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The buildings are immorise and there is hardly a church in these iajg^s that isn't larger ^0 id ortM^^Lrches of the town owUnkn^id$n<2. .#* The Romaff CafflCnc reWPon as observed over here is very picturesque. JjSach chprc.h . is equipped ^Hth its oomploment of life sized images of the Sainte and ofJthe VirAfafy.fl One'of'theinovE gorgeous speetaeles to be seen in Manila is on BastUr Sunday. 1 On that day the church of the Franciscans has a religions parade. It takes place . just at twilight and is composed of cores of priests of that .ordpr, and size Images of the saints home on | floats parried on the shoulders of the natives. Bach Saint is drsssedt in gorgeous robes and is surrouuded by hundreds of brightly burning candles. Allegorical scenes from the Bible are also represented, such as Jesus bearing the Cross^iy^jf^d t|etejfen<lr of the Roman soldierrffand so on. The Virgin Mary is the most gorgeous figuW all. - ?)n allqihe fin^|g|^ieDands ajai priceless die* S31*i"4g1 a ilinMnd tUal isjort ne#heaa ana the robe in which she ? .1 i i ? * - - JI OTHMfljmiHi ryl in gold bullion. ~ This robe is so heavy , " ia emoroid&red tnSt it requires a pulley worked by say eral m?i to pulpit on or tike it off. ' It is saidihat some years' ago the M?onfe yere.taxed $1,000,000 to pay for the dlafc&hjjs that fifcre "of ? VirgM^t idoraod wtth ill of in seoret vaults,v its * the thick walb **? church, kbewn only to oertain of the priests.- 1 Whan this figure.,of tho Virgin passes between tho thousands of people that lineosob sjde of the streets through which tie - procession is to .pass, they all drop to their knees, bow their hNdi end Cress themdelves. Thousands of others folliw on hither id* of the hosts carrying lighted' candles. ^jEoys, in Sacristan robes, |p before each, figure, swinging ^ensera with burning incense; bai\ds of stringed instruments play sacred Ptwsfo, Jtofi ifow rising, now ftlfing nre many vninne pfianting tbb Te fiettn . * ws ,u .? Imagine such a scene at daylight with thousands of candles burning, aitfk? *:M3&?ht&? ^ysipfJi&iji .ot emreS tout through superstition and reVere*p#^ift# united aed centsala today millions of people* 4l , > Aside frgm the pagan fry, the . M mww observed. Tho Filipinos are not gotten xaot number?gives them ebundftntoteqsfee for idleness. Think vrirst wb?M iM^pen \( ajipofct every ether day in the States wag observed ZSRSXttigtf&gS?tf& these people have. TP? fftSfllarYpart ol 'the people is oeelt ifhti^','^Mmtt iM^ bhly time the fiUpitifi dtrowa off his- stolid. sulW kilhll at- W <?nol dl?Kf TJlcre he'ViH Vager bis hist centaro ^toV4'orw? choice. No otlior people as ? whole are greater gamWere than th? Filipinos. His fighting iwiwlei f^lttrffifillQhp takes Jitotohai with trissjTeeds sod strokes mi *hj? h? SBrWJre 1Ert? ?** 1XL H i < Ai X'" **1 s ' 4 when tht fijln is ov?r. if his ruO'ter has lost and t-cen killed, he takes hi in Lome, and eats him without the slightest quilms. A pood old Spanish priest a number of years ago devoted his entire life to working for the Filipinos. He wps a pious man and lived and labor* ed for them. It was said by oreryyoW^htt he knew more about the 4cfc>practer of tbo Filipino- than any otttar living man, and 'he other priests asked him to put his knowtlkadghfin writing. He consented. Who iltio ?.uwu> piuuo [inust came to (110, after he had confessed and was breathing his last surrounded by the brethren of his order, t>ne of them aaked, "Father, where is the book containing all your knowledge of the Filipino? . lie feebly indicated the place whfere the book was kept. It was brought and opened, and from beginning to end every page was blank. . '.^That is all I know of the eharaotfer of the Filipino," he gasped, aad died with a smile on his face. Whon anyone tells you anything about the characteristics of the FiliI pinos you may know he knows even less than the good priest's book dis? casod. C. B. S, Etta Jane Etchings. Etta Jane. Aug. 11 ?Au tight days meeting closo.l at 8&1em last night?two services a day?merning and. night, each preceded by song and nrftltA oornion Uf?? D T1" j ~ . .w. _?u?. itui. x?, x uuer, of Gaffney, did the preaching. With ekoh service there was apparently an increasing interest and the last service was the best of the feast. 