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w d mrhbhm THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY Fit I DAY ?BY THE? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Flook Times Buii.oinu oveh Post-office, Bei.l Phone No. 1 J SO. R. MAT II IS, Editor. L. G. Yoono, Managor. Registered at the Postollice in Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Six months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS Ono sr; lare, tirst insertion - - $1.00. Every ibsequent insertion - 50 cents. Coo acts for three months or longer will be uade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8J cents a line. Kejicted manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of reipsct will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., MARCH 27,19(0. It is said that the brain of the white man exceeds that of the negro by ten ounces in weight, just about as much as the brain of the negro exceeds that of the gorill?. We take this method of acknowledging the many words and expressions of endorsement received verbally and through the mails from the readers of Tin-: Times, commending our editorials on the social equality question. Failing to get his appointment of the negro Crum as collector of the port of Charleston endorsed by the committee, Roosevelt has determined to appoint Crum during the recess of Congress. It is reported that a number of white men have applied to position under Crum. Turn on the light and let it be known who these white men are. Plato, in his etrort3 to establish an ideal republic, proposed to put a heavy tax upon men who would not marry, and in Rome during the time of Augustus, certain penalties were attached to bachelorhood, and in later times several States have considered bills for taxining bachelors, despite all this there appears to be a steady decrease in marriages. Why not put a tax. on spinsters nr.d t*( o how that would' work. The man can't if the woman won't inarry. The press of tbo country, East, West, South and Xorth are full of Tillman and his great speech on the OAoial e./mollltr If I h ouv iui ? < | UCO liUI I ? J I HICIC ever was a man twho has climbed to fame over apparently insurmountable obstacles in his path, encountering at every step the most bitter and persistent opposition of powerful forces, that man is Benjamin R. Tillman. lie has literally hammered his success and fame from tool steel, which makes it only the more bright and enduring. There are nothing but words of praise for Tillman now. We would like to see him occupy the President's chair. Trust, trust, trust, it seems there is no end of trusts, the latest is another packing trust. The leading meat packing houses have entered into a combination this week Jto be known as the National Packing Company with a capital of fifteen million dollars. This means that moat is going to remain way up in G. and possibly reach high C. There is only one remedy, farmer friends, raise your own hogs, When the trusts gets a grip the pigs must squeal, but it will pay you to have possession of the squeal rr. If you can't find any pigs send olT and order some. We must begin to raise hogs again in this country nnd the sooner it is begun the better for all concerned at this end of the line. Mark the prediction, if you don't raise hogs you will wish you liad. W. J. Bryan has declined to attend the Democratic club's harmony dinner on April '27th at Brooklyn, becauso Cleveland will bo there. Bryan is right, thero is nothing to be gained by forcing these two men together. Vou had as well try to mix oil and water as try to mix Jiryan and Cleveland. There can bo no friendly feeling between them and the bringing of them together could only cast a damper on the gathering. Jiryan may bo in the wrong for his persistent bitter attacks on Cleveland as wo consider Cleveland a dead duck politically, and the attack is a waste of air.muni- , tion, but wo ad mine JJryan in declining to mix up with litm. Jiryan is a j Democrat, there's noN^ubhing that out, while Cleveland Js^- well it j < la hard to say just what h\is. 11 EFFECT OF A I RURAL LIBRARY. ] "Public School No. 2, Locke town- ! ship, Rowan county, North Carolina, closed a four months' term on March I loth. During tho term tho pupils and patrons of that small school read 1 580 books. Children who wore indifferent and not heretofore interested in tho school rnado rapid