The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 08, 1903, Page 4, Image 4
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UNION, 8. C.t MAY 8, 19C3.
Try your hand at raising flowers. A
small spot of ground, carefully prepared
and well fertilized will, if planted in
roses, reward you well. A little labor
and a little cost will bring great gain.
The Thirty Seventh National Encampment,
G. A. R., is to be held in
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U?? M. luuvmiu urgiuuillg AUg. J ( cn.
That- city is making great preparations
for accommodating the immense
throngs that are expected to attend.
Hotels and railroads are arranging
to give reduced rates.
Mr. Jas, A. Hoyt, the editorial correspondent
for the State, gave a good
writoup for his paper on the Edi:oational
Conference recently held in
RichmomJ^. Ho SStifitTed himself, and
'majority of those who read his
accounts of the great meeting, that
/ those interested in the movement
were friendly to the white people of
the South and that their aims and
purposes were good.
"Murder will out."?so also will
crookedness in high places. The
scandal in the Post Office Department
at Washington is proof of the
statement. A criminal misuse of a
public trust may be covered up most
carefully and for a long timo, but
such a process will at last find its
way to tho public mind. Sin, over
since the days of Eden, has had a
hard time hiding itself. It is to be
hoped that the Washington affair will
be thoroughly investigated and the
guilty parties punished for their
fraud.
It is to be hoped the storos will
close at six o'clock through the summer
months. This much is duo the
employees on the part of the employers.
Besides, if there should be a
general closing of the business houses
noDody will be the loser. The wage
earner gets an opportunity to develop
the physical and social side. There
is some lot up in the ceaseless grind.
As a result a clearer mind, a stronger
body and a higher impetus to render
gArtrl gaisiit* U W??t?gV>t into "Doing on
the part of the employee.
We often hear people say of some
man, "He is a self-rnade man,"
meaning that he is a man that has
succeeded in business without having
had theoretical training. Some
successful business man is pointed
out as a shining example of success
without educational advantages.
They say he is uneducated, and yet a
great success. But is he without education?
Here is a man that knows
little or nothing of grammar, rhetoric,
higher mathematics or chemistry.
He has succeeded in business. Try
him in arithmetic, business law, business
forms and affairs and you soon
find that he is master in these things.
He may not have learned them in
the schools, and his methods of getting
at things may not be just according
to the latest rules of the text
books, but he has learned in the school
of experience and observation. He
takes a direct road and gets to the
foundation more certainly than do
the followers of rules. The fact is,
every man who does things well must
act In accordance with theory. There
is no practical man who is not first a
theoretical man. Jle sees where he
is going before he starts, and the
grasp of tho mind upon the worj< not
yet begun, enables him to work with
intelligence. The man that works
without theory is tho mon that works
without system. Strange as it seems,
the practical man is the theoretical
man, for it is exceedingly impracticable
to do anything without knowing
what you do. And so, tho prac,
^ ileal business man, the man who has
succeeded, is a man of sound theory.
He is an educated man?his mind is
drawn out?on at least the lines of
\ Ids own buaineM activities.
J A PAR,
]; A great artist invited a select
T view his handiwork. The assembl
and beaatiful pictures. At last
* chamber in which burned a dim ti
* bare, but upon the fourth there
S Joung woman of surpassing beaut
^ eat under a cluster of over-hangin
i a lily, pure as a dewdrop and pea
A poise of her body was graceful an
? symmetry. Hope beamed from
X throbbed with joyous life. A pr
X her feet and birds of rich plumage
T skirted its banks.
\ Upon the other canvass there
J The same vines, trees, birds and
T and beautiful woman. But how
{over-spread her face now drawn it
and her hands are clutched about
{veals the cause. Projecting fron
shaft of a deadly arrow. "Sir," i
{tell us the meaning of this traged,
"one word explains the meaning
x is?slander. Hore I have tried to
soul pierced by the deadly shaft f
FOOLS AND FAKIRS.
It would seem that men would
learn in the school of experience that
the fakir is unreliable. The old
proverb, "Experience is a dear schaol,
but fools will learn in no other," is
not without point. But if the implication
is that he will always learn
even in that school, it is altogether
false. The man who is gulled by the
fakir is usually allowing h.lrn?elf so
treated iu4b^ fficfii of human testimony,
personal observation and past
experience. Notwithstanding the
fact that he has been warned, and
that he has seen others swindled, and
has been himself a former victim, he
is caught again and again. A boy
said to another: "Come over and
lets go fishing in our creek. The fool
fish will bite there, bait or no bait."
