Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?F-' * w - > - ' - > . ' R' y ' ? sw* < | ? ^^lTOW?5^SSSS^S^| __ -_ ._ -|? ._ _. ? _ ____ jj| *H1 TOWN OF*UNION ^Al 'j # I ; Three Oottoa Mills, one the 9 ! I I I I I J1 I J 111 I ? ' IM / M 1 | The largest Knitting Mill and I W ff largest in the South. Four Far- jS ? MI m m - |M / J (( Dye Plant in the State. An Oil 9 f) nlture and Wood Manufactur- M M Hi ml M \ ml I Ml 1 . H| and Manufacturing Co. that ? R ing Concerns. One Female ?i II I 'i M W I W 7 W I hi an unexcelled Guano. I I 8eminary. Water Works and III JLJL Jk X * V/ X 1 -M_ B X ? JB- -BL~df U Three Graded Schools. , Arte- I J E,lectll0 L,?ht8' ?/ jfl sian Water. V0LL1L NO. I *"***"" ONION. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JULY 4. 1902. - " #1.00 A YRAR iF. M. PARK. President. / GEO. MUNRO, Cashier, J. I Merchants' and Plai OF UNIC Capital Stock Surplus ft Stockholders' Liabilities j? ' Total ft Directors?J. A. Fant, W X T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, I T Wm. Coleman. . Z We Solicit Yc i. II ' m-m>m m m mmee-a* ^ < f. ft:.? ... !, I , li I I MEMORIAL DAY AT SHARON. ? |f< Address Delivered by Mr. J as. t,. Strain Before the Sharon Memorial Association. Mrs. President, ladies of the Sharon Memorial Association, ladies and gentlemen;?In compliance with your kind and complimentary bidding I appear beforyou in my feeble capacity to add a word of cheer to those whose command it is always a ? pleasnre to obey. It is easily understood why the people of our Southland, from the Potomac to the Rio Qrande and from the Gulf to the Mason and Dixon line should meet in the beautiful spring time while all nature is clothed in her royal attire and flowers of the most delightful hues and sweetest fragrance are 1 giving forth ^their pleasant orders to ' the gentle breeze to be wafted on the wings of the|wind to cheer all natures 1 living beings. Then it is that we 1 repair tq the "city of the dead," and mid memories both sad and pleas- 1 aat strew flowers upon the graves of men %flo died, many of them, mors ' than a generation ago. It must be some unusual sentiment that ani- j mates our people to thus meet and j decorate these graves. Whose graves are they? might be asked. There is only one reply, they am heroes who ' died for their country. They died J lor you and I and the thousands who r are today paying theirs, this same grateful tribute. They fought, bled 1 and died for what was true, just and { right. Their memories are enshrined ' in nilr Vionrf nf Via.rfa anil arn will ' never forget tbem, and these floral ! tributes will never be forgotton or discontinued as long as patriots live ?i>d generations are taught to ven- 1 erate tbc cause for which they died. 1 We have, ladies and gentlemen, 1 gathered together to pay grateful and loving tribute to the memory of 4* those brave soldiers who went to their death in a vain but heroic struggle. Although more than a generationhas passed since the star of the Confed* racy went down in the gloom of < irretrievable defeat, yet our remembrance of their supreme sacrifice is tenderly and sacredly cherished. The great majority of their comrades who strove and battled with them and yet who, in the providence of God, were spared their fate have since crossed over the river to rest with them under the shade of the trees?they too have passed through the valley of the shadow of death and "On fame's eternal camping ground Their Bilent tents have spread, glory guards with love profound The blydoac of ftyP deadMost of the survivors of tb^t grand army have passed the summit of the mountain and are last making tbeir decent into tho dark shadows of the alley beyond. Those of us who with these brave men essayed to establish a separate and independent republic, which we hoped would find an abiding place among the nations of the earth, have taught or tried to toach our children j that no stain of treason, or blighted tip. feitfo. tpojfen vows dims the lustre of their fame or' soils tho bright escutcheon of their honor. The task will soon be theirs to defend from all imputations of crime the nation which died in its infancy, and yet lived long enough to illustrate all the glories of , human endeavor, which with its in* m stations, circumstances and powers utterly perish&J' yet left behind it Ihe remembrance of valiant deed and noUer performances, wbioh will be lyffitnffatlly celebrated in song and atofy as long as the English language witl b# spoken an^ understood. ?##? m m ##?##! U H. FOSTER, Vice President. J >. ARTHUR, Aulitaat Cashier. T iters' National Bank | >N, H. C. I SAO rt/Vk T - ....... * *1 ywvy VVV S 50,000 f 60,000 | $170,000 1 . H. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, 2 5. P. McKfssJck, A. H. Foster, I >?r Business. ! The great Civil War was the mos stupendous of all the ages. It di< not find its genesis in criminal con apiracy or treasonable design. Th< Southern States in withdrawing fron the Union were exercising a powei which had been claimed from th< ery adoption of the Federal Consti tution. In the early days of th< republic the theory was recogniae< by American statesmen with sub stantial unanimity that the constitu tion was but a compact betweei sovereign States entered into for theii mutual welfare; that because of thii sovereignity any State could lawfully and peacefully withdraw from thi compact whenever in its judgment its interest required it to do so; thai the government ereated by the con stitution was a federation possessing only delegated powers and that it die not possess "fche power to coerce th< action of the States, and that if s State chose to withdraw from th< union it was entitled to do so without control, question or molestation It was our love for the institution! ? L.J f. J-J J J i/ift auuvvwio tuuuuoU) ttUU UUUtil which we had met with so mqct prosperity which made manifest th< form of government provided for th< Confederate States of America. Thi Confederate constitution with fev axceptions, was the same as that o the United States, The administra tive features of the new government were practically the same as that o: the old. No thought of dictatorship )r military rule on the one hand, 01 if lawlessness on the other, entered the minds ot any. True to the prin cfples of the Revolution and th< Declaration of Independence, it pro' vided safeguards for personal liberty and local self-government. During the whole of that desperate struggle and adipidst hardships and privations almost indescribable and without i parallel, law and order was everywhere maintained. The Legislatures of the States assembled anc enacted such laws as were from tim< to time deemed necessary; courts o: justice were opened for the enforcement and maintenance of the right of p&son and property. An attemp to describe with what valor, fortitqui and heroic endeavor the armies o the South maintained ihemselve during that four years of strife an< bloodshed is altogether unnecessary We know, and all the world know and admits, that the magnificen leadership of our armies and th splendid courqgp of oqj* soldiers hay illustrated in the gubliqiest ojanne possible the maytial spirit of th American people. The twenty-sevei hundred (2,700) battles that wer fought before our cause went dowq the -two qplljoq si* hundred thoqs^m men who were needed to conquer ue the pension rolls of the government which contains the names of near! one million benefjciariesp the bequti ful cemeteries where rest the de&< heroes of the Union armies; the mon uments of marble and bronze erect* all over the land to perpetuate th names ana tame ot their great cap tains; ail these go to make up a me morial of the skill, prowess and nn yielding courage of our people, t which the history of the ages panpc find a parallel. The camG 8 might nave been expected^, Ou resources were so limited in compari son with these of the Northern Stftte that only persistence on their pai was all that teas necessary to brin defeat and disaster to the Souther finweWhen it oame we accepted th settlement as final and infevocabl in so far as the farther agitation o advocacy of the right to secede wa iconotrned. No matter what ma; hare been the right or wrong of the t contention in 1861, we hare admitted sinoe 1865 that the Union is indissoluble, and that *the allegiance of all the people of this great republic is due primarily and fully to the United States .of America. But while admitting this, we do not and nerer will admit that the result of the great strife was due to a wrong interpretation of the Constitution on our part. The force ot arms may be such as to set a controrersy at , ? v? l l: i* .i ?? took ujr urwiuuiug iu iuriuer agitation, and that, as to the power of a . State to secede, was undoubtedly , terminated by the triumph of the ] Union armies, it by no means carries with it the conviction that we were y wrong. , I have simply attempted to pre- | vent the evidence that at the begin- , 5 ning of our government State rights j t was commonly entertained and that | j it was in no sense sectional?that it \ . had not been contrived in secret or , 0 expressed in whispers; it was openly ; 1 proclaimed upon the house tops at , r all times and under all circumstances. ' 9 The judgment of the impartial his- ' . torian can never be that in contend- , a ing for our interpretation of the Con- j 1 stitution, even to the extent of main- | . taining it by force of arms, we made | . ourselves rebels and traitors. 