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THE UNION TIMES 1 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNlbt*! TIMES COMPANY; BACHELOR STREET, OPPOSITE1. PQSTOFFICE. BELL PHONE NO. i. L. M. RICE, - - - Editor. Registered at the Postoffice in Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year $1.00 Six months 5? Three months 25 ADVERTISEMENTS: I One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion 50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8 1-3 cents a line. 1 Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half ' rates. UNION, S. C., FEB. 15, 1907. The State dispensary is dead and buried. Let us hope that the "whiskey question" will never again be the' "paramount issue" 111 South Carolina. * * * It is reported that trouble is breuflH ing in South America. Nicarauga/ Honduras and no telling what else, arc ' seeking trouble. Uncle Sam's big ditch will likely get mixed up in it oe- 1 fore it is over. But, then, South Amer- I ican States would be unlike themselves ' if they behaved for six months. !' * * * i < What the public needs is not so much a reduction of fare as an increased safety. It is a horrible catalogue of1' tragic deaths that is being made up [1 each year. No doubt the railroads are somewhat to blame. The chief blame, however. rest> upon the people. The ' crazy haste of the present day is !1 largely to blame. Let us hope that r the roads in South Carolina will make j ?arnest in bet-11 ter shape, and that the/ will give improved rolling stock. 5)c afe ajc I ] The Shah of Persia has given for- ' mal recognition to constitutional gov- j' eminent. He did it because, perhaps, j he had to do it. It is coming, the; rights of the people to govern them- 1 selves. Democracy is growing, and'1 as advances are made in education j and civilization the tendency will be- * come even more marked than it is today. It has been about two thousand years since the individual was discovered, but he is making himself felt in these latter days. s 5jt 5fC * Tt is regretable that our county is s to be put into an upheaval in the mm- < " tcr of voting on the whiskey question, h but such is the case. The local option l; bill which passed the house aiv' sen- i ate provides that no election be held, g in counties that have voted out the :l dispensary under the Brice law. But a there are some counties excepted, and p Union is one of them. We regret ,, that our whiskey friends refuse to al- j| low us the blessings of our victory, but t< if they must have it so, we will give j| them a new battle. This paper wants jj it understood by everybody in Union g, county that it opposes the sale of whi-- m key as a beverage anywhere and all the \\ time. Revenue or no revenue is oneiyt of the minor matters. With us it is a th question of morals. We believe whis- st key drinking debauches men. We shall \ e\ do all that honest people can to fignthe for our principles in the coming con-1 at test. It is provided in the bill recently at passed that Union county may have jet an election in 1907. Let every man i ct who loves his fellow men, every man . who despises the temptation to profit | rr in the blood of his fellows, line up with' rc ? . us. Perhaps we can give the whiskey jbi a. icsson in war. Anyway thfs I at paper will be found trying along that I m line. a> * * * I Silently, softly, constantly, the days te are coming and going. Life is won-1T derfully short, even when it reaches lie out to, and beyond, the "three score | and ten" limit. No man can afford to 8." trifle with a thing so precious and so i 15 easily wasted. Rut how is a man to use the few days allotted him upon the: g? earth? |h< There are many souls fired by the ambition to be famous. Almost every S hr man, at some time in his life, has had at his dream of earthly greatness. It was not altogether unworthy, but it was tb not sufficiently worthy. There is noth-jfr ing left as a residuum when such a life 18 passes through the fiery test of the .48 ages. How poor a thing is human re fame! Every mean-spirited knave in , lo< Ll the community may stand over the lo; graves of earth's great ones and speak pa contemptuously of the dead. It is a ; toi price that human greatnes has to pay,! this scorn and contempt of the ignoble ' mr and depraved. Even those who have So themselves obtained many of the hon- ed orable prizes of lite stare with envious cai eyes upon his neighbor who has also Ms attained his ambition. At best the ha' praise of the multitude is quite a chea] affair. Many there be who turn away fron the "paths of glory," yet do they deli gently walk in the path of gold. T< be rich is in their eyes the one priz? worth striving for! Every energy o body and mind is aflame with the de sire to be rich. Too often such a tnai