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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
HOT TIME At HOT SUPPER.
Eight White Men Try to Take Charge
Of Negro Festival.

Washington. Ca. Oct. 21.-Saturday
night a negro hot supper" and dance
was in progress in Oglethorpe county,
just across the line Of Wilkes. At q
late hour, while the dance was at its
height, eight white men, under the in
fuence of whisky, came upon the
scene entered the building and made
effccts to dance with the negro women.
This bold step aroused the anger OF
the negro mon, who protested vigor.
ously, but the white men gave no heed
and proceeded to carry out their pur.
POSE by force. Pistols and knives
flashed from all parts of the room, the
women withdrew and desperate fight
ersued between the whites and the
negroes.
Fifty shots were fired, two negro men
were instantly killed. several were
wounded. and one white man was Sc
verely cut.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
The Ants Toilet.

A naturalist has been making oh.
servations OIL the toilets OF certain ants,
and has discovered that each insect
goes through most elaborate ablutions.
They are not only performed by her.
self. but by another, who acts for the
time as lady's maid. The assistant
starts by washing the face OF her com.
panion. and then goes over the whole
body. The attitude OF the ant that is
being washed is one OF intense satis-
faction. She lies down with oil her
limbs stretched loosely out: she rolls
over on her side. even her back, q per-
feet picture Of aase. The pleasure the
little Insect evinces ip being Thus
combed and sponged Is really enjoyo-
BILE to the obseryer. - Philadelphia
Press.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Strike of Timers In Macon.

Macon, Ga, Oct. 21.-Labor circles
Of Macon are concerned over the strike
of several timers. which occurred a
few days ago in the Central railroad
shops. The trouble was caused by
demand of so cents extra per day and
a change Of the foreman for the tin.
ners. They claimed that the present
foreman was not timer, but car
penter. and therefore unfit to fill the
position. The demands were not
granted and nine men walked out of
the shops. There have been no in
dications on the part of the employers
of the strikers that the requests will
be granted, and the men are still idle.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Disputed Over a Law Suit

Pensacola. Fla, Oct. 21.-In a street
fight growing out of dispute over
a lawsuit. w. c. O'Neal, president Of
the American National bank, stabbed
Adolph Greenhut. a wholesale grocer,
under the left ear. near the large ar.
terry, also in the back and on the arm,
the wound in the neck being serious
O'Neal was arrested on warrant
charged with assault with intent to Kill
and was released on $500 bond. Green.
hut is resting easy tonight, but is not
yet out Of danger.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
GREAT COAL STRIKE
NOW DECLARED OFF
Miners Delegates Agree to
Arbitration Proposal.
RETURN TO WORK THURSDAY.
They Decide to Submit All Questions
at Issue Between Operators and Mine
Workers to Commission Named by
President Roosevelt.

Wiliicsbarre. Pa, Oct. 21.-The mine
workers convention has accepted the
arbitration proposal declared the
strike off and agreed to return TO
work on Thursday morning next
The vote was unanimous.
The resolutions committee submitted
q report recommending that commu
rication be sent to President Roose.
welt informing him that the conven-
ton accepts the arbitration proposal.
President Mitchell is authorized to &c.
es the mine workers representative
before the commission
The following is the report of the
resolutions committee:
We. the committee ON resolutions,
beg leave to recommend that the fol.
lowing communication be adopted AMI
forwarded to President Roosevelt:
'Wilkesbarrc. Pa, Oct. 21.-Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, ID.
C.-Dear Sir: We, the representa-.
tivoS Of the employees of the various
coal companies engaged in operating
mines in the anthracite coal fields OF
pennsylvania, in convention assembled,
having under conside: alton your tele.
gram of Oct. IS, 1902, addressed to
John Mitchell. president of the Unitei
Mine Workers of America, which reads
as follows:
81 have appointed as commission.
ers Brigadier General John H. Wilson,
X. II. Parker, Judge George Gray, e.
e. Clark, Thomas H. Watkins, Bishop
j. l.. Spaldins. with Carroll ID. Wright
as recorder. These names are accept.
cd by the operators, and now earn.
estly ask and urge that the miners
likewise accept this commission. It
Is matter Of vital concern to all orr
people. and especially to those in our
great cities who are least we'll of,
that the mining of coal should be re.
sumed without a moments unneces.
sary delay
I'VE have decided to accent tho
proposition therein embodied and sub.
nit all questions at issue between tho
operators and mine workers of the all.
thracite coal region and adjustment 20
the commission which you have named.
In pursuance of that decision we
shall report for work on Thursday
morning. Oct. o. in the positions and
working places occupied by us prior
to the inauguration of the strike.
1--WE have authorized John Mitchell
president of the United Mine Workers
OF America, with such assistants as
he may select, to represent us in all
hearings before the commission.
(SigneD John Mitchell. chairman ,f
convention; w. b. Wilson, secretary
o. convention"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Tradedy In = SaIoon

