The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 11, 1901, Image 1

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, . -MIW . .. V I t ;;. X ! v / ' I^HVTOWWO A S Ii __ - M _ . T'" *L. _^_^_ _. 5 THE TOWN OF union has | Three Cotton Mills, one the ?/ < 9 > 9 9' 9 1 l 9 9 B 9 i ? 9 ' 9 /9 9 1 ' ^ 1 r The largest knitting Mill and ijj largest in the South. i oar Fur- U , B B_B BJ % lUlHUT I I */ M4 ((( Djr? Plant in the State. An Oil W nlture and Wood Manufaetur- Jj] B BB Fl I B B B I I - I B | ()| and Manufacturing Co. that A] i, ino Concerns. One Fe-uale , I fl B B 1 J I B| 'I B B [ koH \ | B fl W fl fl 1 J L | makes un unexcelled Guano, ..! (u Seminary. Water Works and ((( Jfl, . JL_B_ _B_^^ \ y .. fl ^B_ fl, W 1 B B 1 W _fl_ _B_-B y f ((( Three Graded Schools. Arte- Ji (IJ Electrio Lights. ((] jfj gian Water. Population l>,5U(h jjj i t" VOL Li. NO. 2. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRlD3B|feiNl]ARY 11. 1901. #1.00 A YEAR. 1L - ^ ^nf- -|||- -|||- -gfr^ ^ T P. M. PARK. President. T OCO. MUNkO, Cashier, Merchants' and PI I OF UIV x Capital Stock J Surplus jt Stockholders' liabilities ' 4 * X DiRROTOUS^.^V.^Panfc, T TVWTcan, J. T. Douglas \ ^ . ^r-V* "Wm. Coleman. T u/? GaIm* XXKVlUg (tbree ccore years and ten) he is st siroDg and vigorous both in mind a body. May he long remain with in the full possession of all his fac an ties. V. Mr. Jaa. Garner has rented plantation of Messrs. A. 8. and W. . > Douglass, of Winnsboro, for the n ten years and will move to it ri away and put it in good saleable c dition. It's a fine plantation i formerly part of the James By lands lying on Thickety and Gill ' Creeks in this county. The young people had an 4 Home" with Mr. Mike Seller's far last Thursday night. They eojo themselves very much, so I was I Yesterday Mr. Waddie Howell buried at Salem. He died night ibre last after an illness of about e weeks. Typhoid pneumonia war disease he had. Miss W timer McDaniel, of Hie , Grove, is spending a few days wit! /grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. i Strain. Corn is selling in this neighbor for 60a per bushel. **"" . Farmers will no doubt plai the cotton this yu*r they cat worked. ?" Al_ Mrs. D. A. Thomas, mom Sheriff W. W. Thomas, of this cc end Mrs. A. N. Woou, wife of b A. N. Wood, of Gaffhey City furnished the prisoners in Cnc county with a Christmas dinner, to the enjoyment of these poor i Innate creatines. Such acts or tt61s were commanded by our 6 when he was on this earth, at same w,U be remembered at h ond coming?"Believeth thou Be<?uae a man is a prisoner stHI within him a heart to be glad or aad by the event* -; piece about him. We commen noble women for their praise |f deeds in administering to the y . and comfort of their less fo fellow being . Nothing but nk nine Christian spirit could I toatcd these ladies to look ? 9 ;r?' JlLJILilLJILJILJIL JILJILJILJI&. f ONION COUNTY NEWS ? Items of Interest Gathered fror Various Sections by our Correspondents. En* JANE ETCHINGS. Vox Returns to the Hslnt, an Sends in an Interesting Letter. Etta Jane, Jan. 5. ? <Jai any on imagine tbe disappointment and cha grin it would give the average prei ent day lover as he ridts home from party oue of theee bright moonligh nights, solioquizing about how bi -? /' "Dalciua" loves him, and how she i sweetly dreaming about him and th hour she is to beoome his bride 1 know that she then has her hea stuck in the cupboard up to her shou ders gnawing at a ham boLe an thinking Low much better she ei?j >y it than his company? Mr. Mike Hellers, one of our wel to-do neighbors, had a fine sow to di daj before yesterday. He thinks ah had cholera. ? ?