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r YQL. L1I. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY T\ 1902. #1.00 A YEAR:
I P.M. PARk, PrwidtDt.
^ T a BO. MUNRO, CMhkr,
? I Merchants' and PI
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X Capital Stock
T Surplus
I Stockholders' Liabilities...
^ X Total
a Directors?J. A. Fant,
? a T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglas
T Wm. Coleman.
X We Solicit
SANTUC SiFTINGS.
Inhuman Treatment of Animals
? "Toil swings the axe aud forests how,
The tlelds break out in radient bloom
Rich liar vest smile behind the plow,
And cities cluster around the loom.1
Toil is swinging the axe, forest
are bowimg in places and I hope ricl
harvest will smile behind the plow;
everywhere.
"If it bo possible live peaceabl;
with all men," but we are not tol<
what to do if it is not possible,
wish I knew.
When wagons are well made the^
generally hold their tongues. In thai
they have greatly the advantage o
: some people.
' In all kinds of trades you can fin<
- men outside who know more than th<
masters of the trade. There ar<
1 other men who know more than th<
carpenter, the blacksmith, the farmer
* the merchant, etc.
Last week was one of cloudnesj
? and rain in which 5.98 inches of rait
r fell. Friday and Saturday and nigh
v ' beintr the neariest fall. 3.81 incho
falling in a little less than 36 hours
Creeks were swollen and out of theii
banks.
Some lands with the makeshifts o:
- terraces are badly washed. Gulliei
sometimes waist deep or big gullie
and many on a hill, and it looks as il
a fine newground would have to b<
cleared to get brush to stop them
This may be only where one is "ovei
* cropped ' with land and several o
this kind are letting their land go t<
ruh>. ,
We had a big sleet here last Tues
day evening and night. The onb
damage done was some limbs brokei
ff trees and it was a hardship t<
aloek neeessarily or unnecessarily ex
pottd to it.
A goodly amount of cotton wa
Sold last week here to a contrao
buyer. The ootton had to be de
fiver ed last Monday and Tuesday
fe $7 th and 28th, . It was raining am
sleeting both days and it was ver
haVd and old on both men and stoci
hauling. There is only ono lone bal
at the station here.
* There can be some oats seen oi
limited areas of the first sowing am
if there is no more very sever
weather there may be enough to mor
than make the seed sown on thos
areiA But this would be small pa
for the farmer but better than noth
W ?gHI
1 t I * 1 -A 1
i eiepnone in nis last tetter say
the deep free ting will loosen up an
benefit the land, but I look at it tha
the Ijard heating rains* we had lac
We?, and we always nave in th
enrin^. will pack this as tight as evei
That is one thing in this countr
against us. The land may freeze an
pulverize in winter but hard rain
will pack it eo hard that we have t
hustle in the spring to keep it froi
hardening on us.
Oa the night of the 31st some on
broke into a small house kept as
restaurant and store by John Grej
ory,' colored, and stole a box of t<
bacoq and a hen out of a pot. I suj
pose the hen was cooked being in
pot. That nigger, I guess it was
nigger, had a hen for breakfast an
somathingffree to 'chaw* on. But froi
what I can see somebody must stem
beg or starve and when a tight*
pinch comes they may not he satisfic
with a hen and tobacco. John hi
had his window fixed and this is m
too late. With so many stores beic
broken open, safes cracked, trait
robbed, etc., we onght to stop pokia
devision at the 44 Wt Id West.
Speaking of "range" horses at
cattl# out Wert, but this oouirtry
coming;to the frojx? raising rtoc
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and have "range" stock too, seeing b<
some young stock picking dry grass. 8t
i. cotton "cups" and nibbling corn- ot
stalks for a living. If I was some t0
>; horses and colts I would tie myself tt^
, to a clump of sassafras bushes and
try my powers on them. I am no ki
* saint but I am humane enough to
b feel sorry for stock, and very young cr
9 stock, that must take such a winter 9^
as this out in the fields hunting per- ln
7 simmons, blackhaws, locusts, dry ^i
* grass, cornstalks, etc., for a living.
I Beating stook is not the only cruelty t|1
to animals one can think of. tr
y The roads are in a bad fix?so ta
t much mud, and hauling has been 8:1
f brisk?no stop for rain or mud, and t')
of course clay roads are badly cut. be
* Nothing but crosslaying or roclft '8!
