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f f THE TOWW OP UWOW HAS j? M I 1 T . ^ THE To'w^ToF^UMFbTi^MAtl MfPf HE EN ION TIMES. !a*an bomlrnvrj-. Wat. r \V?rKH and jj | M. JL JUJ \^> ^ \ . _ V " .1 A. 1.1 M. JLJ K_^ | Th.ec Uraded Schools. AH*. I H Moctnc Lights. a | Water. Population 6,600. | VOL Lll. NO -m. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 1C>. 1902. #1.00 A YEAR * Hi"**- H {F. M. FARk President. A UEO. MUNk^, Cashier, J. U * Merchants' and Plan f oI7" rTINio ^ Capital Stock * S.irplu.s jfe Cll 1-1 IJ ? ? 1-1-'"" f. oui'UMliiimjrx IjKllllI IfclOS i ^ Total jk Diukotor*?J. A. Fant, W. ^ l\ 0. Duncan, J.T. Douglass. K ^ Wm. Golem-in. ^ We Solicit Voi 4 M A TRIP TC t A Long an1! Tedious Ride of Over El * Trains Miss Connections at State.. The Biggest Re THE REUNIOIS (Continued from last week,) As stated in the closing paragraph pf our Texas Trip, last week, the Ivaliph parade was the great feature 1 of Wednesday, the second day. of the reunion at Dallas. This parade i took the place of the lloral parade at < Memphis, Tcnn., upon the occasion i of the Veterans Reunion last year. The people were strewn along the < streets by the thousands and tens of f thousands and cheered lustily as the i glittering parade passed. There were twenty lloats in the parade i drawn by teams. These lloats were 1 goneu up in various anu curious ] ^ designs. representing woltdcrlund us seen by Mustapha, the roomful, in u i jouri>cy around the celestial circle t on bright Luna, the orb cf the night, entitled "Quid Luna Videt," "What j the moon saw." This was the name i adopted for the pageant; and rightly t named in honor of lnr who discloses t to mortal ken some of her wonders 1 and mysteries of which the poet said: i "That beautious maiden with fore- t laden, whom mortals call the moon." The Kaliph, or king, issupposed to be sleeping and the wondrous sights t these lloats represent arc those sup- ; . posed to have been seen by him, i when transported by a powerful gini j to the moon. ? Float No. 1. "Ilis majesty, the i King." i No. 2. Here is a scene where his i 4. l: i. n i J - - cuurieurs uispori meiuBcives aim 13 en- 1 titled, "The Royal Court." j No. 3. "Quid Luna Videt," 1 "What the moon saw." , No. 4. The heroes of the "Lost Cause" showing to the sons how the battle scarred heroes passed the weary 1 hours when far away from home. It was iabled "The Bivouac" bearing the motto, "Camping on the Old Tent Ground." No. 5. "In Rome," showing when the city ofTaber was known ns "The Mistress of the World.'1 No. 3.. "In the Meadows" at midnight. "Where fairy cloves Whose midnight reveals by a forest side or fountain, sotno belated pes int sees." No. 7. "In the Palace of the TT t? 1 1 1 I . ' L 11 rung wncrc nign reveiry is neiu. No. 8. "Among the Lillies." No. 0. From the natural to the supernatural is a short atop, and the next the moon saw and disclosed to the sleeping potentate was a scene called "The Gratto of ;he Spirits" "$o. 10. Flower Land." No. 11. "in Pluto's Realm" where all is fire and confusion. No. 12. "The land of the midnight sun," where iee and mist and snow abound. No. 13. "In Fairy Land" in writing of which Shakespeare said: "Oh, there I see IJueen Mab Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.'' No. 14. "Where Bacchus Reigns" the land of grape and wine. No. 15. "Above the clouds," which is poetically described: "ILwtten-'s Ebon Vault, Stuulded with stars unutterably bright . >4 Vf *iH V>,. t * I' JiSi w ! Av Jai t ' ? ^ 4* -* 1 . H. FOSTKR, vice President. $ S i. ARTHUR, Assistant Coslilrr. | | lets' National Bank f J t i IN M, C, jj. $60,000 I 50,000 J CO,000 $ I! $170,000 I H. Wallaeo, Wm. Jeffries, i , P. McKissiek, A. tf. Foster, ^ $ fl ur Business. ,1 T t TTV A O j i c.ys./-\o. i V even Hundred Miles. Delayed ); Last Arrived in Lone Star t union in History was ii I AT DALLAS. [ s c Through which the moon's unclouded t grandeur rolls." fi No. 10. "Mudirn India," the t land of uiystety avid romance. a No. 17. "The Tropics," 4'a pleas- a ng land of drowsy head it was, of a Ireams that wave upon half shut r eyes." t No. 18. "In England," the regal t< jity of the Ivaliph, where joy reigns p supreme. whose uiotto is. "On with 1 .1. . ,i '. i. ^ ? - * .nu uunui;, ictjoy oe unconnneu. No. 1!). "In the Orient," when u Persia was ruler of all the realm b from the ludies to the Mediterra- v a can. e No. 20. "Tlie King of Plenty and n die Queen of Prosperity," "To seat,er plenty over a smiling land." i" It was a grand and glittering uf- b 'air. It is impossible to go further v nto