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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
An Enemy.
mia cinua hIS Gong

When the mosquito sings his song
And meanwhile makes sly attempt
To have you think he means no wrong
Oh, do not treat him with contempt!
No; humor not his slightest whim,
But make q grease spot out OF MIN.
For the mosquito, so they say,
Is nothing but a gay deceiver,
And he will come around some day
And load you down with yellow feVer;
So with this insect do not trife.
But meet him with your trusty rifle.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
Humor mo Philosophy
BABY'S SNAP.
By DUNCAN n. SMITH

What a snap the baby has,
IL It only knew!
Everybody waits on Ii
And says "Peekaboor
Grandma when she is around
Heeds it's lightest whim;
Papa Is an easy mark;
1t is boss Ger. him.
Has a carriage of it's own
When 1t needs tho air,
With q shade to keep It's eyes
From the MONDAY glare:
Older ones must go outside
When II wants to sleep;
Has about n dozen guards
When 1t learns to creep.
Grandpa wants to dandle 1t
Lightly on his knee
Or to carry 1t about
Where his friends can see:
Uncles bring 1t jumping jacks
Every time they come;
If It has an ache or pain
Every one is glum.
But another baby comes
When It's three or four;
Then it's nose Is out OF joint.
And its sway is DER,
But when it is small and cute
And can only coo
What n snap the baby has,
If It only knew!
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
A Creeping Death.

Blood poison c-eeps up towards the
heart, causing death. j. E. Stearns,
Belle Plain, Mimi, writes that afriend
drcadfully injured his hand, which
swelled up like blood poisoning. Buck.
healed the wound, and saved his life
Best in the world for burns and sores
25c at f. G. Dukes drug store.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
Work and Talk.

Generally speaking, it IS true of wo-
men as Of men that those who think
most say least. Woman's talkativeness
is the result Of her sedentary occupa-
ton. Tailors, shocmakers and weavers
all men who sit close at their work.
have, in common with women, not only
hypochondrlacal fancies, but also a
tendency to great talkativeness.-
Richter.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
Coffee In GuQtennI In,

The laborers in the coffee plantations
in Guatemala get only to 20 cents
(gold) a day. The capitalists get as
profit so to GO per cent of the market
value. During harvesting time the
coffee business gives employment to
more than one-half Of the population
A single coffee tree, under the mos,
favorable conditions, has been known
to yield twenty-five pounds Of beans.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
IllH1r@0 -. ~ J

az 10, nder.
perple O, 10, 1fonderful frozen
well at Yakdl, hoSHeria. AS long ago
as 1923 it was announced that the
ground was frozen to an abnormal
depth at the place referred to. In the
summer Of 1920 Russian merchant
set gang of men to the task of ascer-
tanning the depth Of the frozen stratum.
They gave up the job after digging
some thirty feet in solidly frozen
ground. The Russian Academy of Sci
ences took the matter in hand and be-
tween 1888 and 1914 dug to depth OF
$50 feet and then abandoned the shaft
because the earth was still frozen as
hard as a rock. Natural cold could new
er penetrate to such depth, and th'
phenomenon is still unexplained.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10

describiD} 's9P!' crII 9 with Death,
"as q resunnb uooV s3Odble and heart
disease, which had robbed me of sleep
and of all interest in life. L had tried
many different doctors and several
medicines, but got no benefit until be-
gan to use Electric Bitters. So wonder
full was their effect, that in three days |
felt like a new man, and today l am
cured of all my troubles" Guaranteed
at F. C. Dukes drug store; price 6Oc,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
When II Costs,

Advice you'll find In plenty;
You get II far and near.
It's cheap, unless you take II.
And then It may be dear.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
Would Forgive Anything.

"I think they must be engaged
"Has he told You anything"
"No. but lie smiled as though it We're
a good joke when she trumped his
ace"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

You can generally find wood In the
wood shed, but water is not kept In
the water shed.
1t Is hopeless to expect New YORK
ever to learn that the farmers have n
daily paper and Il telephone.
1t would be impossible to convince
the man who steals kiss that he has
committed anything less than grand
larceny.
We speak OF it as the good old sum
mer time when it isn't loafing around
at about 11S IN the shade.
Nothing is 50 good for swelled head
rs thorough application Of mother-in,
law.
Married people may believe in double
blessedness and yet not pray for twins
While we may Judge the future b.
the past few men are pessimistl
enough to do SO.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
siberian CO3yicts.

