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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-20

TOMErtBERS OF
LEGlSLA ATURE.
az Farmer Appeals to fhe
Members for PrOteC-
tiOn.
Special to The State.
To the Members of the Legis-
:lature:
= You are to meet tomorrow. |
You are not expected to do much. /
Some Of you haven't Z got sense
enough and some are political
towards, afraid to follow the
trend of your good judgment.
But here are a few. things wes
wish you to tell US and a few we
want you to DO. We want you
to tell us how it is that taxes are
gradually getting higher and
higher, although that great NOR
|al institute, the dispensary issI
contribafing (?) thousands ofs|
dollars. every year to Jesse hem
There are two ways to r2
either by raising the laber 0f
mills or by raising yaloat ation
lof property ave raised
taxes by both mat ods What
do 10 We want you to give US
comnulsory education. Compei
the children to attend school, not
for a certain number of months,
m b,,t as long as the public school
lasts. That will meet the negro
question. If the nearest white
; school lasts five months, the
White children must attend hve
! months; if the negro school ., las's
= = two months, the negro children
i must go two months. - .
y y 7 believe we have dog taxes o
y =. 20 cents per head. Put 81 o
f. f. bitches, and make it a fine Q
d s1OO or four months imprisol
ment for any one who fails
~ y. make return for every dog
~ owns, his baby owns or that ca
u, '1e at his premises. People 1u
TIC don't give in their dogs. In
s sTa neiahborhood where I was teac
als 'as inc once we counted up 40 o o
10 - "fices'' and mongrels that had'
+hs ~, been taxed. Dogs should
s,e 1d taxed. See to it. You app J,
NV, NV, nriate several thousand doll
le,, o,,, to check smallpox, but yo
,oo, o show more Judgment to sp.
'oIi w. twice as much to check hye
1eno 'eno nbobia. Smallpox is a fool G.
't the nared with mad dogs. Last
.hev two fine horses, severai II, !
s,,as snes cows and any number OF
'l ma near here died of hydrophc;
,.a.,ts a,tu and only last week dogs and i!
:, ~ ths bitten by them were being kl
loss We say tax the dogs, MAKE
i, vou pie return them, and tnen
.,,;u yG feet them at home just a.
,shel would your horse or your &C
ST. We want YOU to improve
,l,oSa, pot mon schools and then by
ester- pulsory education raise the
'na,,se a ard of intelligence amon
ha c,,t rank and file. The ia
o .arroer ought to be organized, but
ha,a a, ' Of nle say they won't unite or
y ~ oorn # they did. The cause OF
q :, 'Ucn, Uo,,r is ignorance. They don
. y o,,;t much-they don't think e !,
10 ,.a;oino Harvie Jordan has issueo
&c the to the farmers to hold tn
od the ton, to reduce acreage ne>
: ca DOWN S etc., and majority Of the
ona haven't read it, nor even
* = a.lu osnts Of that progressive farm'
- pnt in God, the ignorance ame
go, ~ as m masses. We haven't &C
,tea ssi von enough TO take care OF OF
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-20
SAN JONES ON COTTON.
The Largest Cotton Crop
In fhe Worlds History.
His Solution.
kitlspect them.

/ was, some weeks ago, in
Oklahoma Territory. Isaw some.
partiesloading cars with Irishpo7,
tatoes. asked one of the; gem
tlemen, What are you getting
for potatoes this fall" and he
replied, Twenty-Five cents q
kspshel. why, =. said /, "you
got a dollar last fall. s" Yes, |"
he replied, ',they went like hot
cakes sat a dollar. . well"
said I, ''have the trusts and COM
bines done you all up on pota-
toes?' He said,' :'No, SIR" /
said, What's the reason YOU
can't get but twenty-five cents q
bushel?" TOO many potatoes
this fall" he replied. S 81
Now, gentlemen, YOU can
charge up to Wall street, or cot
ton spectators, or padded gin
repostg the present, low. price Of
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-20

City Of Union and Suburbs Hss
Five Graded Schools, Water Works,
Sewerage System, Electric Lights. Three
Banks with aggregate capital Of f$2to, ,oOs.
Electric Railway. Population 7.o0e.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-20

