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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14
0rOUsing tho SIcepers.

James Welsh, tho Secretary's butler, told
his story OF the lire. He SAID: IL sleep
In the basement. got up about G. 80. There
was no smell OF fire and no ap Jearauce OF
any ything wrong. About O'clock started
10 clean my dlning-room, when there was
ring at the bell, and when l answered 1t a
coiored man saId, your house Is ON fire. AT
ohc' rushed upstairs to arouse the lamily
and, although tue smoke was very thick. /
succeeded ih snock.ns at every door, aui
tiom eIch one in the rooms 1 s,cured a re.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14

Lydia: Bacon aof Sudbury, Mass. ! who 81 5
-SDdf nsu ssassG In 81 -~-s loo s,i
plsnty OF exercise, plain living aud reading
enough to keep the mind in peace with tho
body's vigor.
Clara Morris is great lover OF birds, and,
in fact has a regular aviary, filled with
bright plumaged specimens from all parts
OF the glope. They all know her and mani
fess their delight upon her approach by
songs.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14
TRADES INDlCAIOR. .
Average Prices for. January
Lower and Trade Inadive.
Almost All Leading Trade Fcntrcs
Report Only n Fair VOluuf OF
Busins sss-Exp0rts of what.

hcpOrt Onty 9 fRF NOtusy' Vk
Busint tss-Exports Of what.
Special teleyrams to BrddstreeI confirm
previously reported indications o6hn uuex.
peeted check to general trade in tnuary as
compared with 1882 California hports de-
crease wheat acreage and adverf weather
conditions with reference to thehext crop.
General trade on the Pacific cosk has been
restricted by eleven weeks OF lin and ak
days snow hlockade OF the CsJral Pacific
Raiiroat. Hats caps aud fsk. boots and
sho.s, clothing and wool yhsfall been un.
tavorably affected byS Iesdrn OF mild.
Weather: a'4as MOP Il of sctaaas .sentrss
New York stocks Giies are heavy and
prices are lower. Fact, except fine butter
and cotton goods, stel and the better grades
OF iron, nearly allftaple commodities have
aecnned t In price, ofhaye shown tendency
Ine New York std6s, after tho heavy z ain
OF SI,oOO, 600 in bank urplus reserves, prom
uesIe 10 realize or1laper profits resulted in
a areaction, and the rnrket closes heavy and
hesitating with priceslower. Bonds are firm
ana in good demand!
available stocks II wheat, United States
anu Canada, East of be Rockies, as reported
January %, u decreas on the week of oU9,-
soo oushels; like corhstocks were 1S i3J, Cpl
bushels, gair. OF 1896 bushels. Added to
stocks aiioat for Europe, the total Of wheat
becomes u. 1889 bushels, 433, ,40S bushels
less al tpan on January lS, and of corn, 81 ,30i,
oSi % or 4f',2 296 bushels'more than on January
70 exports of wheat taIi flour as whaaO
rom ooth coasts this week, equal 1,Gl3, ,S54
bushels, against l SO, 500 bush .ls last week.
Iotai exports July / to date equal 81, ,S17, ,7Sl
bushels against IS. .2ss, l0l bushels in seven
s,0 0utns i1 OF the previous cereal year and 49,
si',SSo bushels in a like portion of 1857 SS.
stock. es.i@ated ssoss tsoSooy oaSsosyS S.ssss ioss,
ana tacks, and continued pressure of supplies
ana tame demand, is OF 5al5c. per barrel
w neat has declined l5sal5Sc. in the week.
lSaEt3c. at Chicago-Jr weaker home and
foreign markets, and Indifference of expor-
= Ts. l. al N corn. too, has declined sharply
NaINo. ON dull cables and decreased export
!, ,noVement The decline in oats was likewise
II24c; FIVE days export of oats from New
ork equai S25, ,0Oo bushels. There has b.en
snarp reaction In hog products led by the
lurd Sa15 points per ID.
light movement! IN sugar is accompanied
by slight weakening in prices of raw. Full
production with modified demand for re-
nned at Nsw York resulted in decline of
sc. hehners profits are now estimated Ike.
per pound, against &c. profit per pounu q
Year ago and at other periods. Coffee i'm io5.
ping and distributing lines has moved less
Teeiy, and prices, notably for Brazilian, are
Dry goods have been quiet. Cotton goods
'rlces are firm, with an advancing tendency
'wing 70 higher cost OF raw material Print
,ioths prices gained slightly. Woolens are
re- anu e5SsslnS i3a9 Nv Ksw wool is dull.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14
ARSENIC ON HIS CAKES.
Two children Die After Eaten stolen
Sweets fl ON ~ Bakery.

