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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By The UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO 1. LEWIS M. RICF. - - - Editor. Registered at the Postofflce in Union, S.| C., as second-class mail mat(ar SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first insortion $1 00 Every subsequent insertion .50 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 solid type?first insertion, per inch $1.00; each subsequent insertion, per incn, r>u cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors, 3 inches, 2 times, $4.50. Final Discharge, 1 3-4 inches, 4 times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's notices, 1 1-4 inches, 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. FRIAD, FEBRUARY 28, 1913. Hon. Lowndes J. Browning, of Sedalia, is a probable candidate for Governor in the next primary. If he should make the race he would poll a strong vote, and if elected, would fill the position of honor intelligently and worthily. O The compulsory education bill,, it seems, will be passed. The only comment we have is that it should have been passed twenty years ago. If the children of today are to be the citizens of to-morrow, they should at least be Riven a chance to be intelligent citizens. O The action of A. E. Gonzales, president of the Columbia State Company, in guaranteeing the $40,000 necessary to secure the National Corn Exposition for Columbia, was a piece of liberality and of patriotism not often found. He and his company have, in this matter, performed a service to South Carolina that will prove of inestimable value. A newspaper man who is not possessed of a public spirit is hard to find, but the action of the State Company ranks high as a generous action among a multitude of unselfish deeds. o It is frequently argued that compulsory education will benefit the negroes and not the whites. Such argument has time and again, been shown illogical and inane; here is another knock-out blow to such logicians: In Greenville County there was a falling off of 146 white pupils in that county in 1911 and a gain of 823 negroes; again in 1912 there was falling off of 95 whites and a gain of 942 negroes. This is going on without compulsory education? the whites need it, not the negroes. The conditions in Greenville county, we fear are conditions that prevail in other sections of the State. 0 If Presitent- elect Wilson, it is reported, will appoint William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State. If < he should do so he will again have 1 demonstrated his right to be accredited a level-headed , far-seeing man Mr Bryan is one of the great men of today, and his character is pure gold. The years of conflict through which he nas gone have given to him saner judgment but have left no stain upon his name. He is true to his convictions, honest in his statements and fearless in battle. He was twenty years ahead of his times, and but for that fact would have himself been president of the United States. 0 We have been very much gratified to see the hearty response our appeal to the schools has met with. We have received a number of excellent essays furnished by the various schools throughout the county. Some : of these essays we have published; others are awaitnig their turr to be published. It sometimes happens that we have to carry articles ovet to the next week, owing to having ho space. So do not suppose we do not wish you to send the articles in if you find that your communication fails to appear the same week it is sent us. We wish to cooperate with the teachers throughout the county in stimulating and encouraging the pupils in this work. We believe publishing the best essays written by the pupils and furnished us by the teach ers, will help in that direction. O News From Santuc. Young Mr. Ryan Jeter and his sister, Miss Lizzie Jeter, students at Furman University and Greenville Female College .spent the week end with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. T Jeter. Mr. Frank H. Jeter, a graduate of, and recently assistant director at Clemson College, but now with the German Kali Works, with office ir Atlanta, was here last week, seeking to interest farmers in fertilizer tests or demonstration work?they to furnish fertilizer, and the farmers tc furnish the plots of land and do the work. Two or three will try the tests. This is a way to try fertilizers to see which will pay. This section is getting honey combed with telephones now. Sever al new lines of posts are already up, wires will be put up soon ant phones installed?then I guess then will be talking. Just about the time farmers wen putting on "elbow grease" to go t< plowing, the rains started, and nov almost all farm work is stalled. We have had much rain in February. A