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) *" ' ' 11 ' ^ . - ?' _JN THE TOWN OF UNION T ~W B ^ "B T IttL tT /A IB ~T f~B"l ~W "IB B~ ^ /~^d OUTSIDE OF THE CITY Wva Cotton Mills, one Knitting 'III Bit I ^k ,{j| j I \ I B B /B R L I T/ires Cotton Mills, one Knittin EFt&9i&&? I H Hi I \ I 11 \ I I VI liS. srssttMsa ' Graded Schools, Water Works and H M \A my ^ I X W R m fl 1 V fl Bj J L In Taxable value in and out of town Blectric Lights, Population 7,000. m~m -i- * V-X -1; * . _M_ A. ? -M_ 4 V $5,000,000. YOL. uii. NO. 12. ONION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1903. #i m vp.d ^ ^WP?m?mmrn^m?rnmmmm??, II I I?? 1 1 1 ' r MRS. PHE8E BREWSTER SAYM tyiitca a Very Interesting Lettei For The Times, Following TJi the Letters of Mr. Bailey and Rev. J. D. Mahon. FORMERLY OFLAURENS COUNTY. WIFE OF A GERMAN PRINCE. Austin, Tex., March 11, 1903/ Me, Jko. R. Matiiis, Editor Union Times: Today Mr. G. B. De Coussey fire me the South Carolina Union imkb, of Union* S. C., the date of the above newspaper is Feb. 6th, present year. 1 was deeply glad, to ^ sea the Reverend J. D. Mahon'aletter in print. It awakens old memIV# ;'c'Vgjp*. ve, fbSuhe Bolts", 1 friends of^my lonely '? ^^Impoverished girlhood, faro and lived so well in material concerns. A stroke of fate or Providence threw 'V me ia Mr. Bailey's, your correspondent's, 'path. I was on the second floor of the Texas capitol through the kindness of Capt. De Cousscy, who helped me in a small way in pecuniary matters when Mr. Bailey came to see the capitol. The senate chamber, house of representatives, governor's parlors are on the second floor. Mr. Bailey told Capt. De Ctnssey on his inquiry that he was from Union, S. C. I then told him of my friendly relations w ith the Bolts, near Highland Home, Laurens county, S. C. The Arnold I tenderly inquired for was a dress maker, a maiden lady, a Miss Ruth Arnold, of Laurens county, S. C., not fur from the Bolts, but not any relution that I know of. Miss Arnold was a very fleshy woman and a life long cripple, but a skilful hand with the needle, and a woman of rare goodness of heart. She took Peterson's Magazine, and told mo to look at it, before she sent for it, as the postoffice she received her mail horn was at my residence, Highland Home, u small farm. I Loop tL* office. To this day 1 never sec the name of Petersou without the involuntary thought "Dear old Peter son." There were several people around Highland Home I feelingly remember, some of them very poor people, for instance, Miss Millie Croker, Mrs. Briggs, Matilda Atwood. I was very strong on my feet and was a great walker. Not a spring flower or a single fruit, nor ? bird's nest could get beyond my finding, yet I never troubled the young birds. I knew too every pool in the neighborhood which held fish, Mrs. Dial (Miss Margar?t Bolt) and Miss Mary Bolt spoke many kind words in my behalf, as well as Miss lluth Arnold. Mir Drew Dial, who mar ried Miss Mtft&aret Bolt, took a paper entitled Red, White and Blue, containing many stories of European life. Mr. Dial always let us read the paper as soon as he had glanced over it. I have a faithful memory. Aunt Polly Dial, Mr. Dial's mother, was a large, fair, hanndsome old lady, gentle and indulgent to us, she had a private hedge in her front garden, cinnamon and damask roses, and tulips, old-fashioned and fragrant blossoms. My second cousin, Mrs. Farley, of Laurensville, S. C., who was previous to martiage to ? Miss Phoebe Downs, daughter of Col. William Downs, was to we a kind friend as well as relation by blood. She was a woman of much culture in the fields of English classics and literature, as she was an authoress also, both as a raconteur and in verse. She had a large library in her comfortable home in Laurensvillo. llut Highland Home had its meager share of books, ''infinite richot in a little room." Thero was Shakespeare which 1 knew, and which uncon/ sciously to myself from frequenl / perusing tinctured my conversation / There was Rob Roy, English his/ tory and some others. My