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THE UNION T I M E S t RCBLISHEI) DAILY EXCEPT Sl'NDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE INKIN TIMES CO. 1 i i'TMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET , BELL RHONE NO. 1 < LEWIS M. KICK. Editor s Registered at the Postofllco in I *11 i >n. S. C.. as second class matter. i SntSCKIPTlON K VITS One Year - sl.oo Si\ Months 2.00 Three Months I 00 \l>\ KIM ISKMDN IS One -'june, liist inset tion $1.00 Kvery ub^etpient insertion .~?0 MKMI5KU (H \SSO( I \lK|) IMIKSS 'I he \ssociated I'ress is exclusively entitled to the use lor republication ol all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. S.VIT UnAY. NOVKM15KK 10, 11?17. TO OI K CORKKSI'ONDKNTS If you are out of stationery, please notify us. If a bijj news item is to be had. use the telephone. Write as often as you feel like it and have anythinjr to tell. We care not how many stamps you use. That's what mey arc ior?10 ne uscu. Now that prosperous times have come your way. ilo the rii?lit thintr, pay up your subscription?pay a year ahead, if you will. You will feed j better, so will we. Don't neglect your j trood friend. The Times another, week. Pay up and jrive a boost to j the one institution that has done more j for Union and Union county than ! . any one other enterprise. For si.vtv- i mm .1 eiprht years this paper has been seeking to lead wisely and courageously y in every good movement. For sixty eight years it has been the medium for communicating new ideas and the instrument that stood for good morals, good schools, clean politics and upright living. Do not turn a deaf ear to the call that comes to you now to pay up and pav ahead. Many false doctrines that have been 1 preached by would-be reformers are' going to he shown up in their true, light before this great war is ov?r.\ The socialistic teaching of the past will be purged of much of its folly and the smug advocates of established law will also learn some very wholesome lessons. The private ownership of property will be a more firmly fixed principle than it ever was. but it will also be more emphatically shown that the property owner] must himself respect the law. He will! moreover, learn that mere possession is not sufficient, but that with ownership comes responsibility and opportunity. We venture the assertion that property ownership will be more firmly fixed than ever, but stewardship will have to render a stricter account that it has yet done, when this mighty upheaval among the nations is over. And it will be over before a great while, although many people have about concluded that there is to be no end to the fearful thing. The County Fair had a very fair attendance on Friday. This was "School May", and the occasion drew a very inrjre crown. I he flay was pleasantly spent !?y the many younir people and the alder ones too, for that matter. In passinpr we must say that the officers of the Assoeiatio used their utmost endeavors to mak the fair a success. It was a success in many ways, hut can he made of far creator value as an educational force and also as an institution to amuse and entertain if the directors will pet together, line tip with the city authorities and move the fair to the city park. Everything except the racing htat the fair now has could be had as ,vell and better in the city park. And :here is just on ethinp that can be lad should the fair be moved into Unon that it will never have located where it now is?a bipr attendance eviry day, and at far less expense. We sincerely trust the fair directors and i-u.. ...:n .... iiit; iny uiuiirn ? HI uim; U|? ciiir* MUUter and have the next fair held within the corporate limits. A man said to us yesterday: "I)o you intend to continue to issue a daily?" We answered: "That was settled before the venture was made, we have crossed the Rubicon!" We have enquired news service for a year. We have been received as a member in the Associated Press; we have alalready 1180 bona tide subscribers; we have distributed not less than two thousand copies of every issue save two. Several times we have distributed twenty-five hundred copies per day. We did not make the venture with any idea of a possible retrogression. once the venture was made. And the happiest thing about it is that our friends everywhere are taking to the daily. It is true the size is miniature, but the news is live news? news before it is a week old. There is no fake about it. It is real news, and it is about all a busy man has time to digest. Our expectations have been more than met in the venture and we are driving for two thousand regular paid-up subscribers between now and Christmas. We feel that we have already passed the hardest hill and that plain sailing is ahead of us. Thanks I.