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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY BACHELOR STREET, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. BELL PHONE NO. i. L. M. RICE, - - - Editor. Registered at the Postoffice in Union, S. C.. as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year $i.oc Six months 50 Three months 25 A DVF.RTISEM E NTS: One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion 50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8 1-3 cents a line. ' Rejectee! manuscripts will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION S. C., APRIL 26. 1007. Something must 1 ?e "doing" on the earth's inside, judging hy the earthquakes in various parts of the globe. # * * We hope everyone interested in the development of moral schools will read the prize offer made to schools making most improvement during this year. The article will l>e found in another page. * * * Summerville, a town in the lower portion of the state must he in a had way. An editorial in the Summerville News of recent date was headed: "Backbone gave out and cows run riot once more on the streets." # # * Two negroes in Wilmington, X. v umi out over a plug of cheap tobacco; the quarrel resulted in onei HluNiting the other through the head, killing him instantly. We venture the guess that there was some cheap whiskey as well as cheap tobacco. mixed up in the fray. * * * President Roosevelt's suggestion to other nations to limit the size of battleships to he built in the future I 1 is not worth much. The suggestion comes too late. The huge monsters are already about as big as they could well be made unless we could have harbors big enough and deep vnoiigh to admit them. Mr. Roosevelt need not worry alxmt the size of the battleships, nature will take care of that. * * * Houses must be pretty cheap in the Philippines. The press dispatches recently told of 11(H) houses being totally destroyed by tire resulting in 82(X),(MX) loss. That isalx>ut M<S() ix*r house. Indian wigwams, provided there was a few coon and hear skins spread alxiut in them, would he worth that much. The United States is losing a good many men and considerable money in the effort to hold these islands. Is it worth while? * * * A wave of suicide seems to In* sweeping over the country. Almost every paper has one or more accounts of such tragedies. Nodouht many of these cases are the result of insanity. The others are largely the product of cowardice. It is not a brave thing for a man to deliberately put an end to his own life. It is anyth'ng but brave. A man, faced by his own evil doings, puts an end to his lif<*. Why? Because he is too great a coward to face his own .acts. * * * We have decided to leave I'nion alxnit the middle of June for the Jamestown Exposition. We felt sure that the building would not bo completed by the opening day, April 26. It lias turned out that we were right in our surmise. Everything will l?e completed by the date we have chosen for our trip. We have met with very great encouragement in our contest, and we are very much gratified at the results as far obtained. Kenieml?er, the content clones May ou. uo not noia hack your votes. I^et them come in. j I ; The greatest event of the year ir : college life in this state will tak< place tomorrow at (ireenwood wher the state oratorical contest will Im ' held. The association ineludef every college in the state, and tin contest promises to lie a lively one The first feature of the day is s game of base ball between Furmar and Clemson. These two institu1....... * f * * * . viuuc* nave inu wi tiicouun^'oi Wiiuie ! in the state and the game will bt i most interesting. * * Come, now, ye sneering skeptics ' who would have us lielieve there is ,110 such tiling as constancy in the I heart of man or woman. It is anI nounced that John B. Bundren, aged one hundred and one, and Miss Rose Mcduire, aged one hundred, will wed on August 20, 11X)7. Neither have ever married, and they were childhood sweethearts. Bundren is a man of some means, and now resides in Tennessee. He will journey to Kngland and there claims his bride. * * 1 The blackberry crop killed? Not a hit of it. The peaches, apples, plums and pears have curled up land died. Not so the blackberry | There is some comfort in that. Wi j may still look forward to the luscious pies with butter sauce. We sincerely hope the price will not Ik raised even if other fruits are killed. What can the poor man hope for il the very neccessaries of life climb up in price until lie is unable to reach J them? * * * "Johnson Davis, colored, was shot and killed by Love Knight at Will (iinni's, a few feet on the North Carolina side of the state line Wednesday. It is said that thenwas no provocation for the shooting and that Knight shot the inoffensive negro, without oven a word, because he did not have anything else to shoot at. Knight figured in the recent killing of .lulo Combs in his barroom. Ile was probably drunk on both occasions.?Pee Dec Advocate. At??J "booze"' did jt. Is there any good thing that "booze" ever did? It is always a bloouy rrccn; n weapon in the hands of a whiskeyladened, empty-headed fool. BETTER STAY ON A FARM. The writer was riding in a buggy a few days ago in company with a young man who is working every day on his father's farm. The young man had his dreams, for in the course of conversation he told of his