The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 24, 1903, Image 1
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OUR COLORADO LETIfcR,
Mr. Ba tlcy Writes a Splendid Letter
for This Issue?A Bird's Bye
View of the Pretty City of Fort
Worth?Meets Editor Math is, of
Ihe Times, and his Talkative
JEscort. y'> .
FORT WORTH THE COMINO CITY.
Dearer, Col., April 12,1903.
, Mr. Editor:?Wo have had the
moat lovely weather of spring for
little more than a week,- the buds ef
t.thf maple and elm have bestired
themselves until they are near blooming,
bat oar native tree, the cottonwood,
still seems thoroughly asleep
to the warm embraces oroar beaut iepringtime,
notwithstanding the fact
that all the snow of the city disappeared
last week leaving no remainder
m our midst of the winter just Dassed.
However, the cotton-wood may be
Bock wiser than their imported sis
- tors, for. last night the snow began
tolling once more and has continued
till afternoon today, being abont six
inches deep though some has already
melted. .
I was very glad toi see the very intercssing
letters frotb Sedalia and
Cross Keys. Hope they will give
us more news, jind come often.
11 was very sorry to learn that our
able writer at Bonham, Tex., would
likely quit the service so.soon. However,
hope others .will volunteer and
keep us posted from all points as of
yore.
Well dear readers I shall leave
Writing of Texas for the present, but
before I close this chapter I will try
to tell you a small bit of what-the
writer considers' the most beautiful,
healthful and one of the most fertile
counties ef Texas. I will necessarily
have to be very brief and ean only
speak of a few ef the many advantages
which are to be found in the
county of Tarrant and the city of
_ Ft. Worth. I shall only speak of
r what was mainly viewed on my last
lili J6 h**V
dayTof the"Reunion^ro looked the
little city over as best I could without
taking the eleotrio cars. There
was none in the city with whom I
4 was acquainted as it had been sixteen
years since I was there before,
but had hoped to meet some one
from the country with whom I was I
- "well known, but that being the most,
busy season in that part of the
country toiled to see any one.
. . The city of Ft. Worth is to the
Writer's opinion the neatest and most
I# up-to-date little city in the State of
Texas. ^Of course the reader must
understand that the writer has not
seen all: the cities of Texas.) The
city is well laid out with broad streets
mast of which ar? iMrfantlv afraiorlit.
r J ? a?
running north and south, east and
west. 'Main street is the principal
business street and is one and a
quarter miles long. The county
Court House is on the north end of
* the street and the Texas Pacific
Depot at the south end. It is per*
fectly straight and nearly level
. thpugh the water, will run from the
Court House to the depot.. This
Street has u double car track of standard
gauge with new. seventy pound
steelT - Seventy pounds per foot and
.. laid as perfect and smooths as can be1
Ehe street is all paved* with
beantifhl red pressed brick
ept very* clean and neat,
several six story buildings
r, ? beautiful library, a
commodious Federal Build;titly
large to do the busi5
city of Denver, and their
s a perfect beauty from out*
sarances with a beautiful
round it. These three last
itdings ate on or very near
itreet. Besides there are
any business hlocks on. this
3 on Rusk street there are
nese houses, livery stables
louses.
pr" } This city has a perfect nataral
drainage, principally south and east.
v The County Court House stands
at the north side of the business part
of the city on a high bluff orerlook
? . ing the great bottoms and Trinity
f River to the north. The Fair
Grounds was north of the Court
| House in the edge of the bottom,
ft Though this is called bottom it is
L. very high above water and was never
mt. known to overflow. The jail is
P just'across the sireet north of the
. Court House on the very brink of
thd StulF. It is the same old Jail
that was there sixteen years ago and
looks as though it had not been repaired
in that time. The Court
House is the meat beautiful and
costly of any seen in the State of
Texas. It is built of yellow sandstone
out of the same quarry as the
capital at Austin and I think it
| came from Burnett county, Texas.
I It has been several years building
and tho interior is BOt *11 completed
jet. About two miles north of the
county Court House and on the north
side of the river tho Armour and
Swift Packing Companies were employing
over five hundred laborers
building very large packing houses.
They had a little town over there
which I think they called Argrota.
