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% x i " 1,1 wofc THE UNION TIMES .. PUBLISUHD EVERY FRIDAY ?BY THE? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times Building OY KK POSTOFFICE, BELL PHONE No. 1. JNO. R. MATIIIS, Editor. L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postolllce in Union, o. v., ao atswuu-uiitss uum maiwr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 STx month i ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS Onie square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every .ibs'equent insertion - 50 cents. Con acts for three months or longer will hi made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at KJ cents a line. Itep-cted manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C. FEBRUARY 13, 1905. The Postal Telegraph Company is getting into Spartanburg. Tt would be a good plan now to get up a strong petition to induce the Postal to come to Uniou. The Clinton News, -published at Clinton, S. C. by Parrott Brothers, Is to be moved to GafTney, S. C. A joint stock company of $5,000 is to be raised. The Parrott Brothers will still conduct the paper. William Hooper Young, grandson of Brighnm Young, who has been on trial for the murder of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, in New York, plead guilty of murder in the second degree lust Monday and has been sentenced to Sing Sing prison at hard labor for life. The State Convention of the Y. M. C. A. has been in session in Greenville, S. C. The occasion is conceded tobeoncof the most successful in the history of the organization. The atten lance large, notwithstanding the inclement weather, and the sessions very interesting. Roosevelt, the negraphilite, is being snubbed right and left by both Northerners and Southerners since his t>Iack and white reception. At a reception he gave last week over a hundred iuvlted cruests refused to ?*n CF - ' O * r' They fcr" content to leave him and his degrees together. Cleveland does not commit him8.'If as to whether or not lie would accept a nomination tor President, in roply. to a request from the TimesStar of Princeton, N, J., he says: "I cannot possibly bring my mind to Ihe belief that a condition or sentiment exists that makes any expression from ir.e on the subject of the least importance." Look out for "The Southerners," a new story to begin in The Union Times next week. All you who like to read about the terrible war between the North and South will enjoy this new story. It is just out and lias not jet been published in book form. Ib is thriiling and interesting from s'art to finish, Don't fail to rend it. ?r J ho grand jury at, Macon, Ga , has returned a truo bill charging Mrs. Eflis Carson with the murder of Robert Rigsby, a student of t he Lanier Iiu?lnes3 College. Mrs thirson is a tenchc-r in tlio Georgia-Alabama Business College, and claims that Uigsby hud cast an i nputation upon her character. Call n,j. upon him and fa: ingtog't an apoK'ry she shot him to deafli. She has been admitted to bail in tbo sum of ijs.">,OiK), The Pontisj ivania coal miners are before I ho coal trike commissioners fhowirgup th-.ir tide of the question. Thry are represented by able counsel and llio arguments for and against their d< mands will, it is said, occupy the whole of this week. 'J he miners demand !?'? per cant, increase in wages and 1'ie recognition of the Union by the mine owners. The attorneys for ih< miners are making it rainer warm f. r t!ie coal barons. A subscription list has been opened in Columbia also in Charleston for the purpose of receiving contributions, (small f mounts preferred,) for the erection of a monument to N. G. Gonzales, t he late editor of The S'ate, who wos shot down by dim Tillman on the stnets of Columbia, There will bo no soliciting. A voluntary subscription from every one in the State whi wishes by this method to put their stamp on lawlessness, and perpetuate tho memory of the dead editor. ( tiki CHEROKEE LEADS OUT. It seems that our legislators have seen fit to once more shoulder the responsibility of the condition of our public roads upon the County Commissioners in refusing to arrange for a tax levy for Good Roads. They havo left it optional with the County Commissioners to charge anywhere from one to three dollars commuta tior. road duty. Tho Commissioners will naturally feel a hesitancy in increasing the road commutation, but it is now the only recourse if we are to have good roads. We still believo this plan is erroneous an unfdir. The only fair method, as far as we can see, is taxation. We can very readily understand why tho poor man, struggling to make both ends meet year after yoar, with his mule and wagon to travel over tho roads, will naturally consider it a hardship to bo required to pay as much for keeping up the roads as his rich neighbor, with his broad acres and his many vehicles, mules and horses. If the money was to be raised for roud work by taxation, each man would pay his proportionate part of the cost. It enn be done in no other way. We notice in last week's issue of tho GafTney Ledger, that tho wideawake County Commissioners of our new sister county, GalTney, have taken the matter in hand, and at their last meeting decided to purchase $7,280 worth of road working inachinery, consisting of traction. 