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-b" -m _- w^ _ . |"^r^wT^^^5bMA8"| Iff Three Cotton Mills, oue the I j B I B B 111 II I m B f | | I^k /I | M ^ 1 ({ Tho largest Knitting Mill and (| Ilnrgett in the Mouth. Four Fur- Jf) V 'I B?B IJ |- I B B HI B I / I | J ((( I'l1"1' >M the State. An Oil Ifl n.turo and Wood AJunuiactur- H | B I Bl B B I B I B I B/ fl Bl I (({ u,ul Manufacturing Co. that 111 iug Concern*-. One Female 7' B | | B ] J III I I W B I I V I I I i i 1 makes an unexcelled Guano. ... Seminary. Water Works and (? f B B _B_^^ -L. ^ B n B B X T B _B?^ % ((( Three Graded Schools. Arte- 11 Electric Lights. ~ ]J \ -*? -* * ^ | glan Water. Population 0,500. | ?? wr j 1 . . VOL. LI. NO. 4. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26. 1901. #1.00 A YKAR. . .. n . ? t .> ???? --- ? ?M. m m m ??? ?A? *"T P. M. PARK. President. T OEO. MUNkO, Cashier, J. 1 * Merchants' and Pla ! OF tTNl< 4 Capital Stock J Surplus % Stockholders' Liabilities * Total *.... nrnKnrrtpa?T A T?or?t V Z T. G. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, T Win. Coleman. T We Solicit Y 1901 JANUARY 1901 Sii. Mlo. Tu. We. Tli. Fri. Sat. _J I A M M i x a 4 o 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ' ' 27128 29 30 31 ONION COUNTY NEWS. Items of Interest Gathered from Various Sections by our Correspondents.' LETTER FROM WEST SPRINGS. A Post Office at hast?The Hawk * and the' Red Flag?Negroes? Alarmed?The Price of Kisses. Mr. Editor: I promised you tome time ego that you should hear from. West Spring* occasionally. I would have written ere this, but in some way or other, and in rcme place or other I slipped up on something, it wasn't the smallpox as was reported, but it was the measles. We had the darkies all scared in an inch of their lives. While I was io bed with the moasler, a hawk oamc and carried cff two chickens atone time, and my mother, thinking she could not stand many visits like that, gathered two red flannel garments and* took to the yard to display them, and the darkies took it for granted that we had a bad case of smallpox and a bad put up the flags as a warning to them. Things are moving along nicely around West Springs so far as I have been able to learn. The gold mine has not opened up yet, but tbiok it will start soon. There was a slight of hand and maoin lantern show at the P&rham school house on the evening of Jan. J 6. It was enjoved by a good many of our people. Prof. P/ady says youug girl's kisses are six dollars per doxen, married ladies' kisses three dollars per dozen, and "gee whiz" old maid's kisses are six for a quarter. There sa^a sociable at the residence of Mr. R-P. Weston the evening of IP January 15th. Mr. John Smith gave a musical one night last week in honor of Mr. Gilmore and Miss Bettie West, of Ssntuc. It was quite an enjoyable occasion. Mr. Bep Little, of Charlotte, N. CM is at borne. We hope Bep will decide to stay with us this year as such boys M Bep is needed in our community. Mr. J. B. Lancaster, Jr., is the father of r. fine boy. Mr. Quse Wen* is also benny, its e girl. Well, Mr. Editor, we are to be congratulated.' X think we have succeeded at last in getting a post office rout) from Glenn Springs to Union. It will leave Glenn's and come to Ya'e?, an office just this side of Sulphur Springs church, thence to our office Mearsville," which will he at Mr. W. 1). Lancaster's store. (Mr. Lnn caster will also be our post master ) Then will go to Parham, theuce to Buffalo and then to Union. I guee-i our mail will le coming through in about a week or two and then we won't have to go two miles on a Saturday morning for our favorite paper, The Times. Then, Mr. Editor, I ju will write from West Springe, but will give you a notice from "Meant ville" occasionally. With best witLes for The Times and the Editor. M. L. L * } ? ~ -m mm m Jt-mA. H. F03TBR, Vice President. T D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. T nfers' National Bank * ON, 8. C. J ! $60,000 1 1 50,000 ? .... : 60,000 f . ". $170,000* 1 I 7. H. Wallace, Win. Jeffries, ? ?. P. McKlasick, A. H. Foster, X our Business. f Jonesville News Notes. ' Joneaville, Jan. 22.?This is love- ^ ly spring like weather, and every 1 op? is moving around in a hurry making use ot the fine day. 