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t , THE UNION TIMES | PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY !, ?by thi"? ! 1 UNION TIMES COMPANY ! SKOOXD PLOOU TIMKS HIIII.IIINU ' veit i'ohi'ofhok, iik 1,1. jl'ltonk no. 1. L. O. YOUNG, Manager. ! Registered at the PostoJllce in Union, i 8. C., as second-class mail matter. ( . . _ , subscription rates ( One year ------- $1.00 Six months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. advertisements One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every .ibsequent insertion - 50 cents. Con-t acts for three months or longer i will be mule at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8^ cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be re- 1 turned. Obituaries and tributes of remill ho rrrorl for ilf hlllf tilta5!. 1 * opcuu nui uu ouui*.v? >%v -? -?- | UNION, 8. C., SEPTEMBER. 11, 1903. ' ~~ " A certain paper published the statement that nil the pastors in its town had left, and called attention to the fact that tho devil never took a vacation. Lot us remind thi3 solicitous Individual that tho devil is not inado of llesh and blood?another point of difference betweeu the pastors and tho devil. The outlook for Union county farmers, and In consequence, for those of all other occupations, is exceedingly promising this year. A good crop, a fair prico, for produce, good prospect for ten-ccnt cotton? these things are helping to make the outlook hopefuL Let the farmers continue to live economically, as much so as If there was the prospect of a "hard" year. Let every one of them make the effort to put by some money, and try to run upon a cash ' basig another year. With the eman *.# tK A fanner 3 AAinna f |>f? ( UipUblUU yjl IIJU VV..IW V..V * surest guarantee of safety and stability in matters social and political. A man who thinks before lie speaks was heard to say that many men who reach a fine old age, do so because of the fact that in oarly life or in young manhood there was a breaking down in health and the self-control aud care exercised in rcgaiuing health became the habitual state of mind, leading to sound health in old age. The writer knowfc for a fact that several yoars ago an aged preacher, ninety-four years old, died. Sixtyfive j'ears before his death he left college for home, having lost his health and having given up to die His subsequent, care of the body not only restored him to health, but he was able to live to be an extraordinarily old man. A gentleman who has passed the seventieth year of his age was heard recently to remark that he attributed his long life und robust health in old age to the fact that ho hud made it a rule of his life to esshew "dainties" and to partake'Of the simplest of v diets. He said: "A good piece of ' coru bread and a glass of buttermilk 1 is good enough for any inan to make a meal on." The words of this man ' are worth reflecting upon. It is the plain, wholesome diet, not the rich pastry and sweets that we need. This does not mean that we are to be careless in the preparation of the plain diet; but rather that it should have the most careful preparation. Rev. T. M. Raile}', D. I)., the Sec- c retary of State Missions for the Rap- ' tists of South Carolina, tells a story c which he heard somewhere. The t story is as follows: A Dutchman t got on a train. He was smoking his ' pipe, and it was "strong." A woman > sitting on a sent opposite got up, 1 came over to where the Dutchman ' sat, seized his pipe and threw it out * the window, remarking that people 1 should be ashamed to annoy others ( with the fumes of a filthy pipe. 2,'J'he 1 Dutchman sat still, but continued to ' keep his eye on the woman. Soon 1 ho saw something move in a bundle ' of shawls. It proved to bo a "pug * dog." TRe Dutchman got up, went c ~,1 i.? .1 k.. I. i w> n , oui/<cu nic uy inu uviiv iviiu ? , f threw it out the window, remarking t at the same thne that it was a shame I for a woman to annoy others witli c an ugly lap dog. This story serves ! to point a moral: We often eon- s demn in others something that finds I its twin fault in ourselves. More- 1" over, the people that aro most grievously ofTonded with some fault on (I the part of others are not infrequent- ' tly