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THE UNION TIMES I PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE 1 UNION TIMES COMPANY , BACHELOR STREET, OPPOSITE1' POSTOFFICE. BELL PHONE NO. i. j1 | < L. M. RICE, - - - Editor. 5 Registered at the Fostofficc in Un- ' ion, S. C., as second-class mail matter, j SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 One year $i.oo Six months 50 Three months 25 ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion 5? Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8 i-.t cents a line. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be chu.gcd tor at halt rates. j UNION. S. C., APRIL 5, 1907. ! ' Dear friend cut the farm, if you have any butter to sell, bring it on to Union. The townsmen are having a butter famine these days. * * * The baseballists are getting ready to do things in this 1907 season, and the i sportsman editor is coining up-to-date slang whereby to describe the game. * * * Andrew Carnegie has 111 a fie a speech and denounced the Wall Street gamblers. We are glad of it, even though air. Carnegie s cait*ei < 11?i.u,v akin to this. * * * The railway commission has ordeded the Southern Railway to put down heavier steel rails between Shelton, and Spartanburg, Columbia, and Augusta and Alston and Greenville. * * * There is a freak chicken conic o|t of its egg shell at Chester. There are legs beneath and one on its hack. And wo all write about it in the newspapers just as we would a killing, a hurricane, or an earthquake. Suite things are called "news." * :!< * The Times force is jubilant over the. prospect of getting day current. The town authorities asurc us that by May 1st this happy result will be attained. The Duma is in session in Russia for the second time. We hope this infant democratic organization of the auto- | cratic country may attain more real ; results than it did last year, but it is ! doubtful. The people threaten war if the bureaucrats crush the Duma as | they did last year. * ik * The millinery stores sold hats last week to beat the band. And then to think it rained and blew on Sunday till not a winsome lass or comely dame could don the new "creation" and demurely sit with other brightly bedecked fair ones demurely in the church pews while on the Easter Sunday the minister preached! To think! * * # Anderson's court house tower has got .six inches out of plumb. It is a line, new building. It is an excellent thing for Andersonians to look at and talk of when business is dull. And it gives its something to write about. The tower has a clock in it, by the way, and it has struck the hours for a generation or so. Wonder what can be the matter with the tower, now. Its a case for every man to diagnose. * * * E. II. Ilarriman, railway magnate! and president, claims that at the reciucst of President Roosevelt, he heln cd raise a $250,000 Republican campaign fund in the last presidential election. President Roosevelt says the Jlarrinian claim is false. Some more 1 dirty linen is therefore to be washed in the front yard of newspaper columns. The general belief is that President Roosevelt's characterization of Harriman is justified. * * * In this issue of The Times we publish a notice of the opening of the books of enrollment of democratic! voters of the city of Union. For fear those who enrolled just before the j last municipal primary election may think that they will be required to enroll at this time, for their information : we say that they do not, as their names are already on the roll and that the books are only opened for the purpose of enrolling those who have come | of age since, and those who have be come citizens and are entitled to be enrolled under the rules and regulations governing the democratic primary election. It is the duty of every citi- j zen to be interested in this matter, as we regard it of vital importance to secure a fair and pure election. JA' + * f i ~ FARMING BASIC AND WHOLESOME President Roosevelt has said: "There \ s nothing more needed in this country :han the various operations under way to render farm work additionally scientific and profitable, as well as more attractive; for no nation can afford to torget that in the last resort its wellbeing rests upon the well-being and J :haracter of the man who tills the | soil." These words arc eminently worthy | af the national chief executive. The greatness and prosperity of nations may ! be traced back always to the soil. No j man is so necessary to the national sveal as the farmer. This is even more so in America than in the other na-! lions. Vet the agricultural department is, save one, the infant governmental department at Washington; agriculture lias been almost the last thing to which intelligent, scientific study has been applied, and the last industry about which has developed an efficient service of printed periodicals. All brandies of mining and manufacturing, for instance. have practical publications for distributing information in their interest and to their devotees. Uut cor ton culture, one