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r ' '- ^ ' *.A|^VS %. * IN THE TOWN OF UNION ? B TJ-? - ks -y -ji( <- T r | -O -gj- ~y\ af" -jM"^ f~~^A OUTSIDE OF THE CITY Five Cotton Millstone Knitting ' ' Hi Pi r i ^ ra m P w ^ / s ?1 I ' ' Thro2 Cotton Mills, one Knitting Mill and Dye Plant, no* \ \ H *3 K 4 % H | | 1 S I 1& / I 4 Mill, another building, Cold 31 inSzF'gzWS^tT?.** I I I ill i % 117'% 1 Wl 111 it HA ';? 3"mr" *""? Graded Schools, Water Works und H ffj gj[ K A >4. ' Jl_ N H a. \ S B ?k j J L /| 1 nxablc value in and out of town Electric Lights, Population 7,000. -aa- ?rx? $5,000,000. YOL. LIII. NO. 13. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 87, 1903. #1.00 A YEAR. Clear The Track Ahead. jTwo long and two sho; t whistles aro the signal for a crossing, and uro most familiar sounds to travelers and all within hearing of railroad trains ] I bear a faint sound far away? Two long, and two short notes at play, And soft and sweet as silver tl rte, The loc motive's first salute "T-o-o-t, t-o-o-t, toot-toot!" I hear again the tuneful sound, Now waking woodland echoes round, vv The locomotive seems to say "We are coming-coming, cliar the "T-o-c-t, t-o-o-t, toot-'! ' At&JUUKA rumbling noise I hear, AtWlcuds Of smoke.aud steam appear, -i ..- TheIcccmotive seems to shout: SK nri> nc mfrcr f u*r. Trnlr mi I T nnl S?' ') ouf i1' ft 44T-o-c-r, t-co-t, toot-tooM" And now I hear a bu z -n b !1 W That lifts'aHoud a warning knell, The engine now begins to ye.ll Like frantic fl-iifl ercaped from hell: t4T-o-c-t, t-o-c-t, tool-too'! ' 'Mid hissing steam and deafening roar I hear that awful sound once hiof. : "Kw p back, keep b:ick 1 Do:i\ cro:s ihe truck 1' ; .... . , For love of life, stai d back, stand ba'kl'' S V >:1 "T-O-o-t, t-oo-t, tdot-Vo'!"' With el inging bell and clattering steel And filming breath and 11 ishiug wheel The lightning train goes crashing by, Like fiery bolt from stormy sky, "T-c-o-t, t-o-c-t, toot-loo !" t < A whirlwind follows'mi behind, With clouds of dust our eyes are blind; Yet from tlie curve around the hill Is heaid that engine whis'Ie shri.l, 4tT-o-o-t, t-o-o-t, toot-too!*' ? < - ?'W Again, a faint souHd fat away? Two long, and two short notes at play, The It comotive'a-farewcll cdi: * rVc aic cbasirg time. God spoed us all"? t4T-c-c-t, t-o-o-t, too*.-tco'! OUR SANTUC LETTER. 'Oh the sweet world of the blo?soms When the blithe winds to and fro Rock* the softly tinted'cradha Where the fruited orchards grow, All the bneze wafting pefTume O'er wide fields of dril'tin&snow. Snow of summer and'ofli jweis,' Not the flakes of feathery ch 11 Once4hat lilted the sleeping hollows, Hounding out each watching hill, Snow of summer and of fl >wers, Acres of it, where you w ill. Oh! the white world of the blosioms, Where the sweet winds to and fro Solt'y.wotily, rock the cradles Swinging high and swinging low Cradles of the fruited orchards In the blossoms' tinted snow." We are in the midst of blossom now, and the world looks beautiful, and we are' made glad. Who docs not love blossom time? v Rev. D. A. SifiiMKer. ofJMcCormick, was here a few days last week. Mr. W. II. Jeter, of Carlisle, was here on business last week. Mr. D. F. Gilliam, of Union, was circulating among friend* here Monday. * ? * M i?fl Nellir. Rr.-Mvn nf \r\Anrar\r\ V???v ? VllMj VI IftUVIWIUVll) w visiting fronds in and around daniuc, principally *utvMr. *J. ,AY." Gregory's. Mi?$ Brown taught school hero a few year* ago, and has many friends here. ltev. J. D. ^hefn filled his appointment here at.the JIapfUt church {Sunday, oven though weather was bad; and Bcv. W. II. \V-hUp was hero on Lis regular 'appointment at fhe Presbyterian'.-church last 3rd {Sunday. . **< I heard that some r.egroes have been cutting cord wood for the "fao. tory down at Jeter's mill. Well, that gets ahead of me, f/r I heard it was going to be a dim, but . they may be preparing for roaatingfashotfkes and fixing thTnfcs to 6upplyv meat traps. :r We are having ^hijanoorwill songs now every evening'.ahd .everything is feeling spring-". i>?