sweets fl ON ~ Bakery.
j. w. Shirtz n baker OF ST. LOUIS, sprink-
led q pound of arsenie on some of his cake
and tosseI it on the floor OF his shop 10 Kill
rats. Two little girls, aged and years,
Minnie an Annie Brock, walked in the shop
~ !, They w.re taken iinme lately sick and
died. n
theory that he may have intended the cake
for the children, as lie has been annoyed very
much Of late by the small boys in the neigh
borhOoI.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14

Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, Is thick-set
OF buiid, broad of beam and short OF neck
He has wellkept bloni moustache. His
manners are polished. and his found of jolity
is as inexhaustible as the Vanderbilrs bank
account,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14

Lieutenant James d. Gay, who was the first
man to carry a mail north from Washington
at the outbreak of the Rebellion, has petit
titloned Congress for pension.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14
IN qafS ,lHssS MAN @ lfSS strsa

indications thaS f4tafts and " had
been sa!ura.sdf&. sss J. is 'ciAiAsed inst!
lor extingu,shing fires, -.
Another theory OF the cause or the tire is
that it resulted from kerosene lamp thrown
in drunken row.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
The Worlds Most Powerful Tribunal

The highest court of the United
States holds a unique place in our
form OF government and one not found
In any other governmental system. II
Yields power greater than is exercised
by any other judicial tribunal in the
world. In no country of Europe or
the east has any court authority to
make or unmake the supreme law of
the land, to limit the prerogatives of
the sovereign, to control the powers
OF the legislature, to shape the form OF
government.
These functions are exercised by the
supreme court of the United States. 1t
holds a power above that of the chief
magistrate of the nation, superior to
that of congress, higher than that Of
any state, and equaled only by that
which made or can amend the consti-
tuition. 1t can enlarge or limit the pre-
negatives of the president or the
powers of congress. 1t can change
the relations between the state and the
nation. 1t can extend or restrict
either the central power or state sover-
eighty. In short, it can make or un
make the constitutional law of the
country. It can introduce radical
changes into our form of government.
Not only can the supreme court WELD
these vast powers, it has long done so
and may long continue to do so.-
Eaton S. Drone in Forum.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
Warm Clothing.

The relation of animal heat to health
and proper digestion is very close.
Good health is never secured except
by proper attention to clothing. This
should be neither too heavy nor too
scanty The animal heat is too largely
retained in the one case, and INSULT
GENTLY held in the other. External
cold, in moderate degree, acts as
sort of stimulant through the nervous
system, when it comes in contact with
an exposed or thinly clad part of the
body.
One of the chief causes of chill is
a sudden evaporation of the perspira-
ton. Another is a sudden arrest OF
perspiration. These are largely pre-
vented when one isclad in comfortable
Undertaking. The bracing effect OF
cold is felt when one is not too thickly
clothed, and when at the same time
the surface heat is in dangerous ex-
cess. Thus 1.-The indiscriminate use of
the thick, heavy overcoat" cannot be
too greatly deprecated. To this may
be largely attributed the colds SO COM
mon In the cold seasons of the year.
Warm, thick underclothing and light
outerclothing = this should be the
habit adopted. 1t is in the intermit-
tent use of the heavy overcoat that
dangers lurk.-Rhode Island State
Bulletin
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
Murderous Science.

