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VOL. LXIII. NO. 10. UNION, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913. $1.00 A YEAR."
REV. C. T. SCAIFE
HAS PASSED AWAY
The End Came Suddenly at
the Home of His Daughter
in Augusta, Ga.?He
was a Native of Union
County, a Christian Gentleman
and a Gallant Soldier?Burial
in Spartan1
t i %*r ?
Durg L?ast vveeK.
Rev. Charner Terry Scaife, wellknown
and greatly beloved by the
people of Union county and throughout
the state, died suddenly in Au- (
gusta, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 26. His
remains were brought to Spartanburg
for burial Friday of the same week, i
in Oakwood cemetery, that city. He
leaves a widow, who was Miss Eliza- ]
beth Mobley, daughter of Dr. S. M. j
Mobley, of Fairfield, and three children,
besides a multitude of friends, ;
to mourn his death. His two surviving
daughters are: Mrs. Eloise Berry,
of Augusta, at whose home he was
visiting when death came, and Mrs. ;
Jones, of Ridge Springs. His sur- 1
viving son is Mr. Glover Scaife, now (
teaching school in North Carolina.
Mr. Scaife was twice married,
first to Miss Eloise Roberts, daughter
of a Baptist minister. To the first
union there are no surviving children.
Mr. Scaife was a native of Union,
having been born here 73 years ago.
His father, Mr. Ferdinand Scaife, and
mother, who before her marriage was
Miss Wilks of Chester County, resided
in a large two-story house located
upon the site of the home of Mrs. Ida
Perrin, in the eastern section of Union.
In this building, destroyed by
fire 25 years ago, Mr. Scaife was
born. He spent his childhood in Union.
He was one of the first volunteers
for the Confederate army, serv
^ j ing four years in Boyce's Battery. He
I _ y was a brave and fearless soldier.
U 7 WfcAft*wme
/ m%rri<ST to Miss Roberts, his first
wife and moved to Arkansas, where
y he was a successful merchant for a
number of years. Upon the death
of his first wife he sold out his mercantile
interests and returned to Union,
investing in a farm near Unon
and for several years engaging in
farming. In the meantime, feelnig
called to reach the Gospel, he entered
the ministry and for many
years faithfully served as pastor of,
Baptist churches in and around Union.
It was under his leadership that
the Unionville Baptist church was
reorganized and revived, he serving
for four years as pastor. It is said
that he served without pay. His
father, Ferdinand Scaife, was the
prime mover in the establishment of
that church before the war, and after
the war, the son, having entered the
ministry, was the chief worker who
brought it out of almost utter ruin
and laid the foundation for the future
prosperity of that church.
Mr. Scaife, besides preaching four
years in Union was pastor of Lower
Fairforest church for many years,
and at different periods during his
ministry. He organized Beulah
Baptist church, and was for some
time pastor there. He was pastor recently
of Padgett's Creek church for
two years.
Mr. Scaife left Union county in
1883, moving to Fair Forest; later
to Woodruff, and finally about three
years ago bought a home at Campobello
and moved there to spend his
declining years.
He was at one time pastor of Cavalry
Baptist church, just over in
Chester county.
Mr. Scaife was a wise teacher and
preacher. He was an earnest student
of the Scriptures and his preaching
was of a high order. He was a
foundation builder, a true builder of
character, and has left on the Chris
nuii cuuimuniiy mroughout Union
county an abiding influence for good.
It was in the houses of the people
that he shone to greatest advantage.
He was a wise counsellor, a sympathetic
listener and a man whose
heart was open to every cry of human
need.
In early life he was gay and of a
most sociable turn of mind, and these
\ qualities, directed by God's graces,
made of him a teacher and preacher
who won the hearts of men. No truer,
manlier man is to be found among
us than was he. Thousands are grieved
at his death, and tens of thousands
will arise up in the day of judgment
to call him blessed.
Why is it always the unfortunate
married men who are detained on
business until the "wee sma' hours "
WILSON I
Washington, March 4.?Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey was inaugurated
today as president of the United
States, Thomas R. Marshall of
Indiana as its vice president; Democracy
as the vehicle of this destiny.
Under the dome of the nation's capitol,
in the presence of a countless
concourse of his fellow citizens, the
new president raised a hand toward
a prophetic sun that burst dissolving
clouds and pronounced the occasion a
day of dedication, not of triumph.
