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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22
THE GOOD ROADS SPECIAL.
GreenviIIe Invites the Peopk. of
the State to the Good Roads Con.
venfiOn in December-Ths Great
Nec0 of the South,

On behalf of the citizens of Green.
vile an invitation is extended to the
people of South Carolina to visit the
city during the week beginning Mon
day, Dec. 10th, when tho "Good
Roads Special of the Southern
Railway will be there for the purpose
OF building sample roads and holding
meetings with the view Of teaching
the people in practical road build.
ing. This is tho only point in the
Piedmont section where the train will
stop to d, any work, and everyone
who can DO so ought to take the op-
p1rtW"'ty Of learning for himself
what can be doue in the making of
roads with necessary machinery
Laaaied by men who are experts in
The business.
So much has been said and written
IN regard to thus subject of good
roads that the people of the South
are practically in thorough accord
with the idea that good roads are an
acquisition and benefit to an, COM
muhlty. Everyone is convinced
that the lack of good roads is one of
the greatest drawbacks to the growth
and nrosperty Of the S0urh. and to
supply this lack is one of the most
'cri"ns n'oH'cMs before us TODAY.
a network Of main roads built un-
der scientific direction with durable
and permanent material will alone
meet the urgent demand Of our rural
districts and market towns.
How can We secure better roads
in the South! ibis is tho question
to ho discussed by practical men in
the Good Roads convention which
will be held while the road. ma king is
beng demonstrated on the ruads and
streets.
While there IS grer, unaninisy
upon the advantages of good roads,
here is i'll reality very llttle practical
knowledge as to the means and ap-
pliance' for securing this desirable
result, and hence the proposed con-
vention ought to attract mon from
every walk of life, especially those
who are engaged in making and ex-
ecuting the laws Of the State. There
Is also an imperative requirement, in
providing the ways and means for
constructing roads upon an equitable
and just basis. This can be q. Ger.
tanned by discussion and demonstrs-
ton, and hence the propriety Of or
ganlz'ng Good Roads associations
while giving instruction in practical
road building. Both of these OBJ
jects will be attained in the con,ing
, of the Good Roads Special" next
r month to Greenville, and .uch al,
t opportunity is rarely given any peoil
1 at SO moderate a cost.
The citizens Of Grepnville are max.
8 ing full preparation for the accommo-
datiou of the hundreds and thousan IN b
y who are expected from every quarter
0 Of the State, and in addition to the
n hotels and boarding honses, the
{ private families are asked to take
0 boarders for the week in order to
0 provide for any extra demand on
q this occasion.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22

the train tearing zap the track and
throwing the rails INTO mill pond in
order to make the escape of the train
impossible.
The scouts would frequently get in
rear of the Federal line. and take
horses, men and wagons as they could
get them. On one occasion near
Deep Bottom two of them were wait
ing for an opportunity when they
saw body of cavalry coming thar
had been out guarding a wagon that
had gone for some plank of an old
house they had torn down to build
winter quarters. While the scouts
were waiting the cavalry came along
and after watering their horses at the
creek In sight of their camp, marched
on thinking the wagon all right.
Just as the team went into the creek
and began to drink the scouts boarded
the wagon and disarmed the men on
It and ordered the driver to turn
round which he did without question
ing their authority. AS soon as the
team was Strengthened out in the road
they ordered the driver to strike the
trot and the prisoners to throw the
plank off. AS the load was lightened
the team increased its speed until it
was in full -gallop, turning through
tho woods and thickets the scouts
conducted it to our improvised fund
where all was taken out safely and
by the time the disappointed guards
would have gone back to hunt up
their wagon, team and lumber the
team, wagon and three prisoners were
safely within the Confederate lipes.
On another occasion tive or three
scouts entered the camp of a portion
of Sheridan's cavalry just north of
the James and as they approached
the suffers tent in which they saw
light they espied a pair of fine gray
MULES which they concluded was priae
enough for one raid. Unbi,ching
the mules one Of tho scouts mounted
expecting to lead the other, while the
other scouts brought up the rear.
Just as the scout mounted the mule
it "bucked" and down he came and
mis- gun went off, Here came the
officer of the day with "what does that
mem! Getting no reply he came
On a little further when he was sur
prised to find hipaslf hooking into
tGq muzz'e Of a revolver with a conf
mand to lie low and say nothing for
he was prisoner. He took in the
situation philosophically and of the
scouts started with their prize. De-
maud was made of the officer for the
oountersign which was given-"Fort
Pillow" and on they went till they
had passed the outer line Of picket
when the scouts concluded they could
dispanse with the company of the
officer and they told him he could 20
back to camp and write bis cx-
pefeDee, and our loved scnuts
mounted their captured mules and
rode off IN high glee.
10 be continued.)
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22
SANTUC NEWS NOTES.
Hey Denver Scores the Lazy Negro.
Good Fishing on the River,
Some Weather COmpariSaIS.
Got Lost hut Got There
Inst Ina SnIua

