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mrr- ??: _ - ? THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EvhRY FRIDAY ....BY THE.... UNION TIMES COMPANY SECOND FLOOR TIMES BUILDINC BELL PHONE NO. 1.; L. G. YOUNG, . - Managei Registered at the Postofflce lu Unioi 8. C. as second class mail matter. ? - - ' ... ^ " BUB8CRIPTTON HATK8 : One year - $1.CV Six months - .-r> Three months ... .2ADVBRTT8BMBNTB : One square, first insertion - $!.(> Every subsequent insertion - .IV Contracts for three months or longe will be made at reduced rates. Ix>cals inserted at 8 1-3 cents a lino Rejected manuscript will not be rc turned. Obituaries and tributes <~ rrar?co.t will bo rliarccd for at hal rates. UNION B. r., JANUARY *-'7. !? 6 TRADING STAMPS. A now and somewhat novo] enterprise has been started in the cit\ of Union known as the tradinj stamp company, and some of oui merchants have had the temerity t< launch their barque upon the waterf of this new commercial sea. Frcn all that we have read and learned by talking with the manager hero, the business of trading stamps b perfectly legitimate, the prevailing idea being to put the merchant* upon a cash basis in the sale of their goods, and as an inducement to purchasers to pay cash lor tingoods. The trading stamp company will redeem the book oi stamps obtained from the merchants with whom 3*ou trade, by giving you a prize or premium, that is sjmo article in the store kept bj* the agent or manager of the trading stamp company. We cannot predict the outcome of this enterprise nor do wc advocate or defend the plan, by advice or otherwise. It is therefore up to the parties interested >? x to make the best out of it possible. All that we do say is, that we fail to detect any hidden scheme or do" vice to trap any one concerned. GRANTING BAIL. C^k*vtn rvK fhii iiimanaiViSU r\? tKn V7A V11V, ilV.nCJAlJA.lt) VI WtV State arc raising a howl about granting bail to a person charged with murder. More ?specially' do we notice this howl since the granting of bail to John Clegg, of Greenwood, charged with the murder of Ins son, Scott. It is in a majority of cases with the howlers, whose bull was gored, whether or not the law in this particular is defective or the judge in granting bail, commits an error was unduly biased. Evny homicide carries with it a . greater or lesser feeling of sickening horror, measured by the circumstances of the killing, as is also the degree fixed by the law, murder, manslaughter, justifiable, excusable, or accidental. The law may be defective in that the granting of bail is left to the discretion of the judge. Tho State in editorial comment "sicklied o'er with a pale cast of thought," touching the principle involved: even this little was lost in its comparison between the amount of bail in murder and theft, placing the bail of tho man charged with murder as being no more than should have l)een in a case of one entering a corn crib and stealing a peck of corn, the evident intent being to reflect upon the judge who granted bail in so small an amount, attaching no blame to the law which gives tho judge that discretion, nor to adjust or fix the amount commensurate with the offense. Our belief has always l>een that it is not tho amount of bond that brings the accused into court, for one thousand wouJd be as effectual in securing the presence of the accused as ten thousand, and where the evidence And circumstances justified or warranted the judge in granting bail at all, he need not act t^o farce of putting the amount beyond the reach, of the pria^pcr to make. Since eircumHtwaiifl* ialters cases and facts in mitigation of offenses, it would be father difficult for the law to establish a uniform standard or ? .. kTAX ASSESSMENTS. In last week's issue The Times uggested an amendment to tho bill Kr low pending in the legislature en" | ^ titled 11 An Act to provide for n sj, letter plan of assessing property." dj .Ve now offer a further suggestion t.ii s an amendment to our suggestion, ^ hat only tho returns as assessed l y he equnlization l?oard and hoard of ,v, ssessors which amount in value t( ht >ne thousand dollars and upwards m w published in the county papers. Pr This publication would only occupy ^ i small space in the paper as com- j, >ared w ith all of the returns made, th The small tax payer pays more in NV( ^pnnnrf inn !?.? r\t?, >r\, v?.l? ^ ' viv/u vvf "1 IJ I VI. VII III'U ^ ,han tlio largo tax payors, from the ^ fact that all his property is returned .u ind at more nearly its real value II han that of the largo tax pay?r. Phis question of tax returns as as" tn messed by the equalization and hoard ' >f assessors may, if properly con" hi -idered and correct provision he " nado hy the legislature furnish a Solution for the enormous yearly ^ leficit in tin; state treasury. Ther<s nothing like giving publicity to w tate and county aflairs through