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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY tTHE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE Editor J. B. BOZEMAN Manager ________________ 1 Registered at the Poetoffice in Union, S. C., as second class matter. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year $1.00 Six Months .50 : Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1915. "The Denmark Citizen" is the latest addition to our exchange list. It is a newspaper published at Denmark, S. C. We welcome this new arrival to our desk. May the stars bo propitious. We respectfully call the attention of our readers to the splendid line of advertising offered in this week's Times. We feel considerable pride in the patronage given us. We feel even more gratification over the fact that we honestly believe we are able to eive splendid service to our patrons. A professional "hobo" was recently arrested in Minneapolis and upon his person was found a pocket ledger in which he had kept an accurate account of his income from his profession and an accurate account of his expenses. He had "earned" $1200 a year "practicing his profession." And yet, some people say it is hard for a man to make a living in this country! Let everybody visit the Fair grounds Friday and Saturday. The County Fair is the one solitary movement looking to improve agricultural conditions that all our people can unite in and it can be made a mighty lever to lift. It is not so much what you are to get out of the Fair in entertainment that counts. It is a ques tion of your joining1 in with the greatest single movement that will help the very foundations of real prosperity. A County Fair is a bigger thing than a gathering for a frolic, although it is expected that everyone will have a "good time." The splendid development of our city water and lighting plants during the past few years should be cause for hearty approval on the part of the citizens. The article published in this issue is a revelation to those not informed. Few of our people realize just how good has been the manage ment of these plants. The showing is a most creditable one. Now let all the property owners fall in with the movement to have a "White Way" on Main street. It will cost no single owner a very large amount. The result will be of great advantage. Inadvertantly the name of Mr. L. -J Hames was omitted in the reporter's write-up of the water and lighting plants. Mr. Hames has worked untiringly for several years as a member of the commission and his efforts contributed largely to the splendid results achieved. BEANS. We sincerely wish that every farmer in Union county would take to heart the lesson we propound on "beans'* this week. It is but the "short and simple annals of the poor," but would nil the pockets of Union county farmers with silver and gold and "long green." Hanging in front of The Times' ofbce are two varieties of "velvet" beans?the Chinese and the Japanese. One sample was grown by F. W. Carnell, the other by Thos. McXally. Both samples were grown on thin soil?one on soil that would not produce seven bushels of corn to the acre without fertilizer. Rut that is not th?? sermon. Noi, is the fact that these prodigious, prolific, mighty-growing plants are vallloVklfi -f nr nervo/ilolKt *V4 fc, * M|?cuaii(v I vr I l^UU- , ing hogrf. The real value is in the fact that these plants are great nitrogen gatherers. They have the wonderful property of putting into the ] soil an element that costs much money , and that all the lands of the county , need greatly?nitrogen. There are > other plants that will work this mira- ( cle, but there is hardly one that would , m mo re, and at as small expense as . will this humble bean. Do not get < the idea that it is a dwarfed growth, j You would have to fence in your house ( to keep it from burying it, if you ] plant it too near the house. Best to ? plant i't on poor ground. The poor ( ground needs it, and there it will j not grow more than ten feet runners, , more or less. ( Mr. Farmer, investigate the won- t ders of the "velvet bean." t CHARLESTON'S RIOT. Charleston did have her expected riot, albeit it came a little later than it was boofctfti. It is difficult to pass just judgment when one is not actually present to catch the many "pointers" to the truth. There were, nevertheless, some facts that are po-' tent to every thoughtful mind. For one thing, the police ferce proved of little value in maintaining order. In fact, it seems to be established that members of the force led the riot, or at least may have fired the first shot. They shamelessly clubbed various citizens and in general manifested a