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- '' ^ IN THE TOWN OF UNION ? ? ~W~ W~ f4! -y- f- -||* - f^B^l B "IB BT B OUTSIDE OF THE CITY Five Cotton Mills, one Knitting 1 | 1 ^ I 1^^ 1 B B B ' I ' B IB /I I I ' W ' Three Cotton Mills, one Knitting , Mill and Dye Plant, one Oil Mill, B ml B I 111! B B IB/B B-? Mill, another building, Gold Mlinf Furniture Mann facta ring Con- The Progret? ? , E 9 9 V 5 I Hi 1 i Famous Mineral Springs, ? Graded Schools, Wider Works and I I I I 'J 1 J I ^1 1 \F i ^ JL I If I 1 X ? Taxable value in and out of town Electric Lights, Population 7,000. * M m -I- * -M- ^ ^^ * $5,000,000. M ^ _ _ ???? VOL. LI1I. NO. 4. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 23, 1903. #1.00 A YEAR. HERE AND THERE. Items'*Gathered at Random of More ? or Leas Interest. Pekin, Jan, 18.?Italy has proposed to establish the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy between Pekin and Taku. * * Mies Marie Dressier, the well known actress, who has been at Atlantic City seriously ill, is threatened with paralysis of her entire left side. Physicians say it is doubtful if she is ever able to return to tho stage. ? * * Panama, Colombia, January 18.? Lieut. Mitchell, a graduate of An? napohs, who was an officer on board the Colombian Government gunboat Bogota, died here Saturday night of yellow fever. * * John Pulley, a young white farmer who lives near Tylervillo in Laurens county, killed himself Saturday afternoon, shooting himself in the diaphragm three times with a pistol, lie died in ten minntes. :> r\ ' "a * The United States Treasury closed the year 1902 with $1,239,266,733 in its vaults. In spite of this enormous sum being locked up, there is more money in general circulation than ever before. * m .* It is said that there are not less than a thousand men in this State who are ambitious to serve as dispensary constables, and they are piling up petitions and endorsements of their applications for presentation to Gov. Uevward. * * The navy department has received ^ . * dispatch from San Juan saying that an 8-inch gun charge exploded .in one of the forward turrets on the Vmttleship Massachusetts off Culebra Jeland. W! t *11 e i dve m?u were Kiuea ana lour injured, none of them officers. * * * Dr. Augustus Corley, a young dentist of Edpefield, was doing some work when his patient's pistol, a sort of Edgefitf^j^y, fell from his pocket d^sclarged, , The ball made --'^H^.^uJiehtist'it diaphragm, but striking a silver dollar the ball was deflected and did no damage except to the clothing.i * * * Dr. Lem 0. Broughton has de* ?lined the call from the Baltimore ohnrch which was recently sent to Jiim. Dr. Broughton's reason for refus* Ing is that he has undertaken many plans for religious snd charitable irark in the city, and he desires c that they be successfully wrought before he leaves Atlanta. * * The Comptroller General's report of the taxable property in the State will show an increase of $6,203,952 in the taxable values, and a present . . . _ e Atne cot aj>i mf ?. 'lqimi .9* #*sFt?,yoi,voiv ?nis win enable the Xegislature to make a slight increase in the appropriations, v as it will never do to deduce the rate of taxation, and expansion in spend* fng motley is the order of the day. * * The Standard if at Company, with a capital stack of $50,000 was organised in Charleston Saturday. Robert A. S my the was made president. The directors of the concern are: J. It. McGahan, J, Adger Smythe, wQiO. W. Williams, Robt. A. Smythe = an* Jf?? II- Foster. The oompany > will/to * wholesale hat business in tSotUhlQafolin* North Carolina, <3eorgia?ft?d ^Iprida. * * * - (Tioumbia special to the News and tCurior of 18th Hxyr. Jim S ork, a ? .-oegro, wm ran ow and ktlUd last "eight, it it annpoaed by the S >*hero togkrf having at 1 o'clock for CharTlt*o?. , Hit body wat found thit morning atgr tha junction of the Ccatt Line >ud g >uthern track in ti a vicinity of the Mnion station. da was onc-ledggul, utuigJ^ woodeo l?g, and pait of tbe stump of hlv pther kg jtua cut off, hit bald crptbad and 4 %m body generally mangled. H? nraat bare been drunk arhen tha toE$ ?5dsot happoaad, at ha had back SgSg?S!S?M Chaires, Fla., Jan. 18.?The neck of Grover Jone*, a 5 year-old lad, was broken Saturday by the explosion of the boiler at his father's saw mill, five miles from her.e. Ike Gaynor, the fireman, poured cold water in the red hot boiler with this disastrous result. He was so badly scalded about the face that he will lose his eyesight. The mill was also Wrecked by the explosion. * * * The generous distribution of coal to New York's poor at actual cost by William R - ? ?..VMIOV) fS* V|S1 IX3WI VI IUC New York American, is worthy of