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a CONSTABLE HOOK BLAZE.
ghe Standard on Company the Lose

me Standard OIL Company the Loser
by the Conhagretion.
bERGEN POINT, N. j., Feb. II, 80 A. M.
line Standard Oil Company's glue fac
tory At Constable Hook was total de-
istoyed by fire last night with its contents.
-1iriy hJusand new barrels were burned
aIso, with two empty parafne oil stills and
l"o agtators, The fire started at 9 o'clock
near l a runway Its origin is unknown.
. Inc loss IS 100000, with no insurance. No
wind was blowing.
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A steamer,a Rneine Room on Fire.

LONDON, Fob. 10. Tho engine room Of
the steamer Sicitia. BRITISH, Capt Pri-
deaux. AZ Liverpool from NOrf0rk IS on fire.
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TRANSATLANTIC STORMS.

Snow Falling and Gales Raging
Ashore and on the Coast.
LONDON, Feb. 10.-Snow continues to
fall throughout the south of E Elgland and
in Wales. On the coast heavy gales pre-
vail and number of shipping disasters are
reported. Telegraphic communication is
greatly interrupted.
The snow storm also prevails throughout
France and Germany, blocking railways
and interrupting telegraphic cJmmunica-
tionS
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BosToN, Feb. l0-Tne steamer Haytien
Republic, recently the cause OF 20 much
trouble with Hayti, arrived this afternoon.
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AN HONEST MONEY LEADER

AS ID, Nichol Dies From Disease
" OF the ap.nal Chord.
NJ, -' II 1RS' Feb. l0.-Thomas NJ. Nichol,
Is,.s e''neei'oa with the Honest Money
ors91,,,, VI Chicago, and other political
oi,ac-''1 lions .lon' Is weli-known, died at o
fr,-aa .l.s morn ing an Columbus Institute
r., -V 'l.lF IuFe of chrome d seases at No. l52
-,,'.u street whore he had been under
t..,...-. IN y, curing several months past FOR
Q! Az. Vi 'ne spinal chord. He was "A years
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The Havtien Republic at Boston.

BERLIN, Feb. l0-Eight workmen were
killed near II lie o-day by passing train
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The following statement shows the ap-
pointmeuts made during the past four
years to positions alb We the classified
service. These positions are held during
the pleasure Of the President or head Of the
department:
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MINISTER PEYDLEroN TO PRESIDE.

LONDON, Feb. 10.-The Berlin correspond
ent of the Chronicle says that Mr.. Pendle
ton, the American minister to Germany,
will preside at the conf & Samoa confer
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AMONG THE POSSIBILITIES.

So far as the pr1gr INNS lor the coming
week il at present made up, it includes pos
sible action upon such interesting measures
as the report f the conferees on the terri
tlrial bill (which IS believed TO affect the
probabilities of an extra ssion); the T. r
mundS Panama res lu.ion, which will in
volve discu sion Of the Monroe doctrine
and the report Of the Ford committee o.
immigration, which will afford an opp r.
tunity for the prese ltation Of the evils Of
the contract labor system.
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PALMER MAY CUT OUT MILLER.
Senator elect McMillan's Call start
the Gossip Afresh.

Senator elect McMillan's Call Starts
the Gossip Afresh.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb 10-Gen. Harrison
went to church this morning and spent the
rest of The day with his family. He at
tended the Meridian street Methodist church
aud heard DR.. Cleveland.
The recent visit of Sonator-elect McNil-
Ian Of Michigan is now said 10 have been
for the purpose OF urging tho selection #
Senator Palmer as the head Of the new
depa -tment Of agriculture, ., and that
he went away satisfied that Michigan would
get the place. This visit, however, has
given impetus 10 the talk Con. Alger for
the war depart ont, which had died out
soma days ago, as II was said because Of re-
monstrance against his appointment BY
Senator Sherman.
A NEGRO FROM ANERfCUs
Z. A. Dudley, all intelligent colored man
Of Americus, Ca, is in tho city. Ho was o
dele, ate to tho Chicago convention, and
one Of the two Georgia men who voted 70.
Ger. Harrison. He call, TO present ~ the
general his views as 20 tho treatment that
should be accord d the colored men Of the
south. lie says that 90 ignore thom in the
distribution Of patronage as has 4een urged
by some Of the southern delegates would
be 10 destroy the Republican party In the
south. He will call upon the general TO-
morrow.
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THE HAGUE, Feb. 1O.-A storm of excep-
tional severity is rasing roughout Hol-
land. The rivers are greatly swollen and
Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Scheidam, Zwolle
and Hamper are inundated. Many snip
wrecks with great loss of life are reported.
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PENDLEroN RECOVERING.
Our Samoan Overtures Attributed I
HIS Initiative

