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" e ? ? M ?? * i UNION AND SUBURBS HAS ? ' ?>Tp^| y *W" <m* ^ ''-".StF "W wlT " * J* |f "W" TW~ "TW" ?V S UN,0N AND "SUBURBS HAS Femtlv Seminary, Vivo U railed I I I, I ? I - aL I m K ^ I ? I ' I m / I J 9 KJro Large Tot ton Mill*. Knitting 8?hjwlmScwontKoSyatoni Electric I ? I. % slim | ? U / |-~J and Spinning Mill witli !#y? Plant, s aW7j,?aiuwssE: J I 171 n i I \- 11 r \ < I I VI ^ mlxed Stroew, Population 12,000. Ji m. J ^ ^ ^ J Jj. .j l. ? ^JL. A tdfrV # * U'l<1 ''"'"h""'1 VurJs- w?ter Works. "S. " A* v ' ^ ?**~L ."T&l -v 'y ^ *! ?______ VOL. LVI > Oletk ofOouri UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906. $1.00 A YEAR. %V' - ^^? I H I ?????? ???? WE PAY I ; . ON TIME t IP'-; | Wm. A. N1CHC , What His^Keal Name Was-Oave Himself the Name of Robinson Crusoe. The name Robinson Crusoe has a merry jingle to the ear of every American boy or girl who has, lead the great tale from the pen of Daniel De Foe. The author, as is generally known, founded his story on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk on. the island of Jtian-Fernandez, cff the coast SPS% of South America, and the original gun that Selkirk used when BfaJL living his Robinson Crusoe life, says Percy Trenchard, in the "American Boy," has come into ; the possession of Miss Huldah White, of 201 North ThirtyR'., . Four Street, Philadelphia. While RgX traveling in England recently j . ^she learned that the famous gun, . ^Jwhiph had been an heirloom in Selkirk family, was to be ^ sold at auction. She sent an agent to attend the sale, at Edinburgh, Scotland, and he managed r .'(ft secure the coveted prize for :, I thirty-two pounds eleven shil? or about one hundred and in So ii urutiov- V-- . . , taken to America, there was a1 tremendous outcry, and Miss White was besought to sell the relic to one of the many English '.bidders. Miss White entertained some offers, but the would-be purchasers were so slow in coming to time that she at last sailed without reselling the gun. In the catalogue of the sale at which the relic was purchased by Miss White, it is described as follows: "Robinson Crusoe's (Alexan > der Selkirk's) musket, a fine ok specimen with long barrel, ok flint-lock and beautifully balan ced. The Robinson Crusoe fire lock is referred to in Sibbold' 'Fife 1803' as being in the pos session of a family in the neigh "borhood of Largo. James Gilles aged eight, in 1895, informe General Briggs that his moth< was a grandniece of Alexand< Selkirk. She gave the gun ' the late Major John Lumsdain of Lathallon, about the begi ning of the century." It was in consequence of tl death of Major Lumsdain^'s h( * - l-.-i rl that the gun came It' IJC OVtU auction. Miss White return with it to America and it is n< in her possession. It is a curious old weapon, most six feet long, and althou quite two centuries old, is in p feet preservation. The flint-h still works on its hinges and swers to the touch of the trigg The wood has worn away fi the barrel and is kept in place pieces of tape, which are wr ped around the barrel at the and around the stock near trigger. Comparatively few boys girls really know the storj Alexander Selkirk, the Robii fintion. Selkirk Urusuc v/i ..v. a Scotchman, son of a tanrn Largo, a seaboard town of ] shire. He was always in trc when a boy and ran away t< to escape the consequences youthful prank. He appea have been as hard to get i with afloat as ashore, for he to be the original Robinson soe through a quarrel with captain of the ship. He wa N wrecked, as De Foe causes i-) ^ soe to be, but was sent ash" |l his island, with a few pei ? effects and the famous gun T For four years and four m 1 Selkirk lived his lonely li , Juan Feraanto. He NTEREST*! DEPOSITS. I 1LS0N & SON, S r [BftS. | 1 V . Arrangements Made to Hold the Annual Meeting In Rock Hill, at Winthrop College, on July 4 and 5. I Columbia, March 17. ? Special: A' meeting of tfie executive committee of the.. State Teachers' Association was -held on Friday evening. The following members were present: L. T. Baker, of Winnsboro, chairman; Prof. A. G. Rembert, of Wofford College, E. S. Dreher, superintendent of Columbia city schools, A. H. Gasque, superintendent of education of Florence county, p Superintendent of Education O.