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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04
SANTUC SITTING ).
Personal Para9rapLs.

Miss Annie Gregory who has lecn
teaching good music class at Ian
drum nearly all summer, returned to
her home here last week.
Mr.. Kelly Johns has been given
position as policemen at Whitmlres
with a good salary, and l hope he
may do we'll in his new home and
occupation.
MIR. Simpsons Cannon of Spar
partanburg, was here last week visit
ing relatives. He is almost one of
our "natives," his mother having
been a born citizen of this place, a
Miss FAINT,
MIR. Rivers Thames, now of Char
leston, made a flying visit to this
place, his old home, Sunday.
Miss Ethel Jetcr is expecting TO
leave this week, to resume her duties
Prohasat. Salem Winston, N. G.
the Baptist church here last week.
There were no additions to the mem,
bership but the membership was bene.
fitted. Rev. j. r. Funderburk as
sisted the pastor, Rev. J. D. Mahon
a part of the time.
| have not, cannot have, an6
would not have if I could, respect
for a man who will wilfully start an
evil report on a person or help mag
nifty it when started, and especially
fit is on a young lady; but if they
arouse suspicion openly, l have ne
more to say.
We are having dry and hot wealth
er. A week of 100 per cent oi
sunshine, and temperature frpm 9t
to 100 degrees. Cotton is being
scorched and ripening prematurely
Fodder is burning, l think before
corn is ripe, field peas are on astand
still, and gardening truck is tGsueni !
;no T do n~l .L:-i PuUlnS i
l had an invitation freua both u,
committee and individuals to at,sm, WY
the big picnic that was at Carlisl,
last Friday but being situatet
another way, | could not attend with
lmpunity. l felt almost compelled
to hold back for meeting to come
IN which | am going to be looked for,
for purpose. 1 know it was a fine
one, as they always have these, and
| appreciate the kind invitations.
May they all live to have and eniov
many good picnics.
Before this is in print, the,big pic.
mic in the grove near MIR. w. r..
Stokes will be passed. 1t is for the
first and is expected to be big en-.
Joyable one. Hash will be on dock
ct to tickle ones palate, and every.
thing is promising now.
Things over at the dam are not
honey affair as they may have been
pictured. The contractor has been
around and cut wages of many,
which is equivalent to cutting them,
and the hands are quitting, 1 am
told, until there are only handful
there. With cut wages and foul
bills, sugar 1Oc, becomes 13c, and
Hour rs to soc per quarter. sack,
etc, they cant save anything.
Quite number of farmers who
we're counting much on making their
mules feed themselves, and make a |
title pocket lining hauling cement |
he dam, have been cut off too short,
nd are now doing nothing. The
Id belief that the building of the dam
7ould drop considerable amount
t money here, and that everyone
'ould be able to pick up money,
'lled to materialize and they are no
etter off than if fit..had never started.
imagine they feel like Trip did when
latch was the chief dog Of the bone
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04

The negro problem is getting pretty
clos, to us when the Seaboard Air
Line turns it's dining room at Ham
let over to negroes and attemps to
put the white people at side table.
Florence Daily Times.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04

Announcement is made that new
Methodist paper will be published at
Greenwood, S. c.. by Rev. G. W.
Creighton, backed up by other prom
inent Methodists. The Greenwood
Iudex is to get out the paper for the
new company.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04

Ex.Secretary of State Powers has
been convicted third time for com
plicity in the murder of Gov. VIM
Goebel, of Kentucky, in 1900. The
two former convictions were life sen.
tences. This last conviction is:
guilty and the punishment death. -
1t seems very likely that powers will
hang. The murder of Gov. Goebel
was most outrageous piece of wick
edness, and the fact that Powers was
twice convicted to serve a life SEN
tence and then found guilty and con.
demned to hang, shows that the
proof OF his guilt must have been
overwhelming. Lef him hang! When
the law shows itself able to take hold
OF the mighty" men and punish
their evil deeds, there will be no
more talk about court houses being
refugees for scoundrels.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04

