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J ' ''f ^ f fe^5* T I I F TTAt tfAM TTM1? CP SBSffll ;i- JlJ, I \ 111 \ I I VI lijiV mS&'iSsSiTSsS^t %"' * U 11 A " 1 1 A A If A AJ k_y* T,Z'Z" ""* ?"""towu % ? ,;Jm , . . .. . ? i 1 . ? ! , VOL. LIU. N0*6. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. FKBRUARY 6. 1903. #1.00 A YEAR -.1- - A' " 1 --? 1 " g " ' i ,-t r?; i IPUIC iDnilHrv4? 1 nt\uunu' own i 41/, Good Road* Needed ifTofac Than 1 J New Court Hodae^MiUld Road to a Grade even Tnbttgh Crooked THE NEAL SHOALS MATTER. : v; . * Who can answer? ; Did you. evei see or hear day-break? I February is & borrower, it 8'nrtei l a borrowing from March. I After . several dayd of L>adoa fweither last week we had several id&ys$t sunshine. L Willie Randolph, of Land rum, is flvftltiog relatives in Sintuc. Hi nas Ijrown to be almost a man in sizo since lie left, here. | Vmm tallr >????1 ' .v~* ?pujvqijai jjiriiiBrd aroUUd here expect to "raise cane" thin year. That would be a good thiug. I guess they mean sorghum cane. I smelted the firs', guano this season yesterday. That shows it is being sent out in time, and no d mbt much -> f will be rsed. j Young mules are being bought quite numerously this year. Tnat shows confidence is restored or never ibeen lost despite theory of scarcity of I"bandF," or there have been many old, [mules that have "slipped the cable" . 5Utely. If farmers can row spring oals they 'had better sow them it land will per . Imit in time. You know though that there is a way to feed oats which is a (waste, aud sowi ig oats is a losing busi[nets, but it is a mighty good feed orojp. The acreage of fall oats I d > [not think is as large as previously. I took one day last week to thresh some peas with a corn shredder, but I find there is too mush waste by that method. We have a home-made '. thresher that is as good as any, o ily yon have to fan the peas with an old , fashioned grain, fan, but then >vj can , do so at odd times and have them j clean too. All we nerd is a fanning attachment. ' ' laonotMreW much ?o n.ny ' JVJj on m.k. mr, ?? ? mad.? i claim a big part ot every ooe'e ftiteu* 4 V .tioa. And they had better sing "God ^ V&Slnveths King." " ' v * a good wife is fivdehilltags I? A | ^^wMfnnd, a good pasture is several \ **- "fjd was to a farmer and all ought to i - - - atrive to have some sort of a pasture 1 for their stock to get "some grazing, 1 * './; I believe the best acre on a farm if < already in auoh grass as -Jtormuda \ / would pay better than trying to raise 1 >: oojm on it. 1 am for a gpoa pasture . first, lsjt and all the timar M ' -. While feeding a shredding mr chine recently -Jitilling peas a negro let his. watch chain come unfastened and g> ^ through the machine. It was bisected and dissected and ma le very scrappy and little bits could be found about in the peas, but it only suggested a watch. If a man had not been before the machine the negro.probably would i never have known where his watch had gone. >*j I can show you, if you were here, a crooked pole that has bsen in almost constant1 an I regular motion since | before C-iriitmas. You might say I am exagerating or had seen the psrpet aid motion. But for all you know the pole may be ho crooked that it , can't possibly lie still, but that is not ' it. I know exactly what causes the motion. Can you guess? .' v. i County Superihtendent of Elueatk?n started on hi* rounds this week to visit all of the schools in the county. /H) informs me that all of the teachers , are bqing pa:d for their services apd are not Compelled to have their, $laitns discounted. I am sure that fa npore aatiefactory to the teacher* fir I fcnbw of a claim that was discounted 10 per cent, and id' less th di a week it #as presented at' the Treasurer's offioe and paid for its face value. Abd srhjl* talking over what Telephone eaid about books being told at cOst in that otiioe, and figuring a liUie/ it h> easy for aDy one to see there Is a gf^al to the patrons. . I believe MFaat is striving'tojlo hfs .full ^uly., I do not object to a crooked road x much when . it is made so to get a near on a.'leffel as possible, but whet it is crooked'tad. twisted and wind, into hollows and up steep long hills i goes mightily against the grain will t" me and yet pe have such. ' Let tlbi gjlrand? Jdrors and t&lkers quit yrgi^j the building of an up todatelcoiftr ho?M to hare a thing of besut^nt' we oak-toprove Our road % take thdn .off.the big bills. It doesn't pull th -wind out of a team UOr incodvenienb r the majority of the people to hah I .court held in the "unsightly" hotn si Union. The city of Union ca stand the court house better than jn ?oan the hills, or, ought to. ' ? f We nut/' stroll into think law * !':? * / ? .? V ^ . i r. i wonder, mess up our hair, Uke tlio Bdgets and frown trying to catch on i to the uncatch-on to and, think we a*e a over hard ttybes, abyss, because we d > f. nbt know exactly about the doings around Neat's Shoals at Joter's mill, but we hgvefound the Legislature has granted the Sseretary of State power r t > gWe a charter to put a dam across the river or something to that effect. I We know they are making believe, at least, that something is going to be done, build a power nouso no doubt, 1 but i am not rocking my brain very much at present, as I will see what I will see. But i have heard that some people are cutting wood already for whatever thing that will be there, and sonoft n o? ti?w -i 1 *-J ; aiiowijr UUUDHK1 the chickens that are going to be batched there. I reckon the/ think the/ will neel wood to cook victuals while hqikiiBg the damt or will need a chunk of (ire to touch off the blasts around fkbout I do not know how the/ r&uld use wood about a d/namo if that was put there. But if this is , not taking time b/ the forelock it never was taken thus. No doubt there is sitnebig ciphering being doue as to , what some home people will do, but , as for me I sm building no air castles, nor am I bent over with an imaginary full pocket book obtained there. ! Hey Denver. j THE BOLTsliND BREWSTERS. J Some History Regarding the two 1 Families of \vhich Inquiry had < Been Made of our Colorado Cor* respondent by a Lady Friend. REV. J. D. MAHON'5 RERLY. I Editor Union Times: I notice from your last week's is- j me that a lady in Texas seeks infor- a ination about some of her old Laurens r friends. Possibly I may be able to 1 gratify her desires, as I am a native U )f Laurens county. There are some s< nistakes I thiqk ii^our corres^om^ it CTerSe^isuuderstanding of-the 8 Sier. 1 em led to think the par- m ica referred to are my own relatives, si the fact that my mother s fam- d ly were the only Bolts living in that tt mmediate community, and also for b the saipe reason that our family and L the Brewsters were very intimate. I Old Mr. and Mrs. Brewster had only v two children, a son and daughter. 2 The daughter was a mute and mar- a ried a mute. Their last days, I t< think, were spent on a little farm o near, and possibly at, Highland k Home poet office. The son went to t Texas and married and after the o death of his wife he returned his ( motherless children to his relatives v in South Carolina. I have eeen t them myself, and as children we were t thrown together moro or less about c the old lamily homestead. It seems i to me, at this distant day, and I 1 don't think I am mistaken, that my 1 aunt told me while on a visit, that ! the Brewster girls had been spending some time with the family in the absence of their father. It was not 1 Mrs. Mary Bolt, but Miss. Two i sisterawere with her more than likely < at the time, Margaret and Nancy. My aunt Margaret married D. T. Dial, whose home was near the Highland Home post office. He was County School Commissioner as long as he- sought the office. He was wounded in the hip in battle and was ever after a cripple. My youngest aunt, and hut little older than myself, was married first, not to Arnold, but to Win. Donaldson, the oldest brother of Hon. M. L. Donaldson, of Greenville. She afterwards married Drennon. She has been a wid~ dw the second time for several years. Each of the*e aunts live at comforti able, beautiful homes?one on the old ? Dial estate, the other on the old Bolt estate; the part which belonged to my Aunt Mary, as she bequeathed > it to her youngest sister, Mrs. Dren1 non. 1 . My Aunt Mary was sadly afflicted 1 and became a helpless invalid. While on the bed of great affliction she 1 'sought her Savior. lie brought her ' peaco and resignation. She wanted j! baptism, bu( would heed no compro I mise of her conscience. She could . net stand alone, butreauired them to e place her in a comfortable chair, haul 0 her to the baptismal waters. Strong ? armed friends and christian men genie tly bore her down into> the water, o The minister repeated the beautiful * baptismal t formula, and then gently pressed the chair until her body w* 1, covered by the water, and them raisec rv-: V'* & W* ' .. her above the water, thus symbol iz'ng beautifully death to a past life and resurrection to a new life of joy and home. I trust the reader will pardon those allusions, but my aunt was a foster mother to me. Many times has she brought comfort to my childish heart during the sad, lonesome hours of childhood orphanage. In conclusion I would say that old Mrs. Brewster, "Aunt Phoebe," as I always knew her, was a Downs. She died many years after the war at the advanced age of 92 years. There w. s no better connected family