It was an intensely human, precedent
breaking inauguration. With
members of his chosen cabinet surrounding
him, the justices of the supreme
court be&re him, his wife and
uau^m^r* actually (lancing ior joy Oh
the platform below, and William
Howard Taft, ex-president of the nti.
tion, at his side, the new president
shouted a summons to all "honest
patriotic, forward-looking men" to
aid him, extending the promise that
he would not fail them in the guidance
of their government.
One Gentleman to Another
While the president's concluding
inaugural words were tossing in tumultous
waves of applause, the retiring
president clasped his hand and
enlisted as a patriotic servant in the
ranks of private citizenship.
"Mr. President," said Mr. Taft, his
face beaming wtih a smile, "I wish
you a successful administration and
the carrying out of your aims. We
will all be behind you."
"Thank you," said President Wilson
and he turned to shake the hand
of his secretary of state, William J.
Bryan.
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bearer of a vanquished party after 16
years of power; Bryan, persistent
pleader for progressive Democracy,
thrice defeated, accepting a commission
from a new chieftain; and Wilson,
the man of the hour, victorious,
mustering, as he expressed it, "not
the forces of party but the forces of
humanity." ,
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'It was a political picture far bfc' 1
yond imagination of a few years gone
by, a setting that stirred the souls of
the assembled hosts whose cheering
at the scene seemed actually to reerberate
from the distant Virginia
hills.
The military and civic pageant
that followed this climax of the historic
day was more than five hours
passing in review. Leaving the capital
hill at 2 o'clock in the afternoon
the last of the marching thousands
had not saluted the president until
lonp after drakness had fallen.
President Wilson stood for more
than an hour under the plare of myriads
of brilliant electric liphts as he
greeted thousands in the lonp line,
amonp them the hosts of Princeton
students, who, as they passed before
him, shouted a hearty preetinp that
he never can forpet.
The President's Cabinet.
Washinpton, March 4.?President
Wilsn's cabinet is complete, and it
remains only to formally send the
nominationto the Senate. Until actually
nominated, th ileiutsnscac
tually nominated, the list is unofficial,
but but the list is definitely accepted
to be as follows:
Secretary of State?William Jenninps
Bryan, of Nebraska.
Secretary of the Treasury?William
G. McAdoo, of New York.
Secretary of War?Lindley M. Garrisnn.
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J W. "ViOVJ.
Attorney General?James McReynolds,
of Tennessee.
Postmaster General ? Albert S.
Burleson, of Texas. \
Secretary of the Navy?Josephus
Daniels, of North Carolina.
Secretary of the Interior?Franklin
K. Lane, of California.
Secretary of Agriculture?David
F. Houston, of Missouri.
Secretary of Commerce?Representative
William B. Wilson, of Penned.
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Wilson's Promise.
Washington, March 4.?A determination
"to square every process of
our national life again with the
standards we so prominently set up
at the beginning" was the outstanding
note in the inaugural address of
Woodrow Wilson, today inaugurated
president of the United States. The
president's address, rather a statement
of principle than of policy, outlined,
however, the important points
which he foresaw must come up for
settlement durincr his aHminioirQ?Un
These, he said, included tariff reform,
hanking and currency laws, conservation
of natural resources and such
an improvement of the industrial sys
tern as shall eliminate the present
NAUGURA
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Also Sworn In?Enthusi
Capitol?Cheer After
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waste and injustice.
A Great Change.
"There has been a change of government.
It began two years ago,
when the house of representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority.
It has now been completed.
The senate about to assemble will also
be Democratic. The offices of president
and vice president have been
put into the hands of Democrats.
What does the change mean? That
is the question thj^t is uppermost in
our minds today. That is the question
I am going to try to answer, in
order, if I may, to interpret the occasion.
"It means much more than the
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of a party means little except when
the nation is using that party for a
large and definite purpose. No one
can mistake the purpose for which
the nation now seeks to use the
Democratic party. It seeks to use
it to interpret a change in its own
plans and point of view. Some old
things with which we had grown
familiar, and which had begun to
creep into the very habit of our
thought and of our lives, have alterer
their aspect as we have latterly
looked critically upon them, with
fresh, awakened eyes; have dropped
their disguises and shown themselves
alien and sinister. Some new things
as we look frankly upon them, willing
to comprehend their real character,
have come to assume the aspect
of things long believed in and familiar,
stuff of our own convictions. We
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nave Deen reireshed by a new insight
into our own life.