8ixteen accessions to the church was the result, two by letter and fourteen on profes ttyn dif ffcith; young people. The ttrtrkfh&nt of baptism was administered to nine including one infant. Four of the ue w accessions go to Bullock's "Creeks church. It has been many &ears since we lave seen Such a.revival take place In our midst. Rev. W- H-White, the pastor, was present at each wervico except Saturday and Sabbath morning when he was filling If) jkilpita at Lockhart and ^ Mt. I Tfcbor churches. He with Rev. Mr. Poller wax interested in his efforts to make the meeting a good one aQd his foflflest hopes and expectations were fully realised in the glorious results. The congregation have undortaken to have the Salem church building repaired and painted, also lamps and chairs furnished it. , Showers of ralu have been ihising around for the past four days but our section is still dry and crops are failing'fast. ' The Cherokee county campaign still ordgresses- with yery little interest. 1 Ifo issues are befcre the people and its oofy ? matter of men whom they are fo d&oose on the 26th, so far as we can 1964 or learn. l> My old friend Mr. Clough Inman .treated me with some of hts fine Cleokley watermelons last Saturday. They oertainly are fine, though he olaims t did not go soon enough to get tome of his choice melons, both as regards to size and flavor. Mrs.- Jenny Sparks and her children who visited friends-and relatives in this community returnee} to thefitltome at Clifton last Monday. Qfe^Asbery Horn, an old soldier', AM a* Mr. Jason M. Greer's place a iew-d*y*~*g0. - He waa a member of the 15th 8. 0. Regiment, company F. So the wisitiifg, piouics and "big meeting" season will eoon he over and our folks settle down to their various occupations onee more. Misses Ethel and Jessie 8train with Misses Mattie Estes and Mattie Lee expect to visit Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bpatks, of Clifton, this week and spend a few days daring which they WH1 nrobaWv take a trio to thn nltv nf tfce Spartans. > Your correspondent regret* hie inability to attend the U. C. Veterans Reunion at Greenville last week. Zt was prouounoed one of the beet in the history of the organization, and perhaps it was beet, ff ?o it mqst to hare beeu an exceptionally good one. Oberokee county has about fortytwo band id alee canvassing it now for the various offices to be filled two weeks hence, to say nothing of the magistrates, supervisors of registration a?4 other minor offices which are to , be filled by appointment by the the government, I wish to congratulate The Times on its learless aud faithful defense of {he position it has taken on the pistol law and the warm words of apptoba' lion it received irom the leading n jnpv* of Ike country. Go ou, Mr. T " t v 'O; a Editor, with your good work and let the croakers bowl M much as they pita e. Tue time will co<ue in the eod when they will seek to joio the band wagon and help to do the shouting. I regret to learn of the death of Mr, Tom L nig who died from injuries re> ceived from the falling timber at Monaroh Mills last week. Mr. Long was a son of Mr. John Long, of Company C, 7th Cavalry, who was killed at Ridillee Shop, Va., June 13th, 1864. He was a highly respited citizen of this section as long as he made his home amongst us. To his wife and children and n'so his many doar friends and relatives my hotrt goes out in sympathy. Vox* AS TO THE ROADS. Hey Denver is Somewhat Riled Over the Condition of the RoadsM | in Santnc Township. I .have a thick hull nut to be cracked. The county campaign is soon to be open and what are the candidates for Supervisor and county commissioners going to promise as to the working of the roads. We have been promised good roads for several years and they are yet afar off. I would like for them to go over the roads around here. Crops planted i to the vehicle tracks, water corroga- < ting them when it rains out of the < rows and big frog ponds in the road and the bottoms grown up in bushes i and weeds as if it was an uncivilized 1 country. No need to make the plea there is not enough money?we have 1 none too much money?but if it was ? used judiciously it would go farther. J But overseers are allowed to do #nv ' kind of botch work and get what pay ' they ask without the officers ever seeing it. Some only work for t}ie money it seems and the authorities , ought to see the work before they j squander the people's money on such. , I believe