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# I THE And Extra Spec Nice Smooth Apron ( Ladies' S1.QO Combii Ladies' Slippers 98o Big line Millin I THE ^/ME k for Menz "Ease ^ shoes advertised i paper this montt over?it will pay 3 THE SHOE THA^8ATISFIE^he out-door ifi worker like yourself, for all sorts of servlco m in all sorts of weather. N o shoe can be built fl better, stronger, or to wear longer. Also fit fl like a glove, and the most comfortable everyday shoe you ever walked in. Name on yellow label protects you against imitations. Catalog No. 12 illustrates all ^ heights Mens \ "Ease", also the |J .\\g? |\ "American Boy" I liJ/f ! \ built to give the /] y/L t \ strong', sturdy, I vJf . / * ,1 out-door boy hon- H f ,11 est service. Send Ifl / leather is'al^3fcr i/l "Rase" Special /=^" Ji Elk. Unusually M i n strong, yet soft m /Mi ** C>ove leather / , /mty and never gets a S/ffiGW bard and ftifl of M unoom fortabla fiy wrinkles. Sole leather is selected Oak. Counters and heels absolutely solid and made In our own factory. A shoe throughout that you can take apart and find no fault with. ^WkBX. FOR CATALOG No. 12 containing a ^^Vaample of this wonderful leather. We have ^^Pdealers all over your stato. If we cant refer Vyou to one near you, we can introduce Mens Ease" and "American Boy" shoes direct to ^Pyou from the factory, regular retail prices, delivery prepaid. RWsnzles Shoe Co., Habere. Patrolt, Mich, MENZ "EASE" and "AMERICAN BOY" shoes length of service, nor to repell water, and these they are GOOD shoes worth considering the i YOURS FOR TTMIAAI CI U1UU11 o\ NO. 3 MAIN YOUTH HAS BRIGHT FUTURE < 1 Woman Customer Is Much Pleased Over Concession 8he Won From ' Young Clerk. Miss Ellis, descending the steps of Bennett & Buck's hardware store, met < Mrs. Lane going up. "What they got?" Mrs. Lane demanded in a tone that 1 said, "Nothing much, I guess!" ( "I didn't look around," replied Miss ' Bills. "I knew what I wanted," holding out an ungainly bundle, "and I got it?a hand bellows for my fireplace. I went In, and Mary Baker's third? f no fourth?boy came right up to me and asked what he could show me. 1 I told him hand bellowses. He , brought some up and said they were ^ a dollar. ( " 'Is that the best you can do?* I ask- ] ed him. " 'The very best,' he says, 'but I'll tell you what IT do, Miss Ellis/ he , says. 'You don't look a very strong lady, and I'll fill it with wind for j ye.' "If you want concessions," conclud- J ed Miss Ellis, "I recommend ye to , IUUI uuj. ?i uuiu H ^ouipmuuii. Taking No Risk*. "Yea," said the suburbanite, *T am fond of mushrooms and we often have them on our table." "But," asked the city man, "don't you incur some risk of eating a toadstool now and then?" "Mrtf if f ha naiHiAfi n/h r\ nlaWe ham V " "" V,V"D I understands hi# business. Invariably j I exercise the utmost care. So does , a certain neighbor of mine. We are ] not on very good terms with him. , Imagine my surprise the other even- , lng when his small daughter brought , over a mess of mushrooms, saying her | papa wanted us to try them for sup* ( per. Well, they were all right. We ; ate them and they were enjk>yed. La BA1 ials (or Saturday; ainghams at the yard 3 1 nation Suits 69c. Oil Cl< > per pair. Laoe Curtain! ioku hnth Taimm wa j 3 w ai i :bai I THE 1 " and "American Boy" n your state agricultural i. Come in and look them Fou?these letters prove It. ^ J I * I New Providence S. C. "Since putting on your Mcnz 'Ease' shoes I 1 have realized more comfort than from any other work shoe I have ever worn. I believe it la the shoe to please the people." THOS. W. McINTOSH* , Ebenezer, S. C. "I bought a pair of your Menz 'Ease' shoes, in the light weight, and have given them a severe test for ninety days or more. 1 am delighted with the service and comfort they have given me. and in fact I cannot say too much about the good qualities of this shoe." # W. V. McCOLL. Ashland, S. C. "I never expect to wear any other shoe as long as Menz 'Ease' holds the wearing qualities it has in the past. It wears as long as you want it, and besides stays soft and comfortable all the time.'