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I How About Y ARE THEY THE CC There is a vast diffe S<?me are much more co and pleasure than others discovered it. It's all ir We eniov a cood Rorker ^ ? 0 ? have selected some comf try them. NEW GOODS arriv on our windows. OUR GOODS are r right, see us and save mi We have three fleor niture, and can furnish from the cheapest to the show you our goods. Gi IAI U E WW H High Grade rw-r* - y? . ^ Something 1 Your Local Pj Paper at a R The Union Times, 1 The Semi-Weekly J BOTH FOR ONLY The Semi-weekly Stab POULTRY SECTION, e chicken men in the Sou MARKET EXCHANGE, cultural Department of magnificient Agriculturs ly to our climate and soil ed very materially their ry more Associated Pres vice than any other papei price of the Semi-weekb per year but now it has b and is certainly in reach The Union Times, as nc be in the home of every and now that you can se and State paper; making WEEK FOR LESS TI PRICE OF THE STATI will readily note the barg Send in your order at The Union Times, Union, Eg? ?mq , our Rockers? >MFORTABLE KIND rence in Rocking Chairs, nducive to comfort, ease . Perhaps you may have i the way they are built. ourselves, and think we ortable ones. Come and ing daily, keep your eye icrht and oiir nrices ar<? oney. s packed full of fine furany room in the house ^ best. It's a pleasure to ve us a Call. tURRIS i Furniture. X. J - rv ' ( m m m mm mm m mm Worth While iper and State educed Price. tegular Price $1.00 itate " $1.00 $1.75 e has recently added a dited by one of the best th. They have added a , conducted by the AgriSouth Carolina and a il page devoted especial. They have strengthenmarket reports and cars and State's News Ser in South Carolina. The j has always been $2.00 een reduced to only $1.00 of everyone. ) doubt you know, should farmer of our County, cure your County uaDer ; THREE ISSUES PER IAN THE ORIGINAL 3 PAPER ALONE, you ain that we are offering, once, addressing it to. S. C. III. jcOMES TO WED GIRL , BUT IT IS ALL A JOKE I "My Intentions Weren't Serious," Wails Carolina Belle When S I Man Bobs Up. HE WOULD WOO AND SHE RUNS | Finally He Tells Her He Is Not "John Campbell," and the Whole Thing is a Hoax. GAFFNEY, S. C., Jan. 3.?"My intentions were not serious," wailed | hi T^I n AA * n Si _ i miss r toy oarraix, one 01 uanney 8 most popufar and charming young ladies, to the smooth shaven, handsome man who stood upon her door step and announced himself as John Campbell, of Meridian, Miss. Miss Sarratt had seen a letter signed by Campbell published in a magazine a few weeks agA inviting correspondence from young ladiee, and in a mischievous spirit, she wrote to him. She received no answer and had almost forgotten the incident until it was vividly recalled by Campbell appearing and stating that he thought it was best for him to come here and bring matters to a conclusion as speedily as possible. Miss Sarratt demurred and insisted that she could not consider the proposition, explaining that she had no intention of marrying at the present time, and that he must look elsewhere for his soul's affinity. Although disappointed, Campbell determined to prosecute his suit, and upon being invited by Miss Sarratt's mother he went into the parlor. Miss Sarratt, taking advantage of being left alone on the front porch, slipped ; away to visit a friend, and did not return home until she was sure her unwelcome caller had departed. In the morning the unwelcome guest dropped in at the office where Miss Sarratt is employed as a stenographer and presented her with a five-pound box of candy, at the same time confessing that he was not Campbell but a traveling man who had been induced to play the part by one of her friends who knew about her correspondence with the gentleman from Mississippi. Miss Sarratt had been in entire norance of the joke being played ujion her until the traveling man "Iqm the cat out of ^ie bag," and mosH. humbly begged *her pardon for^tfT' part he had played in deceiving her.. 1AHJIVHAKT JUNfllUW. LOCKHART JUNC., Jan. 5.?The old year has past and prone, leaving its sweets and bitters and my mind reverts to the scenes and resolutions of my boyhood days and it does seem like it was yesterday when it passed. I can look back in my memory and view the old home and can see in that home the vacant chair and the empty cradle. Then in another room I can see another vacant chair. Oh! fond