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THE UNION TIMP^S I i Published Every Friday. ?by the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Kooms 1, 8, 5 and 7, Bank Building. J SO. R. MATHIS, Editor. L. G. Young, Manager. K**ffi*ter*d at the PoetofAce in Union, S. C., as aeoond-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES j One year ------- fi.00 i S;x month' ------ SO cent" i Three months - - - - - jo coma. ADVERTISEMENTS One sq lare, first insertion - - $1.00. Every .ibseqnent insertion - .50cents. Con acts for three months or longei ? will b nade at reduced rates. Jtejicted manuscript will not be re- t turned. Obituaries and tributes of re- 1 *l?ect will'be charged for at. half rates. j UNION\ S. C., MAY 3. 1901. Local readers will be inserted for merchants eacving contract advertising space at fie per line. Regular rates to others 8^ cents per line per Jssue. HEADERS TAKE NOTICE! Wc have made a clubbing arrangement with WM. JENNINGS DRY AN, the great Democratic EEADER, to club his famous news paper "THE COMMONER" for Vuion County. Wc will furnish to nil Subscribers who pay a year in -a,THE TIMES and THE COMMONER, weekly, for $i<75' This is your opportunity. ron SALK?Od? Marble Imposing itona, ?ize 51 x 0 feet, at a barpain, address Tin: Uniox Times. JJarr'ird 11. Evans baa been cr inted bail In tbe sum of S'1,000. Ex-Gov. J. O. Evan*. Mtvor \V. T. Giry, X. G. Evans and otttani it is sLifel will g.? on the bond. Edward Cudahy's big reward for the abductors of his son, for whose re'urn he JWA rt - itVWe5 a? doctors proposing to pay hick j21,00C of the monpy obtained if he will hold up and stop the hunt.. Tl>e President and his party have RL*Tted out <in their junketing tour, and are prepared and ready to receive the homage of the dear constitency wh > in wonder as the palatial < qui page passes l>v, then re'urn to their daily toil t? help pay for this big spree, coviring a trip of 15,000 miles. The $105,000 of Disponsary lands have been apportioned to the schools throughout the State. It required $15,880 to meet the deficiency and $5,000 was reserved for the Summer Schools, and the remaining $70,618 teas disbursed on the basis of the enrollment of profits. Union's share of this money is $1,100 8'> with 5,192 pupils enrolled. One of the special features will be tbe ever>'day races at the Veterans R*iinion in Columbia, one of which will be I Ite veterans' handicap, in which veterans wily are allowed to ride, and thry must rtde horses that never won a race. The ptize will he a loving cup valued at $>0. There will be plenty amusement for all i at. the Reunion, and we predict that j Columbia wilt have about as large a J crowd as she can conveniently handle j lajt all go who cm. The fare from ( juuiou is ouiy ;?i ior ine round rrip. j t &*, wtit Ih .seen by referring to our Stli ii*age that tfi* ?ey},?oaid Air Line rai'.ro.itl ' has succeeded in phu'h;? their $10,1 UUO ten year 5 per cent U>;.il4v? This " road is now in toueh with Rome strong financial interests, and the idea h for a * ?/eiw*#| development all along ll e line i. '|*h? 'At *"d tfO pound steel rails are to l>e s 4 iken out and nh pound rail substituted. . litis to be h(?(?ed tlw pew concern a ill j <*> their way dear to reaching t log ?Ut and tapping the growing city of a (Union, They are losing deal as long as v ;they stay out of Union. m . 1 Wo have heard a great rfeal recent- * ly regarding tlie recent discovery of ^ oil in Texas, and it seems t he citizen? have a regular oil feyer, from the way t they are organizing joint stock com- ' panie-t for developing the oil inill^. 0 We have a very Interesting (omniun- ^ ication from our correspondent who is p o i the ground, ho tells you about the g ^ ?.r<ze Iti very entertaining] way. ? ^Ve tr^Lflt It will not cause an exodus ^ ritom onr heioyad Carolina, however,' p ,U tb# Of' fields of .the Ny.osi t V 1* < 4 Studies In Astronomy. I A Study of the Important Plan* i ets as we Journey Onward, 1 in Making Our j TRIP AROUND^TME SUN , Weather Pi edict ions for Next Week j Loral conditions cannot bo accurately predicted and we will announce 1 the forecasts for the general condi- ' l ions throughout the country as best we may bo ub'.e to guther them. This month will tw noted for greit storms arid Iim*vv rains with umi utlly violent chai'ifes of teuiper?