! BASCOMB BEST. Auburn, S. C. "Your Menz 'Ease' shoe is the best I have ever worn,?never want anything else. They will stay soft even if worn in water." LIDE McINTOSH. Swift Creek. S. C. "The Mcnz 'Ease' shoes I bought from you have worn out two half soles and are perfectly good yet and as soft as they ever were." J. H. McFARLAND. Kcllytown, S. C. "The Menz 'Ease' shoes I bought from you will last me twice as long as any shoe I have ever worn, and is the softest and most comfortable siioc I have ever seen." HENRY KELLY. Santuck, S. C. "The 'American Boy' shoe Is the best shoe I have ever bought for boys." J. T. JETER. Union, S. C. " 'American Boy' shoes give entire satisfaction. The uppers are the softest and best wearing of any shoe that I have ever worn, and were all O. K. after the bottoms had worn out. I can recommend the shoe to any one who desires a shoe for rough usage." B. H. BETENBAUGH. are not guaranteed to ftl 'o any certain letters are only offered as evidence that next time you need an overy-day pair. BUSINESS hot. rn STREET. ter I met an acquaintance of my kind neighbor. " 'Did you eat thoae mushrooms?' he asked. " 'Sure,' said I. "'No bad effects?* " 'None whatever. Why do you ask?' " 'Well, Mr. Blank was In doubt about them, so he decided to take no chances. That's why he tried them an you first.'" "A Perfect Saw." iw oa; uuiutu? suu oaw nwu seems to be one of the most sagacious phrases passed down by our hardworking forebears. Like most sayings which have emanated from manual tabor, this is blunt, homely, and, to the loquaciously Inclined, painfully accurate. Show me a man bent Jackknife* fashion over a sawhorse, with a short log under his buck, and I will point out a man who 1? minding bis own business with admirable zeal. If he speaks, he ceases to saw. While he jaus he is necessarily mute. Hence this shrewd phrase, which Is, punning aside, a perfect saw.?Atlantic Monthly. Bees as a Weather Bureau. Those who have studied the bees in the mountains say their combs always foretell the length of the coming seasons to a nicety. As they always build their combs first, if the spring is 10 d? oariy ana warm me combs at the top of the hive are built long, but If the first season of the year is to be cold and short the combs are made small. It Is the same with the summer and fall season. Mountaineers who have cleared lands In the valley say they can predict scant or bountiful crops merely by opening and examining the combe in a beehive.?> 1 New York Press. TER1 and Monday and -2o ?Limit. Boya* Shli oth 15o yard. Taloum Po s 39o per pair. 2 Balls 5 led and Untrimm Come, We can' ITER HE PUNNED HIS OWN DEATH How 8lr William Hankford 600 Year* Ago Evaded Law Agalnat Committing 8uicide. Suicides often adopt Ingenious methods hilt the Art of the fnlrv do no seems not to have advanced materially during the centuries. The modern case of a heavily Insured broker who Dn a feigned hunting trip stood barelegged in a quagmire for hours and wilfully contracted a fatal pneumonia is matched In cleverness by one 500 pears old. The following facts are well vouched for, and Indeed were never questioned, says the Green Bag. Sir William Hankford, a judge of the king's bench in the reigns of Edward III, Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, and at the time of his death chief justice of England, was a man of melancholy temperament. He seems to have contemplated Buicide the greater part of his long life and during his later years the Idea became a fixed purpose. ThO act was of peculiarly serious consequences in those days for the reason that the law treated it as a capital crime. The offender was buried at the croes roads, with a stake driven through his body, and all his goods and property were forfeited to the crown, to the utter ruin of his family. Hankford made good use of hlh wits and succeeded in acco**pll$hfcg his purpose without lncurrtnj^sHobr unpleasant penalty. He gave ojfen instructions to his gamekeeper, who " had been troubled with poachers in the deer preserve, to challenge all trespassers in the future and to shoot to kill