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UNION, 8. C., NOV. 29, 1901.
Your subscription expires with the
date on the label on your paper
When the date is older than the date
of the naper it is time for you to renew
If vou delay th's too loop yon
will lind the hlueX mark, that mean?
you are cut off until you settle un.
Keep your eye on our merchant?
advertisements if you wish to makf
your dollars count at compound interest.
Conprr-ss will convene in Washington
on Dec. 2nd. There are several
ii # : ~ K.,
mtfcll#'jr?? Ui iili|;?uiaiii;n Ml uo taivcn
up and this will no doubt bo an interesting
session.
Mr. J sadore Rnyner, the chief
council for Admiral Schley refused
to accept a fee from the Admiral.
The Admiral sent Mr. and Mrs.
Rayner handsome presents, a fine gold
watch to .Mr. R?vner and a valuable
diamond broach to Mrp. Ray ner.
As winter approaches, the cremation
of picaninnies are in order and
reports are beginning to come in, the
usual schedule is still on : Winter?
fire in house?house locked?children
in house?parents gone off?house
burned?ditto little niggers. There
were two such cases reported this
week. Every negro who is found
guilty of locking his or her children
up in the house should be sent to
the penitentiary for ten years. Perhaps
in that time they would learn
some sense.
The person who thinks that it is
not worth while to advertise because
the paper is already well filled with
advertisments, is standing in his own
light, that is if he would like the
people to know that he is in business.
The Times is recognized as Union's
business directory and when people
want to find out about any business
of consequence they look in The Times
for it?Moral, if you want to get in
the swim get in The Times, will try
and squeeze you in somewhere if we
have to hang you around the edges
Get in the business directory.
A Severn storm swept the North
Atlantic (oast Sunday, doing con.
eiderable damage at Bt&ten Island,
and in New York. Many housei
and piers bring swept away and othei
houses unroofed Blackwell's Islnnr
was" subinurged. The greatest damagi
in New York was along west street
fronting on north river. The Unitec
States Hotel af- Long branch wai
wrecked. The dafr??ge done along
Long Island sound intruding <itj
Island is estimated nb $1150,000
\Vh ilf? f fiA /I iimncrA n f. VPW H nvAr
Conn. Was about $50,000. Th<
total damage is said to reach into th<
millions.
A. M. Lindsey, one of Kelton'i
Intelligent colored citizens, one whe
attends to his own business and hai
the respect of his white neighbors
Hai been a subscriber to Thk Unioj
Timks for quite a while. He ,knowsi
good tiling when he sees it, and as ui
evidence that he intends to hold fas
to a good thing when he gets hold o
it, he came into our sanctum tiiii
week and not only paid up his siighi
arrearage hut ran his eubscrip
tion way up into 1003. If oui
brothers in black would follow Lind
Bey's example and subia'rjbe f->r a good
EOWfipaper and read it, thereby Jteep
ing up wit h the happenings of the day,
improving their intellect, gaining
knowledge for f heinselvfts, rathcr t har
depending on others and hear xay,
they would soon become more intelligent,
self reliant and independent.
They would soon be buying themselves
little farters, building themselves
homes, and developing into intelligent
# useful and good oltlzens, and the race
^rouble would be very rwar a solution.
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i It OR KI HI. E DUE I)
IN ANDERSON.
A horrible crime was committed
in Anderson county last Saturday
afternoou about 4 o'clock. A negro,
an ex-convict, nanwd Laddison, from
Newberry county, who had served
his term aud had been working as a
farm hand in Anderson county, went
to the home of Mr. Perry Craft, about j
eight miles from Anderson and asked
for something to eat. Mrs. Craft1- 1
was alone at the house and gave him |
some potatoes, ho became angry and
told her ho believed ho would kill her
She ran across the room, as she did
so the negro fired at her and the ball
entered her back. The negro ran.