City Of Union and Suburbs Has
Five Large Cotton Mills, One Knitting
and Spinning Mill with Dye Plant, Oil
Mill, Furniture Manufacturing and
Lumber Yards, Female Seminary
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-20

I passed through Cne coI'oii =,
=. the first of November, l saw all
that came out in yesterday even
mos report. l have not said SO
publicly, but in discussing the
cotton crop with friends nave
nut, the American cotton crop at
thirteen million bales for TINS
wear and the foreign crop at TWO
and half millions. Cotton yes
terday at six and five-eights ! iol
s. middling, which means from nv. ilve
and a half to six for most OF th'
cotton now on the market. ou
cotton raisers or farmers alway
hold their cotton when the
ought to sell, and always Sc
when they ought to hold. Nov
- lot them resolve to hold the
- cotton; and then remember wn
said about about fellow hol
;ngup twenty tons. The cott'
mills and consumers only wa
+o know that the cotton is mao
They don't care whether It's
hoard Of ships, in seaport tow
3 in warehouses. or lying aroO
the farmers yards at home.
they want to know is how M
cotton is made, and the amo
raised, when its known, VIII
ulate the price. Consumers
no more hold cotton down DC
ss the price fixed by supply anu
maad than Sulley and his or
could hold it up above the
81 fixed. The one will get as II
tably mashed. There Is nu'
relief now to the man with
ION on hand, and that is te
back like the old woman did
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-01-20

!, $: sssl, - aoos sss s.pi1l Rol,s:e =,
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
Methods of Preparing Tea

An English traveller says in letter
to the London Times: History tells
us that, when coffee was first brought
to the cities of western Europe the
first makers of it were Turks They
roasted and ground the berries and
served the liquor, as it is served to
this day in the east, grits and all.
We still drink coffee as we drank it
then, with this difference, that we
mostly omit the grits and drink an
infusion instead of a decoction. 1t
was not so with tea. No Chinaman
was imported with the first pound of
tea to teach us how to make and drink
1t. The consequence has been that we
ha, never drunk tea in the Chinese
way-that is, as simple infusion.
AT first there seems to have been
great doubt, as to how to deal with
the new herb. 1t is even said that it
was sometimes boiled, with salt and
butter and served up as sort of spin
ach. The old phrase "a dish of tea
seems to bear out this legend. Fin
ally it came to be settled that the
most wholesome and pleasant way to
treat the tea leaf was to make it into
a kind of sweet soup with sugar and
milk or cream. l have personal
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
Paid Debt with knighthood

In recently published autobiogra-
ply of Sir Henry Bessemer is told
how, in 1888, when he was youth Of
20, he learned that the British govern
ment was losing about 100000 a year
through the use of forged~stamps
He set about finding a remedy. In
nine months he discovered how to
forge government stamps with the
greatest ease. This was a risky bit
of knowledge for struggling young
man who wanted money wherewith to
get married to the girl of his choice.
But young Bessemer having invented
forthwith the perforated stamp that
is now known everywhere, went gayly
to the government officials with the
forgeries in his pocket to ask If they
were genuine. When Sir Charles
Presley passed upon them as genuine,
Bessemer remarked that he knew they
were forgeries-"simply because
forged them myself Then he sug
gested a remedy. It was accepted.
Bessemer was offered the post of SUI
perintendent of stamps-for plant and
staff must be reorganized-at 5000 to
$4,000 a year.
Young Bessemer went away happily
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

to tell his good luck to the girl of his
choice. He explained to her the sit
uation, how old stamps had been
picked off documents and used again
and how he had invented an elaborate
plan to remedy this. But surely"
said the young lady, "if all the stamps
had date put on them they could not
at future time be used without de.
lection. This rather startled young
Bessemer. But he devised simple
method of marking the date. The
British government was delighted.
The device was accepted. And as no
change of machinery or staff was
needed, Bessemer was informed that
no superintendent of stamps would
be appointed. Thus he had deprived
himself of job.
Forty-five years later. after he had
invented the "Bessemer process" OF
preparing iron and had made great
fortune, Bessemer wrote to Lord Bea,
consfield, then prime minister. point
ing out that he had saved the country
millions without the reward of pen.
ny. He no longer wanted money, but
the government acknowledged the
debt and paid it with knighthood.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

