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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

NONE NAME MIN But TO PRAIsE.-Phia-
delphis, May ll.-To-morrow will be George
W. Childs' birthday, and ~ tho event falls
on tho Sabbath, the printers throughout tho
country, or rather those east Of the Missis-
sir pi River, to-day set up their Thousand
ems" On each anniversary Of Mr.. Childs'
birth every printer east Of The Mississippi
River gives the proceeds from the setting
up Of 900 ems eftyps to the Childs-DrsIel
fund. Those West Of the Mississippi do
the ssDo on the anniversary Of Nr. A. J.
Drexers birth. The fund will some time in
the future be used in the establishment Of
some lasting monument to the two henevo-
leut gentlemen named, probably in the erec-
tion Of = home for indiyent aud aged prin-
ters The anniversary of the birth Of the
publisher Of the sdger was further celebra :
ted here tonight by banquet given by
the International Typographical Union e1-
Delegates Association.
A fac-simile Of the first issue oftho Public
Ledger, dated March %, 1886, is lying be-
fore us. We remember tho getting out Of
that issue, we'll. We were about 20 years
old, aud an apprentice. Tho Ledger was
published in two Of the small rooms in the
old Arcade, and on going from work the
night before we stepped into the press room,
whore we found the pres,man, big tall
mau by the name Of Grant, lying on the door
pretty badly intoxicated; the press, q small
Washington hand press, was not put up
only the "cheeks'' were in position and its
| sIner parts lying Ioose suouI tno nvvr.
One Of the prcprietors Of tho paper asked
US to "put up the press for them. We went
to work and had it all up and nearly ready
for work, when Grant woke up, and seeing
us at work, he cou meneed abusing Us
fer trying 10 take his "siI' from him. lie
used language very different to what we
learned ut Sunday School Upon being con
vinced that we had no intention Of taking
his job" he became pacihed, and apologized
We then assisted him in putting the press
in complete order and We did part Of th'
presswork Of the first edition. We thuk the
first edition WAS 1000 copies. OF one thing
We are sure, by 8 o'clock in the morning
every copy had been sold and as many more
wcro c.lle for NJ tho office. That was S;
year, ago. We wonder if there i, another
man living who worked on the first mum
Der Of the Public Ledger? If the,s is w
would like to see him.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

"IGm lLcENSE.-rhiladclph May b
The l'ccnscC ut today announced its de-
clS'on IN ihr cas- & of applicants for hou
Licenses. and the first thirteen of tho thirt,-
three wards Of The city. In these wards 5l3
lic'nSes are granted out Of 1856 applicants:
In tn" sam" wards last year there were 5SI
,icrn'c< g artc !, and in. 1887 before the new
liccnSc las went into effect, thero were 2,24T
iccDSe.i : Il 'nns in the same territory.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

pfH-- How few eople ,hsre arc who think
of the injury they do to themselves and the
business of the town by sending their money
to other towns for what they can get at home,
merely because they can get what they
want somewhat cheaper. This 10 par
ticulnrly 80 with Union. Money made in
Union is constantly sent out of it, making
Union so much poorer and Its business that
much less. while it makes the town to which
il i. sent that much richer and increasing &
its business to that amount. Money sent
from Union fer cheap goods (?) never re-
turns, for we have nothing to bring it back.
Take n hundrc dollars aud set it in circu'
lntion in this community. and who can tell
how often it will double itself iu profits 10
the merchants, mechanics and others, dur
ing the year. But send it away for cheap
goods, and it is gone from our business fol
ever 50 far as Union 10 concerned, it nigh,
as will he burned mp. Even the one who
cd to him five or six times in his years has
incss, and still be with us to repeat its pro
ftable business operations next year.
Probably thousands of dollars arc sent
out of Union every year by her citizens
even merchants--who make their living
here, if thoy want hat, Il piir Of shoes
or drecs. they send to the merchants of a
neighboring town FOR it. |, it any wonder
that ther" is M money in circulation in
Union: No,oun on the face Of Gods green
earth could possibly prosper under such n
dram OF what should Belts active circulating
capital.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

GRAHAM & SPARKS will oder s,,nc
" 'c'"i bargains in summer shoes. for rho
neat ~ days, fer cash. Call and see them
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