national commendation. Mr. Hearst is saving to the sufferers among the poor, who are unable to pay the extortionate trust prices for coal, many thousands of dollars and relieving distress and no doubt saving lives by providing proper warmth and comfort for the people. * * GERMAN RAILS FOR AMERIAN B jrlin, January 18 ?The government h?s published a report from IIerr Waerlz)!d, commercial attache of the German consulate in New fork, npon the American iron situation. Htrr Wasrtzdd advises German manufacturers to make an attempt to obtain a permanent foothold on the American markets And to eatnbliVi a coram mon rolling agency in New York for the purpose of reaching American, Ciuadiao, Mexican and West Indian consumers. He regards Canada and Mexico as especially promising naida tor the sale of rails. * The safe at Greers post office was dynamited on the morning of the 10th between 1 or 2 o'clock by unknown parties who secured something over $300 in cash and stamps. Sheriff Gilreath was notified of tho robbery and Went to Greers with blood hounds secured from a Mr. ltowland at Central. The dogs trailed one track some little distance as far as the overhead bridge near Greers, but were unable to take it any further. Despite all efforts no further trace of the guilty parties could be found. The safe was totally destroyed, one large piece of it being hurled into the wall of the building. Postmaster Mayfield lost several valuable papers. A man sleeping in the hotel across the street ran out and shot twice at the robbers as they ran. DON'T BUCK AND KICK. Remember You are Not the Only Oyster in the Tank-^Mind Your Own Business?There arc Other Pebbles on the Beach, If you neighbor is prosperous let him prosper. Don't growl, grunt or grumhk. Say a good word for him and let him no at that. D.in't he a kicker. Your turn will come. No 'one is a whole show. If you see the town ie moving rapidly feel good about it. Help things along. Show ' a little push. Try to get some of the benefit yourself. Don't stand around like a chilly cadever and waste your I time feeling sore becaue some fellow has more sense and success than you have. Do a little hustling yourself, and if you can say a good word for your town or its people say it like a prince. If you are full of bile and disposed to say something mean put a padlock on your mouth and keep it there till you can get a hypodermic injection of the mi!k|of human kind-' nets. Don't be a kicker. No man ever made a dollar kicking but a professional foot ball player. No man ever got rich mindiog everybody's business but his own. No man ever helped himself up pemjanently by kicking his neighbor down. Give others a kindly word and give it liberally and gracefully. It won't cost you a penny, and remember, you want a good word yourself some day. You may have thousands today and _:.l . .i - ! - - < luuivnvn wn mtuuut me pnu? OI n shave. Don't be a kioker. It doesn't j pay. You can't afford it. There is nothing in it. If von want to throw something at somebody throw cologne and don't throw mna or brickbats. If yon most kiok go ont behind the home and kick yourself, for if you feel that way yon are the man that aeeds kicking. Whatever yon do don't aljow yourself to become a ohronio kicker. Don't even have an acute attack. Let everybody pqsh together and we'll all be better and happier and live longer. Don't be a kicker.?Kentucky News.jp>^?; WASHINGTON LETTER. I Poor Chance for Anti* Trust Legislation?Anthracite Coal Put on Free List. (From Our Regular Correspondent ) Washington, D. C., Jan. 19, '03. Trust legislation received a set back this week from the Attorney General. The sub committee of the House charged with the drafting of an anti-trust measure prepared its bill and the announcement was made that it would be reported to the House on Friday. On Thursday, however, after securing the approval of the President, the authors of the measure called on the Attorney General and requested his opinion. Mr. Knox immediately detected certain features, notably those concerning publicity, which in his opinion would have resulted in the measure's having been pronounced unconstitutional by t.hn (Vinrla and ?a a raonlt la <1? ?v w 4VWU,W *w nrto termfned to withhold it for further revision. As the time of the fortyseventh Congress is short anxiety as to the fate of the measure is increasing Senator Hoar and other members of the Senate assert their desire to pass an adequate but conservative trust measure?with special emphasis on the conservative. At the same time it is appreciated that the Senate will not be hurried and with many influential members at heart opposed to all "statute tinkering," as they somewhat contemptuously term trust