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Ij. ^PNION^, '*^^r ~40&i | City of Union and Suburbs Has f* ^ |T T^ I T 1%V' ^k^9H fTI | 1 f TT O City of Union and Suburbs Han Flw Large Cotton Mills, Ono Knitting 3 I I 9j I j ^ \ v^'. , >^HLl I I m 9-4 91^. Five traded Schools, Water Work*, and Spinning Mill with Dyo IMant, Oil 9 9 HI . 9 I 9 vSfe\ 9 Wml B 9 ml 9 91 J i Sewerage System, Electric Light*, Three -Mill, Ftirniture Manufactuiipg. and 9 ". 9 9 9 > J 9 1 9 \> W TWflH 9 9- I I ' J k K llanks with aggregate capital of $260,000, Lnmbftf Yar^s, Femalo Seminary. _9. JL-9L _9L?J JL 4 -HEHrx XV . J9- ~9_ JL w J9- -9L~m rk,?/ 9 Electric Railway. Population 7,000. - YOL. L1V. NO ."iS. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRlDAyTmiCgfjffrR 30,' 1904. ?" < m #1.00 A YEAR. We shall be installed ir ROOMS, and every one vited to inspect them. We have every faciiit banking business, and and borrowers. |l A SPECIAL DEPART B tym. fi. NiGHOLSOl |k lnf"1 Brigadier-General Micah Jenkins. Micah Jenkins, born December ' 1, 1835, was a third son of Capt. John Jenkins, of Edisto Island, 1 S. C. He entered the South Carolina Military Academy in the year 1851, at the age of fifteen, and graduated in 1854, with the first honor of his class. The following January he established with his classmate, Asbury Coward, now the honored Superins tendent of the South Carolina Military Academy at Charleston, the Military School at Yorkville, S.C., and; young as hA was; at [once exhibited the singular aptitude for command which his after-career -signally illustrated. By a hH* . ading of firmness in discx ??flk"and frank and cordial sympathy with all who sought his counsel or aid, he obtained an early and lasting hold upon the respect and affection of his pupils, and his success as an instructor was complete. Before the war he had raised a volunteer company at Yorkville, Ir the name of the Jasper ds. This company formed lucleus of the Fifth Regi;, S. C. V,, which elected colonel without opposition, was among the first to enter Confederate service. When sral Beauregard took comi of the Army of the Potomac is ordered to Virginia?hav- ; previously served on SulliIsland?and bore a credits- i >art in the First Battle- of ; assas, and, following General ! ison in his withdrawal to the I Peninsula, it participated in all the privation of the spring campaign of 1862. Upon the reorganization of the twelve months' volunt.pprs Gpn eral Jenkins formed a new regi| ment from the elite of the Fifth, which was styled "Jenkin's Palmetto Sharpshooters," and with ^ this command achieved his success at Williamsburg, and carried, 9 with one additional regiment of 9m R. H. Anderson's brigade, his part of the field at Seven Pines. This was, in many respects, one of the most daring and brilliant :*> incidents of this eventful war, f for he drove the enemy through f three of his camps, a mile and a quarter beyond the fartherest point attained by our troops, and rested that night on the ground he had won, in the tents of a Massachusetts regiment. In command of General Anderson's brigade he shared the perils and triorv of the battles around Richmond in June, 1862, and after the engagement of Cold Harbor and Frazer's Farm brought out his Sharpshooters, origiiudly numbering upward of 1,000 rank and file, with but 125 men; his personal aid having been shot down by his sidO, and 0-. his own clothes being riddled "With bullets. His promotion at once followed, and he proved hor> well it was deserved by the1 skill and gallantry which he soon I after displayed at the Second! ^ v, Battle of Manassas, where he lost two of his colonels, and his ?RY 3rd ?I i our NEW BANKING \ is most cordially iny for transacting your V/ant more depositors i WENT FOR LADIES. I & SON, Bankers. 8 nhuriwwb a???a??3 | " ' '1 adjutant-general, and was him- i self severely wounded. ! At the battle of Fredericks- i burg he served under Longstreet, j I who more than once ordered him where ttie battle was fiercest, :but owing to the rapid fluctua- , tions of that field his brigade was only partially engaged, During the following spring campaign his command was em-, ployed as a corps of observation ! on the Blackwater, in the vicinity of Petersburg and Richmond, i from whence he was again or-! dered to Longstreet, and went' with.him to Tennessee. Arriv- ( ing there just after the battle of | Chickamauga, he was assigned . to the command of Hood's Divis- ; ion; but from the inadequacy of , his force was unable to prevent the enemy from effecting a lodg- j ment on this side of the Tennessee River, and was very nearly cut off by overwhelming