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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY By Tb? UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN 8TRHMT BELL PHONE NO. 1. LEWIS M. BICE Editor. Registered at the Postoffloe In Union, S. C., as second-class mall matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear $1.00 Six Months 50 Three Months 60 ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first Insertion $1.00 Every subsequent Insertion $0 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 'o 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, 50 cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors. 3 Inches, 2 times, $4.50. Final Discharge, 18-4 Inches, 4 times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's notices, 1% Inches. 3 times, $2.60. Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. FRTDAY, APRIL 12, 1912. Judge Jones waB well received in Union county on last Friday and Satnw/In v* A V* ? ?? ? ?? *?' -*? uiuaj, nnu no UIBUC Jllttliy [nOIlUH QlirIng his brief campaign. He 1s a man of courage, of convictions, of high Ideals and Is white clean through. We hope every motorcyclist In the county will be Interested In the call published elsewhere In this Issue to meet and organize a club. There are quite a good it nv motorcycle riders now In Union and throughout the county and an organization of the kind would be beneficial. L.et all motorcycle riders meet on Saturday afternoon, 4 o'clock. April 13th, In the rooms of thn PllOmhor n f As will be seen In our last Issue, w? made the $1,000 mark and passed It by a few dollars. This week the good work goes on, and we will publish 1 the results on the first page, at the : end of four weeks. We do not mean 1 to be "greedy", In fact, we Intended to 1 have little to say about the future ( . * ?er *> may be sure we appreciate this additional evidence of good will. We have ordered the machine snipped out 01 New York and expect It to be working In about ten days. The first payment was the heavy payment, and now we will have to pay sixty-five dollars each month. We Intend to pay for this machine with the money received on subscription. Each month we will publish the results Instead of by the week. We have received this week more than fifty dollars. ThlB give us great encouragement and fills us with hope. Many of our friends have written us that they would send In a re newal at a later day. Now then help MB. "By their fruits ye shall know them. Ho men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" The old dispensary, oorrupt and corrupting, has left marks that disfigure the fair name of South Carolina that a hundred years will not wipe out. We do not see any reason for bringing It back to life In this county. The movement now on foot to secure signatures calling for an election on the question, is, we understand, being pressed. The moveers in the matter will easily succeed In securing one-fourth of the qualified electors. But we do not believe the majority of the voters of the county will again go into the liquor business. What we need is officers of the law who will enforce it. Blind tigers In Union flourish because we have lax enforcement of the law, not because we have no dispensary. We understand that those behind the movement to restablish the dispensary here are urging the old, wornout argument: The people will have whiskey and so, we will legalize the sale, so as to get a revenue from it." Tn other words, it is the question of dollars, not of manhood and morals, with these individuals. We refuse to be brought under the dominion of the evil by any such selfish arguments. We refuse to form an nlliance withthe devil, even if he does promise to pay part of our taxes. It is a promise that he cannot fulfill, we can easily prove; but if it were true that such an institution did help pay our taxes we would Just as heartily condemn it. We refuse to make an alliance with the devil, no matter how alluring his proposition. Don't forget to enroll, so as to vote in the city primary. Saturday is the last day the books will he kept open. Of Interest te Pluten. (Columbia, 8. C., March SO, 1912. Editor Union Times, Union, 8. G. Dear Sir: Sometime since you kindly invited me to write an article for publication, explaining with some detail the inspection and analysis of commercial fertilisers as is carried on by Clemson College. I vary much appreciate the invitation, and trust what is given below will prove of some value in making