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THE UNION TIMES Published Every Friday. ?BY thi:? UNION TIMES COMPANY Rooms 1, a, 5 and 7, Bank Building. L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postoffico in Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- ft.00 Six month* ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 2."> cents ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every subsequent insertion - 50 cent?. Contracts for three monms ?>i um*.-. will be made at reduced "rates. Rejected manuscript will not l>e returned. Obituaries and tributes of inspect will'be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C.. MAY !Ki, 1000. For the information of enquiring friends as to what section I was appointed as census enumerator, I will state that 1 received tho appointtnent for that portion of Union township lying North of the railroad. Finding that I could not spare the time from the paper I declined to accept, and Mr. Howze has been appointed instead. Jko. R. Mat his. * * ? t ~ .1 .\a,I 4 1? t mro ' J vfUJ " KepUCJ lCHIUSUl uuca nun,,., .r and so does its carpet bagger*-, Xeoly's postal steal in Cuba, for instance. Rathbone, the head of the postal affairs in Cuba has nlrendy gone so far as to make the boast that tliejdare not remove him. This boast hath a meaning. As soon as the rottenness in Cuba is cleared up suppose the search light be turned on Porto Rico and the Philippines and let us have a squint of how affairs are being conducted in those quarters. Post master Thomson, of Cuba,implicated in the stealing of post office funds could only raise $1,10 1 of his bond. So the bond was changed to suit his convenience and he was released, while two poor subordinates, who acted under his orders, are in jail with bond fixed at $1,500. J. T. Ouzts, of Spartnnburg, who while walking along the streets of that city some time ago, stopped in an open hole made for a telephone pole receiving several injuries he sued the city and the telephone company and received a verdict for $:J(X) damages. The United States Supreme Court in the case of the Gubernatorial contest in Kentucky, decided in favor of Governor Beckham, tho Democrat. Taylor says he was net surprised at the decision. lie may yet be surprised, however, if they succeed in fastening responsibility upon him for the killing of Gov. Goebel. As an evidence of tho terrible rottenness of the carpet hag government in Cuba, the military authorities have built a railway live miles long through the level public streets for which work they have charged $dl2,000, with no cost for right of way or duty on material, about $'">0,0)0 a mile. Oh, it's a grab over there, and Cleveland's pets are surely making hay while the sun shines. The postal frauds in Cuba perpetrated by the American Carpet baggers is one of the heaviest blows the Republican party and McKinley have received in some time, so far as their chance of holding to the reins of the national government is concerned. It will furnish, among a lot of other rottenness of the present administration, an abundant sufficiency of campaign thunder for the Democrats to use against the Republicans. The Confederate veterans from the various sections of the State will assemble at Spartanburg on May 28th. This city having been selected as u rendezvous from which to start for Louisville on account of Its central location. Tho fire from Spartanburg to Louisville and return will be$9.Ho. Tho people of Spartanburg with their enterprise and hospitality have determined to make the veterans enjoy their short stay. They have arranged for speaking on Morgan Square, and the unveiling of the cannon recently secured from the government. The occasion will be made interesting. / kkii -X:A ' / It appears that an effort is bcit >g made to shield Neely, the postal fund thief of Cuba, as much as possible, for fear that things might come out. that would not be nice for some ( liicials, high in authority. But Representative Jones, of Virginia, has introduced some resolutions that are likely to stir up w unsavory odor, and to go to tho bottom of tho wholo business. His resolution directs tho Secretary of War to furnish information in connection with tho Neely disclosures in Cuba. It follows the Bacon resolution in tlie Senate and adds throe further inquiries, viz: "What amounts have been paid in tho way of allowances and salaries to the commanding general, tho heads of the various departments of the 'United States military government in Cuba,' including all persons employed as clerks or otherwise und< r said government? What amounts have been paid in Cuba to the ollieers of the late Cuban army and what amounts, if any, are being paid at the presont time to said oHieers? In each of the expenditures concerning which inquiry is made, out of what fund was said amount paid?"' Good. Let there be moro light. Let's have an itemized statement. No total of about so much will answer the purpose. The peace envoys of the Doers who arrived in America a few days ago to solicit the aid of the U. S. in stopping the war were given a rousing and enthusiastic reception in New York where several sympathetic speeches were made by Congressmen and Senators, a number of whom were on the rostrum. But they weie turned down upon their arrival at Washington. In a conversation with Secretary Hay, they were given to understand that the United States could do nothing for them. The Boers would not talk