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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ... BY THE.... UNION TIMES COMPANY BACHELOR STREET. OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. BELL PHONE NO. 1. L. M. RICE. - - - Editor. S. E. BONEY, Local Editor. Registered at the Postoffice in Union S. C. as second class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATKS : One year - $1.00 Six months - - - .5O Three months ... .25 APYKRTISKMBNTS : Out' square, first insertion - $1.00 Every subsequent insertion - .50 Contracts for three months or longer I will be made at reduced rates. I .oca Is inserted at H l-.f eents a line. ""Rejected manuscript will not he returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. N'TON, 8. C., JULY i:i, IbMJ. Senator Tillman should remember how it stirred his blood when Mebuurin called him a liar. To call a I.yon a liar is a dangerous business. Never mind, Senator Tillman. The Dispensary system as a state institution is duad in South Caro-' lina. It is not only dead, it has alreadt passed on to putrifaction. The funeral is the only way out. The list of fatalities on the fourth of July this year about equals that of last. Well, there is no better day that our young Americans;; could choose for dying since fj Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe set, < them the example. ] The Chester Reporter has .< changed hands and is now puh- f lished and edited by Messrs. I'er- i kins and Irwin. We congratulate s these gentlemen on their first issue. 1 It is neat, newsy and shows a f marked improvement in the gener- i *1 get-up. s ^ l^ yy^y^artof^thevoters in t] counties that are now dry were not h allowed to vote whose fault was it? h Why did they not look after their tl registration? Ix?t them register, a, We believe there is manhood and a moral integrity in Union county \: sufficient to forever banish the dispensary system. V Inconsistency thy name is Tillman! A year ago he demanded ( that Governor Hey ward discharge ( the members of the dispensary J * ' -1 - A ~ -1 ? - - l? ? ,1 ? ? ? /I n A ^ IKXirU j U)-n;iy Il? innmiuun | Youman'8 for stating that no action can Ik; taken because of in-! sufficient evidence. If there was! evidence enough then, pray what is there now! . ! i Yes, let us have "local option," ! let the people speak. That was i one of the most infamous things i about the dispensary system prior to the Bricc act. When the vile thing got fastened upon a community there was no way to get rid of it. Talk about a free people when that people had no opportunity to be rid of so base a thing. We say "Amen" to Tillman's "kill out all the pestiferous, candygiving, baby-kissing, fence-straddling candidates." It is one com-1 niendahle characteristic in the make-up of Senator Tillman that he has never pursued that method of campaigning. It was always a case of "if you don't like it, don't take it; if you don't like me, don't vote fur mo." Why does Senator Tillman, after the record lie has just made in tinSenate, come hack to South Carolina and give such a tone to State politics? "Infamous lie," "liar," "dirty, cowardly insinuation," are Home expressions used hy him at Columbia last Monday. It would H-em the Senator thinks these things necessary to "whoop 'em up" again. But has South Carolina not reached that stage of advancement when she should require refinement even in politics? Conditions have changed since the days of 'DO and 1)2. 4 Mi, We regret that our old friend, Mr. J. II. Buchanan of the: Chester Reporter has retired from the ranks of the newspaper men in South Carolina. lie was a good editor, conservative and generally on the right side of every question. A vein of humor, rare and refreshing, ran through all his writings. Mr. Buchanan, after his long years of service, will he able to enjoy the "well done" of an appreciative people all over the State. Senator Tillman believes that the State should receive the profits derived from the sale of whiskey. "The man who objects to the profits is a higher type of man than I am," said Tillman at Columbia Monday night. This is clear admission that there is a higher type than that to which he belongs, and that that type is represented by men who refuse to take these profit*; men who look upon it as blood money made in hellish trallie at the cost of South Carolina's manhood. Senator Tillman, without doubt, pays the prohibitionists a high compliment. iie takes oft' his hat and says, Gentlemen, you are of a higher type than I am; 1 am not in your class. ===== The Hon. J. Frazer Lyon is the object a severe vituperative attack by Senator B. It. Tillman. And why? Because he, as an officer commissioned by the General Assembly of South Carolina, has been faithful and fearless in the prosecution of his duty. Tillman, by