The richost man is no. the man that
possesses millions, bnt the one wfo car
ries true heart, c'ean conscience and
a mind that thinks the thoughts of God.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04

d III constipatcd or bilousness. call for
kamons Pills, and be certain our clerks
give you the genuine Ramon's. Com
P,e1g !reatment-25 doses 25cts. Sold
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04

UNION, s. c., SEPTEMBER 4, 1908.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-09-04

The recent meeting Of represent a
tive negroes in Columbia for the rur-
pose of attempting the solution of
problems OF lawlessness, especially
lynchings, came off on schedule.
There were few present, considering
the number Of negroes in the State,
and the meeting was failure. 1t
was a failure for the very reason that
the main problem was cvaded and
the old cry against the mob violence
Of the whites was again raised. 1t is
just as we'll learned now as later
There is no solution to lyEchipgs
until there is the absolute suppress
f.. ,.L ------S . hcdu.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
The Expense Problem.

The agricultural department has been
making some interesting Investigations
into the cost of living in different cities.
In Chicago one family of four persons was
found that was able to live on an expendi-
ture of 1888 a week for food. Another
family Of six persons fourished on
S9.1S a week. Whether these figures
are of an value or not, they will
at least be interesting. Altho some
ing to spend all they can and others are
trying to spend as little as they can, all
are always interested in questions Of ex-
penditure. Men and women can find
something to talk animatedly about in
expenditures when their minds are blank
been solving this question from the time
of Hammurabai and before, but it is al
ways a new problem for each generation
and each family. After al livery few solve
1t satisfactorily. Most persons spend their
lives trying to master the expense ac-
The family that is able to live on an in
come Of SIS a week finds it impossible to
save anything on s25 week. The $25-a-
week man assures himself that if he had
$50 a week every pay day would see a
double eagle and S. bill deposited In the
savings bank. After awhile the $50 a
week comes, but the bread winner is sur
,prised to find that it is as hard to save
4 dollar week on $50 as it is to extract 1t
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
Optimism Well Based.

Some of the newspapers are still talking
Of impending financial and commercial
disaster, as if the country was on the
verge Of another 1893 collapse. 1t is
very foolish to talk thus pessimistically.
Certainly the fact that, during the first
six months of this year, only five steam
railroads changed ownership under fore
closure proceedings and those only having
116 miles of track and s1,146,0O0 bonds and
stocks, does not look as If railway invest
ment or business is in a very shaky con-
dition. A decade ago, railway foreclos-
s.ures were announced daily and volum-
inously. Railway business is rejecting
the great prosperity of the country to-
day. It has been so for several years.
Stock market values have been depressed,
it is true. A considerable number Of
stocks have tumbled since last years
highest quotations, thirty, forty and fifty
per cent, and even more; but most Of the
corporations represented by such securi-
ties are doing a good business and are
paying dividends.
The falling of prices, which at one time
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
CARS ARE TAMPERED WITH
State Weighmaster's Report to Grain
Dealers Association No Rem
edy Suggested.

