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I KMM AWJUND SAIITUC.
the
raKKplaya&apba^tie'bttfc alo*e
Tto bills whereon the cacti blow.
I' ' '.'Q? . ? V
Wfelle atrollinx by the river ride
tsbn chanced to knlftat* the adeem;
(TVl triritnt I tver h??nt hat acreaa.
Kajoar! Kajufe! The Spaniard lied.**
t *60 oho did that ground hog and
toed# dove, me tatnKs, judging from
til* weatherWe "have had since they
aid winter was broken.
Farmers had rather see it a, little
ook) and (dear, than warmer, cloudjr
sop namr* no* at present we ere
having just splendid weather,
jh A party w aarveyora are on the
river setting up "snkn" evidently
T MPhndacnpe gardening" for the dam
^ fflhd power house, ana a pulsation is
|f. | Mr? G. B. Fowler*, of.Joaeeville,
f Ifcandolpb, of Laor
Hhuna^fejis here last week. Mr.
m. Kandl 1 has sold off a part of his
Man* lL*? and Mr, Fowler was curp-,
Wjf. D? Mafcoa preached at the
Baudot church Sunday. His text
Hfflf was Romans 14; 16, "Let not then
Hf your geod be evil spoken of." The
|w theme was on infiuence; christian influence,
and speaking on how some
Sr? church members lived so they had Mr
christian influence and sfcsanng that
- a goad christian influence is worth
&l| making sacrifices for. It was a fine,
|?y pdi moreover plain aerman.
HP We were "foolad;" we thought we
B fait a breath of spring' we heard a
ff. dove, wa looked for blooms, we
A' smacked our Hps/ovsrthe -idea of
B awav winfe*clothes, a my.
rrfK": sa
?[ tbrlriia
tua from the north aide, and I d rawed
?ip {Mo i cold knot and shivered
~ fltatil I hurt end I was in a kink; bnt
W *ws onlv had a minimum temperature
|| of 17 degrees on two morning*, with
Hm a.low range. Bnt it seemed to bite
I, more. That lacked three degrees
K^betng as low as it has been this winthink
I will Ir^e "The South^ svBwrs"
all right?1 am snch a Sonthm.
;rfcsr mjsflf and,I believe they are
% most chivalrous people in the
m Hrld, as [ was .educated to'believe
? v Bh fton contact with older people who
HIftC* traveled. I am like Vox, I
gr^^HBeve much history ooneerning all
I'aiont the warr r and by men who
ought td\^eve been recorded,
|| Bl yet there are Southern men who
|P|mBk the younger generation ought
H B>e taught to forget it. I wish
g|gj|Kthat I y / written down many
m Bigs that /j father told me about
How ho was made to suffer, how
J&ggHhras often almost on the starvation
?^ir-l think I would like to read
HgHll over now. The generation
B88l^? and to follow would not ke true
Hg^Aoir ancestor*?fathers and moth*
HB-to forget it, or look on it as an
ftfwn.ll iMnA*>.*i.A
V? vmiawmmm MMAW*
negroes oyer on Broad river
adjacent to it have formed a
nTOBHsty, a eort of burial society, etc.
HMB* may sound graveyardish, bat as
I^^BdtntaiKi jt, it is mostly in order
HH^Heure medical treatment when
|HSBy member is sick, then if the worst
nvettakes that ob6, to bury it. It
Hflmay have the wrong name in front.
BMCTbcy pay daes and feu, and this is
^Hjte be pat in a bank, expressly as a
Hfiiidy fond to secure a physician's
ggy esttiesa, and tQ bury deceased mem*
? bers. It may be. a good thing, if
W carried oat to the letter, no schemer
m gets into it for pillage, and if they
* would have it incorporated and have
I beaded treasurers to make it secure, ,
\ that the hamblcat member would not i
^ Jt be a laser,' a phvsic<an would be more
sure of not working for nothing.
Dams are the general news item.
X jWg or Hule, hare now, being rooatlj
<uecu<aed. c That cubjeot practically
kae the Aa?er. . It if alwaya up u
every meeting whether the audience
. erica "roetram" end never addraaa
U Aha body with "tif. Chairman," and
- tt goes on Without offering any pre.