While the County Building was
very attractive, far beyond your humble
writer's ability to describe, yet
there were more attractive and interesting
features found inside the
building not the least of which were
the officers who had been elected by
tbe people to administer the affuirs
of the county. Your humble scribe
had only been in tho building a few
moments when he began to meet
friends who were total strangers to
himsolf. They were seeking to become
acquainted and urged the w-iter
to tarry lopger and come again. The
writer had never had?uch a fraternal
reception, especially among the officers
and clerks of such a wealthy
county and such a magnifieent building.
The whole secret was that
nearly all the officers and most of the ,
nnfl ocaifilnnfa Knlrtn?
W.W.MW MMV> HSWIVIU'IVO VVtVU^^U iU i U u
W. of W. and thej were thoroughly
alive and were anxious to meet any
persons who were strangers ig their
midst and they never let an oppor.
tunity pa's without being recognised.
However, ho one could realize what
this would mean unless he was a
stranger in a strange plaoe.
I will tell something of the street
car service of ft Ye city'. The principal
lines are all owned by the North
Texas Traction Co. fhtfihrTM
to*-^lee^/air^rftom Ft*
Worth to Dallas, a distance of over
thirty miles. This line had j ust been \
built and in order to hold the right
of way they had run cars over the
entire line though they had to buy
the power from Hie light company to
make the run as their power house
was not yet complete. When the
writer left the city they were building
a large power house at Handley
on the line from Ft. Worth to Dallas,
about 8 miles east of the former place
and in the edge of the cross timbers.
A.I a * '
v/iiicr jTULuuiera were inasing a summer
resort at Ilandley and it was
thought Handley was going to be a
great resident district for the people
of Ft. Worth and possibly from Dallas.
It will be remembeied that
there is no timber nearer Ft. Worth
than Handley and none very near
Dallas either, though Arlington is
about half way between Ft. Worth
and Dallas and is located in the same
belt of timber that Handley is, and
wherever this post* oak timber grows
the land is sandy and there is never
any mud, but nearly all the prairies
of this part are black, waxy and a
iright in wet weather.
The North Texas Traction Company
were changing all their lines
to the Standard Gauge an<T had all
the changes made in the center of
the city, but the suburban lines were
not all yet changed. Your humble
writer had just started to take in the
city by rail had only proceeded a few
blocks when to his great surprise as
well as pleasure the editor of The
Times boarded the same car; ho also
was taking in the sights of the West.
This was certainly a great pleasure
to meet with a friend so far awav
from home, and all so unexpected,
as the writer did not even know that
the editor had come te the reunion
and he could hardly believe his own
senses at first. Well, as Homo has
said, he does not like the kind of
sponsors that the management of* the
reunion are furnishing, and the
writer is very much of the opinion
of brother Homo on the subject,
though we would be glad to see them
at the reunions as subordinates <f
the grand old heroes, but not as the
Iueens and rulers of the soldiers,
believe this occasion is fjr the old
soldiers to meet each other ard that
their peace and pleasure should be
tho guiding rule of each and every
arrangement at the reunion and
should be subordinated to the will of
' the majority of old soldiers, further
more I believe these young queens
and kings should not assume to array
themselves iriih the high honors be
longing only to their ancestors and I
hope these young ambitious' 'royals
will stop and consider tho great injustice
they are doing to the noble
cause, which they seem to represent,
when they allow themselves to be'
made the center of attraction at the
reunion. These old soldier's time
is limited, and every moment to
them is very precious?tbey have
borne the cross and should be aU
lowed to wear a crown, as long as it
is possible for them to do so, and
these young royals should attend the
reunion witti no other thought in
view than to do all in their power
for the comfort, peace and happiness
of the old soldiers regardless of
all acquaintance, wealth or poverty.
They should tenderly car6 for altfjfat
as though it was their own *fatner
and make the ' few days of the old*
soldiera at the reunion be as .near
like the pearly gates of paradise sqs
it is possible on earth to be, and1
cheer the weary, careworn hearts,
many of whom have nothing more on
earth for which to live. Let them
realize that though they lost all fjr
which they had sfe manfully straggled,
yet they have won the love and
esteem ef the rising generation that
shall follow them all the days of their
earthly life and rest with tEeir bones
until the resurrection.
