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# The Fort Mill Times. | DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. ?ff. BRADFORD, - Ed. audProp. One year SI.00 : Entered at the postofllce at Fort Mill, J S. G., as second class matter. ~ MARCH 11. 1907. ~ WISE AND OTHERWISE. Too many young people depend ! on their father's money carrying tnem tnrougn tnis woria, anct, their mother's prayers fixing everything all right for the next. The man who gets rr ad at what the newspaper says about him should return thanks three times ! n day for what the newspaper knew about him and suppressed. People of all classes who need help are looking about for intelli-! gent, industrious, well-behaved, j gentlemanly boys. A boy of that kind is laying a good foundation for success in life. One half hour each day spent in diligent work will keep the lawn and premises surrounding any home in our town in applepie order, and make our little city the garden spot of our fair State. Adulteration of food has got to be be an evil against which all t.hp hpAlth *inr1 ull fhn ' doctors and all the ministers and ; all the reformers and all the j Christians have set themselves in battle array. Some young men are so blind to their future interests that they never admire the jfirl at a picnic ; who stays and helps the old folks i clean up the dishes and repack the baskets as much as they ad- j mi-e the snippy girl who walks j off as soon as she has had all she j can eat. Every property holder and ten-1 ant should at this season take a j pride in cleaning up and putting , their holdings and home in an j admitted sanitary condition. , Health is happiness. We have the reputation of having the I healthiest climate and best water in the State. Let us keep that reputation by all means. In the early days of railroading 1 in this country no restraint was | laid on any employe for drinking and many of them were internperate. Now railroads are virtually temperance societies. Many companies will not permit any ! employe to be seen entering a saloon; nor under any circum-1 stnnrps tn <lrink int.nxirftt.inrr ! liquors. If the reader wants to settle in a wide-awake community, all he j has to do is to look at the local newspapers. A wide-awake well Bupported home newspaper is al- j ways associated with Rood schools, churches, active business and intelligent people. It never fails. No business man or citizen in any community makes any better investment than in the support of a home newspaper. The most unfortunate class of people living- on this earth are the grumblers. They rob home of its joys, society of its dues, and themselves of the best things of life. From the time the children of Israel "grumbled" and were sent on their tedious wanderings for forty years in the' wilderness, up to the present hour the world has been full of grumblers. It is "too hot" or "too cold," or "too wet" or "too , dry." People in reasonable circumstances have visions of the poor house, while the rich grumble that they cant get rich faster. Our Cocaine Law. The cocaine evil has grown to such an extent among the negroes of South Carolina, particularly of York and Lancaster counties, that the legislature found it necessary to pass a law controlling the sale of the dangerous drug. It can be obtained now only on written prescription of a > practicing physician and is to be used under personal supervision i of the doctor. The penalty for a violation is a fine of $100 or 30 days imprisonment. For the second offense, the fine is $500 and the imprisonment six months. A negro crazed by cocaine is more dangerous than an Indian full of whiskey. But cocaine i destroys the negro's usefulness 1 as a laborer, and it was mainly to check this demoralizing tendency that the law was passed, and a j?ood law it was. ?Charlotte i Chronicle. - - ? Faster mid fastor the paco in net, By people of action, vim and get, So if at tho finish yon would be, Tals6 Uolliatfr'3 Rocky Uonntain Tea. I'm- Drug t MEN AND THINGS 13 V A. L.OCAL.MAN. "Kin# Cotton" is alw.ysa live wire in this section and it is not, therefore, incumbent upon one to apologize for referring to his majesty. Not many days agone my eye fell upon one of Theodore H. Price's advdertisements in which I noted the statement that the manufacturers of cotton goods are receiving fabulous profits on their product. Now Price would hardly make such a statement unless he knew where- , of he spoke, for, if he did, somebody would "call" him ir.stantar. i So assuming that he knows what he is talking about, one naturally wonders why it is that the farm- . ers are not paid more for their raw cotton; why, also, the mill operatives