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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY by thi UNION TIMES COMPANY Sboond Floob Times Building OVEB FOtJTEk KICK, BELL FlIONK NO. 1. L. Q. Young, Manager. Registered at the I'ostoiiict in Union, S. O., as ittCoud-olaBe mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Six month8 ------ 50 cents rhree month * ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS Oneaq lare, first insertion - - $1.00. Brery ibeequent insertion - 50 cent a Con . acts for three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8$ cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of rea'i?ct will be charged for at. half rates. UNION, S. C., OCTOBER 7, 1904. MORE SPEEDY TRIALS. The law's delay is a subject that has been worn almost to a "frazzle," having been preached from every pulpit, been the subject of editorials in very newspaper in the land. Various and peculiar have been the suggestions of the preachers and editors looking to the more speedy and summary trials of murderers, rapists and other lawbreakers; but unfortuuately none have met the emergency, were entirely practical or expedient. It is hardly possible to have a court in session in every city, town and hamlet in the State, in order to try the perpetTutors of these crimes as sood as committed, or as soon as the offender can be apprehended and brought before the court. In every case under the existing laws the de fondant is entitled to a fair and impartial trial and cannot ba rushed to trial before he or she is ready. He is no less a citizen, and is entitled to every protection guaranteed to citizens under the provisions of the law, because he stands charged with the violation of the law. In olden times, when we say olden times we do not mean to go so far back in our country's history, only just before the civil war between the states, men ~ imrr~ mft dn r brmJ tent to wait for the regular sitting ol the courts. In this county among the earliest murders and hanging ol murderer was thai of Phineas Johnson, who killed u wotftan, sitting in a chair In her own house with her babe in her lap. He put the muzzle of the gun through a crack iti the house and shot her dead as she sat, ignorant and unsuspecting of his presence. At that day and time there was no thought of lynching, even for so diabolical crime as that; if such a crime were committed now, hut. few 1? iurs would pass before that man would be lynched; yet the men of today are largely the descendants of those who lived in this county at. that time. What has brought aboiit the chunge in the temper of men of today as contradistinguished from that of their ftncaatnpii 9 Win. /I.. ?? - ? J w..vvw?w.u< WW a?jr uu lliril III lOUHy clamor for revenge or vengeance, blood for blood? 'Ihe social, civil and religious conditions are not exactly the same now as then, but v?ry early ho, at least with the wiiit.es. The juries are composed of the same men who make up the mob; but when they sit quietly and hear the testimony and the eloquent arguments for and against they bring in a verdict of not guilty, men in the audience daring the progress of the trial are heard to say: "That man is guilty and ought to hang," yet if the man who says that were transferred from the audience to the jury box he no doubt would do as the jurors did. Men's minds and feelings change according to circumstances and conditions, being creatures of susceptibility. It is not every case, possibly oniy a rew cases, that the law's delay famishes an excuse for lynohieg, as we have one case, that of 8tatesboro, Ga. The two persons lynched hud already been tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung; bat this did net satisfy the spirit of revenge, vengeance and morbid thirst for blood. In the case of John Morrison of Lancaster County, he had killed a young white man, a quiet, peaceable farmer, because he would not lend Morrison ten cents. This was so outrageous and uncalled for murder, and this being the fourth man that Morrison had killed, the people became 80 enraged that they could not or rather did not wait for the action of the law. In this case, there did seem to be a shadow of excuse for not ^ waiting for the law to try Morrison, j as he had been, twice acquitted of the charge of, no order. It therefore f-ecmathat different things actuate men in different commaDities, under different and peculiar circumstances, the same thing is done, lynch the fiend, the brute, etc., as thecase may be. To us it aeems to be of no consequence what moves men to do such deeds of iuhumau violence to their fellow men. It is done, and the question remains the same. VVhj ? In this enlightened, cultured, refined elevated, intellectual, prosperous and progressive age, these savage, brutal deeds are done. Legislat'on, religeon and every other means seem powerless to suppress or lesseD crimes of this character. We return to the courts and say it is possible, if the solicitor could in his power of speech and personality, fire the minds of the jurors to that? pitch of frenzied feeling of revenge and vengeance, that thirst for blood, or whatever the feeling is that carries the mob to lynch by burning, shooting or hanging, then there would doubtless be more convictions aDd more hangings. The jury would not convict and recommend to mercy, because they would convict with the intent that the person be hung. That alone would satisfy the peculiar craving which seems to characterize the lynchers. NUISANCES AND NUISANCES. A nuisance is anything that annoys or gives trouble and vexation; thst which is offien9ive or noxious; that which incommodes, something that produces inconvenience or damage. Nuisances are both public and private; public when they annoy people generally, and it is of this we propose to say a few words. A city council has the power to abate a nuisance, and prohibit the inaugaration of anything which in its judgment would likely to become a nuisance in the course of ita'operation 8. All things which are offensive and noxious with in themselves by reason of the natural elements in its existence should be prohibited in certain localities and > in some instances altogether, in any and every town and city, not only as a sanitary measure, but for the comfort.. convenience and pleasure of the i citizens generally. We cannot think i or conoive of anything more off?-n fiiYfiv water*running from tub or barrel across the pavement, to cross I which a lady must lift both her feet ' and sk rts to avoid getting either or hot h soiled and som< times the stream running across the pavement is too > wide for a lady to step over it. A beef market, or beef saloon both give our. offensive odors and should not be 1 ailowpd to be opened and conducted on Main street. There is nothing, however, that equals the odor of fish, especially when kept for several hours in the sun. No fish stands or tubs or barrels of fish should be allowed to be sold on Main street. We i alluded last week to the hand cart, > wheelbarrow and trucks on the pavements. These also should be regnrdi ed as a nuisance and prohibited from being run on the pavements. POLL TAX DELINQUENTS. From the the time the first law was enacted imposing-a tax on the head (called poll tax) of every ablebodied male citizen between certain ages to be paid to the county treas- 1 urer each year, there have been delinquents. Men have in one wav or another kept their names from being put upon the tax books. This dodging the payment of poll tax is more frequent in late yearB than formerly, for the reason that these dodgers have become more learned in the art. Some won't vote for fear their names will reach the tax books from the voting poll iists. Some never make a return to the County vuditor, and no one makes it their business to make the return for such men. Some never stay in any one place long enough to become liable, at least leave jast in time to avoid the payment of poll tax and reach another place after the time for collecting. 1 Some men so avoid being known as , residents of any place and thus it is | they are never caught by a tax exe- I cution; but there are nien who do ' stay long enough and are not caught. | Some years ago the county school I commissioner discovered that the ? polls were decreasing, according to ( the report of the treasurer and audi- c tor. This being a part of the school ? fund, the school commissioner und#rtook to find out where the trouble t was, as he knew that the number of v polls should naturally increase fr? m ? year to year. Upon investigation it was found that the number of yotera c . m m ?????f?^ ?mm?mm i i<?fc i - ? on the poll lists of the several voting g precincts exceeded the number on S the treasurer's book, charged with ? and liable to pay poll tax, by, between ? 