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THE UNION TIMES Published Every Friday. ?by the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Rooms 1, 8, 5 and 7, Bank Builmxi. JXO. K. MA THIS, Editor. L. G. Youxo, Manager. Ttegistered at the Postofllce in Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES On* year ------- $1.00 S x month* ------ .*>0 cents Three months - - - - - 'J" cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One oquare. first insertion - - su.is?. , autMOirrnDt lowitfon - AO cents. Contracts for three months or Ion get ] will be made at reduced rates. Jtejected manuscript will not be relumed. Obituaries and tributes of respect will'be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C.. FED. Jo, 1901. READERS TAKE NOTICE ! We have made a clubbing arrangement with WM. JENNIUGS JiRYAN, the great Democratic LEADER, to cluh his famous news paper 41 THE COMMONER" for Vuion County. Wc will furnish to nil Subscribers who pay a year in advance, THE TIMES and THE COMMONER, weekly, for $1.75. This is yotir opportunity. ri he Child Labor bill lias passed lis third reading In V\ro CVmA., u,m, amendments as to reducing 11 e age limit and as to oompulsory education frere rejected. The bill wax otdered engrossed and >eit to the House for concurrence. The Legislature lias passed a biil cieating the ollice of Stale Geologist. The Atlanta Journal, speaking of this action r\t r*nr WtBUI/ir? ouvst "This is one of the best thingr the Fotluh Carolina Legislature 1ns <1 .ne in a long time. South Carolina is i icli in minesm1 resources, the development of vromoted bv ft competent state geol >gi>t. Jle will be one of the best investments the state ever made." And we think so too. Another victory has beui gained In t'M advocates or a law to suppres* the evil of the concealed pistol, The bill cime up before the Senate Tuesday, and a herd fight was made. Several members tried their best to knock it out but it would not down. The people want something done to suppress this evil, and the sooner some of the memlsers n cognize this fact the better for their future oftenecf an amendment "making it unlawful to ear/ any firearm lesi tlun 2<t inches in length an 1 less than three pounds in weight. This knocks the pistol out, an 1 that is the object of the light. The am rndment was a Inp'ed by a vote of 1.1 to l'J, an eff >rt to strike out the enacting words and kill the bill was lost by a vote of 21 to 1U. The pistol niu>t go. utr? ?i?.i . ... t?o o?o k1"'' report umi uie enure Union delegation, House and Senate, voted to down the pistol toting practice. We are indebted to Senator Douglass Cm I A copy of the bill ;is it passed the Senate. ? The House will no doubt concur in the 4 amendments of the Senate. The bill 1 reads as follows: ? "Be it enacted by the General Assetn- 1 blv of the State of South Carolina: s Sec. 1. Thar, from and after the first c day of July, lt)01, it shall bi unlawful for , any one to carry about the person, except on his own premises, whether con- ' coaled or not, any pistol less than *20 11 inches long and lbs. in weight; and it a ehall be unlawful for any ihmsoii, li 111 01 ( coi iteration to manufacture, sell or nlTer for sale, or transiKirt for a de or use into s this State, any pistol of less length and K weight. Any violation of this section \ sliall lie punished by a tine of not less ? than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment for thiity d vs. ' and in case of a violation by a corpora- r tion, it sliall forfeit the sum of one o hundred dollars loand for the use of the , eoun?y wiiereui the violation takes place, tube ucovtitd as oilier Unes ami for- 1 feitures: Provided, This Act shall not ? apply to peace officers in the a;tual (lis- s charge of their duties, or to j?ersons j ti while on their own premises. | bee. 2. Thitthe lines an-1 forfeitures ! ttliove provided for, when collected, 1 shall go to the school fund of the county l' wln-re the violation ( ecurred. tl Sec. 3. In case it s-hall appear to the t PHti->faction of the presiding Judge or Magistrate before whom such offender Jrl tritd that the d?fei.dant has good 1 reason to fe?r injury to the person or tl pn?