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FORT MILL TIMES DEMOCRATIC, > R. W. BRADFORD, - EDITOR. 0?? yer^r , Jl.00 Six months jo ?nt?ro<l ut tUo |s>stofflceat Kurt Mill, fj. C.. us secom) class ninttor. On application to the publisher. ndVertlslttt; hiv inuile known to Itiose lotcipstnil. .. j?? THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1908. Mr, Bryan Defeated The latest returns from the J en.-.? ' " ?T ' uwuuciiH o4.ai.cs 01 rne iNortn indicate that MP. Bryan is defeated. This result of the presidential election is nothing short of a calamity, and before the four years of the Republican administration which will be inaugurated next March is at an end the people of the North are certain to rue the day they turned the "Peerless" Nebraskan down. We shall have more to say of the election next week, when the result is definitely known. Party Loyalty or Perjury. We imagine that those who are acquainted with the shifty f>olilical convictions of the Yorkv)lle inquirer were neither surprised j?or disappointed to read in a late issue of that paper an editorial attempting to justify iwlependentism in South Carolina politics, the editorial being baaed upon the unsupported contention that the primary system of selecting the Democratic nomijiess is corrupt. "If the primary system is to last," says The Enquirer, "it has cot to he reformed and Went clean," because "there are in South Carolina, to her credit, be it said, thousands of good men who cannot, under any circumstances, be compelled to cast their ballots for a man they know to be absolutely unworthy." (Parenthetically, it might be observed that it would be an innovation to knock a man dovvn, then drag him feet foremost to the ballot box apd force him to vote against his will.) This paper js pleased to believe?and we are confident that its bel\e/ ?s shared by an overwhelming majority of the Democrats in the State?that no fairer system of selecting party nominees has ever been devised ,than that afforded by the South Carolina primary. Equally certain are we that the system is neither corrupt as a whole (as The Enquirer charges) nor to any appreciable extent. In all probability the Enquirer could pot cite a single instance of votebuying, intimidation or ether illegal practice which came within its observation in connection with the primary if it were haled into court and forced to submit the^. proof of its charges. With The Enquirer the trouble seems to be that it has been so uniformily unsuccessful in its efforts to influence the people in behalf of this or that officeseeker that it would damn the whole primary system because the people do not look to it to tell them how to vote. There is no foundation on yvhich to base the statement that there are thousands of good men in South Carolina who cannot be compelled to vote for an unworthy man, at least these thousands are not here as bolters from the Democratic primary? %the attitude in which The Enquirer would present them. There are of course many men in the State who would not relish voting for ar.y candidate whose reputation was not good; but if placed between the upper and nether millstones of yoting for the undesirable candidate, after having participated in the r>ri pviry in which he was nominated and taking an oath to support the nominee of that primary, or willfully stultifying and perjuring themselves by disregarding t he oath, these same good citize is would waive their personal preferences in the matter and support the party nominee, knowing that it was only a matter of time until an opportunity would be presented to vote the unworthy official out of office. Happily for our State the undesirable citizen is elevated to public office so seldom that there is Jittle or no just cause forcompjajpt agaiij^t the primary sys\ wn r tern on thai score. The Yorlcville Enquirer has placed itself j in J,he unenviable position ol' condoning perjury. Our fnrmpps shnnlit vhicp cjif_ ficient corn to supply themselves and their neighbors with sound meal and hominy. The new disease, pellagra, a kind of insani ity, is found to be caused by , eating unsound meal and hominy. | At present there are about twen- ' j ty victims of the disease in the ! State insane asylum at Columbia, I and during the past year there : have been thirty-seven deaths ' from the disease. Medical experts are now busy trying to dis- , cover a cure /or pellagra, but, since a preventive is better than a cure, our people could profitably adopt the plan of eating less! . Western corn meal and hominy. Cultivate the Saving Habit. Here is a piece of good advice ; culled from the columns of one of our exchanges: j "In starting out to make our | fortune we should remember i that a fortune cannot be made in i a few years. We should be satis: fied