The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 21, 1902, Image 1
1 ^trioL'^^ ^ * ' _jl ^ |
YQL. LH. NO. 47. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1902. #1.00 A TEAR:
HERE AND THERE.
Items of Interest Gathered at Random
of More or Less Interest.
The rev pistol law is a great producer
of both dollars and d ?ya.
Nearly every week somebody gives
np $50 to leorn how long and how
heavy his battery must be.?Spartanburg
Journal.
* * *
Within the first nino months of
1902 tho country has exported manufactured
articles valued at over
three hundred million dollars, nearly
all of which are the product* of concerns
protected b/ the tariff aguinst
foreign competition.
.? * *
* *
Rome, Nov. 17.?The vole mo on
Stromboll Island, off the north cunt
of Sicily, has commenced a terrible
eruption. A collossal column of
fire is rising, ntid incandescent stones
are being emitted from the craters.
Many houses on tho island have been
destroyod.
* * *
Whiskey Joes not hurt the man
ho does not drink it. Saloons
sever.ruin mon who' d? n>t vo'uufcarily
visit them. Gambling hells
V sever swallow up the wages of men
h do not gamble. But all the
^^ KuMsNMions, all tho prohibition
JNPSfflBpn never keep moral cowards
in the eSnught path.
me^ Milan i n 189 d,
but he effected to England,
vV Railroad, is* out. It i# a voluntary
advance of $4,250,000 in the annual
wages of employees ol the road. The
advance represents a 10 per cent, increase
in the salaries of 59,000 employees,
dating from the first of the
present month. The raise is only to
those receiving $200 per month and
loss. This lets in the small wage
earner.
* *
Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 16.?The
The big plant of Armour & Co.,
which occupied threV and one-half
acres of ground at the extreme south
end of the stock yards, was totally destroyed
by fire this morning. The loss
of the company is $900,000. The insurance
is $721,500. The cause of
the fire was said to have been either
/ spontaneous combustion or an im-j
perfect dryer.
* *.
*
Tacoma, Wash.,Nov. 18.?Jesse
R. Grant, son cf IVesident Ulysses
S. Grant, has made a comfortable
fortune by tho successful operation
of mininir DroDcrtics at Nome, in
which ho became intciested three
years ago.
His homo is in San Diego, Cal.
With other Californians he purchased
interests in Nome placers when they
^ wore first discovered and is now
realizing a largo income from them.
* ?
*
TUB COTTON MILL MERCER FALLS
FLAT.
Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 17.?Mr.
W. C. Ileath, one of the special
committee, which assisted Mr. F. L.
Underwood, of New-York City, in
his afforts to perfect a raprger of
Southern cotton yarn mills, informed
on Associated Press representative
that he had received a letter
from Mr. Underwood, in which Mr.
Underwood statod that he had abandoned
his intention of perfecting the
merger.
* *
Tuo superintendents of express
companies doing business in Iowa
have issued positive orders to their
agents in other States not to accept
C. 0. D. shipments of intoxicating
liquor* for deliver/ in Iowa points.
Tbis is in isccordange with the recent
\ decision of the State Supreme Court.
Carrying C. O. D. liquor packages
J has been a considerable part of the
business of the express companies
? since prohibition went into force in
L Iowa and thcso orders will curtail
ft. - their business materially.
ff'[ ' .
E'izabetbtown, Ky., Nov. 10.? I
IIarl8n Buckles, who was yesterday
eenteaccd to life imprisonment for
the murder of llobert L. Rcul, was
hanged by a mob shortly after 2
o'clock this morning.
* *
*
AUDITORS IX IIARD LUCK.
Governor MeSweeney is in receipt
of another letter from an auditor dotal.ing
the trouble which has befallen
-.ueli o[Boers by reason of tho threr
penalties qn delinquent taxpayers
and the absence of proper blanks to
make out such returns. The pen
aicy ocg.ns utrer January 1, when 1
per cent, is addril. An additional
I per cent, is addod in February an 1
5 per cent, in March. The law if a
new one and there is much dissatis
faction with it. Nevertheless the
auditors and treasurers will have to
do the best they cm until the L3gismeets.
* * *
JIM TILLMAN LED A LYNCHING
TARTY.
Columbia, Nov. 17.?The sheriff
of Edgefield arrived here Thursday
with a party of deputies and a
wounded prisoner. The sheriff started
out for Trenton, Senator Tillman's
homo, to take tbo train for
Columbia, but hearing that James II.
