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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-19

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nnd Violet stood together nnI
stars, and heard the waves
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The herald., 1896-09-01

tainly lamentable. and there can be no
possible sort of excuse for an attempt
to disturb public meeting. In the end,
however, certain portion of the audi
ence was stung almost beyond endur-
ance. The insolent and infamous SIM
lies of Judge Carpenter will not easily be
forgotten by Republicans who are true
to the doctrine of their party and to the
state platform. There never was a viler
nor more unwarranted sentence uttered
from a public platform than that from
the Southern Pacific company's hireling,
apostrophizing honest men of conscience
thus: Are you not ashamed to parade
the streets stealing the livery of heaven
to serve the devil? Go off. Say you are
Populists. Say you are Democrats
anything but that you are Republicans,
and that, like persons spoken of in Scrip
ture. you glory in your shame"
Judge Carpenter presumably. in his
own estimation, wears the livery of
heaven, a strange dress truly for the
political pariah that he Is.
The herald., 1896-09-01

spurred by the constant endeavor to
beat records and compete with time.
The prevailing desire of the young cy-
clist of the day is not so much to beat
his neighbor in ordinary contest, but to
brace himself to superhuman endeavor
to keep up with pace-making machine.
The young American cyclist believes
that, provided he can keep his eye on the
rear platform Of an express train. he
need not get left. Is this either laud-
able or healthy ambition? The highest
ideal of all sport is the pursuit of it for
it's own sake. Can this be said to sup
ply the motive that prompts our most
successful athletes and sportsmen to
effort?
Again. In the majority of our national
pastimes we delegate their actual pur-
suit to professionals and are content
with merely looking upon the exploits of
others.
On the one hand a careful analysis
of our national recreations will show
that the chief sports are represented by
men who pursue them as a means Of
livelihood or ambition for fame, while,
on the other will be disclosed the fact
that nine-tenths Of our national recrea-
tion is spent as spectators instead of
active participants
The more strenuous the energy that
man applies to his daily business the
greater the necessity is there for him to
take active athletic exercise. The ex-
press rate at which our business is con-
Quoted. the ever-pressing fear of losing
one minute in an hour that could be
turned to commercial advantage, has
laid the grievous complaint of indiges-
tion and its consequent ills upon tn.
health of the nation. The most success
full antidote for arrangement of the liver
is active exercise. but beyond an occa-
sional rush to catch a car, how many of
us systematically indulge in it? And
yet. strictly speaking, it is no indul-
gence; it is a positive necessity if we
would preserve our individual and ma
tional capacity for work. A machine
that is never oiled will soon cease to run
satisfactorily and ultimately reach rust
and ruin. A due amount Of leisure and
recreation is the oil of life, and to disre-
gard its necessity is the neglect of d
vital principle of economy.
Here in Southern California 1t is a
popular superstition that we take things
easily. The sunny south is conducive 70
languor and tempts the toiler to ease.
This is eminently true for those who
have reaped sufficient riches to indulge
in the delightful leisure that the eli
mate favors. but for those who are
showed along in the eternal stress Of
iife.s battle these delicious conditions
perhaps only make life harder, unless
some advantage is grasped from them.
IL we could only realize that to preserve
constant health such economy of force
is imperative, we should be less tempted
to every day put all our eggs of energy
In one basket and take no thought for
the market of the morrow,
The herald., 1896-09-01

1t thus appears that the farmer in
1866 got more than three times as mucn
in gold for his wheat as he is getting
now, and about twice as much for al
most everything else. But if he had a
mortgage on his farm it was reckonei
in currency. and one bushel of wheat
would clear off nearly S2.20 of it, in
stead of about 80 cents, as it will now.
A thousand bushels of wheat at that
time would pay off the whole of mort
gage for $1,000 and leave $l196 for eX-
penses. The same crop now would
allow the farmer $500 to apply to the
mortgage and nothing to live or run the
farm on. or $500 for expenses and nothing
for the mortgage, or $50 for interest and
$429 for the farm and family, leaving the
debt as large as ever
In 1866 man without money could
buy farm in the west on credit and
pay for 1t with the proceeds of one
crop. In 1896 the same man might re-
ceive the same farm, without incum-
brance, as gift, and be bankrupt in
a year. But Mr.. Cochran sees nothing
in the discomfort of the western farmer
except desire to cheat his laborers. -
New York Journal.
The herald., 1896-09-01
THE ECONOMY OF LIFE

