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THAT UNLUCKY NUMBER By WALLACE HORTON. (Copyright. 1M4. by the McCluro Ncwspaper Syndicate.) Mrs. Garvin surveyed the dining table with delighted eyes. Certainly there was little to complain of in that daintily conceived decoration for the coming of an honored guest. Sir John Vance, the great matinee hero and exponent of the drama, was coming in for high tea, together with a notable number of well-known persons. Sunday evening being the only time when theatrical stars were free. Mrs. Garvin had chosen that night for their eutertainmcnt. She fluttered about the table like u small bird twittering over a resplendent llower bed and hoped that nothing would occur to mar the beauty of an expected joyous evening. Mrs. Garvin and her retinue of servants had spent much time and thought over the decorations suitable for an eminent actor, and the result was gratifying at least The center of the table was a mass of laurel, and around it were placed fourteen little manikins representing Sir John in various parts through which he had won his fame. The little figures s; voted to stroll about the table. A few moments later the doorbell rang and the first of the twelve expected guests arrived. Sir John Vance followed, and soon ail save one of the fourteen visitors were safely under the roof of their hostess. When another quarter ol an hour had passed Mrs. Garvin became anxa us lest something din fill hail happened to Drina Warden that would prevent her coming and thus upset the entire table arrangements. Another moment, and the telephone rang. Drina could not come and there would of necessity be a vacant place at the table. Mrs. Garvin sighed. But since there was no chance of getting another guest at that late time she followed her party into the dining room, her lingers resting lightly on the arm of Sir John. "I wanted Drina Warden especially ?to meet you," she told him with dainty flattery in her eyes. "It is her loss, nowever, that she is unable to be here." ine great actor rewarded lier flattery with his whimsical smile. "I can assure you I will not notice the absence of?anyone," he returned, and Mrs. Garvin blushed prettily. "It cuts our number down to thirteen, though," she said laughingly. "I hope you are not superstitious, Sir John," she added, and was startled by a quick glance he cast over the guests. "But 1 am," Sir John told her frankly, "I cannot sit down with thirteen at table. The greatest loss I have sustained in my life followed such an occurrence, Do ask some one in; it does not matter who." Miss Gray, the children's nurse, protested in vain. "You look as sweet as a new-blown rose in that pink blouse," Airs, Garvin told her. Enid Gray was flushed and inwardly trembling as Mrs. Garvin pulled her by the hand into that assemblage of notable people, but outwardly hIio expressed the calm of a placid lake. The ordeal of presentation was most trying, and only when she was seated beside the guest, of honor did slid And time to realize that she was not dreaming. Ho had offered her the flower from his lapel the moment she had seated herself. "That is for being a good girl," he told her with his delightful smile. "I would have Jvid to miss this high tea Mrs. Garvin invited me to had you not completed our number." And since the ice had been broken 1 Ill JM/ ?inxu> U ?l 211 * 11A 11*1 H*?l |IIULCCUed with nioro merriment than it would have had Drina Warden graced the table with her presence. Later when the guests returned to the drawing room, each carrying a manikin representing Sir John. Miss Gray would have slipped oft' to the nursery had not Mrs. Garvin detained her. "No, no," she commanded, putting a determined hand on that of Enid Gray, "I want you to sing those sweet little lullaby songs you do for the kiddies. Sir John is very fond of music, he tells me, and none of us can sing a note." When Enid retired to her room that night her eyes were sparkling and her cheeks flushed. She still felt the warm thrill that had swept over her when Sir John had drawn her hand close within his own and the look in his eyes when lie had said to her, "I have always regretted my superstition tintil tonight. Now?it is a most wonderful asset." Feared for Grandpa'. Walter, aged three, was taken by his grandfather to see a great factory As they were finishing their tour of inspection his grandfather happened to notice that it was within a few minutes of noon. Taking out