The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 17, 1905, Image 1
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Five Dirge Cotton Mills, One Knitting I li I I <fl M I I /I li Five Graded Schools, Work*,
and Spinning Mill.with Dye Plant, Oil H H H I I H H I I I lj Sewerage System, Electric Lights, '1 liree
Will, I urniture Manufacturing and H H H H I J H H II Ipf , I I I wf I I ' k L / Banks with aggregate capital ol $:!5U,(H)U,
Lumt>er Yards, Female Seminary. _M_ _JH?HL JH.?~A -X. w _ BL -JB_ JBL V JL J1?-^B rV S% Electric Railway. Population
VOL. LV. NO 11. v UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA* 17,' 1905. #1.00 A VBAR.
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On Cotton or ot
I Collateral, and we
to hatte an intarvi
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?' * ^?e ite,re< .^eW ViJ
indeed, are tne rngnsn wriung
novelists of today, to whom pos- sb
terity is likely to accord a higher
place than to Mrs. Humphrey Is
Ward. Her lengthening row of
masterly books would appear to P<
.. be an unmistakable guarantee
that she has not written for her_
generation only. In this coun- lo
try, we may, as her latest work h
iddubitably shows, point with P
confidence to the still youthful y
Edith Wharton, who sharing i*
largely Mrs. Ward's deep understanding
of human nature and d
f subtle analytical skill, has also e
the added grac^ of a delicate and e
^ keenly satirical humor. And it b
^ is no merely local pride that c
- leads us to add that a ranking t
not far behind these two may al- a
ready be safely accorded to the t
very gifted author of "Sir Mor- s
timer."
Looking at the matter from a *
somewhat^ less lofty point of .
view, it is worth nothing that J
what we believe to have been the
most popular book of the past j
season, "The Masquerader,' was j
the work of a woman; as were '
also many other successes of
somewhat smaller proportions.
And of writers hitherto unknown,
'those whose first work has held
out-the greatest promise; beginning
witn Miss May Sinclair and
her remarkable book "The Dip
vine Fire," have been of the
most part women.
Against the showing of the
ladies, it is, of course, possible
+ ;
to srr&y & lormiutiuiy uiuuujjiic
of recent work of the other sex,
but the fact seems to remain unI
controverted that the high places
of modern literature have been
successfully scaled by women
f ar. $ that many of the choicer
flo ers along the wayside have
also been for the plucking of
gentle hands. Masculine authors
appear to be in no great dangei
of being crowded off the stage
but the feminine competitors arc
.oi v steadily advancing farther int<
the limelight. It is not usual t<
concede to. woman the larger en
& dowment of intellect and abili
V ties, but she is commonly grant
f ed. with apparent justice, a mor
rry delicate perception, a more grace
ji i ful fancy and a subtler artisti
j sense. Perhaps, too, she is wi
\ ling to avail herself of a moi
I ? J
i^HranQ?sA&v rii;;wv^ 3F " -^Wtffr
PMWWyt>w<yr~y ?v> gjy^-yC^P^>?v , '\j|L?,J|? ;vSf
> ;: i'p^. ^ v' -
. ninety
he eats all fii
ritis of meats, and drinks spar- R
gly, but regularly, of liquor? c<
i exercises a great deal, and
ieps between nine and ten ti
?urs a day. Earl Nelson, who p
in his eighty-second year, be- P
in life with a handicap of very o>
>or health. He is to-day, how- &
rer, in possession of unus?4* pi
;alth. He declares thj?*. his ai
ng life has been due principal- L
to the proper amount of sleep la
enty of exercise, a cheerful o
iew of life, and moderating
1 eating and drinking. p
Sir William Huggins, presi- t
* 11 aUflJ ic I f
ent 01 tut; iwjai uvviwj,
ighty-one. He declares that he s
ats with moderation, taking c
?ut very little meat, drinking d
offee, but seldom using alcholic c
iquors. He never smokes, and i
ileeps nine hours a day. He
hinks that the proper dietary i
ihould be, some (but little) meat ]
argely supplemented with milk, <
ice, etc. <
Sir William Leece Drinkwater i
s in his ninety-third year. He ;
lias been for fifty years a mem- i
ber of the Manx Legislature.
