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ISTRAIGH1 SHOULC ?B "Plum Pudding an is a peculiar thing. 1 us prefer plum puddii are satisfied with mer r And the same thing ture programs. "The Fire," "The Wall Beh "plum pudding" featui ing you. ' Programs picked f lected for discriminate week's program andfor yours. I THIS WEEK THAT TEXi The Southlan THURSDAY "The Mysteries of Myr and specially selected pi gram. America's Grcati Mystery Serial. FRIDAY Viola Allen and Rich a Travers in "The White S tcr." B SATURDAY M "The Iron Clawr "He flB ards <\f Hcldn," "Loiicsoi ||H Luke" and other good p H tures. H WHEN BETTER 1 I WE'LL SH I The I "YOUR \) . Automobil i Bring us your Casi: when thev ri We Do Good Work , j We Have A Compl< WILLIAMS VULt N. Pinckney St. | THE REXAL V 's the Place to Get tl I ICE CREAM X V None but the Purest in but Scrupulous Cleanlin< ing and dispensing of ou i COOLING X AN| J J T ^ Come to The Rex | MILHOUS Special Orders for You BUY THE BEST Save TIME. ICE and ENERGY, and make BETTER CREAM. THE WHITE MOUNTAIN WILL DO IT and you can get them at Bailey Furnitui r r FROM THE I )ER TALKS Y HECK? No. 2 d Prunes"?Human nature Ys I've said before, most of lg, and there are some who e prunes. ; holds good in Motion PicCave Man," "Playing With veen" are just a few of the re program we've been servrom the open market, seing people. Look over next -and take "plum pudding" THIS WEEK VS QUARTETTE d's Favorite Singers MONDAY a" Harold Lockwood and | o- May Allison in "The Come>,st hack," a Metro Wonder Play. TUESDAY rd Henry B. Walthall in is- "The Raven," a Romance of Edgar Allen Poe. WEDNESDAY iz- "Excuse Me," a Pullman ne Car Pleasantry in Five Secic tions by Rupert Hughes. One long, lingering laugh. PICTURES ARE MADE [OW THEM TOO Cdisonia THEATRE" L le Owners? ngs and Inner Tubes eed doctoring. At Reasonable Prices *te Vulcanizing Plant. IANIZING WORKS Near Foster's Shop L FOUNTAIN ? T tie PUREST and BEST SODA WATER | X gredients used. Nothing i <r : 1 xu 1- I jss t*A.ci ciscu in tne maK.r Fountain Products. V Y Y Y ) % ' REFRESHING I Y Y :all Fountain at the V DRUG CO. | r Party Cream Solicited A^A A^A A^4. e & Lumber Co. INTERESTING LETTER FROM J. D. ARTHUR, JR. To the traveller just landed in Colon, making: his firs?c trip across the Isthmus of Panama in a car of the Pacific Railroad company, the glimpses he gets ^f the canal must be disappointing. Imagine Broad river?just about as muddy, just about as wide?running along in the midst of tropical jungles, with hills rising on every side, and you have an idea what the canal, as such, looks like, Then, too, in places, you'll see water lillies floating on the water, and where it traverses the low land you'll see dead trees sticking up, and an occasional island, but that island is probably floating. Not a very prepossessing sight, eh? But, of course, you realize that this first view is purely superficial. Now let us look closer; let us see whal there is here that makes this canal the greatest engineering feat of th? world, and something of which everj American has the right to be proud Let us go first to Miraflores Dump Here we see a pile of earth about th< size of the town of Union and aboul 20 feet deep. All of this came out oi the canal. Go to Fort Grant, om of the strongest defences of th? canal, you'll see quite a large town and it will be hard to believe that this space was once the ocean?land thai has been built from earth taken from the canal. Go to Gatun, where we have buill a dam that encloses the largest artificial lake in the world. But wher you get there you'll have to lool closely to see the dam, it seems as ij it might be just a big hill that Nature put there. But all that eartl came out of the canal also and millions of cubic yards dumped in midocean. So much for the digging which aside from the necessary organization for handling all this earth was a small part of the job. And, bj the way, all this may give you ar idea of the dimensions in which th< heads of this work learned to think For example, it was necessary to hav< more track space near some of th< pieces. A hill happened to be in th< way, so they put the steam shovel: to work and cut it away. There was no appropriate site for an administra tion building,' so they built a good sized hill and erected the building 01 that. There's no use in detailing the sys tern of the canal, that's commoi knowledge. Just a short sketch o: the main scheme. When a ship enter: Colon harbor, on the Atlantic side t< pass through the canal, it proceed: along at sea level to Gatun some eleven miles. There it enter: Gatun Locks, and is lifted to the leve of Gatun Lake, an artificial lake fee by the Charges river. Here let m< mention that it has been accurately determined just how much the deptl of this lake, under minimum rainfal