Some Weather COmparisaIss.
Got Lost hut Got There
just the Same.
ga cat sat on the old back fence,
His comrades all had fed;
And as natural consequence
Things few thick about his head.
Chunks, bottles, bootjacks and brick,
Flew near this feline sire,
But he his chops did calmly lick
And loudly yell Mariiah )"
The days are now 80 short one
must be up and doing early in order
to do nything.
Sunday found but small congre-
CATION at the Presbyterian church and
other meetings. The cold must have
come too suddenly.
This has been a good time to thin
out the ranks of hogs by killing off
the fattest and SMALLEST where shey
have been fed long enough.
Land is mighty dry for sowing
wheat. la places it Is too hard to
work and sewing is bound to be do
layed, may make it late. Some say
they intend lot 10 sow any more oats
until after Ohrisrmas as the season is
getting late and land is dry-they
may all get winter killed.
The cold wind is coming now anc
it is bad sign to see anyb ,dy .hiver
ing over pile of ashea and woot
lying AROUND them.
In passing negro house a. few
days ago l saw the biggest pile q
'possum fur that ever saw and
knew that somebody had been catip,
'possum if not 'taters.
One thing you can almost Away
depend o" negro doing, and that i
to put q saddle blanket ON hind par
J before and upside down.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22

CoiAhSi9' 1o'AS utpF 10 tAo FalT
Grounds We were packed In the street
Car like sardinss in a can aad on the
grounds it was no better. One had
to undergo some, exercise to keep
with the party; two or three times I
would lose sight of our leader and
would see him ABOUT twelve yards in
front With one or more girls. With.
oAt the least consideration of peoples
feelings l would catch up and in a
very short while this WAS sone over
again, so it was until We left the
grounds.
The very first thing ! saw on sp-
t,e:Fio,g the Ma.iih IMa.iih bai!!aiaa ~ th% aoral
display, tho ,pre',iest thing to b"
seen: There were flowers kom tae
lovely conservatory plSlta down T.
the violet hut the principal one shown
WAS the chtysanthemum--in every
color and variety ON record, I think.
The most unique thing l saw was IA
large swan made of small whit
chry'anthemums. 1t looked as if
resting on q pond,
Near tho flowers and ca ,hs arst
aooy wore the plstleSlpiaEed On 'as
Mbisiod by 'Chas. M Steiff. " On
this Same floor were about 4 doze
|jcwslry stands. tho vegetables 'GsIhSd and
ssys5a} !eys s,heg s3hRibiiss..: wa fsss!!las
second Aoor. There wore crazy
quilts, doiIies, center pieces, pin
cushions. infaus caps and dresses in
! :. .ue needle work exhibit and every
article wss spleRdidiy SSRaiYsasa
markahla in beaaty aud any one Of
these won'd grace the finest parlor II,
South Carolina.
Here we also saw locomotive en-
y;ne made by eolers4 boy IN Ca.
lupAia. It, vas R"rfeot and every
part was exactly like q real engine
rven tho engineer ~as sanding in
his cab with his oil can and the
tender was filed with coal.
Stepping from this building We
we're in midway aud ramembsr
ways that midway il the place for
oise. We heard enough trunphsts.
irlms, plows aud loud voices to lss'
life time. Everything that had =
Mouth Was using it 70 advantage.
We visit. d one aide show and saw
The last breath Of President McKin
ley. would mueh rath, + have sAep
the "Roosey yelt=== Washington dining
because l have seen des'hs but never
anything like this much talked Of
incident. Next year this will b
side showed" know.
| The next thing on the program
were the races. l had never g. en- .
horse race and Of soarse it ass Ga
pecislly interrsting "a mo,
We now left alf this bu.tle behint
and went over to tho peni,entiary
1t 10 situated in . lovely place snc
the flower garden mskes ir still pr.
! tier. Some Of the things notices
were the great bolts, OF cloth and th,
men making closhes tor Tie convict
in the siilof:shop, ifhs ksitsiag mil
vhpfs asfaFA men ahd AaaW 4o.asl
1ere working. We saw two or thre
n colorcd women aud on white woman
I,tMrs. Matte Hughes, in there.
! The kifchen csfpe' sHht ja,order
IN was curious looking kitchen TOO
Then the dining rOom. It locked lib
q school so"m, and last the CELL
which il = dismal place. The 10 k
Of tho-e coils 10 enough 10 make al,
; e'e strive 10 be . lawful citizen
!. n. ~..s 49, Sk> 1>.-.x ok,.~
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22
OUR GIRLS AT THE FAIR.
Two More Of Our Beauties Write Of the Trip to the State FaHad
'7n very Pleasant Time and Hdpss We VIII Al msA AGAIN.