Sir William eats heartily all <
kinds of meat. His meals are <
four daily, and he eats a great
variety of things, with a little
red wine at dinner. He never
uses tobacco, and takes a great
deal of outdoor exercise. He
sleeps at least eight hours a
day.
Prof. John E. B. Mayor, who
for thirty years has been professor
of Latin at Cambridge University
and has just passed his
eighty-first birthday, differs
from the old men already noted
in that he is a strict vegetarian.
He has been president of the
Vegetarian Society since 1884.
For the past twenty-five years
he has eaten no fish, flesh or
, fowl, and has taken no tea, coffee,
or any other hot drinks, nc
i intoxicants, no stimulants and nc
drugs. He eats vegetables,fruits,
; and grains. His simple fare, he
j says, obviates the necessity oi
> much exercise.
a Dr. George S. Keith, who ii
- eighty-six years of age, ha
. written a be>ok, entitled "A Pie;
r for a Simpler Life," in which h<
e makes suggestions as to
plainer, more healthful diet. H
c smokes a little, but rarely drink
? I nlnKnltrt linilAr.
e I The wecW cases consider?
n this article close with
jnce to an American, Mr. HgHH
j. Davis, the former, DemMst* j
c candidate ^or the Presigncy ]
eplying to a question
node of lif^ said^ l never al- j
?eep*eigLt houre!B5S^^I
at three sqare^meals in twenty- {
ise tdl^cco in any form.^I take j i
i r6Si^ wrt&fl i.
bman CV- f l S1
tefinP^te^.V80of I
ibal truat funds for fifaucational ja
urpo^s among the Indians the n
resident of the United States n
?lered that $98,460 be given to ^
omish ecclesiastics for the supjrt
of their sectarian schools, 4
id the remainder, $4,320, to a s
utheran school, and not one dol- s
ir to any other Protestant school r
r college! \
The President has given to the r
ublic a letter of explanation of r
his singular act. He assumes c
he responsibility for it, and \
tates that the practice will be 1
ontinued unless Congress should ]
[ecree to the contrary or the .
ourts decide that this decision 1
s erroneous.
The policy of the government (
s defined in the act of June 7,
L897, as follows: "It is hereby
leclared to be the settled policy
)f the government to hereafter
make no appropriation whatever
for education in any sectarian
school." It may be doubted
whether a correct interpretation
of this law authorizes the officers
of the government when acting
as trustees of a fund for the
education of the Indians, to use
it in a manner that is unqualifiedly
forbidden when such funds
come directly from the treasury
of the United States. This Indian
education fund was provided
by the government for their secular
Education, not for their religious
training. It may properly
be used to make citizens, not to
make Romanists. The influence
and the power of the government
may not be used to strengthen
any sect. The right to employ
the Romanists involves the right
to employ the Mormons as the
agents of the State. If it is
proper that the general govern
ment shall require Protestant
> parents among the Indians to
j*nd their children to Romish
J schools as a condition of their
f re?eiving a public school education
what reason is there for
a f>ivil flllt.hoHtifif
J V^I * 'V/IOIII VX WI1V w? ? ??? ?.
s of Utah for requiring the childrer
a of G<otile parents in the publi<
5 schoo* of Utah to give one oi
a two h^irs of every day, fron
e 2.30 to \ o'clock, to the study o
:8 the Motion religion?
The p*a that "certain Indian
d petition^" it does not justif;
ever the Roman Catholic
ibtaftv Sniflgidable petition
to have trust funds turned
Catholic" friends
^H^^jA'Ould be _a very ^ great
^Pjj^bgrophy ot lion^
,wx ?
goroEfte war with China leaves
he^T/d direction of the
nb^Mivements are being conI
rolledjW the surface of the coun Sj^til|eenemy
in the former
I r$r cam^from the south^ in this
KSffiSSk nf thp onnogmcr arm.
nqftg been so nearly idenitarm
the two cases that it has 1
said that a strategic !
??af ether war would serve '
^jpwj^te an account of the (
m iBeginning with these
' ^ro*; N. M. Fenne- !
