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V\ S UNION TIMES /pr ^ ^ilUISUEl) EVERY FRIDAY ? ?BY THI p NION TIMES COMPANY 1 __ t Rooms I, 8, 5 and 7, Bank Building. n ? c J SO. R. MAT HIS, Editor. 0 L. G. Young, Manager. f ? s Registered ?l the I'ostoilice in Union, v . C., as second-Haas mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 One year ------- $1.00 v Six mouths ------ 50 cents* i Three mouths ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS f One .are, ilrst insertion - ? $1.00. i Every lUsequcnt. insertion - 50 cents*, f On acts for three months or longer wiii be mule at reduced rates. [j*ws?ls inserted at SJ ends a line. I liej?*oted manuscript will not be re- c turned. Obituaries and tributes of re- j spect will tie charged for at half rates. 1 ONION. R. C., OCT. 4, 1901. Your subscription expires with the t date on the lnbel on your paper, t When the date is oldor tlinn the date * ,of the paper it is time for you to re- | yn\w If you delay this too long you j will find the blue X mark, that means r .you are cut olT until you settle no. f <? ?. _ f 4Ve remarked a few weeks ago that c there were very few happenings of ' .a importance where Atlanta waa not j: In the picture. It now develops that i an Atlanta man was on the jury v which convicted Czolgosz. 0 We see from the Herald and News I iWiat the Daily paper which was to ^ lhave been started in Newberry, by e Mr. K. H. Aull, has been called off for the present on account of a fail- f ure to arrange for a telegraphic news 1 service. ' Czolgosz, the assassin of President j McKinley, was sentenced last Thurs- 1 day afternoon, as announced in last week's issue of Thk Times. The elec- c troeution will occur in the Auburn . t prison during the week beginning fi October 2Sth, 1901. It was swift justice, and this is the only remedy f against lynch law. I The Spartanburg Daily Herald ? shows a marked improvement, with t its neat get up, new clothes, and ?a> f largement from 4 to 8 pages, and j judging from its very liberal adver- i tising patronage, it will soon be 1 necessary for a still greater enlarge- J ment, to make room for its news col- ? Cimns. ? A tMKMtition was caused at Canton, Ohio, on the night of Sept. '29th, by two men attacking the guard who * was watching the tomb of the Jate 8 President. The guard fired at one of ^ them after hailing him twice, the '* <oth/?r attacked the guard from behind $ with a j^nife. They made their es-eape. There is considerable excite- a oient at. Canton. Jt is thought the ^ ghouls wished to blow up the tomb ^ of President McKinley. Tha guard ? has been increased by the addition of '' .ten men. j *'A ftturnwell correspondent of The J.' <3lrcuit Ri?ipr sp.ys: 'Miss Lizzie Doty gave a sfcv.2 social at her home ^ last Friday for the bepefit of the aged w ministers.' What in tha vyorld is a H shoe social."?Newberry Observe?. n U'.hy, that's nothing, we saw a ft ^recent announcement of a dog social i' (being give* by a lady. What in the b' world is a dog ???ial. We under- ^ flbmni t hat "social" to mix in fll .mnhnftl n nH fpituullv f*f\n A a k' ? U I " rf**r observation teaches ub that thai vneetfng of dogs is rurely of a friendly .nature. VVe cannot, define a doe social, whether it is meant to be a rn . - tfriendly meeting of the dogs or of the P' -jparties who take them, OV of the ** whole combination we are unaMe to say. But wo think we are in favor w .of drawing the line at the "dog si social." P' . b. The Soldier's Home in Atlanta was ** burned down early Monday morning, and before the smoldering ruins were 2$ extinguished the Atlanta-Daily Mews w 1 1 ~ ? Chi unci upwuou up it nuunuripviun Vit rrbuild the home for the old veterans. Telegraphic replies were received in ^ a few hours from all over the State of t0k Georgia expressing a willingness to hi contribute to the reconstruction. The ei building was worth $80,000 InsurAnce $21,500. The 70 old soldiers were provided with quarters by the Atlanta Journal. The work of re^ building will begin at once. The ^ News and the Journal are two warm 0I 4 members of the Journalistic frater- wi oitj. This is evidence that our old con fed orate heroes occupy a warm #pot to tffo fcesrtp of this generation. { 1# So mote It be. > io THR SOUTH FOR WHEAT. Col. J. B. Killebrew, of Tennessee, rho has l-een experimenting with the rhent crop, answers a Northern taper, that undertakes to criticise he advisability of wheat raising in he South in a very