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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-10-18

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The Conservative, 1901-07-11
Che Conservative.

"Webster Fair" was held at the Wins
low house in 1854 for this purpose. The
Webster lot contains the remains of the
entire Webster family. Simple white
marble stones mark the graves Of each
member of the family. To this spot
was borne the body of Daniel Webster
amid the assembled thousands gathered
to pay their last token of respect to the
distinguished statesman.
The sad event of the burning of the
Webster mansion, about 1880, was
greatly deplored. At that time Mrs.
Fletcher Webster, then a widow, was
occupying it with her family. During
the rebuilding they lived at the Winslow
house, then a part of the estate. A
handsome modern house was rebuilt,
which is now owned and occupied, with
large part of the estate, by Mr.. Wal
ton Hall, merchant of Boston. New
England Magazine.
The Conservative, 1901-07-11

excavation which saves me a months
work, and shows the interior of the
mine to perfection.
1t affords me much qualification to
know that such intelligent men through
out the state are interested, in Nebraska
archaeology, enough to lend, not only
their good will, but pecuniary aid as
well, in our endeavor to get authori-
tative data, Systematically elaborated,
before it is too late wish there were
more like him. E. E. BLACKMAN.
Roca, Neb., June %, 1901.
The Conservative, 1901-07-11
THE AMERICAN APPLE.

We may well pause in the discussion
of steel and other manufactured exports
to contemplate for brief moment the
meek and lowly apple and it's Importance
in these United States.
According to the Independent, the
American apple crop of 1900 aggregated
215,O00,0OO barrels, of which we ex
ported only 100000 barrels. On an
average yield of 50 per barrel-the price
in London and Liverpool runs from 81
to $4-this crop should have had an ag-
gregate value of at least $43O,000, 900,
which is $13O,OOO,OOO in excess of the
total value of our cotton crop in recent
years. This money is, of course, dis
tributed over vastly greater area than
the returns from the cotton crop are,
and through larger number of states
and more diversified classes of people,
Still the apple crop, as it grows and is
handled, excites not hundredth part of
luUClCoU w CoU-
ton, although it's yield is about A per
cent. in excess of cotton's.
"Our home families" says the Inde-
pendent, edo not spend great deal of
money for apples, but we are growing
frugivorous instead of carnivorous. I"
We are inclined to believe that more
money is spent for apples than the Inde-
pendent imagines. If we export only
100000 out of 215,0OO,0OO barrels
raised, the producers themselves, al
though numerous, could not make much
of an inroad on the remaining 81 ,O00,-
600 barrels. We spend hundreds of
thousands Of dollars annually for ap-
pies, unconsciously for the most part,
as they appear in cider, jellies, vinegar
and the hundreds of condiments and
other food products in which vinegar is
one of the chief preservatives. If the
apple is not quoted in the form of
futures it's Importance is none the
less significant among American farm
crops.
The Conservative, 1901-07-11
THE WEBSTER ESTATE AT MARSH
FIELD.

FIELD.
1t was about the year 1880 that Daniel
Webster was driving from the Cape to
Boston in chaise with his wife. Going
through Marshfield by the road nearest
the shore, he was attracted by the
beauty of this locality. He probably
stopped at the John Thomas residence
for entertainment, and inquired of Mr..
Thomas if he would be willing to sell
his farm and house. 1t is said he had
often stopped there, and there was
warm friendship between them. Mr..
Thomas family had all been royalists,
and left for Nova Scotia during the revo-
lutionary war. Afterwards they re-
turned, but part of their estate was con-
fscated and the remainder had di-
minished in value, and money was
scarce with them. Mr.. Thomas did not
take long to consider, but named his
price, which Mr.. Webster accepted, say
ing the family could continue to live
there the same as ever. This agreement
was entered into, and Mr.. Webster,
with his family, came and went at their
pleasure each year, the pleasantest re-
lations existing between the two fami-
lies. When deaths and marriages broke
up the Thomas family, Mr.. Webster
hot 1o,. <I,o
library addition, which his daughter
Julia assisted in designing. He also
beautifed the grounds greatly and ell
larged the farm till he owned over
fifteen hundred acres. This absorbed
the entire adjoining Winslow estate.
About half mile away, down long
grass grown lane, is the hallowed spot
known as the Winslow and Webster
burying- ground. Here lie many "whose
history we read in a nations eyes," also
a few who had neighboring farms, and
others whose interest in the spot made
it wished-for burial-place, Adelaide
Phillips and the late Stephen M. Allen,
being among the number. In the center
is the Winslow lot, enclosed by an iron
railing. Near by stands handsome
monument erected to the memory of the
first settlers, those whose headstones had
become broken or effaced. This and the
iron fence which encloses the whole
yard were procured through the interest
and effort of Miss Thomas, the Marsh
field historian and genealogist. A
The Conservative, 1901-07-11
THE CAMPAIGN JUST BEGINNING.

