Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ... BY THE.... UNION TIMES COMPANY bachelor street. opposit1 post office. bell phone no. 1. L. M. RICE. - - - Editor S. E. BONEY, Local Editor Registered at tin* Postottiee in Unio S. C. as second class mail matter. m ~?? - SUBSCRIPTION RATKS : One year - - - - ll.f Six months .... ..i Three months ... .2 AOVKKTISKMKN1S : One square, first insertion - $1.(1 Every subsequent insertion Contracts for three months or longe will he made at reduced rates. l.oeals inserted at * 1-3 cents a lim Rejected manuscript will not he r< turned. Obituaries an<l monies < respect will be charged for at hnl rate-*. nNION, S. C., JULY LT. l'.'iMl. I >:spi nsary or n???li-|>? usury, tha i? the Whether 'tis l?> t tcr to -ulTer t'n few outrages on i prohibit ion law or to load tin whole <lirty business on our should crs, should give us pause. Iiusscll Sage, niulti-inillionairc i> dead, "lie piled up dollars and has left them forever," shouh he written upon his tomh. Thai his life was poor indeed, few wil deny. He was husy grinding foi dollars. He got what he sought dollars, and only dollars. T<> our mind it is absolute foil; to i xjx-rt success of :i11 institutioi whoso very foundations arc mora 11; wrong. Now lot tis ask tho simple plain question, Is it right for an in dividual, institution, or state to en gage in any business so damning it its effects as the liquor business' Mercy l?e unto the man win answers yes! Then if the husinesi is morally wrong, can we expec anything '?nt corruption and failun as the oiiteonie? Right is righ and wrong is wrong. The dispell sary is founded oil a wrong prinei pie, hence its conduct cannot In right. KA'p your eye on Russia, Things have been happening in that unhappy country for quite a while. Rut the present gi vet promise of events in the near future that will cause j>ast events to pah into insignificance. A eleath struggle is n<>\\" on. Tlnac can lie l>u1 one outcome, the lihe*ration of tin people. I hit what a price in Moot must he paiil! Vet this is tin course of human history. The ad vanee that nations make are al paid for in hlood. It makes on< shudde r to think of the horrors o Carnage that seem to he unavoidable in Russia. No one douiits that whatsoever ji man sows, that lie; shall alsei reap. Hut ihis i> true* e.f nations as \v< !1 The- difference is that the* harvest of a man's ele-e-eis isneit always gathered in this world, while that of si nation's must he. The-re is nei |>re? visie-n fe?r reward or punishim-nt e.l n :t" ii~ in the after life-, he-nee* the-se nm-t In* during their existence \\ iiat e.f Russia? She- is simplj re aping what she sowe-il. 11e*r child1*1*11 We re- stille-el Ul'ld pl'e Vellte-d al (-elileatiem, her subjects treated a? .-! ive-s 1 now comes tin- fruits oj th'-se* outrages against nature. The pi'e-;- must* he paid anel in coin ol hlnod?the* hlood e.f her suhjects, And ye t it may he fe r g m d; it ma\ II lit tin- travail of < 1? huh-racy ? I?irth. The death ??f llusscll Sa^c, tin great 1 i11;111r i? r, is occasion for reflection. Was it worth while! A 1 ?ng life lc lived, full of labors; lu was a man who never took a vacation; it was always business, business, work, work, with him. lie never enjoyed the little pleasures of life, he was a busy man. And the result of bis incessant labors was an immense fortune, in terms of wealth, Ifussel Sage was a great man, a remarkable success. J?ut did it pay? Where is it all today? y We cannot but remember of this \ great man of money, that just a few > months ago he gave the measly - sum of twenty-five dollars to his brother, who was .practically starving. Was his life sweet?this man I rolling in wealth ami a brother in ~ direst want? The making of money ^ is not man's chief end. Kditor Hemphill, of the Abl>eville ~ Medium complains that one must ' listen to a political harangue from ' the lips of preachers in these degenerate days. He thinks the ministry should "preach the gospel" and - steer clear of all i>olitical questions. That's what the Tories thought in 10 ,1 I . it. It l.