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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-07-13

Fall term of Is weeks begins September 1lth.
The facilities at this important school for doing
frst-class work, professional and academic,
were never better than now. Its graduates are
required to do full years teaching in the train
ing school, Its faculty has the best American
and European training. Buildings modern.
College Preparatory department Location un-
excelled. Fine Gymnasium. Expenses moder-
ate. Free tuition to prospective te lchers.
Address for illustrated catalogue,
THE PRINCIPAL.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08

"No-ride straight through them
witlhou change of gait" was
Nor Tton's order.
And they did. The astonishcd
police, dumLfoundcd at the inso-
lence of the raiders, opened their
lines and the horscmcn rode slowly
through without word.
They passed a large frame build
ing used as a carpct-bag militia ar
mory. 1t was full of negroes. Nor
ton halted his line of white fiures,
drew them up at dress parade, rode
up to the door and knocked. The
negroes rushed to the doors and
windows, and when they saw in the
bright moonlight the grim figures,
they forgot the police and tie 1900
soldiers guarding Nashville. They
made unanimous break for the
rear, and went out through every
opening without knowledge of any
obstruction. Many of them wore
window sash home for collars.
The clansmen silently wheeled
again into double column and rode
toward their old rendezvous. They
had ovcrthrown the carpet bag
Negro regime and restored civiliza-
ton. Their last act was warning.
A handful Of their men boldly
slapped the face of the hostile au-
thoritics, before the new admins
tration entered upon it's work, and
dared them lift u hand again.
Outside the city they entered the
shadows of forest. Down its dim
cathedral aislcs, lit by trembling
threads of moonbeams, the white
horscmcn slowly wound their way
to their appointed place. For tn,
last time the Chaplain led in prayer
the men disrobcd, drew from cacl
horse his white mantle, opened 4
grave and solcmnly buried their re-,
gala, sprinkling the folds with the
ashes of the copy of their burned
ritual. In their weird ceremony
thus ended the most remarkable
revolution of history.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
THE STORY OF
kU KLUx KLAN.
Continued from first pagc.D
ing of the order or took any
active part in its work, except as

ing of the order or took any
active part in its work, except as
an elder counsellor of wisdom and
moderation to its chosen leaders,
but his name was 4 tower of strength.
He is and always was Il man of
peace and lover Of order. He saw
the war begin with infinite sorrow.
He is a man of large patriotic views,
though ali ardent Southcrncr. He
comes of Tie stock that created this
Republic. His grandfather, it,.
Colonel Frederick lIambright, was
Il member Of the Continental Cong
rcsS and commanded regiment of
Revolutionary patriots at the battle
of Kings Mountain. He i today a
venerable minister of Christ, who
in ministry of sixty years has
built twenty tlouriShing churches
in Piedmont, North Carolina. III,
knew and dreaded the dangcrou,
power of II secret Oath-bOund politi.
cal order. He went into it rcluct,
antly. He joined with every other
minister in the county, only be-
cause it was the last rcS"rt OF de-
spair TO save society from tn" in
tolcrablc curse of Negro dominion,
insolcncc, and crime.
But for Mr.. Stevens there never
would have been Union League,
and but for the Union League there
never would have been Il Ku kluX
Khan.
Mr.. Laps d. McCord Of TrnncS-
sec is another man whose portrait
scarcely bears out the description ot
'dcsperado. : Clansman McCord
was the printer III the office os tho
Pulaski Citizen, who set the type,
printed and stitched the complete
edition. cf the Ritual of the order.
He never knew until years after the
author of the manuscript, or from
whose hands he received il. He
got one day an anonymous letter
Hing him to remove the middle
Trick in the space beneath Il certain
window in his printing office. He
did so and found that the brick in
the center of the wall had been
taken out and i'll its place lay a roll
of manuscript containing the Ritual
of the Invisible Empire. y,
name appeared in the title. Ii was
merely marked with three stars.
He was instructed to print and bind
in the night and on Il certain date
-
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
The Colonel's Waterloo

Colonel John M. Fuller, of Honey
Grove, Texas, nearly met his Waterloo,
from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a
recent letter, he says: 81 was nearly
dead, of these complaints. and, al
though | tried my family doctor, he
did me no good so | got 5Oc bottle
OF your great Electric Bitters. which
cured me. consider them the best
medicine on earth, and thank God who
gave you the knowledge to make them !"
Soid ana guaranteed to cure Dyspep-
sia, Biliousness and Kiddey Disease
by DR.. f. 9. Duke, druggist, at 5Oc a
bottle.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
HeSter'S Cotton Report,

