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("i^k/IILES ' A Bird's Eye View / ' (Judge) S<)lee?"What is this Blue Bird we/ear so much talk about?" /apleigh?"The Dove of. Peace." / The Latest /"How do you want your waist Aade?" / "In this new style. I want it to look as if it were a:bout to drop off me, but of course, it musn't."? Louisville Courier-Journal. One Detail (Judge) He?You can't truthfully say 1 haven't supported you in the style to which you were accustomed. She?Yes, I can. You never hold me on your lay any more. No Brute (Baltimore American) "Did you strike Ahis man in an excess of irascibility?" "No, sah; I done hit him in the stummick." Circulation Statement Unsworn to "May I print a kiss upon your lips?" I asked; She gave me sweet permission. And so I went to press And printed a LARGE edition. ?Philadelphia Public Ledger. After 1 wash my face 1 always look into the mirror to see if it's clean, confided little Doris. "Don't you ?" "Don't have to. I look at the towel, rejoined Willie.?Browning's Magazine. Riches Buy Happiness "But riches do not bring happiness!" protested the lover. "I know that," replied the sweet young thing; "but riches will buy an automobile, and if you have an automobile, you can go after happiness." ?Houston Post. Notable Anniversary "It's five years ago today, and I'm going to celebrate my wouldn't wedding." "Wouldn't wedding. Wooden, you mean?" "No. Wouldn't. Five years ago today since I asked a girl if she'd marry me and she said she wouldn't. ?Browning Magazine. Sure Thing! "Farm products cost more than they used to." "Yes" replied the farmer. "When a farmer is supposed to know the botanical name of what he's raisin' an' the entomological name of the insect that eats it, an' the pharmaceutical name of the chemical that will kill it, somebody's got to pay."? Anderson (N. C.) Intellingencer. Music Without Charm (Exchange) At a party Miss Brown had sung "It's a Long Way to Tippcrary," and for days after she was singing or humming it to herself. "It seems to haunt me," she said to a friend who had also been at the party. "No wonder," said the friend. "Look at the way you murdered it!" Roundabout Way "I've come to see if you can lend me $25?" "That so? Which way did you come?" "Down Griswold street." "Qh^ you did, eh? Did it occur to you that you had walked right by eight or nine banks that are in the business of lending money to get to me?"?Detroit Free Press. mow to Pronounce Them. For the information of war-inclined readers, we print the^following table of pronounciation, hopinv it will prove as helpful and illuminating as the average table of its kind in the daily press: Xyrousspuchbiurj, pronounced Yushhkdhsh-hsg-hgx-j; Ilbedkfgeu, pronounced Lawyuf-ghfs-ing-yvz; Zygfr, pronounced Gsfx-fy; Vitchafdhhkzzyprl, pronounced Vodka; Grkamamatveithch, pronounced I)sanmeo-gobomb-ski; Boombf, pronounced Boobmf.?Puck. Advantage of Borrowing Some time since a little girl who lived in rural community appeared at the back door of a neighbor's house with a small basket in her hand, according to the Christian Endeavor World. "Mrs. Smith, said she, as the neighbor answered her timid knock, "mother wants to know if you won't please lend her a dozen eggs. She wants to put them under a hen." "Put them under a hen?" was the wondering rejoinder of the neighbor "I didn't know that you had a hen!" "We haven't was the frank rejoinder of the little girl. "We are going to borrow the he*i from Mrs. Brown." Two Keet and Above "You would not wonder that I hnve forsaken play writing," said Booth Tarkington, according to the Indianapolis News, "if you knew how hard it is today to make a success. "Musical comedies like 'The Girl from PariR'are what the public wants rather than serious plays." Mr. Tarkington smilingly concluded: "A young man who has seen the first performance of 'The Girl from Paris' from a front row seat said, as he left the theatre with a friend amid the deafening encores of the lingering audience: "'I am not surprised that the play is so well received. I knew it would be a success before the curtain had gone up two feet.' "?Indianopolis News. i L. L. WAGNON COMES AGA1 (Continued from page three) has been a help to the people, nobo< is more thankful for it than I ai you seem to assume that I want put up the price, and you seem think this is all the bill is for, y< never was wider of the truth in cith caf?. But if it takes the same co ditions another year to get cheap a pies, potatoes and cabbage, I belie when you really begin to think, IV Orr, that you and every other mi in Union county, who with or witho reason, with or without any knov edge of the bill as most of them w! have condemmed it and its auth are, you will join me in praying merciful God that those conditio shall never prevail again. You ask, "did you ever see the things so cheap?" No, and I nev saw cotton drop from 13 or 14 cer per pound to (? and 7 cents in two three weeks before, did you? never saw every industry in t country tremble and totter on 1 foundations as it has in the past fj and