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"l *~ ' * ' , ' " ;ii?y' - -v - ''W- - < > <- %;*% + yHfg TOWN OF UNION ''*' fcTTJT* Tf TT1 TT 1% If J" "Nk ^ if" 9^ T "M IT T1 /^4 OUTSIDE OF THE CITY ^ Five Cotton Mills, one Knitting ?j"-r 111 I 1^^ 1 III 1^^ . ^ I ' I I /I 111 L. 1 Three Cotton Mills, one Knitting SSERSS& I n rJ I 1 III 1 H- I fl Pin srarsswss ^ Graded SchooU, Water JTorka^d M. JL-M. VX X 1 JL V/ XI \ J- JL ?^TJL B J k/| Slectric Mgbts, Population 7,000. L j| ? $5,000,000. VOL. LHI. NO. 5. jjNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUfe^O. 1903. LETTER FROM THE FAR WEST. | 'y ?> die as sho was.t.i.- 1 A Boquct for The Times Con apondenta?Countess Witxenatl Seeking old South Carolii Friends?Can Anyone Give i the Information Desired??Deai of a Centenarian. QUEER BURIAL SERVICES. Denver, Col., Jan. 18, 1903. Jno. R. Matiiis, Editor Times: All is quiet today with our beaut ful and delightful weather as usual and the snn i? ? ?u.u>ug very uutinc through a thin veil of vapor, givinj everything the appearance of what J have heard old people call Todiai Summer in my dear old native home. ' Well, I was more than pleased with the last Times and note with gratitnde the many letters of corre*spondents from various parts of tl^ county as well as from other States, but the one most interesting is the new one from Cross Keys, at least the nam de plume appeals* very new > to me. However, 1 hope Jack and Jill will continue to fill their space in The Times every week and tell us all about the people of that locality, as that is always a very interesting corner t> me, and the many names mentioned seemed so very familiar it makes me feel like getting a letter from home. Yes, and Homo's bugs must have been a dandy. I would like to know if Homo ever saw one of those bugs after it was really dead* I think the name given is very appropriate if his 1 descriptions are accurate, though ' there is one other ability with which j thev omrht Ia Ko??? ? 3"" namefv?wJ*r "co" au?reaitea, mely, with carrying a carpet bai? ? However, we are always glad to hefr ' d icamod from ? P<Mt records that we cxocct ' thioga 1 WeU, as I have made so many ? promises to relative, fttetfcL and ac? 0 qu&intances, all of which promises H will be faithfully and honorably kept 1 on my part if life shall last that long. 1 As I have always been very careful ( not to make any time limit. If you ? will allow me space I will endeavor 1 to fulfill one of thec,e promises. 1 1 met an old lady at the Capitol at i Austin, she asked me to please try to find her old friends of Laurens county, S. C. She said she was taken to the friends of her father when she was a small girl and staid with them in Laurena county until * she was grown, She then went back to Texas where she has since resided. Her name Was Phoebe Brewster; her father fought under Oen. Sam Houston and was in the battle of San Jacinto. Her father took hex to the home of Mrs. Mary Bolt, at Highland Home postoffice, Laurens county S. C. Mrs. Bolt had two girls, Ruth, who married Arnold, and Margaret, who maried Dial. Miss Brewster was postmistress of High-1 land Heme postoffice. for awhile before she went back to Texas. She says she has not heard of any of these families since the war ot iat>i. As all of these things were before my time and I had never heard of such a poetoffice I was at a loss to even say anything in answer to hor many inquiries, tyut upon her earnest request I promised to write back and see if any ?f these families could be found, Spe had married a German Count orjjj Nobleman by the name of Sayan Witzenstien, this latter name represents nobility. I hope the Laurens county papers with please copy her request. 