The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 11, 1906, Page 4, Image 4
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; UNION, S. C.f MAY II. 1W.0.
The sad spectacle of a mimber <
sin dl hoys caught in rubbing
freight car on the sidetrack inn
Monarch Mills last week tills on
with pity. What hope is there i
these young boys growing up to I
law-al i ling citizens when they thlt
early lo gin a life of highway rol
hery? The trouble is largely a mat
tor of parental neglect. We ha\
swung so far in our extreme idea
of the rights of children that w
have about h?>t control over them
We all >w young boys in knee trollsor;
to roam about the streets at ai
hours of the night. One of oil
greate.-t needs is that the home ma,
bo bright and attractive and thsi
these young boys be made to sta
in them after dark, ami as miieh :
"'" 'id" " < ill<illii'V linns. YoUII
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hoys who aii' kept under the wateli
ful eye of a faithful niotlmr stan
fa" the better chance of developin
into upright ami honrst citizens
It is lu ii' that tho fust lessons i
self-restraint shouhl be learned, an
a chihl is grievously wronged \vl
is not thus held in cheek.
Few of our citizens fully rcali
the great superiority of our l*nit
_ . i " u" 1 " 11 1 '" *1"r
ing little city, told the writer n.
cently that his father settled inth
county many years ago and was o
ten heard to remark: "The garde
spot of the world is the territory hi
tween Columbia and the hase of tli
blue Ridge mountains and strctel
ing Kast and West through seven
Southern states." This gentloma
followed up his conviction hy scl
tling in I'nion county. Here li
lived and died, andhischildrcn an
grandchildren are now residents i
the county. There sometimes comi
over a man the desire to try nc
regions. The black rich lands <
T.iWtu niul Olr 1 *\ limiio f)in icMinloi
fill Land of Flowers, Florida, tli
tropical lvgions in Cuba and tli
golden region of California each ha
a way of appealing to the imnginn
tion. Hut when all is said and on
gets down to bottom facts we hav
the he-t ri'gion in the world. Pur
water, mild winters, lands en pah]
of the highest cultivation, and <>t'
great variety of production?the.and
many other things go to mak
our region one to I e greatly desired
Then too, our | coplc are good peo
pie. They have a reverence fo
li >n c and c mntry that is dceph
roo'.ed in their la arts, and there isi
warm-hearted kindness about then
tli it is worth its weight in gold
You never heir of a drought tha
prrelies up u whole crop in tin- r>gio
i. The terrible sand storms am
eycloius aie not in evidence. ,\n?
everywhere there i- an al>undanc(
of goo 1 wate r. Taking everything
a into consideration we have the !?.,-(
county in the world?but wedom.t
i..,.... . i.i i
rviiw.i 11, iiii'i uiiii is one sa'l 1,1(1
that mars tin- pieture.
GREATER POSSIBILITIES.
In spi-nVnift of a groat missionary
of the ( liri-tian u-Jigion a writer lias
Slid tint the world has yet to see
what.i < ompletely < onse< rated life
can an oinplish. Tin: average man
is too easily satisfied with his attainment.
Selfishness, like a canker,
often cats its way intoourgood
jc&olvcs and dostrdys their possible
t
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fulfilment. Kvil hahits mi l oxe ive
indulgence lilunt the keen edge
, of the mind, and ultimately leave
it debased and enfeebled. Petty
spites and hitter envies too often
overcast the sky of human endeavor.
We too often allow our good resolves
to die unfulfilled because of
sharp tongued hate and malice.
l'erfeetion is something that mortal
man cannot hope to attain in this
life, tor to hope for a thing is to
have fond anticipation of realization.
