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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY 1 TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE. Editor < J. B. BO/EM AN Manager Registered at the Postoffice in Union, 1 S. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Otto Voar <51 OA I ' V . -PI.UV ? Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS 1 One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 ' FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1015. CHILDHOOD'S PRAYER. The fire upon the hearth is low, And thevj is stillness everywhere; Like troubled spirits, here and , there The firelight shadows uuttering go. And as the shadows round me creep, , A childish treble breaks the gloom j And softly from a farther room Come, "Now I lay me down to sleep." ! And, some how, with that little prayer ' And that sweet treble in my ears, My thought goes back to distant '' years ! And lingers with a dear one there. 1 And as I hear the child's amen. My mother's faith comes back to ' me? Crouched at her side I seem to be, And mother holds my hands again. un, ior an hour in that dear place i Oh, for the peace of that dear time! : Oh, for that childish trust sublime! | Oh, for a glimpse of mother's face! Yet, as the shadows round me creep i I do not seem to be alone? Magic of that treble tone? And "Now I lay me down to sleep." j Eugene Field. i President Wilson's message to con- i gress, delivered Dec. 6, is a master- 1 piece. It is the expression of pri'n- ' ciples and ideals that are fundamental in our Democracy. So impressed aro j we with the message that we will pub- , lish the whole message in next week's ; Times, thus giving every reader an i opportunity to read it for himself, .mil.. - ' You will see by our "S. O. S." colj umn, published elsewhere in this issue ( of The Times, that many of our friends have remembered us. There are yet many more who could renew and not 1 jpflf;1 tto >"' ? ? We feel sure, many yill 1 *' do so during December. The united little sums will make up a big sum, and that will help us greatly. The Herald and News, of Newberry, , is to be congratulated upon the splen- 1 did special edition which was gotten < out last week. The paper contained fifty-six pages, ar.d a worthy thing about it was that the reading matter was most excellent. It is a boost for Newberry and Newberry county that will have great influence. The edition was in celebration of the fiftieth anni- i versary of the life of the paper. Best wisnes 10 you, gentlemen: : On Tuesday evening of this week ; there was a membership meeting of , ; the Chamber of Commerce. The meet- | ing was large and developed great enthusiasm. Plans for immediately beginning the campaign for subscriptions in membership fees were made. 1 On the two days following this campaign has been pressed. And the results have been most gratifying. Indeed, it has been a sweeping victory so far, and it may be said, with as! surance, that the Union Chamber of ^ . Commerce is now about to be placed upon a solid financial basis. We be- , lieve this is one of the best moves Union's business men have made in , many years. A WARNING. We do not relish telling people of their faults; in fact, we try to find something good, rather than something evil, to say always. We do not now pose as a guardian of thoughtless people, nor do we assume that ' everybody is an idiot who does not follow our advice. But we speak a word of warning to the reckless automobile drivers, and we speak it in good faith and with good will. There is en- * tirely too much careless driving, too muen reckless driving going on in and 1 outside of the corporate limits for the public good. The public safety is 1 jeopardized by the fast drivers. The danger is one that is increasing almost 1 daily, as the number of automobiles i increases. We feel sure that nine out of ten owners of cars are blameless; they use due care, and they are quite willing to corporate in any movement j looking to the just regulation of speed. Ft is the tenth man, the hair-brained. ] wild man, indifferent to the rights of ( others, pt haps vicious enough to care i nothing for others?he is the man i causing the trouble. He is fast travelling to his downfall, and if he be ( open to reason he will take warning. J The public has reached its uttermost ( limit of patience in the treatment it is receiving from him. j 1 .J CAPTAIN CHARLES 8 WESLEY BOYI), * t Of the 15th South Carolina Regiment, i C. S. A. s I By Mrs. L. J. llames. t Some years after the Civil war in v speaking of the Confederate soldiers, i Major General Hooker of the United r States Army said: "Search the world over, and you will find nothing like I them." How true this is of the brave h sons of Union county, particularly so I of Captain Charles Boyd, husband of our esteemed honorary member, Mrs. Maria Boyd. I shall not attempt to write an article on this noble man, but read a s beautiful tribute written hv Professor t Means Davis, a classmate and friend v of Captain Boyd. c Charles Wesley Boyd was born at c Walterboro, S. C., March 27th, 1835. c His father, Dr. Robert Boyd, was a I physician at the time, but afterwards r rave up his practice to enter the min- <1 istry of the Methodist church, in s which he spent many fruitful years; ^ being well known in various parts of * the State as a preacher of force, and s u man of weight in his church. N The Boyds wore Scotch Irish, hav- * ing come to this country from the I north of Ireland, but originally from * Kilmarnock, in Scotland, a branch of * the family having once been in pos- ^ session of the