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THE UNION TIMES Published Every Friday. ?BY the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Rooms 1, 3, 5 and 7, Bank Building. J SO. R. MATHIS, Editor. L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the rostotflce in Union, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Six month* - ----- AO cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every subsequent insertion - .10 cms. I Contracts for three montlis or longei will l>e made at reduced rates. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect wiirbe charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. C., OCT. 10, 1000. Don't let the BlueX mark hit your paper. If you got so far in arrears that the Blue X mark appears on your paper the jig is up with you until you come in and settle up. With coal bills, grub hills, insutanco and taxes all coming together this winter is going to cause some of us to scratch gravel to make er.es meet. As the price of both coal and stoves continue to advance there is nothing left tho poor man to do this winter but to warm by the fires or iris indignation. It is loss expensive. There must be quite a number of "charming" young ladies and "prom ising" young men in tho city of Chicago. Ten arrests have been ri ported in that city during the week in broach of promise suits. It will be seen by notice of elections in another place in this issue that two amendments are to he voted on at the coming election, ltead the amendments, see that your registration ticket is all right and don't fail to vote. The Democrats, it is true, have little money to battle against the overwhelming resources of Mark Huqdh. nf things existed a century and a quarter ago, when the colonists were lighting Cireut Ilrittain, yet the people won then anc) judging from the signs of the times, the people (the Democratic party) will win nguin. Here is a telegram from Democratic Chairman Jones, to the Atlanta juauy .>ews, it sounds very encouraging: "I consider the outlook most encouraging in New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In all these states we have a superb organization, the people are thoroughly aroused and imperialism, the trusts and Ilannaisin are as cordially detested as in all other sections of the country. I am sure we will carry a large majority of the electoral vote, James K. Joxes." The Charleston Inter-State Exposition has the assurance of some of the most prominent peoplo of the country of their hearty co-operation in making tho Exposition a blooming success, among them are editors and bankers from every section of the country. It ought to be a success, and we have no doubt it will. Wo are glad that Charleston has awakened at last and is stepping to the front with rapid strides. Tho Exposition will be a grand thing for tho city by the sea. It i.i a rude shock to be inform -d that the story of Emily Geiger and her famous ride, as told in our histories, is huncomb and very little truth in it,merely a stretch of the imaginat ion, founded possioly upon some unimportant, act of ' s. It is almost cruel to thus crush this idol, this famous southern heroine, whose name lias been revered for many many long years as the shining example of the noble, true, brave and patriotic women, who stood shoulder to shoulder with our forefathers in their h?roic struggle f? ?r independence; ever ready and willing t<> lend a helping hand in times of neeI. But letters have been published showing the story is a rnjth, that it could not possibly have happened as related. T1 e two generals, Green and Sumter, veiein daily communication with each other and only a few miles apart instead of one hundred. Emily Geiger may have carried a letter, but there is no mention of the fact hy either Sumter or Oreen. It is a rude awakening from a i-leasant dream. > a COTTON Slili I) AT so CIS NTS.! ! i Cotton seed seems to bo on an extraordinary boom, the price of seed has advanced from $1*2 per ton at the beginning of the season to tho very St;.