The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 08, 1901, Image 6
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"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
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