The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 26, 1903, Image 4
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UNION, 8. C., JUNE 2f>, 1903.
The Editor is under many obligations
to Thk Times correspondents
They are helping to make the papei
readable and popular. They widen
the sphere of the paper's influence
and contribute a great deal to its
steady growth.
Mr. John T. Meehan, of tho Chesterfield
Advertiser, announces that
ho will soon beein tho publication ol
a weekly paper at Oheraw. Editor
Moehan has succeeded in building up
the Advertiser, and is a young man
that grows in his work. \Ve wish
him much success in his new enter
prise. ________________
The Southern Christian Advocate
of this week gets out a very interest
ing paper filled with articles about
John Wesley, the founder of Method
ism. Dr. Carlisle. I)r, Snyder, Kdi
tor Richardson and others wrote upor
some phase of the subject, and the
articles are very interesting and in
atructive.
The kicker kicks, and the whoh
world steps aside and lets him kick
He does not amount to much. Abou
all he succeeds in doing is to mak
some people feel miserable. Hi
tirades seldom lead to reforms, how
ever worthy may be the cause he es
Like the time-worn fable o
when thero was no~wofr^i,f^I_ ,,',
for being a "kicker" and his infiu
ence is of very little weight.
It it said that only four of the
many graduates of Clemson Colleg<
this year aro from the agricultura
department. That is rather a pooi
showing for an agricultural college
it in to o3 noped that one of th<
especial aims of Clemson w ill be the
turning out of thoroughly trained
men for the farms. The theory,
along with the practical training that
is given in the course, should lead to
th revolutionizing of the farming interest.
After all, the basis of all
wealth is the farm. Any and every
thing that lifts up the farmer helps
all else in the industrial world.
Last week we called the attention
of our readers to the work that is being
undertaken by the Thomas JelTerson
Memorial Association. The small
sum of ten dollars is askci of The
Tims* readers. The editor will gladly
contribute one of these dollars and
it is hoped that nine others may be
found to make a like contribution of
one dollar. Each contributor of that
amount gets a bronze medallion;
but contributors who give less will
receive a certilicato signed by the
members of the executive committee.
The Times will gladly forward any
contribution for this worthy cause
that may be entrusted to its hands.
The world owes much to the opti
mist, 11tuft to the pessimist. The
optimist is progressive and constructive,
the pessimist is retrogressive
and destructive. Tho constructive
man is a blessing, the destructive
man is a curse. The work of construction
requires skill and patience.
The work of demolition requires brute
force and impatience. How many
men have built up a sort of notority
upon the slender foundation of the
iconoclast! Such a character will
always have a following, but he leads
to nothing good, nothing enduring
He does not even play the part of
v moral surgeon to the diseased body
social. He but opens up tlie wounds
and probes to the quick without ro i
moving the cause of the irritation or
administering a healing halm. The
optimist may make blunders, but he i
also discovers truth, formulates plans <
and inspires the world's workers with i
XrMh courage, j,
0
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LYNCH LAW.
In tho daily papers this week there
was an extended account of t he lynching
of a negro by a mob at Wi'mington,
Del., Juno 22. The negro was
accused of having feloniously assaulted
a young white woman seventeen
years old and belonging to a
good family. The young woman
died of the injuries received without
regainbig consciousness.
It is with no desire to point the
finger of scorn at the poople of the
North that this article is written.
The North for decades has been pursuing
that policy towards the Southern
people. We have had many
lynchings in the South. There have
been many incidents of mob rule that
were regretted by tho Southern peor\
1 n n ti . 1 /lAiulamn ftrl K tr n <\mO .
pic auu vvuuuuiu^vi wj IIIU nun o
papers. Pulpit and press, almost
without exception, failed not tc
. speak and write in the interest of th<
maintenance of law. Even whih
this was true, the Northern paperi
and preachers were holding th<
Southern people up as living example;
of wild and untameable iflen. N<
longer than three years ago thi
writer was in a largo city of th<
i North. A gentleman with whom h<
' became acquainted, a native of Penn
sylvania, said to him one day
"Haven't you got a good many law
less people down your way?" Whci
1 told that a man could travel almos
anywhere in the South, unarmei
' and unattended, yet run little risk o
being molested, he seemed to doub
the statement. It was plainly to b
1 seem that ho had a very bad opinioi
of the Southern people in the matte
of the observance of law. He finall;
, acknowledged that his opinions wer
. based upon the newspaper account
. of lynchings throughout the South
. Within tho past year or tww ther
. has been a considerable awakenin
, on the part of the North to the tru
, conditions in operation at the South
. Terrible as it may seem, it is enlighl
enmcnt that has been purchased a
the price of blood?the blood of hell
" loss victims and the blood of th
' brutal ofTenders. This Wilmingto
case is one in point. The bruti
e crime which brought down speed
s death upon the head of the oflendin
negro at the South, fails not to brin
down upon his head like retributic
- ftt the i\ortn. i.et it do rememberc
that the chivalrous devotion of tl
\ maiulo??rUU8^r,rt'i?th
1 blind fury with which ho struck
blow at the brute that sought to la
uuholy hands upon the person of
. woman. It is a matter for self-cot
5 gratulatiou that so few lynching
1 have occurred in the South recently
r But it is sadly true that for the on
unpardonable crime there would stil
5 follow the certain reign of Judg
. Lynch. So deeply are racial preju
[ dices, so impassable the social gul
that separates tho whites and th
blacks that it is almost out of th
, question to argue that the law mus
be allowed to take its course. Thi
argument is all right. The law shouh
take its couree. The law should bi
up-held. But the probabilities art
that it would be altogether the othe
way in the face of the one hideou:
crime. But there is great progresi
towards allowing the law to take iti
course. With swifter meting out oi
justice, with strong advocacy of th<
supremacy of law, there would be fai
less likelihood of a lynching. Be
sides, the attitude of the negro himself
has helped the South to a safoi
rule than that of Judge Lynch. The
sensible negroes are no longer oo?ir.