of the greatest national industries, has only within a year, in the Cotton Journal, of Atlanta, secured a competent newspaper organ. The Cotton Journal has sprung into immediate popularity and it richly deserves it. Every intelligent cotton planter in the South should have it. Too long the farmers have taken it for granted that nothing was to be learned about tilling the soil more than each one picked up by his own experience, and by a skeptical squint at any new quirks adopted by his neighbor, the latter to be adopted only after some years of laughing at his neighbor, when ;????, 'niter lias abundantly convinced the i skeptic hy live years of object lessons, i That study may be intelligently and profitably spent ai everything else but be of no avail in regard to tilling the soil is a most damaging fallacy. Moreover, it is a tacit confession on the part of the farmer that his vocation is inferior to that of others. This is a confession he should never make, for it is contrary to fact and an unwitting reflection on himself. We do not hesitate to say that the most normal, congenial, wholesome, and important single vocation of mankind is hy all odds that of tillinir tli soil find nut ninti to make his living by the sweat of his brow, and the complex changes of civilization, which have led many to subsist in other ways havfc not added to their personal happiness.'the rendered l T1,at tariHi lifn good churches, better f^Wng,?these things will make it more attraViivc, and these things may l>e had with\lcss of grind, sacrifice and expense than in the large towns and cities. It makes ns sad to see a family move from their country home to a town, to put their children in a good school. To begin with, the monetary cost will be greater than that required to pay a competent teacher in the home. To end with, everything! The loneliness of country life drives many from it, but if they could but j have eyes to sec, the things on which they will probably depend to drive away the loneliness when they come to i urban life are superficial, unworthy of 'attention, and often positively injuriI sons. While there is little need of being lonely in the country, if one's heart I iq nnnn 1a ntfurA ^ ?1 4" ~ I - %w nuuiiv aaau IU HI IIIC teeming life of the fields and the forests. To our thinking, the unfolding of the petals of yon rose, the steady development .of the luxuriant life of yon field of glorious grain, the frisking of the work animals on Sunday morning in the pastures, the cluck, cluck, of the hen leading her young in the door-yard, have in them more of wholesome, satisfying comradeship than jostled city streets, more of artistic beauty than yon stately building, more of music than the din and shriek of factory and railway or the clang of many bells. More of soul life, and less of fitful, nervous, restlessness, less belief in the perennial lie that happiness may he had in show and noise and glitter and (change, instead of being a thing of the heart itself,?would mightily tend to make people love and live in the country. HAVE YOU A GARDEN? VVc mean a vegetable garden. A* we write the hour of dinner draws nigh, and wafted in through the door of our sanctum, comes the savory odor of cooking vegetables, being prepared by some sensible housewife for the family dinner. This odor drives away the bad smell originating back in our printshop from the pesky gasoline engine, and suggests plcasantcr things. We are fond of flowers and flower gardens, but to jur everyday nature there is more of real satisfaction and comfort to be had in the contemplation of growing lettuce and cabbage and potatoes and beans and peas and squash and okra and tomatoes and the rest, than in contemplating the delicious odors floating in through the door speak poetry to our soul, let him whb pleases smile, and they suggest something unliinitedly attractive and wholesome to this temple of clay wherein the soul that lives not by bread alone has its habitat. Let our friends, urban, suburban, and backwoodsmen, (if there are any backwoodsmen anywhere,) p'ant a gorden, a "kitchen garden." How many doctor's bills it will save! How much better your health will be! How much more attractive the dinner hour will become! Friends of ours on the farm, do not. we pray, have it all in cotton and grain land corn. For the time and labor expended you will make or save four I times the money by intelligent potter-J jing in the garden. We know wherof , we speak. t And if you will add a good poultry I yard to this garden,?but the subject) jbecomes too tantalizing to our gusta-; torv nerves. We must put down the pen and go to dinner. We once knew a preacher who lived in the country and had : ijice plot of j ground about the home, and had no ganicn nor pouury. i\ow, prcacners nre abused too inueh and we do wish t-*J encourage it. But we thought that preacher was lazy, and we did not wonder he was gloomy and pessimistic. With j I such an opportunity neglected to have: things grow and live about him. and to dig up the mellow, productive soil, how could he be otherwise titan gloomy? Let us all go dig in the garden. But not until after dinner, please. TO SOLVE RACE PROBLEM. Two great movements looking to the solution of the race problem in the South, especially in Georgia, have bete, launched, and have gained the suppon of some of the most r>i-<?niincnt men "f, the country, according to a statement*" made at a conference of the Atlanta Evangelical .Ministers Association tP~ day. One of the movements is being urged by Dr. John E. W hite, pastor of the Eir.