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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-16
A Doctors "BOre Bell"

A physician who was confidential told
a visitor that all physicians with any
practice had bore bell.
"And what may a bore belp be-"
asked his visitor.
GA 'bore bell, ," said the Doctor, ISIS
an invisible bell arranged somewhere in
the room, though generally in the floor
near the chair where physician is usually
seated at the time he receives his patients
When | feel that have given the last
conner enough of my time I quietly put
my foot on the secret spot in the floor,
and before any one can say Jack Robin
SON. my man has appeared and announced
that have telegrarn, or that some one
wishes to SCENE Immediately. The pa
tient naturally bows herself6ut (you see
it is Generosity woman), and by means
of my litfle subterfuge 1 am free. OF
course do not mean to say that / am
obliged to use the bell every time re-
ceive a woman patient! But tell You I
have found it a lucky escape sometimes.
1t is all very well to listen TO an &C count
of the ailments and give the re iuired
amount of sympathy to the patient before
you, but when she drags in all her relatives
there has to be stopping place--there-
fore the bore hell. '"--Nep YorE Sun.
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escape from the bot city to the open
fields and profitable employment was
rare picnic to them.-Vieks Magazine.
aRArrNe eRAPEvINEs.


The opinions and practices Of vine-i
yardists vary greatly in regard to the
best way as we'll as the best time for
grating tho grape. Some propagators
have excellent success in grating on
roots below the surface of the ground in
December, or before the ground freezes
in the fall, protecting the Acions by heap
in&soil over them. Others have tried
fall Lxafting and failed. She most COM
mon pyactice among vineSardists is to
graft vines late in spring or after the
leaves begin to expand, asibg dorman'
wood for cions, or that which has b2fy
retarded by storing in n coofSazs
clemson canes to teused foF-ssSa, 80 ss..s
are cut in winter, tied in small bundles,
and packed in moist sand, moss, or ian.
bark, then stored in cool place. When
the time arrives for use they are taken
and washed clean with cold water aud
cut up into the lengths desired.
The mode called crown grating is tn.
one usually employed; that is, inserting
the cion into the crown of the old stock,
which is cut of close to or just below the
surface Of the ground. The cion should
oe tied in place with strips of basswco{
bark and the soil banked about it, leay,
ing the uppermost bud only exposed,
No wax is used in grating the grape by
this mode, as the soil drawn around the
cion is better and more natural pro.
ection than grating wax.-New YorL
Sun.
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What StOckinette Cloth ls.

Strictly speaking, stockinette is not a
cloth, for it is not woven fabric, but
knitted texture. "By process of knit
ting, and not by weaving the individual
threads of which stockinette fabric is
composed are interlaced into one regular
texture. Tho work is performed in a
kind of frame or loom, in which the
yarns are arranged in parallel order, at
uniform distances apart, as in ordinary
weaving. Of course, the machine is
automatic in its movement and capable
of producing great length of cloth in
very short time. The fabric thus
formed is ornamented with fine ribbed
pattern, similar in character to that seen
in common knit good. This article gene
rally handles soft, full and elastic, but
lacks those valuable characteristics of
strength and tirmness of texture or
make, which obtain a woven cloth prop
er."
The difference between the structure
OF this fabric and that resulting from
weaving warp and weft yarns together
may be illustrated as follows: Take q
sample of stockinette cloth and try to
withdraw thread, and what is the re-
sult2 The whole construction is unrav-
elcd. Next submit loom product to
similar examination and it will be found
that if longitudinal or warp threads are
removed the transverse or weft threads
will remain, while, on the other hand, il
the latter are withdrawn the warp threads
will, although the texture may be partly
destroyed, still remain, to certain ex-
tent, undisturbed. Again, the manner in
which knitted fabric is constructed
limits the designer to one class of weave
eGects-these being of stockinettc char
acter-whereas the principles of weaving
are of such a description as TO admit of
unlimited change or variation in design.
DRY Goods Chronicle.
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THE ASH PLANTS.