1 engine, rock crusher, rollers, dumpers, road machines, elevators, plows, etc., nod are going to work in earnest to build good roads for that count y. We have talked with our Commissioners regarding this matter some time ago and they prefcred to let the Legislature assume the responsibility by enactment, this we thought they were justified in doing. The Legislature has advanced a step, but still leaves it in the hands of the Commissioners to make the levy or name the commutation. Will they rise up to the occasion and take hold of the matter as QafTney has done, without any further delay? If we are not mistaken there is a fine rock quarry on the land belonging to Union county, besides the thousands of tons of rock along the public roads. Take hold, gentlemen, buy a good road building outlit and demonstrate to the people that you are determined to give them good roads, and though the commutation is unfuir to the poor man, we believe even he will ct.r.,1 K*r >-?.! -1-1 Oiuiui K/ J j \J c* J uuvt JKlty itll L'Aol (I V.A VJ I " lur, yea two extra dollars a year, to securo first class roads for Uoiou county. We usually lead, but Qaffney pete the jump on us this time, let us follow with good grace and bo quick about it. We might outstrip her yet, and make the first show-down of the first mile of permanent, good roads. It is up to you, gentlemen of the board, how soon shall it be? Our Washington correspondent says: ''Event* have moved rapidly in the past week and as a result the antitrust program suggested by the Sennto leaders has been practically completed. This program has received the ontire approval of the President and only the adoption by the House of the Eh ins Lill remains to round nut all that that the Republican leaders propose to do in the line of trust control. "The legislative accomplishments for trust control will consist of, (1) an appropriation of $r>(M),oCM? for the employment of expert legal assistance in the prosecution of anti-trust cases ; (2) the passage of a law expediting anti-trust cases in the courts, including the anneal of such enaes tr> tliu Supreme Court without trial by the courts of appeal; (51) the prohibition of rebates and equal liability for grantor and receiver, provided by the Klkins bill, which has still to receive the approval of the House; (1) the amendment of the bill creating a Department of Commerce and Labor whereby there is to be appointed a Commissioner of Corporations whose duty it shall be to gather statistics regarding industrial corporations for the use of the President and the Attorney General and the publication of such as the President may indicate. "The Littletield anti-trust bill passed the House on Saturday, after many brilliant speeches on the subject of trusts, their antiquity and the difficulties in the way of remedying their evils. Representative Littlelield, speaking of the antiquity of the trust problem, traced it buck to the year 21100 H. C. and said of it, 'Like the poor it is always with us.' The iiaM??airi! of the bill liv llin H.-mo iu ^ C7 " -? ? - - - - '* v ** v,i "U " really more of a form than < therwise i.s it had already been announced by I lie Senate lender* that, it could not piss the upper chamber and would nor, even receive consideration by that body. The House committee on Commerce met Tuesday and discussed the Elkina bill, it i.s expected to pass in the near futuro, notwithstanding the fad that many members feel considerably chagrinned at the sidetracking of their favorite measure, ty the Senate." i It is claimed by some of the members of the Legislature that the people expected the time for paying taxes to be exteuded aud it would consequently work a hardship on them not to extend the time. The people didn't expect any such thing, they were led to believe all along that the timo would not bo extended this time, and consequently moro have paid taxes than have done so in several years. There is no excuse or sense in extending time. Under our present law a man * can pay or not by December lllst, if he wishes to use his monev he can do no hv rmvlnt* n I m -r ? I / O ? | small