And it does seem that many people
open their mouths and swallow the
bare hook thrown out by the smooth
tongued street peddler. A moments
reflection ought to teach men that
they cannot hope to beat a man at
his own game. The astonishing offer
of "something for nothing" has
falsehood upon its very face. Men
are not succeeding in business by
giving something for nothing. They
must receive money for their wares
or they would soon be out of the cash
with which to buy more merchandise
for the trade. They must make a
profit on their wares or else expenses
would soon eat up the invested capital.
Durine the Charleston "Exnn
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sition last year a small space in one
of the buildings was occupied by a
man whose voice could be heard long
before you got near him. "These
scissors sharpeners are to be given
away. Not a cent of money. Here's
a present for you. Free!" An honest
farmer stood close up waiting for
his present. It turned out that there
were several. ?i?m of scissors sharpeners.
If you bought one at 2">c, you
got one free at 10c, and both of them
together were not worth above l.")j.
Beware of the stranger that offers a {
great bargain. If he offers goods below
the market price the inference is j
that he either stole them, or that
they are of inferior quality. An article
has a market value. Why
would a man sell you something
worth a dollar for fifty cents. If its
market value is a dollar do you not
see that it is worth that to him?
When a street vendor offers for sale
"fine gold rings for twenty-five cents,"
do you not see that he is lying? Do
you not sec that it is impossible for
him to sell a "solid gold watch chain"
for fifty cents? But perhaps the
greatest humbug of all is the medicino
man. His nostrums that he
offers for one dollar a bottle and guarantees
to cure all manner of diseases
costs him perhaps ten cents and will
cure nothing, not even the folly of a
foolish purchaser.
THE BUSY MAN.
"If you want any thing done, call
on the busy man to do it." The
idler is a poor stick to depend upon.
The man that is "busy doing nothing"
for himself, is not likely to
make himself busy doing something
for others. If you wish to get & man
or woman on a church committee or
some citizen'9 committee to do work
for the public good, the busy person
is the one to choose. Idleness and
incompetency go hand in hand. The
fact that a man is a bu?y one, is proof
that he knows how to bring things to
pass ; that he has learned the art of
systematizing; that he knows how
to master details, lie will perform
the duty placed upon him while the
idler ie deciding that he had rather J
not serve in the desired capacity. {
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company to visit his studio and T
ed guests wero shown many rare T
they were led into a dark antl- f
iper. Three of the walls were J
hang two paintings. In one, a V
y and clothed in rich garments, 1
g vines. Her face was fair as a S
ceful as a summer's day. The 9
d its outline marked by perfect |
her eyes and her whole being g
euy brook wound Its way near a
i could be seen in the trees that X
appeared the same background. T
brook. The same richly dress T
chaoged I A deathly palor has T
i pain?terror shone in her eyes t
her throat. A careful look re- I
1 her breast could be seen the 1
laid one of the guests, "will you S
y?" "Alas!" replied the artist, ?
; of the paintings. That word i
i represent the heart of an honest X
lung by a lying tongue." X
STUDY OF LYNCHINGS.
Mr. J. Elbert Cutter, a poet-graduate
student of Yale, has made a scientific
study of lynchings. He has collected a
great amount of data and has prepared
the most exhaustive table yet brought
out on the subject. Some curious and
instruct!va ?' '
?? ms i/iuugui UUt ID D1S
conclusions. One is this: "If there are I
many legal executions there are in general
fewer ljnchjngs." That is a significant
statement. One mighty motive
impelling men to take the law into their
own hands is the growing conviction
that the courts afford a sure refuge for
the criminal. Another statement deserves
notice: "In the Sonth the fewest
lynchings take place in January, February,
August and November, months
when the colored people are most largely
engaged in some diversion or work. In
August, the month when the number of
lynchings is fewest, the negros are all at
campmeelings." It is easy to believe
that employment and religious enthusiasm
would each exert an inflaence that
would keep the negro in the bounds of
good behaviour. It is usually some idle
vagabond, some bad fellow that lives
without work, that becomes the tool ft
passion and commits seme dastardly
crime, and finds swift punishment at
the hands of an enraged mob. One
other deduction of the Yale man deserves
notice: "The decrease iu lynch,
ings since 1892 has been steady, each
successive year showing a smaller number."