legislation, there are good grounds for the anxiety expressed by the President and bis supporters. The fate of the Cuban treat/ fn the Senate cannot be predicted with certainty. Your correspondent ha^ made a careful canvass of the Senate and believes it will eventually ba rat ified. On the other hand, many persons who ought to know regard its fate as extremely doubtful and some of the Democratic Senators who are opposing it assert confidently that it will fail. The entire influence of administration is being thrown in its favor and its defeat could not be constructed but as a decided reDudiation of the President's policy. The Senate demonstrated to a re markable degree its ability to transact business last week, notwithstanding the claim that the Statehood bill is blocking other important measures. The House having passed a bill pro-, viding that all duties paid on coal be rebated for a period of one year, the Senate took the measure up the same day and within fifteen minutes had so amended it as to place anthracite coal permanently on the free list and passed the measure. The same day the House accepted the amendment and passed the bill and sent it to the President who.signed it the next day. 4.8 if fired by its energy in handling the coal bill, the Senate then took up and passed the Militia bill which passed the House last session. Be fore passing the measure that which provided for tho National Volunteer Reserve was stricken out. As the life of the present Congress draws to a close the anxiety on the part of those interested in the construction of an isthmian canal increases. With customary South American dilatoriness, Colombia is , nArmif.tincr a crnlrtpn nnnnrhmilv in r ft " b r I ? slip away and there is a constant likelihood that the administration's patience will become exhausted and the offers of Nicaragua and Costa Rica will be acceptedand the construction of the canal alona that route will be begun. Up to the present time the Secretary of State "has offered to Colombia a cash payment of $10,000.000 and an annuity of $100,000 to begin ten years after the ratification of th{ treaty. In addition to this amount it will be necessary to pay $40,000^000 to the Panama Canal Company making tKc total initial investment $50,000,000 in addition to (he annuity which will represent an investment of $8,333,833.33 at 3 per oent. SEDALIA SIFTINGS. As it has been some time since my last contribution to yoqr valuable paper, I will again give a few dots from this place. Movers have abiut all settled down for another year. There is, was and has been so mnch visiting fujr the la?t few weeks I can not hope to remember all, bet will tall of some that is remembered V. at tbis time* Miss Fannie Bobo, the popular teacher of the Belmont school, accompanied by Mr. Tom Bishop, spent Friday night last at the home of Mr. W. F. Duke. Wo are always glad to have such lively young people visit our community. Mr. A. J. Taylor of this place visited his parents at Princeton recently. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Bobo have returned home after several days vis iting friends in Greenwood, and Mrs. Bobo'a mother, Mrs. Bolt, at Ilonea Path. Rev. Mr, Watson failed to keep Lis appointment at Padgett's Creek Sunday on account of the sickness of his father-in-law. A large crowd consequently was disappointed. A certain young man is now gorged with young lady correspondents if | hea- correctly. I am so glad that we have such a veisatile writer in the far West. His letters are history of up to date things, places and people. Write often Bro. Bailey, we enjoy your letters so much. Thanks, Iley Denver and Ivy Green for congratulations. I would sure inviyg^you both were it to be gone overi again. Say Brother, I should like to have the opportunity of doing the same for you now soon if you would only bestir yourself rapidly in the right direction. You must fet me give you a few pointers along the way. Be in earnest, be in dead earnest. In fact be so much in earnest that she will say yes to get rid of you. Love only one, tell that *one-abeutrit often, prove to her and the public genet ally that, it is true. Say the first thing that comes into your mind whenever you see her, tit nn ujK an wah ' a L. ? ? *- - ' vuvu ?