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THE UNION TIMES1 ?c> PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY d;i1 ....BV THE ... 'oil UNION TIMES COMPANY SECOND FLOOR TIMES building to BELL PHONE NO. 1. * J? ri> L. G. YOUNG, - - Manager cui an Registered at the Pustofliec in Union in. S. (.5. :h second class mail matter. ^ o( ,1 SCFSCl<IPTION* KATKS One year - - - - $1.00 th Si* months .50 Thrco months ... .25 &DVKKTI8KMBN1* *. V One square, first insertion - $1.00 to ,, > : c?verj ?uu?e<| win t innTiDm - .-* Contracts for three months or lunger c ill be made at reduced rates. 1 * Locals inserted at 8 1-C cents a line. 11 Rejected manuscript will not be re- ul' turned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will bo charged for nt half rates. a,t th UNION, S. C., DECEMBER 22, 1!X 5. W1 an If there is not a hanging in the . city of (JatYney in the next few u, months, then it would he well t( in pull down the Temples of Justice -o throughout the State and the Judges lay aside their judicial rolxs rather than continue the farce of moekeiy j)n oT trials for crimes. wl ~ | an .Ml the gentlemen of South Carolev o k:..:i..: i ..Ian Jlllct iiiu i;iu\niiv. (Uiu i v c p \ i <i woman, will defend a woman with their life, matters not wln-ther the ^ j woman be clothed in silks. satins and furs and has her thousands, or stands behind a counter in a store or at the loom or spinning frame in a cotton mill, she is none the less a Di woman to the gentleman. I>ut there are hrntes who have no re- 'juj spectfor themselves ami therefore .jo eannot he expected to have any respect or regard for a woman, and pei such should be gotten rid of hy os- fro tracism or due course of law. The l>n irj'H conduct of Hasty at CiafYney was a ^(| lair sample of that class of human m(l brutes that the country would he to vastly better off without. ? ~ disi CHRISTMAS 1905. dist tax The Christmus of this year will "I* . - ?-r.^osi.v.v.c'u,1 past years lias been. ^j10 To the young a Christmas is always i,0 a joyous occasion and they enjoy to and the fullest extent. The oM whose lays for hanging up their stockings . } to be filled by the generous unforgctful Santa C.'laus, the occasion is con only enjoyed in seeing others happy. J The feeling of selfishness is felt less hoi at this season than anv other. The ,, . , win tune seems to inspire all with a feeling of love, peace and good ] cheer, although the real significance of the period is lost sight of by the majority of the people of this day l)H and time. Thk Timks extends to scl" all and everybody the happy Christ- am mas greetings, and wishes everyone an a good time, and would admonish jm all in their enjoyment not to forget the poor who arc not in a position to have the luxuries of the season, to endeavor to make every one as H<d happy as they can. We should feel bu grateful that wc have been spared tin to see and enjoy another Christmas. There arc many who were with us at this time last year who have passed over the river and will he 8? with us no more. May we all live J to to see and enjoy many a merry up Christmas and each year live so as (jj to he more worthy of this length of, life and pleasnres in peace and pros- 00 pcritv. tri our srnnni r.ni nmv 111 ' go We will again in January open to 1 tlu schools of the County our school ' ^ column, to he filled hy conimunicn- . tions, compositions and essays of ,n) * Cill teachers and pupils in every school in the County. We desire and sin- ^ cercly hope that every teacher and *>( parent will take an interest in this work and encourage the children to . ? write for the paper bceausc there is ,n nothing more improving and stiniu- c?' luting. The effort to write nicely 'ju and compose well, is rewarded in the certain and gradual attainment of good language and the more tin- ^ ent and intellectual use of written J)(>| speech, all of which w ill inspire one rt , to greater ambition to acquire a th< knowledge of subjects upon which to w rite and renewed desire and ac- TU1 tivity in getting the current news ^ and events for tho purpose of relat- titi nig in every communication to a. sar I vspapcr; thus it is that a news-1 [xt is made a history of up-toLe current events, of which no >er account is published and re ded, except in a newspaper. We II send a free copy of Thk Timks every school contributing to the 100I column during the year. ie paper should he read and disused in the schools by teachers d pupils and the improvement \rked and praised. We will from uc to time through our editorial lumn call special attention to the ight and newsy letters written by e children and comment upon c interest taken and the advancecut made by the pupils in this inresting department. The papers onld be tiled for future reference, be able to