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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30
A BLOW TO THE OLD MAN.
How Bank Cashier Won a Wife and Got
His Salary Raised.

You can never tell where you are
other evening half dozen gentlemen
sat smoking after Il dinner given by
ono of them ut his handsome residence
on Woodward avenue. relates the De-
troit Free Press.
No" said the host. in response 10
an inquiry. Il married her down east
long before thought of coming to De-
tr0it. Didn't l ever tell you about it:
At that time | was cashier in Il bank
with little hope of ever getting Il better
hold in the world than that of Il sal
aricd cmployc. The president. who
practically ran the entire institution,
never had much 10 say to his men, ex-
ccpt by way of reproval, and | had
special reason to think that he did not
look upon Inc with favor. This made
II the more surprising that he should
come to me with Il proposal to raise
my salary TO the extent of $500. pro-
vidod | would get married within the
next three months. lie preferred hav-
ing men about him that were settled
in life and felt the responsibility I'M
posed in caring for family. 1
studied for Il moment. had an inspira-
ton and before we We're through he
had bound the bank to make me the
raise. 10 keep me for five years. pro-
vidCd | did my work properly. and TO
raise my salary handsomely each
year.
1.-TWO weeks later asked for va
cation and told him | hoped to return
with Il wife. He was delighted and
granted my request. On the tenth day
| wired him that the deed WAS done
and that would be homc at once. lie
responded with congratulations and
an invitation to dine with his folks Oh
our arrival. We went. AS we en-
tered the old gentleman almost fell
in IL faint. 'Iou.-you--' he sianmcrcd,
are YOU married! YOU
"'YcS. papa began my wife, hut !
broke in with: Yes sir, were married.
You knew that we were In love: you
sent your daughter on Il long visit to
the south TO get her away from me.
and then tried to bribc me into getting
married during her absence. | check
mated you, that's all. and your Son-in-
law is your cashier for the next five
years lie simply threw up his hands.
and he was Il father to me rs long -
he lived. 1t did him Il whole lot OF
good TO beat him at his own game
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30
PLAYED WITH THE WRONG MAN.
Students Paid Well tor the Fun They Had
with an Elderly Passenger.

Half Il hundred students of the
medical department of the Northwest
crn University had Il jollitication the
other night. relates the Chicago Times
Herald. They took possession OF IN
Alley IL" train 1T Twenty second
street ana held high iinks all the way
into town. In their own words, they
played horse" with the other passcn-
gers, and they thought themselves
very smart. indeed.
But they We're not quite so smart rs
they thought. There was IN old man
aboard n nice old man. with Il white
muStachr and silk hat--who beat
them ut their own game. The stud
cntS are not saying much about the
affair this morning. The occurrence
happened in the smoking ear. AS the
passengers tried to get out of tho
car the students assisted. Pass him
along" WAS the cry. and the unfor-
! tunatc passenger was lifted bodily
over the heads of the students, tossed
In the air. and finally thrown out upon
the platform. The guards told the
unruly students to cease their rough
behavior or leave the train. but rhc
admonilionS fell on unfrutful ground.
The fun grew more and moro hilari-
Gus until Adams street was reached.
At this point the old man with the
white mnsiachc got up to leave. He
was in the extreme end of the car.
away from The door. Pass him
along" Shontcd the students. "IIrlp
the old gentleman out They helped
him out. They tossed him up to the
ceiling. they dropped him 10 the floor.
they wcdgcd him here and there. they
played horse with him. And after
they had tossed him out at last they
felt SO hilarious that they smashed
each others hats with their canes.
At o'clock u. III. Il young man who
/ said his name was T.. Drake Whit
! ford. student. came mcckly into the
Central Police Station and reported
that IN old man with n white mus
tnchc and Il silk hat had picked the
/ pockets OF four of the students OH the
I train. securing four beautiful gold
/ watches and Il pockctbook or two. cit
will be n great favor" he said. III
This little affair can be kept out of the
/ papers
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30
How japanese Woo.

