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% ? ^1'? '' ? i*> I ' I I 1 I * Ma ii I. FORT MILL TIMES DKMOCKATIO 11. w. u i< .\ i >K*or? i >, i'*m rou *} ? Plop** f>ne year * SI.00 Six months 60 Entered at the postoflico at Fort Mill, &. C.. as second class matter. ? ?_ ' * <m application to pie publisher, ndMf'tlning rates ?re made known to "those Interested. THURSDAY. AUGUST 2,7 1908. The Fort Mill Times has no joys or regrets to express over t he result of the primary election in York county Tuesday. Of course, we had men of our choice for each of the offices, but. at the qame time, there were friends with whom we did rot agr??e politically, and we could never see th? propriety of jeopardizing personal friendship lor the sake of politics. Hence, The Times neither worked for or against any of the county candidates. We are free to admit that Tuesday's primary did not result in every instance as we # would have had it, but the voters of the county have spoken and the Fort Mill Times will cheerfully support the nominees. As a matter of justice to all, we want to see a strict enforcement of the local dog tax law. It has now been several weeks since this law became effective and there are still a number of canines running at large without ?ax tag or collar, and it is very evident that the owners of these dogs do not intend to pay this tax unless compelled to do so. It is indeed unjust to make one citizen pay the tax and allow anot her to escape it. Council should collect the tax from every dogowner or refund the money collected from this source. <* The Times joins with many citizens in protesting against the use and abuse of the town ball as a dance hall. We arc informed that when the new seats were placed in the hall some months ago a resolution or agreement was made by council that the hall should not again be used for dance purposes. 1 hi; ruling or agreement has failed to hold good, as several dances have bien held there recently and it is not imnrobable that, as n rosnlt of the reckless throwing aside of the seats in the hasty preparations for these dances, a number of the new seats are now unfit and unsafe for use. The taxpayers of the town object to payirk? taxes to maintain the hall and have it thus abused. We are satisfied that conucil would be commended by a majority of our citizens if it would put an immediate stop to this practice. MARRIAGE. Theodore Parker has wisely said that men and women, and especially young people, do not know that it takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most Uving and wellsorted. But nature allows no sudden change. We slope very gradually from the candle to the summit of life. Marriage is gradual, a fraction of us at a t me. A happy wedlock is a lo ig falling in love. We know young persons think love belongs oniy to brown hair and plump, round, crimson cheeks. So it does for its beginning, just as Mount Washington begins at Boston bay. But the golden marriage is a part of love which the bridal day knows nothing of. Youth is the tassel and silken llower of love, ape ia the full corn, ripe and solid in the ear. Beautiful is the morning of love w th its prophetic crimson, violet purple and gild, with its hopes of days that are to come. Beautiful also is the evening of love, w ith its glad remembrances, and its rainbow side turned toward heaven as well as earth. Young people marry their opposites in 'omper and general character, and such a marriage is generally a good one. They do it instinctively. The young man does not say, "My black eyes require to wed with blue, and my over vehemence requires to be a little modified with somewhat of lullness and reserve." When these opposite^ come together to be wed, they do not know it, but each thinks the other just like himself. Old people never marry their opposites; they marry their similars and from calculat ion. Each of these two arrangements is very proper. In their long journey, these young opposites will fall out by the way a great many times, and both will charm the other back again, and by and by they will be agreed ; us to the place they will go to, and the road they will go by, and become reconciled. The man will be nobler and larger for j being associated with so much ! humanity unlike himself, and she j will be a nobler woman for hav- ; ing manhood beside bar, that seeks to correct her