- ~ ancr fftiss ones,^oey, ?i visiting the family of Mr. G. Andre * Byars. M. J. C. Lipscomb, of Gaffney, hi spent several ot' the holidays in tb community with the boys and peop -with whom he is acquainted and making new friends of the remaindc Uncle Jake Pridmore, who is we known to many of The Times' rea era and who is also one of the old< and.best men in Cherokee county, still in good health for a man of 1 ?J ? fha time alott mmmmmmmmmmmmJtm A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. T J. D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. 7 anters' National Bank jj iorv, s. c. X y. $fiC,3&0 J 60,000 f t 00,000 J . ' -etfWi'iLw, .?? W. H. Waliae*, Jeffries, { s, E. P. McKisslck, A. H. Foster, I Your Business. I comfort of the poor wrefchea, whose # misdoings have deprived them of their liberties. Before (his letter reaches The H Times' readers the Legislature will be in session, and we shall look forward to the redemption of some campaign promises. Hope every measure of reform and improvement suggested will be faithfully carried out But I wish to whisper a secret into the eais of our law makers that they should consider if they wish to pass (I laws that will be sustained by the reason and common sense of the neo? pie they represent. "Never ma^e the e penalty for the violation of a law dis i porportional to the crime," i o don't ? inflict too severe a punishment for it's a violation, unless jou want it to be a |t dead letter. 'Jurors should have more latitude in many cases in deis termining the punishment due a crim ? inal?especially in cases of murder 0 and manslaughter. d Mr. V. C. Comer has moved to the I' Gordon Moore place near Hopewell d iu York county. He is well pleased 8 with his new neighbors. One of the Junior "Voxes" kindly 1 represented me last week and gave ie the news. I am glad to say that at '? this writing I feel much better and able to attend to it this week myself. '? th"? neighborhood some time before w long if some people's hopes materialize. , ? . *9 Several of the "Woodmen attendi0 ed a meeting of the order, at Hickory le n,nD. l nut niaht. Thev had a fine V->>\*TW, * O V 18 timo with their York county broth,r era. Several of whom had to ride the II' goat last night. d" Farmers will soon be looking out sft for their guanos for the next crop. |a The holiday season passed withou 3>8 any notable events transpiring ii fd this neighborhood. Success to The Times and all con nected with it. Vox. UH - SEDALIA SIFTiNGS. the The News as Told by oai Frien D- B. B. ext gljt Now is the time for all to agai ,ou. make those good resolutions. 1D(j A happy New Year to you M erg? Editor, printers, correspondents oc Ej>g and all. Farmers, generally, are still takii ''At Christmas, but if this good weath ujlj lasts many days work will begin ?yed earnest. .old. Christmas passed off without ai wa8 serious trouble over here, not even ; be- wedding to report, light Sedalia is a good place, but we ha , the 8ome people who wish to sell mi cotton seed 'ban they can raise, o kory aequently some two hundred bush i her were recently raised from Mr. Mint* r. L. K>a house, the thieves are being d< with accordingly, hood Ev'e Cunningham, the popu teacher ot the New Prospect sch at all *pent the holidays with her parent) ! gel Maddens station. She was companied by Mr. J. R. and I er 0f Maggie Estes. All report a fine ti tunty, Miftrt Cunningham began her scl anker *gaio Monday. , each Mr. J. P. Estes, ot this piaoe, irokee Spartanburg and will s - - ~ * 1 much f?r J - ^ urown, loruiouj vtw.. uafur Mr. Tommy White and nieoe, kind- Mattie Cooper, of Friendship, Is! aviour tanburg county, spent a few days id the relatives and friends in this m is sic- during the holidays, this?" Messrs. Johnnie Dukes and Ws he bai Bailey, two of our young men, made some experience duck huntinj taking Eaorec river recently, a numb d three ducks were slain, worthy I know of some young men i wants have been on a very extensive " rtunate hiiut but