Well, yes, the editor of Tub
Times had a sponsor with him when
your humble soribe met him on the
street car at Fort Worth. I do not
remember the name of that sponsor,
in fact it was such a peculiar name
I am not sure if I ever remembered
it, however we took in the principal
car imes. TDo sponsor showed the
editor tho beautiful streets and residences
and tried to inake the editor
swear by all that he held sacred, holy
and dear that those were the finest
streets on the earth and that no city
in the world had tnch lovely and
beautiful homes. Then the snonaor
bnBttg. then tsketh him on
the building to what the
wed a summer garden, then showeth
him the wholo world and once
more calleth on the editor to swear
by all the oaths at his command that
the magnificence of the view and
surroundings were not surpassed by all
upon earth; I am not familiar with
the ability of the editor at swearing
in South Carolina, but I am very
positive that the editor has not the
ability to swear in accordance with
the advanced idea of a Texas sponsor,
for before we had reached the ground
the editor's sponsor took short leave
and was soon out of sight. Well we
then proposed to go to the orphansage
which was about four miles south
of the city and in order to get a ride
nil tVlA U'nv WA vAnU liana fn folrn
?*?w ii n v nvuiw u?t v vv la a v
Polytecnic College car and telephone
for the) Tallaho at the orphanage,
we telephoned for the Tallaho and
then waited for a car over that line,
but none came for such a long time
that we would not have time to make
the trip before our train would bo
due for Dallas, so we had to abandon
that pleasure, however the writer
made the trip later over the Poly tec nic
line and for the information of
the editor 4s well as the dear readers
will tell of wk^t you missed by failing
to make the trip. The guage of
the road is the same as that through
the heart of the city and the cars
run through until within about one
and a half miles of the college, there
the new rails stop also the new cars,
and then you have to change cars to
the old system ef track ana the old
worn out cars, all of v^hich anyone
would be ashamed to ride into the
city on unless it was a force of cir
cumstances, it was by far the shabbiest
car the writer bad ever ridden
on. The one in which we were ri 1ing
when we crossed the Texas Pacific
track and which we thought
would surely come to pieces, would
be a Pullman compared to the one
on the Polytecnic line, however there
is quite a lot of travel out that way,
as the car was very well loaded both
ways. There is a lako off to the
right of the line where a lot of fishing
is done. They only have one
car on that line and two men; the
car is No. 7 and carried one jack
crow, one No. 2 shovel, about 10
pounds of second hand wire, five
bars of old iron, a half gallon bucket
of fish bait, one oil can and a bundle
of rags; the refleotor of the headlight
i
uic HpnaiDg country, hut the
lauding? very little value for any
'h&dtjwpoee, as the whole surface
Pumftd -with small white rdcks
aeaWfcdfc hard as Hint. The writer
VVKraHB see why two men were empkrflp
tm the line all the time as
tii|jHb#4Works, the other simply
wtttfirifcng the track; it may be he
is^He to help put the car on the
traoflEmen it should jump off or to
teatifjN|>r the benefit of the company
wh?uAp oar shenld go through the
bri^U it seems likely to do at any
Wellv Mr.
known nearly all my life.
1 shallwpto tell something of the
old settietwof . Northern Mississippi
who came frem South Carolina.
With hesM^^es fjr one and all
P. S.4Am,' ?heB12thYthe
sun shoim m&to hy 6 p. no. all
the raodkmUH except jahere
drifccdjF* G. B.
Senator TillntJui'a Triumph.
Editoh The Times: In 1901,
just two years ago, the Texas legislature
enacted a law to establish an
industrial school for girls and is denominated
"The Texas Industrial
Institute and College for the Education
of White Girls of the State of
Texas in the Arts and Sciences," an
institution which many will agree is
a great acquisition to tho State educational
facilities. In its scope it
is extensive, embracing six departments
as follows:
1st. English?Science department,
teaching English language and literature,
history, psychology, political
economy, mathematics, physics,
chemistry, botony, zoology, languages,
etc.
2nd. Domestic Arts Department,
embracing cooking, sewing, laundering,
housekeeDing. etc.
llrd. Rural Arts Department, erabracing
dairying, poultry keeping,
bee keeping, horticulture, floriculture,
etc.
4th. Fine Arts Department, embracing
aesthetics, drawing, designing,
painting, photography, physical
culture, music, etc.
5th. Industrial Arts Department,
embracing dressmaking, millinery,
illustrating, designing, modeling,
carving, engraving, etc.