deficiencies and supply her with what she lacks, if the diversity be not too crent, and there boreal piety and love in their hearts to begin with. , The old bridegroom, having a much shorter journey to make, ' must associate himself with one like himself. A perfect and complete marriage is, perhaps, as rare i s perfect personal beauty. Men and women are married fractionally - now a small fraction, then a large fraction. Very few are married totally, and then only, we think, after some forty or fifty years of gradual apj proach and experiment. Such a , large and sweet fruit is a cpm! plete iparriage that it needs a ! Very long summer to ripen in and 1 then a long winter to mellow and I season. But a real, happy marriage of love and j udgement be tween a noble man woman is one of the things so very handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled, a god, he might stop the world in order to feast his eyes with such a spectacle. DOES NOT GROW WISER. The world does not grow wiser as it grows older. There are certain errors of calculation, based on a mistaken estimate of human nature, which repeztt ! themselves with each generation, i though they have been found out, exposed, labeled and widely announced five thousand times. Such, for example, is the case of the sanguine young woman who marries a rake for the purpose of reforming him. Such is ' the case of the father who takes ' his indolent and shiftless son into business, expecting that 1 responsibility will steady him. ! Such is the case of the church which elects a person to office in ! order to seoure his active inter, est in the work of the church. Such is the case of the old people ; who make over their property to their children, hoping to enjoy the proofs of their gratitude j through the declining years of j their life. These things all work i one way, perhaps an exception j so rare to be quite undeserving j of attention, and their method ' and result pretty generally j known, and yet, such is the con- . ceit of men that almost all who ' try the experiment believe that they by reason of superior sagacity will be able to do what thous ancls of others sorrowfully failed to accomplish. The law of the heavenly kingdom is, "Make the tree good and the fruit good," be| ginning the roform with the tree : and not with the fruit; and that: law cannot safely be trans! grossed. A Worthy Tiibutc to Dr. Thormvcll. In an address before the District convention. K. of P.,-at Bowman, S. C., on Aug. 5th, Mr. ! Hunter A. Gibbes, paid the fol- i lowing tribute to the late la-' 1 mented Dr. J. H. Thornwell: The well-beloved Knight whom we thus seek to honor was born in the President's house on the 1 campus of the South Carolina ; University in Columbia on May 13, 1810. His father, Rev. Dr. James Henley Thornwell, one of I the most eloquent and scholarly ministers the South has pro- j duced, was for many years Presi-; I J 1- - 1? If T .. ? I ueiit ui tne university. Dr. i Thorn well, the father, was a! noted educator in his time, and was famed for the uprightness ' of his character, his piety and learning. The subject of this brief sketch received his early education in the school of Mrs. Peck, in Columbia. Afterwards he became a student in the Franklin Academy in the town of Lancaster. Although a mere lad of j sixteen years when the Civil War broke out, young Thornwell served in the Confederate Army 1 with credit and honor. In 1866 he entered the South Carolina College, from which institution ha was graduated in 1868. In 1869 he began the practice of : law, but soon thereafter felt the call of God to the ministry. Dr. j Thornwell began the study re! quired for his new calling in ' 1871, and in 1874 he was licensed j as a minister by the South Caro-1 1 lina Presbytery. He entered upon this new field of activity with enthusiam and faith, and con- i tinued as an active worker until: 1 the day of his death. Or' Thornwpll n'oe ? _ - ...?