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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-21

The story Is told Of German who took
the hands Of his clock to tho maker to have
them fixed, because they did not keep proper
time. or course, the clock maker demanded
the ,rorks. rs in them lay tho trouble. Boils
and blotches, pimples and other crupticns
on the exterior tell of disordered condition
of the blood within. Be you man or woman,
or aught else human, if you havo these in
dications, be wise i'm timo and take DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery 1t puts
the liver and kidneys in good working order,
purifies the blood, cleanscs the system from
all impurities from whatever cause arising,
and tones up the functions generally.
"Golden Medical Discovery" checks the
frightful inroads of Scrofula, and, if taken
in time, arrests the march Of Consumption
of the Lungs, which is Lung ,scrofula, puri-
fies and enriches tho blood, thereby curing
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-21
Not What He Meant.

An English temperance lecturer, de-
termined to lose no chance of deepen
ing the impre ,sions he sought to make
on the minds of his auditors, called to
his aid the powers of the magic Ian
tern. He threw on n screen a magni-
fed picture of drop of water, in
which wriggled animalcule of a par
ticularly lively nature. To this pict-
ure of active life succeeded the gloomy
view of diop of water with spirit
added, and behold the poor animal
cul@ all curl up and die. "Lor:" said
an old man in the audience, "be e
sure, mister, / sha'n't never drink a
drop of water alter seeing that, unless
I qualities it with lots O spirits to kill
the beasties." The lecturers satisfac-
tion with his experiment is not en-
larged upon.
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Life on a Cuban Plantation.

In Dokota and Manitoba the EN-.
ployment on single wheat estates of a
hundred reapers and an aggregate OF
three hundred 1aborers for a season
has been regarded as something un.
precedented in agricultural industry
but on one sugar estate In Cuba-"El
Balboa'-from fifteen hundred to two
thousand hands. invariably negroes.
are employed, who work under. severe
discipline, In watches or relays, during
the grinding season, by day and night,
the same as In. the large ironsnnills, and
furnaces OF the United States and
Europe. At the same time there are
few village communities where a like
number of people experience the same
care and surveillance. The male
workers occupy quarters walled and
barricaded from the women, and the
women from the men.
There are in every village an in.
firmary, a lying in hospital, a ply
sician, an arothecary, n chapel, and
priest. At night and morning mass is
said in the chapel, and the crowds are
always large. There is of a Sunday
less restraint, though ceaseless espion-
age is never remitted. On these days
and in parts of holidays there are rude
mirth, ruder music and much dancing.
This picture Is given somewhat in de-
tail, because it illustrates how all-per-
vading ard tremendous are the forces
that are modifying society everyw where,
in civilized, partially civilized and
even even 6srSaI2as saaStsiSs 81 Giqoad5RidK GqadiR5tRRitd5K6
and consumption.
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WHAT IT COSTS

Tho actual amount of malt liquors con
sumed i'll 1888 was 767, 5S7, ,056 gallons This
includes not quite 100000 gallons of i'm
ported beer and ale The manufacturers
price to the retailer is rather above than be-
low twenty cents per gallon. At twenty
cents the cost To the dealers would be S1J3,
SEAL. The retailers gcv an average of
sixty cents per gallon, which makes the cost
to the consumers $i6O, 522. 233, which the
American people spend annually for malt liq-
uor, principally beer. The most careful e.
timate puts the cost of wine to the consumer
at Si2, $40, 1876, and of distilled spirits S379,-
2?6, $50 This gives us n grand total of S9l2,-
$40. i21, nearly 81 900, OOO,O0O spent annually
for liquor by the people of the United States.
-Cnth0kjc Citizcn.
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A VARIETY OF CROPS.