convincing manier, showing that our Southern lands an be made to yield enormous crops 1 if wheat. The North, because of the act that wheat and corn are their tandard crops, would, no doubt, be ery glad to discourage the idea of >lanting wheat to any great extent n the South. But blessed as we are rith a climate and a soil that will jroduce almost any crop, we should itil'7.e It to the best advantage, and is to the quality of the flour made rom our home raised wheat, it will >e remembered that very little of it inds its way to the general market, limply because it is of superior qualty that it is practically absorbed for lonsumption in the districts where t is grown. It is more nutricious, n<?re healthy and the consumer has earned this fact by comparison. Col Killebrew in his reply says: "I can name Mr. Wolf, of Manches.er, Tenn, (formerly from Indiana,) vho has been growing twenty-two mshels of wheat on land that heretoore produced only six or se\en mshels. I can name Mr. J. A. Cunnngham, of Kimmins. jTenn, who aised twenty-six busnels of wheat >er acre on a 60-acre field, where ormerly five or six bushels were lonsidered a fair yield. I can name laht Brothers, of Tullahoma, who jrew twenty-five bushels of wheut >er acre on 200 acres that had hereofore been considered practically worthless for the growing of cereals if any kind. I can nume the many xperiments made by reason of the >remiums offered by the Macon Telegraph, in which twenty-five to forty mshels of wheat were grown in numirous places in Georgia " Col Killebrew thenjdeclared that in wenty years, should prices and deTiand justify it, the South can easily )roduc-e 500,000,000 bushels of wheat ID 25,000,000 acres of land. The nogt luxuriant crops of wheat grown n North America, are grown in Caliornia, in the same isotherms as Ten'nessee arid North Georgia. It sannot be maintained, that the South' irn States are not equally as well idapted to the production of wheat is the States north of the Ohio RiverThis error has been propagated and o9tered in the minds of the Northern jeople because wheat and corn are their standard crops, while they are july subordinate crops in the cotton ind tobacco growing States. Apply he same skill and intelligence to the growing of wheat in the South and the will equal, if not surpass, any Stat.es ifx tjtie North. Mr. Edward ktijinson, of ijos&jp, shares Col Kill?jrew's views, as he expresstd he opinion that "the unoccupied ands," alone, in only three of the iouthern States and Territories, 'could produce the present wheat rop of the United States." The will of the late President Mo. Cinley has been made public. It is [iven out on authority that the Mckinley estate will total $225,000 to 50,000, including life insuranc of (17,000. Aside fFQftj this insurance he estate cosists of lfiaj estate at nd contiguous to Canton, Ohio, his I ome and 01" deposits In Washington anks. The will is in the President's wn hand writing. It was executed a 1807, and is as follows. "Executive mansion, Washington, ). ppbjish the following as my itest will ana jsafffiipept, hereby evoking all former wills, ' To my beloved wife, Ida St. Mc[inley, I bequeate all of my estate, 'herever situated, and the income of ny personal property of which I lay be possessed at death during er p#.tural life. I make the followig charge pftQn all of my property, oth real and persoq#!, To pay my lother during her life 00b f,l>oi}$an(I hilars a year, and at her death said im to de paid to my sister Helen Mo inley, If the income from nroperty a insufficient to keep my wife in eat comfor.t and pay the annuity :>ove provided, then J direct that ich of my property be sold sq as to ake a stun adequate for both pnr>ses. WhAtever property remains the death of my wife I give to mv rother and sisters, share and share ike. My chief concern is that my ite, (fOlf} my estate, shall have all le require* fof her comfort and leasure, ana en at tuy j?jo;ncr hum 11 a proviped with whatever in'one/ she, vi^ires to make her old age comforii>le tu\d happy. "Witness my hand and seal, this id day of October, 18t?V, to iny I ant ill and testament, made at the Oily ! Washington. J)istrict of Columbia. ''WiJl;a;p IVJcKinley." "The foregoing will was witnessed 17 us this 22d day of October, 189T, ? the request of the testator, and is name signed hereto in our preslce, and our signature hereto in his resenpe. "(r. B. Cortelyou, (7b?8 Poefller." Whilo no stone seems to be left aturned jn