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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-25

A story is told of the late Baron
Hirsch that conveys valuable les
son. After writing a message an
nouncing the gift of a fortune to a
school the great millionaire went
over the telegram carefully a second
time, condensing it SO as to save a
franc.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-25

A report from the Office of the
registrar general of England con-
tains the intelligence that 225 wom-
en- reach the age of 100 years. while
only IS men out of 1000, 900 count
the milestone of century.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-25

The highest church spire in Eu.
rope is that Of st. Walburg, at Pres
ton, England. It is 303 feet.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-25

Englishmen drink five times as
much tea as coffee; Americans eight
times az much coffee as tea.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-25

There is about twice as much beef
as mutton consumed in Scotland and
england.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-25

"All the worlds a stage"
And everybody wants to be the
star." "
II don't. I'd be willing to be one
of the property men. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
How Mirrors Arc MoJa

:. The mirror making industry in the
United States employs moro than 9, 900.
persons, and the product is valued mt
about So, ,O00 900 year. The first ster
in the manufacture is the adjustment:
OF smooth stone table. Around this
table, which can be canted to one SID
by.means of Il screw set beneath it,
groove, in which mercury may Z "
from one corner into bowls. The Rble
is made perfectly level; then tiafoil is
carefully laid over it, covering = great
er space than tho skass to lesfcoated.
The metal is then poured apoh the foil
till it is nearly quarter. of an inch
deep, being prevented frGo1 flowing off
by strips of glass plac,E along three
sides OF the foil. Frorstlhe open side is
slid on the plate Of glD<ss, whose advanc-
ing edge is kept in B.e mercury, SO that
no air, floating CJs2de of the metal, or
other impurities can work in between
the glass and fne clean surface of the
mercury. Nbien its desired position has
heen reaGhefI, it is held until one edge Of
the mZrcury has run Off 1t is left for
seveNal hJurs, and then placed upon
frfflIne, the "back" by this time being
covered with the amalgam. which ad-
heres to 1t. After the amalgam becomes
hard the r,ate is ready for use.-Chica-
go Tribune.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
= Itiiization afPeat.

Peat'may be used for textile purposes
and alsofor paper making. The exhibits
at the Vienna exhibition last year
demonstrated this fact conclusively.
Peat straw may also be used for many
purposes, such as fertilizing, packing,
etc. When used for textile purposes, it
must 'be woven without the use of oils.
or water. Coats, hats, carpets. rugs,
ropes, mating and pillows are some Of
the ARTICLES which have been made and
which have been found useful. 1t is
also a valuable substitute for absorbent
cotton, possessing antiseptic qualities
as wella-Detroit News
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
Too Much OF a Jrr.

Atlittle group of professional men
were talking of dentists the other day
when the stout man of the party related
n humorous incident that occurred
some time ego 1t happened in Il den.
lists Office IN Kansas City.
a typical tow puncher came in and
wanted Il tooth treated Hc was a big
fellow with an Immense soft hat, and
WHEN hc deposited himself in the oper-
ating chair everything creaked.
Mind you don't hurt me" he said
in a merGcing tone. and then the den.
tist get to work
After boring into TIE tooth moment
be paused,
Vow" he said. don't stir If you
90, this tool may slip and your nerve
will get,a nasty jar, =
All went well for few moments and
the big fellow threw his head back.
There was yell. scramble. Il fall
. Ing Chair, and then II hrawny fist few
OFT. acd da2ed and bleeding dentist
picked himself from the floor on the
opr-yitc side CT the room.
'"Iou blamed IDIOT" he mumbled
with his hand on his jaw. Il told you
not 10 novel"
"Thot dca't make mite O. differ.
encel" roared tho cow punchor INC
man kin hurt me like thet an>live!"
And sei2ing his big hat. lie plunged
heavily down the stairs, aaathematiG
ing the whole dentist fraternity at cv-
cry step. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
a CONVERTIBLE PI.ow.


