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I Dikuotokb?J. A. Fanfc,
( ' X T. O. Duncan, J. T. Douglass
' *s T Wm. Coleman.
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i Santuc Sittings.
We our days rolled serenely free
From sorrow's dim alloy?
\tx> ws Mjll possess the gifts that bless
And 1U1 our hearts with joy?"
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Being thankful and cheerful and
fcHewing the Golden Rule is a gift
that Messes.
Big wealth must be a burden but
greed for more overlooks all that.
i Xhere is one good thing about
i getting real cold?a fire does feel so
Very good when jou get to it That
:it naving some bitters to know the
mine ef sweets.
' " We 4'reared back" anticipating
'eonae spring like weather last Friday,
and 'Saturday a "blizzard" caught
1M from home without overcoat and
filled me with shivers and wishes.
I feel sorry for a chickrn when I
;< ' lee a little negro who can throw a
| - rook as "straight as a rifle ball"
Iaaugiag mvuuu iuc uuiatirui ox
fkrtn yard. * A hawk U often the
ffcl scapegoat of roguee.
- fWJ (mora of people going to
.^Ogia plowing soon if the weather
Jnpnita breaking land, turning stubbrtb
e?<v AllA ehnww that tanners
atill'have faith and are full of hopee
and are trying to do better. I* is
Ttiybcnnry that they should wdrk
i or many rich people would starve.
There is an old saying about
^upttng a mountain out of a mole
hHl" hat I saw a mule try it a few
da$t ago. I was riding it and he
came near throwing me because a
mole!kill was across the road. The
ante-tried to run around it declaring
he oould neither climb over, out
through nor tunnel under the big
? monntain, tnd in our scuffling, kicking,
fasting and dispnting about the
thing the l>it broke but I got him
oyer and won the bet. The mule
nut etil! think he nerformed a x?reat
f?al?^-jumped a whole big mountain.
Same tine last year Homo made
Imuitt about one of his old war comrades
Mr. Wm. Grady. I thought
v Jwome one near Mr. Grady would tell
about it and when I saw him I
never thought of it, until a few days
age while talking to him I mentioned
Homo, but not as he is known
IMfc writings, then My. Grady began
t to inquire and I then told him about
4 th# inquiry. ' He was glad to know
don waS so near Bro. Homo, and I
I Jbolisve he said he had only seen yon
. once since the war, and would be so
jltased to see you, that he believed
j^\ne would go to Loekhart when tin
W^weather became warmer if he wai
.>ble. Mr. Grady is one of the Confederate
pensioners now.
A young man who has been to
r Charleston says Union county hw
the poerest exhibit of any count)
there, and he is a Union county boy,
There Chester claims the Neil shoali
water power. Well, it has half of it
.. but if a factory should ever be built
> there how would Chester county fur
?nUh the place. The mountain hill
.oMa rvrr nwr we water a cage, ,1
1 ojpal Wend have to be built almos
in the river* and where would th
btiMing be, and operatives wouK
hare tone carried up the hill in cle
retort or on stair caaee. Yes, Cheete
haa tome of the power but Union ha
? the situation to utilise it, if she woul
I . only hum about and get at it, i.?
V. V" it can be utilised.
Hum* no farm but ooald suppoi
MM sort of a 'pasture lor moles. ]
; looks Uka a haflahip on moles an
hctass.lp Me to stead all day ?
k Sundays and days when land ia w<
through aoanmer and early autumn i
^ a,lot nevor having" the pleasure <
K& gi^asing. If aome land that wi
W p66rly worked in oottom rod com wt
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' turned into a pasture or some pines
were cleared and in conjunction with
this, small grain land fenced, there
would be much grazing furnished
and stock would tbrire better. I
hare always contended that the very
best acre of land on a farm would
; pay better in grass for pasture than
corn if conveniently situated.
The fall oat crop is most assuredly
killed, only a few spots on the most
fertile parts of the fields. Hundreds
of acres can be seen lying baro and
bleak. Seed oats were high and sow*
ing the area last fall cost money.