if they would not stand and give an accouift. One dark night he purposely crossed the keeper's path, and upon challenge made motions of resistance and escape. The faithful servant, falling to recognise his master, fol< lowed instruction to the letter, as was expected of him, and Sir William fell dead in his tracks. The whole truth of the affair was common knowledge, but It was Impossible to establish a case of suicide by legal proof. The servant was protected by his Instructions. Hankford had honorable burial and his estate passed to those whose interests as heirs he had so wisely considered. THEIR SINGING HARD LABOR People of 8tar Island, 8aye Cells Thaxter, Qrlnd Out Sounds With Tremendous Exertion. Among people of average musical ability there is less singing than there used to be. Nearly everybody enjoys singing, and there was a time when nearly everybody was expected, on occasion, to sing. But from different cauees?a more exacting standard, the rivalry of the phonograph, arid other reasons?amateur singers are, fewer than they were. It Is a matter for regret from one point of view, shd from another for rejoicing. In a recently published letter. Cells Thaxter tells how some of the Star Island folk4, during her long residence at the Isles of Shoals, used to sing. "Their singing," she declared, "was truly astonishing, indeed, f'might say, excruciating. They go at It precisely as if they were sawing wood, and grind out the sounds with such exertion that their face# become crimson and the perspiration stands In beads on their foreheads."?Youth's Company Ion. The Iron Crown of Italy. The historic Iron crown of Italy has played a romantic role In the hInto ry of the peninsula. It was made In the year 694 by the command. It la said, of Theodotinda, the widow of a Lombard kins, on the oecaslon of her marriage to a duke of Turin. The crown la of iron overlaid with gilt Its significance was supposed to lay to the fact that the weight of royalty could never be lightened by Ita splendid exterior. The toop. of the toner portion was traditionally held to be one of the long nails need at the crucifixion For a lonf tin* th? crown wu la tho kctplai at the fnaow aoautcry at Monsn. In 774 It wu brought forth to bo nhwi ?ihm tho hood of PECL Come and We W Overalls 25c pair. Tw( h Shoe for Men, All S< rs s all Next Week. rts 15o each. Men's C wder 4o Can. Good Ploi tewing Thread for 1e. N( led. Your Mone t tell the half of i !Y,ur a Charlemagne as "King or me Lombards," and on later occasions It figured In the triumphs of Frederic IV and Charles V. Finally In the presence of all the representatives of state, the foreign envoys and princes and officers. Napoleon Bonaparte solemnly united It to the crown of France. The crown belongs to the state, and the custodian of It Is the legitimate representative of the basilica of Monza. The title of "grand custodian," however, pertains to the head of the order of Cavaliers.?Harper's Weekly. Light of the Firefly. The statement that the light of fire files and other phosphorescent animals Is produced without any sensible degree of heat has often been repeated without any Information as to the quantity of heat that would be required to produce a similar amount of light by artificial methods. This information Is supplied by Professor Mcintosh. He says that a temperature approaching 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit would bo necessary to make a light equivalent to that emitted by an ordinary firefly. The enormous waste In all industrial methods of producing light is a matter of common knowledge, and the example of the firefly remains unimitated by man. The very simplicity of the mechanism employed by nature In phosphorescent animals is baffling. ?Harper's Weekly. ? WHEN CARVING WAS AN ART In Old Days the Slicing Was Suited to the Importance of the Guest. Carving was once a serious thing. The sixteenth century carver was a professional. He had to make the Joint fit the guest. The size of his Blices was the thing. Then he had to know his guests and cut accordingly. A lord, for Instance, at the table, and a pike was