knowledge of no country in Europe,
but one, where tea is used as in China
Portugal, which got its knowledge
of teamaking from a province OF
China, with which, at that time. no
other nation of Europe was in contact.
ut was while travelling on horse
back with guide in the wilder parts
of Portugal away from shops and inns,
where we had perforce to make ex-
periments in the most economical use
of the few ounces of tea and coffee
that we could afford to carry with US,
that we hit upon a discovery. Hav-
ing no milk, we drank our tea, as most
Portuguese drink theirs, as simple
infusion, sweetened with sugar.
II remembered to have read, I be-
lieve in the travels of the Able Hue,
that, when the Chinese desire to be
thrifty in the use of the finer and
more expensive teas, they grind the
leaf to a powder and use less for the
infusion. We found that tea could
be ground in coffee mill as easily
as coffee, that tea made with the pow.
der is as good as or better than when
made with the whole leaf and that the
powder, as it naturally would, goes
farther than the tea leaf"
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

trench to conceal his crippled condi-
tion from the foe. From early morn
ing until night this handful Of five
men was under almost constant fire,
often at such short range that they
could bring their pistols into play.
Thus they fought for their own lives
and defended their dying comrade.
without food and for drink only little
muddy water mixed with their own
blood. They killed more than a
dozen Indians and wounded above a
score.
Relief came that night, but 1t was
thirty-six hours after the first attack
before medical aid and food could be
given them at the nearest post. Pri-
vate Smith died before camp was
reached. Every man was wounded,
Scout Chapman severely and Scout
Dixon several times, but not danger
ously. This band of four soldiers and
two scouts were of those who had
been fighting and marching for weeks
amid the most dreadful privations
They were worn to skin and bone
but their souls were as "big as all
outdoors" and they fiinched at no odds
under heaven. And by such men as
these WAS this nation made.-Outing.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

and other North and Western
states is to study the industrial
situation. His interview plainly
shows that he speaks of the Ne
gro as being shiftless from a pre-
judice standpoint, as he classes the
younger generation in one scope
comparing the shiftless with the
thrifty. He advocates the deport-
ment of the Negro from the South
and suggests foreign labor as a
substitute. Mr.. Roscower fails to
note the fact that the scarcity of
labor in the South is due to the
cruel treatment of the Negro by
the whites. Notices are frequent
ly posted by whitecappers warn
ing Negroes to leave in given
length of time or forfeit their lives,
and yet the "best(?)" white citi-
zens complain of the scarcity OF
labor and won't protect those who
are willing to work.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
Fought Like True Americans

A detachment of six men were car
rying dispatches from a command
near Red river to Camp Supply. OF
the six two were scouts, Amos Chap
man and William Dixon. The others
we're cavalrymen. Far from any
refuge they were surrounded by near
ly 200 Indians. They sought shelter
in a buffalo wallow and prepared to
hold their ground. The attack came
at o'clock in the morning and the
long, long day stretched before them.
In the first rush four these six were
wouDaed, Private Smith mortally.
The other hurts were severe.
They were hemmed in on all sides
in an open plain, and were outnum-
bered almost twenty to one. One of
the scouts, while severe fire was be-
ing poured in at them at close range,
succeeded in throwing up a scanty
intrenchment with his bowie knife and
his hands. His comrades held the
Kiowas and Comanches off until this
little help was ready as refuge and
they moved into the treuch the
wounded walking with brave and pain
ful effort.
Although Private Smith was wound
ed unto death, he sat upright in the
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