*uvii jvu uuuio wnifj uer and say all you have left unsaid, and if you fail to succeed by this rule retire from public life and diaw a pension. More adrice gratis. li. B. A TIMELY SUGGESTION. Make a t,awtliat wHl Render Any one yybo Carries Concealed WeaporAincapable of Holding Office in S&nth Carolina. To the Editor of The News and C airier: Ftw. people are wire enough to forcsje the necessity of and provide for infensive rooudi&l measures, It is only when a shocking tragedy converts apprehension into a demand that they realizs what ought to have been done. When the Lieutenant Governor of the S ate the second Executive and the first legislative officer of this Commonwealth violates the law he has sworn to uphold and shoots down an unarmed man without warning, it d >es soem thit the evil of the practice of carrying concealed weapons is sufficiently emphasized to demand the most heroic remedies. The officer who himself violates the 1^ L!.L L_ ?! i- - ? i?it wuiuu uj BJiemn oain ne tits undertaken to obey and enforce is not a fit. person to hold the office. The sentiment against duelling in this State oryetalixed into a severe statute pronouncing it murder to slay another in a due1; yet duels continued ifid jurit* acquitted until the entire senti-. | ment of the State was shocked at the UQtime'y daath ia a duel of a noble lawyer and gentleman of Kers! aw county. The extreme exercise of preventive measures was then invoked and the constitutional amendment known as the a?ti duelling oath was adopted. It wig the expression of the outraged public sentiment of the State I that a man who w>uld vio'a e the law he bad sworn not only to uphold but to obey, was not a fit person to hold office in this State. The fear of death did not deter, the fear of fines did not restrain, but the certainty of 1 ft ft*. - ... - I loeiogioiutj to ottice bas bad the de tired effect aud not a du:l his since occurred in the B:*te. There has always b:en ao rtnij amount of romantic glamour, of ohivalry and honor, about the C>le Duel-' lo aid suoh occurences aa called forih this article are ci el by i's advocates in justification of it; but I have yet to tea in aoy brave aud honorable maa an apologist even, much less an advocate, of the practice of carrying concealed weapons. If a duelist is not fit iu law or morals to hold office, bow much lower in the scale of eligibility must le the walking a aaua ? Lit tba General Asiembly provide lor an oath upon the aubj x>t of carrying concealed weap >i by oonitltutional amendment if necweary, eimiUi to the aiti duelling oath, and at least - an additional safeguard, if not a rem edy, wi'l be supplied. Tiiomas P. Cotiirvn. Greenville, S. C , Jan. 17, 1903. BIG MONEY TTi tWcKING. H. J?. Matthews, of Smith County, Texas, Gets $i,S6o b'roui iS Acres of Ground. The Cotton Belt Route, through its General Passenger Department at St. Louis, is giving our dura regarding the growing of fruits and vegetables aloDg its lines in Eastern Texas. Here is what a Smith county man accomplished during the season just passed, the interview appealing in the "Diversifier," published at Tyler, Texas. Mr. II. B. Matthews said: ^ 4T had two and a half acres^in strawberries; gathered 213 crate*; sold for 8440. I nut nut pi oh *. ?cm? in tomatoes*; gathered 1,430 crates; sold for $040; planted the same land in late corn and fall Irish potatoes; corn did only fairly well; potatoos made fine crop, and gathering at this writing, and expect to realize a good price for them in the spring for seed. I had four acres planted to Jones watermelons, from which I sold $150. I had six acres in pumpkin yams; two acres I set early and four acres late; from the early patch I gathered 320 bushels and sold them for $230, and the late planting I am not through gathering, though I am selling them at 50 cents a bushel as I gather them. I can not tell how much per acre they will yield. I have one and a half acres in blackberries, from whbh I sold $100. And for what I think of the outlook of cur country and truck business I would be almost afraid to tell my honest opinion, for some one would think I was a big land owner and had lots of land to sell. I am only a small truck grower, and have been in the business but a short time; but from my experience and observations I think the outlook for our part of the country is llatteriDg." A TREMENDOUSLY^ RICH STRIKE. Gold in Abundance Said to Have D?Aa. Tki ? * ' " iicm j/iacuvcrni?A Wllfl Stampede of Prospectors. Seattle, Wn., Jan. 18.?A special to The Times irom Dawson says: A tremendously rich strike, the magniture of which has never been equalled since Bon Henderson told his wonderful story of the Klondyke, has been made 18 miles north of a point on Tenana river, 300 miles from its source. The district is in American territory. Circle has been depopulated and a wild stampede of prospectors from all the surrounding country is in progress. As yet few have reached the discovery. The holes that have proved tLe wealth of the country were sunk late last winter and the first man to reach Dawson from the new country has just arrived. lie is a Japanese named J. W. Wada, well known in Dawson, where