and maximum lockage, will vary This knowledge of course necessitatec a thorough study of the water basir of the Charges river, a matter of some years of work and study. From Gatun Locks the vessel pro ceeds through Gaillard cut to Pedrc Miguel. Here it again enters the locks, and is dropped to the level oi Miraflores Lake. Then it reaches Mi'raflores it is again lowered, this time to the level of the Pacific, anc from here it can steam directly oul to sea. There were two reasons foi this system of locks. First, to havt made a sea level canal would havt more than doubled the amount of die ging in crossing the Continental Divide, and second, the level of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is not the same. In the Atlantic, the tide the Pacific the tide has a variance ol as much as thirty feet. Imagine the varies by only a few feet, while ir current that would have been pro eluced had these two been united Some scientists go so far as to sa.v that it would have changed the Guli Stream enough to actually change the climate of the United States. That about explains the canal itself, and it would require too muct 'space to explain all of its adjuncts. As you know the Panama Railroad company is also run by the government as a vital part of the canal itself Then there is the commissary department which feeds, practically at cost every one who lives on the zone, and in addition, all ships that touch at either end. This department has its stores, its steamships, its farms, its dairies, its purchasing agents in all part of the country, its hotels, its res taurants. And this is only part ol the whole. Then there are the schools, the hospitals, the insane asylums, the police department, the fire department the doctors, the shops; in fact, everything that youTl find in a city government, except on a vastly larger scale, department, which has charge of And in addition there is the sanitary keeping doing mosquitoes. The number of men employed is still quite large, and each and every one, black and white, is provided with quarters, light and heat free of charge. The wages paid are excellent, and it will probably make you jealous to hear that every employee is entitled to sixty-one days leave out of every year. Perhaps this will serve to make you appreciate and be proud of the work that has been done. And when you hear someone say, as some people do, that "The Frenchmen, he furnish the trains and the idea, the American, he furnish 'the money, and the poor Jamaican, he dig the canal," don't believe it. Time to Re-tire? ' (Buy Fisk) t WMHUIiMdi PERSONAL MENTION. 2 1 , Mr. D. Lester Gault of Kelton \ ? a visitor to Union Wednesday. Postmaster J. L. Hames of Lo - hart was a visitor to Union Thursd 1 Miss Vera Murrah has gone to O gj^ree to be bridesmaid for one her college friends. f Miss Edith White entertained Tu 3 cay evening in compliment to 1 ) aunt, Miss Pearl White. 3 Miss Virginia Briggs, who teacl j in Columbia, returned to the city 1 I week for the spmmer vacation. 1 j Fedei Rail > : Faced by deman u - . mdi wuuiu impose on 1 $100,000,000 a year, tl i reference to an imparti . With these emp s have no differences tha ' a public body. Railroads 1 The formal proj the controversy is as fol i "Our conference* have demc t matters in controversy must t proposals and the propositior. 1. Preferably by submission r accumulated information bea . lion to consider and protect t necessary to meet the added i reasonable; or, in the event t that we jointly request Congr promptly dispose of the quel , 2. By arbitration in accordai Leaders F Leaders of the tri York, June 1-15, refuse j or Federal review, and authority shall be given ? The Interstate C public body to which tl No other body with ouch ' of railroad conditions has su tion in the public confidence. The rates the railroads m transportation are now largel orient board. > Out of every dollar receive the public nearly one-half is A < The railroads fei $100,000,000 a year to one-fifth of all the emp shall determine the mer The single issue be impartial Government inq Natioi ' ELISHA LEE, Chairman P. K ALBRIGHT, Gtn'l ASooafarv Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. L. W. BALDWIN, Gtn'l M t matte. Central ol Georgia Railway. C. L. BARDO, Gtn'l Mtntgtr, New York. New Haven * Hartford Ri B. H. COALMAN. VU, Prttid.nl. I Soothera Railway. S. R. COTTER, Gtn'l Unnmfe. Wabash Railway, r. B. CROWLBY, Aut. rUn-truUm*, ; I Nsw York Costrsl Rsiltngr. k Comp J These I | of Fisk Grey Non-Skids 1 styles of several other st 3 x30 . . 10.40 3?x30 . . 13.40 4 x 33 . . 22.00 Then you will begin I Fisk users consider The Best Tire Buy c * I 'HIS year Fisk Tires are making * than ever before. Fisk Service Fisk Branches?dealer and tire use promptest attention and service. \ ganization is the most complete v \ whole country. ||\ The Union Ha H?r\l Fisk Branches in More Mrs. Wilcox and family have moved XT.