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I IMMMMUMMMMMtHI ??i>HXHlll?W?MB 5 UNION AND SUBURBS HA5 5 ^ ^ "W" "W" Y <? "W" T "W T "W /^\ T FTT%V 1C ~1fr" W I 1JNW' RM? 3U?W?S HAS 1 Female Seminary, Five Ureded I 1*1 I i ' I | 1^^ T I M . | r |f^| ]m 71 I elb&T 2Five tar*c Cotton.Hint. Knlttln* f I H H . | v It fT\ I I VI PiV mixed Streets, Population 13,000. ^ J ^ I Vf i jtt, ?M A W M 'M -^k. <. and lAimber Yards, Water Worxs. yj^TV^y. ^ ? ' ' "^7* \ V- NHMamifnitMMMM : ' * ' ' , - v.-"-, ' : - J ! .'. . , , j.'". " .., -,? = Jm.V VOL. LVI NO. 4. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1906. *' $1.00 A YEAR3 X > Vi / h JIK. + 11 CENTS < Makes the Farmers happy a place to deposit your surplu The best Safe that Money c protected against Burglary large Firm and Individual F protect our customers) mat lutely secure. We solicit & Wm. A. Nicholson COTTON VS. WORLD'S GOLD AND SILVER OUTPUT. J r Cotton Production and Gold and Silver J PrnHnrtlnn flit tha Criiinn Crnn hu i luuuutiuu. vui mo vvuuu vnvy uj q One Half, and the Financial and Com- i merclal World Would Stagger. a t The total value of the world's ? gold and silver production for J the last five years was $2,578,- 1 852,000. The total value of the * cotton crop for the same period c was $2,974,000,000, an excess of t cotton value over gold and silver * * production of $395,148,000. a What it means for the South a to hold a practical monopoly of v the world's cotton production is F not generally appreciated nor the F potentiality of this fully grasped, c Destroy corn, and you could find r a substitute; destroy wheat, and r other grains would furnish bread c for mankind; but cut short the b{\s wtton crop by one-half, t and the financial and commercial e world would stagger; destroy a cotton, and civilization would be t fnr ^-V arS1 has no substitute t for cotton. Cotton, the South's t SSTw *l0Jy\ia th5 basi3 of the s into every civilized life; it is I needed in the psKce of the king ? as well in the numblest hut ef < the peasant; it is the glistening ] sail alike of the royal pleasure < yacht and the ship of commerce; i it is as essential in the hospital where it makes possible the surgery of the day as it is on the tented battlefield; it is the basis of the greatest manufacturing industry of the world, employing more than $2,000,000,000 of capital and annually producing of manufacturing goods an equal amount or more than iron and steel; it is the dominant power U?" f/v fVlA in commerce; it unug? ^ South from Europe an average of over $1,000,000 a day for every day in the year. The value of our cotton exports to Europe annually exceeds the ^ total gold production of the world, and the total value of the % crop is far in excess of the combined value of the gold and silvei output of all earth. This, th< richest possession which a benefi cent Creator ever gave to an: section of earth, is the grea prize which the leading nation of earth have struggled in vai to capture. This fleecy etapl makes the study of the South weather conditions and its latx supply of general interest i every banking house in Euro] and America. And how little < we show our appreciation of tl 1 ? ?-wtinrVt + tor bv f Kin^ Jlll|^A>wav* than ah the royal rulers of eart We take this beautiful produ< } which should be the emblem cleanliness and purity, and wi the barbarous saw-grin tear a break its fibre, destroying 75 ] cent, of its strength; we loos cover it with infiamable mate: and dump it into the mud or it stand for days and sometii for weeks in the rains and stoi of winter; we treat it as tho it were the meanest of all hui * ?