2 i When the present generation shall j r have passed away and when calm, < j dispassionate and impartial inquiry < j is made into the cause which led up 3 to it, 1 have an abiding faith that . , this stigma will be taken from our ; t heroic and devoted people. No man ' . can now be heard to impugn the loyt alty of the South. There has never [ been a moment since the surrender 5 at Appomattox when there was the L slightest ground for questioning it. ) We knew, but for a long time it . seemed that others could not under. stand, that the result had been ac<? i cepted by us. as final and irrevocable, r We knew that our dpstiny was to be l the same as our brethren of the 3 North; and ws had no ambition left 3 save to preserve our honor untar3 nished; to build up the waste places; r to restore law and order; to help f bind up the nation's wounds and to . contribute what wp oould to its greatt ness and ' grandeur. We cherishedf no malice against the men whose > armies had been triumphant, r We have pot come together here I to excite anew the fierce patriotic . passions which once filled the breast 3 of every true Southern man and . woman. Nor is it our intention to t say ought that is disloyal to the great j r Union which now protects us all. Thank God. the d&v hnn noma whan ? I a part of the sad memories and bitter , i animosities of the past are being ab- , . sorbed in the quickened public sense ' . of the importance of business rela- , 1 tions between North and South; but ) the day has not come and will never | f come when we can forget the brave , - men who died the death of martyrs , i in fighting for their convictions. In t all time and ages he who has beep 9 willing to offer his life us on evidence f of the faith that was in him has been a deemed worthy of a place among the 1 heroes of history. Without the fear . of successful contradiction we assert a that this position should be act corded to every man who wore the 1 e gray. | e The beautiful flowers we gft tenT < jr dprly und lovingly place upon the i e graves of outf Confederate dead on i this memorial day give forth their i e fragrance for a while and then, like ' ; many of tfip Joys qf eqrth, wither *i \ and are gpne fbrpver. i i; But the tender, loving, thought- i ful deed remains and the seeds sown y from which a bountiful harvest of i. flowers blooip fortty ijpoi} these gr^ye^ I for here you have so thougntfully i- inaugurate* a custom to annually ! d decorate the graves of our honored 1 e dead. < K This time honored custom is beautiful indeed, for in this coming here l~ amid the flowers of May to pay ? tribute to the heroes of thp p^t >yq if are pot only thinkipg {iod's thoughts * after him, but we are doing for the !r graves of th<*e whom we knew and 1 l" loved what God himself is doing 18 today for the thousands of unknown 1 graves scattered all over our SonthS land. So let not your hearts be 0 troubled with the thought that perchance snipe comr^e wsy he vesting * uttobserv^d upod' a' distkhfc ihouhtain e sidd far removcid from tneso flowers r and tears ^for God knows, and at * ^ j (Continual on page 4.) ENJOYED THE PICNIC. Texas Trip Almost as Good as a Visit to Texas. Mr. Editor:?Will you bo so kind as to allow me to write up our picnic in your valuable paper. The picnic was at the old Tucker residence on the old Ninety-Six road, given by Mr. John McCracken. There was a very large crowd present and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves very much. Ilxd plenty of good things to eat, ice cold refreshments served by H. C. ft^ler and J. R. McGowan, such as coco cola, lemonate, soda water, also some nice watermelons, candies, etc. The young people spent the :? v-ii ? iuuiuiu^ iu tuc umi ruuni wuerfl WO bad fine music furnished by Shelton's string band. They certainly do make fine music. About one o'clock dinner was announced. Every one enjoyed the nice dinner so well prepared by the ladies. After dinner sras over the base ball game took place. The Shelton team and the Booker Bottom team crossed bats, rhe Shelton team being in good practice and the Booker Bottom i>eing a picked up team unpractised the game resulted with the score thirteen to twenty-six in favor of Shelton. Mr. Walling has a cracker ack team. They are going to play Columbia team the 80th, 1st and 2nd. I wish him success. After the game of ball the crowd gathered in the ball room and enoyed themselves dancing until