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X . r ^ ^ r~ * // / IN THE TOWN OF LINTON T" T M " T Tfc; rJ" /"\ "t T ~M M~ ~W^ OUTSIDE OF THE CITY F/vc Cotton Mills, one Knitting 'I'll III I M M 9 9 ^/H Thres Cotton Mills, one Knitting SfSSS I Hit, I I \ I I I \ 1 I VI IIS Graded Schools, Water Works and I III A u i 1 I I V' ~ m I I I V I I J k /i Taxable value in and out of town Electric Lights, Population 7,ooo. * 1 ^ rsv__X V $5,000,000. 1 _ ? - . - .. -. ' _ __ . VOL. f1 Ll''a"k r 'a"? 1K;01 : UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1903. #1.00 A YEAR; r Aim rrrri* ? 1 uuit lci i tn fKUIYI IHhWtST. The Times and its Corps of Bright Correspondents. A Crowded Train.. A Fine Pen Picture of the MEETINd OF THE VETERANS. Denver, Cel.. Feb. 8,1903. Jno. It. Mathis, Esq. Dear Friend: All is quiet with the beautiful sunshine lingering over and all around though we have had a week of zero weather, the thermometer varying oply a very few degrees each morning f>r nearly a week. We have had very little snow for eomo weeks though there were several attempts at snowing but the weather was too cold for the clouds to shed their feathers, onseS[uontly there was only a few inches ell each time. I must say that I was more than pleased to see vast items of news from so many diltercnt points and join with otliors in welcoming back to the columns of The Times our old friend B. B. and sincerely hope be may weekly add his interesting letters to the many that find their way to the minds of our people through the medium of Tiie Times. I fain would joia with the many others who havo sent in their congratulations to him in this hour of his mitrimonial bliss, but don't believe myself competent to duly or accurately speak on such an important subject of which I loath to acknowledge my ignorance. However, I wish for tnia couple a long and happy life and that their live9 may be an emulation for usefulness to the rising generations as far as their influence may extend While I have never had the pleasure of meeting Miss Anna yet I believe she has made no mistake in her selection as I have known B. B. for many years and believe he is worthy of the best. I thank B. B. for his compliments, also for his liberality in offering advice. I assure him it will be very gratefully received by some at least and hope he will give another .dose whether he thinks neoeaaary or c not. Further more would kindly re-** . nttMl that hft natiftf ?K? spondents where they may become gorged as per his advices of a young man thus mentioned. I will admit my favorable surprise in the list Times of the many interesting letters from the faraway places and after reading them with avidity I felt like I ought to hie myself away to some isolated spot where I could take time to think why I could not write interesting letters like a soldier or many others who don't seem to have any special opportunity or facilities for presenting their thoughts to the minds of others. However, I hope to sec the columns of The Times always filled with these mementoes of old friends and of our old home of which we often think when far away; I regret very much to learn of the sad death of my relative, Mrs. Ellen Sims, and extend to her husband and family my most sincere sympathy. Another sweet lif* has gone to the eternal light where we may meet each other when awakened from earthly night. It is indeed sad to part with our dearest and best friends knowing that a place has been made vacant that never can We filled, though we should and must reconcile ourselves to these things whon administered by the hand of an alwise and all powerful providence, but when one man or set of men take the life of an innocent oitizon wo should not and must, not reooncile ourselves to such a fate until we hare heaped justice to the full extent of tho law upon trie perpetrator ef such a crime. There it a disgrace cast over my dear old home that I shall always regret, noi only one but there are two that 1 notice in the Times of the last few issues. While I do not believe mv self competent to judge at this dis tance, jet I know these are grav< charges of disgrace and know tha should these two men been worthy o death it was the duty of the author ities to have so declared to the pcop'i of the State and to the world tha such was the facts. I sincerely kop< that all will be given justice regardless ef all influence, sooial, politioal religious or financial. j| I thank Hey Denver for his libera ,' > views as regards the sad event a Santuc and hopo the people will no be at all prejudiced on accouut of th irreligious views held by the slain Jt is the solemn duty of the reader ol Tiik Timks to see that the law is fully and honestly enforced and if ! you fail in your duty you uaiv live to regret your awfal error even hef >re these sad memories are partially erased from your minds We have tried the theory of moral suasion in this beautiful *land of sunshine, and wo were not long in regretting our acts and very quickly we went back to the fundamental principles of eternal justice, which