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i The Fort^Rll Times. 'UBLIBHKI?^- ^1 THURSDAY. B. W. BRADPOR^ . Rd. aud Prop Six months . .60 One year B $1.00 ! Correspondence off^urrent subjects is Invited, but no responsibility Is us umeil for the views >f corres;?ondent8. On nppllcatlon to be publisher, advertising rates are : made known to those Interested. | Entered at the post>ffiee at Fort Mill, S. O., as seooud class natter. % ht ; NOVEMBElTa""1906. " The open season for killing birds becrins next Thurdav. Our sportsmen shonld read carefully tne trespass law enacted by the last legislature. Let's sell that city rock crusher, if for nothing but junk, and invest the amount realized in picks and shovels to be used by some of the idle inhabitants on the streets of the town. The administration should be deeply concerned at the antiAmerican feeling prevalent in Japan at the present time. If this feeling should grow to any extent it would work untold harm to commercial power and prestige that the United States has built up in Japan. The completion of the English battleship, Dreadnaught, has stirred up the advocates of a large navy for the United States to the highest pitch.. , A concentrated effort is to be made at the next congress to have a bill passed providing for one or more battleships even more formidable than the Dreadnought The Easley Progress says that I it is the habit to some extent in certain section i of that county, j "of white men, boys and negroes meeting on Sund ays in the old fields and woods to drink whis-' key and gamble.'' This is a bit surprising when i t is remembered that Pickens cou nty voted out the dispensary ?nd is claiming j to enforce the la^C Now comes the psers of denatured alcohol whc > say that after having fought ha rd and long to have the tax on alcohol removed to make it availal >le as a ?ubstiBL "tute for the products of the |H| Standard Oil Co., they find that EH a trust has purch ased all the alI cohol interests in the country. It HH looks like a leap 1 rom the frying H^^pan into the fire. Rf Work is a great blessing-. You ! V can not see now, 1 >ut some say you m will say that you Were fortunate | ?_a?? ^ m your boyftoodl days because you were compelled to work. Because you canlnot get power to do things saye hy doing them. I Look over the successful men I you know. Geti their history. I Nearly everyone iwas compelled ' to work in boyhood. They toughened their muscles by hard work and sharpened their brains by looking out fot themselves. The Calhoun bounty Courier thinks that everyj preacher who can preach, or jtninks he can preach, is solving; the race problem every day and Sunday too. The Courier doesn't say how long the preachers have been at it, but wnen we think of the race troubles way back in Ku Klux times, we are forced to believe that the preachers are succeeding in a vtery slow manner. Just at this time the mail order houses are active in flooding the country with big handsomely gotten up holiqay catalogues, quoting 'attractive prices and making all sorts of big sounding claims for your cash. They do not offer to exchange their goods for the farmers' eggs, poultry, butter or other produce. They don't trust a penny's worth, but make you pay cash before you get the goods and the freight besides. If anything is wrong with the goods or they do not suit, they will not exchange them for you. They pay no taxes into your city or county treasury, with which ou.* schools are maintained, roadi, bridges and sidewalks built. They do not contribute to our churches, charitable institutions, nor to our poor. . r~ | The advertising merchant is the one who does the business in these days of push and enterprise. There are more newspaper readers today than ever before in the history of the world. The newspaper places your business under the eyes of the buyer. He sees what he wants, and, knowing where to find it, looks up the wide-awake [ merchant who asked him to come and see him. Success in these days of sharp competition calls for eternal vigilance. You can't keep a hustler down. There are unmerous tracts of land for sale in Catawba township, according to the Rock Hill Record. We are pleased to note that few farms in this township can be bought, except at high r\ * ..11 u&uit;a. v/ux laiuicria ux u an in good circumstances and prefer to remain on the "old place." Many