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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHHD BvbKY FRIDAY ....BY THE.... UNION TIMES COMPANY SECOND F^OOR TIMES BUILDING BELL PHONE NO. 1. L. G. YOUNG, - - Manager Registered at lli*' Postollice in Union S. (J. as second class mail matter. 8PBSCKIITION KATBSOne year .... $l.oo Si* months .... .60 Three months ... .25 AnVKRTISKMKN1S : One square, first insertion - $!.<_*? Every suhs?'(|oent insertion - .60 Contraets for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at K 1-3 cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not he returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., JULY 7, 1905. THE 4th OP JULY. This is a day held sacred and dear to the heart of every patriotic American born citizen. While South Carolina was one <?f the original lo States, yet she has never l?een among the entlnistastie eelehrators of the day of national indep ndenee, a fact wo presume due to her cherishing a greater State, than national pride, valuoing as she has ever done, her state soverigntv al>ovc national allegiance, notwithstanding the day is not only revered as the anniversary of the declaration of independence, hut also sacred to the memory of those patriots who fought and died for free ilotn mid fim.-uuiuonai imcny aim to sustain and perpetuate tlio principles of the declaration. The South has never lieen demonstrative in matters of public observance of national anniversaries. The new South into which a new and different element in feeling resulting from an influx of a new population has changed somewhat and the Fourth of July is more generally celebrated as independence day. It has been said by some that the third of July was rather more worthy or rather wgs the day to he celebrated by the people, that being the day on which the real work of writing and agrceing^to by the people of the declaration of independence, but it was on the-fth that the declaration was really published to the world. The publication of the declaration of independence awoke the people to a full sense of their rights and aroused them to the point of opposing and resenting the oppression of England. And the ery of give us liberty or death was echoed throdgh the land and the clash of arms and years of hard struggle for freedom and final triamph made the declaration of independence mean to people all that was intended that it should, and today its meaning is fully appreciated. SENATOR TILLMAN TALKS. Although Senator Tillman lias remained comparatively quiet and had nothing for publication either on politics or the dispensary since his speech at GafTney, we felt reasonably certain that when suflicicntly urged lie would have something t? say. In his letter to Mr. F. W. iligginson, of Newberry, in reply to and complying with a request from Mi4, iligginson to give his present views on the status of the dispense ry in the face of the opposition to the system hy the people in seeking hy vote to shut up the dispensary in their town. Senator Tillman sticks to his original text that the dispensary system is the best way to handle liquor in South Carolina. He says the system is as near perfect as i>ossible. but the trouble has Is'cn in the management. He admits that there has been corrupt dealings in its management, that the law as it stands upon the statutes has not been faithfully and to the letter carried out, that is not the fault of the system, hut of those who had the carrying out of the law in their hands. That it has grown unpopular with the people is owing to this very fact. He contends that the towns should not vote out the dispensary, if the people i?f the State want to alndish the dispensary it should lie left to the entire people. In our editorial last week on local option we indicated as much, feeling that local option in certain communities was a dangerous weapon to put into the hands of the jH'ople. He does not believe in putting the sale of whiskey into the hands of the people upon the high license principle, for this would have the effect to place the sale of whiskey in the hands of a few rich men. thereby creating a monopoly. He is not willing for the people to mono|>oli/.e the whiskey; hut wants the State to keep up her monopoly. He insists that the system is alright and should remain in the hands of the State, that good men can he g >t to carry out the law. He says if the dispensary he abolished by the people and any other system of whiskey selling contemplated he will stump the State for prohibition, notwithstanding he knows that in Maine and Kansas where prohibition lias been for many years a dismal failure. Hi* blames the legis" lature and says there are yet some detects tn the law, that what cluing" os the legislature has made has done no good towards bettering the management. lie contends that the State should control the sale of liq1 nor and that the sale should have just such restrictions as would reduce. the sale to a minimum of nccssity for its use rather than as a beverage and profit, that this can be done under the dispensary system and not otherwise, even by prohibition legislature. These are not his words but the substance. Wearo not making any light along this line, but are leaving it for the people to decide. Forecasts for Julv. 1905. r.Y HKV. iRl. It. 1IICKS. |The forecasts of Rev. Irl R. llicks are copyrighted by Word and Works Publishing Co., and kindly