for publication when they came from the oflico of Secretary of Slate. The Secretary then went to the President, and after a consultation with him, nn interview, alleged to have taken place between the Boer envoys and the Secretary, was given out for publication, setting forth why it is that the U. S. cannot interfere to bring about peace. This result, of their conversation must have been not a little disappointing to the envoys. They are fully aware that they have the sympathy of the American people. But the American people is one thing and the present Republican administration is another. The \.ork of putting down the electric street ruilway in Spartanburg, which is to connect the near-by mill towns with the city is progressing nicely. We believe this is going to he a big thing for Spartanburg. The Herald is very enthusiastic over the electric railway, anticipating wonderful results. 11 says : "We have had Soma's band and Thomas's Orchestra, but no sound ever heard in this city struck home to the hearts of the people like the driving of the spikes in our Kloctrio R-.ilroad." As an illustration of how little importance is attached to the signing of orin'u n o m n t r\ nvAfV il ihn lit fit 1-i handed out for signature, by theaverage man, we note that a petition was recently circulated in Washington, which was signed by a number : of the members of Congress. In its i preamble the petition says, '"we, the j parents of colored children" etc. It! is not a good idea to stick your name j to a paper until you know what that paper contains. Knitting Mill Motes. I have tailed t> gleam nuc'i news tiiis week but s;veral pi^sons have promised t> help uj, so I feel co ifidaut that I will s>un bi able to relate cv? ry thing of impirtanco thai trail pi re i on tin Knitting Mil! hill. Miia Klina ICirby and Miss Myrlt-1 Khon visited the Monarch Mill sit- ] Sunday. They returned loade 1 wi h ! geraniums and other 11 >wei> which j they procured on their trio. Messrs. A. T. Charles and \V. S j Gregory visited Mr. Charlos' paranti at Kelton Sunday. Miss Inez Kvane spent the p:ut wcok with her grandpironts who live in the count* y. Mr. II land Go? left Saturday f< r Orangeburg whero In g>e# to super intend a knitting mill. Mr, W. S. Gregory vis'te 1 hi# v.ucle, Mr. Dav'd Charles, Sun'ay. M ss lJulah Counts is BuHjring with her eyes. And n> v j.ut a wcrl about on: p?*>p'e an i I will close. Ojr young girl# aro m alest and pret'y and <uyoung men quiet an 1 orlerlv, of course there are a fjw wli ? are n< t in i*, H) to 3peak, but I lie in-j ?ri#\ are quiet, well educated and /eliunl people. A stranger cm Id not help but note the above fact. A T AMM K liAl IIIK. [Vou are right, Annie, g*t the gir's interested and tiny will help you gather up lota of uewa on the hill.? Ei>0 'Pll* !I<HH ! WHEN THE $ | ? IWlmt Will Happen I the Coral ?mm BY ANDREW II'?II ? W jll^PATH OFThc ECLIPSE On the morning of May "JS, when the spring sun is riiling high In the heav- , ens, a strange thing will happen. The moon, invisible, of course, will get between the earth ami the sun. Al- ! though the moon Is an insignificant little hull when enmimreil to the suit. it is so much nearer us that the great , oil) of day will bo entirely blotted out. ' Reaching down through space will dip, like a great pencil, the black j shadow of the moon. This shadow will draw across the face of the earth a broad black line. It will be a rush- ' lug, sweeping stroke, that will swing : eastward at the rate of nearly 12,00t> ! miles an hour. This will be the path j of total eclipse. The line will be about j 30 miles wide. It will cross .Mexico J and strike the United States at New Orleans. Front there it will sweep northeast to Norfolk, whence it will pass out across Cape llenry and over the ocean. So from New Orleans to Norfolk the eclipse will be total. This means that for the space of about 0;) seconds this part of the country will be in semidarkness. All the rest of the country, from Salt Luke City east, will have to he satislicd with only a partial eclipse. But this will be well worth seeing. If you are anywhere near the line of total eclipse, you will see the greater part of the day star obscured, as if a great ! hand were trying to shut out the light, i Eclipqps of the sun, as >uU know, 1 are not everyday occurrences. Even i when they do come it often happens ! that America is left out. The last total i j eclipse visible in the I ni:..d States : j cast of tlio Heckles was iu Iv7?>. aud 1 the next one will not occur until 1'JlG. j } So if you are loi innate enough to be | within the path of totality during the j j coining eclipse you should make the j j most of it, for this is the chance of a " | lifetime. The people who have seen i more than one total eclipse are the j astronomers who have traveled to the ends of the earth for that purpose. Hut this is a popular eclipse. It Is not one of those shy affairs that go ! off to inaccessible parts of the earth ; [ to be seen by the favored few. It will ! ; come to a thickly populated and easily j reached section of our own country. It will occur on time too. There is to bo no uncertainty about this pbeuotue- 1 11011. There will be no disappointment, as there was about the meteor showers last fall. Eclipses are reliable. They never cancel dates. Only cloudy or stormy weather can obscure the show, j The eclipse will go on, clouds or no j clouds, but unless there is a clear sky j we cannot