*/> . L The Southerp mookiqg bird* ha* coma forth with his "yarfitiotis." pnd what bird can surpass' the mocking j bird. One can now say ' Listen to the Mocking Bird." Small grain has started along with a rash, and the 'prop at present 4e very promising. " Ofcformn^fcel/1 there is not enough. . ; -> Pastures are coming out unusually early this year, and geon grazing will be gooa. A mild winter is favWjorable tQ.stock. A good .week's work at plowing was done last-, week. All available stock was put at it, and tli6rfe is ovi" dene# of business. f>/ The wee^3^\Vcathcr Crop B jI letin" of tho p^jpajlmpjit of Agricdtdpre, a ill begin next weok-o.Thia fo intended to keep closj^ qp with the cond <ioi of crops'tnfough the grow ^ * '**m ?v 'a r *'ng season. . Guano has been hauled ofT from here the past week by the tons, and at times the yards were crowded with wagons iind teams. The evidence point3 to a great deal being used this year. Wo had a solid week of cloudy weather, but last week was an ideal one fhr firm work, until Friday night when rain sot in, and through Saturday and part of Sunday and Sunday night we had s'ormy woathor. 2 01 inches of rain fell in a little over 2-1 hours, and 3.83 from Fridav nitrhfc t.-? ? ? J ? D ~ *v *'*V*?V??Jf LU71 Quite heavy you see. . I am glad there is going to be a Sunday Schrol Convention, for I am afraid the previous bad weather and rough roads was gointr to cause it to be neglected. And I can say I am glad the 1st Church at Union will entertain it. I hope it will be well attended. . . I saw cn Itisb potato that Mr. J. McJ. Fant got out of a turnip, or if it was not a pota'o, no potato could grow more like ~on<\ the eyes were perfect. I asked Mr. Fant to plant it, but he feared he had carried it too long in his pocket. I have seen hog hair in a potato but never anything like 'his before. But that wa3 a potato c r I~nm no j idge. One of the greatest nuisances that I can think of is a dog tro'ting about in a church during preaching, nosing around people, trying to get acquainted with" everybody; trying to attain ' familiarity", generally, and "contempt" is bred spontaneously in me right there on the spot. I saw a girl recently trying to bo very pretty, but I scarcely saw Lor for she. was estoped by a stupendous bat, with elaborate embellishment.*, and it had about put her out of sight.. She may have been pretty, but I did not stoop down to pee? under it to see who was there, oil how she looked. That would haw' been the height of impertino ice. I was sorry to Hear of the death of Dr. Sam W. Me Junk ins, of Texas, which your correspondent J. S. C. informed us of. Dr. McJunkin ha'd many relatives in v this county and hero at this place as he was bftrnttnd reared here. Mr. J. McJ. Fant, a first cousin of bis, now owning the house in which he was born. ( have 'but a faint recollection of him and would not have known him if I bad seen him. although a first cousin, myself, and I hope and believe tje did live and conduct himself wi-fivcrodit to bis family. I have ncvj|r\Jieard aught but that fTe did. I liaS'e of.en heard that he was a very succes.-ful physician. "He never did live in Union but his very early life and until he secure 1 a position 33 sur it?:.~.i xt guuu /ii JLJ-IV. uuucu ucuius iiuvj us spent hero at Santuc. Mr. Gary Jeter told several of in jhow some negro or ncgroC3 used the invontive gonius to get some peas from liirn. He had a box containing about twenty-five bushels in it in his gear house, and began, to mi.'s. them' and" he aVays had the key, but alter losing considerable, perhaps half, he discovered that an auger hole had "been bared through the (loor and box, and threw this they drew the peas ifod wau'd put in a "corn cob uotil they were ready f>r another draft. I heard once of an o!d negro prayer meeting holder boring a hole in a gin hou3c 11 >or and getting wheat. Some young men.caught him at it following him Jo where he held* prayer meeting yn'd when he gave out by lines the song ''Ilark from the tomb, etc .1 . ! i .1 1 1 1 uiey .sieppcp imo uio nouse ana saiu: *>HarkJ -from tho tomb a doleful sound, ' -JIbrAce bored the liolo and tho wheat '*un. down*." ... That wou'd be a good song for tho pea "hookers." Readers, be