are not naid a little in excess of what is necessary to keep body and soul together for their labor. In the case of the farmers, the Southern Cotton Association will furnish a satisfactory answer in time. As to the latter, the answer is equally easy; It is simply because there is no organization among the i operatives to demand fair remuneration for their woik. In New England cotton mill employes are paid from 60 to liM1 per cent, more than is paid for imdar ; work in the South. There is a reason for this, and it is because the New England magnates have ; felt the force of organized labor. They pay fair wages or th<\\ y no work done. I know of ire feeling against labor organizations in the South, but prithee why have not the working men as much right to band together for mutual advancement as the doctors, lawyers, bankers or' other professions? ? * I Another chapter was writ in the life insurance scandals lrst Thursday when Geo. W. Perkins, former treasurer of the New i York Life, became conscience | stricken and returned to that company about $(>0,000 of the policyholders' money which he contributed to the Republican campaign fund in the last presidential election. Perkins had been indicted in New York for stealing this money but by some hook or crook the case was thrown out of court. There is a difference in degree but not in kind in the case of the Perkins contribution and the transaction reported recently, if true, in which an agent of a life insurance company is said to have relieved a policyholder of his obligation to pay a premium note upon the promise ! that the policyholder would pay all future premiums. Small won- j dcr that the average man a?; a precautionary measure throws j his hand to his hip pocket when you mention life insurance Many a long day lias passed since there has been laid to rest; in the Fort Mill cemetery a kinder-hearted man than was the late Porter K. Mull. Mi*. Mull came to Fort Mill and began merchandising at a lime when practically everybody was hard pressed financially and the favors he extended to the people of this community are numberless. Few there be of the older residents hereabouts who are not indebted to the memory of Mr. Mull for some kindness. But as is always the case, there were some so take advantage of his generosity and liberality and he lost much in dollars because he 1 could not turn a deaf ear to the appeals of his fellow-man. Not only was Mr. Mull a kind-hearted, upright citizen, but he was a brave Confederate soldier, ser- , vine as eantnin in nno r>f many regiments that the Old North State senl to the front to do or be annihilated for this Southland. With the passing of Porter K. Mull our community has seen the last of a Rood citizen. A Card. Editor Times. I see in your issue of the 7th an item from Mr. J. J. Bailes in regard to the settlement of the suit between he and myself he said the suit was settled at the earnest solicitation of the New York Life on the promise that 1 keep the premiums paid up. This smacks of fire and brimstone. The demands made on Mr. Bailes for the return of my notes by the Now York Life were on Feb. 5, l!M)7, and Feb. 11. 1907, as they were not his property, and nothing was said in regard to policy or premiums, and if what he says was true, why did he so readily pay the costs and want me to agree not to prosecute him. Sorry to have this to say, as I would like very much to keep on higher plane. W. H- Windle. Fort Mill, March 12. ^ifi fii i IM?~ ? 'I Senator Tillman as a Lecturer. Senator Tillman is not point? to have much chance to pet rusty this coming summer, according to the Washington Herald. He will spend his time mainly on the cars and the Chautauqua plat-1 form. In short, Senator Tiilman has now bonked engagements to speak every week day night and several Sunday nights from the day when this session adjourns until congress meets again December 2, except three nights and these will no doubt be taken. For these speeches he has a con- , tract at $200 a night with a lyceum company that assumes all' risk as to connections by rail. ' rent of hall and similar details. Ilis first date was Baltimore on I the night of March 4. March and April will he spent in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. His tour will extend into the far west In the fall, and during the summer ho will be heard in New England and the middle west. July the 4th he speaks at Ashland, Ky. He is free to speak on any subject he may choose, so long as his ctfort is the characteristic Tillman speech. The Senator's honorarium in the grand total is $43,000 for the summer's work more by some odds than he could make tending his cotton in the Palmetto State. Tom Harris Will Hang March 29. Tom Harris, a middle-aged ; white man charged with the mur-1: dor of Mrs. Hortensia Morgan, an aged lady of Cherokee county, has been found guilty of the crime and sentenced to hang on ' March 29. j Harris' crime was one of the most atrocious crimes recorded i in this section in many years. ; According to the confession of ] Harris, made to his spiritual advisers, lie and is wife and two children got on train No. 39 at;: G rover. N. C. His wife and children got off the train at i Blacksburg, he going on to Gaff- < ney and there getting off and 1 leaving a grip and other belongings at Mr. Davenport's store. 