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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
GRANTS SYMPATHY.
tribute of n Southern Woman to the
Generals Kindly Nature.

AfA"utc or n southern Woman to the
Generals Kindly Nature.
ihe sympathetic side of General
Sruhts nature, as every one knows.
was very strong. A few days after
sne surrender of Vicksburg a southern
lady hurried to his quarters to ask for
information about her husband. of
. whose safety she had heard conflict
ing reports. The general replied that
ne could not give her the information
she desired, but that he would send
Ian orderly at once to find out the facts
Tor her. When the man returned with
the news that her husband was safe
tle southern woman's eyes filled with
tears OF gratitude, while tears of SYM
pathy showed on the cheeks of Gener-
al Grant. On another occasion-it was
years after-at banquet in Vicksburg
given hlm when he was making q tour
Oh the southern states one was heard
expressing her gratitude to him for
past klndnesscs. AS he replied to her
TWO tears rolled slowly down hish
cheeks.
For little children and old people
General Grant showed special sympa-
thy. Many who were small foes i'm
those days remembered his way Of
drawing them to him and impressing
kiss on cheek or brow.
, One old lady who afflicted her
friends by her propensity for smok-
lnS was often the recipient Of a good
-Ggar from him. The gift was fully
appreciated, as the generals stock was
always Of the best. When he was i'll
In Washington she sent him some wild
mowers from the hills of vicksburg,"
Tor which letter of thanks was
promptly returned. Subsequently,
when she visited Washington, she was
Kindly received by the president, who.
to her delight, presented her with some
more of his good cigars.-Helen Gray
in Leslie's Weekly.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
IT'S A SLAYER.
Comes Quickly, But 1t
Comes To Stay. How
A Union Citizen
Got Rid OF 1t.

Comes early, stays late. No Stranger
can be more unwelcome. Makes life q
misery all day long. Keeps you awake
nights. Irritates you; spoils your tenn
per. Do you know this unwelcome
guest? Ever have it come and stay
with you? Know what it is2 Eczema.
II you ever had any itchiness of the
skin you know hard it is to shake 1t off.
You would like to know how to do it?
Let q Union man tell you. Read his
statement that follows:
j. B. Neal, mill operator of 15 Mill
Street, says. "I had very bad sore
on my left leg which bothered me for
the past ten or twelve years. consult
ed different physicians about It, and
they each gave me some salve for it,,
but It would not heal up. It itched ali
che time and was very annoying. and
scratched 1t antil 1t would bleed and
then jt would discharge yellowish
matter for days and weeks at a time
and bc very sore. learned of Doan's
Ointment, and procured box at the
Holmes Pharmacy, I found 1t to be a
most valuable salye. 1t has cured up
the sore entirely ahd only left the scar .
For sale by all dealers. Price 50c per
box. FostersHil Co.. Buffalo, N. Y,
sole agents for tho United States. Re-
member the name-D0AN'S--and take
90 other.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Age 9. ..nt,.cr Earth.

An emineat scientists estimate of
the age CT the world is mot so great
as 100000 years, possibly as little as
2O,OOO,OOO years, probably 30OO0,0O0
years" AS not even the greatest sci
entists have been able to find out with
in 100000 or 100000 years how
Dld Mother Barth is, it must be con-
fessed that she keeps the secret of her
age quite as we'll as do her charming
daughters. The scientists may at last
come to the conclusion that, like the
Others, she Is "only as old as she
looks" Baltimore Sun.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
ills Their Turn.


Sweet the season, kind the fate,
Prospects bright disclosing;
Gentlemen,must sit and wait:
Ladies' ares proposing. -
Hush, my palpitating heart;
Calm your restless measure;
When the ladies play tho part,
You may get a treasure.
Christmas comes but once q year,
Leap years even rarer;
In the time of bliss that's here
You may be q sharer.
What your faint heart couldn't do,
Not for love or money.
Some sweet girl may venture to
And may be your honey.
To the awkward and the shy
Who seemed doomed forever
To escape the marriage tie
1t is now or never,
And the man Of modest parts
Saint or woeful sinner
May get In the game OF hearts
And become a winner.
Leap year comes but once in four;
Would the time were shorter.
Were there OF them three years more
Who would cry for quarter?
Listen! Some one at the gate
Is the latch undoing:
Maybe Mabel. Jane or Kate.
Come to practice wcping.E
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Tools of the Ancicnts.

