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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVLRY FRIDAY ....BY THE.... UNION TIMES COMPANY 8econd floor times building bell phone no. 1. L. G. YOUNG, - - Manager KcgiittrriHl s\t tin' Postollice in Union S. U. as second class mail matter. srnscKHTioN HATES: One year - - - - $1.00 Six months - .50 Three months ... .25 AOVKHTTSKMKXTB : One square, first insertion - $1.00 Every subsequent insertion - .50 Contracts for three months or longer w.ll be made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at K 1-3 cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be r<-tu.'ned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. r., AUGUST-T?, 1W5. It is peculiarly ridiculous and would be amusing if separated from its serious consequences, that so many ncwspajjers arrogate to theniselves the duty of moulding public opinion. In the advancement < f their crude, pueril ideas*, the masses fo'low the buhhle as it lloats upon the surface, until reason pricks the shining bubble, and they realize to their Consternation that they have been following the shadow for the substance. This happens when it i? possibly too late for substantial remedy. The existence of such newspajsrs is a menace to good government and sound principles. rmiUTv mcnpucjiniRC 1AJUIX I I I/IJKLI1JHKIU3. In another editorial in this issue we say that if the i?eople of a county want whiskey sold in theyounty, the county should have the right to establish and control its own dispensary. Wo are sustained in this by actual experience in the State of (ieorgia. This state of affairs exists in several counties in Georgia, the State having absolutely no control of these dispensaries. This is as it should be. If liquor must be sold at all, local dispensaries are provided for by special acts of the legislature. The representatives of the counties desiring the establishment of a dispensary in these counties, have an act passed which gives them the privilege of having a dispensary, and the entire manage" ment is local, over which the State has no control. SENATOR TILLMAN'S REMEDY. I In his speech at Anderson, S. last week, Senator Tillman said that he held to the original dispensary system and plan, and suggested that since there had heen graft and corruption discovered in the management, the law he amended as it now stands so as to put the purchase of whiskey in the hands of the (iovernor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Uuy a years supply at once, open the hids f]J(. session of the Legislature. This ren.e ly or reeommemlation by Senator Tillman by which he purposes to prevent graft and corruption is to our mind an insult, pure and simple, to tin* judiciary, executive and legislative ImmHos of our State. He would make tliein parties to the liquor traffic, and in the possible event of there heing any crookedness in the management, the people would he absolutely without means of redress. The (iovernor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Attorney IJcncrnl, meml>ers of the general assemhy, one and all particeps criminis, where would the people l>c. And further, if the people do not want the dispensary as it is, or otherwise, why does Senator Tillman insist upon devising plans for t /- - ' its perpetuation? Why the ncces' sity of a State Dispensary? We, /' on one occasion, suggested to Senator Tillman the plan of giving to private individuals the right to sell whiskey under the dispensary law, localise we never thought the State ought to sell liquor. lie replied, that would place the business in the hands of a few rich men and thus create a A monopoly. We Paid we did not see that the State had any more right to a monopoly than a private citizen. We think that each county should 1h? allowed to manage its own liquor business under the dispensary law. The granting of license for the sale of liquor would then l?e left to the people to say whether they wanted liquor sold in the County or not, the license to he granted by the Supervisor and City Council jointly, one third of prolits to the schools, one third to the County, one third to the City. CUBA'S INDUSTRIES. Mr. Frank (}. Carpenter, writing to The State from Antilda, the future great city of Cuba, on Nipe Bay, says that Cuba is destined to Iw the garden spot of the world. In the past four years several millions of acres of land have lieen planted in