BERLIN, Feb. 1O.-The North German
Gazette says a gratifying change for the
better has lately occurred in the condition
of Mr. Pendleton, justifying tine hope that
he will Soop personally assume direction of
affairs at the American legation Mr.. Pen
dleton retur cd to Berlin New Years day,
and the official American 0 ertures regard
ing Samoa, which were made at the foreign
office on Jan. Z, are attributed to his in
itiative
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SERMANY's SNOW

BERLIN, Feb l0.-Reports of heavy snow
storms come from all parts of Germany.
In this city the snow is foot deeD, and in
the Bavariau highlands it has fallen to a
depth of six feet In the wesy and north
west thunder and lightning accompanied the
snow. Traffic is almost entirely suspended
in Schleswig and Jutland.
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POSTAL APPROPRIATIONS.

The postoffice appropriation bill, now
pending, will be disposed OF early in the
week, leaving only the Indian and de-
ficiency appropriation bill to be acted upon
originally by the Hou @. With the exsep-
ton Of the military academy bill not ons OF
the regular appropriation bills has yet been
sent to the President for his signature
Notwithstanding this fact their condition
is generally favorable as compared with the
progress made at this date in other shor,
Sc sions. and the work is particularly well
advanced in the House.
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The following named bills have passed
both houses and are either in conference or
approaching that stage: District Of Column
bia, con ular aud diplomatic, pension, for
tifc ton, and legislative. The sundrY
civil, army, naval and agricutur Il bill
have p ssed the House. The po tOffi % and
river aud harbor bills await action Of
thai body, and the Indian and deficiency
bills will probably be reported for action
this week.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-10-11
Intelligent Horses.

1t is Il great mistake to imagine that
all the best trained and most intelligent
horses are to be seen in circuscs. | have
handled horses all my life, and never saw
anything very wonderful in an animal be-
ing taught tricks in a ring which is al
ways the same size. There are hundreds
of horses which know more and un-
derstand signs better than any circus horse
ever saw; and, what is more, they will
obey anywhere and under any conditions,
which "A so called educated horse prOba-
bly, would nOl. The fire brigade horses,
of course, are illustrations of this, and
many express wagon horses arc only de-
gree less intelligent. make a round of
calls every day. At some places there is
nothing for us three days out of four, and
when there is no card in the window the
horse keeps going. But if he sees the
card he stops of his own accord and backs
up, no matter how heavy the traffic is.
And at places where there is no card nc
will stop and wait while go in to inquire.
If don't come out at once he concludes
there is something and backs mp. If that
isn't evidence of reason and thought
would like to know what is Globe
DcnlOcrUt
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1T CHALLENGES RESPECT.

The National Womans Christian Temper
ancc Union, which holds its sixteenth annual
convention in Chicago from the Sth to the
l2th OF November, is an organization prob
ably unique in history 1t is c, imposed
wholly of women. it has nothing to do
with politics, except as all social reforms are
III their broader sense political. The two
words christian" and "Temperance" i'm its
title indicate the special lines of work within
which 1t exerts its energies. In the ramifl-
cations of these il touches even such subjects
as public sanitation and private hygiene OH
the theory that right conditions of physical
life make the best basis for moral develop
ment. Total abstinence from traffic in, or
consumption Of alcoholic stimulants is a car
dinal principle of the society: and other de-
partments of domestic morals receive a large
sometimes charged with too radicaI nori6ns
of reform, and occasionally erring on the side
of haste in scrutinzing laws and pushing
measures of Importance, the influence Of the
Union is wholesome, and every good citizen
can afford to encourage its work with his
countenance, and. where desired, with fipan-
cial aid. An organization which, even at the
end of sixteen years, has by it's own efforts
huilt up system of 10000 local auxiliary
branches, spread network Of juvenile So
cietes over the territory from Tampa Bay to
Puget Sound, established a publishing house
with all annual issue of TO. 600, 900 pages and
a newspaper organ of 60. coo circulation, chal-
lenges universal respect for the business abil-
ity and force of character of the women who
Rave had charge of its fortunes. - Washing
ton Star.
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Key to PenmalShip.

Handwriting has its characteristics,
and is study in itself to those who want
to become familiar with It's peculiarities,
says the st. Louis Globe Democrat 1t
can very easily be told whether person
whose writing you want to identify is q
man or a woman, q mil adult. 1t
is very seldom handwriting assumes its
permanency before the writer is twenty
five years old. The age of the writing
can approximately be determined by va
rious methods. If it has q Spencerian
appearance you may know 1t is written
after 1882, rs at that date the Spcncerian
system was introduced. II it is the black
aniinc ink that is generally used every
where now, you may know it was writ
ten after 1878. The older inks had iron
or some diluted dyestuff for basis, and
preceded the aniline. An analysis of the
writing will most generally determine ths
date Of the writing.
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WASTE OF WIND POWER.

Why is not the power of the wind more
often made available on farms for doing
light work2 asks the New York Times
The windmill has long been useful and
in many localities has been SYNONYMOUS
with corn or flour mill, chcaply grind
ing the farmers grain and adapting itself
automatically to the changcful breezes.
And now that these engines have been
greatly improved they seem to be vanish
ing out of use. This is to he deplorcd.
For the light work of pumping water,
cutting fodder, grinding gram, shclling
corn, thrashing, cutting up silagc or cut
ting tirewood, windmill may repay its
cost at least once every year, and with
careful usage may last forty or fifty years,
or bc replaced picccmcal, as it wears, in
that time, and then be rs good as new.
"A windmill attached to Il barn or a silois
! evidence of the good sense, thrift and
. spcctability of the farmer who owns it,
@tIiotes, ,Jtrcr-r6ury;r,'J,,f --u.vI..t..u...v
waste money usclcssly.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Liverpool, England, has a deaf and dumb
temperance league.
The Armenian church at Berlin has started
a total abstinence society.
AS many as III. .14sS S54 gallons of malt
liquor were consumed in the United States
last year. Nearly all of it produced in
the Republic, only 1900, 600 gallons being inn
ported
Mr.. Frank j. Sibley, who has an interest I'm
the new town of Demorest, GA. says: I'VE are
the only town builders who ever attempted
from the beginning to forever exclude the
three great vices"
There is not n brewery or distillery or a bar
rel Of bonded liquor i'll all the State OF kaG-
sas. There is but one pauper i'll every 1853
of the population, and many of the city and
county jais are empty.
The Church Temperance Society which
has its headquarters in New York city, pro-
poses To establish n coffee house there at an
early date. with a view of giving the system
thorough and practical trial.
Simon Short of Bristol, England, is recog-
nized as the father of the Coffee Palace move
ment. He is as hale and hearty when, fifty
years ago, he was the only abstainer in a
! gang OF 300 workmen in a dOckyard.
The cow-keepers of Benares, who number
| 80, 600, have decided 10 expel liquor drinking
! from their caste; and other castes are follow
| ing the example. In this way so, 600 of the
hard working inhabitants have lately become
|
A leading worker makes the following for
| chile comparison: Can you imagine beau
| tiful church with an elegant wine and tobacco
| room attachment? And yet | knew man
who said his body was the temple of the
Holy Ghost, who makes tobacco store room
| of his cheek"
| William Gooderham, a millionaire philan-
thropist and temperance advocate, died sud-
| denly on a recent night of heart disease, while
| attending prayer meeting at Toronto, Can
ada. He had just finished prayer and made
way for a clergyman to read a portion of
Scripture, when he fell to- the floor a corpse
He had always enjoyed the best of health.
Thousands et people are visiting the pa
Union at the Paris Exposition English leaf
let's are being translated into French. Per-
sons of all nationalities are taking away
small packages Of literature for private
translation and distribution. Great inter.
est is manifested in the history of w. e. T.
u. work. Many visitors have signed the
pledge.
London will before long be able to declare
that it is more temperate city than Paris
as the number of existing drink licenses II
London have not been allowed to increase o.
late years, whilst the dram shops of fari
have risen from "a, 600 in 1880 to nearly 30,
600 in the present year. In thirty years thu
consumption of alcohol I'm France has tire
bled and in ten years it has doubled TN,
average consumption being twelve quarts fo
each male adult The most temperate part
of France are the winegrowing districts o
] the south.
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DON'T FEAR THE BEES.

Z Just before swarming bees fill
themselves with honey, which supports
them in their new home until they get to
work again. This is an exceedingly
fortunate thing for the beckceper, as it
makes them much more kindly and
easily handled than they otherwise would
be. With bees, as with men, they arc
best natured when on a full stomach. In
thc colder portions of the country pro-
tectipg the hives is necessary, either by
placing them in cellars or packing in
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LIGHT AND BRIGHT.

COMPLETE ist-Lucrezius Borgers.
The rivers furnish the most current
news.
EVERY fat man has theory on how
to dispose Of the surplus.
Has the horse who wins by bare
neck any advantage over pretty girl
ct ballP
CHARLIE MITCHELL has gone back to
England. Thus we get rid Of at least
one English ssperrer."
SHE-I wouldn't marry you for $20,.
1000. He-But / have $780, 1000. She
o, well, that's different.
ONE reason that riches have wings is
that the government insists on putting
eagles on one side of the dollars.
A TEXAS farmer wants to know what
he ought to get for kicking cows"
Five years, if you do it habitually.
IT is good thing. sometimes, to trim
up tree, occasionally, and it helps o
boy, sometimes, to be trimmed down
OLD Maid-Don't toll such blood
curdling stories; you make my teeth
chatter. Old Beau-Look out they
don't fall out.
arc dreadfully extravagant to buy all
had them charged"
LANDLADY-Be careful how you whip
that carpet. It's very fine piece of
goods. Tramp (working for his din
ner)--Yes'm. It's hard to beat.
Mrs. GABBLE (reading a newspeper)
In India the women are shut up. Mr..
Gabble-They are, eh? didn't know
that it was possible to shut up woman
. in any country.
SEE that you are an enthusiastio
member of the American party" "Yes,
it is our only recourse against perni-
cious immigration. SLOW long have
you lived in this country" "Six
months"
CONVICTED Beggar Your Honor,
couldn't you change my sentence Of
cannot do. And where would you get
the money if didP" al could beg a
little every day until had enough"
MrN1sT1 Ito Johnny on his kneos)-
Who're do we find any mention of gam.
bling in the BibleP Johnny-In the
story of David. Minister = What |!
When did David ever gamble. Johnny
When he took four kings from the
Philistines.
SURE preventive of mosquito bites
Take the cover off your cistern, crawl
into the cistern, replace the cover, and
duck under the water. AS long as you
remain there entirely submerged In
water We will stake our reputation fol
veracity that you'll not be bitten by o
mosquito.
Mrs. GoTHAM-Did you fiud the
Western people as hospitable as they
are reported TO be. Mr.. Travelle? Re
turned Tourist-Yes, indeed. All the
leading citizens took mo right into
their hearts, invited me to dinner, in
tloduced mo to their families, and sold
me corner lots.
please, sir, give me a stamp" she
said ut the postoffice window, the
other day. Here it is, little girl
said the clerk, as he raked in the two
pennies and passed it out. She toob
it and walked directly to the mailing
boxes and dropped it into ono of thu
Sits. "Here! what did you do tha,
out any stamp on it. and that's to max,
mp for it,"
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THE POTATO BLIGHT.

In many parts of New England and
New York potato blight and rot have
played havoc with the potato crop, car
irying disappointment to the farmer.
However, throughout the country an
average crop ofpotatoes is expected. In
Canada and the Provinces a large yield is
reported. Hence, whatever may be the
scarcity in certain localities, aud what
ever the hardship in individual cases, yet
we are not to have potato famine or an
era of extraordinary prices. Just now,
IN fact, potatoes are lower in price in
Boston, since the signs of rot are causing
farmers to send along their stock quite
rapidly. Later on prices will stitfen,
and we may not expect so low n range of
prices to prevail this fall as was the case
last year.-1mericon CuIicator.
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TEMPERANCE.
MOTHER AND CHILD

/ AOihEh ANU CHILD. f-s.-E.
Drunk and disorderly-so it was said
Into the courtroom the culprit was led.
There on her dark and unwomanly face
fingered the signs of her shame and disgrace
Soiled with the mud In whose depths she had
lain .. -',-"--
All the sweet instincts of modesty slain
Standing so boldly there,
Waiting so coldly there,
Hearing her sentence with sullen tiisdain.
Sternly the justice looked down from his
Down at the woman who stood at his feet:
Wondering how shc had wandered so far
From the clear heights where the virtuous
All, how unlovely she seemed in the gloom
There in that dismal and crowded court,
room,
Treading unthinkingly,
Going unshrinkingly
On to the depths of her terrible t,oomi
Suddenly, strangely, his featur IS grew mild,
Ihere OH her breast lay pure little child,
pPm1ling P1,,n at hm with such innocent eyes,
Blue IN their depths as the bonny blue skies
over her shoulder it struggled to climb,
Sweetly unconscious of sorrow or crime
Laughing so merrily,
Beautiful, verify
Fair as lily-bud found i'm the slimo
Softly lie spoke to the woman and then
.lut from that dim, noisy courtroom again
oore sue heT DaDy, WITH 1alter1ng tread
freed for the sake of that innocent head
Just fora moment the bonny wee child
Backward looked over her shoulder and
smiled;
Lying so sweetly there
Cursed SO completely there
by the foul touch Of those fingers defiled.
Sadly the justice bent over his book
Asking himself rs he thought of that look.
Through what dark pathways Of sin and de-
Ceit
Fortune would carry those small, winsome
feet
Ah, that blossom so tender should rest
There On that hard and unwofianly breastI
One SO undutiful
Crowned with the beautiful!
Sin by the glory Of motherhood blest.
Think Of it, fathers, when sweet eyes Of
Watch thro' the window your coming from
town
Plump little feet patter over the floor,
Eager to meet your warm kiss at the door:
lmy wee hands draw your chair to its
place
Fairy-like forms Chamber up to your face
Cherished so carefully,
Nurtured SO prayerfully,
Kept from oil knowledge Of shame or dis
grace.
Dream Of it, mothers, when l,illabies sung
Over the cradle so tenderly swung
Blend with the laugh of the baby that lies
Warm I'm the light of your watchful blue
eyes.
Ah, but how proudly you guard her from
harm,
Keeping her safe from all thought of alarm
kissing, caressing her,
Lovingly pressing her
Close to your heart i'm your sheltering arm
-Netty u. Simmons, in Chicago Times.
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PEAS AND POTATOES.

In some sections of Maine, where can
ming of vegetables is carried on to CON
siderable extent, the farmers drop pea
with each piece of potato as planted.
The two thrive well together; the peas
yield good crop for the canncr, and do
not perceptibly interfere with the potato
yield. We regard this a good plan, as
we do the planting of cucumbcrs among
earl corn, securing good crop of each.
American 1gricuhurist.
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APPLIES FOR FEEDING STOCK.

The use of apples for feeding stock
was more general last year than ever be-
fore, because there was no other way to
dispose of them. Farmers have i'll most
cases believed that apples had little or no
feeding value, and thousands of bushels
have gone to waste on the ground when
the owners had abundant stock to con
sumo them There have been instances,
OF course, wncrc cows nave broken INTO
orchards and gorged themselves with un-
ripe fruit, and the same is true Of grain
chests; but that does not prove that either
are not useful when used in moderation.
One man in town fed n colt all last fall
principally on apples. No grain was
used, and it was estimated that this colt
gmade gain of 100 pounds i'll weight.
k)ther farmers found nothing increased
he flow of milk SO much as a moderate
supply of apples. One man says he made
gain of ten quarts of milk per day by
feeding four and half bushels of apples
to eight cows, which makes gain of
forty-six quarts to the COW. DR.. Gocss
mann finds that the analysis of apple
pomace indicates n feeding value nearly
equal to that of corn cnsilage.
Has not the time arrived when apple
kpomace will have value as certain as sany
ther feeding material2 To those who
Aever fed their stock apples, would say
" it and see if you cannot get as good
suits as you can by carrying them to
fe cider mils.-NeD Engidnd Liome-
/ osad.