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8?I ' VpMi?HMMW?tw The Fort Mill Times. DEMOCRATIC * B- W. BRADFORD. . Ed. #ud Prop. One y?'f?r Ti ooj On npplicatlon to the p iblleher, aflvcititlnR rote* are iu:' ie known to Interested. Entered at the postr dee at Port Mill, #5. O.. as second ems' amttor, "=rTe==Hn^ 5^^1907/ li L..a . j i. . f'ardoning Criminal!, Th^re is more than a suspicion that a strong tendency exists not only in this state but elsewhere toward looseness and leniency in in the matter of pardoning criminals. The maudlin sympathy expressed -by women and by some men toward criminals or those accused of some heinous crime is usually considered as the manifestation of an abnormal senti- j ment which verges on hysteria, but there is an illogical and mis- j taken leniency toward criminals suffering long terms of imprisonment, expressed by men usually of well-balanced minds. A man who commits a coldblooded murder and is sentenced to imprisonment for life, should not be pardoned. He may have a good record as a prisoner, he may even have honestly and sincerely repented of his crime and it may be conceded, for the sake of argument, that he would no longer be a menace to the community if allowed to go at large, but the argument against his release is based upon grounds which are not affected by these facts. * The purpose of punishment for crime should never be for motives of revenge; it should be based upon two grounds, and two only, the preventation of subsequent criminal acts upon the part -of the criminal himself and its deterrent effect upon others. Now it does not require any labored argument to show that this effect in the latter instance is seriously weakened when a practice is made of pardoning criminals, and especially in the case of those serving a life sentence. A man who commits coldblooded murder, deliberately Suts himself outside the pale of uman sympathy; he should not be treated with cruelty or unkindness, but he should expiate xaifVirv** Kxr -viviivi pl/jt u^otii vi ujr 11ic 1111" prisonment, release from which should be hopeless, the results of his crime. The strongest argument, in our mind, the only argument which can be regarded as even partially tenable, in favor of capital punishment exists in the fact that the frequent misuse of the pardoning power serves to minimize the dread of punishment or. the part of the prospective criminal. Fearing not immediate death oven if discovered and convicted, and relying upon the probably of pardon, after a few years he takes chances which he would be disinclined to take if he knew that life imprisonmeut in name, meant life imprisonment in reality. The enactment of a law to the effect that men convicted of murder in the first degree should not be pardoned under any circumstances, would be futile, since subsequent legislatures woujd be able to repeal it, but if public sentiment was sufficienty -groused and expressed with unhesitating firmness and clearness, i 1 * - weaK-Kneea executives and careless legislative bodies would cease turning loose upon the community men who have been convicted of the crime which God can forgive, and of weakening the influence upon the quasi criminal class, which is one of the chief purposes of punishment. Every once in a while newspapers receive lengthy communications from men they do not know and perhaps never hearn of, Stating that the writer is a candidate for some office and any aid the editor can bestow will be greatly appreciated. And, no doubt it would. On the other hand any aid these officeseekers i>fln hftfilnu; fho OflitAr ro/inm. pense him for space used in his paper would be appreciated. If politicians want to advertise their business, why the dickens don't they include a check as evidence of good faith, for the amount of advertising they desire and send along copy properly signed for advertising? Talk about business! If there is any business in a newspaper man giving away his space any more than there is in a merchant giving away his goods, we are unable to see where it comes in. Most merchants realize the value of attractive, original window displays in connection with their seasonable trade. The show window is at all times one of the most valuable store adjuncts and trade-wnLt^rs that iliu merchant can malte use of. All attractive window displays always draw the attention of the shopper, and if, besides being atti active, it contains any sug^aEtJpQS, it is hound to sell the * - ftoojl If the merchant or any of his clerks, who mny have more wiU d> ? vote a little earnest thought and time to getting up a series of attractive, suggestive and original displays, ne will find that it will tend to materially swell his receipts. ______ v fii-i. n a _ . ouite oenaior tsrice, as suggested by the Yorkville Enquirer. would probably make a worthy successor in the United States jsenate to A. C. Latimer, but we hardly