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THE UNION TIMES | PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?by the UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Flook Times Building. J NO. R. MATH IS, Editor. L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postoffice in Union, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES On* year ------- $1.00 Six months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every ubsequent insertion - 50 cents. Con acts for three months or longer will be uade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8$ cents ja line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect wilTbe charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., JUNE 20, 1902. The office of railroad commissioner must be a soft snap with its big fat salary attached if we are to judge from the number of candidates who are out after it this year. Miss Mary Oustis Lee, daughter of Gen. Robt. E. Lee, was arrested at Alexandria, Vu., last Friduy because she had by mistake taken a seat in the Jim Crow car, on a passenger train, and having a number of bundles with her she refused to move Into the next coach when requested to do so by the conductor. This will give the colored people something to talk about. The campaign broke loose in an unexpected quarter last Saturday, at least it was not on the official program. The meeting was held at Donalds, and while there was quite a iarge crowd present, the me-.ting is said to have been colorless. Nearly all the State candidates were present. It is said that Jim Tillman failed to answer the charges of The State regarding the parliamentary law question . The perpetrators of the famous cherry tree fraud by which a large number of women were buncoed out of twenty or more plunks, are now dancing to the music of the fiddle played by the United States District Court. It develops that the ownership of the concern changed hands rapidly when the newspapers began to make things hot for them. It is estimated that the frauds perpetrated by the various defendants amounted to something like $47,000. I n the charges brought by the Greenville News against Mr. A. F. H. Dukes, a member of the State Board of Control, it is stated that he received from one B. F. Sprinkler, of Reidsville, N. G,, a $2 rebate on 500 barrels of corn whiskey sold to the S. C. Dispensary last July, and that this was the usual rebate allowed the members of the board of control. It is lather late to air this transaction, but it is up to the board of control to specify. The matter should be sifted. Let the light bo turned on. The board cunnot rest under such indictment. I n the next place it is a serious charge for the News to make and unless it can substantiate it there may be trouble ahead for it. "The fellow that totes the ordinary pistol does not seem in a hurry to dispose of it and get one that conforms to the new law of 20 inches long and three pounds in weight. Why should he? The old law has V\ A An A /n M/l A AM 4 U A ntnixi /V L A - uoou a luii/U uii tiiu BiaiuiU UUUILH j the new one will be equally or more so. A few negroes may be caught up with; but that will be all."?Newberry Observer, Just such expressions found in the editorial columns of certain newspapers supposed to be moulders of publio opinion; sentinels upon the watch tower, ever looking to the best interests of the people, and studying for morality, Chrlstlanlry and good government, are in a large measure responsible for the violation of certain laws, beoause said violations are apparently condoned by said editors. If it Is wrong and unlawful for a man ta innke of himself a walking arsenal as if ho were in the jungles of Africa and oxpected to be attacked by some wild boast or assassinated by some highwayman, then it is wrong, if not unlawful, for a newspaper to intimate to those inclined to disobey the law, that they can do so with impunity, as there will probably be hothing done about it, the law is "a farce, etc., etc," There may be some surprises in store for the Observer. We hope the point has been reached where the people have determined to put a stop to the pistol toting habit, the awful consequences of which it is needless to mention here. WASHINGTON LETTER. (Froin Our Regular Correspondent) June ICth, 1902 ?During the past week the inquiry lk-i:ig conductei by the Committee on delations with Cuba elicited from Mr. Thurber, of New York, the statement that he had secured from Mr. Ilavemeyer a contribution of $2,500 towards a fund used to influence fmolie opinion in favor of reciprocal reations with Cuba, and that General Wood, on behalf of the Cuban government, had contributed to the same fund $2,880. This testimony was regarded as extremely sensational by the opponents of reciprocity and, partially as a result, I thirteen Republican senators who opixwe. a measure providing for straight recip-" rocity, held a meeting at which they ugVeed to stand firm for the bill as passed by the House, and which removed the differential from rtfined Bugar. or for adjournment without action. In addition to the thirteen senatois preseui it. was stated by Senator Kikins, who is acting as leader of the "insurgents," that five others would consider them selves ooiinu uy tun miwun <? t,.?