Ice Cream. Cakes :. Custards,, -, Made
delicious by havorinS with pure extracts,
sold By j. W. Posey & Bro. Call for cx-
tracts. Pineapris, Ciunamon, Strawberry,
raspberry, Vanilla, Lemon. Peach, Rose,
Nutmeg, Orange ate. etc, at roseys Drag
Store.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

IL yGu want the hr"' MIX Slnkc. o.. ILc
pn'"st glass of = 'ia Water to hc lal in the
town, go u The Little Green Front.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

EvANGELIsr linwrHN IN Cu,rLorrr
Charlotte. \. c., Nav l3.-Mr Henry ID.
howrsn, The young Charle,ton evangelist.
preached TO large audience las. n,rbt.
which Was the last OF hs three services here
lie left here this m' rrirE for Mapninc, s.
g.. where he will deliver a lecture to-nirht
From Manning Tie young evangelist will 20
to Florence and thence to t,lun,ba Seinv
Mt the latter place ne1t Sunday Mr.. How
rem has left Eeol Impression upon the
people OF his old home and he now bns
scores Of admirers here. Ills lectures and
sermon were very inicreH ing and his large
audiences listened with much interest and
admiration. His lecture yesterday after
noon il regarded asa gem and his sermon
last night sounded like the preaching Of an
old ani experienced er,ncei,i
The young preacher has h,en well cared
Tor while here. The ralrcs kept his room at
the hotel beautifully j.ccr,trd with fra
rant tiouers. Members Of the pres, and
The CITY pastors wee sh"ng hs FREQUENT
callers. and he was made tn feel At home
Last night on being invited 10 vis Char
louc again. Mr.. Ilowtcn SAID he could no
say goodbye 10 Charlotte for The last time.
an | hc promised to come aca,u.-Ncms and
f"UrI"r.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17
Something that All should Hear.

Mr. Henry B. liowren, the young Char
'eston evangelist, will deliver . lecture on
the subject of Temperance. next Monday
evening, May, 10Th, in the Baptist Church
NJ li"w-".' -; l. I'LL o. r,-. &. Nv =
Of him as n highly educated and worthy
gentleman.
We promise the people Of Union they will
hear from Air. IIowicn n lecture of more
than ordinary ability and interest, and we
ask for him crowded audience.
MIX Shakes. Soda Water, Fru .Miz and
Ice tr"am. at Garrctt's c'cs,ntly furnished
parlor.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

Mrs. NJ, =, Sarrntt,. of Skull Shoals hns
e'"hce' u is sccond 10 none or the noral
tribe. No douit many Of cur lady readers
are familiar with the flower iu question
and perhaps many Of them have it, but with
us 1t is new botanical beauty, and hence
we must make mont:on of il.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17

GRAHAM SPARKS. have the largest
tht test and cheapest line Of dress good.
"h"e good Cling shams etc. IN town.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Englishmen as Hus bands.

l wish few American women could
have English hus bands for about one
month. They would then realize
what it means to take all the money
that Charles has got, while Charlie
laughs at your cuteness and then
laughs still more when at midday you
call him up on the telephone, ask
him if he loves you, tell him you have
seen a bonnet that will make him
think you are Is years old, and repeat
that delicious day when you first met
him, and won't he please send you a
check for it?
The English husband is not built
this way. His creed is that women
should have as little money as posi-
BILE, as few desires, and then look as
we'll as women who have more money
and crafty all their wishes. The
Englishman as man is most interest
ing-as husband he is a failure.
New York Graphic.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15

help him catch goats, and brought 'em
to US on his back. His feet became so
hard that he run everywhere without
annoyance, and it was soma time be-
fore he could wear shoes after we
found him.
'.He was at first much pestered with
cats and rats, that bred In great num-
bers from some which had got ashore
from ships that put in there to wood
and water. The rats knawed his feet
and clothes while asleep, which obliged
him to cherish the cats with goats
flesh, by which many of them became
so tame that they would lie about him
in hundreds, and soon delivered him
from the rats. He likewise tam'd some
kids, and to divert himself would now
and then sing and dance with them
and his cats. At his first coming on
board us he had so much forgot his
language for want of use that we
could scarce understand him, for he
seemed to speak his words by halves"
FIX
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Male "Fads" in Jewelry.

