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THE UNION TIMES ' ( PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY i BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY BACH ELOR STREET, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. i BELL PHONE NO. I. L. M RICE. - - - Editor.! I Registered at the Postofhce in Un- i ion, S. C.. as second-class tnail matter.! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 One year Sl.oo ! Si\ months 50^ Three months 25, j ADVERTISEMENTS: One square. first insertion $1.00 < Every subsequent insertion 50 contract* I??r three months or longer, V. ill he made at reduced rates. ( laicals inserted at 8 l-,t cents a line. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half 1 rates. i . IN ION S. C.. APRIL l_\ 1907. * Tito .Times party for Jamestown will be tinder the personal supervision of tin- editor ai d his wife. It is intended to lx? a trip; full of educational value to each member of the party. We expect to have a ''good time*', hut we! mean to make the trip helpful as well. * * * We are told that a large basketful i of letter.-, was received l?y tin- sheritl <rf Cherokee county from all parts of < the State asking permission to witness the hanging of 'i'oni Harris, the murderer, at (iaffney last Fri- . day. "There is no accounting for taste," and that's a fact. The morbid curiosity of some people is to he explained on the basis that there is 11 very much of the brute in some people. * * # It does seem that the advocate of whiskey selling and whiskey drinking would groy to be ashamed of - in af>out all tho^gly opmee that come to light. ^ i wonder that there should ne a wave of opposition to the drinking and selling of | the damnable stuff. That there is J such a revulsion of public sentiment, is patent to any thoughtful student' of the times. * * * Ho not fail to read our offer on i page one. We are meeting with great encouragement in our plan to conduct a party of twenty-five to J Jamestown Exposition. From every auction of Fnion county we are re- : cciving letters; and the interest in , our contest is growing every day. i The heauty of the scheme we are i working lies in the fact that so large ' a number of contestants will in the ! end he successful. Twenty-five ( people ? ten school hoys, ten school \ girls, and five lady teachers. Get i your votes in as rapidly as possible. 1 W e will publish the list <<f the'names and votes in each issue. , # * ^ One of the favorable signs of the j times is in the fact that many of , the men at the head of great indus- < trial and commercial institutions 1 are showing an interest in the moral * welfare of the employees. President j ' Finley, of the Southern Railway, f has delivered several sne?>clw.a - r v. . i business men and to the employees Jl of the road. Recently he spoke at !l Spencer, X. upon the occasion ^ of the opening of the Railway Young' |, Men's Christian Association huild- si ing. This building was made pos- 8 si hie hy the liberality of the inan-||j agement of the road. The address ? of Mr. Finley is sensible and help- j fill. Co-operation between employ- a er and employee is the keynote to h this address. It expresses precisely '' the thought that Jesus Christ gave to the world nearly two thousand ,.| years ago. It is just this attitude e^ in the part of employer that will get (,J the most good out of the enterprise /and that will l>e mutually helpful. "How much is a man l>etter than a tl sheep!" Manhood above money, oi righteousness and not riotousness, ' < ' ft ' tAAaJMOfcifc iifaiiMii i \mmH ? ' mind above matter?there are Home [>f the principles of Christianity that even the business world must learn if it reaps the richest results of its enterprise. We have never met Mr. Kinley, but our respect for him is greatly increased by his Spencer speech. WORKING WITH A HEAVY HEART There is no use denying it, a man who tries to do Ins best in the stern battles of life has his hands full, even when the conditions are favorable. Hut it does not require so very much manhood to keep steadily pressing on under such conditions. The sunshine and flower? and singing birds and green fieldi make it easy for a man to sing at he carries the load. But when th< dreary days come, when the bird? cease their singing and the cloud? hang low overhead it takes couragt of a high order to pass on with tin burden that each moment grows heavier. And there are a greai many dark, dreary days! What ;i history is being written in humai lives each day! That man you niel today seemed hardly willing to speak to you kindly, "(iood Morning!' He had a eloud upon his face am his lips were drawn down closely together. Do not judge him harsh ly. You know nothing of his hcavj burden. There may he a sick wift or child at home; there may be business losses of which you nevei ilreanu'd; some good, true friene may have passed away. The shadows :.re falling across his pathway, although you do not see them, lb is going forth in the stern strengtl of a high resolve, perhaps, and bu for just this high-souled eouragi would long since have sat down In the wayside t?? perish. Let us rem ember that it does not take much o .. ....... .. i... i......... ...I.,... .... ,1 111.111 IV! >'? ? 