the Schley court, by $hley's enemies, to blacken his recd, they are making very little headay, and the evidence bears out shley's claim that the weather was o rough to coal at sea. It looks ore and more like Schley was the al hero and to him instead of Sampm belongs the oredit. Letter From the Indian Territory. Chickarha, I. T., 8ept. 21, 19CI. Editor Union Times: My Dear Sir:?Having met you at Memphis at our great reunion, and only a partial acquaintance at that, I regard you as being one of the boys. Though while you are young and I have not the experience of the boys who wore the grey, at the same c'me I believe you will voice my sentiments. I have been reading some of Capt. J. L. Strain's letters in The Times and I do think that we, the old boys, the heroes of 'Gl-'Gii, are not doing our duty as we should Every old Confederate soldier who can wield the pen in behalf of our brave bovs who stood on so manv bloody battlefields with bared breast to leaden hail. Eulogy is too limited and inexpressable. Words cannot do justice. No man can utter the sentence that will fill the requirement or explanation of the fortitude, bravery and endurance of the Confederate soldiers. I say we are not doing our duty. Every ex-Co?ifederate who can tell the most with the fewest words should have a voice in this matter and show to the rising generations that the Rebel soldiers were the grandest that the world has ever known, and let it be so recorded in hist ory that the South r<nae i the noblest, army that the snn'ijdit of heaven ever shone on. I think we are making a great mistake by not doing more to elevate the names and deeds of those who have already crossed the river and wo trust are resting under the shade of the trees. COL. JOHN H. OILF.S, ONE OK UNION'S HEKOE8. Is is my desire to, if possible, speak a few words for the name of one whose endeavors were great and his patriotism was unbounded, and all of which was proven at the battle of Seven Fines, before Richmond, in 18G2, when lie gave his life for the cause he loved, $nd a caqse he helieved to be right. I believe that { can safelv sav that Cob John R UilMs whs one of the noblest sons of tins dear Southland. We shall no* s .v thar. he was perfect, but we wll say that he was almost without a blemish, and as a man to man he w is faultless In his army career, and vet while that was very short, and necessarily governed by cruel war; his charitable deeds knew no bounds, kind and gentle, brave and true, and a disposition as loving as the mother that bore him to the liirht of his earthly habitation. His every day walk carried with it all of tho"p noble characteristics that it takes t,o make the turn for the betterment of his inferiors. On the march he was ever ready to speak a word of con* >lation. In the camp he was more than willing to lend a helping hand to those of his comrades who occupied a lower position in the walks of life. On the battlefield he was cheerful and on his bright face no look <?f tremor, every feature, every gesture and every motion of the man showed the strongest virtues of a fearless soldier, f do not' t.Jiink he ever failed one time, sq far'as'vjrus in Jiis power to relieve the suffering qf Ips fellowman and comrade. While h;* men wore his comrades and companions In arms and yet he commanded, but was true to the fellowship of hi" men. Col. Giles was one of the i\.nignrs or manaflsas riains, one or the heroes of Williamsburg, and last a martyr of Seven Pines; there to give a life to the cause he loved, and there to end the toils, hardships and $ujyering of the march, the bivouac; there thi&fc e^.Jb spirit returned to God who gave it, *h4 'v/$ trust po rest with the honored host of o?-i people where sorrows are no m >re Can we say more? The half can never be told of such men and soldiers as Col. .John R. Giles, of the Confederate army, and one of the bright sons of South Carolina. And p,f?V Mr J?di?or if it is your will that J shall have epa^h. J' will add a few more brief remark*.' In 1801 wh?n Gol. Gilos organised his Co I), of the f>r,h S. 0. Volunteer* (Giles was Captain), J. T. Douglass was Orderly Seargent, messmates bedfellows, co-workers and companions in arms. Timo, the great heule> of i'Js, makes great changes in men. The ^e^riTfdl by, Col. Gile* has gone to the last iesiit;u g|ece of mortal man. The widow to mouvo the loss of a noble husband; but stil: the same beautiful Mary Jane Giles, full of vigor and the true virtues ol