The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 14, 1905, Image 4
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RELIGIOUS REAIVALS.
Just now as in years ago there is
a wave of religious revivals sweeping
over this county. It would
seem that like the waves of the sea
wickedness can go just so far and no
farther as hy divine decree. The
several denominations in this wave,
though distinct as the hillows, yet
one as the sea, work together for
the common good of humanity.
All of the churches of the city will .
hcgin a series of religious worship, I
beginning next Sunday and eon-1
tinue from day to day as long as I
there is hope or prospect of bringing
a soul to Christ.
TAX LEVY.
ft is a peculiar niatlicinatical I
problem which seems to work a<l- j
verse to any mathematics that we .
have ever studied, in that it 1*0- J.
quires :i larger levy 21s the property .
of the city advances in market 2
value. A levy of 1 "> mills is now
mtfde for the year 1905. The ox|H-nses
of the city government have so |
enormously increased within the 1,
past year, it becomes necessary to |
inere2?se the levy. Yet the nmrkct I
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value luis increased 21 pace. Is ,
it neeesssiry that the expenses he so j
great in excess of former yesirs? j
W herein consists the expense, is it
road building or railroad building? <
The city fathers have evidently | J,
adopted the plan of living within ' ^
the city means if they have to bor- 1,,
row the money to do it with. The 1.1
bonds sire to p;iy past indebtedness, ! <
:i debt already incurred, a'debt the ''
council lmil to lmrrnw the money to j
meet the debt, borrowed the money ?
nt S per cent. Why was this debt ( 1
contracted, when the city bad not N
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the money to pay it with. It would j
be well to consult the people before'
making a debt as you do when you 1 t
want money to pay it. 1
ENVIRONMENT. ;
In a garret Imru, ]
In a kitchen bred,
By ruffians reared, '
By the hand of plebians fed. i
Seldom, if ever, does one so un- '
fortunate as the alxive descrilies,
rise above such environments and
liecome a worthy, useful citizen.
If we look to the other extreme and.
Iiehold one well born enjoying all
the advantages of birth, wealth and
social position so far as are the en- i
vironments concerned, yet has
dropi>cd from tin; hcighth of birth '
and its advantages has fallen to the .
level of 1110 first referred to, then
wherein is the environment a tie- ?
veloper, in the face of this radical I
departure. Then there must he
exceptions to the general rule of
environment as a developer. From i
this exception there may spring future
generations of either or l?oth
classes. We all had four grandparents
in our immediate family,
that makes eight, and if we go hack
to Adam we would have to stop
counting after we passed those 1
eight. There is perhaps dating
hack as we do and embracing the j
whole world not a living man who j
has not had among his ancestors a ?
king and a licggar, an idiot and a '
smart, a christian and a murderer *
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and every other possible kind of y
humanity controlled and uncon- t
trolled by environment. Nature i
plays some peculiar pranks over 1
which environment seems toexor-ji
ise no control, takes no part and
sustains no definite relations. Some ^
one has said that, "it seems to lx; a \
law of nature that when any por- i
tion of the human race reaches a
certain point of advancement it
ceases to reproduce itself insufficient
numbers to maintain itself. That
certain wild animals will not breed
when domesticated, no matter how
carefully they are eared for, no
matter what experiments arc made
in their environments, the conditions
are not right." "Parenthood
is the greatest thing in the
world. The child is not only an
epitome of the human race, but of
the world.
OUR SANTUC BUDGET.
About 25,000 Feet of Lumber
Consumed by Fire?Hey
Denver Hurt in a "Wreck."
Other News.
Mr. Krwin, of Abbeville, is here
on a visit to bis brother-in-law,
He v. T. B. Owens.
Mrs. L. L. Shealey has gone to
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1 II'IIIUII Wll il H) IIUl JJiO CI IU*.
Constable F. M. Israel was in
Santuc Sunday.
Contractor Abranis and a force of
men are here now at work on his
job.
In the school at Winston-Salem,
N. C., a teacher was taken sick
and Miss Ethel Jeter, of this place,
ami a former teacher there has gone
there to till out the remainder of
the session in her place.
Two good Sunday schools were
organized here last Sunday. At the
baptist church in the forenoon and
the Methodist church in the afternoon.
Much material here for
Sunday schools.
Quite a heavy frost and some ice
a thin crust on the ground was seen
here on the morning of the 7th inst .
It is too early after that to prove
whether the fruit is killed or not.
After some time of dry weather, .
in which the ground got consideribly
hard, a good rain fell last week
ind farm work is progressing.