The average man, and man of stand.
ing, wears more jewelry than formerly.
Time was when he utterly discarded
jewels, even refused to wear them in
his shirt-bosom, and substituted buttons
of simulated linen, done in white enam-
ell, that were presumably more chaste,
but quite as costly as moderate gold
settings. Now, again, fashion changes,
and the male devotee casts his varying
eye on pearl shirt buttons, not white,
but shadowy. White pearls are too
like the aforementioned buttons, and
dark. shaded pearls are so unique, you
know; albeit they command fabulous
prices. And they say women are solely
extravaganza! This same man will
adorn his finger with an antique signet-
ring; it don't look much, but it COSTS!
And, as Tor scarf pins, those worn by
many so-called man of taste would
put his wife's emerald and sapphire
adorned fingers to the blush.-Table
Talk.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
..ther Bright, Wasn't It?

Not thousand miles from Boston
dwells a man who has recently wed a
third spouse. It was the somewhat
eccentric whim of the second wife to
to have picture painted wherein she
and the first wife were represented
as standing together with their arms
entwined about each others waists.
When the third wife came into power
she was at first somewhat puzzled to
know what to do with this extraordi-
nary production of combined affection
and art. With genuine woman's wit,
however, she hit upon the idea of
having the piece worked over, and
with what result may be judged from
conversation in regard to the
picture which took place between the
bride and one of her wedding callers.
The visitor inquired if the picture rep
resented relatives of the family.
mo, not relatives, the wife replied.
Il believe the originals were distant
connection of my husband, but the pic
ture represents Faith and Resignation. ,
It is thought that the figure of Faith
resembles former friend of Mr..
Smith, but l cannot tell, as never
saw her. boston Transcript.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
An Aged Topper.

Pere Noel, 100 year old medicant,
who was we'll known on the Paris
boulevards, has just died, not, however
from old age, but from the effects of a
drinking bout. Daddy Christmas var
led his begging practices by exhibiting
trained rats and selling colored pict-
ures of the Wandering Jew. Every
year he went to pay his respects to M.
Chevreul-the centenarian of France
whom he called his colleague. Pere
Noel, however, went still further still
in familiarity with the celebrated
chemist, whom he upbraided regularly
because he drank nothing stronger than
water, whereas he himself could boast
of equal longevity although nothing
ever entered his lips but wine, and
plenty of it. The hoary rat tanner and
memdicant averred, when quest Toned
as to his age and antecedents, that he
was born in 1887 and served in the
navy during the First Empire. Drouin
to call him by his real name-drank
an overdose of his favorite liquor, and,
in ascending the stairs to his garnet,
fell down and injured his head. He
was taken up and carried to the Beau
jon Hospital, where he died. -Ex-
CHANGE
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
IN Natures Paths.

n.y." asked the Mole, pausing in
the midst o. an excavation contract
which nobody wanted him to continue,
while he leisurely conversed with the
Eagle, in order to kill the working
time that hangs SO heavily upon the
ennui stricken hands of the day laborer.
"Why do you sit gazing so steadily up
into the dim blue ether?" because"
replied the king of birds, who was too
fly to get stuck on simple hand woven
conundrum, lit is soar spot with
me-" So saying he picked up the
humble Deliver of the soil, and made
it sore for him. This fabula docets
that when a man asks conundrum he
should be ready to dive into the bomb
proof as he perfects the alignment OF
his closing sentence. -Burdette in
Brooklyn Eagle.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
The Speech Was Not Made,

A man who gets the reputation as a
good after dinner speaker is usually
one who has power to tell story
WELL 1t may not always be very new
story or very witty one, but if it is
we'll told it is almost certain to be sue
cessful at dinner party. One thing
is fatal in such an attempt prosiness.
Sometimes, however, success is won
in not telling story when it is ex-
pccted, in not making speech when
people suppose that one is coming. A
certain famous and witty Englishman
visiting America, was asked to make
an after dinner speech at the ladies'
night of a Boston club. It was lit
erary man, so it was expected very
naturally that he would glorify his
profession and that of his hearers. In
stead of doing so he rose gravely and,
with serious glance at the fruits of
the desserts still on the table before
him, began: Ladies and gentle
men, he repeated, II come not-here
to talk"
ALI eyes were turned toward him.
Ladies and gentlemen" he repeat
cd, Il come not here to talk
People began to laugh, seeing that
brevity was really the soul of his wit.
IL come not here to talk" said he,
II come not here to talk" Then, with
another glance at the fruit and a
modest gesture of depreciation, come
not here to talk!"
And he sat down, while everyone
laughed and applauded. Youths Com
DaniOn
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
A New Source of Peril.