wom&nhogd. ^fter all the woes and misery and ye^atiQns of cruel war ha* vanishpd and supplanted t)y pure happiness and thp onjook of bettes days. J. T. Douglass, once Orderly 8er geant of Col John R Giles, and th< sweet Mary Jane, once the wife of f? John R. Giles, seek their future fortune together, and for these 88 long enterveruifg y*an; they have lived a happy and useful life. And uw umrvn i/;ua unrrutivu m rw complote, the old town of Union has a camp of U. C. V's named for Col. Giles and J. T.' Douglas made its Commander, and after the lapse of all those long and sorrowful years when tirqe alkali have brought the change to those we I.Qvp, the angels of heayen will rejoice and the saints of old shall sinv ajopd With praise, and the great Oomi?<ander $na j^ing will call the old boys all together, form thein into line and march them oo tbroj^h time, eternity and immortality should he ^e prayer of every Ameriuan soldier, yaqkoe pr Rebel. Your humble servaqt, G. G. Buchanan. w??m Nervous Diseases oared. IK) days treatment, #1.00. J. H. Mason dc Qu.f Hancock, Maryland. 29-ly ' f ? ! c WTi<>8?- 4 , A Feasible Farmer's Trust. By Geo. H. Phillips, of the Chicago Board of Trade. Reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia. Copyright 1901 by the Curtis Publishi'fj Company. Editor Times:?The question of effective, practical organization of the country is as .important as it is difficult of solution. Many schemes have been urged from time to time some of which, for a while, seemed to meet all the requirements, but have all ultimately failed to hold together under the severe test of practical application, and the question is as much an open one today as when first mooted. The following ' will be found exceedingly interesting as bearing upon the subject, and if we consider that cotton, and other leading crops of Southern production, may he substituted for. orcomhineri with the corn crop, it will be found difR cult to pick out a fatal Haw in the plan advocated. B. K. Davis. "No man with half an eye for the signs of the times" has failed to understand that industrial combination is the dominant and distinctive order of affairs at the present moment. From peanuts and chewing gum to locomotives and mining machinery, almost every product of human labor has come under the hand of the "trust" organizer. The "promoter" and "underwriter" have made practically every field of industrial activity to respond to their systematized and concentrating touch. Almost the only ex^ptlon to this rule is the greatest and most fundamental cf all industries, that of the agriculturist. And now comes the question : Is a farmers' trust foasible? Can (his principle of organization, co-oporation and concentration?which has brought- withiu its grasp practically every product used by the agriculturist?be made to apply with equal j or approximate effectiveness to tlie j betterment of his interests? And if ; such a movement is feasible, is it necessary or desirable? In an attempt to discuss these questions and to suggest what appeal to me as practical methods for the farmers to get together and strongthen their material interests,, let me disclaim, at the outset, uny sj m pa thy whatever with the "calamity howler," the professional political reformer, or any of their kind. Thanks to the marvolous natural resources of America and her unique agricultural adi vantages?nnd particularly to the fact that she alone furnishes the corn crop of the world?the prosperity of the farmer of the United States does not depend upon auy scheme of organization, any artificial combination, or the success of auy single poj liticul doctrine. Nature has given the farmer o? j this country an advantage bigger and broader and more substantial than all these things, one able to withstand the onslaughts of all the artificial devices that, can be brought to j he?r l|y tl|e resourceful tactics of I tljose lyho scheme for the special atfi vantage of one class at tfod expense i t>f another. Personally I believethat ! the real interest of every Jegitjmatp 'industry is inseparable from that of all other Industries in the field; that there Is a genuine and vital community of interest throughout the indus' trial world of America. ' This, however, is by no means ?rniu?ing rnai agrieuiruro 18 not atfected by what is termed the "trust i movement" as it obtains in other |Vof>8?for undeniably it is so affected Nor d^us it' imply tljat the farmer is not ut a disadvantage in