An investigator who lived during two
years in a tomb at Gizeh collected evil
dence to prove that the tools used in
working stone 4,Go0 years ago|had Jew
eled cutting edges like modern tools.
lie says that the builders of the pyra-
miGs used solid and tubular tools.
Straight and circular saws and many
other tools supposed to be modern. In
some specimens Of granite Il drill had
sunk onc-tcnth of an inch ut each rev.
oiution, indicating that the pressure
was at least two tons. Nothing ia
known OF the material of the tools. As
the diamond was scarce then, it is
probable that corundum was used.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Traeedy Ayerfed.

"Just in the nick of time our little
boy vas saved" writes Mrs. Watkins,
of Pleasant City, Ohio. "Pneumonia
had played sad havoc with him, and
terrible cough set in besides. Doctors
treated him, but he grew worse every
day. AT length we tried DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, and
our darling was saved. He's now
sound and we'll" Everybody ought to
know, its the only sure cure for Coughs
Colds and all Lung diseases. Guaran-
teed by f. c. Duke, Druggist. Price
SOC and $l.00. Trial bottles free.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Crops, Gixzards ana stomachs.

Insects are oddly constructed atoms
Of animated nature, as q rule, and 1t
depends altogether on the species as
to internal makeup. In bees the crop
Is called the honey bag" Insects with
mandibles usually have modified
form Of the "gizzard" so typical in the
common barnyard fowl. " some cases
this miniature "gizzard' is a perfect
wonder shop, its inner surface being
provided with pads covered with.
"horns" and "bristles" in great profu-
sion. The grasshopper's "gizzard" is
lined with innumerable rows Of teeth,
very minute, Of course, but well devel-
oped, true teeth, nevertheless. The
same may be said of crickets and other
insects Of that ilk.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
More Riofs.

Disturbances of strikers are not nearly
as grave as an individual disorder Of
the system. Oyerwork, loss of sleep,
nervous tension will be followed by
utter collapse, unnless reliable remedy
is Immediately employed. There's
nothing 80 efficient to cure disorders OF
the Liver or Kidneys as Electric Bit
ters. It's wonderful tonic, and effect
i've nervine and the greatest ali around
medicine for run down systems. 1t
dispels Nervousness, Rheumatism, and
Neuralgia and expels Malaria germs.
by F. Q, Duke. Druggist. q
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
And unearthly noises you hear

Are simply the advance echo Of q free
people electng their chief magis-
trate.
Isn't 1t great?
No; you are wrong;
1 wouldn't put ii quite that str lg.
1t isn't the ones who make the great
est'din
Who win.
At least, our laws
Do not recognize that as sufficient
cause
For seating a man,
But they always plan
To invest
In as much noise as the other fellow
so there will be no contest
On that score
Every four
Years we break out and the sound lars
Phe universe clear to Mars.
Were so highly civilized. That's why
We tear holes In the sky
And raise 444 kinds Of Cain.
So do not complain
Or flee In dismay
Because it is just our way.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
The Humorous sunbinns.

Next to the Americans" said MAJ
Nordau, IL think that the Suabians are
the most humorous people in the world.
n Suabian if he has nothing funny 10
say keeps silent. Stupidityis unknown
among this race.
Zone night in Suabia in, my early
youth 1 called on Suabian maiden.
She was very pretty. Perhaps stayed
longer than l should. Suddenly, at any
rate, the young girls mother called in
a loud voice from upstairs:
Gretchen! Gretchen!'
Yes, mother Gretchen answered.
"'Gretchen, It is very cold here. viii
you ask that young man to shut the
front door from the outside9"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Citation to Kindred and Creditors

