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" ! FOBT MILL TIMESl DRMOCKATIQ P. \y. HHADl'OUl), lCt>ru,v +?n i?uor*? One year , SJ.00 Sloe months , ,6?j Entered at the postofflcnat Fort Mill, ?. 6'. C* tjocoud class matter. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those Interested. - 1 .1 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908. Newspaper Rights. There are some men who have peculiar ideas about a newspaper. They regard it, not as a business, but as a convenience. If the paper reaches them late, or fails to give every item of news or its conduct toward them is in $ manner they do not like, they then very properly make a business matter of it because ?.i? i t j v? vi?cjr lid V c ucri j^cii mji.1 lur something they are not getting. They make these issues every day in the year, except the first day, when the business idea is forgotten, and the only thing uppermost is a plea to get out of paying what they honestly owe the paper. These same men will meet the newspaper man with a smile, offer him a drink or cigar, and then ask him to say in his paper that he is the most enterprising and progressive citizen in the the s ate. That's their idea of I business. Now the newspaper is a businoes. It is not a glory making machine. It can no more live on sentiment, than can its employes. It may surprise you, but type setters don't vyork for nothing and no amount of persuasion will make them do it. i It's true you may only owe us $2 for a back subscription, yet if three or four hundred subscribers reason like you, that we collect the news for the fun of it, printers work all week just to print j jt out for you, the paper mill gives us our paper just because' they want to see us do well, the machinery men give us machinery' for the same reason, then it becomes a different matter, instead of $2 worth of glory it is $15 cash each week for help and supplies. The newspaper business is jnade up of small things, and it js such items which, if collected enables the management to improve its service and pay off ail obligations promptly, but which if deprived of for trivial reasons, piakes the cash account short pnd the newspaper man has to | grovel along under a weight of j ja o .t sixty pounds to the square inch. Perhaps you have never given thought to our subject on this line. If not, then, if this article serves to call your serious attention to it, its mission has been accomplished. Unfortunately, John Temple Graves, the renegade Democrat ^vho is now the vice presidential pominee on the Hearst Independence ticket, was born in Abbeville county, S. C. For some reason the Charlotte Observer has not yet claimed him for North Carolina. South Carolina is not proud of him, does not want him, and hopes that The Observer will soon claim him. It would be interest I nor fn Lrnnwr how much the Republican party is paying W. R. ;Hearst for nis efforts to defeat Mr. Bryan through the agency of his Independence party. Some of the North Carolina Jlepublicans profess to believe that their nominee for governor, Cox, will defeat Mr. Kitehin. North Carolina is rotten enough, politically, in spots, but there are pot enough fifth class men hunting for fourth class government jobs up there to accomplish this result. Boys and Cigarettes. if tlie^e be one law "more dead" than another, the distinc- | tion of being the "deadest" in the whole statutory push probably belongs to the act of the legislature making it unlawful to sell or give cigarettes to minors. Probably the non-observance of the statute is due to Jack of knowledge of its ex is- i fence, though ignorance of the law as Wl? all L-nrtW io r\r\ ovnnon for its violation. That the law in question in not generally known, not even to "a number of lawyers and legislators," may 1 be inferred not only from it? nonpbservance, but from the following taken from the report in Tuesday's News and Courier of the proceedings of the conven- j tion of the Woman's Christian Temperence Union of the State held in Bamberg: The Woman's Christian Temperence Union of South Carolina, pfter asking 'Their husbands ?t home" and a number of lawyers and Legislators as to whether or not there was an anti-cigar- 1 ptte law in this State and always I getting a negative reply, finally wrote U) the Secretary of State and unearthed the following law )n relation to tobacco, South CaiQr . *1^ ? %?? ^ .V. lina Coiie, 1902, Section 329? Then follows the act itself, which we reproduce: Section 329, It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, either by hjmself or themselves, to sell, furnish, give or provide any minor or minors, unaer the age of 18 years, with cigarettes, tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor. Any person or any persons violating the provisions of the preceding section, either in person, by agent or in any other way, shall be held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction therefor shall be rmnished bv a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, or by Imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, nor less than two months, or both, in the discretion of the Court, one-half of the fine imposed to be paid to the informer of the offense and the other half to be paid to the treasurer of the county in which such conviction shall be had. The report goes on to state that the Woman's Ternperence Union has 4 'startled a movement to scattter copies and posters containing this law broadcast over the State during the coming year, and will do everything in their power to have this law enforced.'' But why wait on the good women temperence workers to agitate this matter?why not begin the work right now? Any hour of the day boys, both white and black, are to be seen on the streets puffing away at cigarettes. If they can be broken of the vile and injurious habit by law, let the aid of the law be invoked. It will be observed that the provisions of the act are very comprehensive. No one is allowed "to sell, furnish, give or provide any minor or minors, under the age of 18 years, with cigarettes, tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor." A strict observance of this law, cutting off as it. does the source of supply, will greatly minimize the cigarette evil among boys, if it does kot break it up altogether. ? Lancaster News. The South Carolina Univertily. More and more the authorities are striving to link the institution to the common schools of the State. Several members of the present faculty have for years been closely identified with the common schools teaching in the State and county schools for teachers, addressing teacher bodies and the public on school matters. Realizing that the high school situation in the State was far from satisfactory, the Board : of Trustees a little more than two ' years ago established in the University a chair of secondary education, and called to it a man who had taught for nearly twen' ty years in the corr mon schools?, ' most of that time in South CaroI lina. Prof. Hand began by givi ing half of his time to teaching | in the institution, and the other | half to field work over the State. Within less than a year the demand for his time was so heavy ; that from that since he has given almost his entire time to this high school work over the State, j In the meantime the Legislature has appropriated $50,000 annually to aid the high schools, and the state Hoard of Education made j Prof. Hand its State Inspector ; further linking the institution tc ' the schools. There arc now in : round numbers one hundred State 1 aided high schools, town and rural. These schools are getting , the benefit of his services in j building courses of study, classij fying their work, and urging on , the improvement of those schools. ! For the first time in the history i of the State all the colleges and the public at large have access I to detailed tabulated informa; tion as to the actual work done in all the high schools of the State. The volumes of correspondence and the number of bulletins of information which pass through this office are heavy, and are growing almost daily, The department of the University is devoted to the educational interest of the State rather than to the individual interest of this institution. Convict Lease System Abolished. Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, has signed the convict lease bill which hereafter prohibits the leasing of felons except by the consent of the Governor and prison commission. The bill was passed by the Legislature Saturday after $30,000 had been spent in an extra session, and nearly a month used in discussing the legislation. With the signature of Governor Smith on the bill as engrossed, Georgia has done away with a system which has been in existence since 1865. ? ? ?When you havo a cold yon may l>c sure that it Ims been caused indirectly by constipation nnd consequently you must first of all take something to move the bowels. This is what lias mntlo Kennedy's Laxative Ccngh Syrup so successful and so generally demanded. It docs not oonstipato like most of the obi fashioned cough cures, but on tlio other hand it gently moves the bowels ami at the same time heals irritation and allays inflammation of the throat Sold by Ardrev's drag store. i .