othei I reading was from Mrs. Phoebe Furwell stocked library, and modern additions. Nearly every week one of her family 01 herself hroughi out a hamper of books to be returnee when read, and others substituted My second cousin, Mrs. Phoebe Far ley, gave us a second-hand piano, 01 which my best beloved sister, Nannj Underwood Brewster, used to play My sister had a precious and Godgiven talent for music, and she sun; tike a mocking bird on the othe tij?r u t;,i ui ncavviiy uv/v vu tun > piu merely. My talent was for dram *nd elocution. I came on to Tex a 11 before the others of my family came. 11 remember the night before I left | - Highland Home for Texas, I went | down the sandy walk from Highland Homo to "Margaret Dial's" cottage to bid her good-bye, and she bade me God's speed. Alas for us the twilight and the dawn are not as in the old time, as full of hope, and with such a boundless outlook, with the sun of youth over all. When I left the two-story frame cottage at Highland Home, I launched out on ' a great ocean of adventure, more strange and involved than any story in "Red, Whit^ and Blue," Mr. Dial's story paper. My husband was a Can tain , , ?y Mf<| VUU Sayn-\Vittgen8tein family, of Germany, who sometimes and when travelling simply sign .their name as Sayn with the accompanying given name. My husband was a captain of cavalry in the army of Maxinillan, the Austrian archduke, was for several years emperor of Mexico, and was shot at Querataro, Mexico, by the Mexican liberals. My husband was in the Belgian legion, Barron Vander Smisson, commander. I met him in Houston, Texas, where he was trying to purchase the Con- | federate war supplies at the sunen- ] der of the Confederacy, as he was an , agent of Maximilian, emperor of i Mexico. He purchased the batteries, ( horses, etc., but the United States ] demanded them from the Empire of ( Mexico as contraband of war and \ they were given up to the United 1 States. ^ My husband disappeared many years ago, see Almanack de Gotha, ( a book published at Gotha, Germany, every year by Jussus Perihy. Every J European Ambassador keeps the Al- c uianack de (loth*. ???* band's disappearance I have lived in 1 poverty and obscurity. I my j name in the index volume of Apple- ^ ton's Cyclopedia of American Biog j raphy, years 1887-88. Only noted j persons or persons with travic his- ? ^ryyontv In utt+S XllOVTA V)l Apjj|\ lOH J5 Q Biography. I have my husband's |j honorable discharge from the Imperial y Mexican Army in the printed war a reports of Mexico in my possession. a I married him in Houston, Texas, s and wa9 married again by civil law a of Prussia, as no marriage holds valid a in Prussia without the endorsement j of the Judge, and Westpholia is a \ province of Prussia, where Wittgen- ] stein is located. The family name ? was "Swya-ajid one of the Counts of ( Sayn, marriedTmr-rloh. h.^jrcss Count- ( ess Elizabeth WittgensteuC7^ n^ndi- j tion that he was to annex his name to" ^ her3, in consideration for the posses- | i i sum ui ui*i uunui. The family increased rapidly and was noted for being prolific. Ie married in Russia and became very powerful there as well as verj7 rich. At the beginning of the last century the Sayn-Wittgensteins were made princes of the German States with the title of Durchlandch which means Highness, and ranks next to Royalty. They had been before that powefful Counts, but fchey owned so much land in Germany, and had such a numerous tenantry the German States offered them the title of a prince next to Rayalty, four votes to each male of their family in the Reichalog und a large sum of money for a large part of their territorial possessions. It was rumored years ago, when the Counts of Sayn were in possession of their great dotn tin', that they aspired to change the Gorman dynasty and become emperors. One of the Sayn-Wittgenstnn princes somo years back asked and received permission from the German Empire to resume the ancient countship of .Sayn. This gentleman and his heir > is now Count Sayn and his name . will be found in