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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-10-13
LOCAL LACONICS.
Happenings of Interest
About Town.

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Kir-
by, Thursday morning, October 12,
a fine girl.
Don't forget "Maloney's We'd
ding" at the opera house tonight.
Tickets at Union Drug Co., 25, 35,
50 cents.
Miss Florence Powell, of Aiken,
who has been the guest of Miss Amy
Nicholson for the past week, re-
turned to her home on Friday.
Mr.. Asa McKissick, of the Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute, has re-
turned home temporarily on account
of illness. We trust that he will
soon be ready and we'll enough to
60 back to his college in good shape.
Bum Thomas fell off the water
wagon Sunday night and finally
landed in the sheltering arms of the
police. He will work off the ef-
fects of the cold gray dawn of the
morning after for thirty days on the
chaingang.
Our old Eta Jane correspondent,
Mr.. j. l.. Strain, the battle SCARED
veteran and gallant old soldier of
the stars and bars, is writing some
interesting matter for The. Gaffney
Ledger about his journeys through
the county.
Darlington has voted out the dis
pensary by vote of nearly three to
one. An election has been ordered
in Greenville and Spartanburg
counties and in both of these places
the result will be against the dis
pensary, in al probability.
Quite u number of Union people
will attend the marriage of Miss
Mildred Lindsey and Mr.. Hugh
Little on the 18th inst. at Jones'
yille. Both the bride and the
groom prospective are well known
in the city and have the best wishes
of their many friends.
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Cotton Opened Two Weeks
Earlier This Year.

According to the statements pub
lished in The State Tuesday given
by the correspondent to this paper
from every county in South Caro-
lima shows that cotton opened at
least two weeks earlier this year
than last, and that the price being
10 cents for the greater part of the
time since cotton was gathered,
most of the cotton has been sold.
AS soon as cotton dropped below 10
cents the farmers in this county
have been putting their cotton in
warehouses and will hold for 10
cents or more. 1t is certain they
will not sell for less. Most of the
farmers will act upon the advice of
the president of the Southern Cotton
Association. Mr.. Peters, the vice
president of the association, should
be forced to resign, as he cannot
after advising the farmers to sell
contrary to the resolutions of the
cotton association consistently re-
main in the association. His esti-
mate of the crop is very different
from all others and he should be
regarded as an ultra bear. The
farmers of the county can store
their cotton in the warehouse of
the Monarch mill company at the
small sum of Is cents per bale,
which amount covers storage and
insurance, and whatever amount of
money the farmers need can be OBJ
tanned from the banks with their
cotton as q good collateral.
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Advertised Letters

in the Post Office at Union,
s. c., for the week ending Oct. 13,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-10-13
'sBetter Late Than Never"

Notwithstanding ouI local con-
temporary knew that the "cour-
tcous, genial and accommodating
Mac" had been railroad agent at
this place for a year or more there
is no record in it's columns giving
to this gentleman any commenda-
tion for these qualities. THE TIMES
prefers to give publicity to the sterl-
ing qualities of the deserving while
they live.
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Murphy-MoCk.

You are most cordially invited to
be present at the opera house to-
night to witness the performance of
Maloney's Wedding" Prices 25,
35 and 80 cents.
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New Dry Goods Firm.

Mr.. A. o. Swygert has opened up
a nice stock OF dry goods and other
lines at his new store next to
Bailey's and is ready for business.
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

what mysterious pow
er did Lord Grenwy-
thga of Ystradyfodwg,
Wales, plunge himself
into a trance-if it
was a trance-that
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Last Of Louisiana's Feudists