spirit of "pure cussedness." But there is a further reason for that: Charleston, for decades openly standing for the violation of law, persistently and wilfully flaunting her lawless will in the face of the State at large, has reaped the first crop of her sowing. Pity it is that this first crop is not likely to be the only one. More bloodshed is scheduled for Charleston, else all signs of the political Zodiac fail. Another thing that seems unpardonable was the fact that Mayor Grace was "out of the city," but managed to get to the scene of the trouble in 20 minutes from the time of the shooting. With a mayor and a police force like that, in the face of the known tension, it is no more than might have been looked for. Another fact that stands out in this catastrophe is that the innocent sufTer along with the guilty. This is one of the inexorable laws of our existence. The innocent, as well as the guilty, come to grief when evil walks abroad. Sin exacts toll from the weak as well as the strong. The price of lawlessness and crime falls upon a whole community with as great severity as it does upon the actual agent of the evil deed; often, the price exacted from the innocent is heavier than that exacted from the actually guilty. There is yet another potent fact: By blood comes cleansing, and by blood Charleston, unwilling to cleanse herself by less drastic means, will find it in the blood of her citizens, good and evil. This is a law of God. It may often be obscured by the tumult of events; it is often overlooked by even the world's wise men; but it has a way of coming to the fore now and again. Civilization has always climbed by the blood way, and will always so climb until the hills of perfect development will be topped. IF? If Union county produces twenty thousand bales of cotton (last year it actually produced 20,564 bales), and if each bale weighed five hundred pounds, then the entire cotton crop of Union county sold at ten cents a pound would bring exactly one million dollars. If sold for fifteen cents a pound it would bring one and onehalf million dollars. There would be a difference of just one-half million dollars. Th?r, half million dollars, if distributed equally to every man, woman and child, black and white, in the county, would mean that each individual soul of the thirty thousand ' population of Union county would receive the sum of sixteen dollars and sixiy-six and iwo-iniros cents. i nis half million dollars would amount to one-fourteenth of the total tax assessment valuation of Union county. It would build another Neal Shoals dam; another Union and Glenn Springs railway. That much cash would build a mill almost as large as any single mill in Union county; it would, if distributed throughout the county for good roads, allow just one thousand dollars a mile to five hundred miles of Union county roads. (There are only six hundred miles of roads within the county.) It would build just one thousand farmers' homes allowing for each five hundred dollars. It would build just five hundred homes, allowing an even thousand dollars to be expended on each. It would purchase twenty-five thousand acres of land at twenty dollars per acre. (Twenty dollars per acre is near an average price for every foot of land in Union county). It would buy one hundred million brick at five dollars a thousand. It would pay the first year's premium on sixteen thousand, six hundred and sixty-six life insurance policies, allowing thirty dollars to each policy, and have twenty dollars left over. So, you see, there is some difference between ten cent cotton and fifteen cent cotton, after all. Each cent per pound, on every twenty thousand t?ales is just one hundred thousand ilollars in hard cash. There is another view that might he illuminating. Twenty thousand bales at seven and :>ne-half cents per pound, provided ?ach bale weighed just five hundred pounds, would amount to seven hunired and fifty thousand dollars. At fifteen cents per pound, the gross in. :omc would be one and one-half milion dollars. But then?it's only an 'if," after all. The boll weevil is :oming. There will be no twenty thousand bales then. Let us hope it vill be twenty thousand bushels of :orn, twenty thousand bushels of oats, .wenty thousand bushels of peas, .wenty thousand hushels of wheal, twenty thousand tons of hay, twenty thousand fat hens, twenty thousand dozen ejjfrs, twenty thousand spring chickens, twenty thousand?but, we will count up now and see "where we are at": 20,000 bo. corn at 50c!. $ 10,000 20,000 bu. oats at 50c 10,000 20,000 bu. peas at $1.50 30,000 20,000 bu. wheat at $1.00 20,000 20,000 tons hay at $20.00 400,000 20,000 fat hens at 50c each.. 