believe that Mr. Brice has the running power, or The Enqirer the "rooting" qualities, to unseat Mr. Latimer. The weekly notice of services at the First Presbyterian church in Columbia as published in the Sunday State reads like a page from a grand opera programme. As to Marriage. I "The unrestricted marriage laws of South Carolina have resulted in blighting the hopes of hundreds of parents in North Carolina who have seen the opportunities of life closed to a son or daughter, who at an early J _ 1 1 .1 age, unucr h craze >vnicn tney called "love" hurried to South Carolina and got married when they knew no more about the responsibilities of married life than a six-month-old yearling." "If young people would alj ways wait to reach the ages of 25 or 30 years before marriage there wouldn't be so many examples that furnish an argument that "marriage is a failure." While it is true that through natural mental weakness a giddy-headed pair of things, at 1 any age. that wear pants, cloth , and calico may sometimes marry ' quickly through 'love at first , sight,' it is not often that mari miage is a 'failure' if the couple | carry with them a sufficient j amount of age and experience to be guided by mature judgement and common sense."?Our Home ^ York County News jj Rock Hill Herald. ?The following York county I boys graduated at Clemson this | year: Mechanical and Electrical I Engineering, W. H. Wylie, Jr., I of this city; Agriculture and | Animal Industry, Preston W. j Spencer, Catawba, and E. A. | Crawford, McConnellsville: Civil | Engineering, Eaton L. Sanders, j McConnellsvilie. ?The need of a new and up-to' date hotel in Rock Hill is a matter in which the people are becoming deeply interested and it is a subject of general discussion on the streets. An architect is in the city now looking over the 1 situation and it is believed that j steps will be taken toward supI plying this long felt need in I Rock Hill before the year closes. ?At a meeting of the Rock I Hill Poultry association held in ! the city hall last Tuesday night it was decided to hold the first ' annual show January 7-11, 1908. ! The entrance fee will be 25 cents | each for single birds and $1.00 each for pens. The premiums j will be $1.00 for first prize, 50c i secona ana ribbons lor third and i fourth, provided the class is fi led. There will be no money paid if the class is not filled, but ; the birds winning will get first and second honor. Pen prizes will be $2 for first and $1 for 1 second. j.iOckHill Record. ?Miss Grace Johnston, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ! E. H. Johnston, of this city, j was operated on Monday at the i Rock Hill Private Hospital, by : Dr. W. W. Fennell, for appendi' citis. ?An alarm of fire was sounded i Saturday night abcut 8:30 o'clock and the local company responded I very promptly, but were not I needed. The alarm was sent in from the residence of Mr. W. H. i Stewart. It seems that a lot of paper in the fireplace had caught j fire and filled the room full of | smoke, and on being discovered created considerable excitement for a few minutes. Invitations to 'the marriage of Miss Nannie Grist, of Yorkville, to Mr. Henry H. Crosland, j of Bennettsville, on June 25, j have been received here, This I is the announced of a social event j of more than ordinary interest in this county. Miss Grist is the I daughter of Mr. S. M. Grist, of i Ynrl.'T/illo QVlo foiwrUf in *Vt?TIIIVl MiiV/ ill UCll" nettsville during the past two j terms, and while there won a host i of friends who will gladly welIcome her as Mrs. Crosland. Mr. IH. H. Crosland is one of the : leading young business men of that section. He is general manager of the McCall-Weatherly Company, being largely interested in that corporation, a man of sterling worth and of splendid business capacity. ?As the "Hay-Burner" line has a franchise, as reported (not exclusive, however, as the State ! laws would not permit this,) we J hereby move that Council com! pel the owners to electrify the line; or failing this, to wake up , the mules. So ordered. FOR SALE?Several nice, fresh Jersey milk cows. Apply to J. IX Withers, Fort Mill, S. C. The Catawba in Harness. The Catawba River is destined to become one of the famous rivers of the world. Many years ago there appeared in Wiley's North Carolina Reader the following description of the Catawba: "The Catawba runs between the Yadkin and the Broad, and nearly parallel with them, and, like them, takes its rise in the mountains of North Carolina, and goes into South Carolina. Its head waters come from a land of beauty and plenty, and the ' main channel washes one of the j finest regions on the globe. 