A posse was soon in pursuit, ho was
tired at several times and hit once in
the leg. He made his escape buf
was f>>und at a negro house, the inmates
reporting his presence, he was
arrested and taken to Mrs. Crafts
who identified him. He was taken
out in the woods and lynched by 2(Ml
people. There were some twenty
negroes in the party. They asked to
be allowed to burn the scoundrel, but
were not permitted to do so. The
negro was hung to a limb. After he
was dead he was cut down and left
i on the ground with a note pinned to
1 his coat announcing the crime for
which he was lynched. There was
, no attempt at concealment. Mrs.
. Craft is not expected to 1 Lye. It was
a most diabolical deed, without provocation,
and was enough to arouse
the indignation of every one in the
' community, but it would have been
' better to allow the luw to take its
1 course, as there could not be a possibility
of doubt that he would have
been bung. No jury could have been
, empanneled that would have hesitated
to hang him. Wo do not think
lynching is justifiable, with possibly
the exception of rape.
GET RICH, EASY SCHEMES
Several ladies of Union are contemplating
taking hold of some of the
"get-rich-quick schemes, viz: the
"cherry tree" schemes the Doyle Ring
trie a and various others. We know
of some who ha\e been hit already.
It won't do ladies, you had best steer
ciearof these things, and we announce
right here and now that while we
have published several of these. "$20
a month for ladies writing at. home"
etc., we do not commend the scheme.
Steer clear of any game that has as its
fundamental principle to Rob Peter
to Pay Paul. They are paid advertisements.
Rut we are not catering for
them and we advise the ladies to steer
clear of them, if they don't wish to
get picked up. The promoters are
making hundreds of thousands out of
it by picking up the unwary ladies.
They cannot pay what they say they
will, they have no idea under the sun
of doing so. And any intelligent
person, after giving the matter proper
consideration can readily see it is a
fraudulent scheme. Let it alone.
REV. IRL R. HICKS
IS NOT DEAI).
Notwithstanding a widely current
rumor that the Rev. Irl R. Hicks
was dead he never was in better
health, and never did a harder and
more successful year's work than
that just, closing. He has just completed
hi# large and splendid Alma'
nac for 1002 and, with his staff of
f abie helpers, has brought his Journal,
i Word and Works, justly forward
5 into international reputation. For a
quarter of a century Mr. Hick9 has
' grown in reputation and usefulness
1 as the people's astronomer, and foret
caster of storms and the character of
, coming seasons. Never were his
^ weather forecasts so Bought after as
now, his timely warning of a serious
drouth this year having saved t.he
1 people from loss and sufToring Mil3
lion's of bushels of whost were har,
vested through his advice to plant.
crops that would mature early. The
American people will certainly stand
by Prof. Hicks, when it costs them
so UtAe Hnfl the benefits are so great.
' His hno 4.1/^anac of 200pages Ts only
* 2.">c, and his spfep/jjd' family journal
. is only one dollar a including
. the Almanac. Hend to Wor.4 yU(j
Works Pub. To., 2201 Locust St.,
i St. Louis, Mo., or bring ua and
1 cet Hick's Word and Works, the 10<?2
t Almanac and Thk Union Timks ull
f for one yea*. See our club list.
ft has been announced o> ? nuint
her of his pnemies that, the Rev. Irl?
- R Hicks. Kdttjar of Word and Works |
r sod of Hick's Almanac, iv dead, but
thin Tommy rot didn't work. Ho is
the liveliest editor corpse extant., und
what ho doeg for tbo ojffcjal prognostiefttors
is a plenty.
The trial of Mrs. Bonine, who in
| on trial in .Washington, charged with
the /nurder of a young by name
, of Ayers, in his own room is otefitjpjr
a considerable lot of interest over the
, country. She oiuitn* to have gone
i to his room in answer to his cull say.
ing he was sick. When she went In
, he locked the door and a sou file en*
sued and he wne shot to death.
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Suntitc News Notes.
"We'd go our great eoat,
And quickly unlock it
If a change ;,t the weather
Put c1 w . iu the pocket!"
Ala>! that it does not; may be the fate
of many this season.
It. seems that winter let down suddenly
and to stay when it did come
We tiad rain last Saturday .4:1 of
inches fall. It was very beneficial to
the laud.
It is a good time to gather persimmons
and locusts to make beer. We
certainly have the "bter privileges"
along that, line.