they are not prompt a gen- porting their suocess to this sci iave ac *? he can't tell just yet what, iter the Bra. Hey Denver must have bee t a li:tie < if during Christmas, he wa) not at the Conveutim aid 1 hear il reported that is a sure sign the Con vention will J:e. You've missed going then his win I seems to be given toe much to co"jucturing here of late at to wb?t nrght be, etc. I deny the nKa rrrr a antnn nf t Ka mnui omnKaf. ?c?"y Succewhto theever up todcUrUiuo* Time< in the beginning of (he nee oeuturj. tLB. [ rhanfcs Bro. B. B., we still de peud upon our hustling correspondente to help keep The Times up ft date, aud to make it one of the heal weeklies in the State this year.?Ed/ m JUNCTION NOTES. Lock hart Junction, Jan. 5, 1901.' Mr. Editor: This finds us in the twentieth cen tury, the old year has pawed with its sweets and bitters. We thank the all wise Providence that we are all in our places, while so many have passed off the stage of action. Every one seemed to enjoy Christmas as usual, every one had his part of the fun. Old Santa Clans came as he always does, with many things for the children. tu. < ?? iu. n...ii X UD VU1 lOfcUICUJ V1OT AV iUO vjraun School House was a success in ever; respect. ' The tree was laden with many pretty things for the young and old. Rev. John Farr made a very interesting talk for the occasion. Christmas passed off and no one was seen drunk in this part, the little brown jugs have been broken. Mr. I. W. White, who has been living the past year in Brighton. Ala., is now at home visiting his relatives and friends. Mr. White will go again to Atlanta soon. Mr. Henry Gault, who has been living the past year in Cherokee Co., has moved to this place. Farewell 1900, welcome 1901, and may all, young and old, thank God, the giver of all gifts, fur this, and may this year be one of still greatei peace, pleasure and prosperity to all Wishing a happy New Year to all aad success to The Times. ? ? LIFE A CENTUKY fltiu. What A Man Couldn't do And Who 1 He Didn't Have to Do. Ooe^buadrei years ago a man caul > not take a ride on a steamboat. He oould not go from Wasbinton t t New York in a few hours, i He head never seen an electric ligt or dreamed of an electric car. He could not send a telegram; He oouldn't talk through a tel phone, and he had never heard of tl hello girl. He oould not ride a bicyole. He oould not call in a stenograph and dictate a letter. n He had never received a typewr ten communication. r He had never heard of the gei 10 theory or worried over bacilli a bacteria. ,g He had never looked pleasant I er fore a photographer or had his piott jn taken Ho never heard a phouograph ti QV or saw a kinetoscope turn out a pr i a fiKhtHe never saw through a WebsU ve Unabridged dictionary with the )re of a Roentgen ray, on. He had never taken a ride in l6]g elevator. ^.*3 He had never imagined such a tl as a typesetting machine or a t ritar. ,]ar He had never used anything bu wooden pleugh. 9 at' He had never seen his wife nsir ac. sewing machine, j jM He had never struck a match me his pants or any thing else, luol He could not take an anaesthetic have his leg out off without feelin He h^d never purchased a 10 forj, magazine which would have alia. regarded as a miracle of art. M j(8 He oould not buy a paper for a Ipar- And learn everything that had ha] with day before all over the a stion had never seen a MoCoz reaper or a self-binding harvests Hace had never crossed au had bridge. . on In short there were several ( 9r 0f that he oould not do and m things he did not know. who - hwe Tk? situation in Venezuela is ibler over MD>' oonoessious. Americans are said to be oomph in just of the delay. THE cSuSf BULLETIN NO. 14. TwelftmPESeaitm of the United ^ ftates' | For thdi^eMfit of the readers of 5 Thk Times h^ive made arrangements tmre&Kive