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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY I RIMY ?bv the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times Building over pobtoefice, bell phone No. 1. L. Q. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postothce in Union. 8. C., as second-class mail matter. ,SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.(X Six months ------ 50 cent.' Three months ----- 25 cents ADVERTISEMENTS .One sq'iare?tlrst insertion - - $1.00 Every jbsequent insertion - 50 cents Con acts for three months or longei will hn narle at rp?1 nep'l rates. Locals inserted sit 8$ cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be re turned. Obituaries and tributes of re specfc will be charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. C., JANUARY 15, 1904. DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY. One great secret of the growth and prosperity of the United States is the variety of her products possessing as she does a soil and climate with few exceptions adapted to the growth of every plant in the known world. Cotton was crowned king when it sold for 80 cents a pound at the close of the civil war, and still sits upon the commercial throne, and at the time of the coronution the United States Was its chief dominion, and now produces five-sixths of all the cotton ^ raised. The high price of cotton this season has awakened Kurope to a greater activity in search of fields for the growth of cotton so that they may be leu dependent upon tho United States. Our planters will no doubt in rlew of the existing conditions and facta, largely increase the area de ofced to the crop. There are thousands of acres of undeveloped cotton land In this country. Texas alone ooold raise all the cotton used in the world, so that no fears of foreign t competition need bo entertained for 7ears to come. We return to our aubjeot and say, that the same rule applies to individual farmer, as to diversity of farm products. Our conthern planters have too long been ! most to the exclusion- of all others, and have suffered and groaned under the burden of the grain crop of the northwest. No portion of the United States is so well suited to the growth of all things needful as the Southern States. No where else does Bermuda grass llourish more luxuriantly and the hay is now preferred to any other oy tne owners ot line stock. The recent introduction of this hay into the northern markets, has to a great extent supplanted western hay. Again the growth of many kinds of trees is assured in the South, as limited experiments have been made. Since the peach crop in South Carolina luis become somewhat uncertuiu in certain localities, it would be well to try the different kinds of nut trees. Pecans, English walnuts and almonds can be successfully grown here; Southern California is not the only place in the United States where the English walnut can be grown. A persimmon farm has been started in Crawford county, Ga. The fruit can be distilled into quite a number of delicious and wholesome beverages, the wood is valuable for furniture, spools, etc. The scarcity of timber for railroad cross-ties, has sot the people of the North to planting the Catalpa, which is said to be far superior to oak or pine, lasting twice as long, being less subject to rot; the Catalpa will grow here. The invention and manufacture of iron crossties clearly shows the necessity of an increased growth of the best timber trfloa f At* tKita oa uroll oa Af Jio* mm poses. All this is within the reach of the people of South Carolina. 4 .... It will be interesting to know how the rifles that were cuptured by the United States army in Cuba came to be in the hands of the people of Manama when the recent revolution broke out on the isthmus. It is said that rifles captured in Cuba were condemned and sold by the War Department, the question remains the same, how came the rifles in the hands of Panama revolutionist. m?mmmmmm?? The United States government is now engaged in farming under the waters of the deep sea, helping out the sponge industry which has been lagging for several years. Experiments by the Bureau of Fisheries have shown that sponges can bo grown artificially as well as by nature's process. There are doubtless many people who think the sponge a kind of vegetable growth, when as a matter of fact it is a living animal, on this basis the government is now furthering its culture. GliN. JOHN It. GORDON DEAD. Gen'l John B. Gordon died at Biseayne, Florida, his winter home, at 10:05 oclock p. m., Jun. 9th, after a short illness. He was taken pick en Wednesday with Route indigestion, which scon afterwards developed into serious and fatal complications. He had sulTcred from a similar attack of indigestion some months before, but when he arrived at his Florida home i he was in the best of spirits and health. The death of Gen. Gordon has cast a gloom over the entile ^ Southland, the home of his birth, a child of her love nrul pride. The war record of Gen. Gordon is upon the . pages of every history of the civil war. Jle entered the war as Captain of the Raccoon lioughs Oth Alabama . Infantry, from which position he 1 steadily rose by promotion to Lieutenant General commanding second . Army Corps, Lieutenant General - commanding left wing Lee's army at Appomattox April Oth, 18(55. Gen. Gordon served his neonle as faithful ly and acceptably in peace as in war. He was honored by his people, being three times elected United States Senator and twice