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% '. - .'- . . - ' " rS-.. , ": jlH THE UNION TIMES. EM ms*a*sJL ? 8lan w.ater- Fopulatio* ?,?<W. J *? ' . . JL Ji I. W _ YOL. L1I. NO. 11. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MARCH 14, 1902. #1.00 A YEAR. I P. M. FARk. PtmMmi. T QBO. MUNRO, Cuh4?r, J. | Msrckasts' a?4 Plai I' or UWI< A Capital 8took J Surplus f Stockholders' Liabilities , X Jotal i Draaorous?J. A. Fant, V X T. 0. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, T Wm. Oolsman. ? We SeTlcIt Y REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. Interesting Incidenta Connected With the hate War, Bringing Ont a Great Deal of Unwritten Hiatarjr, in Which the Private and iSubordinate Officer* are Given g Credit Justly Due Them. Some of the Truest, Noblest and Bravest Men That Ever Paced an Enemy Were to be FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES. BY J, L. STRAIN. Chapter III. The boat moYed off up the river towards Jefferson with Mr. Hughes nd his family on board, all well eared for. Mrs. Hughes and children were safely and snugly eosconsed in a cosy cabin and Jeff began to look around for something to amuse himself. He found in one of the rooms of the boat a party of youngsters having a good time fiddling and dancing. He stepped to the door of the cabin and placed his hands on both sides, stood and looked on wish felly while "a set" tu on hand. As it closed he spoke end seid something but no one appeared to paj anj at^ tention to him. He began to think (to himself) "now maybe I am out of order and had better go slow till I find oat the ropes" as he called it. 80 making the best of it be kept his position till they went through with another "set." And by this time he thought he must venture another word let the consequenoes be what they may. So he blasted out something else in his own style and lingo when he saw one young lady setting over in the corner of the room lookMIT li^Awtva nnf nf Kn?K ? * ?^ ? *-? m w ww v* wva cjgf UilU and with that approving smile from her he took fresh courage. After the party had taken a abort breathing spell Jeff proposed another set to which some of the party of bojs or men gave their assent and all at once Jeff made a lunge across the room toward the girl whom he took to be his friend and bv the time he reached her she seized his arm and out they went followed by the others, sad before they took their seats they daaoed two sets. (And Jeff says she was a dancer too and don't you for-* get it.) By this time Jeff began to mel perfectly at home. Every now tad them the big, rough, blustry captain would pass the cabin door and stop and look in. But this made no differene with Jeff. He began telling some of his big tales he had prepared fbr the occasion and soon he was the eentral figure of the crowd and erery body had something to say to Mr. Hughes. After his round in the dancing department he thought he had better look out and see how "Sis" (his wife) ana children were getting on. They were nil right nnd he returned to hjs dancing crowd. By this time he had got familiar with them and they withnim and eo they took another round of the maty dance. But while he wai out hie wife told him he had better mind or somebody would kill him. They might not like for him to be taking ttch an active part in the fun without they gave him an invitation. Jeff thought it a pretty good idea MM if if ... T Ml ...a .. i? nma m nuiUdU O. ilUt X 11 go ahead now and not back down suace I have started" he said to his Wife. ^ Not long after that the captain aceosted him in his rough war with a early frown on his face. The captain was a giant in sise. As Jeff aid "big enough, to swallow me." The captain said to him: "I've been waning this boat for 25 years and l' ' - ' WWWWWW WW WW WWiN I. H. FOSTBR, Vlea PrMl4?it. f D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. ? stars' Natiaaal Baak J 3N, 8, C. ! $80,000 I 60,000 T 80,000 J $170,000 J T. H. Wallace, Wb. Jeffries, ? K. P. A U "B>?4-? T ?.. ^ Mr BmIimi. | you are the man I ever met.' Well, ?ir," said Jeff, bucking up to him with all the bluff he coulc command, "do you see anything dishonorable in the man? If so spealt it out and tell what it is," emphaaiz ing the remark with as vicious a frown as he could command. "No, no," replied the captain tapping bin; on the shoulder at the same time and saying, "come take a drink with m< JlS f-ll T VI - - - uiu tenow jl nice your way ot doing, No sooner said than done and th< two went to the bar where the cap* tain ordered some of the best liquoi on board." Things went on in this way till they reached Jefferson, Texas. But during the trip Jeff would frequentlj go to the mess hall and eat with the sailors. They sat flat down on the floor and had their soup in a kind ol a trough out of which they ate with wooden spoons. Jeff said they reminded him of a lot of hogs scrouging around a slop trough. But he would take his seat with mem and tell them to "git furder" and not crowd him when one got near. Frequently