Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SMILES A Bird's Eye View (Judge) Saplee?"Whut is this Blue I we hear so much talk about?" Snapleigh?"The Dove of Peac The Latest "How do you want your w made?" "In this new style. I want it look as if it were about to drop me, but of course, it musn't. Louisville Courier-Journal. One Detail (Judge) He?You can't truthfully saj haven't supported you in the styh which you were accustomed. She?Yes, I can. You never 1 me on your lay any more. No Brute (Baltimore American) "Did you strike this man in an cess of irascibility?" "No, sah; I done hit him in stummick." V-irculation hiaiemeni unsworn "May I print a kiss upon vour lip I asked; She gave me sweet permissioi And so I went to press And printed a LARGE edition. ?Philadelphia Public Ledg "After 1 wash my face I alw look into the mirror to see if clean, confided little Doris. "D< you ?" "Don't have to. I look at the t el, rejoined Willie.?Browning's M azine. Riches Buy Happiness "But riches do not bring ha] ness!" protested the lover. "I know that," replied the sv young thing; "but riches will buy automobile, and if you have an ai mobile, you can go after happine ?Houston Post. Notable Anniversary "It's five years ago today, and going to celebrate my wouldn't v ding." "Wouldn't wedding. Wooden, mean?" "No. Wouldn't. Five vears today since I asked a girl if si marry me and she said she wouh ?Browning Magazine. Sure Thing! "Farm products cost more 1 they used to." "Yes" replied the mer. "When a farmer is suppose) know the botanical name of what raisin' an' the entomological nam* the insect that eats it, an' the pi maceuti'cal name of the chemical 1 will kill it, somebody's got to pay Anderson (N. C.) Intellingencer. K * Music Without Charm f I (Exchange) At a party Miss Brown had s "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," for days after she was singing humming it to herself. "li. seems to naunt me," sne saw a friend who had also been at party. "No wonder," said the fri< "Look at the way you murdered Roundabout Way "I've come to see if you can 1 me $2f>?" "That so? Which way did come?" "Down Griswold street." "Oh^ you did, eh? Did it occui you that you had walked right eight or nine banks that are in business of lending money to gel me?"?Detroit Free Press. How to Pronounce Them. For the information of war-incli readers, we print the following ti of pronouneiation, hopinf it prove as helpful and illuminating the average table of its kind in daily press: Xyrousspuehbiurj, pronounced shhkdhsh-hsg-hgx-j; ilbedkftfeu, ] nounced Lawyuf-ghfs-ing-yvz; Zy pronounced Gsfx-fy; Vitchafdhhk: prl, pronounced Vodka; (Irkaman veithch, pronounced Psanmeobomb-ski; Boombf, pronounced Be mf.?Fuck. Advantage of Borrowing Some time since a little girl 1 lived in rural community appea at the back door of a neighb house with a small basket in hand, according to the Christian deavor World. "Mrs. Smith, said she, as neighbor answered her timid km "mother wants to know if you w please lend her a dozen eggs, wants to put them under a hen." "Put them under a hen?" was wondering rejoinder of the noighl "I didn't know that you had a he "We haven't was the frank rej< der of the little girl. "We are gr to borrow the hen from Mrs. Brov Two Heet and Above "You would not wonder that I h forsaken playwriting," said He Tarkington, according to the Indi apolis News, "if you knew how h it is today to make a success. "Musical comedies like 'The < from Paris'are what the public v/t rather than serious plays." Mr. Tarkington smilingly concl ed: "A young man who has seen first performance of 'The Girl fi Paris' from a front row seat said he left the theatre with a fri amid the deafening encores of lingering audience: " 'I am not surprised that the f is so well received. I knew it w< he a success before the curtain gone up two feet.' "?Indianop News. Dl. l. wagnon comes again (Continued from page three) has been a help to the people, nobody is more thankful for it than I am, Sird y?u seem to assume that I want to put up the price, and you seem to e ?? think this is all the bill is for, you never was wider of the truth in either case. But if it takes the same conaist ^itions another year to set cheap aps pies, potatoes and cabbage, I believe . when you really begin to think, Mr. ' ,2 Orr, that you and every other man ??_ in Union county, who with or without reason, with or without any knowledge of the bill as most of them who have condemmed it and its author are, you will join me in praying a merciful God that those conditions ' shall never prevail again. J to You ask, "did you ever see these things so cheap?" No, and I never nold saw cotton drop from 13 or 14 cents per pound to 6 and 7 cents in two or three weeks before, did you? I never saw every industry in the country tremble and totter on its ex" foundations as it has in the past fall and winter, did you ? I never saw tbo men with wives and children dependent on them for a living laid off by the hundreds before, did you? I to never saw two sets of hands eagei ?*>?' <111,1 luni'finn - ? .. . ?