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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-08
Death of nr. F. H. Counts.

Mr.. +. H. Counts, after long
and painful illness, died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Davis Gregory,
six miles south of this city, Wednes-
day morning at 7:1O o'clock. The
interment was made in the old
Presbyterian cemetery Wednesday
afternoon at $50 o'clock, Rev. L.
M. Rice officiating. Mr.. Counts is
survived by four brothers and one
sister, two daughters, Mrs. Davis
Gregory of this county and Mrs.
Fred Holland of Atlanta, Ca, and
four sons, William and Jeter, of
Atlanta, Ga, Charles and Ham
NETT OF this county.
Mr.. Counts came to Union about
the year 1865 having been promoted
from depot agent at Alston to treas
urer and auditor of the Spartanhurg
and Union railraad. He served for
a number of years in this capacity
and was afterwards given the posi-
ton of agent at this place which he
held for about twenty years and
was succeeded by Capt. w. D. Will
kins. He afterwards was employed
by the Union cotton mills as cotton
warehouse agent and bookkeeper.
He has been in very feeble health
for several years past and conse-
quently was compelled to retire
from all business and has since lived
with his daughter Mrs. Davis
Gregory.
Mr.. Counts was a most efficient
business man, one of the best rail
road agents that has ever served at
this place and his ability was fully
recognized as shown by the length
of time he was retained in the SER
vice. He had many warm friends,
although he was a man who gave
but little time to social pleasures.
He married Miss Hinnant Of Fair
field county short time before he
came to live here. She was most
estimahle and much beloved woman
and predeceased him quite num-
ber of years. The sympathy of the
community is with those children
and relatives who survive him.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-08
Miss Mary Mcbride writes us

that she Is a great-great-grand-
daughter of Col. John Thomas.
That her great-grand father, Capt.
Josiah Culbertson, married a daugh-
ter of Col. John Thomas. That
Capt. Josiah Culbertson was the
man who killed the notorious Tory
Sam Brown. A complete list and
history of the marriages of the de-
scendants of this noble old hero
would be highly interesting to the
rea,.ers of THE UNION TINES, and
we would like for some one to take
the trouble and time to write it.
That overcoat did cost s20l but
when the boys to whom the pur-
chaser was Dragging about what a
fine coat he hsH ;'y.s,ci the figures
$3.50 on the tag attached to the
coat, when the owner was not look
ing, and ven his attention was
"alled to the mark, he had the dry
grins and said, well, now, since
have examined the coat, anybody
can see it is a cheap coat. I will
send it back" How often this
happens, that the price of an article
fixes the value with those who are
no Judge Of goods. Like the Dutch
man who had offered q hat to a
man for $500, and the man said,
II want q fine hat" alright,
said the Dutchman, and pretended
70 make a change of hats, but
brought the same hat and sold it
for SO.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-08

BY agreement between counsel
in the dispensary cases now before
the supreme court from Greenville,
Spartanhurg, Newberry, Oconee
and Pickens county, all were post
poned until January 8, 1906, at
which time argument will be made
before the supreme court upon the
constitutionality OF the Brico law.
The State will he represented by
the Attorney General In addition
to the attorneys already employed
by the prohibitionists.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-08

Government ginners report due at
p. IN. tomorrow National gimme g
estimate crop at 8,435 900. Prices cs-
innate 1855. 900.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
The Lower Animals.

Animals have keen perceptions
Aeeher in many respects than our own
but they form no conceptions. have
no powers of comparing one thing with
another. They live entirely in and
through their senses. To all that inner
world of reflection, Imagination, COM
parlson, reason, they are strangers.
Ihey never return upon themselves in
thought. They have sense memory.
sense intelligence. and they profit in
many ways by experience, but they
have not soul memory or rational intel
ligence. All the fundamental emotions
and appetites men and the lower ami
mails share in common, such as fear,
anger. love, hunger, jealousy, cunning
pride, curiosity, play, but the world Of
thought and thought experience and
the emotions that go with it belong to
man alone 1t is as if the psychic world
were divided into two planes, one
above the other, the plane of sense and
the plane of spirit. In the plane of
sense live the lower animals, only now
and then just breaking for moment
into the higher plane. In the world of
sense man is immersed also This is
his start and foundation, but he rises
into the plane of spirit, and here lives
his proper life. He is emancipated
from sense in a way that beasts are
not
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
blessings of an Alphabet.