: Il long way OIL, ana THIS
chA~',ning story of how couriShipS are
carried on among the elite of their so
cicty Genes to us from this far-away
land. In certain districts, in houses
wherein reside Il daughter OF mar
riagcablc age, an empty flower pot IS
cncirclcd by Il string and suspended
from Il window or the vcranda In
stead of Scrcnadcs by moonlight and
other delicate ways of making an i'm
prcsSoE. il is etiquette for the Japan
Csc lover to approach the dwelling of
his sweetheart bearing some choice
plant in his hand. which he rcverently
proceeds to plant i'm the empty vase.
This takes place when he is fully
aware that mother and daughter are
at home. This act of placing plant
in the flowCr-pot is equivalent to
formal proposal TO the lady of his
choice The lover, having settled the
plant to his mind. rctircS. and the
lady is free TO act as she plcaScS. If
he is the right nmsn. she takes every
care of his gift. waters it and tends it
carefully with her own hands, that all
may see that the donor is accepted as
a suitor. But If he is not the favoritc,
or IL the stern parents object. the poor
plant is torn from the vase and the
next morning lies limp and withcred
on the vcranda or in the path below
Detroit Free Press.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30

lily frlngcd with n few wisps of gray
hair beneath.
where is your brothcr:" l shouted.
Has he left you alone"
We'll, you shall hear she went on
I'm just going the same way myself
and it's no Use keeping secrets any
longer. He's dead
dead" exclaimed. Supposing
that her wits were wandering. for
had seen him nj his hovcl door not
less than Il fortnight before. When did
he die"
"'Fiftccn years ago
Now, Of course. | saw that she was
raving. Her hawklikc eyes. fixed on
my face in IL most forDdding lccr, as
once read my thoughts.
mo. l nint mad. It's the truth.
He died fifteen years ago and I buried
him myself under y0ndcr hcarthstonc.
Get them to dig it up, and you'll find
his bones.
"As she spoke, the hng clutchcd my
sleeve and half raised herself by Il su-
preme effort. She lccrcd into my face
with look that cannot forget.
Yes. yes she said. All true-all
true. l hid il, and no one knew. And
with Il hidcous chucklc. I've drord
his pension myself for fifteen years.
And were her brothers bones found
there: i asked the rector in the
course Of subsequent conversation
on the subject.
Yes. fIc had been buried scarcely
Il couple of feet below the surface.
And In IL hole i'm the chimney we found
the miScrS savings more than 500
pounds in gold and notes. 1t was
paid over 10 th" government. in re-
turn for the fifteen years pension out
OF which they had been cheated
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30
A CURIOUS COUPLE,

"You see that cottage over there:
said Mr.. Rathhorn. pointing to dis-
mantlcd hovcl in the corner OF the
field where had pitched my canvas
for | am an artist.
l nodded.
"a most remarkable history * AZ
tachcd TO it," he went on. Not lc-
gcnd but Il fact. or this | can assure
YOU. because myself had hand in
finding it out. 1t centres round Ger
tain couple who lived thcrc-lhc most
extraordinary old folks that | eve:
came across. should like you 10
have seen them. think yon would
have admitted them 20 hr the ugl.cSt
pair in England. rs they certainly
were the most close and unfricndly
During the sixteen years that they
lived in that cottage. they mover once
asked II ncighhnr inside"
"tmph. licrmils, indcc,l,' OBJ
served.
"AhSuiutc hcrmits. There was. how
ever. seine slight excuse for their cS
chewing all outside company. Each
suffered from II severe physical mfr.
V.
deaf: the man was dumb.
"Whcn they first came hcrc-righ
teen years ago now. | think-my unci"
who was then rector tried TO find ont
what he could about them. He only
learnt Il little and that little was moth
ing out of the way. Ii transpircd that
the man was an cX-Sail0r of the Royal
Navy. who had lost his speech after Il
severe attack of yellow fever IN the
West Iu,lics He was now entitled to
Il prnSiun. which he drew half yearly
and which my uncle only knew about
by the fact that the old fellow had
to come to him periodically to get his
papers signed. The woman was his
sister. so he gave the ncighbOrS to un-
dcrStand. and so also might have been
Inferred from II certain family likeness
which was noticeable between them.
She was Il most illfnvorcd hag: shriv-
cllcd. unkCmpt. and dirty beyond de
scrption. Although she must have
been nearer 20 than 60. her long. tou,
! Zlrd hair was still aS black aS coal.
! and hung in hilcouS untidincSS about
| her hawk like face. which, with It's
| dark eyes. and lis hooked probOSclS.
was most uncomm0nly forhidding.
| The poor people all pronounced her u
witch: and for that reason gave her Il
wide berth. Probably the woman en-
! couragrd the idea. For her great aim
! ana object. evidently, was to be left
| alone.
"Aiihou"h her brothCr's pension.
amounting 10 about two .ShillincS Il
day. was ample to keep two old folks
dcccntly, and even comfortably. in
| that cheapest of nciGhbOrhoOdS these
two always gave the impression Of
being half starved. and | do not be
| licvc that either of them purchased II
new article OF clothing all the time
| they lived in r.. From this people
i began To infer that they were miScrS.
| and. uS tim" wcnt on. many things
! happened to strengthen the Inference.
| All along they had discovered til"
greatest anxiety and apprehension
when any one had tried TO gain access
| to their howell. Indeed. my uncle has
i often told me that the expression rI
the old peoples faces when he called
| there. aud one or the other OF them
! had pccrcd around the chained door at
| him. was really quite comical in its
| suspicious trcDidatiOn: and the Older
they grew rIic pIOrc pronounced did
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30
TREASURE HALL AND POVERTY Inn.