In somo parts of plants there is but
very little ash, while others may contain
large per cent. This ash is complex
compound containing a dozen or more
substances. There arc two classes of
ish ingredients, namely: the essential
and the non essential or accidental.
They all come from the soil, and some of
the essential ingredients of the ash are
required in larger quantities by the plant
than Others. The non onessentisLSufy-
stances obtain entrance because dissotycd;
In the soil water, and the Planf has s14os rs
power Of excluding them. " The :follo.ws,,
Ing are the essential aash constituents:
potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron and
phosphorus. These elements may enter
united with acids of various kinds, or
The last acting as an acid may, for ex-
ample, be in union with the lime.
tcalcium) as phosphate of lime. The
potassium may be united with sulphuric
lcid, and called sulphate of potash.
Muriate of potash is common form in
which potash is applied to the soil, it be-
ing soluble and quickly taken up by the,
plant. Water, which is the solvent for
them all, makes up II very large part of
svery growing plant, and Is the SUBJ
,tance from which oxygen and hydrogen
are obtained for making the plant tissues.
american Agriculturist.
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SKUNKS EAT GRUBS.

Recently, wandering in thc famous
Forest Hills Cemetery, ncA4 Boston,
writes L. B. Pierce, 1 essayed to view
the 'grotto," mass of artificial rock-
work, constructed in the sidcsb& con-
glomerate ledge and suitably planted
with ferns and underbrush. was pre-
vented from critical examination by an
overpowering odor of skunk. An en-
ployee explained that some of the water
pools in the grotto leak, and, becoming
dry, form traps into which skunks fall
and cannot get out, and when thus i'm
prisoned they are killed, sometimes two
or three week. "Why do you kill
thema" "Because they root and dig little
holes in the grassland he showed me
slope full of the places where the
sharp noses had prodded for grubs. The
grass was dead for several square yards,
and could easily have been rolled up
like blanket, the roots having all been
severed by white grubs, and it was
these enemies of the lawn that the
skunks were after. Twas surprised that
in intelligent Boston such ignorance of
the value of the skunks should prevail,
and advised the man to destroy his
skunk traps aud thus get rid of the
grubs as well as the Job of killing the
skunks, with the attending drawback of
unwelcome perfumery. - NcD York
Tribune.
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DERRY GROWING.

The grower of such perishablc articles
as berries is subject to nervous strain
while the season last, and should, in the
nature of things, be better remuuera ted
than the stolid laborer or the producer
of nonperishable products. Some fruit
growers are so happily situated that they
can employ women as pickers, and then
there is no need of foreman or tickets,
as each picker can keep her own ac-
counts, and pick in separate crates, sub
lect TO inspection at noon or night.
Tbe trouble wftn children Ia aenerallv
Isck of mature judgment, but some are
tHcky and dishonest. Most every ex-
Z hsive fruit grower is subject to strikes
when the picking gets poor, and / have
found 1T best to have a contract with
their parents, subject to penalty if
broken. This is enforced by withhold
ing pay until the close of the season,
witb forfeiture of a portion if contract
Is broken.
/ once visited large berry growing
Am, near Philadelphia, who had erected
: cli6op two-story barrack of twelve
1t,o1ns, where were housed their sixtv
rfckess They cooked for themselves
- a bid ntoye In the open air. aud the
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German
Syrup, i

Here is something from Mr.. Frank
"A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt
House, Lewiston, and the Tontinc
Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel men
meet the world as it comes and goes.
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost q
father and several brothers and sis
ters from Pulmonary ConsumptiorN
and is himself frequently troubled
with colds, and he
Hereoitary often coughs enough
to make him sick at
Consumptionhis stomach. When
ever he has taken q
cold OF this kind he uses Boschee's
German Syrup, and it cures him
every time. Here is a man who
knows the full danger of lung trou-
bles, and would therefore be most
particular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinionl Listen "I
use nothing bat Boschee's German
Syrup, and have advised, I presume,
more than hundred different per-
SONS to take it. They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrunu
:spffJ 1uttS3y- Ee.r-' - i-S>-s r-s--'t~--
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HIS DRUNK ENDED IN DEATH