recollections of ones childhood < days. When father and mother and brothers and sisters were all there. I I Now my dear readers deal patiently with me as this is not much of a \ spicy letter, but these are my 1 thoughts as I sit down to write and < 'iere has never been a year passed 1 since their chairs were vacant, but 1 ' 1 what I think of them. My father and mother died in January, one year be- j tween their deaths. My wife died in , the latter part of the year in October, t So you see these thoughts come to | me more fully at this time. ? t I have written you spicy letters 1 and have read spicy letters from the r different correspondents and have en- 1 O'oyed them, but in this writer is a p bigger heart than some might think. ( I have a heart of sympathy for tho^o t who have lost a dear friend. Mrs. Carrie Tweed, the wife of ulr. e T W. Tweed, who has been sick for 1 several months, died the 31st of De- ^ cember, 1913 and was buried at Beth- j lehem church the following day. Rev. ^ L. L. Wagnon conducted the service. ^ Mrs. Tweed was our neighbor and <] was a Rood woman, always ready to d help the sick and the afflicted and c stood by the dying until they passed ' away. Too much cannot be said of this good woman and I am not strew- ^ ing flowers now after she is gone, ^ but I visited her in health and talked 0 with her during her sickness. A few 0 hours before she died she called her g husband and children' to her bedside I and told them she had prayed to live '' with them but it was not God's will ^ and she was now ready to go and * for them to live so as to meet her in f Heaven, for it was all right with her. { These bereaved ones have the sympathy of many friends in their sprrow b and trouble. 1 Now think gentle friends as yoti 1 read these sad lines. Some of us may ? be sad and lonely, but when the trials *! of earth are forever forgotten, may t) wi> all in flio /nil ?own and people, said it was a surtime. Wishing yon all a happy and prosperous new year, I am yours a I faithfully, Moxy. -i : OUTLAW LAFITTE. ; ; ' " Did Time Patriot Pirate of the Gulf of Mexico. HE WAS COURTLY AND BRAVE And a* Mild Manmrtd Man as Evar 8cuttled Ship or Cut a Throat?Ha Boldly Faoad Andrew Jackson, Won Hi* FriendahiD and Fouaht For Him. In the brave days of old Jean LaHtte. the patriot pirate of the gulf, ruled over a little outlaw kingdom of bis own within a few miles of the city of New Orleans. A picturesque tlgure was Jean r,afltte. with a graceful, courtly delivery about him which made him popular with muny of the most estimable flwellers in New Orleans. Handsome, able, averse to the shedding of blood and even possessed of loyalty to the government whoso excise laws he made it his business to break. *J.ntitte was French. He drifted to Louisiana In the early years of the nineteenth century and set up in piracy in the bay of Baraturia. a sheltered harbor on the gulf of Mexico, protected by a long islund called (irnnd Terre. where Jean Lafltto dwelt in a house of brick, with broad uud comfortable verandas, where one might loll at ease in'a hammock, smoking and drinking luzily. while pirate chiefs mm iu 10 uring reports or plunder taken and prospects abend. No crude or common pirate was this Jean Laiittc. He held a privateer's commission from the republic of Cartagena. which had been recently established In South America and has long since been forgotten, and this commission gave him the right to plunder Spuuish ships. I,nlitte's followers were a motley collection?black, white, yellow and rod?restless and reckless rovers of the sen. I.nfltte trafficked in silk and gold and negroes and sold his goods openly at auction even in the city of New Orleans. He was popular, too: there is no doubt of tlint. Had It been otherwise he would not have been permitted to remain five years in Bnrataria. As parly as 1809 we find governors of Louisiana thundering against him. but Lafltte went cnluilv about his business Occasionally a revenue officer was killed iu a brush with the pirates. Invariably Lafltte expressed bis sorrow that bloodshed had become necessary. A ease was brought against bim in the federnl court. The district attorney was I man named Qrymee. Lafltte went to see Urymes. and the result of the i-jtslfwas that the district attorney rerifefced his office and undertook Lafitte's letense. He and the lawyer who asdated bim were promised $20,000 apiece for their services and got