an Irishman (they were all Irish) would rail out on him with an oath and a genuine cussing match took place but all in good hilmor. tkm ? * *' I ?.uua KMIU^O If cub UU (111 lOfj reached Jefferson and then theii goods were unloaded. Now the tug came. They had a hundred miles to travel to reach their destination anc not one cent of money to pay for th< trip. What was to be done? Ii would not do to back down but keej up a bold front Jeff thought. Th< snow was beginning to fall, the wine blew an icy gale and there was Mrs Hnghes and the ohildren atad trqnki on the wharf crowded with all kindi of folks, mostly negroes, and with n< where to go or find any comforts o: life. All were exposed to the icj wind and freezing air. The josth and rush was such that Jeff said h< was afraid they would push some oi his folks into the water, He said he wanted to kill a "nigger" that bad he couldn't see. He went out to t wagon yard and hailed the wagon master and asked him what he would haul him and his effects to Paris for "What have you got" replied th< man? "Sir, I have about 1,00( pounds but most of it is live freight my wife and children" said Jeff t-AVi ?A *1 ? - ' ' v/u| vmoi? 0 ^UUU VUOJ GAD WftlK II 10( road gets too bad." The fellow sayt "I'll take you there for f26." "A1 right" says Jeff, "bring on your tean and let us get away at once." H< (Jeff) didn't hare a cent of mone^ either. While Jeff was returning t< his family to tell them to get readj as he had got a wagon he met t friend who had gone up on the sam? boat and was expecting to go to th< same place or near there. This fel low says to Jeff. "I want to get uj in that part of the country too but j haven't got the money." "Oh, that'i none of my business, I can't hell M T /r * ? you, jen Mia. Turning to th< wagon master he said, "I want to ge up near Paris too, but I haven't go the money." "Oh," said the wagoner "I don't do things that way, yoi will have to look out about that, 1 can't take you," said the wagoner The man told him he could pay hin at the end of the journey. "Oh that's too thin" said he. "But as 1 have to go and take this other mai I'll take you too and you can jus ^>ay me $10 when we get there.' "All right sir," said the man, "I'l do it." And everything got read; aud off they started for a hnndrei mile trip through the country, acroe rivers and creeks and through prarie and mud. For miles and miles the; i travelled out of sight of a house or , any living thing. As they traveled sometimes Jeff was walking on ahead, then with the wagon and sometimes behind them studying all the time how he was to manage to get the money. He believed wljen he reached M&ck Abel, his brother-inlaw, he would get it from him until he cemld make ifc Sometimes the wagoner would be walking with him and they would be talking and the wagnoner would say, "I'm mighty fearful that fellow can't pay me a cent when I get there." Jeff said be (the wagoner) didn't know that he (Jeff) hadn't a cent to pay him with either. On the third day after leaving Jefferson Jeff began to , make enquiries about his brother-in law, Mack Abei, and finally, late in the evening he met a man who knew 1 Mack and he told Jeff that Abel ? lived sixteen miles north of Paris. , This knocked up Jeff's calculation I somewhat and he told the wagoner . that he wanted to go sixteen miles . north of Paris, as the man he was ' wanting to find lived there and not k in Paris as he thought first. The wagoner said he couldn't go i any further than Paris, as his time I would be out and he must return > from that point. It was a tought , time with Jeff. lie knew it would ? newer dn fen cm infen tnwn wjtl< l.la , WW ww gw ?MVV WWMU n nil UIO . family and no money to take care of them with. He had bettor stop before he got to Paris and make some [ other arrangement. Looking away t ahead he .saw a fine white house about p three miles off but on the prarie it , didn't seen so far. lie walked on , as fast as possible and got some disf tance before the wagons thinking he l might reach that house and before the wagons come up find some way out of t his delimma. By the time he reached | the house the wagons were fully a mile behiud. Walking up to the t gate he saw an old gentleman ; standing in the piazza. Taking off I his hat and placing it under his arm Jeff made as polite a bow as he knew , bow and said: "Sir, I am from South Carolina, my name is llughe3. I am no beggar, neither am I a tramp or a dead beat. I have been unfortunate since I left mv nativa ' State, in that I have lost $235 by I pick-pockets. I am going with my family to where my brother-in-law, t Mack Abel, lives who I now understand lives sixteen miles north of Paris. I hired this gentleman to | take my family and effects to Paris and I expected to get the money from Mr. Abel to pay him when we \ got there. He tells me he oan go no farther than Paris which he agreed i to do for $25. Now sir, I am a stranger, and this is my true condi' tion, if you can loan me $25 I will ' pay him and let him return. I