Perhaps the most direct command
ment of the decalogue for personal ap
pication is, Thou shalt not kill" Ev-
cry day this law of God and life is ne
elected by the majority of American
citizens. We daily sacrifice ourselves
upon the altar of Mammon, though the
initial influence has been lost sight of in
the rapid rush of competition, which has
generated a national characteristic of
extraordinary energy that is the wonder
of the old world.
But the vital question, apart from
the effect upon the enjoyment of life,
arises: Does it pay? A boiler that is
run at perpetual overpressure is al
ways in danger of bursting, and the
same truth is daily demonstrated of the
human system. The nervous diseases
of the end of the nineteenth century
We're unknown to our forefathers; hy-
pochondriasis and neurosis were as
mysterious terms as X rays or woman's S
suffrage. The conditions that have
caused these deleterious symptoms are
obvious enough. We live at an incom-
parably more rapid pace than did OUT.
forty miles to four; electricity has made
the communication of people thousands
of miles apart almost as convenient AS
conversation. The habits of life have
been entirely changed, and while the
extraordinary conveniences of business
are properly appreciated, the more prey
nant question suggests itself: Is it an
economy of life. 1t is not merely on the
palpable results of overpressure that the
advocate of more recreation and less ex-
pense of nerve force bases his plea 1t is
easily demonstrated by incontrovertible
statistics that the young man who at
tempts to crowd twelve hours work into
eight, or applies himself to his business
during longer hours than nature has
equipped him for, will necessarily suffer
in the long run before the natural goal
is reached. The neglect of the proper
proportion of leisure and the restric
tions of the time or opportunities for
wholesome recreation, form one of the
gravest dangers to the health of the
nation, an atTiiction to the present gen.
GRAFTON, and menace to posterity.
Even in the national recreations we
are apt to be too intense and to be
The herald., 1896-09-01
CARLISLE IN HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY

Of PRECIOUS METALS
TOO LARGE and At WILL EvER BE SO
POPULA
of CONSPIRACY which
OF a
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
EandI
of METALLIC MONEY
of the world"
The herald., 1896-09-01

The California Sabbath Association
threatens most vigorous crusade
against all kinds of Sunday work This
seems to be different proposition from
that advocated by the Retail Clerks
Association of this city. The
latter contended. and, as it seemed
to US, rightly, that every
man is entitled to days rest
in seven, but it can only be attained by
the insistence of the individual. The die
tum is irrefutable that every individual
is entitled to spend Sunday or any other
day as he pleases, but the contention of
the clerks is that competition is so
keen that it is impossible to exercise
any personal discretion in their duties,
if they desire to live. The attempt to
interfere with the liberty of the indi-
vidual as to the manner he chooses to
spend his day of rest is altogether pre-
posterous and can only prove abortive.
The herald., 1896-09-01

The only kick coming from the visit
ing Republicans and the Oakland Alli-
ance is against their own party here.
They were chagrined at their picayune
reception and disgusted with the mis-
management of the event and the mis-
representations that had been made TO
them. The whole thing was most dis
fiasco; the two crack orators,
Whose prestige had attracted the crowd,
were not forthcoming; but the fact Of
their absence, although explanatory
Kilograms were lying on the clfairman's
table. was withheld from the audience
70 the last. The boisterous exuberance
~ . portion Of the audience was GER
The herald., 1896-09-01
TIE Irishman Too nuch for Him

In the rush and crush of business in the
general postoffice the other day an Irish
mans answer was heard that is worth
repeating. 1t was at the general delivery
window, and the Irishman was poor, and
a typical son of the sod. He had applied
for a letter.
The Irishman gave his name, but the
clerk. not catching it. asked:
How do you spell it?"
Spell II" answered the Irishman.
"Shure. If fone smart clerk loike yo,l
can't spell it. how dye think poor man
lOIke me can?'-Harper's Round Table
The herald., 1896-09-01
"On a Gold BASS "

The agricultural department has is
sued a circular that will help to eX-
plain why the farmers are not as happy
now as they used to be. 1t compares
the prices of leading farm products
year by year, from 1866 to 1895. The
prices are given in currency, but when
reduced to gold basis the results are
sufficiently striking. Inspect these fig
ureS for instance:
The herald., 1896-09-01