Some interesting phase; Of Siberian
life arc described in Samuel Turner's
book on that country. OF the cXiles he
writes: "Whcn told II Siberian friend
that l carried Il revolver as Il protcc-
ton against wolves ! was promptly III
formed that I had much more reason
to fear the human wolves l might ell
counter. and this, l found, was gen-
eral view of the case. About one-third
Of the criminal eXiles escape all con-
troll. Armed with stick, TO which Is
attached strong piece of cord OF cat
gut, they will approach the unwary
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10
Terrific Race With, Death.

Death dding party whing," writes
Ralph 5wn and returnCa~'In ;ti
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10

SISNeN, .
I. J. BETENBAUGH,
Supervisor Union County.
J. ). BETENBAUGH, Clerk.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10

- .r 7 80. .sS,,r;doj
dozen of more buggies. The bssNk1N g
party was all from Union and 'had I
drove up to Duck P29Rf5al, Pt29Rfe5al, Gfll.smps, La:
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-11-10

Il trle1 -
'tsz,1-I--HadFeln =, W.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16

fifty million figure; 1t has stacked up
gold in It's treasury, has created a
great merchant marine, has captured a
growing share OF European commerce,
has already outmarshaled commercial
America on the Pacific, has crowded
it's cities with roaring factories, and
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to it's aggressive fleets and regi-
ments. And il has accomplished all
this out Of the profit Of haryests
CLEANED from a farm area scarcely
large enough TO afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery In use
in the United States"
Could there be a more striking proof
Of the oft-quoted words Of David Starr
Jordan, that
stability Of national character goes
with firmness Of fOOt-hold on the
soil"
Comparison of Areas.
Now compare Japan and it's devel-
opment with the possibilities Of devel-
opment I'm the Middle West.
The area Of all the islands compris-
ing the Empire of Japan is 147 $50
square miles; of this only 1900
square miles Is available for agricult-
ure. for every available acre in that
country Is cultivated.
The total combined area of WiscOn-
sin, Illinois and Indiana Is 1860
square miles, and il is safe TO say that
considerably more than half Of this
area-probably more than two thirds
Is capable Of as close a cultivation
and Of sustaining as dense a popula-
ton per square mile as the cultivated
area Of Japan.
The water with which 10 irrigate II
now runs TO waste. The water which
Chicago turns into her drainage canal
instead Of producing agricultural
wealth by irrigating the lands of hi
nois, produces law suits with st. Louis
because II runs to waste past that
city 20 the Gulf of Mexico.
The time will come when irrigated
agriculture IN the Middle West will
absorb every drop Of water falling
within that territory.
And when the irrigation canals and
the irrigated farms of the Middle
West will dry up the Ohio and the
/ Mississippi rivers. Just as irrlga ton
/ In the West has dried up Tulare Lake
I'm California, and Is rapidly drying up
] the Great Salt Lake In Utah, the
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16

ton, to the disregard and neglect OF
the vastly more important problem OF
building men at home, and creating a
citizenship which will be an enduring
national foundation forever, and en-
larging our home markets, which will
be unaffected by any foreign compiled
tons or trade disturbances.
The attention of our people Of late
has been so much absorbed by the
problems Of our export trade, that we
overlook the fact that the United
States today manufactures annually a
product aggregating in total value the
combined manufactured product of
the three other greatest manufactur-
ing nations of the world. England,
France and Germany, and we con-
sumo ninety-two per cent Of our entire
annually manufactured products at
home.
Create Farm Homes.
And if every farm in the United
States were cut i'm two, and n new
home created on it so that the number
Of farm homes, and the capital ill.,
vested in, and labor devoted to agri-
culture throughout the entire United
states, were thus doubled, the result
would be an enlargement Of our pOpu-
lau0n, our home market for manu-
iactures, and our power as a nation,
almost beyond the power of the imag-
| nation TO picture TO the mind.
! Ii is TO the development Of its vast
agricultural resources and the creation
/ Of a closely settled population of far.
mers and gardeners, who will cult
vate the soil by the most intensive
methods, that the Middle West must
look if II is to achieve it's full destiny
IN wealth. power and population.
The resources Of the great territory
extending westward from the crest of
the Alleghauy Mountains 10 the one
hundredth mcridian-the edge Of the
= arid rogion-and from the sources of
the Mississippi River on the north Ia
its outlet to the Gulf on the south are
so largely agricultural that IL offers
the ideal section of the earth for the
development Of a nation along the
lines of japanese development. with
a preponderating rural population.
p There is no other section Of The
worlds surface where latent agricul
. tural resources OF such ineXhaustibl,
richness and extent lie practically un
, developed.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16

