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IN THE TOWN OF UNION B"T I* T 1% T il ? T ' V" *M M "~~^d ^ OUTSIDE OF THE CITY dSSEeaffB^'l 11 If I \ T A, wfuwx :?^^js^S^ : cerna, Female Seminary, Five I 1 I III I I * V | W I I | i > 1*!^ Wmmous Mineral Springe, 2gsK?\'??<? *of_co?'J_J U 111 -I X 1"J. Ali.JkJ# |jg^?-r^"; *"* VOL. L1V. NO 21. . UNION, SOUTH OAROMRl, FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1904. #1.00A YEAH. FROM DATE fhOUR TIME CERTI INTEREST FROiV DEPOSIT. Br Wm. A. NICHOLSON I ~1 OPPORTUNITY. " V Master of human desiiuiea am II Fame, love and fortune ou my footaturia u uit. Cities aud fields I walk: I penetrate Deserts and fields leuiole, aud passing by Hovel and mart aud palace, soon or late, I knock unbidden once at every gatel If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, Aud they who follow rue reach eveiy state Mortals desire, and coi quer every foe . Save death; but thofe who doubt or hesitate, . Condemmd to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vaiuand uselessly imploie? I answer not and 1 return no uroie. , ?Juo. J. ingalls, ! WHAT IS MY RELATION TO MY FELLOW MEN? ____ * 1 Some Timely Advice?An Article Well Worth the Space It Occupies , And Should be Read by All. 1 i Nine-tenths of the readers, of this page regret the misery which they i find in the world bhout them?w hich their less fortunate brothers and sis- i ters are compelled to endure. They would gladly relive unhappiness, I they would make sacrifices if nec?s- ' ary to help other?. _ r i But how? J And not being able to answer this i inquiry satisfactorily, they go on i with their daily lives, wishing for the i betterment of the unfortunate, but i accomplishing not a great deal. I They give in charity; i m##* They do acts of kindness; i They help with advice; 1 They do something toward lifting < up the world, < v But the important evils which lie 1 at the root of nearly all the world's < misfortunes th- average man or wo- 1 man does little or nothing to correct. I The majority do not even recog- 1 nize the cuuse of the evils by which i they are surrounded, or concede in ] the slightest degree their personal responsibility. 1 But if they would recognize things < as they really are, if they would feel < free from all moral responsibility for j the wretchedness of others, they i must get at the bottom of the causes * of prosperity and failure.' i It is not necessary here to argue this matter from the standpoint of personal interest. The most proe* , perous business man, looking over ' the statistics, recognizes his danger, , because more than ninety per cent of the men who go into mercantile or manufacturing pursuits, so the records show, fail at one time or another. The world is full of wrecks of men who have been actively engaged iu affairs, have done splondid work, until at some time along in life caine disaster?perhaps too far toward the close to retrieve. The cheap board>? ing houses hide endlees families which were at one time enjoying great prosperity. I recollect encountering, on a trip across the continent, a young lady of distinguished family whose father had been born to an estate of more than ten millions. Her return to New York was due te the theatrical company, with which she was then engaged, pooling their few dollars of capital and helping one another home. Even if we ourselves feel sure that life will hold no financial surprises for us, we must nevertheless feel regard for our children 01 OF DEPOSIT. [FICATES DRAW L THE DATE OF I & SON, Bankers. I be cast among the world's le-e fortunate ones But this consideration is not uectssary her?j, because each one is inspired to an extent, greater or less, by a noble desire to aid others?a de- , sire which so often amounts to noth- , ing because we do not know where ( to begin. , , What is the fundamental cause of tne prosperity ot all peoples? Or of their wretchedness? i Every <nc knows that in certain , provic.ces-of Asia there is misrule, | and there are at the same time pov- , i riy and misery and crime. ] Yet in Switzerland, in a land not ( one tenth so productive ns these same | Asiatic provinces, there are to he ( found comfort and content and in* ] tegrity, and peaceful, happy lives. | What makes the vast gulf between these ^ wo peoples? I It is simply a matter of govern- j ment. 