if we are making a living ! and saving only a few dollars j each month. If we save twenty dollars a month that is two huni forty dollars a year and in thirty years we would have about ten thousand dollars. This is far more than the average man; makes in a life time, but qII ! could save this much by proper efforts. If we spend our time in waiting and wishing for the j things that others have we will : never have anything and our I mu ds will be so diseased that we could not handle even a small ' amount of money to advantage. Industry, frugality and honesty \ will make your life happy and ! prolitable." Think Logue Should Be Pardoned. A number of influential citizens of Charlotte have become) interested in behalf of Edward Logue, now serving a term on the chaingang of Mecklenburg, I and will ask Governor Glenn fori a pardon for the prisoner. Newspaper readers are familiar with the trial of Logue; and Charles Riggs in criminal court at Charlotte about one year ago. They were found guilty of stealing the horse and buggy j of Mr. Henry C. Dotger from the First Presbyterian church i yard one Sunday morning while ' preaching services were in ses- , | sion and driving to Fort Mill, i where they left the team and boarded a train. They were later arrested at Columbia, and ! imprisoned. When brought to j trial at Charlotte the defendants conducted their own cases and each addressed the jury. The grounds upon which the petitioners will ask for Logue's ' pardon are that he had no inteni tion of committing larceny. It is believed the pardon will be granted. A Warning to Milliners. The South Carolina branch of i the Audubon Society lias commenced a crusade against the proprietors of millinery stores | who oiler for sale the feathers of non-game birds. The first blow was struck in Columbia the I past week, when the proprietor , of a well known millinery store ; was haled into court and convicted before a magistrate on the charge of olfering for sale a : hat trimmed with a heron feather. The proprietor plead . guilty, and a fine of $2 was im, posed. It is not known whether the Audubon Society intends to take -similar proceedings against all I millinery establishments in the J State that offer for sale -Tints trimmed with non-game birds' . feathers or not. If the society i undertakes to enforce the law through the entire State, it is ; likely that many proprietors of . millinery stores may be haled into court. Big Seizure of Rock Hill Liquor. A special from Mooresville, N. C., to The Charlotte Observer , of Wednesday morning contained the following: Deputy Sheriff J. M. Deaton IK lml.4 i nor ~ .<viv Kvuigub i/wyj ? anions containing about 3 00 or 400 gallons of whiskey. Part of the whiskey is marked G. A. Thompson, Rock Hill, S. C., and part .of it is without marks. The drivers, one white man and one ; negro, the white man gi\ing his name as O. R. Young, claim that they are on their way to Rock Hill. Mr. Deaton com- j municated with the authorities at Rock Hill this afternoon over the long distance telephone and they advise that no such parties j are known there. He endeavored to get the deputy collector at ; Statesville but was unable to | get him at a late hour tonight. The drivers say that they were told to come to Mooresville and turn toward the west and cross the Catawba river, which would have put them in Catawba and Lincoln counties, and the general opinion is that U>ey are not on their way to South Carolina. S gE 3fflD Taft the M Presides!, j Republican Candidate Carries Doubtful States and is Elected by Overwhelming Majority.?Joe Cannon is Re-Elected. Returns from throughout the country up to an early hour this (Wednesday) morning show that Taft has been elected president with 30(> votes, while Bryan has received only 177 electoral votes. No change is indicated in the | complexion of the national house of representatives. Charles E. Hughes has been1 re-elected governor of New York i by about 76,000 plurality. Taft has apparently carried' all of the doubtful States except Nebraska, which is claimed by the Republicans, but which may show a small Democratic nhi ruiity by final returns. In New York State Taft gets a majority of about 100,000, the city of New York voting: for hi211 a plurality of about 11.000. Ohio is also in the Republican column by from 50,000 to 75,000. Speaker Cannon has been reelected by his usual majority. North Carolina has elected Kitchin (Democrat) governor by a majority of 45,000. Returns from Florida show a Republican gain in the State of t 20,000 over the election of 1904. The Solid South remains un- 1 broken. The Cohen Crop of ICO Years Ago. David Ramsey, M. D., wrote a history of South Carolina covering the period from 1670 to 1803, and the book was published for the author at Charleston in 