Frank Ganley, all early settler ~ Char-
enns Wyo., says a dispatch to the St. Louis
Gsooe-Democrdt, who owns considerable
PIoPeTSy near Bonanza, in the Big Horn
uasin' ietG Buffalo, a supply point. loo miles
away, with merchandise for himself and
nelShoors The load included Ave gallon
casR OF whisky, distilled from turpsntine
st,'r an1 orass niings. He drank heavily of the
ssaM: s.on Other freighters were with Ganley on
ieaving Buffalo, but he pulled on ahead. and
oy Punishing his horses made first camp tan
miies ahead of tho rest He continued 10
gIn,sn the liquor, becoming helplessly drunk.
=. teli INTO his fire and one leg was roasted
II Ia horrible manner. It being a bitter cold
niSat, the other was badly frozen.
t.Sa,, Sniey ti was IN fearful plight when over
ss;.s Iken the next morning. He was barely
alive, but entirely unconscious. and In sn;te
OF Iacking pains and realization of his
conditon, he determined that he would live
and mad himself carried to the cabin of an
acq9ainLance on a creek fifteen miles Off the
roaa. Here the roasted leg was hacked off
w.Sa ooScher knives and a common saw, and
IN une arosoitten member treated Ganley made
ti no complaint while being manipulated bv
the volunteer surgeons, but cursed his fo,iyy
ana vowed he would never touch LIQUOR
again. He said he was bending over the fira
nnu suddenly became dizzy and fell He
nve1 several hours after the operation and
70 tne last moment declared he would sur.
we. he was man of powerful physione
th;, auu hrmiy believed he could stand every.
he had been hurt In wrecks and dw+;na a'imS Inc
Iesidence in the Big Horn basin he had
,,ougnt pears, Indians and desperadoes. Gan.
Icy was Pennsylvaniau by birth and about
ntty years old, with no family. He owned
an on claim and mineral prospects and some
s'o'A' Inc body was taken on to Bonanza,
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MEDICAL USE OF ALCOHOL.

The best madi9si Authoritiae In tha Iuarla
are now on record as against the use OF alco.
hol for the treatment OF diseases. The Pop-
,.tar Science Monthly reprints from the Lon
don Lancet a valuable paper read before the
Esculapian Medical Society of England ON
The Use Of Alcohol in Medicine" BY A. G.
BARLEY, M. D., NJ r. G. s. The writer's
opinion is against the use of stimulants, and
long list OF cases are recited to substantl.
ate his argument. AS surgeon in q battery
of artillery In the Punjab, the writer had a
number Of cases Of delirium tremens in his
nands all Of which were successfully treated
without the use of stimulants or other cases
the writer says: There were many cases of
acute chest disease in the cold weather. On
admission to hospital, they had plainly one
thing in common with those suffering from
alcohol; they were exhausted from sheer
want Of food. 1t was the first and main
point Of my treatment that this should be
met by prompt feeding, most generally by
repeated cupfuls of arrowroot and milk. +
gave nitro or other neutral alkaline salt and
morphine for hacking cough. The tongue
began to clean at once and the temperature
to fall, and the haggard and worn patient
got refreshing sleep and began to CON
valesce. In fact, the case ran parallel with
the former ailments have mentioned. and I
soon ceased to employ with them any form
Of alcohol.
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WISE WORDS.

Get to the root Of things.
The idle boy is often father OF the
tramp.
It win not do to have two mainmasss
In q ship.
Experience is an admirable teacher. sI.s
though often very severe and expenslve'
There is poetry and there is beauty IN
real sympathy; but there is more-snere
is action.
Habits of industry are as truly the re-
sult of training and association as are
habits of idleness and negligence.
Provide some useful employment iol
the children, then make it as agreeaplss
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GOOD THINGS TO NOW,

/
1. That salt will curde new milk,
hence in preparing milk Tbrridge, gra.
vies, ETC., the salt, sho,fd not be- added
tpntil the,dish is pIxeE
{A-s2t s4Eh sc1ear Otllinf wat will re-.
move tea stains. Add many fruit stains.
Pour the water through the stain aud
shus prevent it spteatling over the fabric.
3. That ripe tmatoes win remove ink
aud other stains rom white cloth, also
from the hands.
4. That teaspoonful of turpentine
boiled with white clothes will aid in the
whitening process.
b. That boiled starch is mu :h i'm
proved by the addition of little sperm
'alt or gum arabic dissolved.
z. That beeswax and salt will make rus.
~ fiat irons as clean and smooth as glass,
lie lump of beeswax in a rag and keep
It for that purpose. When the irons are
hot, rub them first with the wax rag,
then scour with paper or cloth sprinkled
with salt.
z. That blue ointment and kerosene
mixed in equal proportions and applied
to the bedsteads il an unfailing bedbug
remedy, as q -coat,-ef .Fhitewash is for
The walls of a log house.
:. .. That kerosene win soften boots and
'hoes that have been hardened by water,
md render them as pliable as new.
y. That kerosene will make tin tea.
kettles as bright as now. Saturate q
woolen rag and rub it. It will also re-
move stains from vanished furniture.
10. That cold rain water and soda will
::emove machine grease from washable
abrics.-The Sdnitarian.
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How's ThisV