ImjBfrno occupies the chair of 1
in the .University of Wis- j
wnixibute^ to the Journ- 1
\ .,'fl Va p'aper on the 5
7& n^>Wtegic geography ]
a~0x Vv^LV^^f^aorFenne- 1
r??. i>ei "j
e reminds us, is a country oJ
irge dimensions?nearly 1,000
liles long from the northerlost
bend of the Amur River to
he Yellow Sea, on the south.
The average width is nearly
00 miles, giving an area of
omethething less than 400,000
quare miles. Accuracy is not
>ossible on account of the conradictory
nature of maps with
eference to the western boundary.
Port Arthur, on the Yellow
5ea, is in the lattitude of Washngton;
Mukden, in that of New
Fork; Ha'bin is as far north as
Montreal. This is approximately
at the center of the country, so
that thej northern boundary
reaches tie lattitude of the southern
part df Hudson Bay. Vladivostok
is n the lattitude of Boston;
thojgh, to complete the
scheme ol analogy with American
cities Boston should be some
200 mile? larther east.
In geieral. the climate of
Manchina is comer tnan tnat
which is found in like lattitudes
in Euroieiand in North America.
The wirLejrs are dry; the summer
monsoois bring drenching rains.
Forty-fi'e\days of continuous
rain ha'e leen known in the valley
of tye iJsuri?an amount sufj
ficient/b r4t European crops cultivate!
in European style. It is
said, /oweVer, that the natives
haveadapted their agriculture to
the pculiar conditions, and there
is api>rently no reason why the
broad vaHeys tributary to the
Sungftf should not become an
agricitural country of great
wealt
The?oundaries of Manchuria,
Profeor Fenneman holds, are
very tnsatisfactory. In this
point) says;
This antry, of less than 400,000
squarmiles, has 2,500 square
1 milesf frontier against Russian
[ territy. The Amur River, running
trouerh a broad and fertile
[ iowTai, nominally divides that
lowlai politically into two parts
1 ? Ru#n on the north and Chi1
nese > the south. To those who
: are failiar with the history of
r bouncy lines, such a division
J carrie the suggestion of ex*
tremtweakness. Modem civilizati(has
found out, as some
3 one h said, that rivers are the
^ | diamera of communities, and
r "
F. M. FARR, President,
T K
Merchants and Plan
Successfully Doing Busin
Wtmm is the OLDEST Hank In 1
E has a capital anrl surplus
B fl Is the only NATION At. I
a fl has paid dividends -mo
I pays FOUH per cent, it
H fl Is tho only Hank in Unlo
B H has Hiirjrlar-Proof vault,
pays more taxes than AL
WE EARNESTLY SOLI<
not their circumferences; that ]
trade, and wich it all the rest of t
modern life, gravitates toward j
the rivers, and there mingles and 1
thereby unifies the life of the 1
country on both sides. Should c
the country along the Amur be- z
come well peopled and civilized, t
it would seem as impossible to z
rreserve one soverignty on the c
north and another on the south j i
as it was to keep the Rhine river c
German on the one side and I
French on the other. Or, again,
it would seem that the difficulty f
of maintaining separate sover- s
ignties on the north and south a
sides of the Amur would be found t
no smaller than that of erecting s
separate soverignties on the s
north and south sides of the t
Ohio and Potomac rivers. Rivers c
may make very good boundary j c
lines between purely administra- k
tive divisions, such as counties c
within a state, or even, in so' u
strong a central government as b
the United States, between ai
States, where a man may go
down to the river bank and cross ?
withont any experience to show H
that a new political division has
been entered. But between independent;
soverign and possibly JS
hostile countries, while temporary
barriers in times of war,
navigable rivers are fatal to con-,
uuiueu . separation in times of
^r-:L'l??<i/<sir~r \
l'nlne possession oiou it'inc f/v v* * 1 *
er. He sees no reason why Rus- . j
sia should not have the entire .
valley of the Amur. J
for use of a
COTTON BAGS. v
p
Southern Grocers Favor c
Change From Jute. jj
Realizing the importance of a f
change from the use of burlaps1
for shipment of goods, such as
salt, rice, grist and other commodities,
in order that the great i
loss now suffered by reason of
defective covering, the South
Carolina branch of the Southern
Wholesole Grocers' Association, c
at a recent meeting, discussed .
the matter and issued the fol- ^
lowing report: v
At a meeting of the South t
Carolina branch of the Southern
Wholesale Grocers' Association,
held Friday, the following reso
lution was passed:
The members of the Associa- .
tion use for all purposes, when 1
possible to do so,
"First, because the empty cot- j
ton sack is of more value to the
consumer than jute sacks.