10,000 20,000 doz. ejrKs at 25c doz? 5,000 20,000 spring chickens at HViC each 7,500 20,000 watermelons at 10c (Less than one around) 2,000 20,000 bushels of peanuts at $1.00 per bu. 20,000 Grand total $514,500 More than half a million dollars? the total difference between twenty thousand hales of cotton at ten cents a pound and twenty thousand bales at fifteen cents a pound. And one item, grass, j's nearly four-fifths of the total. Just grass. It's funny! But the world is that sort of a thing?it's funny! I'. S.?We forgot to add: 20,000 goats at $2 per head_$ 40,000 20,000 sheep at $5 p<>r head. 00,000 20,000 hogs, 200 lbs. each at 5c per lb. 200,000 20,000 beeves, 1,000 lbs. each at 5c per lb. 1,000,000 20,000 head of horses at $200 each 4,000,000 $5,300,000 I Jumping Jupiter! It's time to rest ] a bit. The head gets dizzy! i MONEY FOR CLEMSON. State Board Secures Loan at a Ver> 1 Low Rate. < Acting under a resolution of the last < general assembly the State's finance ? hoard yesterday borrowed $(12,400 for * Clemson collepe. The fertilizer tap f tax revenue was materially reduced ' this year as a result of the war and * it was necessary to borrow this money 1 for the collepe. The money was se- t cured at a rate of 2.44 per cent from ' the Palmetto National bank of Columbia.?The State. 1 SHE HAD A RIGHT TO GO. i Visitinp New York friends is an Illinois pirl, younp and sweet and pretty. One eveninp she was out > with a party of people older than her- j self, and after the theatre some one I suppested that they po to a rather 1 lively restaurant and dance a while. 1 The others objected on the pround < that it niipht not be the proper place for a younp and unsophisticated girl 1 like Miss Blank. v**,1 4<Oh chp QniH uritli nnifp or? oif t ?> ?"?l"you needn't bother about my youth 1 or my unsophistication. I am 21 < years of age and I voted at the No- t vember election." No other woman in the party had a record like that, and the Illinois girl was taken along without further question.?Exchange. FARMER WENT ONE BETTER. ? An American tourist had been j boasting again in the village inn. ] "Talking of scarecrows," he said, with a drawl, "why, my father once j put one up, and it frightened thc? < crows so much that not one entered the field again for over a year." ( He looked triumphantly around his audience. Surely that had settleu \ those country bumpkins! j But he was to meet his match! "That's nothing," retorted one farm- | er. "A neighbor o' mine once put a ( scarecrow into his potato patch and it , terrified the birds so much that one , rascal of a crow, who had stolen some potatoes, came next day and put them j back."?Exchange. ^ JURY IN CHARLESTON 1 CAN'T NAME SLAYER. 1 t Charleston, Oct. 21.?The coroner's ' jury investigating the death of Sidney ( J. Cohen returned the following vei * diet at 1:07 o'clock this morning. "That the said Sidney J. Cohen came to his death October 15, 1015, at Roper ' hospital, Charleston county, from a I .118 calibre pistol shot wound, said pis- ^ tol having been fired from vicinity of doorway between anteroom and execu- f tive committee room on iVie cnntliu/iiol corner King and George streets, Char- 1 leston county, by party or parties unknown to this jury, on October 16, 1015." Henry J. Brown, former ice wagon A driver, and Edward R. McDonald, a stevedore, are held in the county jail 1 for further orders from the court. a They were arrested Friday by the po- 8 lice, and later Brown was accused of x murder by the police and McDonald of conspiracy to commit murder and as- v sault and battery with intent to kill. ? Charleston, Oct. 20.?At 8 o'clock 0 this evening the last of the 71 witnesses called to the stand concluded ' his testimony. Coroner Mansfiela made his charge and the case was left ? with the jury, the militia who have \ guarded the inquiry from the first j remaining on duty about the court ^ house. Thirty-seven persons testified g today, among them being Edward R. s McDonald, who, with Henry J. Brown, v is charged by the police with murdei and conspiracy to murder. Brown by advice of counsel declined to take the y stand. \ Mr. Cohen's funeral will be held at noon tomorrow from Beth Elohim synagogue. s I THE "The ^f?f> S. KRASNOFF, Managci WILL GIVE JOE GRANT AN IMPARTIAL TRIAL. "I desire to express my appreciaion of the courteous language in your ctter, hut I can not admit the corectness of your conclusions after aluding to the sigma of mob violence n Pennsylvania and South Carolina," <ays Gov. Manning in a letter adIressed yesterday to Gov. Brumbaugh if Pennsylvania relative to the exradition of Joe Grant, a negro want d in Edgefield county on the charge if murder. The Pennsylvania govM-nor asked for an expression from !lov. Manning as to whether every afecruard would he thrown ahout. the legro during his trial. Gov. Manning tates that he sees no ground for 'ear that local officers will not do heir duty in giving the negro proteeion and that a fair trial will follow. 