Too much stress can scarcely be laid
upon the importance of raising variety
of crops, and not hazarding ALI upon a
favoritc one, which by failure caused
byvan unfavOrablc season, may occasion
loss that few farmers arc able to bear.
One OF the reasons usually assigned by
thai, nlThongh not money making one,
1t Is safe business if properly con
Quoted. 1t not only affords a good liv-
ing without the liabilities attending most
business callings, but, by slow accunu.
lations, will: in: time compare favorably
with other occupations that arc com
monty !deemcd more lucrative.
In an sections there should be leading
crops, adapted to the soil and climate,
to which more than ordinary attention
may be given, but as general rule the
fortunes of the season should not be
siakcd on. one or two crops. Ific6rn,
wheat, OATS and potatoes are the chief
staples there is no probability that thu
season will he SO unfavorablc that none
Will succeed. One or more Of these NAV
suffer, while the others do exceedingly
wen and thus compensate for Il partial
w hN Ni' y III lll' NIIpIt. w tdltnN GHDl
taIists in the Northwest may hazard all
ON the success of single crops of wheat
but to the average farmer this matter Of
safety is an important one that should
not be disrcSard6d - nc may not har.y.:e
as muoh~moncy as one may do in favor
able seasons with special crops, hut in
the end he is quite likely to sirow as
much real profit as the man who grows
only one leading crop.
OF our grain crops corn is by far the
mosi reliable, and while we may have
seasons in which the crop will prove I'M
profitable, its adaptability to all soils and
climates makes it one that no farmer.
either North or South can afford to omit.
Nowhere have the advantages of diver
siticd farming been better demonstrated
than in the South. There, as heretofore,
cotton will continue to be the money
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crop, but it has been learned that sue
cessful crop means one whose avails are
not to be used up In paying for planta-
ton supplies purchased while it was being
produced. Again, in both North and
South, new species of farming, of
which the old-time agriculturists knew
little or nothing, has come into vogue,
and truck farming, as it is called, often
yields profits that so far exceed those of
the staple crops as in many districts to
cause most of the latter to be abandoned
forHnarket gardening. Indeed, it may
be said that the methods of farming suc-
cessfully have changed so much within
few years as to almost make it different
occupation, and the man who persists in
farming the same way his father did
twenty years ago has good reasons for say
ing the business does not pay.-Neo York
World.
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HINTS ABOUT MILKING.

Never begin milking until you have
first brushed off all the loose hair and
dirt from the cows side and udtlcr.
Always take pail of tcpid water with
sponge and coarse cloth, SO that you can
cleanse the uddcr if it is soied and wipe
1T dry before commencing to milk. Be
sure your own hands arc clean, aud do
not wet the cows teats with milk. BE
very gentle with the cow and accustom
her to the contact of your left arm
against her leg while milking. A three
legged stool is the best thing to sit upon !;
and, If you are quite sure OF the !, good
conduct of your COW, the pail may stand
on something well under her. Otherwise
the safest way is to hold it between your
knees, SO that you can seize it quickly
and prevent the milk from being spilled
by her movements. Take hold of the
teats well up under the udder, pressing
the milk downward into the teats. Milk
rs fast rs you can without being rough
about it, and you will get more milk than
you will if you are slow and tedious. 1t
Is better Tor person to milk the same
COWS and not change indiscriminatcly
when there are good many cows and
several mixers. This kind Of regularity
is more agreeable to the cow than the
surprise of being MIXED by: a new hind
When this becomes necessary the new
milkcr should he more gentle and care
full than usual, until the COW has grown
accustomed to him.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The hen that lays in winter does not
breakfast, dine and sup on cold corn and
iccwatcr.
1t is said that il mice holes are filled
with chloride of lime the rodents will
quit the premises.
Be sure that all animals. especially the
young, have warm quarters and good
bed to lie on nights.
nh RSEnaTitX Th Fsi,5s9 is gEme virtue in tsaaiaz
The feeding standards should be con-
sidcrcd as guides and not as formulas to
be implicitly followed.
To ensure success, put your products
into market in a superior condition, and
have them OF a little better quality than
others.
Not many are aware Of it, but n Gov
cred barnyard is paying institution
better than spreading manure on the
snow and ice
Darkness and low temperature are the
two principal points in keeping potatoes.
The mercury should hover between the
81 and 40 marks.
There is no better foundation for u
feeding ration than corn ensilage and
good clover hay. With this foundation,
but little grain is required.
Charcoal and salt plaesal alaY aYhHGEEeu EEeu ha4ggs hfa4gs
vent bowel troubles, and have been
known to be effective as cure.
Look out that the cattle do not get
lousy. A little lard and sulphur, thor
oughly miXcd, rubbed along the back
; bone from horns to tail once week for
few weeks, is good.
Heating food, like corn and rye meal,
will produce a cough in a horse. Rem
cdy: do not use it. Put raw linsccd
meal on the oats, or other food, for
while, from gill to two gills.
II the cows milk is very blue in cold
weather., it is because the food that
should form rich milk and cream is used
up in maintaining animal heat; hence,
the policy Of shcltering animals rs much
as possible i'm severe weather.
Much feed is wasted each year by
feeding stock that do not make a profit.
able gain. There is considerable
amount of difference in the amount of
gain required by different animals in pro-
portion of the food consumed, and it will
bc. found wise to Gull out the Improbable
animals and market us soon as possible.
fthc straw or fodder that is used for
bedding is first run through cutting
box the work of handling the manure
will he considerably decreased and less
material will be required to keep tie
stock clean. Then by grooming careful
y every day there ought to bc no diff.
Guilty in Keeping in a good condition.
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FREpING FOR RICH MANURE.

