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VOL. LI1. NO. 36. The UNION, SOOTH CAROLINA, FR1DAY7SEPTEMBER 5. 1902. #1.00 A YKAR.
santuc sittings.
"If the day looks kinder uK> ray
Aud ><'ur chances kinder slim;
if tne situation's puzz'imr,
Ami the prtHjwCi kinder trriin,
And perplexi'/tw keep pressing
Till all ho|>e la nearly gone.
Just bristle up aud grit your teeth,
And keep on keeping on." I
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Applicable to many candidates in
the second race, as well as with farmers
in perplexities.
The days are growing shorter and
every twenty-four hours we get
nearer our winter coats.
We have seen some fogs in August,
but do not know whether to book
a snow or not. If they are like raining
on dog days they will slip up.
Cotton is opening, we will soon
hear the sing of th? cotton gin, a
little money will be let loose, and
people can then dance a little to its
jingle.
Thsre was a "drizzly drozzly"
rain of several days last weeit, roads
were made muddy, land wet, peas
spurted in growth and bad fodder
was damaged in many instances.
There has been some fine watermelons
raised by several farmers
around here this year, and many on
the vines, though it was thought the
yield would be light. There are
some fine late patches coming on.
Rust is bad on cotton just now
and often large areas are seen with
no leaves on the plants. This will
affect the yield. It goes without
saying that wet weather does not
always cause rust, for we have had
dry weather down here.
The chaingang is here, and Mr.
Hancock is doing some excellent
work with it. Some work he did
near here several years ago is stand*
ing well, with little or no expense to
outlay in keeping it in repair. The
machine is a good thing.
I cannot get all the "personals"
this week; people have been coming
and going.
Mr. J- H. Moore and wife have
vretained, and Mr. Moore will teach
th? schssfr stds.
Mr, W. H. Harris, Jr., telegraph
operator, who has been on a visit to
his parents, left for his work in
Georgia Sunday.
tying Hattie Moss is off on a visit
to relatives at ftlacksburg.
Messrs. J. P. and Rivers Thomas,
of Charlotte, are here on a visit.
There was a party, sociable or
dance given at Dr. P. P. Butler's on
the night of August 27th, but very
few attended, the weather being anything
but pleasant or suitable to
travel to ana fro?it was raining.
Negroes love watermelons wiUiout
any pretense. I saw some melons
roll off a wagon a few days ago and
% negroes were soon upon the broken
ones, one taking a seat on the clear
post at the railroad and enjoyed a
melon. Another said "the Lord will
provide," and sauntered off with one.
Of course they helped to fix the good
ones on the wagon. More
horses feet are ruined by
keeping them always shod, than by
negleot of shoeing. Owners are
afraid to lot them travel a short distance
barefoot, pull off shoes, put
more right back, until the hoof is
brittle, rotten and split to pieces.
Going barefoot makes feet Wugh and
resistable. A physician's horse needs
more shoes than others, but I am
a convinced that some people have litr
tie judgment about a horse's feet.
I trv to study them by observation.
If anv of vou ever see Tom Jonm.
a sixty four year old negro, who
lives near this place, just get him to
climb a tree baclcwards for yon. I
saw him do so recensly, but forgot to
mention it. It is a strange looking
sight to see a man going feet first upa
tree, and coming down head first.
He crawls down like a big lizzard
and oan change ends up the tree
with all ease ifit is not too large. I
heard that if he went up a tree to get |
a squirrel out of a hole, and found
that the hole ran down the tree so
that he couldn't get his hand into it,
he would come down, change
and start up feet first, and when ne
got up to the hole, run his hand
t rin and bring his squirrelship out It
a wonder the squirrels have not
made him break his neck before this,
for they are no playthings. But perhaps
they are skeery about biting a
backward climber, and are filled with
awe, or are out squirrelsi. Now if
you see him you can have a little
l side show cheap,
Negroes grown and growing up of
' t >d iv. (n^t raised or trained,) are
not r.oar so polite aa the old ones,
Home acarcely Vver speak to a perivu,
and then never tip or raise
their hats and have no manners
about re.-ndenocs, Note an old negro,
how polite he is when jou meet
nim, and how mannerly he acts
around houses. If you ask htm
questions about things, or old times,
how intelligently he talks. This
leads one to ponder the question
that when all of the old uegroes.
those reared by white people, under
their "inflii?ne?4 am ?k?
