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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?by thi? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Flook Times Building ver postokkice, bell plione No. i. L. Q. Young, Manager. Registered at the Fostofllce in Union, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Sioc months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One sq iare, first insertion - - f 1.00. Every .ibsequent insertion - 50cents. Con acts for three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. C., JUNE 12, 1903. The editor acknowledges an invitation to be present at the closing exercises of the College of Charleston to be held Tuesday evening, June 1(1. This commencement marks the close of one hundred and seventeen years that the college hasboen In existence. Let the citizens of Union extend help to the helpless at Clifton and Pacolet. It will bo well bestowed. Thk Unioh Times will gladly forward to the proper authorities any amount left in its custody for that object. Any of the banks will, no doubt, do ] i l/'Otr ico Tko m aa/4 I tm * a4> ??1? ?? * ??UV n 1UV x 1IU uocu 10 nut 3UU11 U9 IU require great haste: it is rather a case that promises to be long drawn out. Thousands thrown out of employment; hundreds left destitute. Help has been extended, but more help is needed and will be needed for a long time to come. There will be great need for help being extended to those at Pucolet and Clifton upon whom disaster has fallen. There is a sympathetic cord in the heart of humanity that fails not to vibrate in response to human need. The quick response of one community is an inspiring thing. The world was not always as reudy to show this spirit of helpfulness. In olden times a calamity was old before neighboring communities heard of it. Means for forwarding the help were also nothing like our modern means of sending help. Civilization is advancing. Emphasis is being placed upon the debt that one human soul owes to another and every other one. The spirit of the lowly roan of Nazareth is permeating the leaven of humanity. Here is perhaps the true, at any rate the chief, course of the humane spirit that marks this age. Think of one community in Turkey sending sympathy and financial aid to some smitten community ! This fraternal helpfulness belongs to the Christian nations, and to them alone. "A Chicago school teacher has declared Shakespeare to have been a vulgar punster. No reputation is safe when the Chicago professors take the field."?Spartanburg Journal. This despicable spirit of vandalism is not confined to Chicago. In every community to the needs of another community there must needs be some senseless cattle?men and women in name?brutes in reality. Nothing that is holy is safo in their hands. The long life of useful service and worthy honour does not awaken in their breasts the least pleasurable emotion. Thoy arc ever ready to pull down a lofty reputation, yet have little to lose themselves. They do not hesitate to invade the sacred precincts of the human heart and cast in bitterness and corruption. These envious souls nr. marked by mental mediocrity and abounding conceit. They often pose In the armour of Saul but fall to impress any body with their greatness. They may draw on the lion skin, but when they attempt to do the roaring act every one realizes the voice to be that of a very harmless and silly animal. Attempting to pull down a great man's reputation and fame is auch cheap work! Any ignorant bnmpkin is at liberty to engage in the despicable undertaking, but must take the consequences of his own acts. He must bear the contempt of the fair minded and true men among his fellows. i ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Sn | A PAR/ * There.was once a man in sore T in Hoods and flames. A certain n * help in the time of affliction. He $ exclaim: "Shocking!" "Terrible a, other like expressions. But no cl< M he send forth to bless the noor ma $ subscription list was handed him. ? got to educate my own children. A does not provide for his own is wo X satisfied his conscience and twist? X their real meaning and spirit to < T often change. Time brings many T life of an individual. It so happe T less man refused to aid his neighl T come upon him, he was making a J ity. Upon his journey he fell s $ grievous, and he was carried into x back to life. The good man of th dren gave'him every attention t A grew better of his sickness he begi A who had showed him so great kln< x before," he muttered to himso X friend?" he asked. "Iam Wisto I from the old 8teep Bottom comm T befriended man realized that he 1 T from the hand of the man that he Q ^ THE MONUMENTS THAT ENDURE. There is something in every human heart that craves remembrance. The idea of aniliilatinn in ronulnive and exceedingly abhorent to the normal mind. To be remembered after we have passed behind the thick cloud that bounds the confines of our earthly existence, to leave behind some mark that will endure, is an impulse bom of the higher naturo of man. It is this same desire that is responsible for much of the advancement of the human race. Men love to do, not alone because of tho reward in money and the securing of a comfortable ease, but also- because of the instinctive dread that most men feel at the thought of being forgotten. This motive enters largely into the song of the sweet poet, the wonderful musical composition of the musician, the deep theory of science evolved from the brain of the scientist, the beautiful picture of the skilled artist, the mighty engineering schemes of the great builders and every other activity of human mind and hand. How shall we build so as to accomplish the end desired? The miahtv rillprs r?f "F.rrvnf. hnSlt. areaf o? ?oj rv M%44,v B'vwv pyramids. A few scholars have succeeded in deciphering here and