Of late, but this fact
should cause no despair, nor even discourage
ment. The saloon Is such an indescribable
breeder Of sin and sorrow that advancing
civilization will just as certainly destroy It
as spring sunshine melts ice. 1t is an intoler.
able nuisance, and must disappear. Despair
on this subject implies belief in the persistent
existence of the worst institution in the civil
lied world. Western Christian Advocate.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
The criminal statistics of prohibition Iowa
for 1887 report just one vagrant
Six prohibition tents, well equipped with
able speakers are sturdiiy marching over
the prairies Of South Dakota, making many
converts to the cause.
Sam Jones says that Georgia has already
only twenty are loft where It is still tolerated,
and that during the next twelve months they
propose to put legs under the demijohns and
run them out of these counties also.
Before the bar of an enlightened conscience
and the tribunal of God, every other sin will
pale into insignifcance beside the awful
crime Of forcing upon the helpless child q
marred and tainted Inheritance Of blood and
brain and nerve, mortgaging the future for
the base. ignoble indulgence Of the present.
Racine (Wis.l saloons were closed by law
on the Stb Of July. Anticipating this, Mil
waukee breweries got up q free steamboat
excursion to the 'city Of beer" conditioning
the free ride upon the purchase of fifty cents
worth Of beer tickets good In any Milwaukee
saloon. Another illustration Of what saloon
lists will do to destroy their fellow men.
The Hundred Dollar Band" Is q new In
vention for raising money for tho temperance
temple, to be erected In Chicago. Il is to
consist Of thousand white ribboners who
pledge to give 500 each to the building fund
within two years. Many ladies have already
Joined this band. A similar hundred dollar
band, to be composed Of thousand men, has
also been stqUtcsk~
A monster petition In favor Of Sunday
closing Of saloons was received at the House
OF Commons recently from the Salvation
Army. The roll, signed by 486, 500 persons,
was bornc through the streets Of London to
the House, drawn by four horses. and pre-
ceded by band In tho army uniform. The
united efforts Of SIX men were required to
carry the roll into the cloak-room.
$50 certain are the criminal effects of the
licensed drinks Of the saloon and bar-rooin
that o chemist In snalysing them should not
be surprised to detect crime In q crystalline
form, existing a. an original element In their
composition; while ID would not require the
microscope to discover the monad cells Of
every sin incident to fallen man In the foam
Of the beer mug or the dregs of the wine
cup" 30 says Hon. A. y. Richmond ip ths
CHdut0uQuan,
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Taking II altogether tho Q never was time
perity than at tho present moment, and yet
there are thousands OF people In the land who
arc fussing and fuming about hard times. No
their complaints, and Il is often because they
have not found the right kind Of work or tho
moving along with You satisfactorily, take our
advice and write to b. +. johnson q Co, Rich
mond, Va. N fs moro than likely that they
can help You, ut any rate, Il would cost you
nothing but postage stame to apply to them.
Hush money-The wages Of the baby
nurse.
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THREE weeks after an old Cincinnati
bachelor had got married, he met o
friend and said to him, "Why Is my
wife like baker who is making q small
gooseberry piep" ~I don't know" said
The friend sit is because che is grow
ing little tart, i" answered the disgrace
full creature.
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I" Later unto Am;coId
NOP&V'
house."

" Later unto Am;coId
Came a polo face preacher, teaching
Peace and progress to the natipes,
Woocd and toon By Uanita.
She no61er to make his calling,
Whispered to him natures secret
Told him Of the herbs 50 potent
For tho healing and the saoing."
-zxrnAcr rnoM ronM OF "UANrrA..
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DRUNKENNESS AND DRuNKARD- -MARTSu.
Commenting ,s,on the new Minnesota law
declaring drlnkcnnsss o crime, the Cumber-
lana Presbyteriutt says:
The Legislature Of Minnesota has passed a
law declaring drunkenness q crime, and i'm
posing fine or Imprisonment for the first
two offenses, and for every subsequent offense
imprisonment for NOT less than sixty nor
more than ninety days. This is very good
law as far as Il goes. IL should be accom-
panied by law making :t crime to sell I'm
toIicants, and then legislation on the subject
OF intemperance would be complete In Mime
sofa, but, strange 20 say, Minnesota makes
the liquor traffic virtue and hquor-drinking
n crime. Tho sale and manufacture of in
toxicants In the State are legalized, and
drunkenness is punished as q felony. Ger
tainly law that permits man to sell in
toxicants also permits the buyer to use them.
All experience gees to prove that moderate
drinking leads to drunkenness, and that moth
ing else can. Now, IL man be indulged by
.he law In forming habit that makes him a
Tor Il. But the Minnes5E q, law Is but another
exhibition Of the folly OF trying to deal with
intemperancei In any but radical way. The
drunkard should be treated al felon, and
the drunkard-makera as his accomplice. When
q man Is found drunk that ought to bc all
the evidence required for his punishment, but
the investigation should not stop until his
accomplice Is found and puniohed for putting
tho bottle to his neighbor.