In reference to the reiterations of Mr..
Mckinley and Senator Sherman that in
dependent bimetallism would not only
be foolish but dishonorable in virtually
meaning reputation, the Philadelphia
American opportunely recalls the fact
that twice in very recent times the Re-
publicans of Ohio declared themselves
ready for independent bimetallism, if
the other kind were found impractical
BILE; and that Hon. John Sherman made
a speech in their convention, which was
understood to be an approval of that
declaration. Also that Hon William Nc
Kinley approved that declaration, If, in
deed, he did not draft it.
The herald., 1896-09-01

Sundays silver edition Of the San
Francisco Examiner was a magnificent
collation. of solid silver arguments, pro-
duced in attractive and comprehensive
form, and should prove a valuable ad-
dition to campaign literature.
The herald., 1896-09-01

The gay and gorgeous posters OF the
coming circus that are inflaming the
city's billboards present to the small
boy a novel revelation of paradise.
The herald., 1896-09-01
sympathy,

The Express dwells with hurt severity
upon the conduct of the multitudinous
free silver Republicans who manifested
their enthusiasm for Mr.. Bryan at the
pavilion last Saturday night. In ex-
tenuation, the Express should not for-
get that all good California Republicans
were shouting for free silver only sixty
days ago, and it seemed quite uncanny
for large contingent of them to sit in
the house of their quondam comrades
and listen to diatribes against the very
gospel they were taught by the self
same preachers. Be charitable.
The herald., 1896-09-01

double of it if silver and gold were inter-
changeable the world over at the rate
of Is to l. The present gold standard
benefits only the money lenders, alto
gether a numerically small and con-
stantly decreasing class. Silver and gold
together constitute the money favor
able to the interests of the masses in
every land.
The herald., 1896-09-01

It should be distinctly understood, as
intimated by The Herald yesterday "a
correction that has been inadvertently
-of course-overlooked by contempo-
rary, that the members of the Oakland
alliance paid the Southern Pacific Rail-
way company and the Pullman Palace
Car company IS a head for thousand
mile ride, which costs the ordinary pas
senger seven times that sum-
The herald., 1896-09-01

Mr.. McKinley's stock of patitudes
seems in danger of being supplanted
by urfounded assumptions. Take, for
instance, the following statement of his
at Canton, Ohio, on Friday last:
The United States has now a finan-
ciai policy which in the main 1t has
been pursuing since the beginning of the
government, and which it does not mean
to change until it can find a better one.
The United States had been a bime-
tallic nation until the demonetiEation of
silver in 1873. Since that date we have
slowly but surely embraced the single
standard. at which stake the Republi-
can party would have the nation stay
and burn. To call such statement an
assumption ou Mr.. McKinley's part is.
certainly putting it in the most polite
fashion possible.
The herald., 1896-09-01

General Weyler has delivered himself
Of another ultimatum and openly
avows his intention of using the most
drastic measures towards what remains
of the life and industry of Cuba. The
gallant patriots will struggle to the fin
ish, though still unaided and alone.
Weyler announces a bloodthirsty CAM
paign of positive extirpation. and all we
have to offer poor Cuba is our profound
sympathy!
The herald., 1896-09-01

It is suggested that the real interpre-
tation Of the initials G. o. P. now Is
Gold Oligarchic Party.
The herald., 1896-09-01

The city council yesterday did some
thing for which they deserve general
commentator, and it Is a pleasure to
give them their dues. The tax levy for
the fiscal year of '96-'97 was fixed at a
rate of $1.30 as against $1.45 for last
year, very appreciable reduction. The
finance committee have devoted palms.
taking study to the estimates and claim
that they have made provision for every
cent, both interest and sinking fund of
the bonded Indebtedness for the curren.
year as required by the charter. Such
action is in pleasing contrast with that
of some previous councils, who, to make
political capital by the cry of low rate
of taxation for campaign purposes, have
carried over considerable items of ex-
penditure. leaving them to be fathered
by their successors. A striking instance
of such shortsightedness was given by
the council of 1896, who left an indebt-
edness of $4,000 which had to be raised
by the present council. The present ap-
preparation seems liberal enough and
with economy the more urgent of the
needed improvements should be secured
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
Kentuckian Donates $500.

Lexington, Ky Dec. ia check
for 5000 was placed in Lexington
bank to-day subject to the call CT the
local committee of Cuban sympa-
thizers. to be used in behalf Of the
Cuban cause. The money is given
by Lexington man, with the un'
ders,an ding that his name be not
used. Col. Wilbur r Smith to day
received a letter from Mr.. Eoght, OF
Louisville, asking for conference
with him relative to the formation
of company here. lie says com
pauy of 200 men has been formed il
| Louisville Capt. LoDenire, OF th'
local company OF state guards, say
he ia in earnest about going to Cub'
with forty mes.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
Finds No Peace Even in Death.

