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THE FORT MILL TIMES \ VOL. XVII. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1908. NO. 34. I J _ *"*' ^ I J^nov ioL&"G*ccn j OtiTLaJiIv^ivm DaL770Jif ojn J^'lka-rililvl W "tin-Ley ejj'crtajJ I jAncdlce. pLm>c*lcLm* Y iSn I * CC eos-a Ual's Q \J itTOVrJotX " if my 5-^jx ' 1 jsi rnuri r 1 Ogra UUULiL J 9Ljfe TIIANKSI w yNCLE JERRY WILSON opened I the gate and the milch cows 1 M straggled out Into the lane. The old man went Into the oarn, and taking down a saddle, tried to lift It to the bnck of a pony. A iudden rheumatic twinge struck through his back and nrra\ and It fell short, grazing the horse's rough Bide and dropping to tho straw-littered ground. He tried again and again, but with no better succosa. "It's no use," he groaned; "the misery has got mo again, and this Is tho nd." He leaned his head against tho horse's warm shoulder and something like a dry sob canio. The pony rubbed his nose against the man's down-hanging hand. j "You know, Dick, don't you? I can't get on tho saddle, boy. Old J Jerry's working days are done." I He dragged the saddle out of the way, and followed the line of cows afoot down the lane. "Well, I declare," said Martha Slmmlns, looking out of tho kitchen wlnrfnw "Tf thnrn " ?- * .. ? vm^? v uvu i ftu uuuic jerry limping down tho road after them cows, and a saddle horse In the barn eating his head off; I wonder If he wants to get sick again, and me with all that company coming for Thanksgiving! I've no time to he heating flannels and fussing with him. It seems as If the oldor men grow the loss sense they get." The cows were cropping tho scanty grass along tho roadside and wondering In a slow bovine way why the gate to the tule pasture was eo long In opening. Uncle Jerry leaned against the fence and watched them feeding. He knew every cow In the herd; they had * all fed from his hand. He loved the long stretch of tule, the farms among the oak trees; he could tell whon every one was settled, and the mark of each year's back I water. He know where the ducks liked to feed, and the geese came swooping j on tho sprouting grain. As ho stood thero ho thought of tho long Bummer days when he watched the sheep feeding far out on the tule, of the mirage low In the sky, the scurrying of rabbits and the (light of blackbirds. Then of winter nights, when tho green tule was a raging sea, and tho safety of the crops of the year hung on tho strength of the levee and the vigilance of tho watchers. This had been his life, and now he had come to the end of tho lane. As he tolled painfully back a team And Carried His Possession* Into the Ditch hy the llondridc. drove out of a Hold, lie hailed it. "Going to town. Henry?" "Why, yes, Uncle Jerry, In an hour or so." "Going to have a load?" "Nothing at all?going to fetch out fence wire." "Then I'll speak for a ride." "All right; watch out for me." The old man turned into the house yard. Martha was going down cellar with a big tray of unworked butter In her hands. Uncle Jerry went into bis room, a small place off of the woodshed. He looked around the ^ .* meagre space us he hud looked at , / the tulo. There were the walls covered with ; , pictures cut from papers. He and tff&L Johnby had fixed them, one rainy day, H wh#n the lad was ten years old. Thire was his comfortable bed, his table and chair, the ono place he ould call his own. { . He drew out his old leather trunk ] /TTTV The "Small ^ 1 <=: i 4? ?:. Lorjr'^uxra juj^si ar> jojm ^ , "tlairJc fiiodL c&Li r?" ??^ Vfli?3-Jlxxv3aI?T< frvrrx cltkry-9 ?or? ) I Iclie?l y"LxL[ UtJTNJak&IIcr yet ! *J LJJ ?T?_ ^ ERRYS and put h'.s clothes Into It; then he painfully did up his feather bed and made his blankets into a bundle. He stole out and peered down the cellar way. Martha was still molding butter. I H" hurried back and stealthily carried his possessions out into the ditch by the roadside. The neighbor came by and they started for town. "You may lot mo out at the county hospital." "Whew. Uncle Jerry! how's that?" "Rheumatlz. Henry; It's come again. I can't bother Marthy, so I'm coming up hero and doctor a spell." I The warden showed him into a long, low room, full of beds. It % . . . . 