We Offer One Hundred Dollars reward for
taking Hail. Catarrh Cure. "
VIZ. !. Cheney q Co, Props. Toledo, o.
c,e: we: the Undersigned, have known +. j.
leriec ly honorable in all bu siness trsnsae.
tons, and financially able to carry out anv
obligations made by their firm -'
VEST q TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Tole-
Druggtsts, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
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RECIPES FOR SICK foLk.

Flaxseed jelly for Coughs-one pound
fnseed, one large lemon, one-fourth
found raisins, one-half pound of sugar.
Boil the inseed in two quarts of water.
hen let it simmer for three hours ;strain,
'eturn to the pot with raisins and pulp
VI lemon, and simmer, without boiling,
ine hour; strain again, add the sugar.
Take teaspoonful, two or{hree times a
Day. n
hl Of suet, two teaspoonfuls -four, one
eacupful of milk, aud a little salt.
hince the suet very fine, mix milk and
lour till smooth, then put into pau; !;
.dd suet and pinch of salt, boil very
yently for ten minutes, and serve hot.
This is very good and nourishing, cspe.
:ially for those who cannot take cod liver
,il.
Barley Water-Two tablespoonfuls Of
barley, two quarts of water, one table
poonful of sugar. Wash the barley
Eell; put the barley and water into q
aucepan and bring it to the boil; then
,oil very slowly for two hours, strain
/, add sugar, aud let it cool. Barley
water is very cooling and nourishing.
The barley may afterwards bc used for a
pudding, OF put into soup.
Koumiss-One quart buttermilk, two
quarts sweet milk, four teaspoonsful .oi
lugar. Mix the ,buttermilk ana sweet
milk together add tiu- Tr-.snd- stir
till meH6d. Let it stand near the
kitchen fire for twelve hours covered
with q cloth, then bottle. As it is an
effervescing drink, the cork must be
tied down and the bottles kept on their
tides. When the koumiss is opened il
,hould be used.
Gruel-Take two tablespoonfuls of
oatmeal, two cups of cold water, half d
teaspoonful sugar, pinch of salt. Pu
the oatmeal into bowl with the cold
water, let itstand for fifteen minutes
then, with spoon, press all the -four
from the oatmeal, and pour into the pan
leaving the meal as dry as possible; pu,
the pan on the fire and stir it till II
boils; then simmer for ten minutes, ado
the sugar, and serve hot. Some prefer
Cruel without sugar., and some will
milk instead of water, OF little butte
hnd scrape of nutmeg.--MeU Yor
LbseyDer.
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GE@. -. 1n.a:: :s. in IL.

It is no doubt difficult thing to do,
to defy the power Of society, but the sky
and earth will always cover man, and
no one can boast of being better cov-
cred.
A person will be more comfortable to
be society ostracised, even If all doors
are closed against him, than to carry a
hypocritical heart encased in the most
faultless manners.
The noblest and most powerful form
of sympathy is not merely the respon-
sivo tears, the echoed sigh, the answer
ing look; it is the embodiment OF the
sentiment in actual help.
As u penny held close to the eye will,
shut out the glorious light of the sun,
so the habit of petty gossip, mean and
poor as it is, will quite obscure all the
light which intelligence, thought and
warm sympathy would shed upon hu-
manity. ---.---,--
Sec that your child never leaves any
task half done or slovenly finished; there.
fore give not too many tasks. Thorough
ness is the cornerstone of success. No
place in the world now for smatterers I;
but always honorable places for those
who can do any kind of honest work in
the best manner.
Brevity is justly demanded of all who
seek attention of the public in this nine
teenth century aud in this brief human
life. We need to set high value upon
directness and dispatch. Time flies.
The average man is very busy. The age
is of rapid movement; it is the era of
railroad, telegraph, telephone. There
fore, waste no words; what thou hast to
say, say quickly.
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You've tried DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription have
you and you're disappointed.
The results are not ansmeas:
ate.
And did you expect the dis.
ease of years to disappear in
g. aOeek z Put a mir ch4 time
IN every dose. You would
not call the milk poor because
the cream doesn't rise in an
hour? If there's no water in
it the cream is sure to rise.
If there's a possible cure, DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
is sure to effect it. if given a
fair trial.
You get your one dollar it
costs back again if it don't
benefit or cure you.
We wish we could give YOU
the makers confidence. They
show it by giving the money
back again, in all cases not
benefited, and it'd surprise you
to know how few dollars are
needed to keep up the refund.
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A SUGGESTION.