Even if the seed were home raised
and were not to buy it represented
money and was expensive all the
same. Merchants, bankers and all
other such men mostly talk of what
they lose, if it is only a little, but
many seem to think a farmer's loss
is small and they associate it with
the farmer's unbusiness like management.
Ere long we may hear many
carping critics onto us and the mumer*
ous advice givers, telling why farmers
fail and how they should manage,
etc., when often their view of farming
is no more extensive than the four
walls ef a building they are doing
some sertofbusineesin. A few days
oi extremes otten rains a whole crop, <
if enjthins. 1
In the last issue of Tiie Times 1
there was something said about the 1
ohain gang going to work macadaaiz. 1
ing the roads. That would make <
good roads, but it is my belief they <
are starting too soon. Better build <
up the dirt part of the roads first. <
There are numbers of miles that are 1
scarcely passable that ceuld be built ?
up in a manner to last for years and
not get muddy and require only the ?
i grass and weeds to be cut eff which J
is now only in the bottom of a water
i way. There are places in the roads, ?
; which I have often contended, is no
ex cues whatever for being muddy,
i All muddy clay toads can be bene- i
fitted with earth works but not right f
; away; it would take time, but I be- i
lieve it can be. The chain gang can ?
get work catting bushes of the roads
i where overseers wont cut them. But t
. this is not what I started to say. The <
i best thing the gang could do ts to go i
i moving roads off some of the long
; steep bills. It would be money best i
' spent;- Mud- is- bad enough ana only
. remains for some months, but a big <
i hill is there, a menace to transports- 1
> tion and travel always. If there is I
i no law to go around hills with roads 1
) let our law makers make a law to
i that effect. If the roads are foftlie
t A. S .1
. Denenc 01 tne traveling public make
them as hilless as possible. There is
> room enough in this world besides
? running a road over a big hill. This
r thing do and ws can stand the mud
. a little longer.
i Hky Denver.
; Etta Jsne Etchings,
s Etta Jane, Jan. 13.?Miss Anna
a, McCarley, our teacher, was called to
t Abbeville ooonty in haste last Sature
day to see her brother who is lying
1 dangerously ill with hemmorrkage of
! the lungs.
r Sam J. Strain is unwell this a. m.
8 He has a cold.
d The cold snap has been pressing
>. people to keep up fires and other
comforts.
* Mr. Adam G. McCulloch will
It start for his home in Bonham, Texas,
d today. He has been on a thirty day
n visit to his old home. We hope to
>t see him at his home next April.
n T TY (InnitalAnt m
>f of Co. F, 16th Regt., 8. C. Vols,
ts will attend the Confederate reunion
w in Dallas, Texas, next April. Uncle
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Thomas says he has the "moon-eyes"
?meaning money?to pay his way
ind he may remain some time after
the reunion is over.
Several cases of small pox are reported
in this section but noboily
leems to have any special dread.
Hon. C. W. Whisonant celebrates
iris fiftieth birthday today.
Mr. James Woolbright is miller at
the Thomson Mills, where he will
gladly serve his old friends and as
many new ones as will patronize him.
The young people, are enjoying
;he pleasures of the season under the
rarious names of sociables, parties,
frolics, etc. Its an old saying, 'dove
rover gets cold." and its fortunate
;hat it (lon't, or many would freeze
;hese cold nights. A boy will dance
ill night with a 120 pound girl on
lis arm wheu he can't split his
nother a fire of stove wood next day,
vithout a good deal of complaiuimg
ind growling about it.
The centinual cold weather has
>een severe on oats and wheat in
lome places. Mr. T. M. Littlejohn
ays his oats are killed out with the
reezes.
We had the pleasure of spending
he day with Mrs. Smarr's family
it Hopewell last Tuesday.
Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell, of Ilopowelj,
las the thanks of we us and family
or a nice sack of sweet potatoes to
sake pies and butter to season them.
We have in our possession four
azor blades which our friend J. It.