* i ti/1 fi'innrlc frwr. tV.,, Iw, MOKK ABOUT TIIK CITY BONDS. As published yesterday, the city of Union owes $80,000, and the city council proposes the issuing of $50,000 in bonds to provide for a part of this indebtedness. Why not provide for the whole debt The money is owing, and settlement must be made. The bonds could be floated at 0 per cent and the total debt met in that way. Then let it be stipulated that this indebtedness must be retired at the rate of $5,000 a year instead of $2,500 as is proposed under the $50,000 proposition. It appears to us that this is even a better way than that proposed by the city council. I.et us start with a clean sheet, pay every cent owing and then everybody will know just what we owe and just how it is being paid. Then, if we may mane a further suggestion, let it be made a law that the city be allowed to spend no more than its annual income, levying a tax. of course, to raise in addition to necessary operating expense, a sulYicient amount to take tare of all outstanding bonded indebtedness. It would be a good move, it seems to us. Then there will be no spending the income before it arrives each year, and when the bonds are retired, there will be no interest whatever to pay. We trust , the council will think this matter over I and make the bond issue eighty instead of fifty thousand dollars, at the same time taking steps to have a law passed forbidding the City of Union creating any further debts except by the vote of the citizens. /? > ^ Editorial Clippings j This winter is going to be "hand to mouth" with the local situation with some people. Heretofore there has been plenty and it is going to be hard to get along on ho coal.?Tugaloo Tribune. The United States Food administration will henceforth handle all exports of flour to European countries. I jet us hope they will pinch out a loaf or two for AmericansCharleston Evening Post . .Major Snow of the regular army testified that when his negro soldier pointed their guns at him he (lodged behind some tents. Now what would Major Snow do if some German soldiers point their guns at him.?News and Courier. Dilly-dallying will not win the war. This is no time for namby-pamhy. Build a big stockade and intern all who are not earnestly with us in this war. Some of them might become incendiaries or murderers?in their Kaiser frenzy?Columbia Record. Some queer things do happen in this world. We never expected to see the time come when Now York poli EDISON Ml < TODAY ? Ruth Roland! Pro Ser IN fro, "The Neglected Wife" ES sue er-i MONDAY the METRO Sa Presents wh, Francis X. Bushmai Jjj., and Beverly Bayne ret. In "Their Compact" ^ Vei 1 Admission: am 5, 10 and 15c soi str ? - :? wa ticians would be soliciting votes in !'? (he Spartanburg?Spartanburg Journal, Nothing strange about that, for New York politicians have often before ^U" . rco been accused of getting votes out of a graveyard.?Greenville PUiedmont. net Don't call it slow and old and dreary, Don't sneer and jeer about it; Don't think it aught but live and ln>J cheery, an' Don't let the cynic doubt it. Don't criticise its lack of "sand". ^a Don't doubt its strength to grow Get busy! I.end YOUR helping hand * 0 It's YOUR town, you know! aia ?Martin Keet. u but It is the business of all Christian ?.n' citizens of this country to fight the devil whenever and wherever they find him or discover evidence of his , machinnations. The devil is incarnate in the world today in Germany. Therefore, it is the business of every Christ- ar< inn citizen to aid in the fight against 0,1 Germany until the greatest victory of '1a k - r\ the ages has been gained in the bat- ' tie agtainst the devil. If anybody ^ wants to know how a Christian citi- . zen of tlie United States can conscientiously support his country in this war, here is the answer.?ltock s*' Hill Herald. he) per Farming in Chester?and the same ta< is true everywhere else?has become an industry of most important pro- ou1 portions, the farmers having realized tcr that there is more money in the calling than ever before in history, and ^ beintr also inspired by patriotic ino- co1 tives to increase production as urged by President Wilson and other lead- '10 era. The farm is a busy place these aa days, and with emphasis being laid on tui the sowing of the fall grain, the cut- lu< tine" and hauling of wood, and a thous- ' " and and one other things that pertain :m to the farm the farmer is going to be as busy a man as anybody, and let us hope?and we believe it will be the ''0 case?th;it his labors will be ade- '^ quately requitted, as has not always he befallen in the past.?Chester Re- ?h porter. se: When one is filled with ills and lli groans, when one has cares and ach- an ing bones, when every scene pre- 111 sents to view but woes and bills far overdue, in