not angry with rac for njy. much Mayings on the permYhQht>BttM??t of good roads, but ft-gV^ jno^tb>' "tired feoHpg" spoic'erTof so niu'djfiby'the patent men when thero is so much saying and so little being dono, and especially when so much talk is abmt rock crushers, steam engines and macadamizing; when so much can be done before we line up on tho raacademiz'ng portion of it. As the negroes would soy, I have never tried to "fault" | any ope, -because of the mul on "smooth clay" places, but they are other places on which the eyes of the higher officials have never rested. ((The recent heavy rains have smooth el <Kcr sonic hub deep holes, and washed out some placis) Perhaps theso washed out places, some of them at leas', would never have been if duty hiul hocn done, and now the^ county will have extra expense because of previous bid work. llecently I counted <na short section, 3.\ miles of road, fourteen low muddy places and all for the want of woak. I do not suppose one dollar's worth of work has been done on the fourteen places in five VCira. Evpr vtllinor rrntiir.ail ia tn . - - ... 0 J ... v... j side ditch, to raise the road out of the water that collect*. Eight of tho3e arc very bad at ticres, for the ! water ouzos out of the roadbmks on the hills and slopes and runs down a wet weather spring rainy diys after the rain ceiscs. Last weak the clay places in the roads dried and packed but some of these sevoga or dips remained water soaked, and they would dry sooner, yes some of them would not be muddy during a rain if they were half worked even, hut they arc never worked. Now there are two things to consider?one of two things you inu-t accept, i. e. thes in charge of such places either don't know how to fix them or they ti nply won't do it. "Which will you ad ni?? I hold to the qutstien and stand on tny position. All these places n?cd is work ar. l they will rem lin g>>d with a nrnimum amount of repairing. After these hard rains tho ru's and holes in many of these placo3 will be smoothed over, but if wagons start ogain will soon be cut again. An invitation to visit these places is ex tended. Fix these places that can be fixed, but if not w ithout mac idealizing and we on wrestle with clay m id a vhil* until wo get better on our feet, but if the county piy men to work the robrds then pay them extra to w rk places nude bad through iheir r.egl c* (if any there is) we will never get on our feet. ft ' Hey DifxvHit.. WASHINGTON LETTER. (From Our Rogulur Correspondent.) Washington, I). C., March 23.? The Anthracite Coal Strike Com mission lias made its award art! the President lias caused them to lie made public. By the terms of the agreement entered into between the operators and the miners these awards stand until the 31st of March, 1000, and therefore,- danger of another coal.fimine is averted for that period. By tho decision of the commission the miners will receive a general 10 per cent, increase in wages beginning with April of last year and continuing throughout the peri.>d. Moreover, if the average wholesale price of coal, pea size,- goes above $4 50 per ton, the miners are to receive an increase of wages amounting to 1 per cent, for each 5 cents increase. Men working 0 hours are, also, to bo paid on a 10 hour basis. A ' conciliatory .jbitfTcommi t t ee'' is provided for in 3ach.,.-mining .dis'.rio"-, It will be composed of three members app<. in'eI by flic operators and three appointed by the miners and to it shall be re ferred ?H oiinorcnces, while in the event that on Agreement cannot be reached, a.seventh, who fchull ctst the deciding vote, shall be called in. The miners are allowed all the chock weighers they may demand but they are to pay them themsolves. The operators are required to pay a com missioncr who shall be appointed by a Circuit Judge and whose duty it shall be to determine the averago wholesale price of coal. Among the general recommendations of the Commissioners are," one recommending that the custom of employing special police shall be abolished and ono urging that the existing child labor laws bo enforced. Ia view of the ratification of the Panama canal