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THE UNION TIMES' PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDINO, MAIN STREET BELL PIIONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE Editor Registered at the Postoffice in Union, S. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS une square, nrsi insertion .>i.uu i Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will he made at reduced rates. LEGAL NOTICES The regular legal rates are charged foi all notices published according to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set in 8 point, solid type?first insertion per inch $1.00; each subsequent insertion per inch 50 cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors, 3 inches, 'J times $-1.50. Final Discharge, 1 3-4 inches, 4 times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's notices. 1 1-4 inches, 8 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of respect. resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. FRIDAY. DEC EM HElt 25, loll. "SEASON A RLE" ADVICE. It so often happens that the editor, the preacher, the teacher and eve:, the parent feels called upon to give advice on particular occasions, one of these occasions being Christmas. I intend to violate this old, time-worn custom, i have no advice to give out this Christmas. 1 propose pointing my "preachment" towards myself. After all. the world would make wonwerful strides forward if all the advice and sermons and precepts could, for a brief while, be turn oil within. i here are some things I intend doing and some advice I intend taking to heart. Let's see: 1 intend to cultivate the habit of paying cheerfully, not grudgingly, and as far as possible. That is no more than justice to my creditors. I purpose being slow to speak disparagingly of others, and have resolved to see whatever of good possible in all. I am determined to exercise the virtue of patience, for it has come to be clearly manifest that it is the patient man, rather than the strong man, who wins me race. I purpose* holding firmly to my right, to think and act in accordance with conviction, hut give to all others the like privilege. I have determined that I will not talk hard times, nor even allow such thoughts to find lodgment within, yet strive earnestly to practice reasonable economy. (Except coffee and tobacco.) I here and now call my heart to witness that 1 have forgiven all men of every real or fancied wrong. There is not a creature, from dog up to man, against which or whom I cherish a single grudge, (except one yellow cur that snaps at my pedal extremities when I pass a certain place on a motorcycle. ) I have come to the conclusion that there are not so many degrees of difference between rich and poor, after all. and I purpose being content with the small amount of this world's goods that finds a way to my hands. I purpose refusing all bribes, turning a deaf ear to all subtile flatteries and to pursue an honorable and honest course day after day. no matter how severe the stress of battle may be, for I have reached the conclusion that there is nothing left to the man who loses honor or stoops to conquer. I expect to remain true to Democracy, but refuse to follow all noisy long-eared animals calling themselves by that name, yet revealing none of the essential elements of the thing itself. 1 purpose holding to my ideals and striving to build up whatever I believe to be good, yet tight honestly to overthrow whatever is evil. I refuse to believe that the world has gone to the devil and that nothing matters. I'm sure it matters materially. Anyway, 1 have preached to myself, not to the reader of The Times, and that is what I started out to do. A Merry Christmas to one and all. I.EWIS M. RICE. We heartly favor helping the Belgians.. They are starving. Thou sands of babies are starving, and humanitarian principles demand that we render aid. At the same time, if there is a way to cut off help from the nations at war it would hasten the coming of peace. If all the^ nations at peace * could cease trading with, or lending money to the warring nations there would soon be a condition that would force peace. Whitcomb Riley Said? When a man ain't got a cent, and he's feeling kind o' blue An' the clouds hang dark and heavy, an' won't let the sunshine' thru; N It's a great thing. () mv brethren, I for a feller just to lay * ? His hand upon your shoulder in a s friendly sort of way; a It makes a man feel queerish, it i makes the tear drops start, 1 An' you sort o' feel a patter in the i region of your heart; t You can't look up and meet his eyes; I you don't know what to say, i When his hand is on your shoulder 1 in a friendly sort of way; ()' the world's a curious compound. ? with its honey and its gall. f With its care and bitter crosses, but ( a ?rood world after all; j An' a good (iod must have made it, * leastways that is what I say j When a hand is on my shoulder in a j . friendly sort of way: COMPOSITION ON PLANTING AND GROWING OP GRAIN. ( (By Cross Keys High School Pupil) J Owing to the very general interest, < as it seems at present, while we take up the subject, planting and harvest ? ing of grains. j Preparations are best to be made in the fall of the year, for there is nore , time for preparations in fall, than in ' spring. . Sandy land, with red clay bottom, j is more adapted for grains than any other kind of soil, and in preparing the land it fhould lie plowed with a two-horse turn plow, or a ili.sk plow, should be turned ahout ton or twelve inches deep, for all grain except wheat, which should not be but about i six or eight inclu s deep. To complete the land for better grain growing, i sow your fertilizer broadcast and turn it under with a disk harrow. The | plant then will have a soft mellow soil to grow in. The fertilizer is used in proportion to the kind of soil, and kind of land; the farmers will do best to use their own judgment about such as it is too much to undertake to write. It generally pays here in our coun- , tv?Union, I think, about four or five hundred pounds per acre. The farmers today do not use enough fertilizer, the reason we do not make any more grain at present. The depth of seed should not he over three inches or four deep, for if V are, the seed will have trouble reaching the toj^of the ground. If they are about three.