'fhero ia not a case of smallpox i in our town and we hope now to j keep clear of the pest. Rev. D. C. Freeman has resigned t the pastorate of tho Baptist Church g here, end for the present there is no t preacher at that church but the mem ] bers expect to be ablo to secure a c pastor soon, but just now they don't ? know who they can cet. i Last week the Confederate pen- J sioners were moving round getting ' up new applications for pensions under, the fate Jaw. They are having more trouble to prove their seryjee in the wai?$>\?p. they did under the first'pension law, and it is really a hard?ljij>>$u same of the veterans aqd the widows to make the required . proof,. * * f %*.? Mies Willie Southard, who is in i Winthrop, .cajpi over from Rock Hill and sp^ht last Sunday in Jonesville. MUs'Oqra Fernel.'of Columbia, is visifin?Jv&' uapl?. Prof. R. L David. ., Mr. Harhefrt Lindsay e?m(( up" from Union last Sunday to see his parents, Mr. D. W. Fowler, who had n second stroke of paralysis a few days ago, is very low and his recovery is doubtful. Mr. W. J. Haile, of Union, who has been quite ill for some time, has t so recovered as to come to Jonesville i to stay awhile with his brother-in- y law, Mr. F. T. Williams. telephone. 1 FROM THEVAR WEST. \ Interesting Letter From our Texas Correspondent. Editor Union Times: What do you think about wealth and prosperity corrupting people? If it is a fact that they do, it ia a sad commentary upon the human race. I myself think it quite possible as a rule, but be it said to the honor of many exceptions that it is , not always the rule. Touching upon this thought, I reproduce a paragraph 1 taken from the Dallas county Grand ( Jury report to the District Court on 6 January 6, 1901: ' "We regret to say that, in our judg- 1 ment, crime is on the increase iu Dal- < las oounty instead of the contrary. 1 This, we think, ia partly due to the 1 more prosperous times, more people j having more money to spend on evil inclinations than is usual and giving , more temptations to others to be , possessed of the treasures that they see'so carelessly displayed." I Whether the grand jurors are cor- , rect in their conclusions or not, it remains a fact that the possession of money is a means to that end, if men 1 arA nrnnfl in indiilcA in aviI h*h!la 1 I I ? Io that case money becomes a curee rather.than a blessing. Many people desire and sigh foi the possession of the thing that they consider the panacea of ail ills, when in faot, money oauses as many ills as it cures. Getting money has reached the stage in American life where It is a failing instead of a virtue. People are going road for money, they are wearing themselves out for it, they forget their own kindred aud Iriends fpr it. It has come to pass in America that the "dollar is placed abovo the man." The teachers and pupils of the schools of New York oity sent on January 5, 1901, for the relief of the sohool children of Galveston, the nice sum of $27,907 as a gift of smypathy f, (Kaip qo /I misfrwfnnoi rta nsAn kn ?vi w*vaa iuivivi ?uuv?) vnunvu u v the cyclone of last September. 1 Speaking of sohool children reminds 1 one of the fact that Texas has a larga number of children who receive the benefits of the sohool fund. The pcholaetic census for 1901 aggregates 729,445 within the scholastic nge, quite c ne-fourth of the total population of the Siete. This scholastic census, though it is not altogether reliable, as the school attendance in many iu< stands is not iu,ro tbaa one lourth f tbe school ago enumeration. Of couric, some allowance must be made for tho non attendance upjn the public schools, in all, of many in 6very county witkiu the scholastic ago aud included in the enumeration. Governor Sayers in his message to tho legislature in this month recom mends the e tablishment in Texai of an industrial school which is considered timely aud wise on the the part [?f the governor. There is an old saying to the effect .hat ' it is better ta be bom lucky :baa rich." I devoutly believe in the naxim. As an illustration of the .ruth of this saying I will mention a jase. In the mouth of December, 1900, there came from Honolulu, Huwaii, a young lady?Suith by lame?to R*d River cunty to visit Rosalie, a country place in that county in I the birth-place of Mi'.s Smith, ind while there or while in Rid River jounty she met Ernest Burke, whose ather lives at Blossom, (prairie) MipsSmir.h lorr>d Mr R irtio ind Mr. Burke loved Miss Smith at light, it is paid, so they were married it Clarksviile three days ago. Mrs Burke informed her husband, who is juito well kuowu in Boaham, as well is his father, that he would have to nake his homo in the Sandwich islands. 4lWhy," asked Mr. Burke. 