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FORT MIL!, TIMES OH VOCRATIO PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY B. W. BRADFORD. Terms of Subscription: Cnt* year . $1.?>0 Six months rAt 1 Three months "J5 <'.urrespondence on current subjects is Invited. but no responsibility is assumed for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications will not be puhlWIioil In these columns. Fort Mill 'Phone (with iotiK distance i connections) No. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST lit. ISKKt. A Sensible Talk on Education, The following article, clipped from 411e liock Hill Herald, appeared recently in the Haiti more Han over the signature of >'Fauu crs Wife** ami I urnislies excellent fni?l fur thought for parents who have children to educate; May a ''farmer's wife" express appreciation of your editorial and i Or. MeConnells position on the problem of norrro labia'? The conditions which lie portrays so per 1 incutly exist ritrht hero io Haiti Mioro county. Nxit only will the negroes iio,t work fo,r the farmers, 1...J .-I...... .. ! ... I i$KWIjr ??? niutnriirr, while lieiirou-ds are r??l)l>t?d and (Bveti growing turkeys art* taken to provide food for theiu, which they should be made to earn. Meantime,, tl;ey luxuriate in idleness at the farmer's expense. Twenty Ji'vrn tu'o farmers hud no difficulty in securing help, but today you cannot ptocure help of any kind when physical labor is required. And ih it not due to the fact that people today liaye a false idea of educating tiieir children? For all the ambitious fads of our school1 system, with its heavy burden of: taxation, our educatois are failing to impress on the young people under their care the truth?that labor performed in the right spirit jis a sacrament which ennobles the i humblest life. Instead we are cateiiug to the god of respectability. If we are farmers, we prefer to educate our children for profession, without consulting the child's individuality. It is a common thing to bear a mother say: ''.My boys shall never be farmers. 1 intend one for the ministry, one for a physician and the other for the bar." It is a well-known fact that the professions are becoming overcrowded with men who will never be brilliant successes. There is many a man tilling a pulpit today who would be nearer his vocation following a plow; but hia mother's god of ambition diverted him to the ministry inalend. I am told a bill for the extension of compulsoiy education iH to go before the legislature next session. Perhaps, being '? "hayseed" and a woman in the bargain, my opinions may ; taek force and balance, but it strikes me as being an infringment of our constitutional rights, which guarantee civil and religious lib- : ^ rly. As our children are personal belongings, I should think we I ought to be allowed to place and educate them to suit ourselves and not as our school boards and legislators direct. No doubt the average parent will send his children 1o school if he can. Kdward link lias proven that 50,000 children die annually from confinement and over-study. Now, 1 am inclined fto the opinion that if some of the I boys whose mental endowments are not so brilliant would go to1 work and learn a trade the world at large would ho better olF than i-t is today far practical people,! lint lief than learn a trade, the av-! <erage youth of the present time, will tfo to a business collect* and lake a course or accept a position /it $5 or $C> a week and settle down to a weak-dusted, spectacled specimen of what a man should not he. , J'ldncatjou wdl never supply any puuiwith brains. It will deepen .ami luromlen him if he possesses the nutural ajiide. * * * * If the world keeps lip its present xdlnse after higher education the plain, practical vocations of life: ?vi 11 have lo be dispensed with. J would surest more attention be; paid to practical education and 4o teaching our youn^ people the i , dignity of labor. It cowta more: now to maintain our public school I I system than it does f??r both the'. Simy and navy, and, really, 1 ; think they are going beyond what they were intended to do, namely, pive the common peopje a plain, practical education. iiy importt mg new ideas, new conditions face , ps. Prow all over the country rolls up mh with one yoice the cry (for good help, l?oth for domestic! j>nipoNea ami farm hands, and uce ' wlii'i# can thedeniaiid be