in Laurens countv than the Dnwna they were among the first settlers of tho county. I always heard they descended along some line of Scottish nobility. *'Aunt Phoebe" was a sister of Col, Wm. Downs, who represented his district in Congress at one time. Col. Downs had the most beautiful home in that section of Laurens county. Col. Henry Darlington, brother of Mrs. John L. Young, deceased, of our city, bought the Downs home and resided there until his death. If the inquiring lady in Texas wishes to know anything of her Brewster or Downs relatives in South Carolina I would advise her to write o Dr. J. A. Barksdale, Laurens, S. 3. He is a cultured, posted gentle^ nan and of Downs descent on moth* sr's side. J. D. Mahon. ? ^ Our Texas Letter. Bonham, Texas, Jan. 30, 1903. Suitor. Union Times: j Allew me in my feeble way to tell , ou something of a Texas Congress- , lan Hon. Morris Sheppard, who epresents the 1st district of Texas, le has just entered Congress and has ? iken the bull by the horns already, ) to speak, in the areue ^ j lgton. heppar5^Stoer -we* ft Congn?? ' : an before him, he died l?te in the b immer ol last year. After the t eath of tho father the son sought e le honars, which were inevitably a estowed npon him. The yonng ^ Congressman at this time is less that* 8 years of age, and he looks outhful as he really is. Oa June i Oth last the advantage was taken of j low excursion rate from Bonham o Durant, I. T., to a "log rolling" i f the Woodmen of the World, if you :now what that is?I did not learn hat day. I had the pleasure then f seeing the young Congressman. )n that day an educated Indian, rho himself occupies a high place in he Counsels of W. O. W., presented o the audience "the silver tongued >rator of the southwest of the Woodnen of the World, the Sovereign Banker of the order of Omaha, Neb., ;he brilliant son of Congressman ^hnnnard." When I heard all this [ thought paradox! confusion! Mr. Indian! But on investigation .1 learned that the Indian had spoken truly, that he (Sheppard) was not only the National Treasurer of the Woodmen of the World and lived in Omaha, but a son of Congressman Sheppard of Texas, and furthermore I was willing to ?dmit by the time he finished his speech that he is not i only smart and well up on woodcraft,! but a clever young man. He was born at Whe<ttville, Morris county. East Texas, May 28th, 1875. I guess without having any intimation that his father, Judge J. L. Sheppard, named the son for that oounty. Morris Sheppard was edu~ cated at the University of Texas, and Yale. He is a lawyer by profession, having practiced at Pittsburg and Texarxana. Hon. Morris Sheppard is quite prominent in the order of the ' - .? *.i? nr u i ____ >Vooamen 01 iue noriu, iuu war elected sovereign banker at Memphis, Tenn., in March, 1899, over an bxattorney general of the Stnte of Nebraska, who was a oandidite. lie went to Omaha and lived until Judge Sheppar.l died last year, when he came baok ti Texas and entered the held for his father's honor, whioh he received. I am sure ne is about hi young as any one having ever en tered congress. In a communication from Web1 ster signed 4(B. F. F., J*.," I notio this paragraph. uTh? letters fron , hero and there whioh appear in Til I Timks are more than interesting, e? pecielly the Texas letters. Givip i both sides of the piotnro a conclusio II can be very readily drawn. Th . 'i I* keneral tendency is to give tho brigh dapf a d irk picture." If tliis lat tor clause is intended as a criticise of the lotters emintting from Bon i bam must say it is uDjust, for n> thought of pen-picturing or misstating facts has ever entered the mint of this humble department. It hai been the aim, at least for every state ment made from this point, to carrj with it the essence as well as the principles of truth. It migh be well to refer the Webster correspondent tc two liters sent The Times prior to this one?one in November and one sent -last week?before his paragraph reached Bonham as a corroboration of tfcfc statement above. Nothing QOokMyjssiblv be Drained hv the "picture," besides the readflre of Tub Timbs who have ^ept nice with and watched closely would testify to the fact that the mattef Jfurnished The Timbs from this Mttrce has never been tainted with flowery flights or hyperbole, bnt ou the other hand has been very prosaioand matter-of-fact. Individual opiuion might be at variance with facte flemi-occasionally, but the reader must make haste to distin* guish between the two. On account of the long season of wet weather i,*great deal of the cotton raised in tfefe part of the State had not bees gtf&ered until recently*. Ginning and Carrying ootton to market at Uus time is much in erdcr. does, not get i a^u^Lf the eeUMi tkiel ^ more showed ( iisjlove iw/ttfb'Otother in black and he sister too this time. He recently intertained at the White House, and imong the guests were several negroes, two of them women. A num.