When admitted 90 the Fair
ground our kind Editor. Mr.. Mathis,
took us around to meet Hon. w. D.
Evans, president Of tho Fair, and
Mr.. Thos. w. Holloway, Secretary.
The President and Secretary both
made rs an address of welcome which
was much enjoyed BY US all.
We went then through the main
building ffom the ground floor to the
aFt gallery where I saw ever 40 maay
pretty things. The loyeliest sight
wss4the beautiful flowers. They were
the prettiest flowers 1 ever saw. All
regret was that / didn't have some
Of hem at home Mr. Editor saw
% many things at Columbia that
fully 7 hardly know bow Or where
tpksGin writing about them, but the
ssddest sight was the death bed scene
Aaf President Mckinley allowing bis
'hEeasAlag aud the opening aud closing
Of hia cyes as life was passing away.
The red cross nurse sat beside his
bell while a table in the ,rner con.
tanned medicine, bottles, glasses, etc.
We enjoyed the horse races very
much, SAW several fine horses AID
the way they could run was q q.u,ioa.
Qaf esSt poiat ~as the peRitetl
tistt Aud ND tdol' a roRg 'rids In tina.
direction on the street car. We wen,
a1 through and viewed every place
gf:Wp ,fnpcs ! tpink tlss tnAS,
&lvstAem lot tucd &. " The pepper
! s.w hanging on the front of one
Of the houses. Iwas greatly amused,
when We went in the kitchen q. .h~
manner Of preparing meals, the gre.
ltaek ef bread, ;he big pot Of hop,in,y
aoaked Tor the next mntning's meal
From there we went to the STATE
House. This was about the m. s'
interesting place in the city that We
visited.
leaving the s'ate HoR"as yis'
tied the State Office and Mr. Watson
the ci'y Editor, received US yer,
cordially, had bis mschinist tut,
on the power and put "ne Of bi
now Megsnthaler type setti",
machines ia operation. This was
grand aight to me .s had nevr
seen one before. Words cannot ex
press my appreciation to our Edit
and Mr.. Watson for their kindn-s
in showing us around. 1t will ce,
tainIy be n trip long TO he remembere'
BY me. I saw many people I knew
and was glad 70 see all. One vii
mention, Rev. John W. Harris ~h
lived in Union but now in Florence
Hs seemed TO be enjoying The sigbts
Hehas many friends in Union county
We'll ! truly hope we oil will mca
again and enjoy another trip togstht
as ve did this one and our E.litol
Mr.. John r. Mathis, be wi b d
again. l feel that we cap never reps
mfor the kihdpess that he shaGe
20. With many many thanks. l Wis
for ysu, Mr.: Mathis, long anil h"p,
life and much success With Tn
TrHEs. Ialso exterd my ,h inks ,
my friends who voted for me.
" -' -" LULA.
Thanks. kind frisnd hope /"
msy sll pest together sgan 'aR"
sQpAe flu pre peeasiop and ag''
sposher pleasant day together s--E'
The, Blue. Ribbon Badge Of jxl
Times GfY1s was an l3(lneh.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22
VIM. A. NICHOLSON & SON,
BANKERS.
$1.OO A YEAR.

ransact Regular Banking Business in all its
Prahches and Insure Against Fire, Tornado.
as Ia ollty and Accidents, and Issue Bonds
OF Indemnity for Officials Of Cornoratione 49,
Individuals as Administrators, Etc Etc
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22

IF ono wishes to have a good tim"
n the Fair lat lh.m weir . blu
badge, This is wha, ] believe every
girl belonging to THg TIMES party
would tell yon. There was syidssos
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-22

d GO
Three Cotton Mills, one ths
largest In the South. Four Fur
niture and Wood Manufacture
} inga Concerns ,SsOne Female
SEMINARY Water Works and
Eiectric Lights.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13
REITERATED NONSENSE.

