PFORT MILL TIMES
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 19,1908. 11
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Accel Appoints a Republican.
The fifth annual convention of ,
the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress is to be held in Washington
City in a few days and j'
one of the South Carolina dele- !
gates appointed by Governor An- 1
sel is no less a person than that
distinguished Charleston poli'
tician, the Hon. A. C. Kaufman, :
recent Republican elector, two of
whose running mates were
negroes. The fact that Kaufman j
was a candidate along with a
brace of negroes is not, however, ,
the burthen of this song. South ,
Carolina Democrats expect no J
more of any native white man
who disregards the teachings of
his State by enlisting in the i
cause of social equality. The |;
surprising thing in connection!
with the appointment of Kauf- (
man is that a Democratic governor
of South Carolina should ;
defy the sentiment and wishes
of the people by appointing any
Republican, when there are ]
thousands of Democrats in the ,
State more available for service (
in the Rivers and Harbors Con- i
gress than the best qalificd j
Republican he could name. Gov- 1
ernor Ansel would not have dared
appoint Kaufman to any post of
honor prior to the primary election
last August, for, as he well
knows, to have done so -would ,
have cost him the Democratic
nomination for governor. The
people of South Carolina will notj
stand for any recognition of
Republicanism by their officials; !
tllPV fivnoct ?? "aI itl'/lnl
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ment to bo accorded the members '
of that party in any capacity j
whatever, (Governor Ansel cannot
wheedle his constituents into ;
accepting as a sufficient reason j
for the appointment of Kaufman I
that it was his purpose to select
a non-partizan delegation, and
we shall be surprised if the,
governor does not hear more of
this matter when the Legislature
meets in January. Meanwhile
we are gratified to be able to re-1
call that we have not suffered j
from nervous breakdown due to
overwork in promoting Ansel's
candidacy in either of his campaigns
for the governorship.
The Public School*.
The Times in common with a
number of other papers in the
State has for some time been
? running the articles written for
the press by Mr. W. H. Hand,
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piuicr>Bur ui Bwunuary euucauon
at the University of South Carolina,
in the interest of the public
school system. The articles are
rwell written and make very entertaining
reading, and we believe
would do much to stimulate
interest in the public schools but
for the vein of captious criticism
running through them.
There are doubtless a number of
communities in South Carolina
which could afford new and better
school houses than the ones
they now have without making
any sacrifices worth considering,
and they could also afford teach-;
ers better equipped for instruct- i
ing their children by paying!
larger salaries. ISut these comy
munities are not numerous and
our people as a whole have made
wonderful strides during the last
forty years in providing for the
'education of their little ones.
Professor Hand seems to lose
sight of the fact that the public
school system in South Carolina
is yet in its infancy, that the
State not onlv i<s n?t i>?i
that it emerged not a great many j
years ago from a most disastrous
civil war, the effects of which
are still keenly felt. The public
school system is not, of cpursc,
what it should be and what it
doubtless will be in a few more
years, but that gratifying progress
is being made hs shown in
the report which State Superintendent
of Education Martin will
submit to the Genera' Assembly
in January. For instance, Mr.
Martin says:
"During t.he past 10 years
there have been hundreds of new
and elegant school buildings.
erected, libraries established,
local taxes voted and other improvements
made which clearly
indicate a stronger desire on the
part of our people for education!
"To my mi rid one of the most
significant things in the recent
history of our school system is
the adoption by the legislature
t>f the idea of the encouragement
:>f self help. This was begun by
the enactment of the library law.
More than 1,200 libraries have
been established in less than five
years.
it \vc had sulhcient taxes or
appropriation to secure equality
of opportunity in the fundamental
organization of our schools,
the legislature and school officers
could carry forward a succession
of improvements such as the
State has never witnessed. ..
"At the close of 40 years of effort
in building an educational
system we are now expending
about .$1,7SOO.OOO annually upon
our puplic schools. We have
an enrollment of considerably
more than 300,000 children. We
have nearly 400,000 school buildings.
We have more than G.000
teachers. We have more than
100 high schools doing very good
work. The State is spending
more than $300,000 annually upon
its colleges. The situation is far
brighter now than it was in the
beginning of this period. Of
course a great many adjustments
and changes are necessary, but
I believe that the outlook is full
of promise. A great deal should
be accomplished within the next
10 years."
?There ife no telling what the
future cotton market will do?the !
price may go up or it may go j
down. It is a fact that the pros-,
ent price of the staple is below j
the cost of production, and this
is the cause for a general belief
that the price will advance. We !
have no advice to offer as to hold-'
ing cotton for better prices, for !
we are "at sea," but share in the
general hope that business conditions
may improve and that
those waiting for higher prices
may be richly rewarded.
According to reports the foot |
ball fatalities to date are 10, and
injured 272. This is ample rea-;
son why the game should be
termed foot ball.