progress this year owing to tho influence of tho rurul library established there last fall under the provisions of tho North Carolina Rural Library Law." Union Graded School has opened up a library that is destined to be - a great help to the scholars, only good books that ten J to instruct and elevate the mind of the pupil arc kept. Many children will read, and if they are not furnished with proper literature they will drift into reading trashy novels that will do their minds more harm than good. Wo would like to see a library established in over^ school in Union county. raaBKow?w?nw DEFENDS MRS. WA IID. Sotn<* People arc Vrone to Criticise Those Things They do not Understand, Editoh Times: Mrs. Ward's clairvoyant readings in The Times have elicited nmo com mcnt and criticism from your readers. I think it wiU help us all 'o lay aside our preconceived notions of what the Bible teaches rrd exaraino prayer fully tho references cited in her reply to J. M. W. S >me of us have been taught that the age of prophecy passed away wi'h the mosaic dispensation, and the d \y tf miracles with the Apostles. The Divine order ii: "To lira hv faith aud not b7 siirht." It i.-> to be feared that, in this progressive age, the order is being reversed aud men are grasping for visible, material thing?. It" so wo can re.dlly account for the lack of miraculous pw: r The heathen i lea of G >d *s cj: li ic-d to the scop3 of the 1 atural vision hence the c >s s'.ruc'i in of images of wood, 6lone aud other viiible material It is a sad fact that few, comparatively, allow their thoughts t> reach b^joad the verge of material things aud contemplate tho power of the rajslerious invisible forces God I1.13 ere ated for man's u c and be.i'fi. All power is vcs'el in these unseen fhrces. This is apparent when we realize tha' G ;d ij a ttrrit, in visible, yet omnip otent, omuisceat and omnipreseut The rniid controls the b dy. Thought moves the universe, t avals through ppace with a velocity that baill :3 com putation. Thought, a substantive, who can de.fiao it? What a debt of gratitude we owe the eminent ecien tis'.s whose thoughts have reached out over the vssfc ccrao of mys'ery and grasped tho unseen forces of nature, utilizing them for tho benefit of man kind. Tho commercial and relig:ous wor <i nr.s neon, as it wero, transformed through lbs iuflaencs of these mighty forces. As to Spiritm' gifts, Paul writing to the Corinthians encourages thera to desire spiritml gifts, nnniicg several, healing, niiiacle3, prophecy, otc , ppeciaily commending tho gift of prophecy. If the C iris tians at C >rinth could obtain these gifts, I would ask when and by what authority have these gifts been with held from christians since Paul's diy. Well, what do you think of M-s. Ward? I know no limit to tho pjwer of the mind. I believe she can d> what she claims to perform according to the faith she possesses I believe in healing the sick by psychic science and laying on of hands. I d o not be lievo such cures are the result of any special gifts or p wor showered upon a chosen few, but were brought about by strict compliauco to certain psychic?laws which are unerring aud lasting, t s those of gravitation. Ilealing by the laying on cf hands wis common among tho Jews. Pa!din me when I state I have performed Dimerous cures, in thi3 way, during the past two years, her.ee I kuow whereof I write. Many things are marvelous and mystericU3 in this p*o> groosivs ago, yet i:i no wise miraculous. 0. B P. ono, i> I) II. Tin; timus Tin; FA MI TV FA VORITI1. Tlircc Cheers for the Farmer's I4as8c?Compliments The Times' Reply to Miss (lamer. fifi\ u IZ c>\? j AT i *> > 1 BAO v/l V.O AM J ) i?l HVyU +m'?f For quito a while I've beau think ing that I would write to True Timi;?, but thinking ray letters might not bo interesting, I wouldn't write. I n'nuys eij >y reading the good letters from till the correspondents, i There is but one fault to be found < with Tim Times, ' her visits arc not 1 oftoa enough." When it is about | time i >r the arrival of the paper (and . it is always here in go-id ecrs.n)I j hoar the iequiry several times a day, , ' II.S3 Tub Umios Timks coma ye ?' Truly, it is the fara'ly favorite. I e:>j >y reading M\ W. G. I? iley's ( letters very much, they are s> interesting. I also enjoy reading Tin ^ S > !'hrr.irrj. lliintr i' 5j h?i I, i;t hut not bast, I cortaiuly did oa- !1 joy the teply to (ho Happy Life of a 1 K armor's Wife. Throe aimers fgr the . r. }uo who rcp'ied. She knows wherro j t ihe speaks. 