understood a very Important work, about which there is a great deal of mlsinfiorma tlon. The laws governing the Inspection, sale and analysis of fertilisers are made by the representatives of the people in the General Assembly, and not by Clemson College, as we often hear. If there are Imperfections In the laws, the College Is certainly not responsible. It Is the duty of the College to enforce the laws and not to make them. Now for the purpose of enforcing these laws the Fertiliser Board has provided a Secretarty, who has general supervision of everything pertaining to the inspection and analysis of the fertilizers sold in the State. There Is maintained at the College, a complete and modern laboratory In which the work Is carried on. There are a number of expert fertiliser chemists employed, and all are under the direct supervision of the College's Chief Chemist The work In the laboratory is divided Into three divisions. One division makes the analysis for phosphoric acid, another for ammonia, and another for potash, each entirely Independent of the other, and with no knowledge whatsoever of what percentage of plant food has been guar anteed by the manufacturer. The Fertilizer Board annually elects a force of competent men from different Bectlons of the State?twelve this year-whose duty It Is to take samples of every brand of fertilizer offered for sale In the State, to see that the proper label Is on the sack, and that the package weighs what It Is guaranteed to weigh. In order to do this, every depot and siding In the State is visited from two to five times during the season. The Inspector carries with him a steel trier, abont the length of the sack. With this he draws samples from one-tenth of the lot he finds, and after thoroughly mixing, places in a bottle holding about a quart, seals and affixes his name, and the number of the sample on the outside of the bottle. He then makes a complete transcript in duplicate of the labelling on the turer's guarantee, goes to the Secretary of the Board, but the sample itself goes to the laboratory for analysis. Mind, that all of the sampling, mixing, sealing and the making of the transcript Is done In the presence of a witness who signs a state? TDio mannfa/v. muui iu vuav uuovi.. amv um*uu??*v turers' guarantee Is filed In the office of the Secretary and when the analysis has been made, the results are filed with It, then once a week during the season, both the guarantee and what is found, are written into a bulletin, and thousands of copies mailed to f&rmers throughout the State. But somebody says that the analysis Is a fake, that the manufactures and the chemists are In oolluslon to defraud the consumers. To do this, it would be necessary to corrupt practically everybody connected with the department, a number of almost equal to a legal South Carolina jury. But the State has made It possible for those who care to do so, to take a sample of his own fertilizer, send It into the College, have It analyzed, and get returns on It without anybody connected with the College in any capacity, knowing or having an opportunity to know who made It. where It was made, or what is guaranteed, to do thia though, the law ays it must be"done In a certain way and unless the sample Is drawn In accordance with the law, the College has no right to analyze same. The law prescribing Just how this must be done is contained In Section IB, Acts 1909, and Section 1, Acts 1911. The essentials to be observed are as follows: 1st?Sample must be taken from one tenth of lot. 2nd?Must be taken in the presence of two witnesses, one for the purchaser and one for the manufacturer, 3rd?The names of the chemicals contained In the fertilizer must be given, but not the percentage. The blanks with free instructions for drawing farmers samples can bs had of Hon. H. M. Stockhouse. Clemson College. 