And so he showed his breed-the
courage of generations of Southern
gentlemen, finer courage than that
OF his father and brother, a finer
courage than that or the men of he
Liddell family He ran away-a tost
of courage, of the moral courage,
which is higher than mere physical
courage. He could have summoned
his supporters TO New Orleans, and
arranging for his safe return TO
Elmly renewed the struggle. But he
was the one man left to stand by his
mother and sister, TO nelp bring up
his young brother. And the neces-
Sity of being on hand TO protect them
appealed TO him as higher necessity
than that of numbering the leaders
of the Liddells and renewing the
savage slaughter OF the adherents OF
both families.
And in a day when 4 refusal to
draw a pistol when threatened or
when 'insulted" (and the term wGs
applied TO any criticism or any dis
agreement), was considered by the
men among whom he had been rear
or as cowardice, Cutnbert Jones Ce-
cided, if possible, 10 make an end
to the feud by leaving Louisiana.
He knew that he wzs bringing on
himself the taunt OF running away.
Well then, it took all mis- strength
OF mind and soul, bur he would run
away. And he did
The mother and daughter and
child was sent TO Europe 10 re-
cover from the shock Of the fight
at McCabe's. and to bring the boy
up amid more peaceful surroundings.
In later years the women returne-
TO Eimly, the mother to die there
and be laid beside her husband ~
the only part of the world which
would ever be home" to her, the
daughter to live there long, and.
finally, only few years ago, to re
move 10 Chattanooga and die there
Cuthbert went TO Washington and
sought President Grant. who mac
known Colonel Jones. The son OF
4 confederate soldier. and. uncertain
OF his reception at the White House,
he sat on a bench near by and way
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MoWned as Dead by Girl
Miss Kyndelfawhr mourned will
he others. She wept bitterly at tn

laid General Grant as he came out,
and introduced himself as a sol OF
Colonel Jones, CT Elmly. He told
the President that It would take him
year TO finish his college course,
and then he wanted a place under
the Government which his father
had fought against. And Grant told
him to go ahead and finish his
course and by that time he would
be serving his second term, and
would have a place ready for him.
To young Jones inquiry as 10 how
he knew he would have a second
term, he smiled and said, 20,
know it all right; you go on back
to college"
And when Cuthbert Jones came
back to Washington with his di-
ploma. the reelected President sent
him TO Tripoli in the diplomatic
service. II was a far wilder coun-
try than his native Elmly-but
Jones was safe there. And he serv-
ed his country faithfully. AS has
already been told in The Times he
conducted the negotiations for the
recovery by the United States of the
PROV Of the frigate Philadelphia.
burned by Stephen Decatur during
the war with the Barbary states.
His service in Tripoli ended, he
came back and for several years
made his home in this city. Then
he started on an adventurous ca
feer in Venezuela, IN the interest of
the famous asphalt concessions. en-
years ago he was back in Washing
ton. In 1897 he went TO Peru 10
look after an American railway
concession there. He never came
back.
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Looks insignificant.

Now, locking very small and insig-
nificant, he appears for g moment on
the red carpeted steps into the waiting
victoria, sword in hand, gathers up the
relns, takes the whip. gives a smart
stroke and is rapidly whirled from sight.
touching his fez to the watching crowd
as he passes the pavilion. His sons
come running across the courtyard TO
join the occasional. All spring into
their saddles save two OF them, who are
so small that they have TO be helped
by their grooms, and Burhars-Eddine.
who laughingly returns TO the. same
carriage IN which he came.
The horses are put to the waiting car
riages Of the harem, the bands again
break out into the Sultans march and
the thousands of troops. the bands
themselves. the sacred banners Of green
inscribed with texts from the Koran.
the gaping crowds, the pomp and
pageantry melt away and Selamlik Is
ended for another week
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Continued from Page One.)
and, perhaps. seek help from among
the allies of the house of Jones. Be-
fore he had gone twenty feet he was
dead
And of the adult male Joneses
there was only Cumberland the
Liddells knew it.
With burning pine knots as
torches, they entered the house to
find that one. He ran up stairs be-
fore them and crawied out of a win
dow as they entered the room. Low
ering himself from the sill, he hung
by his finger tips, his entire weight
resting upon the balls OF his fingers.
BY chance a light breeze from the
water blew the shutter against his
hands, partly hiding MIN. On 70 the
window the Liddells came to look
for him outside of the house. Up,
down, to one side ard then the other,
they held their torches TO let the
4'c5A-t iNfSo4 MIN. -NOt O4lNt tlu lAify
look down along the wall from the
window sill, but ali the time out to-
ward the ground around the house.
Not seeing him. they withdrew into
the room, to let Cuthbert escape by
that narrow, straining hold of ms
fingers-tips upon the window sill.
Then when the search was over
he dropped from the window ard
made his way across country to the
river, and so TO New Orleans There
he faced the problem of his life. His
father and brother were dead lie
was the only living man Of the Jones
family. His mother had suffered the
shock of seeing her husband and
her first born killed before her eyes.
II he shared the family fate she and
his sister and a helpless child would
be left alone in the world--a world
which is always hard on the widow
ed and fatherless, and which in
those days of reconstruction in the
South was doubly, trebly hard. He
knew the Liddells-knew that they
were gentlemen. even though they
were the hereditary foes of his race
knew that they could be trusted
$ mot TO war on women and children.
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Student of the Occult