winter, did you? I never sj men with wives and children depe dent on them for a living laid off the hundreds before, did you ? never saw two sets of hands eag and waiting for every job in o mills, and those without jobs anxio for those with jobs to go o for the day, that the one who did n have a job might get a day's wo before, did you? I never saw cott drop from $70 to $80 dollars p bale down to $30 to $40 dollars p bale in a few days before, did yoi I never saw a prosperous farmii producing people lose over four hu drod millions of dollars on one cr of cotton and that after it was ma before, did you ? God forbid that a man, woman or child now livii should ever see it again, and y friend Orr, the very thing that ma cotton cheap, the very thing th caused panic, suffering and despei iion to every industry of the Soul is the thing that made cheap appl and cabbage and potatoes, and not license or lack of license, as y seem to reason. If the same com tion prevails a year from now, th will be cheaper than ever and t dealers, peddlers and venders, w have heretofore enjoyed the spec privilege of doing free in Union cou ty, at the expense of the farm* merchants of Union county, will glad to pay the license and sell th( cheaper than ever before my friei Do you want cheap stuff at the pric That is your argument. The biggi crop of cotton the world ever pi duced, with all export shipments c off for a time is what cost the Sou hundreds of millions of dollars, a reduced cotton from $70 to $35 d lars per bale, is what ruined and i poverished hundreds and thousands our best people. The biggest crop apples and produce the country h ever made, with all export trade c off and with this stuff rotting on t hands of the producers is what h cost the producers of cabbage, a pies and potatoes millions of dolla and given you the cheapest prodc you ever had; a world-wide hori and debauchery of war, such as h not been from the foundation of t world, is what has impoverished hu dreds and thousands of the produce of the cheap cabbage and potato you have been eating?my friend a you willing to pay $.'55 to $40 di lars per bale reduction on cottt to have cheap produce? I know y and the other democrats of Uni county are too fair to refuse to r< ognize the truth when it is present and I know you neither can nor \v deny the truth of the figures, whi are based on government authoril and you could not, if you would, de the actual facts that you have fi here at home. You say again, "that you belie that 90 per cent of the people wot vote to take off the license, gra that it is true, it is also true th that same 90 per cent would vote take off all other taxes that th | now pay, until they saw the gover ment turning to anarchy, the schc houses closing, and the wreck a ruin that would follow any system government without taxes to run until they needed the protection th could no longer be had, because the was no tax to provide for it. I'll go further, friend Orr, and yi will not deny it, followng your sar line of argument, 90 per cent of t people who have to have cotton ai clothes made from it to wear ai who do not produce any for sa would vote today to make you ta' 5 cents or less if they had the chan lor all the balance of the cotton y< and the other farmers of Union cou ty will ever produce, but that wou not make it right would it? And 1 per cent of the people who make cc ton would vote to never sell anoth pound for less than 20 cents p pound if it would do any good, wou they not? Even if hundreds had go naked as a consequence. So, think you will have to admit th, your premises are wrong, and th the law of supply and demand hi to regulate the ultimate price, unle chaos and cataclysms of war or oth disaster beyond human power control steps in as it has this tim and I think you will feel more kiiv ly towards your servant who is I boring to give you a market and rri\rn vau 1 * r,..~ ,Twk Kuuu ruaas to get to ar from that market at half what costs you now. As to my venerable friend, Mr. V II. Harris, I feel sure he must ha^ heen suffering from indigestion < biliousness the day he wrote h "cussing out" for me, for I know 1 is too well versed in the principh t.f "equal rights to all and speci privileges to none," to be serious his objection to a measure that i oppose, any man must not only abai don, but become the champion < "special privileges," and I was ele ted by a people who claim to be den ocrats and I am not yet prepared 1 N believe that they believe in taxini ? the many for the few, or taxing th farmers and merchants of TJnioi ? county for the benefit of dealers iy peddlers and venders of other coun u?, ties and States, and yet that is wha to it would seem on the surface, of th to sundry and various dressings m; ou hide got from my friends last week er I feel sure that when Squire Harri n- and mv good friends of Jonesvill p- know that "dealer, peddler, vender ve do not touch, and in their definition lr. make a distinction, as from a pro an ducer, they will see that there i ut absolutely nothing either in tb /I- spirit or wording of the