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. I THE UN loJS1 TIMES 1*1 BUSHED EVERY FRIDAY ?BV THF? UNION TIMES COMPANY " inc. ..-j 7 liivr Rnu.niNfl. I &UUM9 X, U, tt nnu f J NO.R. MAT HIS, Editor. L. O. Youno, Manager. Registered at the Uoshetice in Union, S C., as second-clash mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.(10 Six month- - ------ SO cental Three months ----- 2o cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One ?/.flxe. first insertion - - $1.00. Every. jbflequent 'nsercion - oumu\ (Jon , acts toi three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. I insert- d at 8$ ir?*nts a line. Rejected manuscript wili not be returned Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. (\, NOV. 8, 1901. / i . . VoAir subscription expires with the date pn the label on your paper1 j Whenthe date is older than the date of the paper it i9 time for you to renew .If you delay this too long you will flhd the blueX mark,t.h8t means you ate cut off until you settle up. "Uplcn has a Mayor who pins down* the thumb screws on the piHtol totefs when he pets hold of them Let the-Mayors of the other towns follow suft and the Judge will soon fall in line."-Chester Lantern. In the Lantern we have had an able suppo/t in our tight against the pistol toting, habit, last year. Let us see to It that the law is inforced. It is going to bo hot for some pistol toters this j ear if they don't look sharp. President Roosevelt has designated Thursday, Nov. 28th as Thanksgiving'ilay, in his proclamation he says: "Thanksgiving finds the people still* bowed in sorrow for the death of a great and good President. We mourn President McKinley because we loved and honored him. Yet, in spite of great disaster, nevertheless no people on earth have such abundant causes for thanksgiving as we have in the past year. In particular it has been one of peace and plenty. We have prospered in things natural and have been able to work for our own uplifting in things intellectual and spiritual. In order to get rid of a portion of the vast sun in excess of the needs of Government that has been exacted from the people of the United States, five. Secretary of the Treasury has beeA paying for bonds an average of $1.3(> for every dollar due for them. That is to say, where a man invested three dollars in government bonds he is receiving four in return, not through any rise in the market value bht sltnply because the government cannot afford to store the money away from the channels of trade. When it is noted furthur that this money is extorted from all of in simply in order to maintain the protection to the steel and other trusts, its outrageous character becddies even more evident. ADVICE TO FARMERS. The following short chapter of advice to the Southern farmer is going the rounds, and appears to present some points that are worthy of consideration ; Food for man and beast is usually purchased at a very high rate of in ieresi<, an unreasonaDiy nign rate." The merchant is strained during the summer season, and cannot afford to take the risk of selling to an improvident farmer without "charging well for food supplies." Harvest comes and the cotton is delivered to the merchant, and in many cases the farmer must then seek credit to bogain his next crop. "So long as such conditions exist, the South will not prosper With the North and Kast." The cotton acreage must be reduced and something else substituted. "One-forth the acreage in cotton if put in pasturJ4?e will supply meat and lard, milk and butter for home use The hay and hulls and meat that go from town to the farm could as well be produced on the farm." One acre properly cultivated will furnish feed for the poultry. A haifucre will produce more rice than an ordinary family will consume in a year. The eggs produced on a farm should pay for all j the sugar and coffe. What is left of | the fourth of the usual cotton acrewge will make a goat and aheep pasture >vhich will supply mutton fully six months in the year. Let the farmer plant half his usual acrerge of cotton, "cultivate it w*H, And sell it for caah, owing nothing for the crop, and he will be happy, hi? merchant relieved and both prosperous If any farmer does not believe in thi's plan he will do well to try it. "iMen can live at home and prosper. They will never prosper , making cotton to buy bread, meat . hay, molasses and lard." There may be some merit in the suggestions. Certainly, the condition of the average All-cotton farmer, year after year, Indicates that it is worth . trying. i IN HARNESS AGAIN. Well, we, that is The Times party, have been to the Fair, and are all back again safe and sound, and the girls, bless their hearts, were just as happy and cheerful and full of life and fun as if they all belonged to one family and had known each other all their lives. It certainly did one good to see the pleasure they derived from the trip and from each other's society. We certainly felt it quite an honor to be in charge of this salrct party of happy and pretty girls. It did us a world of good to gaze into their beam' t? ]| , ? i lug IBUV9. ? WHO uvcuiroo IVI I'lirui to tell us that they were enjoying the trip, any,one could 8?