says an eye for an eye. a tooth for a tooth. Well I shall try to tell of some things seen and learned while at the Confederate Reunion at Dallas, Texas, last April. I had hoped to get on the flamn train nvi iKfl "1-1 --1 W _ ? ~ UU vuu UlU O'-J I" diers frDm the Confederate Home at Austin, as I had previously met several of them ami knew I should enjoy myself hoaring them tell of old times and fierce struggles, as many of them at the Ilome are very well educated and thoroughly posted on most of the up to-dato facts as well as of the war time history. However, I didu't g^t to Austin until the ovening of April 21st, and to my regret learned that the soldiers from I the Home had left at 10 a. m. that day on a special train, so that they would havo an all day run and be there in time for the first exercises on the morning of April 22. I had to stay in Austin until tho regular train came up from San Antonio; the said train was due at Austia about 7 a. in., but was nearly an hour late. There was un enormous crowd waiting for the train, and when the lonu train came it sight we thought there was room enough lor everybody, but as it approached nearer we saw that every car, window, step and platform was packed as solid with humanity as could possibly be and retain life, and oh the confusion, the horrible expressions from the vast crowd of men and women were a sight to see, but all was not as bad as we lately anticipated, for as soon as the train got perfectly still the extra train crew began to push th ft np/>nU au? j tho w*y that some of the passengers could get off of the train, and here were four car foads of negroes who had gone to San Antonio on an excursion the day previous, all of whom lived at Austin, so when they cleared their four coaches the train porters began dusting and cleaning the cars for the white people, but the I people rushed in so fast that i~i less than half a minute tho porters or no one else could get out of the car unless he would explain that ho would give them his room if they would be so kind as to let him out. The train soon started and every space possible was packed as tight as could be with anxious people, but very few negroes; the negroes only had one small section and that was crowded with white people until the nA/vnAAo nrAVA nnn * ! ir rr* nolin/1 a O u viu uvai i j uiaouLU tv ? black pancake; there eeemed to be about as many standing as there were seated. This was the International and Great Northern railroad and we were awafe that we would have to change cars at Milano Junction and there take the Santa Fe Route, so wo had high hopes of getting a seat after changing cars, hut never a seat could we get until we reached Cleaborn, there they switched us to the Dallas branch and added a few extra coaches, so we had a very comfortable seat for the last thirty five miles and you may guess we appredated it after standing for nearly four hours. Well we got to Dallas about noon; there the Santa Fe ha9 i a beautiful depot and, irT is right in , the heart of the city. It seems very , strange to see a depot in the heart , of a beautiful little city of sixty or | seventy thousand people, yet it i? t the custom at Dallas, Texas, for all the railroads run direct through the r city and most of them have a depol . in the most thickly settled part o: . the city through which they pass 3 Tney have no Union depot at all t though some of the lines have tc lease the right of way from othei roads and then they are allowed t< . a'nn At th? (lpnnt frrtm whom th?\ D M?wr * ?i ?? """"? ?~?J t leased right of way. The Texas anc 0 Pacific railroad runs direct througl . the city near the oenter of popula tioo and has three stations at whicl ' all passenger trains stop. Of cours 1 the P. P. is the oldest road and wa I built when the town was small, bu t the town has since built all uroun< 0 the tracks. The city of Dallas ha already been described by your abl 3 editor, so I will not attempt to giv Iany description other than a very lew minor details and a few peculiarl ities which were observed while hasti Iv passing from place to place. Will state it was not the city your humb'e scribe had come to aoo, neither the cinvention, because the former had once been seen und the latter was far beyond his ability to describe or comprehend, but it was the old soldiers first, last and forever, that had attracted my presence to this won uertul little city. About the middle of the afternoon of the first day it was announced by the anxious crowds that, the King of Calif was approaching the city on a special train over the Frisco railroad and in a few moments great crowds were rushiug towards the depot, but your scribe didn't have time to look for Kings, but in a fow moments all the whistles and bells of the city befiin to blow or ring and such another noise you never heard, unless it was at a new yoar's watch in a city as large as Dallas or larger, for they certainly did all they could. That night was arranged for a reception and ball for the King and his subjects by the young ladies at their