"All the way to Columbia or
Abbeville for dispensary booze
now." - Union Times. Not quite!
Winnsboro will be glad to "tank"
you up.
The Latest Cotton Picker.
From Augusta, Ga., comes the
report that there is on exhibition
at the fair grounds the latest invention
in the way of a cotton
picker. This picker is described I
as being the most ingenious ma-1
chine ever put up, and the in- i
ventor, like the inventors of
other cotton pickers, proclaims
to the world that he has succeeded
in making a machine that
will do away with the old method
of harvesting the cotton crop, as
well as greatly reducing the cost
to the farmer.
The machine in question is
made so that four little saws
work in together, all turning to
a central point. The little saws
pull the cotton from the bolls and
a gasoline engine running a fan
causes the cotton to be sucked
through a hose and into the wagon
body. In this way one of tiiose
machines will pick more cotton
than a half dozen negroes. Four
of the machines can be operated
from one wagon, and one horse
can pull the wagon. The little
machine is so constructed that it
is almost unbreakable and is so
simple that even a child can
operate it. There is no danger
about the saw cutting the person
operating it. as they are all
so arranged that they are not
exposed.
Just what provision, if any,
is made against "pulling in'' the
leaves and other trash is not
mentioned, and we imagine this
is wherein the failure of the machine
will be found to lie.
Fcr a Masonic Orphan's Home.
Plans are being" completed for
the erection of an orphan's home
in this State by the Masonic
grand lodge. The annual meeting
of the grand lodge will be
held soon in Charleston and at
this meeting delegates from the
other lodges will probably make
arrangements for contributing
the balance needed for this home.
At present the grand lodge has
a large balance on hand and with
only a small indebtedness on ihe
grand lodge building in Charleston,
it is thought that with voluntary
contributions and the remainder
out of the assessment
fee due the grand lodge, after
all the expenses have been paid,
there will be enough money to
enable the special committee to
start work. The location of the
home, its cost and equipment and
plans for the admittance of those
who will occupy it have, of
course, not yet been arranged,
but will probably come up at this
meeting.
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Further Protection For the Birds
At the coming session of the
general assembly the State
Audubon Society will work for
the passage of a law to license
each hunter in South Carolina.
The plan, as proposed, will be
about like this:
Upon passage of an act by the
general assembly a number of
books will be issued and sent out
to the clerks of court. These
books will contain each 100
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licenses wim stuos attacnea,
both being numbered. With each
hook will go 1.00 metal tags in a
box, similarly numbered. A
warden will be appointed for
each county, whose duty will be
to collect these licenses. The
license will cost $1.00 and be
good for one year. The warden
will be required to furnish bond
to the clerk of court, to be approved
by him, in the sum of
$500. Having taken the oath
and furnished the required bonds
the warden will proceed to collect
the license, failure to pay which
will be punished by fine of from
$10 to $12">, or corresponding
imprisonment. The warden will
he compensated by 25 per cent
of what he collects, or 25 cents
on the dollar. On furnishing
the hunter with his license the
warden will also furnish a metal
tag on the front of the gun
stock, the size and shape of the
tag being changed each year so
that any warden may be able to
tell at a glance whether any tag
is out of elate.
The money so collected shall
be transmitted by the clerk, less
such remuneration as shall be allowed
that oil; cer for his work,
to the State treasurer and placed
to the credit of the "Game Protection
Fund." Any amount
over and above what is required
for the enforcement of the law
may be turned into the school
fund by the Legislature.
Rural Carriers fllay Act as Notaries.
Rural mail carriers need have
no fear hereafter of running
afoul of the law when they execute
the duties of notaries nuhlic
while in the performance of their
regular work. Former orders by
which the carriers were prohibited,
under penalty of immediate
dismissal, from performing:
such acts have been
repealed in the following modifications
of the postofiice department
just promulgated.
"By direction of the president,
it is hereby ordered that
hereafter no officer, clerk or
employe in the executive service
of the government (except postmasters
and officers of the fourth
class and rural carriers) who is
also a notary public, shall charge
or receive any compensation
whatever for performing any
notarial act for an officer, clerk
or employe of the government in
his official capacity or for any
person wherein the case of such
person the act is performed during
the hours such notary's service
to the government. Disobedience
of this order shall be
ground for immediate dismissal
from the service."
This order will no doubt relieve
the minds of many rural carriers
and postmasters, in the country
districts who have heretofore
been unable to accommodate
their neighbors by attaching
! their official seals of notaries
! public because of the fear they
| entertained of violating the law.
Seed Ycur Son lo Clcmson.
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lvii". rarmcr ii mac son or
yours is dreaming of a "would
be" happy day, when he shall
enter some great business firm,
the law office, or some great profession,
you could not do better
than send him to Clemson Agricultural
College and have this
foolish impression removed. Such
| boys will make the most successful
farmers after they have once
been awakened to the fact that
farming is fast becoming the
most scientific work in existence.