/ At the recent meeting in New York, held under the
auspices of the Armstrong Associations for raising
TOR Booker L. Washngtons school, of the principal
speakers the Right Rev. Henry Goldman Potter. In
closing his euogsc remarks the bishop gave expression
to of the most fagranty absurd of the many rcu
ous propositions which have emanaed from academic and
long distance distance discussion of the negro question
Referring to Washington, he said: when he appeals
for tine Tuskegee Institute he appeals for the white
of the South well for the negro, for they will either
rise or fall together"
Through all the theorizng upon the subject of negro
education as u of uplifting the colored brother,
has run this nonsensca argument of double purpose
the beterment of the white through the education of
black The idea has engrafted itself upon the sub
ect be apparently nseparabe from it, and absurd
as is sometimes hear it advanced by Southern
men, The greatest blunder ever committed in this coun-
try was In attempting make the negro the white mans
equal, through process which education" was in
tended to play important part The folly has been
exhibited for many years. in quarters, of taking
working the altogether absurd hypothesis of the
gros being white marin all the accident of complex
ion Their mistake beginning to force itself upon
the minds of the time devotees OF the educational
process through sheer evidence of results when the
dusria training fad-the head hand and heart process
gave them renewed hope.
If Bishop Potter would reflect for moment, he would
be impressed with the Stiffness of such declaration as
that the white and black in the Sonth any where
else on EARTH twill either rise fall together" No
where and under conditions has the negro been the
arbiter OF the white destinynever yet has the fate
of the one measured the fortunes OF the other 1t
probably well within the mark to say that people OF the
same numbers ever Produced in the same tme larger
number of nteecs of the first order than did the South
ern slave holding colonies and states of America during
that period of history closing with the civil war. Yet
the world has sureited for generations with the
appealing tale OF the slaves degraded station and
still warned to beware lest we be dragged down by q
''uass of ignorant blacks"
Such nonsense can look for company only to the bogy
cries of 'antmperalsts'' about the absolute foreor-
daned certainty of losing liberty if deny 1t to
the Cubans and Fipno-we expressed In the terribly
portenous words of certain doughty colonel 'f you
deny to these people the right their you
will not long have right yours" The Augo-Saxons
liberty is held such reciprocal enure,hs fortune
is of his making
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13
THE GAINSBOROUGH PORTRAIT.

Liverpool, April Sc Moreland Agnew. upon his
arrival here the steamer Etrura this morning. admitted
that had the Gansborough portrait of the Duchess of
Devonshre. Mr.. Agnew himself carried the picture
ashore. but beyond admitting that 1t the famous
missing Gainsborough he declined furnish any details
regarding It's recovery, and proceeded to London
This closes the last act in of the most
singular of the many mysteries which have during the
last half century startled the world been discussed for
time, then forgotten.
One of the greatest of English portrait painters Thomas
Gainsborough, ranked among his greatest riumphs his
fesze picture of Georgianna, wife of William the fifth
Duke of Devonshire. Done one hundred and eighteen
years ago. its has been life of singular vics-
lsitude. The pride of the Devonshire house for
many years, it passed into other hands, and in
I1S76 sold at auction. The sale was one
Iof the events of the time. and the world sent Its
devotees and collectors to London to attend it. One of
Londons weahIest art dealing firms, the Agnews pur
chased the picture for $4,000. 1t exhibited publicly
by them, and for few weeks was a London fad then it
disappeared.
1t from Its Frame and for twenty-five years its
whereabouts has been unknown. Since popular excite
ment the ahated, May 1875, the own
es of the prize have ceased their efforts toward its
recovery They offered a reward of $4,000 for its re-
stoaon and the police of the world have had in mind
for quarter of century Its recovery was surrounded
by almost many mysterious features its theft Some
two three weeks SINCE Moreland Agnew son of the
original purchaser to this country and proceeded to
Chicago He brought with him portions of the canvass
left in the frame the picture out and other
means of identifying it. The portrait was delivered to
him in perfect condition by the Pnkertons who accepted
and undertook deliver the reward No questions were
or will be asked, and no Investigations made.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13
THE INFLUENCE OF THE RAILROAD.