people dispose of their farms and move into the towns and cities c.o meet with new and unexpected conditions and always regret the day they let the "old farm" go. The Abbeville Medium notes that the "mail made connection on the up train Monday morning." Something unusual, no doubt. But the city of Abbeville is not alone in its poor railroad connections. The whole State suffers alike in this respect. Locally, our main dependence for a passenger train, the "Chester Swing," reaches Charlotte from one to three hours late almost daily, and the people are powerless to rid themselves of this seemingly uncalled for condition. The "Swing" should be run on time or taken off. iu uuu ungageu "> ousiness it is vital to know as much as possiI ble of the disposition and ability of the customers to meet their obligations, since the percentage of "desperate" notes and acj counts must be reckoned at the stock taking period at the end of the year if the proprietor would know his actual financial standing. There will always exist the j need for this caution so Jong as i human nature continues to be? | human nature. Our town is practically free from that class of individuals known as the professional dead beat, hence the bad debt collector finds this ! field an altogether unprofitable one in which to operate. At to Non-Resident Hunters. Section 2 of the Game Law reads as follows: # "It shall be unlawful for any non-resident at any time to catch, kill or injure, etc., any wild turkey, partridge, quail, woodcock or other game mentioned in sub-division 1. except on lands owned or leased by such non-resident, without first having taken out a license to do so in the county in which said li-1 cense shall be issued by the clerk ftf Ihp OftllH' o-Ar\/l fr\v Ana >rani? w* w??W WMfc V) ^V/V/V4 AVi J I upon the payment of a license fee of $25." As the license collected by the ! game warden from the source is i to tie used in enforcing the law, it is to be hoped that the York county warden will keep an eye on this township the coming seassn. If all the North Carolina hunters who come here every season and slaughter our birds with impunity were made to pay i the license, the county official would be materially aided, in a financial way, in protecting the birds which are killed and carried out of the State and sold at I fancy prices before the hunting season opens in North Carolina. I A Woman Lawyer. Miss Fannie Wilson, daughter of Hon. W. B. Wilson, of Rock I Hill, has opened a law office in ! Washington City and will prae-: tice her profession in that city. 1 She is a graduate of the law department of the Pennsylvania University and a good lawyer. Objects to Col. Springs. Editor Hemphill of the News and Courier, calls upon the policy-1 holders in the New York Life and the Mutual, not to support Mr. Edwin W. Robertson and Col. | I^eroy Springs, who are on the, administration ticket for director-; shin. Not that he thinks thosp ! capitalists dishonest, but believes it for the policy-holders' good that others be put in. The cotton mill capitalists, who deal in the Nort h and there market their goods, have opportunity to benefit themselves "through their positions in the insurance companies, so thinks Editor Hemphill. ?Union Times. ! FOR RENT dnv or two koo<1 fivrioa ' Cotton Seed too Low. Professor J. M. Johnson, of the University of Georgia, says that $16 per ton is low water mark for this year's cotton seed crop. Prof. Johnson figures that each dollar put on to the selling price of seed means an increase ! of $5,500,000 to the farmers of! the South. At present prices of! cotton oil and meal the farmer should get at least $18 for their seed, which amounts to $5 per ton less to the farmer on each ton that he sells for $13, or a loss over twenty five million kollars on the whole crop of the South. This loss on seed in one season would put up enough warehouses to take-care of half the cotton crop of the whole South. The Farmers Union experiments last year proved that ground cotton seed paid nearly $25 per ton under cotton and corn. Farmers, don't sell your seed for six or eight dollars per ton less than the seed is worth ' for fertilizer. Farmers must look more after the business side ! of their farming for their own interest and quit taking the j other man's figures on every-! thin}?. Bucket Shops Doomed. The Edgefield Advertiser says the many