111-11 UW lUlllftV i.s nigh. After all, the hravcst 111111 is that one who bends liis hack t< the load and patiently, silently steadily plods on through the shad ows and into the approach night. , Latinr {rnm ajfcssionary in Chin* mfeeclf us 1 ofinFzbx New "^"ear i always a time i^r calling and re turning calls, Mooking sweet an< happy, merry and gay, bowing an< congratulating, forgetting the pas and thinking as little as possibt alnmt the future. No such times i is hut natural that any places o interest in or al*?ut town should b popular. For several months friends hav< been saying You will have man; callers during the holidays." h>< on Wednesday, February the thir teenth, being the fi.st day of tin thirty-third year of the reign o Kuang Hon were prepared for thos who came. Tea and watermeloi seed were passed around to the oik hundred odd callers, who suppei and cracked and talked and went ?u to make other calls. Thursday tin number went up to about thret hundred. Friday it snowed in the morning, but the syn coming out ater, the visitors again began t? !ome and some two hundred were received. Saturday was a good day ind live hundred came. Sunday we* wen glad for a rest from callers. Vonu were allowed to come in?-not veil a cart of women from the yeoiii'ii who seemed provoked that 11icj vere not invited in to see the for ign bouse at any time. All were nvited to the chapel. From Saturlay's experience we decided to close, lours for a week, and the week following set aside three days, having pecial services each day, before in iting them in and 11 march- the louse. This might havc|jq9pione or the two weeks hut forthe'faet hat it seemed impossible tO" put side other pressing work. Februry twenty-sixth, seventh and eighth ,ere selected as the three days on ,'hich most country neonle would e in town. The side veranda was elected as suitable for speaker, ingcrs and hel|>er8. Chairs and ihles, the bahy organ, mottoes and owers, and even ;i looking glass nd a |?iir of vases were adjusted, tenches were put in the yard. \Ve I most felt like We were going to ave a camp meeting. Mrs. \\\ Ingene Sallee, with her school girls, inch delighted the crowd which ad gathered in the yard, with sevral gospel hymns. Instead how- > yer of sitting oti the benches the iger listeners stood on them to see] < well us hear. Then wc preached, ftcr preaching we closed the gate I i the east of the yard, conducted ie guests through the house and it the west gate. This we did four icecssive time- during the day. j Gate* were opened at 10 a. m. and closed at 1 p. 111. On Tuesday the | numlier had run up to one thousand, one hundred and ten. To keep ' sweet, to manage a new committee, and to have so many pass through i your house in one day is not easy' and yet they say ''Today is not the. big day. Tomorrow and the next day you will have more than these." But ou Wednesday we had a hard dust storm and only five hundred and ten came. These however had a much letter opportunity of hearing the gospel. With Dr. A. D. Louthan of our mission, and Mr. N. S. Hann, of the Methodist Mis, sion to preach; and with Misses I Peterson and Mulligan of the Meth. I odist Mission and Mrs. Bailee's I school girls to do the singing. We had a good day of it. We could \ wish that the next day might have > a rain, or a snow, or a dust, storm s for Thursday was the day they all , said, and so it proved to he. * j Thursday at ton o'clock Mrs. . J Hann was at the organ. One ??r two heljK'rs had arrived hut a dozen or more were asked to come and ? were needed. The crowds were I $ coming. Already several hundreds k were in the yard. From the city. till t K/k Sllll??/,n<l ? i 1 . - ?1-11 ' ? uwKii 11Mj Kunwiin, uuruso nit* iirm.-s, I they were walking fast towards our II house. "Where is the hymn hook? ! t "I don't know Mrs. Malm. Just ; play anything, just mak? < noise, it > will he all the same to t'o .1.