Amble or; revolutions. So maeb ia
*da?a" on the brain that I aocpect
r S'.cJcry tsssM sffl
? gat a "poaching" to pat acroac it,
I it woaH get eat thlta big dam kad
I been qfratraclad, a|d m whole lot of
people, would be riding to Me it,
thinking it ,might cease a baby Atlantic
oooan somewhate or aemething.
Dnt it eeema that thtre are riewe or
opinions thai when, a dam is built
acrooo. Real's Shoals it is going to
ruin bottoms all along np tha river,
and perhaps np to ths Lockhart fac
tcrj. A negro ukf4 me if they
were going to dam up the river so it
cOuId wot van. I toM him I had no
idee man could do that Man might
rdem.np a breach aboat as big ae w
.keroseneoil barrel, bat as to stopping
Breed river, that was going it a little
toe broad. It woald be like the old
egre we* when he saw tha ice factory,
and said that the Mwhite buckrah
was ahsad of Ood Almighty, tor
God bad to bavc winter to make- ice
and tbe white backrah was making
it in July."
Now there is all serts of talk of
what will bet done on the river, the
effects, the futare of it. What will
be left and what will not. - There ie
speculation on speculation, and perhaps
some think there will be no end
of crowds to teed, etc., and an eldorado
is bsre along that linev * money
mine,. a pleasure resort, a get rich
quick tor some, etc.
Well, this is what I picture. There
wrskl be a jcrowd to feed while tbe
dam it being built. When that is
dsns the crowd will be very small.
There will be a dam, a race, a canal,
a water, wheel and power house and
jastp fit# men in charge. Tha same
principle as a river mill, with a dam
to raise the wster above, a channel
like a race, a fore-bay or a big iron I
flue with a wheel, and tikis raised
water will be carried through race or
flee withgoeelerated force and weight
on to the .wheel, the thing to tarn a
water wheel beet, the river will de ite
"firing," end that is about aU of it in
A Mt jhm The pie**Urewre after
i^0
on the streoip. I belierethe "doin s".
will be wh#re the power it eent to.
J expect to hear the water pouring
Over the dam when I am near enough
and net the etream stepped. Those
of us who get a job while the dam and
house are being built may moke some
money, but inien that is done I do
not think many of-us around here
will hare a fat job around Jeter's old
mill* ,
"How fair the frail oircastles,
That our ambition builds!
How bright the sunny flktnre
Imagination gild*!
How lightly foes are conuuered
How easily is seen
The road to fame aad fortoae,"
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Down on the old river stream.
Denver. "
OM TEXAS LETTER.
The Handkerchief tneident?Gov.
tranham Vetoes a Bi 11.
1
Bonham. Texas, Feh. 19,1903.
Editor Union Times:
< a dallas charity.
4; Dallas, Tex., Feb. 11.?At the
solicitation of Mrs. W. A. Galloway,
editor of the women's and children's
department of the Dallas Morning
News, Mrs. Roosevelt, the wife of the
President of the 'United States, sent
a handkerchief to. he sold at 'Colombia's
Receptions,' a local entertainment
in the interest of the Dallas
kindergarten.
"At 0 mass meeting of the Elk's
clnb, it was deoidcd to send the
handkerchief back, because, it was
said, it was a cotton oneand could be
duplicated for 10 agents or three for
a quarter. ....
"At the same time Mrs. Cailoway
wrote Mrs. Jefferson Davis, and received
from her a costly handkerchief,
which was beautifully hand
worked ,by Mrs. Davis, containing
her monogram,"
The above clipping shows how
maasJa small aof sawn ika mamlaa tka
I pwjrav HIM HVW VU ?MV liupuIwv VI IUV
moment. It Memi to be an nafortuMate
mrcumitance that the Delias
people paid any attention to the
trilling value of the gift of Mrs.
