The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 02, 1904, Image 4
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UNION, S.C., SEPTEMBER 2, 1904.
BISHOP POTTER'S
cnnotav cunnn
The openiDg of a liquor saloon in
the great city of New York by a
Bishop of a great church has doubtless
caused greater consternation
among the churches of all denominations
than any other act of clergy or
layman in the history of the church
organization during the christian era.
The wrath and condemnation of the
clergy is scathing in expressions of
unqualified denunciation of such an
act on the part of a Bishop of a great
church. M, B. Wharton, D. D., pastirofthe
1st Baptist church of Atlanta,
said, "It does not help the
matter to say it is an effort to elevate
the saloon. Bishop Potter will not
a >cure the sufferage of the christian
w >rld in his movement and the ung
>dly world will laugh him to scorn.
Toe minister who yields to sinners,
1' like the crow that whitewashed his
feathers that he might mingle with
the pigeons, will be shunned there;
and going back to his own flock will
b uvoided there."
There is one thing of which the disfc;nguished
bishop may be assured.
His customers will be "clay in the
h inds of the Potter," and the spade,
whils he calls it the club, will soon
UU L11" UU9IUV99 iur UlCIIi, UIJU liirit*
is one thing he has neglected ">?nd
that, is to ha\ve a cemetery ne?r hia
salrfnn, for it will be needed; and I
would suggest as the most appropriate
name for this burial place of
drunkards and paupers, the Potter's
field.
Sunday night, August 21, Rev. A.
G. Wardlaw, pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of this place prenchei
a most interesting and convincing
sermon, his text was taken from I
Peter 4 "), "Who shall give account
t) him that is ready to judge the
quick and the dead." His subject
was, "The ethics of public life." He
said the incident in public life which
suggested the subject of this sermon
was the formal opening of the Subwiy
Tavern, a model saloon by
Bishop Henry C. Potter, in New
York on August 2. Bishop Potter
concluded the formal opening by
singing the doxology. This act gave
the sanction of the religion of Jesus
Christ to a saloon and gave thanks to
the Triune God for the results of the
Siloon. This is a reform movement,
so called. This is a question that,
the christian church has got to face;
there is no manner of escape from it;
the church must either commend or
condemn it, or supinely accept it
without resistance. If Bishop Potter
had acted as an individual, his acts
might have been passed over without
comment; but as the head of a groat
and influential church and using a religious
service for the opening of a
saloon his course cannot escape criticism.
One would suppose from Bishop
Potter's position that moderate
drinking and social intercourse in the
taverns was the chief end or aim of
man. He ignores all domestic pleasures
and removes all restraint of religeon
as well as its comfort, substituting
strong drink and the saloon
for the troubles and needs of the
working man. Will not strong drink
set apart by religious services, intoxicate
the brain of the laboring man as
quickly as that over which no service
was held? Bishop Potter seems to
forget that strong drink is the greatest
evil and curse that this country
has to deal with, and particularly to
the youDg men and laboring classes
The eeuse of personal accountability
to Almighty God is the crying need
of the time; men in official life, in
the church and state, seem to have
loat in a measure, the personality,
power and presence of God. The entire
discourse was a most powerful
arraignment of Bishop Potter's movement
and the use of intoxicating
drinks.
_ * _
A CITY PARK.
About two years ago we advocated
through the columns of The Times, a
city park, as almost absolutely necessary
for such a city as Union had
grown to be. The Gage property had
not then been cut into lots and sold,
and that property was offered to the
town at a most reasonable price.
Now that this property is out of the
question for a city park, wo have
been reliably informed that Col. G,
C. Perrin will sell his property, including
the base ball park, in all containing
about 50 acres. Most of the
people know the location of this prop
ertv, and know of its beauty and
suitableness for a city ' park. The
owner offers this property at a reasonable
price and on easy terms
In a few years the electric line wil!
run by this park on its way to Aetns
and Monarch mills. The city, bj
having a park for the general resort
of the citizens, will contribute to the
health and pleasure of the citizens
and can, by erecting a casino, and
the many other places of amusement
realize a revenue by which the pur
chase price can soon be paid, and
then the city will own valuable prop
erty, and continue its revenue, anc
in a few years be able to reduce its
tax levy.