-i! . ^ me nays <?i mu ncvoiuuoiiary war. 15 That's wliat many of tin* ancient - rulers ami governors in Israel thought, also. Hut it was the 10 preachers that took the strongest T hand in keeping up tin- lires of liberty in the great struggle for Aim rican Independence. And it was 'f the prophets voice in the olden time that called tin? people to hattle. - Has the editor of the Medium never heard of Moses, Joshua, the son of Nun, Jeremiah, K/.ekiel and many ' others that might be mentioned? 1 To our Suhserihers: We a re making earnest effort to g't our su'?". scril?ers who are in arrears to pay up their suhscription to TiikTimks. , We are trying to get them to pay ' in advance. This is the right way, 'land means very much to us. We 1 . tare making many improvements in 1 the mechanical get up of the paper, and feel that we are also advancing 1 in other lines. We hope to have I ' all our suhserihers pay in advance. Many have already done this. It .: means very much to us, and will ^ enable us to get up many other improvements that we are contemplating. I.ook at your label, and you may see how you stand. Then forward us a check or money order. Let us have your subscription paid i , up ahead. Whoru there are so many small accounts it costs us about all they are worth to make a ^ personal call for the money, liesides, the cash basis is the best one i for both subscribers and TiikTimks. ! UNDER PROHIBITION. I'11 ion county voted the dispensary out a long time ago, and is prohibition territory now. There is also Law and Order ^ League in the County, we believe. Still there are violations of law in 1 ! that model county. Not long ago a | negro man was found lying with face downward in Tyger river with a . buzzard sitting on bis shoulder tearing his ilesh to pieces. That was bad enough, but the lawless have 1 gone one better, as will appear from ' the following clipping found in the 1 newspapers: Mrs. Harriet Hobttrn, aged about :? ") years, with a 1 x ?y a Unit eleven and a little girl of live, have been living ' on binder Carrier's place near Cole raine since May 1st. She is said to I have been originally from Texas, . bad lost all she had by lire ten years ago, and again had everything destroyed in the .June llood in ib()o. As to her character, several persons 1 say sin- was "straight," others that they know nothing against her. On the night of July l>rd some white na n, some say two and some say seven men, went to her home and called her to the door. When 1 she opened it, she was caught and evidently shot at, because she is t said to have been shot through the , shoulder, and the house is said to show bullet holes. The men then thrashed her terribly and also her young hoy. It is said one man burst a quart bottle over her head, i besides beating her with thorn bushes. It is reported that after being beaten, she was driven from her house, and with her children ' forced to stay out in rain all night, f and early the next morning when s a- went to breakfast, she was again . net upon and run oil'. It is reported that a responsible man saw her making her way with the children toward burnt Factory; and Acorn pond on Tyger river, and that when asked if she had lost her way, a- she was on a plantation' road, she replied in such a manner that some think she was intending to drown herself and children. Anyway, so far as can be learned, she has not been seen since, though , binder Carrier, on whose place she 1- 1 . ? A - ^ - 1 worKwi, firm nut several persons to look for her, l>ut they found nothing. Mr. Carrier told a newspaper man today that so far as he knew there was nothing against the woman's character, that la had seen men looking for her, hut the search was fruitless, and that lie would give $ ">0 for sufficient evidence to convict the jH-rsons who had i?erpetratcd ( this outrage on her.' "With the courts open, an abl vigilant Solictor, the disj>ensar; voted out, ami a Law and Orde League in full Mast, Union Count; is making a record under a prohihi tion period. "There is no millcnnim in thi dry county yet. The men con eerned in this outbreak may be vigilance committee with mor energy and determination than th original Law and Order league There is no telling. When pcopl look outside of the courts for th enforcement of law there is no tell ing where they will stop. ? Abl>e ville Medium. If it were not for the fact that th Editor of the Abbeville Medium ha shown such pronounced symptom of blindness and