New Orleans, Sept. Secretary
Hester's statement of the worlds
visible supply of cotton, issued today,
shows the total visible to be 9, ,55S.-
85l, against 2,570, 1885 last week, and
l ,l21 ,231 last year. or this the total
OF American cotton is 1,643, ,351
against l .6l7 ,4S5 last week and H.
25l last year, and of all other kinds,
including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc. j.,
9l5,O00, against $500 last week
and 6l7 900 last year.
OF the worlds visible supply Of
cotton there is now afoat and held in
Great Britain and Continental Europe
l :433, 900, against SIS. 900 last year :;
in Egypt 10000 against 5000 last
year; in India 6l5 900, against 33O,-
900 and in the United States 46l 900.
against 161 900 last year.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
BARON kANEkO
EXPLAINS,
MikddO'S Confidential
Agent Tells WHY his
Country AStOniShed the
World In Her Struggle
With Russia.
(From the Brooklyn Eagle. }

|
The widely different reasons for
Japan's success ranging from cor
iental Fanaticism" to "rice diet, -
have resolved themselves into sim
pie definition Of words, as interpreted
| by tho Oriental versus the Occidental
| mind. An explanation of the fine
definition Of words used to sum up
the success OF the little island people
was given in an interview with a rep
resentative Of the Brooklyn Eagle
last week by Baron Kaneko. Baron
Kqneko's definition Of the terms used
by the European to Point out the al
most phenon email success of his peo-
pie are something akin to a mic-osco-
pial analysis Of words. The Baron,
although he is first of all statesman
for it was he, with Marquis Ito,
who drafted Japan's new constitu-
tion-is no less student and a
scholar. AS a graduate of Harvard,
he is better conversant with the Eng
lish language than most Of his col
leagues in the japanese House Of
Peers. Baron Kaneko, were he not
such valuable statesman, would
have made a very good instructor
For Baron Kaneko can instruct in
the things that perplex the European
mind regarding his country, and
what is more. he enjoys setting to
rights the minds Of those who have
no more conception Of Japanese char
acter than Of n Chinese puzzle. Fa-
naticism, the word so quickly seized
upon and so popularity used to define
Japanese success, was thus explained
by the Baron.
'Fanaticism," said he, (Which has
been so widely quoted as explaining
Japan's recent successes, is a new
word to me. | have known Of it be-
ing applied TO many other national
victories. ! remember when | was a
boy in the high school of Boston, OF
reading in your colonial histories,
telling Of the continental army, "In
the morning an American fights like
gay boy, at noon he fights like a
man, in the afternoon he fights like
a demon / asked the teacher what
a demon meant. He told me to look
it up in the dictionary. / was sur
prised to learn of it's fierce signifi-
cance. The explanation l would give
to that word in this connection would
be nothing short OF fanaticism. II
patriotism. loyalty to your nations
welfare and a pride in national sue.
cess is fanaticism, then that is the
word to use. So deep is the feeling
OF national pride in every heart Of
Japan when our national existence is
threatened, that every man, woman
and child is ready to take up the
cudgel of defence. Would you call
that fanaticism? II fanaticism ex-
plains for that spirit that moved the
armies OF Napoleon, Washington and
Grant, as a unit, to victory, then
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
CHAR&: TER AND OBJECTS or
The ORDER.

THIS is an institution Of
Chivalry, humanity, Mercy,
and Patriotism: embodying
in its genius and its princi-
pies all that is chivalric in
conduct, noble in sentiment,
generous in manhood, and
patriotic in purpose; its pecu-
liar objects being
First: TO protect the weak,
the innocent, and the de-
fenselcss, from the indigni-
ties, wrongs, and outrageS Of
the lawlCSs, the violent, and
the brutal; to relieve the in
jured and oppressed; to suc.
cor the suffering and unfor-
tunate, and especially the
widows and orphans of Con-
feGerate soldiers.
Second: 70 protect and de-
fend the Constitution of the
United States, and all laws
passed in conformity thereto,
and to protect the States and
the people thereof from all
invasion from any source
whatever.
Third: To aid and assist in
the execution of all constitu-
tional laws, and to protect
the people from unlawful
seizure, and from trial except
by their peers in conformity
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
ARTICLE |.
FAC-SIMILE or THE FIRST FACE OF THE
RITUAL OF TIE KU KILN KHAN.