WOMEN'S CLUBS, "ARTS
AND CRAFTS.'
The Times has several times pub
lished the good work beimr done bv
the women's clubs, has attempted tr
show that this organization of oui
women was not devoted wholly tc
social pleasure. We now call atten
tion to the department of "Arts and
Crafts," published in last week's anc
this issue of Thf. Times. It is dailj
becoming more generally known that
this organization has the most exalt
ed aims and objects in view. Th<
talent of the Southern women is be
ing developed through the agency o
this organization. It is a fact now
being widely known and acknowledged
that the women of the South possess
genius ana talent, that their use
ful and practical inventions and lite
rary productions are superior to any
other women of the world. That they
help to fill the art galeries with the
best painting and drawings that have
ever adorned any art studio; that
I they have contributed to the mercantile
world the most < xquislte fancy
needle work th??r h?a f-vap Hoa/m-uIoJ
the home or embellished the wearing
apparel of woman. The women ol
the Federation of Women's cfcubs are
now called on to exert themsllves tc
execute some work of art, >11 ordei
that a most creditable exhibit of thif
work be on display at the coming
State Fair. We urge the ladies tc
read the notice wo publish in anothei
column of this issue of Thr Times
and govern yourselves accordingly,
having a county and State pride tc
excell.
THE PRIMARY ELECTION.
The election passed off very quietly
and smoothly. A full vote was polled,
and every voter seemed to vote
very much as he pleased, without
fear. The day of pulling and hauling
the voter about and making his
ticket for him has passed, neighbors
get togethor and make out their own
ticket and swap a little with each
other. The several candidates all
had warm friends who worked for
them untiringly, in a quiet way.
The division of Union township into
four precincts greatly faciliated voting
aDd counting the ballots ; the voting
process is a slow one at best,
therefore the more precincts the
quicker the vote can be cast and
counted.
The greatest interest manifested
by the voters seemed to be that of
sheriff, house of representatives and
county commissioners.
The friends of these condidates
seemed more enthusiastic and did
good work for their choico of candidates.
The question of court house or no
court honse also created a lively inInterest
among the voters and now
that the scheme is defeated by a
large majority of the level headed
voters, we would suggest, that in
order to appease the wrath, quiet the
fears, gratify the taste of the most
strenuous advocates of voting a tax
to build a new, beautiful and modern
structure, the county authorities
have those sombre-hued, rugged walls
painted a sky blue, and the massive,
gray colurns be striped like the zebra,
who is a close kinsman of the jackass.
This we hope will in a measure
relieve this eyesore to some, who
when the look upon the building thus
lecmreted, will instead of a bray of
com'pftkint, Rive a whinny of delight.
The people have shown by thoir vote
that they read, and are better informed
and appreciate good advice.
TO THE CANDIDATES.
The Times last week was not very
complimentary to the candidates as
to their speeches delivered at Santuc,
Carlisle and Black Rock. We now
take pleasure in sayiDg that we are
pleased to congratulate the candidates
i upon their speeches. We cannot say
without taking too much credit to
i ourselves that what we said about the
i speeches had a good effect and woke
, up the candidates to a deeper sense
. of their duty to themselves and the
people, as was shown by the improve(
ment in your speeches. In order to
attract attention, one must always
[ say something, interesting aud of im>
portance. At this day and time
- people clamor for live issues and care
. nothing for^the stale and dead quesI
tions. We are proud to say that each
i and every candidate has conducted
r himself in a most decent and creditt
able manner during the entire cam?
paign, and that the campaign has
, been upon a high plane without mud
[ slinging, and the people appreciating
, this have cast their ballots for the
. man they thought would do them the
I best service.