In the last ten months more than 5000
cars Of grain have been received In
damaged condition by Minneapolis televa-
tors. OF these cars some nave peen
broken into, some have been renewed OF
part of their load and all have been tam
pered with.
y m as the startling statement made
by, p p. Quist, state weighmaster, before
the annual convention of the South Min
7nesota and South Dakota Grain Dealers
association, in session at Holcombs hall
yesterday afternoon
The members Of the association were
unit as to the necessity Of. doing some
thing to prevent this wholesale tamper-
ing with grain cars, but Mr.. Quist could
not offer any material remedy because the
state weighing department has no means
of notifying the shippers of the conditions
/ of the cars upon their arrival at the Min
|,neapolis terminals.
g. A. stebbins of Chicago, secretary Of
the National Grain Dealers association,
and Secretary Sporty of the Wisconsin
| Grain Dealers association, comm ended
the members Of the South Minnesota and
South Dakota association for it's effort to
agree on prices. Colonel George D. Rog-
ers, secretary Of the Minneapolis Cham
| Der of Commerce, gave brief history Of
| the grain trade in the northwest, Incl
|: dentally saying something about the evils
| of bucket shops. PRESIDENT. L. McCaull
of Minneapolis and Vice President A. w.
I Bingham OF New Ulm were not present.
| Acting on the recommendations Of the
committee on nominations the following
officers were elected: President, A.. F.
Bremen of Minneapolis; vice president, E.
A.. Brown of Luverne; governing board,
| A. A. Truax Of Mitchell, George Shannon
Of Bridgewater.s w B. Parsons of Winona,
VIII. Chambers Of Minneapolis and F. s.
Kingsbury of Heron Lake.
No action was taken on the invitation
extended to meet in Milwaukee next year
/ and the selection of delegates to the next
convention was left to the governing
i board. Lunch was served at the adjourn
mentsof the convention.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16

1T is not only lynching mobs that need
a little introduction to the majesty of law
and the sternness Of government. In Chi
Fcago yesterday mobs Of men used force
to interfere with the orderly and lawful
transaction Of legitimate business The
police had to be used to escort freight.
vans thru the street, and they had to
fight their way. They used their clubs to
good effect and when the workmen on
an erecting building threw bricks at them
they replied with revolvers. It is a harsh
thing to say. but we. believe. the police
should have used their revolvers on the
street crowd that opposed and reviled
them. When strikers get to- the point
where they imagine they are justified in
using force to keep other men from per-
forming labor under conditions which the
former voluntarily rejected, the time has
come when the law must assert itself in
the name Of liberty.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
THE .NONPAREIL MAN

said that there are members of the Min
nesota Editorial association who are fond
of pie, even to the extent of trying to
catch a little repose on the umbrella rack.
YES" said old Ticker, who follows the
markets for precarious living, there's
money scare due, owing to the moving
the-crops outcry, and Old Joe Cannon has
promised to knock all the financial relief
bills on the head, and there is a posi-
bility-only rare possibility, I grant,
but still a possibility-of rate wars on
some Of the railroads. No, sir, wouldn't
advise buying stocks quite vet. But did
you notice that financial problem in the
Chicago Banker? No? Well it is some
thing like this: Which draws more in
terest'--" Ticker stopped here with
great elaboration to light his cigar,
which draws more interest, a thirty
day note or a dog fight. -
The Ortonville Journal complains be-
cause several benzine buggies have shot
thru the town the last few days, leaving
a metropolitan atmosphere of dust and
gasolcne fumes behind them Down at
Appleton they have barred automobiles
from the street because the proud owner
of new Willie wagon forgot himself and
used the main thorofare for speedway,
leaving in his wake a. trail of excited pups
and runaway reuben wagons full of po-
tatoes and profanity Of the wal, by hen"
| order.
| In the Cutler correspondence of the Ait
kin Republican appeared the story Of a
bear seen by several reputable parties,
but the editor of the Republican was
skeptical, claiming that the beast was a
black COW. AS l.. G. Reed and his son
Earl saw the varnint shin down a tree
not twenty feet away and try to swallow
their hog, they claim that the laugh Is
on the editor unless he can produce a cow
| that climbs trees.
Very few people will dispute the state
ment that one fly in the bedroom at Z
o'clock Sunday morning, when one is try
ing to obtain a little repose, is more an
noying than a mad baby at breakfast
time. Why a fly should desire to arise so
early whom it. has all day to put in doing
nothing is very mysterious. Probably it
is due to his habit of retiring early. The
first thing the early fly does is to stamp
on the sleeper's face. Then he skates
on his forehead, sperches on the promon-
tory of his nose and proceeds to twine and
untwine his front legs. By this time the
man arouses himself and brushes off the
fly. It comes back. In, fact, it comes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
High Schools and Business.