notice is hereby given that all rights are reserved. It is a manifest injustice to Prof. Hicks to make these forecasts common property ] The storm diagram accompanying those forecasts shows that a Mars disturbance is central on the 7th and that its influence extends over the whole of .July. We repeat what we have said in our Almanac and in previous issues of Word and Works concerning the problematical results of this Mars period. The regular and reactionary storm periods for July will all show more or less perturbations, so that barometric and other phenomena will indicate that the regular forces ordinarily producing fluctuations of storm and weather arc present and at work. But in a general way, sections which were having an excess of rains and storms the latter part of June may expect much the same state of things at the July storm periods; while sections which wore experiencing dry, not weather may reasonably count on a marked degree of hot and drouthy weather. We enter July in the midst of a regular storm period which is central on the 2nd, extending to the 5th. A wave of extreme summer warmth will reach a crisis on and about the 2nd, the barometer will fall and many storms and gusts of rain, wind and thunder will pass estwardly across the country from the 2nd to the 5th. Itising barometer, change to cooler, westerly winds and clearing Weather will follow out of the west-northwest in the wake of these storms. At the reactionary storm period central on the 7th, 8th and 9th, there is great probability that we will enter upon a period of prolonged disturbance. This is indicated by the extended Vulcan brace, blended with those of Mercury and Mars in the storm diagram. After storms on the 7th and 8th and 9th, change to cooler, fair weather may result, but the chances are good that continued cloudy and threatening conditions will prevail until we enter the regular Vulcan storm period which is central on the 14th. Normally this period would extend from about the 12th to the Kith, but under the combined influences of Mars and Mercury these normal limits will most likely be overleaped. During all.this time, in sections where storms and rains do not dominate the weather, sustained beat and hurtful dryness will lx>. prolonged. A crisis of storm and abnormal weather will be experienced almut the 1 1th to Kith inclusive, after which rising barometer and change to cooler will come to myst parts. On and touching the 20th, 21st ami 22ml reactionary storm forces will again make themselves felt, causing very high temperature, falling barometer ami return of threatening weather and storms. We wish it distinctly understood that "threatening weather," attended by many actual and severe storms is altogether possible at any of the storm periods in July, without appreciable or satisfying rainfalls. At all events, the rainfalls will most likely be concentrated in special and limited areas, leaving wide districts misapplied with proper quantities of moisture. The Vulcan storm period, central on the '2")th, covers the 23rd to 27th. The temperature will rise to another climax of warmth during the first days of tnis period, the barometer will fall at the same time, all culminating in threatening gusts and storms on and touching the 2">th, 2(?th and 27th. Many of these July periods will bring violent, local hail storms to many sections in the middle to northwestsrn states. Such results are naturally to be apprehended during both the Venus and the Mars periods in summer, the two being blended at this time. July will come to its close with excessively high temperature, or a marked warm wave spreading trom western to eastern parts of the country. The second ndw moon for the month falls on the Hist, being within a few days only of the center of the Venus disturbance. These facts insure phenomenal warmth, with hail and shunder storms, followed by sudden changes to very cool. We call special at' tcntion to the fact that the Venus equinox is central on July 20th and not on August 20th, as was, by mistake, chartered in the storm diagrams in our 100") Almanac, The presence of this Venus period, blending with the Mars period all through the central and latter Parts of July will add double intensity to whatever kind of weather and other phenomena may prevail in different extremes of the country. Sections having dry, warm weather will find it abnormally dry and warm; those having storms and rain may expect such things above normal. The periods in July in which seismic and carthquakodisturbances arc more likely to transpire are from the 1st to the 4th, from the nun to iflui, ana on ana touching the ft 1st. Not once in a thousand times arc such phenomena attended with danger, especially in our own country; hut they have a vital significance in determining the effects of cosmic forces and influences upon our atmosphere and globe. All who follow us intelligently through our forecasts, and especially through all our foundation facts, assigning reasons for all these things, will readily sec that, while we issue forecasts of storm and weather, our j objects in their entirety are to trace out .the general laws by which creation around us is influenced and controlled. He who sees only the predictions which we issue, looking no deeper at the wonderful laws ami methods of the nil-powerful and all-wise God, which we are reverently and humbly trying to discover and