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> -- 11 THE UNION TIMES PUULI5HOO EVERY FRIDAY ....BV THE ... UNION TIMES COMPANY second FLOOR TIMES BUILDING BELL PHONE NO. 1. L. M. RICE. - - - Editor. S. E. IiONEY, Local Editor. Registered at the PostotHee in Union S. C. as second class mail matter. scMscKtrrto.n haies* One j'i'jtf - - - - $l.t* Six monllis ... - .?5( Three imm:l?s ... .2f a overt iskmkn1 s : One square, lirst insertion - $I.Of Every subsequent insertion - .51 \/UlltlilL l^ IUI III MM- IllUllun \M IWll^VI will bo made at reduced rates. Local* inserted at 8 1-3 cents a line Rejected manuscript will not be re turned. Obituaries and tributes o respect will be charged for at hal rates. DMON, 8. C., MAY 13, looo. Mr. Bryan let? us know that la won't mind making a noise like n clover 1 lossoni if the Presidential boo buzzes his way. \\*r have heard id the Hump parliann nt and the Barelonc parliament of laiglnnd. Now conies along the Bare-legged parliament of BusSat. Why cannot the VnitedStates add some other part of the humni auatomy?a Back-bone congress foi instam e. How about Union's monument tt the Confederate dead? This is on? of the few cities its size in the Stat? t'v.t ? ('..nl'nlnn " S so loyal in i very other interest, neglect this longer? The deeds oi Union men in the dtiys <>f 'G1-' merit all that we can do. Shall w< be called unmindful and unworthy? A negro preacher, and drunk on the streets! This occurred in Union not long since. Poor fellow! hut he is not the only one. If they knew how the white people wished to help them, and how they simply they would try harder to do better. And while we write, a negro is over yonder dying from a cut in the head received at a negro church festival. How hard_.Unrting influence gro to do rjidi4 t>ity rather than our r.""-ubnination. When the negrc /be made to see that the Sout white man is his friend, then h reached the point where he ea .4# gin a wonderful development in time reach a plain that he i will reach otherwise. He-unions, councils, convent ions. conferences?era During the last week it sec nit the South and, in fact, the > country is having a record br in this line. The Cotton Gro and Spinners' conference in Y ington, the Bankers' Associati Greenville, the Travelers' IT ivc association in Columbia Methodist conference in Bin ham, the Baptist conventii Chatanooga, the Episcopal ct in Anderson, the Democratic in every county, the Odd Ft ami I'.vthians in their recent ings and this week the ITesby! Assembly in Greenville and tl soldiers in Columbia. We sec represented almost every inter our commonwealth: viz. the j cal, social, commercial, itidu and religious. What does mean? It uican> simply that are organizing interests and hv ccrieu euoris nope 10 promote interest-'. Man is a social ai and this combining of intcri natural and means progress. THE CRIME OF THOUGHTLESSNI The thoughtless individual most as great a misfortune as wilfully vicious. It tills one honest resentment to hear thoughtless fellow exclaim faco of calamity caused by hi carelessness: "I forgot.'' the man who thrusts his um under his arm and punches on eye of some unfortunate victii lowing in his rear to tho mai whose hands tho lives of hun 01 tojw-touijjb uro iuUudtU ? to find the confidence misplaced! goes lip the sickly cry: "I did not [ incan to do it!" Of course not! i . But just the s;ulie some poor victim i loses his eye or a number of people j | theii lives. It is often a notoriously wiclcl thing not to think. A ! man la- no lasiness going about j with a n achine branded "a think-' er," : lias a head, and forget to use j j it. We may feel a sort of pity for | such a specimen, but the predomi 1 1 I j nating feeling we have for such a j 1 man is contempt. A thoughtless j ; blunderer fings donn the stump of j a burning cigarette and a score of , people lose their lives and thousands of dollars worth of property arc destroyed. Yet this sorry specimen ij will stand up I efore bis fellows and Jjsay "i di 1 not think?" That is just the trouble, and a grievous one it is, i to be sure. We naturally expect I f men who go around with a head on I ' their slioiildntM in iuk IkukIs. J Then too, in matters that ilo not inI volvo th j question of life and death {or the safety or loss of property,hut ' | yet have niueh t? do with the weal ' or woe of peoi le \\e often see the! I wretched work of these same; thoughtless individuals. They are j of that large class of people who do not hesitate to use their tongues; ' without reflecting how far-reaching ' in its consequences a spoken word ' may I c. Some whispered word of ' slander goes out upon its blighting ' mission. Should the whisperer be i r eonfroute 1 with the consequences of his sinful child he would probably say: "I had no idea it would work such destruction!" I>ut it is the business of people to have an idea! of consequences in such matters,and ; we feel contempt for people who do I I not have an idea along such lines. | We expect people to have ideas,wc . demand that they use their faculties j i of mind, and it is poor reparation for a man to stand forth in the light I of the results ??f thoughtlessness and II say, "I did not think." A I Kir IU ATLANTA AND CHATANOOGA ! i The Times Editor last week made In Atlanta he attended tor one nignt; the great meeting of Torrey and Al- . exandcr, now in progress there. ! Dr. Torrey preached a plain, simple . sermon. It might almost be called ' " tiw^'dace. There was nothing. eon- tne m*? . . . , , . , except that i ? can were moved mightily, 'mv hem certainty, of strong faith, was he e has | throughout the discourse. It is n |)C. | here, one feels that the strengtl , and this great preacher lies. He never moreover, a master hand at org I izing the forces, lie speaks ; strongly against the evils of soci< ions, i |ms no pUijence witli the p Tme! j ont (]ay ]axity of professing Chi ' 1 ians. He believes and preaches vhole | from iit| fa ^lex eaker jer c|ocs no^ impress one thai Ayerrf has a very great voice, but he kn V at>h- j1QW ?() niujjC an assembly sing. on in i literally pulls them into trying, otcct- j ceeds in getting the eongrega ' t,lc*! to join in singing a new piece a ming-1 a fcw ininutes training. >n in jn (jhatanooga the greatest in juncil j jng cvcr held j,y 1 tnptists came cltd s thousands of baptists attended Hows meetings. (!real reports were Ik meet- from the secretaries of the vari tcrian Boards, and the greatest reports le old er heard from their missions in heie ejgn fields were made. Along v attendance upon the eonventior xditi- was aig0 the Editor's privilege istrial yjsjt many points of interest in it all around Clmtanooga. Ixx>l< men Mountain, Missionary Kidge, eon- chard Knob, the National eeme these , au,i other points of interest \ inmal visited- (Iiie nf tin1 niiivi sts is . experiences was a trip up the | eline track to the top of Ixiol ESS. i Mountain. I'art of the way the j is hauled up an incline of so is al- J thing like sixty or seventy degr is the i When one remembers that nil : with ! degrees is perpendicular, it is ri some ily seen that this trip causes < in the chills to travel up and down o s own spine. One feels that if this From trip is safely made there will hi brella second trip, hut knows if the it the trip fails there will Ik; no second t 11 fol- Next time the Editor makes a i into it to ( hatanooga, he hopes to m dredst it in company with some old sol* (toiy pVfeo can feiVe thrilling dhycrifrti J of the many points of historic in-1 tor est. Even without such a companion, one feels that the ground upon which he stands is sacred. UNION BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION It is always painful to have to chronicle the story of a fellow-man's j downfall. One feels that if it was j just to the readers to cover up such i matters it would l>e host that nothing he said of such things. However, a public trust betrayed is a very different matter from private, personal affairs. The shortage of Mr. \V. \V. Hughes as treasurer of the Tnion Building and Loan Association I'll I1HI v?...v ??o .v (jiiut ?iirprisc io the citizens of t'nion. He has held positions of trust for many years, and had very many warmjfriends. I It is a real grief to those friends that t matters turned out as they did. It is the old story of "speculation" that thus claims another victim. The net of this great monster closes alauit its victim so silently and iib-1 visibly that before he is aware of tt|fe situation every avenue of osenpvlj#; eut oft*. There is such bright proiffr- > of gain in such ventures that ononis ; blinded to the dangers that must invariably enter into all such trans- j actions. The increasing evils of j "speculation" make it imperative! that we condemn the thing and1 warn the public of the almost eer- j tain failure that must follow upon ; the heels of the speculator. But of i this enough. The writer personally . feels grieved that Mr. Hughes has ! fallen into this destroying demon's; grip. And while lie himself said " 1 ! am alone responsible," it yet re-1 mains that he is not alone resnon-1 siljle. A public conscience tli.it tolerates and even favours the existence of "bucket shops" and that; looks complacently upon all manner of gambling is not without its share I in the guilt. A public conscience , that condemns such transactions only when failure and ruin enters a victims life is largely to blame for these calamities. There should be ' public. There would then be less i of such sad occurrences as the one , recorded in this editorial. But of ; this enough. \\ hat of the Building and Loan Association involved in 1 t-k* go ' ? ?*, members of the association w ard stailj together it is believed the s just' u;ltion can be saved. It is ccrta 1 _ that all paid in has not been loi 1S? To drop out now means further lot >lin" In perhaps two year*5 the associ 011 ^ tion can recover itself. Besides/ 1.. L'l-> are informed that from this tinic< res" the payments are to be ma through the Merchants and Har ^1C ere Bank each month. This ma an" agement will safeguard the func ^ *10 Many years ago a treasurer of tl ows same organization was found she "c in his accounts, but the whole nit and t,.r wa8 (inally worked out and litl tion joss sustiiined by any one indivi iter lla]_ it, is to hoped that in t present ease the same result mi follow. Moreover, it is not unlike that some of the lost money may the ^covered from the Security Coi "ar" pany that for