Grenwythga was the son of well TO
do parents, well educated, and a
graduate of the manual training
school at YstradyfoGwg, afterwards
studying at Cambridge and gradual
ing with honors he was graduated
in an engineering speciality which he
pursued diligently, although his en-
tire turn of mind was in different
direction. He studied at odd times
the occult sciences of the East, and
on his stolid, materialistic Welsh
a.:nd these studies made deep and
tasting impression. He believed
them. He even practiced them.
There was, about that time, in
Ystradyfodwg a girl named Eileen
McGinnis. whose father was an Irish
miner, and with this pretty, saucy,
vivacious maid of Erin the hand
some. heavy Welsh mining engineer
fell in love. Her father was in charge
of the loading of coal ships and the
transference Of coal to the docks and
yards. Grenwythga was the enSsi-
neering expert N cAarge OF the
works
AT first il seemed as if the heavy,
handsome, strong young Welshman
had a chance, but eventually she re-
jected him and married a young
Irish officer Of merchant ship. And
is was then that Grenwythga took
his strange oath. Ills fellows were
twitting him about marriage. He
arose from the table angrily-
I'm never get married until alter
| am dead" he declared solemnly-
The crowd roared, believing he
Intentionally had peTpetrated ball,
but the Welshman strobe away seri-
ously, and they, recalling his beliefs
In certain Eastern religions. Won
dered If there was anything back OF
his oddly worded retort.'
The vow was taken fourteen or
fifteen years ago-the frieno5 do not
remember which--and during all
that period Grenwythga had little
to do with womankInd, except those
women that he met at meetings OF
some society for research into the
religions OF the East, Of which ne
was an earnest member. He attend
ed meetings in London and once
travelled TO Benares 70 consult with
students or priests.
Naturally, among the stolid. IN
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When the Sultan Goes to Pray.

hundreds of dusty, ragged hodjis from
Mecca. who bend in devout attitudes,
the Sultan gives the Turkish salute.
touching in rapid succession his breast.
stomach. and head with the opened
hand. To the diplomats and visitors
in the pavilion he simply bows. rolling
his head. All about ......A royal carriage
are the Albanian guards. picturesque
figures in their petticoats of white
fustenello. their gay embroidered
jackets. and heavy tasseled fezzes- And
all the time the bands are playing with
Infinite vigor "Hamidieh March," at
tenjants are springing forward with
Persian rugs to spread for his sanity
feet. the guards close in about him, and.
as we lose sight of him at the door
of the mosque, we note the scramble of
the portly pashas. generals. and other
dignitaries, who evidently believe in the
old adage that "the devil takes the
hindmost"
Half an hour passes. From the out
side we can hear the chanting OF the
Imams More tea and coffee Is passed
to the visitors in the pavilion Then
a movement among the soldiers and we
crane our necks to lose no bit Of the
show 4 bugle call Each regiment
in turn detaches itself from the others
and in rotation enters the gate OF the
mosque passing down by the left side
under a range of windows where the
Sultan stands screened from observa-
ton to review them These troops do
not salute. but pass slowly on, forming
themselves in two lines, one up and one
down the precipitous road on tbs rise
OF the hill. A score OF men break
from the yelling fringe Of marines and
zouaves for another scatter OF earth on
the fifty yards where the final dash
Of the imperial party Is to take place
Six loose horses led by grooms, the sun
playing on their exquisite satiny coats
anu gorgeous trappings, appear in front
of the mosque together with an elegant
little victoria, green lined and drawn
by span of beautiful white horses that
the Sultan may take his choice OF trans
portation methods.
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Meets His Fate on the Water