"Few people realize" said college
professor, that the twenty-six symbols
that we call the alphabet represent sin
ely or in combination all the sounds of
all the languages upon earth. BY form
ing letters into words we are able to
embOdy thought. to render it visible,
audible, perpetual and ubiquitous. En-
balmed in writing, the intellect may
thus enjoy a species of Immortality
upon earth, and every man may paint
an imperiShable portrait of his own
mind UNNECESSARILY more instructive
and interesting to posterity than those
fieeting likeneSses of face and form in
trusted to canvas or even to bronze ana
marble. What myriads have passed
away, leaving not wreck behind them,
while the mental features of some con-
temporary writer survive in all the
freshness and integrity with which
they were first traced! Literary paint
ing is the greatest of all delineation!
For it we may thank the alphabet and
the Phoenicians for the alphabet.
1T was Gibbon, l think, who said
that Phoenicia and Palestine would
ever live in the memory of mankind
since America as well as all Europe
had received an alphabet from one and
a religion from the other"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10

San Francisco is only an hours
Journey from Baltimore, comparative
ly speaking" said resident of the
City of the Golden Gate. "In the old
days 1t took month to cross the
plains, and you risked your life to
round Cape Horn. Now you board
comfortable Pullman in Baltimore St
o'clock in the afternoon and take din
ner at in Frisco-almost. And since
the days of rapid railroad transit have
begun the Pacific coast has not been
so far out of the world as one might
imagine who had not taken the trip
Why, l remember when people read
with awe of thrilling journeys all the
way from the eastern coast towns to
Pittsburg and when a man would
shudder his teeth loose with just think.
Ing of the terrible trip to Chicago,
while to mention Salt Lake City or
Denver would bring up hldeous visions
of starless nights on arid deserts and
wholesale massacres by red demons.
And, speaking of red demons, l think
the cigar store Indian has done much
to overcome eastern fear of the noble
red man, standing in inn0cent bravery
all day long, with wooden Ratchet in
one hand and bunch of cigars III the
other.
But what was l talking about? Oh,
yes-Frisco bong so close to Balti-
more. Come out some Sunday and
take dinner with mew - Baltimore
News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
81. Petersburs Rakers.

In st Petersburg nearly everybody
lives in fiat, and in the Easements Of
these fiat buildings are shops If You
live at the top of fiat building you
go down an endless stone staircase
elevators are as yet almost unknown
out of the double doors into the street,
and at your feet in the basement be-
hold shop. Say you enter it, in nine
cases out of ten you will find yourself
In provision shop, probably bakers
"a German bakers. But, although
there are many German bakers shops,
there are also dozens of itinerant Rus
sian bread sellers, who carry about OH
their heads in baskets and trays their
wares-large fiat cakes, the size of
pudding plate that often form days
sustenance for the moujik, costing 10
kopecks about 6 cents and requiring
ten sets of teeth TO get through them.
These men do a brisk trade. Before
the peasant makes his dinner off the
frozen cake you may see him slowing
1t away in the breast of his HAITIAN,
where it undergoes the process of a
gentle thaw.
Time to Increase Farm FIOcISs.
More than a year ago we suggested
that those who wanted feeding lambs
would not be able to get them from
the range much longer at reasonable
prices, says the National Stockman 1t
was evident that the farming country
had become too dependent on the range
for feeding stock, and it is clearer than
ever now. Last week choice feeding
lambs averaging sixty to seventy
pounds sold at $5.75 to $500 in Chica-
go, dangerously high price at present
cost Of feed. The farmer can afford to
raise lambs for less than that and sell
them to the feeder if he has not grain
to fatten them. Indications are that
farmers are preparing to do so. Many
breeding ewes have been sent to the
farms from the ranges during the past
six months, and every breeder who has
advertised rams has found buyers for
them. 1t is high time to increase farm
Cocks when range lambs sell above 50
per hundredweight to feeders.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
Japanese Flower Arrangement.