Birmingham. Ala, Oct. 21.-Coroner
Paris has news OF killing at Pinkney
City, in the remote end OF this county
on Saturday night joseph Watts
and d. Statum, two white men. were
drinking together excessively in a sa.
loon there, and finally went into ar
adjoining room and amused them
selves by dancing for each other. AZ.
ter awhile something heavy was heard
to fall, and shortly afterward Statuin
left the place. When other parties
entered the room later on Watts dead
body was. found with the throat cue
from ear to ear. Statum escaped.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
SMITH WHIPPED AT vALposTA.
Taken From His Homo and ROUGHLY
Treated.


Treated.
Valdosta, Ca, Oct. 21.-J. A. Smith,
a white man who came to Valdosta
from Jacksonville, Fla, a few months
ago, was taken from his home on
Thursday night by a crowd of semi.
masked men, who carried him to ths
edge of the city, and, giving him a Sc,
we're whipping, warned him to leave tho
city at once. Smith took the first
train to his former home at Jackson.
vile.
The whipping is said to have been
the outcome Of the part Smith took
In organizing the unions Of the negro
cooks and washerwomen of Valdosta.
He is said to have worked up the or.
ganization, making number of
speeches to the women at some of the
negro churches and creating consider.
able dissatisfaction among them and
their employers. The feeling against
Smith here is pretty strong, and he
has probably left Valdosta for good.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
THE SPLASRlNG HOUSE.
A French Yarn That Was Printed to
RidIcule EnElIahmen.

Ridicule EnEliahmen.
One of the most extraordinary tales
ever invented about Englishmen by
foreigners was the 'splashing house"
story, given to the world by the Paris
journal Patrie in 1868. An ingenious
writer in the paper gravely informed
his readers that in the suburbs Of Lon
don were houses where earth beaten
up into mud is rctailed." To these
houses men were accustomed to resort
in hunting kit for the purpose Of being
splashcd with mud.
"Thesc curious establishments are
provided with muds Of different coun-
ties. but principally Of those counties
where the hunting Is best. The sale Of
the mud is conducted in the most Sc
rious manner imaginable; the attend.
ait inquiries. From what bounty, sir,
do you wish II to be supposed you have
just returnedr From the county of
Kent The pretended sportsman there
upon takes seat on wooden horse
whose legs throw up the selected mud;
after having been well splashed the
customer pays his bill g shIllings),
>"o'o eh SS VI tPplODutlou tOWUFu the
mirror. takes whip in his hand and
goes to exhibit his muddy clothes In
Piccadilly. Bond street or Pail Mall,
In order that it may be supposed that
he has just returned from grand
hunt"
In addition to the chance Of marry
Ing an hcirCss which this remarkable
display of dirty clothes confers on
their wcnrcr. says the French news
paper man. the patron Of the "spla sh-
Ing house" has another more imme.
diate advantage. THE mud with
which he Is splashcd affords, IL not
proof. strong prcsumptive evidence
that lie Is landed proprietor in the
county whose mud bespatters him."
And landed proprictors being held in
vast esteem as solvent and desirable
creditors. the man can obtain anything
be likes at any shop cu credit.
One wonders whether such a wonder
full tale finds any believers among
those who read it.-London Live Stock
Journal.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Chapman CHARGED With Murder

Decatur, Ala, Oct. 21.-The coro.
ner's jury. which has been in session
here since Saturday investigating the
mysterious murder Of Richard New.
man, which took place last Friday
night, returned verdict of wilful mur
der accusing c. M. Chapman, who was
recently employed by the city as SUI
rerintendcnt of street work, with the
crime. Chapman was arrested and
lodged in Jail to await trial.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Burglar Made His Escape

Charlotte, N. c., Oct. 21.-A bur.
glar attempted to effect an entrance
at the residence Of Mrs. Stonewall
Jackson at an early hour this morning.
Edward Gresham, who occupies rooms
at the Jackson home, was awakened
by the noise made by the intruder
and fired two shots at the fleeing bur.
glar. neither of which reached the
mark.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
The Way Of the YYorld.