the ri ?olumns of the county newspapr. ^ Think of this, you members of the fP . . \v legislature, and let the light shine jo all can b^. a ===== p AUDITORS IN THE PRIMARIES. I ~ , . P; A very sensible and correct view ;U Iocs the News and Courier take of ds the manner of filling the office of county auditor and treasurer by ap- ^ pointmcnt of the gonernor. The w only reason that the Democratic p State Executive Committee placed w th" names of county auditor and c< tr asurer upon the list of candidates ^ to go before the primary election for sc nomination was to relieve the dele- ai gation of the responsibility of mak- hi ing a recommendation to the governor for appointment, and as the % _ SI Aews and Courier very properly t] says the governor lias the right to d< reject such a recommendation, com" & ing cither frOm a primary election ^ or the delegation. It is unques- r, tionahly the prerogative of the c< governor to make the appointment, G having before him the best evidence q that he can obtain of the fitness and ability of the person tq fill the office regardless of the primary election or- s ' recommendation of the delegation. " As the law now provides, the appointment of the county auditor and treasurer is made by the governor by and with the consent of the j. senate, this is as it should he as the office should 1 k* entirely free from politics and the officers who fill ,, them should never be under any obligations to the people. The auditor and treasurer are human, not ong< ls, and should never he made to feel the power of the people to place them in office or have them V( out by ballot at the primary clec* " tion. ===== M o usi all c-KK or 1 WO. BC Our beloved President, in hia n recent delivery to Congress suggested sc many things and one of them was ti this proposition from a half-filled M mare's nest: 01 No Christian and civilized community can afford to show a happyigo'lucky lack of concern for the youth of to-day; for, if so, the comjmunity will have to pay a terrible I penalty of financial burden and so- uj Jcial degradation in the tomorrow. {There should be severe child'lnbor aj 'and factory inspection laws. ~.( But why should the child-lal>or ' law be so much of a scare-crow? ^ i What alxiut the child-loafing law? ! Is it not a fact, laying aside all the app al to prejudice that a kid is in" finitely better off working even ten ^ hours a day than loafing all the time? Which makes the better aj citizen?the child that works or the ! ja kid that loafs around the streets, j ei smoking cigarettes, cursing, telling w obscene stories; stacking himself up! in p>ol rooms and billiard parlors a( and finally Incoming a lady's man beforo he gets off bis knot? breeches? ar i We are well aware that child aj lalx>r is a great theme and we are ^ also aware that it is popular to j abuse mill owners and other men ' w who give employment to the poor. w But when the great world of reform w aligns its guns at child labor and w forgets to denounce the child loafer or and the evils of which he is the i victim?cigarettes, soda water dopes ^ and other evil things, it haa left its ja, task only partially performed.? ^ Everything. ' ar [Compulsory education will stop m the loafing part of a child's life.? *u Ed.] 1^2 The Old, Old Story. ; They were sitting before the op n i ate. It was cold without?and , e wood in the grate did not give | t niucli heat?and they sat half ivering?each one looking on the ring embers. It was early bed lie, and they had had some words, e had had a drink or two, nnd 1 is more garrulous than she and ; was telling her, in a pruneful ly, what lie was going to do. He id several Colonel Sellers' schemes his brain and he was trying to lint a picture that would inspire ^p??. The two drinks, or maybe e half dozen he had tak< n dur.ng ie day. rendered him oblivious to e fact that she did not believe a :>rd he said to her. In fact, she us lookin at some far away piciros which she distinctly saw in ie dull red coals that yet remained id lacked the life to glow, e talked 011. and on, and on. and uldenly she seemed to come back the unwelcom*' present, and with smile that was gonuino and which us forced through her sorrow by s hot-air vngariet, she gently said: Henry, when I was a girl and bad real happy home and you, in >ur strength and manhood, came aoing nie- I was the happiest and oudest mortal. I believe, on the hole earth. Whon we were mared, and walked down the aisle of ie little church hand in hand, no icen was happier than I. But I as just thinking and you remind ie so much of the time when I was little girl and had saved up my nnic8 and bought a prize package. enened it. nnd wrnnn >fl in t.i>vm<> "r ? .. - ?rr ? " "* ipr was a great large breast-pin? ul in its possession for a couple of lys I was as happy as when I mared you. But it was foil brass, [(Miry. It tarnished in a day or vo?lxMit all out of shape and was orthless. We might have been rosp-rous had you cut out rum; e might have been happy and smfortahlo. I have staid with i.n, and will stay to the end. Our overty and our misery and our jrrow are p rhaps no greater than re found in many other homes? Lit what worries me the most is to link that you will spend a dollar ir rum and a dime for food and t around telling me all the great lings you are going to do or can o. Did it ever occur to you that /cry drink you take to chase away our blue devils drives them from om your heart to mine, and you xp'-ct me to hear the burden unomplainingly?" ? "Everything," reenslioro, N. C. ur School Column and Bureau of Information. 