The American Analyst tells of the
heartless treatment a young woman
recently underwent at the hands of
some so called christian Scientists.
in Boston, Mass, which resulted in
her cruel death, and says: In Brook
Ign a temporary stop has been put to
this peculiar phase of fanaticism by
the incarceration of several of it's hom-
icidal adopts in the penitentiary. No
more hagrant case, however, has been
brought to the public attention than
this one in Boston, and it is to be
hoped, In the interest of reason and
humanity, that the authorities in that
center of culture will interpose their
authority SO as to- at least, prevent the
likelihood of repetition there of such
an enormity.
A young lady from Chattanooga,
Tenn, suffering from consumption
was induced to place herself in charge
of an aunt, who is an enthusiastic
disciple of the "Chrjstian Science"
faith, as expounded at the Eddy col
lege in Boston The so called doctors
told her that nothing was really the
matter with her; that her malady was
chiefly imagination, and that prayer
and faith in God were sure panaceas."
She bore up heroicaliy and followed
the treatment to the letter. She helped
in the work round the house, did part
OF the cooking, and got out of bed at
daybreak, all because her doctor SO
recommended. The unhappy invalid
used often to ask for something to eat
between meals, but this was strictly
forbidden. At lunch she frequently
asked for bit of meat and fowl, but
this was also strictly forbidden. To-
wards the end she failed rapidly and
often said: '1n belief I'm dying. In
belief L have the most dreadful pains"
The day before the doomed girl died
she prepared her own breakfast Hel
aunt was away all the afternoon and
she slept alone that night
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
MARY AIMS BABY.

High up at garnet window, whether in shine
or rain,
Day by day baby SITS its face against tho
pane,
And if it be sun or shadow, and If it be calm or
blow,
The mother goes to her labor out into the world
below;
Yet she turns to look at the window. her hard
face working with love,
As she catches sight Of her darling, set high in
the easement above;
And the wiZened face of the baby the baby
that seldom cries,
i puclered up In queer amaze as she looks at
the earth and skies
Poor Mary Ann in the scalding suds she drons
) her scalding tears;
Those drops express the bitterness pent I'D for
many years.
She wrngs the costly fabrics-ahl how her heart
was wrungl
and young;
OF all she had, of all she hoped, nothing to her
remains
But the pinched, half-famished baby looking
through the window-panes.
Al thought of it her tears are dried her grief is
put away;
JOY inspires her aching heart, she can't be
sad today.
Life takes a soft and tender hue hope blooms
and bears again;
The smiles light up her care-worn face she
sings low refrain.
or oil the gifts God gave her, of all He let her
keep,
Is the baby in the window, now fallen fast
asleep!
Emma NJ. Johnson in Houselleepers Weekly
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
HOUSEHOLD BREvITIES.

"A spoonful of strong vinegar in q
kettle of hot lard will prevent dough.
nuts from soaking fat.
Add little kerosene oil to the water
in which vanished woodwork or pol
ished floors are washed. 1t will greatly
improve their looks.
When it is desired to remove an un-
used stamp from an envelope or piece of
paper, lay the paper on the top of some
utes it may be removed as good as new.
Veal Cutlets.-Dust the outlets with
salt and pepper, dip them in beaten egg,
then in grated cracker, and fry slowly
in hot butter. Serve on hot dish with
melted butter poured over. Garnish
with water crosses and sliced lemon.
Soil for pot plants should always be
carefully prepared. Nothing is superior
to we'll decayed turf full of root fibers,
clear for some plants, for instance roses,
with an addition of one-third its bulk of
well-rotted manure for most others
Popular Gardening.
Quick Loaf Cake.-Beat two eggs
with two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter
and one of milk; add two cupfuls of
raisins, half cupful of shredded citron,
four cupfuls of -four sifted with two tea
spoOnfuls of cream tartar and one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in very lit
tie hot water. Bake at once.
"A pretty wall panel is made by COW
ering board nine inches wide and eight
cen long with pale blue satin, and lin
ing the back with silesia of the same
shade. The edges of the board should
be beveled. A large bunch of milkweed
balls, tied with white ribbon, is fastened
in the center of the panel. 1t is very
pretty and easily made and costs almost
nOthing.-The Home.
An easy way to spoil the evening
meal is for each member to tell the sad
tale of all that has gone wrong during
the day. To mention the disappoint-
ments and vexatiors, to tell of the
Sights that were endured and the Of
lenses which were given, and to lament
over the results of this infelicitous COM
bination of affairs is enough to counter
act the refreshing effect of all the good
:hings with which the most generous
and skillful housewife can load the
'able.-Household.
Apple Pudding.-Pare, core and chop
six sour apples, add to them one pint of
milk, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of
boiled rice, juice and rind of one lemon,
and the beaten yelks of four eggs. Mix
and bake in a good oven thirty minutes;
beat the whites of the eggs quite stiff,
add pinch of salt and two tablespoon
fuls of powdered sugar; spread this on
top of the pudding when baked, return
it to the oven for few minutes to deli
cately brown the meringue; serve with
cream.-Boston Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
GAMBLERS WITH NERVE.
"Reminiscences of Days When Fortune
Were Risked on CarfA