'So that you may more easily mtea^e ny estate." "Your"ostate for heaven?! jave. you an estate in the Pacini island*?" asked Burke. ''Yes," the aplied. "What is it worth," queered le. '-Oue million dollars sir, or more, ;ame the answer. Mrs. Buike went it <1 Tinvilr of f '1 trlrari I In 1 n rf ru u; noney beforo leaving the United Statc-s. The bank aakod the Sao bVauciao bank, upon which she dre w, low much Miss Mamie S nidi's check vouM be good for on that iostitutioo, ind the rep'y came quick that her heck wa^good 0>r $150,000 on that link. Mr. and Mrs. Burke pis'ed hrough Bonham on January 14'.h, lay bef ire yesterday, ou the r way o San Frauoisco, from where they will soon sail f>v Honolulu. Mrs. Burke's proporty cousists largely of eal estate iu the Hawaiian Islands of he Sandwich group. This man Burke s both lucky and rich according to veil accredited roports. Bonham's cotton mill is progressing licoly and it is the intention ol the Management cf the concern to have it n operation by June let of ihis year. Paris, Texas, has completed arrange Meats whereby sho is to have a cotton Mill 6onn, and possibly Honey Qro\e fill have one in the near future also. J. S. C. ? | The Teachers' Column. CONTRIBUTED BY MISS SOUTHARD. Mr. Editor.?The teachers of the [Inion Graded School decided to iccept for once a month the column >ffered .by The Times and your icribe was assigned the first editorial; forgetting the things that are behind we shall ask our readers to jriticise with charity the errors of ;he present and patiently peruse the brilliant columns whioh are to appear from month to month. This column will not be filled with our original productions, we are allowed to get aid from any source. Just in the wild rush we quote from King Solomon this saying: "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold." "We must educate," said Mr. Beecher. The opinion is being ac- I cepted that the thousands of chil flren growing up in a State, are the State's ward, so to speak. It is believed that poor children are the peculiar property of the State and by proper cultivation they will constitute a fund of intellectual and moral worth which will greatly subserve the public interest. Then the primary schools are and ought to he of the first importance. Since, in the commercial world, condensations, centralization and combinations are necessary, so in the systems evolved for the education of all the people, the Graded School seems to be the preferred solution. As industrial combinations must be conducted upon industrial basis which means a fair reward to the earner, the production of the best article at the lowest price to the public, honest dividends to honest investing stockholders, an honest board of directors, honestly devoted to the best interests of the company as an industrial combination. So, in our Graded School system, we nave eombination of schools, conducted by the teachers of the several grades, in one or more main buildings. The school work begins in the primary department or first grade and continues, in Union, through nine grades. How much does it cost for a child io attend school for one year in Union? Three dollars per child is given by the State; so the child's father has only to buy books and send hi^ child to the school building and the parent's work is done. Can any one ask for a cheaper mode of education? We are glad to find promptness a virtue taught by atiL. i-J a.i I"T_ T? I iiMi'iuig uivgruncu oeuuui. in xeizcr, last year, tlie Manufacturing Company paid $4f>0 for punctuality in school attendance. Although the advantages of our G railed School are as numerous there is one disadvantage we wish to call attention to?asking teachers everywhere to consider it carefully and accept the remedies offered for just what they arc worth. The disadvantage in most schools is having a class interval of one year. Why have a year? In 1872 lion. W. T. Harris, now Commissioner of Education of the United States, urged that the class interval bo reduced to a period of ten or twelve weeks. In the Southern schools we have a term of nine months. Let this school year be divided into three tortus with promotions and reclassifications taking place three times a year instead of once. Then a child would not lose so much time; for instance, a child completing all the studios in a grade, except Latin and Algebra, can not, according to most of our Graded School requirements, be promoted 4b the next- grade. Then another year must_ be spent in this one grade for