it tfter the case was dismissed Grymes went to Baratarla to receive his fee ind spent a week feasting with the pirates, who treated bim with princely iospitallty and escorted him back to he Mississippi in a handsome yawl, aden with caskets of gold and silver. Repeated attempts had been made to >rgnmze a military expedition to deitroy Lafltte's pirate colony, but up to he year 1814 they bad always come :o nothing. In September of that year i British brig anchored six miles from [laratarin pass, and its captain came ishore and offered Lafltte a captain's ommlssion In the British navy, and >30.000 if he would join the British in in attack against New Orleans. Lafltte pretended to consider the offer. sending word meantime to a member of the legislature of the British captain's offer and declaring tbnt be ffould never accept it He sent another letter to Governor Chaiborne, who rnd offered $3,000 for Lafltte's head ind for whose head Lafltte in return, u n spirit of gay bravado, had offered i reward of $30,000. Lafltte suggested bat the governor extend clemency to lis pirates, who in return would aid In he defense of the state against the Jritish. The offer was rejected, and in expedition under Commodore Paterson of the United States navy wooped down on Barataria unexpectdly. tore down the brick bouse, conisented much plunder and drove out he pirates. Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre scaped and established themselves on he lower Mississippi. Meanwhile AnIrew Jackson had arrived to undernke the defense of New Orleans. Jean ^afltte went boldly into New Orleans o see him. although the fiery general tad declared be would have nothing to lo with "these pirates and hellish banlitti." There must have been a peuliar charm and persuasiveness about ean Lafitte. for after the interview lackson changed his mind, accepted be aid of the pirates and showed the itinost trust in them. And throughout he siege of New Orleans the followers >f IjQfltte showed themselves worthy f confidence. They were excellent :iyiners. and two of Lafitte's captains. VimlnlmiA Vam ?VU uuu a uiuu uauit^l DC* ucbe. wore put in cbargo of sbips. Vhen tbe British bad been driven way Jackson recommended that Laitte and his men be granted pardon or ail previous misdemeanors, and the bing was done. Nobody seems to know exactly what ecame of Jean Lafltte and his brother, n 1810 we find Jean in Galveston, 'ex.. whence he was chased by the panlsh government in 1820. Later here came stories of cruises in the Jaribbean. The call of the sea was x> strong for tbe one time Baratarian. -Kansas City Star. Our Uvea will be no higher than ear lmo. i Free Flower Seed f Hastings' Catalogue a Telle You About It * It you are encased in (arm lug, or It ?ou plant only -vegetables or flow- t ere, you cannot afford to be without 8 the big catalogue published fresh and q new every year by the great Southern seed house, H. Q. Hastings ft Company of Atlanta, Ga., and sent abso- 4 lutely tree, postage paid, to all who I write for It. mentioning the name of I this newspaper. I In this catalogue we tell you of a I splendid offer of free flower seed t* I all ouV customers, five magnificent I varieties that mean beauty about your home and a pleasure to wives and daughters that nothing else can give. . This catalogue tellB you, too, about our big cash prise offer to the Corn Club boys of your state. It tells .all about our One yielding varieties of corn and cotton?the kind we grow on our own 3,200 acre farm. It tells r about the best seeds of all kinds for planting in the South. It should be in every Southern home. Write today and let ub send it to you. t H. G. HA8TINGS A CO., Atlanta, Ga.?Advt. 0 c J. A. Maxwell, a middle-aged white man, claims he was robbed of $150 on a Spartanburg street Thursday night I by three white men who followed him from one of the "social clubs." . i, The "Mischief Quartette" and Its f Work. f Each year the month of January a numbers its list of victims from in- \ fluenza, la grippe, bronchitis and pneumonia. The prompt use of Fol- j ey's Honey and Tar Compound will check the onset of a cold and stop a cough, preventing the development to ? more serious conditions. Keep it on ? hand. Sold by all dealers every- 8 where. a Speermore, Okla.?When Samuel Bealmer, a young farmer, learned that his wife had given berth to twins he stepped to the telephone to call another doctor and dropped dead