Mr.. w. S. Wingates tolerant criti-
cism Of the high schools in yesterdays
o urn a will find many to agree with
1t. He does not undertake to find fault
with the curriculum or tell the teachers
how to do their work. He speaks simply
from his own experience, as the bookkeep-
err in large business house, with the
high school boys who begin their business
careers in his office.
He assumes that the high school grad
yates who enter business ought to be
well grounded in the fundamentals Of that
education that is necessary for success
in life. They ought to know something
be able to spell, they should write a leg
ible hand and be able to compose intelli-
gently. On the contrary, Mr. Wingate
finds that his green hands, can't spell,
that even if they are able to work out
some mathematical problem in business
they resort to a laborfous and slow pro-
cess, and that they are entirely lacking
in accuracy.
During the past twenty years. says
Mr.. Wingate, II have come in close con-
tact with a large number of young men
who have either taken the whole or a
course, and I do not now recall one who
had any sort Of proficiency in common
arithmetic That is sweeping state
ment, but Mr., Wingate makes it DELHI
erately and after a careful review of his
experience. Mr.. Wingate does not ex-
pect the high schools to give their boys
a business education, and he is not in
Guiding in the deficiencies Of his appren-
tees those things which they can better
learn in the counting room than any
where else. He refers only to that edu.
cational preparation for life which he
thinks. should be the right of every high
school graduate who has the natural abil-
| ity to profit by it.
It doesn't follow that "a high schoo
course is failure because it does MOI
well as it might, but a high school boy
ought to be able to spell and figure accu.
rately and quickly. If the trouble is tina
these subjects are the special province o.
the common schools, then there ought tt
| to be some system Of review that would
make the high school boy the equal, a
least, in these things Of the grade schoo
boy. Possibly the high school departure
from these elementary studies, abso
lutely necessary if we are to have hig1
| schools is why some business men pre
fer to take their green help from those
who have finished the grades instead o
from high school graduates. The higl
school ought to give its boys all the train
ing that the grade school boys have plu
many things that are absolutely necessar.
! to a, rich life in this age. In getting tn
latter the former should not be lost
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16

would have brought many business firms
Ito assignment and grief. has been accom-
panied by a comparatively small amount
of business mortality. Thereaissno Shna.n 4
cial or commercial convulsion. Business
outside of Wall street has shown no
diminution. Wall street is a little sick
wishing for delayed business to come;
wishing, indeed, for a big boom" In
stocks. What Is the matter is simply
that there is no or little disposition to go.
in and buy stocks until the water Is
evaporated and prices get down to where
there is a reasonable prospect Of realizing
something on ones investments.
4 1t certainly is not at all necessary to
infer from the decline Of prices in Wall
street for so long, that trade will have to
decline. too.
The London Statist a most conservative
publication, and one which gives large
attention to American trade and invest
ment prospects, speaking Of the situation
in New York. says:
A crisis such as we have been Witness
Ing usually does affect trade adversely.
But unless something entirely unforeseen
happens, we ourselves can see no reason
to expect a very great decline in trade.
For one thing, there has been no sinking
OF capital upon vast scale in improbable
business. In former booms railways have
been built upon an immense scale, often
paralleling one another, and almost always
running into wildernesses, where traffic
could not grow for considerable time.
Recently the building of new lines has not
been of that wasteful character. We see
nothing, then, to cause us to believe that
there will be wars Of rates, or that the
positions Of railways have been un-
favorably affected. Again, no doubt, the
trusts are an element Of danger, and NO
doubt the vast combinations of recent
years are likewise unsatisfactory symp-
toms But we see no evidence that the
public has supplied anything like the
| nominal capital. And as for the trusts
we see no reason to suppose that very
much capital has been sunk in them
| either Therefore, there are not to be ele.
ments Of danger in the present case thai
| usd to exist so plentifully at the end Of
former booms. On the other hand, the
population is growing rapidly every year
| the area under cultivation is being ex.
tended; business is being conducted or
| sound principles, and the credit of the
| country Is good. = If we arr
! right in this diagnosis of the situation
then it is perfectly. safe to buy gooG
bonds and good shares
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16