1 am sure mj old iriend Chaney Little would d< so should he have the opportunity t< place the request in his bright littl Chronicle, ot Clinton, S. C. Mai to her should be sent to Mrs. Phoeb Brewster Sayan, care of C. B De Cassey, Capitol Building, Austir Texas. Well, I shall next try to finish m account of the Mexicans of Hunter ?md. There were a few families < toucans living about a quarter of mile west of where the old Dunli wag formerly located. The |W>VM'V? ?M * very old Mexican lady in 01 of the families, the had been so vei old for inch a long time that ever IMy living near there had becoc familiar with her as the oldest pers to bo found in that part of the Stat and for many years abe has be tpoken of being a hundred yei old, but tho (like moat of the Ame tan uooun) never got any older, a no one reamed to think aha was lil . vv/ T1BI& HD where she liked until a few da; e- previous her death. My brother ar en myself had just come to the black rta smith on the Austin aud Webber tis ville Pike road when wo saw gre* th numbers of Mexicans coming an going in every direction in wagons buggies, hacks, horsehack and walk ing. We learned that this very oh lady had died the night previous The crowd kept gathering until tner< was about a hundred M?: iUCMCHDB SI I the house, no white people were allowed to go near the house as the priest had already arrived from AusL tin and they were going through their j ceremony. They had also a full blood Spaniard from Austin who had I part of the affairs to look after at the cemetery; they also had a photographer from Austin, this was 13 miles east of Austin, the photographer was an American. Ho told us that they had to guarantee him 1 ten dollars besides the hire of the rig. There were several white people who stopped in the road near the house where the corpse was being blessed and annointed, and holy candles burned to drive away the evil spirits, but none were allowed to enter the house. There was quite a crowd who had gathered at the black smith shop waiting to see the proces- i sion pass, finally they got started and i it was by far the most peculiar fun- I eral I have ever witnessed. Some of 1 the vehicles were loaded with. Dfi&rly > all young people and they were as i gay and jolly as any lot I have ever 1 seen, if they had been going to a j masquerade ball they could not have t !>een more worldly in their appear? v wee, for they could not keep their t< "aces straight for a ' ItreH bV> 7 zz |* ????? ond the girls chewing guu, ? lech and every driver was trvj^te fl AA?' ^ x.-SuViuijav Ail WOUltr DC w aore serious when they got to the ir ;rave, and as soon as the cortege had p )as8ed where we were we made haste I o get to the cemetery, and we could ti jasily get there first as they had h ibout half a mile to go, while we n vent through uncle Davie Jones' e vire fence into the pasture and made I the distance at about half that of the f wagon road. The cemetery is loca- il ted on a high, coarse, sandy ridge in c Uncle Davie Jones' pasture; the land i is covered with small bruslu-m**!0^' ^ post oakBjjgacti. millions of rocks t alxmt the size to throw at a mean i dog. We got to the grave before j the corpse had arrived and took our 1 position whore we thought we could see most but we had to move our < quarters several times to make room i for their movements, though they did not tell us to move as very few of them would or could speak English, but by their looks we thought best to give them mofe room. There seemed to be no system among them and no one seemed to know what to do and they ran first one way and then the other and sometimes there was a dozen watching one to see what he was going to do, and it was nearly_ half an hour before they got the coffin in tne position they wanted it. They sat the coffin on the east side of the grave with face towards the grave propped up on souie rocks and chunks and the box for the coffin. Then all were given a candle each and they , proceeded to light them as fast as possible. Of course we didn't get t any candle. There was a very lively > breeze and the candles would not r stay lighted, besides some ot the kids > did not hold them so they could burn ^ and some of the young girls would P keep the candles flying