only two studies. Why waste the child's time in this way? Suppose a teaoher has forty-two pupils in her room. Let them be divided into three classes of fourteen pupils each according to ability, each of these three classes being separated from the class next above or below by ten or twelve weeks' work. At the close of the first three months the highest class is sent into the sixth grade room, if it is the fifth grade so divided, in their stead the fifth grade teacher receives the most advanced class from the fourth grade room. We have inherited our system or "standard" from England, and let us profit by England's mistake and not try to apply the circumstance to the rule; for soon must she learn that events and nations are not always made to fit rules. Another advantage, aside from its system in Graded School work, is that the work done in most of them is primary and only the best teachers are being accepted. We do need better primary work and when the foundation is laid the average American child will educate himself. In tho management and discipline of a Graded| School, children aro consciously and unconsciously imbibing that broader and deeper spirit of government which teaches them to vaIha t.hfl nnininna nf rvfVinra nrwl b?o - , ? " the nobleness in all mankind. The wonderou9 fellow feeling, aroused by so many children having duties in common, causes them to realize that selfishness is unworthy and that the Golden Rule is, after all, the one divine command. Those of us who have the work in charge may be sustained by the thought that we aro striving to teach little children to think on ''whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are hon est, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely and whatsoever things are of good report." Caroline Drewsilla Southard. ? ? ? Besides general news, the Twice a Week Journal has much agricultural matter and other articloa of special interest to farmers. It has rugular contributions by Sim Jones, Mrs. W. H. Felton, John Temple Graves. Hon. C H. Jordan and other distinguished writers. Call at this office and leave your subscriptions. You can get a sample copy of the papar here on applioation. Wm. A. NICHC BANK Transact a Regular Ban Branches and Insure / Boiler, Liability and Acc of Indemnity for Officia Individuals as Administr YOUR BUSINESS IS RE! THE CENSUS BULLETIN NO. 20. Twelfth Census of the United States. For the benefit of the readers of i The Times we have made arrange- ! ments to receivo the reports from * Washington of the census returns ' from the different States of the Union < as tnken in the twelfth census last year. It would be well to file away every copy of The Times containing t hpsf> ronnfl a f?\*? f n f n vr\f A?.An We will cover every State in the Union, J and the information will be valuable . to Borne of our readers. Comparative 1 statements will be made showing the gradual increase in population since the states took their tirst census. Now is tho time to subscribe for Thi: Times, if you are not { already a subscriber, and secure | this valuablo record. Below will be , found the twentieth, twenty-lirst, ( twenty-second and twenty-third re* ( ports. i The Bulletins are prepared under the direction of Mr. Wra. C. Hunt, i Chief Statistician. t POPULATION OF KENTUCKY. j Kentucky was admitted as a state June 1, 1792. ( The population of the state in 1900 , is 2,147,174 as compared with a population of 1,858,735 in 1890, nearly | thirty times as large as the populs^- , tion given for 1790 by the oensus taken two years before it was ad- , mitted as a state. The total land surface of Ken-1. tucky is, approximately, 40,000 ] square miles, the average number of , persons to the square mile at the , census of 1000 is 53.7. I There has been but one territorial change in the counties of Kentucky sinco 1800, namely, part of Estill annexed to Powell. Of the 110 counties in the State all but 10 show increases in population since 1800, and 5 of them show over 50 por cent of increase. Of the 354 incorporated places, 42 have more than 2,000 inhabitants in 1900, and 4 have more than 25,000, namely: Louisville, with 201,731; Covington, with 42,938; Newport, with 28,301; and Lexingron, with 26,360 inhabitants. Of these 4 principal cities, Lexington is the oldest and was first enumerated separately in 1790 with 834 inhabitants; Louisville was first enumerated in 1800 with 350; Newport in 1810 with 413; and Coving.ton in 1830 with 743. POPULATION' OF LOUISIANA. ?NO 