troatv the engineers oro already figuring on the force that will bo required to construct the canal. It is said that not less than 20,000 will bo employed and at times this force will be doubled. There are now 1,000 men at work under the French company and every foot of the canal has been survoyed and ground broken. Two hospitals, fully equipped, aro now maintained and , doubtless will be during the entire construction of the canal. Assuming i that no legal obstacles present themselves it is not bolievcd that the actual work of construction will begin I before the fall of 1004. American skilled labor and possibly some of the 1 oxpenienced Frercliienginecis will be | employed tut only negroes and preferably those who havo leen ac climated will be hired for the common labor. Tho President has expressed himself as sorely disappointed at the postponement of actual reciprocity with Cuba for practically a year and is seriously contemplating calling Congress in extra sessi n about NoVPmSpr 1." Ii \ri?n " ?- ....i., .? .vn a. 1 iwn t ' ^ClWIIg the Cuban legislation disposed of be foro the volume of legislation inevitable at the beginning of a regular session. Mr. ltocsevelt is also disappointed at the failure of the Senate to act on the nominations of William Michael Byrne as United States Attorney for Delaware and ot Dr. Crum, the negro named for collector of the port of Charleston, S C. Both of these nominations were sont in at tho regular session and both were unfavorably reported by the committees to which thev were referred 11 >;h were sent in during the special session and tho first was unfavorably reported by the Judiciary Committee but the Commerce Committee refused to meet to consider the Tatter. Tho President lias committed himself to the appointment of these two men unices formerly turned down by the Senate and he desired a vote of that body but fiiled to secure one. lie has now made both oppointmon's as recess nominations aiid the men will take office. The President will go west on April 1, and hopes to secure, in the wilds of tlio Yellowstone Park, an. absolute respite fio:n all official carea and worries, lie will take newspaper men on his special train but .l.-i - i- - ' Ufa iu| iwitu null ?ui'a no enters the Park they remain oti'side and permit him the two weeks undisturbed aud ^nwatchpdl. vacation of which he feels nTmselJi^neeu. The" proposed tripts a far reaching one. From the Yellowstone, Mr. ltooievelt will return to Saint Louis and be present at tho dedicatory exercises of the Saint Louis Exposition and will then go to the Pacific coast practically the entire length of which he will traverse and on Decoration Day expects to deliver an address at Cheyenne, Wyoming. From there ho will journey towards Washington making numerous stops and reaching here on June 5th. A'ready the President is worried over what appears to be a serious blunder made by his friends with regard to his visit to Chicago. The date set for that visit is April 2 and on April 5 will occur the municipal c'ection. For some, thus far unexplained, reason the Mayor of Chicago, who is a candidate for re elec ti n was not invited to be chairman of the reception committee and, although the President understood that his recep'ion was to be entirely nonpartisan, 'it now transpires that onty Republicans have been invited to pariicipato in his recoption. The Democratic miyor has attacked the President on the ground that he is coming to Chicago to help elect n Republican mayor, but the President has insisted on the mayor s being invited to participate in all,the ccro monies attending his visit. As somewhat sensational report has just been received at the War Department urging upon tho Government the importance ef increasing the strategic s'rength of tho American Legation at Pekio. While the' report contains nothing which indicates danger of an immediate uprising it states that in the event of such a cata-trophc the Americans would be wholly unprotected, there being nn nrmniipnt nf flm T.nrrnfi/M-? oot.l.