'y One people ruled by selfishness , by lack of principle, by brutality, \ wasting their opportunitifp through < igi>or#"Ticel N" The other people, ruled by them- s selves, intelligently, with an under^ standing of their advantages, making } the most of their naturally scanty 1 J 1 l ' ' 1 son, ana eaca aoing Did amy as Dis | brothel b keeper?encouraging by legislation the developement of every resource, including that of the mind, ( by education; preventing tho use of ( dangerous drugs; encouraging ccon* ( amy and sobriety; protecting the | weak woman from the strong man; , discouraging the craze of the gam- j bier, and giving every aid to tho up- , building of character in the people; j working out by constantly perfected ] ideals Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, for the people." I It is time for us of tho United States to wake up. We cannot go ' on corrupting the youth by examples of graft unchecked, peimitting the ' gambling habit to take possession alike of society and of the slums, toL i orating, even with a claim, the ac? ? ijuisition of great fortunes stolen by < littles from the very poor. t \ir a. 11 .? ? itc caunoi permit an inis witnout endangering the foundations of a re- I publican form of government. Be- < ciuse a republic is possible, as Napo i leon said, only to a people of high 1 intelligence and high character. Aud presently there may coure a time i when corruption will so have taken possession of legislative halls, so in- < timidated the press, so insidiously weakened the judiciary and the peo-" pie themselves, that there will be no i one left to defend the ideal of the republic. If one-tenth of the men and women of this country should resolve to do their duty earnestly and fearlessly in securing good legislation, in sending guod men to office, in themselves knowing what good legislation means, the ervintr evils nf the Hair , ?J -~o """ ~"V would quickly disappear. Nino-tenths of all crime is the re? suit Either of too great riches or to little, Of "Monstruous Opulence" or "M >uotrous Poverty."' Great wealth seldom does otherwise to those who achieve it than to corrupt them or those who .come !J them; and poverty is a biting wM> } which drives to ignorance and crtiflfc } Every time, reader of this paAfl you know of unrelieved poverty misery, of crime, do not try to cuse yourself of responsibility unlflB you are giving your fullest effbflJ' toward driving corruption out of gflgp* ernment, preventing the preyinggBiP the strong through unjust franchtifoL^ upon the unfortunrte, forwardift^Kjjljp higtiest education of the peopHs*& children, and doing all in your p to secure the best possible wages labor, so that there may be, notgre^V wealth to the few, but .tnodcr4B wealth to the many. You do not sec how to help'.'' ?jl* Then select as your leader -otnM.i^ye whom you regard as acting uH&j selfishly and having a clear view^^t8 the public interest. Put youn^wr under his direction; contribute -JK$ those things calculated to beuefit tflBv government, to give clear concd*|J tions ot things circulate books whij^H open the eyes of the public and raise up their ideals; and, above all, go fe * the humblest primaries; or if yjjfe ? have no vote, have your husband Air H sweetheart go, and see to the selefr- ^ lion of good men for office; keep post/ \u id on legislation in process of enaoti^ 6 ment; study men and measures and " protest against the bad! ! All this required time and effort. Of course yon cannot have something c for nothing. * c But if you do n<ft give it' time, be ? sure that you have failed,. andnj^e * ;o your conscience a*a -dir^p^er- c on?l re.po|BiJilitj. ^ ' J The' uufonunate wofeati in the f slums; b The overworked creature iu the 11 iweut-shopsjr w The youth ruined in the gambling- ^ houses, D And the misery in the tenements. 11 These are all, in a measure, your P creations, because you will not study 0 questions of goood government, be- F jause you prefer a life of comfortable D pharisaism to getting out amongst ^ your fellow men and laboring to per- 8 feet that magnificent ideal of a lie- ^ mder whioh you have had the great ^ *ood fortune to be born.?John 1 Briaben Walker. 1 COTTON SEED OIL INDUSTRY, ii A Correspondent Believes that the ' Business Is In Dire Extremity. c To the Editor of The State: 8 The present unsatisfactory condi r lion of the cotton seed oil business c jails for some very serious thought c on the p*rt i f fl.oae now engaged in the business ana also deserves the a close scrutiny of those about to embark in the business. The growth of this industry has indeed been most remarkable and up until the present time there has been unusually, with well conducted and well located mills, splendid returns from the same. Because of the superiority of the cotton seed oil over most other fats^ and in spite of a great deal of prejudice against its use, its high intrinsic value has forced it prominently upon the markets of the world, llundieds < f thousands of pounds of this oil are now used in the manufacture of oleomargerine, butter, compound lards, etc., while millions of j pounds of oil have been shipped an-* , Dually from tho United States to for- , eign countries, and only there prin- ( cipally as an edible oil. Only a year , or two ago there was shipped from i America to Marseilles, France, oil \ worth to the American manufactur- < era about $4,($0,000; so you can realize something of the enormous export from this country to this one port. France is the home of the olive, consequently it was there that the olive oil industry flourished more y other country. Becausi priority and cheapness o I can cotton seed oil, jh< ards of Southern Europi t beeu annihilated. Thii rought great hardship t< ilar industry, especially