* liguru $-0 per ton, i.n i even more lias been pni I by some mills. We can hardly realize the fact that otily a few years ago cotton seed were considered almost worthless, and tons of them were havle 1 to tho rivers annually and dumpel in to get rid of them. Tho cotton seed has in recent years, however, become an important factor, and tliero seems to be as great domand for tbe seed as for the fleecy staple itself. A cotton seed buyer can now bo found at nearly every Hag station along the various rail road lines that Worm their way through the cotton-growing belt. Willi cotton at ten cents and cotton seed at $20 a ton, there seems to be a bright future in store for our southern farmer alter all. It is claimed .hat $20 a ton for cotton seed is out of all reason a id that mills cannot afford to make oil from seed at that price. The high price is caused by comoetitive mills bidding for the seed and they know that the longest poll knocks down the persimmons; but the fanner is n it worrying himself over what is c vusing the rise in price. One thing he has learned, however, that he is not likely to soon forget , is that supply and demand control the price of his products, and that a glutted market means a low price while a short market means good prices. It is a long lane that has no turn, and it. seems that things are beginning to come the farmer's way at last. So mote it be. We clip the following on the subj set from a Charleston correspondence to the Atlanta Constitution: "Manufacturers of cotton seed oil i i this state nre up against a proposition which has already closed fou ?c more of the largest mills, ari l which will likely cause other mills to < lose down. At the beginning of the season the market price of seed was $12 per ton. Later the quotation ranged about, the $17 mark. This I itter price was set by the Atlanta* Cotton Oil Company, which operated four of tlie largest mills in South Carolina. Since then the price ha-* hounded past the $20 quotation, and there is a chance that it will even go ldgher. Years ago the farmers used to empty cotton seed in the gullies, arid now the seed bring 510cts a bushel. The manufacturers claim that when the seed are bought for $20 per ton, anywhere from $2 to $5J is lost in th i transaction by the oil people. There is no expected advance in the price of ? ? ~ ?.?uf in in air iniils which nre now buying seed at $20 are engaging in the wildest speculation. According to some of the mill men, refined oil can be bought in New York $2 cheaper than it can be manufactured by the mills paying .$20 a ton for the seed. 'The situation is a serious one', sivid a well-known manufacturer toda}*. 'The policy which some of the mills are pursuing by paying $20 a ton for seed is destructive. The cause of the advance is two-fold. First, there is the late season and the opening of ten or more mills in i the state. The new mills aro anx-1 ious to get down to business, and most of them aro buying at $20 or thereabouts. The demand and prico of the product of the seed, viz: hulls meal, oil and linters are not of such a nature to warrant the safe buying of seed at $20. The mills are simply cutting each others' throats, and i: seems impossible to reach any agreement whereby the price can be regulated.' " A UNION GOLI) MI NIC. i The Palmetto Gold Mining Company, of Spartanburg, has applied for a charter. The capital stock is $1.00o,000, audi. C. Cannon, of Spartanburg, and Harry Kourtzand Lucius O. Emhrev.of I'rinc.? ton. Indianna, are the coiperidots. Mr. Kourtz was in the city and stat-1 ' that tlm mine is at West Soring*, in the 1 t-xtreme northern part of Union count v. 1 Tne company has owned and op-rate I the mine for some time, he said, 1> r <v? .. >iun ui Iin.n a.nun (.111 IIllU'ULT facilities, and (ho capital stock of tie* i company is to lie increased. Most of it will lie taken by Indiana capitalists. Mr. Kourtz, in speaking of the mines said that there were great opportunities for developing the property. lie sn i that already two shafts have lieensnak. one 150 feet and the other 157 fee', d *ep. It is proposed To run them over 50'> feet. The ore pays a ton. and th?? c ?st of mining is not more than Si. A twenty, stamp mill is now in opeiation. Mr. Knurl/. is ipiite eidhusias'io over the gold mining prosjiecbs rf tli?* Piedmont district, in this >> ito IT hubie i a coal nrner in Indiana, but owing |.> l be fieijuency of strikes tie I bought t>e would come to a section w'cre lab ?r wa? not so much disturbed "?(,'o!ufni>. i llecyrd. This company is hold of a coo l thin?. 