per cent, for the nse of it. - f *? ? | Senator Gorninclc scored thr Pros!. dent and the Secretary of war in a 1 red hot speech in the U. S. Senate Monday, charging them with being cognizant of and trying to conceal the outrages of the American Army in the Philippines, in -carrying out tho Republicau policy of subduing the Philippines at any cost. He charged that murders in the Philippines by tho American soldiers had become so common that they" would not bear investigation, and they were not investigated, notwithstanding Roosevelt's promise that he intended to probe the crimes in the Philippines. Ho charges that there is a regular organized system of torture practiced on the natives. It had been going on for months and no torturer had over been punished for the crime. Senator McLaurin shows his hand and sets at rest the question as to whether ho was going to support the President in his appointment of the negro Crura, or stand by the white Deonle of his State. He was inter. viewed by the Washington Post, after the Senate Committee had failed to report the nomination, but kindly throws a boquet to the President, lie said in part: "I think the action of the committee is proper, because the confirmation or the non-conlirmation of Crum will raise a race issue which every good citizen, North or South, should wish to avoid. The matter has far outgrown.the personality of Dr. Crum. It has become a question of race, and white supremacy is absolutely essential to the best' development of both races. This doctrine has beeu accepted and constitutional safeguards thrown around it, and I have no idea that any appointment made by this administration is intended as an attack on this vital principle. There are other colored people who havo been appointed in other Southern States without such a furor being raised as over this comparatively unimportantant position. "I think that the friends of Dr. Crumb ure largely responsible for this, because they took the position that the refusal of the President to appoint Dr. Crum was because of his race. This will always raise the color question, and every respectable white man in the Soutlx will be one way when it is made a matter of race." BeWltt's JKitf Salvo For Piles* Burns* Sores* 4 < This picture shows one j The Soul 3 CYRUS TOWN< \ Great Love Story * The characters shown P < in the illustration are J < the hero and heroine in j ^ a balcony love scene as fa < romantic as that be- \jjt * tween Romeo and Juliet. IS : THE \ SOUTHERNERS ? 1 Wffl Be Our j 2 & 5 Next Serial ? < It is one of the best yet 3 written by the distin- ^ 4 guished author. It is a Y ? vivid picture of the pe* riod of the war and 3 contains brilliant de^ scriptions of the battles 5 < of Chickamauga and S ^ Mobile Bay. ?E j Don't Miss the WIND WILL But won't ri or Can't Sell Goods We buy in large qv cash for goods and iii pa something and puts us i: Clothing, Trunks, F Dress Goods, L w ~ jeans, B Blankets, L Quilts, E Sheetings, I Calicos, S Outings, C \ And everything you war Aiwa MUTUAL D1 K- nAKKY, Mg The Legislature is after pistol | toters with a sharp stick, and we ^ hope something will result that will make the said gentry realize that tho people and the law mean business at last in the effort to stamp out.the pernicious habit of lugging a pistol around. There is a movement to make the penalty disfranchisement and the latest is a proposition to make the chain gang the penalty without the privilege of paying a fine. Put them both in if necessary, anything to stop it. Never let up until it is put down in earnest. AiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. | of the thrilling scenes in therners | SEND BRADY'S of the Civil War \ ??? ^ : J First Chapters : ryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy* ^ r'' """" "* " *. . RUN A Wl t : ' v un a Clothing, D Shoe Business. n A ** ror uost ana stay lantities for two large depa ying cash we get a discount a position to sell Shoes, 'lannels, Cul -aee Cuptalns, Urn ! leaching, Tie! .aces, Hai Idgings, Bus awns, Glo . ' I hirts, Hos 'ollars, Ch Bpc it at a price that will coi * ** ys Sell For Less IT 600DS CI _ OPI _ 1 . There are But this great J $2.50 L .. Sho Has the largest sale nrirp QIIAA * I' a W k/UU^ 111 /"ilTltri SOLD ONLY i JNION SHOE C lain Street, ' 4 ND MILL i i.i " ^ s,' ' ry Goods. in Business. ; r* : H' rtm<mt stores, pay which amounts to . Hats, x ' v j . \t is, ' V. derwear, 3, ldkerehiefs, pendens. ves, se, . -. seked and iwn Homespun, . . *!?' i * I ivince you that we ; IIPIIIT. : josite Hotel Union ; Others 1 "ff; ' '{ , HtMppw-Bumyn, n shoeqi's. *a ownnake adies - ^7 e.. (' J * t of any fixed \ r ica. ? p\/ r *; t>Y ^ 10MPANY. Union, S. C. / .