FAC t-SIMILE OF THE FIRST FACE OF THE
RITUAL OF TIE KU KLCN KHAN
The only two copies of this Ritual
known to exist, are to be found in
the Library Of Columbia College and
the archives of the State of Tcnncs-
see. Its author is General George
W. Gordon of Memphis.
DR.. Landrum is a graduate Of
Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island, and is a type of the
boys of extreme youth who formed
the rank and file of the Khan; dar-
ing young knights of the South they
were, who rode with their life in
their hands, song on their lips
and the scorn of death in their
souls.
An extract from a letter written
to me by the Rev. DR.. }. A. Clifton
of Orangcburg, $. G, gives his Of
fetal rank: VI was the Grand
CyclopS Of the East Chester Den and
my territory was very large. DR..
Bratton Of York was the Cyclops
adjoining me, and we were com
PEELED to do many severe things in
those days to protect our homes. /
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
The Nan Who Crafts and
the Nan Who PIOWS.
Robert Burns SAYS:

It's hardly In body's pow'r
TO keep, at times, frae being sour
To see how things are shar'd;
How best o chiefs are whyles in want,
While coofs on countless thousands
rant"
Flowing is laborious, humble and
simple life. The man who plows
makes enough to live on, but he
makes lttls beyond.
Grating is an easy life. The graft
er lives by the sweat of other mems
brow. His life is one OF ease; often
OF much comfort; sometimes of ele-
gance.
The man who plows, unless he is
well grounded in honesty, is tempted
to envy the life Of the CRATER and to
wish that he had like opportunity
to get rich. Perhaps he does not
mini poverty so much for himself,
and would be content with his humble
but hard lot; but he would like to
see his wife and children have more
Of the good things OF life; aud for
their sake he is tempted to put his
hand into the public treasury and to
make public office private gain, in
stead Of Il public trust. The tempta-
tion is especially strong when he sees
that the rich man is looked up to and
made much Of without regard to the
manner OF getting riches. 1t looks
to him that the main object Of his
life is to get money-honestly if one
can; but get it, That is the motto
of large part Of commercial life, and
it is fast becoming the motto of the
politician Of high or low degree.
When United States Senator like
Chauncey DePew can take 500, 900.
out Of the Equitable Company every
year for five years, without render
ing any service, it is not strange that
public officers in other stations should
grab all in sight wherever there is
chance to get it and at the same
time to escaps the law against lar
ceny.
The man who plows looks on and
begins to wonder if it pays to be hon
est and to work for living when
there is chance to get so much
more by graft. Thus the foundations
OF public integrity are undermined
and the standards OF personal honesty
are pulled down. One man says,
eff there is to be public graft, 1 had
as we'll get it as another" Others
who are not prepared to 60 quite so
far say, "If there is to be graft, he
had as well get it as anybody else."
Grating is more profitable than
plowing. 1t yieles larger returns.
For this reason many are tempted
and led away into crooked paths
where money is made by question
able methods.
1t is we'll enough to tell the poor
man who plows to be content with
his lot; that honesty is the best
policy; that virtue is it's own reward
l-and all that sort of thing. That
will not satisfy him. Only one thing
will, and that is to punish the CRATER
as a criminal, and to put a stop to
grating. The way to do this is for
the man who plows to give his sup
port to men who are strictly honest
and to insist that public officers shall
be held to strict account in the
discharge of their duties.
TIE man who plows-by which is
meant any man who works hard and
honest for his living-can prevent
grating by electing only honest men
to office.
Let the man who plows rise up in
his might and put the CRATER out
Newberry Observer.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
JUST RECEIVED

lots of real good things in
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Hats, Clothing, Hosiery, Un-
derWear, etc..
All of the above mentioned
are correct in style, best in
quality and low in price. So
trade here, save your coupons
and get a fine set of dishes
free.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08

Bring your job work to THE
ZINES. We can please you.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
sBLACK HAND" WORK?
Police BeEeue Fatal Fire Vas Set
ba Members Of Society.