sharp fluctuations that have prevailed in the cotton market this season, the price varying at times almost a cent in a single day, has doubtless been largely due to speculation in futures. It seems, however, that this curse to the producers of the staple will not exist a great while longer. The people are becoming aroused in every section and a strong sentiment against such transactions is being created. Georgia and Alabama havb already passed antibncketshop laws, and many things point to a similar action by the next South Carolina legislature. A great number of towns in the state have already passed prohibitive licenses. The Spartanburg correspondent to the News and Courier has the following to say concerning1 bucket-shops in that prosperous 1 city. "The city council has put a prohibitive license on bucketshops, charging $1,000 a year. The council may be only a little ahead of the legislature for it is probable that they will abolish the so-called cotton exchanges: in this State. Some of the mill men and cotton factors are getting ready for the change, for j they are making arrangements j to secure daily reports without the buying and selling features connected with the office." TLe Era of "Lesses." "This is an era of "lesses" says the Charleston Post. "We once wondered at the horseless carriage and the wireless mesSflirp but tliPfiP unnnnr . place now when we hear of the fireless stove?which may mean cookless cooking1?and scentless limberger, while whiskerless dairymen appear useless and senseless to say the least of it. But in this change of events, though rather eventless, the possiblities are endless. A smokeless cigar and drugless j drug store are not less probable and we may soon have timeless clocks; but it is less reasonable to assert that we shall ever have 1 fussless families, quitless cooks i and graftless politicians, and. not many of us want spellless | spelling. We'd rather have it j reformless." Mr. S. E. Boney, of Union, ; formerly principal of Gold Hill Academy, was a visitor to Fort Mill Saturday. Mr. Boney is j at present engaged in newspaper work in Union. Letter to 0ASTON & HALL, Fort Mill, 8- CDear Sir: A pound of good meat and no bouts is worth mors than a half pound of 3 eat and a half-pound of bone; bur there are, as you say, a grout muny poopie who won't pay more than a , certain price by the pound. Give *om , bone; that's right; give 'em plenty of' DOllft! There are people who won,t pay more than (1.50u gallon (or paint; give 'em bone) There's uobetter school than experi- 1 euce: cost is high; bat the lesson is never forhotten. Let a man ]>aint two houses alike. ; same size, one Devoe, the orher that $1.50paint. I(e bays 10 gallons of each ami pays a day for labor?$4 a day is a K-'i j'ou, oasirr reckoning. Ho has to buy two gallons more or the *1 .50 paint, and has two gallons left of Dovoe;l2 gallons $1 .50, $18, 8 gallons )1.75. $15; $4 more for t'chuap" paint. I tie pays $8 agullou for paigring, 8' gallods $24; 12 gallons $Ht?, $12 more for painting '"cheap" paint. He'll buy the less gallons paint hftor I that. If pooplo are slow to learn, it's because they keep ou buying bone-1 meat. Give 'em plenty of bono. You' s rrnlv 6 F W DKVOK AGO , New York P. 3: W. B. Ardroy & Co sell our paint J 4 Need of a Cotton Picker. A trip into almost any section of the country at present will convince one of the need of a i mechanical device for picking! cotton. In some places the fields 1: are white with the staple which \ has not been picked over the first i' time. The demand for farm labor has never been greater and j with the number of hands grow- ! ing fewer each year, it is to he ; hoped that before many more' crops are made a mechanical picker will come and solve the! problem of gathering the cotton ! crop. Under the present uncertain system it requires something like 1,500,000 cotton pickers, each picking 100 pounds of seed cotton on an average and working 100 days to pick a ten million bale crop. Of course some pick more than 100 pounds of seed cotton and some less, but there are days when, on account of rain, no cotton can be picked and the average of 100 pounds a ; day for 100 days is not far wrong I as an estimate of the picker's work. At 60 cents a hundred weight the cost of picking a bale of cotton is $9.00. At 75 cents a hundred weight the cost is $12.25 a bale. Therefore the cost of picking the entire crop range somewhere between $10,000,000 and $12,500,000. This immense ; sum of money ought to stimulate j some genius to invent a cotton ' C. M. A. School Sold. The board of trustees of the Rock Hill School district has bought the property of the Catawba Military Academy to take effect on or before July I, 1907, the present trustees and management to continue the present school to the end of the school term. Then the property is to be turned over to the trustees of the Rock Hill school district. This j wiil insure Rock Hill a permanent iHijrh School. This is a very j i 4i 1 -vl . i I. w.. i/.?, " 1 . ... 