banana trees, conee trees, orange, lemon and pineapple, that tropical and semi-tropical fruits grow there in abundance. One company has s,(KH) acres in sugar cane; the cane does not have to he planted hut once in twenty years. That this company has a sugar mill that cost 8800,000 and is now grinding out 40 million pounds of sugar a year. This is only one mill, there are hundreds of others. The Xipe hay company is composed of men from the United States, has a capital of ?0,000,000 and if its plans are carried out it will have the largest sugar mill in the world, one which will grind :?,000 hags per day and which will eat up as much sugar cane as can he produced on Hi,000 acres. Already these farms are shipping yearly millions of hunches of bananas, [1k)\cs of oranges and lemons, hags of coffee and pineapples. This new hay and port is far superior to Havana. There is no scarcity of good hays on the coast of Cuba, and the lands arc so rich they require no cultivation. All that is necessary is to pull the weeds and grass from among the plants. We ought to get sugar cheaper and fruits also. THE GREAT WESTERN TRIP. The South Carolina Press Association Visit the Grand Canon of Arizona, Travel Over Bright Angel Trail, Visit Los Angeles, Catalina Islands and Enter the Golden Gate of San Erancisco Bay. August ' >.?When I wrote last we were roekine alone over the nlateaus of Now Mexico. All that day and night we were riding along at an elevation almost as great as the highest peak of our Blue Ridge with ranges of mountains as high again piled on top of this. Part of the time we were winding along through these, following through gorges and around cliffs the course of some river. The river, however, we had to hike on faith, for none but the greatest streams are flowing at this time of the year, and even these are rather poor looking specimens in comparison with their importance on the map. Alwuit midday on Saturday we reached Williams, from which place - nius off to the Grand Canyon, uc were wait here an hour, and the party grateful for every chance to escape from the car, spent the time in buying souvenirs, looking at a small menagerie of native animals, and speculating on how neonle could possibly live in such a place. The feature of this place is the saloons, the main street of the town having nothing on it hut places of this kind. The cow ln>ys lounged around, ready enough to talk to the men, but blushing like debutantes when spoken to by the ladies of the party. One sign here that caught the fancy of some of the crowd particularly was "Life Saving Station and Thirst Parlor," at which place businsss seemed to Ik; flourishing. Of course I don't mean to suggest any connection, hut the train to the canyon had started well on its way, when it was discovered that representatives of two of the most important pupcrs had Ihjoii left behind, and it was only by strong representations to the conductor that the train was stopped to allow them to catch up. As narrow as had been their escape, there was yet a happy light in their eye, for which I do not undertake to account. The trip from this place to the canyon was the roughest any of the crowd had ever taken, and for three hours the whole party "was boml to death, especially as dinner had to be delayed until we could reach the canyon, on account of this roughness. But for this there would have been a stampede for the edge of the great gorge. The porters, however, were conscientious enough and did their duty by the meal, poning enjoyment until they reached O'Neill's Point by a hack, a distance of about two and a half miles from the hotel. THE 1IOTKL IN GENERAL Occupying a site 7,000 feet above sea-level, clow to the rim of the Grand Canyon, at the railway terminus and not far from the head of Bright Angel trail, El Tovar commands a prospect without parallel in the world. The hotel is from three to four stories high. It contains more than a hundred bedrooms. The main building and entrance face the east. Ample accommodations arc provided for 250 guests. More can be m , I l i 1 il .. 1 coinloruiuiy nouscn in ine annex ai Bright Angel Camp. Outside are wide porches and roof gardens. Boulders and logs for the walls and shakes for the roof, stained a weather-beaten color, merge into the gray-green of the surroundings. The inside finish is mainly peeled slabs, wood in thorough, and tinted plaster, interspersed with huge 1 wooden 1 warns. Triple casement , windows and generous fireplaces abound. Indian curios and trophies of the chase arc liberally used in the decorations. The furniture . is of special pattern. 