* of the nob proaucuuua iiiowwv. as though we despised its da arid delicate whiteness, riva "the whiteness of the A1 snow;" we gin it with the ^ made by Whitney more than years ago; we compress it {? \ machinery a century old; "v, waf*-n its substance and de; V ita^, J; for a century \ ha\j rusned it to marke W s though eager to be rid of it, in doing so have permittee w+J ' H>e to reap the profit ^ wght to have been ours; then we have wondered wh South hair not grown rich < its monopoly, KSS COTTON j ind prosperous. A sa*? s is with THIS BANK, an Buy, which is also by Insurance, and our Resources (all of which ce your deposits absoYOUR BUSINESS. & Son, Bankers, But a better day is dawning. < rhis royal king is coming into lis own. The ablest scientists ire seeking to improve the qualiy of the seed and the method if nnlfi VQ finn ovnorto VUIW*TMWIVU| V^|/VJ. VO Ml V fT V/l IVng on better machinery to gin ; md clean and compress cotton; < he world is anxious to fill the >outh'e fields with labor that its >roduction may be increased. Phis king of agriculture, king of i nanufactures, king of foreign < commerce, this king of civilizaion itself, is touching with a nagic wand the life of the South ] ind quickening it with a wealth 1 tnd power worthy of the country < vhicn he has chosen to fix as his 1 >erpetual abode. Here he < >romises to forever dominate j :otton production and cotton ; nanufacturing, and thus domi- i Late the wealth and civilization f the world. The great value of cotton to i he South under the higher >rices ruling of recent years, ind which had ruled for a cenury, with a few brief exceptions, mtil from 1893 to 1899, shows he vast importance of cotton not ? < il n i I . , Tt i5>utn- Dut to tie >orts of raw ^oHvvn ^ KJtJ?exceeded the worlcPs total proluction of gold for the same period by over $200,000,000. In >ther words, if. Europe had^iuring the last five years gathered together every dollar of gold produced in all the mines of the earth and shipped it to the South it would still have fallen $206,000,000 short of paying its debt to the South for raw cotton. No wonder the combined wealth of Europe is ever struggling to beat down the price of cotton to the lowest possible point. But how strange to find many of the financial and manufacturing interests of this country allied with Europe in seeking to lessen the South's prosperity for the benefit of Europe! When the total : value of the cotton crop, includi ing seed, is figured up for th< j last five years it sums up $2,974, - 000,000, or $396,000,000 in exces r of the combined value of the gob ? and silver production of th - world for the same period.y Manufacturers' Record Januar ,t 4th, 1906. B * M*nrA SiZtTna Sr.raoe. n A ?^IV IMIVVIIUJ t le '8 Judson Rice, a colored ma >r who lives on and works a far in for Mr. Joseph J. Hughes, w 3 pe across Broad River at Lockha io ferry last Saturday night to vii lis the family of a colored friend ar the name of Phillips and wh h! there he was shot by Philli *t, with a shot gun, the whole lc of taking effect in his breast. So ith of his friends brought him ho ,nd in a one-horse wagon the n per day and he is now in a v ely critical condition. He is be rial attended by Dr. Pattock. r let true circumstances which le< nes the shooting has not yet b rms ascertained. nan The Gibbes House to be Leased ! lest inty We learn with regret that ling and Mrs. W. M. Gibbes ar pine leave us soon and that as soc gin a suitable lessee can be obta i 1001 they expect to turn over with house, furnished, to the p wa I There are quite a number o 3troy plicants for the house, but a we no positive answer can be j t as as to who their successors . and be. I Eu- Mr. and Mrs. Gibbes ar vhich resident of Union and we h ; and grive them up, however th< y the pect to retire from activ >ut of and move to Columbia t with their son Mr. W. M. G SAD ACCIDENTAL KILLING OF SAMUEL WHITENER. Top of His Head Blown Off While Out Hunting With a Crowd of Boys. Last Saturday afternoon about 4 o'clock one of the saddest accidents happened that has yet been given to the readers of The Union Times. Samuel Whitener, Johnnie Stepp, Will Betty and Mitchell Mabry, four white boys of the Union Cotton *Mill village went hunting. Beyond a grove of pines adjoining the lands of Capt. Foster and the mill company these boys were standing watching a large drove of crows flying toward them. Johnnie Stepp cocked his gun and prepared to shoot the crows when they came near enough, but the crows changed their course of flight, and Johnnie Stepp laid his gun on the ground, cocked as he had held it waiting ror tne crows, and asked Samuel Whitener to let him look at his (Whitener's) rifle; after looking at the rifle a few minutes, handed it back to Samuel and picked up his own gun from the