* **( v?? n V1WV l/^/V.4 Grand Prelate of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias in 1900. Before his term of ofhce expired he was appointed Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, and heboid this latter office there-, after continuously until his death, which occurred on December 30, 1907. This , well-beloved, genial Christian gentleman was the exemplar of all that is noblest and best in Pythianism. The record of his life is one of manly Christ-: ian service, full of charity and j deeds of kindness. He was a good citizen. He fought a good fight and kept the faith. Such is the judgement of those who knew him best and loved him , most. I XOTICK. We want agents to sell our new and popular subscription books. We give splendid terms. ! If you want work, or if you want to better your position, let us hear from you at once. C. II. Robinson & Co. Charlotte, N. C. nbe to The Tliiiff*. - - - - THE DEMOCRATIC) PRIMARY ELECTION The following is the re9ult of Tuesday's primary election in Fort Mill and York county as nearly correct as it was possible to learn up to the hour The Times goes to press: State Ticket. Fort York Mill Co'ty For U. S. Senate: John Gary Evans 205 1,097 John P. Grace 0 8 Geo. Johnstone 6 275 W. W. Lumpkin 9 97 O. B. Martin 17 123 R. G. Rhett 42 811 E. D. Smith 20 568 For Governor: M. F. Ansel 108 2,208 Cole L. Blease 195 1,060 For Lieut. Governor: Thos G. McLeod 302 2,956 For Sec'y State: R. M. McCown 302 2,933 For Comp. General: N. W. Brooker 23 585 A. W. Jones 275 3,041 For State Treas'r: R. H. Jennings 297 3,070 For Adjt-Insp.Gen'l: J. C. Boyd 255 2,103 H. T. Thompson 45 1,023 For State Supt. Ed: E. C. Elmore 29 874 S. R. Mellichamp 238 885 J. E. Swearingen 29 1,397 For Atty. Gen'l J. FrazierLyon 235 3.038 For R. R. Comm'r; James Cansler 68 1,497 B. L. Caughman 125 729 F. C. Fishburne 3 158 H. W. Richardson 10 145 J. A. Summersett 89 513 County Ticket. Fort York Mill Co'ty For Congress: T. B. Butler 22 418 D. E. Finley 262 2,751 W. P. Pollock 21 277 Solic'tr 6th District: T If T T r* mr o. iv. nenry ZOO ?}, lfD For State Senator: J. H. Saye 91 1,566 W. H. Stewart 214 1,682 For Representative: S. H. Epps 260 1,794 J. S. Glasscock 214 2,249 J. P. Hollis 123 1,911 W. E. Hurt 80 1,622 S. L. Johnston 165 1,068 O. L. Sanders 85 2,151 W. B. Wilson 245 1,968 For Sheriff: H. G. Brown 246 1,877 S. S. Plexico 55 1,415 Clerk of Court: J. R. Logan 62 1,559 J. A Tate 240 1,755 Countv Supcrv'r: T. W. Boyd 162 902 W. G. Duncan 10 184 Clem Gordon 65 920 C. C. Hughes 50 548 A, J. Parrott 5 605 G. L. Suggs 12 120 For Coroner: J. L. McGarity 17 453 L. W. Loutliian 289 3,173 County Supt. of Ed: T. E. McMackin 262 3,151 For Treasurer: H. A. D. Neely 258 2,869 For Auditor: W. P. Crook 46 381 J. J. Hunter 80 1,101 B. M. Love 33 1,037 W. B. Williams 149 789 For County Comm'r: W. A. Aycock 132 1,432 M. S. Carroll 102 1,444 J. C. Kirkpatrick 136 1,241 J. A. C. Love 60 839 L. J. Lumpkin 155 1,543 B. R. Walker 13 318 According to the above figures the successful county candidates, are as follows: For State Senator: W. II. Stewart. For Representatives: John P. Hollis, O. L. Sanders, J. S. Glasscock, W. B. Wilson. For Sheriff: Hugh G. Brown. For Clerk of Court: J. A. Tate. For County Supervisor: T. W. Boyd and C. F. Gordon will make a second race. For Coroner: L. W. Louthian. For Supt. Ed.: T. E. McMackin. For Treasurer: H. A. D. Neely. For Auditor: Second race between B. B. Love and John J. Hunter. Lumpkin, Kirkpatrick, Carroll and Aycock must run a second race for the two places as county commissioner. The Election in Lancaster. Returns from Lancaster county give Butler 733, Pollock 588, and Finley 752. W. P. Robinson and J. Harry Foster were nominated representatives. Hunter was renominated sheriff over three opponents by about 1000 majority. L. J. Perry and G. L. Mobley will make a second race for supervisor. Thos. L. Hilton was nominated treasurer. There will be a second race for auditor between H. H. Horton and J. W. Porter. Second race for Supt. of Education between C. N. Sapp and A. C. Rowell. Second race for coroner between J. M. Caskey and John King. ? As a result of a washout on the line of the Seaboard railroad between Chester and Monroe, all Seaboard trains yesterday were detoured by way of Charlotte to Chester. i The State Election. Returns frojn the State election up to an early hour this morning1 for the senate and State offices are as follows: Senator. Evans, 20,300. 