900 and 1,000. Since that time there jj have been several cotton mills erect- \ rd Id the county, and the population l has been thereby more than double, 2 in addition to the number of young R men coming of uge, each year. This E delinquency or deficit also applies to 5 road and street duty, or commutation \ tax. This same class of men who es- R cape one of the tax payments also es- 5 capes the other. It is, in the face of 5 these facts, the duty of the officers of jS the law, thnt is, the County Superin- ? tendent of Education, Auditor and 5 Treasurer, to make investigations \ and thus inform themselves as to ? whether every one in the County Ha- l ble to pay poll tax and work on the I roads are on the books. The police ?j sergeant, whose duty it is to fill out 5 and collect town tax executions., has l in the past month discovered and ool- t lected overone hundred, whose names I were not on the town treasurer's, \ book, und the town treasurer gets * the names from the auditor's book. y 60 it stands to reason that these * names were on no tax book, therefore paid no taxes, nor worked the 5 roads or streets. Be vigilant in the t discharge of your duty and the allegi- | ance you owe to your country. 5 AN INTERESTING LETTER \ FROM TEXAS. g A Onion County Girl in the Lone K Star State Tells of Her Trip. N Coppel), Texas, Sept. ]904* v I have often been asked to write and * give an outline of my visit while out t here, but kept putting it off for a mote 9 convenient time and was interested in t goiug somewhere aud meeting new ac- j quaintances every day. j 1 will proceed although I do not know j| where to begin, but know where I start- t ed from. Writing is not anything com- \ pared to seeing and I can only give an t idea of the differences of the customs oi B the people out here. ( I left IJniou the 10th of February on 5 the 9 o'clock train aud arrived in Dallas B the 18th, about 5 o'clock p. m. I was s delayed twelve hours in coming. A r trestle was burned ahead of us, neat s Holly Springs, Miss., and caused me to ?> miss my train at Memphis. Yes, 1 c walked part of the way to Texas. We 3 had to walk across where tins trestle was t ourned to meet a train that was sent for us. I met a number of pleasant friends I on my way, whom I will never forget S and may never see again. Several oi 1 ! them were from Georgia and Alabama V | aud were coming in. J tweuty-three homes of uncles, aunts ana " first-cousins to visit. Well, I must has- snj ten to my destination. 1 ordered mj thi ticket on the Cotton Belt but they seni chi me ou Iron Mountain and of course thai dn put me off at the T. & P. depot instead yai | of the Cotton Belt, and my uncle was to rai meet me at the latter. It was stormy on da us from Little Rock, Ark. until just be- wa fore we reached Dallas. Well, not na knowing exactly what time we would rie get to Dallas and knowing my uncle cej would meet me at the other depot I tele Kiapneu mem to meet me at the T. & P. coi Here I was met by two fine looking "*o young men. (One a lawyer of Dallas, ju* the other a pupil of the business college, '-to who has since completed aud gone into Bh busiseess. These were two of my cous- "t ins, but do not favor me at all ) I failing 11 to say which depot, as there were two on ha the line I came in on, I would get off at, w? thoughtedly one of them went to one coi aud the other to the other. We bad 11 never seen each other, so the lawyer be- 'y ing the one at the depot I got off at. thi guessed at me and asked if I was from inf South Carolina. We waited here until ha the otlier-bqv joame, wl*) was not quite "on time and I slipped on by the depot he ar< was at. Oh I you can not imagine my no feelings so far away fiom home and with tiv strangers so near to me. The lawyer 301 had to go back to his office, so I went 1 home with the other boy. We had to co' go three miles on the car to the part of cal .Dallas called Oak Cliff. I was met there by a sweet aunt and a number of fine Dh looking cousins. (Uncle was not at '?o home at present.) But do not look at ey* me as I presume I was looking like a Hn< chimney sweep and feeling like a drunk ?rtl inan. I could scarcely tell when the Train had stopped, I had passed so many *D( trains and car boxes. I spent five weeks rtn( in Oak Cliff. During this time one of < my cousins was married and I took measles, which .1'think I captured in Memphis as I came through. I had to wait those twelve hours there and there we was a sick child at the boarding house I Th stopped at. Measles took hold of me in ent about two weeks after my arrival, and nee kept me in about that long, but have not lost any time since. Let me say 8b* here that all of my uncle's family had rati had it and I could not have been treated Nk? any kinder or any more attention given cai> to me if I had been at home. 1 will 8*16' never forget where "I had measles." While here I went to two different lonf churches in Oak Cliff and twice to the First Baptist in Dallas. At the latter I P'P< heard Rev. Truitt, who is considered the anfl finest minister in Texas They seem to '8 have a revival every Sunday and add new members. Thev hav? o ? h? i j .? "I " " *an and choir. It