Tillman, recently defeated for governor,
was leading a lynching party
towards TreAon, having anticipated
the eborifTs dLove, the latter made a
detour through the woods until he
struck, the M&ro*d. He d igged the
Jr*ic on wafii he reached here.?
"SnartanhurHjournal.
Tiilrap publishes a denial of
but for himself and
Lt. Got. tSM&pard the negro would (
have beeit jflfhod by .indignant citi-1
zent. ~ ~
HOMO'S MUG?
Lockuart, Nov. 17.?I have
been ransacking the pockets of my
mcmCry to find if in all my life I
knew of a more pleasant autumn
than the one that is now passing by.
I find that I have seen some very
pleasant autumns and warm winters,
but I fail to find any year that I oan
think of when the weather was so
pleS&nnt and when frost had so long
delayed his annual visits. Now, Mr.
Editor, mind I do not say that I have
never seen so pleasant a season, but
this much I know, if I have it his
worn a hole in the trouscr pockets of
mv memory and has dropped by the
wayside and long since been eaten up
by the rust of ycar3 so to speak.
Now, Mr. Editor, if my lines are
dulljjacd my composition fails to have
that vivacity that should characterize
a versatile country scribe, let this be
my excuse: My face is all hooded
up todav with court plaster and I
can not turn with comfort either to
the right or lefc, and I imagine that
I feel like one who has been in a It.
R. wreck who knows it is not any
uso to sue the R. R. Co. for damages.
What's the matter, you say, I cannot
say that I know. 1 consulted one
eminent medical doctor and he used
such big words that I could not crack
them to get at the kernel, and when
I reached homo and procured a hammer,
so to speak, and ransacked in
the pockets of ray memory the nut
was lost, so to speak, and I waa in
the dark. I consulted another eminent
M. D. and he informed me that
the peculiar ailment was "something
doctors did not liko to see," and
hence my face is girded with strips
of court plaster, something after the
fashion of the lines on a map marking
tho degrees of latitude and longitude,
the degrees of longitude coming to*
gether on my left temple liko they do
at the North and South Pole so to
speak. That M. D. can't now see
my peculiar ailment neither can I
but I know it is there, and that temple
where the strips meot does not
feel much like the temperature of the
North pole is stid to be, but fiom its
heat it is more like some point under
the equator. I do not think my
personal beauty is much enhanced
by tho oporation as I am afraid to be
out much boing fearful s>ve one
might get frightened. If you, gentle
reader, will pardon the egotism of an
old man I will try to write about
something else.
We now have two trains daily, |
each one carrying mail. This is
*
juitc a convenience as wo can gst
'ho morning papers here as early achcy
do at Spariaaburg.
Miss A'.ico Jtiggin.s, of the Converge
Uusiness College, visited friends
md relativej here last Saturday returning
Monday morning.
Cigarette smoking is a groat evil
to those who prac'ice it. Our text
nooks tell us that it effects the action
of the heart. Sometimes it effects
others and causes them much trouble
in various ways. I t',c "hove
statemeut practically illustrated re
oentlv. Tim funta rta ?AincwK??
tbusly.
A firmer who lived in Chester
county loaded up his wagon with one
hale of cotton earlv ono morning, his
destination heing Lockhart and his
object being co onvert that bale of
cotton to such things ns he and his
family might need. When he came
to Broad river he was necessarily
delayed somewhat by a number of
wagons in front. A negro innocently
or with evil intent struck a match
on that particular bale of cotton to
light his cigarette, when on an instant
the cotton was covered with
a light flame. For an instant
all ihearts must have stopped
beating and they stood in amazement.
Considerable amount of cotton
was burned and the negro was
arrested. Some of his friends came
to his ail and raised money enough
te cover the loss aud the matter was
compromised.
As I write tonight tha gantle rain
i? falling and possibly the nice weather
of the autumn, of 1902 has come
to a close. IIomo.
* j. -w
' "WASHINGTON LETTER.
May ricct nn Outsider For the
Speaker of the House.
(From Oar Regular Correspondent..)
Washington, Nov. 17, 1902.