8. C., or of W. B. West, Chief Inspector, Colombia, 8. C. The Fertiliser Department of College is operated to the end that there may be a square deal between manufacturer and consumer. We believe this is being done to the entire satisfaction of all those who have mads an honest Investigation of the methods employed. Yours truly, W. B. West, Chief Inspector. SY nu In T1 of no Q In CO pl< an "( CO no if sh th fal VL .... ~ Letter. ^ i ! < Santuc, April 10.?There wm i preaching at the Methodist ohurah 1 Sunday by the pastor, Rev. O. N. I Rountree, an Easter sermon In a i way, a good one too, but the congregation was small, despite tbe tact 1 that it was Easter. Perhaps there were no "Easter hits?I do not know whether I saw one, but I do not know if 1 would know an Easter hat It I saw ona But me-thinks I saw a sample of Easter suits. Maybe the "boys" were trying-to out-fashion the girls. t this time there Is a line prospect for a peach crop, and, if It holds there will be an abundanoe, bat it may be like many engagements, broken off almost at tbe last. Just as the feast Is in eight. Many are trying to get gardens started?ours has been so very wet, k..41Sl 1? ? KUU n? uau UUUUUll in UUT WK/i holding ub back, and our game hens seem to want to take up their entire time in the gardens, and some flatting bens too. Come to think of H, our little place must be the sweetest, and moet publio place in town. This is corn planting time, but very few are ready, and there to all likely hood that land will be poorly prepared in the hurry and push, but the maybe to "not right" and that may be a hardship on the moon-man part of the farmers. No disrespect intend vu? Wanted: (But this Is not an advertisement, only telling what is wanted on a farm)?two male calves. Would prefer good stock, good common cattle with good foundation stock. If they had some Shorthorn, or Hereford would he good, better, but not any Jersey blood. Well this Is what I mean: If farmers would strive to raise a yoke of oxen, of good stock, make them grow large and "hefty" what a help at power would they have, as a team, If properly trained. Did any of yon ever work oxen, and find how useful they can be made? 1 have, and used to like It - Often they would do their own driving and let me hunt rabbits along the roadside. Farmers are trying to push the plowing now, but they are turning and twisting, looking this way and that, like a rxv.k r>larson on a house top, looking to so# whloh way to go; and land la toughening on stock rapidly. Th# numerous hoary rains packed H so bad. Boms farmers a tailed plowing when the grtfahtt whs ' f SHOES FOI km fashions are most important and ir the most effective costume. "Queen Quality" you always his season there should be related to your costume. This gives full si vel effects in colors and materials th uahty models. addition to the usual Tan, Bla lor represented in the new "Qyeei casing, especially when the ideas are d judgment ^ueen Quality** is always m the var upled with their extreme flexibility a t only elegance ol line, hut ease fron you wish to see styles that .are diffei oes that represent your own idei ould be, a splendid assortment in all brics, you should see our Spring sho' rt want you to see them at once. , Mutual Dry ' UNIok, JEUlo^ 5jr: , == real wet, and 1' heatd some'men say | that they had aeen some of that land, ind that It la in muoh wore# condition than If It had not been plowed at all, that It is baked "run together" and is almost unmanageable. But in more people's eyes that Is "hustling" though. Hey Denver. Governor Blease has removed Magistrate T. L. Hahn of North Augusta, Aiken county, for mlsconddct and neglect of duty. W. B. Crawley, a plumber, aged 40 was shot in the head and seriously wounded In Hartsvllle on Saturday by W. McKenele In a fight over some trivial matter. Pxiblic Car Garage Phone 189 Residence u. 146 W. Newell Smith Auto Co. Blood! 'Blood! You want blood and you want Pure Blood HUIET'S Pink Blood Purifier Will give you just what you want and have you in good shape for the spring and summer. Get a bottle at the PALMETTO DRUG CO. THE MONEY SAVERS . Union, S. C. I SPRING fgP %? a disregard of their selection may find the mode of die moment aches between the various details vav to the tenrlenev ?nu?r/l? j ?wmmmwmW TV ?M VW ?NO iat characterize the new "Quean ? ck, and White, die diversity oI a Quality" styles is particularly carried out with such good taste iguard on style matters and this, nd fine fit, insures to die wearer i the first moment worn. rent from those shown elsewhere, \ of what fashionable footwear the newest patterns, leathers and wing of "Queen Quality." Why not to-day? Goods Co. S. C. .. 'j*~ ^ ' ?Pw^w*?gMwap"l^p"^Mr | Haile's For F Cmarf Oi k/JLUMX V VTJ \ The young man t smart pair of Tar any of the m toes, can get his satisfied right hei chftwififf all the n< 47IIV TV al?) ?IIW 111 in shapes, style f leathers . - $2.00, $: $3.00 to J U All 1 IrtlL, The Place to E Union, S. coo ^ 3 k " * .fit ?L-BB ootwear / tfords hat wants a i Oxfords or ' shades or satisfaction re. We are iw creations. eatures and 2.50 >7.00 F'S Kiy Shoes 1 1