first-class fighting nation, it is not neg
lecting its fields Of rice, genge, mlllet
and muji, its groves of mulberry and
bamboo, it's priceless plots of tea and
mitsumata shrubs, and It's mulu-mil-
lion gardens of berries, vegetables,
fruits and flowers. The thousands OF
patriots that have marched TO the
front have not thinned the ranks OF
the mightier hosts filling the soil.
Thirty million farmers are gathering
ample harvests in the diminutye helds
Of Japan.
Husbandry Dignified.
"For twenty-five centuries the Sun
rise sovereigns have dignified nus
bandry as the most important and
most honorable industrial calling III
the empire. and now more than sixty
per cent Of the MikadOs subjects till
with Incompatible skill the limited
soil of his islands.
THE same diligent genius that ena-
blcs a landscape gardener in Japan 70
compass within a few square yards Of
land forest, bridge-spanned stream,
a waterfall and lake, chain OF ter
raced hills, gardens and chrysanthe-
mums, hyacinths, peOnies and pinks.
beetling crag crowned with dwarfed
=
park meandering paths. with here a
shrine and there a dainty summer
house. has made il possible for the far
mers Of the empire to build up on less
than nineteen thousand square miles
of arabic land the most remarkable
agricultural nation the world has
known. If all the tillable acres OF
Japan were merged into one field. q
man i'm an automobile, travelling at The
rate Of fifty miles an hour, could Skin
the entire perimeter Of arabic JauaI
I'm eleven hours. Upon this narrow
freehold Japan has reared a nation o
imperial power, which Is determine,
TO enjoy commercial prominence owe
all the world of wealth and opportu
nifty from Siberia to Siam and already
nv the force Of arms. is driving frOu
the shores OF Asia the greatest mon
archy of Europe.
Roots in the Soil.
The secret Of the success Of the Iii
tie Daybreak Kingdom has been
mystery 10 many students Of nations
Patriotism does not explain the riddl
of its strength, neither can commerce,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16
The OHTe In Amenicn.

The annual output Of olive oil IN
California Is about $50. 900 gallons: OF
pickles 10000 gallons. The imports
10 the country OF oil amount 20 about
l.@oO.OOo gallons per year and Of
pickles TO ZIG gallons The olive was
introduced into California 1875 years
ago. which IS n bad showing for use
OF native olive oil. especially when
II Is Acknowledged 20 De tho superior
OF all foreign oils.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16
Our Own Country.

When we compare Japan, with its
dense population. its wealth, It's rev
enucS. IT'S trade and commerce, Its
! national strength, with any section of
our own country equal 10 II iu area
and natural resources, We are HnaHed
at the great possibilities of future de
vclopment in our own country
The entire population of Japan Is
about forty-fyc million, OF which
thirty million is 4 farming population,
and this vast population of thirty mil
Ion farmers and their families is sus-
tanned on nineteen thousand square
miles Of irrigated laud. There is no
agriculture in Japan but irrigated
agriculture. They have learned that
water is the greatest fertilizer known
to nature, and save and utilize 10 with
the same care that they use every
other available process for the fcrtili-
cation Of their fields.
Nineteen thousand square miles Is
an area about one hundred and thirty |
five miles square, and in a square I'm |
corner OF the state Of Illinois. the com |
parative size OF which 10 the rest of |
the state is shown on the accompany |
ing map, Is sustained a nation which.
10 the amaZement Of all other peoples
pm the earth, has sprung 60 the front
Is one Of the great world powers.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16
Source Of Power.