_ 0w ?wn
ing social recognition. They are advocal
ing the principles that make for
the industry and thrift of the negro.
They are turning away from politics
and social equality ideas and beginning
to build a foundation that is
lasting. A manhood built upon honest
labor, a self-respect, that is born
of a good character and a security
the result, of a good name?theso are
the things that must come into the
future well-being of the negro. And,
it is a hopeful sign that already there
is being made some progress along
each of these lines Wise men?men
who were conservative in their views
?vmomg the Southern people have
always argued that the South could
ar;d would solve its mighty problem
if the North would but keep hands
otT. And r.ow that the "hands off"
policy seems to bo gaining ground, it
becomes moro and moro manifest
that those men were right in their
opinions. This very fact, amcng
i.mvri) mar. it 13 not necessary to
mention, makes one slow to point to
Wilmington and Bay: "I told you
io." We must leave them to work
Hit tholr own problems. In the
meantime, let us keep on advocating
,he principle that the law shoald be |
ewrv gmmmma??
upheld, that mob rule is madness, (g
that the safety of the State is largely (g
the attitudo of the publio mind to- ijj
wards tho law, an altitude of mini I
that looks upon the law as a thing
that is to bo reverenced and defended, I
even to tho shedding of blood.
WHY REMEMBER 1]
OUR MIGHTY PEAD? '
A strange sight presented itself to , ]
the gaze of the thousands of Israel- f
ites as they were starting out of the
land of Egypt. Several hundred j
years before that time a man great V
among the Egyptians and great !
among tho Hebrews had died. His ;
dying request was that his bones
might be carried out of Egypt into
' Canaan. Faithful to the last expressed
will of the dying Joseph, tho
oMldren of Israel tako "his bones"
'. with them uDon their iourney.
} Through all their wanderings they |
3 carry this strange burden. A genera- I
5 tion, except two men, pass uway be- j
3 fore their wanderings come to an eod
3 with the eutrance into the land of
3 promise. But when Israel enters
5 that land they carry with theuTthe
B burden committed to their keeping at
3 the beginning of the journey out of
3 Egypt. There is a great lesson for
tho nations of the' earth in this inci:
dent in the history of Israol. Tho
nation that forgets its mighty men is
1 already doomed. The lires of patriotk
ism having died, there is little hope
* for the future. Abstract principles
1 are all right, but there must be the
* concrete example ever present before
e the mind of the public if any high
D ideal is to be maintained. It is the
r hero to whose memory a marble shaft
^ is erected that we must look to leavo
e his impress upon the mind of suc8
ceeding generations. The nation
'* that forgots the graves of its mighty
e dead has already lost the ability to
^ produce great men. To the careless
e observer it seems that tho building
'* of monuments, setting apart certain
J* days as legal holidays in commeinolt
ration of some great name in our his3"
tory and celebrations of various de6
scriptions aro all useless and there"
fore unnecessary. Be not deceived.
1 It is in just these memorials that
^ we evince the fact that our day of
decadence has not yet arrived. So
? loug as the ashes of our mighty men
wield a largi influence over the public
mind, just so long miy we rest
10 assured that tho foundations of our
? ? "iiguty ut'iici
a cease to exert a strong influence
y over the public mind, we may be
a sure that the foundations are slipping
j away.
8 NOW WHAT?
e A writer in one of our exchanges asks
II the question: "After the B. A., what?"