and shovels can be regulated. The pIow
handles are secured to the longer plow
beams, and when two shovels are used
are held in position by means of detach-
able braces.
The cleYis, as shown in Fig. 9, is
disk shaped and is provided with GEN.
trio and eccentric apertures to receive
the two bolts previously mentioned.
The eccentric apertures are three in
number, and by their means the draft
can be brought to any desired point.
AT its front end the clevis is provided
with an opening to receive a solid ring
which is designed to engage the whiffie-
tree hook and which enters the OPEN
ing by means Cf curved slot. The
front ends of the beams are recess
ed to receive the ring The ring is
adapted to be confined at the top, bot
tom or center Of the beam reccsses, de-
bending upon which eccentric perfora-
-tion in the clevis is used in conjunction
with the holt
The plow is simple and cheap in con-
struction. is capable of being easily
converted into single or double shovel
cultivator and Of being adjusted to vary
tho draft and bring the ring at the top,
bottom or center of the front ends of
the plow beam
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
Must Have pce, DI,,s.

Here is rather good story. which
has also the merit CT being true. A
large firm in Aberdeen recently engaged
as ofhce,boy raw country youth. 1t
was part of his duties to attend to the
telephone in his masters absence I
When first called upon to answer mo
bell. in reply to the usual query, MAre
you therer" he nodded assent. /Ago;n
the question came and still a'hsn and
each time the boy gave an lsnewer;no M .
nod. When the question Game far tbe
fourth time, however, tn, 5hoy, losing his
temper, roared through the telenhona
MAN. a ye blin'g. I've been. nodd;n
me held aff for t. las,S bauf ,oorrs-
London Mail
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
E1rcproOf Mortar.

Many mixtures have been tried by
builders and architects with view Of
producing mortars which will really
possess fire resisting properties. and
nothing satisfactory up to the present
has been d bcovered. but now some one
has discoyered that serpentine rock.
which Contains considerable amount
of asbestus. possesses very high fire re-.
sisting properties. This rock, when pow.
dered and mixed with good lime, ETC..
can be heated up to l,100 degrees f..
without experiencing any damage,
whatever. r.+Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
AntiIeprous A Plant

The Honolulu Gazette says "Uf.
Walter Maxwell has growing at the
planters experiment station in Makiki
20 stands of an antileprous plant sent
to him from the agricultural depart
ment at Washington. DIR. Maxwell
when in the department at Washington
was the man to whom there were al
ways referred for investigation plants
supposed to have medicinal properties.
The plants growing here were sent to
Washington from Venezuela. So soon
az they are advanced cuttings will be-
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
CONVERTIBLE PLoW.
ChanscabIc From single to n Dou-
bic IEirlcricnt.

DIG lElEtcfncnt.
A plow has been invented by Willard
G.. Cousins Of Ferrum. Va, which can
be readily converted into an ordinary
single shovel cultivator or donble shovel
plow and which can be easily adjusted
tosbring the draft at any desired point
Fig 1 shows the plow arranged as u
double shovel cultivator Fig. 9 illus
trates peculiar form of clevis en-
ployed. The plow, says The Scientific
American, is provided with two beams
detachably connected by means Of bolts.
OF these plow beams one is somewhat
longer than the other. So that one
shovel is located in advance Of the 9th
CT, thus forming double shovel plow.
When it is desired to arrange the parts
10 form a single shovel plow, it is nec-
essary merely to 6etach one plow beam.
The front ends of the beams are held
together by two bolts, one of which
passes centrally through the clevis plate
and the other eccentrically. AT their
rear ends the two beams are joined by
transverse screw rod, by means Of
which the distance between the beams
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23

Cardinal Flenry, when he was very
old and was still clinging to the pre-
miership in France, once dismissed an
importunate suitor by saying, "While
I live you shall have nothing" "My
lord, " was the answer, "I will wait"
His holiness the pope is as placidly
unaware of danger as ever was tho car
dinal. When South American bishcp
who was about to return to his diocese
expressed a fear that he would never
again see the holy father. Pope Leo an
swered him sweetly: "Why not? You
are still young and 1t Is to be hoped
that lyou will be able to return to us
once again.
This blind Ignoring of the bishops
meaning is beautiful from whichever
point Of view you look ait it. If the
pope simply did not think of himself,
the revelation Of human nature was ex {.
celient. If he was giving the effuslve
South American a lesson in manners,
then the example of Italian wit and
inesse was mastery. ---st. James Ga.
xette.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
pehorned so save Room.