club. It was said none but dress suits would be admitted. I made my way from one headquarter to another lookiug for information wheroby I might find so;me old South Carolina h ddieru, alao oomo who had promised me they would be there from Mississippi. c;o after looking through the different registers I found tha only place to find a real soldier for sure would be at the fair grounds and by middle of afternoon I was at the lulmstto headquarters in tho fair grounds, and such a sight, such a cherished hope of fraternity, all the dreams of patriots and the long lost hop<>8 of philanthropists could never do jus'ice to tho reality of love and I friendship as exprosscd by the hearty handshake, the fond embrace, the tear dimmed eyes and even sobs and moans'which were demoB^{^^^f tempeiamenta as they met each other for the first timo (with many of them) since the war of 1805. To see those aged -jnen with flowing white locks all bent with the strife of this world, over some of whom more than eighty eventful years have rolled, and hear them greet their old comrades as of yore, and to behold their whole being animated as it were by the fire of their youth, was certainly the most awe inspiring meeting that your humble writer had ever witnessed, and I regret very much that I am not competent to tell the story just as it appearcn to me or so that the readers could grasp even a faint idea of what it is to see those dear old heroes meet each other after so many years of separation. The writer has never seen a picture or words in print that could portray to his mind the enthusiasm and lovaltv that were ? -J J - V there so perfectly demonstrated by the thousands of old soldiers The meeting was certainly beneficial, physically as well as mentally, to fnany of those present, for some that the writer had known for years, who were not able to do any work a few chores, even forgot their stick and would start to walking away like a young men, though I regret that ono of my friends from Mississippi, who was 83 years old, was not able to stay at the convention; ho was only on tho grounds a few hours when he becamo so nervous ho had to bo taken back to his old home. I , am very sorry that I did not procure all the full names, the Carolina addresses and the present addrosses of every native Carolinian that I met and I assure the readers that should , I ever have the privilege of meeting | wish them again I will procuro all , the information possible. I have the I names of about twenty from Union f county, all of which I will give in my next letter. I had not expected to give the pub'ic the names or other > information of the reunion when I - I + fit Am Imnnn m \r n [ VU VU VU1 UVUVV HI J llVy^ll^WIIV/V; ) in the matter. j With beat wishes to The Times 1 and all its reader?, i W. G. Bailey. The Consolidation of Rural a Schools. e s In many pchool districts the ap t propriationli are not largo enough to d employ well-trained teachers. Th< a terms are short for the same reason, e Often the buildings are old and badlj e lighted and heated. Although the attend tare of pupils miynotbe tnor than twenty, all grudes and ages wil be represented, from the big gii ready for the high school down to tin lit'le one who is just below leal ago am is sent to school to got out of he busy mother's way: The pupi's liv< at various distances from the schoolhouse and usually walk. In in cbuicnt weather they attend very irrr<rnljt\r on/1 ! > ?ii '' ..e j, um.? iii an wearners witu lit tie punctuality. Tne short term mikes it difficult too, for a pupil to complete till study of a text book, since every new teacher wishes her pupils to make a new start. N iturully the ambitious siii'lent bee )mos discouraged and makes every effort to go away to a better scho d, w hile the careless go on from year to year without acquiring even an elementary knowledge of the branches which make a common school education. In an effort to improve those conditions, the plan of consolidating several rural districts into one has, in certain States, been tried with great success. It has been found that four districts may unite to build 8choolhouse cea'ral to them all which is snitable f >r a graded school. Three teachers can do more than fnnr Wi been able to do in the seperatc districs. A part of this plan is the conveying <f chitoU-"* ?foin tne school. Certain farmers who live at the greatest distance in each direction make daily trips with their spring wagons picking up the school children aloug their routes and returning with them in the afternoon, a servico for whichthey receive from the distrct due remuneration. Those living farthest from the school building at first feared that their land w^uld depreciate in value on account of their distance from the schoolhouse. It has been found on ^he contrary that a farm four or fivo^miles from a good school, but from wliich children are confortably transported t > it ?