|>erty, and carried paid weapon to 0 protect himself or pn j?e ty, he may in Ids disci eti rti HUS K n I * ntence. Sec. 4. Tlat all A-ts and parts of 11 Acta inconsistent wth this Act are a n )*aled. ' tr 4, r WAK REMINISCENCES. Another R?vjd writer has steppul to the front and ccntiibuUd an iiiterefcth>? I article on the Minis and tabulations o? j I the Conft deiate soldiers during the war. ; Dr. A. E. Kant is one of our most highly esteeinid friends, and a man of a wonderfully retentive memory, and if lie will continue to assist in contiibuliug these reminhcvnces it will, we feel sure, pive plea-m.e t<? our readers. Mr. Strain and I>r. Kiint. ate both toreefiil writers, and we are ?;Md they lia?u d?-?-i led to hand (1 wii I lit so interesting letteis t?? the rising generation. Every one of <hese p?|ers s-honld le carefully i>r-s rvtd. They will tarnish iuteit-s'i<ig reading for generation* >et to tone-, e\en after the last < lie of mil lielove.d old v? emus i have answered to the liaal roll e >11 and ; passed ov.-r the iiver to the ui)steiious land on the other shore. I liH Mis V i'ih crusi'le s*gun?e 'lie "j lints,"?illicit bwroiun?in Topeka, K ins is, lru bir.ie fruit,. Last Sunday 3,000 male citizens mat in m;isH riii'??tiiiflr ?rnl issneil nil llttim-ltlim d? manding that the joints close up, ship their fixtures cut of tlie city ami stop the business by the lV,h, ('ol.ij; or a committ<e of 1,0X) men will take the matter in hand and smash things up generally. Toe ptlice, city authorities an I the property owners are all given warning that, persuasive measures are at an en-1. There will likely he lively times in Tojieka and perhapi some blood shed. Senator Tillman crested a c rnnn rtiou in tin Senate last Saturday when he swore by the Eternal God he would not. peimit another pension hill to pas* the Senate, if he could prevent it. uutii i istice is done an old South Carolina veteran of the Mexican war, who had b en refused a pension because he render* d aid and comfort to the Confederals Gov| eminent dining the Civil war. Our senator had on his lighting clothes. f There will he no extra fundi f ?r con1 UIUU r?-Vra?,W 'V>U? 11 , . , ... ? ?umtcn Q, inn | reeoor munding an increase of S100.00C to the common schools, but at theses sion of the Senate Monday, the bill was killed, and the rchools will not get the extra funds. The bill to increase the confederate pensions from $100,000 to $200,000 was also unfavorab'y leparted upon. Campbell, McAllister and Dea'h, >lie three sports who so brulally assaulted and murdered Jenny II >sschieter, a mill girl in Patterson, X. J., last Octolw-r, have inent at hard lal>or. WORK OF A KNITTISG MILL. Annie Lnnric Gives u Lncitl Description of the Work in the Excelsior Knitting Mill --How Socks arc Mmlc. Mu. Editor: A great deal is bvh.g written and said about the Exc-lsior Knitting mill. Perhaps a d?fp ipti-.n ot the method of sock-making w ill 1 e interesting to some ot Iiie Times readreaders Every one who has seen a cotton mill umiic, ^Acept that instead of running it on bobbins for looms, it is wound on cones. These cones are made of paste board and are somewhat in the shape of horns, being larre at the bottom and small at the top; they are about the lenpth of avail's hand. When full they look like big balls of thread and a>e ( carried dow.i stairs and put on the knit- j ting machines. One Wiacd" does not make a whole sock. There are "libbers", "toppers", * "knitters" arid "loopers". Iiibl ing, as 0 r it comes from the riblrers, is in long lengths, with a ridge where the length jf a sock rib should Ire. These are cut rpart and taken to the topper, who puts | hem on transferers <.?...