sun lown. All' returned home well latisfied with the past day. The most amusing thing I saw fas when leaving the ground Mr. rom Gilliam was driving an eld mule hat balked and would not leave the )icnic ground. So the crowd gathered iround Him some twisting his tail, >thers slashing him around the legs rod everybody yelling as loud as key oould. At last the mule became lightened and left in a sweeping gallop while the crowd yelled at the op of their voices. So they had no nore trouble with him for a thirteen nile drive. Mr. John McOracken says he is going to have another picnic some ime in August. I hope he will tucceed and have as good one as this me was and that our good Editor jan attend too. There was only one candidate there but he kept very luiet. Crops are fine in this section. We have had no serious storms so Dar. Mr, Editor, I thought your trip to Texas was the most up-to-aate vritten story I ever read. I wish ?o\i could have qontinned it longs?. [ almost felt like X had beon to Texas nqyself. As my letter may reach the waste basket I will close, wishing much luccess to The Times, its Editor rod correspondents. J. IX' McGawAN. Carlisle. S. 0, >*? A Texas Tree. " 4Jno. R, M.' (Editor of The LJnion Times) has been writing up ais trip to tne uaiias reunion for his paper and his articles are very interesting. In his last he tells of a mammoth pile of wooden blocks in Port Worth to be use in laying the itreets. He says the wood was Boisdarc' pronounced 'Boor dock' and that it is 'of a redt^ah color re-? ienpfiling cedar' and 'of a fibrous nature.' "Mfe once hved in Cleburne, Texas, aboqt twentyrthfce spile* b*r low I'ort \yortb. The proper af the tree is Bois d'arc in two syllables and as we remember pronounced 'Bo dark' and the wood is of yellow color. It was used for wagon spokes and it was claimed to be the best of all woods for that use. At that time Cleburne was ^8.^ from n wlwflt \y ben ever' a man ^rove into town from the 'States' With a wagon with hickory or oak Bpokes it was not long before be was persuaded to swap for a wagon with Bois d'arc filling which would staod the long dry winds of that country and it was the only kind that would stand the climate. f* We remem^hr one lnst&noe in which a foan frbm Arkansas oame through town with a good wagon with hickory spokes ana driving a pair of fine mutes. It was not long rf r?|rt ft " w**m | TORN^ INSUR, | At low 2 is issue I Wm. A. NICHO [ BANK D.:- J?? e|,! ' niiu u arc nuiQg ior lie was afraid his good wagon would fall Xo piecies. lie traded his mules for*a yoke of oxen for he was told the mules would die of Spanish fever as they were from the 'States' and the climate was bad for them. "People outside of Texas have been deceived-by the Bois d'arc tree, i It is the same us Osage orange but | it grows better in Texas than it docs i in this State. It was first found 1 among the Osage Indians and took j its name from that tribe. They used 1 it for bows. j "In some parts of Texas seed can i be bought by the ton and they will < produce trees in this section without 1 any trouble. Notwithstanding this 1 fact it was not many years ago that < certain innocent and unsuspectiug 1 men in this county paid hundreds of i dollars to some benevolent men for i the right to plant Osage orange trees t on their own places in rows. "Many men have lost money on < the Bois d'arc or Osage orange."? i Abbeville Medium. i We thank the Medium for the above, and republish it for the ben- t efit of our readers, who will be glad i to read this interesting sketch of the i peculiar Bois d'arc wood. 1 | i Lockhart News Notes. ( f On last Thursday evening we were * visited by a very heavy wind which shook us up considerably but not doing any damage except blowing down a. shelter from over an old engine and unrooGng a brick kiln t that was in the process of burning. ( Considerable rain fell at the time t and our surroundings were lit up by the almost continuous flashing of lightning. On Friday night we had 1 considerable wind but not much rain. ( The farmers frem the surrounding . country say that their fruit trees are badly broken up and that what fruit was on the trees is mostly blown off. The meeting at the Presbyterian j ohurch closed last night, the Rev. McLeash having done all the preach- j ing. The church has heen revived with ten additions to the church. Since my last report there has ! been two more additions to the efficient corps of salesmen in Lockhart store, Mr. Lewis Scales and Mr. John. Ross. Roth of them ore polite ' and affable salesmen and it is safe to predict that they will make a success in their new calling. J. L. Evans, Esq., has