1 .... I . O. uvoii auiv; iuvanvil ami ViUUilUlC property, there being 8 acres of land and the buildings which, if built today, would cost considerably more than what the present ones were sold to the city for. Parties making sale state that they could have put the property on the market and gotten a much better price, but in order to in- , sure the city a permanent High School they preferred to let the i city have it rather than put it on the market for a profit. The consideration was approximately $12,500, and the school dis-' trict gets a bargain at that | figure.?Rock Hill Record. Government Will Prosecute Mill Men. . The government is going to prosecute certain North Carolina cotton mill men for violation of alien labor contract law. This! fact was made clear in a statement a few days ago by Assistant Secretarv Mnrrav of tho partment of labor and commerce, i who declared that the government has decided to deport the i English textile operatives under arrest at Charlotte and Gastonia. There are 2d English mill employes under arrest and the number was increased Friday to 28. Mr. Murray said the entire number would not be deported, i The significant thing about the government's action is that a sifficient number of aliens will be detained tx? make eni for violation of the alien contract law. The names of these witnesses are to be turned over | to the district attorney. Whether ' District Attorney Holton or a i district attorney in New York; is to be put in charge of these cases, is not kuown. It is con-, tended that the government can prosecute in New York for the reason that aliens violated the law, punishable by a $1,000 fine, wfaen they landed in this country. ! Iu evorv clinio its colors aro unfurled I It's fame has itpivnd from w?a (o wa; 1 Be nor surprised if iu tho other world, You hear of Kocky Mouutuiu Toa.-? Parks Drug Co. 'tpf nsM , immigrants Rjsjch Quia iestuu. The North G< aman Loyd steam-' er, Wittekind Ijeached Charleston Sunday nprning with 25 passengers ari 1460 steerage passengers. Th<j?? were 112 families, 45 childrtn and 11 infants. The majority were Belgians. The places to which they were ticketed were. Anderson, Chester, Darlington. Columbia, Fort Mill, Glendale, Hartsviile, Lan- [, caster, Greers. Lockhart, Welford, and Warusville. One farmer in the crowd is said to have hid 40,000 francs, equal to $8,0(0 in our money. There were <rer 1,000 applications on file? tor the immigrants. Another vesse will come over in December or .anuary, for which a number of oookings have already been male. It is stated lhat the number of 1 immigrants cn the Wittekind would have been larger but for f f 4-lir%4 me: iav;t um mc agi ivuituiai people are inder contract and could not bave their farms. These contncts will, however, | have lapsed >y the time that the , next steame* departs. The present law also forbids the carrying of second-cliss passengers from Denmark, which not be effective 1 at the time of the next sailing, j The number of passengers would have been s.ill larger from the northern part of Europe but for the publication in a St. Nicholas paper, it is said, of the most exaggerated accounts of the recent riots in Atlanta. County Treasurer Neely will be in Fort Mill tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday for the purpose of col.ecting State and county taxes. A YEAR AE SLCGD The year 190;t will long be remembered in the heme of b\ N. Tucket, of Alii- \ auee, Ivy , a? the year of blood; which flowed so copiously from Mr. Tucket's lungsthut death seemed very near. He J writes: "Severe bleeding from the lungs and a frightful i ough had brought me at dualhV.door, when I began taking I)r King Jf.'ew Discovery fur Consumption, wit lrche astonishing result that