there a name of some one of these great builders. Their very history has perished from the earth. Fire destroys the great books, the wonderful pictures, the magnificent buildings produced by human hands. Time, the great enemy of all human creations is over at work seeking to blot out the product of human genius. War and famine and Hood are all in league with Father Time in his efforts to efface the work of man. It is not then in books nor paintings nor in deep works of science, nor upon tablots of stone, nor shafts of marble that a man finds the sure medium of showing to succeeding generation the mighty thoughts and deeds of his brain and heart. There is a passage in the Bible that throws light upon this, as well as every other question of human experience. In the third verse of the third chapter of second Corinthians the thought is advanced by the writer that Jesus Christ wrote his message to the world "not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." And, whether men receivd it or not, here is the truth in the whole mattor under discussion. Write you message to posterity upon human hearts, not in grnnito and brick and marble. Strange it is, but true: the message transmitted from your heart to books, stone, costly I buildings, works of bronze, brass or iron will fade from sight and be swallowed up in the shadow of the succeeding years. Write in human hearts and the message is widened and deepened with the rolling of the years. After all, llesh is more enduring than marble or bronze, for it is endowed with feeling. It can trans, mit your throbbing message to other throbbing hearts. It has the warm spirit of life. The only message that will endure all calamities is the message that is written iu blood. Do not hold up your hands in horror at this statement. Every movement forward made by the human race has been purchased at the price of blood. Blood paves the shining way that marks the steep incline that leads to the enduring house of fame. Men must needs die before they can save to that which is higher and nobler in human achievement. Blood.marks Bpeak a language that is universal. WJ~ .'"W-'VWWrgi \BL,E. | I distress. He had lost his all J eighbour refused to send forth T stood afar off and was hoard to T i!" "What a pity!" and many $ athing, no food, no money did S in in his day of adversity. A m This he refused to sign. "I've X The Bible says that a man who * I rse than an infidel." Thus he i )d the Holy Scriptures out of g io it. But the affairs of men ? revolutions in even the short T ed that years after the heart- T bour in the distress that had T journey in a distant commun- T lick. This sickness was very * an humble home and nursed * e house and his wife and chil- I ind every kindness, When he ** in to study the face of the man * Iness. "I must have seen him i I if. "Who are you, my good X j r Workman, and moved here X unity." Then it was that the I lad received all this kindness T had once refused to help. J Kg m ? You write in books with ink and pen ; the messago falls upon unheeding eyes and ears; or at but a few will ever be ablo to read the message. Write in characters of blood and you write in the universal languago of mankind. The language of blood, paradoxical as it may seem, is the language of love. Blood and love?a devoted human heart?is the one enduring table upon which to write 1 your message to mankind. All the world will then understand and read and be blessed. Nor will the world forget the message, nor will it forget the sender of the message. THE CATASTROPHE^ AT THE CLIFTONS. I The story of the great flood, still the j absorbing topic of interest in Spartan- | burg, does not grow better or brighter as the minute details point, the most interesting fact connected with the great disaster is the completeness and ac- I curacy of the story gathered at the I beginning. It was complete and yet communication was entirely cut off with the stricken territory and reporters had to depend largely on the uncertain moc e of shouting across the turbulent waters i of Lawson's Fork for the facts. j Mr. O. C. llodgers, one of the line type operators of The Herald was the second newspaper representative who landed on the other side and notwith- J standing the fact that it was almost his J first experience, that he bad to get over ' the roaring stream in a small boat, valk F ten miles, ride a horse part of the way 1 in a blinding rain, there is little to be added to the story he got Saturday night 1 in regard to the conditions at the Clif tons. J Today two reporters went over the 1 ground and investigated conditions more 1 thoroughly. It is still impossible to ( reacli Clifton except by boat and travel . from one mill to another is difficult, but 1 until you have viewed the ruins, and 1 talked with the people you cannot form 1 an adequate idea of the situation. On horseback we made the trip to Glendale and started to cross when (he horses mired almost to the bridles in the . quicksand. We had to resort to the boat; and, leaving the horses hitched on , this side the river, we made the journey afoot, a distance of about live miles to ( No. :i. < In the valley between No. 1 aud No. 3. , lately Qlled with two long ro wa of cot- ! tagea out from which bright faces and scores of happy children would .greet the ! passer-by, there was a veritable desert of sand. Not a tree left standing, not a house. In the midst of the desert of wbito saud stretching out like a prairie, a doz ( en men were clustered O.ia was digging and we imagined that perhaps some \ loved one was being unearthed. The ' men were silent and disconsolate. They did not seem to notice our appro ich, but ' kept on watching the man who was dig- ! ging. Investigation showed that this old man was delving into the foundation * of his former home. Two feet under 1 the sand ho found a wire bed