short when all the world's k'11 a nlace of fret fulness and sorrv ease. then what a solace one can find if he lo will only call to mind the words that s(" some one used to say, "Thirt too, will pass away!" They seem to have ':l the proper ring, a heap of comfort Sl< they can briny and when the day is drah and drear they somehow seem to please the ear; when in a wretched nt circumstance they may not make you m siny and dance ;they may not fill you full of ylec and make you joy- ra fill as can ho, they may not, seldom |K fail, to please. So when you have no 1,1 shirts to wear or when you're losing n( all your hair or when you're filled vv with aches and moans or when you 01 can't, collect from .lonos, when you are weak with toothache's ills and when you cannot meet your hills, when all the weary world's askew and you, in w short, are really blue, here is the lit- st tie piece to say: "This too will soon pass away."?Illinois State (teyister. 1,1 ' hi Race Horses Named From Current History p, ?! >l (By Associated Press). ^ London, October 2.">.?Racehorse nomenclaturc is peculiarly sensitive to I c.j current events. Horses are named I ,i largely after events or people who p, are in the public eye at the moment. The war has hat! a marked effect in this respect. The racing at Newmarket this week, for example, was featured by horses bearing such war cl names as Armapreddon, Verdun, Bap- M aume, Jutland, Grand Fleet, Home o' Service, Kntente Cordiale, Bij? Push, d< and Dawn of Peace. ei Henri R. Goinpr, who is visiting his father, G. W. Goinpr, will return to Mt. Pleasant, tomorrow morninp to re- ti sumc his duties. p [onastir a City of Ruins. || ilian Writes of the Destruction Seen on Every Side. (By Associated Press) lonastir, Serbia, October 7.?Staff respondence of The Associated ss)?This martyred city of the bs, under continuous bombardment tn the Bulbar batteries only two es away, was visited for the first e today by a civilian, on orders isd by General Grossetti, Commandn-('hief on the Monastir front of Army of the Orient. It is seldom t a press dispatcn goes irom serthese days, for practically the [>le country has been swept clean the Aust o-Bulgar hordes, and only * little corner in the southwest, aken last November, is holding out linst the terrific bombardment. It is worse than Verdun," said utenaut Colonel Dosse of the staff, 0 was on General Petain's staff at 1 rdun during the worst days. s donastir lies in a cup-like hollow. 1 by reason of its being on Serbian 1 it is the center of the bitterest ife between Serb and Bulgar. It s one of the last points abandoned the Serbs in their exodus before q rush of the Austrians in 1915. The lgars held it last year through Aust. Then the new Serbian army, organized, gave their first attention getting back this city. But their vness was against them and they N re badly repulsed. But in Octo the Serbs got their revenge, mak; a mass attack with the French J I Russian divisions. Ihis fight of Serb against Bulgar s one of the bloodiest of the war. e Serb took the strategic key of iunt Kaisnatchkalon. which today rks the burying place of 10,000 ' lgars. Monastic was again taken * t the Austro-Bulgars still held on y three miles north and west of the ^ y. General Grosetti cleared them i >m the northern hills in a brilliant t ack last March, when the famous r II 1,248 was taken. But they clung t the western hills, and there they * ? today, raining down their shells J the old Serbian town. It used to re 50,000 population; now it has 00 living in cellars. , Entering the city, by the street t ough the poor quarter, there were < ns of life, despite the rumble of \ ; guns, l/ittle girls ran along the 1 eet with pans of water on their ' ids, carrying fresh water to the ' sple imprisoned in the cellars. All 1 shops were closed or abondoned. my of the front walls were ripped < t, and the abandoned stock scat- 1 ed about. Almost every third use was down?a mass of debris, osc between were askew, with a mice or wing blown off, or the upr story torn out, or a huge round le in front showing where a shot d cut th:cugh before exploding. A mbled down cafe showed several ?n at the tables. "They take anccs," said Col. Dosse, "but when explosion comes they scuttle to the liars." The business section had lost all 1 mblance to streets with houses, was one long . tretch of blackened aps of debris, with a jagged wall or imney sticking up here and there. Besides the destruction, the killed, uttered through the past summer, ns into the hundreds^ Shell-fire d falling walls have not been alone running up the death list, for the ilgars send a wave of asphyxiating is every time the wind is favorable. The run from Army headquarters Monastic gave the opportunity of eing the vast military preparation i this front. Four