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THE UNION TIMES 1 i PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY , By The UNION TIMES COMPANY \ TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STRHBT BELL PHONE NO. 1. , LEWIS M. RICE Editor. Registered at the Postofflce In Union, S. C.. as second-class mall matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year fl.00 Six Months 60 Three Months 60 ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first Insertion $1.00 Every sub-.'eq.uent insertion 60 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. LEGAL NOTICES. The regular legal rates are charged for all notices published according to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set In 8 point, brevier olid type?first Insertion, per Inch $1.00: each subsequent Insertion, per inch, 60 cents. Citation to Kindred and. Creditors, 3 Inches, 2 times, $4.60. Final Discharge, 13-4 Inches, 4 ximes, $4.du. Administrator's or Executor's notices, 1*4 Inches. 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. UNION, S. C., MARCH, 22, 1912. A THING. * Coolly, deliberately and upon reflection we draw for the people of Union county a picture. It 1s a picture of A THING. It Is not good to look upon; it gives one the creeps to stand by and view it; it speaks not, hoars not, breaths not, sees not, moves not, nor will until the Great Resurrection. Some man, in heat and passion, or with malice and premeditation, has struck and struck to kill. A THING is the wreckage of what is left after the blow or shot or stab or blight has fallen upon what was once A MAN. A man he was, could see, feel, hear, speak, move. Was loved and loving by and towards some human soul. In the dust of the street, unable to brush away the fly that hovers over the sightless orbs lies this THING. Gaped at by curious eyes, this THING lies helpless, inert, in the dust of the street. Bl^od oozes from gaping wounds, from r*T5rowlIn*vdOK strays that way and draws near to sniff the bloody THING. The sunlight falls aslant the face of tne THING, and lo! reveals the purpling, blotching marks of death clearly and yet more clearly. liye and bye come friendly hands to lift this THING and carry it away to what was its earthly abiding place. Tenderly, silently, with here and there a falling tear the burden bearers en^ ter the home desolate. The THTNfJ in placed upon its cooling board. It has now found Its way to the stricken wife and fatherless babes. A faithful WOMAN looks upon the helpless THING and through her heart goes the points of many arrows, red-tipped and dipped in fire. Around the THING cluster little Willie and Jim, little Susan and Polly?each one gazing in wonder upon the THING. It hears not, feels not, knows not anything. It is dead. It was a MAN. It walked out in the morning leaving a warm kiss upon the lips of wife and children It was throbbing with life, living, breathing, moving. It is now dead. The hand of a Man struck this MAN that was, and lo! A GASTLY THING is all that remains of the Man that was. An open grave, the falling clods.the fervent utterances of priest, the silent gathering pass before the mind's eye?then vanish. Old Mother Earth lias swallowed 11 p the GHASTLY. BLOODY THING. It could not resist.; it could not help itself. It lias to go, because some angry MAN, some drunken MAN. some demon- i ruled MAN struck, and lo! A THING, 1 a Ghastly THING. Roll on, golden days, hours, minutes?a year?two 1 years?three years, and lo! a MAN i sits in the prisoner's dock?sits at the t bar of Justice, indicted for MURDER. Indicted for making of a MAN a s THING. Time has helped to blot the t THING from the memory of all. He 1 has few to step out and say: A MAN t has been made into a THING, and t there is the GUILTY ONE. The same f*VC*a Ml a fr 1 t vr?lr o/l 11 r?nn TrrTVn .? V**wv . vwiwu upwu tuo X milVI 1 and lips that said: "Poor thing," now t look upon the Prisoner and say, 1 "Poor Man"; "He Is to be pitied"; t "He should not be punished"; "He 1 has a wife and babes"; "His family will have no bread-winner"?and a c thousand things besides. Alas! and c yet alas! 'tis true. The THING c has but little show. It has "been too 1 long dead?too long swallowed up of f MOTHER EARTH. True, the THING d that was a MAN paid taxes for pro- n tection before the ruthless hand of s another struck; true, he refused to u become a Law Into himself and strike back; true he staked his all? p Life?upon Law, and now that he stands before the Law a Bleeding o THINO as a consequence, the LAW t l*% mhUV. A?