supplied. I The negroes are natural imitators of td.e whites and are only follow-' ing in their footsteps in raining tf.ieir children to want nice, easy berths, with good pay, instead of /beeomiug nood laborers in some % ' field that is uo.t overcrowded. The pej^r.o >vjtJL? trothii?g to do or noth* j ' La 7 ill:* In- will do is thrown on society | with liit- bauds fic? to do the work j of hie Satanic Majesty, mid we uro taxed to educate him to till our jails and penitentiaries. Now, with the ucuro a menace to society, and i the farmini* cIjcsh at the uieray of such help as it can procure, what ate we reaping from the false ideas of education that have fjjrown up in our midst? Many of our brainiest men in the past have secured an education by hard work. Alan values what lie works for, and if lie wants an education he will yet and if he has not the brains to want ono, compulsory (duration will not force in on him. Half u truth if very often a dangerous tiling, and so is a man with an education his brains cannot assimi lain or digest. Induration to a a man's bruin wlint food is to bin stomach lit'should be given tin* kind I hut tits bin ind ividitn.it y bust i or that \v;ll make liim the strongvst man. Tim nation needs strong men, physically and intellectually. The Raleigh I N.G.) Christian Advocate makes this timclv comment : Tim preacher who denounces, as be should, the sin of worldbnesH manifested in dancing, theatre going and gambling, certainly vitiates the ett'eet by Baying nothing concerning the disregard tif linanrial obligations, social impurity and economic tyranny, all of which are worse, if sin can be graded, than dancing and theatre going. We have known men to talk in sepulchral horrified tones of the Christmas giddiness of the gay young things and at the same time (lodge a grocery store where an unpaid, unrecognized grocery bill stared them in the face. There are pious women who frown at the young people talking in church, and at the same time talk a neighbor's good name into blisters. Here is a call for the pulpit to exercise some of its wise specializing functions. Clemson's Big Money. lTp to the 1st tiny of August there hud been collected by the! State treasurer $'.H).!M>d.t?5 on account of the fertilizer inspection tax. The law requires that an in- j spection tax of 25 cents per ton shall be (laid for fertilizers offered for sale in this State. This entire tax is held in tin* treasury subject to the older of the board of trustees of C'leniRon college. The sale of fertilizers this your has been grenter than for a number of yours i and boforo the end of this your : tliis Houroo of income will give Clemsuu over $100,000. A Bashful Young Man. One of our town dudes, who is ; ruther bashful, and in "sparking*' a young woman a few miles from | town, culled a few afternoons ngo to spend 1 lie evening with her, says an exchange. While there il commenced raining and the girl's , father asked him to remain over ( night. The next morning when ho was invit'd to a seat at the I breakfast table he reluctantly accepted. He was very nervous and agitated. He sat opposite the mirror and discovered that lie had for- i gotten to comb his hair. Then ! he dropped his fork on the floor and as he stooped to pick it up he \ up-set his coffee. Mutters went from bad to worse, until finally the young man quit eating and put his hand under the table. The loose end of the tablecloth was lying in his lap and when In' ! touched it he turned pale. He | thought it was his shirt and that j in Ins nervous excitement while j | dressing lie had forgotten to put i that garment inside his trousers, j i This accounted for smiles and em- I harrassment. There was no time } to lose, tie hurriedly stuffed the i supposed shirt inside his trousers. < Two minutes later when the fami ly arose from the table there was I i a crash. The dishes lay in a ] broken heap on the floor. The young man pulled three feet of the tahloeloth from his breeches1 and fled through the door. He is j now hiding, and the girl is looking for a less bashful lover, one who ! < can tell his shirt-tail from u tablecloth. Bralton^Walson. A marring?, of which n number of Fort Mill people will bo interested to learn, was that of Mrs. Laura Seay Watson ami Dr. Clarence S. Bratlon, which was solemnized at the home of the bride's father near Koine, (in., hint Wednesday evening. Both of the contracting