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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY by the UNION TIMES COMPANY BACHELOR STREET, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. BELL PHONE NO. i. S.'K! BONEV, I I I I I [ Editors Registered at the Postoffice in Union. S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year $i.00| Six months 50i Three months 25 j / '' ' '"^ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first insertion $1.00; Every subsequent insertion 5? Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8 1-3 cents a line. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will he charged tor at halt rates. UNION". S. C., JAN. ir. 1907. The illness of Bishop Duncan will cause great sorrow, not only among the Methodists of the State, hut among the Christians of all denominations. * * * And now conies a new hobby. A leading physician of London says that candy cures consumption. Anyway, this is a sweet remedy for a hitter disease. * * * With our whole heart we hope th< present legislature will kill the dispell sary in South Carolina, and hury it s< deep that' it will never avain ? " " * jfe J It is a shame and a disgrace that : m soverign State should have for its oti< great issue dispensary or no-dispensa ry. Rut such is the case in the Stat< of South Carolina today. * * * We believe President Roosevelt did exactly the right thing to summarily - tile rrr.. ,. , *7 " Brownsville. To parly with such an outrage would have been disgraceful. # * * Dr. C. H. Judson's sudden illness is a sad shock to his many friends throughout the State, although it has for some time been forced upon their minds that this would, in the nature of things, have to come soon. * * * Senator Latimer's bill to give Union federal building will afford interesting reading to our citizens. We ?i.? i.:n ?- - - - in*.- mil may l>e paSSCU. I lie IlCCfl IS urgent and such a building will be oi great help to our city. * * * Gov. D. C. Ileyward has delivered his valedictory. He retires to private life. He carries back to his home a name unsullied by any act of Ips during his administration. He is. today, as well-thought of as he was the day of his election to office. * * * So many bloody things happen in Russia that one is not in the least disturbed to read in the press dispatches of January 9 the following: "Gen. j Pavaloff, chief military procurator, was assassinated this morning while attending the court martial of several ryyolu.. tionists." ' * * * Martin F. Ansel, who is about to enter upon his duties as governor of South Carolina, enters upon his duties under very favorable prospects. .Hesi has the confidence of the people of^ South Carolina, and is regarded as a man above reproach. Mav his admin.t istration demonstrate the truth of.public opinion. . ! * * * Mr. Whaley, of Charleston, was elected to the speakership in the legislature. This election does not prove the, strength of the dispensary and n'o-dis-j pensary forces in the house. The lines, were not clearly and closely drawn. The forces are pretty evenly matched and one watches with some interest to; see just how matters will turn. * * * | We believe the selling of whiskey as a beverage debauches the seller as well j as the buyer. We believe it is wrong | for the State to sell whiskey for-Hcv-o erage purposes, and it is wrong for an; individual to sell it. It is not, with us.) whether it pays in dollars to have the State keep barrooms; with us questions of morals. We refuse to put; this question altogether on the fceart-; i less and sordid plane of uiere pfoflf. lu We do not believe it pays in money to < sell whiskey. F.ven if we did. we Would I just as earnestly oppose the sale of 1 whiskey, for we consider it a question < of morals. We do not care who fcpows I that we are opposed to a thing that i is as bad as the dispensary. We are < also jqstas thoroughly opposed to.high I ^^lic?n?<f and open barrooms. a 4 I ? IDLE THOUGHTS. \ hF ^59>?a-9?^-5-3^-a^-9i-3^^^:-5-3^ EXIT OLD?ENTER NEW. Calmly, noiselessly, swiftly as a vision passes the old year. An instant's time marks the boundary line between the old and the new, and upon the heels of one, silently treads the fool of another. The record is closed and filed awaj in the great book of time, irrevocable unchangeable. All the force of hu inanity, the demons of hell nor ever the angels of heaven, can unlock th< vaulted gates that seal the past,?tin hour has passed and the nineteen hun dred and seventh year has been ush ered in. Closed and forever sealed Ah! let us take one last peep into tin deeds recorded in the great clerk'i j office, unchangeable though they be. What of falseness have we to fac< on the great day when the seals ar? broken and the books laid open? Peer ing into the days of the past year, cat we not now sec the base treachery o i our hearts in dealings with both rnai and God? The awful realization surge over us that many words and deed ! have been false to the core. Whei the heart said one thing, our lips spok