$ that they were. They were perfectly content to go where we lead, and we tried to be very careful with our precious trust. And the greatest enjoyment of the trip to us was the evidence of the fact that the girls were well pleased, and were having a good time. After the officers declared the girls the blue ribbon girls of the fair, the girls declared their editor the blue ribbon editor, and one of the beauties tied a pretty bow knot of | the blue ribbon, and another pinned I the same on our coat, he then conI sidered himself one of the most im! portant personages on the grounds, and certainly in charge of the most ' beautiful bevy of young ladies on the grounds. I could not help smiling at the many glances of envy cast in our direction by others who wished it was their good fortune to be in my shoes. The occasion was one filled to overflowing with pleasure and happiness, and The Times Editor and Manager wish to express their sincere appreciation of the courteous treatment shown the editor and his party by the officers of the State Fair Association. Secretary Holloway and President Evans especially, and we hope to have the pleasure of meeting these gentlemen again. It has been suggested that we arrange for a meeting of this party at some future time. We will think about it, and may be able to arrange a reunion next summer. We hope to have a letter for publication from each of the young ladies. We wish for each a long and happy life and may your pleasures never be less than those experienced with The Times Party in The Trip to The State Fair. Speaking of The Times' girls the Columbia State of Friday morning says: One of the incidents of the day yeserday was the arrival of the Union Times party of young ladies. This newspaper, it will bo remembered, had a voting contest for the most popular young lady in each township of Union county, the girl selected to be one of a party that The Times would send to the fair. The party esme down In charge of Editor John R Mathis and consisted of the following handsome and attractive young ladies: Miss Edna Davis, Union township; Miss Mattie Prince, Cross Keys township; Miss Annie ! Lee, Bogansvill township; Miss Lola f II 11 Pinnlrnav frtmnukin . .Ulna v?niiouip, mion Maggie White, Jonesv'dle township; Miss Eolene Lee, Goshen Hill township; Miss Stella Hobson, Santuc township; Miss Gertrude Mathis, maid of honor. The girls upon arrival at the grounds called upon Secretary Holloway and-President Evans and were given a most cordial welcome. They Jter? also taken to Hyatt park and visited Tfre State's lineotype room. They went' home last j;ight delighted with the reception accorded them here. ^.nd the manager of the News and Courier bureau at .Columbia, Mr. August Kohn, )n an article to his paper says: Mr John R. Mathis, editor of The Union Times, one of the most enterprising newspaper men In the State, was on the Fair grounds with seven bautiful young ladies, who were the successful contestants in The Union Times' contest. This enterprising newspaper offered to the most popular young lady in each township of Union aounty a trip to the State Fair free of charge. J1*1? party consisted of Miss Edna Davis, Union; Miss Mattie Prince, Cross Keyaj Miss Annie Lee, West Springs; ftfiss LuJa Gault, Piokney; Miss Htella tynbson, Santuc Township, Miss Maggie White, Jonesville ; Miss Eolena Lee, Goshen Hill; and Miss Gertrude Math a: maid of honor. The entire party were the guests of the Association. They were vpejeoj/p d in noftt. RnPAPhao hu PraaManf Puena and Secretary Holloway. j All of the privileges of the grounds were extended to them and everything was taken in. Secretary Hollowoy declared the young ladies first prize winners and pinned blue ribbons on them, in addition to the beautiful badge given them by Thk Times, on which appear red a palmetto tree of palms and "Uniok TiMtV Contest." After leaving the Fair grounds the popular editor took the young ladi?d over Columbia; they visited the State House, Penitentiary, State Hospital for the Insane and all other points of I Interest. | Thty declared that it was one of the most delightful outings that the.v have ever taken. After taking in the attractions at Hyatt's Park they left for Union on the-lnte train. Editor Mathis is to be congratulated on having selected such a beautiful party of young womenPISTOL TOTING. The Commercial Appeal reports au interesting incident which occurred in Memphis last Friday, as follows: "It took Judge Cooper exaotly three minutes by the clock yesterday to dispose of a pistol 'totor.' The testimony was direct. The court cut it to a skeleton story, instructing the witness to get down to trie essentials straigntwny, ana almost before the defendant's council realized the fact Jim Robinson had been docketed with a $50 fine and sixty days in the work house. The attorney wished to know if the defendant's three months' Incarceration in the jail would go against the work house sentence. 'It will not,' replied the court. I have announced my attitude with regard to the pistol carriers. I shall keep true to it. Only very recently two killings have insulted from ?ho 'pistol habit, and T have made up my minrt rigidly to enforce the law against such p-^-s^ns I should be understood, too, that shnll show no favoritism " The story carries its own moral. We need add nothing to it, p? rh if?, except the remark only that when other Judges and other officers likewise "make up their minds to enforce the law," without favoritism, and enforce it as Judge Cooper did, pistol toting and pistol shooting and mau killing in consequence, will loose a very large degree of their present vsgue.?News and Courier. It is very encouraging to hear of the farmer's determination to plant more feed and bread stuffs. Ther?? will probably be more grain and cane planted next year than ever before. We urged the farmers last year to plant more grain, they did so, and are so well pleased with the result that they are going to double the acreage. Don't forget your sorghum cane. Our farmers by a little persistent effort and forethought will come out on top yet. They are already beginning to see the light of a better day for them. Tammany was downed in the election at New York last Tuesday. Edward M. Sheppard was Tammany's candidate. He was defeated by Seih Low by a majority of thirty odd thousand. It was an exciting contest and the vote was the heaviest ever poled in this country at a municipal election. The race was for Mayor of Greater New York. Washington Letter. ( Erorh Our Regular Correspondent..) Mr. BooseveU's first bad bre.?k. which caiae sooner than itwa* looked for, is still the principal topic of con versation in Washington, The more his followers try to excuse his having entertained Booker T. Washington at dinner, the worse they make the thing appear to those who opp< se anything even approaching social equality oetweeu wnuea ami urgrues. They cite the time President Cleveland entertained negroes, but they have to acknowledge that at qyery such occasion it was an official enter taiument. and that the negro or negroes present were there in their official capacity. There was nothing official about Mr. Roosevelt's enter tainment of Booker Washington Booker holds no official position, and he was doubtless us much surprised as the country was when he was win yited to dine wi.h Mr. Roosevelt a' the White ilouse. That Booker had too much sense to expect thai sort of S thing was shown when he arranged to have President McRinley enter' tained by a proroinpnt white ci'ivjen when be went to Tuskegee to talk to the students of Booker's school. There Is, of oourse, no law against a white man entertaining a negro at dinner, and Mr. Roosevelt can do so whenever be pleases, but the Average white man, whether from the South or any other section, will have his opinion, and he need not be surprised if many express their opinions bluntly, flow the break is regarded by prominent Republicans may br Judged from the fact that not 9 single one has publicly said a word in its defence, while lots of them have fully expressed their disgust?privately <>1 course; IVJr. Roosevelt has many officii favors to dispose ?f. If Mr. Roosevelt will do a little thipkjng during his visit to Yale, to participate jn the bicentennial this week, he may begin to realise what the American people at large think of bis |>ad break. Adjutant General Corbin's annual report popt*in8 several paragraphs that are likely to provoke adverse comment on the floor of Congress at the coming sesaion. He seems to bayp the 8ampson idea that no man outtht to hold a commission who is no an expert in pink *"d other society flub dubbery, to judge by hil ..WOULD WOMEN CO What wrongs oouk can Tdg xxo Question i day Is not far dlsta tlian many Imaginevote It's only a au.es Could All tlx? ladl to wtiioli is tlx? mosl tlx? l>est place to ? Wanted At RIGHT I3; To? any douTot as to tl W E T H I I Our salespeople could forecast over the counter. But with our pre means satisfied. We mean to work harder than c by carrying the LARGEST and BE* Dress Goods, Silks, Trir Staple Goods, Millinery Clothing, Hats, Gents' Fi etc., ever seen in our city, We - Make The MUTUAL DRY 6 The Recognized Leaders. Blurs at those who have gained comtensions in the array under the law I nl giving privates the right, to a coin- | mi.-ai'ra upon their pa-sing the required examination. He also recoin q, WTrf! meuda that officers serving as military ^ attaches of U. is. embassies and lega- 8X8 HOI16 1 tions in foreign capi als?places for which the officers with political pull mTTTTl "D" already scramble?regardless of their A X1.EJ -D, rank, be allowed the rank, pay, and , allowance of a lieutenant colonel. It VVe Have ft is a little surprising that the report Cnines this doe>> not recommend that the Adjutant siding in a General of the army be given the I title of ptince and be addressed as j f^y.-ur highness." I The gall of Mr. Hutin, the presi- y ' ? dent of the French Panama Canal 0Uy nei? Company, who is in Washington will jU8t let again, is unimpared. II has besn that McCoi holding conferences with members of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and p tj -Qinwr has also bsen to the State Departmont aJXv rj riJN several times. llis mission is no secret one?he has never tried to | r??????? make it such. His object is to defeat | ,/v congressional legislation providing for the Nicaragua Canal, and be : doesn't appear to be oyer scrapu'ous * |Sg? as to now he does it. Representative Devey, of New Orleans, has some very decided ideas J on the administration proposal to give lfv -'^j?X-i Cuba tariff concessions On some of it*4 products. He said on the rtthjeot: To give Cuba fiee maikets in this 1 * T? n2 %7 \ onintry, with her wonderful natural \mXRr4\ resources, would mean the ah*..lute ruination of the entire sugar and to- ' j ..... - ^r^bacco industry of this conn * ry. tin .veil an(' inepe as to greatly cripple the fru t growing that we CflD 8av< industry and cut into the profits of arc nn^urpaasec vegetable rnisiug. As a represent leather oy the p i tive I consider my duty not alone to k..* ?k.. ...v.?i. tf- 1 UJV "?TU K? n vr, , uuv IV IUC VTUUIQ country, and I do uot hesitate to say i jliat J will oppose in everyway any I i measure fo tf^kp'the tariff from Cuban \j| I products. If thiw were ijone w.Quld .... 1 r mean in the near future the free entry - : ----- ? into this country of the products of i the entire West Indies. There would k bp po excuse for nQt giyipg Jajpacia i or the Danish West JnqitXf fhp saipe privileges, and this ywoqld without We l?HV6 thp ^ ahy doubt, entirely ruin the entire sugar, tobacco, fruit and vegetable These goods are ipdpstries of the country." i Members of thp administration arc have not tried tl] much disturbed by tne official news from ^e Philippines, *nd one of them ftre a \0^ 0f , said to a friepd a day or two ago* wuh^that we were well rid of (be there |g ?? comp i bubb,r:Le lot The J'iiuea QRAHAf > THAT.. I i ( !LD VOTE. I 1 To? rlsliteat Tlioro jtlDout tliat. Ana tlx? nt?sooner pemaps -wnoii women can VJ ition of time, ?s In. Union vote B < t popular store an<F srot everytlLlii? tliey RIOEB, would tliere le verOlot? M K NO I it now from what they hear daily went pre-eminence we are by no >ver before to please our customers* JT assortment of I timing, Linings, Notions, 1 , White Goods. Shoes, | lrnishings. Trunks, Grips, | Lowest Prices. t 1018 CHIP AIT, , R. P. HARRY, Mgft ^ BE PR0SPER0U8.. ormick Mower and, Rake. There ike them, they are as advertised, EST IN THE WORLD. lready gold a solid car of AfcCormick season and will have another oar QB our ' few days. DELAY IN BUYING ? ibors are using them and you can if you * ; us know you want them. Don't forgef j rmick makes them and & BOYD SELLS THEM. gra Buggies; mm, Wagons , p|jr ??***? O J? Carriages All Kinds to Salt Everybody, ct our stock before you buy. We will guarantee 3 you money if you buy fpnn us. . Our Hafneai I, we manufacture our own goods. HarDees ound or side. Don't Iorget us. Por Business, EN & BOYD. \ L M O N S! ; *J f 'f ? , . lmons that you wapt, at 100, l|}C, W? ||f f v I v * fresh and the beat the market if you * MM 1 tern you have do idea how j^eethey are. There ions sold at these prieea, hut in QUALITY arieoD. 1 & ESTJ3S, Th* Pancr . J . V A