Columbia, Mo. Dec. 1.-THE
possession of the body and money
of the man who fell from a Missouri
Kansas and Texas train near Wilton,
Mo, several days ago, is being
claimed by several diferen. persons.
Mrs. ". B. Norwood Of Leonard.
Texas, left to day with the body.
accompanied by her brother, S. A.
McLarry of Leonard. and II. Il.
Wheat, who aided in identifying the
body.
The woman was not given the
s2,974 found on the corpse Of the
man. The Leonard authorities tele-
graphei to the Columbia admins
traitor to hold the money Mrs,
Norwood says her husband left home
with $1,000 in cash to purchase a
farm in Missouri. Over $1,000 is
missing. ". II. Coe, treasurer OF
Grayson county, Texas, arrived here
yesterday, accompanied by Hackney
chief Of police of Denison, Texas
Coe says he was robbed of $4,000 o
Grayson county money and suspect
! ed the dead man After seeing th,
corpse he said il WAS not the man.
D.aiuls amounting to over $500
have been brought by some Wiltoi
people for caring for the man aftel
the accident. The case will go t.
the courts.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24

Berlin. Dec. 12-The North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Salier was
wrecked on the night of December
I, four miles north of Villigaracia,
Spain, and tRo and one half miles
from land. She had on board over
800 passengers, mostly steerage, and
a crew of sixty five men. All on
board were drowned.
OF the steerage passengers, there
were over 100 Russians, about 200
Spaniards, according to the esti-
mates, all On their way to the Argen-
tine republic looking for new homes
for themselves and families.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
United States Sentiment.

Topeka, Kan, Dec. 16.--A call
has been issued for a mass meeting
of Cuban sympathizers in this city
on Monday evening. Gov. elect
Leedy has consented to preside,
and addresses will be delivered
by Maj J. X. Hudson and Capt. J
G. Waters. The students OF the
Kansas Medical college, ten 10 NUN.
ber, have signed an agreement to GO
to Cuba as surgeons if desired, and
have forwarded the agreement te
the Cuban JuDta in New York, to
gsther with an offer of their serv
ices A notice was posted in th'
city today by R. ". Talbot, a Mex
icap. calling for 500 volunteers, th'
force to be at once rendered to Cuba
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
LYNCH LAW AVENGES MURDER,

Lincoln County, Oklahoma, the Scene of a
Horrible Crime. Merge said to be Guilty.
Guthrie, Ok, Dec. l7.-Travelers
along the public road foun! yester
day morning the dead bodies of
David Boyd and his 20-year old
daughter Minnie. Both bodies had
been horrible mu.ilated and the in.
dication were that they had been
hacked to pieces with al ak while
they slept.
The murder was committed in
Lincoln county in the midst Of a
large negro settlement and it is fear
ed race war will follow. Lincoln
is in the cotton belt and there has
been bad blood brewing between the
whites and blacks for some time.
News here is meager, but the latest
report is that an infuriated mob of
100 whites hal captured q negro
named Clemens, who is believed to
have murdered the couple, and pro
posed to lynch HIM Sheriff Painter
Of this county received q dispatch
last night at Il o'clock stating that
the mob had gone with the negro in
the direction of the woods and that
band Of negroes was organizing
for the purpose OF overtaking the
yigilants and fescuing the prisoner
The negroes declare that Clemens
was not guilty and that they do not
propose to see hun hanged.
Telephone messages from towns
near Perkins show that the whole
country is up in arms
Sheriff Painter took with him a
/ posse of twelve men, armed with
Winchesters, in wagon, a drove
rapidly in the direction of the crime
No news has been received her,
which would indicate the motive fol-
the crime. Boyd and his daughter
were in a prairie schooner and were
going in southernly direction
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
Federation Urges Recognition.