*tme Floods are protiaMe in tun Mississippi arid Oliio valleys. There will prob'.tilv tie a slorm i ragina in Texas by the tiiu this reaches our readeis. This section ha* escaped < so far. but we will in.ire than likely catch i some weather liel'ore the next :<su?. We ( are in the miircury sloriu jieriod andllie t vulcaii pel iod will be central on the 7th. s and we are still under the influence of J i lie Jupiter nj iinox. , The North Pole Moving. f f For many years it has been the I t imbition of darirg explorers to reach I a .he North Pole, and numerous have s jeen the good ships and better lives u sacrificed in the vain eiTorts to find a ihat goal; but, according to the latest 1 advices from the scientific world, c there has at last appeared a new and t unexpected chance of this difficult t undertaking being accomplished, not i by or.e explorer more energetic and I enterprising than all the rest over- I coming the obstacles that have hith- ? erto barred the way, but by the North Pole itself condescending to come down from "the roof of the worl 1," whore it has perched ever since the earliest recorded period of scientific knowledge, and to move into a region more easily accessible to human beings. It is true its movements are even more leisurely than those of the glaciers, which do make visible progross day by day; and it may still require many cycles of time for lite Polo to get within speaking distance, 1 ? SO to say, but ll Will SUreiy g'-i uiom it men will only wait long enough. The best part of this is that if the North Pole Is moving as astronomers assure us, then the South Pole, which has ever been the most retiring and forbidding of the two, is doing the same thing, so that whenever the one comes within reach of 'is the other will, too, so that we can then '-kill two birds with one stone." or, in other words, find out all about both onds of the earth's avis at the same time. We are told that It is to Prof. S. C. Chandler, of New Haven, Cinn., we are indebted for this important information regarding the movement of the polos. Not onl v Iihs he clearly demonstrated the fact that they are real1 y.RfeWflWcliifilWlfiPtiie" itreetion of the movement, and tho laws which govern it, so that he says: "We can now with certainty compute in ad vance tubles of the variations of latitude?as, of course, such variations are the natural consequence of any Polar movement." Prof. Chandler's discovery immediately awakened tho deepest interest in astronomical circles everywhere and in all the observatories a series of observations were at once entored upon fur the purpose of substantiating or else disproving his assertions. In every case, aftor severul years of closest sorutlny, the most learned astronomers of this """ " f linrfl cfi vnrt llidir tonHinnmr WUU J ??'W ?> ?V-V...4V.. j as to the value of Prof. Chandler's discovery; and several of them even announce the rate of speed at which the changes of latitude proceed. Prof. Tucker, of Lick Observatory, computes the change to be one-tenth of a second of latitude yearly; while Prof. Doollttle, of tho University of Pennsylvania, thinks It is at loast forty feet annually. The Intern itional Geodetic Association is now undertaking a series of systematic studies to determino the movements of the poles, and have selected six observatories, along the l)7th dogr;e of north latitude around tho world, as posts of observation, so that great results may be expected from this work. Two very important results \yill be brought about by the changing posi- | taou of the poles. The first of these i is the change in every national or i State boundary which is determined , by degrees of latitude; and, in the j mse of the United Stutes, this , imounts to some nine thousand i t niles. It will thus be seen that, a i jeccssity may arise in the near f.i- j ure for C >ngress to take the matter J nto consideration and to