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I \(( II Thi TOWN O^UNION MAI ff- r ^ & W "T" "M. ~f y~V ~M T f B"1 "W ~M M" "W^ S~~^A || THS TOWNOP UNION MAS | R Three Cotton Mills, one the H [ I I I I I 1 1 I- I A M ' W/l B 1 ' W * m The largest Knitting Mill and I [I largest lu the South. Four Fur- Ut U ? Ml m m I M / |J J Dye Plant in the State. An OU | J nlture and Wood Manufactur- } 1 m m I ? 1 , and Manufacturing Co. that I g ii.g Concerns. One Female ? II > J ^ V W M makes an unexcelled Guano. 5f W 8?-miuary. Water Works and M JL JL _M_ A JL M JL V/ X 1 JL J_ IV JL ^ ? ( Three Graded Schools. Arte- A ^BBIIBBBP^S^I^hr 8ian ^ater' ^?i)u|^tio" VOL. LI. NO. 44. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. NOVKMBKR 1, 1901. Si .an * vpad m m *? < *>-m"**-4+4* P. M. FARK President. T GEO. MUNP?, Cashier, J. r. 9 Merchants' and Pla ^ g OF UNI I Capital Stock T Surplus I Stockholders' Liabilities a Total Dikkotoks?J. A. Fant, V I T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, T Wm. Coleman. X We Solicit Y ^ 1901 lOYEMBER 1901, Su. Mo. Til. We. Th. Fri. Sat. t O JL 6 TTTI7TT 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 J7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26127 28 29 30 EDCCAT1NG THE BOYS. Vfl* Gives His Views to the Present Method of Educating the Rising Generation of Voung Men. Ad\ ocutes s Practical Education. There ean be no harm in a country newspaper correspondent giving a few thoughts, suggej-tions and observations on practical subjects as he gathers them from reading, studying t}Q(i hearing them diseased by others. I * J befipve that the m$n who opens Up the shortest, easiest and jnoK ( \ <Arliriil rnnt#? fnr t.h<? oiliir?tinn /,f ib<? J^nth of our land, and convinces v / ^he world of its practicability will * ' go down to his grave a ben< factor to his race?for having performed the highest duty assigned him. That some of the time-honored customs are humbugs 1 am willing *o admit, but that is no argument that eyery new i depart (ire is a suepess. ^hepe is no one subject abryt which there are so many false, con- 1 dieting and varying optimum as that of education and tne method-* of re- 1 quiring it. I mean of course a thor- ' ough practical education, which fits a boy or girl for the duiits and responsibilities of life. 1 Life itself is a battle and knowl- i edge is the weapon with which we 1 L?*. fight it. Disarm the soldier and he I Can't face the foe. Let qs loo}c at I ' tKo a noofinn rvf nnl 1 o r?u oii n^.u 1 ffv M* WI?\ gw vuupa^yii L ealtply and dispassionately. 1 I Lave met scores of the gopho- 1 mores fr >m some of the leading in- ' stitutious of learning of our country : [and could find no fault with their 1 knowledge of red paint, draw poker and other doubtful games while their 1 pollege ajrs wcfe alf that could he d*?ircd. Tl-ey were experts in book 1 making, in base ball, bonis and in tegral profmi?3 and the proudest and 1 most honored had achieved the lof > 1 distinction of belonging to the "vara 0* ??tj " out put. ilow tnanv gradua'es from any one of our Alma Maters are qualified to enter tbe field w herein the bread dippers grapple with necessity wtust laurel* fr'in the ttghi? This 1? not an age of Lotus tries, nor is it the land Arcadia, but a jostling place for workers where the loaves are few and the- inoiuh} are uiuny. Luxqry gfowq nop qpon tjie bt<|ge $<t e^ep comfort regards only the uiimber^ T''P fault I find with many graduate# is that they know little th*tp> ornamental and still has tL . /?.. i tin i t_ tnat in uhciiii ??uemer lie r?sjousibiljt) f<>r ibis belongs to the psrei t. I teacher or pnpil remains yet to be J (lelvjp'Ued, !# | ! 