9 will do on such roads where hauling ^
3 ?never stops, whether there is abso- ^
9 lute necessity or not. rfi
Broad tires will not pack a clay di
road in wet weather, as many claim, *i
3 for I have seen some running all the I11
1 week in the rain, or just after, and 18
1 if they have not worked up the mud, 8,1
3 I do not know what mud is. Clay or
* roads will become muddy with only ar
r stock walking over them if it rains co
much. Pa
^ If there is any one thing needed ari
3 now, it is a sooiety for the preven- ro
3 tion of cruelty to animals, and mem*
bore with backbone enough to carry
9 it along for good, for no doubt there fir
* is much cruelty. A few days ago I 'n
r u..:_ -i?? >
oc?tt Dvuicituiu^?uair, iKcieion ana
* skin, an evidence of something that n?
* was once a mule, and likely one that
was valuable and faithful, and I ?*
asked whose thing that was. Some j*}'
f one told me it belonged to a would-be
1 prominent negro, and was turned m
} out to pick a living and to shelter t0
" under the canopy of the open heavens,
when the corn crop was gath1
ered laai fall and had had nothing ni
I else given it since. I thought its c']
days must be numbered and it would cu
* soon be relieved of hunger and exposure.
It died a few days later. ug
f Now this is cruelty. There may bo
c many others. I know of several
0 horses and mules that have died of
neglect?laziness?in not a long 'e
J while. RU
I think that there ought to be a cc
e law passed to take up such neglected w
? stock of heartless owners, and old
? decripid stock owned by cruel own- e*
y ers and have them condemned and ^
l" shot by some proper county official.
It is a sin I believe to let once good v<
8 animals fall into the hands of such m
people, to be killed off in suoh a cruel ca
manner. I saw a poor wornout,
crippled up old mule, "as poor as *a
? snakes," tugging along the road, ^
r* with a big, fat, buck negro straddle
? of it?I don't see how the negro "
stood it?frailing on it with a half
18 stick and switch, trying to force it tr
0 along. With a law for the purpose, v'
II the animal could hav? honri wit n?t "
of trouble humanely. The negro ^
* had no use for it, it was not able to
* make a living, and was only being
5" rode and beaten to death. There is n
lota of old wornout stock that ought 0
5* to be shot and gotten rid of. Many 0
a people don't want them, and let ?
a others have them to kill by slow 0
degrees. Hky Denver. n
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' Sermon Preached by Rev. Sam T. 11
r Creech at Mesopotamia ti
>d Jan. a6tb, tgoa. j
as Text: "Fear Not." flev. 1:17. C
h Fear does more to check progress and ti
>g down souls than any other one thing y
as that can be mentioned. Take for J
tg instance the farmer that is afraid "to t
work" and we find grass instead of 1
id cotton. Just so with the merchant, c
is i doctor, lawyer, in &ct with *11 busi- t
k, rises men. tVnere tboy fear making c
ivcstments, whore they fear acting,
rhere they fear using their own
idgment failure stands ahead, aud
istead of success destruction is sure.
Take the church and this same fear
i found there. Some members (I
ican by some a great many) are
fraid to do the right?it means too
luch. If you have been getting
runk?got to quit. If you have
een cursing?got to quit, it matters
ot whether it be man or mule. Then
ambling, lying, swindling, tattling,
rumbling, fault finding all must
p stopped. If you have been stavig
at home when you ought to have
pen at church, Sunday school,
rayer meeting, etc.,?got to quit. If
o have been giving to Johu Robinm,
or any other RobinSon, money
hen our families needed it?got to
nit. If we havo been dancing, it
utters not under what name it may
a l?*\?\wrrfc tiiK a* aw.
nuvM it) n uvvuoi in jonutauuii,
cal partners, cotillion or any of the
her soft names it assumes, in order
i cover ita true nature?-just got it
1 to quit.
1(1 mean you, of course, brother)
low thut round dancing is dancing
I around over the country in genal,
but it means also laying nside
lurch vow's and extending a cordial
vitation to satan to come in and
rect the affairs of the occasion and
avc his demands upon the morals of
e participants and lead them cap
yes at will. Not long ago I was
Iking with a young man when ho
id, -'Well, my brother, you know
at there is a great deal of difference
tween the 'round dance' and the
juiro dance.'" This put me to
inking, and as the old fellow says,
e more I think the wiser I am, for
ally there is a difference and a big
fference too. The round dance you
iqw is round?the more you go the
ore you have to go?in fuct there
no end to it. That's all. But
uare means square, with four ends
short turns or changes of direction
id if there is not a full stop at the
rner there is at least a momentary
tuse. In dancing take the square
id quir. In religion take the
und?"Keep going."