as grave sinners in soino otlier di- g rection as is the man so readily con- h demned. The man that constantly 0 harps on the dishonesty of others e will hear watching. b * * 'hXVi. I , i ? ?rwrrm m\ - , - - "mmmmmmm A HOPHFVi, $IGS. A few centuries ago men wore turned at the stake because they lilTered from others in their religious beliefs. It seems hard to believe I hut, even in tlic brief history of this :ouutry of ours, there should liave been the burning of witches or tlie prosecution for conscience sake. It seems also strange that there should oino about so complete a revolution in so brief a time. The spirit of tolerance, arul the right to worship God lecording to the dictates of a man's 3\vn conscience, have come to be principles in the hearts of men as well as in the constitutions of governments. What forces have conspired to bring about this happy resolution? One of the chief forces in bringing about this condition is the wide spread education of the masses. The dissemination of knowledge, and the widening of the intellectual horiwn result in giving men broader sympathies and stronger self-control. The multiplication of comrnoA scixwli la n-_ . a * ? i'U! ungiuiesc ioe Known among men, For opposing intolerance. Every institution or agent whoso mission is the training of minds helps, on the work of education. Rapid means of communication and travel, interchange of thought through tho newspapers, the multiplication of books and the accumulation of wealth have bended to help on this work of enlightenment. Men are not less loyal to religious convictions than formerly. but has in it less of bitter resentments. Men are coi^eut to enforce their religious convictions upon others by an appeal to logic and not by an appeal to bodily force. Nor has this movement towards tolerance seased. The next one hundred years will witness a marvelous progress towards x complete annihilation of bitterness and strife among religious opponents. The Mohammedans converted a continent at the point of the sword, autthis feat was accomplished in lie middle ages. Such a thing can lever again be done in the history of ,!iis world. The average intelligence las reached so high a degree that luch an event , is excluded from tbe ange of human possibility. By this t is meant that sporadic sects, preaching false doctrine, will not irise, aud for a time prosper; but hey are doomed to ultimate failure, t is just this movement along eduational lines that lias caused the ihcological unrest and fhe remolding ?f religious creeds witnessed in rcent years. Men must promulgate heir theologies under tho searchI..1,1 n,l<,arw.A.v,?..4 1., ~ 11 1!. i^u v v/& iui? ?i?jv.v;nniu III <111 I1IJCO U1 bought. Thero is little danger o[ oss cf truth. The husks will fall iwav. The false will eotno to deitruction. If in the storm of mental ip-heaval in religious truth theto ihould come the sinking of a theooglcal ship liere and there, no groat lurm will rosult to the cause of true e'.igion. If creeds have to be re-adusted, it is no sign that the cause )f religion is sulTering. It may be >ut the sifting out of the false and he strengthening of the true. 1 Rli MISSIONARIES RHSPONSIBLH? Chekob Hey, the Turkish minister, barges that our American missioniries have incited the Americans to ebel against the Sultan. This same ihnrge was brought against the misilonaries in China, and while the sharge is utterly false in so far as the motives of the missionaries are conlorncd, it is nevertheless true that ,he gospel produces just this elTect. Christ said on one occasion, I caine lot to send peace, but a sword. lie s yet the I'rince of peace and the bought involved in the statement s that the principles of the gospel irouse the hatred and opposition of hose who oppose the kingdom of Christ. The missionary goes into he land of oppression and crime if le is true, ho preaches principles irhicli lead to liberty and inculcate ightcousness. As lio teaches, his ,caching draws out. the antagonism >f all those whoso principles of life ire contrary to the gospel, not that he missionary makes people worse, iut his teaching simply affords that ipportunity which warms sin into ife. The tyrant is never so oppreaivcly active as when principles