the reports from f WaA lngtda ?f the census returns r from the dtGTeabnt States of tho Union r as taken la tl|e twelfth census last year. It woold be well to file away evesy copjuje^f Thk Timks containing - th-dc *ep?fs for future reference. f We will caver every State in the Union, and the information will be valuable 1 to gome of our readers. Comparative statements will be made showing the - gradual increase in population since the states tolok their first census. Now is the time to subscribe for The Tiwes, if you, are not already a subscriber, and secure 1 this valuable record. Below will be 1 found the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth reports. | The Bulletins are prepared under the direction of Mr. Wm, C. Hunt, Chief Statistician. i population of states and territories. This bulletin, prepared under the direction of Mr. William C. Hunt, chief statistician fjr population, gives 1 the aggregate pr)j)uiavion of ooch state : and territory according to the official > count of the returns of the Twelfth Censor, taken as of Ju e 1, 1900 1 We give the states for 1890 and 1900 1 but omit the counties. The population of Alaska, Hawaii i and the Indian Territory is given i for certain subdivisions, i 1890 1900 Alabama 1,513,017 1,828,097 Arizma 59.620 122,931 Arkansas 1,128,179 1,311,504 . 1.9.08.1 SO 1.485 053 Colorado 412.198 539,700 1 Connecticut ... 746,258 908,355 ' Delaware 168,493 184 735 DiB't of Col'bi# 230,392 278 718 ' Florida J 391,422 528 442 ' Georgia r 1,837,353 2,216.331 ? J?,ahV 84,385 161,772 Iowa!. ..V.'.V.v'. 6,351 4,821,550 Kansas 1,427,096 ^,4Yu,V?2. Kentucky 1,858,635 2,147.174 Louisiana 1,118,587 1,381,625 t Maine 661,086 694,466 Maryland 1,042,890 1,190,050 Massachusetts, 2.238 943 2 805,346 Michigan 2.093,889 2,420,982 d Minnesota 1,301,826 1,751,394 Mississippi 1,289,600 1,551,270 ? Missouri 2.679,184 3,106,665 Montana 132 158 243,329 Nebraska 1,058,910 1,068,539 Nevada 45,761 42,335 New Hamps're 376,530 411,588 e- New Jersey... 1,444.933 1,883.669 New Mexico... 153,593 198,310 iNew York 5.997,853 7,208,012 North Carolina 1,617,947 1 893,810 er North Dakota 182.71S 319,146 Ohio 3,672,316 4,156,548 ll' Oklahoma 61,834 398,245 Oregon 313,767 413.531 rm Pennsylvania.. 5.258,014 6,302,115 nd Rhode Island.. 345,506 428,551 South Carolina 1,151,140 1,340,311 South Dakota 328,808 401,571 ,ro Tennessee 1,767,518 2,020.611 Texas 2/235,523 3,048,711 alk Utah 207,905 276,74) Vermont 332,422 343,64 Virginia 1,655,980 . 1,854.18 5r'8 Washington... 349,390 518,10 ?id West Virginia 762.794 958,80 Wisconsin 1,686,880 2,069,04 an Wyoming 60,705 92,53 Alaska 32,052 63,44 89.990 154,01 TP? Indian Ter'r'y 180,182 391,9( t POPULATION OF OEOROIA.?NO. 1 Georgia waa one of the origin tg a thirteen states. The population of th9 state in 191 t 0Q is 2.216,331 as against 1,837,353 1890, representing an increase sin , aQ(j 1890 of 378,978, or 20 G per cent. The popu'ation of Georgia in 19 cent vefy nearl7 twenty seven times ^ large as the population given for 17! whea it was only 82,548. cent tota^ 'au(* 8ur^ace ot Geori open- i8? Wro*'mately, 58,980 sqm orld, m^es' average number of peya mirk 10 B9uare mile at the p^nsuf 1900 being 37.5. iron There have been no terrlto changes in the counties of Geoi things ?n<?1890. >veral ^ counties in the state but 9 have increased in popula during the decade. There are 272 incorporated ci i crit- towns and villages in Georgia, The which the population in 1900 is lining returned. Only 40 which that have a populi *1 n 1 in 1900 of morn man / .4/ 1 , Wm. A. NICHC BANK Transact a Regular Ban Branches and Insure I Boiler, Liability and Ace of Indemnity for Officia Individuals as Administi YOUR BUSINESS IS RE! and of the8'only 13 h ive a population in excess of 5,000. Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah are the only cities in Georgia that have a population iu 1900 of more than 25,000. Atlanta, tho largest city io the state, has a prpu'atiou iu 1900 of 89,872 as compared with a population of only 2,572 in 1850; in 1890 it had a population of 05 533, representing i an increase during tho past teu years of 24,339, or 37 1 per cent, as com- ; pared with an i luresss of 75.1 per i tent during the preceding ten years, i Savannah's p >pu!aii >n is 54,244 as j against 43.189 in 1890: it had al< population of 5,1 GO iu 1800. Augusta, < the third la^st city in the state, has | a population iu 1000 of 39,441, < POPULATION OK ILLINOIS NO. 16 I Illinois was organized as a territory ' March 1, 1809, and admitted as a 1 State December 3, 1818. < The population of Hie State in 1600 < is 4,821,550 as compared with a pop>? I ulation iu 1890 of 3,826,331, showing ' an increase during the last ten yea.-? < of 995,199, or 26 per cent., more than 392 times as great as the population | reported for 1810, tho first census j taken after its organiz ition as a ter- f ritory in 1809. < The total land surface of Illinois ia, ' approximately, 56,000 square miles, j the average number of persons to the j square mile at the census of 1900 is | 86 0. There have been no territorial changes iu the counties of Illinois < since 1890. Of the 102 counties ia j the State all but 6 have increised in | Simulation during the decade. i Kendall, ann iui-J^ninpr a decrease i Oi the 930 incorporateu .i( towns an 1 villages, U14 uavo tuau 1,000 inhabitant*; 878 have less than 5,000; 27 have more thau 5,000, but I lass than 10,000; 14 have more than 10,000, but Lss thau 20,000; 4 have more than 20,000, but leas than 25, 000; anil 7 have more than 25,000. Cbieago, with 1,098.575 inhabit tauta in 1900, ahows a numerical increase of 598,725 since 1890, and a rale of increase of 54.4 per cent.; this ia about the same numerical increase, but less thau half the rate of iacrease, shown from 1880 to 1890, during which period the boundaries 1 of the city were widely extended. f ^ ^ : Is Religion to be Measured By Silver and Gold' i > The following able article writtei ) by Rev. L. M. Rice, <. f the First Bap > list Church, is so true and expressiv 1 of the seeming tendency of th ^ churches of every denomination, am 1 coincides so nearly with the contli sions that we had drawn some tim 3 ago, that we take the liberty of clij ^ ping the letter from the last issue < 2 the Baptist Conrier and reproducit '1 it. It was never intended that kl should be thus: - > - t\ Oae of the na/uesi, tUlL iu v. >0 world is to maintain the proper relatii 5. to money. Not that people do not kn< al what that relation ia, but they are t ofiou drawn aside and hoodwinked I 30 the glitter and power it brings alo io with it. We may loudly procla co that money is our noblo slave to used and perhaps, at the same time 00 are slaves to money. The age as materialistic, ^nd, as a Cvsugequen 30, also, mercenary. And there are ai| that this mercenary spirit is pervadi gia our religious activities. It is coram! are to pass that we measure everything ons dollars. The church that raises no j of money is held up as a model. ' pastor who makes the best fioan rial report is held up as a glowiugexan gift of bow to bring things to pass. TI is manifested often a worldy pride i all building a costly houee of wors tion when a congregation can scar stagger along under the weight o ties, perhaps ia twenty years in paying for a debt thus contracted. Often \ sep- a member asks a letter of dismii of from cne of our churches, the Uion question raised is: "Has he paid 000, subscription?" That is tho "be-all )LSON & SON, ERS, king Business in all its against Fire, Tornado, idents, and Issue Bonds Is of Corporations, and 'aiors, Etc., Etc. SPECTFULLY SOLICITED. the end all"'of Ihewbole