Hut that we may do vastly 1 elt? i
th ill we do is as ea.-ilv possible a*
a i . . .
perfection is impossible. Mow
.. j nrieh of our time and energy are al
1 iwed to ?.o to waste! To take lih
m more ser.ou-iy would produce snort
fruitfiilne.-s. I'p to a certain p >in
tile lie le tine does tl.e lllove slleh i
on can do. This is illustrated ii
it tiie ol serration often made that i
11 you w? ultl get a duty performed pu
it nn.iii tin- iiiiin mIivsuIv ciivrvintl :
h avy load. Tin- story of tin* mai
who lifted ;i < :! 1 f every day till i
>f grew to I>o a great, grown animal
a J throws additional light upon the mi'
rjeet. With the gradual ineresist* o
e the hurdeii there is also a cor re
1 spending increase of the strength, i
e , the strength he regularly put forth
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-1 WHO IS MUDDYING THL: STREAM?
(>! The moral of the famous fahle o
s the Wolf and the Land) is not with
,, out its hearing upon the whiske;
situation it) South Carolina. Th
a lvocates of whiskey, hotli in dis
I] i pensary circles and in high license)
r j circles are constantly crying on
v that prohibition is a farce. If it i
I a farce, who helps most to make i
v i such? It is not the prohibitionists
s ! They are striving to make it effect
j, I tive. The whiskey man points hi
| linger at the prohibitionist and says
p "did I not tell you it would fail?:
? j To be sure you did, and you are dc
^ ing all in your power to make i
n fail. You muddy the water an
1(| then lay the sin at the door of tli
prohibitionist. That is the situ;
tion. If some of our citizens wer
as anxious to see the cause of pi\
/v hibition succeed as they are no
)tl anxious to see it fail, we would soo
r_ " urore or our church men
.. hers would stop drinking whiske
themselves they could more con
f_; sistently strive for the suppressio
n , of the liquor trallie. Moreover, 1?
| us face this fact squarely; Xobod
1C : if attempting to prove that prohibi
; tion prohibits. A prohibitory hu
, ,
i against anything whatsoever is a
admission of tin* impossibility (
^ fulfilment. It' it were possible t
have al solute prohibition ther
(j would then he no necessity for an
j law upon the prohibition subject
1(. Were it possible to enforce absoluti
ly the law against murder ? that is
to put an end to all murder?ther
would he no need for such a law
The law is a school master to brill
ie,
(i us to better things. It is a lash fo
s the wayward back. It has trophic
_ i in a system of perfection. It has t
I do with imperfection. No, th
trouble is not with prohibition, be
us cease dodging the issue, and lc
(> us put the blame where it belongs?
( upon the shoulders of the lawles
and the depraved.
1 SOME POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS
The wide range of human achieve*
. inents along certain lines is a mat
( ter ot wonder. The uses of electric(
ity iiikI steam i'urnjfli many examples
(if this. The telephone, pho(
nograph, kiin-toscopc, electrical engine
and many other wonders ofapI
plied electricity pay tribute to man's
I genius. The fast moving loconio.tive,
the swift sailing monster ship,
p the steam plow and a thousand oth.
er uses to which steam is put hy human
inirelillitv evinee imin'-i <"
0 v - ? >? h' ' " v
iicss and glory. .Modern surgery
and medicine have l>ecn made to
contribute to man's reputation. The
microscope and the telescope, man's
inventions, have widened his vision
beyond the dream of the earliest
ages. In music and art man's skill
has wrought miracles. When we
contemplate all these great triumphs
of the human mind we are apt to
overlook its painful limitations. The
secrets of life, and of death, the great
, universe of the unknown and the unjknowable
force upon us the fact that)
i 1 1
?"O?i im, ' m? ??? I
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man is y?-t :v very small part of tin* g
great creation. Tho inventor of an g
air ship s< ars into the clouds upon ?
Ids wonderful invention, yet if he
loosens his hold 1 ut one second he ?
drops to earth and is but a crushed (
mass of llesh and hone. The great
inventor may ho carried in safety
over the trackless ocean in the craft
his mind has conceived, lhit let
him drop overboard for one brief
hour and he drowns a helpless weakling.
The physician conquers death
working in others a thousand times, J
; hut finally himself surrenders h> J
this great enemy of tho race, And
at any time that tho air is shut out
from the lung-* for a brief half hour,
death claims its victim. A little
t hall of lead, the keen blade <1 a
i knife or a drop of poison is all that
i is necessary to smdlf out the candle
I i if lifi? I )m> nun mii-nol.t
t of forg. tfulness, one oversight, and
v there results disaster. Man is great
i in a limited sphere, hut he must not
t forg--t that his sphere is limited.