1 He then started to Mrs. Morgan's home, asking two men on the way where she lived; he found her sitting on the front porch; approached her and "oi\ tended i < ' want to rent a farm: she told him ] all her land was rented; she got . up to go iii the house, asking him to stay for dinner; he replied he i didn't care for any dinner, l'ol- i lowing her into the room. She : stepped to the bed to get a paper 1 and he walked up behind her, 1 taking her by the throat, choked her down on the bed. took his knife from his coat pocket and ' cut her throat, after which he \ waited in the room ten or twen- ? ty minutes until she died. He Then searched a cupboard or safe for her monev; not finding it ho searched her person, finding her money tied around her waist in a pouch or sack; he cut the string 1 from her person, took the money ' from the sack and threw the < sack down at the door. Her money consisted of something . over a hundred dollars in gold of i tlve, ten and twenty dollar pioc es. the rest being in greenbacks : of ten and twenty dollar bills. He then walked back toGafi'ney, i bought a new suit of clothes, an > overcoat and a grip and intended 5 to take the next train out for Atlanta. but his arrest followed before the arrival of the train. A Key for Ihi Askiog. The publisher of The Times is J becoming extremely tired of putting on new locks on his ofiice r door. Someone seems determined t to enter The Times office in the N absence of the publisher and, when thoy find the door locked, g effect an entrance by breaking E the lock l'rom its fastenings evi- 3 dently by throwing their weight ? against the door, .fust w hat any- ;i one should want to plunder a I printing office for is more than ! wc can say, for th* re is nothing to be taken that would be of service except to a printer. But the repeated breaking open of our office has not been for the purpose ol* theft, as we have nov- jj or missed anything or found the ! office in disorder after a raid of j these plunderers. However, we 1 do find it very annoying and ex- ! pensive to be replacing or putting ? on a new lock on the door every few days, and to the party who has been breaking the lock, we will say that it would indeed be a favor to us if they would discontinue this practice. If, however, thoy persist in entering our sanctum and will make themselves known, we shall bo glad to furnish a key to the door or leave the same unlocked and save them the trouble of breaking the lock and ourselves the time and expense of putting on a new one. j Li:> gruTTvsr.yar:; 1 wrs*r rrn au-k T rrrp f ?,n 'The preside*it has appointed j Mr. Martin Cnuthen to be nost master at Kershaw. SAVED HSU*SON'S LI?EThe happiest mother in the littlo i town ol Av;i, Mo., is Mrs, S. Huppee. ] She writos*. "One year ago 11 v ron was I ilown with such serious lung trouble j llint our physician was unihle to help liim; when. by <mr druggists advice I be^an giving him L>r. King's New Discovery, mid [ - .on noticed iniprov nunt. 1 kept this treatment up for if few weeks when ho was perfeet ly well. lie has; worke t ' t'?alily siueo at earpeiiters work. I)r King's New Discovery i saved his life." tluaranteeil best cough 1 mid colli cure by all druggists. 50c ! mid $1.00. Trial b it lie free. <? ?Oscar Hodges, an attorney, is about ready to wind up the at'- i fairs of the negro bank of' Idwnville which was ordered closed not long ago by the State j bank examiner. W0HH3D LISE A CHASM. Mr. 1). N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Kulerpriso, Louisa, | V:<... says: "J ran a nail iu niv foot last ! week and at oaeo applied Hnck'en's ' Am: -a thilve. No iiillaniinatiou fol- j lowed; the ?dve duply In .".led the' wound " lb als every sor>?, burn and ikin disease. (laaranteed at all drug-! tists 2.i cents. Edwin S. Cramp has resigned j from the directorate of Cramp's shipyards. He was the last of ds name connected with the 'anions yards. F0Uh"D AT LAST. J. A. Harmon, of Li/eniorc. West Vu .says: " \t last I have found tin* perfeet. \>i 11 that n-ver disappoints me; md for rlio benefit of others afflicted with torpid liver anl chronic constipation will say: take Dr King's New life Pills" (iMnrunte.ed satisfactory. M cunts it all druggists. ? Edgefield is to have another newspaper called The News. It will be edited bj Mr. Will Pat Calhoun. -4*>Are yon tired, fagged oat; nervous, veopless, ftM*l mean? llollistor's Knckv Monntain Tea strengthens the nerves, lid - digest ion . brings refreshing sleep. !."