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PThe Fort Mill Times! DEMOCRATIC B. W. BRADFORD, - Ed. aud Prop. One year ' 11.00 Six months to On Application to the publisher, uJvertls-lriK rates aie made known to thore Intero.vted. Enterod at I he post office at Fort Mill, S- C., as second class matter. an c, 1 1 1=SEPTEMBER 5, 1907. I 11^ i I H K^t7 - > . BB^H|^BHB^B|BBBE| The State superintendent of j education has published the names of 70 young men of the various counties to whom Clcmson scholarships have been award-' ed as the result of recent competitive examinations. Now the law as to the award of these scholarships provides, if our memory is not at fault, that only those young men who are the sons of parents unable to pay their tuition, etc., shall be the benefiiciaries of the State's generosity, but a glance at the; names of the young men to whom ! this last batch of scholarships: has been awarded discloses the! tact that the law has been flagrantly disregarded, for there j are beneficiaries named in the, list, and no inconsiderable num-1 ber, either, who arc the sons of, some of the most prosperous cifci- j zens of the State. Poor boys who are worthy of this State aid are } thus being deprived of their rights that the sons of daddies j who are easily able to pay for the education of their offspring may be benefitted. This is only , one of the many outrages to which the tax-payers of the State are subjected, of course, but it certainly seem sthat some-; thing should be done to remedy this wrong. We hope that every child of school age in this community is now attending school. If there r.re some who intend to go to school and have not started lot; them get their books together1 and be on hand Monday morning, i Some parents do notm seem to realize that the best "time for their children to start to school; is the first school day, and the j best time to leave is the last day j of the last school term of the school year. Especially should 1 this be the case with the first ? yea1* pupils, that is. pupils who are entering school for the first time after reaching six years of age. They should not enter after the first month. The interruption and hindrance to_the rest; of the pupils of this grade is! more than any considerate parent ought to demand. If your child does not become of school age (six years old) till after the first month of the term is past, or if you do not get ready to send hi n the first month, keep him out till the beginning of the j next term. k* Prohibition in the citv of Finn cor, Maine, the citadel of prohibition, is reported to be a mon- j strous joke. Bangor has a popu Jation of something- like 2:5,000, i and from tiff.;/ to two hundred bars have been doing a good business there for the past ten years. The cheapest kind of lienor sells for fifty or seventy-five cents a pint. At the hotels, as in many of the prohibition towns in tins State and North Caroi nn, visitors often fed the de?,ire or net d of a little whiskey and appeal to the hell boys, but usually get the answer that it cannot be bought. A small tip, however, wid cause an unlimited supply to be proThousands of city people are daily counting the hours when! they can leave for some lake or river for an outing, where they | can fight mosquitoes and bugs i for a few days, and perhaps get; Cur School?One Class vs. Another. The old school bell again chimes out "come," and as we look forth and see the groups of boys and girls on their way to school, we note some whose elastic step and cheerful faces are highly indicative of the soul and mind, and all such will prove a blessing to themselves, their teachers and their school. Their actions show their anxiety for work; their lessons Will be perfectly prepared: their recitations well given, and they will attain to that round on the ladder of fame and learning I 11 - Jl - ciuieu success, iney wm master all knotty problems, not only in school but in life. They will not require punishing in order to teach them the necessity of getting their lessons. They study because they love to; are industrious and energetic from principle; their life will be a success. Following comes another groim of boys whose lagging steps a d [sullen faces show that the souna of the bell grated harshly upon their ears. These boys will prove unruly, unkind and, unlike the other class named will take but little interest in their work, and at the end of the year, in spite of a teacher's earnest efforts in their behalf, will be but little farther advanced than in the beginning. We need not say what the result will be in the latter case, but to these boys' parents we wish to say, try to cultivate in their minds a love for the school and school work. Sec to it that they are in school every day; that their report cards show a good grade or know why such is net the case. In other words see if you can't control your boys and not depend upon the teacher to do it. The Dend-Beat Must Go. Merchants in Durham and in Concord have, according to the Monroe Enquirer, adopted the plan of selling their accounts against non-paying customers at public auction. The threat to sell his account at auction might move some old dead-boat to action, but some