order that, j ill boundaries of this kind shall here- t ifter be fixed by natural objects in- > rtgad of by latitude, A still more J eriops result, and 0110 that cannot ( >e remedied by legislation, is the c gradual ohnngo going on jn the sea r evel, and tho oonsequeqt change (j n the coast lines of the whole world t n tho course of investigation a of r his subject the records of iho coast c mrvey for the last thirty-seven years ? vere carefully examined and it was J ouod that such changes had actually ? aken place during that period as u rould have resulted from a chung* I n the position of tho poles, such as r 'rof. Chandler asserted had occurred, v t wilj bo seen from this that our as- n ronomers i^ntj scientists have a much h nore interesting and important. work ?n hand at proscnt. than that of chas- I ng uftor baby planets, like J*>os, 1 i rbich see.p/s to be aniusin? itself by 1 fi ilayini/ hide and seek .with the star- 1 t jazlng fraternity, who are desjrion* y f his assistance in determining th ' g istance of the earth from the turn n ind if their observations confirm t 'rof. Chandler's theorlce it will be t he opening of a whole world of invtw J igatlon and study, not, only in connection with the future influence upon I he earth of these changes, but In reading in the light of this new knowledge the ?veuts of the past which so perplexed the scientists of t>y-gone centuries. So much as has already beau said lias been based upon the testimony of some of the most learned astronomers of America, who have given the whole subject of the movement of.the poles their inosb careful and deliberate consideration. nirangwi.v enough every word that they have said comes as confirmation of a theory announced a quarter of a century ago by Mr. William Andrews, of Cumberland, Maryland, in his book called "The Diuturnal Theory of the Earth although it was only a couple of years ago that the book was publiishsd by his executors, after having remained in manuscript so m my years ifter the death of its author. Mr. \ndrews was not strictly speaking a scientific man, or, at least, he had lot received the collegiate training vhich is generally considered indisjensable for the astronomor and geologist. lie possessed, h >vvover, hat which is far more rare and vatu,b!e, a mind of great strength of reaoning and observation, which en,ble<l him to formulate, without the dd of such observations and calcuations as led Pttf. Chandler to his :onclus\ons, a tnw>ry identical with .hat of the New Haven philosopher, ind also to explain hi3 conclusions n so clear a manner and support, them with so strong arguments that few readers of his book can fail to be convinced of their correctness. It will, of course, be understood that in speaking of the poles changing their positions it is incurit that the position of the earth in relation 1 ? <5,-a/l of ,11* a nn.]?r.mi>4 11 vrilillial change, in the course of which the Polar regions and the tropics alternately present themselves under cor tain portions of the heavens which are unchanging in their position Take for example the Polar Star. \V? know that at present what we rogin as the northern end of the earth': axis is not directly under Polaris but a degree and a quarter from it We ure als ? told that fi ? e thousam years ago the Polar Star was Dra cools, and that twelve thousand year later it will be Lyrae, showing tha the position of the globe, relative t< tha heavens, is constantly ohanging Mr. Andrews asserts that this chstig takes plaoe In a spiral, the Nortl Pole moving away from under Polsri in a south westerly direction and th South Pole in a northwesterly on until in tlie course of long nges wha is now our equator will be under tha star. In confirmation of his thoor Mr. Andrews cites all that has bee asserted heretofore concerning gh cial periods, and the ellect on th earth of tho movement of the glacier; 4ns1 f Ko pfnl'Anftf V/a uilipi'Otll it mains of both fauna and flora in Ar< tic regions; thus furnishing the mos plausible explanation of these ph< noinena that has yet been given. ( course such a circumstance as th gradual movement of