don't 9 wish to take my family into town j when I have no money to take care . of them with. I can provide for them much better in the country. I have 1 told you the whole story of my case | truthfully and if you can accommodate me I assure you it will be ap| preciated. Besides I will return it | promptly when I reach the end of my journey. I promised to pay him ' $25. I need that much only. Can ' you let me have it?" Without rc* turning a word the old man turned ! round and walked back into the house, and Jeff could hear them 1 mamblin? something but could nnf tell a word that was being said. lie stood there and waited at the door until the wagons got nearly up to the house when the old gentleman returned and handed him $25 without s & word. The wagons by this time 3 came up and JefU said to the man: "You say, my friend, you can't take | me any farther than Paris?" "Yea sir, that's my limit, and I must go ? no farther, I must return from there." s Jeff replied, "I don't care to go tk*ro and vnn raav atnn rirrltt linpn " ? VUVt V ?UU J vv? UlWJ UVVJ7 ll^UV I1VI V' t The wagon stopped and they began to unload, and after the things were j taken out the wagon turned round [ and the fellow started back when Jeff called to him and said: "Don't j you want your pay? And pulling out the $26 his newly made friend I hadjust given him he handed it over a to the wagoner, whom Jeff says tc t this day don't know but that I had '? that money in my pocket all th( 1 time. j I will close here for the present i and in my next chapter tell of thi e peculiar, wonderful providence o 8 God that was round about him anc y hit family to take care of them. N( wonder the psalmist could sing: "God is our refuge aud our strength, In stiaita a present aid; Therefore although the earth be moved I will net be afraid; Though hills amidst the the seas be cast. Though waters roaring make And troubled be, yea though the hills By swelling seas do shake, But yet the Lord that is on high, Is more of might by far, Than noise of rnauy waters is ' Or great sea billows are, Thv testimonies everv nr.p in faithful. ness excel In holiness forever I/ord thine house becometh well." (To be continued.) George Washington. George Washington was born in a plain old fashioned house iu West Moreland coauty Virgina on Feb. 22nd. 1732 George went to what w;vs called an old field school house. The teacher was a mau named Hobby. *fu Virginia 1 at that time the land was left to the oldest son as was the custom in England at that time and Virgina was an Eng- i lish colony, George's elder brother ' Lawereuce was heir to the lands of George's father, and he was sent to England to a acquire an education, when Lawrence came back with many a wild tale to tell Washington grew proud i or his brother Lawrence and his brother ' was equally pleased with his manly , little brother George. When George's brother went oft' to take a captain's position in the army, George thought a i good deal about war and drilled the < boys of the old field school house. Boys < in Virgina, at that time rode horses, j swam and lished. I George could lide any colt and horses, he sometimes rode colts that had not ( been ridden before. Georee's school mates hroocht. their quarrels to him to settle. George's father died when George was j only eleven years of age. Ilis mother took pains to bring him up with manly , ideas. I He was now sent to school to a man named Williams who taught him read- ( ing, writing, surveying and arithmetic. , Washington's copy books are kept until this day to show how.aeat he was. George's brother Lawrence wanted , George to be a seaman and George liked | the idea, hut his mother did not want him to leave her so he stayed at school ] until he was sixteen. George took pains , in his stuliug and when he was only a large boy Lord Fairfor who owned whole (Jhunties in Virginia, hired \ George to survey some of the wildest parts of his laud Washington slept under trees with onlj the stars for a shelter, sometimes many people would sleep uu- ' der the trees with Washington and it was "happy is he who gets closest to the tire." One night the straw on which Washington slept caught tire and had not some of the people present awakened him he would have been consumed. The food of the surveyor was wild game and he cooked it by sticking a hole through it with a stick and holding it over the lire. Washington must have done good work for he got from seven to twentyone dollars a day.. Washington led this life for three years. It was during this life that he made his first acquantance with the Indians. When Washington was only nineteen 1 years old he was made major in the militia by the Governor of Virginia, i lie studied drilling under an old soldier and took fencing lessons from a man named Van Broom. The French were building forts on i land of the English, on the Ohio river. And the Governor of Virginia wanted to send an officer to tell them, so the French won id not "move their forts, ; they knew but it was their duty to let them