1809. Concerning the cotton crop of that period the history says: "So much cotton is now made in Carolina and Georgia that, if the whole was manufactured in the United States, it would go far in clothing a great portion of the Union; for one laborer can raise as much of this commodity in one season as will afford the raw material for 1,500 yards of common cloth, or a sufficiency for covering 150 persons." The Greenville News figures it out that the total amount of cotton raised then was about 150,000 bales. It is therefore interesting to reflect on the development which has taken place in the cotton industry during the century. The Maryland Way of Road Building. Ten years ago the building of good roads in Maryland was begun by the state geological survey, says the New York Sun. rne results were an object lesson to the people, who were so impressed with the advantages of scientifically constructed highways that they were heartily in favor of the bond issue of $5,000,000 authorized by the legislature last winter. The new fund is to be used in the making of 1.000 miles of highways throughout the State within the next five years. So Maryland is to expend $1,000,000 a year in building these main arteries for wagon transportations. The personnel of the new commission cf six members seems to assure the judicious expenditure of the money. The State geological survey is represented on the commission by its director, Dr. VV. B. Clarke; by Governor Crothers, and by President Remsen of Johns Ilopkin. The commission is laying out the 1000-mile system, and the construction of the entire work will be in charge of the engineers of the geological survey. There was a very loud demand from the press of Maryland, from the business associations of Baltimore, and from the agricultural societies for wise conservation of this fund, so that every dollar of it might contribute fully to the economic purpose in view; and there is no reason to doubt that the fund is properly safeguarded against political manip UUIUUI1. Twenty years ago we seemed a century behind Europe in this important phase of civilization. Now many of our state3 are carrying out well-devised plans for road improvement. Good highways are money savers. By turning a very poor road into a line highway we reduce the cost of haulage by from 5 to 7 cents a ton a mile. We still have wagon roads as poor as some in China, where the cost of coal freightage is so high that the commodity cannot be carried to a market over twentylive miles away Magistrate J. C. Cummings, of Yorkville, S. C., arrived in the city yesterday and will early this morning accompany Jim Kennedy, wnite, back to that South Carolina town. He will there answer a charge of obtaining some $40 under representations to ho T/ ?? wv uuoc. iiu was arrested here Saturday. Charlotte Observer, Monday. Card of Tlianks. Through the medium of The Times we wish to extend heartfelt thanks to those friends who so kindly aided us in the iilncss and death of our child. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hutchinson. V B?F '\* "* " praises. scratches. sores and burns that otlior things luivc faiiuil to nuw will heal .quickly and <'omplHtely when you us<- Do Witt s C%*rbc?'iz.Ml Witch Hitxitl i Salve. It is especially good for piles. Sold by Ardroy's Drug Stoi'e -4<?K ? Mr. D. 0. Potts left Tiles-! day mornint? for Memphis, Tonn., where he will attend a meeting of the Southern Cotton Assn. 1 While away Mr. Potts will also I visit relatives at other points in Tennessee and Mississippi. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are unequhled in cUhch of weak back, backache. inflammation of tlio bladder, rheumatic pains, and all urinary disorders. They are antiseptic and act promptly Don't ?ltdav, for delays are dangerous. Get Do Witt's Kidncv and Bladder Pills. Sold by Ardrey s drug store. -< p~ When a splinter has been driven deep into the hand, it can ; be extracted without paint by steam, says the November Wo-j man's Home Companion. Nearly fill a wide-mouthed bottle with i hot water, place the injured part over the mouth of the bottle, and ' press lightly. The suction will draw the flesh down, and in a minute or two the steam will extricate the splinter and the inflammation will disappear. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup not only heals irritation aiidalluvs imlammation, thereby stopping tiio cough, but it moves the bowels gently and in 1 that May drives tlie cold from tie-system Contains no opiates. I' is pleasant to take, and children especially like the taste, so nearly like maple sugar Sold hy Ardrey's drug store. Chief Ohristcnhury yesterday. afternoon drove out to the county home with Eva Hoover, a white woman whose mental faculties have been deranged by trouble and who has contracted the habit of walking into the residences of strangers and annoying them. She was accompanied by her son. a lustly youngster of three or four years. She will be cared for by ihe county.?Cnarlotle Observer, Monday. Kodol contains the same directive juices that are found in an ordinary Icalthv stomach, and there is, there-j fore, no guest ion but what any form I of stomach trouble. Indigestion or Nervous Dyspepsia, will yield readily i yet naturally to a short treatment of j Kodol. Try ii today 011 our guarantee. | Take it for a little while, as that is all 1 yon will need to take. Kodol digests! what you eat and makes the Ktomaeh I sweet. it is sold by Ardrey's drug ! store. -Mr. Charles Thomas contin-' ucs to improve from the gunshot wounds he received in Charlotte about two weeks ago and it is now believed that his complete recovery will follow soon. At last reports Mr. Charles Kimbrell, charged with shooting Mr. i Thomas, was Still a prisoner in Mecklenburg jail, but his attorneys are now busying themselves to secure bail lor him and it is likely they will succeed during the week. You can euro dyspepsia, indij_' stion. sour or weak stouiueh, or in fuet any form of stomaeh trouble if you will take Kodol oceasioually- just at the times when yon mod it. Kodol does not havo to bo taken all the time: Ordinarily you only take Kodol now mul thou, because it completely digests all the food you eat, ami after a few days or a week or so, the stomaeh can digest the food without the aid of Kodol. fheu ' you don't need Kodol utiv longer. Try it today on our tfunranteo. We know what it will do for you. Sold by Ar-| drey's drugstore. ?????? i ? ?? M Z*C<ftSi.'Ai?ZL-^zi:'iXl.'JiLZZXZ i I m I n 1 ' ' * ? / . t> > 'a--'-I - a-: ?. d t r r' ^ i A - ... i M-i ; mrv' ;; ' * /'?. /. f Bv I te }'V ' ''A/' 'y si 4 f.? Sjl e,.'~ i /" fj L - m: %* ^ S-i-S"' V" k ii* ' - v > ( 7 K\?/ 1 v. T | %; ^ j ^ ^/g/g^| | E. W. KIM E FORT MIL i & - Zack McGce, a well known $ Washington newspaper corre - * pondent, is writing a novel whie.. J he will call "The Dark Corner.'* 1Q The book will deal with the edu- C cational problem in the South. Q It will be put on sale within a a few weeks. (J Dr. John Miller Moore, of r Rock Hill, who has been confined in an asylum for the insane * in Paris, was discharged from ; Q the asylum a few days ago and ? placed in the charge 04' his ? brother-in-law E. H. Fullenwide, ? who will bring him back to the ? UnitedStut.es. ! * ?There were 129 votes cast ? at the election held here Tuesday, v This is less than one-haif the C voting strength of the township. ( fn the presidential box one vote ? was cast for the Taft electors. / .... v TAX NOTICE 1008. ( t v Ofileo of County Treasurer 4 Yorkvillo, S. i , Sept l.T 190S. * Notice is hereby r'iven that the Tax V Books for York county win be opened i on the loth (lav of October l'.Mis and a remain open unti .he 21st day of Do V ce 111 her. l'.tos, for theco lection of Mate, f l ouuty and School taxes for the fiscal a year 1 i' without pena tv; after whieh > day <,)y per cent penalty wi bv< ad- ? ded to a payments made in the month * of January 1909, and Two per cent pen- V a ty for ao :?aymonts made in the 1 mouth of February 19o9, and Seven per a cent penalty win bo added on all pay- * ments made from the 1st day of March (* to the loth day of March 11)09. and af- j t ter t his date all unpaid taxes p> into V executions and all unpaid Sing o Polls ( will be turned over to the several s Magistrates for prosecution 111 accird- |V anee with law. ? For the convenience of taxpayers, I a will attend at the following places ou * the davs named*. f At Yorkvillo, Thursday, October 1 . a to Tuesday, October '20th. V At Smyrna, Wednesday, October ( ~lst t At Hickory (!rove, Thursday and Fri- j V day, October 22nd and 22nl , ^ At Sharon. Saturday, October 21th. ! a At Mc? ontie lsvillc, Monday, Octo- ? her. 201 h ( At Tirzah Tuesday, October 2?t h a At Clover, Wednesday and Thursday, j * October 28tli and 29th. ( At Yorkvillo from from Friday, Ccto- / her 20th, to Tuesday, November 2rd. * At (Kite's Tavern from 12 o'e ock, f Wednesday, November -1th, until 12 111.. / Thursday, November nth ' V At Fort Mill Friday and Saturday, ^ November tith and 7tli. a At Hock liill from Monday, Novein-' ber Hill, to Saturday. November 1 Ith { And at Yorkvillo from Monday. No- | , veniber H'.th. until the 21st day of Do- ' comber, l'.iOS, after which (lay the ^ penalties will attach as stated above. * 11. A. D. NKK1.Y, < Count v Treasurer. t Oct 22-4t g Kodol For | Indigestion\ Our Guarantee Coupon 11 f. after UMilk.' two-thirils of a Ji.oo bolt!" of I Kodol, y<'ii can honestly -.av it lias not bono- I titt <1 Villi, we will n-ftind \,uir ,nnr,/.v Tru I K .11 today on this euaranti-c. Hill out an.I Ml.ii the following, present it to the dealer at (hi: time of purchase If it (ails t>< satisfy >oti return the bottle containing one-third of tliu nieilicine to the dealer fri ni whom you bought it, anil we will r> fund your ntoney. Town State Digests"What YouEat And Makes the Stomach Sweet E. C. DeWITT & CO.. Cliicuiro, III. Sold by Ardrey's Drug Store. COLLAR LABEL \t . _ w :: -V. I ELECTED | 1 fci by a large ma- ? jority of the very s ?