details regarding the different f 'cenes represented hy these lloats as li ;hey glided along the streets, but u :hosc who saw it have no hesitancy J n saying it was the grandest sight v ;hey ever witnessed. t TlUltU DAY. r This was the day for the grand e itrect parade of the veterans, and 1 lfter a business session in the*morn-, v ing the formation of the line was bo- s; j;un at 10 o'clock The march was t toon begun, which covered several a miles up one street and down another, o in the principal business section of I the town. Long before the hour for e the parade the people began to gather ? along the streets and the jam con- V tinned until they were packed upon > either side of the streets for miles, c being crowded at some points almost I to the point of suffocation. It is l said that it took the marching line u two hours to pass a given point. r The column was led by mounted r police, then came Gen. J no. B. Gor- ? tlon, followed by other distinguished '< ofheers and guests. The armies of i Virginia, Tennessee, Forest's Cav- 1 airy, Dallas Artillery, TransMi-sis- t sippi, Missouri, South Carolina t Division, Alabama Division, Arkan- i sas, Georgia Division, Florida Division, Kentucky Division, Indian Tcr- t ritory, Oklahoma Territory, Pacific i Division, Texas Sons of Veterans I were all in line including sponsors i and maids of honor, and several < bands of music. The carriages con- | tabling the sponsors and their maids of honor were just in rear of each Division Commander and his staff. A , prominent place in the parade had k,.?~ n?l../.,?.l r.- ? > ?* ' uwt oc?ui;i,cu lur urcnerai iiai!ij>ton and his staff, an<l many and sincere , were the expressions of regret hoard on every side of the death of this noble hero and patriot. The parade washy far the largest thing of the kind ever seen in Dallas, and in fact, it is stoutly claimed, that the parade and the crowd were larger than that at Memphis last year. But . I have my doubts about this Bo | this us it may it can be said to tbc ' everlasting credit of Dallas that she, , a city <>f less than seventy thousand inhabitants, was remarkably success-^ ' ful in caring for this great Hood of humanity. They expected a very large crowd, and spared no effort, labor or expense in, preparing for i C y !t heir entertainment. 1 understand hat the preparations were so exten- i ive and complete that at least two] housaud more people eou'il have j icon fed and oouifoitably (juartcred, | here was an affidavit to the cfl'-ct hat - ver one thousand cots in the cno?vlcdge of the committee were un>coupied. ami a number of residences vere not half tided to then .junta. I In the afternoon at 4 o'clock a re leptioii was tendered to Gen. Gordon md other distinguished officers a' he Episcopal College, by Mrs. Tar >err, the principal, and the festiviies of the day closed/ a the audi criutn from 8 u> 0:d0 o'clock by i ;raad Kalinh's ball and the crown ng of the Queen of the Kaliphntc by ho King. rOUUTP AND I. A ST PAY. This day was taken up in the fore i. on by routine business, election of ilieers :unl the >elcc:ion of the next ilacc for holding the Reunion. (New Means was the place selected) afror rhich the meeting adjourned ami hose who wished spent the remaindr of the day around town departed a other points to visit relatives or riends in Texas, or returned to their ionics, and a large number went visting. There has possibly never een such a visiting record made in lie. past as was made upon this occan-:... -1-- 1 . V.-Vweuij^ ;i nu\>iy seillCU ountry c >mparatively spoaking, here are hundred:) of people there rouj every State in the Union, and here was possibly not an old veteran t Dallas who did not have soiuo rob?ive or friend in the State, and on ccount of the remarkably cheap atcs offered by the railroads for si?I ? lips, hundreds and hundreds of them ook advantage of the opportunity t-? iiy a visit to their friends in the jOIic Star State. One of the incidents of the Itenion which I do not think ought to e omitted, and ono that I believe ill gladden the heart of every vetran reader of Tiih Times 1 will lcntion right here: At Austin, Texas, is locaP d the ioldier's Home, where some one undred or more poor old Confederate eterans are living tenderly cared or. These poor old heroes of course itid a great desire to attend the reinion and once more, and in all irobabilitv for the last time, meet nth their old comrades in arms, but his they could not do on account of lot having the money to pay their xpenses. Sanger Brothers, the argest dry goo-is firm in Dallas, and vho, by the way arc Jews, learning if the situation quietly ascertained he number of soldiers in the homo ,nd purchased tickets for every ne of them and brought them to Dallas in a body. Upon their arrival ach one was supplied with sufficient noney by these noble hearted icofde to pay their expenses while n Dallas. To say that the hearts ?f these old soldiers were made glad >y this kind act is to hut feebly exjress it. This was not done as an idvertising scheme either, as the newspapers were earnestly requested lot to give the name of the firm, md in referring to it the papers said i prominent business firm had done * u..? .. 