paper in the country, has fought the
whole expansion movement with de-
termination and persistence that led
many people to think that it was unduly
alarmed about imperialism, and in the
campaign Of last year it refused to sup
port either Mr.. Mckinley or Mr.. Bryan.
Deprecating the decision of the supreme
court. as it does, it is nevertheless able
to extract considerable comfort from it,
and patriotically refuses to look on the
dark side or take despairing view. It
points out, with perfect truth, that the
decision does not affect in any way "the
question of the expediency or the moral
ity of colonial policy" and reminds
us that Justice Brown himself "admits
that the great questions about our island
possessions are to be finally decided
(then not yet decidedly by the American
people, and distinctly foreshadows the
possibility that the decision may be, to
permit our new-caught sullen peoples
to form independent governments. ,"
This from the Evening Post is specially
Important;
In one respect the decision of the
court may yet help on the cause Of
Philippine independence. By asserting
the absolute power of congress to "dis-
pose" Of territory, it stops the mouths
of those who have been saying that the
Philippines are ours, and that there is no
way of alternating them.
Thus it is possible to get good out of
seeming evil. For under the minority
opinion it would have been difficult, if
not impossible, to govern the islands,
and it might have been impossible to get
rid of them. Now they are merely
"appurtenant," and are territory which,
under the constitution, congress has the
"power to dispose Of" And the con-
clusion that the Evening Post draws is
this:
"What is the inference which lovers of
liberty and their kind should draw?
Despair, or silent acquiescence in
tyranny under the forms of law? Not
for a moment What they must seek
to do, without hesitation or wavering,
is to create an invincible body of public
opinion, which will ask, not what may
we legally do, but what must we do as
honest and consistent Americans"
That is, the campaign is just begin
ming. AS Justice Brown said, in his
discussion of the Dred Scott case, that
"the country did not acquiesce" in that
ruling, and that "changes in judicial as
well as public sentiment seriously i'm
pair the authority of that case" so we
may say that the decision Of Monday
may be swept away by similar forces.
There can be no empire in the United
ol
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
QUEEN VICTORIA IS DEAD.
Aged Sovereign Served England
for Nearly Ga Years.
EDWARD VII. WILL BE RULER.
Great Britain's Venerable and ulustrious
Sovereign Crossed the Dark River
of Death at Osborne House, Isle of
Wight, Jan. 22.
Passed Away in Peace.

At exactly 6:3O p. m. London time,
on Jan. %, Queen Victoria's battle with
the grim destroyer terminated at
Osborne house, at Cowes, Isle of Wight.
The aged monarch of England breathed
her last surrounded by mourning mem
bers of the royal family.
Deceased was born at Kensington
palace, Eng, May "A, 1910. Upon the
death of her uncle, William ", June
20, 1887, she became queen. On Feb.
10, 1910, she was married to Prince AL
bert, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. To this
union were born nine children, while
their offspring numbered 40, and their
children's children numbered SO. Thus
it will be seen that Her Majesty has
had SIS descendants. Of these IL have
preceded her in death, leaving 70 still
,alive-33 males and 40 females
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
CHINA WAR NEWS.

Germany has put the screws on
Great Britain, with the result that the
negotiations have refrigerated to where
they were three months ago. The de-
mand for the death penalty will be
preferred against all the leaders men
toned in the decree, in addition to the
posthumous degradation of such anti
foreign leaders as have committed sui
eide. Mr.. Couger stated at the meet
ing of ministers on the oath that he
could not support the demand if it
should be made in writing, but YER
bally he would do so with heart and
soul. This is the situation now, and
will continue to be for six months or
more unless the American plan for
change of venue finds acceptance
War department officials state that
when navigation opens in the spring
the American forces in China will be
almost entirely withdrawn. The un-
Outstanding is that Maj. Gen. Chaffee,
who is now in the volunteer service,
be appointed majors general in the
regular establishment, and will be or
dered to Manila with the one infantry
regiment and the one battery of artil-
lery now in Pekin. Upon arrival in
Manila he will succeed Maj Gen. Mac
Arthur as governor general of the
Philippines
A dispatch TO the Havas Agency
from PelSin on the 23d says %, Chin
csc regulars have reassembled near
Chan Tang Flu, days march from the
French troops. Gen. Veyron is closely
watching them, and M. Pichon, the
French minister, has energetically re-
quested their immediate dispersal.
1t is reported in German circles that
unless the peace negotiations are salts
factorily considered early next month,
a strong international expedition will
be organized to bring Emperor Kwang
Su and Prince Tuan to Pekin.
A special from Pel1in, dated the 27th,
says there has been great distress in
the province of Shansi, owing to the
famine, and thousands have died. The
court has ordered rice relief to be is
sued in large quantities.
The U. S. transport Sumner has ar
rived at Talxu. Among her passengers
were Is troops to replace invalid sol
diers.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
wrecked Three More saloons.