castle of that name. c Charles was a second son and one of v a large family of children. He was r sent to the preparatory school at c Cokesbury, and from there entered the South Carolina college. Here lie took s high mark as a student from the 8 first. He became a member of the 8 Euphradian society, and in his junior year took the medal in that society for 51 oratory. In his senior year he took a medal given by the college for an es- ^ say on Sir James Mackintosh. He 0 graduated from the college. He then j, went to Germany to the University of Cottengeil, where he maintained a ? ligh stand, graduating after two 8 years with the degree of doctor of f laws. Mr. James Lowndes, in an address 0 at an alumni banquet held In Charles- c ton a year or two ago, spe .ks of him 8 as follows: "I cannot close these re- ^ marks without performing the pious * office of bearing my witness to the remarkable ability of Charles Boyd. I ^ shall always remember the attic nights \ in his little room in a far-away Ger- (1 man university town, where he daz- v zled his companions by his learning " and ability. It was an evil day when le fell at Chancellorsville in the front 1 sf the battle." 1 He returned home in 1858 and stud- r ied law at Union, in the office of Judge J" Goudelock, whose second daughter, Maria, he married. He began the practice of law at Union in partnership with Judge Williarn Wallace, in conjunction with whom he edited the "Union Times." c In 18(50 he threw himself heart and soul into the secession movement, and ! made political speeches throughout his : ?ounty. He went to the ^oast at the 1 opening of hostilities in 1861, was made orderly sergeant, and was present at the taking of Fort Sumter. He went to Virginia with Gregg's 1 First regiment, and when it was disbanded, returned to Union, where he ^ used a company, received a captain's commission and joined the Fifteenth L South Carolina regiment. He was with his command through- * out the campaign in Virginia until he ' was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2nd, 1868. When Colonel DeSaussure was in- 1 formed of his death he said: "Cover him with the regimental flag, for his are the shoulders that should have borne it." t General Kershaw said: "Our State (] has sustained a great loss." Thus passed away in the full tide l and promise of his youth one of South Carolina's most loyal sons. In estimating a man's character it is always illuminative to know the I ^ impression made by his presence upon | his contemporaries. The impression made by Captain Boyd on the fellow college students and friends in afterlife seems well expressed by the fa- ( mous phrase of Matthew Arnold, j "Sweetness and light." He was a born student, a lover of art and literature, a brilliant conversationalist, - and withal, so genial and urbane, so J kindly and sincere that wherever he ] came men, women and children were at once his friends. Under normal conditions he would . never have chosen the career of a sol'ier. War, with its hardships and tur- < moil, its suffering and bloodshed, was abhorrent to him. But he was endowed with the highest order of cour ge, and an unwavering devotion to ri duty, and wherever duty called he went without questiofi. He believed firmly in the righteousness of the t South's cause, and in the obligation 0 of each one of her sons to give him j self freely for it. His was not the p enthusiasm of the young and ambi- e tious soldier who goes into battle to m-iiieve name ano iame lor himself, I but the heroism of a martyr, who leaving wife and children behind, offers himself upon the altar of his country's need. j There came to mind the heautifui, solemn lines of a ballad in Faust: 'Blest he who dies in battle's splen- f lor," and the old adapre of the (1 reeks: I 'Those whom the gods )ove die younpr," and certainly there are worse fates for a man than to be spared the inevi- ( .able disappointments and disillusion- # ments of life, and to die a noble death 11 the full flush and priory of his youth. ^ But there is another side to the question, in the lives of such men as I ''aptain Boyd, the South even more ^ han in her impoverishment and de"eat, paid a fearful debt to destiny. I The old order has passed away. It ( s hard for us now to realize the hopes * ind fears, the wild enthusiasm of the reneration which went forth to fight he war of secession. But the herosm of those who took part in that truggle should never be forgotten. 'Jo prouder heritage is possible than he South's memory of the men and vomen who bore gladly and bravely ts dangers and losses, and last and nore than all its bereavements." Captain Charles Boyd's portrait lung in the South Carolina university lall, but when Sherman burned Columns, this picture was destroyed. OAKLAND Oakland, Dec. 7.?Amid the hardhips and cares of this life there is a ime when the tiniest streak of light vill do a world of good towards gladlening a sv-ul whose inclination and invironment seems to be nothing short - vx wuivii.n Mrs. F .M. Barnett of Union is havig quite a lot of new repair work done ( o her old home, preparatory for mo\\ ng into it in a short while. 1 Mr. J .E. Gault has bought Mr. W. 3. Finch's interest in the Oakland te!phone line and will install a 'phone | n his residence this week. Mrs. J. B. Miller, who has been ( uffering with rheumatism for the past wo weeks is still in a very helpless ( ondition. The many friends of Mrs. J. W. { \dams will be pleased to know that j ;he is able to be up again after suf- ] ering a several weeks' illness. j Ah, now, Moxy. my dear friend, , )lease don't get it into your hear that ( am a "quitter"; not much of that yet. i Neb. j Instead of trying to dodge temptaion some people worry because it . lodges them. Save Your Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted &DR. CRIM4P>; Will remain in his Union )ffice until Saturday Evenng, Dec. 11th. Will be in Lockhart next Monday, One Day Only at Hames House. w:u t :??