This fear of my text is found everylicre
and in everything. Even the
eat women have it, and Uod know"
g how scary his creatures are
idged about or rather guarded
;sunst this one thing, therefore we
id "fear not" a characteristic word
the Bible and especially bo of our
eased Lord for not only iji our text
d he say "fear not" but his whole
ission and message to mankind was
banish fear from their mind.
Take any concordance?your
ible, for instance, and count the
imber of times where the hearticering
word^ or its equivolent ocirs.
But now, at the present time let
i listen to these words, spoken by
e master himself and in so doing
itice first this one in the text,
ihn says: "And when I saw him I
11 at his feet as dead", the flesh is
ich that it cannot endure imtnediato
intact with the holy, and John,
hilc he had lain in his Master's
>som can now as little as any other
idure the revelation, or do without
te "ftar not." Isaiah could not
and it ana Daniel says in the 5th
irse of the 10th chapter: "I set
v faco toward the ground and I beime
dumb."
While Moses when receiving the
,w on the mount asked God to show
i him his glory received this answer:
T1 >. * e r
X UUU UttUB I nut bwu my IUCC xor
.ere sliall no man see me and live."
And now admid all this Bible
uth to hear men crying out: "Ro
eal thyself unto me. Let us behold
ly face, come and take me out of
lis troublesome world." Suggests to
ly mind a great deal of ignorance,
reminds me of Bob Taylor's old
egro Joe who lived in the mountains
f Tennessee. Joe was in the habit
f praying morning and night for the
ood Lord to come and take him out
f this troublesome world. A white
eighbor concluded to put a stop to
uch uncalled for requests and on*
lorning while Joe was at his devoions
rapped at the door of Joe's cabin
oe says: "Whose dat?" "I am
i&briol whom the Lord has sent t<.
ake poor Joe out of this troublesome
rorla" was the reply he received
lot grabbed his hat and went out o
he back door as fast as he could run
Dnroute a rabbit jumped up in fron
>f him. Joe kioked the rabbit out o
tis way and said to himself, "tak
:are rabbit, got out of the road an<
let somebody run that can run."
Here we find aa waa Joe, many deluded,
thinking they arc prepared to
meet God in peace and when the
moment comes fiud how mistaken they
are.
"Fear not," also forbids our giving
up in hopeless cases. Read Luke 8:
40 and 50 verses. If over there was
a hopeless case this was one.
Is there a parent preseut this morning
who has a daughter dead??dead
in sin. If so, "fear not," believe
only and she shall be made whole,
[f there are others who have heroto
J
iwiD iu uun8i despair doc, uuc
rather keep praying. We may not
see tho answer now but thank God
we will hereafter.
Dr. Spurgoon tells of a woman who
prayed long and earnestly for her
husband and how she used to attend
a certain church in England. Yet
she never saw the result. The husband
was a drinking, dancing, card
playing, swearing man, who did not
attend church. So the wife had to
go alone only accompanied by a
favorite dog which would follow her
to her seat and there remain during
the services. Tho good woman died
while the husbaud was still unsaved.
gie continued to attend the church
its was his custom whilo his mistress
was alive. The master wonderiug
what the animal did at the church
followed it there one day. The dog
led him do^yn the aisle to his dear
old mistress' seat and there in his
wife's pew God giving the minister
tke word came with power and that
man, tho long prayed for husband,
wept till lie found the Saviour.
Read Matt. 10.28. Aud this fear
not we find defies persecution. God's
servants are not hunted down altogether
as they were by persecutors
years ago. The lovers of liberty and
religious freedom have shut tho lion's
mouth. Yet while this is true ?he
enemies of the cross know well
enough how to inflict pain. They
make and circulate things that arc
not true and are readily joined by
hypocrites and pretenders who at
once begin to pry into the scandal.
Solomon says: A forward man
soweth strife and a whisperer separated
chief friends.
"Truth crashed to earth will rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error wounded writhes with pain;
Aud dies amon? liar worshinnars."
In Luke 12:32, Christ says: "Fear
not little llock, for it is your father's
good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
He had been warning them
against distracting thought, temperal
provisions therefore bias them "fear
not" for the kingdom is to be theirs.
And brother, this same fear not is
ours.
Why then should we talk starvation?
Why should we continuedly
harp on "hard times?" I can see
no good reason. God has wonderfully
blessed us and if we will but exercise
more faith,, believe more of his
feat nots our cribs no doubt will contain
more corn and we ourselves will
bo more like our Lord. Listen
please. I have been young and now
am old yet have I not known the
righteous forsaken or his seed begging
bread.