State of South Carolina,
County Of Union.
BY Jason M. Greer, Esq, Probate JUDGE.
Whereas, Bessie higgins and w.
G. higgins have made suit to me to
grant them Letters of Administrator
on the Estate of and effects of ]. Meeks
higgins, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and ad.
monish all and singular the kindred ana
creditors of the said j. Meeks Rigoins
deceased, that they be and appear 6efors
me, In The Court of Probate, to be held
at Union G, H., South Carolina. on the
iZth Gay of March, next, after publica.
tion hereof. at IL O'Clock in the FORE.
noon, to show cause, IL any thew have
why the said Administration should NOT
be granted. NV
Given under my hand and seal tb,s
18th 15o day of February, Ammo Domini
JASON M. GREER,
published on the 26th day of Eeh
1904, in UNION TIMES. 9.G
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Shifting Eyes.

NO matter of what color, beware Of
the eyes that have no desire to look
you full in the face. There is some
thing wrong behind the shifting, un-
easy glance, and the owner of such op-
tics Will prove to be unworthy of trust
Read well the signs, for If actions
speak louder than words eyes speak
even louder than actions, and to be
forewarned is to be forearmed.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
An UnseInsh Husband

Conjurer (pointing to his cabineD-
Ladies and gentlemen, now call your
attention to thesgreat illusion of the
evening. will ask any lady in the au-
dience to step on the stage and enter
the cabinet. will then close the door
When 1 open 1t again, the lady will
have disappeared, leaving 10 trace.
Husband Ito his wife)-Matilda, my
love, do obllge the gentleman and walk
up.-London Telegraph
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
1T Saved His Les.

p. \. Danforth of LAGRANGE. Ga suf-
fered for six months with q frightful
running sore on his leg; but writes that
bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured il
IN five days. For Ulcers, Wounds,
Piles, it's the best salve in the world.
Only % cts. Sold by F. G. Duke, drug
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
T PARAGRAPHS
Some travellers are so blase that they
think the river Rhone a chestnut.

Some travellers are so blase that they
think the river Rhone a chestnut
1t is hard to pay three-year-oiti
Z piil-f you haven't the money.
Everything goes by contraries in Chi
na' particularly the women.
While we nre in the grip of the ice
king South America is in the grip of
the Ice man. Which would lose by q
trader
Especially. does the man who sells
goods on sthe installment plan love
lover.
Lives Of great men remind us that
they have their failings when written
by their private secreto ries.
1t depends on whether you are going
to bed or getting up If o'clock a. m. is
early or late.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Good s-.,;r~

Jack-Once more, Molly, will you
marry me? Village Belle For the thir.
tconth time this hour tell you l will
not. Jack Well, thirteen knots an
hour amt bad sai!in' for little craft
like you.-Lcnden Tlt-Bits.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
1T is COMING.

No, dear;
That noise you hear
When you place your ea.
To the ground
Is no mystery profound.
The sound
AS OF great guns and toy pistols, a
confusion OF tongues,
Deep notes from leather lungs.
All having the general effect Of a de-
bate
Between n great
Siren whistle and rolling mills
That fills
The affriShted air of the future. is
easy to explain
This is campaign
Year,
And the queer
And unearthly noises you hear
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Working Overtime.

Eight hour laws are ignored by those
tireless, little workers-Dr Kings New
Life Pills Millions are always at work
night and day I, curing Indigestion, Bill
business, Constipation, Sich Headache.
and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel
troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe sure.
Only 26c at F, @, Dukes drug store,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
He Knew Also.

This married life is the create
thing an eathw exclaimed the youth.
ful enthusiast.
See me In twenty years and let me
Know" rejoned the grabbed old bach
elor who thought that he understood
the world.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Had to Be,

"Ie is the son of poor but honest par
ents."
How do you know they were hon
estf'
"Well, as they were poor, they would
have been in Jail IL they were not hon
est"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Ready For 1t.

Professor Longhasr-It has been de4,4
onstrated beyond question that tlIis
continent Is sinking. Miss De Style
Oh. we'll, we've got yacht.-New York
Weekly
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
The opportune Time.
Vhene stock I'm xoip1 high
Their Bread Wa. Ruttered.