Lot us hope that this is a fact;
that both the hideous crimes that call
forth swift vengeance and the mad recklessness
that meets it out so unhesitatingly
may be passing away forever. It
is something to rejoice in that in our
own State there seems to be a cessation
of lynching. In some conapicnous cases,
and where the offenders were nogroes,
at that, there has been a strong and steady
resistance to any disposition to take the
law in mob hands. The sober, intelll|
gent and higher manhood of the State
has taken its stand on the side of "law
and order." And it is a fact that will
hardly be disputed: the stability, the
safety and the happiness of a State depends
largely upon its people imbibing
a deep reverence for law.
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MOTIVE PRODUCINQ ACTIVITY.
Every act involving choice has its
foundation in motive. There is a
"why" behind every action. So
often the heart is base and, therefore,
the activity unrighteous. With many,
the idea of right or wrong has little
control over their doings. To get
even, to pay off a grudge, to satisfy
a spirit of revenge or envy, to gratify
vanity?these, or other equally base
motives too often control men. Men
who show great genius for largo undertakings
too often show this spirit
of littleness in that they allow their
prejudice to control their aetions.
Such men are to be pitticd. Feeding
a. ?:-?_vt. a * -
viic iiiisnrauic name oi seinsn ambition
it barns yet more vigorously,
and instead of giving the anticipated
pleasure, additional pain must be endured.
The mad rush for riches that
surges through many human hearts
is often born of the mean desire to
"get ahead" of some one else. Money
is not sought for the comforts it
brings, nor for the power to do good,
nor for the love to possoss, but that
the possessor may out-strip his fel1
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iuws. j.110 poor 1001 aoes not realize
that there can bo bnt one "richest"
man. He does not comprehend that
when he reaches a certain mark, hundreds
and thousands have already
moved up to a higher one. Happy
the man that eliminates, as far as
possible, the base motive of selfish
gratification, and learns to act from
the noble principles of truth and
love.
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THE EYER RECURRINO TOPIC.
The "race problem" comes up in
many ways and thrusts itself upon
thinking people almost daily. On
the past Sunday night train from
Jonesville the coach for whites was
filled to overflowing with negroes.
They crowded the aisles, sat on the
arms of the seats and pushed and .
jostled white men and white women.'
They grew quite vociferous and an-1
noying. The conductor passed
through the train gathering up the!
tickets, but made no attempt to sep-1
arate the races nor to quell the disorder
of the blacks, On more than
one occasion upon the streets of
Union negro women have been seen
to deliberately cross over from the
outside of the pavement and take the
inside even when they had to take to
the left hand to do so. Time and
again negro nurses have been seen
upon the street rolling baby carriages
three abreast, and seemed heartily
pleased that some white' man had to
take to the "middle of the road."
The writer is no philosopher, nor
does he think wisdom will pass out
of the earth when he makes his exit
therefrom. But a few words spoken
in sober ealmness may do good. The
best people, black and white, are for
peace. They deprecate violence on
either side. They are trying to solve
these problems in the light of reason
and of justice. But there is a limit
to endurance. A spark may set on
fire a world of stubble. It is *ell
enough for some negroes to learn that
they are playing with fire when they
willfully ignore every instinct of right
and try the name of hlnff *n#i
try. ft will not work. It will lead
to broken heads and to bloodshed.
Perhaps oar policemen coald give
some help. It Is their basioess,
whether they do so or not.
ANY CHURCH or pergcnage or institution
supported by voluntary contribution
will be given a liberal quantity
of the Longman A Martinez Pure
Paints whenever they naint.
Notk: Have done so ior twenty-seven
years. 8ales: tens of millions of gallons;
painted nearly two million houses under
guarantee to repaint if not satisfactory.
The paint wears for periods up to
eighteen years. Linseed Oil must be
aaded to the paint (done in two minutes).
Actual eost then about $1.2-5 a
Sillon. Sample) free. Sold by our
gents. J. L. McWhirter, Jonesville.
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