"We see that in many things that
life is very great. It is incomparably
great in its material aspects, in its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. It is great, also, very great,
in its moral force. Nowhere else in
the world 'have noble men and womeN
exhibited in more striking forms the
beauty and the energy of sympathy
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and helpfulness and counsel in their
efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set the weak in the way
of strength and hope. We have built
up, .moreover, a great system of government,
which has stood through
a long age as in many respects a
model for those who seek to set liberty
upon foundations that will endure
against fortuitous change,
against storm and accident. Our life
contains every great thing, and contains
it in rich abundance.
Evil With Good.
"But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been
| corroded. With riches has come in.
excusable waste. We have squandered
a great part of what we might
have used, and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of nature,
without which our genius for enterprise
would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as admirably
efficient. We have been proud
of our industrial achievements, but
we have not hitherto stopped
thoughtfully enough to count the human
cost, the cost of lives snuffed
out, of energies overtaxed and broken,
the fearful physical and spiritual
cost to the men and women and chil
uicn ujiuii wiioni tne aeaa weignt and
burden of it all has fallen pitilessly
the years through. The groans and
agony of it all has not yet reached
our ears, the solemn, moving undertone
of our life, coming up out of the ,
mines and factories and out of every
home where the struggle had its intimate
and familar seat. With the
great government went many deep
secret things which we too long delayed
to look into and scrutinize with
candid, fearless eyes. The great government
we loved has too often been
made use of for private and selfish
purposes, and those who used it had
forgotten the people.
"At last a vision has been vouchsafed
us of our life as a whole. We
see the bad with the good, the debased
and decadent with the sound and
vital. With this vision we approach
new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse,
to reconsider, to restore, to correct
) CHEERS
the evil without impairing the good,
to purify and humanize every process
of our common life without weaken- i
ing or sentimentalizing it. There has
been something crude and heartless
and unfeeling in our haste to succeed
and be great. Our thought has
been 'Let ever man look out for himself,
let every generation look out for
itself,' while we reared giant machinery
which made it impossible that
any but those who stood at t$>e levers
of control should have a chance to
look out for themselves. We had not
forgotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set
up a policy which was meant to serve
the humblest as well as the most
powerful, with an eye single to the '
standards of justice and fair play,
and remembered it with pride. But we
were very heedless and in a hurry to
be great.
Time to Think.
"We have come now to the sober
second thought. The scales of heedlessness
have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to
square every process of our national
life again with the standards we so
proudly set up at the beginning and
have always carried at our hearts.
Our work is a work of restroation.
"We have itemized with some degree
of particularity the things that
ought to be altered and here are
some of the chief items: A tariff
which cuts us off from our proper
part in the commerce of the world,
violates the just principles of taxation
and makes the government a facile
instrument in the hands of private
interests; a banking and currency
system based upon the necessity
of the government to sell its bonds
50 years ago and perfectly adapted to
concentrating cash and restricting
creditsindustrial system which,
^ake'Jt< bn all-its sides, financial as
weli.fLS ^administrative. holds r?nr?ifn?
.strings, restricts the liberties1
and limits theA-opportupitie* of !
labor, an4 -exploit# -without renewing
or conserving ' the natvMal resources
bf the country; 'a body of agricultural
activities never yet given the efficiency
of great business undertakings or
served as it should be through the instrumentality
of science taken directly
to the farm ,or afforded the facilities
of credit best suited to its
practical needs; water courses unde- ,
veloped, waste places unreclaimed,
forests untended, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect of renewal,
unregarded waste heaps at every
mine. We have studied as perhaps
no other nation has the most effective
means of production, but we have not
studied cost or economy as we should,
either as organizers of industry, as
statesmen, or as individuals.
"Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government
may be put at the service of humanity,
in safeguarding the health of the
nation,, the health of its men and its
women and its children, as well as
their rights in the struggle for ex
istence. i nis is no sentimental duty.
The firm basis of government js justice,
not pity. These are matters of
justice. There can be no equality or
opportunity, the first essential of
justice in the body politic, if men and
woman and children be not shielded in
their lives, their very vitality, from
the consequences of great industrial
and social processes which they can
not alter, control, or singly cope with.