1?i?i -i* i v. xjui it iiMKfu uui 01 ourse anti i picked it up. It was the he id of his firm who died the next day after he soldiers arrived of which I will nuke mention later. This generous action on the part >f these big hearted men i'uriished the inspiration which brought forth the following touching lines "roui the pen of W. L. Sanford, of )f Sherman, Texas, and which were published during the Reunion in the Dallas News: Tin: VKTKRAKK Or AI STIN* 1IOMK. I'liey want to go to Dallas, too, and greet the warscarred throng; l'lio veterans of tho Soldiers' Home, they won't be with us long. They've heard of the reunion, and their pallid faces glow W'itli thought that w ill not perish, and their old hearts long to go And grasp again the hands of those they knew in that proud dav When, bidding home and friends goodbye, they armed and rode away. Across the sun-kissed prar.iries dyed with blossoms fair and sweet There come tho blare of bugles and'the sound of marching feet; The voices of old captains ring again. upon the ears; They catch the strains of "Dixie" and' the rebel's rousing cheers; The martial spirit in them that has slumbered wakes once more, And now they long to "fall in ranks," perchance with Loagstreet's corps. In vision gleam the campflres, with the comrades scattered 'round? Sum.*1 lounging on tiic fallen trees, some st ret el ted upon the ground. They smell the bacon frying and they hear the kettle sing. And drink, in thought, the water that comes bubbling from the spring; They see the bright stars looking down upon Virginia's snow, While thrilling recollections troop from out the long ago. Their misty eyes grow lustrous with a strange, deliant light As memory paints the tragic scenes of ('hicamauga's tight; The flash of gray hattallions plunging headlong to the fray; The storm of iron hail that sweeps the uarit hlue ranks away; The banner with the starry cross that proudly Haunts before, While Braxton Bragg is paying ofT Stone River's bloody score. They want to bring to mind those deeds ami fight the battle o'er Around the mess with comrades of those wondrous years of yore. They know tiieir days are numbered and the obi souls yarn to see Once more the face of Gordon, of .Toe Wheeler and Fit/, heo Before they join the martyred host on death's eternal shore? The laurel-wreathed imortal who hare journeyed on before! Their stay, alas, is growing short; a few more years, at best, And reverend hands will gently lay them, one by one, to rest, And now shall we withohl from them the modest boom they crave, So small to us, so great to them? Those gallamt hearts who gave The strength of their young manhood, aye! their blood, their limbs, their all In grand, heroic answer to their stricken rnnntru'iB noil' All, no, for proml old Texas, come what may, will not forget The valor of her loyal sons, nor fail to pay the debt Of gratitude she owes to them for what they bravely bore When armed oppression planted foot. upon her sacred shore. Her great heart throbs response, while the warm tears start and How And generous lfands will funrnish means and, God be praised, they'll go. SOMKTHIXi! AIJOUT DALLAS. I had alwavs .associated Texas with the wild and wooly West. As stated in my first letter, 1 " expected to find wild horses and cattle by the thousand, with the typical cowboy, bristling with pistols and lassoes, with his fringed leather leggins dashn no ing hither and thither over the plains on his wild hronclio. I cxpec.ed to find hundreds of these cowboys com ing m and out of Dallas. [ was woe fully disappointed in all 'his. In fact I never Raw anything suggestive of the West, according to the idea I hud formed. I only saw one man with a hat at all approaching the famous Texas sombrero, and I learned that man was from east of the Mississippi and had bought it and was going to wear it home as a souvenir, possibly of a period that has apparently long since disappeared, at least from this section of Texas. When I landed in Dallas I wai astonished to find that I had landed in a l ir ge and strictly up-to-date city, comparing favorably in appearance with Richmond, Knoxville and some of our other most important cities. There 1 found broad, nicely paved streets, towering buildings, thousands of electric light, telephone and J tele graph wires, street cars one way <>r another about every two minutes, and often running in the same direction nn.o mirnifn o*\orf I 1 nowr.../I * U ^ VUV, UIHW'U a?'