will come to lose all thought of ttv Tightness of his methods. "Gold, golc gold; hard to get and hard to hold. How cheap it is! Just to have fin clothes, more luxuries and more op portunity to control the affairs of mer It is too cheap to have decoted to it attainment a human soul capable o higher things. The gold is all right if it is to be used as a lever to lift uj the fallen and to help the cause o righteousness. But it is a two-face< hypocrite at best, for it will work a: hard for an evil master as for an up right one. It is worse than a beast Even a beast will turn to its own mas ter and become his willing slave. Bu gold will serve any and all kinds o men, good, bad and indifferent. After all a life that is worth nothinj in others is worth very little to it! ower. There is very little of happi ness in a selfish life while it is in it: most prosperous days. Its end is any thing but happiness. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. We desire to express our hearts thiliks to the large number of our sub ppuers who nave responded to our re ^est to pay up. A great many have paid up and for one year in advance This g'ves us good courage in oui effort to make the paper a high-class paper. There are many on our lisi ,vho arc yet in arrears, and we trusi the}' too will join the happy companj of "paid-ups." Try it; it feels good And here is the chief reason why we want you to pay up, and if you can dr to to pay a year in advance: We car nake a better paper. This is our constant aim. We are very desirous 01 ulding more t<> our mechanical departnent. We now have one oi the best quipped plants in a county newspaper ifficc in the State. Hut our motto it 'plus ultra," more beyond. And we are lot going to be contented until wc :ome nearer to our ideal. We regard the mTetter ,?e c a county newspaper a work that of which no rr?? reed to be ashamed. It is an oppor unity for great usefulness. We de ;ire to express our thanks for the mail} ciiul words we have received from uanv of our patrons as they sent in heir subscriptions. We shall try tn eturn your kind words in good, wholeiome reading matter. Troubles of the Railroads. The public has suffered untold hardhips because oi delayed trains. I'asengers and freight traffic has become o much congested that relief seems to e tar away. Accidents on the rail ave increased and the number of faalities has reached an alarming figure. )amage claims in the courts have been iven excessive verdicts by the courts, nd some agitators in the legislature re endeavoring to reduce by law the assenger rates. The public, on the lie hand, is suffering because of the lability or unwillingness of the roads > furnish proper facilities for handllg the traffic, and on the other hand le roads are suffering from the neglicnce of employees and the damagelit jury and the crank legislator, 'ithout enquiring into the causes, law ;rs and juries have contended that; ie roads are at fault, and juries have | istained the contention. Without! ,'cn a fair knowledge of conditions, j gislators have urged drastic penalty id reduced-rate legislation as a pan:ea for all railroad ills; and the gen al public has not looked into present mditions. President Finley, of the Southern lilway, has issued a letter to the pat-J ins of his road in which he briefly, it instructively, reviews conditions, id he shows that because of the enorous increase in traffic in recent years, id the inability to secure cars and ennes and laborers, the roads are utrly unable to meet the present needs, he foil twing extracts are from his tter: In 1895 the Southern hauled 1,098,(2, 884 tons of freight one mile; in >06 it hauled 4,488,915,839. In 1895 it hauled 178,015,925 passen;rs one mile, and last year the nutnt was 549.5i8.^45In the last 12 years the Southern is spent $36,184,018 011 improvements id $96,482,945 on equipment. The increase in rolling stock during e same time has Keen- 1 o? I om 623 to 1.544; freight cars from ,924 to 58.491; passenger cars from] 7 to 1.008. Nor does this fully rep-j sent the increased capacity of the1 :omotives, for they can haul heavier | ids, and the freight cars have a cacity of more than one-third more, image now than formerly. N'or can the factories turn out locoitives and cars fast enough. The uthcrn 011 November r, 1905, order98 locomotives and 1,806 freight -s to he delivered in February and irch of last year. These contracts vc not yet been completely filled,? \> over a year late. February i, 1906, contract was made i for 100 locomotives and 10,000 freight - cars to be delivered last October. This > contract has so far been only partially s filled by the locomotive and car founf dries. Mr. Finlcy also cites several in1 stances where work for building double e tracks has gone