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. Roistered at the Postottice in Unioi. S. C. as second class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ! One year - - - - $1.00 Six months - - - .50 Three months - .25 ADVERTISEMENTS : One square, first insertion - $1.00 Every subsequent insertion - .50! Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. I | .?hI mails; Tillman, liis dispensary. Wninlrr how long sonir of tin-kin having brrn wishing for "uncle Ilussrlls ileniise. lint he was provokingly tenacious of life. Ami, how unkiml of liini, after so many years, to leave theni nothing. Disgusting! The citizens of Union are watching with much interercst the work of Chief Long. His manner of attending the duties of his olliet commands the respect and commendation of all law-aLiding * people. W e beg to call your attention to TilK I'mon TlMKs Magazine Bureau. It is ;i scheme that should deeply interest tin- reading public of I'nion. It is not simply a great money saving device hut is conducive of systematic reading. You get the eight lust magazines to read,'and all for tiftv cents a month. (live us a call or phone and our agent will see you. Senator Tillman charges that his dispensary has la-en voted out of our coiuui'S, when the vote polled was less than a majority of the white voters enrolled. This may he all true, hut whose fault is it? Now is the time to see that your name is on some denucratie roll. The election will soon he on and you will want to cast your vote; now is the time! to prepare. Ti e doors of Busscll Sage's tonih had scarcely closed on that hit of \ clay, once so mighty, now so low? before the quarrel over his fortune; began. Kvety thing was left his, widow; the other kin are contest-{ ij?K/> .,..4.....^.. -w. :? ...? iii^. iju tnc umu/uiu uo it m?ia> , \\ t , can only hope that those who do | get it will know a little more of money's use than did its former o.vner. I The Thaw murder case has Keen i worn t?? a frazzle hy Northern papers. Let the South live in hope that her newspapers will never sink to their level. This insatiate desire for sensation, places a class of! reading matter before the public, that is not merely degrading in tone and ultimate effect, hut even crime inspiring. May our people never sink so low as to admit or demand this kind of news. In another column is a strong article on good roads. The subject has been brought up, and Senator | Latimer discusses it today; we think it an opportune time for the people of Union county to concern themselves, and to take some deli-j nite steps regarding the improve-1 ment of our roads. It seems that wonders should l>e worked; and yet1 Union county owns one of the best: road outfits in the county. Then where is the trouble? We do not presume to dictate?it is not our policy?but we believe that if the people take the matter up in real earnestness, the trouble will be healed and Union country will soon have roads as good as the In st. Other counties are forging ahead in this work, and we cannot afford to stay behind. JUDGE BY ITS ERU1TS. "Even so, every good tree I ringeth forth good fruit; hut a corrupt tree I ringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." These are words that fell from the lips of the Great Teacher. Judged by the law here stated, the dispensary in South Carolina will fare badly. This ugly tree is now full grown. It has borne fruit. That fruit is anything but good.. Good! where is there onoJj|ngle good thing that has come from ,this corrupt tree? It does not pay fur taxes. Va ly claim tl at it helps, llut let the question be fairly met: How dot's it pay our taxes? By taking something like a hundred thousand dollars out of the pockets of Union county people it condescended to return us about one, fifth of that amount to help us pay our taxes and then turns about.like tlio ingrate tlmt it is and makes us spend that much and more in handling the criminals and taking rare of the paupers it produces. Fine proportion this, to l>e sure! Does the dispensary run our schools? (Jod tor!>id! The man who did not I>uy whiskey from the dispensary got ahout til'tv cents a year from that source "to help educate his children.*' The poor fellow who did 1 patronize the dispensary freely failed to send his child to school, so Ingot nothing on his children's education. And even if this accursed thing did educate children, that would not prove that it was a worthy thing. Money lifted from the pockets of a murdered man hy the ruffian that slew him may he used to educate children, hut that would not make the hideous crime any the less real. Hilt, men will have it, anyway, and the State might just us well reap the profit,*' argue I maiiV disnensarv advocates. "A man is going to kill himself anyway, so I'll furnish him the means with which to do it because 1 can make money out of the transaction"? how docs that tit the case? "But the dispensary has not had a fair show. Get good men to run it and all will he well." Will it? Not! much, for the plain reason that good men are not going to run dispensaries. They fear