American ambunce cars also were passed bringing L-k and wounded from the Monastir ont. The camp of equipment and engi ering supplies stretches for fou>iles along the route, with vast stores munitions and stores, trench and ilway material. Soldiers, prisoners, >rsese, mules and camels were sendir lin ere;it clouds of dust, and the ?ar-by cornfields had turned grey ith the dust of this legion of works who keep pushing the supplies 7 to the fighting front. The np oaeh of winter is evident, for winr harracks are being constructed of ood and corrugated iron, and great acks of fue lare being laid in. Everything on the Monastic front dicates tliat the Entente forces are re to stay. There is no evidence of ithdrawal and every evidence of >lding what they already have and iishing further forward. Monastic self has l>een freed of Bulbars but 10 city is still under the fire of their uns and the task still remains of earing them from this outpost of u* Serbs?the last they left and the rst they recovered. Special Convocation. Special convocation of I'oinsett lapter, No. 16, R. A. M., called for londay night. Nov. 12th, at 7:30 clock for work in the mark master's egree. Companions urged to he presnt. R. P. Harry, H. P. E. W. Stone, Sec'y. Sa-Mo I. Frank Peake has accepted a posion with the Union Clothing Cornany. IELPING THE MEAT (8peolal Information Service. I .'.S?V WMA '.y THE PRODUCTION OF MORE ANC PATRIOTIC AN WORLD SHORTAGE OF LIVE STOCK onditions Such That Demand Is Sure to Continue Long After the War. 10 FEAR OF OVERPRODUCTION )epartment of Agriculture Points Out How Farmer May Help the Country and Enjoy Permanently Profitable Business. Farmers In all sections of the counry are strongly urged by the United States department of agriculture to >ay more attention to the production if live stock, either for meat or uitlk. Ill classes of farm animals are brlngng unprecedented prices, and all In llcauons point to a continued demand, lot only during the war but for a long ime afterward. There is believed to >e absolutely no ground for the fear, evidently felt by many farmers, that lve stock may be unprofitable after he war Is over. The shortage of foodjrodudng animals is not confined to he United States, but is world-wide, aid would be hardly less pronounced jven on a peace basis. The farmer vho raises live stock is not only ulding lis country but is engaging in a business that should be permanently proftable. Urgent Need for Action. At the recent meeting in Washington )t 100 live-stock raisers and dairymen, nrought together by Secretary of Agri:ulture Houston and Food Administrator Hoover to act as a national committee on-the live-stock industry, special attention was given to methods Cor bringing about a quick and material increase in the production ol meat and milk in the United States l"he urgent need of greater supplies ol meat during the war-has been generally realized. It Is not bo well underatooc that lurger numbers of all kinds of llv< stock on American farms are requlsiti for the period following the war, l>e cause the European countries will l>< forced to continue to Import u larg* part of their meat supplies long aftei peace Is restored. A large export trad* in grade mares, cows, ewes and sows is expected, as only by such means car Europe restore her commercial flocks to their former food-producing capac ity. Even without an export trade li meats or live stock, the home demarn will he sufficient to insure profltabli prices for live-stock products. Thli fact was strongly In evidence befon the war, but Its significance has beei obscured by the unusual prices of Vh1 last two years. Supply Dependent on Small Farms. One of the main points urged upoi tire attention of the government au thorities by the live-stock cornmittei was the dependence upon the smal farms for present and future iucreusei live-stock production. Farmers in al parts of the country can safely muk live-stock raising one of their mail sources of income. This Is true no only because of assured good prices li the future, but because u strong rell auce upon ono or more kinds of 11 v stock gives a better balance and greut er economy to the entire farm busl ness. The cotton and wheat-growln states wlil no doubt continue to giv these crops uu Important place us dc pcndahle sources of cash Income. The; can, however, maintain higher yield and better distribute the risks of bu< seasons by practicing crop rotation that Include feed crops for live stocl It Is true that crop yields cuu be male tallied by the use of commercial fei tillzers, but the fertility of the soil cu generally be kept up more chenply b applying munnre produced on the fan or by growing crops to be grazed ol by cattle, sheep or hogs. Furthermon many lands that will not produc heavy crops of grain will grow goo crops for grazing, thus saving labor c harvesting and at the same time in proving the soil and realizing return from the growth and fattening of Uv stock. 