The modern crusade against con-
sumption is no losing fight, but one
In which every blow tells. 1t is en-
couraging to note, from the first an
nual report of the Committee on the
Prevention of tuberculosis, that the
death rate from this deadly malady is
decreasing quite rapidly. especially
in those places where the public is be.
ing instructed and the necessary sani-
tary reforms made.
The following statements recently
made by Prof. Fisher of Yale show
the encouraging rate at which tuber-
culosis is decreasing in this and other
countries: "In England 1t declined in
seventy years from thirty-nine per ten
thousand of the poulatiol to thirteen.
Although sanatoria did not exist in
the early part of this period, England
did have (and wnn the first country to
introduce) consu mption hospitals,
which seryed like isolation wards to
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
Decrease of White Plague

prevent the spread of infection. These
hospitals, together with the English
love of out-of-door sports and the use
of ventilating appliances and open
fireplaces are probably the explana-
tion of their growing freedom from
consumption.
"In Germany, during the past fif-
teen years, the death rate has de-
clined from thirty-one to nineteen and
one-half-a full third less.
"In the United States the death
rate in 1900, in the area for which
registration has been well kept, was
nineteen, as against twenty-six in
1890, showing decline of twenty-five
per cent in ten years. In New York
city, owing largely to the work of War
ing and Biggs, the death rate had
diminished in twenty years nearly
forty per cent. 1t is conservative
prediction that the next three de.
cades will each see more remarkable
improvement"
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
Visible to Physicians Eyes

"The medical man is on nodding
terms with death at most street cor
ners in our larger towns"
A writer in this weeks Lancet,
pointing out that doctor sees many
things which are hidden from the
average mans eye. sums up the posi-
tion in this grim phrase.
The medical man, he says, must re-
main a pathologist in the street, and
he sees many unsuspected tragedies.
Who else would suspect the sword of
Damocles that is hanging above this
red faced merchant, or see in his
cheeks the signal of fruit overripe?
To the lay mild this portly person
stands for all that is prosperous and
confident. and his appetite is the envy
of many of his dyspeptic friends-who
will send wreaths to his grave.
See the bluff and kindly manner in
which he hands a shilling to thin
faced woman selling boot laces in the
gutter. 1t is only the medical man
who will dare to prophesy white hairs
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

for her long after her benefactor has
been gathered to his fathers.
Behind sunburnt cheeks-cheeks
that make all these other jostling
faces look pallid and worn by contrast
the medical man is quick to recog.
nize the imprint of the health resort,
other things pointing to an ominous
diagnosis.
The woman with the curious red
spot upon her face affords him a SOM
ber chapter for reflection. Whether 1t
be lupus or epithelioma or rodent
ulcer, it will mean far greater obses-
sion of bodily and mental pain than
that of any broken limb.
But. on the other hand, the doctor
has compensations. He sees that the
pallid man with his arm in a sling
will in few weeks be able to dig OF
ride to hounds; that the hopeless Grip
pie appealing to the charity of passers-
by is in no pain. and probably as well
able to enjoy life as any one else.-
London Mirror
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
~sm,.,anees should b. wade BY Express as

Remittances should be pade by Express
Money Order. Post0fiice Money Or
der. Registered Letter or Bank Draft.
Postage stamps will be received the
same as cash for the fractional parts
OF a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cenf
stamps taken.
Reading notices. ten lines or less 10
cents per line. Each additional line
over ten lines. cents per line.
Display advertising rates. rs cents pei
square. square contains ten agate
lines. No discounts allowed on less
than three months contract. Cash
must accompany all orders from par
ties unknown to us. Further partic
ulars on application.
Il occasionally happens that papers sent
to subscribers are lost or stolen. In
case you do not receive any number
when due inform us by postal card.
and we will cheerfully forward a du
plicate of the missing number.
Communications to receive attention
must be newsy. upon Important sub
jects plainly written only upon one
side of the paper: must reach us
Tuesdays II possible. anyway not lat
er than Wednesdays. and bear the
signature of the author. No manu-
script returned. unless stamps are
sent for postage.
All communications of personating ma;
ture that are not complimentary VIII
be withheld from the columns of this
paper.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