the globe, s that its axis would be shifted froi their present positions to the noigl borhood of the equator, would inevit ably result in a change in the sliap of the crust of the earth itself; th rising 01 ine nattenea portions aroun the poles, accompanied by a cluing in the elevation of the continents an tho sea level, and the overt!owing c portions of the earth which are no' dry land. It is Mr. Andrew's theor that, since the creation of the world this has already occurred seven times, thus forming the various per iods into which the geologist h-s di vided the earth's existence. What ever may b3 the defects of this "diu turnal theory" of Mr. Andre va, thes recent discoveries look very like confirmation of a part of it; ani moreover, the map which acooinpa nies Prof, (handlers discovery is al most Identical with that illustrativ< of his theory in Mr. Andrews's book THE JUNKETING TOUR B EC INS Washington Eettcr. (From Qur Regular Correspondent. Washington, April 20.?All aboim for San Francisco! The Presidentia special, composed of seven cars, eacl: the finest qt its kind, left Washington today to remain on the road unt.i June J5th, and to travel lO.fiSl mile; in all. Tho booklet containing tin /ompleto schedule of tho trip gives he names of forty as members ol he party, but that was prepared be'ore it was known that Sevreiury ani Mrs. Long were going to C dorado in idvanco. Resides Mrs. MoKinlev. here ure nine ladies i-t the party. Secretary Cortelyou and three White louse stenographers will handle any -xeeutlve bnainest which the Pa-silent may lind it necessary to trunsicfc. The public will not iuck full |etui}4 of tho- trip, as each of the hrep tpg Associations h is a ipresantalive on the train ; also each d the three Washington daily papers, nd each of the threo most prominent lew York illustrated weeklies has a pccial artist abroad. There is also , photographer. Doth the Western Jnion and tho Postal Telegraph Comanies have operators on the train, ,'ith all the facilities for sending lessages direct. There may, peraps, be finer ^single cars than any no on this special train, but it is ertain that there never lias been a ner special train, as a whole. It is a irst class hotel on wheels, and itconaius everything that could be asked )T the comfort of the most fastidious ijest, ft would not absolutely eoessary for any passenger to leaye his train during the entire si* weeks rip, although they will nil frequently lu fo, There is an amusing side tn? (ho visit of the Cuban ConitnittJo to Washington, which has furnished fun for those who came in con! ict with its members. They lui 1 the speediest and about the worst case of swelled head ever seen in Washington, whore the big head is an every day complaint, with little fellows who suddenly becom<? intoxicated with the greatness which t hoy imagine g.nss along with a newly as sumed oiTice. The Cubans didn't j have that kind of big head. Theirs j wus brought on by the jollying tho\ | received from officials from the President down. It began when they were met at the railway station by two Army officers, who informed them that they had been detailed by the Secretary of W rr to escort them to their hotel, and to look after their comfort during their stay in town, and culminated at the Stato Dinner in the White House, where ail Uie prominent men in Washington at "o time, too.c a hand in pushing the jolly along. Since then each one of those Cubans has acted as though he thought he was the greatest thing that ever happened. The old saw about catching more Hies with molasses than with vinog.ir apparently did another successful stunt. The jollying has been so efficacious that the Cubans have promised to g> home and recommend to the Convention that the conditions laid down by the Piatt amendment be accepted. Mr. Galusha B. Grow, of Sati Diego, Cal , a nephew of Representative G ilusin B. Grow, of Pa , is visiting Washington for the first time since lie was a boy, and it's uncle w.iSpeakor of the House. Mr. Grow, who is a prosperous banker, neve* i tires of sounding the praise or his home town, thereby showing that h is made