his old method of outrageous abuse, seeks to defeat this man, who has so exposed the rottenness of the lispensary system, of which system | Fillinan is the founder, and which ie is now striving so desperately to ave. This is a strange departure or Senator Tillman, so great in lational affairs; it is low. But the | ecret is plain now. It is a hopeess cause for which the Senator ights and he is forced to these neans. In vain he heats the air, triving for something sound and [>lid on which to lay hold. But his fact remains; lie will certainly! ave to get something better than ' is present plan. The people of his State see through it all; they re better educated in politics now, nd because they are, Tillman's lully-vagging days are over. VHY DO BOYS LEAVFTHE fARM? This was the subject of an able iditorial in the State, July 1. The 1 sditorial was brought out by statis,ies prepared by L. H. Bailey,direcor of the College of Agriculture of Cornell University. This educator isked a number of those who had eft the farm to state their reason tor leaving, rorty per cent, of them *ay they left for the reason that the farm is unremunerative. Seventeen per cent, left for the reason that the farmer was under social disabilities. Twenty per cent, left for the reason that the; farm was excessive hard work. These reasons the educator believes to be unsatisfactory, and The State answers each of these abjections to the farm in the following striking paragraphs: "Four hoys out of every ten of the deserters, for instance, give as the reason for their flight that the farm is not reinumerative. Yet there was never a time when farming was so remunerative as it is to-day. It may not be remunerative on the roekv hill-slopes of New England, where lie so many abandoned farms; but it is remunerative throughout the entire South, the West, and the Southwest. It pays well even in the somewhat crowded states of the North and Middle West. The prosperity of the South to-<lay rest firmly upon the cotton fields and the or< hards and the truck ^aniens. There are planters in 11 lis state that make incomes of srj,0(H) a yeor, clear profit, from their faams. This means that tin; man who can do this is rich; he is more than prosperous. The farmlands of the South hring in thousands of fortunes in each year's harvest. The senhoard is lining transformed into a garden and is yielding independence and wealth to many thousands of planters. There is money in farming: tin; farm is rcmnnerativt?more remunerative than it ever was. As to hard work, the farmer has ( a far easier time than the clerk in i tin- store or the telegraph operator I at his desk or than millions of Ixm and men and girls and women in, the crowded cities. The nature of tlie work on the farm?the grim-i iness of it, the hours of lalwjr in \ the hot sun, the lowly kind of work h that the lxiy on the farm has to do . ?this has more to do with driving him into the fancied paradise of i tlu; city than has the hardness of [ the tasks on the farm. Hut. the! farm loses little hy the desertion of those who are afraid of "hard I work." There is something to he said for ! g the social disability of the hoy on 9 the farm. lie is shut out from I most society, and shut out from t some. It is true that he has a * social circle of his own; hut if he E he a hit ambitious and not content 5 to "wait until he wins oppor- g tunity, this condition will chafe S him. Here, also, the farm- j g hoy of the South has a distinct ad-1 9 vantage over the farm hoy of the (I North. The farmer of the South P is a tower of strength, and he' 5 stands tour-square to nil the c winds that lilnw.*' llo is second to g nobody. lie is the peer the best. g This is largely due t<> the old "aris- g tocratic" system of the South, jy which had its foundations on the plantation. We have inherited j good, clean, honorable, traditions that dignify and exalt tlrtt calling of j the farmer. t \ The hoy should not leave the farm. He should own land as soon j as possshle and attain independence \ through his own labor. There is, j no other condition so' pleasant, so \ promising, so gratifying to tlu- tern- i per and disposition and tastes of a i healthy manhood as that of farm- I ing. It is the true life and calling \ of the "gentleman" in the broad- j est and best sense of that word. It I is almost the only post in our com- I plcx civilization in which a man ? may he truly independent and on- A joy in middle life and age leisure i*1 and comfort and happiness. * Don't leave the farm. Stick to it, and it will be the making of you, if you will do there your true ' part in the battle of life." . To the above reasons for leaving the farm might he added the isolation that is, or more properly, has been an invariable condition of farm life. Peoole are driven to th? towns and