many years earri 101,8 Mr. Hughes. It is true that tl cv": bond was allowed to lapse aboutt f?r" first of the year. But the shorta k ith oiust go back for several years, ai b ^ such shortages it is thought wou have to be covered by this compan an^ A few words in conclusion: Wh Lout these failures are discouraging, th Or-' 1-1 --a 1 - 11 ? milium inn. ue allowed to i>aral> tery, a community. They should r vere j (!Vl.n j*. allowed to destroy our fai in our fellows. The whole busin< ! m" j world is run upon faith. T iout w}iee]g 0f the whole concern ml : car ! stop if we lose faith in our fello mc"jmen. Ix:t us take the situatl ccs<! calmly, and with every possil icty | safeguard for the avoidance of su L'a''" an occurrence in the future that ci ro^ j he had, let us face the future hop nc s fully and unllinchingly. first ?: n<) Anderson's power house on t first Seneca river was destroyed by ti rip. Friday, May 11th. In some w vjg. the wires caught fire and set tl ike wo?dwork burning. The city I Anderson was in total darkness f j three nights. There was no inse to ftM* hfctf. sp@ESEK@KBi | psKj I^EVER we * ^1 Quality" variety may be made in no les 9 affording accui | the first day wi B this variety, in tions here shov IB o4.sk for then I $3.50 M( ExGelstor Mill Notes. W] 1 have been on the .hupi/awcomfiture nit to my fcU****5*?>thing past the ordinal y; except the loss of a small baby at Mr. Coleman's, I think a ill grandchild of the Mr. and Mrs. it- Coleman. jn Some two or three families pulled j. stakes and left for other parts, hoping, I suppose, to find a more con58 genial climate; or perhaps they are a- looking for a place where bread, ,ve butter and cheese grow on trees, 3n and hence be able to live without so much toil, or they may be hunting, like the young man who wrote d- to Henry Ward Beeeher, for an easy n- place. But the answer of the reverls. end gentleman to that young man jj8 was: "The grave was the only place he could refer him to." So we think the better plan is to hang on; d- just stick to your hush if you hope tie to ever get your basket filled, d-1 Now us to work in the mills, I i?> think where one follows this line of I work for a living: just simply locate; make this your home; work a ly garden, keep your own cows, and, be if possible, raise some chickens; n- live economically; lay up some (,(j money for a rainy day; and by all i means send the children to school 1,8; until they are at least fourteen he years old. Then you will not find ge the very sad state of the clnldren dd the writer did a few days ago, when j(j he found two young men who could , neither read nor write. How confused their ideas when asked by 1? j this scribe where they were raised; ey j the answer was "in the cotton >jr(j I mill." I shuddered at the thought ' of children growing up in the mills . ! without being able to so much as i read. I asked myself what of the i8SJ future of our cotton mill children, he I hope the day may soon come j8t when we will have a compulsory ed... ucation law in all our Southland. W": JoJo. on j ch! Dr. Pell, ol Converse, to Speak. an | x*. I Mr. Jeffries has secured Rev. R. P. Pell, 1). I)., president of Converse college., to make the address at the closing exercises of the gradhc ed schools. Dr. Pell needs no inIN! I I rn/1 not ian to rvor?rv1 a rvf OrvnlK Vi VSX4 UVVtUII W/ V/l kAiUI/ll vai U" &y lina. and Union is glad of the h<- opportunity to hear hiin. The ex?f j ercises Jwill l>o on Friday morning, or June 1st, at 10 o'clock in tho Ccnif ! tral school building. The publip fait) bitfdialiy invitbd* V nBHi! 1,3?? SHOES DE LUXE re shoes more beautiful than the new "Que Custom Grade models. The extent of th prosaically presented by stating that they i 3 than 4,760 variations of shape and style, tl racy of fit for every type and size of foot, and ei orn. But no figures can express the charm deed it is but faintly suggested by the illust vn. To appreciate this you must see the sho i while our assortments are complete. jtual Dry Goods Co. *3-* l ".I 'lAV iMl -op,., ?,, '.i|| |ji| |j ^ ilKLUWd I $ "P. D. P. Co." 0 *Si Middle Bursters: ** ft LOWEST PRIC & P\I A T*w . A mi m. r J KLAfN 1 A 1 IU1N *L 5* OETZEL HAR j m?r*rgrar*r*r*r*m | for More Thai ?? We have been hammei ?? ^nmprtv" -g^m your d ?| aside soiusn. for t $g this hamming process ' 9 in convincing hundred; SB account is the foundati H are going to keep on 1 tig until we get YOUR na Ledger. Did you *no\ rpnt nn Q^\/innrc i^/aiir WW..*, v.. III^J "vvnn $9 ited at this rate of ii H itself in seventeen 'i sg deposited each week v 1 H at the end of 20 yea M spare $5 each week || #8,070 in the same len jTHE PEOPI I 1 Ulal I{('soun;f,s ( i ssafc.' g| d 4& Cents Per Pound % jf jrrect Shapes g $3.50 to $3.00 *? - ' :es on all^ i *< HARDWARE. S ?? !DWARE CO. | wararararerarar? n Pour Years | ring at YOU to save ' s ^ aily earnings; to lay H he Rainy day. In Sfi 5 we have succeeded S > that a little Bank fig on to wealth. We 9 lammering on YOU ffi ime on our Savings H v that we pay 4 per S its? Money depos- Q nterest will double 3| ^ears. One Dollar M amount to $1,614 S rs, and if you can 9 it will amount to an gthof time. Try it. n -ES BANK. I* >ver $100,000. SB ^Hararanianii i v.." rawaB