to do this evil thing, and well may they fear it. The curse of < Jod rests ujjon the i liquor trallic, whether it he sold in a dispensary or in an open barroom. Murder follows in its wake and defilement habitually kee|>s company with it. Good men sell whiskey! Not much, not much. "Purify the tiling and all will he well," say many honest people. But the disease is far deeper than such individuals imagine. It is a case of total depravity. The thing is inherently wrong; that is the trouble. No amount of purging will cleanse, for its nature is evil. .The trouble is in the evil nature of the thing it self, not in its management. Cut out the decay now on the surface and the trouble will breakout anew. The core is rotten. The heart is a pest-house of shame and sin. Make it pure and clean! Impossible, imItossible. As well try to make the sewer drain pure by turning in a larger projjortion of pure water. Besides all this, the dispensary system is a menace to the liberties of the people. It turns its hand to politics, as is manifest at the present time, for is it not the chief issue in our politics today? Alas that it should Imj thus, but the fact remains, It is a constant source of bribery I . i? I. i i < aim kool. i>a? uorne 118 iruil that is no good. It is an "evil tree" and its fruit cannot In- good. That's the trouble, and that alone is'the trouble, v =========== Something About July Weather. Max. temperature 90 dgs. 1st. ' Min. " 68 dgs. 18th. Mean " 77.7 dgs. (greatest daily range 28 dgs. Total rainfall 5.24; 18 rainy diys; 1 clear dry; 19 partly cloudy dtys; 12 thunder storms. Greatest 24 hour rainfall 2.07 in. Date 8:1 2 solar halos; 1 parhelian. (Prevailing wind, west. E. VV. Jktkk, Observer. 1o>w is the time to subscribe for K Tim in. SANTUC NEWS NOTES. Politics Not Attracting Much Attention?Corn Stealing?Sunday School School Convention at Putnam. Rev. T. I?. Owens arid family arc; preparing to get off this week for a' trip to the mountains l?y private conveyance. They are expecting a tip-top time. Mr. H. H. Robinson, superinten-1 dent of the county chain gang, passed through here today, Monday, 011 his way to Carlisle, where, he will do some work. He worked; near Beulah church last week. Politics arc very quiet here now. business has been claiming the, people's attention till now. Those who have but little to do may ? i i AH it a i propmc^ ami ien ine outers jusi how it will all he, and those, on an J idle moment, may unlimber and tiro oil'a shot, hy way of the spire j , of life, route. "Hope deferred, niaketh the heart siek.'' That hope of laying hy soon is deferred to a certain extent, because of so much rain. The farmers can't lay-by crops, and that is not the worst of it, as the profits on the crop all being cut off if umvorked grassy crops count. Some lute plantings of corn are badly in need of work. 1 fearsome are going on strike. There is complaint of green corn | being stolen from the field around here; but those who are losing it do not wish to contribute so lilierally I to another's bill-of-fare as to their j pocket lining, but undoubtedly j some have been doing so, "nolens, i volens." No wonder a man will get so mad sometimes that he feels I as it hairs were rising up along his; spinal column. 1 have In-en on! that point. Have you? John I). Xorris, colored, who! lias an industrial school near (iihhs, ' was in Santuc some days ago in the! interest of his school. 1 have not I heard how he succeeded. I do not | know how lie will succeed as a I teacher, straight, hut there is one thing the young negroes, and some of the older ones too, can learn from him hy way of an observation lesson, if they will. I had occasion i to meet him in ihe road recently-*'I (1 knew him, hut he did not know | me,) and 1 found him the most po-1 lite colored man that 1 met on that i trip. The point that I wish to make on this is, that if the young 1 negroes would take that less m in i politeness, how much more coin- j inendable it would he. i>ut so i many are so ill mannered, they j scarcely speak if spoken to, and often seem seared. They do not know how to behave, they seem not to have one hit of culture. It is i evident that some colored |ieople j are not teaching their children good ; manners. Thev mav not have it i themselves. (JihmI manners will | count in any one, white or colored,1 and why npt possess it? 1 took two days off?a trip the occasion?the meeting of the Sunday School Convention, nth Sunday and Saturday before, at l'utnam church. 