'Ih-.rc is plenty of gold in tlie We t Splines section of Union (hnmiv ?? uo stated i.i our article some time ago, quite a number rf peisms make f otn two to three dollars a day when they clu (Hp t > do so by simply panning a'ong the ptie.in<. Some veiy line mi gee's have been picked up around Webt Spr.ugs J ? tiii: cizssus bulletinno. s. Twelfth Census of the United States. For the beuefit of the readers of Tub Times we have uuulo arrangements to receive the reports from Washington of tho census returns frnn tlie cliiTerent States of tho Union as taken in tho twelfth census this year. It would be well to filo away every copy of The Timk3 containg these reports for future reference. We will cover every State in the Union, and tho information will be valuable to some of our readers. Comparative statements will be made showing the gradual increase in population during the past SO years. Now is the time to subscribe for The Times if you are not already a subscriber, and secure ' his valuable record. Below will be fi'Uoil the second installment: The Bulletins are prepared under the direction of Mr. Win. C. Hunt, Chief Statistician. ^ population" of NKMfllAMPSHIKL. / New Hampshire/ was ono of the original thirteen States. The table shows the population of the State at each census from 1790, to 1900 inclusive, the census was takon every ten years. The population of the State in--!** was 141,885. In 1900 the population is -111,5S8, being nearly three times as large as that of 1790. The largest increase was for the decade from 179 > to 1800, when it was 1.973 or 2.) 5 per cent. * 1 The total land surface of New Hampshire is approximately 9,005 square miles. The uverage number of persons to the square mile at the census of 1900 is -13.7. It was 41.8 in 1S90. There are ten counties in Now Hampshire. There have been no territorial changes in the counties of the State since 1890. All but two of the counties have increased in population during the last decade. The 11 irgest guin was in Coos county, 2'"?.9 per cent. The ten counties are divided up into a large numberof minor civil divisions, towns, cities, etc. There are eleven cities in New Hampshire, with a population 3,000. Manchester City being the largest with a population of 3G,987. All show u marked increase in the last decade. Uut the most striking instance of growth is presented by ihe city of 1 terlin which has increased from 3,729to8,8SG or 188.2 per cent. The .greatest neumerical increase is at .Manchester, which has 12,SGI more inhabitants than in 1S90. Xo otter . ity nas a population reaching 25,'>00. Manchester in lS20only hud 7GI inhabitants and increased but little during the next decado but for the two succeeding ten year periods increased 2G8.8 per cent., and 330.0 per cent, from 1810 to 1850 having attained a population in 1850, of 13,982. PRICW CUTS NO ICR. It will be seen from the letter of "Vox," our Etta Jane Correspondent, 4 l.^i * 1- ~ # 1 _ 1- ? - ? mm- ine winners in jus secuon nave resolved to raise supplies for home consumption, no matter if cotton goes to 20 cents a pound. Wo most heartily congratulate these farmers upon their wise decision and com| inend their action as worthy of emu; lation hy our farmers. It is a most j sensible conclusion for the farmers of our prolific and sunny south land to arrive at, therein lies tho secret of the farmers' independence. It is the only true method of throwing ofT the j burdensome yoke of oppression weldJed around their necks by trusts and combines, that have held tho farmer's nose to the grind stone, while they have grown fat from year to year manipulating his crop, tho fruit of his year's labor, on the one hand while on the other hand they manipulate the markets and control the prices Crff his necessities, and the farmer, auf* fers lirst as a producer then as a consumer. Diversify your crops, he sure you raise your hog and hominy,' your peas, potatoes and cane and your necessary stock food, t^cn ralso cotton. When your fa systematized, and your cotton crop is your surplus or money crop, you will never he hurt by the price of cotton, you will lose no sleep over market quotations; hut may watch its contortions, girations and fluctuations with calm serinity and turn your cotton loose when it suits you, you will truly he master of the situation which you can discuss with your family around your festivo hoard, la- . den with the fruits of your farm. Could there he drawn a prettier pic- < tun? than real home living on the firm ? Wnillfl fltttf. munu mantf rvk/\>*A 1 - ?"