Now a Kentucky mob has lynched a
white man, because, altho in Jail under
life sentence he had wealth and was
making a fight to get out. While most
Of the recent lynching has been confined
to negroes as victims. almost all COM
mentators, north and south, have pre-
.dicted that it was only a matter of time
until white men would be lynched. Ken
lucky leads the way in the expected de-
parture. There can be no compromise
with Judge Lynch. He must be subdued
or he will subdue society.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16

from $25. He gave himself credit for
sidered it an important bit of financial
management, but when $50 scale Of liv-
ing appears on the scene simultaneously
with $50 income he begins to see that
it was a force of circumstances and not
native ability that triumphed over $25
a week. He lived on $25 a week because
he had to; the compulsion being with
drawn his requirements expand and fill
up a $50 caliber.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
RedNnod Reyeille.

Redwood Reveile.
It is an open secret that the noxious
weed known as the wild mustard is plen
tiful in a good many localities in Redwood
county. There is state law under which
the town board can bring suit against
persons who permit the weed to flourish
on their farms. Last. week a case Of this
nature was brought in the municipal court
of this city. Edward Boehm of the town
of Kintire was arraigned on the complaint
Of the town board of refusing to destroy
wild mustard growing on his farm. He
had been requested by private individuals
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
A WILD MUSTARD TEST CASE

to destroy the stuff, but refused to do
so even after the town board had taken
formal action. Consequently the board,
getting tired of the meral-suasion idea,
decided to resort to law. sBoehm was thus
brought up before Judge Laudon. A num-
Der of witnesses, well known and reputa-
BILE citizens testified in the case. The
result was that Boehm was fined $40 and
costs, which makes a total of som ething
over $50. Boehm asserts that he will
appeal the case. Meantime the wild mus
tard on his farm continues to flourish and
be an eyesore to his neighbors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
CHASED BY THREsHING MACHINE AGENTS

face language to convince him he was
wasting precious time and energy. Mon
day a lanternzjawed galoot chased us nine
miles in the country to sell us machine
painted red with an automatic wind stack
er; that was guaranteed to distribute straw
onto the other mans farm, and a self-act-
ing mortgage attachment, that worked
nights and Sundays without intermission.
He wouldn't take no for an answer, and
had a faster horse and quicker jaw than
the writer and weighed 40 pounds more,
half a day to break away. Since then we
have done nothing except dodge machine
men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
NAMING a Play

Titles galore are being submitted to the
Ferris Stock company for ]. s. Lawrence's
farce being presented by Miss Janet Priest
and members Of the Ferris company at
the Lyceum this week. Many of the
names are unique They are; numbered as
fled, and the winner will be announced
Monday. Titles #HIibe received all this
week, and the person Offering the most
desirable name. will be. given a box for
Captain Swift next week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
( Litchyille. N, D., Bulletin.

On Saturday last young man who
parts his hair in the middle came all the
way down the branch line from Casselton
to sell us a threshing machine. The trip
on the branch about laid the young man
out and he looked like a fit subject for a
hospital after fourteen hours agony COM
ing here. He nearly tainted when he
found the editor didn't want one Of his
yellow rigs and it isn't known whether he
got back safely to his folks or not. Sun
days meditations were disturbed by a big
man in gray whiskers who had the only
genuine rip snorting threshing outfit on
EARTH and it took four hours Of plea bold
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
MoREY ON H. S. BOARD
President Of State Normal Board Legally
s Entitled to Place In Other

Attorney General w. B. Douglas says
that the president of the state normal
school board is an ex-officio membes OF
the state high school board. Acting on
that opinion, C.. "A. Morey Of Winona will
sit as a member of the high school board
at its next meeting Aug. 8. The law Of
1895 made the president of the normal
board a member Of the high school board,
but an amendment adopted afterward was
supposed to annul that provision. It did
not do so, according to the attorney gem.
eral.