-A. M % ?? * iu nuau no u uoiBu neniaieB, ium-io I)1cb, stumbles, Is diverted, misdirected, I a perverted, cheated, brow-beaten, and s the Man who struck and In striking made a THING, goes forth "jiot gull- t ty." It is a sight to turn honor into Infamy and arouse the fires of hell in 1 the heart of an honest man! I i In the unsettled condition of our ' office, owing to the fire's destruction, we overlooked making mention of the departure of two good fellows from our composing room. The fire left them out of a Job and their going brings us sadness. A. L. Adams, one ' of the best "straight type" setters, > and an all round worthy fellow, and ' Elliott Rhodes, a mute, but one of the 1 best workmen that ever tarried in a ' printing shop, are the fellows. Rhodes i has secured a position with the I Keeowee Courier, Walhalla. At lastac- < cuuiiiBAaams naa 1101 yet secured a ' position. It ought not be a hard thing ' for him to get a good place. We 1 know that if there is an opening any- < where for a straight-type Better, < Adams is the man to fill It. We have had three galleys of proof from type 1 set by him without a turned letter I or a mistake of any kind. He is a rapid workman, as we|l. He can I set all the straight type for an ordl- < nary weekly newspaper. If there Is ( a newspaper in the State In need of a < man in this line it would be well If 1 Adams be secured. Address him, A. ! Li. Adams, Altavista, Va. He 1b able to deliver the goods. We regret to part with these good 1 o.w1 - I --.1-1 ?-'! I >viivno, nuu UUI UVOl WiallBH 1U1IOW them. They are loyal and true, wor- 1 thy and well qualified. We earnestly plead with our county authorities who have in charge the rebuilding of the bridges, that they try the experiment of building of some of these bridges with re-enforced concrete. Such structures would be able to withstand the floods and would last 500 years. They would not cost much more in the building than the wooden bridges. FROM THE It ROTH E R1I GOD. It is pretty generally believer that the burning of the plant of the Union Times in Union last week was the result on an incendiary. So dastardly a crime should be puniBhed and that most severely. It is hoped that there is enough public sentiment back of law and order-fiYfiJLJtbere^i 9*4*1 . | efWTT Snort is made "to bring about 'the detection and arrest of the man who did it.?Greenwood Index. Editor Rice, of the Union Times, who has recently had his plant destroyed by fire, has learned the truth nf tho R.avinof "Tf inx ...... ...0. n ?nnOT me UlgUl lO bring out the stars." His misfortune has brought to him many words of sympathy and encouragement. This is a pretty good old world after all. ?Spartanburg Herald. I.ockhart .1 unction Letter. Lockhart Junction. March 12.?It Is raining today and everyone is saying, "My, My, what a winter we are having." Old people say we haven't had such in many years. Mr. J. G. Gault has improved In his sickness. He can sit up some and talk so that he can be understood. Mr. J. L. McKinnov has the eham- ( pion laying hens for this section. He got sixtv-seven dr?7on PIrata riiirtme. ? -nn" ?u6 *-uo month of February. He has thlrty-flve hens, pure-bred white Leghorns. If any one wants eggs for setting, they j can get them from him. Mr. C. 0. Allen of Greenville, was down on his plantation and visited Mr. McKinney last week. Mr. Charlie Allen came with him. , Miss Delphia Fowler of the New Hope section visited relatives here the later part of last week. It was Mr. W. M. Sparks who sold the hams in Union that I spoke about In my last letter. I got It mixed up. I had him and Mr. Wllburn in mind, but I met him again In Union since, ind he was peddling again, and I thought I would correct. The fnrmera coflro Sia '?? they can not get to plowing; and ihere Is some wanting to bow oats. 1 When the land gets so they can plow, j :hey will be In a rush, and will have fl .heir hands full. e I heard one man say he believed he fi vouldn't use any guano. He would ake the money he would have to pay ^ or It, and buy his flour, and other hlhgs to do him. Well, thla sounds Ike a Joke. But our fathers made cotton and < orn without fertilizer, and I know at tl ine time when my father got 17 to 20 E ents per pound for his cotton, and its crib was full of corn and the pen p ull of hogs. Now why cant wc all lo that again? One bale bringing early twice what It does now, we can ee they did better than the most of s now. Mr. A. D. Plexloo has a twelvetound baby boy at bis home. This writer was very sorry to 1 The Times loss by fire, but wtlope . here will be a way for the 4$*?* < >f this paper to get his building ready 1 tgain soon, and the loss wtQ^nqt 1 lecm bo great after all. 3 [ f. i I hereby announce myself a oandl- * late for a good crop this year.':; ^ , This correspondent sent in a'letteil g ast week, but I guess it wont in the j Ire, as the other letters did, aajtherapi vas only a few letters in ThewHLjl ast week. MoX^^^Ht| Our .lonesillle T.etteiH M Jone8vi11o, March 19.?The Thursday night and Friday wa^^^H leaviest and moBt dlstructive rain since the June flood of road and fields are badly washet^^^B bridges more or less damaged. Fairforcst bridge on the Glenn road is bent down stream and proach on this side gone. The-J^Hu aver Pacolet at Grlndall Is somi^^B| lamaged. The approach on tlilij^^^H being undermined and sunk dow|^HH been stopped. Jther )>ridges in this and Chdj^^Bj jounty are damaged or washed Farm work is still practlcal^^HH up; with fair weather the plows liardly start this week. mK Capt. It. W. Scott has two paper currency that are somewhat out ?f the regular circulating currency In theBe parts. One is a two-dollar, and the other a three-dollar bill, on the Corn Exchange Bank, of Desota, Nebraska. dated in 1860. A tenant house on Mr. T. A. Ltttlelohn's place near Jonesville was destroyed by fire last night. The house whs occupied by Quay Simrel, a col ored man, who lost all his stuff. Mr. J. C. Murphy, who lives in our mill town, has a little son six years old who has been lately admitted to the Cedar Springs Institute for the deaf, dumb and blind. Mr. T. H. Gore, our county superintendent of education worked the application for Mr. Murphy. The Cedar Springs Institute is doing a great work for the unfortunates in this country. A little h'lnd girl of our town, who has been educated there, played a selection on the organ at the Methodist hcuroh here Sunday. Capt. It. W. Scott and his milliner, Mrs. Boyd Webber, went over to Knoxville a few days since and bought a stock of spring millinery goods for the R. W. Scott company. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crosby and Miss Bettle George of SDartanburg, week the guests of Mrs. Tda Lone In UonsJ iiin The Southern Railway's dairy inspection car which is touring the State, Is I scheduled to be at Jonesvllle the 26th inst., at 10 a. m., and 2 p. m. Mr. Harper Porter of Peakes, 8. C., is spending a few days with his mother, Mrs. S. A. Porter. The Southern Railway has paid the estate of George Ed. Gaffney, who was killed in January by passanger train No. 13. in Jonesville, three hundred dollars. This action on the part of the Railway is very kind, as there seemed to be no grounds whatever for damages. Mr. J. G. Long, Sr., of Union, was in Jonesville a short while yesterday. Mr. N. 11. Elson has been summoned to serve as a juror at the April Term of the United States court in Greenville. Telephone. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, that the Grand Jury of Union county in Its report to the Court at the February term last, called social attention to the violation of the law as to barbed and edged wire fences along the public highways in Union county. The law is as follows: "All " " * ^.1. |ici sung ur ouriMjruilOIlB DUliaing or using a barbed or edged wire rcnce within fifty feet of any public highway, shall nail or place a plank >r pol<> on or near the top of said renco; Provided, That the said plank >r pele be not required when there s such an embankment at the side of die road as shall. In the Judgement >f the road overseer of such road, renler It safe from Injury to stock traveling said road without such plank ti jjuic iiemg on saia ience. All persons violating the provisions )f this Section shall be deemed guilty >f a misdemeanor, and on conviction hereof shall he punished by a fine of lot exceeding ono hundred dollars, or mprisonment not exceeding thirty lays." All Htizens of the county are specally requested to report to the Mngstrate of any township where this aw is being violated any violation, ind all Magistrates are requested to itrictly enforce the law In this repect. County Board of Commissioners by J. H. Spears, Supervisor. Jnlon, S. C. Mch, 16, 1912 12-3t Special Election. An election for five trustees for onesville special school district No. 2, will be held on April 23, 1912, in he town hall. Rules governing the lomocratic primary will be observed. J. C. Mobley, R. J. Klrby and J. F. lean are appointed managers of the i lection. (Signed) F. M. Ellerbe, D. B. Free, Jr. M. R". Rams. i J. T. Spears. J. M. Oault, Trustees. < I _ | OurSp I Are on 1 i * Y I Get Under a I tR I p r 1 Sat i si I Mutua I If someone were to I 9 mn Ira ?I/m1 n ?*"jruu (l |/i t^tll L UI a suit of clothes and #ive you choice between a ready-made an.', a tailored?to-order suit, which one would you accept? The Tailored-made, of Course, because it's better in style, workmanship and especially if made by Ed V. Price & Co. i OF CHICAGO, and won't cost you any more. Let us measure you for your Spring and Summer outfit. uumpui icy renin Company, THE STAG SHOP, 13 Main St., Union, S. C. R. G. Collins, Postmaster, Barngat, KT T 1.1 _ J ?l?l- - ? it, ?J?, vr?o iiuuijiuu wiiu a uijvere in grippe cough. H? flays: "I would be completely exhausted after each fit of violent coughing. I bought a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and before I had taken It all the coughing spells had entirely ecased. It can't be beat." Jonesvllle Drug Co. Qlymph's Pharmacy. ring Roelofs display and Read our Insnectinn Roelof and Smile! Also a shipi Oxfords in al ers and Toes. Oxfords in 1 jL Black, also iD and Colonial ? $3.00 to 1 u r*t * i a i>ew snipmenx ( We have on display all WOOLENS for making I Come In And action Guarant< il Dry Goods ION,' - - S. C r~rr..j" - "-4' = Haile's f/;.; i \\ . ?4 LiiM- ~ vry? sr - .tit _ :717V. \ ' * j 0 tf\ V t" V N / ! ' H 'v CONSULT There is not mediation selection of your shoe ! you give it a thought, 1 this your consideration: i i ? * * * ing but the best. We more on the fact of beii ' than good sellers; and well we don't have to fc the selling end. Goo are already half sold. i 1 ' to look out tor is the pre | - value; and all YOU he t for is that you get into i von need shoes. LJ A II i i irviL. | The Place to Bi 12 Main St ?rag Hats | y for * U. to $5. : m * tt ment of * 1 eath- | Button I 'an and jjj Pumps S Pumps % $3.50 | )f Ties 50c f L the LATEST a SPRING SUITS | J Look I ? 1 Co., i ' 1 : " /J& Haite's 11 ATION employed in the dealer, even If but please give . We buy nothpride ourselves ig good buyers, when we buy >e so strong on % ds well bought So, all we have >per fit and good we to look out our store when t > "' ES uy Shoes. Union. S. C. - . / ;