?oole, Esq., of Sunny Side, sent us. i
They were once the property of a
tlexican soldier and were captured
luring tho Mexican war by our solliera
when they routed Santa Anna.
This history is told in about these
vords by Mr. Poole. 4'About the
rear 18-49 or 50 my brother, H.
Uoleman Poole, went to Mississippi
fith my uncle Fielder Turner, who
vent to see the country with a view
>f moving there if he liked it. While
here <4Colo" (that is Coleman Poole)
net a friend of my father, (Col. R.
CJ. Poole) who had been a soldier in
ihe Mexican war, (I forget his name)
ind he was telling "Cole" of tho
f #1 Aa Ua VftO/l KAAn In rJ
/a%vivo ug uau utuu iu, auu iu uilu Ui
;hem he said they routed the onemy.
Santa Anna was in command. After
the enemy had iled this friend and
ithers went into Santa Anna's tent
to see what they could find and among
)ther things he got the razors and
lent them as a present to my father,
who kept and used them until 1882
ind I have had them ever since."
There is a move on foot to have
mother iron bridge built across
Broad river in this county above the
Southern railroad bridge. This will
ilso cause one to be built at Cherokee
Falls.
Our people are disposed' to have
ill the conveniences they can get at
i reasonable price. They think
rightly too, that convenience is
noney properly invested.
The iron bridge built recently cost
die county $7,000 and it stood firm
luring the late freshet, notwithstanding
a large laft came against it.
Ilere is a sum for some one to
work out: A merchant found a $10
bill which he paid to his clerk. The
clerk in turn settled a bill he owod
his employer and at the same time
he bought a suit of clothes for $10
en a credit. Next the merchant
paid a doctor's bill with the same
money. The doctor gave it back to
him for a bill of goods, when he
naTt rial<4 ft. a mnnfcu tn Viia Knfplior I
MVA? vuv ftUVUVJ W UID MUVVUVlj
who boaght a beef from a farmer
with it. The farmor bought goods
from the same merchant with it, and
he again paid it to the same clerk
who settled his store account of $10
with it. The merchant afterwards
discovered it was counterfeit. Who
I6et anything by the transaction, and
how much? Vox.
News from Sedalia.
Mr. Editor:?Well, ss Christmas
is about over I would put in a line
about our pound parties. There was
a pound p?vtv given at Mr. J W.
Humphries' Tuesday night. It was
a very pleasant evening. Also Mr.
T. J. Alverson on Friday evening.
Ail report a fine time.
Miss Nealie Sartor has once more
collected her pupils together and
begun her school at Padgett's Creek
since the holidays.
There were two very enjoyable
Christmas trees in our little town
diirin* t.he bolidnvN. Onn At Crnaa
ktjs academy and one at Padgett's
Crock academy.
Serenading was postponed this
Xroas on account of the band boys
being scarce but I hope it was enjoyed
just aa much.
What has bocome of Iley Denver
nnd B. B. I sure like to read their
letters.
By the way, Mr. Editor, those
people who were water bound and
caught around ths telephone pole
have reached home safe. You didn't
hear the little song the young man
sang in the water did you? This
was thp song} 44I'm sorry I ever
left home."
Mr. J. C. Murphy, of Cross Keys,
has gone to Spartanburg to live with
his uncle, Mr. T. W, White.
Mr. H. C. Wilburn, of Ilillsville,
has returned home to go to school at
Cross Keys. We arc glad to have
him back again.
Miss Bertha Humphries is expected
to be home next Saturday from her
trip to Darlington.
Miss Mattie Graham returned
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>iuui v uivu ia*t uuiiuiij. cue spent
the holidays with her sister, Mrs. J.
11. Bartlca.
Miss Edna Davis has coma home
to spend a few days with her parents.
Rev. L. C. Ezell, of Woodruf, is
down in our vacinity again. It sure
looks natural to see him back with
us.
Mr. Y. S. Bobo, of Cross Keys,
is vory low but is some better at
present. I hope he will soon recover.