rsve bodies were taken from the ruins of the
ere which as told in yesterdays Tribune, COM
-isteiv burned the six story tenement house
- No. 221 East 75d-st- The fire started in the
..ylsr shortly after 8 o'clock, and within FIVE
-,,,,tes had swept through the entire structure
The police credit the story OF Antonio Lepresti,
who lived on the second floor. that the BLACK
gande society set fire to the house, and believe
{, was done by the same criminal gang which
surned the Audubon mansion November i,
,r.,ked the tenement at Green and Mott sts.
last month and shop in Williamsburg on Sep
,sulber IS. Four bodies taken from the ruins
have been identified as:
4oRCA Antonio twcnty-four years old
PIszzo Salvatore. thirty years old.
RsNDAzzo. Joseph thirry-two years old
sEITARDE. Antonio, twenty-five years old nephew OF
Piazzo
several others were severely, but not serious
" injured
I,opresti says he received several threatening
letters from the BLACK Hand which he sent
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
PROBE subsidiary SALE.
Norton to Investigate Transfer to
Telephone Cong pany.

Paul Morton, President of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society. is investigating the aransac-
rion by which the Mercantile Electric Company
organized eleven years ago by officials of the
Equitable with a capital Of 5000 has been
transferred to the New-York Independent Tele-
phone Company, which makes its bow TO the
financial public with a capitalization of $780,
100000 The Equitable authorities have heard
the rumor that has been spread through Wall
Street although 1t engaged in giving burg
lar alarm service in the financial district.
If this claim should pass muster with the city
officials II would appear that the Equitable had
larted with a valuable asset for a comparatively
small sum r. on the other hand. Controller
Grout asserts the Mercantile company has
nothing but permit for alarm wires In
stricted district the Equitable has lost nothing
of great value
Mr. Morton said yesterday
am going into the matter of the Mercantile
Electric Company at the present time and can
say nothing regarding it now. The matter will
proba bly, be dealt with in my next report, which
should be ready some time in December.
Although no application has been made to the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment in re-
gard to franchise or permission TO Increase the
seope of the business done by the old Mercan-
tile Electric, now the New-York Independent
Telephone Company, Controller Edward NJ.
Csrout yesterday took UP the matter with the
C,orposaticn Counsel. asking far opinion as
to the new eompanys right TO turn its present
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
SHAW IN FINANCIAL DISTRICT.

Leslie NJ Shaw, Secretary Of tn Treasury, was
in the financial district again yesterday afternoon
He spent about half hour the Sub Treasury
The Secretary said he had stateme-1- to make
when asked whether he had taken any act:oa tend
ing TO money market relief. result Of his talk
with merchants he repeated that he had nothing
10 say. except that he intended to go to Washing
ton later IN the afternoon
The call money rate was 10 per cent at the open
ing advancing TO II. and closed at e1z The stock
market showed General advances until toward the
cicse when a break occurred on uneasiness over
the troubles in Russia. and violent advance
in the sterling rate 10 z figure almost that at
which the export Of gold might be arranged The
big rise of Hooking Valley common on Wednesday
folp1 its paraIiel yesterday in advance of I794
points in Iacla wanna sales Of only 200 shares
American Smelling and Refining common made a
maximum advance. short covering, OF SIS points
10 147. 4 high record
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
PACKERS CLAIM IMMUNITY.
Sag Mr. Garfield Promised 1t to
Them-Mr. Moody's Statement.

washington Nov. 16.-Attorney General Moody
to-day made statement tn reference 10 the cas-
in bar fled by the defendants in the indictment
against the beef packers pending in the district
court at Chicago.
He said he believed that the public was entitled
TO some accurate information with regard to the
facts and that it could be given without affecting
tba interests of the government or infringing upon
the lust rights of the accused packers
The statement in part is as follows:
Ten separate pleas in bar have been filed. eaeh
one of item alleging facts hich it is claimed ought
TO bar the government from proceeding further ID
this case -. a,,onoz
oonGnc+ of Mr. Garfield, Comm ssioner of Corpora
fions in making investigation Of the affairs OF
the Defendants in pursuance Of the authority con-
ferred upon him by and in special obedience TO
the resolution of the House or Representatives re-
curing him make such investigation. -,
Under the creating the Department OF COM
rnerce and Labor the Commissioner OF Corpora
fions has the right to subpoena and compel the at
tendance and testimony Of witnesses and the pro-
auction of documentary evidence, and TO admin
ster oaths: but with regard 10 all persons who are
subpoenaed testify or to produce documentary
Evidence It provided that immunity from prose
cution shall be given TO them II they opey the
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17