the Count's calendar published every year at Gotha, Germany, as well as the Almanack dc IGotha, which is also called the Hop Kalendcr. Tho llussian Wittyen. steins have died out in the last six or . seven years and their wealth has ; b*?cn absorbed by the German family t of that name. 1 There are other people besides . those I havo mentioned here that I . havo reason to remember with gratii tudo and pleasure, people in Ifiurens y county, but the name is lost, the . thought is deathless. I have I might _ say an undying memory. Please r give my gfrateful respect to Mr. J. D. r Mahon. I tuank him heartily for e his letter, and Mr. Bailey and youra self. Faithfully yours, J PlIEHB BUKWflXKR SA?N. TEXAS LETTER. Dark Crop Outlook for tlic Loin Star State?Unprecedented Rainfall? Death of Dr. Mcjunkius, Formerly of Union. Editor Union Times: I write again of the condition prevailing in this country. If I tell you the rainfall of the last four months equalled that of the average year you can harly realize that that is the case, but it is true nevertheless. The outlook in Texas is the gloomiest this season ever known here. With five month's rainfall, with a good deal of the la9t voar'd crop of cotton still in the fields and damaged so much that if. W h'irtllw UTArfll Axi r* , ltTSaL. ? ?V UUIU.J 11 vi vu ^avuuiu^. If 1 JUL no preparations for a crop of any kind this year, the working people being unable to make their living oh account of the unfavorable weather, and many in debt to the merchants, and above all the scarcity of money makes the future, the immediate future at least, appear dark and uncertain to the mercantile fraternity. The rainfall sinco November, including that month, at Dallas has been 25 inches, the like of which has never occurred here before since records have been kept. The oat crop will be very short this year for the reason that the weather has been ?uch that the seeds could not be planted. There is volunteer and fall )ats which are looking all right but ;hcre are not much of it unfortunatey. Wheat is looking fine and the field will be a fine one if no untovard condition shall overtake the ;rop lor the jear 1903. The many friends and relatives of Jr. Samuel W. Mc-Junkin in Union iounty will be pained to hear of his leath which occurred at Terrell, Texas, Sundiy evening March 8th. Jr. McJuukin's home is in Dalias. ut he was appointed assistant superntendont of the N. Texas Insane Asylum at Terrell more than four tyterian church at Dallas about six ears ago, mention was made of it ,t the time. lie came to Dallas bout 12 years ago from Texas. lie erve 1 in the U. S. Navy as surgeon nd was at one time in the land office ,t Austin. lie was a strong and protnnent Presbyterian, well thought of ty all who knew him. IIo left Union ! think about 30 years ago. I am dmost sure a brother of his was ut >ne time editor of The Times. The loctor married a Miss Red, of IIous;on, Texas. They have four children, girD and ono son, Fred, who ives at TTorfer <^*oye in this (Fannie) jounty. Among Eh near relatives u Union aro Messrs. Perleser and Jno. A. Fant. I saw Dr. McJunkin it the Confederate Reunion at Dallas last May, when he inquired very specially of ine if Capt. F. M. Fair r\ n T 11 x -! was at uauas. i aim my lesuuiony to tho fact that Dr. Mc Junkin was a true, gonial and a gracious gentleman, anil the kin folks and friends may well he proud of him and his record in Texas. The lady, Mrs. Travis M. Dumas, who is to present the horse to Gen. Gordon at New Orleans in May is the daughter of a South Carolinian so I have learned since writing two weeks ago. On account of tho scarcity of money in this section tho money lenders have nearly hoc nne shy locks. To hear what they say about what can be done is not as interesting per. haps, but would make as racy reading matter as Thomas Dixon's ' Leopard Spo's." J. S. C. THE DEAF MADE TO HEAR. A Young Alabsimian Brings Joy to Children Who Know Not Meaning of Sound. With word :r written on thoir fac??, threo children, deaf, dumb and blind, yesterday heard