*r wuference. The total number of sen itors is 88, of which 32 sire Democrats. If a'l the Democrats and 18 Republicans vo'ed against a straight reciprocity bill there would be left an iiffirmative vote of but 88. When the prospects for an agreement on a reciprocity bill looked particularly blue, however, the President, alleging that such action he tielieved to be his "plain duty," sent to Congress a message urging that body to carry to its highest completion the policy inaugurated by the war undertaken to relieve Cub\ of Spanish oppression, by so legislating as to insure to the new republic a medium of prosperity. Mr. Roosevelt asserted that, in his belief, certain reciprocal concessions were essential to Cuba's prosperity and that such could be granted without injury to any American industry He bad been advised by many of his political friends that a message to Congress at this jnncture would seriously injure his prospects of renomination but he refused to listen to any suggestion of personal profit or loss and sent to Congress a message which *will domm ind the respect of his friends and opponents, and even or lliose wno noia mat, ins reasjuuing is fallacious On Saturday Senator Elkins introduced a resolution to admit Cuba to the Union as a State During the past week the Senate passed the Naval Appropriation hill instructing th? STp-tary of th? Navy ?< secure the construction of two fiist-clastbattle ships, two armored cruisns, two gun lioat.s and five submarine torpedo boats of tlie Holland lyp . i'lie p.o/isiou of the House that one ves.?el of each class should be built in a government navy yard was stricken out and 1 understand that the house will seriously oppose this elimination of one of its pet schemes when the bill is taken up in conference and also that it will object to the Senate amendment providing for so many torpedo boats of one and, it is claimed, insufficiently tested type. The Senate will vote on the canal bill on Thursday. On Weduesday the House will take up the Philippine bill and will, according to the rule which lias been adopted, devote one week to its consideration When this bill is passed the members of the IIou3e will be so anxious to get away to their districts that it will be almost impossible to hold them longer in Washington and they will bring tremendous pressure on the Senate to hasten its proceedings and adjourn. July 3rd is being talked of as the probable date of adjournment. The Secretary of Agriculture has adopted a new platform. He told me one day this week that in view of the magnificent possibilities he could foresee in the way of scientific development ot the agricultural industries of the coun try he had determined to ask nothing further from Congress in the way of protective duties but to preach to the farmers, early and late, the advantages to be derived from pursuing the most approved methods. The-Secretary made tins statement when I quoted to him the remarks of some congressmen who had expressed the fear that when Secrotarv Wilson had succeeded in establishing the silk industry he would ask of <k>ngress a protective industry on raw silk. "They need not be apprehensive for I shall ask them for nothing," said the Secretary. ' They said, when I first stated that vi* could raise our own tea. that it could be done only by means of an immense protective tariff but we are today raising tea and selling it at a profit and we are raising tea that, because of it its superioi qualities and the fact that it is cured without the use of chemicals command a better price than imported tea The same will be true in time of the silk industry. We have reasonably cheap labor in the South, among the negroes, and I expect to secure the help of Tuskegoe and similar institutions to train the reelers of raw silk. Meanwhile oui scientists will direct their attention te decreasing the amount of labor and t< finding methods that will compensate for the difference in wages. In the rice fields in this country there and instances of one man doing the work that it woulc require 400 cheap foreign coolies to accomplish. If we can do that with rice, wky con not we do it with other things?" mi - * - * i nure seoms 10 nave been some thing of a scrap between Roosevelt and Mark Hanna recently whon Rep resentativo Burton charged four Fed' eral officers with political crooked' ness, and asked the President to investigate the matter. It happened that all four were friends of Mark Hanna, who advised that no investigation be made, as it would hurt the Republican party. Roosevelt ordered the invstigation, nevertheless and let Hanna chew the rag. Pretty good | backbone Teddy, we admire your nerve. He has a Democratic bone in his makoup, wo believe, and we adhiin more every time he knocks the props from under some big-cockalorum of his party?but then wo can't help but remember the Booker Washington dinner. The Press Association M eeting.' ' (Continued from last week.) Georgetown is located at the con-. fluence of the Sarapit, Pee Dee, Black and Waccamaw rivers, where thej^T empty