, This latter thought is conducive to
- humility, that most beautiful gein
f!in the eoronet of kingly manhood.
- In man's great achievements he is
f liable to forget (Jod; face to face
. with life's limitations the soul cries
to tin' infinite.
SANTL't ITEMS.
Hot Weather?Rains-?Baseball-?Early
v. I Closing of Stores An Inconvenience?
Railroad Surveyors There?Baptist
Convention?Hell Hole Near SantiiG?
'.t] Price of Cotton.
"1)1 degrees in the shade," m>
* -reported The State, for Charleston,
t May 2nd. So likewise the Station
. here can report 1)1 degrees in the
. shade for Santuc, May 2nd. The'
: extreme range for the past week,
i 3(5 degrees.
The rains this week have amount'
ed to 0.01 inches and today's ini-i
creases it to 1.47 inches. Much i
U J cloudy weather, and several cool
(j: nights helow sixty degrees, this did
' not make the cotton coining u]> on
l(' porous land look so very healthy,
i- and to-day's steady rain is bad on
e j it.
; The base-hall season has been
formally opened, and hat and hall
u ; and pitching squads, white, 1 lack
n i and !. .??? I-''1" ***~l110~PtrfTX; fi-;
every-whero, will he as numerous
y as English sparrows, and nearly
everybody will be wanting to wear 1
1 "knee-breeches," and talk it with- :
11 out end until we become surfeited !
t with it. i
y Coing through the cotton fields I '
j_ noticed that there were, more often '
i tletn ii/\t t hf/w, I. v it.. .11 1
f. ....... I...., IIVIII nm;r li> IIVC OKI ^
A stalks in a hill. This is one of the '
11 careh'ss, ignorant and trilling ways r
?f of working cotton that cuts off !
o much of the yield. But that may 1
, ' lie a good thing to keep down over- 1
production, as from the amount
planted they'd over-produce. 1
The stores here, since May 1st,
'- close at ('? o'clock, and sometimes '
the hoys look very lonesome, sitting
4> around on the platforms, on storesteps,
etc., waiting for night to
' come. This early closing is soincS
times an inconvenience to thecounritry,
and this is the country, for if
e j they need anything they must quit
() work, go several miles or a short
distance in the best part of the day.
losing much time, when often they
* "could quit only a short while before
t sunset. I would not say this: "It
- is none of your business," for if
s nobody ever said anything about
such things, there would he less
chance of correcting these evils.
The railroad surveyors are here,
and they arc staking oil' the road
all about. They are running a line
on each sid<- of the Southern.
Now this docs not mean thai there
is to be a new road here by any
means; it may go miles from here.
1 do not know that it would benefit
. Santue anyway, for it is about
'o\ i-r-rrrovvo' iw.??- - i *
........ m'mi ,11111 I'illllllil
grow any piorc unless people could
get lots and land on which to build !
it up. Many people sticking the 1,1
letter k to the end of the name,
make that \.r >w one letter bigger,
and there it stops.
I went to the 2nd baptist church 1
of I nion, oth Sunday, to attend
the baptist Convention. A short
account of the proceedings has al- "
ready appeared in Tin: Ti.mks, and
I will not say any more except that
I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was a :l
vacation from work for me, and 1 ol
had a chance to mingle with old
friends, and people other than in
our hnekJoberry pat,eh. As a home,
I enjoyed the hospitality of the :,K
family of Mr. Frank Clay; and l'*1
can sum it up hy saying that they 1 J,;l
made it as eomfortahle and pleasant
as any 1 have ever enjoyed.
A negro man, chancing to talk r,(
with mc some days ago, said "
that he had heen in towns, and '
ground where had been many yeo-|art
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|jj Every lacl\
P SLIPPBWS
|| DREW. T1
pj| ent leather i
j||| with wide I
j|| lets*.
p The Prices
I Mutual D
pit', etc., hut the worst "tale" that
laid ever seen, where white p ople
ind negroes, men and woni n, marlied
and single, all mixed up in
niniorality. gamhling and all kinds
>f debauchery, etc., is not many
vi.feuv.-> iiinii .-miluc. And there is
noro watered liquor sold then- on
sunday than la- over saw. hut it
von't make one "drunk. In my
1 reams I thought that I had hern
n a position to know that la- was
iot putting it too strongly.