The following is a letter read be-
fore the League from President
Roosevelt:
"Oyster Bay, L. l., August IL,
1905. MY Dear Mr. Scott wish
all success to the Negro Business
league. Your organization is alb
solutely out of politics, and in
stimulating activity among your
people and working to increase
their efficiency in the industrial
world, it is also doing far reaching
work in the way of giving them a
realizing sense of their responsible
lity as citizens and power to meet
these responsibilities. 1 need hard
ly say that 1 put moral betterment
above physical betterment. But
it is absolutely impossible to do
good work in promoting the spir-
itual improvement of any race un-
less there is foundation of ma
terial well being, because this
foundation necessarily implies that
the race has developed the root
qualities of thrift, energy and
business sense. 1t is as true of
a race as of an individual that
while outsiders can help to a GER
tain degree, yet the real help must
come in the shape of self-help.
'The success of your organiza-
ton and the development among
our colored fellow citizens of the
very qualities for which your stand
will mean more for the solution of
the race problem than any phil
anthrophic efforts merely from
outside could possibly do. wish
ing you all success, I am, sincere
ly yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

William Golfer. 22-year-old
colored youth, of 2023 Market
street, st. Louis, Mo-. has perfect
ed what he claims to be new de-
parture in the automobile line.
Golfer, who is employed as bicycle
repairer by M. G. Jameson, at 1105
Olive street, has been at work on
his machine for the past eight
weeks, during his spare time, and
now has a car which he claims will
maintain an economical speed of
thirty-five miles an hour for four
days without stopping. The ma
chine, which is unique in appear
ance, was constructed entirely by
Golfer, including the gasoline en-
gine with which it is equipped.
The carburetter is claimed to be a
model of economy in the use of
gasoline; any surplus that is not
required to maintain the necessary
speed being pumped back into the
supply tank. The youth was born
in st. Louis and attended school
there until II years old. He then
went to work in a machine shop,
spending his leisure hours study
ing mechanical engineering by
correspondence. The car in ques-
ton is Golfers third attempt, its
two predecessors not coming up
quite to the makers expectations.
The first one was sold for $3.50 and
the latter he traded for material
with which the present machine
was constructed. The machine is
not for sale, and Golfer states he
has refused several hattering offers
for it. He expects to obtain pat
ents on the several special features
it contains, and his plan is to
manufacture cars of like design, if
he can interest the right parties in
the undertaking.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
WELCOME VETS AND VISITORS.

Among the numerous national
conventions that has its annual
gatherings, there are none that
should be accorded more hearty
greeting than that of the G. A. R.
Encampment, and at it's meeting
here next month the citizens of
Denver should accord them a
welcome that win last as long as
time.
The preparations that have been
and are being made, is by far the
greatest that has ever been made
by any city for this grand gather
ing. Gen. George w. Cook and
his staff of committeeman have
worked faithfully to make Denver
the most attractive city that the
veterans have ever visited. The
city will be taxed to its fullest
capacity 10 care for the visitors,
and we all should see to it that
their stay in Denver will be a
most pleasant one.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19

At New York Wednesday, Aug.
sixteenth the National Negro Bus
mess League convened in its
sixth annual session with over
two hundred delegates present.
Since the perfection of this organ
ization six years ago, business op-
Grated by Negroes throughout the
country has met with such en-
couragement that it has been an
item to marvel over. Those of us
who are thrifty in the business
world are steadily improving their
conditions and year by year the
National session of the League has
volumns of good news to report to
the world as to our business
achievements.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-19
In another column of this pape,

In another column of this paper
will be found a communication
from the pen of Rev J. E. Ford of
Zion Baptist church in which he
ridicules the Negro CLUBS that al
low young girls to frequent their
resorts. On account of the bold
ness of those who visit such places
it has become quite noticeable to
the general public and much gos-
sip to such disgraceful acts have
passed from the lips of many.
Rev. Ford has sounded a keynote
of warning and we hope that those
who conduct clubs that allow
our young girls to enter should
take heed and not admit any of
our girls who applies for admiss-
ion. The young men of the race
should remember that the up
lift of a race" depends on the pur-
ity of its women, and any disgrace
full act on the part of either sex
only lowers our standard. Let
those of us who are MEN be care
full in the future and in any case
where you can prevent disgrace
don't hesitate to do SO. The COM
munication, coming as it does,
from one of the most talented and
influential clergymen it should
meet the support and approval of
all who have the race at heart.