What the stock eats is of more consc-
uucncc as affecting the value of manure
than is the kind of stock to which it is
fed. In many places the manure pile is
also no inconsiderablo part of the far
mcrs' profit in feeding. OF late years,
with just enough exceptions to illustrate
the generality of the rule, the manure is
all the profit that the feeder gets. 1t be-
hooves him, therefore, to so feed as to
make the manure pile rich. No subject
awakehs so much interest in the discus
sions at farmers institutes as how to feed
so as to make the richest fertilizer, and at
the same time make manure OF the best
quality There are some common popu-
lar misapPrehensions on this point, due
to confounding the feeding value of
various articles with their value passing
through the animal and going into the
manure heap. For feeding especially to-
fattenlng animals, corn is very valuable,
but owing to its deficiency in mineral and
albuminoid nutriments, it does not make
so rich manure as oats, peas, beans, or
even as wheat bran. In the tables show
ing the commercial value of various cle-
mcnts for manures, wheat bran is reckoned
at about $13 per ton, which is nearly its
selling price.
In feeding, especially to growing stock
and to cows giving milk, some of this
nutrient value will be used in the an
imal economy, but in either case it will
only do SO in the production of what is
of much more value than it could be as
manure. A certain amount of carbon
aceous food, corn for example, can be
protitshly mixed with wheat bran fees!
for COWS and young stock. 1t will make
richer milk anil keep the cow in better
condition. A smaller amount OF corn
meal with bran will keep the young stock
in better condition, especially In cold
weather, and make them able TO cat
more and assimilate more of the bran.
+ Glover hay is another very valuable
feed for making rich manure. 1t is the
farmers cheapest fertilizer, especially
when grown upon the farm where it is
fed. What it contains Of starch and car
hon is mainly drawn from the air. Its
mineral elements come mainly from the
subsoil. where roots of other plants can
not reach them. There is good reason to
believe that the shade of a growing
clover crop, combined with the action of
thc TootS III thc Soii' hcif's W ocCohposc,
under certain circumstances, the air in
the soil, and make some of it's nitrogen
EReailabIc rs a plant food. Good clover
has in some seasons been grown on very
!, thin soil by the use of gypsum alone.
, Th1 greatest difficulty on such lands is
! to get catch. This secured and light
mineral dressing added, :ho Clover will
! do-thc rest While clover alone will not
.restore= mineral fertility to soils that lack
=, II, with little phosphate of lime, and
on sandy soils potash, it will do more to
maintain fertility than any other means,
especially if it is fed out upon the farm
wIf1ere ii is grown, as it always should be.
american Culirdtor.
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THE GERMAN AND HIS CLOCK.