dished up whole. Smaller fry, and the pike came on In slices. The same procedure with pig. The rank of the diners decided whether It should appear at table in gold leaf or naked, whole or sliced. With bread, too, there was a difference. New or three days old baked was at the discretion of the carver as he sized up the visitors. And as for the apportioning of the tidbits according to precedence there was no end. The old-time carver in fact was born ancj then made. The eighteenth century was the day of the carving master. He taught hostesses the art. Lady Mary Montagu, for instance, took three lessons a week "that she might be perfect on her father's public days, when, in order to perform her functions without Interruptions, she was forced to eat her own dinner alone an hour or two beforehand." The hostess carved while the host "pushed the bottle." She did more. Sha urged the guests to eat mors and more, and woe to her if she neglected a guest. The diner who was forced to help himself to a silos of anything nearly choked. These diners of the eighteenth century liked being pressed. And the hostess welcomed the end of the feast.?London Chronicle. Arabia's Laughing Plant. The laughing plant Is not a flower that laughs, but one that creates laughter. If the printed acoounts of travelers can be believed, says an English paper. It grows In Arabia and la called the laughing plant bees use the seeds produce effects like uiose caused by laughing gas. The flowers are of a bright yellow, and the seed pods are soft and woolly, while the seeds resemble small black beans. Only two or three grow In a pod. The natlref dry and pulverise them, and the powder, taken In small doses, makes the soberest person behave like a circus clown or a madman, tor he will danoe, sing and laugh most boisterously and cut the most fantastic capers and be In an uproariously ridiculous oondttkm tor about an hour. When the excitement ceases the exhausted exhibitor of these antics falls asleep, gad when be awakens he has not the slightest remembrance of his frisky doings. / Bodies 1c per paper. % y Back every tii IION,: A BON I have 17 1-2 acres of room cottages, one large one mile of Lockhart ft Barnes now lives and cc cantile business. Mr. considerable money righ a large estate and wants to say that this is the bes where in this section of PRICE $2,500. E. F. I THE LAND MAN f -C j) o k w THE LATEST INVEN fECONO I GAS B X FITS AN X Does the trick. CIu Wood or Coal. The X Own Your Own Gas ] X Installed in Your He X No wood or coal to X carry out on rainy Smoke. Seeing is ti X no danger. Come at X stration. $ Union Plumbinc Y Unloi i The Edisonia Theatre ONE DAY ONLY THURSDAY, MAY 9th, 1912. The World's Greatest Photoplay TTAifrtntn rw -sr-e -w r tlUIJlH.lt ? Ult I ?51!i I You will like it. Tell your friends. Three?Reels?Three Suitable Music by Barnette Orchestra Children 10c Adults 20c. Come and see our line of Bicycles IVER JOHNSON "The Best" W. NEWELL SMITH AUTO CO. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA. ALS I on'! Fool You. I ) Towels for 25c. ! olid, 98o per pair- I Tie you want s. c. HHHHHHIHHMHflHHHHHHHHi IANZA! land with two nice three frame storeroom, within lills store, where W. H. inducts a successful merBarnes has accumulated t here and has purchased i to move to it. I venture ;t opening of its kind anythe country. TERMS EASY. (ELLY - JONESVILLE, S. C. - AVA ATt ATk ATA ATA ATA *TA A^A I T H G A S- I TION?THE FAMOUS > MICALf URNERf Y STOVE X saper tnan City Gas, : Talk of the Town. ; Plant. ^ ills? OIVI Y ?12_<%n * bring in or ashes to ?|> days. No Dirt, no > lelieving. Absolutely once and see demon- ?|> I & Electric Co. f i? S. C. | JTA A^t. A^A A^fc. r X FOR THE onnnrr > ?m nvnnnnn ariuiiu m\u MJimntK Take the Tonic That Puts on Flesh HUIET'S Pink Blood Pnrifer r m b ivi b i I \J DRUG CO. THE MONEY SAVERS Union. S. C. United States Senators cooperating with the committee of one hundred of the Women's Titanic Memorial movement will nominate ten women in each State who will be asked to form State organizations to act "as centers of information" in their territories. I