100* * Who is tho author of? The Lord tenipreth the wind to the shorn lamb." ? Who wrote? i Mary had a little lamb, t It's fleece was white as snow, i Iverv where Marv went. e The lamb was sur?* to go." e Where is this found? . i Now is the winter of our discon- h tent, lade glorious summer, by tne son . of York." c Who wrote this pathetic little ^ Tse? r My bird is dead said poor Ann v Ray t [y bird is dead I cannot play." t The Times will give to the per* s >n answering correctly the givatost; 1 umber of questions asked in the ' c hool column, one year's subscrip-! t on to The Union Times and the a !> tropolitan Magazine, or Munsey c McLure. s The Girl that Laughs. Girls spend considerable time s ying to find out how to be pop-1 r ar. It is natural that a girl lould seek approval and admir;ion. Her popularity means a >od time, boxes of candy, thea- i es, dances, flowers?everything ' lat the hearts of young people ilight in. The girl that is popular is the r rl who laughs. Not the girl j lat simpers and puckers or ggles, but the girl that laughs s id means it. The girl that1 ughs can have candy and flow- r s and theatres every day in the p eek. a Men flock about her. They ilore her. She laughs herself 1 raight into the hearts of beaux 1 id admirers, and straight into > 1 the good times that a girl can f earn of. n She laughs, but she is careful y hen she laughs. She laughs * ith her beaux at what they say S hen they say it, but never after- p ards. She never laughs at any-, le's blunders or misfortunes. v Women forget to worry when Q ey hear the cheerful girl's jugh. Old men are warmed at I e sound of it, young men listen , id follow it, pay court to it, arry it. For it is the laugh at keeps the heart voung, the it ugh that keeps the face bright. j - | COLD 111 Yes, i || t? be | GOING TO I Our SIi B For v I in th 1 riutual This is a homely topic, hut it is >ne that strikes home. - There are food soaps and there are had soaps. Soaps that lather freely and soaps hat do not lather freely. Soaps hat soothe the skin and soaps that rritnte the skin. There are good ioaps that are too high and had maps that are high at any price. Pin-re are scented soaps and undented soaps, some of each good ind some had. Soap is not a lux" iry, it is a necessity. Itisa housekfioi 4i? Tf ?a n 1t/>/lil?r nn ivivi iivv? poivj a. v in a i/uuuj nt:c8sity. Most people use sonp, and ho few who do not arc unworthy n-'inhors of society; they arc tramps vho work harder doing nothing han honest men do making a forune. A high degree of refinement hows itself in one's choice of soaps, n fact, as a higher development in ivilization takes place in a nation, he quantity of sonp it consumes is n attending circumstance, and the [uality used is a high grade. We ell good sonp. We sell it at reaonahlc prices. We have a large ssortment. We sell many brands if toilet sonp and many brands of having sonp. And we sell at a ensonnble price. If you will call t our store we will prove our asser* ions. THE RICE DRUG CO. Jnion Enterprise. Union enterprise, hustle, >ush and energy are becomng by-words tor the country it large. Union Grocery Co. cheese, nade from pure Jejsey milk >y cleanly, honest methods. ire becoming famous not only n Union County but all over he State of South Carolina, 'ou can always buy them resh and satisfactory from rhe Union Grocery Company. Ve make a specialty of family iize, ranging from 4 1-2 to 8 >ounds eacn. With every cash purchase ve give Southern Trading itamps. Jnion Grocery Co. Best groceries, lowest prices. The Times and Metropolitan lagazine one year for $1.80. WEATHER.'g * ?? flra t's cold, but it's going ||j colder, and you are |j| NEED MORE SHOES. 1 GOING TO |j| g * THE MUTUAL. ^ toes Are Known | alue and Style there is |i ^ em ?|| Dry Goods Co., i R. P. HARRY, Manager. |g 1M?ill \ v/1 k ' - ? gS^gS8SgESgEEE?n SSSSSSESSSEaaJ 0 ^ | UNION SHOE CO.'S SHOES BEST MADE. | ? j 4 M H jCAN'T BEAT 'CM!j IW Ij OUR M OUR I I $3.50 ^J\ $3.50 1 | AND J Pf\ AND I ti $4.00 ISJr *400 I |j SHOES SH0ES | 8 FOR r^J FOR I 1MEN [jf MEN ! JB !| :E|leatherse| i It Will Pay You to Give Us a Look. I I ...We Can Fit You... | Union Shoe Co., Shoe Merchants. f ^ Main Street Union, S. C. |