A.lso Miss Dora Willbanks
is very ill.
Mr. Editor, a happy new year to
you and the many reade;*.
Blue Mountain.
Union Girl in Georgia.
Well, Mr. Editor, I will take the
pleasuro of writing a few lines to Tiie
Times tonight for my pastime to
let you all hear from this part of
Georgia.
Georgia is a fine old State you bet.
Some of you all have been to Georgia.
This part is a fine country.
Some of the farmers are getting
the ground ready for spring.
The cold 'weather hurt the wheat
hut some people arc still sowing grain.
The young people are having
parties, dances ana pound suppers
every night or so. This part of the
country is lively and the people sure
enjoy themselves. We sure have
some good music. There are some
good fiddlers out here.
What has become of Ivey Green.
I would like for her to write oftener.
I like to road her letters for I like to
hear from mv old emmtv and hear
wliat they are doing.
Well, Mr. Editor, come over if
you are fond of opossum. We have
three for the 19th of January.
Opossum and potatoes are fine.
The colored people have got the
smallpox. I guess it will be the
white people's time next but I hope
not. Well, I don't think there has
been many death's from tho disease
but one negro froze to death.
There are not .as many colored
people out here as there are in South
Carolina.
I have been in this country two
years but it don't seem like it has
been that long. 1 did not think one
year ago that life for us would be so
changed and wc who loved each
other so would be today so far estrayed.
J. B. L.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
^rroiu uur iveguiar ^orreaponaeni.j
Washington, Jan. 15, 1902.?Immediately
following the diplomatic
reception at the White House the
President and Mrs. Rooa*v*lt entertained
at dinner the leading members
of the corps. e The table was set in
the Baat Room and cevers for one
hundred guests were laid. Both the
East Room and the dining table were
beautifully decorated with palms,
smilax, orchids and roses. An amusing
incident occurred shortly before
tho assembling of the guests when
Master Archibald Roosevelt and the
five year old son of the colored butler
were discovered at the table devouring
the bon-bons which wero placed
in small dishes at the side bf each
plate. Among the guests present
were Lieutenant General and Mrs
Miles. I understand that inyitationt
were also extended to AdraiAl and
Mra. Schley but that owing to the
fact that the Admiral had made hie
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plans to leave for Savannah that
evening it wa3 impossible for them to
be present.
On Friday some one connected
with the White House establishment
made what might almost be termed a '
faux pas, in that it placed in a most 1
embarrassing position a number of 1
Mrs. Roosevelt's friends. Cards '
were sent out in Mrs. Roosevelt's 1
name to some three hundred persons 1
bidding them to an informal tea at 1
the White Ilouse front 6 to <>. At '
the saute hour Jan Kubclik, the 1
famous violinist, gave a concert to
which most of the people invited to
the White House held tickets. An i
invitaiion from the first lady in the
land is regarded in the nature of a <
command and it would be quite im- <
possible to plead a previous engage- <
ment as the cause of absenting ones |
self from one of Mrs. Roosevelt's i
aftornoons. A9 it was some very exftensive
boxes and seats at the Ivuheik
concert were sacrificed or filled
with the younger members of the
family while their elders Hpent a not 1
over enjoyable hour at the White
House.
Although there are already equipages
in Washington which belong to
some of "the old families" which
must have been in the height of
fashion in Grant's time, the President
has sent for one that promises
to antedato them all. It is an old
phaeton which was built some sixty
or seventy years ago for the President's
father. Mr. Roosevelt has
had it repainted and repaired and its
use will be devoted to the children.
The body is black but the gear is
blue and is strippod with light blue
so that anyone who fails to recognize
Mr. llooaevett's offspring by the
marked resemblance to their dis
tinguished parent a mile off, will have
no difficulty in placing them by the
antiquity of their turn-out.
At the capitol the energy which
has characterized tkc Fifty-soventh i
Congress since its inauguration docs
not seem to wano and a large amount
of work is disposed of daily. Of
course at this time the greater portion
of the work is done in the committee
rooms and so makes less show
than it will later in the session, but
subsequent daily sessions will demonstrate
the energy with which the
various committees have attacked the
large amount of legislation which has
been referred to them.