Roosevelt. In feet it is not according
to Lord Chesterfield for a recipient.or
recipient* of a gift to raise
the qneetion as to ,tbe value of it
Xhis isaoMt'of the "beggar being
chooser" is it not? I am no Boos*
veltian, nor do I better/ In Rooeo
reltiam, bat I do not bold to the ide*
of belittling the President's wife simply
becsase it so happened that the
gift she sent the Charity Society at
Dallas was of less value than die gift
of Mrs. Jefferson Dans. It was
niee and kind in Mrs. Rooeerelt to
acknowledge and grant the request
in riew of the fact that she mast receive
many similar ones, and it is
more so in Mrs. Davirf as she. hapKed
to send one of more value,
it be ootton, nankeen, sea island,
Egyptian, long or short staple. She
complied with the request, that was
enough, and the invidious comparison
of the value of the gifts of the
** - - ' * * ?- J:?
wv -UIIIMII|U1SUQU liuin WML not
matter of good tMt? under the circumstances.
This inoident was the
eooasion of an attempt at offering a
resolution in the Texas legislature
possibly endorsing the action of the
Elks, bat it soon readied the reeecees
of oblirion that is to eay the speaker
of the house ruled it ont of order.
The ladies of Delias did not return
the handkerchief, however, and I
understand they hare an offer of $150
for it, so the real value of it d>es not
cut much figure, 'it seems, after all.
The first bill that Governor Lanham
disapproved was one to allow
marriage of a woman to step-father,
after mother's death. It was sent
hack to the house on February 14th
and was reoeived with applause.
The veto message fellows: "Austia,
Tex^ Feb, 18.1908.?
To the House of Representatives: I
return without executive approval
House bill Ufa 21, styled 'An act to
assead Article 851 ef the pent! code
of the-Stato of Texas of 1895, relating
to the crime of inceet.' . ,
*It seems that if this bill were be
become a law, it would have the ef
foci to permit the marriage of a
woman to her atop father after her
mother's death, jand alee to allow a
woman to marry her daughter's htm*
band after the death of her daughter,
and itoekr rmpove the j'jwiiflni ,
against snoh Intecmamaga under existing
laws.
"No good and sufficient reason is
peroeired for the legislation proposed.
It does not appear to be
necessary either from the viewpoint
of public polioy as sonnd/ morality.
It is nst believed that it wouldadd
either to tbe sanctity, dignity or felicity
of matrimony. Such intermarriage
as it would tolerate and
legalise should be discouraged rather
than faciliated.
"These and other obvious objections
ere such ae to require the disapproval
of this bill, and it is accordingly
vetoed.
8. W. T. Lanhan, Governor."
I send you a cut of four-famous
Tsxans. Gov. Lubbuok, in addition
to being Governor of the State, was
State Treasurer for many years. He
is one of those elegant old gentlemen
to whom we want to do obeisance
wuou wt> unr uii ntmo meuuonea.
just as all Carolinians did the great
end illustrious Hampton. The Hen.
A. W. Terrell is one of these happj,
brilliant orators yon hear of so often
bat seldom see. He is now a member
of the legislature and was the
United States Minister1 to Turkey
under one of the Cleveland Administrations,
Judge Reagan and James
Stephen Hogg are well enough known
to your readers to pass them this
time without any comment
Bonhaa has a large contingent at
Austin now. Governor Lanham's advent
into office having increased the
number somewhat, and among this
contingent at the State Capitol* is
Miss Lula Bailey, who is a teacher
in the State University. She is the
daughter of Dr. J. 8. Bailey, a
native of Union connty, who when a
boy carried the mails from Pinckney
or Mt. Tabor to Columbia on horse
back. Dr. Bailey, the father of the
young lady, ia a near relative af jour
follow townsman, Benj. F. Foster,
Esq. 4 J. 8. C.
LOCKHART NEWTNOTES.
life nt the Cotton Mill?JPereonel
and Otherwiee.
r ;
Lock d art, Fdb. 23.?Miss Lena
Reader for the past month has been
visiting relatives and friends in one
of the northwestern counties of the
State hse re twined to her place in
Loskhart store.
Mr. Marion Smith, of Union, is
on a visit to friends at'this place.