1 El Tovar is more than n hotel; it i is a village devoted to the entertainment of travelers. Far from the ( accustomed home of luxury, money has here summoned the Ixmeficent genii who minister to our bodily comfort. Merely that you may have pure water to drink, it is brought from a mountain spring 120 miles away! And that is only one of the many provisions for unquestioned excellence of shelter and food. The hotel is conducted on the American plan. There are twenty rooms at 8H.A0 a day: about fortv rooms at 84.00 a day; the remainder are 84. ">() a day and upwards. The hotel itself is right on the hrink, but from this point the river cannot l>e seen. The licst view of the canyon within easy reach of the railroad is Howe's Point, to which some of the party walked before breakfast on Sunday morning. The shortness of the stay made a trip down into the canyon impracticable. This was a serious disappointment and great regret to many of us, but the schedule having been arranged long l?efore, it could not l>c helped. To attempt a description of this mighty phenomenon of nature would be impertinence in one whose brain was too stupefied by the grandeur of the thing to even comprehend it for himself. I might say this, , however, that no picture can possibly portray this chasm, nor can | any painting reproduce the match, less mingling of colors that succeed I each other, ?reds and yellows, : ninl'ti <mrl im>vvi nml nrnimc i\f oil . f........ ...... ...... e.VV.? V.A <u> shades and tints with a misty blue ' over tlie whole. Headlands and peninsulars run on in to the chasm, hays and inlets run into the land. ' Jagged peaks and spires mount up from the vast floor of the canyon; castellated turrets suggest fortifica. tions which need no defenders, and J amphitheatres abound, wherein could sit by thousands of awe struck spectators of this glorious spectacle, i were they only accessible. But the enormousness of this scene bids my pen hasten on to more trivial places and leave behind the work of an omnipotent Creator who so directed the waters of what looks like a little yellow stream, as w the sublimest scene which human eye can witness. Back to Williams we came in the bright and bracing air of a Sabbath U|K>n the Arizona plateau, and in the rooking, lurching car, with no ringing of church bells nor solemn peal of organ, worship was offered to Him, the work of whose mighty hands had just overawed us. Mr. Win. Allen White in Septenilier number McLurc's magazine says: It cannot be that the fascination one feels in looking at this Canon is a delusion having its root in idleness or mere self-mesmerism. The Utnon must have some moaning for men, as the other "visible forms" of Nature have. The sea, with its ceaseless motion and its changeless shores, may have taught men poetry and given them the first dreams of immortality: the woods have taught men to pray, and the sky has taught them hope. Here at this Canon, the sun and the dry, clear air arc painting a changing picture, full of color, full of the spirit of motion, full of mystery. One should not say that the Canon is l>eautiful; it transcends mere beuuty and passes into a "far more exceeding glory." Hut the. heart of it is color. It is a rhapsody in color-great splashes and ImiimIs and daubs of color?blue shadows, decj> and dead; tawny, i - - I, i .1 . L-L __ ? | ^*|N 1 T i r I How |#1 Are they HI worn thi IP Are you $3 Or does 1 || shoe? 1 All, I All SUPPOJ Mutual R. P. strawberry-tinged layers of granite; E all the yellows in the paint-box; 1 greens and gray-greens and pinks and lavenders, with the half-tones \ floating on the sun wraiths that ^ haunt the air. He who can look at f this monster chasm and not feel his | soul stirring in uncanny sympathy ' with its depth, is dead, and Gabriel's I trumpet will do little for him. One L -1 - * * may nuiu communion witn it as 1 with great music; with the monody of the ocean, or with any of those | big primitive expressions of the . force that moves the universe, J 1 whether through man in art or i through what we call Nature, as ' Clod made it. No 1 letter proof is J needed of the existence of a dominant mind through all the universe j than the consideration of how, on