know. Nobody else except brave Major Washington could be chosen to execute tins mission, so Washington set out with a band of hardy frontier men and on the way Washington called a ? baud of Indians together, and an Indian named Half King accompanied him as a guide. They soon found the French and delivered their messago and set. out upon ' their return. They soon got back to where Half King was to leave t|iein and Washington and a man named Gist set out alone and as iney came along ;? utile tiirUuir an Indian came out from behind a ticu and shot at them. He had l>een hired by the French to do it, b^lore he had time to reload Washington and (list had him, (.fist was for killing him but Washington would not Itl him. 1 Wiien Washington came back he was i the hero of Virginia. By I he answer the French sent to the English it was evident that there was to be a struggle. J When Washington was on his mission to the French he noticed a nice site to v...:i.i n i ? i ? uunu it iuu. iii nt win junction OI t the monongahela ami alleghany rivers. ' Here lie to^rk his men and started to ' build a fort. i The Fiench drove them away and built * fort of their own there. It was , named Fort Duquesne j There were not noanv French in 1 America at this time but what were ' here were nearly all soldiers. > After leaving the fort from which the j Fiench drove them Washington heard that a French party was dogging his 3 steps he surroundi d them in the night and the French lV-d but Washington . captured most of them. Washington Was driven to a place called uiMt 3 Meadows where he built a fort and j t called it Fort Necessity. I The French defeated him here and j } I he was let go on the terms that he would go back to the settlements. 1 Wm. A. NICHC BANK SOLICIT YOU And promise courteous treatn tion consis GtOOTI Tt * Write all kinds of Insurant MONEY ORDERS Issue Office and Express .Company. The next. \ear Gen. Braddock came over from England with a large army to 1 whip the French. Braddock would not listen to Washington who advised him 1 to send scouts ahead, Braddock scorned < the American c Ulcers, and Washington ( resigned his place and to >k a place on Braddock's staff. t One morning the army was surrounded i by the French and Indians. The woods 1 rang with their veils and shrieks. 1 Braddock. instead of scattering his I men behind trees and stones, kept f them in a ilrru body hut it was only for , them to be a target for the French and r Indians. c QI,av?ct.Ar.lora final!.. m?f0tl.. J~.J Braddock aud Washington did his b^st c to rally the troops but it was of no aval'* c The war finally ended by the French cjivin? up Canada and their part in the c IT. S. in 17ti3. Before the war closed 1 Washington retired to Mt. Vernon and s married a widow named Mrs Martha ? Dustis. Washington lived quietly for ^ several years on his place at Mt. Vernon, c Sometimes he helped draw a sein out of the Potomac ltiver. 1 He rode over his place and kept it. in aider. Alxiut this time the parliament of England and, the King put a tax. on the tea and all goods imported into America. The American people to make the English people stop this tyraoy put an homespun clothes, and drauk sassafras 0 tea made from the roots of the sassafras y bush. The Americans claimed that the f, English could not tax them without their consent. They also claimed that ? they hod a rijlit in tire election of " parliament. This brought on the memorible Revolutionary war. The British a ?eut a ship load of tea to America and ,onie people dressed up in costumes like Ludiaus, made the Boston Harber a c large teapot and threw all of the tea on g the ship into it. The King punished Boston for this c and the other coluies sided with Boston, r The Americans gathered up power at , Lexington and the British marched to " take it. The sturdy American fanners* 8 offend resistance and shot at the British y from behind rocks and trees. This was a on April 10th. 1775. Congress was now called together and they elected Wash- F ington commander in chief of the American army. c Before Washington got to Boston to a take command the battle of Bunker Hill had been fought. In this ( battle the Americans were driven from > the tield hut it was plainly shown hf the < stubborn resistance of the American ] farmers that they were equal to the well trained British troops. For many months Washington kept a line English i army penned up in Boston as soon as i his troops got strong enough he sent a detachment up to Dorchester heights . and threw up redoubts. The British said the American rebels have done in one < night what we would have done in a ^ month. 