The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 30, 1903, Image 4
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UNION, 8. C., OCTOBER .10, 1903.
An Irishman who had been arrested
for crime, sent for a lawyer to get
him out of the scrape. After hearing
a statement of the case, the Inw.yer
assured him that ho would see
that he got justice. "Oh no," said
Pat, "I want you to see that I don't
getjustice." And the lawyer earned
his fee.
Senator Latimer, of this State, is
in t.hn Xnpfhwpni. mnlcincr qnpoi-Jipt; in
advocacy of good roads. He wants
Congress to appropriate $100,000,000
a jTear for five years to assist in
building good roads in all the States.
Tho sand and clay roads of Rich'and
county have given great satisfaction.
In Union county we have the clay,
but sand is not so abundant.
Friends and comrades of Gen.
Micah Jenkins are raising a fund to
have a portrait of him placed in the
State Capital. South Carolina has
always furnished gallant soldiers in
every war in which she has taken
part, and among them was no truer
knight than Gen. Jenkins. Many
men of his brigade were from this
county. Subscriptions should be
sent to "The State" newspaper.
Mr. Walter F. Reed, of Camden,
who invented a horse hay rake some
time ago, had one of his machines on
exhibition at the State Fair. This
rake is regarded as a big improvement
over anything of its kind y9t
put upon the market. It can be adjusted
so as to rake ten, seven and a
half or five feet, which makes it available
for raking straw. It can be
folded up and transported as easily
as a road cart. The machine has
been patented.
In 1897 Lady Warwick ipaugurated
a scheme for the training of women
in the lighter branches of agriculture.
The success of the "college" ha9 been
marked. In fivo years 225 students
hav'O qualified in dairy work, market
gardening, poultry raising, bee keeping,
fruit growing and horticulture.
several or the graduates have been
offered positions in South Africa and
Canada. Last week Lady Warwick
announced to her "Daughters of
Ceres," as she poetically designates
her agricultural students, that the
"college" has become a permanent
institution. The student fees are
very small.
Mr. R. A. Lancaster, a progressive
farmer of Spartanburg county, planted
an acre in long-staple cotton this
year which yielded an average size
bale. He expects to get L"> or 1(5
cents a pound for it, about .">0 per
cent, more than ordinary cotton
brings. The seed were secured from
the U. S. Agricultural Department
through Congressman Johnson.
Our farmers should more generally
avail themselves of the advantages
offered by the Department, not only
in furnishing really valuable seed,
but also instructive Farmers Jlulletins,
which are sent free to anyone
applying for them.
The Abbeville* Press arid Banner
says that trees should he planted in
the early spring and not in the fall.
This fully agrees with our observation
and experience. Buy your trees
in the fall, otherwise the nurserymen
may be sold out. When they arrive,
take all the wrappings from the rools
and "heel them in," that is bury
them in the ground up to about six
inches above the. roots, and at an
angle of about 15 degrees, in a place
Where water will not "sob" on them
Roses shonld also have I heir tops
covered with pine-brush or something
of the kind. More tender plants, tea
olive and cape jassamine, should be
kept in the "pit" till spring Is well
advanced.
OUR GRAD^ U .?( i. . '.LS.
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Prof. Frank Evans, Superintendent. 1
of the Spartanburg Graded Schools, t
calls attention to a very serious con- I
dition in his schools, which is prob- ,
ably common to all the graded school"* <
in the State. '
We do not see how this evil is to '
be remedied, unless by kindergartens J
for the little ores. J
Prof. Evans says : (
"Our course of study consists of i
nine grades of nine months each, aud
is so arranged that a pupil may begin
at six years of ago with the first grade
i and finish in the ninth grade at 15.
i But the grades are steep, and it is
necessary for many children to stay
more than nine years at school to
finiph the course. Six years of age is
entirely too young for the majority
of children to enter any school of
higher grade than the kindergarten.
Those who come to us at 7 do more
and better work than those who euter
at (>. Yet some purents try to smug'
gle their little ones into the first
grade before thev are G. because their
sixth birthday will coine before the
close of the term.
"Many of tho children in our high
schools are too young and undeveloped
to do the work expected of them
, Some of them have failed ; many have
barely passed. Primary childreucan
not do secondary school work.
"Parents are admonished to keep
their little children out of school until
they are 7, at least, that they may
get a more thorough and adequate
home training. The home is the
first in point of time, and, indeed, If
it be worthy of the name of home, is
the most important school which the
child attends.