Governor; he held many other positions of public trust, and at last voluntarily retired. Gen. Gordon came to the aid of South Carolina at u time when she most needed the presence, counsel and courage of such inon as he. Gen. Gordon was beloved by all who knew him, for his sterling qualities of heart find mind. His writings have been read with interest aud profit, his lectures listened to with pleasure and due appreciation; but when we attempt to chronicle nil his virtues, all language fails and silence begs for thought. DR. L. G. li HOUGHTON SCORCH US SUN. TIIJ.MA N. In Atlanta on Sunday night at the tabernacle Dr. Broughton replied to the lecture of Senator Tillman delivered in that city the week before. Tillman's subject was the race question. Dr Broughton's theme, the "Sensitive Fool." Dr. Broughton said: "Much of this talk of the race problem is also the result of morbid sensitiveness. I heard Senator Tillman Friday night give his lecture on 'The N'pi'ro.' I t.riprf f<1 ho foil* in mo -o " ? ?- " '"J estimate of it. lor reckless frankness it was^ u juQiklJ?r, fyvt.m'oYe argument it was a iness. I like frankness; I like to see a man who believes something and then is not afraid to say it. In this respect and in this respect alone, is Senator Tillman entitled to a place among those who are trying to shape the destinies of the nation. His whole talk, from dart to finish, was that of the cheap politician, playing upon the most subtile prejudices of ignorant people. Never once in his solution of this great question did ho get out of the realm of the rankest paganism. The Christian religion was never hinted at as having anything to do with overcoming bad conditions or uplifting the raee. One of the mo9t prominent Christian educators in the South said to me just as he finished his harangue, 'His position is nothing short of the vilest paganism.' Senator Tillman is a pagan arguing from tlie standpoint of pagan philosophy. "That there are wrongs with regard to the negro that must be righted nobody doubts. It was a blunder to put the ballot in their hands when they were freed. The North sees this. Senator Tillman's effort to flro Southern hearts with hate for the North because they forced this iniquity on us is unjust. I have traveled North as much as he has. I have circulated with a better class of people where I have gone, and I toll you tho best people of the North aro perfectly willing that we should take the negro out of politics. He ought to bo taken out, and we are going to do it, not for our good only, but for his good as well. I said in Boston to an audience as large as Senator Tillman had Friday night, 'The negro must be eliminated from polit.cs and white folks' society.' The remark was cheered, though made in church. The negro needs moral and religoua evolution. He needs to find his place and settle. This he will do out of politics, but in it he is an ignorant tool of mean politicians. Socially the negro is not a problem to us in this country and never will be. Senator Tillman's sarcastic comparison of the love of his old faithful negro servant and a Newfoundland dog, to U/v ,.1. U.. iir uuctftcu uj nil Aiiuuiu auuiniw, w?i?, to say the least of it, pitiable. "Let cheap politicians and dema goalies sneer as much as they will at the Christian philanthrophy, it is nevertheless the only hope for tho salvation and civilization of this world. Paganism, with its hell of oppresion, is not the policy of our peoplo. If now and then an exception is tolefated, it is only for the { lack of timo for the triumph of the law of Christian equity." Tho regular session-of ttto Legislature convened Tuesday. There is much business of great importance at this session to bo considered and passed upon by this honorable body of representatives of the State of South Carolina. I > A BROOM CORN. That broom corn can be successfully grown in Union county there can be no doubt, from the simple ( fact that it has already been tested. Long before the civil war a number of tho wealthier people grew this corn, and had brooms made, using the stalks for handles; the seed were thrashed off and the stalks cut convenicnt lengths, the brooin was made by binding together the stalks using as many as desired, aocordipg to the size of broom and handle to be made This was before the invention and manufacture of the long stick-handle broom in use today. The making of the broom from the broom corn was . a particular job, was generally made by the negro carpenter of the plantation, was regarded the "nice" broom,< and hold a position of honor in the household, being the only broom allowed to grace the rack beside the mantle in the parlor, used only to sweep the carpets, while the old straw broom swept all the other floors There were no broom corn brooms on the market, the corn was only grown by a few for their use; but this fact does not go to show that it could* not be more extensively and profitably grown at this day and time by the farmers of this State. Mr. G. S. Guilford, of Bluffton, S. C., writes to the Manufacturer's Record regarding the organization of the Blullton Lime Co., of which he is president. Ho says that it has been organized by a few young men, all wage earners, to manufacture lime from oyster shells. Their main object is to put on the market a new waterproof plaster, which one of their number has perfected, and also a new lime suitable ior brick and stone work. The gamblers in eggs and the-manufacturers of artificial eggs have formed a trust and put the price