all Skin and Scalp Diseases, Ulcers, Sores.
Swcllings, and Kindred ailments. 1t is
powerfully tonic as well as alternative, or
blood cleansing, in its effects, hence 1t
strengthens tho system and restores vitality,
thereby dispellinS all those languid, tired
feelings experienced by tho debilitated.
Especially has it manifested its potency in
curing letter, Salt-rhcum, Eczema, Erysip-
elias, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre,
or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands:
"Golden Medical Discovery" is the only
blood and lung remedy, sold by druggists,
do all that it is claimed to accomplish,
or money paid for it will be promptly re-
funded.
WORLDS DIsPENsARy medical, AssocIA-
TIoN, Manufacturers, No. 6C3 Main Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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THE NERVOUS HORSE.

Finely bred, fintefhsent Fh8rsass nc;
often nervous. They arc quick to notice,
to take alarm and to do what seems
TO them, in moments 1f sudden terror,
necessary to escape from possible harm !;
from something they 10 n3t, understand:
That is what makes them shy bolt and
run away. We cannot tell what awful
suggestions strange things offer their
minds. sheet af wiIisd ,ps,ar iiOitRr
road may seem to the nervous horse Il
yawning chasm, the open front :p[:a, baby
carriage the jaws Of ,itdfagon ready to
deyour him and a man on bicycle some
terrifying sort of a flying devil without
wings. But the moment he becomes
familiar with those things or any other
that alright him, and he knows what
they arr, he grows indifferent to them
Therefore, when your horse shiGs mt
anything make him acquainted with it,.
let him smell it, touch it with his sensitive
upper lip, and let him look closely at it.
Remember, too that you must familiarfze
hcth sidnn OF hiA,A-..-iAi- -Aa--a---A--A-~-
nostrll and eye he will be very likely t,
scare at 1t when it appears on his left
side. So then rattle paper, heat drum,
fiutter umbrella, run baby carriage and
bicycle, fire pistol and clattcr tinware on
both sides of him and all around him
until he comes to regard the noise simply
as a nuisance and the material objects as
only trivial things. He may not learn
all that in one lesson, but continue the
lesson and you will cure all his rervoas.
ness. s.-LiorSemnn.
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MULCH FOR PEACH TREE&.

Tbe,pcac tree needs a dry soil, and
so we'll is this known that it is usually
planted on sandy or gravelly land. This
exposes it to one danger not often
thought of. This is the deep freezing
which often occurs on such soils when
not covered by snow. While the bulk
of the original forests remained, snow
was not. drifted by winds, and lay evenly
over the surface: In those times peaches
We're grown in many places where they
have long since been abandoned. The
temperature of the air in winters is not
lower now than it used to be, and the
failure of peaches where they formerly
succeeded is probably due to deeper
freezing of the soil, destroying vitality
by dcpriving the tree of moisture. A
mulch applied late in fall. or early ip
winter around the trees would remedy
this evil. If put on after the ground is
frozen, it would also prevent too early
expansion of peach buds, and thus save
their destruction by late frosts in spring.
American Cuiticat0r.
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sc.I sk,n sncouc., 81 zach,

This IA m OFT ftnoStrc
of ladies' thnt Will bcsiege the store until the
last sacQue is gone-if the bargain is ever Of
fered But how much more wondo ful an OPP
portun:ty is that presented TO every suffering
woman by the proprietors of DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Presc iption. This remedy Is n gunrdn-
fccd cure for all those dist essing ailments pc
culiar to the weaker sex. 1t Is qua anteed that
IL IL does not effect cure money will be re-
funded 1t Is careful y compounded by an ex-
pe fenced and sSillful physician, and ada pied
t. woman's delicate organ zation. II is rurely
vegetable in its composition and perfectly
harmless In it's effects in any condition or the
system aud Is sold under positive guarantee
OF satisfaction in every case, or money paid
f-r ,t AnI
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TEMPERANCE rEws AND NOTES.