( In ? nvcv nciiiain* *" ire then given to the knitter who picks ' ip the stitches threads up his machine, c ets it in motion and soon lias a sock ci om pie ted except closing the toe. When n le has handled two dozm he ties them ir uto a hijiidl1, signs his name, machine is lumber and size of locks, on a tag aud 1< ,ttaches it to llie bundle. It is then tr aken to the loojier, who picks up the 81 titches in the toe and brings them to- tj ether by a process called looping, V( Vhen completed it looks like it had (j een stitched with a tewinr machine. ^ ?rom the loopcrs they go to the mending oom. This is real nice work, ladies SI nly work in the mend.ng room. They _ ike a bundle of socks on their lap and im urn them, (they are turned wrong side T ut for the loopeis) one 1 y one and in- ai p?et them from lop to toe. If they nd a loose stitch they catch it up with it sewing needle and Omadand fasten lx t. From the mending room they go to w lie dve I101180, from there they go to lie press room, where they are pulled on 11 he hot and cold lioards?in the shape ol w man's foot,only flat?and then pressed, k 'his work is cone ly men. From her rr ley go to the finishing room, all pre se I ut nicely ieady for stamping. Itkeipi ei vo "ham's'' l us/ here to stamp all cc li.it are i resse 1 n .on day. After they In r-stamped thoy are placed on a long s? ible w lure they are paired off, built, up, v? Studies In Astronomy. A Study of the Important Planets as we Journey Onward, in Making Our TRIP AROUND THE SUN (L'he weather forecasts are made by the famouo weather prophet Rev. Irl R. Hicks.) Weather Pietlietions forScxt Week The moon is new on the IK Mi, is on the celestial equator on the 15) h and in perigee on the 20th. These facts, at a time when the equatorial b"gin to surge northward. oive assurance that I ho weather disturbano-R. h'ginnhig about the Kith, 17ih. and LSc.li wid not t-utaide until after the lMth and 20t.li, and tlr.it some very heavy tropical storms are prol>able. especially in the Sooth during these general arid prolong"*! disiinbanees Thn hardest storim nviv he i?xpeoted from about Nioudav. the IS'.h f ? Wednesday, the 20th. Th *21*110 2drd ;ue reactionary storm days. The Mtposition of the plauet Mirs on the 21st is a strong factor in the dialiiriwtnw*. before and after that date. Our lesson last week closed with nn introduction to the planet #Mars. We will begin our study this woek by Introducing the class to the four other important planets, taking them us they come. .lUI'ITKK. This gigantic Jovian world, is the King of 1 lie planets, being a greut deal larger than Mercury, Venus, rin, wars ana uranus commnea, o; more than eleven times the diameter of the earth, while its bulk is 1,200 times that of the earth. The diameter of Jupiter is 83,4'M miles, lie revolves on his axis in 0 hours and 50 minutes, his distance from | the sun is ISO,288,000 miles, and it requiros 4,5132 days jfor him to complete the journey around the sun. When examined by a good telescopo the disk of Jupiter is observed to be | crossed by several obscure almost parellel to each other, these are called the belts of Jupiter, sometimes only two of these shadowd lines are to hi seen, while as many as eight have been seen at other times, they vary in size but never in direction. Jupiter bus n family of beautiful statellites which circle around him in liis long journey around the sun, these moons are constantly throwing their shadows upon euch \icic jitj-saioiu mi una gicuv piuuvv to come between the enrth and the sun, wo would be constantly having eclipses by Jupiter and his moons, but this can never be, as Jupiter's orbit is far outside that of the earth. In an article on this Jovian plant Hicks says: "We see the moons glide behind the great round planet, see them dash into the long shadow which he throws away beyond their orbits, see moon pass between its sister moon and the sunligV& blotting _ unu 6ee them sail' o us and the planet, also between the planet and th^sun. The black circular shadow of the Jovian moon forming a black dot upon and making its transit across tho bright face of Jupiter. So accurately are the movements of Jupiter and his moons?all of which, with one exception, are larger than our moon?calcu iated that every eclipse, transit an 1 | icculation in the Jupiter family is | iut down to the moment in astromi- , al charts." Jupiter's orbit is the j icxt outside of Mars' orbit. 