Mr. John Hcneinger, who was
summoned to the bedside of a dying
brother (ChrYopher) who had bran
phot by a negro at Walhalla in Oconee
oounty, ha* not a* yet returned.
During the absence of Mr. H. Mr.
Chsrle* Brown i* filling hie place ae
fireman en the Lockkart milfOed.
The river was quite high Idkt week,
possibly hisrhe* than it hae4een-einee
last spring.
Mies Leila Roggr*, ofWhitmire,
has been on a visit to Lockhart.
jQbd to report that Mies Annie
Bailey who was reported in my last
letter as being quite sick, is nom oon
littered oat of danger.
In ray Iwt letter I neglected to an*
wer the question of yoar Denver
correspondent In regard t? the Yankee
bqg*. Let me say that I have
never even any among them that
looked like he was in anyway sick or
deseripa. I have seen tome that were
While, whether from age or ether
ohnees I know not. I have not seek
any cripples among ahem, neither
hare I ever seen a dead one exoept
ill was crashed or had been well
scalded. They do not need a carpet
bsg, Bro. Bailey, as they eon get a
living anywhere and as for clothes
tbsj carry an extra snit on their
' By the way Bro. B., I enjoy reading
yvjnr letters very mock. Yon
hove in individuality of yonv own
which Wakes your letters quite-readable.
Rev. Grier, of the A. R. P. church,
failed fee fill his appointment hers
yesterday. Cause of the fiailnre is
unknekn to as.
I IVfeU, I expect that our Solons are
I baik foam Col umbia and I em clad
th4y nade 00 few laws for the special
Stem went of ootto*|ui11 employees,
h &et ? the eaee ia that their hair
irfoaigfct and their ekiaa are white.
Thw have pains and aekw and mad
for| the (footer just hke other Mb.
Whiskerfill make them drmak ahd
th<LlJ|^t AeM j^ lihea^fog.
children and take the aame remedies.
Paterfamilias hare to preambulate
aroand at night. and stumble over
chairs with his voung hopeful in his
arms and uses the aame choice selection
of words just like other patera
do. True there are 'many illiterate
but they brought their illiteracy with
them when they came from the country.
Sure they aie more charitable
than moef of people, for if one from
some providential means needs help
he always gets it. They give liberally
to worthy causes and do not turn I
a deaf ear to even the appeal of a
BAtrrn whan tkranifK
~ vwftVKVQOHWO UU
gets hit cabin burned. My cotton
mill life numbers near ten years and
I hage never known an operator to
get his house burned down yet.
All of us came from the country
and still, they move in to overflowing
each year. Comparatively few return
to the farm and often they return
to us again. -One strange peculiarity
among them is that if one
takes a notion to move he is going to
move. If he cannot change houses
on the factory ground he will go to
another factory.
IIomo.
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TEXAS FOR THE ROADS.
No Other Way to Imrove Them?
Representative Anil Commended.
Herald and News.
Mr. Editor;?I want in a pnblc way
to oongratulate Hon. E. H. Anil,
a raenber of the house of rep
reeentativee from Newberry county,
for his timely, manly and logical
tpeeoh ha defense* of his bill looking
to the improvement of the public higlT
way*. Living in one of the rnral district*
of Newberry country. I want
.to enbetantiate one of his remarks?
when he said that the roads in hrs
oouaty were in a deplorable oondition.
1 will pot it stronger: they are simply
impassible in many places, and their
condition will not be improved nntil
money is appropriated from som'
son roe to,work them with.
What better legacy could we leave
oar ehildren than to leave them in a
ooontry with a network of maraL
' raised roads whioh will be a common
iaharenoe to every one? What w >old
enohanoe ike valne of tt>e property in
roral districts more thsn good roads.