ii The French government this fact, felt that some 1: be done to save the inhas lately imposed an im something like 10 cents f an American cotton oi o that today the Frencl almost entirely closed tc seed oil business. Othei intries are doing the same, ay our exports in tho cotil business are almost nil. ncident to the falling off of a trade in oil I will quote res. In 1901 Italy took over 3,600,000 gallons ol Hi; no*? she takes 1,000,000 or less. feil9tjrj&<4t the same time took about jjfcO&OOO gallons of oil; now she paes )e$s than 1,500,000. France o*k iit4he same time about 20,000100 gtjfcns of oil; now about 8,000fria leaves a tremendous imouwnjo be absorbed by the United Itatas, as with other countri ' err I it tike falling oil also. Thus it con Been why it is the cott( n Ged oil fig now selling go far below tg usuaj gelling price. While^hia is a great blow at the oiten sred. oil business, our own ountry naB .give* .the industry ite ;reateatJ^lowr There has been en> cted llt'dly by the United States ongreaa'a Ta# taxing ootton seed oil o the ^amount of 10 cento per pound or all Off used in the manufacture ol utter. This law was enacted at the nstigation of those in this country irho were in the dairy business. Wc lave no fight to make with the bujtei (takers, but would simply say that it s hard for one to realize why this irejudice against butter made partij r entirely of cotton seed oil. Es leciallv is thin trilA urUn tViA ilanoi-f. ^ nest of agrioulture and chemistry >&8 repeatedly stated that for puritj nd healthtulnesa there is nothing tc ie compared with aotton seed oil, Phis taxing of oil that is used in buter has strnck another great blow al he industry. The third great demand for the oil s for the manufacture of compound ard. Tremendous quantities of thie >il are used in the manufacture ol ard, and even this demand for oil ha< lackened off very largely. I woulc eepectfully submit the fast to th< :onsumeis of all pure food producti n tnts country, that tor bealthfulnes) ind purity, the butter made from th< iverage dairy herd of cows, many o vhich may be, and often are, aiHicte< vith tuberculosis, can in no wai ' m :ompare with butter made from thi >ure vegetable oil. Cotton seed ii lever attacked by disease, whicl :attle are ofteo heir to. What I havi laid of the butter business can be em jhasized many time over with regarc ,o the lard business. There can b 10 doubt but when the average farme 'ceding hogs for market detects chol >ra among hogs that they are rushec )ff to the slaughter pens and slaugh :ered, and placed upon the markets ind from hogs many times diseased ;ome8 our average meat and so^calle pure lard. I would repeat what )ai(l aDove, tbe pure vegetable 01 made from cotton seed is never afflict sd with cholera or any disease t which the average hog is subjeci There are many other uses to whic the cotton seed oil is put, but I wi forbear to discuss them in this artich As long as the foreign govern ments continue to tax cotton seed o and so long as our government con tinuos its unjust course toward the o business then just as long will th cotton teed oil business in our coiui ' Iflr h~r i:iiMr suifiiT i p F. M. Fabr, President. \ f lj Merchants and Plai 9 la not quite (?) the largeat Dank on at the "Old i:tand" aucceaafully, > thirty-two yeara. 1 It id the OLDEST bank in 1 ' It is the only NATIONAL It has a capital and suiplus < It pays FOUIt per cent, inte It has paid dividends amoun It has Burjrlar-proof vault, a i It is the only Bank in Union It pays more taxes than A Til i We aolicit your huaineas, howt the courteaiea that are uaually extc > conducted Bank. , try be om the decline. It is only - within the last few months that these . embargoes have boon laid upon the f industry and up to the present time t cotton seed oil mills have been going ; up all over our country, and good f money has been made from the enterprise. But we have reached and ; passed over the pinnacle of our sue? Cessful nrotfress- nnd nndwr t.lio hnr ? g 0 J VMV > dens of unjust legislation I will not be stating it too strongly when I say disaster is staring it in the face, i The mills in operation in the South 1 today, X venture to predict, will have. ) a hard struggle for existence from i this time on, and many of the old i fashioned, out of dates must go out of ' business. For the past few years oil has been 1 selling at from 33 to 37 cents f. o. b. 1 mills; today it is selling at 22 to 23 ' cents f. o. b. mills. The mills that are -in operation and building can 1 produce double the quantity of oil per annum that will be consamed by ' the world, and without a doubt this r condition of affairs will exist fbi* many" > years to come. There is only one ' thing for the cotton seed oil people of > the South to do which can save them "? . irom ao30iace disaster; namely, leas insane competion among themselves 1 for seed, and a reduction in the cost r of manufacturing $he seed. The cost " of the raw material is going higher ' each season, the markets for the oil r contracting, and