1'he governor again renews his petiion that the negro he returned to louth Carolina for trial.?The State. iVINTHROP GIRLS WILL ATTEND FAIR. Winthrop college will attend the rreater State fair and the harvest ubilec on Friday. This was definitey decided yesterday morning when he Winthrop student body voted inanimously to make the trip to the rapital city. Friday will be a big day at the 'air for with the Winthrop girls in ittendance, the automobile races and he Carolina-Davidson football game, ;he floral parades and other features )f ladies' day, it is expected to be ;he best Friday ever.?The State. MEADORS Meadors. Oct. 20.?Mr. and Mrs. 3ol Gregory and daughter visited Mr. W. o. Robhins and Mr. Thos. Jenkins Sunday. Mrs. H. E. Brewington visited he?* father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Younjr, a few days the past week. Mr. Willie Jenkins of Bonham visted his father, Mr. Thos. Jenkins, Sunday. Mr. M. B. Meador went to town Friiav. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jenkins of Unon visited his father, Mr. Thos. Jentins, Sunday. The last tender sweet voice from ;he quiverinjr lips of the blessed one )f earth and the last si^h of breath vas in love for the child who had been lursed under a mothers care. Now he is silent in fhe vault beneath the ;omb, mouldering back to dust. The irecious hands that once were useful is now in the palid sod. Thejfootsrints are no longer to be seen, nor ;he voice to be heard around the old lome fireside. There is no need to :all for a mother's help now as when she was in nature's life. No one can ell a mother's lovinjr care in life unil she has passed out into that other ife. We shall know each other as ve are known, in the other life. Then ve can behold the beauty of a mother's ove. A jrood nian has been called out Tom amonjr us to the reward that was iwaitinjr him on the other side. )ur Heavenly Father saw fit to call >ut from amonp us our dearly beoved and faithful servant anu covorker, our Christian brother, Thos. r. Betenbaujrh, who now is at rest in he silent tomb, awaiting that day ,nd hour when the trumpet shall sound ind when all shall arise to be revarded for the deeds done while here n earth in the natural body. He is vaiting for that stainless and glorified rown. He will be missed throughout he county. May the protecting care ,{ the mighty strong arm protect all hose who are left to mourn his abence. ^ H. E. B. Miss Minnie L. Walker and Mrs. Janie binder motored from Union to fork Saturday to visit Mrs. Jennette lerndon. They had not been to York n several years and were surprised to ee how much the town had improved fnce their last visit here.?York Jews. Rev. and Mrs. S. P. Hair of Fort 1 ill are the guests of their parents, It. and Mrs. Joseph Sanders. It's a poor article that can't get itelf imitated. % : WONDER ) IStore That Sells Under" The Militant Middy Dress FOR THE MISS ie newest creation of the season just received from York, made of Navy Blue Serge, elegantly trimmed, rfectly exquisite garment in every respect. Sizes 13 * 3 at only $4.49 | dies' Coats, short or full length. Also Coat Suits in ie leading materials. Styles up to the minute at very 2rate prices. i from , $3.98 to $15.50 , Suits from $4.98 to $22.50 ?. jmember our Special $1.00 Sale for this Union Fair k. Great bargains are here for you. Visit the Union lty Fair and make our Store your headquarters. 8 THE WONDER I "The Store That Sells Under" ; r UNION, S. C. I ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THE "Dress Up" Movement IS SWEEPING. Dressing up is a fine habit. It 4.1 UJ i ?' * ' ? is me uressea up man wno stands out in a crowd, i Will dress you in the best of style, with the best to wear for very little cost. DRESS UP HERE BOYS Our Alco Suits at $15.00 are better than the other fellow's at $18.00 and $20.00. We can give you the best Suit, all wool, for $10.00. New shipment of Stetson Hats, Altman Neckwear and Howard and Foster Shoes. The latest in dress up Gloves. Regular Cadet sizes, made by Louis Meyer and Son. Send the Boy; we can dress him up also. All the latest styles and leathers in the Drew Shoe for Ladies. Sole Agent for "Stronger Than the Law" Shoes. We fit the whole family. Dress up here, Boys. l , iki'P '7 %X%$XXXXXSXS%XXXXX%XXSXXSXXXX3SX%SSUS%X%SS*i%SSXX Union Clothing Co. D. W. MULLINAX, Mgr. i . I w T'i& ? " /MN . i