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r/sjf ? 4. WIT, City of Union and Suburbs Has B~T 1 T 1 fTM T ~M It City of Union and Suburbs Has Five Large Cotton Mills, One Knitting I j_B- ,11 . I f " mtv-fiES' I I / J W Five Graded Schools, Water Works, and Spinning Mill with Dye Plant, Oil * |T <*^1 X M/ I |*Y Mill, Furniture Manufacturing and 'ill I I W W S S W ' J L 1 Banks with aggregate capital of $250,000, Lumber Yards, Female Seminary. _ . . JL^d JL \ _ _ V/ JL _ _ If JL JL^A W^_y I Electric Railway. Population 7,000. | Y0L.LV.N0. 20. WlON, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRllfiiMAY lit. I<MV>. * #1.00 A YEAR; ; , r i.'fvr r ??r.i.A^aai r -jus* I Wm. A. Nicholsor t Union, Soi r ! PAY INTE reminiscences qijtmt i ^(hr between the ..... states. "si* rendered his armvto Grant, th cause of the South was no more Just how things would have beei if the South had gained her caus I cannot* rncturt out no mor than I could fell who I woul - ..diavei>iWldcit-iny^nmouK had married some other mar But it will be remembered tha the North had been raising sap suckers for upwards of thirt years past, and seeing now ou cause was lost and we had n government they swooped dow in the south like vultures to carcass, with a little sweet mo sel under their tongue which th? inserted into the head of Samb We are your friends, we will he you out if you will give us chance, and they put some their sweet savor into some the whites so they could u them as tools to do their biddin and some were just as eager do their bidding as ever a houi puppy was to run when he hea ' * O Usx a hen cacnie. run oamw, j will have to register vour nai so you will be a qualified vot< ~ So they sent some of their si ' " sapsuckers around to the differ* voting precincts to register th names. I went, but they had oath to take that was big enou to choke an Algerine pirate a after I heard it administered some others I made no atter to swallow it. But all of Samb race registered and if Dinah 1 put on a pair ofjbreeches would haye registered too. T1 when November came arou the people who lived in the ru districts would be aroused hours before day in great cnr marching and sweating, smell as strong as smoke from a kiln, going to the election, before the opening of the \ Qthey would be like bees in a g and it was with difficulty 1 anv of the white could vote i Sambo got through. The c tion over, and some of the speckled sapsuckers went t on tne highest branch in state ahd some Sambos > elected to the house and ? contracted a disease called swell head (I don't noes r 'bout de law but I noes he vote, caze I voted in de 'le< and Ise gwine to vote for i of them big bills when dey c round) ana the time came \ they started down to the caj full of joy, so full their seemed to stick out like toads and the only way i could give vent their happy ings was to sing the Snai chicken he grew so tall in i days, and after reaching capitol and meeting with so his down-tlie-country buckr exchanging greetings he 1 out for a boarding place, the thought of the big for i & Son, Bankers, I ith Carolina, \i :rest on J A I ^ ^ sh^ J but could do no good. But the ~jblood that gushed through our * i veins in *61 still kept our hearts . throbbing. Finally we came together as one man and choosing ~ one of our grand old heroes as J leader we marched on to victory, r Yes, victory, but these- sapsuckers claimed a victory too, and for t a time it seemed that there was , going.to be something spilled e more^fcecious than sap. But Union nad a errand ; a?n_ noble n hero there too^and by tMfc^lo^l e quence and wisdom Succeeded ini e ousting ouo these 'ijftpSUckersSl df?ut .thSL?SE5 ?nai^joen prepar( ing themselves a nest where they * could stay and take their rest, knowing the time had fully come " when they would have to migrate. J, But alas for one of them big, speckled sapsuckers who had n been honored to roost on the highest pole in the state, not r_ satisfied with what he had but " yearned for a little more, conq eluded he would get it by the j' slight of hand process (embezzle-' ment) but his foot slipped and * he landed in the penitentiary and * I am not certain if he did not die there. That looks a little bad for the grand old state but f' you couldn't expect any better of these sapsuckers. Since those j times have passed we have been doing as well as could be expected for a down trodden people ar under the circumstances that we V had to encounter with, for we I had to start from the foundation ': and build up. Now after the elapse of forty years our dear ole flonra wViipVi flnnt.pH in the zenhvrs nrJ-j . . of Virginia and other states hav< to been returned to the states when ^pt they properly belong which wil l0Vs most vividly recall to our mind; ia(j and memories the heroism an< she Patriotism of our fallen braves ien Let us honor the dear