note the improvement ade in composition and writing. i 11 } uiiiu iik ri} illiu v:\iiupurM \\k,u in very great accomplishment, and ways enables one to write an inresting letter. After becoming customed to writing a person tinds e task easier every time they ite and soon it will not only be > trouble, but a pleasure to write, id your writings will be more inresting. One reason we advise e filing and keeping of Tin: Times the schools is that in after years me one of the pupils who wrote r Tin: Timks might be a teacher that same school and it would be irasant to refer to the child conisitions published in Tin-: Times len they were pupils in the school d show it to their scholars as an idcncc of the good it did to write <1 note with pleasure how the inlt mind unfolds and expands by c effort to improve in literary atnments. TO SUPPLEMENT SCHOOL EUND. CNIO.V, is. C., DEC. 1 >>, IffOo. :.\u Sin: The dispensary having been voted I in l.Tiion, in order to supply a leiency in the school funds, the ard of Trustees instructs me to leet from all resident pupils 10c. month as an incidental fee, and m all non-resident pupils 81.00 month for 1st, 2nd and 8rd ides; 81.25 per month for 1th, i and (Jth grades; and 81.~>0 porj n h for 7th, -bth and 9th grades he paid in advance each month. V111> jxTSon living outside the. irici who owns property 111 me triot and pays the special school will be given credit for same* >n presenting his tax reeeipC to m; above toes are now duo tor tth school month ami and will collected by 1 lie grade teachers i marked paid in the presence of ptipil. \'e earnestly request that the injntal fee (COe) for the remainder the session he paid at once, if] ivenient. loping to secure your co-opera t in this important matter and uring you that the above action s a matter of necessity, 1 am, Yours very truly, Davis.Jkffkhiks, Superintendent, rhc above is a copy of a circular ter sent out by Superintendent vis Jcfferies, of Union's graded iooIs. The letter explains itself (1 should appeal to all who feel interest in and appreciate the portancc of educating the children the country. The voting-out of j dispensary has deprived the iooIs of several thousand dollars, t no doubt has and will save to ? county equally as much in other ys and means, and no lover of v, order, peace and Christian ii 11 \f ii i f < < ,nl ii ill /dwii.,.4 1 VI IIHIVMIl <41111 MMlllHI, >1 111 UUJl l l paying a small amount to make i this detieioncy. If Union school strict received all of the three mill nstitutional tax paid in the diset there would he no necessity for e above call, hut this district only t its proportionate part according the enrollment of children in the lools, the balance going to the lier schools of the County, nccord4 to number of pupils enrolled in eh school. Of one thing we are Jslied, that is, that when the disnsary question now before the Sucme Court is decided by that urt, it will say that the provisions the Brice Act which deprives any ,mty of its portion of the dispen y fund necessary to make up a ficiency in the amount necessary amount to three dollars for each iId enrolled is unconstitucianal. county that has never had a disusary and one that has voted out dispensary and fails to raise hy ; three mill constitional tax an lount ccjual to three dollars per >ita of the enrolled children, then is that'tlie defieiency must under ; express provisions of the Cons?tion he paid out of tho dispeny money in the Htatc treasury. i NO SIAN6 IN THE OLD SOUTH. People. Spoke Good English all the Time -Some Illustrations ol Modern Vulgarity and Coarseness. Now wo turn our lfd-times kaleidoscope again, and ijJ .combinations fall into a figure triat looks very much like the word slang. Forty-five or fifty years ago in the south there was nothing like, slang ?absolutely nothing?and we are exceedingly proud to say so. If there was, one cannot remember it. The nearest we can come to any such recollection is this: We remember hearing an accomplished lady sing "Schubert's Serenade" at an evening party. That pure and elevated style of music was just beginning to dawn upon our people. We remember leaning against the piano, as a very small boy, and gazing at and listening to the lady with unbounded delight. At the end of the song a young man said: "Yes, that is very fine, but rather 'highfalutin.' " At this everybody near the piano started 1 .A. 1 ...1*1 . A. 1 * ! A 1 anu siareu, ivniu! uw singer, wim i the peculiar grace and softne ? of! the southern woman, said: "High- ! fluting, did you say? 1 do not I quite understand you." The young ! man tried to explain the meaning of his slang word, "highfalutin," hut nobody relished it, and nobody laughed. They all thought it awfully coarse to use such a word. In these days, however, slang is actually a distinctive language, allpervading, expressive, convenient, funny and atrociously vulgar?almost vulgar as the chewing gum habit. The slang of the present day is almost endless in its variety and coarseness. And, strange to say, the most amusing, and perhaps most shocking, slang nowadays is that used among young men and young women of the host and !