of eggs beyond the reach of the masses of the people. This is a greater outrage than the cabbage trust, people can do without cabbage, but eggs are almost indispeusible, not a luxury, but a necessity. This trust does not alTect us to any serious extent, us the lo-al markets handle the entire production and not governed by the prices put upon eggs by the trust. m. Jenniugs Bryan hn? re. turned from his extended lour through the eastern continent. Mr. ' Bryan while in New Haven, Conn., i a few days ago, was the guest of nonor at a banquet. When called , upon to respond, Mr. Bryan said: "The great issue at this time is the issue between man and mammon ' ?between plutocracy and deinoefacy. All surface questions of policy, of taxation, of regulation and of linance aro but phases of century-long, that world-wild struggle between the common people and organized wealth. To say that it does not pay for a nation to violate the rights of the people of another nation involves so much of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division that we may I get lost in a maze of mathematics [ But to say that the wages of sin is death, is to give an epitomo of history that accords with each person's experience. In dealing with finance, with labor problems and with all the other questions at issue we must view them from a moral standpoint and arraign every evil at the bar of the public conscience." LETTER FROM INDIAN TERRITORY. Our Former Texas Correspondent, J. S. C., now Located in Indian Terr.tory. lie writes Interestingly of that Country?___ / CoAUJATE, I. T., Jan. 0, 1904. ; Editor Times: It has been nearly one year since this deponent sayeth ids say. And for fear lie create an alarm among the readers of The TimeS f>r his silence he decides to speak once more at least. Well, it would take a small volume . to enumerate all the disappointments ttc. since the last communication, so that will not be attempted, and it would not interest the readers of ! The Times, anyway. I I have had something to say about the Indian Territory, in former communications to Tiuc Times, and it ! it a i;i i *i- - L I " m ijuuu nKfiy uie ouracn 01 tins one , will bear directly upon this section of : the great Southwest, j The Indian Territory is being de' veloped very fast at this time. Towns are springing up on every si le, railways are being projected and built in almost every direction, and a good deal of the land is being put to cultivation. Extensive coal fields are located in the Territory, namely: at Krebs, North and South McAlcster, Lehigh, Phillips and Coalgato, besides many other places Of course the coal industry is an immense thing, so much so that one will not realize it until sufficient thought is given the snbjeot. Then, THAT H/ The old dh year is hei \( i., in all the moth depa We sell Shoes ifor men, wo _ m m m * * men ana cniidren FOR I I Seethe Umbrellas we are selling FOR BARGAIN! Fc MUTUAL Dl R. next in importance, if it is not the greater industry, is that of catile i raising. Then the money the U. S. Government pays the Indians in bounties, added to the farming interests, makes the Indian Territory a country wi'h a great deal of ready money, hence it is a great trading locality. , I find so many Jews engaged in business in the new country. You know the Jew is ever faithful to his chosen calling?that of merchandising?and where you find trading in merchandising there you find the Jew. The Indian Territory is very mucli like Texas?in fact it is the same in many respects. ? In winter the "Nor* Wester" and the Arctic Blasts 3wcep down upon this beautiful land like a ravenous wolf upon an unsuspecting lamb, when you least Qxpect such sudden transitions, then it is awfully-disagreeable here.* But in spring and summer when the balmy breezes come up from the South, laden with the perfume of the flowers and the sweetness of budding time, when all nature is aglow irnin the warm and brilliant sun, everything reposing ?crenely unuer our neautitul Italian skies, then it is pleasant and agreeable. The climate changes are so sudden here sometimes that a hazard would freeze by the time you could walk from the court house to the depot at Union. This assertion may seem extravagant, but I think numerous persons would bear me out in it. This winter so far ha9 been lovely, we have had a nice open winter with some cold weather, but very little. I must close. I hope I may have time to scribble another scroll in the near luiure. J> 8. U. A Costly Mistake. Blunders are sometimes very expensive. Occasionally life itself is the price of a mistake, but you'll never be wrong if you take^)r. Kings Now Life Pills for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Headache, Liver or Bowel troubles. They are gentle, yet thorough. 2oc at F. C. Duke's Drug Store. ? .. .. m ? NOTICEI GO TO RAVENSCROFT & SON FOR HAIBOUTTING \ND 8HAVING. Opposite Post Office. PeWltyaJKift Salve r .5 tlx S A LONG LANE iS NO Tl / year is gone and *e, we are giving departments of ou irtment store. We sell for IV boys LESS. We sell of Dr Everytl our si LESS. M 5! BP >r Everybody at th RY GOODS( P. HARRY, Mg I PARE Have you trie< Poi I Stoct ' for your boy. 25c a Ask your about thei < ....Sold o UNION SI i Watching vour w + Main Street, m rnmmm JRNING. the new a bargains (bu ir mamClothing ' len and FOR LESS. all kinds y Goods FOR LESS. ling in tore goes FOR LESS. iRGAINSI e COMPANY. T ? . v ENTS d the famous ly tings s and girls? Pair. neighbor rn. nly by.... HOE CO.. -: Shoe interest, Union, S. C.