What ooold be a better feeder to the
towns, elites end railroads than good
roads? Stop that source of support to
Jhem and you have then undermined
the verv mudsills upon whleh they
mot and seeeivn their prosperity. What
inveetmaat vwild briag aSoal UMti
retnlta la tfca m af aleasaia, *?
and tear of vabltlaa aad llaw iHaa
than good raadtf
And jet It waa fcllW-**r *e I6ww
that it oarrioa w*tl? it thaaaparfttart
of moaay. . ' S I
Thm hiMM<|.nwpllil?4 that
U g?nd aod pMMMH without the
ezpwditaft of www. Tho ototo
appro priotos lutdnda of iboooaod* of
dollar* uamtlf fur ftba * *U*ii>w
of niUie ioatititfawof tamV|4 nod
I daro my thotDpe-fcolf WY\Xyooplo
of Ibe rood drfricto OoeOAot toll
whero *aeb iostitdifon is bfi^f Bui
I Miert wilhool foar of Miwiikitin*
toot neitbor riob mt poor, high oor
low, odoootod oor fflhoralo e*o ?opo
tho bspofiti that Ml derierd boon good
X *
iHs ainiotoM* ha flapiNiplog
legiolatioo to this Mt ? agricultural
iattrat Is olwtpfe dfgbaol.
Tho opooUl legislatieo fJhoorittoB
baoo pronouacoed tho immalCltmiip
o hihm?the great isslttmt a that
wm organised for tho pwp#W Klinlog
oor yoong moo to booohm model
log in practical farming; A I bar*
heard this math that Cmptap ool>
logo is giving lOiltiymrt to fftf4o*r
A|||F OfftlVIPg
m* M4.480.
oleo boons to lira in bis Of ooaf apd
yet wo are .too poor to tosh* bettor
roads hy tastatioa. ^ ... ^
Worhiog tho ftado fllKinm Jahor
Ua thing of tho oooL, ?Msy BflgpO
that I know of fialbto >#r rood My
L U >L . * ? - -
U*. p^u >? aouar onutmioflMI^
Triby, S. C., FibraMf 14.
| JOSESVIUMUW NOTES.
Joseaviu.E, Feb. 23 ?One w#?k
of good weather kns mode some improTement
in the roods, sad formers
ore shout ready to begin work in the
fields if the good weather would hold
s few more days there would be life
in the old land yet.
The services st Alman's hsll Saturday
night in honor of George
Washington, his birthdty being Suuday,
was well rendered and quite a
success. The curtains were drawn
and the first scene was Prof. II. W.
Ackerman and Miss Bertha Alman
seated on the stage representing
George and Martha Washington in
full colonial dress. Prayer was followed
by Rot. David Hucks, and
then followed the program tableau
George and Martha Washington.
floatation?ins ZZnd of February
by Mite Ines Spears.
Song?The Star Spangled Banner.
Dialogue?The Builders by ten
girls.
Recitation?The Truthful Bey by
Tommie Lybrand.
Dialogue?The American Flag,
followed by song.
Recitation?Mother's Little Man
by little Frank Littleiokn.
Recitation?The Good Old Days
by Dan Whitlock.
Recitation?Precioea the Spanish
Dancer by Miss Bell Whitlock.
Tableau?Liberty by Miss Maud
Whitlock.
Song?America.
Address by Carroll II. Foster
upon the life of Washington. Miss
Etha Haines performed at the rrgan.
Allen's orchestra'of Spartanburg, at
integrals from first to last, rendered
delightful music. Refreshments were
served in abundance and the crowd
for a time enjoyed the social side of
life, and when the clock) struck ten
the crowd, numbering about four
hundred, quietly dispersed.
Unite a number of viiitnn ?r. ;n
onr town Saturday and Sunday. Tha
Misses Murphy, from Pinekn-?v; the
Misses Gaulte, Gallman and Eddie
Greer, of Kelton; Miss Effie Edwards,
of Union; Mr. Exra IloloomH. of the
State of Washington; Miss Maud
Kelly, of Fair Goreet; Mr. and Nrs.
Marvin MoNeaot, of Union; Mr. C.
M. McWhirter, of Wofford College;
Mr. Gregory, of Greenville; Mr. J.
Andrew Thomrson, of Clifton; Mr
i Cornelias Holootnb. of Union; Miss
Kate Summer, of Kelton; Mr. Jack
Iloleomb, of West Springs.