- TI v? in uc in i ues- i lay, Dec. 14th, one day only it Hotel. NOTICE ro Undertakers and Others. Notice is hereby <jiven that in fuure no one, whether owners of lots r not. will he allowed burial in the ilethodint cemetery without special ermit from trustees of church proprty. S. M. Itice, .1. D. Arthur, J. Wesley Greer, 1,. J. llamcs, M. B. Sumner, O-tf Trustees Grace Church. For Rent )ne Store Room; fust he size lor small Grocery, Beef Market. Barter Shop, etc. Up-tolate place and only $15 ?ent. See H. L. Pool, in Smith's Block. ji ' t. :h<A | hHflMHI i >f melancholy or despondency and- no >etter time is to be had than Christnas to impart to your friends and ac[Uaintances some token of your friend;hip. So the time is not long off and vhy not try and make it convenient o gladden as many hearts as we posibly can by letting them know in some vay or other that we still think of hem. It doesn't take the costliest >resents to bring the sweeetst joys of Christmas to a person. No, not in he least, for, if it did there would be ?ut few homes made happy. The reipient of valuable presents sometimes alue them for their worth only and lot for the source from whence they ome. The Upper Fair Forest Sunday chool is making preparations to have t Christmas tree again this Chri'stma> md it is hoped that all parties mu ually concerned will come together md make it the best yet. At a meeting held at Oakland school louse last Thursday night in behalf f the School Improvement associaion two very interesting and beneici'al talks were presented to the small rowd present by Mr. Brown of Newiprrvv urhn ic Qfofo ...J, .. ..V KJVOVC V/I ui ni^n\ chools in the mill villages and Superntendent of Education James H. Hope f Union. Both these gentlemen disussed most every phase of the school ind school life and in conclusion spoke ery favorably and encouragingly as o the schools' future. There is quite a bit of moving being lone in our community this fall. Mr. V. C. Fincher, who has been a resn lent here for the past 33 years and vhom we esteem most highly as one if our best neighbors, moved yesteray to his new home near Bonham staion. Mr. Fincher is one of the couny's best citizens and we regret very nuch that he has moved from our nidst, but still we are pleased to mow that Mr. Fincher has not moved nti'rely away from this section. Mr. J. E. Hord and family from lear Buffalo moved to this community oday and will tend the plantation ! wned bv Mr. J. D. Arthur n# == THE AIS Christim IS C A V^. D^ ^ xi c i cvt: Have You Seen Our GIFT G If not, come in and see th creations in Gold La Vi Brooches, Bracelets and We The gift for a woman is < Our gifts for men are too it is easier to show them to T .pt ll.Q QnlvP fVlP wnHHinrf <uv> V uu UVA V/ UXXV T T VVAVlliXg ?we have a lovely line to c Come to our store for accur; time daily by wireless from ment Wireless Station at Wa Itinsi Nation to kindred and ______ creditors. | if=1 State of South Carolina, II County of Union. JJ 3y Hon. W. W. Johnson, Judge of Probate. Whereas J. M. Gault has made suit m me to grant him Letters of Administration on the Estate and effects )f W. H. Gault, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and m idmonish all and singular the kindred m P and creditors of the said W. H. Gault, 11 l"Kf I" ieceased, that they be and appear be- I fore me, in the Court of Probate, to f>e held at Union C. H., South Carolina, on the 21st day of December, 11F next, after publication hereof, at 11 I Bk B 5 | j Xjj i>'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, I 11 IJ ft if any they have, why the said AdminIstration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal this li/jfh PuprU Q||j 3d day of November, Anno Domini Ifllll LlCIJ dill 1915. Probate Judge. Weight Clothes 0 Published on the 3rd day of Dec., 1915, in the Union Times. 49-2 FOR WORK OR REST K-Al fjijt Tailc W^tL Just order a there'!! be 1 / I of Trnnsers visitors will find our furniture ideal in design and full UCllVCrCu. of comfort promise. Our m^l/p vftlir desks, rockers, chairs, beds, j"u* etc., are all built on the plan nn j|r tKio ft of comfort, durability and beauty. It is furniture a limited tim that soon becomes like an old friend. And like old friends they wear well. See the ex- J" TXT?j hibit and note the values. II IX I { For High Grade Furniture ^ u W. H. BURRIS CLOT UNION, S. C. If it is true, as the St. Louis Post- ^ Dispatch asserts, that woman is now I "the equal of man in every particular," it certainly was the deuce of a III Sawl comedown.?The State. But the hen that sits o>? a china 11* ?i egg is better off. %L ^ S-V WHmtlmk, i * m * Ff% . JNUAL is Rush >N! ady For It? Beautiful Line of OODS e beautiful and artistic illiers. Wrist Watches, idgewood Cameos. i lovely piece of jewelry. numerous to mention? ' you. present problem for you hoose from. ate time. We check our the' great U, S. Governshington : : : : : : ! jE Y'S| 'AIR OF ;ers it of Heavy rdered Now in Union t-ktt Plumbing and )red Electric Co.'s XXVxO Prices are Less i suit and 1U/Q mure When Good Workman"u PU"/ ship and Good Material When it S are considered. Cont and Qur Many Satisfied Selection Customers will tell you Her is lor about use. KIRBY & HUGHES rv%r uin JG CO. LX, Manaiffi*,