around first ) one side of her face then the other e until it went out, then they would _ borrow light from some one else This kept them in confusion all th< ?;>ma A a ?Ann AH th? coffin WAS it y the position as above described the; 8 took the lid Joff. We were ^directlj Df in front of the corpse and the Mex a icans were all in the rear, then thej ,p all lined up as close together as pos re sible and as close to the oorpse a ae was convenient. During all thee ry arrangements the merriment ha j. .been going on among all but mot ne especially among the young one 0D and when they were lined up t te, stated it seemed they would certainl en hurt themselves laughing, smilin and giggling. Then the old wom< f\. were made to set down in front at nd the old men in the rear or off to 01 kQ |eide while the photograph wo tak< y- ot the whole bunch. Then anothe ys position was made so as to get all th id prettiest ones as close together a - possible and other picture was taken - and in all the pictures the corps* it was the frontispiece. d Then the priest be*an on a Ion; i. string of beads which he had aroumi > his neck and he would take hold ol 1 one bead with his left hand while he . held the string with his right hand 3 and he said over a ceremony for t each and every bead on that string, . and there must have been two sqrd a i half yards of beads about the sfe+?? a small blackberry. They were all kneeling while the bead service wm going on which lasted for more than an hour during the latter part of which all of them were supposed to repeat a certain part of their creed or code, but only a few were able to say all their part and they may not have said it right as yohr scribe did not understand that was spoken in regard to tke whole affair. The corpse did not resemble any wo had ever seen and we were fitrj desirieus to know the age of the old lady, so we asked several with Whom my brother was acquainted ?bout her age but there was great diversity of i opinion in regard thereto. Some said she was only sixty-five, ethers . ' ?he?wa8 more w hundred, . >ut finally we talked with her ! lephew. He could speak EndUsh, rery well and he assured us ii mselfbeing ust as though the skin had dried on a{ he bones, reminding maliof a corpse re once found in the-Indian Terri- p, Dry which had been lying on the 8j rairio for several months. I shall have to bid famprell to the . :encs and friends of tha^,AntOlia. ' ' fanysu^ects that are very interests j ig to me and might be to others if fe roperly presented to their minds. 8j sincerely hope that none have iken offense or feel that anything w as been said through prejudice on te ly part, for I assure the dear read- u. rs that such was not the intent and ^ hold nothing but the war-r - tn riondMhin for all and would be ei f all the world could treat each I h itber as friends. However, there tra j>^ y*t many subjects that veiy t| ew people could discuss without e anifesting their own personal opih- h on to such an extent that their pre* udice could easily be deserned by :he most casual observer. j, Mississippi being the most inter* j eating place that I have ever visited in regards to old South Carolina poo?le I should be glad to tell of many have met while there, but would { like to tell of many South Carolina people that I met at Dallas last year before I begin with such an under- , taking as Mississippi. Before I leave the llunter's Bend people, literally, (for mentaly they will never be left while memory lasts) I would like to speak of the only song that I learned while on my last trip to Texas. All with whom I am acquainted know how very fond I am of music and ear* pecially vacal music, not the kind they have at the opera or at some of the high toned churohes, but music that has harmony of chords like the negro melodies and old time tunes. - " 1 Well this one is just me sweeicai. m?n, I h?ve heard for a long time, so I will give you the words it you please. Its a long time now that I've waited, For