out of the right sort of stuir i Mr. G. W. Bolton, of La., iv mem ber of the Executive Committee o the American Banking Associttion i stopped in Washington on his wjj . home from New York. Mr, Boltoi J sail: "I do not know of a perio< I when the State of Louisiana bus beci < more prosperous than at present , The banks are full of 111 >ney. Th-jr has been great development in man; i of the States industries?in rice grow - ing, in sugar production and in tini s ber, with the depletion of the forest t of the North Western States, th J timber produced in Louisiana is oom ing in great demand, ehiei)y now th e long-leaf pine, which U of finer qu i! i itythan in any of tho adjoiuin: s States. We have much valuib! e hardwood, but that is not yet use e very extensively.'' t The action of the President, on th t request of Senator Daniel, of Va., i y ordering that tlie Washington heii n looms, which have been in the passe i- sinn of the U. S. government, sine e the beginning of the civil war, be r. L stored to Gen. G. \V. O. L"-e, tl " ami "10 me cofuhbrry urrjTiC'Yecf'jiL.I 5- at those places in the South at whic bo will stop ou his way to the Pacif * coast. c Carlisle Cuttings. ? Editou Times:?Nature hasdnmu n her spiing attire, the weather is d<digh l" fill and our citizens seem to be gay ai ~ liappv and we a'l seem to have taken ,e new lejise of life. e Theswischof the snv and the th:j I < d the hammer pervades our city a id v ;e are growing rapidly. We have i d jealousy of our sister, Uai ? i, h r. ai >f "content to steer our b nit is t'nwik sv of that progressive city. We a's > s> v that our citizens have cunmnc?d tl [ u-eof the punt and white wi-.li bru* ou their dwelling lmuses a id f.mcdThey are great baiutiijrs ail iiut ] things look fresh an t clean. Ourbia; if nay f-iUiers also i iteu l ke \?;ng tli streets and sidewalks 111 go?dorl-*rai give us street lamps t > heap the w if.tr 0 out. of tie* gullies The oily iliumi.ia a ing powers we nov hivj is the in 10 d and the lightning bug, b r. we 0 n'o li iv everything at ono > We weie about to re it o ir b i'el 11 e vv e'< to another party a 11 rstur 1 to v., mountains on oceouut of E naliue's e 1 tinned sickness, but therec un "a h rvi' { o n tin c'tizuis and Liz in opp >si > i ? r.l e niovs that induce I us t > ch 1 ige <vi iniml at ones. Liz s iys h ir in t n n, .r, m 1 she ciu a'teud ti things uril .sli gets well, but iuv Opinion is ihit gi ' '-lias her cip set*' for s un fel o v eithe 1 h-reor in Liu'1 m. Sim tb I n ? . I '< 01 I eivi'ig h-*rV*. h nm list M11I >v ml 1 occasionally hear the nam 'of (Jo or Mr. liurrous. Tint g t! in a s'i M | I one but slm can't fool her dtl. Well , I will ,mv no more ah nit renting m . Jjo'el but. will stay and g.o v u;> wi .is l.m ; ci'v an 1 or-* I >u t L i a inilli >1 ore i The hands-nn 1 resident! 1 of Mr.au Mrs Hie> is ah ?ut ready f.?r occ ipi-i-o and is auoru i uent to tb citv, aa I ; fore runner ot* wl at is to cvne. T 1 building gives evidence of tha skill an arc.biteciu il fast) of the g-mtln na ih contractors. Messrs Graudy and .J j dm of Greenvii'e, S (1, who are nov on gaged in put'i ig an addition to the st ir, ho iso of Mi*. S nith to ouabl 1 l im thave nnre roo 11 for his incre isiug h Mi i nuia All i.r 0111* in- rnh-nit.s Ii-ivm m 1. additions to their irHuess Ii hum w.hid ah ?wa that we are c in trig to 111 frod I will bring Li/ to -ve you ii-ou who .Ion Koiiy \\\\ l iifld, > rii'g hpr alog. ! y-i wid v\l|i>lle as y- it ;t; it i j? ih?* stt'i'fi vm will wash our face, I'tu on mo coal an< kinder primp up. \V careening to in .k? a in ish. We givo )u j i.i i w.iitui g.? Ed I atl.anta, oa . 7, 5-7 ) Dr. C .J MolToti?iK'df S i; | cm not ovistrurally rHcon?ni"iHlyo.|i I'l t. r:i Iva ( lViiiliing I'owdcr-) ?< o ;'i <?t in ??esi. iii'-it'oi'.e-* ttiey ertii obtain f. r thi dehilita'od and sickly ir.f.i its I h ?