>:ghest classes. During the past early spring we were walking on the streets of a I very large and very gay city, not two hundred miles out of South Carolina, with a youthful, yellowhaired niece by our side. The young girl had paid a visit in this . city two months before, and had' made many friends. \Vo hail i\/rived in the city the night bgfwAs and, like country people, wefe out I shopping quite early. As we passed through an exffcmely fashionable and api*toJt-ratic street, mostly of ? ?? ? #<? vooi/liiwiioo irji linn rrl n elm i?>\ VOVV/ i VO'UV^UVtOj MV 4I^(VIV? (I OiUH ffiiddon noise, as of a window sash being thrown up. And so it was. A>i exquisitely beautiful and slender girl, white as a lily, in an exquisite blue embroidered wrapper, stood ' j in the upper window on the oppo- ^ site side, and cried out to the ycl- < low-haired girl at our side: "Hello! , I hello! Glad to see yon back. You , seem to be getting a pretty consider- j, able pull on tbis old town. The j truth is, the boys all treated you so nicely when you were here before 1 that 1 am afraid you consider your- ' self the only tin can on the dump, but I wish you to understand that I am a good many on the dump , myself." ,4A good many on the dump!" Then followed a considerable and very loving chat in this peculiar style. And as we passed on the slender girl in the blue wrapper cried out again: "You ; must be sure to stay to Mrs. 's j swagger german. She's going to give the swaggercst sort of a german on Thursday night." Then, going further, and ap-1 proaehing the court house, we met a good-looking, graceful young fellow, who, when he saw the yellow- j haired girl, ran forward with hand extended, and in reply to the girl's query as to how he was, said: "Oh, 1 am not many. I am trotting be hind, 1 am still on the beach, but not many." Then ths girl said: "Oh, yes you are; you are the shiningest pebble." Then the boy said: "But why did you send back my ring? 1 tell you 1 was \ rattled and tattooed and double up . when that ring came back." The girl replied, "I did not like to keep the ring, simply because it was such a handsome one, but if you wish me to wear it while I am here ( 1 am more than willing, for it is a J much handsomer ring than any I ever had." Thereupon he drew off, of his little finger an extremely handsome diamond solitaire and slipped it on one of her fingers; stepping back one step, he nodded, and, smiling at her, said: "Now j we arc all hunky." At this our old eyes i>opi?cd out of our head for J sheer .astonishment, and rolled about > on the pavement like marbles. "Now we are all hunky!" As we i pursued our way, wc said: | \\ Imt upon earth did the young man mean when he said to you, "NVc are all hunky?" She replied: "Oh, it means that we arc all right with each other; good friends and all that sort of thing." Now, wc walk on further and, coining up street, there heaves in sight a yellow-haired city girl, Hanked on either side by a handsome boy. They aro coming up street in high [feather. T^ey appear to be su 1 B (/j74* i B Chrisi B for the "I NOES a v pll fi B Merry C faros foi tgj|f elegantly gownet ?nl comfortably shoe Eg! the theatre she s f*q| shoes. She does SS* her shoes are " b ''Queen- Qualit. ??< give ease io the. C&d They arc shaped in s that they lit in every gsW in fashion, as in fit, gjjrt the copyist as the cop SZ schoolboy penman. C S? with a pair of ??(.)ucci nS Why not use on ga cr./c riFicA; A3 mas presents ? feB present it as a Sr** ' (native it at tie j style ami size v , "Queen Quality" Sh CT for all uses indoors an jfpS / styles at 53.50 we havt sSj5 Several new You arc I Mutual C [>rcmcly "hunky." As the yellow naired city girl saw the yellow Waived country girl, she crie< "Hello! hello! hello!" and rai forward, threw her arms arovinc her, kissed her and cried, "Oh you sweet, old rascal, you, pull nv leg, pull my leg." Then the bo; du the right, who knew the countr; girl, sai<l with great animation "Oh, I know what you have com hack here for. You have come t get a still tighter cinch on us pooi suffering l>oys." Cinch! Then th city girl, pointing to the youn fellow on the left, who was stranger and had not yet been ir troduced, said in a loud whisper t the country girl: "He's a daisy he's a Jecnis Dandy. It will pa you to pull his leg a little." A this our old eyes again dropped 01 and rolled on the pavement. The the newly introduced boy bowo very