Side by side they stand to-day.
Poverty Inn and Treasure Hall.
Where pilgrims sad and travellers gay
May eat their honey and drink their
gall;
Refuge Of righteousness. shelter of
sin.
Treasure Hall and Poverty Inn.
Side by side they will ever stand.
Poverty Inn and Treasure Hall:
Rickcty dwelling and palace grand
But which holds the most Of honey
or gall!
Which covers most Of virtue or sin.
Treasure Hall or Poverty Inn?
Life.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30
Shot an Albino Deer.

Among the deer brought 10 Bangor
was Il handsome albino. or white deer.
with n good set OF antlcrs. shot OH the
east branch of the Pcnobscot by Fred
IINbbard of East Berlin. Conn. The
deer will bc mounted whole by Ban
Gor taXidermist.-Main State Press.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30
From now until Xmas

Santa Claus from lc and from his
c will at
and sonnet other places.
l0 15c 2oc, oOc and vi
s. yourself
It's the wonder
daughter Sewing Ma
down rock bottom
you don't confec
kinds We just
get these items below worth
Sc pencil
harpener watch chain key chain pans
worth for 1Oc
box coffee mill gallon coffee pot hair brush shoe brush soldering set
OF tin
rate Rry auesin
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30

Because we arc rs strong rs Samp-
son. we are as Schlcy as fox. we are
Miles long. we possess Merritt. we are
IIobsons choice, what more Dewey
want?-Samplc Bag
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
ALGER AND THE WAR.

The president is perfectly satisfied
with Secretary Ayers management of
the war department during the war.
else General Alger would not now be
there. While this is so, General AL
gers conduct of his department is all
most certain to be somewhat of a cam
paign issue, while there is every indi-
cation that there will be congress
sional investigation of the conduct of
the war.
Already administration papers are
beginning their defense of AIger, and
trying to make it appear that the
Democrats alone are dissatisfied with
the way in which Alger managed his
department. Thus, the San Francisco
Chronicle charges that there is a con-
certed Democratic effort to win the
public eye from the success of the ad-
ministration in the Spanish war by
charging that Secretary Alger, through
culpable neglect of duty, was to blame
for such defects as appeared in the
commissary, hospital and transporta-
ton service of the army.
1t is not the purpose to discuss the
question of Ayers culpability in this
matter, but we do propose to show
that if there is any concerted effort
against Alger on the part of ANYBODY
it is quite as much among Republicans
as among Democrats, more, in fact. No
paper in all the country has more
roundly denounced the secretary of
war than the Philadelphia Ledger. a
Republican paper. Its attacks have
been persistent and merciless. For a
single article denouncing AIger in the
severest terms no paper in the coun-
try has equaled the New York Press, a
virulent Republican journal. A few
extracts from well known Republican
papers will suffice to disprove the
Chronicles assertions about a Demo-
cratic conspiracy. The PHILADELPHIA
Ledger says:
Secretary Cameron gave the country
less cause for popular criticism, and
President Lincoln less cause for his
removal from his Office than Secretary
Alger has given the country and Presi-
dent Mckinley. Yet it cannot be that
the latter has less patriotism, less re-
gard for public sentiment less coura se
TO enable him to do his duty, than the
former had President McKinley's war
administration is without a flaw save
that which his secretary of war has
placed upon it. In other directions Il
has excited general admiration and
commentator. Why, then, in respect
of the interests of the country, of the
welfare of our brave soldiers, of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
TALES OF THE DAY.
Senator Morgan,s speech.