*' Hut in the meantime Mrs. I^awtoncomes with the hymn hook. The singing ' commences. Then the speaker ad j vances. The crowd listens?many : of them |x?ssihly for the first time to ,1 the gospel message. Another snakier conies forward. The helpers j come in one hy one. Among them | Mr. and Mrs. .Sallce. How glad I we are to see them. The crowd is . too large for a few to manage one of the helpers whispers "Stop Mr. ' Hsiong from preaching so long. The people want to see tin' lmuKq/ II They might get restless. Let's bi4 t gin to take them through. We wuK L. knew how easy it is to irritate '1 crowd, well we knew that roughs take advantage of such occasions to, create disturbances, and in such a f crowd (for there were now over a r thousand) there must he many ras^ eals. Why had we not gotten sold.tiers to police the place! If a dis1 turhencc occurred we may all lie *! dead before we could get word to ? the otlieial. And when he did hear jit, he would say "you should have told me sooner. I. Our five little children were up in t>l,n i" 11 ^aiLL ? P "VI H' 'UOV I 'WT^eive thousands of men, woloc s|and children. "Open the veranBn* " gate and let tin- women eonie lirsBr 1 In they rushed. Along the ver;^ Ijdah, into the parlor, through tB t | dining room, up the hack staiiB l*! passing the hath room, bed room 1 and upper veramlah, down througfl f the hall way and front stairs, out l' the front door and west yard?hut I not all in a rush. And why? Bee cause the back stairs, which we had V: arranged were the only ones by 3 j which they could go upstairs, were "! so narrow and steep, that the ascent L' j was difficult. Here a foreigner was f | stationed to count as they came up. L> How interesting to watch them. 1! Mothers with infants in their arms; B| little girls with pretty trinkets in ' their hair; young ladies with painted 1 cheeks and flowered dresses; sub' stantial womanhood with wondering ;j looks upon their faces; and the old 5 dames with a cane in one hand and t a young woman on the other side ' supporting her. Up they come, J step by step, up! up!! up!!! Around and through and down again hut satisfied!! "And I have been in a 'Yang leo'" (a foreign house M with an upstairs).! ! "Let the men and boys come." ' "Go slowly, go slowly" says the man at the gate. I'ush, push, tumb|e they come. "Go slowly, go slowly" says the man at the parlor door. Over a chair and a table they | scuffle leaving four pieces instead of j two. "Go slowly, go slowly" says ! tl?A ?*"?? ?. * A I- - * um iiiiin in inn stairs, t ?ver tin* i railings or through tin-in or under them, they scamper, and aerate! i ! _ and I see that Atulrcv million dollars ii lie co Kcr. Now I think I'll it he has pneumonia ht will only cost him fifty flowan's Pneumonia Ci and good for croup am well as Pneumonia. I. tween two millions an if I'd Rive him the no library. I've tried Go try writing Andy. RICE DRIG ? Queen1 I "SL || | N matters Hi ? woman to H ==== That the 4 H caught the secre HI instinct the tre 1 if creasing populai 11 most certainly p I Hi *? s^ow ^ou oul || perfect fitting fo 1 Mutual a ind scream. Down the railings go, ) ^ ui, ui? tuc iiifii continue: Hut the! ^ jviaek stairs are very steep ami nar?*w, so slow up they must. One hy * I . e Ihey pass Mrs. llann who greets 1 r (i(,gwith a smile whilr keeping elose >? I ^ Jnt of the number coming. 1 + But it's tiresome waiting outside j W ?r this slow process, and so those | J W>utside of the yard begin to jump the wall. Someone from within; 1 throws a stone at one jumping the ^ ttwall and it strikes one outside. J uVhat are we to do? Stones begin i|.o IM3 thrown into the yard fast, and ; J | some towards the house. Men and . j boys are jumping over the wall, 1 many places. "You must send for ^ soldiers" says one. And so it looks, i 4 But soldiers very often make things J worse. "Open the yard gate audi 1 let them in. Then they can see for * ' themselves that we are doing all we( 1 can." >3 By this time there must have i been two or three thousand, half of ? them in the yard and half outside. * lint ? ? " ... mvy |in? >"svMuii moving. * In, up, through, down, out. In, "3 up, through, down, out. From ton thirty a. in. to four 4 thirty a. in. they continued, with a ^ short intermission gained hy Mr.1 } bailee's clearing the yard just before dinner. Are you curious to know ^ how many came through in those six hours? The figures handed in .? were live thousand, seven hundred ^ and eighty-one. Now isn't it surpris-; ing? But more surprising still is * that not one of them knows Christ! * (Continued on I'age ">.) 1 T 4/ v Carnegie offers two I g uld live ten years Ionwrite him and tell him { can live longer and it ^ cents ft>r a bottle of ^ ire, which is external * 1 colds and coughs a> ,ot's of difference he- j d fifty cents. Maybe T inter he'd send me a ^ wail's and I think I II ^ Yours, ^ HENRY. | COMPANY. .Ji i! *. s IHHiSlSlSlSiSlll ipper: of dress it is ins i rfpirmnd variptv 'Queen Quality" m :t of appealing to thi :mendous and con< ity of the "Queen Qu roves. 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