of t'nern simply iv.iva tgi.ttwr* ..f Inn of character, no regard for an honest name, and nothing but a shotgun with a rnaiv who means business behind it. will get a move on them. The business life of the South has been cursed with the dead-beat. He eats the grocer's stuff, wears the dry goods merchant's clothes, takes the doctor's medicine, the lawyer's advice and the editor's paper, all of which he gets for nothing, the dead-beat doe3. On the books of the business men ol this country are multiplied thousands of dollars worth of accounts uncollected and uncollectable. It is high time the dead-beat was squelched, and he is being sat upon and that hard. The deadbeat has a harder time now than he ever had in making a living oft' of honest people. Polks art more inclined to pay debts now than ever before and the deadbeat is dying out beautifully fast. It is the duty of the business world to kill the dead-beat. The man who is not able to pav, whe gets into hard lines through nc fault of bis own, who hits the rough places hard and falls, doserves sympathy ami the ole world, rough as it is, always has a helping hand for the straight and honest man who "gets ur against it," but we are writing these lines not about the unfortunate honest man. but against the pesky old dead-beat, the fellow who lives better than docs the hprd-working man whose bread he eats, he is the fellow that we are saying these tilings about, and right here we feel the need of some sound emphatic words, regular "boss lot" words. N . v. spaper words that the women and children are supposed tc road are not equal to the occasion when something is t"* be said about that parasite on the business body - the dead-beat. 11c has robbed honest men of what is justly due them too long. Put him in disrepute. Close your church doors against him when he applies for membership, make him a social outcast, deny him a place at the political pic counter and let him die without benefit of clergy and be buried without ceremony, and the memory of him be blotted out, for he has bean and is the curse of the business life of this our good country, the dead-beat has been, . 1 ? i * * * ana me nail oi his cusseciness has not been told. A law passed by tlie Connecticut!, legislature will make it neccessary lor the hunter of birds an ! quadrupeds in that State to take out a lie -use. li the hunter is a bona tide resident of the State, ho will have to pay $1 ns a license fee and 10 cents for a recording fee, while every citizen not a resident of the State, must pay $10, plus 26 cents, and aliens whether residents or non-residents, are to pay $15 unci r.n extra 25 ce nts. Violations of the act will make the violator liable to a fine of from $7 to $5o, or imprisonment for not exceeding thirty day.; or both. ?Messrs. 5'. M. Hughes and Par.ol Vt P Iv) wi >n w r<- ' <. *. r fro i :ef iter Tat .-.day on 4?usi* 41 Work of the Combing Gin. Mr. James T. Fuller, president of the Fuller Combing Gin Company, of Charlotte, has just returned from an extensive trip through the South and Southwest, says The Observer. He spent ten weeks in the Mississippi region and the Colorado river valley in Texas for the purpose of demonstrating by actual experiment the commercial possibilities of the combing gin. ' Abundant success crowned his ' efforts, so much so that the entire output of his factory has V\<~W\n Crw mnr*i? wv\-u ouiu ivi inauj uiviituoauuau* "The superiority of the new process of ginning was demonstrated at two points in Arkansas," said Mr. Fuller, "namely, i Blytheville and Oseeola, thriving cotton centers. The cotton used in the experiments was raised in the St. Francis river basin and owing to the presence of much foreign matter was exceedingly heavy and hard to handle. The machines were given the most difficult test possible. The sta! pie treated by the process was pronounced by expert judges to be worth at least $5 per bale more than that handled according to the old process, j "At Wharton, Tex., types of the two gins were placed in the same house so that the operation of both could be watched at once. Separate cleaning and feeding mechincry and separate '1 presses were used. The cotton after being ginned was shipped to Houston and sampled undei I the auspices of the warehouse interests there. These samples . were submitted to a committee of experts from the Houston cot; ton exchange who reported most f ivora'oly for the new process. They found the combed staple : much smoother and brighter thar that ginned by the saw gins and ! graded it $1.50 higher per bale. i he coiton was entirely free from i dirt and foreign matter to start with anil consequently was ot ; very high grade. Such being | the case, the difference between ; the old and new processes was entirely in the ginning and not in the cleaning. The value ot , the combing process was very evident when the finished product was carefully examined. ! Short and tangled fibre which is so -common with the saw gins ! i was not in evidence. In addition to new crop cotton, a quantity of old crop cotton was also treated. This cotton was , picked after the gulf storms last || - : ;| The McOa ; Of haiullii 11 Gruaraiite I ;! lute Cor ! !l ;! Jones uses ;! . ' J O N ES. i _ ; {? we: i \l ? 