<iu .Teeing iui cveiy Jul) III QUI' mills, and those without jobs anxious i. for those with jobs to go out for the day, that the one who did not have a job might net a day's work er. before, did you? I never saw cotton drop from $70 to $80 dollars per ays bale down to $$0 to $40 dollars per it's bale in a few days before, did you? on't I never saw a prosperous farming producing people lose over four hunow dred millions of dollars on one crop ag- of cotton and that after it was made before, did you? God forbid that any man, woman or child now living should ever see it again, and yet ppi- friend Orr, the very thing that made cotton cheap, the very thing that /eet caused panic, suffering and desperaan iion to every industry of the South, jto- is the thing that made cheap apples ss." and cabbage and potatoes, and not a license or lack of license, as you seem to reason. If the same condition prevails a year from now, they j?m will be cheaper than ever and the red- dealers, peddlers and venders, who have heretofore enjoyed the special vou privilege of doing free in Union county, at the expense of the farmers ago merchants of Union county, will be glad to pay the license and sell them ln> cheaper than ever before my friend. Do you want cheap stuff at the price? That is your argument. The biggest crop of cotton the world ever pro, duced, with all export shipments cut r a!1 off for a time is what cost the South |.ai~ hundreds of millions of dollars, and ? , reduced cotton from $70 to $:ir? dolf lars per bale, is what ruined and im' poverished hundreds and thousands of 1,ar7 our best Deonle. The hi?r<rect nver, r\f A i - v.?j? ,, apples and produce the country has ever made, with all export trade cut off and with this stuff rotting on the hands of the producers is what has cost the producers of cabbage, apples and potatoes millions of dollars, ung and given you the cheapest produce and you ever had; a world-wide horror or and debauchery of war, such as has not been from the foundation of the J to world, is what has impoverished hunthe dreds and thousands of the producers of the cheap cabbage and potatoes and. you have been eating?my friend are it!" you willing to pay $115 to $40 dollars per bale reduction on cotton, to have cheap produce? I know you end and the other democrats of Union county are too fair to refuse to recyou ogni/.e the truth when it is presented and I know you neither can nor will deny the truth of the figures, which to are based on government authority, by and you could not, if you would, deny the the actual facts that you have felt t to here at home. You say again, "that you believe that 90 per cent of the people would vote to take of the license, grant ne(i that it is true, it is also true that ible that same 90 per cent would vote to will take ofT nil ntlun- tovao ?i v.. M.i w**vi ka.\cii tuat nicy ; as now pay, until they saw the governthe ment turning to anarchy, the school houses closing, and the wreck anr? Yu- ruin that would follow any system of !>ro- government without taxes to run it, gfr, until they needed the protection that '.zy- could no longer be had, because there iat- was no tax to provide for it. go- I'll go further, friend Orr, and you >ob- will not deny it, followng your same line of argument, 90 per cent of the people who have to have cotton and clothes made from it to wear and who who do not produce any for sale, ired would vote today to make you take or's 5 cents or less if they had the chance her for all the balance of the cotton you En- and the other farmers of Union coun ty will ever produce, but that would the not make it right would it? And 90 Dck, por cent of the people who make coton't ton would vote to never sell another She pound for less than 20 cents pei pound if it would do any good, would the they not? Even if hundreds had to bor. go naked as a consequence. So, I n!" think you will have to admit that Din- your premises are wrong, and that >ing the law of sunolv and demand hn.. /n." to regulate the ultimate price, unless chaos and cataclysms of war or other disaster beyond human power to ave control steps in as it has this time, oth and I think you will feel more kindian ly towards your servant who is laard boring to give you a market and to give you good roads to get to and [?irl from that market at half what it ints costs you now. As to my venerable friend, Mr. Vv. lud- H. Harris, I feel sure he must have been suffering from indigestion or the biliousness the day he wrote his rom "cussing out" for me, for 1 know he , as is too well versed in the principles end If "equal rights to all and special the privileges to none," to be serious in his objection to a measure that to day oppose, any man must not only aban>uld don, but become the champion of had "special privileges," and I was elecolis ted by a people who claim to be democrats and I am not yet prepared to believe that they believe in taxing the many for the few, or taxing the farmers and merchants of Union county for the benefit of dealers, peddlers and venders of other counties and States, and yet that is what it would seem on the surface, of the sundry and various dressings my hide got from my friends last week. I feel sure that when Squire Harris and mv good friends of Jonesville know that "dealer, peddler, vender" do not touch, and in their definitions make a