I VAST CITIES AND IDLE FARMS.
* An Pull tViat Mltfhf Pa T accannH Rv
II II II I II tlltvt IU 1Q nil Jt?V UVllJVIIVU
Wise Education.
, The little red brick school house of the
parlier days of the settlement of the
Mississippi Valley States was the princi
pal factor in the elevation of our great,
r middle class which made of the Ameii)
can nation a people of intelligent thinkers,
ready and able in time of crisis to decide
right and to do. Higher education
> has followed and now systems and methods
have supplanted the "Hoosiev schoolmaster,"
and the birch rod, identified
' with the little red school house. The
I educational level of the country has un,
dcubtedly risen many degrees, but with
this advance have come problems more
L perplexing than those which troubled the
- pedagogues of our fathers The trend
? of the country raised boy is all too irresistably
toward the city, while there is
no countervailing current impelling the
f voting people of the cities to till his place
, in the country. The pfohlem is ..ne for
. te most, serious consideration of
si ait smen, this constant and centripetal
movement, which ia 6ver crowding our
. centres of industry, where men work for
day wages, and which ia steadily drawing
from oar rural communities where
' men own the laud tbey live upon and g-t
their sustenance from the soil.
I \ _ TO STEM TflE DRIFT
i there are quiet forces at woik,
fflW^year, becoming better orgamzrd
nm? broaderpower, whose'tendency is
to overcome' tins hurtful -corditiou and
frimice a mi/TH^oiVbrck ami ^
I away from'the rfyer ?rd*fred (JenVelF*
Industrial and agricultural educations
I are playing an important part, and na- *
f tore study courses and .^jty school gar,
rtens, whereChildren are-taught to know
romething of the soil and plants and the
' real wonders of nature worting around
us at t very hand, are no longer looked
, upon as fads An interesting move in
the direction was made the other day in
the organization of the American League
> for Industrial Education in Ch cairo.
wi'h such national characters for otlicers
and sponsons as N O. Nelson of St.
Louis, who has founded the villaae and
i school of Le Claire, adjacent to his faci
lories at Edwardsville, Illinois; Thomas
Kane, president of the Winona Assembly,
which is establishing an institution
for the teaching of agriculture in Indianapolis.
J. II. Krauskopj, founder and
president of the now noted national farm
school at Doylestown, Pennsylvania;
John II. Patterson, president of the
i National Cash llegiater Company, whose
school gardens and model factory cquip'
merits at Dayton, Ohio, have awakened
a wide spread interest; (len. 11. S. Tuti
hill, through whose efforts the St. Charles
t Home for Boys at Chicago, was founded;
O J Kern, superintendent of schools
for Winnebago County. Illinois, who
l has done a great work in the consolidation
of county tchools, and perfected
plans for engrafting on them methods
for the practical teaching of improved
agriculture in experimental gardens;
, ? B. Butler, presideut of the board of
trustees of the Illinois Manual Training
School Farm; and Milton George, the
founder of that, schoo'; Jane Adam-*,
head of the Chicago Hull House Social
Settlement, and others of note In this
movement.
TKACII Til E DION1TY OF WORK.
The league is working for an industrial
public school system which will include
the teaching of domestic science,
and both agricultural and manual training
in all the public schools, so that children
shall be taught to work with their
hands and farm as they are taught iu the
public schools of Fiance and Denmark.
It. maintains that every school should
have a school garden where every child
should he taught to he a lover of nature
and of the country, and traiued toward
the land as a source of honorable livelihood,
rather than away from it.