"A wise and thoroughly-trained
teacher said, not long ago. that her
chief difficulty was not with pupils (
but with parents. Many parents are
obstacles in the way of the true education
cf their children. Instead of
co-operating with teachers they antagonize
them; instead of assisting
in the difficult work, they throw obstacles
in the way of that work.
They are always questioning the wisdom
of the discipline, asking special
favors which involve interruption of
study, and consciously, and uncopsoiously
in many small ways hindering
the work which the school is trying
to do for the child. The chief
injury, however, which many parents
do to the school is in sending their
children without that genorul training,
that steady discipline, that in- 1
fluence for refinement which the i
school cannot give but upon which it ,
must build. The rawness and crud- ,
it.y of many children who come from
well-to do homes is amazing. These
children know almost nothing of the 1
things which in intelligent humes are
the very atmosphere. They have no i
fund of general intelligence; they are .
untrair.^ain manners, in sneech. in
voice and in mind, and the school has
to do for them in a very'limited time
und under very difficult conditions
the work that the home ought to have
done under the best possible circum- I
stances and with the fullest possible |
time." ,
The award of the Alaska Boundary <
Commission gives the United States
about all it claimed. The dissatisfaction
of the Canada members and i
their refusal to sign the decision does 1
not affect its validity.' I
That a dispute about so important
a matter?one that only a few years 1
ago would have probably involved 1
this country and Great Britain in
war?should have been settled by
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arbitration between the parties interested,
gives promise of the oarly
coming of the day when wars between |
civilized nations will be a thing of ,
the past.
The first honor graduates of six 1
military colleges in the United States 1
will hereafter be admitted to the regular
army as second lieutenants on
the same footing as the graduates of
West Point. Of the more than loO
military schools in the United States
the government names these six
academies as deserving of this special
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knowing that the Citadel?the South
Carolina Military Academy?is named
in this select list and it should be a
further pride to South Carolinians to
know, judging from reports of inspector
generals of the United States
army, that the Citadel stands first as
a military academy, in curriculum
and soldierly training, after West
Point. A splendid school, it deserves
most liberal support.
Wo heartily agree with tho following,
taken from the Dillon Herald:
"Furman has set a splendid example
in prohibiting tho playing of football
Hinone its ntnrlnnf.o Ti.? -- > ? *
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not only endangers the lives of'the t
young men who participate In It, bat <
also coDBumes much valunble time ^
which might he spent in a more y
profitable manner, Then again the .
thoughtful aide of the world haa long
since censed to admire the hero of '
the gridiron, and a well equipped
football team is no longer a drawing t
card for the college. It wa3 an ^
abominable thing from the very be- /
ginning and why it ever ehou|d have
been given a place among nineteenth e
century sports passes intelligent 5
comprehension." ^
It is estimated that in one year a |p
ien eats food equal to sixteen time* M
aer weight and lays epgs equal to F
about six times hur weight. Her K
food costs about one cent a pound, 5
while her eggs bring about sixteen V
seats. An average hen will produce F
210 eggs a year. Her food costs- K
about eighty cents and her eggs will &
Bell for two cents each?or f t.KG. (,
Farm hens whioh are allowed to run fc
at large cost the farmer from forty- ^
seven to eighty-three cents a year for
food. The first year is the most S
profitable age for hens. F
Washington Letter. 1
(From Our Regular Correspondent.) L
The method employed by our v
State Department to obtain from r
Mexico the extradition of the alleged *
boodler, Charles Kratz, who is S
wanted for trial in St. Louis, involves ^
an interesting point in international h
law and may establish an important Jj
precedent in extradition proceedings. ^
ADout a year ago we signed an ex *
tradition treaty with Mexico, which li
included for the first time the crime F
of bribery. When, however, wc rc- S
quested Kratz* arrest, the Mexican I
government was obliged to inform us a
that under its constitutution the fact *
that the alleged crime was committed f
prior to the signing of the treaty, ft
would make the constitution rctio- L
active and ex post facto and consc- /
quently in violation of Mexican law. p
Although such a law does not hold r
in the United States, with reference >
to extradition treaties, the State De P
partment recognized that it was bind p
ing upon Mexico, and finally resort /
ed to the very unusual proceeeding ft
of asking the Mexican government p
to surrender the man as an act oi f
comity. Mexico has a law which ft
allows fugitives to be surrendered L
upon such a call, even though the /
crime charged may not be cxtradit- ft
able under treaty; the only condition C
being that the government making ft
the request shall grant any similar V
one made by Mexico. The State {
Department is willing to enter into Ij
such an agreement and Kratz vill L
no doubt soon be returned to St. ?
