Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, ' ... .N THE TO)KN Of UNION ' __ _,jL. _ V". ' '^L- ^ ^ ""TStDE OF THe CTY """ . y^iirgc Cotton Mills, one Knitting f M 8 1 I 78 1 ' .1^ 7 M 9 B ?! LV^ Three Cotton MlUe, one KnUUnt *'? * !' ", out ouuiu, 1 | KB 1J' i m m Mn I I mSttJiJ W-T * as I Ji H, i \ -1111V"'"' 1 I Wl*iw2N?' -s* ,*rr Graded Schools, Water Works and. \ js ?fl B* . I < i Q w I 1 i r w H s? W H fi ' j k-.- la Taxable value in ana out of town Hlectric Lights, Population 7,000. ' H B -1- * B ^ -B_ A. V B .B . M ^Uv'? J VOL. UV. NO" 17. "'?*? * ' UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, |RIDAY. APRIL 22. ?04.. '. f' *?*> *91? * *' 'j> ???**trf?rmaa "~ Satisfacto Our metn ducting To oaloulatea you satisf vice. Wm. A. NICHOLSOi AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF CARS. An Appeal Enough to Make an Intelligent and Refined Horse Laugh. The following appeal in behalf of t ?i ? n?r. f - tm iuo iui iiuvuuiiug v/uuiureiice ior PjUUoation in the South at Birmingham, made to what Mr. Robert C. Ogden, premier t of the conference, evidently regards as "the best South" and e Mr. Carnegie as "the best-educated white element in the South"?an ap? peal enough to make an intelligent and refined horse laugh?was given uppropriate publicity on April 4 in the columns of the Atlanta Journal : WILL TRAVEL IN SPLENDID TRAIN. IN SUMPTUOUS SPLENDOR TSE t , MEMBERS OF EDUCATIONAL FUND WILL COME SOUTH TO DIVIDE GIFT TO SCHOOLS. (Special Dispatch to the Journal.) Washington. April 4.?Sixty - members of the southern Educational > fund po.mmitteo are to arrive in Wush .? lngton next week on their way south *>. to inspect a number of smuil schools southern statW. ' "Ttrcy are to rnnkc the Inspection so they may intelligently disburse the million dollars recently contributed to the fund by John >DJ Rockefeller. The most notable feature of the trip is the magnificence of the train on which the party is to make the trip. This train is to exceed in equipment the one on which the late President McKinley made his historic trans-continental journey. a luatn 10 t a ant\oiaf a C a Pnllmntt 1UQ II mu JO IVI vvuoiovui u i- UllUiail composite car, containing besides state rooms, a Turkish bath room, barber shop and several other comforts; two of the finest Pullman dining cars; three cars containing nine * state rooms, two Pullmans with seven state rooms: two drawing room cars and an eight-section observation car. The cost of this extraordinary colt lection of cars daily is to be fifty dollars for each car, the money going to the Pullmans, and $1.50 for every " * mile the train travels, this going to the railroad company for handling the cars. Meals are to cost one dollar each without extras, and sixtyeight persons eating three meals a day means a cost of $204 a day. There are incidental expenses which railroad men say a^e to amount to about thirty dollafs a day. The party is to leave New York for Washington April 1$. The train reaches here the same evening. The morning following the party is to go to Old Point Comfort, where rooms have been engaged at one of the finest hdtels there at the rate of five dollars a day for each of the party From Old Point Comfort the educators are to visit Danville, Petersburg, Richmond, Charlottesville, Charlotte, Wilmington, N. C., Atlanta, - Birmingham, Mobile, Nashville and Louisville and a number of intermediate towns and cities. The party expects to be traveling on the railroad eighteen days. They are to look thoroughly into the educational requirements of the south and when they return to New York they are. to announce how the million ** dollars is to be spent. The combination inexcusable ignorance in tbe^ headliness news bears all' the earms^ g? I e? ' ry Service. oa of ooii usiness ^ to insure aotory serN & SON, Bankers. I one wbo is latest described as in fact ''the Southern representative of llobort C. Ogden of New York, president of the conference," and as must always be written in such connection, the partner of John Wanamukcr of Philadelphia, expert in keeping Wunamaker to the front in other I places than in paid advertisement at the lop of th%;olunHi next to pure reading matter in th'e newspapers. The foreword is so bizarre, not to say vulgar, that it is worthy of a few Words of rr.rrnr.o?.f Of I ? - . ujvuw* ?/? IIIU paiilf strain as the announcement sent from Atlanta two years ago in advance of the same party of "educators"?in annoui.cement which inclined Vot n few ? f the gullible to stand ut cros*roads stations with buckets, bags and tin cups V catch some of the golden stieain which they naturally believed the train was to vent, though there was nary a red for them?it is even more ill-informed and ohscquiouj. What an effect the mere mention of a million dollars has upon fome folks! But unless there has been a revolution in the plans and an explosive swelling of the exoh.cquop^ there is no fund mliLvvdivided by the "educator?" of this extraordi nary collection of cars. They were given a spurt threo or four years ago by Mr. John D. Rockefeller's placing at their disposal ?100,000 