ground, threw it on his shoulder, and as he did so his gun was discharged. The whole load entered the head of Samuel Whitener-just below the ear, and came through the opposite side, killing him almost instantly. The boys present all agree in their statement about the way the accident occurred. Dr. Montgomery was summoned, but of course could do nothing. Coroner Gregory was notified, and held an inquest and the facts adduced were substantially those related above. The ages of these four boys ranged from 12 to 15 years. Sam Whitener was about 15 and Johnnie Stepp about 12 years of age. The funeral ser * ,, .auuM.f UVX p. I/y .m the First Presbyterian church fcivtf'IGted by Rev. A. G. Warcf made immediately ~Th ? old Presbyterian cemetery, lhis is a very sad and lamentoMe ending of a pleasant afternoon s sport, and every parent and boy should take warning and be more careful in going out hunting with i a crowd of boys and ^ handling their guns. This is the second accident of a similar kind which ] has happened within the past year in this county. Young man Baldwin lost his life at the hands ^ . - - ii _ *VIonnor of a friend in tne 25UII1C iiiaiiuv* that Samuel Whitener lost his. There is no blame to attach to either, save and accept that both cases were the result of being too careless in handling a loaded l gun. We sincerely sympathize * with the bereaved parents and * relatives of Samuel Whitener, - It is a sore trial to give up a boj s of such tender age and promise i of a useful life. ~ Shot Through the Foot. Dogan Arthur, the second so of Mr. W. D. Arthur, was 01 hunting last Saturday, and ha n the barrel of the gun resting c m his foot, which was accidental nt discharged, causing a slig; rt wound to be made between Y toes. We are glad to say that " 1 ^ fV by was only a nesn wuuhu aim w jje he is about straight again. ips * * ad Death of a Little Child. me The little two year old dauj ext ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. B ?ry died Monday evening at ? o'clock. The little one was tal 1 he very suddenly on Saturday v 110 acute indigestion, and in at ,een 48 hours its little spirit took flight into the world bey< Mr. and Mrs. Rice have the s on* pathy of the entire commui eMto A High Noon Wedding at Carlis >n as lined The home of Mr. Geo. Hill their the scene of a beautiful wed arty, last Wednesday, when his dc >f ap- ter, Miss Ruth, was given ,s yet bride to Mr. Geo. Wood, of ?iven olet. Mr. Wood is engag< i will the general mercantile bus at Pacolet. e old Miss Hill is well kno\ ate to many Union people, and t iy ex- couple the many jneuua e life their congratulations * anfl o live them a long and happy m ribbes, life. GAFFNCY GIRL MARRIED , -MS A MA* IN MISSOURI. Pauline Webster' Charged with Perjury In Obtaining a Marriage Certificate * to Wed Restaurant Cashier. \ % Kansas City, Jajw22.^-An investigation todayrat police headquarters into the case of John AUain^^toman, who was arpian and the latter thereupon, confessed herself to*be- in reality Miste "Pauline Webster, aged 21, a native' of Gaff new, S. C. . She wfll He prosecuted for perjury, committed in obtaining the marriage license. 'JLam a woman, but I have drefSed'as a man for three years,'' she said today in the presence of ??t i 1~o vmivi iacjco, x nave wurxeu as a man and lived as one. I marritd this girl when she said she could not live without me. My father's name, was Noah Webister. He was a big South Carolina sMason. When ne died eighti years ago, he left some money to me and my two brothers, / J. E. Webster and J. R. Webster. I did not think I was getting my share, so after quarreling with my brothers, I left home I worked in hotels and restaurants until three years ago. One pay in Dallas, Tex., while I wasemployed in the Kimball hotel, ll heard that a cook was wanted by a theatrical company travelling in a private car. The owier of an employment agency told me if I was a man I could get$60 a month. That gave me an. ilea. I bought a cheap suit, cut i>ff my hair, and next day returned to the agent and com6W*hl -?oqliftQr the .employment gait.'was mired for the theatribuy ? w** ant and make a good hying, said Marietta Jelley today in her home at Sheffield. 