> cents. Tea or Tablets. ?I'urus Drug Co. The state fireman's tournament ,vill be held this year at Ander;on. The date will be in July. Matv?Hark circles under the eyes ndieato a slnggish eireulation. torpid ivet'iuid kidneys. Ksereiso and llolistor's lloeky liountain'len \\ill make at well ami beautiful 115 cents Tea or I . l i . \ > kJ I I1 ^ V. ? ? . f? r? - Mr. W. F. Stevenson, of Che aw, has boon appointed attorney 'or the.commission which is to vind up the dispensary affairs, ?JUUU J rr-xirfm | Fort Mil! Drug Stora | j (Opposite Savings Bank) i T. IF Meacfiam, M. D? Prop. Besides my stock pf Pure Drags, 1 carry a full line of all the standard Patent Medicines. Toilet Goods, Stationery, Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, Pipes, Etc. | Having had years of ex- I 1 porience as a oracticing | physician, I j"eel fully cupa- ^ hie of prescribing for your | ills, and prop. Fy dispensing { . medicines to suit your case. 9 All prescriptions receive 1 my personal attention, and s I will appreciate your pat- | ronage. Give me a call. | T B -la. j i6l.Uhr ' /gJA* MBTM?lltfOUR OLC LOOKS R Wlien vr.u J AND STAYS After you ^ Clothing and Furnis VHa^lhamii Agents fo Hanan, Selz and Cra The THREE LE g-.v-'.'.s-'. .gT7-,::ci?tamingrw<csj>Q.^ ffiSHiSliig'.IffiljEfllSSfJSS 1 JOB PRINT 1 NEATLY LXECL |=l THE TIMES OF! py T ctterlirnda. Noet lieuds Billheads, Ftato |[-a| Circulars, Envelopes, Etc. ; t the lowest j^jj work. Send us your orders anil we will csi ,, ,. h The ?gUiD SSilJBjgi.ijgJej EllOSSij *NPA* N\\\\\%SSV\\\S\\S\ VN\\%S\% WSV> % W. H. HO DEALERS II< >< WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS 125 East Council Street, as fX We quote you the following ?V Brandies, Wines, Etc.: 1 Gallon New Corn Whiskey.. s% 1 Gallon 1-year-old Corn Whisk jvtjv 1 Gallon 2-year-old Corn Whisk \s 1 Gallon 3-vear-old Corn Whisk as 1 Gallon 4-year-old Corn Whisk 1 Gallon New Rye Whiskey __ * s 1 Gallon 1-year-old Rye Whisk< ss 1 Gallon 2-year-old Rye Whiski 1 Gallon James E. Pepper Rye W 1 Gallon Old Henry Rye Whiske 1 Gallon Echo Springs Rye W 1 Gallon Apple Brandy (new) 1 Gallon Apple Brandy (old) _ 4 Quarts 7-year-old Corn (case j 12 Quarts Mountain Corn (old) 4 Quarts Old Henry Rye a& 4 Quarts Rose VaRey Rye 11' 4 Quarts Malt Rvo ?? 4 Quarts Hoover's Choice*Rye . We can furnish you anything1 in ?<? orders will receive prompt attenti I ! ? f C I I Lure ? \ J most instantly, a ? ' 'bey also relieve e oa Kheumfctic P ? * sinin.iclif aclie. A? 11 r y i'.cannij'dowr ** -jiivsjv i>i t; vuiiMio ? ,Jt> r * 1. v^f r??pw-* | j >^..; i Hv taking onr or t\v< i^v. ? Pills when you feel I You not only avoid m ^SS^yj erring influence of pai nervous, irritable an< w x tablet on retiring o This soothing Influe brinps refreshing slec 2 5 doses, 25 cents. (c2/'(/ain LIMITED MEANS OR EDUCATIO ALL OUR C.OOO GRADUATES AT .ft r?R? A VVRIT HOAR It IT ax (,I?. ftl - A I A lit >< I (CO 1'iri* Courtvi, VJrA. .I ft 1' ' irrri V a^iini I - \ I . JRbHBBKJ :i)CrM.>^>*?KSd?aasffTMsavi^c:j$aw_- | ITHING | IGHT J buy it I RIGHT J V rear it hmgs for Men. | ' & t^C-v ! tsrrrn&P j r V:.; 4 wford Slices, AJDERS.I VD .to'?U.V!CTMI' ? " 't /ne.'ZWLJUl w ? . _ , _ IS ! NG | 'TED AT p ICE. A ? ?3 mouts, Hniulbil's, Poster.1*, ^ prices consistent with good ^ plense you pp IE: Times. H ?XNX VXXNX X'* OVER, 1 f si i, TOBACCO, Etc. ff - - Salisbury, N. 0. 22 prices on Whiskies jgjj $1.50 ,22 ey 1.75 2& ey .2.00 Ss ey .2.50 >2 ey 3.00 22 1.75 cy ?- 2.oo yi ey ~ . .... 2.50 22 Whiskey 3.00 *S y 3.00 hiskey 3.00 22 2.50 Vs. 3.00 H jogcisj _ ... 4.00 52 7.00 *2 3.70 3.80 jJJ ... 3.70 \A 3.00 Kg our line and all mail j J on' 92 *%'?X'?*i>4X><?x*rv-"X<rv*' i ..uL. O Jr Miles' \nti?Paln Pills \ leadache ind I'-nvr no I :i 1 c fleet*, very other pain. Neural* am. ^ -i.i'm-<. P.aekarhe. iif Pains, Pa+n- lioin in* i pair*. Indigestion. Diz 8 am! ?pp) I life IliM) Prevent \ll=Aches % Dr. Mi'cs' Anti-Pain ? an attack coining on. if7<*rincr. but tlie v.enkn upon the system. If i cannot sleep take a r when yon awaken, nee upon the nerves V- ....... Never so;*1 in bulk. . .. x ?, / my a 5>5,00o uank dkpqstr n no hindrance. work. K TOUAt TO LOLLiiGH, Macon Ga: