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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-12
TEMP ETA tGlE1sx ss ssasElC C1OUSS READiN6.

Song of Drum kards.
ave come, we come with sad array,
And In procession long,
To join the army Of the lost,
Three hundred thousand strong.
"Our banners beck'ning on to death,
Abroad we have unrolied;
And Famine, Care, and wan Despair
Are seen upon their fold.
& aye heard what music cheers US on
The mothers CRY that rang
So wildly, and the babe that walled
Above the trumpet's clang.
"We've taken spoil; and blighted joys
And ruined homes are hero;
We've trampled on tho throbbiug heart
And fouted sorrows tear.
1--WE come, we come-wo've searched the
The rich and poor are ours,
Enlisted from the shrines Of God,
From novels and from towers.
"And who or what shall balk the brave
That swear to drink and dies
What boots to such, mans muttered curse
Or this, that spans the skyl
onward f-suiSS
Hang misery 8 countless train;
Onward for hcll-from rank to rank
Pass we tho cup again.
"We come-of the worlds scourpes, who
Like us have overthrown2
What woe had ever earth like WOO
To our stern prowess knowni
"We come, we come to fill our graves
On which shall shine no star,
Toglut the worm that never dies,
Hurrah! Hurrahl Hurrah."
National Advocate
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
THE LOOMS OF GOD.

Memorial poem read by Rev. A. C. Herrick.
at the funeral of Samuel NJ. Hoover, Elk Grove,
october 81 1889
Let us take to our hearts a lesson-no lesson can
Drawer be-
From the ways of the tapestry-weavers, on the
other side of the sea-
Above their heads the pattern hangs they study
it with care;
The while their fingers deity work. their eyes
are fastened there.
They tell this curious thing besides, of the
patient, plodding weaver
He works on the wrong side eyermore but
works for the righ, side ever.
1t is only when the weaving stops, and the web
is loosed and turned,
That be sees his real handiwork-that his mar
velous skill is learned.
Ah the sight of its delicate beauty, how it pays
him for all his cost
No rarer. daintier work than his was ever done
by the FROST
Then the master bringeth his golden hire, and
giveth him praise as well,
And how happy the heart of the weaver is no
tongue but his own can tell.
The years cf man are the looms of God, let
down from the place OF the sun,
Wherein we are weaving alway, till the mystic
web is done.
Weaving bindly. but weaving surely, each for
himself his tate,
We may not see how the right side looks-we
can only weave and wait
But looking above for the pattern, no weaver
need have fear;
Only let him look clear in.o heaven-the per-
feet Pattern is there.
If he keep the face of our Saviour forever and
always in sight,
His toll shall be sweetar than honey-his weav-
ing is sure to be right.
And when his task is ended, and the web is
turned and shown,
He shall hear the voice of his Master: 1t shall
say to him, well done p
And the white-winged angels of heaven, TO bear
him thence shall come down;
And God for his wage shall give him, not coin.
but golden crown.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
Willing To Be a Bluecoat.

Mr. Michael DAILY, of Youghal, Ireland,
arrived in this country from the old sod
yesterday. Mr.. Daily had his worldly
goods packed in a bundle, slung on a black
thorn, which he carried jauntily over his
shoulder. He is nearly seven feet high
and as ingenious in mind as he is big in
body.
"Well, Ohm here p he remarked to the
Chief Clerk at Castle Garden, as he strobe
up to the rotunda.
$50 l see," replied the functionary.
"And Oh he's lookin' for job" contin-
ued Mr.. DAILY. "Where can Oh get that
same?'
"Hanged if l know" replied the clerk.
"Why don't you go On the force %
"On the force? What's the force?'
"Why, the police .force-the constabu-
dwell, Oh dom know" said Michael,
rehectiyeIy "What's the pay ?"
"A hundred dollars month"
"a hundred month! That's twenty
pounds?"
eyes"
"Go long with yez! Twenty pounds p
" Yes, that's true. A hundred month" "
"Begobl Oil take it When do Oh
begin ?" :.
"Oh, you'll have to see the Com nis-
sioners. You'll have to pass an examina-
ton"
"Oi can do that. Oh can do that. Where
do Oh go p
Michael was directed TO the Mulberry
street palace and Immediately started on a
snrint for the same, inquiring his way OF
every policeman he met and incidentally
posting himself on the duties of guard
ian of the peace.-Ne,r York Star.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
BUYING A CIGAR.
The Important Way in Which an Ameri-
can Does 1t Abroad.

The Important Way in Which an Ameri-
can Does 1t Abroad.
A good story is told of a distinguished
Atlanta educator who made tour Of Eu-
rope last summer. In Belgium he walked
into shop and called for cigar. Sew
eral were thrown on the counter.
"How much are they worth p he asked.
"Three for quarter" answered the
shopkeeper glibly.
"Why, you must take me for an Ameri-
can"
"Of course / do.'
How came you to guess my national
ity so easily%
Because when an Englishman comes
in here he asks for a cigar, pays for it
without asking any questions, and walks
OUT
"Well."
"Well, when one of you Americans
come in here you walk up to the counter
and call for cigar just if you owned the
whole earth"
The American threw down a quarter,
picked up the cigars and walked out with
out a word.-Atlanta Constitution.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
When silence Is Golden.

The Chair rises to deliver his address of
welcome just as the Roman punch is
served.
Chairman McGookin-"It affords me
more plisure than Oh can expriss to meet
yez once more around the fistive boord."
OReagan in hoarse Whisper )-"Whist,
Dinnis; cut it short. There's whisky in
the ice-cream."
Chairman McGookin-aMe frinds, there
be tonnes when silence is goolden. This
is wan av thim.D
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
THE DAUGHTERS OF EYE.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND THINK
ING AND SAYING.
An OLA Podrida Prepared and Arranged
by One of Them for the
Sunday Union.

OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Over and over again
My duties wait for me,
They ever come in monotonous round
Breakfast and dinner and tea;
Smoothing the snow-white clothes,
Sweeping and busting with care,
There is ever some task in my little home
To brighten it everywhere
What may claim for my duties fee?
Are these endless rounds of task to be
Naught but dull monotony,
Over and over again?
Over and over again
The sun sinks low in the west,
And always over and over again
The birds come back to the nest.
The robin sings to his loving mate,
Close, close TO my cottage door.
The same glad song have heard him sing
For many day before.
What does the robin say to me?
If the heart is tuned TO loves glad key,
No task can be dull monOtony,
Though over and over again.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
Something New.

Judge-"It would be more respectful to
this Court, sir, if you would keep your
hands out of your pockets. Why do you
do so, sir?
Defendant -aJust for the novelty of the
thing, your Honor"
ssNoyelty What dye mean? %
"Fact is, your Honor, my attorney has
had his hands in there SO long, Pm tickled
to death to geta chance at them myself. -
Loral Citizen
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01

A farm journal advises its readers to 'be
quiet among bees" The observance of
this advice depends largely upon the con-
duct of the bees. A man may so among
bees with the resolve to be IS quiet as
pair of lovers in the front parlor, but if an
unruly bee inserts its weapon under
mans epidermis, his good resolution van
ishes into thin air and he Immediately be-
comes as noisy as Comanche Indian
Norristopm Herald
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01

There is one Democratic Postmaster in
Pennsylvania who contemplates possible
removal with complete satisfaction. The
receipts of his Office have been 81 6S,
while the expenses have aggregated s. y,
leaving him 81 o. out of pocket.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01

Swimming baths are becominga popular
addition to English schools. The School
Board contends that it is quite as import
ant for boy to learn how to swim as for
girl to learn the art of cookery, and claim
that the swimming bath adds to the COM
fort Of the scholars and assists in the work
of education.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01

About 400 miles of electric railway are
already in operation in the United States,
and many more are in construction.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
UNSAFE THEATERs

There is alarm among theatrical man
ayers in London il relation to the powers
of the London County Council-derived
from the extinct Metropolitan Board of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
TO MAKE FRosTING.