^ B. Martin sat with the committees, and assisted in arranging the programme and place of meeting for the annual session of .the State Teacher^' Association. An interesting programme, L which will be published in a few days, was agreed upon for the coming meeting, which will probably be the most important in the history of the association. ! It was decided to hold the meeting at Winthrop College, on July 4 ahd 5. Some of the most prominent educators of this and otherBtates ill take-part, and, f of the most vital educa- j tional qxifiationsjyLUl be in session at Winthrop during the meeting of the State Teachers' Association. This school will begin on June 20, and close on July 18. An unusually strong | faculty, with several new de [ partments, is now uem& ized, and full announcements will be issued from the depart; ment of education about April 1. i ( ~ ~ clothes from skins when his own - were worn to rags. He killed \ goats with his musket until the i powder gave out and then per j force he killed the goats by hand, j becoming so fleet of foot in time s; that no animal could outrun him. j- j Tiring of the loneliness, he movec i- heaven and earth to escape fron 3, his island, building fires nightl: d and keeping a close watch fo ?r passing ships. But he was fa >r from the beaten track, and it wa to years before a ship came tha e, way to rescue the strange lookin n- scarecrow in the skin clothes. Selkirk was the sensation c hp the day when he returned ! iir England, and he told his stor at over and over again, and tl ed newspapers of the day devot( 3W entire pages to his adventure When Selkirk returned to h al- father's house the habits of fo igh years of solitude were so stroi er- that he built a cave in the re >ck of his house and lived alone an- this place, taking long wal ,per. along the lonliest part of t om coast and avoiding every 01 ! by He went to sea again and d ap- on the Weymouth, a British vv end ship. He left no children, 1 the there are many descendants the original Selkirk family or eight boys still living in Scotia r of On the spot where Sell* ison nightly built his island sip was fire a tablet has been erect * i ' ir Ol rcmuiiK Pife- "In memory of Alexander tuble kirk, mariner, a native of La ;> sea in the county of Fife, Scotli of a who lived on this island in c rs to plete solitude for four years ilong four months. He was lai came from the Cinque Ports palle: Cru-1 tons, 18 puns, A. D. 12Febri i the ' 1709. He died lieutenant oi .s not IM. S. Weymouth, 1723, ape Cru-, This tablet is erected near ore to kirk's look-out by Comma rsonal Powell and the officers of I: |S. Topaze, A. D. 1868." lonths "Robinson Crusoe" was fe on 'lished in 1719, seven years i*uule Selkirk's story wgs first tol SEANATOR TILLMAN TALKS ON DISPENSARY FICII He is Too Busy in Washington at Th Time to Attend a Convention, But Has His Eyes Open. Washington, March 16.?Sen) tor Tillman says that he knov, nothing of any plans to hold convention of the friends of tl dispensary. "I have scarcel had time to give such a thing thought,'' -he said today. conies and the fight is on, I e: pect to be in it, whether it bi gins before the opening of tl campaign or after." "Do you expect anything \ be done before the opening < the regular campaign?" "Well, I say, I don't knov To hold a convention or to orgai I7P 99 tViftv r?nll if wniiW toto iot of conferring, and a lot c correspondence, and so far as am concerned, I haven't the.tin to do it. I wouldn't even ha\ time to attend that convention < conference or anything else, i long as I am swamped, this way. Then he turned to a pile of ps pers on his desk, called a cler and added: "Why, man, I fe< like a fellow down in a deep wel I can't begin to see dayligh All I can see is a little gleam ( light which will get bigger ar bigger as I climb out of this wel But you know when a fellow down in such a hole as this, tl sky looks about the size of a dc lar and he can't see even tl sides of the hole he is in. Ho in the name of sense can I s< outside to organize dispensai forces or anything else at home? "Oh, yes, I'm watching it, he concluded.?Zach McGhee, i The State. yatimv I UJIiVl x< For several years we have tri< to impress the Church with tl importance of training the ch dren for future