>vorth more ?V?n one wl Sb is mjich nearer to an ren inust'vyalk over bicT rfeafilv? nhildThis corisplidation plan has been r^unil \rnr\r anooaacfnl in mov.ir nlonoa ?vuu*? ? vi j guvvvootui ill iimiij piautOf and is now authorized by law in seventeen States* It has many advantages. It is more economical, since it reduces the cost of education per capita and thus gives larger fund for the employment of teachers and a surplus for other expenccs. It gives much better facilities for grading and classifying pupils, and certainly promotes punctuality and regularity of attendance. The country school should be the ideal place for childhood. The surroundings which nature furnishes are far more inspiring than the city child must see from the school windows. The teacher in the country school has the advantage of being able to know personally every child and its home circle, and so has far greater opportunities tor helpfulness than a teacher in a large school in town. To these inherent advantages of the rural school the consolidated school will add the increased comfort of the little ones as they go and come, and the educative influence of larger interests, a wider outlook and contact with more and more varied associates. It will tend to destroy that isolation which Bishop Candler and cthei careful observes have pronounced th< bane of rural life in the South.? Christian Advocite. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER Going Down into Uncle Sam's Purse, hong Winded Speech to Knock out Measure. Washingtin, Feb. 16, 19?3.?Thi Venezuelan affair has been brougb to a satisfactory eo elusion aid, whih Mr. Bowen has secured the mos favorable terms for Venezuela that a n had a right to expect, Germany ha i demonstrated to the world that ehe i a Shylock among nations and tha her alliance with Great Britain wa made for the sole purpose of colU ctiu; her debts regaidUts of the rights o l her allies. Undec-tho protocols j.it> signed Great Britian and Italy r< cetve 827,000 each as a e? s i pay men and Germany reccivts $347,000, th full amount for her original de.innJ in monthly payments begiuning iir mediately, iu thus denial ding he - pound of flesh Get in iuy has outrage 1 the A>glo-S.xton ee .oe ?f j ntto ) and, in the judgeroont of M ui9te . Bowen, has laid the foundation f?j r the ruin of her trade with the cout 3 tries of Siuth America. e C > igresa has completed tho an'i 11 truir, program agteed upon betwee> 1 the President and the leaders of b >tl Q bouses and the la<t anti-trust bi'l hai [1 been signed by the I'reti lent. Tin r legislation aco>mplish<vl inula le Its e the appropriation < f ?500,000 for ihe me ot the Attorney (Jenral in the pro. c uitioo ot trust cases, the enact unut of a law expediting the tr>al ? aati trust caees in toe courts, the en actrueat of the Eikiua bill prohibiting rebates ou trinep station charg's *ud ? the creation of a G uumiaM mer ot C ?r) I mris ? 1? 1 v iu iiiu new lOdpartment ot the C nnmerce and Labor. 1 Tbo H >use ha* passed a bill appro printing $5,600 000/for the completion i ot the national C ipitol an 1 the coui struetion of an offi je building for the i use of its members ard the measure id certain to recive the approval of the Smate. Persons lanialiar with the Capitol will remember that on the E ist lrout ii a S mate and H ?use wiuga extern*^ 10S feet beyond the center ^^ . The original plau<, whioh^O^e approve! by President F/ > .e in 1/459, provided for the extension of the ceulral portion as far East as the wings and that is the improvement about to be begun. The uew space will be used for committee rooms and, following the established custom, that p< s ion on the Senate side of the C'nteroflheJ^I;!^ g-j^ Court. It is expecte 1 that the new office building, which will ba accommodation for the members of the Hous) to permit of the. assigumeut of a separate office to each of the nearly 409 members of the low,r chamber, something Lhey have not eajnyi <1 for many yt are. Tue arc li ecture of tun office bnildiug wi'l c inform to that ot tin Cipitd and the offices will lie elaborately and expers'.vely furnUlud. From the outtr <?f the C ipitol to the elevators in the ntfv oi'/King will extend a tunnelA/ ,-y which will run a miuatr 'trie railway for the | aco>r mera^ers I /r. "e impr ivuiuonw, ?>. i is \?'\\re twj and one j?clud, the furnishing will cosirlJot less than $6,500,000, Aneff>rtwa* mcdj ltst week to ratify the C domhiau treaty but i: failed. Senator Morgau talked for the entire time of the executive Tamils, five hours, and no vote wai reached. The next day Senator (?iay refused to permit another executive session for the consideration ot the treaty. Senator Morgan's opposition to the Colombian treaty its also preventing the ratification of the Cuban treaty and meanwhile certain interests hostile to the convention appear to be gaining stronglh. LOCKHART NEWS NOTES. Lockhaht, Feb. 10 ?Died, on February 10th, Miss Katie Bailey, age 10 years and 8 diys. She was the oldest daughter of Mr. Clarenee Bailey, who had not long since moved here from the Bearidge section. Before she was taken sick she was the picture of health, and to ' judge from appearances a long life awaited her, but the grim destroyer death soon claimed her for his own. ' Iler sister Annie has also been seriously sick, but she is now considered 1 much better. In this connection let me say that ' it always makes me sad to write obituaries. Many, many announcements of that kind have my fingers traced. i ...1 I *v...k c i auu nin.il i v>iuv; unit iui jfuuuj; pu?