Three more saloons were wrecked
at Wichita, Kas., on the 21st, by Mrs.
Carrie Nation, soon after she hit the
trail after n 10 days incarceration in
Jail. In this prospecting tour she was
assisted by Mrs. Julia Evans, Mrs.
Lucy Without and Mrs Lydia Muntz,
all of the local w. c. L. u. organiza-
tion. With hatchets concealed under
their cloaks they entered the saloon of
James Burns, on Douglas avenue, and
did not leave a complete piece of glass
or a working slot machine in the place.
All show cases, both for liquors and
cigars, as we'll as the plate glass win
dows and doors, were broken.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
5II "uFERS" At JACKSON
During the Past 62 Years = All
Got Their Sentence Shortened.
OLDEST SERVED 40 YEARS.
A Whole Batch of Items From the Two
PeninsuIas BOILED Down for Quick
Reading by Busy Miohiganders -
PerusaI VIII Convince You.
How "Lifcrs" are Treated.

In view of the recent agitation of the
question of pardons, which was precip-
itated 10y the wholesale use of the par
doning power by Gov. Pingree during
the closing Gays of his term, it viii be
interesting to note the average term
served by differs" who have been con-
fined in the state prison at Jackson
since the establishment of that insti-
tuition in 1888 down to the close of the
last fiscal year, June 80, 1900. During
the 60 years mentioned there have been
3l1 life couvicts received at the prison.
The average time served by these 81
convicts was nine years, three months
and 90 days. The average time served
by the 50 life convicts who were par
doned during those years was 10 years,
seven months and nine days. The
average time served by 80 life couvicts
who were released by order of courts
was one year, four months and seven
days. The average time served by 90
life convicts who died was nine years,
II months and 10 days. The average
time served by six life convicts VINO es-
capped was seven years, eight months
and 1SdayS
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

The finance committee spent the en-
tire day on the Goth in agreeing upon
details of the revenue reduction bill.
The total reduction is S42, 600, 900. The
beer tax is reduced to $l.50. The tax
on tobacco also has a reduction of one
half of the war tax, leaving it at DC
pound. The present two cent stamp
on bank checks will be retained until
Jan. /, 1902, when it will be reduced to
one cent. The tax is removed from all
patent medicines, when the formulate
or ingredients are printed upon the
label or wrapper of the bottle. All Sc
cret compounds for medicinal or toilet
purposes are taxed the same as now.
There is a reduction of one-half of the
tax on perfumes, pomades, and other
toilet articles The bank tax, which
is now equivalent to So a thousand of
capital, is reduced to 81 a thousand of
capital and surplus. Stamps will not
be required upon notes, mortgages, or
other evidence of indebtedness, but
will be continued upon deeds and other
certificates of transfer and evidences of
wealth. The Inheritance tax is re-
duced one-half, and all requests to Ii
braries, educational and charitable in
situations are exempt.
The President on the 25th trans
mitted to the senate a report of the
secretary of war, inclosing the report
of the Taft Philippine commission. In
his message of transmittal the Presi-
dent says that the report includes not
only the reports of the commission, but
its act of legislation, and he earnestly
recommends legislation under which
the government of the islands may
have authority to assist in their peace
full industrial development in the di-
rections indicated by the secretary of
war.
A big petition signed by 5000 firms
and individuals engaged in various
kinds of work, plum bing, ventilating,
ETC., throughout the United States,
was presented to the house on the
Goth, protesting against the letting of
general contracts for interior work on
the public buildings. The petitioners
desire direct contracts made for each
class of work.
At the cabinet meeting on the ed
Secretary Root read extracts from re-
cent reports from the Philippines. Sec
rotary Root seemed to think that con-
ditions are decidedly improved, and
that prospects for speedy settlement
of existing troubles are bright.
The house has passed bill author
izing the treasurer to float loan of
SO, 900, 900 in the u. S. and Europe.
The funds thus raised will be loaned
by the government TO planters in Porto
Rico to relieve agricultural depression.
The senate on the 22d adopted a con-
current resolution providing that both
houses of congress assemble on We'd
nesday, Feb. 10, to count the votes cast
for President and Vice President.
The senate committee on Indian af-
fairs on the 22d made it's report on the
Indian bill. The committee recon-
mendation for the total appropriation
was 50, $40, 500.
1t is now quite evident that Presi-
dent Mckinley will call a special ses-
sion of congress to enact needed legis-
lation for the Philippines and Cuba.
The senate by vote of 80 to 10 rati-
fed the Spanish treaty on the @2d.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01