(U v 1. luai IIVU IIIUI r wore seventy iniies of s'reet cur line in the city ami there were severity cars running. Right here I will pause to say that as an evidence of the tremendous crowd that was at the reunion, the street cars collected $ ">,000 a day in .r>c faros, for three days, to say nothing of thoso who Ix-at t itles, and used transfers from one line to another. After looking around half an hour 1 decided to go out to the fair grounds, where the reunion head quarters had been established, and take in what was to he soen there and return and have a unk with somebody who could tell me about Dallas. 'Pl.n l. *1 i IIU tail I? OUU1U IIII CU miles out from the city. I found qnite a crowd there and the badge salesman and all the other trinket hawkers usually to he found in such places very much in evidence. The famous Midway, however, was conspicuous for its absence, the miniature railway belt line was there how ever, and Ave took a ride around the grounds on it. Hearing music over at the State's headquariters I went over and listened to a violin contest between two veterans, the music was verv fine hut not being on the committee to decide the question I ambled on and inspected the dining 1 (Continued on 4th page.) ! Wm. A. NICH( BANK SOLICIT YOU Aim ; mmise courteous treatt tion consif a :OI> Bi Writ0 .ill kinds of Insuran MONI'V ORDERS Issue Office and Express Company. ?J ! . ?I I I ! W I IITyiMI II I W MMINIS'BW OF THE WAR. Interesting Incidents Connected With i iw Lute War, Stringing Out a Greet Pent of f'nwrittcn History, in Which tiie I'tivate and m <nhor<lin d Officer* nre Oivenl fjCredit fustic Due Them. Some of the Truest, Sot)lest nnd Urn vest Men Th it Ever Faced an IS 11 cm y Were to he FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES. KY I. STI: A IN*. (A 'ontinued. > Chapter Y 111. A great tn;fny of our ' . ! ! boy*" ?ill remember how the Virgin;? ?:ir's used to sing patriotic ;?ii. ? i heer them while fighting tor the (J ?? f" deraey. ' Tne Homespun Dre-s has been revised, remodeled nod published iti several b *ok- ami paper.* which claim they Iihvc the original ballad. Hut rhev are mistaken, some of tliem. The real author was Ni.ss Carrie Hall Sinclair, who was > born in Millyedgevilie, (ieorgia, ' May 22, 183!h She w .s a <?.?u_r:itor ' of a Methodist ; re ichor of great 1 note, ami d.?o a great niece ot ilobert Fulton who invented il?e .-tea m boat. Nobody ei.-e ? ee i c'aiui its authorship. Miss Sinclair was a pupil ! Alexamler 11. Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. Here is the poem a< if came from the pen of Miss Sinclair. "Oh yes, I am a Southern girl and 1 glory in the name, And boast it with far greater pride than getting worth or fame, I envy not the. Northern girl, her robes of beauty rare, Though diamonds grace her snowy neck and pearls bedeck her hair. ' rnoisi's: Hurrah! Hurrah! for the sunny South so dear, Three cheers for the hoiuespon dress that the Southern ladies wear? My homespun dress is plain I know, my hat' palmetto, too; Butthen it shows what Southern girls for Southern rights will do, We scorn to wear a hit of silk, a hit of 'Northern lace, But make our homespun dresses up and wear them with much grace, Now Northern goods are out of date, and since old A he's blockade We Southern girl's will he contented with goods that're Southern made, The Southland is a glorius land and her's a glorious cause, And here's three cheers for Southern rights and for the Southern hoys! We send the bravest of our land to hat- i tie with the foe. And we would lend a helping hand, we love the South you know, We send our sweethearts to the war, hut dear girls never mind, Your soldier love will not forget the girl he left behind. A soldier is the lad for mo?a brave heat I adore; And when the sunny South is free and fighting is no more, I'll choose me then a love from out that gallant band; The soldier lad I love the best shall have my heart and hand. And now, young man, a word for you, if you would win the fair, ir. n?i.i ? i i nv> w me nvia win*re nonor calls and I win your