Gib. Commercial Department, embracing
bookkeeping, stenography,
typewriting, telegraphy, business
transactions, political economy, commercial
law, etc.
By the above you can understand
the purpose and scope of the school.
The following qualifications are required
of all entering this institution:
"Any white girl of goed moral character
who has attained the age of
sixteen years, who has a good knowledge
of the common school subjects,
who wishes to acquire a higher education
which includes a thorough
practical training for life, who comes
to the school with the clear and
earnest purpose of doin^ their best
wort ana complying witn tne regu
lations of the institution and who
pass satisfactorially the entrance examinations
prescribed by the
faoulty."
Of course an appointment must be
made so as to limit the number to
the accommodations. The County
Superintendents hare the appointive
power, and ''any white girl" above
means any one fortunate enough to
i get an appointment possessing the
| v
(bars ought to be many good men
tea women in this part of tkc moral
vineyard. * At nearly every church i
throughout the country there is a 1
regu'ar preacher. At that church ]
sometime during the year a protracted \
meeting of considerable duration is ;
held and often more than one is
held. In Botiham thit year the
union meetings aro popular. To ;
illustrate their popularity will sta'e 1
just about three weeks ago* a union 1
meeting of five week's duration closed \
in the city. Notice was published .
in the Daily Favorite of this city I
Saturday, April 4th, that tho local
pastors of the different churches 1
have signed an agreement ? 19k
?! 1
pro*. N
Governor Lanham has been using ,
the veto prerogative, pen and power (
quite ireely of late. Among the .
vetoes so far he vetoed a bill which <
the merchants of Texas worked bar J 1
to get pa? sid by the legielatufe, and '
one which the merchant thinks affect ,
him very unjustly as the law new <
stands upon the statutes of Texas, i
namely, tho occupation tax law. Thei
mercantile and quite a number ofnther \
callings in this State are taxedtheiu.
mi.am.rl8r- -f rl
|r?w|TVft MVUm^ ?M?liO VIA HK nUTMVilipkl ,
km'w l?hAtf ftttttu Itax
musk be paid in advance for the ,
privilege of (working) engaging in
said calling*. 80 there you are! But j
Texas baa some laws as rediculoua tu
the men were silly who conceived '
them and passed them. I pretend !
not to be a law-maker, but I am sure
thes3 I criticise are not based upou \
common sense, coram-n juilico aud
equity. 1
Senator Tillman has certainly made 1
a name and fame by the ma t;rful ,
speech on the race question in the
Ssnate in February, ilo has acd is
receiving the encomiums of all classes
in this section of country. His Dispensary
Law acd this receut fpeech
will make for him a name which will
ecdure for ages. His friend and his
foe speak equally in his praise for the
above mentioned speech and his loyalty
to his native State. Some pco
pie seem to want to make it appear
that none but Bryan D omocrats are
.j Ai cs a? nvn ? -1 . * I
auuiuoio ui osuaiur xinman mat i <
am sure is a great mistako for I 1 nve (
many reasons for believing that there ,
are here in Bmhatn many persona ,
who vote! against Mr. Bryan in 1896 (
and 1900 who are interested admirer j ,
of Mr. Tillman. They say, these ad- (
mirers, he is a Stateman of a pecu ia \
kind, but a Statesman just the same.
I am frank to siy I've always admired
his intellect acd expected, after a season
of Tillmanaatio display, for hiin ,
to do just what he has done. Oar
Congressman here, H>n. O. B Ilandell,
has sent Tillman's speech in
pamphlet to many of his constituents.
This may be the last time, for a
long while, that you will hear from
Bonham unless there is a change from
the present status. I've been promoted
to the position of servant and
I shall try to be faithful. If any reader
h?s been offended by this deponent in
a werd or s/llable the gracious jardon
is asked. Until you hear from
mo again goul bye. J. S. C.
NtWS FROM JONESVILLE.
Jonesville, April 20.?Last week
was * busy week in Jonesville, two
elections, the misrionary institute
for two diys and a lecture by Dr.
Wm. E. Hall, of N. Y., all crowded
in one week kept the people on the go.