cities because of the ? loneliness of life on the farm. J There is a feeling of safety in the s throng that is not felt on the iso- I latcd farm. Happily even this o b-?? ,v-cuon is nefng rapidly met. The telephone, trolly lines, rural free . delivery of mail and other things nQ are fast binding even the remote tht sections to the densly populated m< community. As The State well savs: "'Don't leave the farm, stick to Ei JONESVILLE NEWS. ta Li Crops?Postofflce?Strike?Hon . Jos. T. Johnson?Daughters of in Gonfederaoy?Personals. sp Joncsville, July 10.?So much rain has put farm work hack and sj, nr?? ytnnip ornssv fields nf lw?ili corn .and cotton, but right now the jQ weather is favorable and the needed work is being pusebed. Farmers as ^ a rule want to get through laying at by their crops by the first of August. Capt. R. \V. Scott, who has just pu been appointed postmaster here, u( took charge of the postoflice today and is holding the oHice for thejvj, present in Mr. Whitlock's building :()j where it has*been all the while. There was a small strike; in the Knitting mill here last Saturday. The knitters were the strikers and they walked out because they are not paid off every two weeks. The Ft) custom has been ever since the mill was built to pay off monthly. It makes but little or no difference to the company whether they pay off sl^ once a month or every two weeks except the olliee work, which is :l" some more t<> payolftwicea month. The matter will no doubt be adjust1 , l.l I vv< cti i?y tomorrow ana uio Knitters will return to work again. The mill is running on just the same and the other departments are all at <>N work. !" Hon. Joseph T. Johnson came 111 down from Spartanburg yesterday and made a speech here last night. m Mr. Johnson makes a clean talk ar and don't "pitchfork" any one and <" is runnning on his own merits and not on the demerits of other's. M The local chapter of the Datigh- ol ters meet at the home of Mrs. L. J. en Fowler this evening. They had Wl three gentlemen to meet with them 111 who are sellingmonmuentsand they :i were showing lie ir designs and talking their good. The chapter is P; making a strong effort to get in al shape to give their order for the j new monument to he erected to the \\J Confederate dead at Jonesvillc and X they hope to he ahlc to place their M order soon. Miss Carrie Southard graduated^? SstTE I We Are Se S Low 1 Cheaper tr !t< Come 1 Mutual J other day at Worcester, Mass. domestic economy, and she is v in Newark, N. J., teaching in B^culinary department of the Sum tl* Ol'IIUUl, Mrs. K. U. Ayeock and children, I Clinton,are spending a while with ra. Ayeock's mother, Mrs. N. C. son. Sir. Charles Littlejohn, of j\tlan, visited his brother, Mr. Sam ttlejohn last week, tylrs. J. L. McWhirter is improv-: gi very fast now from her long 3ll of illness. Messrs. J. B. Lancaster and MunJFaucett candidates for county ijiitor are circulating in our town, jaking hands with their friends. 'Mr. J. D. Epps Bpent a day in nesville last week. Miss Julia (irace Littlejohn, who is been teaching at Chesterfield is home now "for the vacation. Miss Nellie Douglass, of ChesterId, is the guest of Miss Cirace Lit -1 gohn: Miss Addic Sanders, of I'nion, is <iting hef sister Mrs. T. A. Little- ( lin. Tklkpho.nk. MAti iCTUt uinnrimiro itiuivaliiia ii?rrlmrwjd. urth of July?Personals?Music. The Fourth was a clay of pleasure nlk happiness for our people, like there was nothing of iiifftort-1 ice that took place here, our poo- j e sjM-nt the day away from home, une went to Buffalo, while others lit to l.ockhart to see the ball : me between Monarch and I/>ckirt. We are delighted with our! er winning team. Some few re- i aincd at home and s|>ent the day ! quiet rest. Miss Bessie Palmer and Miss Colean, of Jonesville, spent Saturday id Sunday here, visiting relatives id friends. A musical entertainment was v??r? mI 1.. ...... ,.f M..J I! I ?v.. I?I v??x w? i'i iMUiiruii i last Saturday night , which was i joyed hy all present. Another is given at the home of Mrs. Wade id everyone who attended reports good time. l>r. <). \j. I'. Jackson wont to icolct last Thursday on profession-; j business, Hev. J. T. doing is away this ick at his home near Mount Joy. Another game of base ball is to : played here next Saturday afterx>n between Santuc and Monarch. Komx. 1 L GOI tiling Our Entire V^UL I an ever seen >wn of Union. : and be Convince* Dry Goods R. P. MARRY, Manager. 5 ?>'r/o?s. > 2-" MEET ME AT HAILE'S ! T? 1 .0 u | -SH0 I j. = = !FIT AS WELL I SATISFACTION OR YOU JsL ftlAILE 1 The Leading Shi j| 49 East Main St. ng1 " Line of 1 I * l?es I in the 8 run ? s ^ 1. I Co., 1 SHOE STORE. j ^l) R if IV.. ES- ! =====,f f L I WEAR | ''I I MONEY BACK. | s 11 shoe! company! oe House. !| ig. Union, S. C. V ' ' 'j. ^ ^ ' V * ' * 1 V...