"Second, because cotton is a
product of the Southern States,
while burlaps is imported from ,
India.
The cotton sacks manufactured
by the Royal Bag and Yarn
Manufacturing Company, of .
Charleston, S. C., have been ex- 4
amined by us very carefully, and
this Association recommends this
package for grist, salt, rice, etc.
The object of this resolution is
to create a more general demand
for cotton.
Theo Melchers, President.
The shipment of rice, grist, corn
meal, sugar, salt, etc., in burlaps
lino Knnn orirl 10 nnur a OAllr/ifl nf
liao ILA/Vll U1IU IO A AV/ T T M OVU1 VV V/i
great loss from the bags becoming
torn and spilling the contents.
In our business the figures for
claims against the transportation
company for a portion of the
month of February show that in
334 'slack' bags of rice, the
weight of which should have
been 33,400 pounds, the loss was j
3,085 pounds, or very nearly 10
J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier.
C E |
ters National Bank,
less at the "Old Stand."
Union,
of ?10 \000,
lank in Union,
unfln# to filiO 400,
ltorcst on deposits,
n inspected by an officer,
, and Safe with Time-Lock,
L tlic Hanks in Union combined.
CIT YOUR BUSINESS.
per cent. The claim for loss in
,his case is made upon the transportation
company, and the jute
pags will be filled and repaired
pere, and when shipped to mer:hants
elsewhere, and losses are
igain reported, we are expected
;o make it good. When the goods
ire used from the sacks they are
>f no value, and possibly by their
nsufficient protection they have
ccasioned 12 to 15 per cent of
oss in goods.
Immense quantities of rice
rom Louisiana and Texas are
hipped in bags, (jute or burlaps)
nd grist from the West all comes
hat way; salt is sacked, and
ugar ana corn meal are mainly
hipped in bags. The substituion
of cotton bags for these
ommodities would cost but little
ompared with the difference in
>ss of weight, and when the
ontents of a cotton bag has been
sed the bag itself will certainly
e worth the d iff en me."?News
nd Courier.
i MINISTER
ON ADVERTISING.
{ Famous Minister Says
the Boys and Girls are
the Best Advertisers in
the World.
? he
children, to give them the
est place and look after their
.rants, and put in a story or two
or them, is to bring their fathers
nd mothers to the service."
Although the famous preacher
/as dealing with a practical
base of religion, he might deline
to pose as authority on business,
and would probably hesitate
o affirm that women?girls
;rown up?make better "adverisers"
than men. But many
nanufacturers and merchants
i/ill draw nnd the infer
nee, arid applaud the preacher's
nethod and conclusions.
The idea once prevailed that
vomen do not read advertisenents,
and that the good-will of
.hildren is of little importance
o a business man. The reaction
'rom one of these foolish notions
las carried many firms so far
;hat they seldom address an anlouncement
to men. The passng
of the other is marked by the
ngenious and costly souvenirs
iistributed with a view to reach
parents through their children.
It is easy to understand why
a sagacious business man speaks
to the women. Household experience
has probably taught
him that his own wife can "do
more" with a dollar than he can;
and he argues that other men
lave learned the same truth,
and govern themselves accordingly.
Let him convince a woman
that his wares are worth having,
and the sale is as good as made.
But admitting that, a woman
reports her bargains to her
friends, why should a girl be a
better "advertiser" than a boy?
We fancy Mr. Pearse would say
that she has the better memory
for pleasant things, and that her
words are weighted with her
personal charm. Yet, be it always
remembered, he takes care
to provide her with a good subt'ect.
Neither clergyman nor
tusiness man can profit much by
the talk of girls or women, boys
or men, unless he has something
worth advertising.?Youth's
Companion.
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