Down here they saw the horns off the
wild or IeS@.s cattle before they shin
tnem east Ehe animals pack better,
take up less room in the cars, are not
SO likely to/in5ure one another and look
DelteF 10 the buyer. A Texas steer may
carry just as much beef and tallow as q
muiey Cow, but his long horns, make.
him ook leaner. Texas cattle have q
oaa reputation. too. and when their
horns are! sawed off they look asinno-
cent and harmless as barnyard heifer
lola (Kan. Letter Chjcago Record.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23
The Name Tomn,gpee.

Mr.. Charles Gibson Of Eufauia. /. t..
says that -Tombigbee river is often
written about and is in history, and not
one in thousand knows why it is called
Tombigbee. Years ago there was such
thing as white man coming among
TIE North American Indians. 1t w:s
the case with the naming of this river
There was a lone white man among the
Choctaw Indians He was friendly
white man, not boomer nor lard
grabher. nor was he hobo.
He was workingman and farmed q
little. built houses or huts for the ma
tives, and here comes in tho history Of
not only the naming of the river, but
when the North American Indians be-
gan to bury their dead this white man
could make ccffin and persuaded tie
wild men to bury their dead under the
sod. This good man lived on the banks
Of the river. Tho Choctaws did not
know his name. but called him the
coffin maker. which in Choctaw is
etombe igbee. From this the white man
has changed the above Choctaw words to
Tombigbee river. Minneapolis Trib-
une.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23

storms and bring in the tropic summer.
As when. in-the fifteenth, century. the
Greek scholars from C5nsfantinople.
brought the ciaseir nlanuscripts aud the
inasterpieeess of the great painters .and
sculptors and diffused the new laarpsi
ing over Italy, so Christ's enthusias.ns
for the soul as gonlethiDg divinely rich.
has always brought in the Renaissance.
OF the mind and the rejuyenation of the
heart -.
To-day scholars are asking sfresl, the
question. "How much more is man bet
ter than u sheep?' Replying, science
Institutes comparisons ard contrasts
We are told all the excellences Of the
lower animal creation are swept togeth-
or IN mans single person. But when
we have confessed that through ages
many und by processes, various'all ex-
cellences distributed among the ami.
mails arc united in mans hody, it re.
mains for us TO recognize that where
the animal life stops man's pegins
afresh and goes on to u Thousand new
and varied forms OF perfection. IL the
birds and beasts couGt instincts their
ehiefest treasures, man deems his in
stincts to be his least and lowest gifts
The distance between this little earth
and the most distant start not so great
as the distance between the highest
animal and the lowest man Whether
intelligence represents slow growth
or sudden grating, all must confess
that mind isat an infinite remove from
the brute. Animals are stationary.
Man journeys upward by leaps and
bounds. Two thousand years have
passed since Plato enumerated the in
stincts of the bee, Bat after all these
centuries. Longstroth says the honey
bee has added not single new idea to
its cell. In Seneca's S day man made a
pet and companion of the monkey
Despite all NJ
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23