parlies are well known in Fort Mill. Dr. Bralton at one time was a student of the Fort Mill academy, and many of his class-mates now reside hereabouts. Mrs. Watson became acquaiottHi with our people upon her several visits to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Watson, who up to a few years ago jpere residents of this 7 The News of Gold Hill. Tli* crop prospects in this see J tion have improved since the rains of Friday and Saturday. We hear nothing of tlu? potato I raisers. I wonder what is wrong. | If they would make their trouhles known they could possibly be i solved by someone in this or other section. Our cotton growers of 2 and 3 bales to the acre are also epiiot this season. Now, if they ; are going to make n crop" of thai kind this season, they will please not publish the fact as it would certainly demoralize the market. I lie hand of tliiH place Furnished music Wednesday and Thursday for the Tirzah eucainpiuent. This section was well represented over there more ho than usual. They nil report having enjoyed themselves very much. The good people of this and Fort Mill sections have learned that^a petition sulunitted to the governor from Fort Mill township must bear the signatures of Jit 10 or <t<)U people of Mecklenburg, N.C.. and about 40 registered voters of Fort Mill townsiiip and endorsed by several politicians of the State before d will receive any notice at his hands. " ^Vliss Itleeker I'ailes. of Pleasant Valley is visit ing relatives and friends in this section this week. Mr. S. H. Fpps, .1 r , was thrown from his buggy last Wednesday and ipiite painfully, though not seriously hurt. Mr. William Coltharp had the small bone of his right leg broken iust above the ankle Saturday bv stumbling over a large root in his yard. llo was attended by lb. Thompson and is getting along as nieely as eonhl lie expected. C'lide Kiinhiell, a young son of Mr. -I, E. Kiinbrell. was thrown from a wagon late Saturday evening and had a t shaped gash about - inches hi length cut on hi.- head. Dr. Thompson, the attending physician, found six stitches necessary to close up the wound. .Mi. Walter Ihiiles left yesterday for Clover, where ho is to open a barber shop. boy. Pleasant Valley Dots. Miss Cloud Hall .returned Sat. unlay from a visit to relatives in Charlotte. Miss Ella Picket t returned to her home in Sardis. N. C. last Saturday. after a week's visit among relatives in Pleasant Valley and 1 larrison Miss Wren Harris, of Fort Mill, is visiting in Marvin. Mr. Vance Crane, of Concord visited relatives here last Sunday. The protracted meeting at Pleasnut Mill church will begin next Sunday. The pastor will he assisted by the Kev. Mr. Fairey. Quite a number of our young people attended a campmeeting at m..., /i i.... L M'flMfllll V liu>r ' \ , A delightful ice cream supper was enjoyed at the home of Mr. J. I). Wolfe on last Wednesday evening A uame of baseball played on the Pleasant Valley diamond lust rue.-day between Pleasint Valley uid Harrison resulted m a victory for the P. V. boys by a score of ,t to 7. We wore somewhat surprised ind amused to find that we hid! irouscd the ire of your otliee devil hi our report of the baseball game , last. week. What a jewel is connistency! Tu one place it was dated that the Pleasant Valley boys "didn't play ball," and in an- i >ther column lie says after the pmo was over the Fort Mill boys kvere *"11 it'll and worn out and until for a game with anybody." I would like to know what great ! naiuial labor they had undergone ast Wednesday when Pineville ^ave thani another defeat as ignominious an the otlier. Mr. Editor, we don't want the "devil" to go on strike, for we appreciate his efforts to spread the truth abroad in the land. S. E. B. ? The Slaughter Goes On, The rate at which our railroads are killing and maiming people continues steadily to increase. According to the report of the lterStflto Commerce Commission on Railroad Accidents in the United States, with the three months ending March ."1st last, 300 people were killed and 2,844 were injured in train accidents. Other kinds of accidents, including those sustained by employees while at work run up the total casualities to 827 killed and 11.481 injured. Tnat these ace. dents cannot ho put down entirely to the fault of the passengers and employees them* selves, is shown hy the fact that during the quarter under oonsid' elation 1.050 