A rumor has boon started in Washington
thisweek,- appvopose of the
speakei^hip contest, wbioh is attractiug
widespread attention, both as a
curiosity and as a possible factor in
the struggle for chairmanship of the
House of Representatives. It has
bo-n discjvered that, under the constitution,
the speaker of the House
need not be a member. Ho may be
elected from private life. No sooner
was the discovery made than it was
sugge.-ted that it would be an appropriate
token of their respect aud
esteem for the republican members
to elect Gen. Henderson speaker of
the Fifty-eighth Congress, uotwithsthudingthe
fact that ha will not be
a member of tho Congress. Whether
this suggestion was put forward simply
as a feeler, at the behest of Gen.
Henderson hitnse'f, or whether it is
merely the idea uf some of tho
Speaker's ardent admirers, of whom
he has a host in Washington, is not
Known. The possibility howovcr, if
followed up bv even a modor.-.te campaign
in behalf of Gen. llcndeison's
claims, will serve to still further
complicate the situation ami render
the corning session even more interesting
than was anticipated.
Thore is a good deal of continent
among the voteran members coming
to Washington, on the usefulness of
the moinbers elect of the Fifty-eighth
Congress and they cito the New
York delegation as an illustration of
tho extent to which the people arc,
in these days, departing from the
adage "old men for counsel." Wi'h
the youngest President in tho White
llouso, that the country has ever
had, the next House of Representatives
will show the youngest body of
men ever selected to legislate on the
affairs of the nation. It has been
said that the Sonate, however, would
not be affected by this craze for young
men but the older members point to
Beveridgc, Bailey, Culberson ot al,
as an evidence that the young men
are crowding the "grayboards" out,
even there.
With remarkable expedition the
treaty with Colombia, providing for
tho construction of the l'annma
Canal, has been brought to a con elusion
and the convention will be
duly signed by Secrotary Hay and
Minister Concha today. The decretal
y says that he regards th earrangemcnt
made as most favorable to the
United States and he expects its
prompt ratification by the Senate,
Tho copy of the Cuban treaty has
been roceived in Washington and
while the terms are not altogether
satisfactory to tho administration,
Secretary Ilay still hopes to secure
he necessary mo<lifioation so that it
vill be in shape to present to Congress
when it convenes two weeks
hence. It may bo sai l that the
Cuban government, emboldened by
he shortage in the sugar supply of
the world and the increased price
resulting therefrom, demands a larger
discount from the Dingley tar.fl
rates than the administration feels
justified in asking Congress to allow,
but Gen. B.iss has gone to Cuba
ind will attempt to convince Pres.
Pdlma that to demand too much is
likely to defeat the troatv which
would prove a disappointment to the
President and a serious injury to
Cuba.
It is becoming more and more evident
that there will be no change in
the tariff schedules during the coming
session. . The republican leaders
who are arriving in Washington all
say that there wiil be no time to even
"think of the tariff revision" during
the "short session." General Grosvenor,
who has returned for the winter,
is most emphatic in this opinion.
It must he remembered that the elections
have in no way changed the
organization of the House and will
have no effect until the next Con*
gress convenes, therefore, with
Speaker and a uv?j n i'y of the Ways
and Means committee bitterly opposed
to any revi.*ion, those members
who do favor such policy will be
given no opportunity to *do more
than present biils which will be
promptly referred to the committee
named and there smothered.
That thero will he no trust legislation
is uot so"] aure. Some of the
prominent financiers of the country
are becoming alarmed at the situation.
What they regard as ospecially dangerous
to the financial stability of
the country is the organization of
trusts aadthe floatiug of trust stocks
based itf&formation which is neither
mark ' tfelgEt bs
utterly routed by the breaking of a
few large industrial corpora'.ions and
it is impossible to secure any definite
information in regard to many whose
stocks are daily bought and sold on
the market. Thi3 line of argument
is in entire accordance with the message
sent to Congress last year by
the President and it is regarded as
more than possible that scuio enactment
forcing publicity on the socalled
trusts will bo placed on the
statutes at tbo coming session.
T h n AiTiniula rx (* fV*o "NTI \ ~ ? i
^ ?v vmviuaa ut IU& ilUY( 1/C[)ill lmont
arc greatly interested in tlie
reports being received of the effectiveness
of the new torpedo boat, the
Adder. According to these reports
the Adder made a run of two miles
in one direction, turned with the
greatest celerity and returned to the
starting point and immediately on
its arrival there fired a torped) which
cjmio within ten feet of the small
target. All this was done under
water and in an increditably short
sp ice of time. While running at a
high rate of speed there was no indication
on the surface of the water, s ?
that an enemy's vessel would have
had actually no warning of the approach
and could not possibly havo
attempted any retaliatory nnasure
until the vessel was entirely out of
eight and reach.
Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1903 Almanac.
To sav that this splendid work of
science and art is fiuer and bettrr
than ever, is stating it mildly. The
demand for it is far beyond all previous
years. To say that such results,
reaching through thirty years, are
not based upon sound sense and usefulness,
is an insult to the intelligence
of the millions. Prof. Hicks, through
this great Almanac, and his famous
family and scientific journal, Word
and Works, is doing a work for the
whole people not approached by any
other man or publication. A fair
test will prove this to any reasonable
person. Added to the most luminous
course in astronomy fur 1903,
forecasts of 3torms and weather arc
given, as never before, for every day
ia the yoar, all charmingly illustr ated
with nearly two hundred engravings,
Thoprico of single Almanac, including
postage and mailing, is thirty
cents. Word And Works with tho
Almanac is 31.00 a year. Write
to Word and Works Publishing Co.,
2201 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo.,
or send your subscription to Tiie
Union Tjmrs.
ETCHINGS FROM ETTA JANE.
Wants Telephone Connection With
Union. Other Notes.
People arc busy sowing wheat an 1
picking scattering cotton. Oving
to the lute full the cotton crop is
turning out some better than it was
expected to do two months ago.
Alra. Sarah Foster and her
(laughter, Miss Laura, of Union, are
spending some time on the York side
of the river with relatives and f; itnds.
Tue Skull Shoals (or Pacolet No.
1\ - r
ij vugregauon, i ip irn, nave tiecidcd
to build a new house for worship.
I understand that some want
it built near Sarratt's I'. O. A
meeting will so>n bo he'd to decide
the matter. llad I a voice I would
prefer the present situation on account
of the grave yard, and besides,
the prcsnnt situation is a very suitable
one I think.
Mrs. Judge J, M. Greer, of Union,
was up visiting her old home last
week. Iler friends were glad to
meet her.
Messrs. Ilal E. JefTiies and Frank
Webber are getting out rock to
build stone piers upon which to build
th* new bridge at Owen's ford,
which contract has been awarded
Messrs. Jeffries and Webber to build.
The farmers have had a most delightful
fall for work and have done
a great deal of it.
Mr. Maston Comer has moved to
the knitting mill at Joncsvilie where
his children are at work. He is
gathering up his crop here.
The friends of Hon. J. C. Otts,
formerly of Union county, will be
pleased to learn that he is getting a
fine law practice in our new county,
lie applies himself with all diligence
to his prel'ession and Lis practice is
constantly increasing.
The 'possum hunters nrc making
things lively these nights.
-Mrs. "Vox" is selling her turkeys.
She has a fine lot of them too.
n. r-: i i> vir tn * * ..?i
vyui menu iv. ?Y . uaviS 13 8UII
working at the 'phono line. lie has
a project to build a line from Gaffney
to Sarratts, thence to Union via
| Kelton. "Bob" is an energetic
fellow and will make it up if it can
be done. lie never tires or gets
disheartened. But the strongest
probabilities are at present that the
line, if built at all, will come from
Hickory Grovo in York county, as
that line already conies to Broad
river. It wouldn't hurt our section
to get all these lines in operation.
Mr. Jeflbraon Blackwoll, the miller
at Thomson's mill, is catchiug a good
many fish now.
Last week the fox hunters had up
a race in the fork of Pacolct and
Broad rivers.
Mrs. C. W. Whisonant who has
boen visiting in the counties of York.
Lancaster and Kershaw, returned
home last week.
Our friend "Moxy" seems to be
laboring under a misapprehension as
to the problem he is working at. The
idea is to find cut at what time
between 5 and 6 the hands of a clock
are at right angles to each other.
This, of course, occurs twice each
hour. I am satisfied lie will discover
the point if he will give the problem
( a thorough study. However, he is
not the only ono who ha3 missed it,
one college professor is considerably
oflf in his estimation.
Mr. Yaney C. Comer has gone
into the horse swapping business.
The last trial lie lifted Wade Pridmore
out of a b argain.
Vox.