8ATUKX, Saturn, the beautiful ringed planet > the next largest planet to Jupiter, j nd its orbit is next outside that of ? upiter. 11 is also larger than Mer- ] ury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Uranus ombined. Its diameter is 75,Odd liles, it rotates in 10 hours and 20 linutes. Its distance fro'm tlie sun i 8S(>,Olio,000 miles and it requires t.T.VJ days, or a little ovor 20.$ years ) complete its journey around the an. Its diameter is about ton times io diameter of the earth and its ilume is about 00i) times that of \c earth. 7 he disk of Saturn is also equently crossed with dark band-* r belts, and dusky spots are o:cas* ^ onally sean on its surface. The ^ >x?'d and labeled ready ior snipping. ' his too is liL-e work, both gentlemen id ladies work lie re. Tie Kxcelsior Knitting Mill makes s own payor boxes but have never iei> in the l>ox mill and am unable to tl lite anything ulxmt it. u I guess that my description of sock c inking is not very plain, but perhaps it P ill give those who are unable to visit a 'n nitting mill some idei of how socks are a tade. a Young girls desiring to be independ- L it wool 1 do well to try the knitting till r sit is just at nice work and as onorable as school torching, clerking, twlng or h ?t dressin f, and rot half so An ik J.At-Rir., belts on Jupiter and Saturn prove the existence of an atmosphere and 1 aqueous vapor, showing the existence ' of bodies of water. The planet Saturn is distinguished from all "the other plMnots in being surrounded by a J br iil, thin, lu>mn ?us riug, entirely detach-d fr mii the b<?dy of the ^ pinner. i iiis rni<? simieuines c?us< a a shadow ui><i i th planet, and is a in turn at times partially obscured by ilia shadow of the planet. The distant-.* between the planet and the ? inner circle of t his ring is some 19,WO miles, the ring's breadth is about 29,OW miles, but as its edge is nearly always toward the earth its surface ( is never seen, and the ring can only | be seen with telescopes. What we have called Saturn's ring consists, in fact, of two concentric rings, which turn together although entirely detached from each other. The void space between them is perceived by telescopes of higher power in the form of a black oval lino, the inner band or ring is said to be about J/.OOO mlfes broad while tho outer band is some 10,000 miles broad. The distance between the two rings being nearly 1,800. As to the origin of the rings of Saturn, Sir John Ilerschel saj s : "Their motions iu their common orbit around the sun must have been adjusted by an external power, with the minutest precision, or that the ring must have been formed about the planet while subject to their common orbital motion, and under the full and free influence of all the acting forces, in the progressive creation of the universe." Saturn has nino statellites. They all, with the exception of the 8th, revolve very nearly in the plane of the ring and of the equator of the planet. The Oth statellite is estimated to be very little less than the planet Mars in size, the I others diminish in size until the 1st I and second are so small and so near the ring that they are only discover^ at times with the most powerful tele- A s jonos. I I'UANUS AND ITS 8TATELMTBS. Uranus is next in rotation, and is f so far away that although it conies fourth in the largest of the planets, ^ and being larger than Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars combined, is scarcely visible to the naked eyo. Its diameter is 110,875 miles, it rotatos on its axis in the in the incredibly short ppace of nine hours. Ono as* UU'JUt Ut,UWV UIIISA, HUU ! is 82 times that of the Earth. Its ' mean distance from the sun is 1,781,- I 941,000 miles and occupies dO.liSU days in making its journey around the sun. Uranus