Mr. R. W. Scott left tod^y for
Charleston on m business trip.
Rot. David Hooka filled his p?\.
pit ?t BoMnnilla 8und*y in imi?g
and km SqbiIij night. II > it complaining
today and in bad.
Mr. Bam LittUjohn loft Mtndtr
for a trip <tn the road, and Mr. J. B.
Footer will ieare tomorrow for Chicago.
Mr?. N. B. Kioon is rioting the
f??iij of Prof. Ayooek, at Clinton.
Mr. Will Wood, of Paoelet, was in
town Monday on bnsinem.
Tblkouone.
eaiaan? ?rui*
vninuRLl NLWd RUItS.
Taxation the Only Method for Securing
Permanent Good Monde. '
???? t,
Editor Time*?If we expect *db?
kappj we meat be bosy, no idle man
ever wee kappj, end bat few idle
men ere inneoent long. Lack ia to
every one, bat good lack is to only
those who mess to do good. From
oar cradle to tor grave it a path all
masked oat by oar Maker, vet this
path we do not know, we are to live
and let live, ear Ion may be the
more direct and to oar gain, our
defeats and victories are twin sisters.
We eon boor everything bat day
breaking, yet H is said toot each day
begins by breaking. if so, we have
no whom days. Crossing a river
with a team and wagon en a 1st, and
the mystery that's Inside a photographer'a
apparatus, whieh rep rosacea
a likeness ef yon, is two or the
many things we yoagg ones de not
knew, yet we sri never too aid to
lasrn. Bat the things we do not
knew is net like Ivy Green's letter
to Thk Timbs, i. e., few and far betW66Q?
Mr. Sties Horn took a business
trip to Sportanbarg some days ago.
Book one to pa? 92 road tu. I
tkink it weald he" better end more
like fripmts te the poor, for e?eb eee
Je pay ? fited, ptf cent m their ut*
?Me property, for there ere eo Beer
people wke here nothing to do wile
the road, only fte walk it, I meen
here no teaae or-mafe* to^at it y I
aey increase tke per oent. on theft
taxable property. And then let na
kerb good reads.
Wheat in tome parte is looking
err well considering the weather.
Daring the recent rains we river
folks hare had high water on Pacolet
rirer. D. P. F.
TINKUNGS FROMTTNKER.
As I haven't seen a letter fr om
enr community this year I wish to
say that we are progressing fine. Oa
account of the bad weather our roads
have been almost impassable at times.
Mr. F. II. Counts has returned
home from an extended riait tn p?l*
tivee in Lexington County.
Mr. D. J. Gregory made a business
trip to Chester last week.
Mr. 8. C. Crosby made a business
trip to Fairfield last Thursday.
The health ol our community is
very good with the exception of
colds; the mumps hasn't reached us
yet.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Gregory attended
church in Union Sunday.
Miss Fanaie Edge spent Saturday
and Sunday^at home.
Our school is progressing fine
with Miss Fannie Edge as our teacher
again this year. Our school celebrated
Washington's birthday on
Friday afternoon, with recitations
and music. We had several visitors
and all seemed to enjoy the occasion.
We also have a good Sunday School,
with Mr. John Carter as Superintendent
and Mr. D. J. Gregory as
Secretary and Treasurer. We have
secured an organ which is a great
help to us; Mrs. Cora Gregory is our
organist. Rev. John Farr will
Breach for 111 ?v?rv firaf Snnitav
r J "*
Sioux.
Cheap Rates to New Or leant, J4.
On account of the Mardi Gras, to
bo held at New Orleans, La., Mobile,
Ala. and l'eosacola, Fin., the Southern
Railway will sell round trip tickets
on sale February 17<h to 23rd,
inclusive, and for trains arriving at
above p >ints on the morning of February
22nd, limited for return until
Feb. 28th. Upon payment of fifty
cents and depositing ticket with the
joint agent not later than Feb. 28, an
extension can be had until March 14.
Apply teany agent ot the Southern
or to R. W. Hunt, D. P. A.,
Charleston, S. C.
IBr-EeHylUy