few wanted to sow spring oats. This writer will yet, if it dries off soon on bottoms. Well, there has not beer any big amount of work done since Christmas, anyway, averaging thing! up. People have seemed to be rest ing. I have heard it rumored that sev eral young men are taking on : gambling habit. It is only rumored I do not know. But is sounds verj bad, and I wish they would not. A1 most all negroes gamble and kee; late hours, and I hope every younj white man in the section would stain far above them, in habits, too. One night last week a heavy stee truck wheel fell from a througi freight train passing through here It was found beside the track nex morning by a passerby. It wa: marked to a firm in Columbia. Tha certainly was a way to lose freighi No doubt more freight is lost jus that way. .ns regurus me law aDOUt tn? burying of dead animals. I wonde; if many people really know it, or evei observe it. They may not, but I be lieve everybody ought to bury dea< animals, chickens, etc., anyway, ever without a law. It is much more de cent for noses, and to streams. Con sequently health would not be en dangered, especially that of domesti* stock, if any died with contagiou: diseases. Every summer you, or somebody may brag about the first cottor square, bloom or boll of cotton, ther later the first open boll; but Santu< has a peach tree that was in bloon the last of January, and now sonu leaves an inch long are on it. Thos< little peaches, still encased in theii coverings, went through the two colt days of a week ago and were nol killed either. Some other things San tuc has too ,and don't forget?somi big bull frogs. Speaking of endurance, how i.< this? A few weeks ago, on a Wednes day morning, I heard a cat in thi nie-ows, but I thought it was only j lonesome cat. Sunday afterwards t colored man heard the cat in the sarw place and again on Monday evening Going to the workshop here he tolc the men that he thought a cat was ir something there and could not gel out, and if he could get in, he woulc see. The keys were at the shop, anc one of the men went with the col ored man, and they found the cat ir the press-box, which was too slick foi it to climb out off. They workec around and with some bagging got the cat?almost a skeleton and verj weak?out. It was later learned thai the cat beolnged to Mr. R. E. Moss's iwo nine giris ana naa neen missing for more than a week, and the house hold had given it up for lost. Bui those little girls were glad to get th< poor thing back, gave it kind atten tion and tabby is getting in condi tion to go back to business catcninj rats. A few nights ago I took a trij through "Dreamland" and such t time I had. I was trying to remedj a steam boiler that uiac "fnomini?1 and putting in a new waterguage and a young lady volunteered to helj and got me so frustrated that I die not know whether or not I had it up. side down, and I had to stop, or bursi a boiler. Waking relieved me. Well, and when I was running a traveling steam gin, (at a place) a pretty young lady friend?well she was a cousin?came around to see the SMITH PLEADS FOR ANTI-FUTURE BILL. (Continued from page 1.) i _ i One reason that this sentiment is ( prevalent is because the farmes has not yet realized that one rsason that he is in the condition that he is, is 1 that the legislators of this country 1 has been really -indifferent to his welfare. "It is an easy matter for a man in , easy circumstances to take an optimistic view of things in general ana of the individual or people who are in a Daa nx particularly, Dut we are going to have this legislation. ' "In conclusion, I desire to say that the senator from Massachusetts (Mr. . Lodge) the other day stated a thing ; that struck me as being so forcible > that I recognized its trithfulness at I once. He said that the poet by virtue . of his high genius and his intuition, saw deeper into the heart of things ? than another, and in verse he was ; very often able to express it more 5 clearly and tersely and powerfully i than another. I came across thi3 ; verse subsequent to that and it was s so appropriate that I shall quote it . We sit here in better circumstances ? and do not feel thf? rrv r?f ? and the humility of its attendant > evils. We are optimistic in general. - and we are forgetful of our more unfortunate fellows. These were the - lines that illustrate the attitude of - those who can help the farmer. The r attitude of those who are indifferent 1 to him is aptly expressed in these i lines: "The toad beneath the harrow knows i exactly where the toothpoint goes; > The butterfly upon the road preaches r contentment to the toad." l Ideal Wife Dream of an Idealist. 