The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 21, 1905, Image 4
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THE UNION TIMES
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UNION, 8. C., APRIL 21, 19< 5.
Our local contemporary ami local
correspondents to the News and
Courier and the State, complain
that the Spartanburg Journal does
frequently copy their original articles
published iit their papers without
giving credit as is ?the rule and
custom of all Journals. We would
suggest that these writers thus imposed
uiKjn, copyright all of their
articles as the only precaution from
being purloined by other papers
without giving the proper credit.
MARION PARR PAYS PENALTY
Marion Pair who, in a drunken
frenzy killed Clarence Shealey with
a hoe, on the banks of the river
near Columbia last summer, was
hanged for the crime last Friday in
the. Columbia jail yard at 11:15 a.
m. Among the last words uttered
by Parr were these: Whiskey has
b.Tii the cause of all of my troubles
That years ago lie could have gone
about and preached trie gospel, nut
that drink had brought him to
crime, and he hoped that all would
take warning from him and let
whiskey stay in the bottle, and j
helped the day would come when
there would he prohibition all over
the land,"so that the young men
could not get whiskey. He con-.
.fesaeAthat. >*<? killed Shealuv. but
would not have done so had he
Wen sober. This, young men, old
men, hoys and girls is an object
lesson which should leave upon you
an everlasting effect and make you
determined to follow the advice of
l'arr and not follow his example.
MEMORIAL DAY.
Lest we forget" May 10 is the
day set apart throughout the South
as Memorial day. The day for the
decoration of the graves of the heroes,
whose memory we desire by
this token t<? honor, cherish, keep
fresh and perpetuate, as a fitting
and appropriate tribute to those 1
who so patriotically sacrificed their
lives in the defense of honor and
country and principle. The Cnited
Daughters of the Confederacy in
every place throughout the South
take the lead in arranging the program
for the exercises and observance
of memorial day. The citizens
generally ought to join in and
assist the U. J). C. in every effort
made in this direction and not leave
the entire burden upon tin- daughters.
Certainly t'nion will not he
content to Ik: lacking in her enthusiasm
and patriotic zeal, in thus
honoring t lie dead heroes of our lost
cause.
SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
"Heading is the key that opens
the door to knowledge," and we
have been persistent and consistent
in our advocacy of school libraries,
and wc yet think that if the libraries
were supplied with the best
l>0oks and the child properly instructed
and guided by the teacher
in the selection and reading of such
books as would improve and educate,
although it might be necessary
to cultivate the taste of the child
for the best litcrature,it would eventually
lead to great results in liter-ary
attainments, general and useful
knowledge. Recently wc have
bad some reason to doubt the ad
visibility nnd policy of having *
school libraries to which the pupils \
have indiscriminate and unlimited ;
access. The greater portion of the ,
books that fill the shelves of these
lituiiries are of a sensational, wild,
adventurous character all of which
are read by the pupils with eager
and absorbing interest, for the nar- '
rative alone in utter disregard of
its moral, literary or historic value
if the l>ooks contains any such vir-'
tues, and read to the neglect of the
studies and disregard of all school
duties. It is therefore a question1
of vital importance to the child; 1
when should the pupil be allowed (
to take from the library and read
these books.
LICiHT AND WATER.
These two elements arc essential,
to the business and social life,!
growth, prosperity and activity of
every community; fhe city of Union
has lnith in apparent abundance.