1 had a most pleasant time, only that the time was too | short, and this being the fact, I know, that I "did not eat out my | welcome." The time was made shorter because of the fact that I was delayed at Union some time, and arrived on the ground "two hours late," similar to the Southern passenger trains, hut then 1 "went on" to make up lost time. To get out from the confinement of toil, one feels like he was liberated from a cage, and he feels like cutting some "fool shines," like a horse would, only that would not | show up well, "in company." I had a fine time. The weather, was not extremely hot, there was a' pleasant breeze, and we could stir around and keep almost as cool as a freezly hen stratching on a mild July day. It was quite a pleasure to see old friends, and I flatter myself that I have quite a numlter; , j especially do I feel that many are in Bogansvillc. and Bogansville has a large number of pretty ladies, and . they treat you so well, too. Oh! | to hoil down; I kept an eye on the crops. The corn was very tine, and taking into consideration that, I it was made by brawn and industry | rather than I icing pampered by cnmini rcial fertilizers, it is better j than ours down here, and will lie cheaper. It is tine corn. The cotton hast a rather large weed, too large, at the expense of fruit, so farmers tell inc. Some of the 1 farmers arc about through work, j hut many are far behind, and still lieing held back by rains. It rained there Sunday. All along the roads some crops are well worked, and some needing it. That is owing to the lalmr conditions, I suppose. Well, there will lie another convention sometimes, and I hope! to be able to go to it and tell you . about that, hut now I will close, but not till I say that people lose 'much by not attending sueh ' occasions as this, if they are constituted I like yours truly. IIey Uknvkk. A ^ ? p un , r Sixty Thousam Of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Cloth to go. This stock of goods for all se Dry Goods Co. will be thrown on the of his Lockhart's original "Mill ErtjJ slaughter! on all goods iii every dejp H Remember this is a Genuine |? and starts July 27th Cor jgHj Fruit of the Loom Bleaching, 10 yards to ?*$ Wash Fabrics, Mill End Price, per yard |S2 Lot of Silk Waist Patterns worth $1.00, I\ SP8 Lot of Silks, worth 50 to 75c, Mill End P Eg* Lot Short End Silks, worth $1.00, Mill Ei y?4r7\ <^s\r\ ^11 o:i1. T* . - D / ,)uu larus an oi ik laneia kjiey, oruwn, v j|3 they last, Mill End Price gSg The Prices given is a slight hint as Jgg Sale will sa H Mesis's Suits "Mi 520 00 and 518 50 SUITS "M ?Sg 16 50 and 15 00 ?0 13 50 and 12 50 11 50 and 10 00 S?2 8 50 111 7 50 g|s 6 00 and 5 00 J&g Lot of Coats a IS WORTH 512 50 AND 510 00 ' P| 7 50 " 8 50 |jg Collars 8c, Hose 6c. Shirts 39c. Wool Shirts 35c. SHOES?You save dollars on Shoes a fH 'Mntiiii h r*i / U mutual vi y g R. P. HARRY. A Handsome Fonntain. The Union Drug Co. has put in a M fountain and fixtures that surpass ( ^ . any in Union and probably any in . upper South Carolina. The foun- J? 1? tain itself is a good one; and it is | g1 ^lll ||backed up by a mirror fixture twen-1 -wl 4. T1 ft ty-two feet long, one large rectangu- i -Sjjjt lar mirror llxb 1-2 feet and two JjL ====== ovals on either side; all set in fine j mahogany framing. Above the fountain are two genuine French j? imported bronze statues. j The new counter also is twenty- j two feet long and is made of mate- J&| rial twice the cost of marble; opal ?j? glass is the name of this very costly and beautiful white material. The! w1 Heinle Co., of Baltimore, writes Dr. , ^ Smith that this is the handsomest -?|| fountain made by them. J&l Red Men Install Officers. |[ The tril>e of Bed Men recently ?F organized at Union Cotton Mills in-1 stalled its newly elected officers last Tf 1 Friday night. The name of this; 1 new organization is Oudalee Tribe No. IS. rhc oflieers are as fol-i _ i?w?: I tr Th^it' Prophet, It. F. Townsend, Sach- j jr I I I Cl < em, J. M. Cireer; Senior Sagamore, J "Zf II. I.. Newman; Junior Sagamore,' ===== J. W. West; Chief of Records, J.1 .?] J. Colson; Keeper of Wampum, I.. ^ L. Wagnon. |F til The following are the oflieers appointed by Sachem J, M. Greer: Ta First Sannop?E. O. Kendrick; -ji Iri hlivi Second Sannop?1). Parker. efore that time, *L ftj All [ so as not to congest business at that \ II/ml L.L meeting. s* ?P A fine of ten (10) cents per share ^ p T will he imposed, and rigidly en- ^ I p..*.* m forced hereafter on all that are in ^ | ** to SI rl< arrears from that date. J. D. Arthur, Sec. & Treas. jfH . A* 1 Dollar Stock J w ing, Hatsknd Millinery Goods |0i asons, belonging to the Mutual ?? i market by Mr. Lockhart in one fcS " Sales wtiich means slaughter! ?5 artment. &S Lockhart "Mill End" Sale 1 litnntnor fAf 10 ftavs. |g 1111114111^ 1VI IV +?J l/VJ the customer, Mill End Price 7c ||j WW End Price 49c P| rice 25c Kg nd Price 49c ??? jarnet, Black and Navy, while. A, 39c m w to what the 44Mill End" Price j|| tve>ou. II End" Prices. || ILL END" FRIGE $13 4S g md Vests. .y MILL END" PRICE $6 95 * J3g 4 48 g|p Suspenders 7g. Balbriggin Undershirts I9g Pg t this -Mill End" Price Sale. giLvW Goods Go., I Manager. ||| - - v EET ME AT HAILE'S SHOE STORE. g s Confidence! I ? s Half the Battle. ??? ? i Take No Chances || ing Shoes at this store everything to gain and ',i A fto lose. You are sure?| to get Reliable, Standard \i perior Goods. We show | } and conservative styles t e "happy medium" as'| Bee our assortment for !| omen and children. ^ I The Store thti^ Shoes the People. T : SHOE COMPANY,# he Leading Shoe House. > ?l v airi St. Union, S. C. J | * |W 1' k % - 1 kjku*