We met the people going one way
with their arms loaded with beautiful
flowers.
"Whither do you drift?" we asked.
I'VE CO." they exclaimed. ito udorn
the graves Of our dead heroes"
Later OH we met them with their
arms full Of bricks.
And now whereT we asked ngnin.
ITO throw these Mt our living he.
roes," they again explained. with pity.
ing smiles at our dumbness.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
EcOnOmY.

Fudge-Yes. SpInks has splendid
system Of economy.
Judge-How so?
"He goes to work and lays aside
money for something he doesn't need"
NO economy I'm that"
"Isn't there? Well. by the lime be
has the money saved he always Gn1s
out he doesn't want the thing-and
then the money Is saved."-Baltimore
Herald.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Many Miners Returninu.

Pottsville. Pa, Oct. 21.-,Many mine
workers who left the region during the
period of the strike. have returned Il
their home. 1t is claimed that of the
5000 strikers who secured work at tho
Baldwin Locomotive works. Philadel-
phia, rs have quit since Saturday and
have returned to the coal regions.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Missionary's Life Thre atened,

New York, Oct. 21.--Advices receiv.
ed from DR.. George ID. Marsh. an
American board missionary at Philip.
popolis. Bulgaria. say he and his vito
have been threatened with death by
dynamite, unless the sum Of $2,40O
each was paid at an early date. accord.
Ing to an American dispatch from DoS.
ton. .r l,y....,.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
JUMPING THE DEER,
Style of Hunting That Looks Easy
Till You Try It.

jumping deer" is highly attrac-
tive phrase, quite apt to make n tin.
Cling In the back hair OF the tenderfoot
who hears 1t for the first time. 1t is
also intensely satisfactory to the chap
who always has to shave before WOO
ing nature. You may. indeed, get a
good shot In this way, and 1t is gener.
ally the only way to see the grandest
Of oil the sights Of the Moods-deer
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
An Annoyinr Insiouotion.

II don't suppose he meant anything
unkind." said the young woman, "but
1t was n very startling coincidence"
"What do you meang"
"Just before Harold and got mar.
ried his friends persuaded him to Join
q don't worry club" - Washington
Star.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24
Hollands Injuries Prove Fatal

Rockingham, N. c.. Oct. 21.-As a
result CT the wreck on the Seaboard
here there has been one death, III. l..
Holland. of Raleigh, fagman. It is
thought The others injured will recov.
er. II
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24

One OF the worst things that can hap.
pen young man Is to get the notion
that he can't have a good time without
wasting his mOney.-Atchison Globe.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-24

did Miss Gaddy entertain your prc.
posaIf' asked the close friend.
NO" was the sad answer. "1t
seemed to work just the other way.
Exchange.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
THE REAL sToNEwALL JACKSON.

The country at large will be interested
in a literary and benevolent movement
that was originated by Atlanta men and
has been carried by them TO assured sue
cess. II has resulted in the publication by
the d. E. Luther Publishing company OF
this city OF 1.-THE Story OF Stonewall Jack
son." one-half OF the entire proceeds from
the sale of which are to go TO the descend
ants OF that illustrious hero.
The work was prepared by Mr.. W. c.
Chase. Mr.. r. II. Thornton, an ardent
Confederate veteran. has thrown his char
acteristic enthusiasm into this plan to Sc
cure a worthy tribute 10 the memory %
his beloved commander. and Hon. Hoke
Smith. at the request Of Mrs. Jackson, has
accepted the trusteeship OF the funds that
will accrue Tor the benefit or the family
from the publication.
The writer OF the book and those who
are responsible for its appearance are all
Atlanta men. and IL was made in this city
from cover TO cover.
IL is not only a valuable contribution u
history. but the orders already received
for II guarantee that 1t will yield a hand
some fund for the grandchildren Of Stone
wall Jackson.
Within the last ten OF fifteen years there
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
THE MAN WITH SMALL CAPITAL