There has not been much planting
done, some corn and sorghum,
no cotton, but there is time enough,
.'rops always grow liest when the
veather and soil is warm.
It is reported that the power
louse and dam v:M be completed in j
>0 days, but unless the timber is ^
lit off the overllowed lands, to lie, |
t may he a long time before it can j
ic used. ,
The census reports put a big crop ^
f cotton for us to think al>out,but v
t is too high, say what you please, ^
or according to their own statement
hey put even our own individual (
;in down for ginning as much to ^
laniuiry as to December and we ^
lid not gin a hale from Dee. 1">, to <
an. 15. That is where it is swelld
. , !
A tire occurred at the dam on (
seal Shoals last week, and every
nan was taken from his regular ,
vork to tight fire. A cement house
vith eonsiderahle cement and a
uarket house washurned, and some
ars on the track was caught. It
;<H?k fast work to save the cars of
naehincry. I
Santuck had quite a tire Sunday '
norning, when a tohacco ham in
ivhich about 25,()00 feet of lumber
,vas drying, caught all through the
lumber, at almost the same time,
uul no efforts to save anything
ivould have availed. The property
belonged to Mr. \Y. T. Jones.
There was some hot work done to
keep a nearby out-house from catching,
as si precaution to saving the
residence of Dr. J. T. Jeter, which
was in close proximity.
A negro, Bill Hill, was sent to
the chain gsmg Ha turd sty, for violation
of contract. He Imd rented.a
Fsirm on'shares from Mr. Jeter Cornwell
ami had gotten about in
debt. Some one agreed to psiy
him out in order to get his lal>or,
mid it seems too, that he wsis preparing
to go to Florida with a crowd
i?f negroes, he acting as the enumeration
agent, but his movements
were csuicrht on to. sunt ho wnMJovnn
up ? slipping his cnltlc there?and
he was sent on the gang just in
time to prevent his exodus to the
land of flowers with his immigrants.
If this l>e true, lie ought to lie sent
to the penitentiary for violating the
immigration laws, and perhaps for
gambling and stilling whiskey too,
if the truth was known. It seems,
if 1 must he plain that the people
lire a right smart foolish alxiut Hill,
lit: is not known to have staid with
? man even six months, I don't bclieve,
except once. He would get
n debt jump his contract, lie prosecuted,
and some one would pay
dm out, ami so tin, he lieing on <
hat line a regular medium of ex- <
hange. lie stayed in Florida i
somo time and if I am not mis- i
aken he ran away from there, leav- <
ng a debt, and was even arrested i
L'
lore for that, and some one paid it
'or him.
In the light of all this knowledge
>f him, it is very likely some one
kvill make a contract and pitch business
with him next year or even as
joon as he is off the chain gang.
1 am now recovering from a wreek
? not a railroad wreck, but a horsepower
wreck. A horse ran away
with myself and a brother, down a
long steep hill, last Sunday afternoon,
April 3rd, and after one week
we arc still sore from our bruises.
We were going over to see another
brother, and just as we started down
the Baker hill, on the road leading
out to the dam, the girth broke,and
the shafts got across the horses
hack, the axle ran against his legs,
and he ran. The hill was steep
and long and the horse ran with all
his might. 1 knew it was a serious
affair, when a line broke and I
could expect nothing only hurts,
probably broken bones, I was afraid
for this, and 1 acknowledge it was
an awful state ot suspense to be in,
inviting the finale, while flying
clown that hill. When just nearing
the liottoin the buggy turned
over and we under it, but it uncoupled.
The momentum was so
great 1 know we slided or Imunccd
twenty feet down and into the side
ditches, when we struck, and I
came near having my head bunted
against the road bank, and bruised
and skinned all about in spots,
mostly about my arms, shoulders
and bead, Brother had the same
bruises, but one will have to be
lanced yet. We were temporarily
laid up from active work, and it
took lnitb of us to make f-4 of a
man for a week.
For two days 1 could scarcely
move about. It is dangerous enohgh
to lie thrown out of a buggy on level
ground while a horse is running
full speed and doubly so on a steep
hill, and if I have the least warning
hereafter, I don't expect to ride
down a hill so fast anymore, I will
jump out on the first intimation.
My head is not built for butting
road banks etc., and would you believe
it that horse ran clear to the
dam nearly four miles, and carried
the front wheels nearly three miles
before he tore loose from them.
That was the worse runaway scrape
I was ever in, and I have been in
several and mostly going down hill.