* ? w ? w ?MV ^Vgvvivtl) UOIV4V from the small arms of the Guard, but two antiquated guns valuable only as ornamental relics. The American military officers say that Germany and other countries have not only inclosed their legations with stout steel fences capable of keeping at boy a mob armed with the usual weapons but they havo erected on the wall of the city, against which all tho compounds abut, block houses from which a long and effective defense can be maintained. As there arc many men, women and children who would bo obliged to take refugo in the legation in the event of an uprising, tho military authorities urge the advisability of American) being authorized to take similar precautions. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Gathered Ilerc au;l Ther<; ;tnd Condense I tor Quick lie.vliu i l,I am willing t) risk my roputilion as a public man," wiitts Edward llir.es to the Liverpool Mercury, notes the lJoston Pos% "if the wont oa?o of smallpox cannot be cured in three days by the use of cream ol tartar. "One ounce of ere im of tartar, dissolved in a pint of hot water, and drunk at intervals when cold, is a certain, never failing remedy. It has cured thousands, never leaves a lii.nn, ucvtr ciuse3 onmiuesP, and avoids tcdiou3 lingering." * * * The Nows and Courier, locally, confirms the statement ma la in The Record recently that a large number of white men have applied for jobs under Crum. The number is placed at as many as 150, and the insinuation is made that if the names are printed there will be a sensational eye-opening in the old ci'y. We hope the names will be printed? every one of them. If there arc those on the list who have heretofore bjen considered decent and respectable they ought to be known. Public sentiment ought to be such as to run them out of the city and State.?Columbia Rectrd. * * * Mark Ilanna, of Olio, a ad John Ivean of New Jer.:cy, is the latest Republican ticket launched on the political sea by the self constituted President makers in the Sei.atc. I .* * * , Advices from Havana which are considered reliable state that while in Cuba recently J. Pierpont Morgan. ivnvp<JMitin.? A fn O 7 * "J" Ifuv, ^ kiliL'l lUJU A Kj"~ bacco Company, closed ncgotations for the purchase of all tin find* in fV. ,Y?o!ta Abaio d'striet. unon which 13 grown the ime&t grade 01 leaf tobacco in the world. * Ten bil.ions of dollars for a continental system of deep-sea canals and the creation of 50,000,000 horsepower is the latest dream of industrial promoters. The United States has at last reached the billion unit as the basis of calculations where the whole country is concerned.?New York World. * * * Los Angeles, Cul., March 22.? Three masked robbers attempted to hold up a cir on the Los AngelesPacific Electric Line, running between Los Angeles and San'a Monico, about a mile west of the city limits, lost night and, after a pistol duel between (J. W. llcndersm, one of the passengers, and one of the robbers, the other two highwaymen began shooting right and left through the crowded car. One passenger was killed and three wounded. * # * A dispatch from Now London, Conn., to the Newf York Ilcr.dd give3 an account of a collision bc 1>! *1- -r .1. . i"vtu niu oaaiuci ? IJ lllUUlitl, Ui IUU Fall Uivcr Line, and the freighter, City of Taunton, in which six persons h st their lives. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Newberry is making an effort to have a Union depot built hv circulating a petition for signatures. If the people eould only see our little shack of a passenger depot, they would be more than contented with their depot, it is an elegant affair compared with curs. I?ut we live in hope of getting a modern structure in the sweet byo and hyo. * 2k * The State Supreme C mrt last week affirmed the judgment of the lower c.Hirt, giving Mr. J. C. Shumport, an engineer, a verdict of $10,000 against the Southern Railroad for injuries received in a collision at Del ton on Feb. 13, 1901. The suit was brought for $.>0,000, a verdict was given for 312,000. The Judgo cut it to $10,000. Sehutiipoit appealed to Supremo court with above result. Even $10,000 b a pretty healthy pilo. < * y # * Newberry has put up hitching racks for the farmers' horses. It is a great convenience and much ap| predated by tho country people. 