thus fup falling to fall In line with the prevailing movement of combination and make the most of a weapon that Is being used to his hurt. HOW TRUSTSTAKE TOM. OK THE FARMER On the other hand, I am firmly convinced that he sulfers distinct and continual loss in q. failure to get the fair and just rewards of his labor, because he has not yet awakened to the necessity for close, extensive and businesslike organization and combination along lines so similar to that form of industrial cryatullz-tflon commonly called "the trust" that he reed not quarrel over the offensiveness of the torip If the term does not suit, let him call it by some other name so long as he cramps the full udvantugH of the priuciple of combi nation. It would bo an unpardonable as. suinptjou for me to presume t-? leal With this problpp} In * brq;?(J and Qnmprehensive way, for f must disclaim any speoial knowledge of many branches of agricultural interest?In fact, of jmy except that of corn pro duct-Inn and the interests Inseparably allied with it. Outside of tills specia' field 1 cannot attempt to speak ; Out cfipn npi>itnnl.inn n..na?ii nt/u vast ft part 'oi the entire agriculture >f America that' a demonstration of the effectiveness of combination and co-operation in this field would be of national significance, ard would, iij great measure^ soiye the problem of the practicability 6f p "farmer^' trust." Tho futility of an attempt on th? part of an Individual stand mi> against tho giant corporation or ' combine" has bepn too cff<ctivei> demonstrated and too g*nar?iiy accepted to call for proof or argument. The only question then is: Does the farrper feel the pressure of the "combine*" iVod M OQ, fq >yhut extant and in what ro&nner* He feels It keenly both in what, he buys and In the selling of his own products Farm machinery and barb wire huve long beeu under the oon trol of powerful combinations. Within a few.WfJbKif^ast, a hundred-million-doljhr |>low^trust has been organ* z-?d. Tmjpye juA but paeeing examples of the products which the farmer must hare that are under trust control. Broadly speaking, every staple article that, he buys comes from the stand of a combination. Then, too, he is reached directly by the great railroad "combines." Here he is in their hands both "going and coming." Whatever he buys that comes from outside his immediate community, and all that he ships to any other community, passes through this "combine" agency. SMALL VAUMKRS AT TUB MIDDLEMAN'S MERCY. In attempting to formulate a suggestion for a fVasible scheme of combination ami co-operation among farmers, one lact is of vital and paramount importance. This is that the price of corn, an of every other crop which comes into the general market, is lowest when 'h>bulk of the crop is moving out of the hands of the farmer. This is the key to the whole situation The crop statistics for the hist ten years, ihat is to say, from 181)1 to 11KK) inclusive, show that there has been a ditfference of .from ten i>er cent, to twenty l?er cent, in the casli price of corn between the iirst few iftonths following tiltharvest and ihe months ending the crop year. In other words, when the renlei and jtoor farmer, who must dispose of their corn as soon after harvest as it is ready to ship, have corn to sell, the prices are from ten per cent, to twenty per cent, lower than at the period when t his class of fanners have nothing to sell because their holdings have passed into the hands of the middlemen (and here 1 do not mean the country grain buyers) who, with little or 110 risk or la?>or 011 their part, secure as much profit for furnishing buildings in which the crop may lie stored until wanted for conpumpdon as the farmer gets for his yeai's tuii on that crop with the risk of its failure In view of this fact, there is no escape ii(Fin i.nti conclusion mac me cenrrai on ject to be aimed at in formulating a practicable plan for a fanners' trust, so lar as crop raisers are concerned, must tie tlie dis|Hjeitioo of thelhst and heaviest movement of the corn crop at sp high a price as possible. The only j?er&on to be unfavorably affected by such a result would he the middlemen, who produce nothing, but wh make a speculative protjt upjn th?necessit y of the fanner who cannot affotd to hold his crop in the orib against lieperiod of higher prioes. Of course it must be recigni/?d that there is a class of w.