his watch, he said: "Now, Walter, keep your eyes or the hands of my watch and when both or incm point srraigni 10 me io| something will happen." Walter watched eagerly and just at the minute that the hands came to gether the great factory whistlr sounded a deafening blast Walter's eyes danced for an instant and then an awful fear overtook him "Hut, grandpa," he gasped, "whai v v'd 'hey de to yru if they knew voi; d:d that?' KNEW LITTLE ABOUT POISONS Shakespeare's Knowledge of Drug? I Appears to Have Been an Ex- | tremcly Limited One. c Tho poisons mentioned in Shake- I speare's works have boon made the subject of a study by I>octor Cartaz, the (Cc eminent French physician. It appears therefrom that tho extensive medical * Po knowledge which Shakespeare is supposed to have possess-d, and which cc! has been advanced by the Macon the- tal orists as a proof in support of their contention was no more extensive than ,or that of Shakespeare's contemporaries CUI who, it further appears, labored under ?la the same misapprehensions as he re- a ' Harding the potency of certain philtres ''? and poisons. When, for instance, the ghost of an. Hamlet's father says that Claudius ,"1 poured "the juice of cursed hebenon ^ (henbane) into the porches of his TP J ears," it should be pointed out that tliis juice could not possibly penetrate tlie drum of the ear. Hut the belief in the deadliness of poison thus introduced into the system was so general ' . jut the time that Ambroise I'are was 1 | accused of killing in this manner King in. I Francis 1 of France, although it is 1_ now certain that the king died of meningitis caused by inllammation of the :in internal ear. ,l; Then, again, when Friar Laurence, P'' in "Romeo and Juliet.' gives Juliet |!" the potion that "shall make tin* body stiff, stark and cold, appear like ? , death," it can only have been. Doctor Cartaz considers. Datura stramonium ', (.thorii apple), or mandragora root. ^ The latter enjoved. during the renais- ' i . .He sauce, a pr' at vogue, but experiments have shown that the awakening from 1)P< its effects is accompanied by violent J nausea, so that Juliet would have mot ^ her lover in a far from poetical eondi- , ' bo tion. Moreover, in this relation, the ^ French physician points out, the duration of sleep induced by narcotics (rj' never approaenes 42 hours. ec< HER RECORD OF PROPOSALS mi thi From This It Will Be Seen That Mod- ' crn Girl Has a Variety to *i1( Choose From. he th; No. 1?The indecisive kind. Hung around nearly every night for four iei weeks, took mo to the theater only Mi twice, and finally wound up by asking joi me if I would mind waiting five years. cli No. 2?Sent me a long letter and "?? said if I wouldn't have him he would cli kill himself. And then ho proposed th< to my dearest friend two days after wa I turned him down. a 1 No. 3?AVanteo me to live on a farm UP U/v l..i,l finichA.I ?? txi u i ut: uau iiiuouuu av nai \ aiu. No. 4?Said he had a "plan" which thi If it matured would enable him to get married, and In such a case he hoped as I wouldn't forget him. nsI No. 5?Elderly widower who wore a 110! white bow tie and a frock coat. He ba< informed me privately that he was a km devil when he got started. No. (>--Gavo mo a financial state- "n mont of his affairs and asked me point ' blank to be his wife. co' No. 7 ?The one I took?the only a('( one who didn't have to to ask me.? th< Compiled for Life by a Popular Young Girl. as^ ro; Why Depiore Age (n Humanity? an In nature, much as we rejoice in t>,. new birthe and tender adolescences, ^ our deepest sentiment is reserved for the things which impress ns with their antiquity. We have woven about them tU] a phraseology all their own. We like to talk about the hoary ocean; the jr gray old rocks against which its spray is dashed; the mountains which still stand where they stood when man jt first opened his eyes upon the uni- ^a] verse; the forest primeval; our prls- "o tine mother earth. These and a thousand other poetic figures familiar to jn us from childhood show by the respon- sn sive echo they never fail to awaken pn in our hearts, how ready mankind is to treat plentitude of years as a synonym for steadfastness, the. one , quality which lies at the foundation of all confidence and real respect. And when we find that among inanimate things old age, so far from being repellent, exerts a positive attraction, ^ why are we so prone to deplore it as soon as it threatens to touch our- ' selves? c" so Changing Towns' Names. The individual may go under an alias at small expense, but the village or town that wants to change its name must pay. Kugeloy once wanted fo be ar] called something else to dissociate it- ar 1 self from a notorious murder. Slough has unsuccessfully tried to turn Itself RJ| into Upton Royal. Rut the great tri- j9 umph was that of Milton?one of .lie nc many?which disliked being called Gf Milton-next-Sittingbourne. It acquired m a privy council order that it should be j8| Konn/.t'oft I. " !