"Reminiscences of Days When Fortunes
Were Risked on Cards.
One afternoon about four o'clock
marley and Bill Boone-reckon every
gambler that was ever in Kansas City
knows the Boone boys-two of the
nerVlest men who ever laid down bet.
walked into my room and could see in
minute that they had come prepared
to play big game.
From four o'clock | sat there and
dealt for them the whole night. Luck
was certainly against them, for no mat
ter whether they coppered, bet 'em open
or called the turn they could hardly win
bet. You couldn't have told by their
faces, though, they had lost cent.
They had S., 900 with them when they
came into the room, but by midnight
had 'em down to their last $500. They
were bound to go broke or get even, and
they wouldn't quit
After three or four more deals
Charley had but S25 and Bill but $40
left They didn't stop to think min
ute, but put the whole S35, the last of
the So, 600, on the ten open. / went on
with the deal and the next card that
showed was asten. 1t was dollars to a
doughnut that they had lost their last
dollar and were dead broke, but what do
you think happened? Why, the card
that followed was another ten. and they
got spl t.
''You know what split is don't YOU?
When the cards come out in pairs, one
wins and the other loses, of course, and
the bank takes half the money bet on
that card That is called the banks
percentage in the game, but this time it
proved to be a costly percentage to the
bank. The Boones got back $l7 so from
that lucky split, and with this their
luck turned and they began to win.
''Soon they had $500, 81 900, 81, 500, and
playing them heavier all the time. The
luck ran just exactly opposite to what it
was early in the game. The boys could
not lose bet now, no matter how they
put it down. l dealt on for them until
daylight, when they had won back over
$500 of what they had lost.
Il was completely tired out by this
time, but as they showed no inclination
TO quit l sent the porter up for my part
ner so that he could relieve me. He
came in little while, and l went to bed
and left the boys still playing and still
winning.
Il think slept until little after noon,
and then got up and went down to the
room. When l got there the Boone boys
were just cashing in their checks. They
had "a nd -
room 500 loser. They had won S., 900
Off the $3.50 they got on the split. /
think that was one of the luckiest plays
| ever heard of any where. From 'An
Old Gamblers Story"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
DIGNITY OF LABOR,
The Best Man Is He Who Does Most For
His FelIOw-Men.

The Best Man Is He Who Does Most For
His Fellow-Men.
All useful work is honorable. The best
life is that in which the powers of mind
and body are most beneficently en-
ployed. An INDECENT life, whether
passed in poverty Or wealth, is de-
graded and degrading life. No man can
serve God by any other means than by
serving his fellow-men. We do not dis
parage the church or the worship of God,
in public or private Places but he is the
truest and most devOut worshiper who
goes about the practical duties of life in,
the right spirit, feeling that he is re-
sponsible for the use he makes of his
time, talents, strength and opportuni-
ties. The man who, according to his
ability, does the most to promote the
welfare of his fellOw-men, be he scaven-
ger or statesman, hOd-carrier or preacher
Of the Gospel, is the best man on earth.
The dignity of labor is not dependent
on the sphere of ones activities so much
as on the spirit of the worker and the
nearness of his approach to his
highest possibilities of usefulness. A
good cobbler is more digni-
fed and honorable worker than
the man who, having no ca
pacity for intellectual pursuits. scorns
TO toll for a livelihood and wastes his
life in the substratum of profession
We do not often see a day laborer who
missed his career in failing to be. a
clergyman; but who has not been panied
to see and hear, in the pulpit men who
missed their vocation in declining man
ual labor? The most useful of all work
ers are scientists and inventors. The
former increase the area and sum total
of human knowledge. The latter apply
this increase to the practical affairs of
life, so that it makes the world brighter,
happier and better. The inventors
work multiplies the work of all other
toilers, enabling one man to do that
which had previously required the eff
forts of many men. Invention has ele-
waited almost all kinds of work, elimi-
mating the grosser elements and aug
menting it's intellectually. The gap
between man and beast, in the world of
labor, is being steadily widened by the
work of the inventor. Granted that his
motives are as good as those of other
men, we must give the inventor the
place of honor for the results of his
labor are more beneicent than those of
any other class of workers.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
GEORGIA'S GREAT SWAMP.
Description of a Region That Is Strangel
Dismal and DesOlate.