There is an action sometimes instituted
in the courts, known in law
as a suit to quiet a tittle. This is
a perfectly friendly and harmless
proceeding in which there is little
or no litigation. Now the Union
Timks as plaintiff in her own right
and for the people of the city of
Union in these few lines purposes
to bring a perfectly harmless and
friendly suit againt the Electric
Light add Water Works Commission
j for, and in behalf-of the people,one
I of whom we are which, with the
view of eliciting from the said commission
a full report of their actI
ings and doings, receipts and ex,
pendituros during their adminisiraI
tion of such commission. The
electric light and water works lielong
to the city, and the people are
tin; life of its corporate existence
and real parties in interest. Recognizing
the authority of the commissioners
to act in the premises
and reposing the utmost confidence
in their honesty, integrity and executive
ability, feel assured that a
perfectly satisfactory report can be
made.. The people say turn on the
lights in facts and ligures. No
people care to own such valuable
property and not know whether it
be or not a paying, self sustaining
investment, although such a eondiii/at
i..... \rw v.ov.uiaiea, and as tlief
people do not know whether or not
~ i . i* il... 1 r !ii i ni i
u pari- in uic i<i mill levy will ihj
used to maintain light aiul water
works plants as the ordinance does
not specify. This is not a writ of
mandamus to compel the eommis"
sion to make a showing, hut a suit
to quiet the fears and enable all to
see and understand how all things
light and (lowing are,and at the same
time gratify the wishes of a long
suffering tax burdened people,
COLONEL BACON VISITS THE
SUBWAY TAVERN.
A Glorious Description ot an
Hour in the Place of Bibulous
Virtua?"Hell Broke
Loose in Georgia"?"Peroxide
Widows Plumped in Sec-'
tions." |
New York City, April 13.?'
llcing in New York?now a maelstrom
of Easter goods and floating
on the surface of the situation, we
were washed up by the tide last
night and swept into Bishop Potter's
"SubwayTavern." Everybody
who comes to New York nowadays
iroeS to the Sllhwav Tsivern
V -V - " "J " ,,,vl t
under tin- combined allurement** of
virtue, whiskey and sand, is making
mountains of money. In this
benevolent institution of Bishop
Potter's you get a drink of the same
whiskey for ten cents that you
would have to pay fifteen cents for
elsewhere. What more sublime
height of virtue than this? The
Subway Tavern is not?as we had
thought, and as most people think
? a plaee under the ground. Nor
has it anything upon earth to do
with the great underground railway,
so far as we can see or learn. One
of the descents to the Subway is
directly in front of it, and that is
all. It is an old two-story wooden '
building at the corner of Bleeker
and Mull>crry streets. This is far
down town and takes visitors into a'
quarter of the city which they
would certainly not otherwise see.1;
It is not quite as low down, how-1
ever, as Chinatown, nor is it by any j
means as interesting. As you ap- |
proach the Subway Tavern you see
various little open air performances
ihowing the lieauties of tli\" simple
ifc in those parts when Bleeder and
Mulberry streets are in bloom,
rhese performances cheer you up
morally, and you enter the reception
room of the tavern with assured
feelings of redemption and salvation.
The reception room is plain
and shabby. It is called "The
Water Wagon." Why should a
water wagon not Ik: plain and
shabby? There is neither money
nor virtue in a water wagon. As
you enter the water wagon mine
host Jansen, really a very handsome,
intelligent and well mannered young
man, conies forward to receive add
greet you?after the fashion, we
suppose, of the ancient roadside inn
keeper. Very few persons, however,
despite its virtuous air, linger
long in the water wagon. They
smelt and hear more heavenly
things, and soon find the open door j
to a wide and long modern bar]
room, with very few traees or hints
of an ancient inn?except the whiskey,
beer and ale. There are also
large invoices of ease goods and,
we reckon, coffin varnish diluted
with wood alcohol. There are a
good many men in the bar room,
but they are quiet and orderly, and
seem to bo filled with the spirit of
rejoicing Christians. Many women,
extremely good women - we do not
joke?go to the tavern, but they do
not linger in the water Wagon, nor
do they enter the long and sterilized
bar room?sterilized of all
iniquity. On the contrary they
hurry down-stairs to a long room
..r !
ii& vjiv< ijvnvin ui uiu vtvuu. linn
room is the heart aiul soul of the
tavern, and here so great is the
purity, piety, virtue and benevolence,
that you immediately begin
to feel the awakening of what Maxim
Gorky, the Russian writer and
patriot, called "a redemptive spirit
of shame"?shame that your past
life has been so dissolute and degraded.