Louis. He is now held in Mexico ft
under "provisional detention;" thai P
is, he remains in prison awaiting T
orders from the Mexican govern >
ment. It is believed that this ft
method of obtaioining Kratz was C
idopted at the suggestion of Circui' t
Attorney Folk, who is so determined f
that none of the St. Louis boodlenshall
escape. .
President Roosevelt has taken ~
personal interest in the welfare of c:
the Porto llican coffee growers, and
assures them not only that he uses t,
their coffee on his own table, but that ;t
ho will do what he can to bring about <
reciprocity treaties with European U]
countries to have Porto llican ^
coffee entered there free of du'.y. ^
/vt present France imposes a duty of ft
18 per cent and other countries tax ft
it so high, that it is practically ex tr
eluded. Resolutions from the coffee ,,,
growers asking the presidents aid p
were presented by Charles Hur scell, ie
Secretary of the Territory and Dr
Samuel M. Lindsay, Porto Rican tr
commissioner of education. While ;1|
waiting for the reciprocity treaties, w
the President has given the St,
Louis World's Fair Commission of 0,
Porto Rico a letter sftying that he tc
has tried Porto Rico coffee and . uses n
no other. Perhaps this valuable rj
'advertisement" will make the C(
treaties unnecessary, as this country p
ought to be able to use all the coffee vv
the Porto Ricans can grow. if
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News From Saatuc. n;
' He was an Atlanta police, ^
His trousers he wore in a criece,
Hut in chasing a nigger, k
He Cllt such a fianrf r 0
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A.8 to make them bag at the knice." t(
Frost came at last. Some places S
it was heavy, vegetation was killed, it
[ce was in evidence of the cold Sun- hi
lay morning. cl
The stove chimney at the Baptist a)
:hurch is down, and the cold caught hi
the membership in bad shape. At S
Sunday School I thought it appro m
Driatc to sing, (iLet a little sunshine w
in." tt
The people here were surprised in
?nd sad too, to hear of the sudden
illness of Miss Julia Thomas, who ni
was visiting at Union, and there was fr
much anxiety expressed. We are w
rlad to hear that she is rapidly iin- g?
Droving at this time. w
Mr. R. C. Foster, formerly of el
Spartanburg is going to move bock is
here soon and engage in the real in
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oiihv uu?nit'8!(. iur. roster ?n<l his w
iimily huvo made many friends while S
iere and they will regret to see him fo
oave, hut hope he is bettering his di
inancial condition. ar
There was preaching at the Bap or,
ist church Sunday, when the pastor nc
reached on the "Betrayal of eo
Christ." The church is not both- sc
red about calling a pastor for next
rear, as the present one, Rev. J. D. an
lab on has been called indefinitely.
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The members of the Baptist church
cpect to meet on the Saturday
?forc the 4th Sunday in November,
> clean off the grave yard, terrace
, and thoroughly beautify it,
torms have the past few years been
laking much wreckage and the
rove is much in need of fixing up.
It is not passing strange that
irraers arc so often colled "fool
irmers," as they brrng it upon
iemselvc3, and do things that hurt
[hers, if not directly themselves,
ormers won't stand together, nor
t supply and demand rule things in
ieir work, yet I do not believe in
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i> uaisu xiiis year some iarmcrs
ill jump 10 cents per hundred
ounds for picking cotton, and
.hers just fall into that line
> get theirs out. This one man can
lin the picking in one entire seeon,
just by this step, and make it
)st neighbors much, when otherwise
ickers would have been satisfied
ith the general ruling price. Now
that "considerate" man would
iise the price of shoeing horses and
mles ten cents each he would do a
ood thing.
All of the excuses for sticking a
to the end of Santuc, making it
antuck, were that if you didn't, let>rs
would go astray, to Santee or
umter has recently been knocked
ito splinters and some better reasons
ad better be sprung for wishing to
lange, Santuc; for just a few days
?o a package came herewith theridress
plainly typewritten, "H. S.
impson, Glenn Springs, S. C." Ilow
iuch mail for that place goes astray
c know not, and I do not expect
lere is another town of that name
i the world.
I have often thought that Vhen a
inn leaves home, kindred and
iends, and follows "public works,"
here inany bad characters congre*te,
and places that are tents of
ickedness, they are held as little
se than dogs, when their usefulness
ended. This presents itself to my
ind when I heard that the man
ho killed McCombs over at Neal's
boals recently, walked about boldly
r three days. The men over there
d not seem to care if he was
ound. They did not inform anyic
while he was there. They did
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nt it by a single negro.
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