the roads oan be worked better with the money we have. The , roads in our section is a reproach to < the community, the county govorn- j ment laws and to the county. It is possible to get men who want the job < of road overseeing for the money there is in the job, and like a nigger do as little for that money as possible, and get full pay for it. "What does the officers know about the road? 1 Do they think everybody is strictly honest and scrupulous? And there are men who you would call a substantial citizen, an honor to his country, a great credit, one who has the interest of his county at heart, yet will allow you only room for a wagon p^th, not road, mutilate them in vavtAMO Wflvfl ohm nn ?5/1a <u T??ivuo owp up om^ U1WUW) if there are any, bank brush, logs, , rocks, etc., over the tracks, turn , water in the road, and they know j that if those roads are worked it takes more money, and perhaps they would be the ones who would kick at the i legislature about high taxes and per- < haps dodge taxation by a low valuation of property and keeping buildings entirely off the tax books, when a poor man with only a few houses must put all on, and the pqqr map tramp*? through mqd across the bottoms instead of having a place fixed to walk on. Now there is a notice to overseers in the pappra to work the roads, open up all side ditches. et3., cut brush that have grown over road.: Phoo! suppose we have no side ditches, but peqple are plowing where they ought to be.' Suppose they ere nqt used to cutting bushes. Let us get the editor tol)lur that notice so wp can't read it, for if it is like those heretofore it is paying fof an adyertisemont that means nothing, but a show-off. Why do not more try to get a job as road boss, it must be a soft place and tolerably fat; anyway it is hung on to with a persistence, and many of those men are going to work for a continuation of this kind of management, mark my words and see if they don't They don't want to lose their jobs, and so'mb will probably have males, wagons, etc. of their own on the road that is not needed, but doing only enough to say they were there 50 they can get pay for them. I would not ask anyone to take my word for it bat for the condition of oar wagon paths I ask you4o come down and take a drive over them. If they <?an't speak, they are simply dna}b* ' ? Hey Denver. Jonesville News Notes. JoNNBVILLE, Aug. 11.?The lest few awful hot day* have told wonderfully upon the crops. The corn and cotton seems to he parched by the hot sun and are failiug fast. Thunder clouds rise up aud look kb there would be rain, but they scatter and blow over and give ns no rain. There hasn't been a good ruin from a thunder c'oud at JonesviUe" this summer, it is true we have had a few g>>d seasons, but they have all coine from wet weather clouds, they were fine rains but they are too far between, especially this hot weather. Farmers begin to realize that their crepe of both corn and cotton ars s -rry. One of the negroes, George Long, who went to the Virginia Coal Mines not long since,, has returned with a i r ? 11 K<?mi isDfl oi Brra'i pox. tie I1V6B jus* outside of the corporation of Jontsrille. It seems the negroes are bound'to keep the suiall pox in the country, and to have both at onoe is a pest sure enough. Mr. James, agent of the Southern Express Company, came here last Saturday and closed theoxpress office. The Express C >mpany refused to pay the licftuse of ten dollars a year imposed by the Town Council. The Express Company ..had not been charged a license uutil this year and they positively refused to* pay the license and closed their {office without giving any notice. I understand that some packages in the office that had not been taken out were roturned by the Company, and some goods that were cn the way addressed to the office here and received and receipted for to this offioe were left at Lock hart Junction, which looks very much Itke the great Southern Express Company has bijt little regard for their patrons if the report be true. Mr. Jim Gallman takes the cake for raising large -watermelons. He raised one this season that weighed 54 pounds; he has many other very large ones Mr. Gallmau al*o has some of the finest ootton in the country. He paid ten dollars for. a bushel of seed last spring and planted five acres wwn mem. ami put 4U0 pounds of fertiliser under them and tho cotton is the finest piece ot cotton in the country by a long ways. Mrs. J. F. Betsill, of Cross Keys, is visiting her mother Mrs G. B. Fowler. Dr. Wm. A. Smith, of Glendale, spent last Saturday in our town. Mr. Charles ft. Smith, of Union, was in our town yesterday. Miss Idell Brown, of Spartanburg, is visiting the family of Dr. Southard. Mr. L. J. Hames, of Uniou, is in town today. Rev. David Hucks and A. A. James filled their pulpits here yesterday morning and evening. The veterans that attended the re union in Greenville have all returned and are much pleased with their outinj? Miss Hndnah Leo, of ?