About year ago the man fell
desperately. passionately in love
with Edytha Kyndelfawhr, daughter
OF a small manufactures. She was
a girl of rare beauty, dark, lissome.
and fearless, who especially loved
the water, and it was while rowing
on the Usk, above Cardiff, that
Grenwythga first met the girl. She
was with party of friends in
small sailboat, and one of them,
recognizing the young engineer as he
rowed by, hailed him and bade him
join the party at a moonlight picnic
party on the banks of the river.
II was there that they became
acquainted, and it Is declared to have
been case of Lore at first sight.
The girl, scarcely twenty years cid,
fell desperately in love with the scri-
Gus, handsome fellow, but her pas
sion was mild compared with the
Storm that swept his heart. Imme-
diately afterward the man. without
warning, asked for a long leave of
absence and departed for India. He
mad sought every opportunity TO see
tne girl, he had paid her the most
marked attentions, and one eyenine,
amid the commonplace surroundings
OF her home, he toid her a story
which started her beautiful ewes
from her pretty face IN aston;shment
and fright Passionately he told her
Oh his love for her, and then, calmly
and as if speaking of everyday mat
ters, he told her that he had sworn
an oath never TO marry until he had
died.
The girl, abashed and ashamed he
cause she had confessed her love and
permitted him TO kiss her in the first
ecstasies of her joy, sbranIz from
him, and then, growing indignant
and fired by her indignation, she de-
manded an explanation and got one
such as never before girl had heard
The man calmly informed her that
he intended TO die, 10 remain dead
for period, then return 10 life and
wed her He left Tor India. leaving
the girl to weep and wonder whether
he was crazy.
A few weeks ago Grenwythga.
pale and much more slender than he
had been, returned 10 Ystradyfodwg.
His first act was to call upon Miss
Kyndelfawhr. What he said to her
no one knows, but when he left her
aunt found her hystericaI and weep
ing. frightened. and clinging TO a
chair for support
Grenwythga went from there 10
the Engineers clup. where he ate
dinner alone and IN silence. The
waiter who served him noticed that
he ordered the lighiest and simplest
OF dishes. Later he strode into the
smoking room, and, standing inside
the doorway, said quietly:
We'll, good-by, Fellows"
Going away again, GreIwythga? p
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HERE is something doing in Con-
stantlnople, when the Sultan
goes 20 pray even though bomb
throwing is not listed on the Of
fetal program This spectacular func-
ton. known as the Selamlik, which
takes place every Friday. the Turkish
SGbbath. in Hamidieh Mosque. is the
only occasion, save once annually. when
his religion commands him to visit
The Chamber of Noble Garments" at
the old Seraglio. that Sultan Abdul
Hamid II leaves his palace fortress at
Yiidiz. and he would be only too glad
to eliminate these ventures into the
outer world, if he dared. This, however,
may not be.
Every devout Turk is commanded by
the koran 10 perform his devotions each
Friday. in a public mosque, and the
great Padisha, though representing IN
his own person the absolute Caliph Of
the faith. as well as head OF the nation.
can least of ali men omit this duty OF
praying for the welfare of all his Mus
sulman subjects The duty Of presiding
at this solemn office has been incum-
cent upon the Sultans ever since the
year 1851, when the reigning sovereign.
Murad 1, found himself unable 10 give
evidence before the Mufti, IN a case
where one of his favorites was con-
oerned, because, according TO the koran.
nc person can be admitted to witness
I'm a religious court of justice, who has
rot Joined in common prayer at the
mosque. Recognizing the justice Of
this decision. Murad. proceeded to the
mosque on the following Friday in
great accession of state. and the func-
ton has never since been omitted for
any reason whatever.
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Coachman Far More Imposing.

Ever eve is fixed on the little. old.
round shouldered man who sits on the
back seat of a gorgeous phaeton Oh
black and gold. drawn by pair OF
magnificent white thorouShbreds given
him bv the Emperor of Austria Oppo-
site him Is the present minister OF war
who has taken the place held so long
bv Osman Pasha. while his faithfui
coachman on the box presents Ear
more imposing figure than the great man
himself. whose dress. like the eunuch3
Is somber black. buttoned tight around
the throat. Underneath this habit. 1t is
said he wears a coat of finest mail. His
fez is scarlet with heavy black tassel.
In the fieeting glimpse vouchsafed US
(for the actual passing takes far less
time than the telIing) we note
with surprise how much older than his
pictures he looks. Pale. emaciated. hol-
low-eyed, and with the long, hooked.
bIs:h-bridged Armenian nose. he looks,
indeed. the sick Man of Europe.''
Not a smile irradiates his Dinched fea-
lures. while a look of absolute terror
in his large Eastern eyes, overshadowed
with heavy brows. emphasizes the fact
that he is one of the unhappiesI OF men,
living in constant fear of sudden death.
Nor is this to be wondered at when one
recalls that cut of his twenty-seven
predecessors who have reigned since the
conouest of Constantinople by Mo-
manned in 1853 four, indeed. have died
peacefully Several have endeavored TO
save their lives by resigning. but this
has profited them nothing in span of
life His brows. beard. and hair are
d1-eI n deem black an office he IS said
to perform for himself.
In response to the obeiSance of the Mo-
hammedan sightseers, among whom are
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JOSEPH RAMSEY, JR.