A new danger is agitating the citi-
zens of New York. The pedestrian
who has heretofore been on the look
out for such small perils as bricks
dropped from buildings in the course
of erection, and electric light wires
dropping down on him and upsetting
his nerves, to say nothing of other
risks to life and limb, will now have
an entirely new nuisance to add to his
list. We refer to the subway explos-
ions. It seems that the pipes laid by
the gas companies have not been
properly laid, and, as consequence,
the gas escapes in large quantities.
Every once in while, in the future,
this surplus gas will accumulate, ex-
plode, and the paving and earth i'm
mediately over said explosion will
rise up and hit the passer-by in very
rude and abrupt manner, rendering
him a subject either for Bellevue
Hospital or the coroner. Like PIN
pie; the streets of New York will be in
a constant state of eruption. It is the
bad work of the gas companies that is
the sole cause of these explosions. But
this does not give the man who is
elevated into the air three or four hun
dred feet, in company with a ton or
two of earth and other debris, and
then dropped suddenly to the earth,
much satisfaction. Most people don't
like to be subjected to a highland fling
of that kind. We need electric SUBJ
way cradles, but we don't want TO pay
for them in human lives. They come
too high. AS pipe-laying is a science
in which the New York politicians
have graduated with high honors, per-
haps if they took charge of the laying
of future gas pipes this new peril
might be mitigated.-Texas Siftings.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15

case so long as she forgets that life is
a struggle anywhere, and feels that
she should be excused from helping to
carry the burdens of those by whom
she may be surrounded.
The mutual bearance and forbear-
ance of life is as greatly the secret OF
happiness in marriage as in anything
else. We have to tolerate unpleasant
things in our companions in any rela-
tons of life. and why try to build up a
law of marriage in any other way?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Expensive Corsets.

The most expensive corset kept in
stock at the dry goods stores of this
city is usually a $35 one. To spend
more money than that on corset a
woman must have it made to order.
Thirty-fve dollars buys a dream in
heavy satin, sprinkled with gold en-
broidery, or decorated with a clever
imitation of hand painting. It is lined
with heavy silk and made so that there
is not seam or roughness of any sort
to worry the tender flesh of the wearer,
and the harsh sseels where it fastens
in front are covered with down lest
they might accidently pinch the flesh.
Such corsets are made entirely by hand
in Paris. York Sun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Severe Self-Judgment.

A Pontiac little boy was told at
Sunday school that when he died he
would leave his body here. After re-
turning home he was much troubled in
regard to it, and he questioned his
parents. His mother explained by say
ing: s'You will take all the good with
you, but leave all that is naughty here
below"
He thought a moment, and, looking
up, said: "Well, l guess I'll be
awfully thin when I get there"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
The Original Crusoe.

"He alexander Selkirk, found in
1909 on the island of Juan Fernandez,
by Captain Woodes Rogersl told us he
was born at Largo, in the county of
Fife, Scotland, and was bred sailor
from his youth. The reason of his be-
ing left here was difference betwix
him and his captain. When left he
had with him his clothes and bedding,
with a firelock, some powder, bullets
and tobacco, a Ratchet, a knife, a kettle,
a bible, some practical pieces, and his
mathimetical instruments and books.
He built two huts with piemento
trees, covered them with long grass
and lind them with the skins of goats,
which he killed with his gun as he
wanted, so long as his powder lasted,
which was but pound, and that being
near spent, he got fire by rubbing two
sticks of piemento wood together on
his knees. In the lesser hut, at some
distance from the other. he dressed his
victuals. and in the larger he slept and
employed himself in reading, singing
Psalms and in praying, so that he said
he was better christian while in this
solitude than ever he was before. or
than he was afraid he should ever be
again. At first he never ate anything
till hunger CONSTRAINED him, partly for
grief and partly for want of bread and
salt; nor did he go to bed till he could
watch no longer. He might have had
fish enough, but could not eat EN-, as,
for want of salt, they made him ill, ex-
cept crawfish, which there are as large
as Holsters and very good.
HE keep an account of 500 goats
that he killed while there, and caught
as many more, which he marked on
the ear and let 60. When bis powder
fail'd he took them by speed of foot;
for his way of living and continued
exercise of walking and running,
clear'd him of all gross humors, so
that he ran with wonderful swiftness
thro' the woods and up the rocks and
hills, as we preceived when we en-
ploy'd him to catch goats for us. We
had d bulldog. which we sent, with
several of our nimblest runners, to
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
The Female Drumm9 or.