-iL ' 1? rr tv> inu uiuuiiicAiiis ui iNurta Carolina 1 va3 for the summer months. v Misses Fraley and Wilson of Bates- J. ck- v*lle, Arkansas, are the quests of ay^ Mesdames Lindsay McNally and Macbeth Young, on- F 0? Miss Lizzie Gaillard, a teacher at j Cedar Springs institute, is the house Q guest of Mrs. Herbert Smoak, on E. * es" Main street. _ her ? Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth Young gave L a oance at their home on E. Main a hes street Wednesday evening, compli- R ast menting their house guest, Miss Wil- ii son, of Batesville, Arkansas. c ral Inqu road db dt from the conductors, cngineci the country an additional burden le railroads propose that this waj al Federal tribunal, loyes, whose efficient service is ac t could not be considered fairly ar Jrge Public Inquiry and 3osal of the railroads to the empl lows: >nstrated that vre cannot harmonize our difference* c >e pasted upon by other and disinterested agencies, i of the railways be disposed of by oae or the other < to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only ring on railway conditions and its control of the revi :he rights and equities of all the interests affected, a cost of operation in case your proposals are found bj he Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under e ess to take such action as may be necessary to enable itions involved; or ice with the provisions o( the Federal law" (The N lefuse Offer and Take IE lin tervire hrnfhfrKnnds _ ?K fc illV JUII d the offer of the railroads to subri I the employes are now voting these leaders to declare a nation-* Commerce Commission is propose lis issue ought to be referred for tl ii intimate knowledge ployea ae wagei; and ch an uaqueetioacd poei- can come from an n by the public. ay charge the public fnr Th* Interatate Con y fixed by tbia Govern. #ver ratM| iu |a iaveitigation and rea d bv the railroade from tact the intereita of tl paid directly to the em- of the railroade, and Question For the Public to D el that they have no right to gra these employes, now highly pa loyes, without a clear mandate frc its of the case after a review of all fore the country is whether this contr uiry or by industrial warfare. ,.i ?? o * " mwm wvuiwi ?uwo woimiiieo ui me i\ a. H. BMRRSON, Gtn'l Veeeawi Great Nertkara Riilatr. C. H. SWING, Gtm'l Afeaeyar, Philadelphia A Raadiaf Railway. B. W. QR1CB, G??'lSufi. Trmmtp.. iHreaA Ckaaayaake A Okie Railway. A. 8. GRBIG, Ant. la ladMri, 8t. Lauia A Saa Fraaolaoe RallreaA C. W. KOUNS. Gtm'l Mammgtr, Atekiaen. Tayaka A Saata Pa Railways H. W. MeMASTBR. Caa7 tfeeapar. Wkealiag A Lake Bria RailraaA . ... .. A >are ^ces with the plain tread andard makes: 4*x35 . . 31.20 4^x36 . . 31.55 5 x37 . . 37.30 x> understand why >n the Market j miica^c icuuiuo at more than 125 Direct 5 it alike are assured of the The Fisk Branch or- I and widespread in the rdware Co. Than 125 Cities Mr. Pope Nabors left Union last 'hursday for Fort Slocenn, N. Y., inhere he was ordered for enlistment, le will be held there till July 1 an J hen assigned to the Signal Corps. Mr. F. W. Moore arrived in Union Viday and spent several days visitng his brother, Mr. M. A. Moore and ther relatives and friends here. Mr. loore has been elected superintendent f the graded schools at Mountville fn .aureus county for the coming year iiu movea mere tnree weeks ago. Ir. Moore was a successful teacher a Madison, Ga., for several years preeding his move to Mountville. liry or *ike? s, firemen and brakemen in transportation costs of *e problem be settled by knowledgcd, the railroads id decided justly by such I Arbitration oycs for the settlement of >f opinion and that eventually the Therefore, we propose that your af the following method*: tribunal which, by reason of it* cnue of the railways, is in a posind to provide additional revenuo f the Commission to be just and sitting laws, act in the premises, i the Commission to consider and ewlands Ad). Strike Vote it conference held in New lit the iuue to arbitration on the question whether ude strike. d by the railroads as the lese reasons: tha money to pay Increased wages ther source than the rates gnid imcrce Commission, with its cona position to make a complete der such decision as would prate railroad employes, the owner* the public. ecide nt a wage preferment of id and constituting only >m a public tribunal that the facts. 9versy it t? bt uttlfd by an ailways N. D. MAHRR, TU+rnH4**t. Norfolk A Wnttri Railway. JAMBS RUSSELL, Grm'l Mmmmfr. Daavar A Rio Orai4< Railroad. , A. M. SCHOYBR. Imidm VU+twrn* Paaatylraaia Liaaa Watt, W. L. SBDDON. VU-rrm.. So aboard Air Lisa Railway. A.J.STONB. ttwAwddkMb > Brio Railroad O. a. WAID. rio-fta. Gm'IMrn AMI Ciitnl | jati