months beyond the 1, contract period for the reason that " laborers cannot be secured by the cone tractors. If our legislators would pass t- and require the enforcement of v-ai. grancy laws, instead of trying ;to res duce passenger rates, maybe the pubf lie would receive some benefit from their acts. > The Southern executed mortgages f to the amount of $200,000,000 for the 1 purpose of improving its roads and 5 equipment. And it did this notwith standing the advanced price of evcry. thing needed. Since 1898 prices have . increased as follows: t Bridge timbers from $9.36 per thouf sand to $20.52; crossties from 28 cents each to 34.5 cents. ? Steel rails from $17-75 Pcr ton to 5 $28 pcr ton. Locomotives from $11,000 to $16,000 5 to $20,000. Passenger cars from $6,315 to $Q,4&> each. Freight cars from $500.43 to $765 each. ; Coal from $368 to $1,135, while labor lias doubled. f Verily our folk should study condi* tions and causes,?and not complain " further. , ? Immigrants Reach Charleston. t The North-Lloyd steamship Wittet kind reached the port of Charleston r last wcck witn a cargo of freight and . nearly two hundred immigrants, 'lhe ; foreigners have all been sent to the > towns of their choice and have found i work. Nearly all of them have gone . to cotton mills, according to the rei ports. This may be a good thing, but . it is abortive pf the plan proposed last : year when Commissioner Watson went to Europe to make arrangements for ; the coming of a ship into Charleston. : As we understand the matter, the cot: ton mill presidents who met last year [ and appropriated some five thousand . dollars for the use of Mr. Watson did ? *o not to obtain help for their mills, - but to secure laborers to take the - places left vacant on the farms by the r removal of farmers' families to the i towns. i The cotton mills offered employment i more remunerative than the farms, and the white people from the country flocked to the cotton mills, leaving the country districts sadly in need of intelligent laborers. As the whites left the farms, the negro laborers became more and more worthless and indolent, seeming to think the landowners were dependent upon them to til! the soil. The mills, realizing that they were draining the white people from " the farms, desired to replace them wtih , inteligcnt white people, so they donated $5,000 to the immigration bureau, and it was this fund, partly, that Com- 1 1 y missioner Watson defrayed the expens- , es of his trip abroad last year. The mill men desire that the cotton fields 1 and other farm proyerty shall be tilled j by intelligent laborers, and, having s drawn so heavily upon the farms for t their help, they desire that immigrants s -.hall come to the State and work on 1 the farms. And in this they have shown v a spirit of patriotism commendable to t m<>re than an average degree. The cot- * ion null men have done much to bring ^ about the wave of great prosperity that f, iias swept tlie State and the South. t o All trains on the Seaboard Air J Line came to a stop for five minutes Thursday at 3 o'clock, at which time t the funeral of late President Walter c' was being held in Xew York. n n s The treasurer of the Savings Bank * of Xew Britain, Conn., is short over halt a million dollars. f, and of course I under member doctors object Gowan's Pneumonia Ct is all right for you to use children to keep it in th so much and will feel ab you and them if you will don't cost much?there bUc., and one dollar. ' It than an insurance ^oli cashed after we are dead It not only cure3 Pneunr croup and cold as well. 1 4 RICE DR I I Wk I UNTIL I | Great s H 1 in our cl I der of t g Examini I workma 1 gasp a I counts 1 I of Suits 1 MUTUAL rok stomach surrcRCRS. Don't Use Any Remedy that Keeps Formula a SeGret. People who arc troubled with stomich weakness cannot afford to use any emedy unless they know what it con- | ams. Mi-o-na is not a mere digestive giv- i ng only temporary relief, but a specific j or all disorders of the digestive or-j tans, and so effects a permanent cure or stomach troubles. Your physician will tell you that lothing is better than a combination >i chemically pure bismuth subgalate to allay any intlammation of the tomach and bowels; cerium oxalate, o strengthen the stomach nerves; odium bi carbonate, which neutralizes he poisonous acids that are present in tomach troubles; and nux vomica, rhich will restore vigor to the digesive organs and tone the whole nervous ystem. This combination is found only in di-o-na stomach tablets, and it so rarey fails to strengthen the digestive svs em and cure all forms of stomach d'is-1 irders, that Palmetto Drug Co. sell he remedy under a guarantee to refund 1 he money unless it cures. 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