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11 A Fu Nighl Worl |Wa BELGIUM STANDS I ALONE IN GRIEF Never Han Country Been So Stricken. Nation of Inactivity New York, Feb. 14.?The war reduced Belgium's population by about | 600,000 and her condition presents a | situation without parallel in history, says a report issued tonight by the I Rockefeller foundation from its war J relief commission sent to Belgium last November to observe the effect of the war on noncombatants. j The agricultural retrions are tie I vastated and the food supply practically cut off. The report says: "Yet if one is to understand the Belgian problem it is perhaps necessary to emphasize not the destitution of u few hundred thousand people to the suddenly enforced inactivity of a strong and healthy nation of 7,000,000." The destruction of stock is of great er importance than the destruction of houses, the report declares. "The peasants," it continues, "are in the greatest terror that the few animals that remain to them may be taken." Regarding the agricultural situation the commission found that autumn planting has been done somehow, and that it is conceivable that Belgium may continue to raise most of her own notatoes. fruits anH frt?sh vegetables. "In France," says the commission, "we found that it was clearly the policy of the German occupation behind the fighting lines to promote the planting of next year's crops and to spare milch cows and breeding animals." The German occupation has requisitioned grain, canned goods, food supplies, live stock and horses from towns and countryside. It is also requisitioned such things as cotton and woolen stores, copper fixtures and implements in some factories, motor ears, gasoline and any machinery that can be used in the manufacture of arament. In smaller places and in some lar- j jter towns it appears that nearly all the remaining houses have been looted, the report says. The collapse of the banking exchange, the commission found to be due to ihe fact that reserves of coin and negotiable securities were removed in advance of the invasion. "German requisitions are paid for not, in money but by receipts which are said to be often of the most informal sorts," the reports declare. "Commerce and industry are at a standstill. The only trades people who do any business are those who sell food or clothing." fn connection with the alleviating iafluences, the report concludes: "The disaster is shared by all. The mergency has summoned every ourageous virtue into expression. Futhermore the universal condition of Wi 11 Fore t Worl D I k 5 Nit iliac ?J o I the community automatically distributes the burden. There is general moratorium for the very poor. Tenants pay no rent and though the landlords are thereby impoverished, the tenants are not evicted. The sale of distilled liquors has been stopped and alcoholism has been reduceu. Lights are out at night, places of amusement and concourse are closed and every one has to be at home early." Tho rno/lorc nf tViia rvanat* will Y\t% pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stapes, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list ?f testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENNEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by all druggists, 7f?c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. GREENVILLE PLANT TO MAKE UNIFORMS Judson Mills to Weave Cloth for Dresses of Winthrop Girls. Greenville, Feb. 11.?The Judson mills of Greenville will make the goods for spring uniforms at Win 1....... ....II...... I* L' viii "' |' v-uiir^:. u. VIUCI , JM I'MlllMl I ol' the mills, received a letter today stating that his samples had been adopted by the college. Some time ago Winthrop began investigating the advisability of having its uniforms made in South Carolina mills. A number of manufacturing plants submitted xam pies, but the Judson mill goods was selected. The order will be for 11,000 yards of reception voile finished in nnre white Croup and Whooping Cough Mrs. T. Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis., says: "Foley's Honey and Tar Compound cured my hoy of a very severe attack of croup after other remedies had failed. Our milkman cured his children of whooping cough." Foley's has a forty year record of similai cases. Contains no opiates. Always insist on Foley's. Sold by all dealers everywhere. Owing to the dry, cold atmosphere, there are no infectious diseases known in Greenland. What a fine place Greenland would he for "keep well clubs" of various kinds! IN e of C< i on I * APE F ?hts Gc APPL e C< NESV1 i COTTON STATISTICS TO 31ST OF JANUARY Number of Bales Used During the Past Six Months 2,591,098?Exports 1,372,179 Bales, Washington, February 15.?Cotton used during January waj 468,877 bales, exclusive of lintels, compared with 517,299 in January last year, the census bureau announced today. Cotton used during the six months ending January 31 was 2,591,089 bales, against 2,816,625 last year. Cotton on hand January 31 in manufacturing establishments was 1,515,390 bales, against 1,764,561 a year ago, and in independent warehouses 4,689,956 bales, against 2,839,942 a year ago. Exports were 1,372,175 bales, against 