J-Ater: In the ease of Bill llill, it
now crops out that since he jumped
his contract lie went to Florida and
lack, and was doing active work
jetting np immigrants to go to
diippey, but he was not so sharp
is lie was patting himself on the ,
nick to he. He was suspected and
ivas l?eing shadowed. Posters at a
this place and Carlisle were watch- s
ng him, and at Carlisle he would e
uive heen arrested as soon as he at" fi
empted to board a train as that v
vas the objective point of his taking n
he train with his shipment of em- o
nigrants. Mr. Clarence Gist was s
onspicuous in watching him at v
Carlisle, I learn and diflusing in" p
clligenee of some of his movements, v
There arc steps l>cing taken by sev- s
;ral parties to prosecute him for vi- s
dating the state laws for acting the 1
immigration agent without license.
1 certainly hope they will, 1 like to t
sec a scheming rascal foiled and put 1
n clutches where he belongs.
Hey Denver. i
LOCKHART JUNCTION. t
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Moxy Heralds With Pleasure N
the Coming of Spring-Says
farm Work has Begun.
Springtime has come again. The c
birds are singing, the bees are hum- ^
ming and the flowers are blooming p
and everything is putting forth its ?
beauty. / 1
The farmers have had a beauti- *
f..i *: ? - J
iiii miih; mr preparing ineir land
for another crop and everyone is
putting in good time. ,
Wo ace a g<H)d deal of corn is
being planted already and a good
deal of land l>eing fixed and a good
deal more to lx; fixed.
We think the farmers are taking
a right move in the right direction
to cut th0 acreage of cotton. Wo .
should use the word plant more
corn instead of saying cut the
acreage of cotton.
Show me a man who has corn in
his crib and I will show you a man
that the present price of cotton does
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jiwi/ nun, uiiu in.* is mil/ complain- }]
ing ho much alxnit the price. We t
know of several farmers in this i
section who have corn plenty in c
their cribs, and one who has some i
two years old, and he has his pres- i
cut crop of cotton on hand and can 1
hold it as long as he wants to. n
We have a fanners association in s
Jonesville township and many have h
signed the pledge to reduce the a
acreage. We do think this is a i
great move and every farmer should, \
attend the meetings and make it r
what it should lie. We hear of t
criticisers, which is generally the
ease in most anything, hut this
should not l>e. We sec some always t
setting in easy places and letting *
others do the work and they also !.
roup the benefit. Come up, X bay, l
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iul help the weak against the
trong. Why shouldn't the farnirs
organize as well as others. The
arniers arc the haeklione of the
rorld. The wheels of success would
lot roll if it was not for the tiller
f the soil. All can join this asociation
without money or passrord,
110 secret in this. IiCt us all
iracticc what we preach and then
.'C will Ik? ready to say that Wall
treet won't price what we have for
ale and what we have to buy, as
las been the ease heretofore.
1 sec one man has in his field at
his time several stacks of pcavine
lay and has sold some to his neigli>or.
Now you see there is money
11 other things besides cotton.
The (lault school has closed for
his session and Miss Lizzie Whilock,
teacher, has gone home for a
vacation. * Moxy.
Death of a Good Woman.
Wednesday night, April 5, at 11
11 ir nr?n? *
> ciock, mrs. >> imam .jetterics,
vife of Capt. Win. Jetterics, died
it her old home in Cherokee county,
die had l>ecn in feehle, failing
icalth for the past several years,
r^t her death was sudden and unixpected.
The interment was at
5 a IT i icy in Oakland cemetery. Mrs.
retteries was, before her marriage,
diss Hamoth L. llames, daughter
>f the late Lemeul llames and a
lister of the late lamented Thadeus
h. llames. She leaves surviving
ler, husband and five children,
diss Mary JefTeries, Dr. Charles
Tellerics and Mrs. Baxter Wood
md Mrs. J. D. Goudloek of Gaffley,
Mrs. Charles Allen of Greenville,
S. C.
From early girlhood Mrs. Jeferics
was a consistent and devout
nember of the Methodist church,
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urn i>y nur enrixuan conduct, pre?pt
and example she was a shinng
light for g<xxl not only in her
>wn heme hut the entire community
n which she lived. She will lie
nissed and mourned by all who
mew and lived within the circle
ind atmosphere of her christian
pirit and lienign influence. The
sympathies of the entire community
tre extended to the bereaved. She
s at rest in the arms of her Savior
tdiom she so faithfully served, the
eward of her earthly devotion to
lis service.
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o $1.00 with Devoe'a Gloss Carriage
'Hint. It weighs 3 to 8ow. more to
he pint than others, wears longer and
ives a gloss eoual to new work. Sold
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Chicken and Game Paties
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