Cincinnati, o, Dec. 16 The
American Federation of Labor, at
it's session to day, adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Resolved, That the American
Federation of Labor, in national
convention assembled, hereby tender
its hearty sympathy to all men
struggling against oppression, and
especially to Cubans, who for years
have sacrificed aud suffered to Sc
cure the right of self government
Resolved, That the example Of
the people OF France, in giving rec
ognition and aid TO our fathers in
their struggle to secure independ-
ence Of the colonies. is worthy OF
emulation, and We hereby call upon
the president and congress- to recog-
nizo the belligerent rights of the
Cuban revolutionists."
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24

Mexico, Mo, Dec l6.-President
Yancey OF Hardin college won his
case against the National Life In.
surance association Of Hartford. He
brought the suit to cancel two life
insurance policies, for $4,000 and
$4,000 respectively, on his life. and
to recover the payments to the
amount of S74s 60, which he had
paid on the policies. DR.. Yancey
claimed that the policies were not
what he contracted for, and refused
to accept them. The court held that
the contract was not accepted, and
plaintiff had the right to reject the
policies, and Judgment was given for
the money paid On ,hen.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24

Seems as it all the things we like
disagree with US, and all the things
we don't like, agree with US. Dys-
pepsia lurks in most of the good
things We eat, and indigestion fol-
lows the qualification Of appetite. OF
course it isn't natures fault. Nature
does the best she can. and If a man
will only help her little bit IN the
right time, be may eat what he likes
and as much as he likes. Dr. Pierce s
Pleasant Pellets are for people who
are troubled with indigestion. Par
ticularly for those in whom it mani
tests itself in the form of constipa
ton. The pellets" are quick and
easy in their action. They are II
perfect harmony with nature. They
effect permanent cure. You neec
take them regularly only a little
| while After that, use them occa
| siopally when you need them-wher
YOU have eaten anything that dis
agrees with you. They may be taker
| lust as freely as you would tax
water or any other necessity OF life
Oace used they are always in favor
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
Young Crisp Elected to Congress.

Atlanta, GA, Dec. lG.-A special
election held to day in the third
congressional district, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death Of
Charles F. Crisp, resulted in the
election o. Charles Il. Crisp, eldest
son of the distinguished ex speaker.
Young Mr.. Crisp. in response TO e
telegram from the Atlanta Journal,
10 day wired that pap.,: Il arm IN
favor of the recognition Of the inde
pendepce Of Cuba by the United
| States
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
There is Nothing 30 Good.

There is nothing just as good as DIR.
Kings New Discovery TOR Consumption
Coughs and Colds. SO demand it and do
not permit the dealer 10 sell you some
substitute. He will rot claim there IS
ANYTHING better, bat in order TO make
more profit he will claim something else
20 be lust as good. You want DIR ksng
New Discovery because you know 1t TO
he safe and reliable and guaranteed %
do good or money refunded. FOR
coughs, colds, consumption and ali otsa-
er affections OF throat. chest and lungs,
there is nothing 80 good a. DE King.
Nesg I1iscoEe EerY. TRIAL bottles tree ~ u
T, Fuckers drugstore.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
Clinton. Missouri.

Mr.. A. L. Armstrong, and old drug
gist, and prominent citizen of this en-
terplising town, says: 81 sell some forty
different kinds of cough medicines bu
have never in my experience sold so much
of any one article as have of Ballard's
Horehound Syrup. All who use it say
it is the most perfect remedy fos cough,
cold, consumption. and all diseases OF
the throat and lungs, they have ever
tried" 1t is a specific for Group ane
wh,oping cough. 1t will relieve cough
in one minute. CohtalEs no opiates.
Sold by IL. l.. Tucker.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
Ballard's Snow Liniment.

Mrs. Hamilton, Cambridge. Ills, saws
had the rheumatism so bad could not
raise nv hand to my head. Ballard 5
Snow Liniment has entirely cured me.
| take pleasure in informing nv neigh.
bors and friends what It has done for me
Chas Handlsv, clerk for Lay s. Lyman,
Kew.nee, H., advises us Snow Liniule n:
cured him OF rheumatism. Why not try
it, 1t will surely do YOU good. Il cures
all Inflammation, wounds, sores, cuts
spJains. etc. Sold y + L Tucker.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-12-24
Washington Times" Sold.

Washington, D, c., Dec. lex
Congressman c. G. Conn of Indiana
has sold the Washington Morning
and Evening Times to Stilson
Hutchins of this city Mr. Hutchi ns
has placed John H. Oberly. formerly
commissioner OF Indian affairs, in
charge of the paper The Times was
established in 1854. as CO operative
enterprise, by printers. bu: early
passed into ,he hands of Mr. Conn,
who had retired from Congress.