into WinyahBay, about twelve; miles from the ocean ; is protected by a land looked harbor, where the* government has been expending two v million dollars In building jetties for the past ten years and the work will continue lor some time yet. bo rar the channel has been dredged and scoured by the effect of the jetties until vessels drawiDg sixteen feet of water can come up to the" wharves right in the heart of the <Slty, giving her the world for a marlc&t. Besides this sea front, she has one thousand miles oi navagable streams giving her access to the interior of the State. It is claimed that 650,000 of this State's populstion live in the territory drained the waters emptying into Winyah Bay, and that on this territory 420,OIK) bales of cotton are annually grown. The business of the port last year amounted to $8,000,000 showing an iucrease of 12$ per cent over the year before. m * * The Atlantic Coast Lumber Co's plant, located here, is claimed to be the largest in the world. Their output is incomprehensible to the ordinary mind. 650,000 feet of lumber is sawed and handled per day. A month's run on full time would build every house in Uniou, including the five cotton mills with Buffalo and Lockhart thrown in, and yet this enormous quantity is handled with less fuss and confusion thanthe manager of Bailey's lumber yard would deliver a wagon load of plank to the Buffalo train. Four to five log trains a quarter cf a mile long are daily delivered to this plant after being cut from the stump 26 to 110 miles away. These logs on arrival are dumped into the log pond aud guided to the endless chain on which clutches are fastened to catch the log, and when onde the grippers are attached up goes the log to tho carriage whic** shoves it back and forth against a band saw, with teeth on both sides, when it is cut going a <1 coming aud the plank dropping ? IT uearly as fa^t as you can oount them, are autom ilic.tlly conveyed tu the 1 sorting skids where they ure en'iied 1 to the proper bin ami iliore depoai> vl according to their width and leugth, the machine never makiDg a mistake in getting a wrong size in the pocket intended for another?the plank are , then dumped on dry kiln cars and couveyed to the dry kilns, and after t seasoning are rolled to the wharf and i loaded on steamers for New York and i Boston. Nearly the whole work Is i done by maohinery. The negro of i course is in the picture, plentiful in tho woods where the logs are cut and 1 on the wharf where each plank has 1 to be stacked separately in the hold of the ship, but no one has much to 1 do from the time the cars are loaded till the time comes for loading the ships?they are dumped, while you are looking for the modus operandi, picked up by the endless chain fastened to the carriage, slabbed, turned, squared and put into plank without any hand ever touching them. The number 8 plant is as near a perfect automaton as you can find, i It is not exactly a double of number 1 and 2 but does twice the work, it i has two endless ohains pulling the logs from the pond into both sides of ' the shed and eaoh chain delivers its ' logs to a separate slabber and squaring saw. As soon as the log Is squared eaoh machine tosses its squared 1 log to the center of the run between them, where they are picked up by I i_ 1 _ 1 %_9 A ? - } auumer uurrmge ana anven tnrougti a gig saw arrangement composed of forty-eight saws set one inch apart urVti/tVt olmnltr ^ aoq f V* /\ wr/xwl#' ;? ua*11 * J vtv/VO VUO TT V/i A JL 1119 machine will deliver 144 inch plank 8 inches wide at each run of the carriage if it is loaded with eight inch square logs and this wagon load of * lumber is sorted automatically, carried to dry kilns and delivered from there by machinery. The slabs are automatically carried to the hog which chews them to a coarse saw ' dust when the conveyors come in and 1 carries it to the boilers. The company employ 2,70C hands and have a suburb of their own?a ^ regular little village?with a hotel, department store and all other con' veniences, they have bought up most , of Pawley's Island and are building a railroad so as to convey their white > employees there a^d back every day > in summer without any cost, simply i to keep them healthy, thereby geti ting enough work out of a healthy > laborer in excess of what a sickly ono I /.nnU nA.f/..? * - > >... wuau ^ciiunii tu pu)' ino additional expense. They are doing everything that concentrated wealth can do to make their plant healthy, all drains are kept open, low and marshy places . filled in and their whole plant is po. liced as systematically as any red ' taped board of health eonM " Some of our old farmer friends may ask where this demolition of the tor. eats ia to end? There will be no end. The company haa bought aomething over a million acrea and eatimate 1 that by the time they have cut over once that the small trees left will have become large ones and ao the , process will go on year after year. The lands near Georgetown are being colonized by emigrants from Scotland, Finland and elsewhere, and the county ia fast blossoming into truck farma to again give the shipping and railroads more work. ? # # The hospitable people of Georgetown have showed such open handed hospitality that it will be years be- , fore the Press Association has an- i other such a meet. The drive over i the olty and the lumber plant, da0 . . iF.C.aiidAmericz - ^ 0 . ' flnr fl Ar* j\wt vhat we ?U . j.j 1 ,ho *? ? one doll., splenoin 1 America. Every cora fraHp I this moat liberal wa ,, I refunded after four i 111 ttliS line I corset is not satisfac keeps OS I trac*e narKi, Ibe aij?f i 1 appear on inside of < DUSy label of box. LooK fo ordering I *l "Small things to. lo sizes. I Di* tHln*9 to find"-< ": I - ? | Kalamazoo C I SOLE MAILERS ^ f f r* I H.f . . We carry the far American Beautj SBgL ?. B. Corset, Amerii set and the R. an ^C+]r better made at tt 25c. 50c, 71 ! \x7a o?