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THE UNION T I MES! ' PUBLISHED EVERY ERIDAY i - ?UV THI I C UNION TIMES COMPANY ,v I c Su9oifn Flook TIMES Ugilmng. c ? I J NO. R. MAT JUS, Bdiicr. <. L. G. Young, Manager. ' ^ Registered at the Fostnftlce in Union. ' 8. C., as secoiul-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES )fB% year ------- $1.00 X months ------ 60 ^ ftwe months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One dcp-Mre, first insertion - - $1.00. Pfcry ubaeunent insertion - 50 cent p. Coo Acts for three months or longer Willi1 nade at reduced rates. T/>:Ah inserted at ':i cents a lie.e. I^ected manuscript will not l?e reflirned. Obituaries and tributes of resp&ct will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C. JANUARY V\ 19C1. We said some time ago that we thought that the now tax law was a great improvement ever tire old plan of waiting to the last moment and extending v.xes, and that we believed it would be the means of brine: considerable more money into the hands of the Treasurers than heretofore and obligations and claims coul 1 thus bo met more promptly, we lind that we were right in our conclusions. Whih there are still quite a number who have not paid their taxes, many of them are using their money intending to pay later and pay the percentage. Others perhaps could not pay. Rnfc thi.4 would barmen if extension vras made ten months, It is the best plan wo have yet seen, and if no extension is imide the people will com? to time promptly next year, mark the prediction, li the Legislature should'be so short-sighted us to oxtend the time the Governor should stamp the act with his veto. I p to Monday there had been b.oOi. tax receipts issued by the id-1 usurer of Union county out of >i? t :xpa.vers. The collections from t!? se L \ JiAMJ/MVrt ?;< "*tr*" ** tar receipts had been issued and the collections amounted to only ton. Just half as much as this year. It is easy to see that that furnishes money to pay interest on debts, pay oil school claims that usually huv- to wait a long time, and puts the county in much better shape. Wo hope that extension of taxpaying time is to bj a thing of the past, unless some great and unforeseen calamity fU fall lie OAtwnf linn ! r. t U i - > ? t, aviuviillic ill tile- lUlUri' U) inilKO un extension of time absolutely iuCdssjry. Chief .Justice Henry Mclver, after a tedious illness, died at hi.s Ji"me at Coerusv, S. at 11 T> Monday jCtrrn >on .Un. 12lh, at the ripe ago < !' 7?'.. The remains were intered at tit. Divid's Episcopal church at ' ) o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The Chief Justioo leaves in l.is iuiincdi.tt l'aini 1 v two sons and one daughter, Mr. Tnoinas P. Mclvcr, of (Charleston; Sjn itor Edward Mclver, and Mrs. K. C. Watts, of Clieraw. "J. II. (i." in the News and Courier, gives the following short^icetch of his nfo: "Chief Justice il n y Mclver, son of Mr. Alexander Mclver hi I h'* wife, wh"> was Miss Mary Han ford, was born at Society Hill, Srp{< mbor 27?, 182b, lie moved to Oheraw '.vht n (( ito a lai and married Carrie Harrington l'owe, daughterof Dr. Thomas E. Powe, ft large ante-bellum planter and prominent man in this section, on June 7, JSI'd. She (lit d Jaiitn.rv 1?, 1!H)2. The Chief Justice graduated at th# South Carolina (College. < >n the death of his father, Solicitor Alexander Mclver, in 18."0, he \v.?s ;ip. pointed by Governor Manning to Jill hitt nnnv Airod - ? ? .....v.. wmi. i'4o"1 n, wnen (ion. Iln.ina died, he wuh elected eoIicitor, and was re-elected for several , successive terms, until the \v:ir begun Jle entered the Southern army and 1 was a captain of a cavalry company 1 in Hampton's Legion. ifo was c wounded at Hawe's Shop. f "He wis elected Associate Justice J on May 19, 1877, and Chief Justice in December, Jx7'.)( but declined, 1 when Governor Simpson was elected 1 Chief Justice. He was njrnin eleotid a Associate Justice in Iss:; and Chief , Justice in 1897, aid never misled a day from court Until last year, when " he was at the bedside of Ins faithful 1 wife, who died on January 9, 19: i In his doatli South Carolina loses e one of its grandest and most distin- a guishei men ar.d possibly her most n able jurist. 1h) Supreme Court, c< which was in sefsion at tlto time of !< his death, at once passed an order of w adjournment in respect to the deC?M*d, a4 v. / KT US It.AVE GOOD KOADS. o There has been ;i continued cry for r ood rouds in Union county as far !