<4 guests left upon learning -e situation. Speaking ef Roosevelt, the negrophilite, the Atlanta News says: i(It4S no small consolation'to hear that the President is reaping the rich reward of his burst of negrophilism in a harvest of clamorous and highly colored constituents. The white house is full of them and those who can't get in to the sacred precincts of his Philanthropic Excellency make a waiting and expectant line on the streets of Washington. Go it, Sambo! The president has opened wide the way, and you are | justified to the last limit in challeng- I ing him to be consistent. Keep after him Viiiit him ho rtav ?nd lorAnailfl him by night. Pat on your spike tails and follow the long line of his public receptions to the social equality that is fairly waiting to welcome and embrace you. Don't let the opportunity pass, , Sambo! You will never find another friend like lloosevelt. You will never live under a reign like that of Theodore the Negrophilist. "Cotton" to him, Sambo, like a sick kitten to a tepid biick. He has held out his strenuous arms to you. Don't you be foolish enough to be lacking in the great Republican principle of reciprocity. Make hay whilo the sun shines. Make progress while Theodore reigns. This is your chance, Sambo! And don't you neglect it. And the waj to utilise the glorious opportuniny it to keep the atmosphere of the White iloti80 tresb with the reminder o your presence and . your claims. I you want anything ask for it. I you haVe wants make 'them known i If you want a dinner be sure to be 01 hand or near about when the dinne i bell rings. > Theodore is your Champion. II ? is your friend. He is your patror > lie is the benefactor of your rac< He is wiser than Garrison. He i better than Linooln. He is moi practical than HarHet Beecher Siow s He is alive. The 6thers are dead i And he is thinking all day long ar b throbbing all the night with tl ?- pulses of his great bran new philm g thmphy. n Don't let him escape you while fc & hand is futy while his house is ope i .. . Jj if ' .'* ?>? it and while his heart is warm. Up and at him, Savnbo!" "I From Morse to Marconi. 0 Wonderful Progress of Electrical " Commuhication, Nation Tied ' To Nation By the Wireless. How s rift the tranaition from the oM to tue new, in these marvelous fi 8 years of the new century. Yet* * terday a man ra-ned Morse reut r ' me?ba^e irotn Washington to Balti ' more over an insulated laod wire. It > wrs too extraordinary for ready be> lief. Then came the ocean cable, Mr. Field's achievement?wonder of wondets?man sending messages under a?? - - - hoc ueeps !D toe Hash of an eye. A , great shock to unbelievers! Easier now to credit any story, however un usual. Hence the comparative calm* ueas with which the world has aocept* cd th:s las; and nus'. marvelous of all inventions?Marconi's wireless telegraph. Yet, what is there in the Arab* ian Nights tales that can compele with ii? It is telepathy systematized; it is the coming true of a dream Through the thousands of miles that eeparate his stations on Wellfleet, Ctpe C jd and Poldhu, Wales, Marconi per* sonally transmitted and received messages exchange 1 by the chief execulives of America and Great Britain. This is what the president sent: His Majesty, Elwsrd VII., London, fiog: In taking advantage of the wonder* ful'triumph of soielftMic research and ingenuity whieh has been achieved in i perfecting a tistscrof wireless teleg- , vaphy. X ewleod on behalf of the American J>e>p!e moet oordial greet- . incajsod SKKKI J " Mfppfh of th, BriU.h AnA ?U- RO8BV*LT, ' And this wu Kiac Edward'* mJi. < Tb. Prwident, w.lw Ho?? . * T thAifr ^ America. 1 fomi 7?n moit ?n<w?ly J kind/message which I havejsd***? the peopfrol Uie JJrUiib Empirc*W^v< original greetings and friendly secL* 1 meat expressed by you on behalf ol tl the American nation, and I heartily n wish you and your country every pos- b Bible prosperity. D Edward, R. and I. t SAndringham, Jan. 19. 