another and our hands wroucrht sti another. Living in the light of tru knowledge, we have deliberately chose the false. False standards have bee ours and our lives untrue to tli I knowledge of right. The baubles < I life have won us over with their tins glow, and the true, the lasting, h: gone unsought. With bowed head v have raked in the weeds of life ar the crown above was unnoticed. Fals Sham! Emptiness! The petty griefs and feuds of ma . kind have engrossed our time. TV little quarrel and yonder slight lo -> have blinded our^/i^yf to grie' , vLsio'V io*st treasure. The storms lite have swept the shores of time ai j our sand play-houses were wash > away. 1 he winds of adversity ha J blown hard and we saw the collapse . our castles of straw. And with hum; weakness we sat idly by and wept jour grief. Petty quarrels have sappi I the God-allotted vitality and force jour life. Oh! how ridiculous is qua 1rt iL'afo. fifiVrtMf6rs"nan<i* "customs ha\ been ours, such as would shan ; the ancients. The refined cruelty. 1 j galized theft and perjury, cultured ba I barism, low pleasures and pervert* | tastes, sanctioned indecencies and op* wickedness,?all these have we glori* in, regardless of time's inevitable at I irrevocable record. Sin, in all i ; beautiful and hideous forms, has bet 'our daily companion and "hand i hand we walked the downward sloj toward death." And cold did we pro ttip Taim /{ our lathers; Iiimi j upon insult we heaped upon it Slander and spite! Oh! who ca I escape the accusing voice of these dt mons? Through our lips, again an again, have hissed the hell-laden fume of hatred; and our very words hav been angry darts, tipped with venon Ions slander. If not that, then tli small words, shyly spoken but bearin a germ of distrust and intending t poison the heart of another. Ove I teacups, in the office and on the stree I that one little word has founded j Kingdom of hell. How much pain an sorrow have we caused ourselves an others, simply because spite was th motive of action? Think! Add up your totals, friend, and hoi is1 your account? Over the long, blac record-a' few light 'flecks* may be seen a few good deeds have been ddfte, bu so choked arc they by the evtf, the have no redeeming power. Good deed never did save a man. Viewing, ther the awful record of our past yeai wH'ere shall we fly for refuge? Tfcc gift of One whose birth w< hrfve-just commemorated can over shadow all the evil of our past. Bu more: we are given a new trial, henc the coming of another year. The past is sealed: the future lies ou before, us an open walk. What will bi the footprints at* the close of nineteei hundred and seven? It is ours to de cide. May we not say with Tennyson "Ring out the old and ring in tin new?" Let the past bury its dead; le the vault hold its skeleton,?we hav< opportunity to build anew, to refash ion our lives and become the "valian and free," true and kind, that out Maker intended. The future is befor< us; then let us lay aside our past fol lies and sins and strive toward tha1 higher, purer state. Wilkinsville Jottings. / , Wilkinsville, Jan. 7.?Once more, af kr a long yet explainable absence, 1 teat myself to greet your many read;rs upon the advent of a new year and he prosperity of your people of both town and county. It feels to me like obtruding myself upon your charity to cnock at the door of your sanctum and [sk admittance to your bright, newsy rolumns. Though ''the river of gold" >ad by law and statcscraft been made i geographical boundary which sepa I rates us, yet neither you nor your I people have been removed one inch further from our efforts. We are now ! an integral part of the new and progressive county of Cherokee; y?t we are proud to be called "the Union cut, off," as we take our place in the new ! family which is composed of similar , sections from the grand' old counties t of York and Spartanburg, with whom we "dwell together in unity." We arc proud of the galaxy of sections and 1 people which go to make Cherokee I county a picture on the map of the i State. Notwithstanding all this, we , have lost none of our love for, ndr loy. alty to oi#r old mtoher county,?Union, . ?the symbol of strength. JFor lo,' these many years your newsy columns i have been a weekly visitor to .our. home . and we have kept in touch with your } people through its agency.* .V:* i ' It's with great pleasure we note that , your people are preparing a suitable , monument to commemorate the gallantry of the men Union county furnished ^ in the war between the States. Of! f these she has reason to be proud, and! n of them the world need not be ashim-j s ed. The military statistics of the Ctns federacy show that Union county nasi n represented on nearly every battle-] e field from Gettysburg to the great Mini II Grande. Although the tlag for which e they fought and for which many of n them died, was snatched by the hand n of fate from among the symbolical ttnc jblems of nationality, yet a unifcd ?