} tick as our memory reaches- It is f ortainfy lime our people were be- t omiug to understand that good roado ? annut be made by talk. We believe i hat our commissioners are conscieu- i liously doing everything in their i >ower for the betterment of the eon- ; litfon of our roads, but they only I mvc u limited amount of money with i vhieh to do this, when that is ex- < lausted they are necessarily at their row s iml. The people are paying their road tux and they do not find results ;is they would wish. I u order to secure permanent good roads it i3 absolutely necessary to go to some considerable expense to secure machinery with which to build good roads. Wo believe we would be safe in saying there is not one man out of every ten in Union county who would not gladly double his road tax for a year or so if he was sure of getting the desired results viz: < oor. roads. It is almost impossible to estimate the loss annually to the farming element alone of the county, on account of bad roads, to say nothing of the loss to the town on account of its legitimate trade going elsewhere to do business. When a man will not spend a dollar to stop a leakage which will amount to he is standing in his own light and would be considered a poor financier. The same is true of a town or county, a State or a nation. Other counties throughout theState have come to realize that the most important tjucstion with which they nave io cuuiuuu is me ijuesima ui i roads, and they are beginning to arrive at the logical conclusion that the only way to get tlieni is to make them by machinery adapted to that work, and they have set about securing these road-working outfits. The carpenter must have the necessary tools fur building bafore he starts his building. The couuiy that determines to have good roads must prepare for the building of them, thfs is an initiatory expense that cannot be gotten around, the question then arises how to make this expenditure bring best results? A representative of a manufacturer of roud machinery was in town one Jay last week to meet the County "wis tur iurnisnmg road building machinery to Union county. The Commissioners failed to meet the appointment and only the Sup< rvisor was seen, consequently nothing was done farther than discuss the mutter. We learn since that the County Supervisor is favorably impressed with .the idt u o: the county purchasing a j complete road working outfit, but j says he cannot take the r< sponsibil- } ity of putting in an order without an j act of the Legislature authorizing a j tax le\y for the purpose that wiil r.l- ' low of the purchase. We understand \ thul the Commissioners will r< r i mend tho levy, and it will then ! p I to the members us to whether no , Union county is to have pcrmaui r.t 1 good roads. As wc s.iid, we do not! osiieve there woull be ;u.y obj-et.on j to a sufficient levy being made if the ! taxpayer could bo assured of good ' roads, in the true sense of the word, j as a result. Realizing the great need of permanent good roads for Union county, vein ule ii a point to see t lie represent.i| tive above rcf- rr i to and inado some , investigation, tin result of which v.v I will give to our readers for what, it is worth. We found that for $.">,72.") this company would furnish a coinpi te road-working outfit guaranteed to do everything claimed for it; the outfit consisting of two traction engine* of Id horse power, one rock crusher, plows, distributors, water tanks, etc. Upon being questioned as to why two traction engines should be bought, the agent replied, "For the sake of economy, as the two mules that would he required to haul wood or coal and water for the online could attend to two engines just is well as one, an experienced engincr could keep both engines in first ilasa shape us well as one. the ov.-r i?rr could ovorseo tho two forces of lands us well us one, and Hint just, wiee as much work could ho done." ( "liia outfit he guarantees to handle < ny road no in at I or how steep, no nattrr how rocky and bilrg same to proper and convenient grade. If ' his is true, then Union county, with < his outfit, could in a few years have 1 very public road in the county in a ondition of u turn pike, second to , one in the country. Now as to the ;f >st in beginning this work. Lets h >? k into that a little m l sei if it j. ill pay. Tho erst of this outfit is f with as long time to pay for it p i is desired with interest at the rate a i \ I f (> per cent, per annum. Lets fee g fhat it would cost you. The U.xublo I >roperty of Union is something like I >1,811!