Till: It KM, TAVKllN.
This room is the real "old tavern."
Its lloor is thickly sanded?
with good, clean, wliolesome sand.
The chairs and tables arc old-time
and somewhat rickety. The lamps
are cheap, old-fashioned, greasy and
dim. A huge, ancient, Saxoiv-looking
fireplace stands on -one side,
with huge black iron dogs, shovel
and tongs. Logs and fagots lie
upon the ponderous andirons.
Chjrious old pots and vases and jugs
and mugs and flagons fill the
mantlepicce. In one corner ?dripping
from the bungs upon the sand
? are piled up into a gretit mountain
hogsheads, casks, barrels, kegs
and demijohns. When we saw the
dripping bungs our soul was much
i;r?^,i "r, ?-J rongen for an object
of charity upon whom or which
we might sacrificially bestow our
few remaining nickels.
In this room are an organ, a
piano, and a wicked and vulgar
graphophone. The graphophone
spieled with hut little cessation and
inspired you to pray earnestly for a
huimk iruiiHiuiion into ine Heavenly
rest whither your footsteps were
surely tending. The graphophone
is the most serious anachronism of
the Subway Tavern, for in the happy
days of the ancient time the
devil had not invented the graphophone..
On the walls of this subterranean
chamber hang quaint and |
strange old pictures, and as we
could find no merit whatever in any
of them, we naturally concluded
they were works of high art.
SUliTKRKANKOrS (OOKINO.
Opening out from the sanded
parlor, and running further and
deeper into the lx>wcls of the earth
stretches a vast and darkling cook
room. From this nxnn are brought
to you, and placed on your round
table, any manner and all manners
of viands, from roast beef to "chop
suey." Your refreshing fluids come
to you from above?manna. The
sanded parlor was full of gay, fluffy,
feathery peoph?men and women,
all ages, colors, nationalities and
conditions?all except the negro.
There were dozens of fluffy blonde
girls, with pink and blue and white
parasols. It is the fluffy blonde
girl with the parasol that "takes
the cake." And peroxide widows I
with strange figure*?plumped up I
in sections. And ninny I wise Ixill
boys, with wildly dishevelled foretops,
with their wounded niul bleeding
shanks covered up by thinnest
lace stockings. And old men and
old women, chewing* and drinking
and mumming and gumming. And
pet dogs and parrots and monkeys.
We saw none of llishop Potter's
plain, honest, poor people, seeking
a place of virtuous relaxation; and
the fluffy girls and the peroxide
widows and the scabby, bleeding
boys were all gay. They had come
out for a pink tea with blue and
gold accompaniments, and they
were having it. And in this sanded
parlor visitors and guests arc. not!
only at liberty to do things, hut:
are earnestly requested to do them j
?to "exercise gifts." And as we
are too old to be modest?God for- j
give vis!?We will relate the following:
All at once our chaperon,
Miss Lucy Crozicr, of Tennessee,
QnTS
1?3i Thousands
Distressed
and Aching
|| Feet Have
||$ Found Rest
|j| and Comfort
? They Are M
H So that wl
is old shoe" 1
|| and please
m curves.
| Mutual
Georgia, North Carolina and South t
<.w4;?u a woman who knows t
more goods things and does more t
good things than any other woman p
we have ever heard of, rose up, and a
in very eloquent and flattering li
terms announced to the fluffys, and c
the peroxides, and the base bailers, t
and the mummers, and the dogs, u
and the parrots, and the monkeys, t
and the Italian harpers, and the u
megaphone fiends, that an humble,
but "gifted" South Caroliniau was
among them and would first play
for them some distinctive Southern
music on the piano, and then ad- t
dress them. j
Though absolutely taken alwick, |:
and covered with shame, we reached v
the piano gracefully and played v
"Hell Broke I/xise in Georgia," c
"Billy in the Ixiw-grounds," "Ar- |j
kansas Traveller," "Surrem,"
"Bile dem Cabbage Down," "Go<l c
Save the Kim?." nml n>uv.