usefulness in t Church when they have tak the place of their Fathers a Mothers. With the same end view, the General Assembly h changed the date of Childrei Day for Home Missions fr< September to the last Sabbi in March, in order to secur more general observance of t day in all of our Sabbath Schoi >1 Appropriate exercises h been prepared and sent out i all the Superintendents in l various Churches. These e: ^ cises have cost some thought r trouble, and are intended to 1 r special spiritual benefit to s children, as well as to give j X eral information in regard to g great work of Home Missi . The time has been purpc >f fixed for the last Sabbath March, because that is Re1 .y day in the Sabbath Schools, ie it it will not interfere with teaching of the lesson. s> j The object of Children's iig is two-fold: ? i 1 ~To erive the children ai ur I ? ng portunity to assist in the j ar work of evangelizing our in country and erecting hous kg worship in destitute places, he ' 2. To train the children 1 le. selves in the work of the Ch iecl May we not urge upon P; ar- and Superintendents to co but ate with us in this matt of properly observing the of Many Sabbath Schools ol nd. the other appointments ( cirk A 'embl.v, but neglect the cnat object of Home Missions, ted, any wonder that our Chur suffered so much in the pa; Sel- is it any wonder that thei rgo, much indifference in rej and, the aggressive work o :om- Church? If the proper a and tics will co-operate with ided rnatter. within a few ye /, 96 feel sure that the Chur lary, reap a harvest from th f H. sown in this way. If the d 47. of literature and prograr ?5- 1. nlnaaa nrHpr r Sel- sumcient, \J icaov. va v?v? inder once from our office. I. M. | Praying God's blessin all our Sabbath Schools, pub- the work of the Church i after fort to win our county fo (J, j S. L. NOiUUS, Seci UNION LOSES GOOD CITIZENS. T. Z ,r Mr. A. P. H. Walker and Family Go t lis Tennessee, Mr. A. P. H. Walker an* family have gone to Spring City a_ Tennessee. Mr. Walker has live* in Union a rtumber of years an* rs * is well known and liked by th< a people. He was for years th ie head bookkeeper for the firm o |y Foster and Vyilkins. After sever a ing his connection with this firn he went to Missouri and engage* in ato^;^ For the pas gLjfco?-$><arsne has lived here an* iej was the first bookkeeper for tin Union cotton mills, retaining tha 3_ position up to the time of the re "organization of the mill compan; ie a feW months ago. In Tennesse he will engage in the lumber to coal and lime business, givinj )f some of his attention to stocl dealing. That portion of th* State to which he has gone i Jm very fsHile and abounds in cor l~ Nmd irdn mines. We wish fo ? him the success in his new horn j that a gooef citizen and busines 1 man deserves. He and famil; ie are quite popular here and wil e Be greatly missed in the socia ^ and business circles of Union. ' South (Carolina as She Was. k si There was a time?long ago ' and still within the recollectioi of some fid men now living? when the/courts of South Caro 1(i lina wepejranked as the best ii 1? the country; understanding bi 's "best''fwhen applied to court! ie those in which even-handed jus ticeftvas most unwaveringly dis ie penafed There was a time, whei w to com nit a crime of any sort ii Je South Carolina, the offende ;y would be surely tried, am whether he was rich or poor, b< pupiah^d a$~the law directs in Wealth, Social station nor politi cal pull child not stay iiTG" han< fbii^we3 h?^ut5:-?^ And may she not again reach tr he proud preminence which one Vi was hers, when in purity of he h~ courts she headed the sisterhoc on I of states, and it was not Jersc nd Justice" which was quoted i in the quintessence of legal admi ias istration. Let us hope so.?A fi's gusta Herald. om ? ith OffiGial Notice of Children's Day. e a The General Assembly in 19( 3ls* to secure a more effective a aYe extended observance of CI 1' j dren's Day for Home Missioi 1 e changed the time for such e <ei*71 from the last Sabbath in S aad ; tember to the last Sabbath 30,a March. As was required of i tlie j in view of the change of dat ^,n" last year called the attentior the , the churches throughout the on,s* 1 sembly to the change. But ^ prehensive that the churc 1. ot have not fully