? ? ?? v ^vuvf nuurc
will tne youngei generaaion have
drifted as to politeness, manners, or
intelligence. No use talking about
higher education for them, they may
be able to use some big words, all
meaning the same thing, or nothing
at all, but away from the training of
the white race, their influences, etc.,
and they will be drifting back to the
heathen African, from whence tho
race came and was alienated by the
white people, and I may say those of
the South, and the most of the good
qualities imbibed by being with the
white race, will all be gone, and a
thing of the past. Old negroes like
to talk about "my folks" of the good
old times, and how plentiful things
were with their masters, and they
speak inoffensively of "my kin folks"
when they mean they are going to
stick to them. But all of this is
passing away.
The election at this precinct passed
off not quietly, with no rows or
fighting, but just a lot of liquor
drinking and geting tipsy. Much
hard electioneering for and against,
and it may prove both fair ana foul.
There was more interest shown than
any election in a number of years,
and some say that it haa been a
long time since so much whisky
was used. Whether it was furnished
by candidate we do not know.
Anyway it flowed quite freely, and
there is no doubt but votes were
bought with liquor, a strong persuasion.
? Many a man can be tutned
when they get fully intoxicated and I
believe some will change for a chance
to get intoxicated; aad some can
have their tickets marked against
them by unscrupulous men, ana thev
never be aware of the fact, cheateo,
and some just don't care who or for
wh*t they are voting, so they are
voting and drinking. Often good
men are at the mercy of this kind of
men, and often you can't judge a
man's popularity by the vote he
Sets at home. The papers have
een talking about leg pulling, and
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n j. uo not oijena, ao tnose men voter
I am opposed to electing anything
by convention, large or small, and
want it done by direct primary. I
am this way on cotton weighers. Now
they get up petitions, send to an appointive
power, and that power appoints
whoever it likes best.
Might as well allow several men get
up petitions ior magistrate of a place,
send them to an appointing power,
and have one appointed. Or let several
men of a state get petitions signed
by so many voters, for governor,
send that to the president of the
United States, and let him appoint a
governor. It all works pretty much
tne same. This appointing businees
with a good many things is a sort of
spoils system, ana I think a primary
election, etc. is preferable. Then
the losing side cannot attach too
much blame and impartiality to the
power that appoints. So I believe
a direct primary, as in all the offices,
the best all around. Hey Dbxvek.
Santuc, S. 0., Sept. 1st, 1902.
JONESVILLE JOTTINGS.
i The weather is fine now on the
I farms and fodder Dullinir is nro<rrMM
sing well this week. Sat little cotton
has been picked np to date bat
there is muca of it opened in the
fields. Farmers ore now confessing
that their cotton crop is quite short.
If there is no freshet to destroy the
bottoms the corn crop will be better
than the cotton crop. There is a
fine crop of corn on the creek and
rear bottoms. I heard a man say
yesterday that another man told him
who lives upon a river farm that he
was sure corn could be bought from
the hands on his place from the heap
this fall for twenty-five cents a bushel.
We will however see what we
will fee.
Messrs. R. A. Whitlock and J.
L. McWhirter | havs both added
another gin to their already large
a
gineries in town bo there is now hoten
large gins in the two plant*,
ready tor the present ootton crop.
They can handle from 40 to 60 bales
a day, and they will buy > the cotton
and seed at the gins and pay the
highest market price for both.
The three Missee Murphy of Pinckney
are risiting Miss Ettie Hames.
I see the candidates that are in
the second race for oounty offices
are husling with a hump on th?'m,
and well they may for the prevail
ing opinion now is that it will be a
close race all round.
Charles Bolt has passed over the
river to join the ranks of the majority
of veterans on the other Shore.