see it. As a spectacle n total solar eclipse- J ranks among the most tnar.elous ever presented to the eyes of man. The race of the moon shadow across the face of 1i? ....... < 1.,. ,.f t/.t a l_ 1 Ity approaches lias always boon described by observers as oue of the most staggering, awe inspiring scenes that it is possible to Imagine. Then | come the obscurity, tins disappearance | of the sun, the strange chill of unnat! ural ditrknrss, the outburst of the won! derful coronal streamers around the ; spot where a black hole seems sudden| ly to have taken the place of the sun, the red tlnmes of the prominences and, I after one or two minutes of awful I pause and silence, the gleam of the re| appearing orb and the swift flight of . the shadow eastward. During most eclipses that have heretofore occurred astvonomcrs have had ' few eyes to assist tli eir own in showing the picturesque features of the phenomenon. Well la own astronomers who have gone half round the earth to observe an eclipse have coine back j acknowledging that tlicy had not renlj ly seen it, because 11: ey bad no time to I look at ;t. Their .-attention was entirely absorbed by tl ie technical observntIons, and only dreamlike Impression of the real a renders of the scene bad been made tq ?on their ndnds. On this occasion what has heretofore been so seriously lacking will be sopplied In nbtmclaa ace, and while astronomers arc btjsy ^ with telescope, spec iUN HIDES i )uriuR ? luff Total Eclipse. T DOWNS. I X W M ? W ?' J~A \RKve^j0L<^ T^SjjT o F T M jf *^?: trosoopc :in<l crre: a. thousands ot eyes will note tilings which perhaps have not before been described as visible or as occurring during a total eclipse. Ilere is th.e reply given by Professor liurnham cf Chicago. when ashed by a budding astronomer for advice as to the best instruments to use during the coining eclipse. lie said: "Use the most valuable instrument God ever gave you?your eye. Watch the effect of the strange phenomenon on nature, and learn a lesson in her laws that you'll never forget, jiir; nov or lorgei. Some details of tho eclipse which are of interest are as follows; The track of totality hey ins on the Pacific ocean just west of Mexico at sunrise, trends due eastward over Mexico, enters the United States very near New Orleans, extends northeastward over Mobile and Montgomery, near Atlanta, over Raleigh, and leaves this country in the region of Norfolk and Cape Henry. It then crosses the Atlantic ocean and touches Europe at Coimbra, Portugal, takes in Algiers and northern Africa, terminating near the northern end of tho Rod sea at sunset. The eclipse, therefore, may he observed in the United States in the morning hours from about 7:2<) to P o'clock, and In Spain and Africa in the afternoon after 4. The local hour of totality increases from west to cast, beginning at 7:27 a. in., near New Orleans, and growing later to S:3o near Norfolk, as the shadow sweeps over the country. The duration of totality is 1 minute and 13 seconds near New Orleans and 1 minute and 42 seconds m ar Norfolk. This fact constitutes a powerful argument in favoi of locating the stations as far eastward as possible in North Carolina and Virginia, since the gain of half a minute is made i:i the duration of totality, !<_ IniniM'to nt nVrtVt' fOf*. owl is precious for observations. Scientific men have made elaborate preparations for observing the eclipse. The United States government will have two stations, and every big college in the "country will have its apparatus located somewhere in the track of the moon shadow. From New Orleans to Norfolk there will be an almost continuous line of telescopes and cameras pointed skyward. To a man in a balloon it would look as If we were planning for a light with Mars. The amateur photographers, who are a legion in themselves, will be out in full force. They are spurred on by the knowledge that the most successful photograph of the sun's corona was taken by an amateur. This amateui was Mrs. Maunder, wife of an Englisi: astronomer, who accompanied her lius bawl to India to witness tbo solai eclipse of 1st IS. She used a Dnllmeyei stigmatic lens of 1'^ Inches apertun amiincites iocai lengtn. The silvery white halo of the corona which looks as if It belonged to the moon, Is the most impressive ebjee seen during an eclipse. Portions of tin corona unquestionably extend severa million miles from the body that it sur rounds. The structure of fhis envelop excites wonder even in the inexperl enccd observer, but it is made the sub Ject of careful research by the sclec tint. Down at the base of the snow whit corona lies a crimson ocean of bydrt gen, helium and other gases. It 1 called the chromosphere. I.anglej Young and other experts say It is aboi ft,000 or (5,000 miles deep. Up froi this rose red, or blood red, sea at time rise cloudlike prominences over 100,0C miles .high. Young has seen one swlf ly grow to an altitude of 350,000 mile With a spectroscope It is now possib for the astronomer to study the soh chromosphere and prominences at o Tiiost any time, but the amateur can s< them only during a total eclipse. After it Is all over, perhaps the a tronomers may tell us the answers many questions about the corona whlc as yet have never been answered. Tin i may also have news of Vulcnn, th mysterious star, that lost world, whlc Is supposed to exist somewhere b tween the sun and Morcuur. 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