TEMPERANCE EEWS AND NOTES.
The '.moneyed meu' of Camden. Me-, have
ine massachusetts -n,.:.I5 Tor 1neoflatt'
Women is about completed, and will accom-
modate one hundred aud fifty inmates.
Bright colored silk handkerchiefs adorned
with representations of wine-glasses and
whiskybottleS are now sent into the Congo
States by the liquor men for free distribution
among the natives who buy their liquor.
Baltmoreans are alarmed over the recent
large increase in the number of saloons in
that city. a committee of influential citizens
appeared before the State Legislature and
advocated the speedy passage of high
license bill.
The Nashville issue claims that the money
that Tennessee pays annually to the whisky
shops tSl5,O0O, OUA would meet all the regular
expenses of the State for ten years. Nash
vile saloon receipts alone would carry on the
Government.
The names of twenty eight habitual drunk
ards have been communicated by the police
authorities of Erfurt Germany, to every
saloon-keeper and retail liquor dealer in that
city, the latter being by Government ordi-
nance forbidden to sell them anything.
A Battle Creek (Mich.) man requested the
City Recorder to order ell the saloons in the
Hecordet TOOK ~ ohstSo drunkard around
to oil the .giro-, told the proprietors to
take good look at him and to not sell him
liquor on pain of prosecution.
The Rev. b. r. Kephart, a missionary in
Liberia, writes II letter to the Voice, in
which he gives the following as a part of the
cargo of the steamer that carried him: 10, 600
casks of rum, IL eases of gin, 400 tons of gun
powder and II missioraries-all on their way
to Africa Missionaries, rum, gin and gun
powder--what Il mixturei
A statement to the effect that total alb
stainers are shorter lived. on the average
than any class except immoderate drinkers,
has been given wide publicity, as it was az
tributed to reputable British scientific So
ciety. Some one who has taken the trouble
To look into the matter, however asserts that
the ratio is gained only by counting among
the total abstainers all who die in infancy
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The value of the horses exported from
the Dominion Of Canada in 1889 was So, =
226, ,S92, including 50, 169, 792 worth
shipped to the United States.
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EVERY MAN dWs T1s DOCTOR.

ByJ. Hamilton Ayers A. NJ, NJ. ID. :
This is most valuable book for the hon sehold,
teaching as 1t does the easydstln Saished symp.
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which will alleviate or cure: 59S pages protussiy
illl tratci The bo )k Is written In plain everyday
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rect use OF ordinary horbs with this book In tho
house there Is n , excuse for not knowing what to
do In an en- argency Send postal notes or post age
stamps OF any denomination not larger than centa
Book PUB. HOUSE. I3i leonard ST., l. !. City.
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AGRICULTURAL.
ToPICs OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
FORCING RHuBARR.

Only few plants of rhubarb are re-
quired to furnish enough for family.
It's early growth may be forced in a
greenhouse, hothouse or cellar. Sur
rounding and covering few roots out of
doors with fermenting stable manure will
give it an early start, when most of the
covering may be raked off and the plants
he further protected from cold by cover
ing of rough litter or evergreen branches,
or by boxes or barrels inverted over them.
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Tourtsts,
Whether on pleasure bent or business. should
take on every trip bottle Of Syrup Of Figs, a,
1t acts most pleasantly and effectually on the
kidneys. liver and bowels, preventing fevers,
headaches and other forms of sickness. For
sale in SOC. and 81 bottles by all leading drug
pists.
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STATE OF ONO. CITY OF TOLEDO, "a.

LUCAS COUNTY,
FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he lie tho
senior partner of the firm Of +. J. CHENEY C.
Co, doing busine=s in tie City OF Ioledo,
County and State aforesa;d ID, and that said firm
will pay the sum Of ONE HUNDREP DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot
FRANK !. CHENEY.
: Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9th day of Cocember, A. d., 1851.
I~l A. w. GLEASON;
3sEAL Notary Public.
(~S
Halls Catarrh Cure Is tax - internally and
acts directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces o. the system. Send for Testimonials,
free.
j. CHENEY d Co., Toledo, o.
~ Sold by Druggists, G.
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Why not sdre I our clothes, by using the DO I,
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