1 (5THE AVEK . ; r I! H 40 tin lis a hank aci J) pany of inimt *5 saving. Her ^ checks show at | j* her payments ai : <j of payments. \ ? in our Savings I I 5 4 PES 0H?iT SfiT^F.Sl !$ eo? i ; p THE NATIONA j 1$ (ABSOLUT . hsSCX SILL, - ; , W ^ S T; v-'- 'A*- .j, x % /. * - *>T" "1* jy year and was full of trash and j foreign matter. The cleaning I machines had much to do and so also the gins proper. The consequence was that the difference in values between the two processes was all the more marked. The experts who tested the samples 3 1.L 1 i.^ I pronounceu wie curnutru cuuuii lu be worth at least $2.50 more per bale than that treated by the old process." ******** ENDOWED BY THE COUNTY"The most popular remedy iu Otsego County, and tho best friend of my family." writes Wm. M . Diotz, editor and publisher of tho Oatego Journal, Gilbertsville, N. Y.t "is Dr. Kiug's New Discovery. It hns proved to be an infallible euro for coughs and colds, making short work of the worst of t hem. Wo always koep a bottle in the house. I bolieve it to be the most valuable proscription known fur Lung and Throat diseases " Guaranteed to uover disappoint tho tuker, by all druggists, l'rico 50c and $1.00, Trial bottle free. Every one is interested in an iterr. of local news. If you know 1 of any local happening that is ' not generally known communicate the fact to this office. ; > "2EQULAB AS THE SUN" J is an expression as old as the race. No doubt the rising and setting of the sua is the most regular performance in tho - universe, unless it is tho action of the liver and bowels whou regulated with ! Dr. King's New Life Pills- Guaraui teod by all druggists. -25c. ?The Fort Mill and Charlotte ball teams will meet on the local ! | diamond Saturday afternoon at j 4.30 o'clock. The public is in. vitcd to see the game. THE LIMIT OF LIFE. The most eminent medical scientists nre unanimous in tho conclusion that tho generally accepted limitation of human life is many years below the attainment possible with the advanced knowledge of which the ruco is now possessed. Tho critical period, that dct tenuities its duration, seems to be bo| tween 50 and 60: tho proper care of the body during this decado cannot bo too strongly urged; carelessness then being 1 fatal to longevity. Nature's best holp er after 50 is Electric Bitters, tho scientific tonic medicine that revitalzes every organ of tho body. Guaiau" teed by all druggists. 50o. I -? ? -Mr. J. P. Epps, of Gold Hill, ; returned Monday from a several ; days' visit to Capt S. E. White, in Lancaster. "EVERYBODY SHOULD KKOW" ' says U. (t. Aavs, a prominent business ? man of Bluff, Mo., that. Bncklcn's Arnica Salve is the quickest and surest healing salve ever applied to a sore, 1 burn or wound, or to a case of riles. ' I.vo used it and know what I'm talking 5 aboul."' Guaranteed by all druggists i 25o. skey Mode lg accounts * -i >8S Absorectness. j a RflcGaskey "The: Grocer. 9 ... pav vou to save.f 1 !A bE jf >LDER |: k' S1 ;ount in a Trust Com-*j iiisc convenience and*) bank book and paid<?f *1 once her deposits; and* * nd her checks are proof ? Ve pa}r you to save? in )epartincnt. ? SPOUHOED QUARTERLY. !f L UNION EANK.f! 'ELY SAFE.) tl . - * c ji d> i?, J! Heals anjUuncliss. To my friends: I have fitted up a First-Class Lunch Room in connection with my Cold Drink Stand and will appreciate a share of your patronage in this line. When in town call and let me serve you a good lunch or meal. JAS. H. PATTERSON. NOTICE. The Board of Trustees of tho Fort Mill Graded School 1ms adopted the following fees to be paid in advance at tho opening of School September 2nd, which pays nil tuition charges to January 1st, 1908: 1st and 2nd grades $ .50 3rd and 4th grades 1.50 5tli nud 6tli grades- 1.75 7th and 10th grndos 2.50 By order of the Board. W. B. Mcachmu, Clerk. ? C TO THE PUBLIC! I have opened a Barber Shop in the room in the Bank building recently vacated by Mr. Curtis, and will appeeciate a share of your patronage. Prompt service and first-class work. Give me a call. W. B. McKinncy. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to tho provisions of an Act entitled I "An Act to provide High Schools for ; the State" an election will be held at ! Fort Mill on Saturday Sept. 14th 1907 ! to determine whether or not a High School be established within the territory embraced in the adjoining School Districts of Nos. 1, 26 and 2L of York County S. O. All qualified eloctors lixing within the proposed High School territory have the right to participate iu this election if qualified under the Constitution and laws of this State. Said election will be conducted under Section 1208 of the Civil Code of 1902, in rou'i euce to special levies for school purposes. Tho polls will bo opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p m. of sanio day. Those favoring the High School will vote a ballot coutniug the words i "For High School" Thoso opposed to establishment of said High School will voto a ballot containing the words "Against High School." By order of County Board of Educa tionof York County, S. C. T. E. McMackin Chairman. Aug. 12 1907. 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