1 r?omn io o x. uv nuuivy AO uv& i vii vm a tribe of Indians who inhabited the upland distiiets of the State, and it falls smoothly and sonorously on the ear, one very sound ! seeming strangely blended with vague fancies and memories of a sweet and tender character. "When we fir3t approach its banks we are pleased with the sound of its rushing waters, and as we ascend the blue hills along its borders, we imagine ourselves already in the mountains. "We pass through scenes that look like the dim recollections of i happy dreams; and we are sometimes unable to realize that we are actually among the terrestrial haunts of man. "This is the country of the faries; and here they have their shady dells and their mock mounI tains, and their green valleys thrown into ten thousand shapes | of beauty. "But higher up are the Titan hills; and when we get among them we will find a difference ! between the abodes of the giant ; and their elfin neighbors. 1 ' The Catawba gives name to j the best native grape now "! grown on the American soil; and i it waters a country universally rich and universally beautiful. "The productions are various, valuable and very abundant; and the population, which is becomi ing very dense, contains in the , highest degree, all those ele| ments attributed to the people I inhahitinff t.hp midrllp HiRtrir?ta nf | the State, it is a vigorous, pro] gressive and moral race, and it is i pleasant to behold a picture of : humanity so generally robust and j happy. "The water power on this river is immense, and of incalculable value and gold, iron, mar| ble abound along its borders; and i hence we may look forward lo a day when factories of various : kinds, rich farms, innumerable herds, orchards, meadows, fori ges of iron, mines of gold and quarries of marble will reward j the industry and enterprise of a ; numerous, refined and healthy 1 population," i Mr. Wiley was a prophet and I had he lived until now he would j have seen the Catawba develop I into the great river of this section of the South. He would ! have seen its valley filled with j cotton mills and other manufacturing plants. The Catawba river has its ori! gin among the foot hills of the i Blue Ridge. Its source is from a pretty mountain spring near Round Knob, in the Western corner of McDowell county. Flowing down by Old Fort, Bridge Water, Morganton, Ca tawDa junction, thence along the boundry lines of Catawba and Iredell, Lincoln and Mecki lenburg and Lincoln and Gaston j and Meckleuburg counties it . crosses into South Carolina, where it flows past Fort Mill and ! Great Falls ana on to where it becomes the Wateree. The first plant of any conse; quence on the Catawba is the 1 Rhodhiss mill at Granite Falls. ; This plant has developed about ! 1,500 horse power. Other plants belcw are: The Long Is; land Mill with 300 horse power; I the Monbo, 150; Mountain Island, 1,000; the Tuckaseegee, 250; the Pnfnitrkr. "T?l ~ 1- A. AAA ; vatatvua l UWKI JTUUlt, ?U,UUU and the Great Falls, 30,000. On I the South Fork, which empties : into the Catawba, in Gaston, runs the following named plants: The i Elm Grove Cotton Mill, 300 horse , power; the Daniel 400; Labora1 tory, 200: Lincoln, 300; Long j Shoals, 300; High Shoals, 500; Hardin, 150; Spencer Mouutain, 500 and McAdens 500. The plants named in the fore! going paragraph, have been dej veloped and are now in operation Most of them are operated by steam and water. The Spencer : Mountain and the Southern Power Companies are hydro-electric plants from which the power is being transmitted. The Southern Power Company has a plant at the Catawba Power plant, located near Fort Mill running 10,000 horsepower, full blast, and is putting the finishing touches on j the 30,000 horse power plant at 1 Great Falls. Construction work on the dam at the Uocky Creek plant, located a mile and a half below Great Falls, has beirun: ?there 20.000 horse power will be dcvelo|)ed. Above Great Falls, at the point where Fishing Creek empties into the Catawba, a ! 15,000 horse power plant will be : put in. These are not air castles j bu^, real, plain, everyday realities. The Southern Power Company is putting about $250,000 a I month into the Catawba river. Literally the great river that 1 ?? ' <[ WE Ri I EIGHTY | PER 5 Tibf the population of the ors in Savincrs Hanks. and J and provident class is du J country today. All over the J of life are taking advantaj \ Savings Banks on deposit. ; 11 HOur Savings Department J money may be placed in same time be earning you f 4 PER CENT INTEREST, I COM | THE NATIONAL * (ABSOLUTE |rock hill, - Wiley '.vrote about before the Civil *'ar is being harnessed for a laudable purpose. The Dukes and Dr. W. Gil Wylie, W. S. Lee nnrl \\7 A T nlonrl unflr fUniv anu lux . IT . .fx. u^iauu, ??ivu uivu | many associates, are buckling the waters of the Catawba down to business. In 1903 Messre. Thomas H. Vandeford, of Salisbury, and W. M. Cooper, of Statesville, bought what is known as the Lookout Shoals in Iredell and Catawba counties. Eight months later they sold the property for $13,000, making what they considered an immense profit and a fine trade. Recently