2 The next morning the batterv at Doichester heights tlirew shells into i Boston aiul made the place so uncomfoi table for the British that they got in P their ehips and sailed away. At first the ( Americans had only fought for their rights, but the King and parliament would not give them their rights so ? on July 4th 177il they declared themselves '' free and independent. This was called j; the Declaration of Independence. Soon a after it was signed the British sent a fleet to drive Washington from New York. A battle was fought on Long Island and * the Americans were defeated and had to t give up New Yoik l'hey fell hack t across to New Jersey and it seemed that i all ^'as lost, Washington saw that he had to fight a smill lndy of English ? to keep liia troops' courage up. 80 lie n set out Christinas night and crossed the Deleware and slipped upon some of the king's Hessian soldiers. They were drinking and celebrating Clnistmas day. J Washington was celebrating it in his own way. The Americans captured about one thousand of them. Not long after Cornwallis surrounded Washington and went to bed boasting that he would l?g the fox in the morning. Washington left the camp ilros burning and a few soldiers to dig intrenchinents . so as to fool Cornwallis. Washington left by a little by road which lie knew , and escaped. ! When Cornwallis got up the next , tuornuing the fox was gone and when ' he heard c.mnons booming down the river lie liad to hasten to New Hruuwicli to save liis stores. Washington won the battle at. Princeton and , marched across the lulis to Morristown thus forcing the British to give up the greater part of New Jersey. ( The winter at Valley Forge was one , of the most tragical parts of the war. The French came over to help the , Americans about this time. Cornwallis had marched down South and had gained j several victories over the Americans hut he could not. subdue them so he cam* Oil back up into Virginia. , Washington pretended to hs watching New York so that 1 lie troops from that place would not join Cornwallis. >LSON & SON, ERS, R BUSINESS lent and every accommodatent with LNB.XN'G-. :e except life. d at the same rate as Post [Ie suddenly marched to York town and besieged Cornwallis in Yorktown. The French lloet kept the British from getting help by sea and the A.meri;aus and French soldiers penned him up ilosely by land. 1IV * v* Hsmugcou was once standiug on a langerous place anil a musket ball fell it his feet General Knox grabbed him jy the arm and begged him to leave. Washington said. "It is only a spent ?all it can do no harm." The war was inally ended by C'ornwallis surrendering. Vfter the war was over the constitution vas adopted. Ami Washington was 4ected President. The whole city of New York wel:omed him with honor as he entered that ity. Oa the 30th of April 1789 he took the iAth of office in the preseuce of a large mly of people. Washington w as elected a ecoud time in 1703, he refused to be lected the third time and retired to Mt. Tertion in 1707. lie died from a cold ontracted while riding over his placa. He died at Mt. Vernon in 1709. 'First in war, first in peace, first in the iearts of his countrymen." W. P. G. ??? Pacolct Paragraphs, Trof. R. S. Rogers, principal ot ur school, after an illness of two reeks, has to the delight of his many riends sufficiently recuperated to be n the streets again and will resume is position in a fow days. Miss Estelle O'Rouke, his popular nd most efficient assistant with the id of Mr. Baxter Genobles, has been onducting the school in a highly ratifying manner. Society is on the qb* vive of exitement over the Weekly Scientific Hub, the organization of which is pinnr urritofnrl 1 ^ wug ugtvuvu<t> 1/cuatCi] Ull auicuoiliu ubjects, questions of the day, etc., rill be discussed. Music, both vocal nd instrumental, will complete the >rogram for each evening. Rehearsela are in progress for a :oncert in the Presbyterian churoh lome time in the near future. Glees, ;horuses. anthems, solos and duets vill comprise the programme. The ;horuses are all from celebrated [talian operas. Miss Jo Lanford after a pleasant fisit to friends in Columbia and Lexngton has returned home. Miss Mellie Thomason is also at lome again after an absence of several lays. The many friends of these roung ladies are thoroughly delighted .* a. ?* it men it'tuiu. Mr. M. L. Gregory, of Greenville, ins been in town several days the juest of his sister, Mrs. W. T. A. Jregory, on Glenn street. Quito the social event of the seaon took place on Friday evening ast when the devotess of Terpsichore articipated in a german in the .cademy. It was not until the soft strains of Iomo Sweet Home lloated out over his merry throng reminding them of he approach of the "wee sma hours" lid they turn their faces homeward eelinjr that thev could echo thn senti t/ / ' " " aent of the lines: 'You may break, you may shatter The vases if you will; Sut the scent of the roses Will hang 'round it still." MiQNONETTE. THE NEW YORK WORLD Thrice ?-Week Edition. Time has demonstrated that the rhrice-a-Week World stands alone in its ;lass. Other papers have imitated its form but not its success. This is because it tells all the news all the time Mid tells it impartially, whether that news he political or otherwise. It is in fact almost a daily at the price of a weekly and you cannot afford to lie without it. 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