>..* ln,ll J 'iviivciuiiu iuuiuii-iUT^in. nui uiuir vicinal or town you need not change W) your name unless you have disgraced ar ? it. Your name need never disgrace e(] I you.?London Chronicle. a( he i Midsummer Fire. te The old Midsummer Fire festival, of In i Druidical origin, is still celebrated on el i tiie continent, but there is probably sr > only one spot in Great Hritain where th it is still observed, and that Is Tar- in t bolton, in Ayrshire. ar For days before the festival the vtl- vc ) lage lads collect materials for the ai great bonfire. The fuel is built upon la . an altar of turf, and a match is applied 01 at sunset, after which the folk solemn- je t ly march around the blaze and the gr i daring youngsters vie; with one anoth- wi er iii ii ; !.ii: through 'he j"h POLLY PERKINS By CATHERINE COOPE. pyrlght, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) one would have stigmatized lly Perkins as being insane. Ecltric, mentally unbalanced, she cernly was and another couple of ars might possible see her comtably ensconsed in a home for inrables. For the present she was ppily if whimsically domiciled in tiny cottage on Long Island. Miss lly s mental state was the cause rude jests from village children d one of amused interest to older nds. Week-end guests were sure he taken past the abode of Polly rkins just as they were invariably ?alod by the story of the haunted use on the old farm road. 'She's dippy on the subject of ik."' said Jimmy Rogers as he oiled past Miss Perkins' cottage tli Hob Hawthorne after a swim me bouiiu. 1 wouldn't have believed it," ighed Hawthorne as he eyed with nised glance the pink-painted cot- ! ;e. the pink flower gardens, pink ? to posts and outbuildings. "I sup- _ so she has pink bows on all the e stock," he commented. i ^ 'She surely has," chuckled Jimmy, V very living chicken in the barnyard , s a pink bow on his neck." it was net until a few days later it Hawthorne, lolling in Jimmy igers' hammock, looked up to see lone chicken chicking away and ri eking contentedly for vermin in j igers* well-kept lawn. The chicken d a more or less bedraggled pink ! w on its neck that sadly interfered j times with the capturing of dains from the soft sod. j t And because Hob Hawthorne was a tlo bored with his own society and ire or les curious regarding the \ centric Miss Perkins, he decided to j ike a martyr of himself and take 3 straying bird home. ! t He had little didiculty in catching f 3 chicken. Evidently Miss Perkins' t, ns were more in the nature of pets c m tablo delicacies. After a few moments of reconnol ing ho discovered that a wing of ss Perkins* property practically ad- c ned that of Jimmy Rogers. He ^ mbed the latter's fence and found u uself facing the back c? a pink f icken coop. A sharp turn around j i fence brought him into the awk- : rd position of having tripped over , r>ink-clad figure. She was lying flat ? on her back in the tall grasses. ' 'You'vo no right to bo snoring In ^ it wet grass," he said. # i u 'I was not snoring, and the dry as a bone," the girl said with t icrity. She had arisen to a sitting jsture and was endeavoring to coax j. ;k the frightened chicken. "I don't ow why?all men think that every ice of grass in the universe Is conually wet," 5he had got the chicken back by j. itinucd coaxing, the while she was .. dressing her remarks to Haw- I )rne. g 'Are you Miss Polly Perkins?" he i <ed, when her wide open eyes again imed toward his face, \ 'Yes, I am," she said. "Is there ything else you would like to know, de Person?" she inquired. "You ow," she continued, "I am not i Miss Polly Perkins you think I ? i. I am her niece." With that she ( med swiftly on her heels and left , b Hawthorne standing beside the * ik chicken coop. > "You know," she confided to him ( o nights later when they left the ib house after a most delightful igo evening, "I have a dreadful nfession to make." Since Bob's es were anything