And the Homo Aero farms or gar
dcus-thc rural homes of J1pln-are
the source ~ That national power.
Commenting on this. tho author OF
the article iu the August 1901 Book
lovers Magazine. quoted from above,
says I'm that article
Prom what it's advanced agricult-
urc has made It's pla ms 10 yield. Japan
has fed and clothed and educated It's
masses fast nearing the
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16

tion from Japan has not yet been
learned. aud when President RoOse-
Welt fails to see it.and demands only
more battlp ships aS the lesson of the
great sen fight which has just been
fought. ho unfortunately diverts the
minds Of the people Of this country
from facts of supreme ana overShad-
Ctyine Importance. when Should De
= burned into the public mind as by
stroke Of lightning from every victory
won by the japanese.
THAT lesson is the profoundly i'm
portaut fact that the japanese man,
The unit Of her national Strength Is
fine product of % mode Of life ana an
environment which combines the
plv>Ical strength which comes only |
from the rural life-from living next |
10 uature-with thc mental activity |
and koenness which come from con
slant contact with his fellowmen-the
community life.
A Nation Of Gardeners.
Tho TapaucSe are not nation of
farmers. as we understand the word.
They are n nation Of gardeners.
There is neither isolation nor conges- e,
hon I'm their life. They dwell, the
Cities. hut iu closely settled rural COM {
munitics The ranch and the tene- !
ment are alike foreign 10 the life of {
the japanese. 5
The Creatprinclple that muStcontrol
our own national development hence {
forth is that the land shall be subdi- a
yided into the smallest tracts from II
which one mans labor will sustain a a
family in comfort and that every 81
mild boy or girl, i'm the public schools T,
,hOuId ha So trained I'm those schools "
hat 10 viii know how 10 TIL such a
ract Of land for a livelihood n,
In other words. let rs reproduce in e,
his country the conditions 50 well W
escrihed i'm an article from the Book IA
,verS' Magazine for August. 1904. al
rom which we quote the following az
"WhIle Japan is cannonadingitsw way ri
, rank with Christian powers as a fl
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16

nor military equipment, nor manu-,
| featuring skill. Western nations VIII
| fail fully 10 grasp the secret of the
dynamic intensity OF Japan today, ana
will dangerously underestimate the
formidable possibilities of the Greater
.Japan-the Dai Nippon-of tomorrow.
until they begin 10 study seriously the
agricultural triumphs Of that empire.
For Japan. more scientifically than
any other nation. past or present, has
perfected the art Of sending the roots
Of its civilization onduriugiy into the
soil.
Progressive experts Of high author
ity throughout the OCcIdcnt now ad-
nit that i'm all the annals Of agri-
culture there is nothing that ever APP
oachcd the scientific skin of Sunrise
huSbandry. Patient diligence, with
Of the chemistry Of soil and !
the physiology of plants. have yielded |
'esults that have astoundcd the most |
advanced agriculturists in Western |
lations."
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The Safe Foundation.

The creation of the conditions above
described under which the people of a
nation are rooted To the soil IN homes
Of their own on the land, is not only
good craftsmanship and the highest
patriotism. but il is the only safe foun-
dation for an enduring national
structure.
To ignore and neglect this founda-
ton while we build battleshipS, equip
armies and annex islands and dig
ISthmian canals is rs fatal mistake
rs it would be 10 build twenty-story
in Chicago without any
but the mud Of Lake
We need not muster out our armies. |
nor dismautlc our batt!eshipS nor .
ovacuate the Philippines, nor stop
work on the ISthmian Canal. but the /
fact remains. as clear rs the sun from !
I'm uucloudcd sky at MONDAY. that the |
attention Of our people as a nation IS |
'jveted on our naval and military ar |
airs and sch mes of foreign eXploita-
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16

For i'm fact, they are undevcloped.
We have. rs yet hardly moro than
ticklcd the earth over this immense
area.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16