Every little while someone asks me
how to make frosting. Personally have
no trouble in making frosting or icing,
and l make little work making either.
Be sure to have fresh egg and have it as
cold as possible. Sprinkle tiny bit of
salt on the white of the egg, and with an
egg-beater beat to stiff froth. If the egg
is beaten right there is no need of the
frosting not being good. Add three table
spoonsful of sugar and beat well together.
do not think l am over three minutes
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17
EABYLANO

There's a wonderful country we all OF us know
Where the straagest things talk, and the
queercst things grow,
Where the Fairies and Brownies guard every
thing nice
And delight the small children with charming
advice,
Where there's nobody rich, yet there's nobody
poor.
For all are content. light Of heart and secure.
And the name of this country, where all these
things be,
Is innocent Babyland. land OF the wee.
] lived in this Babyland. long years ago
,We all Of US live there At some time, you
know,
Bu, somebody kept me one morning from play
Aud took me 10 school, as they called IL. that
day.
sang as went. for guessed nothing then.
And thought myself wise with my book and my
Pen
All, littlct knew as danced on in glce
That had left Babyland-land OF the wee.
They taught me TO read. and they taught me to
write.
They filled my head so that it thought in the
night,
wanted to 80 back TO Rabyland then
And have no more bother OF thinking again.
But try as ] would to remember the way
Twas lost. and forgotten forever that day.
For none may return once they leave II. ana see
Their innocent Babyland, land Of the wec.
On. little folks living IN Babyland now,
sing with the birds as they ng on the boush.
Dance with the blossoms that dance at your
feet
Laugh with each other wherever you meet,
Sleep. ana in dreaming know naught OF the
care
Kept far away from your Dabvland fair,
know that your happest hours must be
While You are al play, in your land OF the wee.
Maud Wyman, in Good Housekeeping.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17
Small Farm Economies.

A mixture of kerosene and lamp
black is q good application to keep
steel surfaces bright.
II the whiffietree breaks. dontt
throw it into a corner. Remove the
irons. They can be fitted to new wood.
The further you are from market the
greater is your need OF condensing
products by feeding grain and slower
TO animals.
BY keeping the cattle of the pasture
one day longer in the spring. you MAJ
keep them upon it two days longer in
the fall.
A handy thing to have is q box con-
tanning an assortment Of bolts. nuts.
rivets. nails and hammer. pinchers
and cold-chisel.
The paint-brush that proved to be
bargain was cleaned in turpentine each
time It's work was done, dried and
hung up by its handle
Keep . few panes OF window-glass
and a paper OF tacks or some putty on
hand. When the window-pane Is bro
ken. don't makeshift; replace it-N
Y. Mail and Express
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17
FACTS FOR FARMERS
1t 10 late to plant corn q week after
Ill danger Of spring frost is passed.