spring ' and lie was carefully pulliug the mud J out of the springs. He could have found ' a dozen springs on the hillsides, but it was the last remnant of his home, and he tugged away to reclaim it. lie said i he had found a monkey wrench and a 1 bat pin, and he prized tiion highly. AN EYR WITNESS TALKS Night Watchman W. H. Khinehart ! on duty at No .'1, had made his rounds at 'I a m. At that time the river was 20 feet high He was standing near a corner of the mill at 4:30 when a large . tree floated over the dam and plunged . through the boiler room roof into the room below. This fl >oded the machine shop and boiler room and this part of the building began to crumble. At this , point the (lam gave way and the power house was swept away. Next a corner of the old mill gave way. Mr. Ithinehart run up the bank to get a safer and better view of tiie scene and upon turning be saw the smoke stack go down with a crash. In ten seconds after this and about 10 or 12 minutes from t.lift timA f.h? Ham hrnb lh? mart niflcently equipped 50,H00 spindle mill { win washed from its foundation, crum- s bled and the wreckage carried down 0 Pacolet river. y Nothing was left but about one fifth e of the two mills, the cloth room and T picker room. At this mill 10 houro were washed p away and eleven lives were lost. I p The street railway track between Noe.' & 1 and 3, is as comp ete wreck as cm Id I Le possible. The iron is tamed. and 1 iiu 11 DO $ ISumn Ours looks all ri| la ours made all right, o 1 know it. This is the i I Mutual Dr Is the place to buy climb a fence and you | on a pair of CBOWN! U the pair. I HALF PRICI | The best Shirt 01 quality and pattern \ ft keeps them going out in Cuffs, Collars and Wj years to 14 years old. I and 50c. I Shoes Gom jmj Will go quick. Oxfords gua (If) give good sound value, snapp '/) Ours is a constantly ii ijw at a low price. We always I S MUTUAL wisted into a hopeless mass, the track n some places is completely overturned, n other places it is washed against the ocks and all along the line the roadbed s completely goue. The dam at No. 3 broke next to the nill and the torrent was turned directly >n the strdcture. Exactly the opposite mppened at Glendale which saved that nill. The water was diverted to the >pposit? bank. At No. 1, the old mill, there was no oss of life but some Darrow escapes and nany homes were swept away. The nill was badly damaged. A TIllULU NO EXPERIENCE. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman were caught in -he (econd story. The roof fell in and aiey uiauagea to ciimu on& on a. Airs, i Lfoleman had a baby under each arm. j rhe raft floated down sUram and then ?me back near enough fW the people to slimb Into the second atory window of Mr. Pettit's house. Here they awaited for rescuers who were devising means for relief. The water meanwhile was rising rapidly and was half way up to the window in the second story. The louse was tottering and it was evident that if anything was to be done it must be done quickly. T. S. Upton and ithera found a well rope aDd Upton Doleman climbed out of the river, the mother still clingiog to her two babies. Stout hands and brave heajts pulled at ,he rope and the raft moved shoreward. Am angry wave dashed it to one side almost upsetting it. There was an opening in the honsetop and through this )ne of the little infants fell as the raft was about to capsize and just as it was joing out of sight to certain death, one >r the rescuers grabbed i ts clothes and Lhe family were all flually saved. IN THE TREKS. * Mr. fcrlr Wing, one of the clerks at No. I, and o others occupied a tree for ft lours, wlnn they were finally rescued. There were others in trees at No. 3. Mr. Wilaoi hung on to the brancses of j k tree for 11 hours. Mr. Orier, an aged man, lodged in a pine tree and stayed diere from 5 o'clock in the mornl ng untill 5 o'clock in the afternoon. When ae was rescued he was completely exhausted and is now in a critical condi .ion. ON THE COTTON HOUSE. James Elders, Bud Emory, Oliver Johnson and Lige Hill were caught on ,he roof of the cotton warehouse. They went down the river and a great concourse of people watched anxiously but could not aid. They Anally went down wiih the exception of Jas. E'.deis, who grabbed the limb of a tree and Lige . Elall, who was found near Pacolet. Bruce McLure was aroused as the water entered his room. He rushed out ind suddenly reraemlxcred $350 of his lavings he had left behind. He turned ind with great difll culty re entered his lome just as it was tottering. He di iftk1 for some time and Anally caught a ope handed by resouers. "I tell yon. Mister, I will never for:et till my dyin * day the ciies of the >eople as they floated dow.i the river,*' aid an old woman w 10 stool on the (Continued on pxga 5 ) I u Jill II YOU NEED ANY ier Cloth sjht, oars feels all right, ours urs wears all right, it is all right time and the y Goods Con Clothing at the right price. l will find out that jou ough CROCSEE8 which we sell f< : FOR STRAW u earth for 25c, worth 50c mn tne low price we are mai , We have nothing but the Neckwear. Wash Suits fo: A strong line of Boy's Panl g for 39c Tl rantced patent colt, velonn calt an< y and up-to-date style. ticreasing business for no other reason ELL FOR LESS. DRV GOOD ' 1? ^ n i* i n ^ I a f r> ? m BfH| ftv w Oxfords, Sandals, Low Shoe For men, women an that wear good shoes. Ask to see our men's 1 $ 1.25 and For house wear or "We are the Shoe I Union Sho Watching Your Shoe I Main Street, 111 ' lino* I i fits all right, f right and we | npany 1 Jnst try to j| t to have had ?r $2.50 to $5 J HATS. I to 75c- The I cine on Shirts ft correct thing r boys from 4 l| a at 25c. 85c la Pair 1 1 black vici. We jj| than we sell goods ojf S CO. I ts d children Nullifiers at $1.50 1 street. ^ 0 ^ople." e Co., * nterest. Union, S. C.