Guilty In the way OF Il Is a mere Gus
tom or habit, easily modified.
The terms OF school Of all city
schools should bc changed. Their,
| should Ice short winter term, dur
! ing which the time should be given {,
! instruction from the books and IN
! handicraft within doors.
Thcrc should be- summer term oi
| equal length during which the schools
would Ice transferred To the suburbs,
and work I'm summer school gardens.
The children should bc taken back
and forth To- these summer school gar
dcus at public expense, as they are
now taken TO and from the Consoli-
dated rural schools on the trolley
lines In some of the New England
states.
The vacation, which would not need
H. 80 long. should ba divided between a
spring vacation ana fall vacation.
Intervening between the winter city
crm and the country summer term OF
each school
Building a Strong Citizenship.
or course. many will hold up their
hands and say this is impossible.
England finds II impossible. as the
result OF her system 81 great landed
estates, Co provide her people with
homes ON the land. and In conse-
quencc her ruin as a nation IL only a
question OF a comparatively brief
time.
Japan. on the contrary. put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which 60 England. seems Impossible.
and behold the results in her strength
and power as nation. 4.
IL IL only question with M. as n
people, whether we VIII follow the
lead OF japan. and profit by her les
sons, or follow the lead OF England
aud share in her eventual ruin.
The influences which are DESTROYING
England are az work steadily and I'M
Sidiou~ly tn this nation. and though
IL viii take longer for thcm 90 woik
our ram, II Is sure 10 conc III we do
not hnd way 10 root the great
majority or our people 10 the land In
homes ot their own. as japan has
done. and as We can do, unless Nc
are as blind and as impotcnt I'M deaf.
ing with our national problems as
seems 20 De- the fate Of England.
IN the carrying ont IL this greaf
patriotic purpose 81 building a strong
by building rural homes
on The land, we are AZ the same |
TIME, d1lng that which viii create
ihe gcatest possible commercial |
prosperity. and develop 60 the high |
rst attainable point. not only the H.. !
sources OF the Middle West but OF
our entire country.
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Roots in the Soil.

NOVNH
The secret Of the success Of the lit
tie Daybreak Kingdom has been a
mystery 10 many students OF nations.
Patriotism does not explain the riddle
of its strength, neither can commerce,
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
CITY BUILDING SIGHT.
The Council Committee Decide
Upon a Site.

The committee appointed by
the council to investigate and re-
port back to the council an eligible
site for city buildings and fire hall
have agreed upon the property be
longing to Joseph Engles, on Jersey
street, two blocks from Burlington.
The property consists OF about 49,
600 square feet, or six SoxIoo foot
lots, is fenced has cistern, COM
Portable hve-room cottage, cellar,
wood house and chicken house. 1t
is conveniently located, but has a
a frontage on only one street,
Jersey. The price this property
is held at is 81 200, and is re-
garded as quite reasonable. Tbs
buildings are not suitable for per
manent quarters, but may be use +.
temporarily. The recommenda-
ton OF the committee meets with
general approval, so far as we can
learn. The report of the committee
will come before special meeting
of the council to be held soon.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17
A New Car.

The Portland Consolidated is
running one of their new ears on
the ST, Johns line, II is built on
most modern lines, equipped with
all the latest appliances for safety
and ease OF handling. II is con
vertable from a closed To an open
car. A beautiful painting adons
the front and rear windows, repre-
senting a railway track with Mt
Hood in the back ground. On the
ties OF the track is painted the
names OF all the suburban points
reached by the line. No, not all
either, the peninsula and st. Johns
are prominent by their absence.
This omission was noticed by many
of our citizens, and they wonder
il il is only an oversight or whether
the importance OF this district is so
insignificant as 10 make II I'M
worthy. We don't know 10 be
sure. The car is a handsome one,
anyway.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-02-17

Aslak Aslakson, merchant and
wife of Gambia, Mimi, Peter Han
son, a miller of Cottage Grove
Or, Ed. Johnson and daughter, of
LaCenter, Wash, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. =. J. Peterson this
week.
VIM. Stow and wife of Frank
fort, Michigan, are in the city. the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. X. G..
Couch. They have been stopping
i'll Redland, Cal, for few months.
but express themselves as liking
Oregon better than the country
south, and they will probably re.
main.
Messrs Walter Speed and G. A..
Flanders formerly of Wisconsin but
now residing at Sellwood was in the
city Saturday looking around. Mr..
Speed is an old newspaper man
having for several years been editor
and publiser of paper at Chiteck
Wisconsin.