-? idle; comme:nt Qv A. rsj. IDLER. Learn to be shotu Long visits, long stories, long exhortations, and long prayers seldom profit those who have to do with them. Life is short. Moments are precious. Stand by your town. Not a dollar is invested there but that ' some good comes of it. There is | no family like one's own family, ; there is no wife like one's own j wife; there should be no town like one's own town, where we 1 live, educate our children, on {whose streets our babies play, and where we may some day sleep. Let the newspaper stand by the town, and let the business men stand by the newspaper, and let us make our home town as famous as possible. The public school deserves more attention than is given it. Too many parent- regard their entire duty in this connection discharged in paying their tuition and properly clothing and sending their j children to school. There is | reason to fear that many look ! upon the school room as a nurI sery to relieve them of their ! troublesome children. The pubI lie school cannot accomplish the i full measure of their possibili. ties unless the parents join with j the teachers in attention to the pupils. Many mothers imagine their daughter's fortune made when I she learns to thump a piano, or I labors enough to daub a cheap I chromo or to work a yellow dog , on a doormat. Girls are too glad to be spoile 1 that way. Teach them to command a regiment of pots and kettles; teach them to make good bread, good coffee; teach them to make garments and to patch them when they need it. Teach them physical development; teach them it is more cruel and less Christian for American women to cramp and ; distort their lungs, liver and stomach, than it is for the Hot! tentots to press their heads flat, or for the Chinese to make their ; feet small. Good, healthy, indusI trious girls make happy homes, and wives and mothers. There can be no greater mistake that a business man can make than to be mean in business. Everybody has heard the proverb of penny wise and a pound i'ool, ish. A liberal expenditure in the way of business is always sure to be a capital investment. There are people in the world wno arc snort-sighted enough to believe that their interest can be best promoted by grasping and clinging to all they can get and never letting a cent slip through ! their fingers. As a general I thing, it will be found, other things being equal, that he who is most liberal is most successful . in business. Of course we do , not mean it to be inferred that a man should be prodigal in his expenditures; but that he should '! show his customers, if he is a trader, or those whom he may ,, be doing any kind of business ' with, that in all his business i transactions, as well as social re' j lations, he acknowledges the (; everlasting fact that there can |; be no permanent prosperity or ;; good feeling in a community where benefits are not reciprocal. ; There is nothing so much needed about many homes as good . walks and paths that must be i used daily. There is little excuse for not having them, either, when brick, gravel or sand can be had at no great cost. A good walk through muddy yards can be easily and cheaply made by placing poles side by side, a short distance apart, and filling the in| tervening space with gravel, or with broken corn-cobs, or with saw-dust. Oak planks will last many years, if turned over occasionally, and this also counteracts I warping. One of the best walks through a level barnyard can be ' made cutting short pieces of logs, j a foot or more in diameter, and ! setting them on end in a shallow [ trench. Such a walk from the I barn to the kitchin will always , be clean, and there will be less ! to disturb the temper of the | women folks of the house, to say I nothing of the good effect upon I the men folks who take pleasure in lightening the labor required to keeping everything neat and tidy within doors. j Kodol will, in a very abort time, enable t ho stomach to do the work it should do, and the work it should do is ! to digest all the food yon eat. When ) the stomach can't do it Kodol doos it , for it and in the meantime the stomach is getting stronger and able to take up its regular natural work again. Kodol digests nil you eat It mnkes the | stomach sweet and is pleasant to take. | It is sold here by Ardrey's drug store. ? There's no kind of clothes a woman can have such contempt for as when they are comfortable. Many people suffer a great deal from Kidney and Bladder troubles. During the past few years much of this complaint has been made unnecessary by the use of DeWit t's Kidney and Bladder pills They are antiseptic and are highly recommended for weak back, backache, rheumatic (tains, influmtiiam at ion of the bladder and all other annoyance < due to weak kidneys. They are soid bv Ardrey's drug store i w ... ' K N The L&te Pr'mary Election. Editor The Times: Now, that the political cyclone has blown over, 1 have been surveying the situation for the last few weeks. After making some calcula- ) tions, I have come to the conclusion that York county has be- 1 come tired of newspapers trying to run politics. For instance, J. | A. Tate and W. II. Stewart were the only candidates who dared "cuss out" The Enquirer and, | i look at the result, they came in | with a whoop, notwithstanding j the bad weather on the 25th, I when on account of bad weather : i these gentlemen lost hundreds of I [votes. Take the Fort Mill box | alone, and there were