bill, tha ho would touch or hinder in any way or any farmer or producer, who happen a to live in Cherokee county, or an; ns other county, and do his business a Jonesville, from selling any of hi se surplus produce, chickens, eggs, but er ter, wood or anything else on eartl its he raises, in any way he pleases, am or without a cent of cost more than h I has always paid and that he wil he feel more like, at least one othe its good citizen, not even a resident o all this county has written me (he i iw both a merchant and farmer) am n- that is "that it is one of the bes by pieces of legislation yet introduce! I in our legislature," especially whei ei you come to realize that it does no ur interfere with any regularly organ us ized commercial business, payinj ut taxes in the State, but it does ge lot the fakir, the man who slips in am rk sells the ignorant white or your ne on gro a lot of junk, and takes a mort er gage on everything he has and a lo er of times on things he has not got j? and nobody knows a mortgage ha ng been given until it is presented fo n- payment, and then you have to pa; op your negro out, or have him sol de out, or his time taken up in going t ny court, when you need him worst, ng It does stop the privileged fe\ ret from selling all over the county fre de of all cost, when every citizen am at farmer and business man has to na a- for that privilege. It does not sto th, anybody from selling anything tha les is legitimate and will bear the in a spection of the law, but it does mak ou it unprofitable for the fakir an Ji- quack, it does not raise the price o ey anything to anybody, but it does giv he the home farmer and merchant some ho thing like an equal showing with th ial alien and stranger, in- It is a measure to encourage far ?rs mers of Union county to diversify be to give them a market, and to giv ;m them an equal showing in their owi id. market, to make it possible fo e? them to plant something besides cot ?st ton and be able to convert some o ro- it into money. It is designed to giv :ut the business interests of Union coun ith ty an equal showing with outsider nd and non-taxpayers, ol- This is the bill that seems to hav m- stirred up some of my friends. I of the efforts to create home market of is wrong, I am wrong; if the effort las to give home producers some encour :ut agement and a living chance is wron' he I am wrong; if the effort to give tn ias home merchant a living showing, an ip- some measure of equality wit rs, an outsider and non-taxpayer i ice wrong, I am wrong; and as the cor or ditions that are true at Jonesvill ias would be equally true with Lockhai he or any other border town in th in- county, I will yet believe that m >rs efforts to serve my people have bee ics misunderstood hut not unappreciat^f ire Very trulv. I. T- WAnwn\ ^ - )n MORE AGAINST THE ou BOND TSSU1 Mr. G. T. Gault of Kelton Agai ed Argues Against Voting Bonds 'ill for Good Roads ch ? We are having some fine Marc ny weather just now and the farmer are making good use of it. Mr. Editor, you have thrown ope ve your columns for a free discussion o dd the $200,000 good roads bond issu nt to be voted on the 6th of April. Yo at have shown a noble spirit in so doini to which is just and fair, for it is a pub ey lie question. n- In last weeks' Times I gave a par >ol of my views on the subject an no thought I was done, but reading las of weeks' Progress, I saw so much tha it, was said that was misleading an at deceiving about the $150,000 R. i< re bonds voted on by the qualified elec tors of Union 40 years ago, I coul tn> not hold my peace, so please give m ne space in the old Union Times to asl he Progress a few questions, and com nd mcnt on the same. Progress say nd they got official figures showing tha le, the Southern Railway was payinj ke taxes to the amount of $11,030 pe ce year and the amount of interest th ou county paid on those bonds was onl n- $6,270, hsowing that the county wa Id I actuallv makin<r .*,1 onn ? v .>r) r <4 y cai HU I1U [)() it?but my figures have it savinj it- $-1,7(50; $500 more than his, now er do not give the official figures a sin er gle doubt, but I want to ask Progers Id or the author of this statement a fe'J to questions. Was not this R. F I through Union county built years be at fore those bonds were voted on at Was one foot of this road built i as Union county or one cent of th ss money spent in IJninn mimn-' XT~ vvuiibjr . nu er but it was to build a road in Spar to tanburg county and in North Caro ie, lina, of which we do not receive i d- cent of revenue. Now could then a- ever be anything more misleadinj to and deceiving than this statement' id I will say that I voted for this bon< it and I and all others who voted fo it should have paid for them. I v. would have been hard on me and ai /e others that did, but experienc< or teaches a dear school. Those whi is advocated the bonds would have ui ie believe that we would have meat es flour, corn almost given to us if thi al bond issue carried, but did it com* in true? No, but Union htfs had th? to pleasure of paying $.'160,000 of han n- earned money, counting the interes of on the bonds and for retiring them a c- 6 per cent (which I think is too long a- is what we got and some would havi to | the mill people believe if we ge i* those good road bonds they will get e wood at almost nothing. My friends n don't you let them pull the wool ovi-i >, your eyes as they did mine 40 years - ago, for I was paying big prices for t flour with this outlet into the Northe west and we had the road almost 40 y years. No, my laboring mill friends if we get the bond issue for good j s roads you will still pay high prices e for wood, etc. Some people are " mighty anxious to get the votes of s the mill people if they will just vote - as they want them to. But how was s it last year and in 1912, when those e very people wanted to vote for men t of their choice to fill offices. One thing I forgot, how much of this R. s R. sinking fund was lost by the comy missions by bad loans? The tax payt ers will have to make it good. And s too, if the good roads bond issue carries what will the county have paid h at the end of 40 years at 5 per cent d for they will not be sold for less; e lets figure a little, $400,000 and still 1 the bonds at the end of 40 years, not r a jCent paid. So if there has been f a ruled to our taxes enough in 40 s years to retire those bonds, just add d $200,000 more and we will have the t small sum of six hundred thousand d dollars, and I have not counted the n compound interest $10,000 or more t for 30 years, which will aclu many . more thousands to be counted, rough? ly estimated at $85,000. We hove t the sum total of $085,000 paid for d road bonds alone. Let me say a few _ words on some other bonds. The . voters of Jonesville and I'inckney t townships voted $20,000 eacn to build t a road from Lockhart Junction to s Lockhart Mills. They said if we ge; r this road what a boom for Jonesville y and Lockhart Junction. Now, let us a look at it, a traveler cannot gee a o square meal there, and we have the road too. And if it had not been for v John II. and Henry Howell of Kelton e we would have been paying taxes d on that road. One of my best friends y got his feelings hurt, because I told p him what I thought about the bonds t and again did not the people of some i_ of our township vote bonds on theniv selves to help build three counties railroads through the townships. It f passed through, but the county went e under and we saved our taxes. What _ do all these taxes mean ? Readers, e listen, Abraham Lincoln said: "I see in the near future a crisis approach_ ing that unnerves me and causes me r> to tremble for the safetv of mv e country as a result of the war. Corn porations have been enthroned and r an era of corruption in high places . will follow and the money powers f of the country will endeavor to proe long its reign by working upon the . prejudices of the people until the s wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few and this republic is det stroyed. I feel at this moment more f anxiety for the safety of my country s than ever before, even in the midst s of the war." Dear readers, don't this read more like history than kVp.ophesy? Look from 65 to 76 in the d'l'n'Xth? look at corporations today! d^fliey^t.'n all the mining fields and h all the railroads, water powers and is everything else except our land ano personal property, and now to think e that our own men in the South t would try to get us to mortgage e them away by voting taxes to bo j paid in HO or 40 years. Stop and n think or reason before you vote a 1 tax on yours and your neighbors ; children and grandchildren. For God said "people will not reason." , G. T. Gault. E Ugh! Calomel Makes You Deathly Sick Stop using dangerous drug before it salivates you! It's horrible! li s You're bilious, sluggish, constipated and believe you need vile, dangerous n calomel to start your liver and clean f your bowels. e Here's my guarantee! Ask your u druggist for a 50 cent bottle of Dod^ son's Liver Tone and take a spoonful i- tonight. If it doesn't start your liver and straighten you right up t better than calomel and without gripd ing or making you sick I want you to t go back and get your money. ,t Take calomel today and tomorrow d you will feel weak and sick and naui. seated. Don't lose a day's work. TaVo o OnnAnfnl 1 < ? opuumui ui narrniess, vege-j n table Dodson's Liver Tone tonight j e and wake up feeling great. It's k perfectly harmless, so give it to your | i- children any time. It can't salivate, | s so let them eat anything afterwards. \ I THE BEST RESULTS V a are always ob tained from the I best drugs, you j' get only the best ? at The Palmetto ; Drug Co. I Have your pre\ scriptions filled, \ where you ale Tirotto f-L ? 1- ? 0 wayk> get LJLie DCSl \ PALMETTO DRUG 1 COMPANY > THE MONEY SAVERS tl UNION* S. C. I I T YOU KNOjy WHO IS GUARDING |k YOUR IT A National Bank is an absolutely safe place to put your money, because the United States Government examines regularly all National Banks. 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