|ogansville, was in our town yesterday and attended worship at the Methodist church. Telephone. The News From Meadows. 1(1 h. Boitqh:?As you rarely ever hear from this section I will give you a few notes this week. Miss Ida Knight, of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Price, of Macon, Ga., are here and will vpen^ some time at their old home with their aunts. Mr. J. B. Atkinson and his daughter, Miss Bell, of Chester, have retyrnpd home after spending several days with his son-in-law Mr. Hawkins Meador. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fridy entertained the young people at their home recently iu henor ot Miss Hobson, of Mississippi. Every one seemed to enjoy themselves very much. Ice cream, cake ai^d fruits were served in too grove which was very refreshing and added mqch to the pleasure of- the occasion. We also had the pleasure of attendin^ a nionic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Carter, whioh was a very enjoyable > occasion. At noon a bountiful dinner Was spread. Fruits and melons abounded and were very refreshing, as the day was quite warm. Excellent music was rendered by different ones of the party on the piano' and violins. Suoh occasions are very helpful and enlivening to the neighborhood and we hope the good work will go on. * . \ 8, Li 0. i" ' ' t [""torn] insur 5 At low is issu< j Wm. A. NICHC s BANI" Tribute of Respect. w iHTftii8 on July 23rd, 1902, it wa^ the will of heaven to assert its claim nud take from u<* our friend, brother and esteemed superintendent T. L. ilames. A faithful sold"*f ?>n the field of battle, an unpretentious citizen in the private walks of iif#* a faithful and efficient superintendent of the Jonesville Methodist Sunday School for nearly a quarter of a century, a devout believer in the principles taught by the lowly Nazarine and the ideal type of a Christian gentleman, be it therefore resolved: 1st. That in the death of brother Hamas our State has lost a good citizen, the church a faithful servant, the Sunday School a faithful ard efficient Superintendent and his family a gentle, kind and loving husband and father. 2nd. That while we keenly feel the irreparablo loss wo have sustained and bow submissively to the will of Providence there is consolation in the fact that our departed friend having performed his appointed work on earth has gone flown to the grave honorably, peacefully and quietly to reap the reward of the finally faithful. 3rd. That these resolutions he inscribed in the Sunday School Record Book and a page therein dedicated to his memory. 4th. That these resolutions be sent to tho couaty papers for publication and a copy delivered to the family of the deceased. J. F. Alman, C. H. Foster, J. B. Foster, M. B. Gilliam, J. L. McWiiirter, Dr. M. W. Chambers, Committee. Lockhart Junction News Notes. We are having August like weather, it has put in several hot days right on the go, but occasional showers will make it all right for the growing crop. The crop prospect is very promising in this section, especially the up land corn. We have not much news from this site, picnics, barbecues and pratracted meetings are the order of the day. Sometimes a candidate calls to see us on his go round. Mf. I. W. White who has been in Briton, Ala., for the past eighteen months, has returned to his home for a rest but will return soon to his work. He is employed as a, fireman on a locomotivp engine at that place. Several from this place attended the old soldier's reunion held at Greenville the past week. All report a good time, ^r. H. N. Johnsan who is an operator at the Union cotton mills is spending a week in this section going around to see his old fViends aud relatives and visiting his old home where he was born and raised. lie speaks very interesting of his old homo