something I i like one-hundred votes that did I not come, all for Tate and Stewj art. This will serve as a pretty , I good guide two years hence. | We see that our friend Billie Windle is still doing business for t the county. He was in Yorkville i with his boxes of the second pri' mary and it seemed that about j nine-tenths of the good people of that city were glad to see him and shake his hand with congratulations. It was a great pity some of these editors were not I there to see with their own eyes. ! It seems they have had all the rope they wanted. You know it is said if you want to kill a dog, just give him all the rope he wants and he will hang himself. It seems that the Rock Hill Record man, we don't know his name but will call him Swazzlegod, did not need so much, for he broke his neck the first leap. Oh, well, South Carolinians don't care much for these Northerners, anyway. Reformer. Gold Hill, Sept 21, 1908. The Primary System. i The primary is the only real election we have in this State, i says the Carolina Spartan. It decides who congressmen, state officers, legislators and all county officers are. With our election machinery there is no appeal from the dec'sion of a primary. -i i.- ? * ? we cue siuves to party ana the machine. If an ex-convict should be nominated, there is no chance , to reverse the unwise vote of j the people. A scoundrel that 1 has a glib tongue and who is able ; by misrepresentation and fraud . to fool the people may be nominated for a high and honorable office. The voters are so bound by an oath that they have to support him at the general election. Such is the condition. There is no way to keep unworthy and dishonest men from running for office. But more rigid rules may be adopted for the conduct of the primary election. A registration ticket is required to vote in the general election, which is of minor importance, but Dick, Tom and Harry can vote at the primary. All that is necessary is for their name to be on a club list. Of course they have to 1 swear that they are entitled to a vote. llow many men voted in ' the recent primary who have not I been residents of the State two i years and of the precinct four ' months? At the smaller preeints ' the managers or some responsible ; bystandeas may know all the voters. It is easy then to reject I such as would vote contrary to I the law. But in the towns and ; especially in mill villages the | population is shifting all the time. An eager friend of a special candidate will cause the name of the voter to be put on the club list regardless of his right to vote. ; Perhaps half the voters do not know the requirements. Some of them do not care. They can ease their conscience, if it needs | any easing, by saying they did 1 not know the law. If a regis! tration ticket is necessary in general election, it is much more so in the primary machine any too well, but there should be a check to prevent unlawful votes. The Pestiferous Chigger. The chigger is not any part of I an automobile, as the name imi plies, but is a small animal or bug, as the case may be, which has sharp teeth and an appetite like a colored minister. Chiggers i cut quite a figure at Sunday i j school picnics. The young man j and his best girl sit down on the grass under a tree to consume 1 the pork and beans and deviled eggs, when the chigger comes along, fastens himself to some upholstered portion of the young man's anatomy somewhere between the ankle and the collar ; bone, and nroceeds to rhicr Th*> ! young man mutters something that doesn't sound well at a Sun- j day school picnic and grabbing ! himself firmly by the affected territory starts for the woods with a cry of anguish, there to hunt out a tree which has rough bark and to rub himself up and i flown thereon until the chigger is reduced to such a state of mental anguish and physical demoralization that he is unable longer to chig. One chigger can chig over every square inch of a j man's frame in less time than it takes the Standard Oil company to declare a dividend, and this has been estimated at one second land a half, eastern standard i i time. Once a cliicrjfer is caught ? it is an easy matter to kill hi? . ^ One good way is to hit him in the head with an axe, but a more t S humane way is to tickle him un-' ^ der the chin until he opens his . mouth, then fill his mouth with snutf and let him sneeze himself ([* to death. The chijrger is three ! sizes smaller than a spinal men- 1 3$ myitis microbe and comes in dif- , ^ ferent dark shades, all the way from chocolate fudge to a patent p leather polish. ?Selected. ra .. ? ? E DeWitt's lattlo Karly ltiaers arc small pills, oasy to take. gentlo anil sure, i S SoUl by Anlroy's drug sto,-o. i ?