\> used it w ill very eatishn tory results tie past summer with mrcliil I. and while \v? have heretofore lost a child or two from t? ething under other reined ks, our present chi'd, that has taken Tertiiina, is a line healthy bQy. I am, very respectfully. A. P. Bjiown, M 1). (Brother of U. 8. Senator and Eit-Oov. Joseph E lkowp.) |7??t Advertising' is That Mak< But the New Goods must be The Goods must be right too, eustomers must be right also. Close Cash Buyers, because tl "Never to put a line into th< substantiate with the goods ex bargains we write about always ex always hunt us first. It's hard to Here are a few of the Coi Summer I OK KPON NOUVEAUTE is a Madras lial 29 inches wide, in handsome stripes of decided Novelty at fJAClIEMIRE RAVE is a Mercerized so Beautiful Persian elfects of Blue, Old very swell Fabric at HAWTHORNE TISSUE. An Import* inches wide, already washed and shrui Pearl Blue, Navy and Oxblood Pink. cloth I lwivni.'r.' 1X13 r V HA.1TTfA\T /V # i I n / .> ?jr i\ i"j i/Ti r<.\ ru^i i iu.> . une ni ia Summer Fabrics. Finished like Mull better. Shades, Baby Blue, Frimro9e Scroll designs. The cloth that drapet ' BltOOHE RA.YURE SOLE. This is a ir Summer Goods. In the handsomest Blue and Ilelio Couleur f , MWSSELTNE DK SOIE. The most p< bination of Egyptian Yarn and Silk ii i bb.-iidid shades for evening wear | PERSIAN LA.WW. The daintiest of yan.s. The ideal material for a Comi makes it. Can be washed v* ORGANDIES.* In all the new shades, Nile, Primrose, Lilac, Black, White. s ALBV.TROS3 This Is THE Summer Y e lovely solid shades in Nile, Cereae Cream Cream. A very popular and c ? DOTTED ALBATROSS. The Ideal W , j 11-M't u? Blue with White Embroidered j, the Waist Patterd. A Gem" at ^ SILK FOULARD. A very fide Fabric in Exdusive Dress Patterns in the Ri i e : The F05 ?e iv TbPpnrflsftntaiii Special Sale 0 Deli a 'f We have bought a big lot of beai "? durable and strong Delivery Wag e them at a price that will surprise H >h for our spring stock and : These Wagon Also three handsome, high grade ; and look at our line of harness, w ? GREEN * ' I V fc ? 1 o U] >to-date teams at our Stable. , ring us up for a good team. Lig GREEN i : UNION CARRI \ ?Are now in active operation \ REPAIRING OF High Grade work on Buggies, W - We have gathered in our shop th cured and each man is well up h . "lit today tiie best wagons in the i this statement. Call and see the ' the place, Robinson & Allen's Olc UNION CAIjRIi WHAT IS BETTEE TH. COFFEE ON A SPB We have the celebrated B1 -iiviable reputation with no sup u-ve i o equal. Get a package a caused from drinking inferior cof ,>rice ycu can't help but buy. In Teas we are the pe ?f le. GRAHAMi I TA? Fancy the Power 1 es Things Go, behind the advertisement? ind the Store's treatment to Our ads. always interest icy know we make it a rule: s newspaper that we cannot actly as advertised." The ist, that's why Cash Shoppers head them off from our store. f rrect ideas in attractive -abrics: shed Soft Washed Fabric, ! Hello, Pink and Blue, A ft finished Dress Goods in Rose and Willow Green. A d Very Sheer Gloth, 82 nk. Absolutely fast colors. A lovely summer dress ^ ie latest, crazes in soft effect ^ , looks like Silk, but wears * , Poarl, White and Persian i well lost charming and 8t.ylish designs, in Semi-Electric 5VC spular and successful com11 all the high colors and * r ? all tissue weaves in fine mencement Gown, 5 yards Light Pink, Lif{ht Blue, ^Cf?~* A beautiful quality Vool Goods, 80 inches wide, Pink. Corn Husk and Ioe ^rW* ool Wool Dress Material... aist. Cloth in Cream and Birds-Eye Dots, 2 yards to 75C for Summer Suits. Comes wCf* uh and Rare Colorings yaJV* iter Co. re SiAr?> of Union. if very Wagons. itifully finished, light running, ;ous and we are going to sell you. We want to make room is Must 80. carriages at a bargain. Call M e make them, they are good, k BOYD. D R Y!?g Everything new. Call on or ht and heavy transfer. St BOYD. ????? /iau wnnTzci nuii4 ii unna and are prepared to do? * ALL KINDS. ngons and Carriages a specialty, e best men that can be proi his place. We are turning Louth, and we can substantiate work going on. Don't forget I Stand. Yours for business, A.N A GOOD OUPOF LINO MORNING? j anks Coffees, which has an / erior, and we positively bend have no more bad feelings fee, This coffee is sold at a / Just come and see. / feiSTES h Grovem, / L >i