1 injse'.f ;au a Sun r'^t daughter and would not exchange my lot for the city honi*. llow I would ttms the coo', fresh air, the bright [hirers, the new-mown hay, the food, green from the fields, and the honest, genial companionship of near and dear ueighbors. all of whioh are misjiag in the stitlieg, crow led, buay city, where you d? not know oven your next door, neighbor, breathe foul air I losd d with smoke atd odora atd walk dav after dav on tho hard nave # a mcnts. Not auy for me, tbauk you. I mU3t speak complimentary of tho editor's reply to Miss E. A. G. Lot ladies keep sileut in politics, I think the men arc entirely capable of managing that. If noS wbj? I must aid that the whole government would be ia a bad cot d:lion if left for the ladies to manage. Mrs. \\\ T. IL's'll has returned home after mending several days with her sop, Mr. Wdlio B tsiP, of Eaoreo. Miss Nan Wilbaru, of your city, spent last Saturday and Sunday with h?r j cents. Miss Eda Intz Wdburn- will go to Union M >nday to attend the graded school. M ssrs. W. Later Davis and Jjsse Parker, of your city, were among their many fricnc's at Padgett's Creek last third Sunday. Little C'arage, son of Mr. J. G. P.ince, who has for soma timo b:en quite sick with pneumonia, I a n glad to say is rapidly improving. Mis3 R)sa K ilo Turner, the popular teacher of the C 'oss Keya school, gavo an entertaiume.it la^t Friday afternoon which was very much en? joyr(i oy an present. We had a delightful musical given us at tho home of M". ard Mrs. J. M Bennett's last Thursday evening. Music f.trnished by Mr. Bin B B.tsill on the vLlin, with M'ss Mittie Prince at the organ. Mauy thanks to Mr. Beonott ami his hospitable wife for the pleasant lime. For feRr of taking up too much apace I will close, with best wiuhcj to The Times aud its many rcr.de-s. CLVIIF. [Come again, Cljtie, your letter is C<od,anl the readers are c'amori: g for a rega'ar letter from C oss Keys, especially our friend and ve'aatile correspondent in the far West, M \ W. G Bailey. Taanks for your kind wordB. Such expressions from our coi respondents arc very much approcia'ed.?Ed ] SPRING CLEANING IN SPARTANBURG. Union Boy liny# "Knock Out" Drops, But They Knocked. Hiui Into n Ton fill Job?Personal and Other Notes, Spartanburg, S. C., March 23. Editor Union Times: I enjoy the letters from different 1 parts of the county and State, also the letters from Texas, and it makes me feel like some one of Tin: Times' many readers will enjoy an occasional letter from Spartanburg. There is nothing of great interest to write of now. I believe the most sensational occurrence that happened since Xrnas was the young Prof, feasor killing one of his students at Greers, in this county; it is doubly sad on account of the prominence of both families. 1 Itev. L. M. Roper, pastor of First i Baptist church, who was elected President of Furman University, will not accept, and has decided to remain with us as pastor and aid us in erecting our new church which will | begin this week. The building is to cost ?40,000. i There arc many handsome residences going up all over the city. One place deserves special mention, the Winn Smith place, that not many years ago was looked on as almost out of town, is now cut up j into wide streets, and many very < costly residences are already thcro < and many more going up. There is \ one that will soon he completed that j is a curiosity for the town, it is called a Bungalo. I will not try to \ describe it and just wait till the A litor of Tin; Times ouncs up and I ] will take him over and have him write it up. Well, opting is here in fill bloom, < r .i * - i say mat necui-'e my cxWa's arc in ] fall bloom, and my wife hug com- t menccd on spring cleaning, and I ' have got to believe that spring clean- i ing is a "yarn" with women for j mine is cleaning all the year round, f and I do be'icve they do ail this f talk in the spring to get new furnit- i ure. for every time they start about c spring cleaning something has to be c bought. I am talking in self defenso for my list is already ma do out and ny sympathy goes out more to men E n spring time than any other, (or I P ;hink of all them new tugs, curtains n ind many noaro articles that if spring ti lidn't come wo would maybe get out ^ >f, fur I don't see what other excuse ? vould bring them if it wasn't for u his spring cleaning. I am going to i^k same great philosopher about j' his work and seo if ho or she can .r ;ot mo out of it. We had discussed ft A he matter over and at last my wife old me to to the drug oto^e and "N I ' '''-.V> mmmmmm^mamm-rnrn Mm VW ' ' n??? L FOR , ~ j This wil as the si Sin I IT*. I B A I IT! V I V taWn 1 surpass.