- inches your se*d will have good success in reaching the ton. and furthermore, always plant about one bushel of seed per acre, and they will be about right, not too thick or too thin. \ large discussion now is up?how to plant the seed. Some people sow the seed broadcast, others, what we ' all up-to-date farmers have learned better by drillings them, the row ahout twelve inches apart, running in such a direction that they will hold water when it rains, and the water will keep plenty of fresh soil falling down frovn the sides of the furrows, which helps them greatly in growth. Always plant grain seed as near .'1 inches as you can and you will see the fruits of the seed peeping out of the ground in about three or four days. They will spring out in a hurry, about the month of December, with the fer- I tilizer you put on the land in preparing it, and then the plant will grow until about June. When it begins to ( ripen, which by that time farmers begin to make preparations for gathering it in, so when it has been gathered in, a large portion being gathered at the mill for making of bread, and other food products. Taking up a different subject, we Southern people do not plant enough grain. It is not very much trouble. Now if We had had a plenty of grain sowed this year, instead of so much cotton, we, to my honest opinion would have been a great deal bettei off. Too we could raise grain to feed cattle and horses on, where if we had , done so this year, it would have helped the poor farmer greatly, for there is a irreat demand for cattle and horses in Europe, where the great war is now on. More era in must he | made at hone, for the great grab, countries, especially Russia, is en- ( gaged in war, where we suppose they , are not planting much grain for the coming year. As I have stated there must he a , plenty raised to live on at home, es- , pecially wheat for flour, for if there is not this county and State will have ' a great many of suffering people to ! ontend with the coming year, for the ] need of something^ to eat. lockIiart junction ; Lockhart Junction, Dec. '22.?Rain, '' rain and mud is common these days and some say that a dry summer will make a wet winter, so we will see ' what we will see. The old year will son be numbered with the past and by the time this letter will be seen in print it will be Christmas. Now old , Santa will be so poor this year he won't be able to tote many present:-, 1 but should not every one give accord- ' ing to his means and ability. How ' many of us are thinking of the charitable ones, those who are in actual s need of something to eat. I heard a follow ho a hntt 1 ho oth<?r 1 barefooted and crying for a pair of ( shoes. Is not that the kind to give to. ! So much is thrown away in fireworks and other things that are no good. Do we think of Christ as we ought? Some take their part out of the jug or bottle and so much is thrown away foolishly. I met Roland Coleman from Portsmouth, Ohio. Me was very glad toj see me and told me a great deal of his country. He lives in a town of thirty thousand inhabitants. He savs Ohio is a good farming country, can raise everything but cotton; can make from one to two hundred bushels of Irish itoes on one acre and sometimes more than that. The roads are j;ood out there and one can ride for miles on a motorcycle three hundred milea on roads as tfood as the streets of Union or any other town and hardly I a bad place. It is a prreat manufacturing country. He is looking for his wife to come here for a visit. He expects to stay here some time. "Moxy." KELTON I Kelton. S. C., Dec. 21.?Another bad lay for preaching and Sunday schools vere closed yesterday. I hope for letter weather for a while at least. Some farmers did not get through scraping up their cotton and may be i little corn yet; the farmers did not ret done sowing grain, so they will lave to finish in 1915. Roads are in t bad condition and after Christmas hey will be much worse. There will >e so much moving about, that is ibout all the pleasures many will lave. Well, I see that my life-long friend, 'Telephone," agrees with me on the rood looks of the women of South 'arolina, and the entire South. I lave traveled in fourteen Southern states, including Maryland, and I lave found them everywhere I have leeji. Many farmers will have all their "arm supplies taken from them to neet their debts, especially the colored ones and then cannot nav out. I udieve that 101 r? will he a harder year han 184(> with the people of South Carolina. Mr. H. C. Tattle is no better; he is seriously sick I think. I am slowly mprovinji. I do not hear of much sickness on the Ridjre, but I cannot ?et out to hear of any kind. Wishing the editor of The Times uul his entire force a Merry Christnas and a bright and happy New Tear. I will close for 11)15. G. T. G. Fun With Famous Folks. What train did James Montgomery ' "'aetr ? What kinds of fish were cauirht by Harrison Fisher. "What did John eat besides Oxen ham ? What made Stewart Edward White? Who tau.uht Ed. Howe? ?Boston Globe. Well, for that matter? Why is Samuel G. Blythe? What made 11. Rider Hajruard and Victor Blue? What is the best hand that Anna Held? What j?avc Tasker T. Bliss? Who knows how hiprh Penrose? Why did George Man- McCutch- ] nnn > ' 1 1.:~ Ot?l. v-vj?? . vuiuiiiina oiaiu. To bring it closer home: Why did Harold Hooker? What started Colonel Aftermath? I What did W. W. Smoak? Why did Ed DeCamn? Where is it that Billy Banks? What was Tom Waring? What made W. W. Hall? Wherein is Miss Juanita Wylie? i Who ^ave Elbert Aull? What does Derieux? Who did up G .P. Browne? ?Greenville Piedmont. Fired First Shot at Bethel. Kinston, Dec. 21.?R. P. Claytor of Goldsboro, a former Kinston'ian. yesterday drew his Confederate pctTV sion check at the court house here, and was informed that a check had been forwarded to his brother, S. B. Claytor, the I.enoir county man now residing in another State who fired the first shot at Bethel, the opening engagement of the War Between the States. Private S. B. Claytor, excitrw> Kir f V>? 