bu8in?88 Often when a church is going to cxll a pastor, the most promiaent question considered 8s to his fitnesB is, "What are his abiliiies as a financier?" Not How doe3 he preach? Is he ppirituallyraiuded? is ha a gool pastoi? But, Can he bring things to pass in money matter^? Alas, that it should be so; but 1 believe it often is. And I feel Buro that though we may not have reached the blatant noonday of mercenary spirit in religious thihgs, the tendency is toward it. I do not see that the case h hopeless, nor very grievous. It is easy to see some of the (innHiiituid iKoi w-Z ?~ 4^"" fcuuv UCIp tu U1 lllg nuuui tUlB jondition. The poorly endowed denominational college, struggling for ixirttence, is forced to cry. Money, rnocey. The ageut of this board, and that board, is forced by a depleted treasury, by atern want often, and the iry ia, "Money money money!" Pooly* ?quipped colleges appeal to every Lhoughtful man interested in their welfare, and the one apparent, parjmouut issue is seemiugly money. Money makes things hum in ma* terial spheres. We Bee its transform! mg power there, and often we are iwept away in the vortex that threat* sna to swallow up everything in sight. We are tempted to erect a golden image, and to fall down aDd worship it. There is grave danger that money become master in religious matters as well as iu social and material affairs. It had a terrible grip on one the dis-* ciples?Judas, in the long ago. And it is possible that a disciple in this latter days may get into the same sad state. At or Jast State Convention* x - * church tKStcWiff*S! of.tvbesaJ??^!,il contributisns. I do not belisVe'"there was any intentional effort to do this, nor that there was any decided manifestation of this dendency. Bnt I tremble to think that there may be evidenoes of that spirit in any degree. I do not mean to thrw reproach upon auy one of our pastors who so grandly leads in finances. I am willing, and, indeed, glory in the fact that we are coming to possess a losge nomber of men who are well to do, and are contributing largely to education, and ' and church supyort, and missions, every other worthy object. But I do not believe they should be held up as models. A man Who is rich, and who ) has the spirit of Jesus Christ, will give handsomely; and it he has the modesty that an humble follower of Jesus 1 shoould ha\ e, the less said about his '' leberality the better he will like it. 0 And to this impulse to glorify the ^ large givers is often founded upon a assumption. We see the large result in dollars and at once paswJudgment. e Now I submit that if money is to be the standard, it must not bethenumber of dollars contributed, but the proportiou between ability and the amount contributed. And I can best get at what I do mean by present ie ing an incident that once occurreu. >n A good many years ago there was a )W poor widow who went up to a contribu00 tionbox in a temple poarch, and cost in a few cents. Rich menprepeded Her and gave costly gifts Hers was *ra meague as to intrinsic value but the * Teacher standing by with his disciples w.e said to them. "She hath oast in more 18 than they all" How about that? It Cfi' was simple a matter of proportion. *nB Thpiv out of their abundunce; she ant !n8 | of her deep povety, contributed. Ho, theu let ua delight in the large gifts, lost ^ut *et u9 a^,c> euooura^ the seemThe emall oaes. And if we are to .&l make money the test of excellenc, let . it be upon the basis of ability and P amount?not upon the latter alone' H6r6 ) in - u., hip, It is surely a curious sort of logic f if; that holds that Mr. Congpr is not 5 off competent to form a just opinion on v^en the Chinese situation because he has only P*8*6^ through an experience in that [ his country with whioh none of his critics and can be familiar exoept by hearsay. . " f l