*o viaahi 'tecmst? Goods, Millii Shoes, Trunks, MITUU BIT I R. P. HARRY, Mgr. scribed above, was taken b y the whole | \M _ association, and the next day an ex-1 ur I I cursion on two steamers took the | | wl party, with a fall complement oft Georgetown ladies and gentlemen, down the river and bay to the jetties. From time the gang plank was palled A.t 1 aboard till placed back again, ser* ; vants with waiters of dellcaoies pass* Ofa.00 ed on the upper decks, while below cascades of the effervescenoe made doill the men think they were on a fishing trip. It takes the low country peo- l3V d pie to prepare such a trip, and of t course such a sinuous stream as the Sampit to sail on, must of necessity mf y w?^ be at hand, for no such streams ex* I l""| ists anywhere with banks perhaps a A M M A -w hundred yards apart; the course represents the letter S joined together w , two or three times as tortuous as a Ana spring branch, yet so deep thatooean your going vessels sail on her bosom. , s posit< This water once imbibed, so ancient , legends say, so intoxicates and in- e?rnl thralls that the patient is forever en- At til< chanted and must return for more. lies tl None of the party at this meeting can _ object to the old legend proving true a?pOC and only await the opportunity to teresl repeat the dose. L. Q. Y. j finxxn (To be continued.) A serious fire occurred at Oross I'' I*' T T T~p Hill last Thursday in which three j JL il i stores were burned, the loss amounted to something over $500. Partly insured. The losers were R. 1). Nance, P. H. Madden, Wheeloar <fc T AvrAyin Hill, Q. T. Reid, Thos. A. Campbell I ilyPrV and J. T. Smith. AJV I VI M Dr. F. C. Woodrow, the preside nfc of the South Carolina Colloge, has been asked for his resignation by the By +7 board of trustees. After mature con- j sideration they came to the conclu- ' sion that this would be for the best; interests of the college as he was not the ideal man for the place. The board after taking the action which unseats Dr. Woodrnw rvncanH IK? 1 I ...... .?->* w? jv?" | | lowing resolution: I ' JhH B "Resolved, That the board, ex-. I I presses it* confidence in President* I Bm Woodrow's character and exonerates! flBfl him from anything rejecting on!|lfl| Ml I I II H I Saved from An A ^ful Fate. 1^2^^ "Everybody said I b ad consumption," The Free writes Mrs. A. M. Stfields, of Chambers- and most dell burg, Pa-* "I wejs so low after six vr rrank mo1 months of aevevere sickness, caused by , . ? Hay Fever and Asthma, that few lower in price thought I oould get well, but I learned TH1 of the marvelous mirit of l>r King'sNew , ' c\ Discovery for oonsnmption, used it and 1 Is wonderiul was completely cured." For desporate I Five S Throat and Lung Diseases it is the safest. I cure in the world, and is infallible for/, TTTVTT^V Coughs, Colds and Bronchial Affections, ' IJ ^\[ 1\J, Uuaranteed bottles GOcand $L0O. Trial 1 _ bottle free at F. Cr Daks't ( H^OWaTO SPELLING"' icfs of Corsets.?*a i inficautyCorsetlJ wmmrnrnammmmmmmm dm for thcmr Corset* ln ' I New et sold under "eeK^'^uiTf yL shipment itorr." Thew i* of <raelltyt jp corset and on L / ^DHTf r them. ^jMT thiS . m week, orset Company I KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN I , 1 1 1 nous F. G. Corsets, "Qflr Corrsets, the W. ca's Leading Cor- f\ ^s^Hr d G. Corset. None \A le prices we name. |i ;c and $ 1.00. ( t display in show quarters for Dry aery, Clothing, .> ioids num. .*..v " ** *<m *'* Opposite Hotel Union. ' ' = r Name Please i the bottom of one of our >ks signifies that you are g business in the right way epositing your money with PEOPLES BANK with one of our paw-bookt in oochet, showing' a sum desd in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT ng ix dividend for you every day sraU^of 4 per oe*it.a year aigniirift k\nd economy, v. We receive Tits i'rom $1.00 up and pay int on sanae twice a year. Let us your name please on our books. PEOPLES BANK, B. F. ARTHUR, Fwpsiaent. . ~bf Good Ice Cream 1 !KI I v ? ?1K. . II i IBK* ii . ? ^r?-' Lp Something Worth Reading. zer that Freezes itself, that makes the sweetest cious Ice Cream will surelv interest all of you. /ement, no labor, less salt required and even than ordinary Freezers. 3 XXth CENTURY FREEZER vet siirmle. It freezes while it stands still. izes, #1.50, $1.75. $2.00, $3.00 and $4.00. N HARDWARE CO., Ijendei*, _ Union,B.C. ' i . ' s. ... .