The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 08, 1906, Page 4, Image 4
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ONION, 8. C., JUNE 3, 1900.
Summer is an unfit time for ex
posing the rottenness of the bee
trust.
Now what would the llussiat
Douma do if it had a pitch-fork, :
muck-rake and a big stick?
We h ave at last heard from oiv
A. C. Latimer, sent to Washingtoi
some time ago as Senator fron
South Carolina?he has bought i
pair of fine horses.
Those Spaniards must be ver,
hardy people. They throw 1 >onil)
at their newly married couples
An old shoe is about all an Anicri
can couple can stand.
There will bo little rest for th
American people this summer
The doings of Congress, trust ex
posurcs, both Standard Oil am
Beef, insurance graft, campaign
and elections, and baseball .bid fail
to keep up interest in life.
Senator Arthur Pue Gorman
United States Senator from Mary
land, died suddenly at his residence
in Washington City, Monday morn
J?$^ia*$en entTcame from an
attack of heart disease. Senator
Gorman filled a large place in the
affairs of the nation. He was n
man of strong intellect and was for
years the leader of the Democrats.
He did not fear to speak his mind,
and stood firmly for those thing!:
that make a nation great.
The whiskey people often say:
"Let whiskey be sold for beverage
purposes. If it makes men drunk,
it also educates their children.'1
How so? The drunkards children
are working in rags and living upon
the poorest of foods. It is the child
of the man who does not toucli
whiskey who receives the pitiable
profit on the whiskey drinking.
Such citizens do not need this profit.
It fills a righteous man's soul witl
loathing to hear the cold-blooded,
heartless citizen say: "OH! well
if the whiskey does make a man
drunk, it educates his children."
We respectfully commend tin
two following statements to the attention
of Editor Hemphill, of tlu
Abbeville Medium.:
Our present Mayor, R. L. MeNally
says: "Why, we do not have
anything to do in the Mayor's courl
now. Before the dispensary was
voted out it was often that we had
twenty eases yielding one hundred
and fifty dollars in fines, and these
were chiefly for drunks. Now we
have nothing like that; in fact,
there has beeti only one case before
the mayor in the last two Monday
mornings." Constable Whismin.
a faithful officer of the law, was lip
to a recent time strongly in favor of
the dispensary. lie thought prohibition
a failure. He now says:
"I had no idea prohibition would
work so nicely. My experience
shows that it is all light. In Rock
Hill it succeeded admirably. And
now in Union?well statistics show
what it is doing here." Can Editor
Hemphill or any one else belittle
the testimony of such witnesses?
We make the unqualified statement,
that these gentlemen have spoken j
truthfully. Any man who giv?
out to the world a conflicting state
mcnt does so through ignorance oi
through a wilful perversion of tin
facts?cold, stubborn facts.
BOMBS. BLOODTBULLS.
r
A wedded life, and among th
royalty, too, begun under such eir
jcuinstance! Scarcely had Kini
. Alphonso and Princess Kna been pre
i nounced husband and wife, when
j deadly bomb was hurled at the roy
al pair, killing twenty spectator?
|( Asa climax to the wedding celebm
0 tions a bull fight was held in th
amphitheatres of Madrid. A hort
I was gored to death just below tli
J scat of the new queen, and she h<
q held it all without flinching,
r Contrast all this with a simp]
, marriage in America and judge. .
- quiet Inmcdiction, kind words, cor
f gratulations, well-wishings, a ham
ful of rice, an old shoe, and tli
happy pair begin life's walk t<
_ j gcthcr. Spain's lrenediction, c
j rather malediction, was murdei
"til 1 I i i iiv. _ _ .
j. uioou, oioou-curunng scenes, an
all amid the hisses of a j>art of if
populace.
' WHAT OrHCIALS SAY.
I
"Why, we don't have anythin
to do in our court now," says Maj
1 or McNally, '' Before the dispensar,
1 was voted out, it was often that w
^ had twenty eases on Monday morn
ing, yielding fines of at least 011
hundred and fifty dollars. In or
y year of my administration the fin*
is amounted to So,.'>00 and they wci
>. chiefly for drunks."
i- Constable Whitmirosays: "Ilia
no idea that prohibition would wor
so well; in Union it is doing fine
c> Of course there is some wliiske
business carried on, but very little
" The town of Union is much bette
' than the country, but conditions ar
s improving all around." Monday:
r week ago there was one case befor
the Mayor; last Monday there wa
not one. These arc facts, and the;
mean something.