has four moons, ] but they are only discovered by telescopes of the highest power. To give some idea of the distance of this planet, imagine a cannon ball making a trip through space, beginning at the sun. When it has traveled 3(5,000,0J0 miles nnd passed the orbit of Mercury, 33 million mire and passed Vem??, tti million more, passing the Earth, 50 million more ana pns*r<\ Mar*, then 342 millions of miles mr?r? I and passed Juplter, to this add another little flight of 40:1 millions of miles t) Saturn, when that cannon bad had in ide all this distance from the sun, in a bee line for Uranus, it would be just a little over half way to that planet. Can you swallow all that at one do*e, gentle reader? (Juite i distance away, isn't it? But that s nothing to what's coming. Let's see about Neptune next week. ADVERTISED LETTERS iimaing in the Pus*, (Mice at Union L C., fir the week ending Feb. 15th * 1901. W II Greer C E Girardeau MrCIaik 11 illy er Mrs Kiuuia Hughes Mias Minnie Liukster Mrs Marv Long Mr Pat Off >rd Mr W It ''aimer Mr Will.Smith (2) Mrs llastha Smith John Sullivan J F Thomas Mr Barte T u nst.il 1 It 11 Williams Persons calling lor the above leN ;rs will please <my if advertised, ai d ill he required to pay one rent lor * seir delivery. _ J (J. illJNTKR. P. M. Notice of Dissolution. 1 Tlie llrm of Smith it Welch has his (lay dissolved copartnership by 1 u iiitual consent. All persons having luinis against said (iriri will please resent them to J. I). Smith at once. .11 parties owing said lirm either by ote or account will please call and ettle same with J. I). Smith at once, s wo are compelled to settlo up this luslness. J. D. Smith, J. S. WBLOH. liV Carlisle, S. 0., Jan. 1, 1001. 5-at Subscribe for The Tluio*. WHY DO WE A BECAUSE IT IS E VALUES THAT W BFFER. rHIS WEEK WE HA' Special Drive ii all of which we wil than cut prices. 1 require a bird's e; this enormous stc vince you that the WAY DOWN i nevertheless we i Klondyke when tin ingly small prices on the Blankets. ^ this line are brighi and sold in this ws to VIAKE ROOM FOR iViw 11101*0 oi" tliOHO Oil"- olotll to f^O clt 11 Come IS 4 your motli lIk; best bur^uiiis. Fhe A. H. Fostei fl8 Are mow Minn iwTb 'repared to do "tgll UI( IN LEATHER, WOO We have added to our coniple Wagons and Carriages a Blacksm ness shop, 'where you can have ui you bring. We are building ou Harness. You may come arouut stock that we put in each. Our ?vo oaoli artists in their respective that leaves our place is warranted We are making a specialty of I invitation is extended to all to coi: thing in stock. Another needed addition is t Call and see us when you want i double. Everything new. Gent drivers. Look for ad. next week. green & Nineteen Hundred and One, Twelve month ago we begun, Your interest we sought, Your patronage we won, We feel you cau say with us we This year we begin, other patroi I low about it, can't we count y( Our stock is complete, All prices we meet, "when we d< GRAHAM &, E HONE 84. The "HE PARLOR < Having recently purchased the business o m prepared to supply the needs of your tabl PHONE VOU1 and they will be attended to with prom AIvU GOODS DICLIVE Butter, Eggs and Vegetables a HIGHEST PRIC >r garden, farm and barnyard produc CHAS. R. SHIT PHONE 1 DVERTISEP XCEPTIONAL E HAVE TO VE FOR YOU A. i Blankets,* II sell at less It will only ye view of >ek to eon! prices are ro ZERO t were not in ese exeeedwere fixed U1 goods in l and fpesli ly in order NEW GOODS. lew York dime per ynrd. icr-in-in \v gj-ets r Company. iae Kepairiog t~ D AND IRON. te stock of Buggies, ith, Wood and Har- . uvthin<y rpimipp<l J D ""I r own Wagons and 1 any time and see the entire force of men lines, and everything - A ionest Harness. An ne and inspect everyhe Livery Business, a nice team single or le hordes and careful BOYD. t 11 done. s aage to win, )u in? [jn't beat." :stes. Fancy Grocers 'IROrRRY f the PARLOR GROCERY, le. Et, WANTN iptness and dispatch. ;red free. lwayson hand. IEN PAID e suitable for table use H, Mgr. 'O. ^ . ... i