1 v vi kjj biiv v/uv ii i nj^ uattiu <x 11U f HIS comrades afterward said, very zealous, fired at the Federals as they neared before the order was given. He was threatened with court martial, hut the trial never came to pass. Veteran Claytor was a member of Company E, Thirteenth North Carolina Regiment. Wheat?the Staff of Kansas. The Kansas secretary of agriculture estimates that this year his state raised enough wheat to make forty million, two hundred and five thousand five hundred and forty barrels of flour. "Were this flour converted into bread," he says, "it would make eight and one-half billion loaves, enough to meet our nation's need for bread, for a year. The value of this record-smashing crop, if apportioned equally among the state's inhabitants would give each more than ninety dollars." Naturally, there is no talk of hard times in Kansas. Besides producing approximately one-fifth of America's greatest wheat crop, its farmers have raised a variety of other food supplies. They are well prepared to live at home. The proceeds of their money L'ron can be nut, in th<- bnnlr in a_ ed in farm improvements. The people as a whole are prosperous. Sound agriculture means thriving business. Plenteous food crops mean economic independence and cheer.?Southern Cultivator. _ Death of Little Eva Willard. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Willard was seriously burned Tuesday morning. December 15, and died from the effects the following day. The funeral services were con iucieu oy itev. l.ewis, pastor of the Methodist church at Monarch, and a large number of relatives and friends attended the service. The parents have the deep sympathy of the community in this dark hour of sorrow. Notice! Our shop will he closed December 25th, 28th and 29th. We will be open Sat urday, Dec. 26th. We braze and weld cast iron. # W. NEWELL SMITH AUTO COMPANY. % UNION, S. C. For 10 ji We have decide< Sale for 10 day; Men's or Boys' ' Merchandise her have further red you call and inv is marked dowi Thanking to que < what we say. UNION I D.,1 Mrs. A. P. McElroy will have as her guests during the Christmas hollays her sisters, Misses Florence and Helen Jones of Gaffney. Miss Carrie Sams passed through Union today on her way to Gaffney for the holidays. Christians Not a II uniting. "Christmas a humbug, uncle?" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I'm sure." "1 do." said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! Out upon Merry Christmas! What's Christmas time for you but a time for paying hills without money, a time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer, a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against von? if 1 could work my will every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas* on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a .stake of holly through his heart, lie should!" It is tuany years since the conversion of old Scrooge from the error of his ways by the three ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas yet to come. It is many more years since the first Christmas anthem rang trldmphant in the hush of an expectant ijbldnlght hour over the plains of Palestine.' And yet. In spite of the years and their message to the world, there still exist those unfortunate souls who. like the wretched Ebenezer. call Christmas a humbug and lose sight of the real spirit and Joy of the day. "Christmas a humbug!" one is moved to exclaim with old Scrooge's Indignant nephew. No, not a humbug, but a feast of good cheer, of kindly impulses. of generous giving, if hearts are opened and sympathies allowed free play, If c\ niclsin Is barred and pessimistic philosophy banished to the limbo of all unpleasantness. For the very essence of the spirit of Christmas is that of kindliness, of affection. When the tlnine of the real spirit of Christmas is dim or altogether dead there are a dozen ways of fanning it Into renewed life. So many things combine to foster the Christmas atmosphere. to make it. as Scrooge's nephew said, "a kind, forgiving, charitable. pleasant time, the only time in the long calendar of the" year when men and women seem, by one consent, to open their shntnp hearts freely and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures hound on other journeys." 0*-x t CONSTANT CHRISTMAS. i f Oh, never failing splendor. .j, * Oh. never silent song, '$ * Still keep the green earth * ? tender. T 4 Still keep the gray earth 4 * strong! * ? Still keep the brave earth \ * dreaming I ? Of deeds that shall be done * ^ vt nub viiiiuicii n iivch uuiuo f streaming f * Like sunbeams from the * | sun! * * Oh, angels, sweet and splen * did. ? Throng In our hearts and f ?lne ' J * , The wonders which attended f Tho coming of the King! | -Phillips Brooks. CHRISTMAS TIME. PKACE and good will toward men! Blest Christmas time That brings to famished thousands a good meal, Whfle even those, immured in cells, that steal From othors?make their livelihood In crime? Now sit nt tables with the best of fare. Children, unused to luxuries and Joys, Now have abundance, are e'en blessed with toys. For (lid not Christ take such unto his care? The laborer sick, his family hungry. cold Is now remembered; wood and coal and rent ^ And flour and meal and fowl to him are sent By them that know the genuine use ol gold. Whose eyes have seen the shepherds watch by night. Who've read the Sermon on the Mount aright. ? Kdward S Creamer in Brooklyn Eagle. i Pays L< i to continue our Disi s more. If you need Clothing you can gel e at very near your o~v iuced all clothing and estimate. Everv art.icl ^ n. These prices, are >te prices. Come and i CLOTHIN k/v. 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