1 AOA Johnstone, 9.621. Lumpkin, 2,928. Martin, 4,331. Rhett, 18,169. Smith, 20,564. Governor. Ansel, 45,071. Blease, 30,866. Comptroller General. Brooker, 15,098. Jones, 43,515. Adjutant General. Boyd, 38,914. Thompson, 31,473. Superintendent of Education. Elmore, 20,557. Mellichamp, 33,135. Swearingen, 26,964. Railroad Commissioner. Caughman, 19,713. Cansler, 17,343. Fishburne, 7,056. Richardson, 7,501. Summersetc, 14,512. Clemson Boys to be Reinstated. Clemson college has passell a crisis and its future is assured. This is the opinion of the faculty | and the trustees there for commencement, and quite naturally they are discussing the fatal April fool joke which brought ; the question of authority squareI ly to a head. The details of this trouble are familiar to the public and are hardly worth repeating. As | President Mell exoressed it. the position was that the students, many of them absolutely uni familiar with familiar with disci| pline, must be made to obey or; ders. The committee in charge 1 settled that, although this ques- . tion of discipline had the presi- j I dent in similar trouble in 1901,1 now that the affair is settled the discipline committee is receiving applications from many of the dismissed students, nearly all, in fact, requesting reinstatement. In about 100 cases, after very careful investigation, reinstate) ment next year has been ordered, j This is no backward step on the ' part of the governing board. | | There are among those dismissed a large number that have been j given to understand that they i cannot return. Others have shown themselves sincere, peni- ! tent and after individual investigation have been remitted. The lesson has been a whole-' some one, according to the au, thorities. President Mell has i received letters, one from a college in Kentucky, one from North Carolina, and two from 1 , Georgia, stating that the dis- i missal of these students effectually stopped trouble in other institutions. It definitely fixed I the authority of the faculty and no further outbreak need be ex- ; pected for years. Old Yeoman Plant Sold. What was left of the printing nlonf fViof urnc? *-/v f/iunv uua ?uc uiuu^lll Ul I UI IV I : ville for the purpose of establishing the York Enterprise, and afterward used in the publication of the papers known as the ! Yorkville Yeoman and York ville New Era, has been sold to Messrs. J. H. Schroeter & Bro., of Atlanta, Ga. The plant con-1 | sists of a Country Campbell printing press, a small job press ; type stands, cases and other maj terials in various stages of wear. Messrs. Schroeter & Bro., paid $300 for the outfit. A part of it they will repair and resell, and a part of it they will consign to the iunk heap. This old plant has had quite an eventful history locally; but a truthful review of that history would hardly add in any considerable measure to the pleasant recollections of any of those most directly concerned. ? | Yorkville Enquirer. Watching Fort Mill Grow. Mrs. A. VV. Taylor spent last ! Friday in Fort Miil, the guest of her cousin, Mrs. P. K. Mull. While in that hustling little town she took a peep in at their fine bank, where she met her old friends, Messrs. E. Russell, j 'Bobbie" Grier and W. B. Meacham, Messrs. Russell and Meacham showed her over the bank where she saw piles and piles of money?greenbacks of large denomination, and silver I money of all sizes, and although J she'jknew not a cent of it be- 1 lodged to her, still she enjoyed seeing all that money. She thought it looked "real pretty." ! Fort Mill is building up rapidly. Numbers of handsome new residences are in process of erection, among which is Mr. Walter Meacham's beautiful home ' which, when completed, will be j a decided ornament to the little ; city. Pineville correspondence ' Charlotte Chronicle. ) 1 1 ' ?It is reported on the streets I this- morning that Doby's bridge, i (> miles south of Fort Mill is gone 1 as a result of high water in 1 Sugar creek. t i_e: comment 1 ( E3v A.. ISI. IDLER. 1 .... - - I < Men who refuse to pay their I honest debts will drop a coin in i the church plate and imagine , themselves Christians. ( Why is it that so soon as a man i stains himself he seeks to rub it i off against church pews and pure , Sunday school children ? The idea of teaching every girl to thump the piano and every boy to be a bookkeeper, will make potatoes worth $8 a barrel in 20 years. Land is sold on its record. When you buy land go ask a good abstract man how to get a clear title. Many a poor person has paid for a poor title. There are men who would tleece even a washerwoman in land deals. When a man points a gun at you, knock him down. Don't stop to look if it is loaded, but