1 THE I (fl seemed to be the sitting room, too. Half a dozen convalescents were huddled round the stove, and from a distant corner distressed breathing told of a very sick man. It was a poor place; there were no nurses; old men loafing there through the winter on pleas of illness helped wait on the helpless patients; the others did for one another. Uncle Jerry was very homesick. He was seldom out of pain, and it hurt him to see how little chance to get well the poor fellows had. The doctor's orders were often disregarded, or carelessly fulfilled. One young boy was very sick with the pneumonia in tho bod next to him. Uncle Jerry took to nursing him. "Tho poor lad," he thought; "he's too young to lose his chance of life." Ho began to do things for the others, to keep account of the hours for medicine, and pin it to each rough headboard. He made gruel, heated milk and fixed the Are. The doctor began to depend on him. "I'm good for something, nfter all," the old man j would say, "and perhaps the Lord sent the rheumatlz to just get me horo." The day before Thanksgiving thero was a sound of strong steps on the porch, and the door flew breezily open. A big six-footer stood thero, his presence seeming to fill the dingy space. "Here you are, Uncle Jerry," he called, "but you needn't think Johnny Simmons is going to let you stay in an old place like this. I've just got home, and I tell you I made things hot on tho ranch. Where's your traps? I'm going to take you home for Thanksgiving." The old man was clinging to tne lad's hand, his face shining with joy. "I say. Uncle Jerry," the other went on, "I've rented the Bruce placo and you are going to live with mo. It's flrst-rato quarters?big fireplace to keep you warm and nothing to do but company me, for I've got a China cook. Tho man that nursed me through the smallpox sha'n't stay In such a liolo as this," and ho looked scornfully around. "You're real kind, Johnny, and I'd like to bide with you; but I shouldn't be no 'count to you, laddie. Just setting round, though I know I'd be welcome to my bite and sup. But, boy, there's something I can do hero? these poor fellows don't have anybody that knows how to look after them. I can remember medicines and fix them comfortable, and now and then say a word that helps 'em to die easier. It's a great comfort to bo of some use, even If I am all crippled up. The pain isn't so bad, for It's, warm khere, and I get plenty to eat?plenty, boy. Don't you see, Johnny, boy, I'm having a Thanksgiving all tho time?" "O, Uncle Jerry," cried the young man, "I want to do something for vr... " J VIA. "You can, Johnny, boy, you can do lots for me hero. I'd like some papers to read and a bit of a duck or a chicken now and then tc fix up for a poor appetite. Then I'd like Just to I see you, when you come up to town, | and know about your work. O, there's lots you can do; but, boy, I want to keep my Thanksgiving here, doing some good In God's world."-?Christian Advocato. A SONG OF THANKSGIVING. I'm thankful that the years are longHowever long they be. Thev still are laborers glad and strong That ever work for me. This rose I cut with careless shears And wear and cast away? The cosmos wrought a million years To make it mino a day. This lily by the pasture bars Beneath "the walnut treo, Long ere the Hrc-mist formed in stars, W'as on its way to me. The laws of property are 'as? ^ * ^ .? ''w--- ' -l r?t '1 <. :' FIRST THANKSGIVING DIN Reproduced From an Old and Rare Prim My neighbor's farm is fine; I'm thankful, though he pays the tax. The best of it is mine. No sheriff's clutch can loose my grip On fields I have not sown Or shake my sense of ownership In things 1 do not own. I'm thankful for my neighbor's wood. His orchard, lake and lea; For, while my eyes continue good, 1 own all 1 can see. I'm thankful for this mighty age, These days beyond compare, When hope is such a heritage And life a large affair. We thank the gods for low ana high, Right, wrong (ns well we may). For all the wrong of days gone by Works goodness for to-day. Here on Time's table-land we pause To thank on bended knee, To thank the pods for all thaff was. And is, and is to be. I'm thankful for this mighty age. And winsome beauty of the Near, The greatness of the Commonplace, The glory of the Here. I'm thankful for man's high emprise. .... ........ ..i i r-< llltllllCSH <>I SOUI, The long look of his skyward eyes That sights a far-otT goal. And so I feel to thank and bless IJtitii things unknown nnd understood? And thank the stubborn thankfulness That maketli all things good. ?Sain Walter Fuss, in Success Magazine. THANKSGIVING. Thank the Lord, sing His praises. Row in adoration; We are blest, we arc favored. As no other nation. Ope the heart, raise the spirit, Fray with earnest feeling; Show the wounds, tell the sorrows? He will tlo the healing. Thank Him now, thank llim ever, While on earth abiding; lie it much, he it little, All is 11 in providing. ?M. J. Adams. "5fc7 z s m A November MghtmariS THANKSGIVING ANTICIPATIONS. Of course we'll have c turkey, A pieat, hie, husky feller. 