the words that you never would say, Till at last all my hopes have vanished And now you are going away. Then consider awhile ere you leave me, Do not hasten to bid me adieu, But remember the bright little valley, And the girl that has loved you so true. From this valley they say you are going. ) We will miss your brown eyes and . bright smile, But alas you'll take with you the sunuhlna. f That has brightened my pathway awhile. f Oh, remember the valley you are leaving, Oh, bow lonely and dreary it will be, 4 Ob, remember the sad heart yor'w broken, ? And be true to your promise to me. 2 ,e With best wishes to one and all ^ W. G. Bailky. * New Century Comfort. y Millions are daily finding a world c comfort in Bucklen's Arnica Halve. J kills pain from Burns, Scalds, Cub ' Bruises; conquers Ulcers and Pevi 'd Rores, cures Eruptions, Salt Kheun le Boils and Felons; retaovos Corns aa ,n Warts. Best Pile cure on earth. Onl 2Be at F. C. Duke's drag utore. r IN THE FARAWAYPHILIPPINE e ?> a An Interesting L* ter From tl i, Distant Isles?P. ling for Nev e From God's Conn ry?ThcGrasi hopper Plague? *hrec Crops < r Corn in Three Mihths. i 1~ lf THE SONO OF THF.SOLDIER BOV A friend has received a lette from the Philippines which he^kind ly allows as to mubliah. We use i nom de plume- toV ^signature as h? says b?js are not allowed to 1 WfllTlor newspaper*. We have forwarded 16 hi**|d4tffca some papers to Tewd'?hiijh we knojrxbe and the boys will enjoy. ' iianta Ortiz Cavite, P. IM \ Nov. 24, 1902. I < "n ? v.> *?uui?xoar letter dated Oct. 4th to bsd a few days ago, and it is needless? add!that I was more than glad to Mur from you. Your letter rteeivel pordial welcame. A letter from \|e States, especially from atriend, iwsys is ^'corned by me. You dqaJ know how it makes one feet to r?eive a letter fron. a friend from 'tod's countnr_l!? One neverfuoWa how to appreciate a letter fom home until they lieve crossed *& great ocean and some into a strange land tooiiM** rod thousands of misspeaking a imong ffKd awaited months 1 trTOtr^ that|never came?then to ( ^i^ene. Oh you don't know how 1 makes one's nerves tingle and 8 akcs one think life is worth living a id there is some, one who cares for h s welfare, and it can be only ex- 8' ressed as thi. great immortal poet Cl k-. [ 01 8C *lI live for tWhe that live for me ,-v Whosfi^wqta ate kind and true, '. *? aiiu th?* ?a*o?8 above me ki - y-sr . . Ca? do-" ear and i T i 3 tters frem ti^e only^^'an^s one an deofmyrelat^dV1"^ m f" The chief out- ter >ck fighting. ?r? rdav and le oily one gafo on tlie roosters an&Va le contest is * finish. : tnmt one or the other runWr- Sev- c ral thousand pascas exchanged * ands a. \I saw one follow lose his J orse, s?uv 0 aQ(l bridle. If a fallow liwlcs hisV^A is the best he will put ' very cent oi?.ll his belongings on im, but sometimes he loses you : mow. I attended a native show and this s the way the program read see if rou can read it. Teatro Sta. Cruz Malabon (Tanaa) Saraahan nang Zarzuelang Talagog "Rozae" )a* Sabado ilea 22 nang Novembre nang 1902 ik? 8 nang gabi I Babala de Hidirang Kabanalau Magisisitaminol. Amparo Maestra C. Polintau Carmen Colegeala Pedro Francisco amain Amparo Reyes Cora de Tramo Jacinto Cabo in de Cellive...G. Enri Junzto v--. Manga Sacristan, Guardia ctnd at tanong bayan Butaca $1.00, Bancos corridas 0.4C Eutrade 20 Can you make anything out of it' Well the whole play was in the sam< lingo, yet it was a good piece, wel worth the price. Say, how would you like to raisi one crop of corn a month for ! months in every year. When we went to San Matoe ther was a 30 acre field of corn heinj Slanted, tnat vst on meuw ui uuu< y the 12th of July that crop wa gathered, and the old stalks cat dow and a new crop planted. Then tb , rainy season set in, and one evenin the place would be flooded wi; 9 water 8 to 6 feet deep, and tho ne: day when yon got up tho nativ would be working, all the water beii * gone. By the 13th of August tl third crop was planted and got to about one foot high when along cat if a swam of grasshoppers and a'e [t all up. Tfte grasshoppers struck t ^ oot a ?etch about 9 o'clock one moi i ing and by noon there was n~thi ? left but the stalks. I have se.n 1 Iy air darkened with the grasshoppc ii 8 the drove would cover|a space of 1( yarns nvv. ,nfj . from ^ ie hours to pass ovei. ^ T } seen'a drove of young ones with'm j- any wings that was 300 feet wid more or le-'s, and covered -04 a'.