of ibort.y are beginning to take root in lis domain. The abominable Boxers ,nd the intolerable Turk are, no loubt, both incited to deeds of viocnco by the sublime teaching and eiit.le life of the missionary. This. lowever, should hut urge ull lovers f truth to encourage inure than they ver huve the heroic work of mislona. nam iia i m ?a. IX I. k . i ??i? Do nob parade your itla before ( others. An Invalid that persistently and complalniDgly keeps reminding | people of every ache and pain may ; come to tho tiino that even the best of friends and sympathizers will grow weary. Besides, to keep your sickness constantly in tnind, to "harp i on it," brood over it?such n course I hinders and almost makes impossible \ tilo desired restoration. Strangers \ an I mere acquaintances most as- J suredly should be spared the having ( to listen to a recital of your misery, j Some time ago the writer sat uowu to dinner at a hotel. Onq of the i guests whom lie had never Jeen he- i fore began with a history bodily ills that reached twenty back and wound up with tc-rnent that the doctors had used pump 011 him for mouths. 1 he | reader may well unoMfcUmd how ) hard it was to keep fcom^Soslng the ) appetite for food-while^99!k u pour- J log out oi woe was } it helped the !.? j wpll enough. But 8WJi",iflPj^''.ly retime hurts the felloMRjtho ha- t>> listen, it becomes an itn ve dutyj j that afflicted people shoin^. unfile the j best of things and, cease the perpetual complaining. Occasionally one meets an invalid that soems "real ) proud" of being one. Such a woe- I bogone, nevcr-get-weil expression is J upon these unfortunatos th%t one shivers upon the sight of them. The school commissioners i Char- i lotte, N. 0,, recently passed'a rul f that the daily reading of tl^e Bible in the graded schools of the city he compulsory. Rev. Father Frkncis, a ; CathoMc priest at the head Sf Peter's church, that city, took stand i a ;ainst tho regulation. He took (lie | view that it was unjust to support J those schools b> public taxation and th^n compel the children of Oat ho- f liol to listen to the reading of the }( Protestant version of fcheBiblfc, "It i is a poor rule that will not wor.^>both ; ways." How about those cowtries f| and communities in whlcti C?|^Jle!ics predominate? The rule of th^pfiest would have to be worked the Other ( way in all communities where'^.Oatholios are in the rnajorit/i We believe the priest is right. It if very likely that he would, howeverjfrcfose to be governed by the result!?' eon- <c dition when Catholics are in tjl^ijr.d. Vet, to be consistent; that is just vj what he would have to do. "Murder in this State is increasing 1 at such an alarming extent that 11 judges, In their charge to the grand jj juries, are calling special attention to it. Judge Bryan is quoted ns say- t ing at Fayettville: d "1 have it on tho host authority that in North and South Carolina for the past few years, there were more 8 murders in proportion to population than elsewhere in tho United States, u and that if tho same average were maintained all over the United States the number of murders for tho oast 0 year in this country, would have been lo.UOO, more people than were killed in the Philippines and Cuba during the late war." ? Judge Brown, in his charge to the 11 Durham grand jury, stated "there * were -So homicides in this State last year."?Monroe (N\ C.) Enquirer. JONRSVITI J\ JOTTINGS. tt r Several Handsome Residences Go- '' ing up in This Hustling IJttle 0 Town?Memorial Services to he Held Next Sunday?Other News. J v J on ics villi:, Sept. 7.?Today is quite pleasant and has some uppear- 1 ances of the September gales being S near at hand. Since the hot wave passed elf the weather has been very pleasent and our people are unusual' ly healthy. j No special event has occurred in our town since my last writing, but 9 news reaches the Telephone this 1 mornin" of a "gretna green" mar- 8 riage near Bonham yesterday; the t contracting parties being Mr. Claud a Bates and Miss Gallman. I have a been expecting for lo these many days to be able to report two or three fashionable weddings in our community, but these have not materialized 1 and I just have to withhold my pen, J but I believe I will get her olT along 6 that lino some time in the near ^ future. The late rains and lower temperature has been favorable for sowing 1 and getting stands of turnips; while a I ill II i fiiw niwii; III/ill IMglll/JT |JUr cent. water, yot they are good food v for people and for milch cows and are a cheap and easy crop to make Messrs. 