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On application to the publisher, advertising
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those Interested.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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\\ 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
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DigestsWbatYouEat c
And Makes the Stomach Sweet
li. C. OiWITT & CO.. Chltuao, in.
Sold by Ardrey's Drug Store. , |P
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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. ?
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| mills & YOUS ; Co. i
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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^
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