Joseph Ramsey, jr., who is in the pub
lie eye through his fight to wrest the
control of the Wabash railroad from the
Goulds. is not exactly the manner of
man taken TO be a fighter. lie has mild
and kindly ways. wears glasses and
impresses one as being much less ag-
Sresslve than he is. He is a fighter On
provocation II is in him to declare his
convictions and opinions. personal and
impersonal. in a most emphatic manner.
kansas City Journal
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imaginative Welsh people there was
some gossip concerning the strange
beliefs of the young mining engi-
neer, but he still was popular in
Ystradyfodwg and among the work
men at the tin mines, of which he
was supervisor. He prospered in
his profession, being studious and
hard working, and he cultivated
himself in other directions, becom-
ing known as a writer of force and
an original thinker.
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caused physicians TO declare him
dead man? And having apparently
died. how did he bring himself back
to life?
Such are the questions that Eng
lish physicians are asking one an
other concerning the strange case
of the young Welsh nobleman who
recently died-or, at least, physi-
clans declared him dead-and after
two days Of death, when the family
was beginning the preparations for
his burial, suddenly recovered, sat
up in his coffin, and greeted the
mourlers.
The strangest part of the entire
business is that Grenwythga declares
he really died, and that, by dying,
he abso,ved himself from his oath
and was free to wed. The case has
attracted the attention of the medi-
cal authorities Of Wales and even
of England, and the great medical
Journals of London are deVoting
much space TO the discussion Of The The
alleged phenomenon OF death, pro-
duced by direct power of the viii.
Spiritualists and other cults of the
like see in the Ysrradyfodwg case
support for their contentious, but
over and above it all there is ro-
nance which is ore of the strangest
ever told.
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FAMINE OF NIcKELS.

Since the Nevada Legislature legalized
slot machines there have not been
enough nickeis in circulation. outside
of the slot machine bazars, TO buy 3
cents worth of gum for a six-year-old
school girl A keg containing. S,5GS in
nickeIs was recently received hot from
the factory by a Reno bank.-Kansao
City Journal.
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Then some tried to tell him he was
foolish A few feared he would kill
himself
But / will return IN a few days
in different form, and l hope to
meet you all again
That night Grenwythga died. At
least four physicians, an undertaken.
and all his friends declared he died.
He was found dead in bed, with a
happy smile upon his face-a smile
as if of anticipation.
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On Tuesday night or Wednesday
morning. Friday afternoon Gren-
wythga-or he who had been Gren-
wythga-suddenly sat up in lis
coffin. Slowly the blood began TO
pulse through the veins, the heart
action strengthened. the color came
back, and before the frightened
watchers could recover their senses
he asked feebly to be helped from
the coffin Then, seeming to revive
with startling suddenness. he stood
up and walked across the room. He
remained for two hours in a h3lf
stupor; then, arousing from that, he
asked that he be taken TO his rooms
and permitted 20 dress in order that
he might call on the girl he loved
The girl was terribly afraid at
first, but her joy at regaining her
lover-or getting a new one, which
ever it is-was so great that she
overcame her fear.
The man declares that he really
died-that all of the old life went
out of his body and that he is new
being-and he believes that he can
wed now and still keep his VOW.
One of the strangest things in con-
nection with the entire thing is that
he has forgotten everything he ever
knew about the occult art. He does
not know where he went when he
visited India, and he does not even
recognize those with whom he asso-
ciated in the society Tor research.
Whether this knowledge was taken
away from lin for fear he might use
his secret of life and death again he
does not know.
He only knows that he is the
husband of one of the prettiest girls
in Wales.