as yet come ^iev^ know of the change of tim aPd ; ventured once more to call 1 tlie tention to it, and, for the Ass n bly, to express the hope thai uaY may have a larger and gro\ observance of this day in 1 dp" Sabbath Schools, to the end great ^jg vjtal cause may have owl) place in the affections of es | youth of our Church that it ' I gen?y demands. (Signed) W. A. Alexandi ul.ch- Stated C astors -oper- ~ er by Right of Opinion. day. aserve Very often, in this wor )f the woe, you find the man w i great very much opiniated - who Is it ways shooting off his mout ch has criticising others, but whc at; and gets that the other fellov re is so the same right to an opini his critic. This is partic u w ...? f the true of citizens who talk lo mthori- garding the conduct of us in officials, and true, also, to a ?ars we ful degree of subscribers to ch will papers who somehow get tl ie seed into their heads that if the ! supply scribe for a newspaper it ns is in- agree with them or it is n< nore at j The world seems to forg i all men have a right t< ig upon opinion?and no man is fo and all agree with the other felh n its ef- less he is a truckler and ii r Christ, ing for crumbs to fall froi etary. fallows table.?Everythir IF. M. FARR, President. T i-3 Merchants and Plan a . Successfully Doing Busin i mi is tho OLDEST Ilunk in 1 p Ml has a capital nnrt surplus H I is thoonlv N XTIONAL I 6 HI has pn lil dividends -mo f H H pays KOUH por cont. ii II is tho only Batik in Unim II hns Hiu-tflar-Proof vault, IB pays more taxes than A I, t WE EARNESTLY SOLI e jm i ??? l THE AVERAGE JURORS. ( y Is It Lack of Judgment, cr Indifference,, e Which Gontrols? 9 ? Because the jury in the Lamb i K case at Wilmington?Lamb who 11 s was accused of murdering h 8 i s mistress when he was drunk as a i d fool, remained out seventy-nine ] r hours and then returned a ver- 1 e diet of not guilty, many of the I s papers are discussing the matter 1 v and naturally wondering how it < 11 was possible to remain out so c d long and finally agree. In other \ words, it is suggested that some t of the jurors who were for con- t viction were simply driven to s another verdict because of fa- c tigue. That might or might not i '? have been the case. The aver- I 1 age juror is perhaps open to con- s viction and if there were a few f " jurors in that case who at first t 1 believed that Lamb should have * been convicted?and the evidence t 3 was surely to the effect that he " was guilty, those who believed J " otherwise might, by persuasive ' 1 argument have induced the other 1 1 fellows to change their minds, a '* But the presumption is that they t 1 all finally came into camp?prin- r e cipally because the error under r the sod was a frail woman who t " had no friends and the error 1 above the sod had sisters to weep 11 e | and nibui n .V h:nv These~?ym-jc ie 1 coifae^!?tiu*urs CQme in, and no I ( '.e 1 rtcitinn Mercv cries out.? ?ji 'V world has often been reminded 'a that mercy should season justice. It has been suggested from the as time the system started, that the n~ jury was the one thing to stand u" between the liberty of a man and the state?it was the only safeguard to the liberty of the people?but things have changed. If the newspapers are to be | )3t believed, and from the evidence n(j we could obtain their report was 1il_ correct in the recent long drawn ng> out Samuels case, there was one lay Jur?r who said from the start ep. that he would never convict. jn He set up the proposition that ne, the government could ruin any I man that it went after, and the j of jury, after sitting the box for As- | five weeks went out to deliberate ap_ and found that it was eleven foi ;hes conviction and one against. Th< I to' only way it reached a verdic e> j was by letting the obstinate mai at- ?the one who wanted to dismis lem- the prisoner on general princi : we pies, say that on one count, ving ' charge of conspiracy, the defer our I fiant was not guilty. And tb that jury agreed to this?and the that the verdict was promptly returi the e(fi other words, one ms g ur_ stood pat just because on gener principles he thought he shoul and rather than have a mistri ilerk. th? eleven men agreed to wh the obstinate juror said. If th is true, and we have the best reasons for believing