of i heart failure. .. ' A Difference in Working Hours. A mini's working day is 8 hours. t His body organs must work perfectly \ 24 hours to keep him fit for 8 hours * work. Weak, sore, inactive kidneys * cannot do it. They must be sound ] and healthy active all the time. Foy- _ ey Kidney Pills will make them so. 1 You cannot take them into your sys- x tern without good results following. For sale by all dealers everywhere, e Rev. Richard D. Smart, one of the ? leading divines of the Southern Methodist church and a native of South }, Carolina, died at his home in Char- ] lottesville, on Sunday. q Colds to be Taken Seriously. ) Intelligent people realize that common colds should be treated promptly If there is sneezing and chillness with hoarseness. tickling throat and coughing, begin promptly the use of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. It is effective, pleasant to take, checks a cold, and stops the cough which causes loss of sleep and lowers the vital resistance. For sale by all dealers everywhere. Aiken county commissioners made 1 ja big step forward in the building of ( good roads in that county, when they ] /decided to accept the government's /offer of $10,000 for the building of a good road in the county. 1 I Women and Wet Feet. Cold and wet feet are a dangerous combination especially to women, and congested kidneys often result. Back- J ache, urinary irregularities and rheu- 1 matic fevers are not unusual results. Foley Kidney Pills restore the regular and normal action of kidneys and bladder and remove the cause of the trouble. Contain no habit forming . drugs. For sale by all dealers everywhere. SPECIAL NOTICE All goods not called for in 30 days will be sold for re pairs. W. Newell Smith Anlo Co. tf Union, S. C. Dr. Virgil R. Hawkins DENTIST OFFICE OVEjl MUTUAL | C p DRY GOODS COMPANY UI1IUII, O. \J, JJNU. Ik. H A M JtS Li 1 IN LAWYER Rooms No*. 14-15?Foster Building Office upstairs, Opposite Hotel Union Union, South Carolina Published in The Union Times. T. 1L MUNRO " Attorney at Law UNION, S. C. Office over Rice Drug Co. 1 A three-year-old child to Bnfllh, I. Y., drank a half *>tnt of whiskey nd died before medical aid couM W uramoned. The second annual oratorical eoaest participated in by the High chools of the State will be held la Columbia, April 24. S?OFORF1lBEc!t!l?rCir2^ Fashion Plate No. 1, copyrighted, and the Faiaoe* 90 Days Treatxaao* aail McKISSICK'S METHOD M mt treatise the Scalp, Hair and Skin with No. I 1. 2 ASPieparationa I W. T. McKJSSICK * CO. I P. O. Boa 102. WUasiaatoe. Pel J ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WELL? ifany Union People Know the Importance* of Healthy Kidneys. The kidneys filter the blood. They work day and night. Well kidneys remove impurities. Weak kidneys allow impurities te nultiply. No kidnev ill should tw? neulw??J There is possible danger in delay. If you have backache or urinary roubles, If you are nervous, dizzy or worn >ut, Begin treating your kidneys at mce; Use a proven kidney remedy. None endorsed like Doan's Kidney Mils. Recommended by thousands. Proved by Union testimony. J. G. Long, Sr., ex-Sheriff of Uaon County, Union, S. C., says: "I ound Doan's Kidney Pills to be a Ine kidney medicine and one that ,ct$ as represented. I took them vhen I was suffering from backache ind other symptoms of weak kidneys, got great relief." For sale by all dealers. Price &t ents. Fester-Milbum Co., Buffalo, lew York, sole agents for the United Itates. Remember the name?Doan's? ,nd take no other. xive your boy a Xmas pres,_4 A ? Tiri?T? T/\ITXTCt/xaT :uL /111 1 T HiXV k3t/W 5ICYCLE will last him for nany years, and he will be >roud of the present yow jave him long after yonr mrse has been refilled. Call and examine the we! tnoiyn IYER JOHNSON bicycle or ask the many >wners of same in Union. W. Newell Smith Auto Co. BARRON & BARRON Attorney* at Law UNION, S. C. Practice in all Courts. Mon;y to loan on City and Farm Property. MONEY TO LOAN On long time, five to ten fears, on improved farm ands, in Union county. Moderate Expense. J. E. MINTER. The Way To Begin The NEW YEAR Line up with all the others and let The Palmetto Drug Co. save you money by trading with us. The best ife always tne cheapest, and you certainly get the best here. Remember? PALMETTO DRUG CO. THE MONEY SAVERS UNION. S. C. DEJ. W.SHARP Veterniary Surgeon Calls answered promptly Day or Niffht ?hone 178 Union, a C.