??' .......J '"""J >?"?C| I of our southern farmers had a place in the picture. Wo recommend for r your careful consideration the exam- j pie set by the long headed farmers of !* Cherokee County, who have said: j1 ,-Xo matter If cotton goes to 20c a i p mnd, wo will raise our supplies for j I home consumption," t The Atlanta Daily News Is one o the newsiest newspapers that comes to this office. It is us full of news as an egg rs full of moat, anil has an extraordinary advertising patronage ' f >r a new paper. It furnishes the ^ nows, uil the news, the newt fr? m 1 a very i\ It re while it is hotstuiT. The 1 N n\ s has the strongest editorial ' sit.:: po-sibly of any paper in the State. With sueh an able corps of writers ? f recognized ability the paper will surely succeed. It is simply a warm member and litis met with a warm and hearty welcome in the journalistic world. Sjm Jones has been forced to car eel nil his ongigements on account of ill health, lie said, when here, in a conversation with us, just before his departure, that ho had been unwell for several days. Ho is now in Atlanta, undergoing treatniont and recuperating his strength. The doctors say it will bo impossible for him to coutinue his lectures in his present condition and he bus decided to lay > off and rest up. lie celebrated bis ?r>'>r 1 birth day quietly at bis home in Cartersvillo, (la , on the Kith inst, WASHINGTON LETTER. f (From Oar Regular Correspondence) TKof tKn Q/lminidf ratinn rcnronlj t lin ^ crisis, a) far as American interests are ] concerned, as past, in Cliina, or that it in anxious to niaketho powers think it. does, is shown by the withdrawal of ] American warships lrom Northern Chinese waters, in addition to the withdrawal ol oar troops from China. This in.iiea'es that the purpo'e for ] for which ho rec?nt ordering <ftho battled)ip Kentucky and the cruiser Alubamy to Chinese waters was d >ne has bieu accomplished. The only ] two American warships now remain ing in northern Chinese waters are the New Orleans, at Talis, and the Mot ocasy in the Pei Ho. Tnoso tw ? will remain all the winter. Admiral Rsmy, abo.ird tli* flagship Brooklyn, is on his way to Manila, which is the , bea Iquarlers of the Asiatic tquadr'-n of winch lie is ovnrnindor. He will be in easy reach of ChiJa if ho is needed. ] The published story that Geo Chaffee captured 8278,000 in g Id in 1'ein Tsin and shipped it to Washing t n is amusing to officials. Secretary Moot was iuebned to be facetious about 1 it whan naked whether the story was true. He said: "I never heard that t Geu. Chaffee took any gold at Tien v.,;.. 1# >i.. t i inn.. ii niu irrasury peopit) git hold of it, they took advantage of my Absence. I wouhln't havo let ths?u have it had I been hero." The facts . iro wnc??ut news. S~>me money was captured by Ivoar Admiral R m;'? marines whcu Tien Tsen was taken, and it waa about the amount men tioncd. Tno other powers made 8 lem.ind f ?r the mono/, but Admiral Iljiny declined to give it up and do posited it in bis own name in an Eastern hank, subject to the order of tho Navy Department, and it is there yet. This government has not decided what will ha done with it and it may be said to ha held in trust a* present. The Chinese government has made no demand f >r it. Acting Director Sullivan, of tho Bureau of Engraving and Printing says the series of postage etamps to be * issued in commemoration of the Pan American Exposition, at Buffalo, will not only be different from any eve issued, but will be the handsomest work of its class ever turned out by ? the Bureau. Each denomination ?,;n U.J ? m mil uavo uiu uuujr ui iue siamp print- ' ed in the color prescribed by law, while it will bo surrounded by an artistic border printed in a contrast- S ing color. They will be the first stamps printed in two colors ever is sued by the government. , I)r. Geo. E. Lane, of Portland, Me., ' who used to be an army surgeon, is in Washington. He said on a sub- " ject that has been widely discussed: 'Although ours is is a temperance State, more liquor hss been sold there than in any other Stato of its siz^. The