his veracity and honesty are well known. So far, the report has not been spread to any j cxiom in uawson, Dut tlio little that has been told has created an excitement that surely means a stampede. The gist of Wada's report is that the district resembles the Klondyko in its physical formation, but has a heavier growth of timber. Gold in widely different kinds had been found in eight different creeks when Wada left for Dawson on Dec. 22. The original strike was made on I Pedro, a creek running parallel with | Tanana, about miles from the river. This oreek is staked for miles. y. M.'cTaTconvention. A Convention of Practical Men Meets in Gieenville, February 7-10, 1903. Greenville has captured the next convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations of South Carolina. The invitation to hold the twentysixth annual meeting in the mountain olty came from the Board of Trade. All iniliAitUna nAint ?? 1 * iu\*iv?MvuD pumv uu H rcuuru j breaking convention. The program I is uniquo in many respects and up to the times. Not many subjects will be discussed but those that nave been selected are of vital interest. A number of men who are e* perls in certain lines of definite work among yeung men and boys have been secured to address the convention. The convention will open Saturday evening, Feb. 7. and close the following Tuesday, Feb. 10, The sessions will be held in the historic First Baptist Church of Greenville. jSome of the special features of Convention will be: A great mass meeting for men in the opera house on Sunday afternoon. Union mass meetings ic three central churches on Sunday evening, addressed by able speakers. Bible readings by G. C. Huntington of Charlotte. Addresses and discussion on the problems in towns, cities, mill districts and institutions of learning. The State Committee through the columns of this paper extend a cordial invitation to all ministers of the Gospel, to Christian businessmen, to teachers and others interested, to attend. There will be reduced rates on all railroads and delegates will be entertained in the hospitable homes * of the citizens of Greenville. Upon application credentials will be furnished those who contemplate I attending, either as a visitor or delegate. Credentials, programs and other information may be obtained by addressing Mr. A. G. Knebel, State Secretary, Y. M. C. A., Charleston, S. C. Thoso who expect to attend should communicste with the State Secretary before February 1st. m ? LEE BESIDE WASHINGTON. A Suggestion That Valentine be Employed to Make n Statute of Lee to fill the Vacant Place in Statuary Hall in the National Capitol, to which Virginia is Entitled. Iu the State Senate at Richmond, Va., a bill has been introduced by Mr Ilalsey,-1 providing for a statute of Gen. Robert E. JRec in Statuary Hall, in the Capitol at Washington. In connection therewith a letter from Senator Daniel was read, in which the Senator says, among other things: "A letter from Eiliot Woods, superintendent of the Ignited States Capitol building, addressed to me January 3, states that the State of Virginia is entitled to two statutes jn Statuary Ilall, and that the statute ot Washington is now in place. It seems fit that the Virginia artist, Edward V. Valentine, whose recumbent figure of Lee has attracted worldwide admiration, should also hare the honor of reproducing his upright iuiui uuu icaturos iu me statute con-* templated. There is no one to whom I have mentioned the subject who does not cordially approve the placing of Lee in the Capitol of the United States by the side of Washington." m - Hypnotizing Two Dollars, Two men were walking behind an elegantly dressed woman on Fulton street the other day. ' Did you ever sec me hypnotize a woman?" asked one. "Nonsense!" the other sneered. "Bet you two dollars I can make that woman ahead of us touch bath her ears before sho has gone half a block." "Do you know bcr?" "No; never saw her before." "What would you do to her?" "Nothing but walk behind her. I won't touch her." "What would you say to her?" "Nothing; not a word." "And you'll make her put both her hands to her ears without touching or speaking to her?" "Yes. sir." "Well, it'll be worth two dollars to seo you do it. I'll have to go you." "Very well. Watch now." In a tone loud enough for the woman to hear he said to his companion: "Charlie, bow do you like the new fashion the women have of wearing only one earring?" Tnfttnnt.lv ttiA wnmor. -? ??j ? ~ vinjlj.lll UI1Q gloved hand and then the other to nee if she had loet one of her sparklers. "It'll work every time," said the winner. "Yon can make good wages betting on it if yon can find rack era 1 enough to take you up."?Brooklyn - A Eagle. ?