but fear inspir- ] ?, Polly continued: "I saw you eaking down to Aunt Polly's chirkcoop and deliberately put that bird er the fence so that you might o it." "Are you engaged?" asked Bob [ .intly. "No?Rude Person." laughed Polly. "Then prepare for the worst soon," id Bob, possessing himself of the Im fingers that he had watched alously caressing the pink-bowed licken. "For the best," contradicted Polly ftly. The Futurist Painter. Painting to the Futurist is no pretty id soothing art to be hung in a room id discussed at discreet dinner par's. Like all Futurist work, it is inlired by adventure and discovery. It a violent stimulant, to be taken only iw and then, deadly as whisky, if too' ten repeated; but never an opiate, sver narcotic with sleep. The Puturt destroys everything soft, gracious, feminate, subdued and moribund. He orks with brilliant colors and sharp igleB. He strives to find plastic [uivalonts for all appearances of our' itual life?its noises, smells, music ills, factories, trains and harbors. Ho lis us that noises and smells may be form concave or convex, triangular,' liptical, oblong, conical, spherical, dral; and as for their color, he says e smell of machinery and sport, for stance, is nearly always red; the nell of restaurants and cafes is sil>ry, yellow or violet; the smell of limals yellow or blue. Let us not ugh too soon. Noises and smells are ily states of mind, and we talk of, alousy (which is a state of mtnd) as eon or green-eyed; in anger we say e "see red;" in melaiirholy we tave the blues."?Atlantic Monthly ; HOTOR; For Full Information Concerning the 1915 HARLEY-DAVIDSON Call on or write us THE Union Times Write lor Catalogue {moke Cinco Cigars fou can buy the Freshest and Best Stock at rhe Union Grocery Co. Every snuff, that you ever lear of, fresh and satisfactory, at The Union Grocery Co. Forty different brands of he best and most satisfacory chewing tobaccos, your 'avorite is waiting for you, it The Union Grocery Co. Royal Scarlet Cigars, new ;tock, dark and light and en cents worth of smoke or 5c, at The Union Grocery Co. Shot Tobacco, Favorite l^obacon Rif?b nrwl Waw robacco, Rich and Ripe To>acco, Rams Horn, Red 3bn and twenty or thirty nore just as good and beter, at The Union Grocery Co. Councillor Cigars, Palnetto State Cigars, Royal lobe Cigars, LaFolwin Cigirs, Dolores Cigars, Wiliam Penn Cigars, as you vant them or by the box, at The Union Grocery Co. If you chew, smoke or use muff, The Union Grocery X will supply you with the )est and cheapest as you ^ant it or by the box, case, )r gross. UNION GROCERY CO. L. L. WAGNON, Manager Phone 100. \merican Queen Every Corset bearing th< "American Queen" trad< mark is sold under a bind ing guarantee. Quality, workmanship an< material the.very best. Botl front and hack lacing. Eacl Corset is fitted to the indi vidual purchaser. MRS. H. A. DUNBAR, Agl Phone 300-J Union, S. C 4^4 A^A A^A A^A A^a A^A A^V A^A A^A J^A A^A y A^ W a^ A^ ^r ^nr AT T^T TVy T^r^Vr^VflVrfVr | BAILEY UNDERTH T X Funeral Directors and ?* Having combined the resources f Wagnon-Bradley Company and the Company puts us in a class with X concerns in the South and it will be X and manager of this Company to fu with service, equipment and funeral be excelled by any and equaled by 1 f Our undertakers are attentive ar desired and necessary' we will call ?* with whom we will arrange for t charges will be reasonable and cons ?? Our parlors open all the time. 1 the officers of the company will rect ^ anywhere in the town or county. ?? BAILEY UNDERTH V L. L. WAC.NON, J. T. BRADLE Vice-President. Secretary. rt 4^4 A^A 4^4 A^I, A^A A^4 4^4 V^4 4^4 A^U, A^A A^A A^A i Use Dust X | For Sweeping an< |: Floors and Carpe | down the dust and X and moths. X ?|? 1 Bbl. Lots at 2% cents V Vz Bbl. Lots at 3 cents ! 25 Lbs. for One Dollar, < V | BAIL % Furniture & Lur I > I V%*V ^rTir Reckless Fellow. FIRES j A small henpecked little man was MAR about to take an examination for life insurance. "You don't dissipate, do ~ you?" asked the physician as he made . ,re?m ready for tests. "Not a fast liver, or V}g.J} anything of that sort?" The little i' '!J,. man hesitated a moment, looked a bit ( '"J?