THE man with small capital has been
crushed in his efforts to compete with gil
gantic masses of corporate wealth" is the
remark Of writer in the latest number of
The Outlook.
The Chicago Tribune, while admitting
that there is much truth in the statement,
contends that it is misleading.
1t cannot be denied that there are some
Industries which have been so completely
taken up by great corporations and COM
bines that the man of small capital has
no chance to succeed or continue long in
them. But this does not prove that there
are not many other lines of business in
which men of small means have excellent
opportunities.
The Tribune makes out a strong case by
showing that in Chicago. a city where the
tendency toward industrial combination
has been as marked, perhaps, as in any
other locality, the number of independent
manufactures has increased largely dur
ing the last ten years.
The number of manufacturing establish
ments in that city. which was 1897 in 1890,
had increased to 1928 by 1900, a gain of
nearly 100 per cent.
The fact, that men of small means had
not been discouraged from going into bus
mess for themselves during the ten years
when the formation of the trusts and
combines had been more frequent than
ever before is shown by the fact that the
average amount of capital to the estab-
lishment was 20 per cent less in 1900 than
in 1890.
The man of small means is evidently not
being crushed out in Chicago, nor do we
believe that he has been destroyed as
business factor anywhere to the extent
that some economic writers would have US
believe. -
The Chicago Tribune is supported by
good reasons when it says:
THE man who wishes to be his own
master-to be employer instead of employee
need not despair. even though he have
but little capital. He can have his wish
II he will keep out of the comparatively
small number of industries which demand
great capital as a condition of cheap pro-
duction and confine himself to some one
of the myriads of minor industries which
do not excite the cupidity of the great
manufactures or attract the attention of
the promoter"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
SUBSTITUTE BUTTER.

Congress has imposed heavy tax upon
oleomargarine and fixed other restrictions
upon its sale, but some of the states, not
satisfied with these determinations by
federal authority. have gone further and
laid additional burdens upon the manu-
facture and sale of substitutes for dairy
products.
The last New York legislature passed
very sweeping act on this subject, but the
efforts Of fits supporters have come to
naught. as the New York Court of APP
peals has declared the act to be uncon-
stitutional.
The justice who delivered the unani-
nous opinion of the court made the fol-
lowing declaration:
IT imagine that the sale and consump
ton Of a well-known article of food or
a product conclusively shown to be
wholesome could not be forbidden by the
legislature. even though IL assumed to en-
act the law I'm the interest Of the public
health. The limits of the police power
mast necessarily depend in many in
stances on the common knowledge Of the
times. An enactment of a standard of
purity Of an article of food. falling to
comply with which the sale of the article
Is illegal. to be valid must be within rea-
sOnable limits and not of such character
as 10 practically prohibit the manufacture
or sale OF that which, as a matter of COM
mon knowledge. is good and wholesome"
This decision leaves no restriction upon
the use Of food adulterants In New York.
provided they are harmless.
To sustain any prosecution in that state
for putting foreign substances into milk.
butter or cheese 1t must be proved that
the adulterant is actually injurious to
health.
The court that rendered this important
decision acted on the principle that it
would be very dangerous to permit leg
islature 10 destroy or prohibit business
by simply calling it injurious.
II must be shown to be actually so be-
fore such legislation can be made etfec-
tive
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
HANNA's EASY VICTORY.

Whether Senator Hanna will exert an
influence with the present national admin
istration that can be compared with that
which he welded while President Nc
Kinley was at the head of the govern
ment remains to be seen, out 1t is GER
tain that he has lost little. if any, of his
power in Ohio politics. The attempt to
overcome him in the contest for the or
ganization of the legislature Of that state
failed completely. though 1t was led by
his more dashing colleague, Senator For
aker with a number of able and shrewd
iieutenants. giving him their loyal and
enthusiastic support. Foraker is a man of
admitted ability ami great personal popu-
larity He is also bold fighter But Han
ma made a show of him i'm Columbus last
week. Forakers friends have cherished
the hope since the accession of President
Roosevelt that their favorite would WELD
a power I'm Ohio beyond that Of Hanna,
hut the first open clash between the two
bosses shows that Hanna is much the
more potent in Buckeye boundaries at
least.
The Foraker meb made most of the
noise but the Hanna hosts went along
quietly and took them into camp with an
ease that the old man" must have en-
ioyed quite as much as Foraker was en-
barrassed by il. Ali the juciest plums of
patronage the Ohio legislature had to dis
pose Of went 10 the faithful followers of
Hanna The scheme 20 beat him for the
senate two years hence resulted only in
exposing Foraker's comparative weak
ness and in demonstrating that whatever
the preference of the president may be
The Ohio Republicans are not ready to
swap bosses. II was a row as To the result
Of which. so far as the conte nding chiefs
were concerned, the great majority OF
Democrats were serenely Indifferent but
the hope that IL would demoralize the
Republican party IN Ohio finds small en-
couragement
1t was too easy thing for Hanna.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
DEWEY AND scHLEY.