> pie, who apparently have a fTiiner hold on life than I have, it is especia'ly sad, knowing that, according to the course of nature, before a great while some one (if done at all) will a perform a like duty for me. t Rev. Mr. Best fided h is appoint3 mcnt here Sunday preaching mornt ing and evening. His reverence 0 looks with alarm on fhe growth of the ' cigarette habit and thinks that it 8 will work a greater evil to fhe cotn^ 1 ing generation than tho whiskey * habit. I have not the desire or in^ tention to discuss the matter, but t this I do know, that a great many } are tmoked. |t Mr. 1). B. Fant was wi'h us la^l e week. It was a had day, yet when I I come to think about it tho wealhci j. "seldom ever and sometimes never' r keops him back from his duties. ] \ h: ve been a citizen of Union count\ a for six years, I found him in oflici ir and he is still at the helm. ?r Bern to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mepgf i on the 13th inst., a daughter. Homo. 1 V .-j ; LOCKHART JUNCTION NEWS. There has been no farm work dona " in ths section, only chopping and hiiu'inj; wood. t Mrs. M. M. Fowler has returned from Georgia and Alabama, where -.he h is heen visiting relatives. Mr. Thomas F. Gault calebrated iiis 8'?:h birthday dinner last Saturday, the 14th of February, at his ?M home, where he has lived ever siuee he was two years of at e, and enjoyed the day with his brother, J. G. Gault, children, grandchil Iren and groat-grand ehildren and Mrs. M. M. Fowler, his niece. This writer had the pleasure of heating Rev. J. G. F.?rr lecture at Bethlehem church Sa'urday night, the 14th. IIis subject wa3 on Marriage, and was handled well; thero were many hearers. A child of Mr. George M. Fowler, who lives near this place, cut teeth at two months old. Mr. W. G. Gault give a pound supper at his home last week. Mr. Henry M. Gault died at Blneksburg, 8. C., Feb. 1st and was buried at that place, where he had made his home for several years. ,x~ was born l>",, 1?f u "/Tnion county, ncnim been in feeble h. ^ r?_ ... eral months and died at tnc age of 83 | years he was a Confederate soldier. having enlisted in lbGl. He saw some hard serve, taking part in a number of fierce and bloody battles, lie was of noble and patriotic impulses, corroct and conecieueious in tiis habits and dealings with tnen. Ilis voice and influence was over on the side of right and justice. What more can be said thin that he was a good men and has passed to the reward of the just. He leaves three brothers who arc all of a ripe old gge and miny relatives to mourn his loss. *c uoss Keys Chronicles. i After a J.ontf Absence, Mr. T. II. | Gore Comes A fin in with the Hews from that Thriving T iftJc Community. Mr. Editor:?(t has been quite* while since you have heard from me. The health of this community is very good; no farm work is being done on account of so much rain. Mud and bad roads;is the topic of the day. Our good neighbor T. J. Alvcrson, had the misfortune of losing one of his fine mules one day last week. Mr. J. M. Bennett, has bought a plantation known as the Martin Bobo place, above the keys and expects to move there in the near fu turc. Mr. B. G. Wilbuin purchased the S. G. Greggory place lately. Mrs. Bishop, wife of Bennie Bishop, living on the "Bellm jnt" place, is critically ill at this time. I notice that our friend J. E. Shaw has been elected Superintendent of Buffalo mill. We who know him are not surprised at his elevation, a man who can be depended on, therefore we say success to the finest mill in South Carolina. Rev. E. '/' Janice gave us a good sermon Sunday night at the Cross Keys sc'-.ool house. \Vi h my best wishes to The Times and its many readers. Thos II. Coke. The Storm at Honea Path. A iges a, Ga., Feb. 16?A sp?cial to the C ironicle from Crceiwood, S; C., reports a severe storm there wit It slight damage. Too storm whs central at II >nea Bath, twenty five miles northwest of Greenwood. Honsrs and barns are demolished, slock in injured and the grourd is covered nl?. I??vu Utei uim IP43U tcir|iliuiin ard telegraph line?, 'lhere is it) wiro communicition. Trairs are ' running with ntt order?. At Honea Path six men took rtfagt in W. A. Shireley's brick store. The store w ? demV.i jhed. Ktrlo McQee ami ; Thomas Am'iu w tro killrd. Tw? ' men mum d Donald aid Stone wero fatally injured. bhve houses wer.t ? blown to pieces. Men and women i ran in the streets seeking shelter fiom wind and rain. Several people are ' reported missing* [ Any Cook Good Enoagh. , "Clifton" flour tnnkes the sweetest and most nutritious biscuits that ever came out of the oven?and any ' oook Is a good enongh cook to ranks them. Macbeth Young and Union Cotton Mills Store keep it.