1 Union would mako no mi-take in fhllowing the example if a place could be found to put them. -- - 'V How to Make Good Roads. A movement deserving tie hearth st en-.', urageuicnt of pcoplo generally is the present active agitation fur good roads. It becomes m: re aj parent from year to voir that there has b:en a most woeful neglect in this particular in past years on the part of the present generation ami throughout tin proceeding generalion? that have lived and died. If there had been only a moderate interest manifested in substantial road building the inhabited petitions of our country, in every State, would have been blessed with the very best of roads, and travel by vehic le would have been a delight* fut pastime in all hinds of weather. Hut take a thoughtful look at the clay roads of our own county in a rainy season; roads that have been traveled probably a century, and make a calculation <f how much of real value has been done on them. Ami yet, enough money and labor has been spent on ihctn to have almo.t put tuein past the need of work in this generation if the proper kind of work had been done all along. Everything that has been done has been temporary, and this policy has been pursued year after year until the years have drawn into a century or more, and noth'ng now remains of I 11 - * an tins ten to show that the roads have received any special attention. It is time we were waking up to the cntrmity of this great waste of toil aud mcsns and in fu'uro put it to a belter use, so that the accumulation of years of wotk spent on our roads shall show some substantial improvement in their condition. Durability ohould be the end in view?putting work there that will stand the test of time.?Kershaw Era. This kind of work can only be done by.having something with which to d) it. With good road machinery i mo vuu m*.. w. ^ * tvuvw* iV? * * we cannot. That is the tl ing in a r.utthell. It Saved Ilis leg. 1'. A. TXinfortli, of LaGrar.ge, Ga,. | suffered for six months with a lrightlul i unning s>:e 0:1 his log; l>ut writes that llurklcn's Arnica Salvo wholly cure I it in live days. For Ulcers, Wounds, Tiles, it's 1 lie best salve in the world. Cuic guaranteed. Only 2oe. Sold by F. (J, Uuko, druggist. America's Nine National Capitals IIow many readers could tell offhand the number of national capitu'o this country's congrcs.5 has sat \vt I and give the names? Not many, probably. Well, there have b en nine of them?Washington, D. C?, Baltimore and Annapolis in Maryland, Trenton and Princeton in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Lancaster and York in Pennsylvania and New York | City. The first session of the Continental congress was held in CarI pouter's Hall, Philadelphia, September, 1774. Thereafter the American congress was for a long timo something like the Philippine congress while the latter was dodging American troops?and for much the same reason. Fearing to remain in Philadelphia after the defeat on LoDg Island, congress went to Baltimore, and voted George Washington dictatorial power for six months. Congress returned to Philadelphia two months later, February 27, 1777. Lancaster and Yo:k got their sessions after the defeat at Brandywine, congress retreating. Nyie month# the law makers lcmaincd in York; news of Burgoyne's surrender wss received there. Then six month# in New York and another term in Philadelphia. Menaced by unpaid troops, congress went over to New Jersey. {Sessions were hell in Princeton college library. Annapolis next, where General Washington resbrnrd l.irs o immisnirvn had a trial then, with Henry Lee aa President. Here Lafayette took leave of his American allies.?From "Aflairs at Washington" in March National. YToOvertime. Eight hour laws arc ignored 1>v thoso tireless little workers-Dr. King's New Life l'ills. Millions are always at work, night and day. earing Indigestion, ltilliousness, Constipation, Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver and bowel troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe, sure. Only 2-">c at F. 0. Duke's drug storo. Mitt's Salve 1 Far Piles, Burn, Sara*.