. Vox.
Salaries of County Officers.
The salaries of county auditors
was lixed by the Senat^ this week
as follows:
Abbeville 8 900 Greenw'd# 900
Aiken 1,100 Hampton 900
Anderson 1,500 Horry 750
Bamberg 800 Kersnaw 900
Barnwell 1,000 Lancaster 900
, Beaufort 1,200 Laurens 975
Berkeley 825 Lexington 950
Charleston 2,000 Marion 937
Cherokee 675 Marlboro 800
Chester 900 Newberry 1,000
Chesterfield 675 Oconee 800
Clarendon 800 Orangeb'g 1,500
Colleton 1,100 Pickens 675
Darlington 900 Richland 1,600
Dorchester 700 Saluda 800
Edgefield 1.000 Spartanb'g
> Fairfield 900 Sumter 1,200
Florence 900. Union &0Q
Georgetown -975 VVilliamsb'g 900
' Greenville 1,125 York 1,300
j That in addition to the anlarios
herein provided, the auditors shall
f receive a fee of. 25 cents for each
conveyance of real e?t ite recorded,
t COUNTY TjtRSURKRS. ?
f The salaries of county treasurer*
e | was fixed at the same as county aud
X iters, with an allowance of 50 oenU
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for each delinquent taxpayer. <
SHERIFFS. i
The following were fixed as sal- j
aries of sheriffs, with the old allowancc
of 20 cents a day for dieting 4
Florence GOO Union 600
Georgetown 800 Williamsb'g 750 ^
Greenville 850 York 800
THE LIBERTY BELL j
Can Aom- be Seen in Charleston, t
In connection with the coming of ^
the Liberty Bell to Charleston, the (
following history of the bell as givefi *
in The State will, we beliove, be of J
great interest at this time to our ]
readers;
"The bell was cost by Thomas '
Lester, YYhitechapel, London. The !
bell arrived at the end of August,
1752, and was hung. Early in
September, however, it was cracked '
by a stroke of the clapper without
any other violence and thereupon (
recast by. rasa & Stow* two "ingen- '
ions workmen," in Philadelphia, and
hung April 17th, 1753. In the recasting
the same metal was used
with the addition of an ounce and a
, half of copper to the pound to make
*he bell less brittle. The same form
1 and lettering were preserved with
1 the substitution of the names and
1 place and year of recasting it now
bears. It was recast by them, the
first casting not being satisfactory,
I and the same year again hung in tne
- State House.
i The bell is i'l feet in oircumfer
each prisoner: I
Abbovillo $1,100 llumpton $1,000 (;
Aiken 2,000 Horry 300 *
Anderson 1,800 Kershaw 000 ?
Bamberg 850 Lancaster 1,000
Barnwell 1,500 Laurens 1,500 ^
Beaufort 1,500 Lexington 700 .
Berkeley 1.500 Marion 1,800 1
Charleston 500 Marlboro 1,350
Cherokee 800 Newberry 1,100 ?
Chester 900 Oconee 500
Chesterfield 900 Orangeb'g 2,000
Clarendon 800 Pickens 700 f
Colleton 1,300 Richland 2,000 .
Dorchester 700 Saluda 1,000 c
Edgefield 900 Spartanb'g 2,000 ^
Florence 1,500 Suuiter 1,800 1
Geo'town 1,500 Union 1,500
Greenville 1,800 Will'msb'g 1,300 c
Greenwood 1,000 York 1,400 .
ii
CLERKS OF COURT. ^
The salaries of the Clerks of Court 0
was then fixed as follows: I
Abbevjlle 3 300 Grcenw'd 3 250 1
Aiken 500 Hampton 250
Anderson 500 Horry 300 v
Bambc-rg 150 Kershaw 350 \
Barnwell 400 Lancaster 250 (
Beaufort 400 Laurens 350 J
Berkley 300 Lexington 300 p
Charleston 1,800 Marion 500 J
Cherokee 200 Marlboro 650
Chester 350 Newberry 275 f;
Chesterfield 200 Oconee 150 (
Clarendon 150 Orangeb'g 550 i
Colleton 300 Pickens 300 a
Darlington 400 Richland 425 y
Dorchester 200 Saluda 200 (
Edgefield 200 Spartanb'g 500 a
Fairfield 300 Sumter 400 fc
Florence 2o0 Union 400 j(
Georgetown 500 Williamsb'g 275 fj
Greenville 900 York 400
COUNTY SUPERVISORS. f
The salaries of the County Super- v
visors was fixed as follows: c
Abbeville $ 750 Greenw'dft 700
Aiken 800 Hampton 600 '
Anderson 900 Ilorry 500
Bamberg 250 Kershaw 600 ^
Barnwell 800 Lancastor 600 ^
Beaufort 800 Laurens 800 0
Berkley 600 Lexington 250 1
Charleston 1,200 Marion 800 ?