->t Baptist Church, who reported | to tltc Conference that lie is making great headway. "Five of the wealthiest men in the South," said Dr. White, "have put all they have back of this movement. We contemplate the organization of all the moral forces in the South in one great body, and the appointment of a commision, composed of the best and most learned men of the South to handle the problem, and deal with the situation affectintr the rclationshin of the races.' ''"'HiiBM/ of some of the best lawyers of thcState, whose duty it shall be to have the laws ol the State so revised as to do away legal manner of trying and punishof the leaders and members of mobs, THE RAILROADS DISTURBED. j The American people have at last come to realize that they can control the large railway corporations, and the . opsequent situation would be amusing if it was not quite serious. President Roosevelt made some moves, which had as their object the bringing of the railroads to an account before the laws as the interests of rn-5 vate citizen" e orunglit to an account. The railroads had hardly gotten formulated their front against this troublesome chief executive, when the state legislatures begun to get in their rate legislation, one after the other, with remarkable swiftness. The nascent Oklahoma even went so far as to put a 2-cents passenger rate in its constitution. Whereupon the railroads about faced and lied to the president for relief from the contemned state legislatures, and there the matter stands now, with some big cases to be fought to the end i?j the courts. In Alabama the railroad* i have secured an injunction against the 'tailroad commission to keep it from prrorcing the new 2y2 cent passenger 1 Stricken in the ni Lungs Congesting No Doctor near PNEUMONIA ha gum Shoes GOWAN'S PNI < 'I he Great Speeilic for Pneumonia )*XTER] All druggists; Three siz< and one dollar. Sold All over the Unic where. RICE DRUC I TILT SHC few A n a mp anH a c / V IIU111V U1IU U. v g| wonderful. We < 5M0ES AP ?1 At this price ||s attractive or st j&g and toes inck i |p The workmans m pmaa , rate until the courts pass upon it, upon ( , the ground that it would be ruinous to > the business to carry passengers in ; Alabama at 2x/t cents a mile. The tase will be fought up through the tourts, with the greatest determination r>n both sides. On the'side of the rail-1 ,roads its winning would mean-much more than the Alabajna rate. It would be a deterrent to other states. On the other hand, a legal victory for the state would prognosticate success in efforts to regulate the rates by legislative en' actment elsewhere. Slate legislatures are likely to act hastily in rate legislation, and we are ' not prepared to say some of them have trot done so. ltut we arc glad to feel the Anior''">n '"< awnKcning to the knowledge that public carrier! i and other public service interests are by right their servants, and that these fortified interests arc to be regulated by the people. Wie hope the people will not forget this. If it causes some unrest to the I public service concerns, it will be for i their good, however they may squeal j about the alarming prospect of depressed "business interests." i _________ ' I he ladies' hats this season are very pretty indeed, but the male admirers i .ire puzzled to know bow the fair wear- I ; rT* niapage to. tell the front from the rc;tr? fiii?"e nea"^car' which have the i IppcnranCe ot being built for both ' "gwine and comin'."?Lancaster News. iflht: d come wearing ;UM0NIA CURE , Coughs, Colds, Croup and S'AL?no habit formed ;s, 25 cents and litty cents ?n and praised from Lvcry; I i COMPANY. mamsm.mism? NEW >ES AND OXf ;hoe that you will are showing a choic< jn mFOPiK AT )!/ Vl&t V*\l/W/ * there is not anoth ibstantial made. Tl ide all the popular Ilip IS Simply f a vt I ties Dry Good * MEET MR AT H A.ILR'S J ASK | I YOUR ' I FRF.T . il I# If your feet could te a shoe they w would bee HAILE Every pain from a c< || is but the foot's ci I Why Not L I | J Why crowd your feet, into ill ? i you can get Shoes that I HAILE SH J | J THE LEADING SHI ? i. 11 49 East Main Street i Jpgj 1 " OROS ( 1 * find to be 1| e variety of ill $3.50. I er line so 11 le leathers p specialties. ?| is Co. j 3 SHOE STORE. 4| ===== ? || II what kind of ^ ant, they g J for 'I iySHOES:! 'I Jl ?rn or a bunion III ry for mercy. !| isten? " i I fitting Shoes when ? FIT and WEAR at ! ? OE CO. |! OE HOUSE, - ) | Union, South Carolina 1?> l m |W??/n 11 w ? yn >. jfn ^ jr .. itat IP. , ^ 5V$57jV7jvrf