a year for ten years. Tlie flight of time and other things' have disposed of ?300,000, leaving seven years for the south to* be regaled by similar incursions into its midst, as it were. Seriously, it must not bo imagined that one cent of this fund is spent for the splendid train. The money for that, it is understood, comes from Mr. Ogdcn, who, several years ago, fi n/11 r* r??!iV? ? ? -1*1 uuuuig tuab nnu a pushing ftWiiV 01 the old abolitioni*ts, interest in the "education" of Southern negroes was waning, began to take parties of friends having the public our on little trips to Hampton and Tuskeg'e. But the philanthropy manifested in the train must in itself, solitary and alone, be an education for Mr. Ogden's ''best South." Think of it! Imagine this "'extraordinary collection of cars," costing fifty dollar* for each daily, and consisting of a composite car, with a Surkish bathroom, a barber shop and ''several other comforts," two of the finest dining cars, five stateroom cars, two drawing-rooin cars and an eight-section observation car, visiting Danville, Petersburg, Richmond, Charlottesville, Charlotte, Wilmington, N. C., Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, Nashville and Louisville and a number of intermediate towns and cities, to say nothing of Columbia, S. C.. which it already panting, us the hart panteth for the water brooks, f<?r u . visit from the Conference for Education ir the South in 1905!! 1 What an education for the South this ^extraordinary collection of i cars" will hh in i'sself!!! T - It alone 4s eflbrth. more than the admission^! It must be 4,thc most notable fjeatiVflfe of the trip." ? f Whoever in that section among ? the "best-educated white element" , ever saw before a Khole train of nine i ' k , . J.L cars? How the Southern vocabulary will be enriched by such phrases as '"composite car," ''Turkish bathroom," "bather shop," "dining car," "observation car"?and costing $">0 per day for each car! Stupendous! Sumptuou-!! The mind staggers at its conception!!! What an extraordinary collection of "educators," to have the temerity to bring with thtro their innocent wives and orphan children and to travel for eighteen whole and consecvtive days of twenty-four hours each on this extra ordinary collection of nine cars, not including the locomotive and tender!!!! They, too, will certainly be an "education" for "the best South." In vasty splendor, gilt edge and a yard wide?the wool being kept in* the background for this occasion?a I new genus is to be revealed. Picture* the situation! Ilere are sixty-eight persons who think nothing of rashly stopping at one of the finest hotels at Old Point Comfort at the rate of five dollars a day for each and every one of the party, who, wiih the uaost dig1! tingue aplomb (for diagram please consult the Atlanta Journal's office cat, or "the southern representative of Robert C. Ogden of New York," in fact), or going about as ravening wolves, will incontinently devour* three meals a day at a cost of one dollar per meal per head, or $204 per day for the sixty-eight individuals, and who, ^addition, will spend thirty dollars per day for "incindentals." There is .an air of becoming mystery about that word "incidentals." The advance notice would be incomplete without it. But it maylead jtopae- a* ?o thifty- dollars by-sixty-odd persona and to calculate that the quotient would average probably the price of three ''extras" or of three of the "several other comforts" in that composite car at fifteen cents per, the conventional prico in all first class American establishments. A vaunt! Perish the thought! This extraordinary collection of cars takes itself ioo sooeriy and too seriously to be the subject of jest. Extraordinary ! Extraordinary !! Extraordinary!!! Hurrah for?us!!!! Turn out. Southern folks, and accept in full the 5200 invitations to the "best south" to attend the Conference at Birmingham, and accept incidentally anything else that may be floating around free! Perhaps your turn to be one of the extraordinary collcc ion of "educators" on "this extraordinary collection of ears" will come next. war. I But how keenly P. T. Bam u no j must regret that he is dead.?Manufac'urors' Record. THE SCHOOLS AND NOVEL READING. The Habit of Fiction Reading Growing on Teachers and Pupils of Today. The careful observer of'itfodern tendencies and ideals can,no longer cloae the eye to the seriousness of the problem presented by the present craze for fiction. Fiction reading is not merely a vosrue, it has grown in?to a pn?s;' " it has already crystal ized into an absorbing habit. * School children conceal in their desks and text books copies of Tip Top Weekly and stories of morbid sentiment or highly exciting adventure. The traveler speeds unconscious through a world rich in real life and vital with evidences of human activity and progress?too often rapt into' a world of mawkish sebtimentality and feverish unreality. Men and women alike?