simple Christmas tribute to the sferoism Of
George Dewey and Winfield Scott Schleys by
Morris Chandler Barton.
The court Of envy has fought its battle sham.
To ind the hero, record breaking loop it ran.
While Dewey said, The shortest way is
Schley."
The poisoned pen will rust in fits own time
The lying parchment fade with passing years;
But southern hearts, the martyrs name en-
shrine
The uncrowned hero Of Cuba'ss bloody seas.
The briny deep hath yet its tale Of woe
Proud Spanish hulls and masts that help
less lie
Their upturned broken keels proclaim the foe.
And tell afore and aft the name Of Schley.
None need TO caviI, or ask the reason why
We honor more the Brooklyn's faithful tars-
The reasons plain, they rallied to the flag
And made the loop that found the Brooklyn's
ragged scars.
The letter begins the heros name
So far agree the celebrated tri,
Then on until the end (n) they came,
When Dewey said The shortest way IL y"
Dewey and Schley. thy names shall ever be
The victor's song from sea TO sea.
In Dixie land. when Christmas chimes are
rung-
Both wept both honored and both sung
Fair Play, s. C. Dec .. 1901.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

have been several remarkable revivals IF
the fame of men who were more or less
illustrious and worthy. Napoleon. Wash
ington. Cromwell and Alfred the Great, 10
name them in the order of these recent
demonstrations of quickened popular in
terest. are the most conspicuous subjects
of such movements. 1t cannot be said
that there has been a Stonewall Jackson
revival at any time. but there has been a
steady growth of his fame and an un-
ceasing elevation of his character in the
honor and love of the civilized world
The people OF the south, the people OF
the north and those of other lands are
morc eager than ever before to read the
story Of his life and his wonderful CAM
paigns. They desire more than this; they
seek fuller knowledge Of the personality
of the man as II can be revealed only m
those seemingly less important events
and incidents which, after all, give the
true form and. color of a life, however
great and arouse the deepest human In
terest in It, 1t may be Justly claimed that
in the newly published STORY of Stone
wall Jackson" by Mr.. William c. Chase
this demand is supplied better than in
soldier Of the civil war that has yet ap-
peared.
Hardly anybody now reads any oiogra-
ply of Samuel Johnson except Boswell =
though many others have been written.
How much greater the need of a STORY
of Stonewall Jackson" that wall enable US
to follow the developments of his mar
velous powers. to see how he acted and
felt i'm meeting and overcoming the DIM
culties and trials of his life, and how MS
great heart reached out for the sympathy
and companionship to which it ever gave
a ready response!
We would not willingly let fall into for
getfulness the slightest word or lose sight
of the smallest incident in the lives of the
truly great and noble of the earth, and
from the life OF Stonewall Jackson we
can draw much more of help and consola-
ton by getting close to him as man
than by standing in admiration and rever-
ence before the stately figure upon the i'm
perishable pedestal of his fame. For this
pleasure and benefit the present and sue
ceeding generations will be largely. in
debted to the industrious and able efforts
that have brought forth this book. 1t
contains $50 pages divided into 80 we'll
arranged chapters. covering every period
of General Jackson's life; there are more
than 100 illustrations of subjects that are
most interesting. The department COM
manders of the Confederate veterans,
Generals HAMPTON and Cabell, have writ
ten letters, and Generals FitZhugh Lee
and joseph Wheeler have contributed
sketches. There is also a sketch of the
stonewaIl brigade by its last adjutant,
and many other attractive features are
contained in the work. which is alto
gether a complete and very valuable con-
tribution TO our literature and one that
will receive a cordial welcome in this and
other countries.