old flaj ncj under which many widows hus iraj bands died. Many a brave sol too dier grabbed its staff whe the hand that held it was pass ljn ing from time into eternity. . ^ flag we love, a flag we honoi an(j and at the next reunion of th >olls Confederate veterans thi um dear old flag should be hoiste that UP t? ^reeze and the 801111 intil 0 ^u^e? and drum shou dec- shrill the air with sweet strair big mu81c that our dear old flag 0 gjf. once more unfurled and is wa fu0 ing over our native soil. Wi vere suc^ ^rand and refreshing seen lome would be enough to make o the old hearts leap up with joy ai nuch wish we were boys again. etion opinion "on "women some clubs. omes vhen Grover Cleveland < pitai, womans's Mission 01 mad Woman's Clubs in tl they Ladies' Home Journ< feel nghai He says: One who can a few member a mother's love an : the mother's care in childhood, me of who has known in later days a and joy8 a devoted wife brings to ooked lire of man, ought to be abl< , but calculate upon general eocperie bills so largely tallying with his < that he need not fear protest or dissent in treating of the scope and character *f woman's missipn. It is a melancholy fact, however, that our subject is actually one of difficult approach; and it is a more melancholy fact that this approach is made difficult by a dislocation of ideas and by false perspectives on the part of women themselves. To those of us who suffer periods of social pessimism, but wno, in the midst of it all, cling to our faith in tfye saving grace of simple and unadulterated womanhood, any. discontent on the part of woman with her ordained lot, or a rest movement is so aggr&sive, and so extreme in its insistence, that those whom it has fully enlisted maywellbe considered as inotfk ing of these radiratsahigh priests Uody to prevent the execution of a woman proved guilty of tho deliberate and aggravated murder of her husband. The speaker is reported to have further announced ! as apparently the keynote of her address: 'If we could vote we'd be willing to be hanged." It is a thousand pities that all the wives found in such company cannot sufficiently upon their minds to see the complete fitness of the homely definition which describes a good wife as 'a woman who loves her husband and her country, with no desire to run either;'and what a blessed thing it would be if every mother and every woman, whether mother, wife, spinster or maid, who either violently demands or wildly desires for women a | greater share in tne direction ui 1 public affairs, could realize the [ everlasting truth that 'the hand j that rocks the cradle is the hanc that rules the world.' I There is comfort in the redec I tion that, even though these ex j tremists may not be amenable t< reformation, there is a fair pros | pect that their manifest radical ism and their blunt avowal o * subverting purposes will effect = ively warn against a dangerou [" wide acceptance of their theories ' The real difficulty and delicac of our topic become most appai ^ ent when we come to speak c . the less virulent and differentl ' directed club movements thi have crossed the even tenor c JJ the way of womanhood. I c 4 not include those movemen which amount to nothing moi J? than woman's association or c !q operation in charitable, benev ^ lent and religious work, large local in its activities and in i p" its qualities and purposes entire fitted to a woman's highest r ture and best impulses. I spe more especially of the womer clubs of an entirely different s< which have grown up in all s< tions of our land, and which ha already become so numerous tl in the interests of their cons< m dated management a Natio ? " < fir fid j Federation 01 woman a v?i h?e ' has been created. I speak a of the vast number of asso( a1, tions less completely organiz but no less exacting of time i *"e~ attention, whose professed f " a poses are in many instances ?r intellectual improvement or tertainment of the women c posing their membership. Doi 8 t? less in numerous cases the >nce jects of these clubs and assc 3wn tions are shown in such a 1 * . T>-\ and am rtifele to appear so good, | or at leastso harmless, that a conscidptiohs woman, unless she makes it strong fight against selfdelusion, nifty quite * easily persuade herself that affiliation with thenvwould be certainly innocent and peahaiw even \yithin the diel^tps ojp* duty.. The danger of self-deafskwi lies in her supposition that? she is consulting the .need or Alaxation or the duty of nrcreasjaopportunity for intellectual* improvement, when in -'point ol fact, and perhaps imperceptibly to herself, she is taking npunsel of her discontent .withQB humdrum of her home ' Cbhsidering the woman's dlub.asdi Weapon of retaliation UpdBfmaTi for neglect of his home M^^ragesting that the retaliation ncBr fall upon the innocent a&.