^ toryof Union prised at the shown at our We extend a most cordis to all -to come and see Millinery, Silks Trimmings of all kinds White Mercrized Mai Ladies' Fancy Neckv effect in elbow lengtl Also Clothing, Shoe Fancy Parasols, Ho Doylies, Lace C notions We will make th miss this great feast i if srmn ar n inuiuaii 11 R. P. HARRY, M; get her some "knock out drops," that was just what I wanted, away I went thinking I was going to get something to put me out of all the trouble I was anticipating, but it actuully doubled it. Then she told me to move everything in the center of each room and put the drops on every bed, in each crack in the wall, if they were low crawl under the beds, if they wero high stretch up till I reached them; it was just fchnn that T faiirwl ?v..i. t l_j ~ ? kvuuu UUV HUUl JL li HU purchased from the drug store. It was to knock the bugs out not me, but I learned something, if I live to Bee one hundred more springs I will get no moro knock out drops. Union Bo v. Cheap Rates via Southern Railway On the dates named below, the Southern Railway will sell special round-trip tickets as follows: To Nashville, Tenn., account of Cieneraly Assembly, Cumberland Presbyterian church. Rate of one fare plu9 twenty-live cents for the round trip. Tickets on sale May 10th, 20th and 21st with final limit Juno 1st, 19051. To St. Louis, Mo., account of Dedication Ceremonies, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Rate of one first class fare for the round trip. Tickets on salo April 29th, 80th and May 1st, good to leave St. Louis not later than May 1th, 1903, returning. To Atlanta, Ga,, account of National Convention, B. Y. P. U. of America. One first class fare plus twenty-i'ive cents for the round trip. Tickets on salo July 8th, 9th and 10th, with final limit July 15th, 1903.1 To Richmond, Va? account of Southern Educational Conference. Hate of one and one-third fares for he round trip. Tickets on sale April 20th and 21st, with final limit April 28th, 1908. Solid vestibuled trains. Elegant ?ullman sleeping car service. Unexcelled Dininif Hni- o""1"" tj?~ 0 ' 'V.O. i: ur | ull information in regard to sched- j \ ilea, tickets, etc., apply to any agent ?f the Southern Railway Company, ?r . R. VV. Hunt, Div. Pas. Agt., J Charleston, S. C, JVERY CHURCH or institution supiortcd by voluntary contribution will ' c given a liberal quantity of the liOngaan & Martinez Pure Paints whoi.over ( hey paint. Iotb: Have done so for twenty-seven cars. Sales: Tens of millions of g.tljns; painted nearly two million houses ndcr guaranteo to repaint if not satistctory: The paint wears for periods p to eighteen years. Linseed Oil must e added to the paint, (dono in twn untiies.) Actual cost then about $1.25 gallon. Samples free, fold by out gents. J. I,. McWbiitci, .foncsvillo, .11. Wilburn & Son, Cross Keys. . 6-2ino. j OOK OUT APRIL 2nd. I be an April fool for you L? pring opening of the UMY UUUUb UO. # inything ever shown in the hisand we know you will be sur; beautiful goods that will be ' mammoth department store. Mnvilata QRANQ DISPLAY OF Wool Good, Wash Fabrics, , Embroideries, Laces, dras, P. K's., Etc. vear, Silk Gloves and Mitts, the new laoe lis, White Chiffon Fans, plain and fanoy. a big lot of new swell spring 10 nvrnrrlo Uolo I Imkm 11 ? lUj UAIUIUO, I IOLOj UIIIUI ClldO, siery. Neckwear, Table Linen, Towels, Curtains, New Draperies and small 5 too numerons to mention. the most sucoessful -opening of our 13 business oareer. So you can't afford to ivhich we will have spread for you. RY GOODS COMPANY. K**. Opposite Hotel Union UNION SHOE CO.'S 5H0ES. They Are * . The Best ~? ???*# ?* i?o?. OtO MtiTM c&. Wz^k CAT***"***. We quote one of our customers who says: "Every WALK-OVER I wear the morft 1 Rm P.nnx/inoorl tKmr 1 ^ ? - w>" VW11 T XAJIVWU uioj arc tiltJ UtJSU shoes on earth for the money." $3.50 and $4.00 Our name stamped on every pair. Union Shoo Company, f SHOE MERCHANTS. Wain Street, Union, S. <3*