numbers. The extrication of his division was, in fact, solely due to i his own judgment and to the j thorough discipline and steadi- 1 ness of his troops. From Chattanooga he accompanied Longstreet to East Tennessee, and served with him in the campaign of the last winter before Knoxville. Thence he was withdrawn to meet the threatened invasion of Virginia, where he fought his last battle and fell at the early age of twenty-eight years, near the same spot, by the same fatal accident and the selfsame hands which, just one year before, inflicted on the South the irreparable loss of Stonewall Jackson. Before he was of age General Jenkins married the eldest daughter of Gen. D. F. Jamison, and at his death left a tenderly devoted wife and four young children to mourn the untimely death, which was deplored by the State with a common and | profound sympathy. Thus closed the brief but brilliant career of a patriotic soldier; of one who to the charms of a manly person and a commanding presence added the attractions of gentle manners, a most placid temper, and a dignified and courteous address. His intercourse ii i * ? * witn nis mends was ever marked by a delightful candor, frankness and simplicity, and to all men he always exhibited that fairness and generosity of conduct which was so perfectly congenial to his own nature. A Christian gentleman?in the largest sense of that exalted title? he kept his life pure and his walk and conversation blameless; recognizing as paramount the call of duty, and following her voice with fearless steps and unwavering singleness of purpose. He was ambitious of distinction and strove to win it; but he raised himself over his rivals by no meanness oHi indirection, and practiced no arts of advancement save the honest arts of resolute will and earnest endeavor. He had no fondness for the bloody arena of war as a pastime or a profession; but realizing deeply the necessity of a knowl edge of arms to a people who would keep their freedom, he devoted his life to this vocation. When his country's rights were j invated his soldier's instinct im- , pelled him among the very first to draw his sword, and he never, would have sheathed it until his honorable independence was se- , i cured. Scrupulously respectful ! of private rights, he never per; mitted any wanton destruction ; of property, any violence, intrusion or pillage, on the part of ; his command, while he wasequal| ly mindful of his men, and spared no personal pains or Jabor. that would conduce to their * wel&reil By general consent his troops*! were the best disciplined, beSn clothed and best armed of the entire division to which they belonged. Brav/, ardent, enthusiastic, possessed of the full confidence of his men and of his command, he was often thrust into the forefront of battle. He bore himself always with the loftiest gallantry. Asking his troops to pnnmin(-oi- nn ? U:?l- i- - nv uau(jci WHICH lie did not share, he led hia.imp^nq, ous battalions in a score of stormy , fights, and fell at la&t,' ?as a soldier might well wish to fall, with sword in hand, at the close of a well-stricken field, the light of the setting sun, crimsoning his" victorious bayonets, and the shouts of triumph ringing in his ears. O MUSH AND MILK. The Many Uses Made of Corn. The pioneer babies, whose energy was lated devoted to conquering the wilderness, were reared mostly upon mush and milk. Many a mother, after filling up her brood with this homely diet, spanked them to bed in their rude couches "up in the loft." The pioneer baby knew nothing of candy, ice cream and other enervating edibles of effete civilization. As he grew older, he graduated on hog and hominy. Corn, therefore, in the many phases of food to which it is adaptable, was the basis as well as the mainstay of that vast multitude whioh surged across the Alleganies a hundred years ago to make the great States whose votes on November 8 settled the destinies of this mighty modern republic. The Indians had learned its value and knew how to make a variety of dishes from their little patches of maize. They could bake cakes on boards before the firo or in the hot ashes that smouldered, and they were adepts in the crushing of the corn for that peerless dish called hominy. From them the pioneers got the lesson and found out the virtues lurking under the homely nubbin of the squatter's ill-worked patch. But with advancing civilization and the disappearance of the andirons and the crane, the ash cake, the Johnnie cake, hominy and bread pudding are little more than a tradition with people of the present day. Unless something be done to check the decadence, the cooking of corn