>,<>! .}. Suppose* an exlra mill Q or this road machinery were added, I his would bring in the first year I something like $ t,8LO, in two years t would amount to $8,600. This vould pay for the machinery and furnish $2,875 toward paying the two rears operating expenses in road , building, to say uothing-of the umount of money that would have been spent on the same roads under the old system. Now for an individual taxpajer. Suppose you pay taxes on worth of property, you would p: v one dollar extra, if ou $.">00 worth ot property you would pay 50c extra tax, and so on at the satne ratio. Would you object to do this to secure good ^ roads for Union county? We thii.k not. Now for comparison. I;' you \ break a wagon tongue ou account of a bad place in the road, how much % does it cost to replace it? how much is your lost timo worth? if a broken wheel how much? if broken harness how much? if horse goes lame hew much? almost any of these more than a dollar. You use three mules to haul half a cord of wood now. You can haul a cord on good $ roads with two mules, and have li e < other at home to plow. Half a cord < of wood at a load, two loads ' ) mules one day $2.. On good roads, one 1 d two mules half a day $2, or two trips one day .ft. Figure out the saving gained by your dollar tax. The same ' upplies in hauling your cotton ai d other produce. A pointer to the tov n people, whenever we give the people good roads by which to reach our town they will come to our town to . do their trading from the extreme end of the good road. It strikts us very forcibly that Union should ^ t the necessary outfit and go to work to building permanent good roads. Union is considered a leader along ; . the industrial line, but she is getting lu .. .......KM .I,A 1 1 1 v..i vv ti i/ti v, rv iiuniuui it* tuc UU">" J 'mess (in account of other counties stepping rapidly to the front in this , most important mutter of building good roads. Let Union not play laggard. ___________ I Mr. Brownlow, of Tennessee, lias a bill before the House of Representatives asking for the appropriation of I 'Jill ?TtTCcMSse^ "by the deferent States. The condition being that I each locality using tho fund shull supplement the amount raised by t the citizens of that locality. This fi bill is a kind of feeler fur governmental aid to county road improve::;- : t. j Mr, Brownlow explains in dot a hew c there would be a saving of thr. dol- t lars to every county for every d..|| ir * so spent. Speaking of this hi'. !'o ^ Washington Star says, among r } things: "The first roads to he built- t in New York by State aid was ii. Iv-'.i. $70,000 being spent half and halt by Stair aid and county and town-, lo u miles was the result. The result was c so satisfactory that in 1!>!>2 the ?';ite 1 engineer had received petitions from 9 the counties of the State for the 1 building of'J,0<>7 miles of road ui l? r c the same conditions, to cost ifli'-.o ?),. ' : >m." From this it seems that :-ct- 1 uul experience proves the enormous 1 advantages of good roads. "It is conservatively estimatnl by < O'/crnineiit r.fTirtl.ilj ?!... - _ ......... ....o ?iitn, ?> c nre ' f ori- i lessly losing or wasting over $('. >-j.- i !>'rti,(m>u onch year because of our hud ro ids, making a mud tax of over $'2, i nt,ooo for every working day in tho year and an individual tax of no.trly r fcs each year for every person :n the 1 .country. t "An ir.crease of only an acre on 1 tho estimate of <?l<?,4HK).f>UU acres fur tho country would amount to some- s thing like or rir.ro 1 than enough to build the hest and \ finest main roads iu the world?about ( l.tioit(Oo)?throughout the entire country sevoral times over, by the brick track roud system by which the best of roads can bo built for a co*t 1 which should not exceed an. average_ j of $'2,0t>J a mile. The interest on \ this sum of $.