fectfof the Sheriff of Cumberland county the past year amounted to about 850,000, The prohibition candidate for Sheriff who was recently elected and will go into office the first < f the year, has charge of the city mission in Portland. .Republicans and Democrats united, giving him the largest vote cast in years, because he announced that he would take only $3,000 as his ealary, turning the other fees into the county coflbrs." Dr. Lnne says prominent Republicans are advocating legislation that will fix i " salary for sheriff and give the state a ingh license law. Secrotary Hay, who was one of j President Lincoln's secretaries and pint authors of a voluminous life of Lincoln, declares that language recently used in a public speech, by Hun. Adlai E Stevenson, and said by liim to have been a prediction of President Lincoln, aa to the ultimato lestruction of our republic by the . iggrcgation of wealth in a few hands, ] ivftj) never used by Mr. Lincoln, but itas understood to have been inventol )y a spiritualistic medium not long ifter Mr. Lincoln's death. WE ARE to our ulniost to wait on the cr hat are daily flocking to our st( ivi Id-fire that we are selling NEW COT! At old cotton prices, tliei SHREWD Ci Arc showing such interest in oui hundreds of bargains equal to tl: Wool Mixed School Boy Jeans, s a regular loc Jeans every wh Extra heavy double laced Outii small checks, solids and camel whereat 10e, our price just Dure Linen Loom Table Damasl wide, a splendid value at 7oc, 3G-inch Brown Canton Flannel, to the yard, one yard of this < advantage with 1 h of the on. price per yard Single Bed Conforts, topped wi prints, extra heavy filling, ti Trey Mottled Flannellette Skirt Extra heavy Yard Wide "Pie< to-day at the mill 5ic by the Ladies' All-wool Black Cashmc fastens with two snap buttons big value Ladies' Heady Made Brocaded 1 the goods and linings alone > the skirt ready to wear for Ladies' Misses' and Children's Back Union Suits, 2 garment 40, per suit only - : All-wool Medicated Bed Flann the regular 2oc quality, our \ (in laiegant imie ot noys i\ne cellent Cassiniere, the kind tl hoy, all sizes up to 15 years. Ladies' Double Cloth Cape of with 2 rows of Fur around cc liercules braid, a splendid seiv You can't trade elsewhere L>y your hard earned dollars. The A. H. THE PEOPI Need bother neither team nor driver, c 7 so long as the harness is fit, That means strong, well tann A'ith good, honest thread, bu' dighting little details in itu ,4. ? 11 _ - l r . i ~ >11 ciiii lcus me iatai story, Si GREEN 6 Fancy < We have what y< We do no bio win We sell what we Wre sell as oheap We guarantee all We know we car Am XIv/jL GRAHAM PHor THE PARLO Having rocently purchased the b\ am prepared to supply the needs of PHON IS TJm Y? and they will be attended to w AIvU GOODS DE] Butter, Eggs and Vege 11 I^HEST PJ 'or garden, farm and barnyard CHAS. R. sr PHO? i TAXED owds of eager Cash Customers >re. The news lias spread like "ON GOODS efore it is 110 wonder that \SH BUYERS r new Fall Stock. You cau find icse here at all times: smooth finish, full width, ere, our old price ' - - 10c ? ngs, in beautiful plaids, ^ 's hairstripes, sold every 8c c half bleached, 72 inches nnr inst KOn - J WWW , weighs plump 8 ounces 3xtra width cuts to equal linary kind at 15c, our i2y2c th good quality fadeless i splendid quilt for only ' 50c :ing, good and warm ? 10c draont" Sheeting, worth 100 bales, our old price 5c ;re Gloves, fleeced lined and fits like a kid glove, 25c Mohair Skirts, full width vorth $1.25, we sell vou ^ - 98c French Ribbed Fleeced ts in one, all sizes up to 25c iel, full standard width, irice - - - - 19c e Pants, made of an exliat will actually hold a T\ * . . 1 ? 17011 t miss tnem - - 52SC Black Kersey, trimmed illar and 7 rows of black riceable garment for just $1.00 if you care to do the right tiling Foster Co., ,E'S STORE. LOAD cd leather, solidly put together ckles and rivets. No use in iking harness?the first severe i_ i- it i lauucu, renaDie narness at I BOYD'S. Grocers. * 3u want. g. advertise, as anybody. I we sell, t please you, ' US.-? o ?? at. Lb I L.S. IE 84. R GROCERY lslness of the PARLOR GROCERY, your table. OUR WANTS nth promptness and dispatch. LIVERED FREE. tables always on hand. RICEN PAID produce suitable for table use 1ITH, Mgr. TIES m