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Good Road* Needed ifTofac Than 1
J New Court Hodae^MiUld Road
to a Grade even Tnbttgh Crooked
THE NEAL SHOALS MATTER.
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* 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.
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.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
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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.
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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.
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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
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>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
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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
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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. -<
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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