He volmteered in Co. B, 18th S C.
and went forth to war in the causo
of his adopted country, receiving aj
severe wound in the right leg at the
Second Mnnasaea battle by which he
lost the leg. Being strong, however,
in young manhood, he survived
this dreadful wound and returned to
his home a cripple for life, but he
journeyed on throngh middle life
where he met the common enemies
incident to human life such as false
friends, open avowed enemies and
diseases of the body. These however
he overcame by truth, honor, fidelity
and loyalty to his country and
still traveling on down life's journev
towards the third and last period,
where in old age he met his last and
most inverate foe, a disease of the
kidneys. Being weak with old age
and the conflicts through which he
had passed, he was soon laid prostrate
in death. His remains were
borne by loving friends and comrades
to the cemetery nearby and there
laid in the narrow tomb to remain
and rest until the roll is called up
yonder, bye and bye.
There are a few cases of small pox
among the negroes near Jonesville on
I Messrs B. F. Webber and Munroe
Whitlock's places and one negro wo
man died with it yesterday. Dr.
Southern has the matter in charge.
, He reports it as being a bad type of
i genuine small pox.
Mr. Stabley, of Georgetown has
been on a visit to his sister, Mrs.
Rev. David Hucks. Telephone.
Lockhart Junction Notes.
Lookhart Junction, Aug. 30.?
The weather has been cooler since
the last rain, and rest at night is now
comfortable as it is not so not
Work time has again come and
fodder pulling is the order of the day.
Some has taken advantage of the
last season and is sowing turnip seed.
The ootton crop is not over a half
crop in this section, while upland
corn is good.
Mrs. A. C. White, who fell out of
her porch soma time ago and broke
her leg, is doing very well at this
time.
This writer, along with Mr. J. W.
Scott, had the pleasure of attending
the Sunday School Convention held
at Lockhart, S. C., Aug. 29th. Ob
account of rainy weather there was
only a small delegation present. Mr.
S. M. Rice, who is president of the
convention, and who is very punctual,
was at his post of duty, and
evoty one seemed to put on npore
zeal for the work of the Sunday
school. We feel thankful to, the
good people of Lockhart for the hospitality
shown us while in their
midst, and especially so to Mr. Joe
G. Bailey ana fkmily where we were
assigned as delegates. He made us
feel like we were at home during our
stay with him. Moxy.
OF INTEREST TO THE7ARMER.
Called From Oar Agricultural Ex,
changes.
Plow deep while sluggards sleep;
Yow will have corn to sell and corn
to keep.
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Oar domesticated animals are
(band, when they are studied closely,
to be, in some important respects, a
good deal like ourselves; and it will
oertainly sometimes result profitably
to us if we so regard them.
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Farm as well as garden products
should be sent to market in nice
shape. In the oommonest sense of
paying, it pays te do this. And the
operator who is SO slovenly about any
matter ef this sort is forming habit!
to put himself and ell he produces in
the lower grade.
liens should not have fattening
food during the summer months.
Grass, insects, oa?s, etc, will be the
beet hot wea'her diet. Make the
hens lay the grea'est p*r'i?>n of their
eggs during the fall and winter. It
is better for them if they do not lay
any during July, August and 8eptember.
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liens "re usually very choice in
th>-ir selections of nests, and unless
we provide those that are acceptable
to them they will most likely seek
others. Now is a good time to renew
every one. Take the old straw
outside and,burn it, and carefully
make each nest with fresh straw or
hay.
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It is not too muck to say that every
bit of honeet material progress
that the world has made has been
helpful to the fanner. One effect ef
most, if not all, the great forward
steps made most notably in the latest
quarter of a century has been to
bring producer and consumer closer
together, and everywhere the farming
class has been particularly benefited
by this.
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One who is regarded as a comprehensive
student of every essential
matter pertaining to sheep says that
"in Spain, trhenever sheep are kept
in the neighborhood of rock salt hills
or sea salt, they thrive better than
they do under other conditions. Salt
in the case of the sheep makes for
both better wool and mutton. When
llnWatlXA nf ant* fa ?> >
w <1 wuw V* *UIV ID |(ITVU IV DUCC|)
at pasture, from half an ounce to an
ounce should be provided daily for
each sheep."
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Gathered Here and There From
Our Exchanges and Condensed
For Quick Reading.
The Government of Hayti appears
to have a head for business and
finance at any rate. It has seised
250 tons of coal.
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Representative Reese C. DeGraffonreiu,
of Texas, died ot apolexy at
the Riggs House in Washington,
shortly before 11 o'clock last Friday
night.