gallantly and said: "Ol Miss 's pull on me became vei tight the moment I beheld In lovely eyes." Then the city gi tapped him on the shoulder an said: "Conic off, come off; tlu sounds bum." At this the other young man pi up both his hands before his fac and said: "Oh, give us a restgive us a rest; it's all bum, vcr bum!'' At this point a third hanc .Jv/mv, jvviug ivnuw MIS 111 li and lifting his bat very politely and as he went on the country gi: craned her neck after him. The the city girl, pulling her by tl: sleeve, said: 'Oh, don't wast your time looking nt him. Yo needn't pull his leg, for he is perfect Joe Mary." Then they a laughed immoderately and agree to have a swagger time at Mrs 's gerinan. As soon as th city girl got out of hearing, we sai to the girl at our side: "Mercifi heaven, child, what did that gii mean by telling you first to pu her own leg and then to pull tli young man's leg? You certain 1 wouldn't do such a thing art thj under any possible circumstances would you?" Then the countr girl almost died with laughter s our virtuous greenness and said "Oh, that only means that yo must taffy the hoys a little so tha they will drive you, and take yo out to dances and give you ic cream and llowers, etc. You know when a boy is off at college now-a days, and wants a little money, h says that he pulls the old man' leg for a little dab." She did no mean that I must actually pull th Ionian's foot ever liave a ft Christmas? Frequently she / tli to holiday gatherings I 1, daintily gloved, hut 1111- \j$ 1. She sits out dances. At ^ urreptitiously loosens her nenance for weeks, until I ' roken in." y'' Custom Grade Shoes ' foot the first day Huorn. uch numerous delicate variations, part firmly but flexibly. And they arc inimitable. They battle pcr-platc script battles the clumsy iive your feet a Merry Christmas i Quality " Custom Grade Shoes. r u Queen Quality" GIFT rF.S in making your Christ ) ou buy the certificate ait J ? gift. The recipient way ex r convenience for Just the f shoe which best suits her. oes are made of the choicest leathers d out. besides the Custom Grade i the regular grade at $3.0o. models recently received. A : invited to see them. m . >ry Goods Co. ? ; ^ This is the 5 rni l'j HOT I j S H E A 1 ? They keep you y| ? with a minimi ;lt ^ of coal. They i ^ your money ai ^ ^ Investigate b< ' | OETZEL HAI ? ^ mararararar&rarai y ? young man's log of flesh." Wo f said: "Thank God for that much." j Then wc continued: "But, what did she mean when she said that the young man who passed us withl( out stopping was a Moo Mary.'" ^ The answer was: "Well, he's a good hoy enough?only most too I j good. Ho is sorter pious and doesn't (j dance the gcrman, nor go to the , theatre, nor scorch it on the wheel, nor treat to ice cream; consequently ((j he's a Joe Mary." We could not (j help laughing heartily at this, and rj said to her: ( "Well, of the two U classes, l^ie '.Teems Dandys' and tno .Joe Marys,' 1 would advise l( you to take a '.Joe Mary' if you ever v get a chance, for he would he the 1 more apt of the two to keep bread ' in your mouth." ^ This universal and apparently unI avoidable slang pervades all classes " of soeiety, flaunts itself horribly II and conspicuously in the newspapers, and is even beginning to n creep into the sacred pulpit. It is r all very funny, and really very ex prcssive, but it is extremely unL" genteel and dangerously subversive ( of the purity of our noble language. * English undefiled is quite strong enough without it.?James T. Bacon c in Xowa and Courier. / OEM 1 ^>M^ H |||f I j&j&j&jffj&jejejgr 0 Season for I -E'S ? 3LAST | r E R S | ir house warm ^ im consumption ^ save your coal, ^ id your temper. rfore you buy. RDWARE CO. ^ar&r?!rarjzrisrar*r& Gault School. I now have an enrollment of 88. Work is going on nicely and becomes more interesting every day. Some of my pupils are doing excellent work, while others fito not studying as they should, but 1 hope that they will soon realize what it means to have the opportunity of attending school and do better, 1 fear that some of the parents uo not take the interest in the school that they should, for if they did I am quite sure the attendance would be better. Parents ought to realize that irregular attendance effects work a great deal. The pupil who comes to school two or threo days in the week is not doing himself justice, neither the teacher. Another thing, if parents would Molp children with their lessons at home and show that they too are interested, it would encourage the children and make them more in- ^Sj terestcd in their work. HONOR ROLL. Homer Gault, Myrtle Gault, Gary White, Ethel Gault, Ledley Gault. I hope to have more on the honor roll next month. Several missed it this month only in attendance. ' ' Si ' ' - ^