Windsor, Canada, has beautiful drinking
fountain, flowing for man and beast which
was erected by the w. c. r. U in the fiftieth
year OF Queen Victoria's reign. 1t was their
at the late National Convention that it would
make jubilee ip the United States IL every
local union should undertake to provide such
q comfort for Its own town.
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TEMPERANCE.
THE ISSUE.


paDs aU So55stitutional Amendment now
e%enos attention. Alcohol it sSvs
n,,.r nhar 200 potent for a beverage
DDuuted, it is whisky pin or r.
" brandy. Undii1ted. Il Is sne,,,n ser,
Iatal poisonl Is it less
Reouise = M Httso tssoiption, True, It may
yer, act 1t viii at last and fataiiv;;
sho,,S ,sys ys ts Gan on other, poisons; wbv
jTeI j2Telore the State Is quite a simnis ors
Us not as may be thoueht Of th;s one' ne a..
III Thcatng drink, whate'er it's name.
,rI Ie Ieai question is shall peopie ir;nI
Aa 1e oeadiy poison, alcoholf IL this
Assen,hia lime were put to vote in an
UNANIMOUSLY mol Such verdict wonld o0
wecide the fate Of alcoholic drinks
Dug oIconoi must be expelled from then,
H HHy law; Take that away, what would be left,
Naugnt but nauseous residum A'A''
NO one could drink
Why throw tempting glamour DER
Thh.oAicatng ThN drinks by giving them
phet complicates the difficulty of
Iiseaeemng those within the tolls of their
tnIatuating influences! IT'S this
ASSOCIATION of drink tempting names
r promotion difficult.
ReSuso ca.i tnings by their true names, aud thus
~ neduSe a complex question to one of
s sSamphcity. Let us tear Off the mask
frta Thae , Win Its pet. delusive colors, hides
u, Ills alcohol
Inns, IrInis, as a devil-fsh, has got it's grasp
Upon the man, the State. the nationi Tbi,
we seek to break by Constitutional
amendment Breaking that We free =.
Inepeople from these Turing, tempting forms
In which the smiling poison turks. We fieht
against a foe that every human law
AND every law divine, with emphasis
Proclaims to be such. Civil law declares
medicine asserts 1t. Science says,
And so say all these mighty witnesses,
That It's deadly foe to human life.
10 liberty and happiness Why not
Destroy such foe on such authority
Why not prohibit alcohol
-Dr.H.B. Parantin in Temperance Advocate,
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THE FARM AND GARDEN.
sCURyY LEGS.

scurvy legs (or scabby legS viii ap-
pear now more so than in the summer,
but it is easily cured and prevented.
Fowls with scabby legs are very insight
". and should be treated at once. Sim
ply apply melted lard on the legs once
]. week, for four or five weeks, and the
scab will disappear, it being the work OF
minute parasite, which is destroyed py
oil;of any kind.-Erm and Firespae.
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Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, wife of the
richest man in America, enjoys bciug
her own housekeepcr. She keeps set
of books accounting for all her house.
hold expenses.
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havstried everything else witn.
out success, and their experience is valu.
able, as they have SO much clothing Of
che sick who got here, and strangers.
when dying there, often leave quantities
OF clothing, etc. They had room full
of feathers, which were sent here for
pillow-making, and they were in despair.
as they could not exterminate the moths
until they were advised to try common
salt. They sprinkled itafound and in a
week or ten days theywere altogether
rid Of the moths. They aie never troubled
now. In heavy velvet c&pets, sweeping
them with salt cleans and keeps them
from moths, as particlesl of salt remain
IN s,t,,' the carpet and '0rn'r'N Nr'iasdszpAia
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MALARIA cured and eradicated from the
system by Browns Iron Bitters which en-
ton. Acts like charm on persons In general
Ill health, giving new energy and strength.
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IL anfscted with sore ewes use DR.. Thorn
sons Eye water Druggist sell at 25c Der bottle