in many forms will become another "lost art," to be added to those so eloquently described u,r [ ujr ?? cnucii A iiui^s* The German government was ! persuaded to make experiments,1 and as a result the imperial board announced that a good bread could be made of a mixture of corn and other flours. Now, more than eight hundred bakeries in Berlin are selling this mixed product cheaper than rye bread, the great specialty of the Germans. Mr. Murphy, who de* / ) servfeJ^to rank among the great J reformers^nd benefactor, writes encouragingly of the progress of his wfljrk. He says the preparation of ?ctfri can be infinitely more varied than that of wheat, and that Aa^J^cans have never taken propel! pfHe in their great native cereak '^According to this expert, twenty^fc per cent, of corn flour, fwhjtch is three-fourths cheaply wheat, added to wheat |5wlr, makes S mixture mora jfeolesome and digestible than b*e all-wheat Dread. ^-There '** **9*T>erceptihle difference in taq&Jir appearance, and it .will jjjttBfresh longer. Pastries df KaHjgmtis will be improved and ^|H^ed by an addition of fifty pe^^flt. of corn flour. ThlOad part about it all is the fact that while urging with some succ^SB| our corn propaganda in - IT-, uui [jcwpit: ure anppingMway from the faith. CessatioMpf the use of corn for food in it?arious forms marks a distinct?etrogression. All the survivow of the last generation say ,moiuJj(?lly that the present one 4 'cloes iiot eat enough corn bread.'' The riiddy face and stout body of the child of fifty years ago, followed by the strength and constitution of the man and woman, were little less than a tribute to maize in its multifarious and appetizing forms. What is needed now is evidently a return to first principles, a recrudescence, as it were, of mush and milk. Throw ^ide all the deceitful preparations and patent poisons, and feed baby on the diet which wrought such wonders in "an early ?day." No dyspepsia or bad dreams come from mush and milk, 'though they fill up to the chin. And think how cheap it is! No meats are necessary or other costly viands, because they have no storage room for more after getting their fill of the one thing needful. Amid all the clamor for reform, therefore, and the demand of voters for betterments, let all the platforms demand mush and milk for the baby and hog and hominy for the man. Thus will the great republic best accomplish its mission and its teeming millions reach their best estate. BOLL WEEVIL CONVENTION. Adopts Good Resolutions. New Ideas Advanced. After a session of several days at Shreveport, La., the Cotton Boll Weevil Convention adjourned last week, the work of the gathering being summarized by a number of lengthy resolutions, which, it must be confessed, are more conservative and practical than the discussions and speeches had led the people to expect. The gathering was a large one, although naturally enough Louis- J iana and Texas furnished the majority of delegates, both because the cotton farmers of these ! two States have a more intimate interest in the weevil as a pest as well as because the place for meeting was more convenient to them than to the farmers of other cotton States. The discussion develoned the fact that despite the gradual spread of the pest all over Texas within recent years, no really ef1 fective method of fighting it had been discovered. It was claimed by many extremely well-posted delegates that the only sure method of arresting the spread of the pest and eliminating it from the territory it has already attacked would be to place out of cultivation for an entire year all /. M * . F. M. FARR, President, T 1 Merchants and Plai I Successfully Doing Busi m Is ttao OLDEST Hank in a lias a capital nnd surplti 3 5 Is the only NATIONAI, 9 H liaa paid dividends ?m H % pays FOUIt per cent. 5 is tlie only liank iu l'ni< n EH lias Burjflar-Proof vaul Is B pays more taxes than A I WE EARNESTLY SOLI "tit i ,. ? the cotton lands of Texas and Louisiana which have already been attacked by the weevil. The advocates of this heroic alternative were so earnest in their efforts to secure the adoption of their plan that the majority of the special committee on resolutions reported a resolution providing for this temporary abandonment of cotton cultivation in Texas and Louisiana. A minority of the committee submitted also a report disapproving of^this proposition, and the minority was overwhelmingly sustained, the general consensus of opinion among the great mass of delegates being that it would be utterly impracticable to expect Texas and Louisiana farmers to abandon the cultivation of cotton even for a year. J The