<$\ best and strongest 4 points known to the I 'A manufacture of | 1 "X ready-to-wear cloth-* | thing, overall others a ' 'Tnlci SG^ Ut S*X I *' prices within the a }, '"?'S range of I *J $10 the Lowest I? $18 tlio Hittet 11 h f Sj-'iH Not made conspic- | ? uous with ginger- | s bread novelties, or H u dudish ideas oft( n g M ."<?j called fashion freaks B ti 'SHIELD GESK3" is fashioned after the ' modest order plan J1, and made good and ti strong, .Just the clothing for Men, Young Men and ^ Boys with a pur- it pose in life. Stylish enough too, for any- I i one with an arpbi- g Lion to dress well at I u a reasonable price. ft " 1RELL CO. I -l_, s. c. Jjj * . i mm*** , j Mills & \ i ??===== $ It on Pav More | YOU PAY 1 | p 15 ^ ou Pav Loss *! 1 YOIJ DON'T GET 5 v> Tliorolovo hi1 sal( 0) " 3 PTTDMl a ? U ii II J L) S3 9 Perhaps it is an ^ ail odd piece of ?) most needed, and ; 0) it because vou feel r^j ot your home an :o some. Of course v< ^ affairs better than cx g come to see us, wc ^ can make you pri p reasonable that ye g deprive yourself g> needed. 1 HEA1 (1old weather and nianyV the need a new Ileati p) old, burnt-out one g for both coal and \ &) prices. Call and j Remember: \V g things away, but v for a dollar than a in these parts. I Mills & Y 1 i'@3?????3<200 ? Pr [Ii Reaches You th I?/ \\ Send us $3.00 (r * express or post-office and you will receive the ne Four Full Quart Bottle Old Corn Whiskey you ha1 $2.50 per gallon. in jugs. We guarantee; safe delivery of J. A. COUCH, Man LJ. A. McDonou^h Co., 901-91 Writ** for C*'**nx??4?to Pi FOU SALE. For tio (lays 1 offer the O'Oonnell ropertv, situated close to the Graded chool, just across the street from cor-I orato limits of Fort Mill. Has nineoom two-story house, besides jMintrys, j t> acres land, good orchard and out uildings, 5 acres pasture, 4 acres in rigimtl oak timber. This is a great hauee to buy a piece of projierty ami all enough lots to pay for it, us a big ortiou of the place fronts the street, 'or particulars see me. Terms reasonble. 1M acres of laud in Fort Mill townhip. near Finoville, N. C., at per cro, if taken at once. About 2*?o acres tine farming land ear Fort Mill. Farticulnrs on applicaion from pari ies interested, A place containing 1 <H> acres, within ' i utiles of rint!villt>, N. in mditinn. Fairly new dwelling and ut houses. Fifty aems of this place in 1 woods. Price, 41.4(H). Turin*?Oneliird cash, balance in one, two and iircc installments, with interest. A nice building lot in Spratt ville. ri hi* last three available business lots n the sliadv side of Main street, Fort] Iiil, am ottered at reasonable iiguros, ' taken at once. Two of these lct>", are \ lot) feet. WANTED. I huve applications from several who ant to buy plantations, so if you want > sell your place list it with me at nee, or if it is town property you want isell, let, me handle P for you R. McELHANEY,! Fort Mill, S. C. .4-' D?e? '0e?GG,SQ? 'oung Oo. | Than Our Prices, POO MUCH S & riian Our Prices, ?? 1 THE QUALITY | b; trade with us ^ [TURK | v entire suit or just Furniture that is ^ vou will not buy <g that the expenses ? ' already burden- q [>u know your own (?$ we, hut it* you will 4 believe that we ^ res and terms so G& >u will no longer jpj of that which is gjj rni) n ? L Zt tt o 1 69 ill soon be here Vtp family that will 4fy a* to replace the 0 . We h ave them ? vood, all sizes and see t hem. 0 e are not giving y ill give you more 0 ny furniture store & oung Co. | Jjt e Next Day ^f money order) ? v xt day, by "Over-Night Express," s of the best guaranteed Pure ve ever tasted. * all shipments. ager Shipping Dep't 33 E. Cary St., Richmond,Va. Jco-I.lat. DO IT NOW. i , 111 irun ii himwi in??mr-^ 2 City Restaurant. I 1 * Everything new. With * ' enlarged quarters, we ? s are better prepared to < x serve the public with / ' first-class eatables. Call y y on us at Merritt's old / stand and see how we ^ are fixed. Fresh Oysters ? y Fridays and Saturdays. ^ ; Paitera & Kills. ; WXN^ W\\V\VN\W\\\\\>\\\\ ('loaning, 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 Hats; old Neckties and Ribbons made new; cleaning and dyeing of Gloves. . 'Phone orders to 146, or call on us up stairs over Parks Drug Co. GUY A. ROSS. Proprietor. K trke'i a i * or '^digestion. & Vu* A Re!ieve*t sour sHomarh, pa'.piUtionot the heart. Digests v hatyoucxU,