*>,000,010,000 at I per ? cent, would built nil the mainly traveled road in the country In less than ten years at a cost of only 10 per cent. ' of tho increased farm value. ^ IXfKKrtSE Of- KAKM VAI.IIKS. i "from this it appears that wo v would receive benefits from iinprov- e ing our main roads in tlie increase of r farm values alone equal to two and q one-half fold, or'JoO percent of their ? L'0*t. J "A direct saving of ?000,000, (KM) a ' rear figured at 1 per cent, interest, 11 ivould carry a cost of $ 12,000,000,000. ^ This is over six times, or (><H) per cent. li >f the necessary costs of the main j, Qads for the entire country. j "If the indirect comforts, benefits ind snvings will equal the direct sav- " ng, we will have another item of !000,000,0<l0. This makes the total l'< >enefits from good main roads equHl ce o something lik* tfcdQ.OfMt.O'JO.CKMi, or nr fteen times their cost. 'I ho interest iQ rom this sum at 7 per cent, wduld u , ay tho cost of building the fTaest. | nd best main roads in the world " I But you can't cat tell everybody y CO. are the only Sell Clot Spring ulothir we ha^e decided to ma Lug price on our FALL 1 For the h ?5.0 ) IVlen's Suits for ?6.60 ?7.50 " 44 44 OVERCOA BOY S PA Mackintosh 9 HATS! HATS! 50c ho BOY S OVERCOATS. and get HUTU&L D R. P. HARRY, M hroughout the entire country each ind every year. "These benefits are so enormous hat it is difficult to right!}' comprelend them without making some lompflrisons. The benefits of $dO,K)U,(JO0,00o, for instance, are nearly 00 times the amount of the Spanish far, and certainly appear to mnk'e his the greatest economic question >efore this country at the present hue." i We are glad to report that there is' 1 very reasonable prospect of our souring the ward voting precincts for he J own of Union, of which we had lomcthing to say in our last week's i ssue. We have . talked the matter ver witli our Senator, Capt. J. T. )ouglass, and lie was very favorably mpressed with the plan, and prom* sed us that he would introduce a iill in the Senate alowinsr us to es-. o - ? ? nblish theso box38, we hope ull will mil together for this very important neasure. It is probable that other {rowing towns in the State have ur'ived at tho conclusion that we luivo egarding additional voting precincts, f so, they should all got together, hrough tHeir representatives, and mvo one bill cover them all. Wot lincerely hope that by tlio time the n-xt eli'ction comes around there vill be in Union a voting precir.ct for uch ward. nectnnuir?Muu?MMW? Tiiia is wliy wc need a conipnlsary cdualion l.iw in South (Carolina; a coin taritive statement of tho illiteracy of vhite children in tho Northern m..l Southern States shows South Carolina ip in a very h.i<l light, not only as coin- i >ared with tin* Not ill but as compared silh th<* other Southern Stales. A comnils* ry education law would go a Jour vay toward feettling the question of Wild lalKir in the cotton mills as well as educing our percentage of illiteracy. 1 ?he statement shows tint in T? xas d 1 er rent, of the native white papulation Em years old and over can neither read ' . or write; in Mississippi S i>er cut. ; in 'lorid.i b.d per cent ; in West Virginia | I) per cent.; in Virginia 11 1 )**r cent.;, i Georgia 110 pec cent.: in Arkansas , I. dper cent; in Kentucky 12.fi per cent ;|( i South Carolina I "CO per cent.; in Ala- t una 14.ft pfT cent.; In Louisiana 17.3 H jrcent.; in Noith Carolina .10 5 p?r t nl; in Missouri 4 8 j>cr cent ; in Itli- a lis 2 1 per cent. ; in Iowa 1 2 j#r cent.; e New York 1 2 paj cent ; in Michigan s 7 |>er cent ; In Wisconsin 1 3 percent.; N Massachusetts 8 per cent. *, in Miaut- o Grain ch em with chaff. Do 1 ou see that the MUTUAL people in the world who hing Abo Will snrm p.nmin |fj As our cellar is full < somewhat puzzled t ke room in our clothing 1ND WINTER CLOTHIN lext Thirty Days We i $4.00 u $8.00 ] $5.00 ? $10.00 $6.00 m $12.50 TQ Only a few i I O, duction in p MTC !9o, 25, 35 l^a I O Pants will Coats at Must have room. ts for 25c. $1.00 hats f $3.50 and $5.0O. " They are small and s , them, boys, they are RY MODS gr. sota .8 per cent.; in Nebraska .8 per cent.; in Connecticut .8 per cent.; in Wyoming .7 per cent.; in South Dakota .0 per cent.; in Nevada .