Convention put itself v. record as strenuously rebuking, those selfish people who are prating about the weevil being the cotton planters' friend in keeping down the size of the crop and therefore insuring higher prices. This idea the Convention characterized as the extreme of selfishness and narrow-minded folly, and such it undoubedly is. The resolutions actually adopted by the Convention commend the Agricultural Department of the General Government for the aid already given in studying the weevil and devising methods for its extermination and asking that the efforts be continued, particularly in the direction o? scientific investigation. Diversi- ? fication of crops and restriction of acreage, coupled with intensified farming, are advocated as affording a better chance of fighting the peat by individual effort. Farmers were advised to plant early and quick-maturing varieties of cotton where the weevil has taken a strong hold of the land and to burn off stalks and field debris as rapidly as the cotton is picked. Another resolution called upon the legislatures of cotton-growing States to pass stringent laws protecting insectivorous birds. The continuance of the use of paris green and other poisons was advocated. In a word, the Convention places great stress upon the necessity for individual effort in the work of exterminating the pest and the bad policy of relying entirely upon Government effort. THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS. Result of Subsoiling Demonstrated. A few years ago we saw some red clay land, containing little humus, sub-soiled eight to ten inches. The work was done with an excellent two-horse subsoiler j drawn by two mules. That work ! was thrown away. Heavy spring rains solidified the clay. I The zeal of the farmer doing j work was not according to knowli edge. He knows better now. He will not repeat his error. But he is fully convinced of the * J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. T E iters National Bank, ness at the "Old Stand." Union, a of $100,000, Hank in 1'niwn, minting to ?4)0.400. interest 011 deposit?. >n Inapectod bjr an officer, t. and Snfe with Time-l/ook, 1,1. tho Unnks in Union combined. ICIT YOUR BUSINESS. great value of sub-soiling our clay lands. If he can break one or two inches of the clay with one mule drawing a diamond point tongue plow that is all he wants on land with a light top soil. Following that with small grain and peas he incorporates humus into the soil and is ready then to break up two inches more of the clay. Thus by degrees in three years he will secure a teninch soil well charged with humus and capable of resisting heavy rains or long droughts. Land should never be sub-soiled when the clay is wet and sticky. We saw a field prepared for wheat this fall. In places the soil was shallow. A two-horse turn-plow was used. The wet clay was brought to to the top, where it remains in clods, and it 1 be there next spring. Break ,nly so much of the hardpan or clay as can be incorporated with the top soil. This work should be done before the first of March. Any sub-soiling that leaves the broken clay in a mass is worthless, as the first heavy rain wil! cause it to become soil again.? Charles Petty, in Progressive Farmer. New Mills of South Carolina. R. Maxey McCown, assistant Secretary of State, has about completed the report of that office to the General As^mWy. J* shows but ten mills chartered this year, and some of them have been in onprntinn there were 11 to increase their capital stock?which really is more gratifying than the chartering of new mills of an equivalent capitalization. The following is the list of new mills chartered in 1904: Buffalo Mills, Blacksburg, $ 20,000 Whittaker Cotton Mill 50,000 Camperdown Mills 100,000 Wateree Mills, Camden 300,000 Oconee Knitting Mills 15,000 Westminister Knitting Mills 20,000 Orange Cotton Mills 75,000 Crescent Cotton Mills, Spartanburg 50,000 Jordan Mills, Spartanburg 25,000 Yorkville Knitiing Mill 20,000 Total $675,000 This does not quite come up to the record of $4,850,000 in 1900. The mills which increased their capitalization this year are: From To Lockhart, $500,000 $1,300,000 Williamstown 200,000 500,000 j Victor (Greers) 70,000 700,000 Chiquola (Honea Path) 200,000 500,000 Huguenot (Greenville) 40,000 150.000 Beaumont (Spartanburg) 100,000 210,000 Carolina (Greenville) 50,000 100,000 Franklin (Greer) 65,000 95,000 ' Capitol City 100,000 310,000 i Clinton 150,000 8)0,000 Woodside (Greenville) 200,000 400,000 ! Totals $1,657,000 $4,565,000 1 The total amount of increase is $2,890,000 against a record of $2,914,000 in 1900?The State. . ,v *'