A'ouldn't I like to see our country
nirilicd of such
Several of the fanners at this t
ilace turned loose their cotton last
reek at 11 d-N cents. This cotton j
ras heing laid for Id cents. This,
have said, even in this corresponlenco,
is where the Cotton Associaion
di<l wrong,?i. e., in fixing
wo minimum prices, first 11 cents,
hen when almost all, especially the '
mailer producers got that and let j
o, the others thought they would
lave an easy go, and so they jump-1
d to Id cents. It appears that
hey thought, ''< )h yes, the higgest:
art is out of the way, sold at 1 1
cuts, first fixed; hut we will anchor
urselvcs for Id, and we arc going
i have it. We will have a 'gravy
aim to pull and get our pockets
ill of tin." Now it is all well
nough to hold and get a good
rice, hut 1 contend that it is in n-isteht
to fix a seemingly good
rice, and after many stand to it,
it are obliged to sell as soon as
tin. irs readied, then for others to
iy: "We want something better!
tan we fixed for them, we will rise
cents higher ami demand it/'
a price is lixed, let that stand
r the season; one can hold as long
lie pleases, anyway, without
tain ' fixing.'" Hky Dknyku.
ink of Ri Icjeway Short of $20,000.
Young Herbert Ruff, teller in the
ink of llidgeway, is missing and
e bank is short over $2(),<MM>.
uIT left l'idgcwny Tuesday without
word of farewell; he had proviisly
resigned his position and stated
at he was going West to accept a
isition in a grain house, but hi-"
parlure was sudden. The shortes
began to leak out after Ruff had
t the hank- The business of the
nk was suspended for only a few
uvs as the shortage was made
i?d by Mr. RulY, Sr., anil the di lois
with a cash deposit of $25,0.
It is thought that bucket
ips in Ridgeway and Columbia,
i the cause of Hull's defalcations, t
r limiting for
? sliould see tlit
hey tire retil I u
and Vici Kid, Kit
[Ribbon kices, tin
> are $i.75 an
>ry Goods Co
Bj&j&u&j&j&jpj&j&jii
^ ILO^yi/S
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"P. D. I\ Co." Co
jj-i Middle Bursters $
^
^ LOWEST PR1C1
*
5 PLANTATION
^
? OETZEL HAR1
or &??&&&&&
iiimsiiHHE
1 ^or More Than
|1 \\!a 1i > '
1rv v- nave ut-cn nammerir
something from your dai
aside something for the
this hammering process v
in convincing hundreds
account is the foundation
are going to keep on hai
S until we get YOUR nam
Ledger. Did you know
. -cent on Savings accounts
ited at this rate of inte
j itself in seventeen ye:
< deposited each week will
,...j at the end of 20 years,
' ? spare $5 each week it
#8,070 in the same length
| THE PEOPLI
! .vi Total Resources Ovei
? I' MM I ???a* * ft
REW! I -
PRETTY ||
i IRVING H
iiih. I'tit- S|1
teller Cut, ||
el bi?>* eye- |||
id $2.00. 1
mpany. jj
* JO* ^
414 Cents ||j 1
Per Pound fe
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rrect Shapes |
3.50 to $s.oo %
_!
ES ON ALL \
\ A
HARDWARE, j*
- s
? ' V
)WARE CO. 1
'iSTiSriSr&r&rarar?
Pour Years g
\g at YOU to save j|| ?
ly earnings; to lay H
' Rainy day. In j||
ve have succeeded
that a little Bank ||
I to wealth. We
mmering on\OU
e on our Saving, &
that we pay 4 per m
? Money depos?rest
will double $5
irs. One Dollar ||
amount to $1,614 B
and if you can
will amount to |SS
ES BANK. I *
r $200,000. H
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