apply, sees only the smaller side of our motive and work. LIQUOR ANDLABOR. Gives Reason for Strike in Chicago. n. i\ okkkn in woni) axi> wohks. Our trouble with the teamster strikers in Chicago, in which much violence was used in keeping nonunion men from earning their bread, resisting the police force, fighting and killing all who opposed, is but another sad illustration of the unhappy condition of our country. Probably no land, all things considered, furnishes better opportunities for the laboring classes to better their conditions, or where better wages are paid than our own. And yet, it is claimed these lalx>r disturbances are hut the outward expressions of home suffering and wants. It is the cry for bread, the working man can hardlv make both ends meet. Is it not because he insists on creating capitalists out of saloon-keepers, and, not content with that, on submitting all his rights of citizenship to the same object of ownership? When lal?or is most disturbed, when tlit; demand for advanced wages is the loudest, when strikes are most frequent, when hunger and misery arc most rife in the homes of the jx>or, the saloon flourishes still. There may he no bread at home, hut there is always l>cer and whiskey at the bar; and the men who considerthemselves the victims of circumstances, of the ''thrall" of capital, squander their earnings and spend their savings in these dens, (an there l>e a serious lal>or question while this state of things continues? Can workingmen talk gravely of their wrongs, while it is plain to all the World, that if they only saved 11 Don't Torture , I There's No | S We a re proving I great many di women and mt ^Pliev are bei 11< Shoes and Slip] store and tber what real, dov fort is 1 MUTUAL DRY J R. P. HARRY, - tin' capital, they would he comi fortnbfc? We cannot truthfully say . that tlie teamsters are all to blame ^ I yi gy for this state of affairs; could we | 1 S j blame the workingmen for having 7^ ( a union, as all packing houses, steel trusts, railroads and lumber- j men, look out for number one. Even the salooklcecpers of Chicago I I ; __t 1 l Vo ovloo?fn%<? "h "*! x 441 i ..it ka.iuiimig cucii utnur 10 IlftUg | 1 1 , together;" we hope they will, the , ftc _ , scaffold ought to be well built. No j CcaSy XO ; matter what wages you pay a drink- will ; ing man, neither his condition, nor 7% C1IIU Will j that of Ids family can be improved thereby. * There is no use in pro riding extra holidays for men who v use them to get drunk. There is |k no use ill cutting down the day's labor from ten to eight hours, if IIl the two hours gained are spent in a ^ rum hole, There would be no use in making arbitration compulsory 7^ if one of the parties were likely to be kept from obeying the decision ^ ,a|| t by liquor. ^ Weill Oil 1 It was M. Cassipo who exclaimed, j*. "Oh Clod! that men should put an *5 enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains." Yet men have .continued to do so and will so con- ftw firT tinue until the end of time, unless /j ^1 pT" I j we educate our hoys and girls to he sober men and women and God- Jmn _ i fearing. It is rather singular, in iSJw' 4 ' the face of all warnings, that men, ' especially men of intellect, will so degrade themselves. Yet they do, iU' " * * > * and every day we sec and hear of Ma cases where men moving in the rfi best of society, ornaments to their JM profession when devoid of liquor, Ifz are locked up to prevent or cure M4 delirium tremens. The outside Ma world would bo shocked wore pub- \n Wi lie journals to reveal .the dninm nf fiw ~ - O \ir* UUI oi certain men who frequently come VA Prpflm under observations of reporters. iK Dante might hsivo added to the horrors of his vision of hell by a Rpcf" I sojourn in the Chicago slums. This ira LJC&v I is why we pity the strikers of Chicago. ^ jM in Oilr A Grim Tragedy. |\K OlU Pe is daily enacted in thousands of homes. fife CV0I'y ! as Death claims, in each one, another i/f/ Fill Nf I victim of Consumption or Pneumonia. fJf7 ' ULINI ! But when Coughs and Colds are prop- rife SOmO C ( erly treated, the tragedy is averted. F. uf/ I Ci. Huntley, of Oaklandon. Ind., writes: Mra l*0fr0Sh I "My wife had the consumption, and rife three doctors gave her up. Finally slio 1/f/ took Dr. King's New Discovery for Con- fJJv sumption, Coughs and Cold, which fife cured her, and to-day she is well and i/f^ I II strong." It kills the germs of all dis- MM | I eases. One dose relieves. Guaranteed fife at .Vic. and $1.00 by Dr. F. C. Duke lif/ druggist. Trial hoi tie free. Wig (The pltlCC Sub?cribtT for *The Times.1 ???- . ? IUMI I BCl JeedOfjt I tlii? fact to a 1 ^ HI d scri m i nati ng || mi every clay. M r fitted with | pers from our || i they learn || vnriglit com- || ******* GOODS CO. | - MANAGER. ream Freezers I HE "WONDER" ? Grade, but low priced. ^ . ^ operate, uses least ice, freeze in 3 to 5 minutes. ^ ? ? % 1 Quart $1.50 t 2 Quarts 1.75 J* 3 ' 2.25 ft 4 " 2.50 ? 6 " 3.25 . J* 8 " 4.50 $ pjs for other hot weather ^ necessities. ^ :L HARDWARE GO. | -^ ^ ^ >1 Komfort 3 1 o arm Weather can be found at ij\ )da Water * Fountain and Ice Parlor. We see to it that only Ingredients Are. Used i cold drinks and ice creams. 08- ^ rsonal supervision is given to 8JJ detail. PURITY, HEALTH- ' M ESS and PALATABILITY are M >f the things.that belong to our 8? ment products. wl' Rice Drug Co.,1 to get Pure Drugs and Low Prices.) K - *