; BEEF SCANDAL
xnc inie against all cannet
meats. It is incredible that human
j beings could stoop to such vile dog
j nidation. How those laboring in
, mc.se packing houses could take de
I light in wilfully adding to the al
ready horrible condition of filth ii
passing strange. And how humai
i! beings, in the wild scramble fo
gold, can ignore every ^principle u
decency and light is also passin
strange. Swift and sure punish
ment should be visited upon th
! heads of lioth classes of offenders
Hanging would be too good hi
either class?the laborer who delil
I erately defiled the product and th
! manufacturer who encouraged ii
I Indeed, these manufacturers wh
have been dishing out to the publi
this horrible mass of poisoned lilt
arc just as truly murderers as is.tli
man who stealthily drops poison i
| his neighbor's well or puts it in h
neighlior's food. They are eve
meaner than such an individua
for the latter has at least the fee
, ing of resentment operating in h
heart, while the producer of filth
, I and poisonous food stuff is move
solely l?y his cupidity. Thet
scoundrels should he hung if tlier
, is any law to make it possible. I
> there is no such law one should li
. enacted. Hanging too good fe
I such criminals.
The flood signal service of Sout
i Carolina is to he reorganized and
i new river district formed with Ce
1 IIIYll ?1??? <1B iO Iwiiwlnnni't/."" I '
jivo nuuujimi U"in, 111*11
tofore Charleston has been the head
quarters of all the signal service 01
the rivers and all reports from th
stations along tin; rivers of the Stat
have been sent to Charleston, am
from there retelegraphed to the sta
tions in the lower part of the State
John Purdy, a young son o
Judge It. 0. Purdy, was bitten by ;
rattlesnake at Sumter while playinj
in the woods near town. At th
time he was looking up into a tree
i when he heard the rattle of a snake
j and in a moment the fangs of tin
reptile were fastened in his leg
He hastened to the nearest hous(
where whiskey was given and a
physician summoned. The doctor
regarded him as out of danger late
Friday afternoon.
"Il ll
I POINTLESS PENNINGS. |
r A Canteen.
The observant man was necessarily
struck when he beheld old negroes
marching in the veterans' parade
at the Columbia reunion.
e Down the street came the long column
of old soldiers, marching as in
days of yoro, but with feeblor step
g and slower gait; only the tire of
| the eye was as it had been. And
a scattered here and there in the line
were to be seen old, gray-haired,
black negroes. There were no
' young and no yellow negroes among
l" theni. And these old darkies did
ie not pause at the foot of the capitol
se steps, either; but inarched right on
c around beneath the hundreds of
irirl? nnil vnnnir lndiow HOJiifid nlmve.
~! them; and they received their share
of the Mowers too.
lei Glancing around at some of the
;\ impudent faces belonging to the
later generation of negroes, the cotn.
! nient man was compelled to note
j the difference. Sullen, mean,
10' defiant, beastly many of those
>- faces, while the old Confederate or
,r slave darkey had nothing of the sort,
. ; but a look of humbleness and altogether
a kind, loving face. Lovo
in a darkey's face? Most certainly
's there was. The old fellows very
faces showed a capability to love,
and to love with a deep, true and
sacrificing devotion. Indeed, some
faces showed that sacrifice had been
g r-quired: some showed the loss of
r. something; and others revealed an
unending sorrow.
The older people among us do not
0 need to be told -about the love of
?- these old slave darkies. They reic!
member too well the cal'o, proteclt.
tion and even caresses of the old
j mammies; how they would much
' prefer staying in the old negro cabin
rc to their own house, and how the
old mammie would arouse the
d whole plantation if "her chile" was
j{ done a wrong. Oh, yes! These
things will never leave the minds
' of some people.
y | And the love of the old slave for
his master was just as strong. On
r j the farm, in the hunt, in campand
I on the battle field, he was always
| the same obedient slave.
[i In the parade at Columbia there
c marched an old slave. lie was
s feeble, old, gray and much bent:
Vr, but still lie marched. And marching
along he held aloft on the point
'of a sword an old rusty canteen,
j The face of the darkey told a story
of sorrow, and a sorrow that he
I J ,n?? Mt/tiii/Vilillg- du ifOl"I
dinary about this man; something
II in his countenance, something in
the light that shone from his eyes.
After the parade seeing him
1 standing all alone, apart from the
{crowd, an inquirer walked over and
- stood beside him. "Old man" he
s said. "You must have gone through
the war." For a moment the old
^ slave said nothing, but his eountcr
nance told of a heart sorrow. "Yas
f sir, 1 was in de wall until Oettysg
burg," was the tardy reply. ,,Tell
r me all about it old man; whose
canteen is that, and why are you
carrying it today?" And tlie old
' | man gave way to the feelings that
t tore his heart, and wept as only a
i- darkey of the old South can. BelC
tween sobs he exclaimed. Oh,
^ Cod, boss, doan' ax me 'bout it; I
dis ole nigger's heart's done 'most
? I broke already; I can' tell yer 'bout
ic.it." But regaining self-control he
h related the story of his master,
i ...\ i-- ' - j * " -
lC|?iiuui iiu una ioiunyeti through
many a inarch; whom he had
watched over many a night and
18; shielded from harm, whom he had
n cooked for, stolen food for, and
1( prayed for. He told of his master's
l_ boyhood, how he himself had taught
. I him to ride, hunt, fish and shoot.