trains were in collissiou and 1.181 trains were derailed.?Scientitic American. RwaT'The Times lias made ?ir rniigmeiits whereby we can otter this paper and the Home uud U?nn for $1.25 a yew. si*. i mil ii v/iu/iiii anil get the BEST WHISKIES, AY IN E S, BRANDIES, Etc., i At the most reasonable prices. MARK A. TEETER, Manager, THEIGOURl) SALOON, CHARLOTTE, N. C. ' No. 29 W Trade Both 'Phones, V'l Card cf Thanks I wish to express to my niauy friends my Jfcartfelt thanks for their unpreceNfoded kindness and attention during the recent illness and death of inv beloved wife. Respect t idly, A. (). .Ionks. _______________________ 1 End Of Eitter Fight. "Two physicians had a lout; and : stubborn ti^lit witli an abcess on my r&lit Jun^'' writes ). F. ! Hughes of Dupont, Ga., and ?ave me up. Kverybody thought my1 lime had come. As a last resort ] tried Dr. Kino's New Discovery i for Consumption. The benefit I received was striking and I was on my feet in a few days. Now I've entirely regained my health.*' It conquers nil Coughs, Colds and Thioat and Lun^; troubles, Guar 1 ill)teed by ill. dl'UJfipsts. I'ricebOe, and ?1 00. Trial bottles free. Henry Werts. who killed Henry , N. Anton in West Fnd, Greenwood 10 years aero, surrendered to . Sheriff liufoid Wednesday. . Puts An End To It All. A previous wail oflimes comes as a n suit of unbearable pain from , over taxed origans. Dizziness, Dark , ache. Liver complaint and Con- 1 stipation. lint thanks to Dr. Kind's New Life Fills they put an end to , it all. They are gentle but tliorjou^h. Try them ()nly 2oe. vi uurauteed by ad druggists. ( hie fact should makr many new exhibitors for tlir ne;t State Fair the society pays 'he freight on nil exhibits crown or produced in this Stnte. thus ?*iiiil)!oijilt e.xhihits to be seat to am) ltMuriied from the fair without cost to the exiiibitor. Suicide Prevented. The start lino a n noun cement that a prevent ivc of suicide had been! discovered will interest many. A i rundown system, or despondency i iiivarably precede suicide and something has been found that v\il| prevent that condition which j makes suicide likely. At the first thought (?f gelt" destruction take Kleetric Hitters. It i? iin_r a yreat j tonic and nervine will strengthen 1 the nerves and build up the h\ktem. It's also a j?reat Stomach, Liver and Kidney regulator. Only ; oOc. Satisfaction guaranteed by all , dru^ists. The city council has a force of hands eiiLmm-d in cleaning off the public cemetery. j The Death renalty. A little tiling Hometiines rosultH in death. Tliua ii mere scratch, I insignificant cuts or puny boils, have paid tin* death poiialty. It is 'wise to lnive Bucklens Arnien Salve ever handy. It's the best salve on earth and will prevent j fatality, when Burns, Sores, I leers j and Biles threateu. Only 2"ic at I all drug stores. ' LAUNDRY MARKS tlmt are not found on linen fresh from The MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY. ' Charlotte, TsT. C., are rust stains, ink srains, fruit stains, and especially score lies from overheated irons. Tliat is what we particularly guard against, fleck less, flawless, ininiacnlafe?white i ias white can be, or as strong of color as when you bought it (if originally of a 1 color pattern), your washable apparel is returned clean, well washed, well i ironed. Shipment made from Fort Mill every j Thursday morning and laundry vo- ' turned Saturday mornings by? ID. L. McElJlANEY. Agent. GIVE IIS A TIM A I niMVI/l? TEN DAY and the GRE^ TER SALE During 11ns time s bargains ever offered Here are a lew oft her Men's All Wool T very latest styles, at L you want to be eomfo (luring August, Septen so, you will take advi Five Dollars will dn We have a few more tored Shoes that we pr THAN FACTORY P can wear until Noveml aside for the next seas* A few Straw Hats If you are interested im>? Hats, Shoes or ai come at once, as these Ice water and palm le Old - Relia T. B. "R TIT. IT. I\ S: Wo Imve a f suits thai we are ?'<>iiu what they cost. C1all that wo aro now sollin The Tinios will do ; New Scholarships for Men Teachers at the South Carolina College. CHause from Appropriation Act of tki?eral Assembly, 1903: ""That one thousand six hundred arxS ]forty dollars be appropriated to be used ! to provide fort y-one scholarships in the i {Normal Department, one from each | ;e?unty, of the value of forty dollars. j besides the remission of tuition and matriculation fees, the beneftciarlcs to | be seUs-ted under regulations to be prev i iscribed by tlw Lloord of Trustors.