1903. Mark that day in red?January 4 19,1903?on which the first wireless ( "marconigram" passed between thei shores ol the United States and Great g Britain, It marks the opening ot a new era oi freer communication between man and man throughout the ( earth?and perhaps throughout the . universe.?National Magazine for \ February. Lockhart Junction News Notes, i Farmers are Making Their Own 1 Fertilisers?They are LevelHeaded Rain and muddy roacU is common these days. It seems there is not much guano going to be bought in some sections from what this writer saw at the station the other day as Mr. William Aycock and Mr. Richard Fowler, of Kelton, were delivering a car load of chemicals to the farmers around to make their own fertilizers. This looks as if the Aliance has sprung alive again, with so many wagons to get their part. This was a guano rally day with the farmers. Mr. J. G. Crap, our agent at this I place and family, has moved to Savannah and Mr. W. A. Harper, of Anderson, S. C., is now our agent. Rumor says we will have a rock Siuarry opened up near here in the uture as there is a large quarry of rock of about four or five acres in I about three hundred yards of this r place, besides this is not the only i one, there era three others very i near the railroad at this place that f have been inspected. So let her f roll, we like to see push and energy f and enterprise in every direction. We had one wedding in onr coma munity, Miss Maggie White married r to Mr. John C. Carter, all of Jonfs< ville township, e * Mr. W. R. Brown, the condactoi i. on the Lock hart railroad, took i s. flying trip" to Toccoa, Qa, to se< is Mrs. Brown, his wife, re Mr. and Mrs. J. ?. Vinson los e. their little four year old girl las 1. week. The little one suffered a fev id days with croup which was though ie to turn to membranous croup fron a. which she died. She was buried o Bethlehemjchurch. We aHJsympathis lis with them in their sad bereavetnen Moxy.J " ' j " . y ^ Jonesville Jottings. Our country has been in the mud for many days and just now it is I getting a little better but the rain is in f-igbt again. January passed without any firm work being done and February starts off gloomy for farm work. Measre. It. A. Hancock and G. T. Hyatt are about the same, perhaps there is a little improvement in their condition. Mr. Calvin M. Whitlock, of Laurcncevi.le. G*.. i? w:- i?? mo u turner Mr. R. A. Wliitlock. Washington's birthday will be observed here on the evening of the 21ot inst., the 22nd being Sunday. The exercises will be at Alman'r hall under the management of the Epworth League. A program will be arranged by the league. Mfr. Carroll II. Foster will deliver An address on the life of Washingufa. J J After the program is renderedan oyster supper with other refrshmcnts will be served. The pnWecds will be applied to the Metipfot church for church purposes. /The public are invited to attend a/ the Edito" of Tiik Times is csnfcially invited. 7 The ladiee of the Prejpterian ghurch will give a silver A at the home of Mrs. J. E. Lindsy <?n Friday evening, the 6th inst/from 8 to 10 o'clock. A pleasau*iine is ear ticipated for all who afcnd and aB) - > ire invited. { , I / I feel disposed to offer my Jr % )f respect to the- memory of Col. Tohn L. Young whom 1 hatt tnp** :rom my boyhood and ?f the most consU*" 1 ? .w^oburte nen I ever J-^Oous, iB*"* oftWEp^V be seventies and many of his livid narks and corner stones are sill . <? / lere. Ilis name perhaps sppearr on * / aore public documents of this county han any other mafh^ ^ , / Miss Bertha Edwa&i, njr XJlion, - / 8 visiting the Misses M^jriohn in ** ? >ur town. Mr. C. M. McWhirter, of tTb*^ ipent yesterday in our city. Mr. Carroll II. Foster, of Union, ipent Sunday with his mother. Dr. A. S. Foster spent Sunday in Spirtanburg with his friend, Dr. Web Thomson. \ Mi*s BelhWhitlock who has bebn at home with her* father in his sick- / ?.V ness for th6 last two weeks returns today to Union to resume her duties as teacher in the Graded School. Telkpiionk. -< ?.?. A BIG UNDERTAKING. South Carolina Should he Jtepreaf ritf/1 nt Thin Great ExDoaition. Tho World's Fair of 1904 at St. Louis will be approximately twice as large as any former international exposition. The Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia covered 236 acres, the Paris Exposition of 1899-1900 330 acres, the Columbian Exposition* at Chicago 633 acres. The World's Fair at St. Louis will cover 1,180 acres. The construction cost of the Cetitennial Exposition was $8,500,000, that of the Paris Exposition was $9,000,000. The cost of the Columbian Exposition was estimated at $18,823,000 and the total cost was $27,260,000. The estimated construction cost of the St. Louis World's Fair is $30,000,000, and its total cost will be upwards of $40,000,000 by the time the work is completed, [ Before the Exposition gates are . open the city of St. Louis will have expended the enormous sum pf $20, - 000,000. Of this amount $5,000,i 000 was appropriated for the fair ) through the Municipal Assembly. Citizens of St. Louis raised $5,000.t 000 by piivate subscription. By t popular rote at a special election the r Charter Amendments were carrel, t which will enable thefcity to expend a $10,000,000 for street paying and it other public improvement*. * DeWtWeJ^Mwe