|s He told of his master's bravery and,
y to him, reckless daring in battle,
d , "An' when we was up at Gcttysie;
burg, I tole marster not to go in
. , battle <lat day; I knowed he'd get
. hurt. I dreamed about him fallin
ollin his boss, an' dat 'was a bad
v J sign, but lie would go an' he made
>r j me stay back in camp all day. I
j stayed dare as long as I could, boss,
j but you know I couldn' mind him
h when 1 knowed he wasgoin git hurt
a I or mebbe killed. So 1 jes' lef' camp
>-jan' late dat day J looked every where
i-1 for my marster, all over de fields
- and every whar I could git to. I
a couldn' lin' him, then I knowed he
e was dead, an' when I thought of
e little missus an' the chilen' in'
J heart mos' broke. I couldn' go
back home widout marster. So I
. looked all nightlong wid pine torches,
but no marster. 'Hout sun up
finex' mornin' a man what was in
a de company wid marster brought
g I dis canteen back in camp. I know
rvcd it do minit I layed eyes on it,
, and I axed him 'bout Marac John."
, j 'Tim', sezec, 'your marstcr was
:! killed, hut T ain' scon him fall;
. an'he gib nic dis canteen. Dat
;! was do las' wo ebcr saw of mar.sk
tor."
And the good, old man went <?n
i to tell of how he made his way
homo, tried to console his widowed
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missircss ana now lie nan woncea /
for her ever since and was still working.
And ho said his mistress want-1
ed him to come up here and carry
ole marster's canteen in the pa-;
rade.
An'", said he, "l expec's to
work on dare, till I die; it won' be
long, Imss, till missus an' me botb
is done gone where marster is, and
den can' no war bike him ' way."
Faithful old man! True to the
death you were, and in years of
long, hard toil, you slaved for and
served so truly your beroavcd mistress.
It takes a man with a heart
to do what you did, and we people
know that beneath your black skin
beats as warm and true a heart as
# . l tr x i 1 x
is iounu any wncro. may uie nusv
years of your life be not hard, but
eased on by the kindness of a people
who owe you something; a people
who know you and love you.
And may a faithful servant's reward
be yours when you are relieved
of painful years here 011 earth.
For Four Days Only.
Dr. I. E. Grimm, the famous eye
sight specialist, will be in Union from
Wednesday, June 13th, to Saturday,
June 16th, inclusive, positively no
longer. This will he a great opportunity
to have your eyes nroperly examined
and glasses fitted by a skilled
specialist at the most reasonable prices.
This letter speaks for itself. Mrs.
Elbe E. Gibbs, from Gibbs, Union Co.,
who sufTered greatly from headache,
her eyes very weak, writes to Dr.
Grimm and thanks him for the benefit
she received from the glasses he titted
her. "Dear Doctor: It gives mejdeasure
to report that the glasses you fitted
me has given entire satisfaction. I
did not have any headache since 1 began
wearing them. The glasses are a
great relief to me in every way. I
certainly recommend you to all who
sulTer with their eyes."
Dr. Grimm will positively not re
nitiiii longer man lour (lays. Call 011
him. Examination free. Ollice Union
Hotel, Ladies Parlor. 23-2t.
Executor's Notice.
Any person having claims against
Godfrey B. Fowler, deceased, will
present them properly attested Those
indebted to said egtatc will make pay- ,
ment to me|at once at Cross Keys, 8. C.
Mas. Em.a Betsim.,
Executrix Estate Godfrey B. Fowler,
deceased.
June 5tli, 1000, ir3-3t:
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Removal Notice.
1
The Law Ollice of DePass and l>eI'ass
has been moved to rooms Nos. 1
and 2 over the People's Bank.
tv About You
te Slippe
will take you just
minute to decide
lat you want a pair
our White Slippers
hen you see them,
^member they are
ire for children,
isses and ladies,
ith a little more
lap and better finish
lan you find elsehere,
made " in
uchers, large eyelets
id covered heels.
ry Goods Coi
P. HARRY, Manager
Btcasj^isaasseis^^
{look
2 FOR TI
1 GREAT FACT
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^, of Pianos, Organs and Sewin
t1on or about the 25th inst., nounced
later. This will b<
sale ever known in Union.
DON'T MISS THIS
to secure a fine musical instr
regular price. Terms to suit
Remember the Place, Spears'
UNION SUPPLY
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jjS aggregate of savings average
H teen dollars for each depositc
? in the Savings Banks alone
H aggregate #3,060,178,611, an
|? eight (#38) dollars for every
tig in the country. Just what
savings-bank business is dor
wg reopies Bank, we are not at
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on Savings Accounts compoc
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