resigned his position as salesman of fresh meats and vegetables for the Lockhart store and has moved with his 1 family to the Monarch Mill. Al- ! thoucrh w? nrp n nt hv unv maun a lawless according to the strict definition of the word, yet we have not any one in our midst to execute the laws therefore we are lawless. I enjoy very much the reading of the I^eqiiniscences of the War. I | Interviewed "Qid" and he says the goods are trqe t? n%tne. Genuine 1 vioi and rqq d?Wn at tho heel, and that "the best part has not yet been told." Homo. 1 To Check Mate Leg-pulling. J ????? i In the last weekq U#^e of the < Gaflfney J^d^ey Mr. ^ames L. Strain 1 jn his letter to that paper has the fol- > lowing suggestion and comments on i the campaign leg-puller: "We want to suggest to our people that at each meeting place they turn out with their baskets and make < it a kind of neighborhood picnic ' rather than to adopt ^h$ sty le of ] "barbecue,"?^hich is only a method of 1 Suiting candidates for all they are f orth in a monetary sense, and often ] by men who have no interest in the i campaign outside of what phoney they j can make ot^t q( it, Its embarrass i j lag to the candidates who are often' i itt such financial condition that they VDO ANCE rat? i | >d by LSON & SON, !! ERS. Ij cannot do what they want or their friends might expect them. Now we suppose the campaign will start in Gowdeysville township, as it generally does, and we suggest to the ladies that they take the matter in hand, and if they don't see proper to turn out themselves to hear the candidates speak (which they hare a perfect right to do if they wish and its nobody's business but their own) bake a loaf or a few biscuits or pies and with a fried chicken, ham or beef steak and a little butter, jellies, jam or other palatable condiments make a first-rate luncheon and they can send it to the speaking ground by their fathers, husbands, sons, brothers or friends who will ask the candidates and their friends to join hem in lunch. It will cost no one i great deal and the entertainer will feel as happy over it as the entertained. We hope to hear not only from oar )wn neighborhood but from people n other seotions of Cherokee county *rhat they think of the proposition. Another thing we wish to say in his connection. The candidate who lscs whiskey, or permits it to be used n his behalf, will not get our rote cut all the opposition we can honoribly command to secure his defeat? iven though he may be our boat riend. lie ia unfit to fill any office le secures by such means." Goneral News Notes. % A cablegram from England states hat the unanimous opinion of alt he medical men who hare consented o be interviewed, is that King Bdvard cannot recover except by a niracle. They say that science naa lot yet reached the stage where it :an deal successfully with a case like hat of King Edward. * * Admiral Dewey says that Manil* :ould have been taken without the oss of a single life. That the Gov-r srnor General agreed to surrender jefore a shot was 'fired but insisted hat the Americans should make an ittack to save his honor. He would hen raise the white flag. * * The storm last Saturday cut a Sath through the West, from the iexican border to the Atlantic coast, leaving death and destruction in its wake. * During the terrifio storm in North Carolina Saturday, the wind blew 60miles an hour. A tug boat sank near Washington, N. C., and five lives were lost. a * The Senate at the last minute hes inserted in the general deficiency bill an item of $45,000 to pay the private physicians who attended President McKinley in Buffalo. Item held back to the last, no doubt, toi avoid public discussion. * The first session of the fifty-0 seventh Congress now closing will go down in history as one of the moet costly in the country's history. The amount appropriated by the bills already passed reaches the enormous total of $927,836,262, an excess over the first session of last Congress of H200.000.000 Tk.a- a.- ^ - , , , . *u?vd wc way ? money goes, pop goes the weaale. f Saves A WomW* Ltfc* To have g\ven up would ha?Vf{ meant leatofojr AJth. Lours Crags, of Dorches> yer, Mass. For years she had endured untold misery from a severe I.ung Iron Jle and obatanate cough. "Often", she writes, "I couldi scarcely breathe and K>metimes could not apeak. All decolors and remedies tailed till I used Dr. King's, N^w discovery for Consumption ind was completely cured/* Sufferer* From Coughs. Colds, Throat and Lang rrouble need this grand rmedy, for it never disappoints. Cure is guaranteed !>y Dr. F. C. Dtrke Price 60c and $L00? * Trial bottle free, i , r