4sJ?4nfc fP*n emerges from 90b . lege with a sheepskin' in ope hand | ?ii?i a golden opinion of himself in ; I t|ip oijjef. IJu prides like Agathcm- j pop Yc| Jhp n^rife . coiiVeht jhitt tht re re bat frw th*?g* in life for him ! to learn, and he is ready to aohieve j sucetv-s by a single bound In three weeks time you will perhaps fipd hirp runping errpnd* for a ,jL rtt f' Vl'e d'pliaA a week considering himself lucky to g< t that. . i'h,p fWt is thaf hi? 0'?||? g? eduoa!ti?o hpf b^pn merely a rapij turning / 0 A. H. FOSTER, Vice President, ji D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. T nters' National Bank f or*, c. I $60,000 I 60,000 f 60,000 S $170,000 I V. H. Wallace, Wm, Jeffries, X ?. P.. McKissiok, A. H. Foster, T our Business. ; m ? w ?? www www www w' www wm 11^ w of a multitude of leaves from which he has gleaned only as much substamial knowledge as could be comfortably carded in his left ear. If ho has an ambition it will form a blessing, for the ripe question of the hour is do lars and cents. I have been assured by learned professors that the collegiate course is merely an exercise, useful in forming and strengthening the mind. Therefore useless study becomes useful as dutnbells strengthening the mental muscles aud imparting tone to the intelligence of the user. The mpst our graduates acquire is a smattering of eaph subject. Why? Merely becauso there is not time enough to give to eaoh branch of study conecieutious and thorough re- ( search. It may be asked, why then th<- , number of studies is not limited. 1 The answer is simply that the vanity , of the parents who like to see that , jiheir sops ape .deep in these ob'us'' , Sheets, qr that of high sounding I sciences and stqhhorn poiiservatisin , of the fapqlty Retaining 19th cepturx | Beptifnents in the 2Uth century oi < I i:tV TL." - fit ? pi^v/'iuoi M>c. xnc course is niua With tare# and thpre is po r<>oui for the v-hcat. Of what use is Latin a'id Greek to the youth who inmt soon enter the etrftggle for bread? The barest excuse is that they give an insight into die derivation of lan guage. We'ji fhp ^ictiop?ry will do t^at much. Why waste four years in hammering verbs and nouns, derivations and conjunctions into a boy ?ho is destined to sell soap, wnke shoes, operate a dray wagon or guide ? refraotory mule to a plow. Of what valuable use is French? It will take several years to barn it and the acquirement is purely ornamental and in most cases not worth a dollar to the future man. Fathers examine t^e s'qdiea purged hy Jflur ?ons. Yoq will find that you are spending yqnr ffiQney and pasting their most precious time storing up glittering utensils to the exclusion 01 what can benefit, them in s'erner days to come. Cast them sdrifr upon the sea of life without a thorough education on some practical subject; of v^lue tQ fhp world, and whioh, m a needy hour they may noin into bread, and you are easting them adrift in ships of lead without a life preserver or spare boat, .4 sunken rock or a storm and they are lost. If they need meutal. exercise let thftrn illOTtfl? with nr^Sfipul unKi.rtfi no - i ???v?vw i mechanic*, book keeping, drawing, j practical chemistry, arithmetic, thi Ea^liyh jjvngMHgo and physioa. ^ Idt , them learn bow to keep aooeunte, how to handle tools, how to build and j work on engines, how to detect adul t terations in staples of ours, how to , understand the machinery of the grea^ | practip^i wW ?|pd pfdto'Ipavff the Vagaries of the land of drearps. } If you have Wned the beut of , your son's mind oonflne him strlotly , to studies pertaining to his calling , and oast all others away. i Our boys are not fools. They ( know the usefulness of the labors im- , n 'Bed uni n them, and VriPf ' taps recent Ih^lngertent' upon their i , liberty. If we neglect to give them weapon* for .the battle tbev become ^ul^eja in (p* ' ^f wp I i furh'tnem loose won the w^d^with , kw means of empMyineni fltey reward , us by becoming Idle and profligate? prematively wast d?the soul of Saturn in the body of Adopts? arowoed Jfropo the race for fortune and fame by striplings of