^&Bfe.the guilty. Mr. Cleveffcad us 1 'it may safely be asspmedBpat among those who are tttf?i*bed by the growth of d^^^Rkelubism the sentiment W^'hl'wusai that man's neglect is a dastardly offence t^nSjilf^Hhe whipping post for Wi??f*wers would be a whole- ; Mature of our criminal "I a3feersuaded that without W&&?BTOion of statement we rnayitosume that there are womwhose objects-and intgp^HHnot only harmful, but h&rmSa&n a way that directly mena^pi the integrity of our homes aid the benign disposition anA character of our wifehood yl motherhood; that there are oJAfS harmless in intent,but whofi ^adency is toward waste of timetmd preversion of effort, as well as toward the formation ; of titip club habit, and the toleration or Active patronage of less innocepnorganizations; that there of women ious ent#rD~, wof charity, religprovement are ai?;<^?u-r^-.u:-n_ ble and worthy. Leaving this latter class out of account, and treating the subject on the theory that only the other organizations mentioned are under consideration, I believe that it should hp hnlrllv declared that the best and safest club for a woman to patronize is her home." SENATORTILLMAN Talks on Issues Live to The South. Benjamin Tillman, United States Senator from South Carolina and one of the best^known , figures in American politics, is an Atlantan temporarily, making * his home for a week or so at the Robertson sanitarium on Capitol | avenue," With Mr. Tillman is his i wife and it is on her account that the trip was made. "Still," remarked the senator in this con"m nection, "I was feeling a trifle " off my feed the early part of the winter and there were certair syihptoms which made me knov ? that there would be no harm don< in my taking the treatment her as well as my wife. So I am her and I am glad to say that at pres * ent even the suggestion of thos symptoms of the early part of th winter are gone and I am feelin * fine." Senator Tillman certainly look ? the picture of rugged health an I there is little in his stalwai t frame and generously proportioi ' ed features to even suggest tY | fact that dl-ing his boyhood I ' ! was a great invalid. It was whi i"; he was in delicate health and 1 aii ' years of age that he came . nporo-ia for a year. He settle J below Elberton in the flat lam 1 and there he met his wife, the > | marriage occurring some thr r? ! years later. "I've never beer freeman," he said yesterds " " { "I always belonged to my mo1 a? : er until I married when I was jj_ and I never have found a til naj since then that I did not belo to my wife," and the sena i ' laughed in a way that suggesi ?ja. little suffering from his lifelc 'ed" slavery. ind IMMIGRATION TO THE SOUTH >ur- When asked about the mat the of immigration to the south en- South Carolinian stated: om- "It seems to me that the noi jbt-; and by that I mean mostly ob-1 northern cities, are % doing m cia- in the way of sending foreigr ight to the south at this time than F. M. FARR, President, T Merchants and Planl Successfully Doing Busint ^1 is the OLDEST Dank in U hna n capita' and surplus < is the only N ATION'A L li has paid dividends *mou rays FOUR per cent, in1 is the only Dank in Union has DurRlar-Proof vault, pays more taxes than A LI WE EARNESTLY SOLIC BSnOBBHHiBHBnBBBn er before. . I think that this is it mostly due to th<?" fact that they tl are beginning to be afraid of the h congested condition of the cities b made by these foreigners who c populate the alien quarters of the cities to such an extent that its c< welfare is threatened. Another n thing, the drift of immigration is a naturally this way and will con- e1 tinue to be. All of the govern- c( ment lands have been occupied e: and the opportunities in the south o\ along agricultural lines are cer- hi tain to attract many. They are v< coming this way. now, but, of v< course, this is only the dripping ol as compared with the great num- tc ber which comes this way and ir also which it now looks as though tl the future would bring. t? "In our state we have an immigration bureau and the results tl have been flLisfactory. I believe the sea coaflbt just now seems par- c; ticularly attractive to the Italians ei and other Latin race3 because of jr, the opportunities for raising gar- tl den truck, and at this these races seem to be most at home. I think, too, that this matter of the Latin races coming to this part P; of the country in great numbers : is uiie which curries witn it great ~ responsibilities. If properly there is no ques- I1 brought out in a way That "will w mean much. On the other hand, ? if the rush when it really sets t; this way is not controlled there ?. is danger that our present problem may be complicated, and a heaven knows we have trouble ? enough with this matter alone. ] Everyone knows that just now 11 all of the negroes are hurrying j when possible from the planta- j tions and the farms to the