after taKii.g four bottles I was completely restored and as time has proven permanently cured." Guaranteed for More Lungs, troughs aud Colds at all drugstores. Price 50c. Mrs. J. Q. Cousart and children left Saturday for their future home at Walterhom HADE HAPPY FCRUFE. Great lappiness eamo into tin; hoino of 8. Blair, school superintendent at St. Alba Tie. VV. Va. wlu'n his littlo daughter was restore*! from the dreadful comp.uiut ho names. He says: "My little datghtor had St. Vitus' Dunce, which yielded to no treatment but grew steadily worse until as a last resort we tried Electric Bitters, and I rejoice to say, three bottles effected a complete euro." Quick, sure cure for nervous coinplnints, geuerol debility, female weaknes?, impoverished blood and malaria. Guaranteed at all drug stores. Price 50c. Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Mack, of College Park, Ca., are spending a few days with relatives in this nlaeo. |HAD A CLOSE CALL"A dni herons surgical operation, in-! volvitig i u* removal <>f ti malignut nicer as li :go as mv hand, from my j daughtei i hip, whs prevented by the ( upplicati >u of Buoklen's Arnien Salvo." ; says A. < Stickel, of Miletus, W. Va. ! "PeiaisVfnt use of the Salvo completely cared in." Cures Cuts. Burns and Inju- i riea. 25c at all drugstores. ? -* *Mrs. A. R. McElhaney and j children left Saturday morning for a month's visit to relatives | at Kershaw and Liberty Hill. Yonr stomach churns and digests tho food yon cat and i'' foul, or torpid, or oat of order, your whole system suffers from blood poison, Hollistev's Rocky I Mountain Tea keeps you well. HTtcents Tea or Tablets.?Parks Drug Co. Miss Carrie Gulp has accepted a position as saleslady for the j firm of A. Friedheim <& Bro., of Rock Hill, and left Monday; for that city. FAMOUS STLIKE BREAKERS. The most frnious strike breakers in the land ;iro 7Jr King's New Life Pills When liver and bowels go 011 strike, they quilt ly settle the trouble, and tho ! purifying work goes right on. Rest ' euro for constipation, headache and j dizziness 25o at all drug stores. Rev. 1A. L. Stowe, of Pineville, was recently operated on for cataract of the eye. The operation was very successful, his eye-sight being completely restored. ? _ ?* 1 1NKVI|:M nirr-CTOCl, IT OeroillPS fill' .ureatest curative u^eiic for the relief of enf rititf heuiauitv ever devimrl. Such Holliater's Rooky Monntain Tea. T >a or'lubleta.? I'arka Drug Co. Seed Wheat. Tcr.i lessee May Wheat, for sowinfat $1.25 per bushel at A. 0. Jones'. Fr<?sh Bakers' Bread every 6 a turd ay at JONES'. CLitCTRIC C BITTERS AND^KLUNElS. . " * ' ( ' ? : I ft wwwwwgwiwiiim wiii jp.ii."pm ,.? If You AreGoing To Buy To Buy a Suit of Clothes for yourself or your boy, we 11 1_ ^ ii. ?. _ . x... sna.it matte it to your interest to see us. We always buy the newest and best styles on the market. Let us show'vou our big line of Raincoats and Overcoats. Prices right. Let us sell you a SCOTT'S MUFFLER and a pair of Rubber Slvoes. They may Save you a Doctor'slBill. No H75, In the Yellow Ticket, and held by Mr. Lum Haile, drew the beautiful Sunburst Glass Set last Monday. Somebody wins another next Monday. Hold your Tickets. * * TS1'L n ri_ fenny & no. rr-* TREY SRE SHAKING DOWN ON THE RIVER UP ON THE KILLS. We have received a fresh shipment of Grove's Chill Tonic, dirfit't fmm tVio There is a whole lot in having I it fresh. You pay the price for a fresh bottle and you ought to have it. We have all the other popular kinds. flRBBEY'S TOWN HALL Wednesday, November 28, "DOWN IN DIXIE" will be presented by the local Dramatic Club. Admisoion 15 and 25 cents. Doors open 7.30 p. m. $ "IMPERIAL* $ t FLOUR \ <* . . ^ IB the BEST FLOUR ou the T > market. Give it a trial and yon J # will always have Good Bread. ? J "Yon < an always find it at J A. O. JONES' t ? PHONE 14. ? Raelr; fountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine (or Busy People. Brirfj Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A fpoc.re for Constipation. Indigestion. Wv<"r nn?t Kidney troubles. I'lmiilcs, F.o/cm?, lr Auro ISiuod. Hod Hreuth. Sluggish Howels. Henoch? and Bukiwhfit Its lVx-Wy Mountain Ten in tat>I lot form. 35 cents ft Ih?x. Genuine made by HoT.i.tarKit T>tit . ( "Mpant, Mudisoa, Wis. tiOLOFN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE Qr.Ktag'sKew lifeP!r The best ;r? the Ye'^.iU. I