la<lv there, Remember that our brightest smiles ate for the true and brave. And that our tears fall on the <<ne who tills a soldier's grave." (To be continued.) Santuc Sittings. "We love the land where we can stand Free and united, heart and hand; Where liberty is mistress yet 111 spite of bnhe or bayonet!" Perhaps wo arc enrouto to tho coronation of bribe and bayonet. I jjuess the Democratic representatives at Washington aDne.ir ?o | be quite an inc 'rigable set, to some, j I do not believe I ever saw as I i many blackberry blooms as there is j ! this season, and the crop bids f;\\r to I be abundant, j Itev. Mr. Merritt ftlled bis ap pointincnt at the Metbobist church )LSON & SON, :ers, R BUSINESS neut and every accommodn>tent with LKTKLX1MO. ce except life. :d at the same rate as Post Sumliiv. His text was from 1st Jo!,'.. 1\ i" v uM be ab nit as cheering now as < i: possession of a few dollar-. S-. ei-Kis along the river are auftVi i* s b:,illv. WP Viawp lio.l - _ - Ut? t V 1IIIU OVIIIC with prospects of more. Wt r- r i< heading. stalks low and , roV|.'Oti i'< r a good crop is slim, and utiles.' rai.i e ones soon some will be a failure, t tally. In < 1 (',?. c* -11-*r? is eonvng up well aiul plants look healthy. The lio* we ill.e; i the thing. The crop ?*.?t. - i'l.-in : g.?i>(l stand to sonie leu \ t . la i I "ii. tli it' .re jetting ha I <?n horses and tuuh-' r'.'s year, and stuck suffer t'r u: ite of them. They can't wi>-|. i places. We are greasing the ems Invests. Il mks and bellies of our- -very morning. It is humane. i lino are some as pretty stands ?f to. nied. iin ! ite pl anting as 1 ever sa-A. t.'.o vs have taken up some and no but mis w.-rujS are killing s it.' h : < ;, til-' whole iheSC plan :!is i very promising. ! i' a good thing to have a variety it' green soiling crop for hogs, hut as sure as y.ni try to raise and m ike jio.'r. on s.rghuui, pinders, chufas, fiotaO'Cs, artich -kes. etc , it i? soing ? take time in making r >\ food trig. f-i.m the prin i|iic crop corn, ami the consequence kviil lie ? short corn crop. Corn and fieas are two essentials. and a pasture I shoii 'I add, for summer grazing, md c'ovi r for early spring. Therefore it is the cheapest to have pastures where hogs can do their own grazing, for sure it takes much time to prepare and work many patches. 1 heard ?o*no men talking, saying that a cettain piece of wheat would make twenty bushels per acre. Some disagreed, and now I venture to say tha* T d> not I clievc thero is an acre in Santuc that will come up to twenty bushels, and not a farm that will average ten bushels per aero. I have seen much hotter wheat than any here that did not make twenty bushels. I lo not believe in raising wheat extensively here for with all tip* pampering it is grown at a loss. I am trying again a few acres but I believe 1 could make more clear money from corn and peas hiring all the work done. With all of the fuss they are keeping tip ar Washing on about tha atrocities of the U. S. soldiers in tha Philippines, aren't the Democrats bringing the Republicans reluctantly to it. Rut hasn't it beon this way by th j 1". S. army before? How many poor Confederate prisoners died of starvation in Northern prison < where there- was money to buy food for them? I low many were \ \ - * 1 1 1 ' uuauie u> survive Hardships, ahuses, brutalities, froze out. exposed while sick hy a government that could have been humane. Murdered in-? directly if not directly. It is the same stock that is doing all this now and you can't expect much better of them. 11 by Dknvkr. Icj Crenm Oil. The faiimr who sells his cottonseed to the oil 11.ill pockets the proceeds and turns the corner to a handy ice cream saloon, where lie J may cool and soothe his inner man, little t hiuks that the commo'ityhe has jift unloaded from his wavon at the depot ha* in it the cud? el* lYcnts of i he popular dish of purchase*, lit it. it is 1.0 c tin !e s inf. We are no lonct'i d?*i? m <1 Ml' o ; "(>?t si* i?' ww , |<?? ?:11- oie no, and when she noes u i str ke. u sets the bucket ami It-a-* in thu further j a m e we 9"rply t urn us to th can ot sal <1 oil mini- from < -> ton seed and jr t ,.:1 tnp fills ii? d"<\ to ii ake our cretin. And without t si <r1i? mi. rolie to t(nuUn us This nmy *<>ui <1 a little wU4 tu 'W* 1 homy handed,11 hut if he will watoli the jih i'v sin ;\vho (U'U"?oi skrates at th* W? sern ?xh\hit. in Charleston, h? io*v see the whole \ r?>ce-8, ael if he h ar?? (V, UMV oat some <?f t In* ?'i earn. The cow U i no longer 4 it,'1 when ion cream i? j cerne<l tiubsciilue for The Tin>f%?