The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 22, 1915, Page 4, Image 4
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THE
"Dress Up"
Movement
IS SWEEPING. Dressing up is a fine habit. It
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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
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New shipment of Stetson Hats, Altman Neckwear
and Howard and Foster Shoes. The latest
in dress up Gloves. Regular Cadet sizes, made
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Send the Boy; we can dress him up also.
All the latest styles and leathers in the Drew
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Dress up here, Boys.
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