that it true, it certainly shows that t Id of jury system is weak, defecti\ ho is It gives one man, either throu is al- obstinacy, contrariness or ven h and ity a chance to defeat the er > for- of justice. What the jury shoi v has do, and some day that will on as the way of it, is to deliber; ularly and then vote on the question ud re- issue. And when a majority public the twelve men find that a p l pain- son is innocent or guilty, let t news- j be the verdict. The en le idea twelve may discuss it, and t ;y sub- may arrive at a conclusion. , must to give one man the power to > good, feat the ends of justice, espe< et that ly in this age of corruption ) their great wealth, is to invite ras reed to ty, and it should not be. A nv un- jority of the jury should hold 3 loook- power, and in this way ju m other would oftener be obtaim g< i Everything. . . - "*! DBBBBHinHl J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. ters National Bank, ess at the "Old Stand." [Tnlon, of $10',000, tank in lTiiion. untiTiir to $^00 400. ltorent oil <loi>"Kits. 11 tnaiHM;t?-?l by an o 111 cor, , iirnl Safe with Time-I.nck. if. the trunks in I'nion comliinod. C1T YOUR BUSINESS. | jommerGial Machiavellianism and lis Cure. There has been a pood deal said lately about "Business is business,1' "the end justifies the means," "the battle to the strong," and all that sort of talk, it is likely that few have realized liow far this dangerous spirit has been carrying us ?not in the business world only, but in everylay life. The recent exposures >f financial methods have shown ,'ou perhaps, that, a sorry sysem of ethics prevails "down own," but lias it made you search your own conscience more :losely? Miss Tarbell's "Comnercial Machiavellianism" in the darch McClure's brings the lesion home to all of us, the little ellovvs as well as the heads of he big corporations. There is something here to set he money grabbers thinking, diss Tarbell tells the story of dachiavelli and his writing of 'The Prince," which has made lis name a by-word of scheming ind clever lying. Then she draws he parallel between commercial nethods of today, and the diplonatic circuities of the 16th cenury Florence. Miss Tarbell mows both periods, that of the Vledici in Italy and of our own lay in America; and she tells you beany how modern . trielfeYi&TO achieved their sucsignificent fact in tne~. ?? Signor Machiavelli, as the writer points out, that instead of being raised to great honor and power by the Medicis, for whom he wrote trie HCclUDC, vuioatuv, brilliant, insinuating as he was, he was left to end his life in loneliness and without power. And herein, says Miss Tarbell, lies our safety. "The truth is," she adds, "the Machiavellian formula carries its own death portion with it. It cannot stand the light. Today, as four hundred years ago, state it bluntly and men disown it. Why was Machiavelli repudiated , by italy as soon as 'The Prince' ! | was published? They are willing r to practice the formula as long as i they can avoid hearing it; those t who profited by their success i have been willing to support s them so long as they could deadi en their intellects by repeating a 'Judge not lest ye be judged,' i- but when it came to defending ie the Machiavellian creed aloud, n they dared not do it. And herei in lies our safety. The truth, in nothing but the truth, ugly and al cruel and relentless as it may be, d, is the cure of Commercial Maal chiavellianism." at ?- Ctiicora Girls Are Chewing Gum Galore. is . he Every Chicora college girl has re. chewing gum to burn, and contfh tented mastication is habitual fll- ! +U/-V ni-nttv Qfnrlnntfi in blue dg | W llll IIIC | at the big gray college on McBee l)e terrace. ate | Meanwhile a young man smit at with the charms of two of these ruminant students is the joke of |0j*. ? liat the town. It all came about tire through his very natural impulse hoy to send over a couple of twoBiit pound boxes of Huyler's. The (]e_ druggist did it. He got the or;ial der confused and sent up two and1 two-pound boxes of the latest imcali proved chewing gum, with the ma-: y?ung man's card enclosed. [ the I The ?irli5 wondered, but said it stice was "perfectly dear of him and >d.? ever so much better than sending candy " - Greenville Daily New?, . .'j