knock him down and don't be at all particular what you do it with. If there is going to be a coroner's inquest, let it be over the other fellow, he won't be missed. The church, bell?how its melodies ring, as its tones vibrate and linger. The fashionable belle, with a beau on her string, has a beautiful ring on her finger. A political ring is a very bad thing?it scoops in the fool and the scholar; but so pleasing a ring has no earthly thing as the ring of the bright silver dollar. Thanks to Providence, they are growing fewer. I mean that type of man who is continually sneering at the local paper because it! is not big, cheap and newsy like the city papers. And you can S!lfplu ll-iof Vif> i" ? _ V, Mini, nc IS Ill/L LJcl1I? dering any of his wealth in assisting to make it bigger and better, and that generally the paper has done more for him than he has for it. The man who cannot see the benefits arising from a local paper is of about as much value to his town as a delinquent tax list. Every young lady may mark it j down as a fact that if she flirts : and associates with "pick-meups" she will soon have no others for associates. No matter how unjust it may seem, there will always be a suspicion that those who form quick acquaintances are not as pure in heart and mind as they ought to be. It would be unjust to say that no pure minded girls flirt. They do and many lose their purity by so doing. Others, though n??t so unfortunate, subject themselves to suspicions which every woman should be above. Many persons feel offended because their comings and goings are not mentioned in the local paper while those of others arq and wonder what the matter can ne. ine explanation of the mat- ; ter is that the editor means to be j impartial, but some escape mention. The likes and dislikes of the editor have nothing to do with it, and while it is not pretended that the editor is more than human, he knows that the success of his journal depends on his fairness and impartiality to , all. It is best when a notice is desired to always mention it to ' the editor, or notify him through 1 the postofhce. No one feels worse about any seeming neglect or; partial performance of duty than j the editor himself. If you are not well don't talk about it. To do so only exaggerates your consciousness of physical discomfort; also it casts a shadow of gloom over other people. They grow hesitant about asking you how you feel. It gives them the cold chills to be continually told that you "are not very well" or "not so well" or "about j the same." Do you know that a , good deal of this is imagination? If you braced up and told people /lUnnviitr ^ * 1 Liicci njf kimi ^'UU It'lL LlJJ-tOP, ' nine chances in ten you would j feel tip-top pretty soon. You'd forget the ailing habit. Don't let yourself become a slave to such a miserable little disorder of health and happiness as the per- i petual habit of "not feeling well." j ? j ^ How does the village editor manage to make the newspaper , he does, is a question often asked and never answered in but one : way. By work. He is his own J editor, reporter, business man-' , ager, foreman, mailing clerk, j i pressman, and frequently com- 1 positor. Alone, or with an as- 1 sistant or two, he turns out each ! . week a paper which, while perhaps not brilliant, contains substantially all the general news of i the day and all the news of the locality. The paper has an influ-' ence far greater in proportion to < its circulation than the great metropolitan dailies, and it does j as much, if not more, to educate and reform the people than the \ churches and public schools. The i J country editor is not properly ap- , predated, fo'r he does more for the community in which he lives t than any other individual. He ' must have a firm belief in a reward hereafter or his nerve would forsake him early in his career. * i - * S???0?0??@G'*? ? 1 Mills & ^ 1 "Patriot" | for me | "Society" ifor Those are "St* made in one of tin factories of the Bo Hand Shoe Co., St tal daily capacity ? terv of "Star Brail which is t he lare.es operated by any 01 @ turer in the world I 52,000 g 0 One person out < g in the United St; 0 Brand" Shoes, an< ^ recently placed an 0 nails of them to Qg * g) wards. ? Try a pair of tli Cr5 * 0 will find, as we ha | "STAR BRAND" SKI | Mills & Y ?@S??>?3?