8'jccesaful Farmer* of Future. 1 It can safely be said that the mot successful farmers of the future in a parts of the country will be those wh study the production of one or mor classes of meat or dairy stock. I spite of high feed prices the present I favorable time to Increase the fan lire stock by retaining the best youn females or by the purchase of boo foundation stock where a start is y< AND MILK SUPPLY J. 8. Department of Agriculture.) 1 t BE I TtH r AKM ANIMALS IS BOTH D PROFITABLE. ; to bo mnrto. The purchase of large numbers of cows, sheep, or hogs Is not likely to be satisfactory to farmers Inexperienced In stock raising. The selection of a few good females of a type and breed sultnble to the locality, which can be carefully tended, studied and increased as experience Justifies, will prepare the way for a successful business and will constitute an Immediate patriotic service. Cooler weather should not mean lesa care In the handling of milk and cream. Even though the weather Is cooler, summmer precautions are necessary If a first-grade product Is to be delivered. Fall storms and cold rains seriously reduce the milk yield of dairy cows which are without shelter. Once reduced, the milk flow Is Increased with difficulty and at the price of extra feed. Protection pays well. WINTER ROUQHAQE FOR SOWS. Economical Rations Made Up Largely of Home-Gro*m Feeds. During the winter the brood sows should bo maintained as cheaply as possible, but at the same time they must be properly fe<J in order to farrow a large number of healthy, wellgrown pigs In the spring. Best results are obtained when sufficient food is given to produce dally gains on the sows, of one-half or three-fourths of a pound. To do thLs the grain feed must be Jtmited, and diluted with some roughage, for unless the ration has sufficient bulk, the sows will become constipated and hungry, due to the undlstended condition of the digestive tract. Legume hays are the chief roughages available nt this season, and their use will cheapen the cost of feeding. , Either alfalfa, clover, soy bean, or cowpea hay makes an excellent roughage, and when fed, little or no high- . f priced protein concentrate Is needed to balance the corn. Bright, leafy, al' faifa hay gives the best results of any of these roughages. Alfalfa mecl Is c simply the best grade of alfalfa hay r chopped Into a meal. Clover hay conl tains almost as much nourishment as ^ alfalfu hay, and soy-bean hay, cut and 1 cured when the beans are almost ripe, ' Is a very nutritious feed. Cowpea hay i should be cut when the tirst peas are J ripening and consequently does not r have us high food value us soy bean 1 hay. Great care must be exercised In 3 curing soy beau and cowpea hay, for 1 the stalks ure very heavy and succulent 3 and unless thoroughly dried, are apt to ~ mold. Under no condition should a 1 brood sow be fed upon any roughage * which Is not bright, nutritious and free B from smut or mold. She does not relish 3 or thrive on such Inferior feed. It Is B very apt to cause severe digestive trou1 bles and muy lead to the loss of her litB ter. Scrub bulls to the number of 1,000,000 ate $40,000,000 worth of feed last i- year und at the same time failed to lme prove the calf crop. Good pure-bred 1 I. .. 1 1 .. ~ ? .1 ? uuiia uuai uu muic vu nifj) nuu Wl'jr i will produce calves that ure better than 1 their durns. e n Milk should be produced with the t minimum quantity of grain, for grain a Is costly, uud economical production Is i- desired. With a ration composed of an e abundance of corn silage and legume > buy satisfactory results cun be ob1 tained with the minimum of grain, g I PLAN FOR FATTENING GEESE y s Keep Fowls Shut Away From Bathing j Water, and Feed Corn, Barley M and Beet Scraps. L When the fattening season arrives, '* according to ua experienced goose raiser, keep tin fowls shut a v. ay from II bathing water, and feed hnrleymeal, y cornmeul and beef scraps and some " chopped celery. Keep them In a subdued light for three or four weeks, when they can be let out for a couple of days to enjoy the use of u pond. ^ Then return to clean quarters, and feed on harleymeal and milk, and 1 chopped celery, for two or three days, s letting them go 24 hours before klllL' log. Study Qualities of Fowls. it IL'fnrnlnor nnnnolntcJ ?* ? n mill 111C 1UWIH U Is a flrat leason for the ambitious o poultryman, and the learning of their e qualities Is a necessary feature before n the beet results will come. is n Careless Poultry Keepers. g Home keepers of poultry should be d ashamed to look an honest laying hen it square In the face. * ..? -