Have you seen the fastest conner
In the field!
When you gaze upon her, know your
Fate is sealed!
It's no sort of use to throw Your
Self before her
And implore her,
In your weakness
And your meekness,
Nor to mutter;
You are but
Man, and she female drummer.
She will talk you deaf and dumber
Than clam.
Though you know the goods she's sellina
Are sham,
You give in-there's no repelling
Her invasion!
English, Asian,
White, or yellow,
Where's the fellow
That is human,
Born of woman,
Can resist the female drummer?
Be it winter, be it summer,
She will drum;
On her tours of devastation
She will come;
And your bump Of appreciation
Can butdwindle
At the swindle
You submit to-
Wife will twit, too,
Till you wonder
Why in thunder
Heaven e'er made the female drummer.
Boston Globe
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Where is the Schoolmaster

There are 1885, 900 persons who can
neither read nor write, all in one state,
and it isn't in Texas. either, that We
find them. They are in Massachusetts.
What is wanted in Massachusetts, is a
little less culture and a little more
readin', writin'. n rethmetic; less eye
glawss and more eyes; less accent and
more education in Brooklyn
Eagle.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15

''Have you any childrens" asked the
landlord. 'None but a goat" was the
reply. "Al right; you can have the house"
Boston Courier.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15

for a morning paper down at the stock
yards and I noticed the boy didn't
give him any change, either, calcula-
ting on his verdancy, reckon. The
boy had two more like me and he play
ed ''heads and tails" against another
boy of like riches, and won. Then he
passed me over the fragrant counter of
bread store and went home to a very
late breakfast with a loaf of bred like
an Ericsson torpedo.
Before I got acquainted with the
people in the till the baker drew me
out and handed me to scrub woman
who had just polished the floor. She
had done good deal of work, and I
felt somewhat lonesome with the few
who went with me to pay her; but when
she traded me for package of smok-
ing tobacco next door 1 don't know but
thought she had had enough. I don't
mind stopping to tell you that if I had
to get down on my knees and grind
around over wet floor half an hour
for a dime that wouldn't smoke very
much. But the tobacconist was right
good fellow, and when his little girl
came in from the living rooms in the
rear, in jaunty hood and a soft, warm
cloak, he gave me to her without say
ing a word. And I thought then. Eat
was the first time all day any one had
given me up just for pure love. There
were three more like me in her pocket,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15

uelp ICLle Eva, ana your husband
would have appreciated you more had
you spent your evenings with folded
hands and happy face in your rocking
chair by his side. You spent hours of
time on unnecessary things and forgot
the essentials of your partnership,
which is to evolve as much peace and
comfort as possible out of your mater
ials.
The science of good housekeeping
In these days, when we can buy so
many conveniences, is not so much
superiority in any one thing as gen.
eral excellence in every thing. We
do not need cooking schools for girls
30 much as schools where all branches
OF home-making are taught, in order
to preserve the balance of usefulness
in the girls mind. A man does not
want to marry a chef de cuisine, and
it is no wonder the papers make fun of
cooking-schools. To learn one de-
partment of housekeeping to the neg
lect OF everything else is ruinous.
II woman is to marry, there is
nothing so much to be valued as good
health and good sense and a very low
ing heart, and then it will follow that
she will adapt herself to the calls upon
her ability. When woman marries
for life of ease and doesn't get it.
there is certainly no remedy in her