0 It is a very important question, to be
i- sure. The college course behind, what
f of the future? Many a young man or
e woman passes beyond the B. A. degree,
e but n > sooner than that point is attained
t they l>egin a prolonged period of
B rest. They feel that there are no more
j worlds to conquer. The highest point
of ambition's desire being attained, they
rest upon the honors achieved. It is the
graduate* future, not his past, that
should take up a large part of his lhindV
3 activity. The great world of ac'iou is
3 before him. Hi* "commencement" ?x- 1
1 ercises, in their very name, point to new 1
' exertions, new fields of endeavor. Up ]
3 to the point of graduation he has been |
r getting ready to live, getting in shape to (
biing things to pass. Now that he ha>
attained that worthy end, let him no'
falter in the forward march. Th* (
I Stores, railroads milla *
, ?.-wj urtiin.i, 1UIUJS? \
these and many other enterprises are t
calling for his trained head and willing \
hand. There are many men who are f
incompetent that are yet tilling places- 1
of responsibility. The places of such
men are waiting for the qualified mftn
"The survival of fittest" is the law that
rules in the world of activity. And the
trained mind, other things being equal,
must forge to the front. Go forth, y?
graduates from institutions of learning; *
take your places in the world of toilers ti
Find your work, seize upon it; push for- d
ward in it. Ivook ahead, not behind
If you look behind, jou do but show tlia' w
you are unlit to wear the honors your h
alma mater placed upon you. *1
ci
East Union Letter. d
01
Mr. K litoi:? I have been enjoying
I the weekly visits of The Times for ^
some time and am delighted with it gi
it ought to go in every home in the m
county, The peoplo in all of our mil'
towns ought to lake tho county pipei tj(
and aire lh*??r -4 1 *
D vmiuivui BV IFiU'i ? a
chance to keep abreast w'th the age w<
Literature is oue of tho most power'u) |,f
elements in civilization and chiIdrer ^
who go out from homos where book*
and papers have been kept before tbem, st
go out better prepared for the duties of
life, If you will excuse my philoso
pby?The mind is very much like s **
blackboard anyway. It ia born in p
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1 know it. This is the
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climb a fence and yoi
| on a pair of CROWN
fife the pair.
| HALF PRICI
|| The best Shirt o
w quality and pattern1
jfe keeps them going oul
llji in Cuffs, Collars anc
vJ; years to 14 years old
H and 50c.
1 Shoes Goii
jiff Will go quick. Oxfords gu
(Or S?ve good sound value, snap
<ry Ours is a constantly
fig at a low price. We always
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paragraphs written on it by the hand
of onv.ronmjn', through the senses.
.So much for exhortation.
There is not so much news about
At AnOI?n\ anil A a! nn ? j
A<jLVUi*ftV * uuu ilCtUA tAV/C[)t OU III 3 IOW
cases offerer ami olher miuor complaints.
Mr. David Eison who has
been confiaul to his room 1 >r several
days with the fever is somewhat
better.
There a meeting in progress this
week at Monarch by tho llev. Mr.
White. Sjrvice8 every afternoon and
night, S ;veral families have moved
into our midst from I'acolet within
the last few daj s and some of them
are taking hold ut the church work
like they are used to it. The Sunday
School is growing rapidly. Mr.
Davis Eisru is superintendent, and is
laying plans f>r the dcvelopement of
the gatheriug in oftne older people.
The great draw back to tho Suuday
School work all over our couutry
seems to that fathers and mothers take
so little interest in the work. I have
no doubt but the parc-uts eucouiuge
their children to go to church, but precept
without PYJmnln i* uom
? _ Itf T V? J lliUbil
like a watch without wheel*.
A certain man being a&ked the
)ther day to solve the problemn as to |
vhy so many more young ladies atend
church than young men; looking
rery wise he replied?"They don't go
or the sermons or the music but the
lims." No more for this time.
Rusticus.
His I,ust Hope Realized.
(From the Sentinel, (iebo, Mont.)
In the lirst opening "of Oklahoma to
ettlcrs in lssti, the editor of this paper
tras among the many seekers after formic
who made the big race one line
ay in April. During his travelling
bout and afterwards his camping noon
is claim, he encountered much t>ad
UfliinK l-? ?!-L *1
, .tmiuii vvi^ctuer Willi 1110 fiOVCrc |
eat. gave him a very severe diarrhoea
hich it seemed almost impossible to
heck, and along in Juno tho case beime
so bad bo expected to die. One
ay ono of bis neighbors brought him
tie small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic
holera, and Diarrhoea Remedy as a
.st hope. A big dose was given him
hile he was rolling about on the
ound in great agony, and in a fow
linutes the dose was rcjieated. The
>od effect of the medicine was soon
>ticed, and within an hour, tho paent
was taking his first sound sleep for
fortnight. That one little bottle
orked a complete cure and he cannot
tip but feel grAteful. The season for
iwel disorders being at hand suggests
s item. For sale by F. C. Duke.
sps Cc ugh and Works off the Cold
I axative Bromo-Quinine Table's cure ' ;
idM in one day. N> cue, n:> piy |
ce 25 oenta. tily ?
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with the low price we a
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aranteed patent colt, velonn
py and up-to-date style,
increasing business for no othe
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