Such a s>stem of educatjou would undoubted
tend to check the constant
movement toward the cities, The farm
boy who receives a fwr schooler high
school education naturally turns toward
the place where he can best apply it
(lis training has not I**cm such as would
help him to farm better, or make of
farming an interesting science. And so
he goes to the city On the other hand,
the city boy, as lie grows up and marri- s
wou d like to have a home of his own on
the land, but he knows only the trade he
has learned. He knowH no'hingof farming
and would not know what to do on a
piece of land if lie had it. It has been
often said thai it is useless to put the
poor of the great cities out in the courttry,
because tiny will not stay Iheie
Tliey cannot lie expec*ed to, for to them
it is a strange and barren l?*nd The exlierience
of the Salvation Army, however,
found in its many irrigated colonies,
shows that men will go out from the
IrATk?
Is reflected
Mrs. Jane
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Styles
NOBBY FA
Just look a
temptation
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Qents Furi
partments t
most popul;
can be secu
Rugs!
We have just op
tg^Tl Kugs ever snowi
?? class of Rugs ha
them at once.
2F8 produce an enori
SjS business.
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clttesns where they are taught what to
do wilh I he laud after they get on it.
The irrigated farms of the West show
the great capacity of land when well and
intensively farmed, and that men can
live in plenty and comfort on tlve acres
and even a single acre. Suppose that
the 75,000 recently discharged employees
of the IVnnsylvania Railroad each had a
highly cultivated acre of rich land to
which he could turn his attention. Instead
of being a drag on the community
and the country, instead of having stopped
producing and consuming, they
would still be able to get at least a living
from the soil Does not this instance of
the disemployment of 75,000 men, who
might, if they owned each an acre, le
getting a living from the soil, supply
food for thought to the man who is pondering
over economic problems?
Guy E. Mitciikli..
Arts and Crafts, Women's Clubs.
The South Carolina Federation of
Women's Clubs at its recent meeting in
Newberry, made an i;Aits and Crafts"
department, for the purpose of stimulating
interest in the Home Industries
among the women of the State.
This work will consist of handy-work
of any description, made by the hands
of a South Carolina woman; laces, embroidery,
basketry, re-binding books,
wood carving, designs in wall-paper,
woven rugs, carpets, quilts, etc.
Every effort will be made to create a
demand for this work, and orders will
be solicited. All women iu this State
are urged to send samples of their handy-work.
It is especially desired through this
movement to reacli the womeu of tti
rural districts, showing the possibilities
open to them, both as wage-earners and
home teachers along these lines, to revive,
if possible, the old-fashioned art of
weaving, which even in its simplest form
is susceptible of excellent results
Woven rugs, for example, when
wrought into artistic designs and harmonious
colors, are iu great demand and
bring high prices.
It is the hope and intentiou of this
department to have a large and flue exhibit
in the Woman's Huilding iu the
coming State Fair, therefore, we wish
to urge all parties who anticipate seuding
work, to communicate with us at once,
in order to have time to work up a good
exhibit.
Address all communications to
Mrs. Rout. H. Jennings,
Chair. Arts and Crafts Com.,
S. C. F. W. O.
Orangeburg, 8. C.
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Tbii signature ia on every box of the genuine
Laxative Bronio-Quinine Table*
the Terpedr that earn m ?wM te mmm day
PoWIWaJKitt Salve
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nd se if you can resist the ||
to biy what we are offer- ||| >Shoe,
Clothing, Hats, and g||
riishiig Goods. These de= |||
are fring crowded with the 11
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at am up?io-uaie gooas tnat ^
Rugs! Rugs! 1 j
ened the largest and prettiest line of -pis
1. The prices are much less than same
ve been sold for before. You should see gK
We expect the merit of our Fall line to Egg
mous increase in the volume of our Fall g
RY GOODS CAMPANY, 1
[Groceries!
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!1 Flour, Meal, Sugar, Coffee, II
Rice, Grits, Meat, Lard, Hams, II
I Breakfast Bacon, Syrup and II
| Molasses, Can Meats, Can Veg- II
I etab|es, Green Groceries, Fancy ||
II Groceries, Tinware, Crockery- II
I ware, Spices, Extracts, etc., etc., II