"All Of the great stars have been list
cd" complained the young astronomer,
"and there is nothing left for us to dis
cover but the, minor ones"
'It appears to me-" said the sympa-
thetic friend, ''that the ancient astron-
omers have taken the cream of the
milky way @
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
His Theory

III is better to rule by love than
'ear,' said the gentle philosopher.
Yes" answered Senator SORGHUM.
1t Is peoples love of money that has
made life easy for me. e."-WasbInrton
Star.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Comes Tco H;ph,

III Daddy IIonglegs i5 az wise
AS Daddy l.. appears,
He will not let them civilizc
His family for some years,
For he would always have the blues
And all the year be broke
If he attempted to buy shoes
And stockings for his folk.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
The Farm.

II he cannot own large one, let him
own what he can and gradually in
crease the size. Land ownership con-
duces to happiness, contentment and
restfulness. One Of the greatest him
drances to the prosperity OF the tenant
is that he is compelled to move fire.
quently and therefore cannot accumu.
late.--Maxwell's Talisman.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
Appearances Deceive.

Sometimes a rivers bed seems hard.
Yet on its way 1t sings,
For. though 1t may be formed of rock,
Yet 1t has lots of springs.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
ALWAYS Had 1t.

HAS your husband birtllmark or
anything Of that kind by which lie
may be identified?" asked the detec.
tive.
The deserted wife reflected a mo.
ment.
"Yes, Sir" she said. "He has sort
OF hangdog lool, on his face, and it
was born with him. Chicago
Tribune. t;
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04
ersing the Adare.

ersing the Adage.
T1 the bride in tears.
pies and things that are
soIf fierce, but George will not
eaf >" she sobbed miserably.
you must first make him love
you. The way to mans stomach is
through his heart" they said, for they
were worldly wise.-Puck.
Could the census taker properly be
called questionable character2
Old Father Time does not play any
favorites.
Bill is chap you always hate to have
against you.
Gould yellow dog speak, he would
probably complain that comparisons are
odious.
Either there is no appendicitis in
countries where they do not eat meat
or else the doctors are not on to their
job.
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the fishermen hand it out.
Since the laying OF the Pacific cable
the earth may be said to be wearing an
electric belt, and we will see whether it
Is cured Of earthquakes and such in
ternal disorders.
A congressman is apt to consider his
constituents as q necessary evil.
A political economist who uses words
Of less than six syliables receives no
consideration.
Were the weather not always on
hand as a topic Of conversation some
people might as well be deaf and
dumb.
takes the open winter as a personal
affront
Pride goes before a fall, but not to
soften the way.
No man who turns his cuffs is q gen.
tieman In the eyes of the laundry
man.
The opportune Time.
~ When stock 10 going high,
f''. Then buy;
Before It drops pellmell,
Then SELL
= = He who can know
- How It will go
Won't have TO grind his life away
AZ three per day.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04

Be wiser than other people IL you
can, bat do not tell them 500 Chester
field.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04

Could the census taker properly be
called a questionable character2
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04

Old Father Time does not play any
favorites.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-03-04

Bill is chap you always hate to have
against you.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-18
CONFUSED TERMS.

Many people get confused on the
nomenclature Of our summer storms,
The twister is usually called a cyclone
when it is really tornado, while the
storm where the wind is Of excessive
velocity blowing in one direction is
called a tornado, while it is a cyclone.
The tornado proper Is the storm demon
which drops down funnel shaped from
the clouds, usually moving from south
west to northeast, rotary in it's incon-
ceivable force and very limited in Its
area of destruction; the cyclone proper
is often a storm thousand miles in
diameter and, while rotary in its move
ment over this vast diameter fur
nishes wind velocity from given di-
rection Of from 70 to $50 miles an
hour. 1t is the cyclone which wrecks
the West India islands, which over
whelmed Galveston and which fire.
quently sweeps up the Atlantic coast
from the tropics. The press of the
country is to blame for this confusion
of terms. 1t almost invariably refers
to the twister as cyclone when it is
really tornado.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-18
CHAPTER vi.