Cherokee 500 Marlboro 600 ^
Chester 800 Newberry 750 ^
Chesterfield 600 Oconee 300
Clarendon 600 Orangeb'g 400 P
Colleton 550 Pickens 250 *
Darlington 750 Richland 550 c
Dorchester 400 Saluda 300
Kdgefield 500 Spartanb'g 850
Fairfield 650 Sumter 750
ILSON & SON,
ER5,
king Business in all its
.gainst Fire, Tornado,
dents, and Issue Bonds
s of Corporations, and
ators, Etc., Etc.
tPFfMTIII I V oni iniTrn
r i UVI I ULLI UULIUI I LU?
mce around the lip and 7 feet 6
nches around the crown; it is three
'eet following the line of the bell
rom the lip to the crown. It is
hree inches thick in the thiokest
)&rt near the lip, and one and a
[uaiter inches thick in the thinnest
>art toward the crown. The length
if tho clapper is 3 feet 2 inches, and
he weight of the whole is 2,080
K>unds.
It is lettered in a line encircling
ts crown with the sentence:
"Proclaim Liberty Throughout all
ho Land Unto all the Inhabitants
Thereof," Lev. xxv., v., x.
Immediately under the sentence,
dso in a line encircling the crown:
'By "Order of the Assembly of the
Province of Pennsylvania for tho
state House in Philadelphia. Pass
t Stow, Philadelphia. MDCCLIII."
The model of the bell was one
ast by order of Henry III, in the
sarly part of the thirteenth century
n memory of Edward the Confessor,
yhich was hung in the clock tower
f Westminster, and was named St.
Edward, but generally known as the
'great Tom of Westminster."
The ringers of the bell were Ed
. ? ?. uwiT) xi i^avia iidwards,
755-8; Andrew McNair, 1759-76
September 15), the ringer of the
Reclamation of Independence. The
ist ringer of the bell was Thomas
)owning, 1828-36.
The Liberty bell has been removed
rom the building on four occasions;
h% first, during the revolution, Sepember,
1777, when it was taken on
, wagon to Allentown, Penn., and
rhen taken from the city to New
)rleans, January 23rd, 1885; Chicgo,
April 25, 1893; Atlanta, Octo?er
24,1895. This trip to the Ghareston
Exposition is therefore the
ifth in its history.
The frame has never been taken
rom the building from the time it
ras first placed there in 1763, exept
for a short time during the resoration
in 1898, until the present
ime.
On July 8, 1835, the bell tolled
or the last time. John Mar?K?ii
ied in Philadelphia on the 6th day
f July, 1835; his remains were on
he day of the anniversary of the
rst proclamation of the Declaration
0 the people borne to Virginia fqr
urial and during the funeral solejnhies
the bell, while slowly tolling,
arted through its great side, and
ras silent henceforth, forever. The
rack came without warning.
Another Jumble.
The House Saturday passed the
;eneral Jury bill to its 3rd reading
vithout much discussion.
Captain Hill's bill seeking to require
the publication of county ex)enditure8
passed the House but
VIr. Robinson managed to get an
imendment adopted which exempted
Pickens county from the provisions
>f the bill. It is rather curious that
;he House should in one hour have
massed the general jury bill, which
was necessary because the Supreme
Court had said that exemptions for .
certain oounties made an act nail*
ind void and then in the next hoar
tiave Dassed Contain Wili'a Kill
r AAIU a VUI
which sought to avoid the very con*
mtulional trouble the Supreme Court had
pointed out and should have ad- ;t
led a clause which makes the act
not worth the paper it is printed on. >
Notice. -.
On Friday, February 7tb, 1902, will
meet at Murphy's bridge on Fair Forest
crtek for the purpose of letting to the ,
lowest responsible bidder the repairing
of said bridge. Specifications can be
seen at the bridge. Successful bidder
will be required to give bond double tile
amount of contract. Letting will take
place at 12. o'clock m.
T. J. Uktenhaugh,
5-2t Supervisor. *
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