place. He says he went down to the old spring and took a good drink of water and it looks as 1 1 ? *1 1 / nau^i as over, ana ne inougnc 01 his boyhood days spent around the old home, but he doesn't own any possessions there now, the old place changed hands long ago. But ho says ne is striving to nave a home not made with hands in God's kingdom. He is a consecrated Christian and I like to meet such men. He is also a reader of Tiik Times and says that he is making a good living at the cotton mill. Mr. Oliver Eaves and Mr. Cleur Garter, of this neighborhood, cooked the barbecue dinner at the Greenville reunion. ? Moxy. ANCE i I rat? 3d by | >LSON & SON, II CER5. 11 < ? Letter From Spartanburg. Spaktakhurg, Anfj, 11.?Weekly we have a feast of good things gath B>cu iui umuu b pupuiur paper and prepared by the editor and his corps of talented contributors. I appreciate them all very much and often take up the pen to contribute my mite, but the thought of the waste basket deters my effort, although it only whispers. Many of our big lights have gone to the mountains, many are still here pulling for faine and dollars, and wishing for n hold up in the heat. Rain will certainly be welcome, but we dread the wind and lightning, and we hold our breath when we see the rain cloud, apparently, coming up. We, with many others, regret the death of Mr. Thad Hames, of Jonesville. A good man gone, even more than that, an energetic, self-sacrificing mau, broad onough in spirit to find duties outside of the goneral routine and which duties were faithfully discharged. Strangers could dependjupon his advice and were often welcomed at his home by his thoughtful, kind-hearted wife and children. The family have our sympathy in this, their very sad bereavement, j New Hope graveyard has again thrown open her sod and enclosed one dear to the by-gone days of Rocky Creek. Wallace Hyatt, a good, honest, true life cut short, but I know His I will must be ricrht. On* avmrwof.Kw Q goes out to the different members of [his mourning family. The Teacher's school is in session at the Converse street building. I have the privilege of attending on Saturdays. Comparatively speaking the school is small, but those attending are reoeiving excellent training for their work from Prof. Rembert audSupt. Evans; but still the problem, "Why do nob the laws of the State make provision so that the country schools might have the benefit of public terms for eight or nine months in the year, and thus prepare the children for a choice of occupations by the time they are sixteen or seventeen years old?" is stiH unsolved. 1 am glad to hear that Union took hold of the commercial school in earnest and trust that the members of the school will be faithful workers. I saw Mr. James Smith on the streets Saturday, he is looking well and is pleased with his situation, Mr. Lawrence Gault is baok again at his studies and reports having had a nice time with his old (?) frienda while at Union. Mr. Hunt, a former student, now at Lockhart, called to see us a few days ago. He likes the Union neotde I and his situation. Our ex-students almost always call as they are passing through the olty, at the Commercial to see the faculty and to know "what has become of our class?" and do not speak with regret of their study while here, but are glad to be reaping some of the fruits of honest application. With best wishes for yourself and correspondents, lockhart Locals. Lookh.vrt, Aug. 12.?Store Man? ager Mf. W. K. Livingston has not as yet returned from a protracted visit of pleasure and recreation. , It is ex* pected that he will return this week. Mr. Marcus Brown is rusticating among the mountains of N. C. Mr. Walter Browu, who has for some time been conductor on th# Lockhart branch of the Southern R. It., is off on a vacation. During his absence Mr. L. B. Anderson is the man who punches the tickets. Mrs. W. T. Garner is off on a vinit to Greenville to the home of her sister Mis. Abbororombie. She is accoo** panied by her children. Mr. T. B. McAbee, has peen visit* ing friends and relatives in Greenville ceuuty. Homo has been simewhat indisposed for the last week, and la^t Sun* day evening he was very agreeably J surprised to have a whole bevy of pretty girls come to see him. It is needles? to say that the medicine (not bad to the senses) bad its. desired success and he was able for duty on Monday morning. Homo. \ ?