competion sharper ' all along the line. It has been > stated that the average price per ton ' of seed through South Carolina this - year has been something like $21, - Against tins price of seed I give the iollowiug as the returns from the pro1 ducts of a ton of seed, and the ex1 pense of manufacturing same, fiei low will be found the quantity and f the price obtained from a ton of seed ) manufactured under the present con1 ditions. Forty gallons of oil at 23 ) cents per gallon, $9.20; 30 pounds 3 lint at 5 1-2 cents per pound, $1.65; 3 775 pounds meal at $1.20 per hun) dred, $9 30; 820 pounds hulls at "30 f cents, $2.40; making a total of $22.1 61. Now if we add to the cost of j the seed $3.25, the coat of manuface turjng the aeed into tbia product, the b seed and the manufacturing will come 1 to $24.25, whihi the actual net ree turns from this ton of aeed at $22.61 - per ton, makes an absolute loss of I $1 64 per ton on every ton of seed e manufactured under the present conr ditions. It is not apparent in the above statement, but there is an 1 actual loss of 75 to 100 pounds in - each and every ton of seed, in the I, shape of dirt, sand, motes, etc. This I, loss amounts to about 5 per cent. I d am sorry to say some farmers know I well how to sand their seed. '1 There is to my mind absolutely - not one raj of consolation for the 0 outlook of the industry. I am reb? minded oi the condition of affairs h that existed in Egypt thousands oi years ago. We have had our seven 5* fat years, which in my opinion is tc - be followed by the inevitable seven il lean years I would suggest to the i". cotton seed manufacturers of Soutl il Carolina that there be organizec e within the State a cotton seed orush era association whiok if properly con; * JP v * J. D. Arthur, Cashier. iters National Bank aiui but.it oontinues to do business afflt has been doing for the past n?*Kwitb Time-lock, inspw^d by an Officer, j the Banks In Union combined. vet large or small, promising all nded^Hr an obligiug and carefully duot&woaM 1 >e of incalculable benefit to the business. We could thor* oughly disouss all questions pertaining tO;tbd Industry and its management,^ I am of the opinion that by an eiohattge of ideas among the managers and superintendents, we could materially lessen a good deal of the cost of tiianafacture, and also in the purchas* and sale of the products. This free interchange of ideas, and becoming ^Icquainted and in touch with each other would be of great benefit to those engaged in the busiaess. If I am not alone in tbis opin? ion, let some of tbe craft take the lead injMjiiblishing a crusher's association Sooth Carolina as cow e*ist8 pTeias and some other Southern States. There are other things which I would like to call the attention of the crushers of this State to, but as this ai> tide is already too long, I will close hoping to hear from others on the subject. Alvin JStheredge. Saluda. MafrA. HEARING WITH THE EYES. "?~ * * Gesticulation Vastly Enchances Charm of Womankind. Times change, and we change with them, aavs T.^n?l..r. 13 vnMoa I 7 J ?' ?W ^?VMMVU AJA|/ircj3* Not so long ago the "smart" woman was stamped by an immobility of feature, a calm inscrutability which marked her as one of the inner circle of fashion. Now every woman who wishes to be really "in the swim" must gesticulate. Those who have learned the language?for gestures form a language of their own?are enthusiastio about its possibilities. A sequence of perfect gestures should convey to a person out of earshot a general idea of a conversation to which he or ihe is not a party. Thus at a^dinncr table all the company may listen with their eyes to the intellectual duologue between the hostess and her distinguished guest; at the theater the first and last rows of the stalls can freelv criticise the play without offending the tenderest susceptibilities of the actor-manager. "The idea is American," said a fair instructress in the art to an Express representative yesterday. "A little time ago it was thought very undignified to gestieulate, but the American woman?all nods and and becks and shrugs and smiles? changed that, and showed her En* glish sisters how well expressive gestures heighten the effect of conversation, "Of course, any sticking about of the hands and ierkings of the head 1 and shoulders will not do. The art 1 takes a little time to understand, but practice and a certain affinity of temperament between the conversationalists make the matter very easy. "Pupils? Oh yes! have more than , I can really instruct, and my friends I who Rftv inafr. WWVM V*?J J v* vj v vuv OUlilOl "Gesticulation is not a mere pass1 ing craze, but a subtle art that vastf ly enhances the charms of even the i most fascinating of women." > Fourteen foreign oountries are repi resented in the palace Of liberal arts , at the World's Fair. Large spaces are occupied by England, France, 1 Germany and China. Other conn* I tries represented are Mexioo, Italy, Cuba, Egypt, Portugular, Austria, Brazil, Argentine Bepublio, Ceylou ? and Slam.