4I cannot believe that he (she) is a woman I thank God that I did not leave Kansas City with him or her, or, Oh! I don't know what to do. He wanted me for my money, little that it was." remembered in gaffney. Gaffney, January 23.--Pauline Webster is well known here, but she has been supposed to be dead for several years. She was the daughter of the late Noah Web ster, who was a large owner oi rial estate in this county ? , left a valuaoie estate, wm^.. I divided among the other heirs b; the court, the daughter, Pauline \ being regarded as dead. Sh a left here several years ago unde unfavorable circumstances, an nothing at all has been hear from her since then. Her reli tives here are among the moi prominent and highly respect< n citizens of the community, h R brother being a prominent cou l(* ty official. The news of the ? |n fair in Kansas City is a surpris Jy ?The State, ht lis Union Poultry Association Form it iat Pursuant to a call placed Mr. S. M. Rice, Jr., E. U., in 1 columns of The Union Tin last week a meeting was helc his place of business Saturi morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. !|c~ M. Rice was called to the cl i'.oq as temporary chairman and ken J* W. Greer acted as tempor secretary. Twenty names v enrolled upon the member hat. Mr. Rice then read s ku viiim )IKL suggestions prepai ym'_ eluding the object of the met jjfy." and the necessity of an or* zation of this kind in the Nominations were then in o e. Mr. J. F. McLure was nomir and unanimously elected i was dent, Mr. J. P. Gage, vice-] Iding dent, f lugh- tary and treasurer. Mr. . as a McLure, R. W. Tinsley a Pac- P. Gage were appointed a 3d in mittee to draft the by law; jiness constitution. The main object of the o vn to zation is to encourage, pr X) this and protect the raising of xtend strains of fowls and to s -J 4m> disn ' Wish gOOCl manvci/ xv. _ arried pure strains, no one be j stricted to any particular r^F^rTTARR^plnwIl^^ I Merchants and Plan! I Successfully Doing Busim I mmm i* tho OLDR8T Bank in t -W - baa a capital and surplus I HI '! the only NATIONAL 11 baa paid dtvldonds *moi * .1 pan FOUR per oent. In Untop " ? ' = Jks^ATH OF NX. X. GOODNAN. After an Illness of Several Mof VHe Died at His Home in South Uiufl, Saturday Morning. Mr. R. Goodman passed away last Saturday tflorning after a h lingering illness. His many o: friends were indeed sorry to hear L of his death, although it has been p known for a long time that the fi hopes for his recovery were very p slight. s' Mr. Goodman was first taken y with bright's disease and rheu- -J matism, which later developed t] into dropsy. His attending phy- g sician did all in his power to save' u his life, but to no ^j; for his 15 case was a hopeless one; * The funeral services were con- ^ ducted by Rev. L. M. Rice, then if the body was turned over to the k "Beavers" for interment, which 8 was done in the regular form. ^ Mr. Goodman has been a member v of this order since its organiza- t tion in this city. 8 The following gentlemen Acted 8 W. AusteTT"" Mwars- * Ok-G?- h The relatives from out of town that were present were^Mr. an Mrs. Henry Marsh, Mrs. Nora Harris and two children, from Charlotte. Both the above ladies were sisters_ of the deceased. Mr. Henry Goodman, irom yt n- | mington, N. C., was his son. Mr. Julius Schultz, a well i known contractor from Charlotte, t arrived in the city too late to at tend the funeral, owing to a f wreck on the Southern Railway 1 above Spartanburg which delayed s his train several hours. e The Incomparable Lee. d Years ago, Severn Teakle Wald lis, one of the most eloquent oi i- Southern orators, made an adst dress to the women of Baltimore id in which he said: er "And when they tell us, a.? n- they do, these wiser, bette if- brethren of ours, and tell th ie. world to make it history, tha that old Southern civilizatio was half barbarism, we may b ed. pardoned if we answer, men d not gather figs from thorns, nc by from a bramble bush gather the the grapes. Behold its products ar ies its representative! There I at Robert Lee. Show us his felloe day ?Rock Hill Record, s K/? ______ iair Mr. or number. The organization ary to be known as The Union Po fere try Yards and so designated 