These hoys should,not be allowed
to cultivate or dwell upon ideas
of this sort, but they should he
placed in that great institution
just named where they will be
set aright.
It is indeed quite an injustice
these boys do to thorns* Ives when
they leave their peaceful. Christian
homes to go to the large
cities anil waste their best days
in some public employ, where
they forget those lessons taught
1 them by their plain country
mother many years before; and
where they become so much cnvolved
with the facinations which
present themselves, that they do
not even have time for those
siiont hours of meditation which,
used to be regularly observed and
hallowed.
Then let us maKe the farm as
attractive as t he cemented streets
of the city. Thiscanonly be done
by giving the boy an opportunity
to learn something of this great
science; and also toiearn to compare
the sublimity of his quiet
home with the turbulent, unrestful
city life.
Certainly he can have these
things demonstrated to him at
Clemson as at no other school in
i the South. Then if .you would
have him be a "man like his
father" send him to Clemron.
Cadet.
i See McElhanoy for Real Estate.
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A Cure for Sorehead.
The following1 simple remedy
I is said to be a certain cure for c
sorehead in chickens: 11
When the fowl is first found a
j to have sorehead put it a coop. I
! because it should be separated 5
i from the well flock and because a
it is easier to pick up and doctor, i
Then get an old teacup and put 1
in a lump of alum the size of a r
bird's eye and just enough hot: i
water to disolve it, so it will be j t
strong as possible. Make a little , >
mop anil apply the alum water all; j
over the affected parts. If you (t
will wafch your chickens closely 1
and not neglect them when they j I
first take it, their eyes need never . 1
close. Two applications of the 1
alum water often cures. i
? The football team of the (
Fort Mill Graded School went to ,
Charlotte this morning-, where 5
this afternoon it will engage the ,
Dil worth High School team in (
game. Tlie local team has been (
practicing steadily for some time ,
and will no doubt make things ,
interesting for the Charlotte boys j
this afternoon.
Kodol 0011 tains tho sunn* digestive !
jni ces that are found in an ordinary
healthy stomach, and there is, there- \
fore, no question hut what any form
of stomach trouble, Indigestion or
Nervous LiyspbpsiV will yield readily
yet naturally to a short treatment of
Kutlol. Try it today 011 our guarantee. ,
Take it for a little while, us that is all I
you will need to take. Kodol digests
what you ea* and makes the stomueh
sweet. It is sold by Ardrev's drug
store.
? ? - In
four years a pair of rabbits
could have a progeny of nearly
1,500,000. A doc rabbit produces j
as many as several families a
year.
1'raises, scratches, sores and burns that
other things ha\e failed to cure wil
heal quickly and comoletely when you 1
use Dt Win s Carbolizod Witch Hazel
halve. It is esj?eciully good for piles '
Sold by A rd ivy's Drugstore.
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?Mr. W. VV. Pegram, the!
popular young conductor of the!
L. & C. Hitilway, was a visitor
to Fort Mill the nasi week.
DeWitt's Kidnoy and lUndder I'ills are
utieq ailed in eases of weak back, back
ache, m.'kuiuuaiion of the bladder,
rheumatic pains, and all urinary dis- ;
orders. They are antiseptic, and act |
promptly Don t delay, for delays tire 1
ilangerous. tiet 1 )< W itt's Kitlnev and ,
1 Dander 1 ills. hold by Ardrey's drug 1
store-40
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Dovic Harris went to)
Rock liill Saturday morning to
(liLciiu a tnctaiiti^ tii me vvuwiL-iib i
M issior.ary Sot-ioty.
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Kennody's Iaixutivc Cor.nil Svrup not
only heals irritation and allays iniiuni- :
mat ion, thereby stopping tlio cough,
but it moves tlio bowels gt ntly and in .
that way drives i boo. ?lil from the system
t ontain- no opiates It is pleasant
to take, and ehildron ?specially
like tho taste, so nearly like maple
sugar Sold by Ardrey's drug store.
You can cure dvspepsia, indigestion,
sour or weak stomach, or in fact any
form of stomach trouble if you will take
Kodol occasionally -just at the times
when you need it. Kodol does not have
to be taken all the time: Ordinarily
von only take Kodol now and then, because
it completely digests all the ,
food you eat. ami after a few days or a !
week or so, the stomach ean digest the |
food without the aid of Kodol. i'hen
you don't need Kodol any longer. T y
it today on our guarantee. We know j
what it will do for you. Sold l?y Ar-J
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Raise More Mules.
There is a groat drain on the
:otton farm of South Carolina
>y having to buy so many mules
it such a high price, says S. A.