deafness, we wouh try to show up the falsity of th implied insinuations in tin- alxw j editorial. If the Harriet Hohuri 'case ImpiHMied at all, which i doubtful, it happened in Spartan l?urn county. The newspaper clip ping given ahove was not copie( from Tiik i'imks. Besides, wha has this to do with the dispenser (piestien, anyway. But why was < time trying to argue the question Let the i'oilowing doggerel speal for lis: UltOTIIKK 11 KM PI 11 I.I., llltoTHKK IIKMriUI.I.. Brother Hemphill, Brother llenip hill, What makes you paint us so? Don't you think you estsmate us, Somewhat miserably low? Brother Hemphill, Brother Hemp hill, Bonder well your words of gall Do not let your love for "liker," Make you laugh at out fall. You have made some hold asser tions, And you call us awful nam's; Sweeten up, a little, Lrotht r, Give us credit for our aims. We have voted out the "liker," Got the "tigers" on the run; And we do not care to dicker. With you for the sake of fun. Brother Hemphill, Brother Hemp hill, Don't you think you Letter try To devote some of your effort, Making Abbeville go dry? Brother Hemphill, Brother Hemp hill, Ilave you swept before your door Are you sure you have a county Altogether without .woe? We arc not the wild harharians You have pictured us to he. We have voted out the "liker," And have run it up a tree. We are glad that we have done it And you need not say a word. We have fought a tight and won it As you douhtless since have heard What is Temperance. ( Lecture hv Rev. K. O. Taylor I). D.) "Nine people out of every tei will say that temperance is tli moderate use of alcoholic liquors, definition which was supposed], good fifty years ago, hut absolute); good for nothing today. Why wa it good fifty years ago, and wh; not good now? Reeausc fifty year ago, from all the light we then ha< touching the nature of alcohol, i was supposed to he a food in tin proper sense of that term. Thei we reasoned correctly that th moderate user of alcohol as a foot was a temperance man. In th light of today, alcohol not heing r? garded as a food I?ut as a poison the old definition of temperanc has no foundation and a new deli nition is absolutely required." tiik m:\v iu-:finiti?>n. I >r. Taylor then gave us his owi definition of temperance, whiel has been approved by many scion tifir men, namely: "Teniperann is the moderate use of such thing as are good in their essential n;i ture; l?ut total abstinence from al things that are bad in their ossen tial property." According to thi: definition, all alcoholic liquor would lie excluded from the eate gory of proper beverages. Tlv essential property of a liquid is thi one thing in it which makes i what it is. For iifstanbe, casein i the essential property of milk without it milk would not he milk Casion being good in its nature tin milk is good, and its moderate us< would be tempera nee, but if caseii were had ill its nature the mill would l>e had, in which case tola abstinence from milk would Ik temperance. The essential proper ty of liquor is alcohol. This beinj had?a poison and not a food?tin beer and the whiskey are had ant total abstinence only, is teni|>er anee. In other words, there is n< such tiling as the moderate use of f drug like cocaine, morphine or al cohol, and a saloon is as much ou ; fSyTk Kg! lx Eg Df Dry Goods, Notions * ?S to go. This stock of g k?9 Dry Goods Co. will be 1 p KX of his Lockhart's origi e ?58 slaughter! on all good || Remember this is ? M and starts Ji s fcjW ] Fruit of the Loom Bleach Lv ??! Wash Fabrics, iWill End F iij ?X2 Lot of Silk Waist Pattern* 1 io Silks, wort^ 50 f? s g?c Lot Short End Silks, wor - 1*35 300 Yards all Silk Taffeta - jlgj they last, Mill End P *3s The Prices given is a s ' ||j Mens's ?S $20 00 and $18 Pg 16 50 and 15 |g 13 50 and 12 |g| M 50 and 10 - |?s 6 00 and 5 III WORTH $12 50 |gjj Collars 8g. Hose 6g. Shirts ?