distinction, as from a producer, they will see that there is absolutely nothing either in the spirit or wording of the bill, that would touch or hinder in any way, any farmer or producer, who happens to live in Cherokee county, or any other county, and do his business at, Jonesville, from selling any of his surplus produce, chickens, eggs, butter, wood or anything else on earth he raises, in any way he pleases, and without a cent of cost more than he has always paid and that he will feel more like, at least one other good citizen, not even a resident of this county has written me (he is both a merchant and farmer) and that is "that it is one of the best pieces of legislation yet introduced in our legislature," especially when you come to realize that it does not interfere with any regularly organized commercial business, paying taxes in the State, but it does get the fakir, the man who slips in and sells the ignorant white or your negro a lot of junk, and takes a mortgage on everything he has and a lot of times on things he has not got, and nobody knows a mortgage has been given until it is presented for payment, and then you have to pay your negro out, or have him solo out, or his time taken up in going to court, when you need him worst. It does stop the privileged few from selling all over the county free of aii cost, when every citizen and farmer and business man has to pay for t h'lt nrivilnoro If and believe you need vile, dangerous calomel to start your liver and clean your bowels. Here's my guarantee! Ask your druggist for a aO cent bottle of l)odson's Liver Tone and take a spoonful tonight. If it doesn't start your liver and straighten you right up better than calomel and without griping or making you sick I want you to go back and get your money. Take calomel today and tomorrow you will feel weak and sick and nauseated. Don't lose a day's work. Take a spoonful of harmless, vegetable Dodson's Liver Tone tonight and wake up feeling great. It's perfectly harmless, so give it to your children any time. It can't salivate, so let them eat anything afterwards. THE BEST RESULTS are always obtained from the best drugs, you get only the best at The Palmetto Drug Co. Have vour Dre w Jt scriptions filled where you always get the best PALMETTO DRUG COMPANY THE MONEY SAVERS UNION, S. C. anybody from selling anything that is legitimate and will bear the- inspection of the law, but it does make it unprofitable for the fakir and quack, it does not raise the price of anything to anybody, but it does give the home farmer and merchant something like an equal showing with the alien and stranger. It is a measure to encourage farmers of Union county to diversify, to give them a market, and to give them an equal showing in their own market, to make it possible for them to plant something besides cotton and be able to convert some of it into money. It is designed to give the business interests of Union county an equal showing with outsiders and non-taxpayers. This is the bill that seems to have stirred up some of my friends. If the efforts to create home markets is wrong, I am wrong; if the efforts to give home producers some encouragement and a living chance is wrong I am wrong; if the effort to give the home merchant a living showing, and some measure of equality with an outsider and non-taxpayer is wrong, I am wrong; and as the conditions that xire true at Jonesville would be equally true with Lockhart or any other border town in the county, 1 will yet believe that my efforts to serve my people have been misunderstood but not unappreciated. Very truly, L. L. WAGNON. MOKE AGAINST THE ROM) ISSUE Mr. G. T. Gault of Kelton Again Argues Against Voting Rends for Good Roads We are having some tine March weather just now and the farmers are making good use of it. Mr. Editor, you have thrown open your columns for a free discussion of the .$200,000 good roads bond issue to be voted on the (5th of April. You have shown a noble spirit in so doing which is just and fair, for it is a public question. In last weeks' Times I gave a part of my views on the subject and thought I was done, but reading last weeks' Progress, 1 saw so much that was said that was misleading and deceiving about the .$150,000 K. K. bonds voted on by the qualified electors of Union 40 years ago, I coulo not hold my peace, so please give me space in the old Union Times to ask Progress a few questions, and comment on the same. Progress says they got official figures showing that the Southern Railway was paying taxes to the amount of $11.0.'50 per year and the amount of interest the county paid on those bonds was onlv $(5,270, hsowing that the county was actually making $4,200 a year he has it?but my figures have it saving $4,7(50; $500 more than his, now 1 do not give the official figures a single doubt, but I want to ask Progerss or the author of this statement a few questions. Was not this R. R. through Union county built years be fore those bonds were voted on ? Was one foot of this road built in Union county or one cent of the money spent in Union county? No, but it was to build a road in Spartanburg county and in North CarOlino nf ? -1 nnaii >vc no ihu receive a cent of revenue. Now could there ever be anything more misleading and deceiving than this statement? 