-rc* < g*ound. They would strike any thing green that was in their r.?a and leave nothing behind. I w.i r told by a native, if a man would g?' in frout of a drove they would craw 4 all over him, and if you had a lea ) or anything green in your hand the) , would eat it up. I got a cup o! Paris Green and got in tho path ol some about two thirds grown, sure enough when they got to _mc they c'imbed up my legs went into my pockets and also into my cup and partook of the forbidden fruit, in 20 miT 1 * ??vca jl uaa a half peck of dead grasshoppers, then I noticed them leaving me and at last they would go three or four yards around me, and then thej left the field altogether and crossed the river; that was the grandest thing I ever saw, in fact I think it ought to be classed as one of the wonders of the world. They crowded the banks of the river for place, about cross in one was a solid mass of hoppers all tfi& wmj over. After they crossed you could *ee one on the side where we were. The natives eat grasshoppers, they catch them in nets. One lay I was on tiver guard and I saw t girl catching them, at last when { he had about a quart she came and ^ sked me to lend her my frying pan "} cook them, well I guess you know a be got it?nit?but I gave her a tin * rn and she cooked them, then she ti Tered to trade me some of them fur ii me bread, I gave her the bread all T . K., but I would not accept her is ndness. wi Say Bud, send me some papers, nl V old * ' 'r^'ZorSstioi?> ? and when one hn read,ng mat- I op paper he iets all ^ets a ^ook I ?P fve aeen a PaDe' n * r?8t read it. ^ rlto^4 l P P passed around so I PUI rea'i ?. it I,ad been a? is I did when we A. - eeo [ can talk to any of tnc P'1* I no [ meet. You know everything^*** the natives have is only half value to the Americans. For example, if you have an American dollar it is worth $2 Mex, and you have to say Quaks Mex for one American, like this, if you say "this man said" in English, it would bo "esta unory oblan de tode de la oba" and so on. Well here is a little song that I have written that will explaiu matters: We have a system here, To puzzle and perplex The people who can't understan 1 The problem we. call Mex. I But in every way this rule will work, And so the law directs, If you have one American, It equals two iu Mex. Their language, too, is just the same they have a dozfu dialects, For every woid American Tia two for one in Mex. The, weather, too, is just the same No part its power neglects, For every raiu iu Atneric t 'Tim two for one in Mex. But this rule will never work When it comes to soldiering direct For every one American Is worth a dcz ni Mex. I cnouus: 1 a - II. linmo Vvivq home. f OU IUI IIV/ua\ f MW , , Its borne we ought to be, j Home, boys, borne, * In God's Country. Where the ash end the oak 9 And the bonnie maples grow, 3 T bell with old Manila,' Back to 'Frisco we ought to go. e E PLtminrs Unum. g (We would like to hear from yo 5, often. Our people know very littl tg of your faraway Isles.?Ed.J 10 Dislocated Her Shoulder, S h r, Mrs. Johanna Sodcrholm, of Fcrg Falls, Minn., fell and dislocated h 68 shoulder. She had a surgeon get it bai ig in place as soon as possible, but it w quite sore and pained her very muc II:r son montioned that he had se "c Chamberlain's Pain Balm ad vert is ne for sprains and soreness, and she ask jt him to buy her a bottlo of it, which . did. It quickly relieved her and < "?< - -? -I.