system into general telephone service without
applying for franchise in the regular way.
'It looks to me-" said Mr. Grout yesterday,
that these Independent Telephone people are
attempting to slide into the city with a tele-
phone service without giving the city proper
consideration. 1 do not believe that the old
Mercantile Electric Company had anything but
a permit for the particular district covered by
their burglar alarm wires. The Board of Elec-
trical Control which gave this company the only
authority it has has been egislated aut of office.
It is presumptious for this company to
think that it can establish telephone plant
here without any further arrangement with the
city The time when these franchises were
given for the asking has past"
IF the Corporation Counsel decides that tho
company has no general franchise rights as
Mr. Grout believes to be the case, the city
authorities will keep close watch on any ex
tensions of the present system which is cen
tered in and about the Wall Street district II
company will be asked to demonstrate what
it proposes to do for the city in return Tor q
franchise
Through the former connection of the Mer-
camille with the Equitable the rumor has spread
through Wall Street that Thomas f. Ryan
was behind the new Independent company
This was denied yesterday both by representa-
tives of Mr.. Ryan and of the Independent
company.
The independent company recently offered
100000 OF 5 per cent gold bonds to be
issued for a period of thirty years; Inc
security behind the bonds consists OF the ma
jority stock of the Stromberg- Garrison Ieie-
phona Manufacturing Company of RochesteTi
the majority stock OF the New YORK lnue-
pendent Telephone Company, whose pllncipal
asset is the old grant TO the Mercahule Eiec-
trio and such stocks may be later ACQUIRED
with the above bonds proceeds Thereon. Inc
stocks TO be held in escrow.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
IRON LOCKOUT LIKELY.
Strike on all League Contracts
Throughout Country May Follo0c.

The Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union was
declared suspended by the general arbitration
hoard of the employers and the unions yesterday
fer disorevire the order calling the striking
1,a,,sesnitbg 10 return to work yesterday morning
or the contracts of Post & McCord, pending arbi-
iratfon The Iror League, to which Post & McCord
beIonga is now st liberty 10 employ any men it
chooses
q 2 Cheney. secretary of the Iron League said
yesterday that the matter now in the hands of
the Building Trades Employers Association. The
board Of governors may order lockout or may
reaffirrn tbs action of the arbitration board.
Secretary Farrell. of the Housesmiths and Bridge
mens Uni3u. said last evening:
A tpFertv-four hour notice. sGcE received.
is very shoT- even if we could call OF the strike.
Juterrs tioqai President Ryan. WHO ordered it, is
ont Of Toyn ana or union does meet until
Monday If the union is locked oUt Il viii declare
2 naTt0na1 strike on ali the contracts of members
Of he Iron Ieague throughout the country.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17

IN Detective Petrosino. In all the communlcA-
tiors il was stated that money was wanted at
once In one letter $1,000 was demanded.
Trire Marshal de MalignCn said yesterday, that
an Investigation showed fire had been sIarted
nj 7 Jonrestj's door. which burnt It's way IhrousA
-he floor 70 the basement, where II caughL a
bundle of papers rags and other infiamnapie
matter. a,os
when the fremen reached the scene names
hurst out Of the cellar windows ana raplols
DESTROYED the first floor. The police hurried
through every floor hanrnerfns on the doors,
huf could not awaken the occupants f1nalIy
fhev fired off their revolvers, and the sleeplns
Inen. women and children were awakened.
Dense volumes of smoke filed the whole mousse
bv this time and the frernen did heroic work
in carving out women and children Ihose
who were burned TO death. it is thought We're
living on the first floor and in the basement
In the hurry TO get out OF the burning struct-
,,re several men were hurt and burned Ihey
were removed 10 the Presbyterian Hospital, ana
later in the day discharged Deputy t1re CnieI
Il1ane's hands were badly cut by 1alllng
tTansonl- ,.z -
The adjoining houses were threatened, but
when the frenen saw there was no chance OF
saving the burning structure they concentrated
al their efforts on the surrounding houses Ihe
fire was not extinguished until late IN the day.
and II was afternoon before the five bodies We're