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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.
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Entered at the post>ffiee at Fort Mill,
S. O., as seooud class natter.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If You AreGoing
To Buy
To Buy a Suit of Clothes
for yourself or your boy, we
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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.
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fenny & no.
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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 \
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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.
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