@<8@? C Does your back ache'/ Do you have sharp pains in t hesidc.nnd the small of the back/ This is due, usually, to kidney trouble. Take DeWiit's Kiduoy ami Bladder Pills. '1 hey will promptly relieve weak back, backache, rheumatic pains and all Kidney and Bladder disorders. Sold and recommended by1 Ardrey's drug store. ? Miss Alice Gulp, of Charlotte, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in this place. ?< ?DeWitt's Little Early Risers, sale, easy, pleasant, sure little liver pills. Sold by Ardrey's drug store. A prirl can love amost any man that her parents are willing to object to. ? The little attacks of stomach trouble and stomach disorders will undoubtedly lead to chronic dyspepsia unless you take something for a sntlicieur time to strengthen the stomach and give it a i chuuco to get well. Jl you take Kodol in the beginning the had attacks of Dyspepsia will be avoided, but if you i allow these little attacks to go unhced ed it will take Kodol a longer time to . put your stomach in good sonditiou again. Get a bottle of Kodol today. Sold by Ardrey's drug store. A supar-coated pill is one thinpr which successfully combines business with pleasure. Summer complaints and other serious ailments common in hot weather can be traced to the stomach nine times out of ton. Keep the stomach in good order right now by keeping a bottle of Kodol handy in the house all the time, but especially during this month. Take Kodol whenever you feel that you need it. That is the only time you need to take Kodol. Just when yon need it; then you will not he troubled with sour stomach, belching, gas on the stomach, bloating, dyspepsia and indigestion. Sold by Ardrey's drug Store. People who have no troubles don't know what they have to be thankful for. While Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is especially recommended for ' children, it is, of course good for adults. L'hildren like to take it because it tastrs nearly as good as maple sugar. Its laxative principle drives the cold from the system by a gentle, natural, yet fopious action of the bowels. t-old by Ardrey's drug store. NOTICE TO ROAO OVERSEERS. Ml Sections Must Be Put In FirstClass Condition at Once. All of tho Road Overseers of York bounty are hereby called upon to call nit the HANDS ON T1IKIR RKSl'KC 1.TVE SEOTIONS and put the Roads in Kirst-Class eoudition at once. All able-bodied male citizens between the.ages of Eighteen and Fifty ! if ears ami not specifically exempted by aw, are liable to road duty, ami must tvork Five Days of It) hours, or u<> hours. | The road should he well ditehed on he sides and the loose earth pulled to' he centre, till holes should he tilled in is permanent manner as is practicable a iih the facilities at hand. i HOMAS W. ROYU, Su|s'rvisor of York t 'oanty, Hazel Orist, Ulerk of Board. . j wsemeietw I 'oung Oo. I rt a /^? - ? Shoes I , and ? IMS Shoes I 3ixien. ir Brand" Shoes, ? * ten big specialty $ berts, Johnson & ? . Louis. The to- @ of this great bat- ? d" shoe factories, ( I group of factories ? ne shoe nianufac- ( Pairs. g >1 every thirty-two ? ites wears "Star ? I Lucie Sam has ^ order for w21,470 q he worn by his icso shoes and you ? ve, that )ES A3E BETTER. ? oung Co, | (i 3. EUQiENE BASSEY, ft?. D. Office in Bunk Buudiug. Night calls answered from Phone 121. | JUST RECEIVED jj ^ 5 Car Load of best Virginia & 1 ? <v y "B -z * | Car load Portland-Atlas ^ 3 Cement J ^ | j J Can sell you cheaper than 4 * the cheapest. 4 I V, B, Blankenship, | * 4 Cleaning', Pressing, and Dyeing. Join the Fort Mill Pressing Club, membership $1.00 per month. Dry, chemical or wet cleaning. Besides Clothing, we clean or dye Furs, Skins, Rugs, Mats, Feathers, bleach Straw or Panama ilats; old Neckties and Ribbons made new; cleaning and dyeing of Gloves. 'Phone orders to 140, or call on us up stairs over Parks Drug Co. GUY A. ROSS, Proprietor. u ^ a V V vuo Inflammation of the bladder, urinary troubles and backache use DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pil?s A Week's Treatment 25c , E. C. DcWITT & CO.. ChicugOr IIL J Sold bj Ardrey's Drugstore. M H O LI 1S T F R' 3 ?.9eA'j HosniaiitTea Suggeb A B jsy Medicine for Bu-y P- pie. Brings Golden Health and R. ew.l Vnfor. flH m Hi.i Ki.iih y iloilili-h. l>?m Iininin m mil lUi'U. V,o. Ii -i Kooky hlonritnin Ton in lnl?-< BHHB| 30LDFN N'JGGETS FOIt SALLOW TFOnitl .<ul;s< ril.f lo Tin- Vlilif