President McKiniey's Hawaiian COM
mission is by this time in Honolulu. 1t
will be the first visit of Senator Cullom
and Representative Hit to the new Pa
cific possessions. but the islands will not
be new to Senator Morgan. says the
Washington correspondent of the New
DIRK Tribune. He visited them a year
ago. In the party were Representatives
Cannon of Illinois, and Berry of Ken
lucky. Neither had at that time de-
clared himself on the subject of annexa-
tiop. During the voyage it was arranged
to have a little speech-making. AS every
body in Washington knows. Senator Nor
gan Is past grand master in the art of
making little speeches." When he takes
the noor in the senate for a few remarks
his eioQuenee flows along for hours with
out ripple. Representatives Cannon and
Berry knew this tendency.
They We're afraid that the senator
would feel ii incumbent on him to make
converts of them before they landed So
they were wary. In their own little
speeches they told how they had hearL
the senator in Washington, and proved
ii by quoting from his addresses. Then
they declared their hope TO hear him
again when they returned. and made
known their satisfaction that the occa-
sion was one which called for using the
eyes instead of the ears The ruse was
successful. Senator Morgan gave a very
brief talk. 1T was our only chance"
said Mr.. Cannon later for we We're too
far out in the ocean to make the life
preserver3 any good if we had been
forced to jump overheard to escape Nor
gan'S speech.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
CRAWFISHING SAVAGELY.

When county officials do not consult
the boss they must expect the Trib-
une's wrath.
But spitework gets the best of our
neighbor now and then and causes
it to say a great many things for
which its -four friends" are surely
ashamed.
That attack on the county admins
tration the other morning is a case in
point. Without the least desire to
tell the truth, or any thing like the
truth, it gave full vent to it's malice
and a free rein to its imagination, and
printed the result.
1t said that, after the Democrats
carried Salt Lake county, mot one
Republican was given a place, and
the last one who had a place. even
down to janitor, was fired, that the
ancient mossybacks might be pro-
vided for
That was untrue and our neighbor
knew it. 1t has since confessed in a
snarling way, sneering at the political
convictions of some very estimable
ladies who were retained in the clerk
office, after having served there under
a Republican chief Probably the
Tribune wanted them turned out to
make room for some favorite of it's
own. That only can account for its
implied criticism of their retention.
1t told how Miss Sprague was kept
until her successor learned the bust
ness how she was forced to resign
eventually. by having her salary cut,
and it placed particular stress upon
this case.
The Herald gave the facts and the
lady herself will substantiate them.
But our contemporary ignores this
and, in a second screed, fails to men
ton the matter at all.
No one expected the Tribune to
make the amende honorable. 1t isn't
built that way. When caught in a
falsehood it simply changes the sub
ject In the frequency of these
changes it somewhat resembles a
dictionary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
THEY LONG FOR HOME.

A Lexington (Ky.) dispatch to a
Chicago paper says that the patriotic
spirit which caused the Kentucky vol
unteers three months ago to fight over
who should go to the war for their
country has fed, and now more than
half of them want to go home. Many
of them are from the mountain dis
tricts, some never having seen a
steam car until they We're mustered in
and marched to a depot. They We're
very anxious to fight, and feel a gen.
not to go to the front.
1t would have done such volunteers
a world OF good to have been taken
out of the country with soldiers from
all parts of it. 1t would have been to
them an education, and would have
broadened their minds as nothing else
could have done. Some parts of the
possible, and the people living in such
parts are more or less narrow and
bigoted in their ideas, are a century be-
hind the rest of the country in civili-
cation. For the educational advantages
and benefits that would have come to
them, it is somewhat matter of re-
greet that they did not see service in
foreign parts AS it is, the mastering
in of them has done them more good
than they now realize. When they get
back home they win realize that many
Of their ideas have been very mater
tally changed. In a measure they will
be as leaven in their communities They
have not lost their patriotism; they
merely long for an active life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
ONE COUNTRY.