1T 10 late to plant corn q week after
Ill danger Of spring frost is passed.
-Basswood is pronounced by good
authority probably the best honey
plant in the world. all things consid-
cred.
Farm life gives full employment
to hands too full when not regulated
by intelligence and because OF that
lack runs into hard drudgery.
The clover field is the place for
the pigs that have been weaned. They
will need very little other food. A
mess OF SKINNED milk, or buttermills,
with small quantity of ground oats at
night will cause the pigs to grow rap.
idly IL they have the run OF clover.
If you have any corn-fodder the
sheep will pick it over and clean the
stalks. II the fodder is bright and
clean all classes of stock will relish it.
II the fodder is run through a CATER
and stalks crushed rs well as chopped
by the cutter there will be but little
waste.
Use every bit OF barn-yard manure
before purchasing any commercial fer
tilizer. The chances are that in the
average barn-yard the first six inches
of soil contain more fertilizing materi-
al than one-half the commercial fer.
tilizers. -Wcstern PlOwman.
In 0r,l;p,rv nactnra. tbaro Ia worry
little time during the whole season,
when the cows which obtain no food
elsewhere can be said to be literally
fed. Early in the spring. the supply
is limited, and the quality is inferior.
Cows like the change from dry &c
green food, and eat the grass grtedily
when first turned out. but the fresh
feed contains an undue proportion OF
water, and is deficient in nutritive ma.
terial.
We may examine the grasses one
by one, their merits and defects; the
cereals in all their bearings. When
we have done with these. take up the
artificial grasses and forage plants;
examine these as fully in the meadows,
pastures and stock-yards, the condition
of the land and the stock OF those
fields. and after comparing the tw
groups in the fullest details the con.
clusion is generally the same. i. G.,
that taken all in all. where red clover
will grow it stands at the top.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
The easiest, quickest and sures;
method by which the average farmer
can increase the yield and the profit
Of his cows is by liberal feeding. This
term does not seem to be thoroughly
understood by all men who keep cows
There are q great many who seem to
think that when they have given a COW
all the dry hay she will eat. they have
fed literally. This is a great mistake.
For COW giving milk. this is very
poor feed. il the hay is OF ordinary
quality and is far from being a com.
plete ration. il the best hay is used.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17
HINTS ON DlSh.WAsHING.



Task to = system.
One OF the most wearisOme domestic
tasks which fall TO the housewife do
ing her own work is the ''ncver-end-
ing. still beginning" washing Of dishes.
1t is often a real pleasure to prepare a
dainty, palatable meal; a well-earned
satisfaction in viewing the work OF
ones hands in the light. sweet loaves
OF white or brown bread. the roast OF
flesh or fowl, done to a turn. the per-
feet cake. quivering custards. etc. But
not one of these toothsOme viands can
be brought to pass without the aid of
various pots, spoons. cups. ETC.. all to
be cleaned for perhaps immediate use
again. They must be washed by
hands already weary-for modern in
ventiOn. fertile as it is. has not yet, TO
our knowledge. produced an auto
matte dish-washer and dryer. 1t is dis
couraging. and few things sooner bring
the tired house-keeper's spirits down to
zero Especially if the mercury has al
ready gone down to that pOinD than
a kitchen full OF sticky. greasy. UNI
washed dishes greeting her as she rises
from breakfast or dinner, and in adj
dition to the dishes used upon the fam
lily table. A very great help is to wash
as you go. Have your pan with hot
wafer and cloth handy, on the table.
and as fast as you dish articles from
the stove or range wash the cooking
vessel. Rinse out frying pans. kettles.
etc. with very hot water 10 take off
the grease. Chain dish cloths readily
take OF whatever sticks TO the sides
of stew-pans or pots. or clam-shell
may answer the same purpose. As
nearly all cooking utensils are more
easily washed when warm. washing as
you go gives time for the. dinins-room
work after tho meal, besides setting
the kitchen sooner in order. Keep
several thick holders near tho stove.
TO save your hands (and towels) in
lifting hot kettles or pans. Never
take hold of these with the dish-cloth
as you wish to keep that important
kitchen appliance free from pot-black
and grease. BY taking some simple
precautions the cooking vessels can
be washed with almost as much case as
your china service. BY having your
pan and hot water ready you may sit
down TO breakfast or dinner with the
sense OF relief that the 'kitchen
things" are ort Of the way--urtil next
timc.-LOuisville Courier-JOurnal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17
PERSEVERANCE WINS.


Success Rarsly . Matter Of AecldeaA A.
vays . Matter u Character.
It IL great mistaks 70 suppose that ths
best work Of the world II done BY people Of
great strength and great opportunities
It y unquestionahly IN advantage 70 have
both these thinga but neither Of them u Q
necessity 70 the man who has the spirit and
the pluck to achieve great resultA Some
OF the greatest work OF our time has been
done by men Of physical feeblenesa No
man has left . moro distinct Impression Of
aimsen on this generation than Charles
Darwin, and there have been few men who
have had to struggle against such prostrat-
ing tll-health- Darwin Was rarely able to
work long 1t time. He accomplished his
great work by having . single aim and
putting every ounce Of his force and every
hour of his time into the task which he had
set before him He never scattered his
energy, he never wasted an hour; and by
steadily keeping at It, in spite Of continual
tll-health and Of long intervals OF semi In
validisIn, he did great work. and has left
the impression upon the world Of . man Of
extraordinary energy and working capaci-
ty. Success il rarely matter OF accident
always matter Of character. Tho reason
why so many men fail Is that 90 few men
are willing to pay the price OF SELF denial
and hard work which success exactA-
Christian Union
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17
ABOUT EXPERIENCE.