-for it is not women alone?seek to shut oat from the consciousness the r^Utieyifc4fa6 life, to find relief from ihT^tfcr often harr?B$ipg, demands ' *>6 ab&ption in a fictitious life that ott^p depends for its charm upon an abnormal unhealthy stimulation of the imagination, or upon a deadening of tee normal activities of- the mind J} andimoral sense. . ? ^his compulsion of the fiction habit;?he^|Wt>8eaped?the notice of the th'tiftt man of business. Advertiseraent^ri thrown? into the form of 8totyt many magazines depend for their circulation upon the monthly .service of a varied fiction diet, while thejFnkir of bogus wares and jewelry has'invoked the story paper to'open ( the/wfy into hemes for tons of his alluimerits for the unwary and fop- 1 pish,* The weekly output of such a f tiff from one town alone takes liter- o ftjlyf tains of mail couches to s'art its c journey of mental and moral undoing. > c Tty?B picture is not overdrawn when t applftd to the mass of fiction and fic- c tion renders?just the mass that the ? jrotfkfcr for enlightened citizenship, fc fd^ik larger and saner life, mast reck- h on vnjh and strive to reach helpfully, t Wru.. 1 i invauc uuvn ib ut-ru 10 may ana 10 g gfcw in its hold and influence. It is i< of all forms of literatnre the'most tru- a ly adapted to the culture and educa- y tiojl of tbe mass^ of the people out n o{Jj* narrow provincialism into a p ktlplcdge and appreciation of the h wiser world life and of the problems vitally concern this life. For ii th'tft of limited environment, it may c aafrvc to broaden the field of vision H by-helping them to realizo through f( the imagination and emotions the t varied life of other lands and peoples, r It qpiay serve too to widen the circle ^ o^J&eir acquaintance, to give afuller, 8 jJmjwr jnpiphiL in*/\ Knman nature Jf, toe de^elopemer.t of ter and tlfc analysis of motives atfd passions. To many it may result in b the stimulation of a dormant imagi ti nation and the freedom of the spripgs f of thought else choked by the com- a pulsion of a narrow life and a lot of e labor. t rm t . ? - - mis is tne true literary form of i< democracy and to those whose culture n and "training make poetry a sealed 1 boo^, an unintelligible jargon, it may o prove the open door to a higher in- ii telligence and wider literary appre- i< ciatten. * a But the typical cheap story pnper e and paper-back novel of the news ii stand, or for that matter the mass of a more expensive stuff with which the tnuiket is now flooded, can no more o lead to these results or awaken a lik- a ing for better reading than a treat- t mnnt rvf Aniafna onrl atinoulnnfn a Uivnv v? VJ/'UWVO ?uu OIJMUiailtO vau I restore a weak or diseasod body to i normal, healthful activity. t It would be futile to appeal to c writer or publisher. With them novel making and publishing is a busi- g ntss controlled by the law of supply a and demand/ Few writers and still g f fewer publishers can be expected to s be influenced by motives looking to i the elevation of literature or the pro- n gressivc cultivat?6ft of a higher liter- g ary taste. . j The following extracts taken from ' a symposium of opinions may be ] rightfully regarded as expressing the t views and attitude of the average i publisher in regard to the present t output ot nction: "This production," says a publish- f er quoted in the March Critic, "is f due entirely to the natural causes of i Biijfply and demand. The reading t publie demands new books and many t of them. Publishers supply the demand. We should not say that there 1 is ay desire on the part of the pub- < lishflts in general to check the publi- j catwfe of books. The publication or < Induction of books is tho business of < . another, 4 is- I 'i8 "hs hope that one i not hnly pay for the T nf 4 F. M. Fahh, lVsidtnt. ^rchants and Plaj r.s u0 quite (?) f/ie largest Baak oM ittn^4,Vld i-tmul" successfully,? liirty-two years. It i.i the OLDWST hank in5 It Ls (he onlj^ATIONAjtfl It baa a capita} ami suipluA It pays FOUlt p^r ct-ut. IttW It has paid dividends aruouDi v It has Burglar-proof vault.-.a ft is (he only Bank in Union It pays more taxes than ALI TVe solicit your business, bo we he courtesies that are usually cxtei conducted Banlc. 088 on the other nine, but yield him . profic besides. We do not thinkj vcr-production can be materially hecked." ,. " J In the face of this discouraging ondition, fiction was never so potenially powerful for culture and equation. There has never been a time rhen the novel writer has felt bq :eeDly and deeply the art value and igher mission of this form of literal ure. The best talent of the day eeks, out o?a rich aDd varied experinoo fa l!f/? vvr unvi fin mc WlVU II "JfVI nd high seriousness. Every sernon fitnesses the production of a Tew ovels of enduring form and ^are ower?a few grains of wheat in a in of ch?ff. Especially noteworthy and discimQaiing has been the acudemuB appreiation of the novel as a form of literry art, and as an effectire means or the interpretation of life.1. Critics, eachera of literature, novelilfs themelves?leading craftsmen 'of their ;uild?have written entertainingly, uggeetively, discriminatingly, at imea illuminatingly; of it^ art-value, Uweiopement _ i By the aid of these and still more y direct acquaintance