*# ?. Love and common sense sel- Si dom trot on the same track. | ? %j DeWitt's Oarbolizod Witch Ihr/.el Salve ' CB is recommended as the best thins; to ' (C3 use for piles. It is, of course, Rood l'or J: anything where a salve is needed. He- (/j ware of imitations. Sold by Ardrey's drug stovo. " S? THE ONE GREA?GA;HERlhG CF SOUTH CAROLIIi'A^S | Tlie Statu Fair This Year?Octoliei I < ?, to 30. ' v The fortieth annual.State Fair will l>e held at Columbia this year < a-tob. t 5? 26-30, and It gives promise to bo t'u , frj greatest State Fair ever held. N c at i* ter how bad th<- ereps or how hard. tin Vj times, everybody goes to the Stair Fait at Columbia. It has been tho elision Jt now for nearly half a century, and it & will ever continue so with crowds In I S creasing each year. 1 to The State Fair Is the one time of the Kj year that work can bo put down end 1 ' everyone have a good time for a few ) days. Old ac?iualntanc? s anil relative: 1 jjr i meet at the State Fair It" they are not I | fortunate enough to met. t clsowheri j during the year. Friends moot friend - ; Vg | and college men meet their colli- < mates and renew friendships with g. ^ stories of the gt>o?l times of the past. ' lS This year the fair holds ev? n neu 3e ; than tl?at for South Carolinians. It Qj will l>c made up of new exhibits tin.! ?C ' will teach tlie farmers u w methodand improvements that ir.oan money t fy every one of them. aj Tho races will be the best ever seen In the South. Ti ls being the first year 1 jrj that the Fair Asm- latlon h::s cut'red Cj the Virginia-Carolina Circuit. The 1 gj stake races will bring many of tl country's very finest racers. The two ifi football games will draw thousands or' Jb enthusiastic "rooters" fiotn both tin V1 Carollnns. /C Columbia Is better fitted to t ike ear. of her guests than ever before, with i more hotel accommodations. The railj roads will all put on special rates, as C? i usual. President John <?. Mol ky, of | i me r air Associiuinn, hus worked hard \t. to K<'t everything in shlp-shap' . ami lt? j predicts the largest crowd In the hi-j tory of the fair. ^ You can't convince a brunette ?? that (lark hair isn't as good as > ;gold- ?! There is nothing: so amusing as g a fool who doesen't tread on your 1 corns. VVV\\\\VA\NS\\N\NN\\\N\\\ \\ City Restaurant 1f it ? ? i ; > Everything new. With ' 2 enlarged quarters, we ? _ ^ are better prepared to > serve the public with ! i' first-class eatables. Call ? % f on us at Merritt's old ? ? stand and see how we ? / arc fixed. Fresh Oysters ? ? ? Fridays and Saturdays. ? $ j Padersoo & Kills. ?j S. EUGENE fiiaSSEY, M. D. l Office in Bank Building. Night calls answered from Phono 121. JUST RECEIVED I jjj f Car Load of best Virginia | fj \ aiaiXXlO | I 12 Car load Portland-Atlas j | ? C? 3X33. eilt i j 5 Can sell you cheaper than \ 9 ! 5 the cheapest. * m I V, B, Blankenship, jjj fj I Cleaning, Pressing, I and Dyeing. Join the Fort Mill Pressing | Club, membershii) $1.00 per 9 month. Dry, chemical or wet a ; cleaning. Besides Clothing, we 9 clean or dye Furs, Skins, Rugs, , !| Mats, Feathers, bleach Straw or H Panama Hats; old Neckties and 9 Ribbons made new; cleaning and 9 dyeing of Gloves. 'Phone orders to 14(?, or call on jl us up stairs over Parks Drug Co. 3 GUY A. ROSS, Proprietor. J Kodol Forjl Indigestion Our Guarantee Coupon If. after using two-thirds of a ti.oo bottlo of ? Kodol. you ran honestly say it has not bene- [7 hted you. we will refund your money. Try Kcdol today on this gnatantce. Fill out and |"i sign tlic following. present it to the dealer at the time of purchase. If it fails to satisfy you return the bottle containing or.e third of tho ' tin- licinc to the dealer from whom you bought 1 it. and wo will refund your utouey. Town [ States lSig'i here L ? t iii This Out .? DigestsWbatYouEat c And Makes the Stomach Sweet li. C. OiWITT & CO.. Chltuao, in. Sold by Ardrey's Drug Store. , |P i-VZgi i Mills & Young Oo. | I YOU NEED NOT | i | WAIT! | ^ Until you got all the money, if g 3 you need some things for the house. ? ) Conic and get them. Pay down @ ^ what you can, and if you can pay ? 3 the remainder in weekly, semi- ? 5 monthly, or monthly installments it ? ^ will be satisfactory to us, and the g 5 goods will not cost you any more ? j) ^ * * ? 5 here than they would other places ? if you paid spot cash. g 3 Come in and talk with us. We are || ) reasonable, and want to accomodate ? * jj yo?? H \ Cotton and Ootton I ; Seed. | * Wo arc again in 1 lie market for 3 your cotton and cotton seed, and ? ^ will as heretofore* gave you honest ? 5 weights and host prices. ? i i a n K c yi r& * T | mills & YOUS ; Co. i 5 ft* 5g?g^??g?g?8 gg oc g? r gsgggg COLLAR LABEL | ^ SHIM I J| / '. A while the Iron Is hot. 9 / 9 Oelect your Cloth- 1 [|| 11 v '. inj? NOW and ^ later on you will ^ Kg? ^ ^ cl not complain that tfc . ? 'A .vou (?'^ not- KGt the K. ,y pattern or style do^ ; ): ! <?r the j;- 3 ERflKB" " ^^ 3 1 \Sy?ie/a?" Sift tiip TTinliPvt 8 - - ? y.u iiiu in^ui ?i Eg E. W.KIMBRELLCO. FOF^T MILL, S. 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