a pianist p'ay S v. si march's, beard a phonograph ropes) the 0 tumid of their own voica utter the words, "mimma," "papa" anil "hello" iu q iaveriog childish treble Mdler Ktese Hutchison, a y< u ip Alabitnian, who was recently dec >rated by Qteen Alexandra for hi? efforts in behalf ?f the deaf, had invited 8'tmo of his Irieuds to Ins lab >ratorj yesterby afternoon to watch somo ox perinneuts with bis newest instrument for making the deal hear. Tuej came in troop?. . One of th? first to arrive a;.d thi last t? go was the Duke of Nowcf.s'le Another was Dr. Carrier, of the New York Inalitu'e for the Instruction ol . Daafaud Dumb, who ha I Prof. Van Ta99ell escort six boys and four girl*, ? all afiitctid with deafness, to the laboratory. Mr. \Y? J. Hammer, a well known member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Mr. II. \\\ Webb, Mrs. J. II White, Mrs. George Kidd, Miss Kidd, Mrs. P. S .Jsuitings, Miss Jennings and Dr. C:are ice Sharp, ol* the Presbyterian Hospital, were among .others present. Xhe young inveutorsaid he thought he\^r perfected an instrument that meant as much for the ear as oyeg I asset meant for impaired vision, for ll count lie adjusted to any degree ot peculiarity of deafness, unless due to absilato paralysis of*the auditory nervenr to the removal of the tiny bones of the middle ear through an operation. INVENTION* NOT CUMUERSOMK. The invention consists, primarily, of a transmitter, an ear piece and a small electric battery. Ii is far It si conspiouous than any other form of hearing instrument, no part of it sctually appearing in sight except the car piece which may b8 covered with the hand. Tito battery may be carried in the wiVcnat pocket. Tim transmitter is w >ru under the cent or or in the folds ot a dress and the ear piece is uo larger than a watch case. I By means of these instruments sound is pr.-jmte.l into the ear ir. a mauner to stimulate the auditory uerva. The volume of sound has uothicg to do with the action of thf sj instruments. A whisper sounds as plainly as a shout. The penetrating quality of the electric sound wave apparently disregards the mechanism of the outer ear at d < If.-cts the inner ear dircet. The first patient brought out to tiy the effects of the invention was Orris Benson, who is blind, deaf and dumb. Dr. Sharp tried to make him hear in Various WaVS. with a turning f..rl between his teetb and pressed against his skull, and by shouting in his ear ear the currchV sVltchedvr*, Yfr Hutchinson said in an ordinary conversational tone, 4,Papa." The youth raised his sightless eyes to his friend, Prof. Van Tassell, and worked his fingers rapidly in the sign language. i 1 44He says he can hear something,but doesn't know what it is," remarked Prof. Van Tassell. The current was made stronger. The youth's eyebrows were raised and he smiled. Then he tried to repeat the syllables and in a wierd treble cried shrilly, 4 Pah-pah." Noticing that the patient was becoming <?uite excited over his novel experience, Mr. Hutchinson suggested that one of tli3 girls be brought into the reception room. A pretty, rosy cheeked girl, 18 yeais old, who had lost sight and hearing through exposure a dozen years ago, was led ! into the room. AS l*ATIIETIC AS WONDKRFUL. She could not hear a sound, no matter how loud, right against her ear. but when she had the ear piece of the instrument fastened to her head and the pianist at the end of tho room began to play a Sousa march her cheeks flushed crimson and her fingers beat time on a table. The other hand sought the hand of the teacher behind her and twinkled: "What is it? I hear something, but I don't know what it is. Jt is beautiful. Can 1 have it?" When l'rof. Van Tassell " had translated what the girl's fingers had said one or two of the women present remarked that they did not know whether the experience was more remarkable than it was pathetic. Another girl, horn blind, deaf and dumb, clapped her hands in ecstasy when she heard her own voice say "Mamma," and reached out wistfully toward the piano when the