?
"It's queer tbat the only clothes that
show how women really are built are
bathing suits and night gdwns." How
about the knit and silk suits combination?
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A big mineral trust it being formed
in New York, embraoing seven big
companies with a capitalisation ol
$ 7,600,000. Verily this is a day of
trusts.
* * *
Columbia, S. C., Sept I.?Labor
day was observed as a general hoiKBDJiimd
1"'--^ -1??1
VilaJI uBfti?aa> usiug H111IUIV entirely
suspended. Ad drawer war? delivered
by Governor McSweeney and
other*.
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Walter Wood, aged 36 year*, *on
of Mr. aad Mrs. W. W. Wood, of
Glendale, died at their home there
Saturday. The body wa* Shipped to
Aaheville thia afternoon where it will
be buried tomorrow morning,
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The reports of the acta of violence
in the coal fields between the striking
miners and those who have taken
some of the vacant places, point unmistakably
to the rapidly approaching
end of the great industrial dis
turbance.
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In the vtsitors' regimental match
of the A vondale Inter-State military
shoot in Savannah, Aug 39th, the
3rd South Carolina infantry of
Charleston, won, with a score of404;
1st Florida second, 357, and 1st Alabama
third, 327.
Washington, August 29.?Colombia
will formally demand of Nicaragua
an explanation in regard to the
Fatter country's alleged participation
in the revolution against the Colomi
bian Government, and back up her
i demand by the most formidable land
' and naval foroe she can muster, as
i soon as the present rebel activity on
> the isthmus has been crushed. In(
formation to this effect was received
k from an authoritive source in Washington.
MlNMtlNtl*!#!!
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B trlington, Sept. 1.?It ia a'atcd
by one of the presidential parly that ,
Attorney General Knox is slated to i
succeed Justice Shiras on the ?u- i
pr> me court bench. General K not's (
reai Donation ? *? l?o in
Roosevelt's heads.
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Riehlend County took the cake. <
At one of our political meetings last <
week two personal encounters took <
place?one between W. McB. Sloan i
and Gen. J. S. Verner, candidates :
for master, and the other between 1
George W. Taylor and S. II. Owens i
and Dr L. Owens. <
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Manila, August 29.?Isabelo De
Los Reyes, head of the Filipino
Workingmen's Union, who was arrested
August 18, charged with ^
threatening to assassinate certain '
striking cigar makers if they re- (
turned to work, has been sentenced (
to four month's imprisonment. *
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Galveston,Tex., September 1 ?The y
Galveston Ness publishes a statement j
showing the Texas crop of co t .u for .
the year 190102, to be 2,207,259 {
bales, a decrease of 801,207 bales, >
comj ared with the Texas crop for
1900 01* The crop lor Indian Territory
and Oklahoma for 1901 02 is I
581,018 bales an iocrea e of 208,567
compared with lastyar.
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Blue Ridge, Ga., Aug. 30?Application
for a charter has been filed for
a railroad to run through North Georgia,
Tennessee and South Carolina
tinrfor tliA titln nf Tannea**?p Opiiroia
and South Carolina Railroad C impany.
It is said that this road will
croas the Southern at B'airs in Union
county. With the right kind of influence
brought to bear it might be
brought to Uuion as a crossing point.
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Berlin, Aug. 30.?The price of
meat in Germany continues to rise
and the town councils and other
bodies and the newspapers in every
part of the empire are discussing what
is called the "meat famine." ,
The Butchers Guilds advanced the
price of meat this week from to 5
cents per pound. A good steak costs
44 cents a pound in Berlin. 1
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Ware Shoals Manufacturing Co. <
has begun the development of its <
extensive water power near Laurens, <
S. C., and will push the work as rap- <
idly as possible. It is also laying i
off the ground and preparing to build i
its mill of 25,000 spindles, previous- I
lv reported as to be located to utilize ]
tbe power. Messrs. W. B: Smith
Whaley k Co. are the engineers in 1
charge.
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Woodsmole, Maw., Sept. I ?Rear 1
Admiral Higginson's fleet captured 1
Block Inland this afternoon after two (
hours' bombardment in the sham war *
going ou between the nary and the
land forces. The movement was
made while tbe army was expecting
attacks on Newport and the torts at
the hoad of Long Island sound. The
entire coast of Massachusetts is at Higginson's
mercy. He is now heading
for New York harbor.