humbler life Vfhose education ran in narrow ||nes but jyaq stored wi^n material sharp as anise to hew their pathway through life. Vox. Santuc Sittings. "In some long-looked for day IIow happy will that mortal be, Whojcan with truthful arder say, 'There are no Ihes on me.' " Frost is approaching, then jou can say it. I have never heard of a horse having ininingetis, but I have heard of many Jeters having a horse. With the approach of frost I felt somewhat scared but under weather moderation I am in the "reactionary period." I heard incidently that a certain girl was going to Aiken, and it so a certain young man may go to achin' too. Crops are very late maturing this year, especially cotton and field peas. Verdy we need something now to restore confidence. Me thinks people might livo much better if they did not want too much. Iii their wanting ambition they loose much rhey might gain in trying the exptiigiou act. The nearer the round up the shorter the corn crop shows us. There is going to be a "buckle and squeeze" with mmy to fatten hogs this fall. I saw a lit tie negro a few days ago sitting in the suushine with a whip ktoiug ihrough thq motion of fishing. Evidently he was trying to fish something out of h p*?or opportunity. I see the Iilipiuos must ncit be pacified, even if they have taken the oath of aMegience. Uncle Sam's salvation army will have to shoot more religion into them to make them "stick." If \iclv.inley was a great and go<>d and christian man, that part L.f his chiioiiauky and goodness (fic^u t suit them probably, or {hey d'dn t belieye half ^hpy read- My tqainion is to he great ahd good enougnlo Jet tnem gu. arid we be christion enough to stop bloodshed and try missionaries. Why is it that even at a hint of a ihort crop of wheat, corn, oats, hogs, jtc , (hose products go jumping to the 'upper story" chat almost causes iizzmeas, and with report after rep ft ?f a short, gpqrpely WW h&'f el i cottqp cfup, that produot and seed 'emain so low. Perhaps the former irticles goes snaring after the specuators get them, and with CQttop tqaqy nust set), tynd fnptonp* as well as any { ceep the prioe down knowing that it nust soon "slide" cheap or uot. [If iur faruiers#'gfuld raise their hog and loioiuy and grain at home the soarng of these market* would give them ] ittle concern.?Ed ] . I Despite the short fpcd crop some i legrops ape feeing very rich. I i lent tan 4 t^tap several ftpe buying \ joules pow and are going to rent laud ( lext year. Tbryaay "certainly there | a a heap of hay saved," But mules < jan't live on hay alone and some may < itarvc. But 1 believe one ambition ] >f a negro is to rent land, have so^p ( tort of an anirnaj spd fide. V?h, : -ide the? will if everything goes to deccs. , Some negroes put up a poor mouth , ind made many piomisea until I let hem ha?e provisions, and now no t ori of a proposition, compromise or tilowiug big pay for work can induce ] hem to pay or work it out. But it eeuis we all like to be hutnbuged, or ivill bite at any bait. People will dc < t, it may be a kind of sympathy. ' '*' This Mil'weath'ef sort of fills one , *i'h a d? sire to do various things. 1 feel like taking a good hunt of fishing tramp, but there is such a ( jcnrci'y of gaine or fish. It is too I sarly to hunt rabbit*, I t'tt great binj apr|"?qyirr?l^ ?he gaine I used to like to bunt, are about all gone. Wdd geese and ducks - are Burning In, but one uust u-?e strategy to get a goose. There is a lot of real fun and pleasure in a hunt or a Fishing trip in a bateau on our graud aid Br ud river, tumbling through 'hc tUfhub nt goal's. I 'inu like an Editor, woo aae raided on a farro * and fa id: "For roe, therp ^s ftjorp real sweet twflf Hi WW* W* of a hunt, H'bu'^ a* putting frolic than could be extracted from all the aociDtT that #?vpr nit flipir stupid figure* in marble halls or on waxed bell-room fl-mrs," 1 J ^o^ld nkv to