mu> sician stopped playing and the new ? harmonics died out of her ear hut lingered in her memory. To illustrate how tho invention magnified and translated sound a I mmfirihAiio !i I t-"> !i nhnnnirmnli .... ... .. , . aivl connected with the battery and ; the transmitter was put out c f a window a b'.ock awayfrotn Ilorald square. I As the notes of the Toreador s song r from ''Carmen" floated out on the air, people a block away on liroads way stopped and turned to try and j catch the point whence the music emanated, and men in elevated rail a road trains rushed to tho platforms >. bewildered at the volume of eount p and the innbilitv to trace it to its f source.?New Yoik Ilcrald, March i 14th. The New Town of Ada. Capers Scott's Home. Two years ago w house was built in a cotton patch down in the Chickasaw Nation, and the place was called Ada, named for one of the daughters of one of the first settler.-* in the new town?Miss Ada Heed. When the great Frisco railroad wanted to cross r i * niutaa xerruory to roach tho Stntc of Texas, its track ran through the new town of Ada. Men of energy and foresight knew ut once tlpit the "cotton patch" was going to be a good place to locate in, because of the thousand and one advantages that it possessed by reason of its sur- , foundings. Far and wide went the news of the new town, and in less I than two months, that cotton patch was swarming with more than .">00 progressive, wide-awake people; temporary business houses were "run up," residences, churches, school houses, etc., were built, and inside of a year, there was no evidence of the cotton field, except the large cotton plantations that surrounded a splendid town. Finally, the frame "shacks" were torn aw ay, as the town grew, and brick and stone business blocks were erected, the number, and nuaiity of the buildings became larger and better, and now, in two years' time, Ada is undoubtedly the best town for its size and age in Indian Territory. The first men to locate in Ada are still there, and are conducting excellent businesses. The town can boast of what is penerallv to be the best public school in the Chickasaw Nation, in which seven teachers are employed regularly. Four churches are well supported? the Methodist, l'rcsbvtcrian, Christian and Baptist. Ada has two ufe?!?., "dl'i t,iree s'luare hale VMi light and ice plant, a home steam laundry, a wholesale grocery house, two splendidly e<[uipped printing oilices, publising the Ada Weekly Star and Ada News. There are two strong banks in Ada, the First National Hank and the Ada National Bank. Both banks have men of great ability for officers and have made g~od showings. All the attractions of the town of Ada cannot be even touched upon, however briefly, in this article. Suffice it to say that the town has the best record of any, according to its size and age, in the whole Indian Territory. When the above is said the half j has not been told. uost season nua s cotton receipts were 13,000 bales, this season to late ever 17,000 bales have been received and the end is not vet. The Katy railroad has let the contract and work is now in progress for that road from Oklahoma City to Coalgnte, which passes through Ada. The llock Island from Asher, O. T. to Dallas, Tex., hy way of Ada, will no doubt he built. The Santa Fc from L'auls Valley to Coalgnte is expected to be built at an early date The Fiisc ) has recently made a survey, connecting the coal fields with the great jobbing point in < )klahonia, which line runs through Ada, and the road offers to wager a bonus that they'll beat the Katy, but of ibis we are not to say. The inquiry is na'uraliy male, what supports the town? The answer t > this is easy. We have an oil mill that consumes the seed of twenty to thirty thousand bales of cotton, employing 20 to 30 bands with go d wages; we have a Hour mill, which can utilize the wheat grown in the surrounding country. The soil is most prolific, producing ihc finest fruits, vegetables corn, wheat, oats and cotton in abundance, and the fine timbers, hard and soft ; woods, which arc means of supplying I the needs of many industries. These urn tliQftnrfOJ frrtm ivliiMi A tin r?n?o .......? her support and receives her revenue. Of Ada, socially, much can be said in her favor. She has clubs ; both literary and musical, composed I of men and women graduates of ihe i best institutions < f the States, intcl5 hgent. progro'sivo and arc not afraid when it comes to pushing matters oi . importance. 