3hip the poultry journals in wh ome this organization will carry , in- advertising and through wh iting sales of pure breeds can be ?ani- fected. It is desired to h city, persons living in the county < rder. side of the city who are interes lated in poultry raising to join this )resi- ganization. The membership presi- is only one dollar and all m jecre- bers will share alike in all pr J. F. arising from the business of tnd J. organization. There is no re , com- why this organization ca 3 and become a power for good ii management of the poultry rgani- ness in Union county. - As omote have said before, the pro ! pure of the sale of eggs and pc icure a in the United States ekcee( osal of' of the cotton crop and ye ing re- supply is not equal to th strain 'mand, tfk > i m V J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. : a . . lars NationaypUT bss at the "Old Sffiiid." In ion, ank in Union, . i3S?,:' intlDf to 1800,400, -Wterost on depositflHTr 'JWMhaTllfeoK. L.tbo Banks InJjpjion combined. CIT YOUfl^USINESSj ON LEE S BIRTHDAY." ^ * ^ ' '-j ' ^ A PrinGe of Kindliness and Courtesy" ?A Symbol of Desperate ValorLiberty and Free SpeeGh. To the Editor of The Sunday lews:?It is perhaps excusable n the birthday of Robert E. .ee to make an addition to the leadings in the great case of reedom of speech against supression. A lawsuit smacks of trife and conflict. Thus those rho plead,-"even in freedom's ause, are all too apt to fall into flfence," and vex the spirit of h?ir hearers with bitterness and an. Hence naturally arises the iquiry how it comes that strife f so strangely connected with greement, discord with harlony, peace with war, and life rith death itself? How comes ; that Lee, a very prince of indliness and courtesy, should tand also as the symbol of <fcserate valor, unmoved, imlovable, in the rudest shock of rar and death? How comes it hat the Confederate dead who leep sweetly in their humble ;raves remain to us *'er lore the living type of Ww.it is inlv nnrl norfor>E in fV>o idaoL a# lude of "peri'ecC Cfr?.'n<'? born of anarchy. Cosmos &uodues chaos. Light drowns the darkness, and liberty and love itself proceed out of war, even as Minerva came lightly, complete and perfect, from the head of Jove. Liberty is too often considered as a gift that may be bestowed rather than as a reward to be justly earned. South Carolinians ought to avoid this error, seeing that they are next of kin, and lawful heirs of the teachings of Calhoun. "It follows, from what has been stated, that it is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty. It is a reward ; to be earned, not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike ?a reward reserved for the in? telligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and deserving?and not a 3 boon to be bestowed on a people r too ignorant, degraded and vice ious to be capable either of apt preciating or of enjoying it. n Nor is it any disparagement to e liberty that such is, and ought lp to be, the case. On the contrary, >r its greatest praise, its proudest jy distinction is, that an all-wise id Providence has reserved it as I and highest reward 10 kllb uvw.v~. _ v! for the development of our faculties, moral and intellectual. A reward more appropriate than liberty could not be conferred on is the deserving; nor a punishment ul- inflicted on the undeserving more in just than to be subject to lawless ich and despotic rule.'' its So wonderful is the nature of ich liberty that it would seem that ef- one man cannot become free ave without making at the same )ut- time all other men free, and ited exactly in proportion as any one i or- man strives for freedom is the fee freedom of every other man prolem moted, even as every particle of ofits matter attracts and influences ! the every other particle of matter in ason the cohesive equilibrium of nnot gravity. To strive for freedom i the in little things is to establish T/v vo. busi-1 liberty in great, *v, } we ] alize freedom of.speech .would he.; ceeds1 to move' far towards complete ' ml try freedom. The struggle must, 1 that last as long as time. The case t the of free speech versus suppression e de- is apt to be a continuing one. I Gustavus M. Pinckney.