tell" "Uncle" Vox that not long ago a girl "passed a compliment" upon me, and she beptg proity. winsome, wterteiritfig, Very ftgreethle and sweet looking, I did not know whether to smile and try to ' look sweet myself, or to get seated and think the world was coining to an end right now. But you may gather all of the sweetest strains of melody that zephyr ever wafted over this bright sunny Southland, and unite them with those from Switzerland's scenic -Alps ted sunny Italy, "in one, ohftra>ing,\aoul-inspiring sy mpethy "'ahndet itjpteal in upon ones heart nnd it w*uld not arouse our feelings, as snch things spoken directly, by a pretty girl, to a little country-?and sometimes abused? correspondent of a newspaper. Would it? Hey Denver. Shall We Sell Cotton Seed? It is a pity that farmers get so behind that they almost have to sell their living to get out of the clutches | I of someone, or that some may be ] I Such fools as to don't I comes of others or the country. I stood by and heard a fanner and cot- j ton seed buyer talking as to the price of cotton and seed. Mr. Farmer said that a pound of cotton ought t not to be sold under 8c nor seed t under 80c and remarked that it was j going there, and warned Mr. Seed Buyer that he would have to give f 20c for seed. Mr. Seed Buyer said, 4*If you had the control of buying ^ cotton you would not give over 8c. a The Trusts have aboqt all the oil mills in their power and would .you c expect them to give over 15c per ? bushel. They have got you and c will get down to that figure, etc." This is almost word for word. Now ^ here. It seems that some men are B about compelled to sell seed to pay n honest debts. Some do not care at what low figure seed go to, they are c going sell. They do not care to ^ use theip for manure, prefer to see a ^ little change right now, and as for cattle feed why if cows can't squeeze through on a pinch of dry crabgrat* ( or broomstraw, thev may die. On n this product the farmers have the w oil trusts, or whatever trust it is, if they would only use it. I can re> Jj member when they never sold a seed oft" the farm. I do not believe they jj could sell them. Well then they coqld not. I have carried them out (j to feed sheep and cattle, spreaded j them on wheat land?ana made wheat?put them under Qorn and y composted ihem fhr ootton, before I n got as old aa I am. and none of us starved, or went much more ragged t( than we do now, nor complained of tr hard times. But now we know there ia a market ^ value for them, that there ia money ^ in them, we let them go even if they fall to 9c. It has been d?l!Ot They jare our own produce and we know they are valuable, worth something to us even at home, yet wo lei lhe trust j ilictate tq iu prices and laugh to our faces through their representatives, ^ the buyers, then we let the seed go at ^ their prices, and show tho trust ^ how foolish we pan be, let them 8oU n the seed back to us in high priced fertilisers and oattle food. Every farmer ought to keep his ^ *eed on tho farm for manure if they Jr cannot get a good price, the value of t the seed. Let them have an agreement, and if the trust can't act fair why bur^ the seed on the farm at J home if you do put the oil in which , is no manure. " ' 'jo Mulro f V, r> -i-'.-'u ? vi?v , iuk) mir or aw?p ^ rUUlhng- ' Those people who will be fools and Poll ?t any price when they ^ oould bold ought not to be allowed to ^ farm and no one would object to them being gouged to death if their actions did not hurt other*, ^hoan acta men \iar.v U"t the'mental capacity to know the value of anything only as they are t"ld in oent* of purchase p| money. This oott"n seed oil trust is u one that the farmers could down as 8( easily as tumbling off a persimmon log. and the farmers be rooster? from the rural hdls if they woi^ld oply get '*! ab"?t then it \fould~be "he laughs j' boat'who lapghs ltylt." o teTTtslROM SPARTANBURG, j ^ Mm. lii it ton Writes Interestingly w From the Spartan Citv. T7i^? (Times a Welcome \t Mr, RuiiAm:?The farmers are a c v?jry happy people just now. All tl the summer they have realijje^ q(y\d v figure* upon t.