** This means HO In ea?b to the student, ! besides remission of $4U tuition arid oi |S18 matriculation term fee. Thus the I scholarship student will receive from; ! the College a month for el^ht monthsto assist him In hie necessary living (expenses. REGULATIONS I!Y TIIE HOARD. I 1. Applicants ehaUl be young men at | least nineteen years of ago- The purpose of the General Aswftubly being tn eneounvte men tenc hers, preference | will be given to those who furnish sat- : , isotrioi > ?-*iide.noe of having already! taught for at least one session, anil with rucccsb; but if from any cotmty there be no suilahle applicants "WhoI luive taught, the scholarship of that i i county may be awarded to a young.' man who oitfy intends to teach. j 2. Applications shall l>e made to the . President of the College, at (Columbia, ' before July Is1., upon prescribed blanks \ ifurnlshed by the President or by Cpunty i Superintendents of Education, upon re- J ^uiist. These blanks shall provide for information inu reference* as to the applicant's ju;k. physical condition, gen ,oral character ami ability, educational advantages. financial circumstances, teaching e>?perience, and purpose in 'taking the special normal course. The Information thus submitted will be re- f garded as a preliminary examination, and those \vf!v> receive permits to stand the later culmination will be credited with the ( iuiUn>-(l results of these two1 'examinatioiex 3. The latnr and formal examination shall he iipim English Grammar and Composition, History and Geography, Arithmetic and Elementary Algebra. (Algebra, hnwever, is not Indisje-ns.uble.) The Normal Scholarship Com 'mithso of tlx- Fuoulty ahull prepare H?*= questions n'?l mark the paper*;. The County rtixird of ESdututton of each 'county Is r>*4ues?ed to conduct tfils examination at the same time with the entrance and other scholarship examjinntionsof the* South Cumlina College [and of "Wlnthrop College (which this ,year wlfll l?c on Friday. July 10th). The It'ounty Hkmrd will receive the questions ifrotn the lPrxetdent of the College, and is requnrt .*d to return the answers to him. at CbluQibte, forthwith, by mail i or exprasH. i 4. A stamliut? Committee on Seholar'Fhlpn. appointed front the lioard. In ron1 Junction ritb a standtnK Committee I from the Wnculty. shall select the arholI unship atDilexfs for each county upon 1 the resulus of the examinations reported by ttU> Faculty Committee, nml ,aN th?? oh>er information submitted. {The proprr announcements shall he made thrsigh the President. > 1 lL>. After ghn first year tlx* incumbent jmay be reappointed, provided that, in ithe Judstss-nt ?f the Faculty, his apt1 nesa to tfai-i^, bis progress in study, jand hbcag ene**! character Indicate that 1 he is a mitcMc person to fulfill the {purpose oAtfxt xobolarship as provided jfor by fhrf tViiteral Assembly S MORE | IT SLAUGH- I CLOSES. 101110 of the greatest will i*o to someone,- \ c ? I n: : : : I wo Piece Suits, the ESS than COST. Do . rtable and look nice iber and October? If {intake of this offer. l i*ss you up to date. | pairs of Low Quar- * opose to sell at LESS ItlCES. These you l>er and then set them m : : : : at your own prices. t i in Dry Goods, Clothivthing in our line, bargains will ?0 fast. -y' af fans still ?0 free. ,ble Store Proprietor, ew moil's two piece C to soli at just half for the ?5.00 suits 0 g at 81.08. : : rour Job Printing. DO YOU DRINK? If So, Try Our OLD NORMAN CORN WHISKY (i II*rantrw( .S to ft rewntolt). Mild and Mellow. \lways the Same. $2.50 per Gallon. 'Phone ami M ail OrilnrvProinirt Iy Filler! <;. W. NOliMAN, Both 'Phones* P. O. Bmx 5&, CHARLOTTE, H. C. 1. J. U. Tray wick & Co., DEALERS IN FINE LIQiJOKS AND W INES, No. 42 Kast Txvle SV crarxjOtte. - - - n. a | TRESPASS NOTICE. A11 f*;rsr.ns :?r<? J*?roby w?n?Mf ntfnitisii hmifv p. tiHlviiijr. or of I*t\vtso tresiats*siu^r upon tho Infills of the- cwloniigueilr imii-rr iv-nnlty M the law. W. K. "WJNDLE. 1 Nothing has ever equalled it. \ Nothing can ever surpass it. [ u Dr. King's 1 m ri: ! ! wew discovery i 1 A Perfect For All Throat and 8 Cure: lamg Troubles. j Money back if it fail*. Trial: Bottle* free. i fob J GOOD WHISKIES, ! WINESv I BRANDIES, ETC., I CALL ON OR WRITE TO 1 T\\ II. HOOVERv I ilimOTTK.. N. L 1