It won't do for a man to blow his own
horn too much, be might split it, then
t would cease to he musical to others.
Some complain that turnips are stringy
ami hard to cook sjt't. 1 reckon these
ire those that struck a streak of hard
nek.
Just one month to Christmas and the
liens on a strike. As a negro said, "they
have been laying, but have remitted
now."
A young farmer said that if you didn't
believe he could "raise cain" down h?ire,
just look at some of his cane, sorghum
cane. It was line and ho made some
line syrup too.
It is not unusual now to see v\h t?
fires hae,-lx e*'. about in the pines evidence
of uutiit>->-ts. ."h:hda\3 ao. ? ^
great day tor them, and no doubt, of?e?, |
some wine men ;ce pnrMiep cnuiiiii
1 nave heel- bu y for acme time :???'-1
ing wood. We hai a large (piau u v cm
and split. tl?-? and hind wood, and 1 n-??e
liauhd about loity big ihrte-hoi.sc. . ?u~.
witb about Hfiseu more to haul W'ctthe
c-?i?l rains and snow come, won't w?
be "healed."
1 do not think I saw where any of
TilK Timks girls said anything about
seeng the automobile at the Fair. I
wanted to get down, like the old clown,
aud examine it to see what. made. it. go;
in fact I would like to have raised my
hat. to it. but I didn't wish to become
too conspicuous so put on "known g
look" as if to say well, I have seen the
thing fore It was a very pretty ihii.g
beautifully painted, but looked no more
strange than an elect no street car, only
you saw no wire overhead, a rod i mining
tin to that, and kin w ihere was no
engine off somewhere in a house to give
power to piopel it
I read the letters from the you g
k.T.r> <>
Not ua o}(i as many farmers, don't l> >ast
of knowing a# iftuch, but I never bank
on a very late crop of weakly watery
bolls to brag about.
Aecordiog to the "fog in August."
theory or wither aign, we are booked to
have eight snows this winter. If they
are to correspond or parallel the fogs \v?
are to have two very heavy, one nearly
40 #ad three light snows. We have had
one ligtit ?noV lybieh I bslieve came in
ahead of time last t ui . i.t^ / 19th inst.
This is the earliest in the last eight yoeiv. '
While ]t fell thick for a while it melted
as it fell, but i t was a snow. Taking
the last e'ght year's reoorl *.hls fall h*1
l*en a record breaker. Tueihstsuow
u?v?ira n n\> nil mr?i i uc i i.um t di i>>
to the late State Fair, and will not hesitate
to say that 1 enjoyed them very
mucli. But there is one other to iiear
from. There was a great deal to write
about, enough to divide among all of
theui. and the little Maid of Ho (or too
The Editor and my humble sen' did not
exbaus' it by any mea.s, as Miss Mag
gie in her letter said we did; and she
told it in a way we did not. They all
told it in different words 1 thought
they were tune interested in the Penitentiary
and Stale House than any lung
else, and I noticed ihat they al! said so
I was loo. There are State Instilutious
and we are proud of thrin I believe
the 4'Union Timrs Girls" would
lend interest it they woo d wiite au article
occasionally. I thiuk I saw other
men interested in those letters
Some of our people, and I believe they
are all young ladies, complain of being
"flooded" with letters wishing thein to
go into the business of selli g so many
cherry trees or apple trees, for so much
then get a position to do writing, etc*,
that thev are becoming disgusted The
salary offered is $2(1 per month, and to
write six letters a day. Kve.-y letter
received is exact ly the Hurl!" style, ant
almost the saiun wording, and I believe
that is the kind of writing they aie
promised the salary to do If so, and
for every letter received, they sell sixty
trees and it continues, this country will
be converted into a vast orchu'd. Then i
if every one writes six le'ters a da\, all |
take it up. ibey will soon have to b >rrow
somebody to send lett-rs to, or it I
will have to go annul a tain H*s i
Homebo<ly inv *ut> d the erpe wu! in >uon ,
or is it a Im ub v? or a scheme to cut
producti >u of co-ton? [Very likely
humbug, b-t.t.-r ted your lady friends to
let i' a n no ? K?? |
I expel* there is more advertising of
lanes, that people must not hunt, tish,
ride, drive, walk, cut timber, or in anv
way tiespass He . of la'e, than ever
before. S >mr of it inav l>e for good, to
save white o<k, lahbits of 'possums, or
to save tlie much sought after partridge,
anil some, may be (! ne foi retaliation,
selfishness or pure mo;pmeas. However
much sil this may lie so, isn't jt ptssiug
strange or bear tn-MiisuSteiicv for a mm
to p Hi his own land agai is' trespassers,
then he or his bun riot" over other
people's, in one or inure ways, or iuev iy
way erne eiyable to the average mind.