1 will say that 1 voted for this bond and I and all others who voted for it should have paid for them. It would have been hard on me and au others that did, but experience teaches a dear school. Those who advocated the bonds would have us believe that we would have meat, flour, corn almost given to us if the bond issue carried, but did it come true? No, but Union has had the pleasure of paying $.'160,000 of hard earned money, counting the interest on the bonds and for retiring them at 6 per cent (which I think is too long) is what we got and some would have | the mill people believe if we get those good r0ad bonds they will get wood at almost nothing. My friends don't you let them pull the wool ovci your eyes as they did mine 40 years ago, for I was paying big prices for flour with this outlet into the Northwest and we had the road almost 40 years. No, my laboring mill friends if we get the bond issue for good roads you will still pay high prices for wood, etc. Some people are mighty anxious to get the votes of the mill people if they will just vote as they want them to. But how was it last year and in 1912, when those very people wanted to vote for men of their choice to fill offices. One thing I forgot, how much of this It. R. sinking fund was lost by the coinmissions by bad loans? The tax payers will have to make it good. And too, if the good roads bond issue carries what will the county have paid at the end of 40 years at 5 per cent for they will not be sold for less; lets figure a little, $400,000 and still the bonds at the end of 40 years, not a cent paid. So if there has been added to our taxes enough in 40 years to retire those bonds, just add $200,000 more and we will have the small sum of six hundred thousand dv liars, and 1 have not counted the compound interest $10,000 or more for 29 years, which will add many more thousands to be counted, roughly estimated at $85,000. We hove the sum total of $085,000 paid for road bonds alone. Let me say a few words on some other bonds. The j voters of Jonesville and Pinckney townships voted $20,000 eacn to build a road from Lockhart Junction to l.ni.ktiavt Miiic tk?., ;r this road what a boom for Jonesville and Lockhart Junction. Now, let us look at it, a traveler cannot gee a square meal there, and we have the road too. And if it had not been for John H. and Henry Howell of Kelton we would have been paying taxes on that road. One of my best friends got his feelings hurt, because I told him what I thought about the bonds and again did not the people of some of our township vote bonds on therm selves to help build three counties railroads through the townships. It passed through, but the county went under and we saved our taxes. What do all these taxes mean? Readers, listen, Abraham Lincoln said: "I se< in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of m> country as a result of the war. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is concentrated in the hands . of a few and this republic is destroyed. 1 feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war." Dear readers, don't this read more like history than prophesy? Look from (?5 to 7(5 in the South? look at corporations today! They own all the mining fields and all the railroads, water powers and everything else except our land ann personal property, and now to think that our own men in the South would try to get us to mortgage them away by voting taxes to be paid in JO or 40 years. Stop and think or reason befo you vote a tax on yours and your neighbors children and grandchildren. For God said "people will not reason." G. T. Gault. 'Utfh! Calomel Makes You Deathly Sick Stop using dangerous drug before it salivates you! It's horrible! You're bilious, sluggish, constipated ?^?????? ?????? I ?? ???I???????? YOU KNOJ?f WHO IS OU^BDJNGm YOUR IT ggg?g^ A National Bank is an absolutely safe place to put your money, because the United States Government examines regularly all National Banks. Ask our patrons how we treat THEM. Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank Citizens National Bank R. P. MORGAN. President C. C. SANDERS, Cashier ? ??it um jgm 11\maammmmmwtnmubb77wbmjcyrrw*mwim^tkwmwpgmwq^ ! The Ford is lighter than any other car of its size and power. Light weight means economy. Economy in gasoline consumption. Economy in tire expense. Economy in repair bills?less than two cents a mile for operation and upkeep. Vet with ill 1 its light weight the Ford is the strongest sturdiest car that is built. It is the longest lasting car. Vanadium steel is responsible for that. "Anti-fatigue" steel, scientists call it?the strongest, toughest steel put ' into automobile construction. Buyers will share in profits if we sell at retail 1100,000 new Ford cars between August 1914 and August 1915. Runabout $440; Touring Car $490; Town Car $090; Coupelet $750; Sedan $975, f. o. b. Detroit with all equipment. On display and sale at \ UNION GAIU G E I |j "HOME AT LAST." GADBERRY ST. j Eijpi' 1 : 8 Km t "i itvo Paragraphs . "That's the third time this morning. I can't wait a moment longer on that fellow. 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