"Dixie." And the Buffers Huffed, c
and the peroxiders plumped in j,
more and new sections, and the v
base bailers kicked and yelled and j
poured down perspiration-like aque- j
ducts, and the harpers harped, and
the dogs yelped, and the parrots
screeched incontinently, and the
monkeys chattered wildly and Miss
Crozier clapped her hands and
cried out, "Merci, Mon Dieu, the
hero of the hour is mine."
in skml-ciiutlalt waves.
And we rose from the piano, dying
with irrepressible laughter, and
lwnving in-semi-cireulae waves, like
Paderewski.
And then we said: "Indies,
gentlemen, dogs, parrots and monkeys,
we have l>ccn delighted to
help in entertaining you, and the
only reward we ask is that you will
not let it conic to the ears of Bishop
Potter. He thinks, 01* at all events
says, that we Houth Carolinians are'*,
notorious evil livers, and should he
ever hear of our playing "Hell
Broke Iskiso in Georgia" and
'Dixie' in his Tavern of the Heavenly
Best, his convictions along
this line would, of course, be deepened
and intensified. Please do
not let him know that 'Hell Broke
I/HIM*' nnd 'Tlivin' lmtm v.,...-,!
-.?? ? ? WWII nunm
in his tavern, lest lie rend his
garments, not his heart, and cry
out of the anguish of his uncircumcised
soul: Woe is me! Is it for
this tlint I have preached and
prayed and doxologized?"
And then we gathered Miss Crozier
in our arms and to our heart, (!
and tied out into tho wild night,
and deep down into the bowels of
$
lodeled on Scic
hiile being "as a
rhey fit without
the eye with th
b
*
Dry Goo
R. P. HARRY, Manager.
lie earth, and suffered subway
ranHlatioil until our Joanna d' Arc
umcd us loose in the wilds and
(itfalls of 42<1 street, whence, amid
11 the temptations and snares that
icset the young and unwary, we
ompassed the long distance to the
lotel Earlington, and lying down
ipon our bed, said: "Thank Go<l
hat the Subway Tavern is over for
is." Jambs T. Bacon.
A fight With Knives.
Saturday night in West End near
he Nance livery stable, Will and
ohn Iioving, Mac and ChivusKidd
iccame involved in a big row in
t hich loud and profane language
ras freely used, and soon quite a
rowd gathered. At last a fight
ogan, in which knives were freely
sod, Mac Kidd was very badly
ut in several nlaces. Thesn tioM
rs were all before the Mayor, oxept
Mae Kidd who was too ill from
ii? wounds to attend. Will Loving
/as tried and fined $15.00, John
x>ving fined $5.00 and Chcvius
Cidd was released.
I same, rragrant and w I I
delicate. Kept so by the sealed I
package. ' ' I '
Your money back for
x every package that is not
better than you can buy
elseweere at the same
price.
rHE UNION GROCERY
COMPANY.
Exclusive Agents.
Southern Trading Stamps with
every cash purchase at regular
price.)
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WE AREflNXKHJS
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To do more business with the peoplc
living in the country as well as
to increase our sales in and around
Union?In view of this we havo decided
to sell anything in our entire
line of House Furnishings (on payment
of from one-third to one-half
down and balance in the fall.
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We Want Your Trade
and also your influence. Come in
to see uh and lets get acquainted
whether you wish to buy anything.
or not. You are welcome.
Just received a line of baby GoCarts,
Carriages, Trunks, Clocks,
Stoves and Ranges, Hugs and Window
Shades. We know it will pay
you to trade with us.
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