5 Hanford, Cal., Feb. 25.? In re, ply to the query, "What constitutes i the ideal woman for a wife," which i he sent broadcast among the young s men of Hanford, the Rev. W. C. - Loomis, pastor of the first Methodist church of this city, recieved more - than a score of descriptions, but he i considers the following the best pf , all: i j "The ideal woman for a wife, should have these qualifications. i . The voice of Melba, the talent of f Paderewski, the figure of Venus 1 the grace of a sylph, the vivacit^ of a coryphee, eyes like the 1 soft glow of a moonlight eve, an. i alabasterlike complexion , the! virtues of a nun, the charm of, t Cleopatra, the meekness of 3 Moses, the patience of Job, the t forbearance af Lazarus, the zeal of a Trogan, the constancy of j ? vnvom o *TU.C| U1C l^ipaUIHUCS a charwoman, the purse of Hetty ' e Grpen, and the hair of her own." ? r r Notice of Final Discharge. . State of South Carolina, i County of Union. COURT OF PROBATE. * Notice is hereby given, that on the - 24th day of March, 1913, at 11 o'clock - a m., in the Court of Probate for said . County, the undersigned will make his final settlement as guardian of " the estate of Guy Thomas, and that ? thereupon he will apply to the Judge of said Court, for his final discharge as such guardian. R. S. Thomas. This 20th day of February, 1913, 1 Published in the Union Times, for 30 * days. 8-4t. ; Notice to Creditors and Debtors. ? All DiTrties holding norninot ' the estate of John C. Hunter, deceased, must present the same, duly ' proven, to me, and all persons indebtt ed to said estate must make payment . to me. 4 F. Elmira Hunter, Administratrix. Union, S. C., Feb. 24, 1913. 9-4t. i List of Advertised Letters - For the week ending Feb. 28, 1913. l E. L. Bradley, (3), John Brandy, John Bonner, S. D. Berry, Agt., F. B. 1 Brown, Bob Corn, Fred Cunningham, i Arthur Emory, Vassie Emory, Ber. tha Gregory, Miss N. J. Harvey, Hesj ter Gins, Margie Lize, James Johnson, Edna Lewis, Joe Ledcoie, John Kelly, Mary Kirby, W. M. Kyzer, T. - B. Mangers, T. Munroe, Janie 1). i Murphy, Dora Nichols, O. T. O'Daniel, | W. T. Swarger, Mrs. M. E. Swarger, Francis Salter, Texanna Smith, Sitsomons Sartor, Porteau Thomas, A. 1 Walters & Son, Linie Worthy. L. G. Young, Postmaster. I t Marriage and a cold are easily conr tracted. t j gin and press, and to see the engine j run, as lames often aid when there - were gentlemen?and almost everyt body who ever run a gin outfit are i gentlemen?and this girl said that if - I would show her how to operate the - boiler feeder, the injector, she would f put in the water and I could do the firing. So we were having an all > right time, but some how I let the i fire get on the down hill road with r me, until the steam run so low that ' I could not pull a gin, and had to stop , still until I could raise steam, and > the girl laughed at me for not being I able to fire a boiler, and as some say, . she was the cause of it. But I alt ways liked for ladies to come around on a tour in seeing various kinds of i machinery run, when they could lay i stiff formalities aside. But with some > it would be unfashionable to look that s direction. Hey Denver., lAFEV AtT We Hs For Men and and if you ne boy it will pa we can save Sh. For Men, Wo in ai Silve Brand Buttonholes; 1 | MUTUAL The Baptist Sunday School conf ' % Mention' will be held at Padgett's Creek Church, twelve miles west of Union, on the 5th Sunday in March. The program is as follows: 10-.00 a. m.?Devotional exercises conducted by H. B. Murphy. 10:30?Enrollment of the delegates. 11:00?Subject, "The Field is the World," by Rev. W. D. Wakefield. 11:30?Subject, "Money and the Kingdom," by Lewis M. Rice. 12:00 m.?Appointment of committees on reports. 12:15 p. m.?Dinner. 1:20.?Devotional Exercises by A. E. Hill. 1:35?Subject, "Atonement," by H. E. Brewington. 2:00?Subject, "The Sunday School as a Character Builder," by J. A. Anderson. 2:30?Subject, "Salvation by Grace," by A. O. Allison. 3:00?Reports of the committees. Adjournment. The Columbia State paid the past year for postage on its circulation $12,541.80 ,the rate being one cent a pound. The supervisor of Orangeburg county has offered $25 reward for every person convicted of violating the dispensary law. Get Them Now Plant them as soon as the ground will permit. ONION SETTS That is what we are reminding you about today. Red, White, Yellow. The best keepers and the kind that make large satisfactory Onions. The sooner vou plant the earlier you can nave something fresh from your own garden and some to sell to your neighbor who does not plant a garden. Don't forget us when you want good Onion Setts, Seed Irish Potatoes, Seed English Peas, or anything that grows in the garden. THE UNION GROCERY COMPANY. Reliable Seedsmen. If SPEC he Mill "I ave a Few Boys we want sed a suit for youi Ly you to come you money on Si % oes! 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