Yet there is some of the aUtye variot'->
w iys it appears it is done S'Tnethini
must he wiotig somewhere or this "posting"
of 'and woidd not Itave to be done,
in sonr CK.*-e3.
In telephone's article I not'eed hsaid:
"Slime the fro it many farmers say
their lab* b ills of Cut ton will not open."
or to thftt effect I wonder if they
really thought they would open. I
thought ihat if not killed some of them
would o|>en but never entertained any
hop" that one-third Would open. I
looked at them as being out of seaso i
gjpi whither frost or not they would
quit dev'yjouiiijj anijl a', last cime to
naught, 1 (Id'ngL rpqieinljer seeing anyone
who ever saw a late crop pome to
anything, but people, to Iheir detriipeiit.
will brag of what a line Into crop, els ,
and the sp culator.s take it up and say
the weather is fair, dry, etc , and then
Li:e crop is in a few days Increased
three trttilioM beles and prices is cut.
Tii it beats cotton "putting on" in its
balmy season of swimmer months [ nip
TOO GOOD
Some secrets are t
what we are going
IS NOT A
For the people of Union and count:
of Dry Goods. Shoes, etc.. in tin
^?LOWEST
Tlie many "big valu
ing are surely "too g<
record "breaking pi
tliem all over Union
surronnaing coun
wbirlwina.
One Solid Case Good Heavy Outings, a splendi
weight rzoods. We bought them cheap and ii
One Solid^Cuse Bleach, yard wide, made in I
our low price .
One Solid Case Standard Drills, extra heavy, w
One Special Lot All Wool Filled Worsted, 27 i
for only
One Solid Case 30-in? h Venetians, pret'y line
our low price
tho secret or our
advertise anytliing
stooH, and we olialle
otlierwise.
OUR MOTTC
MUTUAL DRY G
R. P. HAI
wi- lw'.l bofce w.h on Den 2nd. M
iS'li Of curs* l'iksa signs inay al j jf
sir <vo not true a"d the winter m ty be _ _ I If
t very cni'd one. but <1 ?es anv one think
it. vvo ilil be aini?s to prepare for a b ;d
wiute-whit-ye? then-is fisn-? |? Goo i nnv o "^Tpf
advice and should he followed?a stitch ^
in time, etc. Ki 1 are none
II KY DKN VKR.
m The
Preservation of Native rTITTTT1 TJ
Birds and Animals, i. XlJCi ?
Somebody proposes to stock the We llUVC f
'lower part of Indiana with Mongo- ni o.11
iit n nheasants. The Belgian hare L ca
[and the Angora goat, to say nothing Hiding ill 8
of the English sparrow, have already
been domesticated in this country at IVI ' "1
1 one time or other, and candor com- I
p.ds one to admit that when strange
i h? ist.s and bird9 from foreign parts Yourneig
h i?" lived 11ere at all they have us- *11 ' * 1
ually become a pest. The balance of Will JUSt ie
natur* is disturbed, and the result is that MeCo
that there is discomfort all round,
It Sfloms jis if, instead of Intro- ________
ducing new species where they do r^f Hi Pi l\l
not belong, some effort might well
be made to preserve native birds and
animals The gray squirrel. which j
is certainly an animal worth presprv- | ^ jf\
in;, ht-t been almost exterminated in ] '
irjany parts qf the country, owing to i
too beauty of its skin. Native song- f' '>P^li3
Ivrds .irui some sp?ci??a of gaum have : j /
shared the same fate. It would take '
corap trnl ively little money or trouh'e /
to establish preserves of these crea- A vflBft J
tures, defond them from their nat- l/\\7
Ural onern'-'H. and that, they wee LL^- - - TSnfiBytfl *"
fed and sh ltor-*d until their original
haunts wei reaio ?ked -vi? h them. * *ha..X,7c""T,*v*p
Then, by j ldl-'ious legislation and! I* Mpr'TfV
enforcine it of the gnnie I iws, they Ajjf' vX?