The general ideas of Japanese floral
arrangements may be summarized in
this way:
Each setting of flowers must repre-
sent earth, air and water, or heaven
earth and man. In placing blossoms in
a vase the vase and water are earth,
the short stemmed flowers man and the
tall ones heaven. The ramifications of
this principle-the delicate, subtle mean
ings and properties-are infinite.
There are flowers which represent
months and flowers which represent
days, and as every Japanese house con-
tains flowers they form a calendar for
the initiated.
Every family of standing has arts
tically correct vases, vase holders and
flowers, and the manner of entertaining
an honored visitor is to ask him to ar
range some flowers. The guest is gov
erned by rigid laws.
He must not make too elaborate an
arrangement, for that takes overmuch
time. He always offers to destroy what
he has done to prove he considers it
valueless. Only when he is urged by
his host does he leave it. These are eX-
amples of the long list of restrictions.
The japanese knows them as he knows
his language and his literattre.-Har-
pers Bazaar
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10

In years gone by Ireland had sa-
cred oak dedicated to st. Columbian,
one Of the peculiarities Of the tree be-
ing that whoever carried a small bit
of the wood or bark in his mouth would
never meet with violent death, it be-
ing especially efficacious in saving
Christian martyrs from the block. 1t
WAS known throughout the British
isles as the holy oak of Kenmare.
After the lapse of many centuries this
Sacred oak was uprooted by storm,
hfter which it was said to be guarded
by angels to keep heretics from gather
Ing the wood for fuel. At last a wick
fd tanner "barked" one Of it's largest
limbs and tanned some leather. which
be made into shoes for himself. imagin-
ing that such relics would bring him
wealth and power. He wore them but
pnce however. but that one time was
Enough to make him an incurable leper.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10

Michael Davitt in his Fall Of Feu-
dalism In Ireland" gives the following
as a sample of the letters that used to
reach the Land league offices in the
good old days: "Ballinrobe, Mayo, Jan.
s. 1881. To the Honorable Land Lague
-Gintlemin, in a moment of wakeness
7 pade me rint. did not no Their was
q law aginst it or wud not do it. the
people pass by me dure as If the small
pox was in the hous, heer We do be
givin pardons to min that do rong,
and If We will sind me pardon to put
in the windy for every one to rede it
will never komit the crime again. Mis-
Their Scrab Naly will give me Karac
thur If ye write to him at Bal"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
ODenfng Oysters.

"Talk about opening oysters" said
the old pilot as lie pushed back heap
of shells and asked the waiter for his
check, Il never did see anybody to
beat Benny Hawser. Benny could
open oysters like magic. Never used
q knife. neither. Said il was cruel"
"How did he manage it?' asked the
guilcless young man from uptown.
Snuff, my boy" replied the old pilot
soemnly. Bought real Scotch snuff,
the strongest in the market. When he
held a little of it in front of the oysters
they sneeZed the top shell Off"
"Pooh!' said the young man.
Benny was all right in his way" OBJ
served the cashier but he wasn't a
circumstance to a Teller on a freight
sloop that used to run between Fulton
slip and Bridgeport Why, when that
feller'd come in here he'd take a dozen
oysters and spread 'em in a row on that
very table you're sittin' at. Then he'd
begin to spin sea yarn. l never
heerd another man like him. Them
oysters jes' opened their mouths in
establishment at his whoppers. Then
he'd take 'em by surprise, whip 'em
out of their shells, sprinkle 'em with
pepper an vinegar an swaller EN-
New York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10

The reading room of the British mu-
'eum is crowned by a spacious dome.
Which is about thirty feet wider than
Ehat of ST. Paul's cathedral 1t is 40
feet in diameter and. with it's 10000
|uperficial feet of glass, springs more
pan 100 feet in height. Neither st. Pc
hrs at Rome nor Santa Maria at Flor
(nce is match to it. 1t is larger by
Eorty-five feet than the dome of the
fapitol at Washington, by thirty-five
FEET than that of Darmstadt cathedral,
~ thirty-three feet than that of st.
sophia, Constantinople, and spreads
iXteen further than the concave roof
n the tomb of Mohanmed Adj Shah
It Bijapur.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
Shreyyd DRUGGISTS,