* ....1 , uv aoiea ner u> s.wi> n u>*,>> b<.v , H done for several days. The eon wo? qj. much pleased with the relief it gave mother that he hae since recommen< ,1C it to many others. For sate by F. Wj Duke, Druggist. \ #1.00 A YEAR. OUR TEXAS LETTER. lit over nor of Texas, the Ex-lJ. i'. n Hnltlemnn t)teitl'i-C^rolina; one ->| J'atil McSnlly nt llonhnm ? Witco - Return From the Old Home. <1 s B>nh?m, Texas, .Jan. 21, 1903. , Edi rent Union Times: i> An mt tw> m >nlhfl ago in a com. f aiuiiiciii >n t The Times condition* prevailing and pr. s.nctive were given, j. Thy predictions then m'''4 *"s ? ..V mo UOlDg ,. verified, mil in fact thy financial couditions am really worse thin wcm anticipated. One can hardly rea'iz i the change in this line that h*a been wrought here within the short space of two yea s. .1 i?t two years since the retders ot TiiK Union Times were apprised of the fact from this poiut that the amount of money in L'exai far exceeded that of any other time po-sibly in the history of the 8:ate, but conditions hive materially changed. The news on that score :s not 8) propitious or highly favorable. In fact ue&rly all lines of business are almost at a standstill and nearly everybody seems to be in doubt as to the outcome. But with nil the changes and disappointments tbere is an iu- \ which ' incfoctrfo&ft of naj^re? \ man family to work, live ar.d hops", bo that the mutations of time affect ~ w*-the varied members of this vast family but little, so little indeed that during a period of a decade or a generation ;hs difference is but slight. I am di? jressiog. I want to tell vou *" '? geotlemaoVa'sjLTh r" l">" name baa baen m? . *rol,0'?'' < ?? in ?""y ,lrhom every Soufh r ?.but on? ""delighj A0d [b.f:,r0,i01i" in the governor ofthi< __ &?at,ero*u 2aIt^, Governor I Anh ?mtn,a' eas?o. He Rn' Jjan/iam if y,)U >r W? caadilacj u fC'iT !*" Position but as tim? , , he hc'l po.-ition candidatea fthl bj the <-> ^pped om ? it':r r'y t it in niv way 0f thiol/ *"d lo 1 thru., upon hlm i ', <* i no begirjag forn?; ' 10 *?t,d 'Here Gft'i'ouncad th/peopie'^,'office selr^Acts ?<you are the weth, of Bjnham,* fc?T)y,v , of the C >nfederale Home a? Jt' 6 In this selection especially the wrttei thinks Governor Lauham displayed lice judgment, but it seems he has ^ displayed fine judgment in everything he has done. But to spread the drarra a little and go over to the Palmetto S ate and contrast at thia juncture the lives of two Carolinians, the one the Governor of Texas, the other the retiring Lt. Governor ef South Cirolina. In doing so we descend from the heights of glory to the depths of degredalion and shame. I sm too far away from ray native land to be a competent judge of the latter, and possible too near to bs an impartial fudge of the former, but I know what I know, and that is one is a murderer, the other a noble nan. When I look at one I look with humiliation and sorrow, when at tie other with pride and wonde1*. And I am sorry to hear of the untimely end of the brilliant editor whom 1 knew twenty years ago. Mr. Paul McXally, of Union, wis in Bonham a few days ago and sp ut two days in our city. I saw a good dial of him while hare and we talked much about Union and the good people thereof. I must confets I was more than delighted to meet him here. Will be glad to see him in B>nham again or any other of the Union boys if you piers). And the good lady has returrel safe and sound from djar old S ?uth Q Cirolin?, after visiting relatives as e Jonesville, Paolet, A-ibury, M >unt Tabor aivl Uuiia. S le brinjs a whole budget of news from the oM home and from those near and dear by consanguinity and aftioity, aid "IIow dear to this heart, are the scenes u" of my childhood, e? When fond iecollections present them to ck ' view. The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild wood, ?) And every loved spot wtiich my infancy p knew." hi J. 8. C. | mjm | hlS {KSHH^VjiClMnM and hnutlfiei 0>? W U.| H )VmlM * luxuriant ftuwfH. ; . Mover Tall* to H?tin Am o- aau"v^.Y^L''KI.Sfe ^ ...(gs ,1? .V'iEiff