/ frightened, then replied in a small, . ' . piping voice: "I sometimes chew a ,or. e% little gum."Collier's Weekly. ^ How's This? destroyei gether v We offer One Hundred Dollors Re- fjre depa ward for any case of Catarrh that the two : cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh time. T Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last lf> years, Discoura and believe him perfectly honorable fort in , in all business transactions and finanriallv able to earrv out anv obli- -r-. Rations made by his firm. tor^ National Bank of Commerce, Profit Toledo, 0. }tro'11 Ilall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood nejo.hb0, ? and mucous surfaces of the system rjT^ ^ Testimonials sent free. Price 75 Wiii . cents per bottle. Sold by all Drug- Here . gists. j M Take Hall's Family Pills for cons- gf. | tipation. tion of Efficiency in Saving were in my bac Grubbs?What do you consider the sa'(J best way to save money? 111 u Stubbs?I haven't found it yet, but * IV ^ old Mr. Closofists tells me the most 5? ~7* effective plan is to become affiliated f.?aniji with partial blindness and total deaf- 'V- i1 ness.?Richmond Times Dispatch. or so { Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly ^yVj?jj'j The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, lasted i GROVK S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out p M alaria. enriches the blood, and builds upt lie sys- _ * T1CC tern. A true tome. For ndults and children. 50c simply ; e ' Doan's Swat Him. . mr q.. Of many pestilential types * ?*? ^r( This planet I would rid; But first, I think, I'd lose the gink Who calls his wife "the kid." \ ?Peroria Journal. ^oth Y m be held Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cure, o'clock, i'tie worst cases, no matter of how long standing, teacnert are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. the law Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves nnrl nil Pain and Heals at the same time. C5c, 50c, $1.00 y(>t whe DON'T FORGET; cne^e B 51 4t ' 3 We repair Guns and Revol vers, and do same right. Moto We have a large lathe, al- aJj?^s' i so a brazing and welding county .1 1P1 11 T 1 ouuii. we can nraze ca?>t notue i iron so it will hold tight. We ask you to give us r? COL trial the next time you break ^ a piece of your machinery. nny cn< VV. NEWELL SMITH Jem-fi AL'TO CO. flripe o KING CO. | T Embalmers X T ind equipment of the i Bailey Undertaking the largest and best the aim of the officers rnish this community i I supplies that cannot y few. id capable, and when I in a lady assistant +? hese occasions. Our > istent with the times. ?* Phone calls to any of jive prompt attention iKING CO. | ... ~ il, JL. Hi. H5A1L.1UY, ^ Pres. and Treas. i A A ^ A M$M$M$M3H3H3H$H$M$M$I down i X J Cleaning ? :ts. Keeps kills germs | t T T i per pound per pound ^ delivered * E "V | nber Co. % \T GREENVILL DESTROY KLEY BUILDING AND COTTAGES. rille, Jan. 10?Fil-e this morn4:45 o'clock destroyed the building, opposite The News entailing a loss of some $10,e building has been vacent past year or more, and was upied by a hardware store. ;ame time five cottages were d at the Carolina mill, tovith three small stores. The irtment was split in two and fires attended to at the same he last loss was about $5,000. DON'T GIVE UP. iged Citizens Will Find Comi the Experience of a Union Man. ience is the modern instrucby the experience of others, y save your life, experience of friends and rs? esumony 01 union people >ring renewed encouragement, is a case in point: O'Shields, 8 South Enterprise on, says: "I had inflammathe bladder and my kidneys awful shape. The pains in k were terrific. The doctor ad gravel and during one atur physicians sat up with me t ;they thought I was going A doctor advised me to try Kidney Pills and I got a box e Palmetto Drug Co. I was after I had taken them a day ind before long, I passed a itone. One box of Doan's Kids cured me and that cure has 'or eight years." 50c, at all dealers. Don't ask for a kidney remedy?get Kidney Pills the same that Shields had. Foster-Milburn >ps., Buffalo, N. Y. reachers' Examination. icial teachers' examination for lite and colored teachers J'ill in Union court house at 9 Friday, Jan. 16, 1915. All * who have not conformed to must take this examination, those who intend to teach, and > have not received a teacher's ite must also take the examiH. C. LITTIiE, JSupt. Kdueation. Risky Traveling rist (to chauffeur)?Be careful -unning over anybody hereJames. This is a prohibition and most everybody has a n his pocket.?Atlanta ConsDS & LaGRIPPE O doses GOB will break o. IT- n_tj. 'C ?.ji vjiuiis ex. i cvcr, v^uius }rippe; it acis on the liver han Calomel and does not ir sicken. Price 25c. /