Society must see to it that it does
not itself crush or weaken or damage
its own constituent parts. The first
duty of law is to keep sound the society
it serves. Sanitary laws, pure
food laws, and laws determining conditions
of labor which individuals are
powerless to determine for themselves
are intimate parts of the very
business of justice and legal efficien?y\
Things to be Done.
These are some of the things we
ought to do, and not leave the others
undone, the old-fashioned, never-tobe-neglected,
fundamental safeguard
ing of property and of individual
kright. This is the high enterprise of
the new day; to lift everything that
concerns our life as a nation to the
light that shines from the hearthfire
of every man's conscience and vision
of the right. We should do this as
partisans; it is inconceivable that we
should do it in ignorance of the facts
as they are or in blind haste. We
hall restore, not destroy. We shall
deal with our economic system as it is
and as it may be modified, not as it
might be if we had a clean sheet of
paper to write upon; and step by
step we shall make it what it should
be, in the spirit of those who question
their own wisdom and seek counsel
and knowledge, not shallow self(Continued
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WILL FIGHT THE
HOOKWORM HERE
The State Board of Health
Begins Fight in Union
County?Union Will be
Central Station and there
Will be Four Other Points
in This County?Work
Elsewhere Shows 18 to 86
Per Cent Infected.
Dr. L. A. Riser, of the State board
of health, is in Union and has begun
an active campaign against
hookworm. There are to be five
points of operation in the county, via:
Santuc, Jonesvilld, Lockhart, Cross
Keys and Union which is the central
point from which the work will
be pushed. Each point is to be visited
one day in each week and all the
work is free. Dr. Riser will be here
for six weeks and urges the cooperation
of the physicians, teachers and
any one else interested.
Consult your family physician and
he will tell you how the examinations
are to be made. All work is done
by microscope.
One of the main objects which is
aimed at is improvement in rural
sanitation.
So far, in this work in different
portions of the State, the lowest per
leiiwiK*? luuiiu was io, wnne tne
highest percentage was 86.
It is to be hoped that this work will
receive the hearty cooperation of the
people. It is a great work and the
results accomplished elsewhere has
demonstrated the value to the communities
in which it has been done.
Plans Adopted.
The building committee of the Hospital
Association held a meeting recently
and adopted plans for the wfc
building. It is understood that there.
ar# some $2,500 in hand tq begin ' 'm
work. Just as soobl. as sorne ad4i*,^,TT ^
tional money can be collected the *- *
work will be let out to contractors.
All are urged to pay up subscriptions
now due, if not already paid. An
active campaign is now on to get in
the subscriptions.
The building is to cost about $8,000.
Then the heating and furnishing
same, $2,000 additional will be necessary.
Death of a Little Boy.
Elbert, the 11-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. James F. Shaw died Sunday
at 1 o'clock on West End and
was buried the following day at the
city cemetery. The funeral services
were conducted by Rev. L. L. Wagnon.
To Speak at Baptist Church.
Mr. C. E. Mason, of Charlotte, N.
C., will till the pulpit at the First
Baptist church Sunday morning and
evening. Mr. Mason has been to Union
before and charmed the people by
his earnestness and by his interesting
addresses.
Silver Tea.
The Ladies Missionary Society of
v.trace memoaist cnuren will Rive a
"Silver Tea Friday afternoon at 4
o'clock at the home of Mrs. T. C. Duncan.
You are invited to attend.
Central Union to Meet.
Central Farmers Union will meet
at the court house Saturday afternoon
at 1 o'clock. All members are
urjjed to be present, as business of
importance will be transacted. All
members whose names are on the list
will have the last opportunity to
come in as charter members.
Ejir Hunt,
The Ladies Hospital Committee
will give an Epf? Hunt on Saturday
afternoon, March 22, at .3:30 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. J. A. Fant.
The small admission of 10 cents
will be charged and the public is cor
dially invited to come.
Notice.
In reporting the organization of
the Union County Farmers Union
last week we omitted the name of Mr.
W. V. Bentley, of Kelton. Mr. Bentley
is secretary-treasurer of the county
organization, and all members
wishing to correspond with him will
be able to reach him by addressing
him at Kelton.