8. <>. farmer, John M. u Oault and John T. Scott are all n building handsome residences in our w town. Miss Sibby Spears is also o building a nice cottage in town, and ^ many other residences are in con- ^ templaiioo. The Jonesville Manufacturing Company is finishing up " twenty operatives houses, and then w the big brick store of tho J. J. Little- fi john Co. is looming up on Main street, which will have a front of t| plate glass that cost .$2o(? and lias already arrived, . Memorial servico will he held in ') tho Methodist church iiore next Sun- ' day and a murble tablet uuveiLd iu a, honor of Mr. T. L. Jlauaes, deceased, f TWO 1 1 I AMOSKE % I i ? I The best ar in i I (| Beautiful 1 light and 1 and large I strioes su i ?? 1 Value 121/ T"T """ 'T T v ^ " I CA1 1)1 Our new Fal | will show 'jlj brought to U | "MEE I MUTUAL 'ho services will begin at 11 o'clock , in. Bishop Duncan will deliver n address and perhaps other adresses will be made. A protracted meeting will begin in he Mothodist church here next Sunny night. The public uro invited o attend these scrvicen. Six candidates for church meinberhip were baptised at the pool here esterday; they go to the Gilead hurch. Mr. J). Bothwcll Fant. County uperintendent of Kducntioa, was in ur town last week on business. Mrs. G. B. Fowler has returned rom Baltimore, whore she bought a me and handsome lot of millinery oods for the fall trade. Ali our nerchants are receiving fall goods nd they are expecting a large trade his fall and winter. Mr. T. T. Williams, who has had a pell of fever, is convalescing now nd will soon bo able to bo at bis dace of business if he has no reupso. There is but little fever in ur community. Mrs. Sallie Wellesford and Mr. im Ray, of Tylersville, have been isiting at Mr. W T. Littlejohn's. Miss Dora Whitlock visited Mr. dttlejohn's family Saturduy and unday. Telephone, News From GrimlalV Kind l\e:idr>ra- it ir i-r\r\atmil T/.o.l ng of Satan is a sure sign of him laying among a people. He is at he base of all lynching and shooting tealing and gambling and all such hings. Christians, move out from mong you, those that buy and sell t your church on the Sabbath day or it is a day in which \vc should praise God from whom all ble&nngs low." At a negro meeting on Vugu>t at Kelton there were two pecial handholds for the devil and lis angels which were lighting in the oad near the church and selling at he spring. Christians, if there he ny, why stand ye all the day idle. lGo and work in my vineyard and 1 lill give thee wages ere long." In my community one can see numerous dead pines, the cause I have lot heard yet. Cotton is watched nth eager eyes as you can sec lots f it opening. We arc afraid to icntiou the price "yet. Fodder is eing stripped oft' the stalk, hay beag cut, work on the river still fresh fhile visiting is fast going out of ushion among farmers. The poets have got it scattered bat "we arc living in a bicycld age" | ml as a bicyle is a fast traveling bing some people think they must | ve accordingly ju Igjng from the ge so many begin a married life. 1). P. F. v Ill ? I HH I'llfr* ? Ml? I* I I T?f SOLIDC O F :ag teazli JUST RECEIVED. id prettiest Ou Large Assortment. styles consii dark shades i checks, als< itable for kimo 2, our price *" >Z^ 1 ^'T'." IS-'miS'* 515* LL AND SEE THE I Goods are arriving the most attractive nion. ST ME AT THE MUTU DRY G0( R. P. HARRY, Mgr. MEN'S S3.50 / "walkV over." Il You get good le . You get high=sl You get exclusi You get correct You get best w< You save $1.50. "Our interest is ^ Mail order* UNION SHOE Watching Your S i Main Street, i ... ASES 1 M * I DOWN 1 J ting made. 1 I ?; I sting of | >, small ft d pretty | ! nas, etc. 1 10c. | . M. | daily. We [1 i line ever i AL." I )D3 CO. i_ : ather, tilled making, ve style, fit, ;ar, C /our interests." i filled. i *' P.AMPSNV vviui nil l j ho? 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