^f yw'Mlta. fruit*. 0 ph'pkpne'nnd epga and are now re- t wiving a very f?ir price for idmt' p cotton they are compelled to sell, and are h"ld?n^ the other for ten cent' a h pound. They deserve all they can i v Wm. A. NICH BANl Transact a Regular Ba Branches and Insure Boiler, Liability and Ac of Indemnity for Officii Individuals as Adminisl YOUR BUSINESS IS RE ' 9 get for years have been when he, w ith the help of his devoted wife and loving* children, could not help from making many sacrifices. Spartanburg is, as usual, on the boom, her business peoplo are no laggards, when one new enterprise is made sure then another begins. We occasionally see a familiar face From your county, though several >f the young men have occupied positions so long that we look upon hem aa of this town. It is a fact hough they cling to The Times as a otter from home. We sometimes meet Miss Epps rom tho lower part of the county, Jso Miss Gault from near Jone?-ville, >oth holding good business positions, >lso Miss Geo. Lately we have seeu Mr. J. M. Iraith now employed by Mr. Oliver jrallman, a successful merchant who laims Pinckney for his home. Col. Foster, so well and favorably mown in your community, looks the ame as he did ten years ago; he has aany solid friends here. At the Converse Commercial Ichool we see Miss Clay, of L'uiori, nd Miss Crocker, of Sedalia, both nrd students. Mrs. M. E. Britton i still with this sohool. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. lash a few days ago. He is con*cted as book keeper, we believe, dth the knitting mill which is re orted as being in a flourishing oon- | itlon at Union, .. Mr. John Littlejohn, of Jonesville, ke your scribe, admires the pluck _ J ?- - r i ? - mi jiu n m ms n;:ie toan, but wo iffVr on the su'i'joot of ancw^paptronesville ought to have one as it ikos a ne^sj'aner to make ? town fe see that ?YoodrufF has made n iovp along this line. The marriage ?-f Mr, John Floyd ) Miss R.U"?*1 wab one < t the i >8t brilliant affairs that has taken face at the Presbyterian ohurch for >iae time. The entire building was lied by the friends of the con r icting arties. May happiness and long fe be their portion. ?qibo days ago we met one of your lost popular men flora the country, . W. Scott, Esq. He is looking ell, but how sad we felt to meet im whero we did~?>n a marble v?rd *>king for some cold stone to mark le place where his lovod ones are isting. I knew them, Mrs Brown nd Sirs. Harlewood, in their life rid know they have left manv aching earts behind them?tender and lovig girls, true and noble wives, always > be found on the side of the l ight. Mr Editor, your paper is greatly, ppreciated in our hoo^e. <4r(d? and o read youj. locals and oorresponsnt'sletrers with pleasure and note ow our personal friends are moving p tho ladder pro^porounly. I #i->u y?iu?- p?por what it a'ready a?, a great sphere of usefulne^ and ray it ovei bo 1 fiii'?t\cia\ success % t - tockhart_News Notes. L'?ckb irt, Oct. 28.?Wo are now njoving die beautiful Indian auraut sens >n, the most beautiful sea)n *?f 'bo yeur. i i Part of the I^'?ckh^rt (V^net kind ?fr. iltito mo^ivg for 0 luiubiu, where have U.? n f"njja^?d to pl?yf>r ne Stt^tc F>w this wot k, undot the iqdwtdii of Pr< f. Ilerntlon. Those r-lootediWui the Lock hart band are leasrs.v'^7 A Wherra?J L Kya^a, 1. U. Ox ford, J. N. Jr^nf ra and Maflht* Hoaa. They rill h jjuinod at Columbia by a few ther up f i^t'ate players to complete he band.Vj^VVe., ponaider -\t rather oinidimenURhr on our hand to ho. hqi intituled. The entire band muld have went but the occupatiou f tho-e who remained were euch liat their services oould not be dis lensed with. Rev. J. R. Funderburk has closed, lis meeting here lie preached' erj acceptably and tho church at x?uv ii x imiv. olsoFT^ON! ICER5, nking Business,in all it* Against Fire, Tornado, eidents, and Issue Bonds als of Corporations, and Orators, Etc., Etc. SPECTFULLY SOLICITED. each service was well filled with attentive hearers. We feel that wa have been much benefitted by hia being among us. Clyde Hambuck, a little boy aboaft 12 years old. died a few days asm from the effects of a rubber ball striking him on the cheek a few weeks ago. His remains were buried at Mt. Pleasant. Homo. WASHINGTON LETTER. r< (From Our Regular CorreBjKmdent.) A distinguished visitor at th* White House on Saturday wat Cardinal Gibbon, of Baltimore. This learned prince, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church in tha United States, called to pay his respects to the new President and, per? haps, to learn something in general terms of the attitude of the execativs on- pending Ciiholic church problems in the Philippine Island. The inter, view was brief, but coidial, and the Cardinal evidently obtained assurance that tue goverment would deal with issues in the island in whioh his church is interested in a spirit of exact impartiality and justice. The hearing of testimony in the Schley inquiry is nearing a close. Vdmiral Schley is upon th*e stand and has given so far a clean.cut circumstantial account of all his actions in the campaign on Cienfueg' e and Santiago. The Court room is packed with people eager to hear him tell his story. ' There is intense interest in the progress ami outcome of the case from one end of the country to the other. Schlev holds the popular end of the content so far as the press and public are concerned. But whichever way the Dewey court may find there will be disappointment iu wide circles and perhaps, a renewal of recriminations that may call for either executive or Congressional action te put an end to the miserable personal feuds in the Navy. .A dmiral Dewey has been made to fe?l k due to his self respect to resign the Presidency of the swell Metropolitan emu to winch many army and navy officials belong. Tli%open criticisms uttered there against hie riibngs in ibe pending hearing hare uuiioycd him exceedingly and he lias made his protest against such injustice by resigning the official headship of the organization. In this action he has manifested a spirited resentnieat; that has won general praise from. the. press of his fairness ?hr*ughout the> entire course o^the hearing. Thp. Tve^iujry is ''overflowing with, filthy iucre." The daily receipts, show a surplus of $200,000 ij, over aU expenses, which K\y*es thaifc Uncle Sam is taxing Unpeople ahoefc R70.000 000 ? ?#?nv rn.ir^ tk?*. is necessary. V>*? the. tbst of Novt?m harelip will s^nd out to the holders* 82.700 checks to pay ii?te??ft dn? an* that date. Likewise a large platoon, of Congressman are coming, up in? December with bills for approptfct*. turns or reductions that wil\ ms^e ths? ( rear surpus look like %Hi*tv eeata. in Spanish silver. Meanwhile, (he. Treasury othcjals are pteynring to. revamp and apply General Fr*dj Grant's epigram that '"a surplus ?? easier to handle than a heficit," A no'able event,^of *he week has been .he me* tiu# 'Of the General Council of SootrisTi llito Masons of ch* Thirty-Third a,|d last deg.ee. The Convention eont? iued the most distinguished nvisons of the Union. A new '"Grand Cotnmai der" w*? chosen in the person of Congressman dune* i). Richardson. ot Tenu.. who thereby becomes the most exalted rrvuonn it. I K a ?.*%<Ll ? ?- h . Minrvii > ? n\i nuniiig r r va King Edwnrd. of England. Hit election to this high place in the Masonic world is a deserved recognition of his great ability and devotion a* a Mason. The Convention also dedicated the splendid statue of AU bert Tike, which tho Masons h&rq, erected in this city. V