{| country is glad to acknowledge tl^it cl]they were true Americans. It woitd IS be a great pleasure in this connection (.e to give a list of the names we delight ,(||to hear, but that is impracticable. e? '; Among them we find Gadburry, Giles, Goss, Gist, McKissick, Wallace, Betn_ i sill. Palmer, Steedman. Boyd, Jctetf iis j Thomas, Greer, Gibbs, Douglas, Mun^s I ro, James (Rev. A. \X Fn"C Frtwler |v??*** wiitnirn. Jefferies, Harris ve J Sumner. Farr, LittTejohn, Gilliam of Scott, Simms. Haines. Rice, Coleman ml Brown, Smith, Bentley, Norris, Gared ner. Gallman. Hughes, Bvers, Rodgers, ve Jones, Johnson, Porter, Bobo, Gregof ory, Gault. Goim/ m- - .?i > >" >ran head. Eison, Isom, Kelly, Bates, Davis, in Lee, Long, White, Vandeford, Adams, L?d and a long list of others, perhaps less of renowned hut worthy of mention or r- memory. These names we gather liurc years ago when the first call was made ie to organize a Survivors' Association oi e. Confederate Veterans of Union eounr ty, of which association your corres>d pondent had the honor of beii^g made mi secretary and from which organization >d sprang Camps Giles Boyd and jefferid ies U. C. veterans. We reverently take t>,??tV our hats to the noble wotuen of mi | Union county and their, co-workers in who took the initial step looking to 10 the erection of the magnificent'monuw ment which is soon to commemorate H. ?Viv valoi ui tul.liorc, and say, God bless them, for they are the wives, n j mothers, daughters, sisters and sweetj-1 hearts of heroes. Vox. d s Santuc Personals. e l~ Santuc, Jan. 8.?Misses Minnie and IC Drncilla Gee left for 'Converse since 8 0 the holidays; the former to teach and >r the latter as a scholar, t. Mr. Aubrey Gilmore, mention of a j whom was by an oversight left out in j last week's personals, will return to e Clemson this week. Miss Clara Brock, daughter of our v new Methodist minister, left this week k f<jr Greenwood) "wKfirfifke is attending school, it , > . The school opened here last week y ' ' with as bright prospects as it closed with just before the Christmas holi' j days. >. Farm work has already begun, with I prospects indicative that th?? i - Kv,,?"v are going to push their work instead of being pushed by it. e There has been "oceans" of moving around here; making short crops and t not paying out gives negroes a case of ( moving it seems. Some arc at work, ^ but frolicing is not out of the bones of some yet. t t rub it on youi i under your v< finwan'c Pnom uv TT Ull J A 1IVM1 Cures Pneujponb and Croup. All Druggist 25c. ai It relieves within ^Hours It cures coMh, coughs and ci RICE DR By Our i] I I Lockhart Junction News. Lockhart Junction, Jan. 7.?The old year has passed, leaving its sweets and ; bitters behind. Christmas passed off |quietly in this section. If the littlej brown jug was seen, it did no harm ! around here. The following may be a little old. but I promised to mention it in my 'write-up. Christmas fun came in a few 1 days before Christinas eve in this section. Some one in our neighboring town of Joncsville had a balloon ascension one night and next morning the balloon was seen by some good ladies in this neighborhood. As the | wind was in a Rale, it was seen near where it fell the night before, rolling over and over on the hillside. These good women armed themselves with guns, axes, hoes, etc., to defend themselves, as they thought it was the man Lowe who had come back. But on closer examination they found it was only a Japanese balloon and Lowe was not in it at all, and the joke was on them. The Christmas tree given at the Gault school house was a grand thing for the little ones, and older ones, too. Our teacher, Miss Mary Cunningham, after giving the children the holidays, has returned to her school work again. Mr. D. C. White had a fine mule to cut himself badly recently by running into a barb-wire fence. A happy and prosperous New Year to all. Moxy. rchest iSt monia Cure 3, Coughs, Colds External. id 50c. and il .00. and cures within 4 Days. oii|> in less time. :ug co. / [ All JLfMiCD I Outward Appearance g At First, and i ^ rst Impressions fjSI are the fPa | Most Lasting, ||||| | e have the clothing at will give every ?| an a good boom. lgJ?fm|H ?| rid a man can't H end his money in a &> s| a* * MfadMufV 83 lser way man Dy || i| :tting the best. ^ is DRY UUODS CO. I | J MEET ME AT HAILE'S SHOE STORE. "K *r {THE BEST IS THE} | CHEAPEST. I' |l l| 1: RUBBER OVER-SHOES 11 i ? Sraade in three grades?First Quality, < i CoTAMii A?j nr. . - -rv 9 fcTvwuuu yumuj ana inira quality. i|> || THE FIRST QUALITY" . ] \ |; Costs about one third more than the Third j | 11 Quality, but the First Quality is the cheapest j1 tin the end because they are made for hard I wear, and will wear at least one-half longer h Q 11 than the Third Quality. ! | |; THE THIRD QUALITY |; Is not made for hard wear. They are '| 11 made cheap and to fill in a place where | | Rubbers are not much needed. 5I: ALL STYLES AND KINDS CAN BE If | FOUND AT ! iHaile Shoe Co J" i> 7 |! The Leading Shoe House. 11 11 49 East Main Street Union, Sonth Carolina ] | * > '