3urns in the Farmers Union
5un. Every fanner should have
it least one g<x>d brood mare
md raise a colt every year. The
>est time for coits to be foaled so
is to give the least trouble is i
rom the middle of July to Oc- j
;ober the first. One acre of j
rood land well set in Bermuda
rrass will keep a mare and colt;
,en acres will be sufficient to furvish
grazing for ten colts. Our
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setter tools and less hands and 1
ouy less guano. Sow peas. They ;
mprove the land; and cut the
vines to feed the stock on during
;he winter. Sow broadcast or '
plant in rows the late variety of .
sorghum on low lands where
there is plenty of moisture, when
:ut in dough state. If well
:ured, the peavinesand sorghum
will winter the mule colt. Feed
sorghum and peavine hay until
the first of March, then leave
sorghum, as it gets too dry.
I know of a mare that has
raised three mule colts in the
last three years, and she will
bring as much on the market
now as she would three years
ago. The colts arc worth $500
and she has made as much cotton
as the average mule.
Ambitious young men and ladies
should learn telegraphy; for,
since the nov\ 8-hour law became
effective there is a shortage of
many thousand telegraphers.
Positions pay from $50 to $70 per
month to beginners. The Nation)
Telegraph Institute of Columbia,
S. C., and ' five other cities is
operated under supervision of
R. R. officials and all students
are placed when qualified. Write
them for particulars.
FOR SALE At The Times office,
Real Estate and Chattel Mortgages,
Crop Liens, Notes, Etc.
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All persons indebted to the eatato of
I>r. T. li. Mcarhani will make payment
to the undersigned at Fort Mill, S. U.,
iiul all parties having claims against
the said estate will present, same, sworn
to. and in itemized form, to the undersinned
at Fort Mili. S. C? within the
time prescribed by law
Mrs. M. A. Meacham,
Executrix.
Kodol For
Indigestion
Our Guarantee Coupon
If. after using two-thirds of a *1 cx> bottle of
K dot. vou can bonestlv say it tias not benetiled
you. we will refund your money. Try
Kodol today on tliis guarantee. Kilt out and
sun tiie ft lit wing, present it to the dealer at
the time of putcl.ase. If it f.nls to satisfy you
return the bottle containing one-third of the
medicine to the dealer from whom you bought
it, and we will refund your money.
Town
State
Sign here _____
I lit '1'hls Out
Digests What YouEat
Antl Makes the Stomach Sweet
K. C. DeWITT ik CO.. Chicuao, 111.
Sold by Ardrey's Drupr Store.
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I of sizes and styl
select from, am
you, now that
cold, to get bus
your needs in t
We have a full j
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FOR SALE.
For GO days I ??!Tor (he O'Oonnell
property, situated close to the Graded
school, just across the stroot from cor
pontic limits of Fort Mill. Has nine-!
room two story house, besides pantrys,
HO acres land, jjood orchard and out
buildings, 6 acres pasture, I acres in
original oak timber. This is a great
chance to buy a piece of property and
sell enough lots to pay for it, as a big
1 portion of the place fronts the street.
: For particulars see me. Terms reason|
able.
FK5 acres of land in Fort Mill township,
near Pinoville, N. (J., at $:i.50 per
j acre, if tukitn at once.
I About 250 acres fine farming land I
i near Fort Mill, Particulars ou applica- |
1 tiou from parties interested.
, t\ place containing i(H? acres, within
\}^x miles of Piueville, N. (J., in good
| condition. Fairly new dwelling und
] out houses. Fifty ner-js of this place is
in woods. Price, $1,400. Terms?Onethird
cash, balance in one, two and
j three installments, with interest.
A nice building lot in Sprattville.
The last three available business lots (
on the shady side of Main street, Fort (
Mill, are offered at reasonable figures, |
if taken at once. Two of these lotr, are
25 x 100 feet.
WANTED.
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I have applications from several who
; want to buy plantations, so if you want '
I to sell your place list it with mo at
I once, or if it is town property you want |
i tosell, let me handle it for you.
A, R. McELHANEY,
Fort Mill, S. C.
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iLverytning new. With *
enlarged quarters, we $
are better prepared to rt i
serve the public with 2 '
first-class eatables. Call ?
on us at Merritt's old /
stand and see how we 5
are fixed. Fresh Oysters y
Fridays and Saturdays. ^
Patterson & Mills. ?
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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 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.
Korfrd For Indigestion.
^ -* Relieves sour stomach,
palpitation ol the heart. Digests what you oat.
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\ Pure Old V
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Direct to You
By "Over-Night Express" l
(Guaranteed Under the
hational Pure Food Law)
Four full Quarts of the best j '
-orn Whiskey you ever tasted, in
ilain scaled package, guaranteed
igninst breakage, for $3.00, or in i
ugs at $2.f>0 per gallon.
Send money by Registered Leter,
Express or P. O. Money Ord?.
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