"The cocaine fiend is more of Il uui,
sance than the man who wants to be
Strengthened up after a jag" said a
druggist. "A coke tiend' would barter
his shoes and his shirt for bit of the
memory killer, and he works all sorts
of schemes to get the stuff
Not long ago chap entered the
store while l was busy" said my
friend the druggist, land asked me for
a bunch of prescription blanks for DR..
Blank, whose office is only a square
away. 1t was moment of preoccupa
ton on my part and | handed out Il
pad of blanks. In couple of days
the same chap returned with pre-
scription for cocaine, signed by the
same physician. He didn't get it.
happened to know the signature Of the
physician, and it was not done well on
this particular prescription.
More than a prescription is neces-
sary to fool a druggist. 1t looks easy
to copy a form from one piece of paper
to another, but not one person in ten
who does not know the medicine can
do it successfully. We can spot a
forger more easily than bank cashier.
There's always something missing
when an amateur writes prescril
ton. "-Pittsburg Gazette.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
10 INCHES
PROTECTION FOR WATER PIPES.

and fasten at top and bottom with
small short stove bolts, with the screw
heads on the outside. Then put the
boards on as shown in the diagram.
Be sure always to break the Joints.
Do not wrap the pipes with anything.
Leave them bare. Paper and aSbestus
get wet in summer and freeze in VIM
ter. Do not try to keep the water from
freezing in the pipes by letting water
run through them. 1t will not work
under most conditions. Unless the wa
ter is very warm in the tank it will
form ice and freeze quicker running
than if not running. If you have
windmill to supply the water by let
ting the water run and also the mill
you will be all right, but any other
kind of a supply will not be satisfac-
tory. | use gasoline engine and
pump every night just before going to
bed for few minutes and have no
trouble during the most severe winters.
The other tank is supplied by ram,
and the water is so cold coming from
the ram that it will often freeze while
the ram is working.
With this style of protection you
have an advantage over any other
method, as by setting a lamp under the
box you can thaw the worst kind of
freeze in a very short time The
heat gets direct at the pipe and very
quickly lets the ice loose. and there is
no possible danger from fire, because
the iron pipes are protection. Before
putting up the pipes it is best to paint
them with white lead and oil, which
will keep them from rusting for many
years.
A lamp set in this box on the severest
night in the coolest climates will abso-
lutely prevent freezing. The chimney
of the lamp should be made of tin and
should be from eight to ten inches
long and fit tightly through hole in
piece of tin under the box. Brush the
wick every day and put in new wick
every month. A lamp with one-half
inch wick is large enough. You will
only need the lamp during extremely
cold nights.
In the diagram A is the water pipe,
and W are wires to hold the pipe in
the center. The circle is galvanized
iron pipe four inches in diameter. The
rest are one inch boards carefully
trued. Paper should be put under every
joint, and two thicknesses would be
better. 1t acts as an alright washer.
Numerous KS represent the several
dead air spaces. Y is the inner dead
air space, which can be warmed when
necessary
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
sno-t On the Kafue River.

A trader in ivory and rubber writes
"a follows of sport on the Kafue river,
IN Africa: Every morning at daybreak
we got up and scanned the plains with
our glasses for game. Often our boys
called us first to say that herd Of wa
fer buck or hartbeest was grazing in
sight, especially if the camp was out
Of meat. The river was full of fish
barbel, Dream, pike and tiger fish. The
bream were by far the best eating, but
the tiger fish and big barbel gave the
best sport. Spoon bait, with strong
pike tackle and a stiff bamboo rod,
was all that was required, and, trolling
behind a dugout padded by natives,
we could soon make bag. The tiger
fish fight gamely and. breaking water
repeatedly, very often succeed in shak-
ing the hook from their mouths. Bar
bel run up to eighty pounds weight,
and a heavy one can tow canoe along
the surface at some speed"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
ECCENTRIC Wnrnn Wheel

A very interesting paradox is the one
concerning IN ordinary wagon wheel,
(which is solid and rigid. yet when fast
.ened on its axle on IL wagon when the
wagon moves part of the circumference
'of the wheel which is in contact with
the ground is for an instant ut absolute
rest, while the point directly perpen-
|dicular to it is flying along at high
Rate of speed. The two points horizon
|tal with tie center of the wheel are
pretty fast. but only half rs
fast - the toDmoSt point. and rs the
Pup goin- horizontal point increases in
speed the down going one slows up tn
It'll it is ut rest for moment when in
contact with the ground. Yet the wheel
|is one solid piece and there are only
two points going ut the same rate of
speed at the same time. Yet if the
wheel is taken off the axle and rolled
down an incline every point of the cir
|cumference moves at the same rate Of
'Bpeed
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
The Dane. Bill of Fare,