|1 SHOES?You sa\ I Mutual of place in modern civilization sis i would In-an opium joint or si coesiine den. I'AI I.'s y\KAT. lie said he was invited to address :i Sunday school in Tcnnesee on | t : World's Temperance Sunday when j ; lie heard a Bible class teacher say I that heer and whiskey are alright in themselves, hut heeau.se they are I used excessively hy so many people, therefore we ought all to he total abstainers on the ground of Paul's doctrine, if eating meat ' make my brother to ofTend, 1 will not eat meat while the world stands. The leaflets in that Sun? day school taught the same doe!l trine. Is that the true view of the, V case? Is expediency the only >' ground for total abstinence from 8 intoxicating liquors? Suppose! y Paul's meat had become tainted, 1 8 j would he have sworn oil" from the. 1 use of meat for his brother's sake | t or for his own sake? Certainly for 8 his own sake on the ground of 1 i the nature of tainted meat. What ' is tainted meat? A certain kind of 1 microbe gets into tin; meat, eats up " a constituent portion of it, and - throws off into the meat a pto> maine which is a deadly poison. l' The meat then goes into a decaying - condition. Sanitary laws forbid its sale on that ground. On the other hand, heer is decaying barley juice. Another kind of microbe eats up tlu- sugar of the barley juice and throws off another kind of poison. Decaying barley juice is no more lit to drink than decaying meat is fit to eat, ami sanitary laws should I he passed forbidding its sale the same as in the ease of tainted meat. s The only substantial difference between decaying barley juice and a decaying carcass is the nitrogen; : which escapes from the latter. A quantity of nitrogen cast into a j beer vat would make it as offensive i to the sense, of smell as the decaying carcass hy the roadside. itKKIt WOKSK THAN WIIISKKY. Dr. Taylor here referred to an at-1 '' tack made upon him in Chattanoo1 go through the newspapers by a 4 man who aflirmcd that beer is the ' most healthful and innocent hover-, ' | age known, and then proceeded to "i annihilate his man in tint following \r i A.*i.?* i : . i -> i 111?1111 hi y un taiiii^ linn; i m"i| ;i> It 1 > l'! used is more harmful than whis' key. If people drank Iner as they i drink whiskey it would not he so ' had then, but beer drinkers are 1 guzzlers. They are always at it, t (Concluded on page 5.) 1 ' ?usand Doll; , Shoes, Clothing, Hats ar ;oods for all seasons, belong thrown on the market by A nal "Mill End" Sales whic s in every department. a Genuine Lockhart ily 27th Continuing foi ing, 10 yards to the customer, Jrice, per yard. 5 worth $1.00, Mill End Price. 75c, Mill End Price th $1.00, Mill End Price Grey, Brown, Garnet, Black ? rice dight hint as to what the Sale will save you. Suits "Mill End" F 50 SUITS "MILL END" PRIG! 00 50 00 50 50 00 Lot of Coats and Vests. AND $10 00 "MILL END" PR! 8 RA 59g. Wool Shirts 35g. Suspenders 7c. Bal re dollars on Shoes at this "Mill End" F Dry Goor R. P. HARRY. Manager. ^ MEET ME AT HAIL I A FEW I SUGGESTIONS | On What Will Make j| Your Shoes Wear , ? Longer. ^ Most of the 1 dav. in fine o-ra^ ^ , o- ? ~ || light and fancy 1 E cause of them no g satisfaction is ve ft from perspiratioi |? cannot wear a pa S than four or six fj their misfortune It Merchant should j| The feet perspi f| more waste matti j| er part of the be t" underwear, ough ? srive them a cha ? thoroughly aired week. If possibh 2 in active use | MORE THAN ONE PAIR tThis is best from the omy and health. The Sho & best stock and have their & thorough manner, and yet & tory if the shoes are abuse< tticle of dress is so much al The Store that Sh iHAfLFSHOE il The Leading ? 49 Cast Main St. . IK M itt /iv >. /tt W ^ i? ill m 1 ir Stock I id Millinery Goods ^ ring to the Mutual ?gfi * lr. Lockhart in one |S h means slaughter! "Mill End" Sale 1 10 Days. H Mill End Price 7c j|| md Navy, while jj!|| i l i "Mill End" Price jj?| fFTK >rices. p3| : S13 48 ffiSl 11 43 8 69 Egg 7 95 0S 5 48 ?*? 4 78 Bg 3 38 si = ICE 56 95 jiS . 4 48 111 briggin Undershirts 19c Pgj 'rice Sale. Is Co., 1 | ,E'S SHOE STORE. Jg Shoes worn to= jj| !es, are made of g leather, and the g t always giving % ry often caused g; - C7 ? & V i. ^ume people & :ir of Shoes more # weeks. This is 5 and the Shoe # 1 not be blamed. S re and throw off fjer than any oth= g >dy. Shoes, like # it to be changed; & nee to dry out; # I once or twice a !j i Q own and have OF SHOES AT A TIME. J standpoint of both econ- ? ie Merchant may buy the fr shoes made in the most j|r the result be unsatisfaci by the wearer. No nr bused as footwear. ?| oes the People. " ^ "company, 1 Shoe House. ft Union, S. C. & a i