21. Louisiana was admitted as a state April 30, 1812. The population of the state in 11*00 is 1,381,625 as against 1,118,587 in 1890, representing an increase since 1890 of 268,038, or 23.5 per cent. Louisiana had in 1810 a population of 76,556, and in the ten years following acquired 76,367 more, representing an increase of 99.8 per ceut. The population of Louisiana in 1900 u more than eighteen times as large as the population given for 1810, at which census the territory subsequently constituted the state was separately enumerated as the "territory of Orleans." The total land surface of Louisiana is, approximately, 45,420 square miles, the average number of persons to the square milo at the census of 1000 being 30.4. There have been no territorial changes in the parishes of Louisiana since 1890. Of the 59 parishes in the state all but 6 havo increased in population during the decade. Of the 104 incorporated cities, towns, villages, 18 have more than 2,000 inhabitants, and 8 have more than 10,000. The cities having more than 10,000 inhabitants are New Orleans, with 287,104; Shreveport, with 16,018; and Baton Rouge, )LSON & SON, ERS, king Business in all its against Fire, Tornado. idents, and Issue Bonds Is of Corporations, and ators, Etc., Etc. SPECTFULLY SOLICITED. with 11,250. New Orleans is the only city in Louisiana that has a population in 1000 of more than 25,000. New Orleans, beginning with a population of 17.242 in 1810, increased but little, compared with the early growth of other cities, for two decades, but from 1830 to 1840. the population )f the city increased from -9,737 to 102,193, or 243.7 per cent. POPULATION OF MAINE.?XO. 22. Maine was admitted as a state March 15, 1820. The population of the state in 1900 s 094,400 as compared with a poptlation in 1890 of 001,080, showing in increase during the last ten years >f 33 380, or 5.0 por cent. The population in 1790 was 90,540. The present population of the state is more than seven times as large as given for 1790, at which census the territory subsequently constituting the state was separately enumerated as the '"district of Maine." The total land surface of Maine is, ipproximately, 29,895 square miles, ;he average number of persons to the square mile at the census of 1900 iceing 23,2. There have been no territorial changes in the counties of Maine dnce 1890. Of the 10 counties in the state all but 4 have increased in population during tjbe decade. ? J ""Of tTie 39 IW'fibtporated cities and tillages 26 have more than 2,000 nhabitanss, 9 have more than 5,000, 1 have more than 10,000 and 3 have more than 20,000", namely, Bangor, with 21,850; Lewiston, with 23,761; ind Portland, with 50,145 inhabitants. Portland is the only city in Maine which has a population in 1900 ot more than 25,000. POPULATION OF MARYLAND.?NO.23. Maryland was one of the original thirteen states. The population of the state in 1900 is 1,190,050 as compared with a population in 1890 of 1,042,390, showing an increase since 1890 of 147,660, or 14.2 per cent. The largest rate of increase was 24.0 per cent for the ten years from 1840 to 1850, but this immediately followed a decade in which the increase was r -t* umy <j. l percent, toe lowest in toe history of the state. The population of Maryland in 1900 is more than three times as large as that given for 1790, the year in which the first census was taken, when it was 319,728. The total land surface of Maryland is, approximately, 9,860 square miles, the average number of persons to the square mile at the census of 1900 being 120.7. There have been no territorial changes in the counties of Maryland since 1890. Of the 24 counties in the state all but 3 have incaeased in population during the decade. Of the 98 incorporated places there are 11 that have less than 5,000 and 3 have more than 10,000, namely, Baltimore, with 503,957; Cumberland, with 17,128; and Ilagerstown, with 13,591 inhabitants. Baltimore is the only city in the state having a population in 1900 of more than 25,000. Baltimore had a population in 1700 of 18,503, while that of the state at the same census was more than twenty-three times as great; in 1900 neariy onehalf of the population of the state is within the boundaries of,%the city. Irrigation of the arid lands in the West has an ablo supporter in the person of Secretary Hitchcock. He says that what are now deeert lands can be changed into an acreage capable of supporting a population of 50,000,000 people by proper irrigagation.