cites and the railroads, and there is no 1 doubt but that we need labor to j make possible the harvesting of : our crops. "I know, too, that an Italian can work all round a negro if he wants to, but I do not know whether he will want to when it comes to working for some other , man. Perhaps, they will simply , want to get on to the ropes and . then start in on their own ac. count and then the labor which ; we so much need will not be i forthcoming. As to the solution i of the problem, I dare say that it j will have to be solved as time e makes possible the solving and e the meeting of the new condie tions. "As to the Equitable and the e insurance question involved, I p rirm'f knnw enoucrh about it to UV1I V- 4>?.v .. g speak. To tell the truth, I don't understand it as I would like to. :s By the time Bget through specd ulating on when and how the ft Japanese and Russian fleets are i- going to get together there is not time left in the day to decile pher all of the intricacies of the le insurance matter, except, I dare 1-7 say that when the matter is setto tied between the agents and the id officials, the policy holders wil ds continue to lose as they have sir done. But I don't know mucl ee about the matter, so I had bette i a not say anything. With the wa iy, it is different. Why; when i tn- started, so far as I could learr on /lonnrVifor and the Russia llijr uauf^nwi me embassy were the only ones wh ng were whooping it up for Russij tor With the constant losses to h( ted champions, my daughter no ?ng says that she is for the Russiai because they are white peopl [. But when the two forces now < iter the sea meet it means more the the Japanese than the Russian simply because a victory for tl rtj, Russians would mean a comp the cation and the prolonging of t1 lore war* On the other hand, t lers Russians seem to have acquir ev. the losing habit, and if they 1< J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. | E - 0 ters National Bank, B )ss at the "Old Stand." nlon, -? jf $10\000, mvk in!" nil in, luting to $300 400. torcflt on rtopoHltn. IniMcU-d by nil ofllcor, and Safe MfHh Time-Lock, the Hanks In TTnlon combln-d. ;iT YOUR BUSINESS. ; would not mean so much to hem, and, with the troubles at ome, would certainly tend to ringing the issue to a nearer onclusion. "As for the reduction of the otton crop,' there seems to be o doubt but that there has been reduction in the acreage and iren under the most favorable mditions, the crop would not tceed 11,500,000 bales. The atput of fertilizer, however, has sen large, but I understand that sry much of this has been dented to corn and, perhaps, some .her crops. To me this seems > be a good sign and in the raisig of produce at home, rather lan purchasing it from a dismce, the advantage is obvious. "When will I help you to get le new Atlanta post office? /ell, I will do it always when I in. Anything that is a southrn proposition goes with me and ets my vote, you can deoend on lat. A VIEW OF ROOSEVELT. "As to what I think about the residents present trip I don't are to say much. Since the me he insulted me, during the isit of Prince Henry it was, I ave never seen him, and what Lmore. I don'r. exn*y?t *Q .until f censure regarding my dimculy with another member of the enate was entirely a matter for he senate to decide, and I heard , great many of the republican enators say that his meddling n what was none of his business it that time was deserving of ^ensure. Of course, I have seen aim, but we have never met,and [ don't expect we ever will. As for his present hunting trip, I suppose he wants to make himself conspicuous by doing something different as he always done. "No I am not troubling myself with politics or matters of state these days, I am simply here with my wife for a rest, and except for reading the papers, I don't know and don't want to know what is going on in the 1 J ? ^ *>4- 4-1-\ i r% f 1*V>A worm OI politics just at umo I/into for I am simply taking a day off. I don't know just how long we : will stay, but I know that I like it here and we have both been greatly benefitted. In his dress Senator Tillman was much the same as he has always been found for years. With trousers that were creased in every way except the pressing club way, linen of the kind suggestive of the country and a light house coat, the senator was the same representative of the people and the democratic solution ! of the simple life problem, which he has always been since his first entrance into politics with the 1 sobriquet of "Farmer Tillman." If A NEW STORY 5 I ? * II Sir Henry Morgan, J " ? lliirnnoer. % ,v T" A P H V\4 V VA * *. ?* ir ^ By Cyrus Townsend w a; Brady, author of "The 4 f Southerners" : : : : <4 J; Begins in this Issue, jj s. ^ Dashing Pirate Story, J.e ? interwoven with Love, ? he ? Romance and Heroism. he ^ Don't fail to read it. ? >e3dti *