self prxr---..~.-. I,ul Wnen the slules-
man or philanthropist has cared for
himself there still remains an overplus
cf intelligence with which he may go
ON 10 achieve liberty for some slave or
happiness and comfort for some region
devastated by disease or famine. The
best the bird can do is to leave few
meaningless tracks upon the slab of
stone, while man is to be tracked by
these words: Hamlet. Messiah, cathe-
dral and "Prncipia, the republic
of Plato, the laws Of Moses
But the least part of mans suprem-
acy is that love of beauty and truth
by which he builds temples, composes
symphonies, fashions laws, achieves
liberty. Conscience and faith, love and
self sacrifice make mp his crowning ex-
cellences. When man strikes, he CAN
feel remorse. But the lion q every deed
is finished up to date. When death
comes, nothing is overdue. But man is
responsible. Memory is continuous.
Conscience freshens old recollections as
a chemical bath brings out faded ink
As the years speed on for Eugene Aram,
his murderous deed assumes larger pro-
portions and takes on blacker hues
Conscience is Gods whisper in mans
soul. Across mans brow in letters of
living light is the divine handwriting
But when we have exhausted all lam
guage we still fall far short of portray
ing the vast chasm that separates man
from animals. 4
Now, the vastness OF nature. into
which man is ushered. the vast truths
opening out before his mind, the vast
ness of the career lying beyond the
grave, all unite in asking man to enter
the scene clothed with a certain vast
ness of nature. Only divine mind
will be equal TO the divine opportunity
Man is doomed unless he begins large.
What is behind a creature in the way
of original will determines what is be-
fore it in the way of destiny Large
ness must be in the seed before large
ness can be in the tree. No increment
of soil and sunshine can bring the tiny
mustard seed into the gianthood of the
redwood tree in California. The proverb
that no man becomes a poet after he is
30 years of age means that the great
ness of Tennyson or Browning is a
unique birth gift. Many scientists
few Newtons; many preachers Brooks
once in hundred years. Greatness is
an initial gift, and 80 is smallness.
Once a dog, always dog; once a
thistle, always u thistle; once born color
blind, always color blind.
Mans Sublime Destiny.
Culture can make bitter oranges
:. sweet, but culture cannot make thorn
bring forth figs nor teach an elephant
to write poems. Born upon the fiat,
things must remain upon the fat. Tho
only hope a creature has is in a largo
beginning. ia man is to achieve a
sublime destiny, be must begin with "a
| summit mind. The secret of mans vast
achievements lies in the fart that ho be.
gan little lower than God Starting
with that, every ideal and vision be.
comes golden possibility. The dignity
! and majesty Of life are the conscious
possession of an infinite capacity of
learning aud OF germs and potencies of
an infinite good. Nothing is impossible
for being whose genius is God breath
ed-whose spirit is filial. Il
' It 10 this being but Little lower than
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23

III |ILIHS Oub lueSe lGWS because
the mind of the discoyerer matches the
mind of the Creator. Nature not only
mirrors Gods face, but also portrays
divine linea1Ments in mans face
A mans divineness 'also appears in
the cross that is the focal point of hu-
man history, the spring of social pEog-
ress Calvary has been beautifully de-
fined as Gods eulogy on man, written
in letters of crimson, as the temporal
display of Gods eternal heartache. It
is mans infinite worth that explains
that wondrous being who lived and
loved and died rFon the faroG hills Of
Galilee. The regard and esteem Christ
gives man match mans worth. a
wheelwright is proud of the wagon he
makes, but he loves his child. Worlds
God makes--man God loves The prodi-
gal son has broken his fathers heart,
and we are the prodigal The grand old
king OF time goes up over Olivet
weeping, with his head covered, with
his feet bare. and that king is the
eternal God. All the wealth of meaning
Calvary holds we may not know.
Theories "judicial. theories "com-
mercial" theories that buy God from
wrath to mercy, theories that weigh
divine goodness over against human
badness all these are broken arcs that
cannot contain this wondrous circle.
And we utterly despair of ever finding
any theory TO express so large fact.
But we know that the mother bears the
child's sorrows and sickness and at last
his vices and sins. We know that the
patriot pouring his blood out on the
battlefield atones for the sins of his
fathers. We know. that the reformer
and philanthropfst who bear the bur
dens CT their suffering fellows arrest
the progress Of darkness. Weknow that
each new liberty is bought with some
ones martyrdom, and that each new
truth is flame that consumes its
prophet. All this there was, and more,
in that wondrous scene when Christ
threw wide his arms, to lift prodigal
man back to his fathers side. What
Christ was at a single place and time,
the great burden bearing God is
throughout all space and through the
eternal ages Calvary is indeed Gods
eulogy OF man, his earthly child.
[Copyright 1899. by Fleming H. ReVell Col
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23