(? per cent.; in Washington ,5 per cent. It should to remembered this doe? not include colored I pec pie or foreigners in any Stats. North Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama being the only States showing a greater percentage o'filliteracy than South Caroliua. Etta Jane Etchings. Etta .Tank, Jin. 12?As I have not been heanl from through The Times iu a week I trust that the readers have not been badly diaappoiated. They haven't missed much I assure them. Last week I made a visit on the , i'ork side of Broad river, und find tho people cf that graded school district more interested in the education of their children than any rural sec- ( lion I have visited or know of. Last ( Friday evening the trustees and pat- { rons met at M iss Agg'o Wylie's school. This they do regularly; something very unusual for a country school dis- j trict I must confess. It is goncrally the case that the children are turned } over to the teacher to do the best she can with them. If she succeeds in | her work all well and good. But if ^ not, the fault finders go to work and raise cain generally. Those York j county penp'o are exceptions t) tlys (, rule ef> far as my observation goe? The l itest novelty I hear of in this section is the "talking table." It ? 1~ - .?..r mjinu i'iiK8 everyunng thoy want to know, (bo they say.) Even the 0 dead it is claimed are hend from, and they tell ?ll about their condition and 0 surrounding in the other world. It it it seems that it only 1 as communie*- _ tion with the inferual regions?th's, I Jl think, iii easil/ understood. The holiday sensou has brought its ^ vari.d p'casurrs and both old and young havo eoj >ye l them according to their several taites. Thtas quertionnhlo pleasures go under ao nnny liferent names and omditions that I leave our readers to draw tbo line he- C1 .wren those that a*c right aud those in ',h*t are wrong. "I The vio'inist in giving nn account ^ >f one of tho siciab'e gatherings a tew c veniogs sioca said: "V^ry fAw of w he church members would go into a j*. .raight-out dance, hut most of them ook a hand in 'twiatificitinn' and gy uch other p'ays that are not comid- i* red danciDg, but I is d the very 'me kind of music in both caaer. Vheu they (the church membe n of u:n*) a'l got their 'partuc*' aad till ll us the favor to , DRY GOODS ive Cost. g in and in large lot?. or goods we have been ,o know what to do, so department by reducG. . Give You Mien's Suits for $0.5G1 44 $7.50 44 4% 44 $10.50 left to go at big rerice. >c and 50c. These hold the boys. Half Price. or 50c. Stetson Hats to is the prioe. Come yours. Nirm. Opposite Hotel Union strung out for twistifieation the other follow, who ian't much of a fiddler, began to play some old slow tune like u a Hundred,' but they wouldn't move a peg. He tried another with about tho same success, and it really looked as if the p!ny was going to be a failure until I told him to 'hand me that fuddle.' I took it aod struck off ou 'Yellow Jacket,' their 'jints' began to supple up and in less than half a minute the whole tbiog was io a good s*ing. I run them uufjl I thought they were beginning to get tired and then I switche 1 off on 'Fire in the Mountains,' w'?an they g >i faster aod faster?they ju?t got up then and don't you forget it. Erery one in the Bet wore members of the church except and C mtinuiug he said: "The next time I intend to tune np and begia on 'Iiock of Ages' or some good old church piece, &ad will pre. tend that I can't catch on to anything sxoept some gocd ohuroh pieces, just to see what they will do. It takes close clipping to find out the differhnlw^Aii ll?o ?? ?< ? * ?... ?? >?v uaurou neraber and the worldling?especially in the frolicking ssason," I will not say anything mme of tba cport ray inform int gsve mem the gentle reader will draw hie own oondusiona, and b< H:dea it'a not neeaeeary or the beuefit of the gosaiping public. I regret very muoh to learn that Dr. A. ?. Pant it in bal health and inable to be out. He at one time? 10 years ago?wat ea fine a specimen >f msnhood as could ba found in any ountry. The weather ia quite cold now and utaids work ia at a stand dill. The rotds are bad a id travel ia lade very difficult. The Sinuyaicle school, nca this lace, is without a teacher in conse? uence of Mr. Vaasey having resigned i&t p >sition. Any one applying ;on will likely get a good paying b. Vox. Z1 .At. ? The peculiar cough which indicates* 'oup, is usually woll known to the lOthura of croupy children. No tima lould he lost in thq treatment of It, id for this purpose no medicine has iccived more universal approval than hAinherlain's Cough Remedy, Do not wste valuable time in experimenting ith untried remedlear no matter how ghlv they may be recommended, bat ve this medicine as directed and all mptoms of croup will quickly disaplar. For sale by F. C. Duke, Druggist. DeWltf* JKtt Salve 3 V : . top7 v;' v : v.