The annual election for Town Council
carae off on Tuesday with more interest
than for many years, which was
caused by there being two tickets in the
field. One ticket was the usual convention
or mass meeting ticket, the other
being an independent ticket, the latter
being elected by ten m*j >rity. The new
council has been sworn in, and the old
council bas turned over the oflioe to
them with about dollar s in the
treasury. The present council are N j
iu^ndkrwii^ mhhh^hiudmm^p
wMTfiliMMiftii fft' t^mP^^M^hK AMIiIh^ *
Ming tjjkjn todFwaterandleft the valve
Blise jvered the water pouring out of the
ft pout. I examined it and found it would
ye Bome little time
iur ana tney woukl see the leaking ?f
.he tank and for a time I was kept busy
uiswering people who would call, "Mr.
, your tank is out of order." ''Thank
rou," aud in a few minutes, "Mr. ,
pour tank is out of order." "Thank
>'on, sir," and finally a negro hailed,
'Mr. , your tank is running oyer
it the bottom." This thing went on
Lill really L was worried by both while
uid colored people with their kindoess.
^o I concluded the world was not such a
bad place after ail.
The Jonesville team light weights
played (he Union light weights and Packet
light weights both last week, and
iiMuSuLnfcvu 1 ?-'"ill nrflffi in both
games. . * ? .
Dr. II. T. Haines has moved Into his
new office and apothecary shop, and it is
both neat and convenient. Dr. M. W.
Chambers has been occupying his new
office and shop for some time. Dr. W.
J..Douglass is also building an office and
loctor shop. Dr. Southard has been
running a drug store for some time. Dr.
A.. 8. Foster has a neat and comfortable
lental office. So our people have the
advantage of the medical, surgical and
iental fraternity, and can be served at
any and all hours with skill and ability.
There is plenty of fruit on the trees
and garden truck begins to show up
well. Wheat, oats and barley are looking
well, but there is very little corn et
sot ton planted yet. '
1 11? *" "
The Messrs. Holcomb spent most of
last week with their brother, Mr. Kobt.
A.. Holcomb, of Bogansville, who is very
low with consumption.
ltev. L. T. Carroll fille<l his pulpit
here yesterday and last night. His congregations
were good at both services.
Mrs. Jno. D. Jeffries, Jr , of Asbury,
?ttended service at the Baptist church
lere yesterday.
The ling of the saw and hammer is
tieaid all over our town these days and
the woik will increase, for the Jonesville
Mfg. Co. will build about twenty new
liouses for operatives this year.
Telephone.
A Trip to Georgia.
It was my privilege to make a trip
to E'.berton, Ga., on Saturday of last
week. Mr. F. G. Trefzer, who before
liis coming to Union, for years rej'dsd
in Eiberton, had often expressed
\ desire for me to see the splendM
louses of worship recently erected
there by the lHptists and Methodists.
Da Siturd&y we took the train fof
Carlisle and thence over the Heaboard
L_ TV 11 1__ T?L - ? ?.
iu ijiueriuu. J. HO V1811 WAS a mOSt
lelightful one. Mr. Trefzer has hosts
f friends there, and for hia sake they
were extremely kind to me. I heard
the pastor preach on Saialiy morning,
aid at night preached myself.
Friends showed me through the buildings
and gave me a gr. at deal of in
formation along the line of buildiwg
church hois j.
Emberton is a splendid little city.
I was surprised to seo what handsome
public buildings and stores they had.
A thirty thousand dollar court house,
a ten thousand dollar library building
and handsome brick houses of
worship for the Methidie's and Baptists
are some of the evidences of their
progress.
On Monday wa returned home by
the S nithern Railway, changing cara
at Toccoa, Ga., atd at Spartanburg,
S. C. Oa the return trip we passed
through many prosperous towns and
progressive farming lands.
Mr, Trerzer bore the whole expenses
of the trip, and I am under last*
ing obligations to this generous gentleman
for one of the most pleasant
trips of ray life.
L. M. Rice.
Constipatiou and billiousuess cannot be
cured in a night?a week; neither can
one withstand the debilitating effects of
iu. ax ?-*! " " * -
ine uruirmry "liver puis" ror weeks, but
I he gentle action af Itamon's Treatment
of Liver Pills and Tonic Telleta make
one feel gradually improved as the treatment
progresses?no bad times, b&t a
continued, rapid improvement. A
month's treatment?one 25c box?will
make the chronic sufTerer rejoice. A
trial will convince you; letussupply you.
Sold by Union Drug Co.