BISHOP DUNCAN IN CAUSTIC.
Says Some Sharp Things on Methodists
wito "Improve" on Creed.
(From the Itnltimoro Sun.)
Richmond, Va.. Nov. 14.?Bishop
Duncan's address ro the class of ministers
just admitted to full connection
with the Conference, was the distinguishing
event of tho Virginia
Methodist Conference today. The
Bishop did not mince matters in advising
the young ministers to avoid
tediousness in their sermons and to
adhere to pure Methodism.
lie gave a somewhat high thrust
at what is sometimes known a8
"high Methodism."
"The young preacher should remember,
ho said, "that they have
made a vow to bo guided by the
Methodist discipline. Never become
so wise or know so much as to try
and improve on this book. When
you get & better form for marriages
?*
or for other services th in in this
discipline, eend it to flic General
Conference and have it put in the
hook. Bat don't try to do it yourselves."
The Bishop was caustic vheu he
mad.* reference to a csrtain class of
jjreachert, who. instead of being
guid d b/ the discipline, "put on
jromehody else's clothes." "The
minister' for one thing." lie said, "is
t' Id t> kniel jilown when he prays.
But thero are como wha liko t<> do as
certain other people do, and they
stand up with their hands high i i
the air and they iuvokc. They
think it is distinguished to nut on
j these highfalutin' airs. There is no
more unerring sign of mental weakness."
WO.Mr.X IIKIU'KKD RV BISHOP.
(From tlio Chicago Tribune.)
Richmond, Va., Niv. 13.?BisY?p
W. W. Duncan, presi?ling over the
Virginia Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, ?outh, today publicly
rebuked women for disturbing
the services. The chief offenders
were two or three, who periisted in
talking from start to finish, and
thereby interrupting the business
of the body. The annoyance began
early in the morning. The B shop
stopped a speaker in the middle of
his talk and asked the women to be
quiet, lie was dfl'ghted to have
the women and other visitors there,
but they must know that ho could
not permit them to stand on the floor
and talk and talk while the Conference
waited f>r them to get through.
Barely had the Bit-hop concluded
when the voices of the women wcro
heard again. And thus it kept on.
Sarcasm failed. Tho Bishop, growing
more^nd more impatient, tried
to stop tho thing but could not. He
declared that he had held big meetings
as far West as California, but
he baft neverjmet with anything equal
to this. lie invited thoeo who
wished to talk to leave and repair
'to the basement below. - .. -*j
THE RURAL SCHOOL.
Why The Agriculturist Conns to
Town.
About eighty-two per cent, of our
people dwell in the country and engage
in agrieultural pursuits. Under
present conditions the rural public
school is the chief hope of educating
the rural population. Tho
best people of all classes are going
to reside where they can got the best
opportunities for their children. The
only hope, therefore, ot keepiug such
people on their tarms is to be found
in the improvement of the public
school. These rural schools must
be made adequate to the cduca'ional
needs of the people and equal in
merit to tho best public schools of
the towns and cities before we can
! \ A r\A f A r-f A?\ .1.?A*. ? *
uunu iv cvuji inw uisnsirou^ annual
drains upon the best blood of the
country by these towns and cities*
In rocks and trees, and streams, and
hills, and vales, and fields, and
llowers, nature has provided in the
country better companions, better
object lessons and better materials
for education than can possibly be
found or supplied in the towns and
the cities.
There is no reason why man should
not supply there, in the heart of
nature, schools that shall offer as
good educational facilities tas are to
be found in town or city. With
such schools, the country would be
the ideal place for the education of
man. Without such schools, it is
hut a question of time when the best
of the country population will leavo
the country and when there shall
be left in our rural districts only the
poorest peasant population, too ignorant
to know the value and the blessing
of an education and too indifferent
to carc to secure it for their offspring.
This must not happen. The history
of all civilization plainly declares
that the greatest calamity
il.. i L.fJl l _ 1 ,i t r
unit cum uuiau any lanii 13 Uio iioterioration
or Vhe destruction of its bold
peasantry.?lion. J. Y. Joyner,
Superintendent of Public Instruction
of North Caiolina.
Why so Popular.
The popularity of "Clifton" flour
isdu'etolts unequaled quality?absolutely
pure, retaining all the nutri<
tive and healthful qualities of the
finest selected wheat. Call for
it at Macbeth Young's and Union
k Mills Store.