Mr. Vandeford, representing certain capitalists, offered the Dukes $76,000 for the same power. This will give an idea of the present value of water powers on the Catawba. It requires about 250 horse power to operate 10,000 spindles or one horse power will operate about forty spindles. The average mill in the State has about 15,000 spindles. Within 70 miles of Charlotte within a few years 140,000 horse power will be developed and this should operate close to 6,000,700 spindles.?Charlotte Observer. No greater mistake can be made than to consider lightly the evidence of Sisease in your system. Don't take desperate chances on ordinary medieiues. Use Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. V) ceuts- Tea or Tablets.?Parks Drug Co. ? The Knights of Pythias of South Carolina are talking about erecting a hospital in this State. If it's made of iron and it's out of shape, take it to Young's shjp. ? Adv. Dr. J. H. Hunter, a well known physician of Rock Hill, died in a hospital in Baltimore, whore he went for treatment. The contract for erecting a new court house at Abbeville, has lieon tnuafr? shall*. The building will cost $46,100. Prompt service and satisfactory work at reasonable prices is what you get at Young's shop.?Adv. NOTICE All persons 'iving within the town of Fort Mill, S. C., are hereby notified to get their hog i pens in first class condition. Any person or persons failing I to comply with tnis notice will ! be dealt with according to law. V. D. POTTS Chief of Police. jjHELLO CENTRAL,! I give me No. 11, j lithe MODEL Steami || Laundry Agency. i| j! , !: {| We do correct Launder\\ injr. Let us know early in |j !| the week and we will call J* !lj at your door and get your JI ||( laundry. Give us a trial, and |> pj if the work is not satisfac; 11 tory, it cor.tr. you nothing. 11 It satisfies everybody, why J> : \ \ not try a bjindle? All work j>. J | guaranteed. * l| R. F. GRIER, Jr., |l ^ Agent, t AY YOU TO SAVE.% | CENT iS ; | United States are deposit-^ j ( to this thrifty, economical $ 1 e the prominence of this J i country people in every walk J I ge of the interest paid by r I p A offers a place where your11 J ^ safe keeping and at thet> T an income. 2' G # 1 'V POUNDED QUARTERLY, t I c \ w , UNION BANK. |j ,LY SAFE.) f - - - - s. C.J I FARMERS! fE ! Solid Carload Timothy Hay Just Received. 1 Plenty of Flour, Oats, Meal, Corn, and all kinds of food stuffs on hand. j A. O. JONES, Phone 14. Ice HARRISON'S AUTOMATIC OIL-GAS STOVLS. WloKless, Smokeless, Odorless. An ideal stove for summer and winter. Splendid . for CookingMeats, Vegetables, Etc. Bakes finest bread, biscuit, cakes, pies, etc. With radiator attachment = makes fine heating stove for ? ;x. riv i m winter, oimpie m construction and cheaper in every way than Oil or Gasoline Stoves. Call at Hall's Market and see it operate. J. R. HAILE, Jr., Agent. AN ORDINANCE. Bo it ordained and enacted by the town council now sitting in common I council and by authority of same; That after the passage of this ordi- i nance it shall be unlawful for any per- | son or persons to loaf on any street in tho town of Fort Mill, SS C.. after 12 ! p. m. without a reasonable excuse. Section 2, That any person or ]>er- : sons violating tho above ordinance shall | be puni-hed by a fine not exceeding I $25.00 or less than (2.50 and cost, or j more |than 25 dnysj work upon the streets nor less than S days work. i Done and ratifiod in counc il ussem- i bled this 12th day of .Tune 1907. , W. L. HALL. Attest: Iut'd A. II. McElhauey. Clerk. j CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE^ Scholarship aujgflffance Examination ^^pP^nmen Class. T^^Wfmination for the award . '"ipRiolarhips from York County ' and ADMISSION TO FRESH-1 MAN CLASS will be held at the County court house on Friday, , * r..i- . n ? ? ' juiy o, at y a. m. Applicants lor scholarships may secure blank ; application forms from the county Superintendent of Education. These blanks must be filled out properly and filed with the county Superintendent before the be- , pinning of the examination. Those taking the examination for entrace to the Freshman class and not trying for a scholarship should file their application with the President Mell. The scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. One scholarship student i from each county may select the Textile course, others must take one of the Agricultural courses. I Examination paper will be fur- \ nished, but each applicant should < provide himself with scratch pa- t per. The number of scholarships \ to be awarded will be announced . \ later. P. H. MELL, Prest. j * Clemson Colleffe, S. C. tj .1 . , : : , ' S Dr. King's New Life PIIBs The best in the \ V > ' * ' j rand Sixtylixtccn of the Best Kn< ible Papers and Magaz vear for ^ a* w J W?? A A V A Read this Wc lanters' Journal. Memphis. 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