could bo protected so that the nr.. //.. ' J/ ^
tiral proportion of them would he - '
kept up, and the who!? country Coiue and iuspt
would ho the richer for it. ' fi at urn on? u..:r
'i'lie ease with which tho native in- I '
hibitantsof a country regain theirja,e unsurpflijsei
old position lu nature's economy, i leatliei' by the I
jifter having been driven out of it for
a time, is shown by the rapidity with .
whieh g?isne is increasing in the abandoned
farm regions -of Jjew fcnglnnd mmm
and !*|cw York In pjnces" whicli ' LJ ET )
ihtve not known yenisQQ for tw?? or , B tt*?
thrne generations, the farmers ar?
shooting a deer now and then. The ? v
animals wander down from less fre
(tuented forests i.ito the abandoned
Jijtpber-camjis u*id woodland*, ai d, A
in tl!R?, Jn?q the villains. With a W i
little eneourHg.rnenr, thjpy ^ould . ^^5*
return tiQ the' haunts which thou i
foFpfjjtnor^ kn?w a hundred and fifty |
Wars ! BLANK'S S
Notion "* i COFFEE H
hoiiow, ua THAN i
1 invo sol<t Qi?t tilv entire stock <>' VO
planott, organ*. imdiu* m .uhi les, i'< ? > "v 4* X >moityHges
and notes, horses and wagons ,?i
to the A. M. Alexander Co., o' Spartan- ^
tjurg, 8. C., and all future pay urn its
will lie wade to fliid A. M. Ah-x inder
Co., or their author!* vl agents.
' ,M,~ M" ' ORAHAf
> to keep:::
oo good to keep but *
to tell you this week " %
SECRET.
i i - >
y know that we cany the best line "
le city and we always make the i ^
PRICES.^-?"
- r* ? - %
? "t
?s w? are now offerood
to Iteep, for our.,
:ioes are soatterlne;
Union county and
ties llKe a mlsntgr: ?
. - "TS
_ t
. \,4
d cloth. Others ask 81 and 10c for tame
ts yours for 6/4?* ^
Jnion, a very pretty cloth, real value 71,
5o.
orth 71 but we let 'em go quick at 5o.
>
nches wide, worth 81, think of getting it
4o.
of plaids and stripes, worth 15 and 18c,
..." 10c.
dll f>r?fAdd 1 d ?mrm a i
tHat w? liaven't t*r%
)H?? a nyone to prov?
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Pushing to the front
and staying there.
GODS COMPANY.
^RY, Mgr.
BE PROSPEROUS..
Jormick Mower and Rake. There '
like them, thuy are as advertised,
EST IN THE WORLD.
ilready sold a solid car of McCormick Mai
season and will have another car on our
l few days.
r DELAY IN BUYING
i
hbors are using them and you can if you
t us know you want them. Don't forget
rroick makes them and 4
& BOYD SELLS THEM.
M Buggies
P Wagons
...AND... |
Carriages;
1 All Kinds to Suit EwyMy.
>ct our stock before y??u buy. We will guarantee
? VOu TiiCr.CJ ^ you buy fr ?m us. Our Harnom
[1, we manufacture our own goods. Harneaa
>ound or side. Don't lorget us. ,
For Business, ,, ;
EN & BOY P.
f r f t: ti l
JTflNDSHD MOCHA AND JAVA
AS MADE MORE FRIENDSFOR " V
ANY OTHER 0NE ARTICJLE, TRY
XJ WILL USE NONE OTHER.
v. aft *|
20c to 35o PER POUHD.?|^~
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1 & ESTES, Th* pF?*r <*?? * i
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