-IUo^io forehanded farmers who are not compelled to realization : their crop as soon as it has been i>arve*U-dv but are iu poaitiou to bide their time untU the middlemen has pu< up the prices, at the tune when he has the main part of the crop under his control. This class does not include th-? tenant farmer or the agriculturist of small holdings It has long been recogn'jj d thato*rtain financial conditions governing the handling and marketing of crops are intoler..TO BE PR Buy a McCormick Moi are none like them, tl THE BEST IN We have already sold a aoli V " ^ " T chines this season and will siding in a few days. DON'T DELA Your neighbors are using will just let us know you ^ that MoCormick makes'thei GREEN & BOY! Coipp and inspect oup spqck bpfqr< that wp pan aaye you money if yc are unsurpassed, we manufhetu leather by the pound or side. I) For Bm GREEN { i in - i C\ ij "tr inl mm The best Cream Chese on th RAna(nJ n~cr A. irti- < * i4ic7 4.0 that is unexcelled in flavor. Mackerel Fish at 10c that ai A new line of Cakes and Cr Q#r 8tocfc is complete snd p Q RAH AH & ESTE! able to tbe farmer. An a relief. It has frequently been suggested that I be Government bnild warehouses and admnli money on the crop product* deposited there. This plan has oeen the central idea of several farmers' organizations. it was clearly net forth, for example, in tbe propaganda of the Fprmera* Alliance To this aehema ilieie baa beea ?iue fatal obj-ct. It present* a ?f>ciss of * paternalism iu which tlie wh?4e people is taxed for the benefit, of a single clam. Naturally and inevitably Una iieeomera |N>litical issue. Other producing classes will not approve of extending governmental help to the com or whe.it. gmwei. They contend that there would be aa much Justice and reason in having theGovermant buy up or "carry" anv matin ac'ured products of general use aa in having tbe main agricultural product made the basis f federal sutwiay or a-wi*tauc?. under .uir form of government any paternalhtn if this port must bo regarded as practi- jjrl <;ally impossible. ' WHY OOVKHNMfNT AID IS IMPRAO TICAItLR Tliia question recently came before a meet ins of farmers which I attended at Minneapolis. At an imformal talk on that occasion I made a tentative sucgmfcion1 that, this paternal feature might \m avoided if the Government were to tax corn growers one cent, a bushel en i heir crop and use the fund thue accruing for the building of grain warehousrs and for making limited advances, at a low rate of interest, on the crop This, I must confess, was an offhand opinion which attracted much more widespread attention than I desired and to which an undue weight of importation was at'ached. Without careful reflection and anal) sis it seemed to me, at the moment, that this plan would do away with any jft real ground for the charge that, and ?r the Government warehouse scheme promised, "ail classed should be taxtti for the bt nod of the few " 'Mature c 01 deration, however, has o mvinoed me fh?t. ?hi- plan would in4 Iw entirely feasible for the riias >u tha* It would imp'y a t *v "p-vi rnn finiwri, i i matter how small the number, who w tub* not "tp^vrlhe to th* wisdom >f suoll taxation, or who, on account Of luir own prosperousfl iaucial uouditiin, . .1 ..O.I ,1.. ... I'kl. MV * *4 uv UV ' u du< i .?>r. LUIS would l>e in violation of the spirit of the Vinnrioan people andof'the fu idam*iiifi{ principles if our G ovarii qgent. Iq 'bege -l ivs the men who get ahead are thqnp ?h? do things for therqsalvp* Tlptfb fne( hiii compelled to Uelieve that, as a institute for all paternal proposit ions hjr ? wh>?:h the Government or a large part ?f i hr iKHipk w mid be made to onntrtbuta to the tie.uetlt of a single class, the ouhr wise and feasible plan is to induce *ha? class to woik out h? own saIrai ion through combination and oo-operation. (Continued next week.) WANTCoAfc&VBRAI, PKR8ON8 OF character nno^^^rcputatlon In each State (ono in this ct^^^Hwnuircd) to repreaent aipt advertise wealthy baft? P-tyatiJo jn <iiti( ?? re Carton ver and Rake. There icy are as advertised, THl WOULD, id car of McCorraick Mahave another car on our Y IN BUYING them and you can if vou ft rices right. * \ A ? The Fancy Grocer*. & - nrant theui. Don't forget ? and D SELLS THEM. Buggies Wagons ... \ND... 0 Carriages All Kinds to Suit EnryMj, e you buy. We will gnar^ntff )u buy tt??m 118. Our r}arnc?? re our own goods. Harness on't Iorget us. slness, &. BOYD. mm Epb?? e market at 1.5c per lt>, c, 20c, 25c, and 35c per lb., e beauties. ^ ackers hot from the oven.