is a large church and "7 < .he aisles were crowded with extra chairs o seat the congregations. I was there ^ he 4th Sunday night in February ?od it Wo was warm enough to use fans and have he windows raised, also to have the ice cam iream parlors open on the streets. This vlev :hureh has something over eleven hun- c^7 Ired meml>ers Well Dallas is a very eno' arge buBy city. It certainly has a nofb- 1 ?r of large stores which are furnished We vith all conveniences such as elevators. i'ig ozy corners to rest in, lunch rooms, soda ,nR nuntains and electric fans, etc, From here, In company with two ousins I came to Coppell, which they <| Mm v -." - * \sL* I (IE El ITHE F f| The very i |j it shall fit g racy, clost M space, yei |j Quality SI 3 IT Fn 1 It fits it ju 5 the hand. ^ no other s H They talk 6 and other |1 But they H don't dare 1 QU EE S3 fits because it any other shot I MUTUAL I (Wj * mmmmmmmsm r is a wide place in the road. It is a ckly settled neighborhood with two urches, two dry goods stores and two ug stores, a public gin and lumber rd, blacksmith shop and a depot and Iroad. Seven passenger trains pass ily and freights all the time. Here I is met by another uncle who has a mber of children whom are all mard and have families of their own exit one. Well, nearly all of them and other asins came in the next day to see the uth Carolina "curiosity" This was it' a beginning of meeting the connecn. * The next day was Sunday and the iptist preaching day too. O myl I was he center of attraction" and felt that ooked like a "sore eyed cat," as I still d my signs of measles in my eyes, it is "this is so and so," "when are you ming to see me," "go home with me." vent home with a cousin and his famifor dinner and such a crowd of cousins it followed you never saw. I was goi all dav and nart of t.h? niniit . r '"S"'"! ?"U ve beeh going day and night the most the time since. I have visited in and >und Coppell a' great deal but have t spent a while with alt of my relaes yet, and have promised to visit ne friends. t dfcent five weeks with an uncle and jsin near Roanoke. This country ie led Grand Prairie. You know this ans a grain and cattle raising country, i! it was grand to be out driving and k over this prairie and see as far as >s could the fields of wheat and corn 1 large pastures of cattle aud sheep izlng leisurely. One pasture just had vs and young calves running together 1 another had the largest, both in size 1 number, of fleers I ever saw. )ne afternoon while riding in a wagon ,h some friends after water (you have ird that some people have to haul ir water, about which I will tell later) could see four of the Independent reshers threshing. These IndependThreshers furnish everything they d. They carry their bands, cook, ions and stove. Tfiey have their cook ck to carry their stove vessels and ons in. This shack is something i a car box on wheels and has sides of vass wtiich are stretched out and Ives are let down under them for the ids to eat off of. The thresher lias a I pipe extending above it which is trolled by a lever which turns the 3 something like an elephant's snout forms a high stack of straw which >ft in the pastures for the stock and ,le to eat off of during winter. Tq Irivinor ftlnncr anrl * * tooiiih blld HITHW >ut of these pipes remind me of tiie ' I imagine volcanoes look. Phlle at this uncle's I went to Ft. rth and several small towns. I cerly enjoyed my trip to Ft. Worth but not describe it. It was the graodeet r I ever saw when driving into the . It is somewhat hilly and has ugh trees of different kinds growing hem to make it look cool and grand, drove around and through the packhouse yards and watched them drivin cows, calves Sod sheep by the Ired. This wfc*.a eight to be remem1 ? '. ? " ""'4 (Continued on page C.) im .4. . :*'v , >? j j|l QUAUTTI IRST QUESTION I first question of a shoe is that || the foot with absolute accu- p~ sly but not tightly, no waste JS t no pressure. The Queen p loe is made so that P S THE FOOT. I ist as a Paris made glove fits 1 Have you ever noticed that | hoe talks much about fit? j| about style, beauty, form, j| things that means nothing. If say little about fit. They 1 : to! i| N QUALITY I ic an onf ?A A ' ' iW Mia vutn v/ij uiiicrcm tonsirucnon to j. PRICE, $3.00 THE PAIR. g|S DRY GOODS GAMPANY, 1 R. P. HARRY, Manager. ?H floYSTERSl S? L Fresh York River II r Oysters just ar- J| rived at the City |l Oyster Parlor. 11 ' | I uuuu CUOK! GOOD ORDER! 1 ' 'M0From past experience you know m the Oysters that are used here. OPEN 8 A. M. TO II P. M. | mm Yours to Serve, 1? jj IV !< R. M. Estes. 1 Phone 34. Main Street. * 4BR m mi nimm in"