The state convention of the Y. NJ. c.
a. will be held in Ann Arbor, Feb.
21-24.
Ann Arbor will ask the legislature
to pass an act enabling it to purchase
the private water works plant.
That Port Huron canal question has
not yet been settled, but the alder
men are said to be hedging.
The Michigan Traction Co., of Kala-
mazoo, ON the 92d filed n mortgage
with the register of deeds for 500. 900.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium com
pany Will erect a refrigerator upon
their grounds in the spring which is to
cost $1,000
The Grand Rapids, Allegan e. Kala-
mazoo Electric Railway company has
been granted franchise to operate in
Kalamazoo.
The U. 5. Telephone Co., with head
quarters at Cleveland, o., has been
granted franchise TO run toll line
into Jackson.
Politicians and police officers in St.
Joseph are in trouble--the mayor hav-
ing ordered an Investigation into the
police department..
Arrangements are about effected for
the 18th annual banquet of the Pom
tiac Lincoln club, which will be given
in that city on Feb. IL.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
AN INNOVATION.

The Louisville 81 Nashville II. r.,
together with its connecting lines. has
the Florida Limited,
which is a daily, solid train. wide
Ivestibuled, steam heated, gas lighted,
with dining car service for meals en-
route to Thomasville, Ca, Jackson
willie and st. Augustine, Fla The
sleeper leaving Cincinnati at 1i:15 a.
m. is attached at Nashville, running
via Birmingham and Montgomery,
PLANT System TO Jacksonville, and
Florida East Coast to st. Augustine,
larriving at the latter city at 1880 the
next evening. Mr.. G. l.. Stone, Gen
'eral Passenger Agent, Louisville &c
Nashville r. r., Louisville, KY. will
answer all inquiries concerning this
train, and furnish printed matter con-
corning it.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
TRANSVAAL WAR ITEMS.

The British army officers of the re-
mount department arrived at New
York on the Cunard steamer Etruria
on the eth en- route for New Orleans,
where each will take command of
different steamship having on board
/ 800 horses and mules which Col. De
Burgh has been buying in Kansas for
remounts in South Africa. Altogether
about $4,000 American animals have
been purchased for the British army in
Africa.
Gen. Kitchener is disposing great
forces semi-circularly, his extreme left
resting on the sea, to circumvent the
Beers. The columns move simultane-
ously, in touch with each other. The
greatest danger of the situation is the
possibility of Gen. DeWet's appearance
in Cape Colony. 1t is believed that
none of the Dutch resist his personal
call to arms
A public collection is being made in
Hamburg, Germany, with q view of
presenting to Gen. De Wet sword of
honor, and providing fund for the re-
lief of the suffering Boer women and
children.
The report that military train with
troops and stores on board was way
laid and captured at Slijpklijp on the
25th, has been confirmed by Lord
Kitchener.
While marching from Wonderfontein
TO Carolina, Smith Dorrien was en-
gagged by the Beers for five hours, los
ing one officers and Is men wounded.
The yeomanry captured during an
engagement at Lichtenburg on Jan. II
have all been released with the ex-
ception of one major and three men,
1t is reported that the Beers have
reached the Ondtshoorn district where
they had slight skirmish with the
defense forces.
In an engagement near Ventersdorp
on the 95th the British lost four and
had 80 wounded.
Ex-President Kruger is now at ct
recht, having arrived there on the 22d.
1t is now announced that the Fill
pinos want civil government Strange,
isn't it?
Much damage is being done to win
ter wheat throughout the state by the
freezing and thawing weather.
Great Britain's court will mourn the
death of Queen Victoria for one year,
and the coronation of King Edward
VII may not take place until 1902.
A dispatch from Paris, dated the
2sth, says that heavy gale swept
over the channel on the 27th, causing
the destruction of several small boats.
Sixty skaters, including many wo-
men and children, broke through the
ice on large pond at Brooklyn, N. Y,
on the 27th, aud in the wild struggle
for life two boys were drowned.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
VIII Absorb the Ypsi-Ann Road.

The Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor &
Jackson railway filed articles of incor-
poratiou at the secretary of states Of
fee on the e3d with a capital stock of
So, 600, 600. The states franchise fee of
more than 81, 300 was paid by Atty
Henry A. Haigh. of Detroit The new
road VIVA absorb the Detroit, Ypsilanti
81 Ann Arbor railway. the Ypsilanti e
Saline Electric Railway Co. and the
Detroit & Saline Plank Road Co., and
will run an electric line from Detroit
to Jackson with 100 miles of road
hnd
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
Disease In Michigan.

Reports Co the state board of health
by representative physicians in active
general practice in different parts of
the state indicate that influenza, bron-
chitis, neuralgia, rheumatism and ton
sillitis. in the order named, caused the
most sickness in Michigan during the
past week. Cerebrospinal meningitis
was reported present at 4 places;
whooping cough, 0; measles, 16; small
pox, %; diphtheria, "a; typhoid fever,
50; scarlet fever, l04; consumption, l75.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
Cold Hooded Murder.

Cooper Center, little village six
miles north of Lansing, was the scene
of the most shocking and cold-blooded
murders on the 23d that was ever com
mitted in southwestern Michigan. In
a fit of anger, the climax of a long
standing quarrel, Monroe Alderman,
white. aged 10, shot and killed Fred
Harris, colored, aged 90. Alderman,
after committing the deed, gave him
self up to the authorities at Kalama-
zoo. The same old story-a woman in
the case
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01

In the neighborhood Of New Buffalo,
Mich, gray wolves are raiding sheep
pens. One big fellow was run down
by dogs and killed the other morning.
1t is thought there are several in the
wooded land lying south OF New Buff
falo,
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
Moonshiners Battle with omcers

A dispatch from jackson, Ky, dated
the 27th, states that in bloody battle
with moonshiners on Elllhorn creek on
the Letcher and Pike county line, KY,
U. S. Marshal Tom Hollifeld and Pos
seman Simon Combs were killed, and
Blaine Combs was captured by the
moonshiners. Rufus Wootan and Am
brose Amburgy, other members of the
posse, were shot and wounded. Full
details of the battle were not obtained.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
Talses exception to oren's opinion.

Gen. Il. M. Cutcheon takes issue with
Atty. Gen. Oren's opinion that the leg
islaturc can increase the supreme court
at pleasure. He holds that if the leg
islature has the power to increase the
size of the court or to lengthen the
term of Office beyond eight years, it
has an equal right to abolish the court
two, or one year
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
Victims of Smooth Young Man.

About six months ago "a smooth
young man struck Litchfield, claiming
to represent n COLLECTION agency"
which would collect all back debts for
a mere trife. The merchants gener-
ally turned him down, but every doc
tor and lumber dealer signed a con-
tract. Recently stranger appeared
in town with promisory notes against
each of the men who signed contract
for $40. They paid.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
Miners and sherIrs Posse Clash.

Union miners, $50 strong, on the
21st started on march from BoXtown
to Carbonate mines in Hopkins
county, Ky, to stop the non-union
men at work there. On the way a
sheriff's posse of Ave men attempted to
stop them, and were answered by a
shot A fusillade followed, the min
ers retreating One of their number
was killed and another died of his
wounds in few hours
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
EngIand's New Ruler.

Albert Edward, king under the title
of Edward VII, was born at Bucking-
ham palace, Nov. o, 1s41, and from
that moment the trials of the queen
mother began. From his youth the
new sovereign has been lover of out
door sports, being distinguished pa
iron of the turf. Over 40 years ago he
visited the United States and Canada.
The Yale expositor., 1901-02-01
Try Grain-oi Try GraIn-oi

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you q
package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place Of coffee The children
may drink il without injury as well as the
adult. All who try it, Like it. GRAlN-O has
that rich seal hrswn of Mocha or Java, but
it is made from pure grains, and the most
delicass stomach receives 1t without dis
trsss. n ths price of coffee. 15c and % eta
per package. Sold by all grocers.