In the sum total of the factors making for the upbud
ing of this country the railroad occupies the foremost
y ace One does not have to be old man-not necessa-
rIy old enough even remember the dabolica crcum
attending the commission of the crime of seventy
reeo be able to call to mind the conditions existing in
this section prior to the inception of railway construction
The being the only of communicating with
the outside world the natural lines of cultivation
along their banks, while extensive and equally
fertile tracts distance back remained unopened pro-
duced no wealth. and bore no burdens
1t not necessary to marshal column of figures to tell
of the wonderful addition to the taxable pro-
ducng domain of the Delta ascribabe solely to the rail-
roads which the past twenty have penetrated the
socalled swamps of this favored region From being
country of settlements it has become vast cultivated area
IN many instances stretching in miles of uninterrupted
fields All that has been done is but esrnest of what
the future holds in The great bodies of tmbered
land lying off the roads being opened up; the timber
is being utilized, and the virgin soil brought under the
snbiugation of the pillow.
All this means greater wealth for this section and
greater for the state at age greater in actual increase OF
the products of the SOIL and greater through the enhanc
ing Of the value of those products by being brought into
reader touch with the markets of the world Many Of us
Who are still young have land bought from the state
IL twenty-five cents per grow into fields today
purcbasable for less thnn forty to fifty dollars. These
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13

neutrality-suspicious. have been wrought by the railroad and
he end Its influence yet far from being reached
Not the least OF the good done by these roads is in the
civzing influence which they have exerted over us ALL
In bringing the scattered places into closer contact one
with another in converting small settlements into ham
lets and villages and making prosperous towns out OF re-
mote postofces in leading to the building OF churches
and schools giving us, from day to day, papers and
magazines and books and mail in putting the world
within our easy reach in all these and in divers other
ways have they made for our general welfare. We do
claim that they have done these things for the love
they bore u.s. yet that there has been noqud pro
At the time in facilitating ourselves and our section
upon having fallen prosperous days. it is not amiss to
remember the bridge that landed us where we are.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13

Mr.. Eugene " Debs calls Carnegies donations to libra
ries and workingmens Institutes RECKLESS prodigaty
with the plumber of his Victims and denounce such gifts
and those who accept them Deb and few others should
take of such things If be granted for ar
guments sake, that Carnegie made honest dollar
in his fe and has been professional thief from infancy
till now what of it? We contend that this is all the NOR.
for accepting all he has to offer the public We
should be charitable enough to take it off his hands, anc
thereby do the Christian act of helping him ease bis
conscience.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13

Among all the peoples of the earth the negro
the only which objects to its name, and seeks
other designation the only dissatisfied with its color
and eternally trying to change it the only which
constantly endeavors to get away from ITSELF and
ciae with other branch of the human family; the
only without certain amount of race pride the only
whose physical we'll being improves in slavery and
deterorates in freedom The laws providing separate but
equal accommodations for the two work hardship
the negro. The only effect is to the negroes
socate with another All the kicks their opera
ton simply that the negro wants the privilege Of
mixing with white men-obiects to mixing with his kind
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13

Mr.. John Fowler American consul at Chefu, reports
that the decrease Chinese imports of American cotton
for the first ten months of 1900 So less than
for the time in 1899 If consider the condition
which the Chinese troubles found cotton trade with
that country, and the promise which the future held in
store the figures quoted should force lesson upon those
who talk gbly about absence of interest in the
daily developments in China.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13

Arkansas recorded another white ynching last week.
The son OF respectable farmer was hanged by an or-
derby mob without tAe form atty of trial. Osceola
He guilty of the heinous crime of killing another
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-04-13

jackson has started the talk about new hotel once
There number of reasons why jackson needs
first class hotel more than any town in the state To
begin WITH there is decent excuse for one there at
present in the second place. the town qways entertain
ing meeting of sort, and needs hotel accommoda
TONS It's pity the Edwards House eyesore couldn't
be allowed to burn down.