1,052,277 last year, and for the six months 3,978,329 against 6,489,752 a year ago. Imports were 39,229 bales, against 19,624 last year, and for the six months 139,529, against 63,523 a year ago. Cotton spindles active numbered 30,565,479, against 31,098,178 a year ago. Linters used 18,136 bales, against 23,611 a year ago, and for the six months 156,123 bales, against 157,565 last year; on hand in manufacturing establishments, 120,440 bales, against 87,217 a year ago, and in independent warehouses 93,573 bales against 49,923 a year ago. Linters exported 23,486 bales, and for the six months 67,981 bales. COLDS & LaGRIPPE 5 or 6 doses GGG will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. Price 25c. ANTI-SHIPPING LIQUOR BILL BECOMES A LAW Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 9.?Delivery of more than one quart of whiskey or other intoxicating liquor to any one person in Alabama will be prohibited after June 30 under the Penson anti-shipping hill which hecame effective today. The measure became a law automatically, having remained unsigned by Governor Henderson for seven days after i'ts passage by the legislature. The law directs transportation companies not to make liquor deliveries oftener than once a month. A bill which would prohibit newspapers in Alabama from publishing liquor advertisements was returned to the legislature with the governor's veto. It has been made the special order of business Wednesday when an effort probably will be marfd to over-ride the veto. The statewide prohibition bill recently was passed over Governor Henderson's veto. ? *i )tton IV >lain "V t LOO it Pay ] ,Y TO otto LLE, S EVER SALIVATED BY CALOMEL? HORRIBLE! Calomel is quicksilver and acts like dynamite on your liver. Calomel loses you a day! You know what calomel is. It's mercury; quick, silver. Calomel is dangerous. II crashes into sour bile like dynamite cramping and sickening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put into your system. When you feel bilious, sluggish constipated and all knocked out and believe you need a dose of dangerous calomel just remember that youi druggist sells for 50 cents a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is entirely vegtable and pleasant tc take and is a perfect substitute foi calomel. It is guaranteed to starl your liver without stirring you up inside, and can not salavate. Don't take calomel! It makes yov sick the next day; it loses you a day's work. Dodson's Liver Tone straightens you right up and you feel great Give it to the children because it n perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe SMITH TO DELIVER CLEMSON ADDRESS South Carolina Senator Accepts In vitation to Make Commencement uay speech. Washington, Feb. 12.?Senator E D. Smith of South Carolina is todaj in receipt of an invitation extende< by the faculty of Clemson college through president Riggs, to delive the commencement address there 01 June 8, next. Senator Smith ac cepted. Half Your Living: Without Money Cost A right or wrong start in 1915 wil make or break most farmers In th< Cotton States. We are all facing t crisis on cotton. Cotton credit Is up set. The supply merchant cannot ad vance supplies on 1915 cotton. Yoi must do your best to produce on youi own acres the food and grain supplies that have made up most of your ston debt in the past. A good piece of garden ground rightly planted, rightly tended and kept planted the year round, can tx made to pay half your living. It will save vou morn mnnov than ????.?* r ? MIMM / VU UIOUC on the best Ave acres of cotton you ever grew! But It must be a real garden, and not the mere one-plant ing patch in the spring and fait. Hastings' 1915 Seed Book tells all about the right kind of a money sav lug garden and the Tegetables to put In it. It tells about the field crop? as well and shows you the clear road to real farm prosperity, comfort and Independence. IT'S FREE. Send for It today to H. Q. HA8TINQ8 A CO, Atlanta, Qa.?Advt. lill Hel] Vhite C MS Pftf (\ \ n M c. _ _ garden Seed! I ' We have just the kind ; you want and they are just as fresh as can be > j bought. Be the first to have a nice early ' garden. Get your seed | now from the PALMETTO DRUG COMPANY THE MONEY SAVERS UNION, S. C. i sHfiTBB? msssmm 1 For Full Information i Concerning the 1915 r : HARLEY DAVIDSON | Call on or I urrlfp ne I i THE Union Times I Write for Catalogue n p For I xoods [ights s I ilk ? I Notice of Final Discharge State of South Carolina?County of Union?Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given, that on thw 19th day of February, 1915, 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 Gilliam J. Bratton, and that thereupon he will apply to the Judge of said Court for his final discharge as such guardian. S. G. BRATTON. This 19th day of January, 1915. Published in The Union Times for 30 days. Dr. Virgil R. Hawkins DENTIST OFFICE OVER MUTUAL IT *~n C p DRY GOODS COMPANY American Queen Every Corset bearing the "American Queen" trade mark is sold under a binding guarantee. Quality, workmanshin and material the very best. Both front and back lacing. Eaefe Corset is fitted to the iniividual purchaser. MRS. H. A. DUNBAR, Phone 300-J Union, S. C.