A STRANGER WITHIN OUR GATES
When Lieut.. Benton rode away from
the Henry house that sunshiny evening
the long sh adows were slanting across
the levels, and the dazzling shield of
the day god was well down at the west.
Shadows, too, had fallen on the blithe
spirits that had been his in the earlier
hours. Surely he could not have been
mistaken about that face, thinned and
haggard as though from recent illness,
and 1vid with the consciousness of
imminent peril; and, if he had not
been mistaken, just as surely he had
been trtcked-tricked in all probability
by that defiant and yet most attractive
Virginia girl. Virginian he believed
her to be, partly because her accent
SO resembled that Of the very palpable
Virgtnian, the owner, and partly be-
cause that courteous and wefl-man-
nered native, in answer to somewha at
lmperious question, said 1.-THE young
lady, sub, Is daughter of old Doctor
Chiffon, of Charlottesville"
10 the very natural question that
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THE BoRER,s work.

If you have an apple tree In the or.
chard which is overloaded with small
sized fruit and with foliage Of an un-
healthy color dig around the base of
the trunk, and nine times out Of ten
you will find that the borers have
ruined the tree. If healthy looking
tree is snapped off close to the ground
during the wind Of q summer storm
you will also find that the borer has
been at work. It is very common to
lay the cause Of death of our apple
trees to sun scald, blight, extreme cold.
and cuss the climate when there il
nothing the matter save the miserable
borer. How to know he is there and
how to get rid of him, just get down
on all fours, put on your specs and
scrape little of the earth from the
base of the trunk of the tree. The dis
colored bark and the sawdust eject
ments will locate the beast; then out
with sharp knife and dig him out.
Better half girdle the tree than leave
him there. for he will kill the tree be-
fore his three year term Of existence
In it has ended.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-18
THE WAY OF THE woaLp.


1t works about like this most of the
t1me-when one man OF one line Of
business is very prosperous some 9TH
er man or line Of business is quite apt
to be catching it. When potatoes are
worth $1.50 per bushel it is a good
thing for the man who raises them,
but hard on the man who has to buy
them. When the salaried man can buy
a barrel Of good apples for $1.5O the
man with the orchard is lodging tho
sheriff. The rain which makes one
mans pasture green spoils his neigh
boris hay, and when the wheat men
are buying pianos and surveys and
starting national banks the day labor
er grunts at the price Of -four. A pc
Rod Of hard times makes work and
prosperity for lawyers. and set Of
aching molars paying job for the
dentist; the undertaken thrives during
epidemics and fatalities to human
life, while the sickness and supersti-
ton Of people make millionaires Of
the patent medicine men. The in
tensely cold winter builds up the for
tune of the coal man, and when people
are dying Of sunstroke the iceman is
enlarging his bank account, and so it
goes, the misfortunes and dire needs
of some insuring good times and pros
perity for others.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-18
Deafness Cannot be Cured.

by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumb-
ling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t is entirely closed, deafness is
the result, and unless the inflamma-
ton can be taken out and this tube
restored to it's normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-18
SYNDICATE FARn11aG.

The new way of farming, the sciena--
tific and intelligent working Of the soil
for the production of crops, is fast
opening up an entirely new field for
ambitious and enterprising young men
which for want Of better name may
be termed syndicate farming. This
work may be done in two ways-irst
by capitalists investing in tract OF
land and placing the management of 1t
In charge of competent educated ag-
ficulturist, he to conduct the farm op-
erations on the same general plan as
hre mines, factories and railways; the
other plan, and it has much to COM
mend it, is to bunch q number of
farms and their owners, the owners to
retain title to both land and it's prod
ucts, but to be operated by one compe-
tent man, he determining what crops
shall be grown and how they shall be
cared for. This sort Of cooperation
under intelligent and skilled direction
tnsures the best possible results in the
matter of producing the crops and also
secures special rates for all which
members of such syndicate may have
to buy, and this done without in any
manner destroying the individual own
ership Of land or its products Many a.
poorly paying farm might be made
profitable under this method. Young
men who fit themselves for this special
work of superintendent are likely to
be more and more in demand.