~ :. +.
sculptors, hcw supreme inust have been
the genius of pbidiasi The magnificent
recklessness with which man destroys.
witnesses to his Consciousness of skill
to create afresh. History exhibits man
s;issiiftipg the Hammer upon the ancient
statues, turning the temples into ar.
senals and raging through galleries like
an insane and destroying angel. in all
iconociasm The sustaining thought is
that what man destroys man can cre-
ate. The very depths to which an
Alcibiades or Catilne falls is the wit
ness of tho height to which the man
first rose.
OF old, Kant, the philosopher, de-
ecribed the universe as an enormous
will, rushing into sight The scholar
saw Gods thoughts of power rushing
into stars and suns; his thoughts of
goodness rushing into harvests and
fruits; his Thoughts of beauty rushing
into faces and landscapes There is also
much IN man that suggests q similar
ganius for creation. If man body is
so weak that q clod can crush it, his
mind seems omnipotent. Before man
entered the earthly arena the world
was only a mighty engine of force that
went on grinding and clashing and de-
stroying. The Winds waxed mighty,
the hghtnings blazed everywhither
Gravity pulled down the shrub and
tree Heat and cold filled the earth
with energy, but all to no purpose
Then man came to match himself
against the wild winds and the ungov-
erned forces, even as the rider pursues
CD 10 srNt l,, Il
dues them to bit and bride and COM
pels them to lend their atreagth to his
reins and loins. Mans tbought, like
Gods, went forth as noiselessly as the
dew and subdued ali terrific forces that
-threatened to destroy him.
N"n's Thirst For ilnoyyIedgc.
rivers that separated men be.
highways that united. The trade
bore his burdens. The lightning
q along his phth took his mes.
The poisons that threatened him
balms and medicines for his
Having extracted the trnth from
met, as one squeezes the Juice
IN orange, in his thirst for new
ian went ranging through starry
He weighed their masses. an
their elements, foretold their
ents. Soon the astronomers turn
I milky way into q race track for
rental gymnastics. BY playing
=. :. force against another, man
rapidly approaching the time
will be the master of every
in land and sea and sky Now,
tier tc have small body with
igenough TO master the worlds
be n big stone planet and be
d by single mind. Because
IS genius was superior to the
flame by which he wrote, the
cher wasisuperior to the mil
candle flames that make a sun.
'slaws incarnate God s thoughts,
IN finds ont floSa l,u,, bo,,,,.o
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-06-23

The Despondent Amorist = It's no
good old man; she says that her de-
cision is irrovccable.
The Cheerful Cynic-Then cheer up,
my boy a woman who has the audana
ty to make such statement us that
can't possibly know her own mindl-
PUNCH
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-14
OVER THE COUNTY

Cabinets, 81 per doz. at Young's, If
There were several heavy frosts
last week.
Hog cholera is raging in the Santa
Fe neighborhood.
Whooping cough is prevalent in
the Groveland neighbo"n0Od.
The farmers have been working
busily during the past few days.
Our Grovelaud CORE spOndent says
there is some prospect yet for the
apple and plum crops.
None of the prisoners who escape d
from the county work gang" at
Culleoka have yet been caught
Eleven are at large.
Buy flower seeds at Alcorn's. If
The young men of the Timmons
neighborhoOd have organized a de-
batting society, which meets every
Thursday evening.
Mr.. G.. w. Oliver, who has been
attending the Medical University of
Nashville, is now with his home
folks at Groveland.
Miss Nora McHahon, of Spring
Hill, spent several days last week
with the Misses Welles on Dewy
Avenue.-Williamson County News.
j. r. Douglas, of Porter's, h as
given an option on his farm to the
Nashville Chemical Co. The land
has very rich deposit of phosphate
upon it..
Buy your drugs at Alcorn's. If
Miss Katharine Terrill, of Missis
sippi, who has been visiting Miss
Maggie Mai Terrell at Carter's
Creek, left this week for a visit to
Franklin.
Since the first of February, Mr.. r.
A. Furguers, of the Groveland
neighbOrhood, has shipped to Harris
d Cole Bros, 10000 feet of oak and
poplar logs.
Messrs. James Morrow and VIM.
McKissick, of the Maple Grove vi
cinity, have Optioned their lands to
the Nashville Chemical Company.
Rich deposits of phosphate rock
have been found on both tracks.
Whitney Fleming, the energetic
and industrious little son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Preston Fleming, of the Frier-
son neighborhood, needs only one
name to complete his club of ten
subscribers to the HERALD and get
a watch. Some one ought to volun-
teer to be the tenth man, and make
the little fellows heart glad.
Alcorn's Headache Tablets cure in
20 minutes. If