with the gieat oasters of fiction, many have come to eel, if not to discriminate, the tiue nd enduring.qualities of Active litrature, and to gain from the?eenterainment and enrichment of expersnce. But what of the masses who oust read but know not how or what. ?heso know or care little about critic r academic writer. What they seek, u their untrained, undirected taste, i a maximum of eritertainmrnt wifh minimum of effort And from presnt indications the ratio of increase n this class is far greater than among ppreciative, discriminating readers The problem, therefore, is not one f production, it is not even one of cademic enlightment. It is as vi ally and compeliDgly ^ problem for he school as any other now demandng serious thought and careful soluion of teacher and educational lead;r. Aid and suggestion may and ihould come from without. Magatines and reviews that aspire to conitructive leadership can give material lid by admitting into their columns 10 review of a novel that is not frank ind discriminating. (Not a few have tuffered from over confidence in the udgement of our leading periodicals.) The college can and should do its mrt hy offering systematic courses in .he study of fiction. Academic crite cs have already contributed largely ;o the helnful reading of fiotinn I 1 o "" Fhcy could still further and more efectively aid by preparing, out of the ulness of their own study and experence, suggestive outlines and special itudies for the help and guidance of he teachers of our schuoR For the problem after all depends Tor its solvtion upon the teachers in mr public and graded schools. They ilono touch tho millions who largely constitute the fiction reading'elass, who create and tdtitrol tho demand upon writer ancT publisher. From the school' these millions gain the ability to read. With the school rests the opportunity to cultivate in & * -- ** II - J. i>. Arthur, Is National Bank (A, bat it continues to do business it has been doing for the past bank in Union, it $100,000, ' * rent on deposits, > tllfi? to $100,800, nd Safe with Time-lock, inspected by an Officer, a the Hanks in Union oombined. ?ver large or small, promising all uded by an obliging and carefully most of these young readers a taste for sane, wholesome fiction by intra* during them through a systematic course of reading:-nnd study to the best type of imaginative writing. "Failure on the part of teachers to apprehend the growing danger of indiscriminate fiction reading would be taexcusable; neglect of their oppor- ? tunity through indifference or disinclination^.^^personal effort would come perijnvsly near to criminality. -rA. O. Rembkrt, in the Educa- ~ ?v, llonal. THIS STATE'JTSECESSION. Original South Carolina Document is Discovered. A dispatch from Belvidere, N. J., to the Yew York Times, says: .. Accident has brought into possession of Mrs. John llobinson of this 1 J j/iav,u a iiLuc-Diunnju uocument, which in spite of its faulty construction, is regarded as South Carolina's original ordinance of secession from the Uuion. Mrs. Robinson found the paper under the backing of a picture fratnc she bought at a recent tale. tr ? j?i brought to the North by an old Union soldier. It is the theory that the record was stolen from the State House at Columbia and poked away in the picture frame for- hiding. The document reads: The State of South Carolina: At a convention of the people of the State of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia on the 17th day of December, in the year of our Lord ,eighteen hundred and sixty, and thence continued by adjournment to Charleston, and there by divers adjournments to the 12th day of December in the same year. An ordinance to . dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united ..?.j? - yv 11li uci uiiuci iuu cuaipaci entitled, "The Constitution of the United States of America." We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the 23rd day of May, in the year of our Lord, seventeen hundred and eighty, whereby the constitution of the United States of I a . - . /? a /vmenca was ratinea, and also all acts and parts of acts of the State under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved. Done at Charleston on the 20th day of December, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty. D. F. Jamison, * Delegate from Barnwell and President of tho Convention. About two hundred names are . signed after that of the president of the convention. m Robbed the Grave. A startling incident is narrated by John Oliver of Philadelphia, as follows: "1 was in an awful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain jpntinually in baok and sides, no appetite, growing weaker day I by day. Three ppyttieians bad gidren me up.. Then I was advised nse * Electric Bitters; to my gVfeat.Joy, the . first bottle made a decided improve-. t rs?",? *--V t ment. I continued their use for tlvree . 'kr weeks, and am now a well piajy.-V, k know they robbed the grave of fenothfr--. victim." No one should fail to trV. *"< ' V % * them. Only 60c, guaranteed at F. 0? ' *<: 4 Duke's drug store. \ ? v, ' ~ . * > * a J . .H " ]