desire to U- a physician. He is a bright young fellow, and has attended school enough to have laid the foundation for a college course. r many no said: What do you think of a Ijoy's chance on the farm?" The answer was, "Good, very good, if he will hut go about it to l?e a leader; if he will take an acre of ground and make it grow more pea-vines than an acre ever grew before, he will l>e doing something that is altogether worth while.' The young man replied: "That's so, and it is such a free life, even if the work is hard." Several things have come to mind since that conversation; the sumptuous country dinner, for one thing. It was a dinner of tender turnip salad, baked wild duck, baked chicken, eggs, butter, buttermilk,creamy biscuit, canned peaches and cake. Anyway these were some of the articles on the table in that country home. And it was good! All of it ... was good. It is impossible to forget to bring in the question of good, t 1 * 1 niKiidouiiir iwn, pure n?wr aim pure air in this question of staying I on the farm or of leaving it for tht life of the physician. Better sta> on the farm. In the long run it will afford more real contentment and a U tter living. PRESENT DEFEAT THAT TAXES THE FUTURE Theie are crises in the life of every human soul that are, at the time regarded very lightly, and that the future years alone serve tc fully manifest. When a man meet* such experiences and the Battle goes against him it is with the recurring years that he Begins to see how great his defeat was. Such 1 "i 7 ~~ . ~ f i experiences go on each year levying } their full share of taxes. A man i is brought face to face with some j business transaction in which he ? fails to measure up to the full i standard of honesty. It was, at . the moment regarded a very little i thing. Hut it left a thorn in his: i flesh that from time to time makes itself felt. The longer it remains s the more it makes itself felt. It > was only a little sharp practice on , his part, but that sharp practice i left a thorii that has a constantly ) increasing sting. All his lifetime it i! keeps on rankling and takes the .1 keen edge of enjoyment off of many . la blessing that life brings to him. It forces itself upon his notice at the most inopportune times. It I causes him to lose courage in many succeeding battles that, upon every count, should bring him victory, i but do not. The man who was wronged may never have discovered | it, but that makes little difference, i I Whenever that man crosses the I pathway of the guilty man, the thorn is set in motion and pierces t, deeper and deejx r. It is possible that a man, by >j some sharp practice, lays the. , foundation of financial success. j > The money gained works, as money . should, to make more money. But i; the sorry victory is but a poor com- ) > | peusation for the lifetime conscious- ( ness that the foundation was laid in ! dishonor. If we could but know II how much we lose by defeat, by J I surrender of principle, by yielding J j to the wrong! If we could but see i ' tli** inexorable demand that such a; yielding makes upon the future! j Then, indeed, we would have more' courage to meet the crises and win the victory that follows. Land for Sale. j We have 7,500 acres of land for sale in j tracts of from 20 ) t?? 1,500 acres in j Greene county, Georgia. This land is fertile and will produce good crops. We I will cut the large tracts into small farms and give live year payments with first' i payment cash. Price $10 to $12 50 nerk acre. For further information apply to 1 McC( )AI M( )\S KKII), \ tireeiiMl>oro. <*? T Candidate for City Treasurer. {I herehy announce myself a candidate ] for city treasurer and ask the support j of the democratic voters of Fnion in the c city democratic primary election on May ' 7th, ItHtT. ( ltcpcctfiilly, J .No. p. 4 ; .\<iK i * 1 WE HAVE BOUGHT Kj W. D. Bewley's entire stock Mw jjjS of Hardware and respect- (nr| rj> fnlly offer our services to 1WJ flg the public in the ? HARDWARE BUSINESS ?| ? We offer this week a lot of 8j Stoves and Ranges at greatly xi $5 reduced prices. It will pay Sjp you to see us before you buy. *- -! P We are also sell H Prices Cotton PI H and all other Far ICLARKSON HA ^ At W. D. Bewley's Old Stand, h . a and your point is well ;J like small pox breaks oi exciteil and the whole order-, vaccination and a The truth is more die of anything else, and yet v ^5 cents or fifty cents of Cowan's Pneumonia ternally will cure Puet many people will buy it a coughs and croup and c old world, isn't it? i 11 11 RICE DRUG 5 jt ... I ????^? STHIS IS frc weai Ptt /-? a a r* r? lir We have lars, embre white, light I These are espei the narrow jaunty litt showing other d are I Mutual $150 per Month. Why work for a men; living when roil can easily clear $7 profit on each lollar. Work in your own locality. Soils at almost every home over and >ver again. Plain antl complete initruction by return tuail for 25 cents. Vddress J. F. Clark, Conway, Ark. 5-yr | p ing at Special & lanters, Plows, iff m I mnlpnipntc 5$ t-C ^jjj RDWARE CO. I 5ft i ist Main Street, Union, S. C. I taken. If something it the community gets town goes wild, and II sorts of precaution. Pneumonia than most /hen you can buy for r?r a flollar o Krvoet.. Cure which used exitnonia, not near as i should. It also cures olds. Hut its a queer Yours, CHARLEY. 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