Two interesting sessions have been
held in the House, one devoted to
the consideration of the Hepburn bill
which provides for the construction
of the isthmian canal along the Nicarsguan
route at nt estimated cost of
$180,000,000 and whidh was passed
bJ a rote of 308 to 2. The other i
session which filled the galleries and
secured a full attendance of the meinmers
was that held on Friday last
and which was devoted to the consideration
of the bill reported by the
Census Committee and which provides
for the permanent organization
of the Census Bureau. The bill did
not meet with the approval of the
members and it was referred back to
the committee but there is little doubt
that it will be revised in accordance
with the wishes ot the representatives
and reported no distant date in a
form that will ensure its passage.
Ihe Senate Committee on military
affairs, which had in charge the investigation
of the charges against
Colonel Ilcistand, has made its report
and it declares that the investigating
committee was unable to find any
evidence in support of the charges
made. The report is entirely in accordance
with the prediction made in
these letters some months ago and
exonerates all the officials upon whom
; Major Hakes charges cast any reflection,
with the exception, herhaps,
i of Major Ilakes who is no longer
an official.
i Representative S. 1). Wood, of
i California, has introduced in Congress
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a bill providing for the establishment
of a department of Mines and Mining.
Mr. Wood says that tho value of the
mineral products of the United States
in 1890 amounted to a little over
$970,800,000 and that an industry
of this size should bo represented in
the government by a special depart,
ment. Such a department wonld
also have tho interests of the miners
to protect and Mr. Wood believe*
that in a short time it woald become
one of the most interesting and valuable
departments of the Government.
The announcement comes from tho
White House that Mr. Roosevelt
proposes to extend the Civil Service
Law,to include the "laborers" in the
departments in Washington. The
change will not be made by a blanket
order but bv a saripa nf o"'0"
^ v? uvia oavil
governing the employees of a particular
department and the first of
which will bo is?ued in a few dajs.
IIow this move will be regarded bj
the members of Congress is hard to
predict. The class known as "laborera"
include all of the positions in
Washington, with the exception of
the employees of Congress itself,
which the Congressmen control and
all of the laborers in the departments
today have been appointed through
congressional influence. The proposed
orders will not throw these
now employed out of employment
but it will prevent the appointment
of others in their places through congressional
influence and will relieve
them from all abligation to the members
who secured their appointment.
On Friday the House Committee
on Commerce took up the subject of
a Pacific cable. Mr, George G.
Ward, vice-president of the Commercial
Pacific Cable Company, explained
tho plans of his company.
He said that the company had awarded
contracts for the construction
and laying of a cable to Hawaii by
the first of November and that they
proposed to push on to Manilla at
the earliest possible date. He said
that the Cable was being manufactured
at the rate of two thousand and
forfy miles a month. The rates
which the company expects to charge
are $1.00 per word to Manilla and
from iJo to 50 cents per word to
Honolulu.
The friends of Admiral Schley are
much disturbed over what thej be
lievc to be a mistaken kindness on
the part of some of the members of
Congress to make his cause a party
issue. They believe that before this
is done the position of the present
Congress should be aecortaincd beyond
a doubt as they feel that an
exoneration of the admiral, irrespective
of party lines, would be
much more of an honor than if it
should come from but one party.
Lockhart Junction News Notes.
| It is very cold today.
January has been fair but cold at
this time.
There have been several changes
made around here. Mr. T. F.
flanlt. Iioa ntnvml J
homo place, where they will make
their future home.
Mr. I\ W. Willard gave an infair
dinner at his home last Monday, the
Cth, in honor of hit son, Mr. W. A.
Willard, who married Miss Kosie
Viu9on of this community Sunday,
lie entertained a goodly number of
friends. A most bounteous dinner
was served. There were several
tables loaded with good things to
which all did ample justice. The
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