Lieutenant Robert e. Peary at a
dinner Of the Arctic society once spoke
on the privations suffered by his party
in his previous expedition. In the course
Of his remarks he mentioned the fact
that the sole article Of diet for thirty
days of one Of the members Of his par
ty, Dane. was dried bones. After
ward Lieutenant Peary was approach
ed by friend who expressed increduli-
ty. THAT must have been a great Dane
of yours" said he sneeringly. Yes"
replied the lieutenant; "he was a splen-
did dog"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10

The president of the New York Nor
NAL college was addressing band of
young women. Young women" he
said, generally make excellent teach
ers. But if you dislike the work turn
to anything else but teaching. We
cannot succeed ever in what we hate.
Bad teachers, when we find them, are
persons who dislike their work. They
are like the young girl in the country
town who said to one of her friends:
"Yes, am going to take up teach
ing
THE friend looked amazed. You?
she exclaimed You a schooteacher2
Why, I'd rather marry a widower with
nine children.
$50 would L. said the other But
where is the widowerY New York
Tribune
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10

The Acarnanians were considered the
most skillful singers of Greece. These
weapons We're used not only to throw
stones, but balls of lead, and in some
localities, especially in the plain Of
Marathon, many of these metal projec-
tiles have been found The relics are
interesting from the inscriptions and
devices cut upon them, which consist
of the names of persons and appropri-
ate epithets, the legend in many cases
meaning when fully translated Look
QUIT"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
Agricultural Notes.

A number of the experiment stations
seem to regard ground oats more ia
vorably than unground for colts, brood
mares and horses with defective teeth.
Dried molasses beet pulp is said to
carry slightly lower percentage OF
water than does plain white pulp.
Even in rather sandy soil intelligent
tillage will accomplish some remarka-
BILE results with the store Of moisture
that is in the soil.
In California experiments with the
hop aphis nothing controlled it SO well
as sprays of kerosene oil and tobacco
and whale oil soap and quassia,
A western fruit grower states that
'seedless, coreless and bloomless ap-
pies are all one and the same thing
and have been known or forty years
or more"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
WATER PIPES PROTECTED.
A satisfactory Plan For Preventing
the Freezing of Stnndpipea.


1t appears by inquiries addressed to
agricultural journals in many parts of
the country that windmills would be
more extensively used for securing a
farm water supply were it not for the
difficulty with the freezing of water
pipes. A Rural New Yorker writer
who has had varied experience in
protecting standpipes claims to have
found satisfaction in the following.
both with a standpipe sixty-fve feet
high and with another thirty-two feet
high, the diameter in each case being
one and half inches. AS he says, it
may seem at first rather expensive, but
such job to be improperly done is
much more expensive. The diagram
and following explanation shows Just
how he does it:
Make four inch pipe of heavy gal
vanized iron in sections like stove
pipe, each made to slip over the next
Every second section should have four
copper wires run through holes In the
pipe on four sides and opposite to each
other and the wire soldered on the
outside; also solder the holes up tight.
AS you put each section on fasten these
wires so the water pipe is in the middle
of the galvanized pipe. If inconvenient
to disconnect your water pipe to slip
these pipes over the top. then crimp
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10

The climate of the Everglades of
Florida is almost faultless. 1t is singu-
larly equable, showing no extremes of
heat and cold and not subject to sud
den change. Even ''norther," coming
out of the region of ice and snow, is
soon softened to milder temperature,
and the heat of summer is made genial,
though the mercury may be well up in
the eighties, by the ozoniZed air which
is everywhere in the glades. The year
is divided into the dry and rainy sea-
sons. The latter may be roughly spo-
Ken of as including June and Septem-
Der although well in the glades sud
den licnt showers in limited areas are
likely at any season. and in the autumn
Il high degree of humidity is constant.
A lifetime might be spent in the region
and no sign of malaria ever be discov-
cred. Pure air that moves in gentle
breezes over vast eXpanse of pure
water is the perfect assurance of
health, as evinced in the fine physique,
splendid coloring and athletic vigor of
the Seminole who has a monopoly of
as fine a climate as there is on earth
Century