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According to information unearth*
ed in Chicago, William Bartholin,
wanted by the police in connection
with the murder of his mother and
the disappearance of his sweetheart,
Minnie Mitchell, is a member of the
noble house of Bartholin-Eichel, of
Denmark. It has also been discovered
that he has a half-brother?
Frederic Bartholin^-at present livI
ing in Chicago, prosperous and highly
respected. The house of Bartholin
was founded in 1680, when
I Dr. Bartholin-Eichel was made a
[baronet for "distinguished services."
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Governor McSweeney has reiiueeted
It. O. Purdy. Judge elect,
to hold court in Beaufort as Judge
Gage has been disabled by an accident.
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After reading Roosevelt's speech
it Providence, says the Buffalo Enquirer,
one wonders how Wall street
can feel that there is any danger to
the trusts from the President. He
jays plainly that most of the trusts
ire all right, the present laws against
them are being enforced and it will
require a constitutional amendment
to do more with them. What more
ioes Wall street want? Looks like
Roosevelt is playing a double game.
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Blackwell, Okla, August 26.?
Mrs. Jack Frost, wife of a prominent
lusiness man and politician of this
city, was arrested here tonight,
charged with poisoning Mrs. Adice
Oombs and her eldest son, Ernest,
Mid with the intent to kill the entire
'amily of seven persons. Mrs. Frost
was tiken to the county jail at Newark.
Arsenic was put in the coffee
iot during the absence of the family.
3nly two of the family drank coffee.
They are in a critical condition,
EXPENSES OF CANDIDATES.
How* Does This Strike You, Boys?
Some of You can Appreciate it.
Below is given the expense account
of a Ilall county candidate
who favored a late primary. From
this time on he says he will always
be in favor of an early primary, al
though he will never be a candidate
again. Here is the way he put it
down:
"Lost 4 months and 33 days canvassing;
1.340 hours thinking about
the election; 5 acres of cotton; 23
acres of corn; a whole sweet potato
crop; 4 sheep; 5 shoats; and 1 beef
given to barbecues; 2 front teeth and
a considerable quantity of hair in a
personal skirmish. Gave 97 plugs
of tobacco; 7 Sunday school boolcs; 2
pair of suspenders; 4 calico dresaee;
7 dolls and 13 baby rattlers.
"Told 2,889 lies; shook hands
23,475 times; talked enough to have
made in print 1,000 large volumes
sizes of patent office reports; kissed
126 babies; kindled 14 kitchen fires;
cut 3 cords of wood: pulled 474 bunTT
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nivo vi ivuuci, piu&cu i it pounds OT
cotton; helped pull 7 wagon loads ol
corn; dug 14 bushels of potatoes;
toted 27 buckets of water; put up 7
stoves; was dog bit 4 times, watch
broken by baby, cost $3 to get repaired.
"Loaned out 3 barrels of Hour, 50
bushels of meal, 150 pounds of bacon;
37 pounns of butter; 12 dezen eggs;
3 umbrellas; 13 lead pencils; Bible
lictionary; 1 raowblade; 2 hoes; 2
rakes; 1 overcoat; 5 boxes of paper
collars, none of which have been returnod.
"Called my opponent a preambulating
liar?doctor's bill $10. Had
five arguments with my wife?result:
One flower vase smashed, 1 broom
handle broken, 1 dish of hash
knocked off the table. 1 shirt bosom
ruined, 2 handful of whiskers pulled
out, 10 cents worth of sticking plaster
bought, besides spending $1,7 68.
?Gainsville (Ga.) News.
A Boy'a Wild Ride for Life.
With family arouud expecting him to
die, and a Hon riding for life, 18 miles,to
get I)r. King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, W. H.
Brown, of Leesville. Ind., endured
death's agonies from asthma, but this
wonderful medicine gave instant relief
and noon cured him. He writes: "I
now sleep soundly every night." Like
marvelous cures of (Consumption, Pneumonia.
Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds and
Grip prove its matchless merit for all
Throat and Lung troubles Guaranteed
bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free
at F. C. Duke's drug store.
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