1 Commercially, Ada is not surpass .. x?VV XX 1 UA1V. i cil by any town of its age and size in the southwest. Professionally, she has splendid legal talent and men learned in the theory and practice of medicine and dentistry, and her business men are of the stuff that builds towns, as has been demonstrated by their successj ful efforts in securing the ice plant, ! electric light plant, wholesale grocery ! company, securing the U. S. court ! location, paying a big bonus for the ! Katv rnilrnml unit UMU> OVBCT in? ! dusuica o importance. We have Tim 11 y noted a few of the many things of interest connected with tho history of Ada and we are fully persuaded that not a point has been over drawn. The facts are such as to warrant the assertion that the town in the brief period of another year her population will be double what it is now. Ad i needs one other enterprise?a good water S3'stem?and we'll get it, in the Star's opinion, by the time the "Katy Flyer" whistles her entrance in the corporate limits of the town.?Ada Star, issue of Feb. 12, 1003, W. W. Iliggins, Editor. STATE NEWS NOTES. Gathered Here :nid There and Condensed for Quick Rending. The American Tobacco Company is arranging to establish a cigar box factory at Charleston, S. C., which will supply boxes for a mmU. -* ? -? v* Uiuci Ui their Southern factories, including the ones ut Charleston, Savannah, Macon, New Orleans aud Greenville. The machinery of the plant will be run by electrical power. ? * * The Southern train, No. 34, had a disastrous wreck at a switch eight miles north of Camden Sunday, where there is a sharp curve down grade. The engine kept the track, but the trucks under the baggage car, it is thought, jumped the track and shot the train into the side track. eaV W?MWhodXAck_exceDt the torn to pieces. A tramp was killed and a negro passenger badly hurt. * * * The fourteenth annual Purim masquerade charity ball was given Tuesday evening at Orangeburg. This ball is always one of the most brilliant social events given at Orangeburg during the year and usually a large sum is realized at it for charitable purposes. * * * Prof- John Wesley IIolTman, formerly professor of agriculture in the State Colored College at Orange\ - n uurg, >5. u., ami the most distinguished colored scientific agriculturist has been appointed by a large English syndicate their agricultural expert to go to Southwest Africa and introduce the culture of tea and cotton among the natives and to develop the coffee industry among them. He has appointed as his assistant in the work llobert W. Barnes, a native of Beaufort, S. 0. Lockhart Junction News Notes. Farm work has been very slow for the past week, as the ground has i been most too wet to plow, as the clouds still hang heavy over us and the rain comes in showers occasionally. Some few oats have been sown and some have sown wheat lor feed instead of oats. Spring tirno is now upon us and we sec the pea'h blooms and other things pu'ting forth, and though it looks like it is getting late for farm work. Old Sol will shine after a while and things will turn out all right, all is well that ends well. This writer hasn't much news from this side. The U'liruf rrAf! ? ? . "IIV/U^U ouiau lit acreage, is looking (Inc. Mr. W. W. Vinson and A. G. Plcxico arc smiling. One is a boy and 'ho other si girl. Mr. <i. 1?. Fowler lias been surveying land around lure the past Week. Mr. 1). C. Whito, who has been on ilic sick lis:, is g* ing around again. Miss Fiorerco Ilancy, of this neighborhood, has gone to Union to e'erk for Mr. \V. S. McLure of that . place. Moxy. BE* Early Risers The famous Httlo plis>,