the one hand, the great passionate \ outbursts of the masters are art? . great symphonies, great paintings, \ great messages to men, through words or symlxils ? and of how, on * the other hand, the sights and 1 sounds of stark, untamed Nature 1 rouse the human soul from its I lethargy in the same miraculous fashion. The God that moves ^ through "Ixuir" and "Ixihcngrin," . is He who "plants his footsteps on ' the sea." and "rides upon the m storm." The pilgrim to the Canon ? must not go as one who visits a ? peepshow or a freak of Nature, but upproacn u as Moses came to the burning bush. The best possible view of the pj. Canon is from the top. There the ni( atmosphere piles up over the crags on and peaks l>eneat}i one's feet, and ^h through this atmosphere, when the r(1] day is at its height, the actinic rays m of the sun paint marvels in*the C01 huge, gaping furrow in the earth. m( From the rim one gets two impressions?so strong that they seem al- ... most too big for the soul to hold? .' ' like the soul-smiting terror that 'V' comes to one who gazes long at the ( .1 stars. The two impressions are of V' numberless infinitely-reaching hori- . v zontal lines and of eternal silence. !?r There are few curves in the stretches .' of stratified rock that make colored !V ribbons many miles long; and the . human eye is not used to taking in sal so much. Over* these vistas the dry air of the desert quivers with the heat. Perhaps it is the river 8el mist rising, perhaps it is sheer de- W' lusion; but in the motion that ^1( seems to stir ' the radiant air, a 'en white wraith floats, eluding the ?P eyes that would locates it, yet ever u? present in the sunlight that falls Pj* upon tl?e facing cliffs. One feels nit i o w?& I hat you are |i acing August H Are four FeetP i well shod? Have you ||j ( at low shoe too long? fc| short of a low shoe? ||| your taste run in a high sis Styles are here. |1 Prices are here. 1 ^ >E YOU LOOK AT THEM. 1 I Dry Goods Co., 1 HARRY, - - Manager. Bare! -i * \ Builder's Hardware | \ ? * % S[ Having completed our $ a arrangements with ^ Manufacturers, we are ^ 8$ prepared to give you ^ ^ lowest prices on all ^ & kinds of Builder's Hard? ^ ^ ware. Estimates also Ifc i ^ furnished for Tin Roof- ^ a inc. Outterino*. Pliimh= k J ?/ oJ - - ? n ^ ing and Furnace Work. ^ ^ S OETZEL HARDWARE GO. I zerararargrgrargrgrarargrgrargram at this illusory apparition is the Wrest and most absolutely uninvit- V irit of silence that dominates the in8 regions to l>c found anywhere inc. And it is the silence of the side the desert of Sahara, ice that appalls; for such a tur- When we passed over sections of 3il, even of rock, as rages beneath ^ie road where there had been c, would seem in the nature of recent washouts and where the bed ings to need some wild voice to Wtl not been oiled with crude peicase its wrath; but here is silence troleum, the whole party were mode deep that an engine's scream wretched by clouds of penetrating, aid not rend one corner of the suffocating, irritating, debilitating, iasureless pall. exasperating alkali dust. It was There is something of death in a^ni?8^ [^addoning, and one of the . ,, . moat. pari mo liln ? ? , uuain in uic grim ??. ?V," ". l?rW sivitnhlcncss of this silence, no jvasbowai hng lier rashnessim over sngclcss mid yet so vital. The '?.Tg r,1 0n'.y irs and the yawning Canon grip ?'tho ^h.c, the next day made 5 soul and draw it U. a commun- ^ ?' ,thc, tnpPn<)ura: , with something strong outside b}?-^lie heat and tlie dust put elf?something that escapes deft- 8H?r? of ?'? <l??<tion ion and analysis; something that 11,18 n,?ht of wretchedness howi ancient people meant when they cvf " M tb? b?8ht" ,1 that they walked with Godl ness of a California day. The palms , , and tho ever-blooming geraniums, At W illiams wo were coupled on l)rjHiftnt in hue, large and luxuriant tnnd the coach of Col. Magee, enough to form hedges, orange leral superintendent of the groVes, olive orchards, red roofed ibash system, which is one of viuaS| built in the cool Spanish i Gould roads. Col. Magee, on style of architecture,?all passed by ruing who the party was, threw ug witl? kaleidoscopic rapidity, and en his handsome private car to aftej. the desert were as grateful to and many of us enjoyed his hos- ll8 ftH a (lrink of WK)1 Wftter to a *> ality. All that afternoon and >ht wc were traveling through the] (Continued on next page.)