Dismal and DesOlate.
Down in the wire grass where the
stately Georgia pine mingles with the
spreading Florida magnolia, lies the
great Okeefeenokee swamp, larger in
extent than any county in Georgia and
SURPRISING in wild desolation the Dismal
swamp of Virginia. No white man has
ever traversed it's hidden recesses, and
even the untamed Indians, when they
roamed unmolested the broad savan-
nahs of the wire grass, Stunned it as a
land which the Great Spirit had made to
tremble under his curse. 1t is dense
swamp, impenetrable as the jungles OF
India, where the pine, and the cypress
and the maple, and the black gum, and
the tupelo are clad with the dark-gray
moss and around their trunks the plant
rattan, the clambering bamboo, the
deadly poison oak, the running fox
grape, and the thorny touch-me-not
twist, and cling, and climb. Briars of
rank growth and the gnarled roots of
the sun palmetto and tufts of luxu-
rant wire grass afford hid ng-place for
moccasins, and scorpions, and spiders
Where the underground is not so dense
near the margin of the sluggish waters
the football of man or beast makes the
earth tremble for half dozen yards in
every direction, and still nearer the
uuagmire becomes so yielding that, in
the expressive language of native,
cit would bog a saddle blanket"
But there are some islands of high
hummock in the Okeefeenokee where
the soil is rich and sugar-cane, corn,
black-seed cotton, rice and sweet po-
tatoes will grow in great perfection
These hooks, or inlets of high land, are
called cow-houses. The name was
given to them because in the old times
when the country beyond the Altamah
was sparsely settled, the pioneers who
owned large herds of cattle were accus
toned to drive them into these inlets
where they could find abundant pastur
age, and one man at the gap or mouth OF
the inlet could guard hundreds of heads
of cattle from straying off.
From the Walker cow-house the writer
has seen men with as rudy cheeks as
ever seen in the mountains, and they
claim that it is as healthy as any part OF
Georgia. The people there live in prim
tive style, making an abundance OF
every thing that is needed, provisions
and fruits. At rare intervals they CONT
out of the cow-house to purchase salt
coffee and tobacco and to attend church
meetings. Should stranger ever enter
the cow-house he is entertained like
prince and urged to return. They are
bir-hearted people and the rights
hospitality are sacred among tn
Atlanta (Ga.) Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
Novel Cure for q Rat Bite.

Mrs. Inaba. who lives in Iyo prov
ince, was bitten by a rat twenty years
ago, which nipped her toe one night
while she lay asleep. For sixteen
years she felt the effects of this bite.
and at times the wound would swell
and tester. Recently she suffered
acutely, and her leg swelled up to
great extent Just then she heard that
for bite of rat there was no better
remedy than the flesh of a cat. She
at once ordered one of her servants to
go into the village and catch the first
cat she came across. This done. it
was cooked, and Mrs. Inaba set to
work to eat it. Next morning she was
much better, and in two or three DAYS
the swelling had gone down and she
was quite well again. Japan)
Mainichi Shimbur
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
ABOUT PLAIN SPEAKING.
One Can Be Sincere Without Insulting
His Friends.

One Can Be Sincere Without Insulting
His Friends.
Itappears to be the verdict that it is not
right to tell people just what we think
in order to be sincere. l do not know
that ever received from friend a re-
proof which my calm Judgment resent
ed. At first criticism might anger or
grieve me, but afterwards, when | had
had time to think, was thankful for
it, in order that 1 might amend. We
can not see ourselves as others see US.
and sonnet times it seems positively cruel
to let a person go on in some disagreed
BILE habit which few admonitory words
might correct. But as 1t has been
shown that plain speaking does more
harm than good-and surely it can but
be evil if delivered in malicious spirit
there is one thing that we must do ii
we would not become false indeed-we
must bring our hearts up to our actions;
we must really think of people as kind
ly as we act towards them. We must,
by intuition, put ourselves in their
places, learn to look at things with their
ewes, feel as they feel, think as they
think. We must take into considera-
ton, not only their education and sur
roundings, but the blood that runs in
their veins; divine how inherited char
acteristics, with this or that training,
have been emphasized into what we
consider faults; in short, trace many
streams to their fountain-head. And
then we must take care that we do not
troat ourselves to the INDULGENCE that
we accord to others, which there will be
danger of.-Candace w. Macomber, in
Rural New Yorker.