This world of Gods as beautiful up here,
as where the sweet
And southern scented violets spread pun
pie q your feet,
The same blue sky is bending in light
above the Sod
The same sweet birds are sending song
messages TO God.
Joy reigns in Indiana-that joy which
makes us one
With the daisy as it feels the thrill of
dew-the flash of sun;
With the bird that makes earth Sweeter
for the music of its strain,
And every rose that's woven in light and
trimmed around with rain
JOY reigns in Indiana-that same sure joy
that thrills
The southward-howing rivers that lave
the Georgian hills:
One country in the iiSnt-the night, from
meadowy slopes TO sea,
Under one flag that Sariands Gods land
of liberty.
Thank God no lines divide us-thank God
that still today
The Blue is marching fameward with the
song-remembered Gray.
Thank God our common country needs
never any art
To make the patriot answer to the beat
OF her heart.
One, under God. forever, on furrowed
land and sea-
Never "a storm to darken the Stars of
Liberty
Thank God the breath of Freedom is
breathed from every clod-
One hope. one heart, one country, for
evermore thank Cod
Frank l.. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26

The Baltimore American is in its
126th year, but it is as young and lusty
and vigorous as any paper in the land.
On it's hundred and TWEEN Q sixth birth
day il issued a facsimile of it's first
number, which was dated Friday, Aug.
20, 1913. The announcement to the pub
lie begins: 1.-The great Difficulty and
experience OF Speedily obtaining a
proper Assortment of Printing Mater
ials. an inadequate Number of Sub
scribers to defray the Charge of print
ing a weekly Newspaper, added to
several unfortunate Events which have
happened to me. have been the Rea-
sons why the MARYLAND Journal and
Baltimore Advertiser, so long expected,
hath not before made its appearance.
Two of the most interesting features
of this very interesting facsimile are a
notice of a reward of e10 for the re-
turn OF IAN Irish servant man, named
Owen McCarty." and an advertisement
of George Washington about surveyed
lands 10000 acres) on the Ohio and
Great Kanhawa. Persons 'inclinable
to settle on these lands may be more
fully informed of the terms by applying
TO the subscriber, near Alexandria, or
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26

Chicago's new superintendent of
schools. DR.. E. B. Andrews of Brown
University fame. speaking of a city's
school system, says: IF 1 were to
make q plan for the government of a
city's public school system, it would
be q plan for extremely centralized
power 1 would have a head to that
system that could be hit and knocked
off whenever it failed to work right. 1
would hold somebody responsible for
the conduct of school affairs When
something got wrong with the machin-
cry. when dead timber needed to be
thrown out, 1 should expect this head
to attend to it. The people ought to
know where to hit whenever there is
1nismanag cement in municipal affairs.
school affairs. or matters of state. 1t
is now held theoretically and practic-
ally the world over that heads of sys-
tens should be given great power so
that they can be held strictly to ac-
count by the people they serve
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26

was part of a supposed. mob that yelled
at the proper time but did not appear on
the scene. Some of his more sophisticated
comrades conceived the idea of making
Graham up grotesquely, with Dig req
nose, a ridiculously lined face and the
parts of several different costumes. Thus
attired he was to be sent on the stage
curing one of the tragedians most i'm
pressive scenes. Fortunately for Forrest
and for Graham, too--that actor saw the
scarecrow before it was too late.
We'll. what on earth are you made up
for?'' he demanded.
Shouts outside" answered Graham in
all sincerity.
The old actor had the govt at the time
but. unaware of the deep-dyed plot
against him, laughed heartily.
We'll, my boy, so take it Off, he said.
But l say, you'll be comedian yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26

Chose who inveigh so Dersistently
against Secretary Alger appear to for
get or to ignore the fact that Mr. Nc
Kinley is the head of the administra-
ton and that the principle Of response
biiity they apply to the secretary is
equally applicable to the president, .
says the Omaha Bee. The Herald has
insisted right along that the president
is responsible for Secretary Alger and
that he should be held responsible for
the latter's shortcomings. The Repub-
lican administration. and it alone, is
responsible for the Republican secre-
tary of war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26

The assertion that Harrison was "as
much of a goldbug as Cleveland was"
according to the Tribune is ''inaccur-
ate as a matter of fact" This denial
from our contemporary was answered
with the record. Now the Tribune, as
if awakening from a trance, says:
when did the Tribune make that
denial? The Herald is evidently be-
coming daft"