Little Too Late.
There is no educator like expe-
rience. 1t is the stepping-stone in
life's stream. and the mar. sho does
not heed its lessons slips into The creek
and gets drowned. Yes. experience is
AN excellent teaches. although it often
charges high wages
Its lessons are always valuable and
firmly fixed in the mcmory-stamped
there h. the force OF circumstances
The little child that gleefully strives
to mash wasp on the window pane
under the delusion that he is going
To have some fun with ~, never
makes that mistake a second time.
All through life we learn a great
deal by merely finding out things We
don't know.
In the language Of the great apostle
to the Gentiles. Carl Pretzcl: ''Oxbe-
rience vas bully deacher. Der only
trouble nit him vas dot he gives his
knowledge oud ven it vas pooty late. ="
Very often experience is physician
WuO uCNCT COisICS uutAl uitCI tuC OlS>
order is cured. The old and those
who have mixed largely with the
world comprehend the fact that no
education is available that is not
practical. These are the men who.
when they 60 to New York. are cold
and unsympathetic when the bunco
man calls them by their right names
and asks for information about the old
folks and all the neighbors.
On the other hand. the man whose
life has been spent in study is easily
taken in, and has to telegraph home
for money to pay his hotel bill. When
he returns to his quiet study in the
romantic little country village. he is
the mark for ridicule and the uncOn-
scious butt of men who do not possess
one tithc of his learning.
There are men who utterly fail to
profit by the lessons OF experience.
For instance, there is man in Illinois
who is living with his ninth wife. The
other eight attempts look like expert
ments that have failed. but from which
he has derived no wisdom. To such
men experience is like the stern-light
of ship which illuminates only the
track it has passed.-Texas Siftings.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17

other must die. I could feel the
Arabs hot breath upon my neck and
his huge brass earrings tapped
against my cheeks. I still held the
pistol tightly in my left hand. II !
could only get q chancs to use IT.
Very foolishly relaxed my grasp .
brief second, and in that lightning
like interval the Arab seized the ad-
vantage and fastened both his brawny
hands firmly on my throat.
In vain I struggled and etrove to
turn. the bony fingers we're pressing
my windpipe and the hidecss face
was glaring into mine with mockire
smile.
was choking. suffocating -a'l
sense was leaving me.
Must die thus? II was horrible.
With n fearful effort, the strength
that madness alone can give. twisted
the Arab sideways My left arm was
free.
My hand still clutchcd the pistol. !
raised it with a jerk. l put the mu.-
zlc to his ear. With the last atom OF
strength pulled the trigger. and as
the stunning report echoed through
the trench with thunderOus reverber-
ations every thing grew black and
dim.
Attracted by the pistol shot they
found us there half an hour later still
locked in. close embrace. My uni
form was spattered with the Arabs
blood. Messengers were sent to Sua-
kim for strctchers. and while waiting
the body of my desperate foe was
buried where he lay in the trench. and
beside him was laid my horse. whose
neck had broken in tho fall We
marched mournfully back to Suakim
and the next day poor Fraser was laid
to rest in the English cemetery on tie
shores of the Red Sea. I've been ir
many skirmish with the Arabs since
but that night in the trenches outside
Suakim was the closest call ever had.
and as a living remembrance OF it
have kept that great twO-cdsed sword
which split Tom Fraser nearly in half
before my very cyes.-William Muir.
ray GraydOn. in Phi ladelphia Times