'N' vcgetabuls of even- kind? Pertatcra. white and yeller; Turnips, 'n squash, 'n' onions, too? Uni! Um! 'N' celery, 'N' ttllftiii'- that the lio^t r>f nil Fixed up with savory; 'N' nies! Well. I'm prepared to say All other kinan is fakes Alongside o' the punkin ones. An mince, my mother makes! Besides, thev's apple turnovers To cap the hull array, An' I can have two slabs of each, 'Cause it's Thanksgiving Day! But after eatin* fruit 'n' nuts 'N' candy with the rest, I bet I'll feel like letting out The buttona on my vest! {l 'N' walkin' round the block is good For appetites like mine; Then afterwards I'll feel like "more"? (lee! ain't Thanksgiving fine! ?Mnzie V. Curuthers, in Lippincott'a. I NOVEMBER. Don't talk to me of solemn days I In autumn's time of splendor, Because the sun shows fewer rays, I And these grow slant and slender. Why, it's the climax of the year, The highest time of living! Till, naturally its bursting cheer Just melts into Thanksgiving. ?Paul Lawrence Dunbar. ?From The New York Mail. INER. t.) A THANKSGIVING. "Po many gifts to thank llim for," I said, "His life and Ilia arising from the dead. | The days of sun ami calm accorded ina, And, best of all, the hopo of life to be. ' So fair and smooth the way that I have come. I I fain would thank llim, but my lips are dumb." I Then all at once the outdoor stillness broke, I A childish voice beneath my window , spoke; I T saw November snowflukes flash and shine Upon a small, wan face upturned to mine. Trf??rl?vg" foi1 ThankljfSvinf? Tl At'i -what you ami I mut' do. I drew the little stranger in to rest, And smoothed her tumbled hair upon my breast; "Dear child," I said, "God's kingdom is of such. And then I bennl ? ??.k??t ? _ .. .1 nuuvi lllUKIllUCn As thou hast made this little child to be Less sad and wayworn tbou hast gladdened Me! M The evening shades grew long and deepened, nut I held her fast and sung her eyelids shut. Within my arms she nestled close and warm, And as I closer clasped her sleeping form I knew the little child of Clod became The thankful prayer my lips had tried to frame. ?Ecrtha Oreneaux Davis, in Home Magazine. m 4 fOR REVENUE ONLY Andrew Carnegie Comes Out For Tariff Revision SAYS PROTFCTION NOT NEEDED Iron Master, in a Notable Article in December Issue of a Magazine, Will Declare That Duties on Manufactured Articles Should be Reduced or Altogether Abolished, and That Only the Luxuries Used by the Rich Should Bear a Duty. New York, Special.?A notable article from Andrew Carnegie, dealing with the tariff, will appear in the forthcoming December number of The Century Magazine, in which the nun master inKes the position that "infant industries" no longer need protection; that the steel and other industries have now grown beyond the need of tariff protection; that duties on luxuries used by the rich should be maintained, but that those on manufactured articles should be reduced greatly, on abolished entireI ly when no longer needed. Mr. Carnegie's article is entitled "My Experience With and Views Upon the Tariff." Mr. Carnegie says: "We have already become by far the greatest of all manufacturing nations. While the tariff as a whole even today has censed to be primarily beneficial as a measure of protection, it has become of vast importance from the standpoint of revenue, and it is to this feature I bespeak the special attention of readers of all parties, for duties upon imports, not for protection, but for needed revenue, should not become a party question. Reasonable men of all parties may be expected to approve this plan of obtaining revenue." lie says: "The American tariffs, in happy contrast to others, almost exempt the poor and heavily tax the rich, just as it should, for it is they who have the ability to pay as required by the highest economic authority." Mr. Carnegie says of future tariff legislation: "The next Congress dealing with the tariff will probably be inclined at first to reduce duties all around and perhaps to abolish some, but its first care should be to maintain present duties, and even in some cases to increase them, until all articles used almost exclusively by the rich, and this not for protection, but for revenue, not drawn from the workers but from the rich. That is the first and prime duty of Congress. "Its second duty is to reduce duties greatly upon manufactured articles and to abolish entirely those no longer needed. What Democrats Spent. Chicago, Special.?The Democratic national committee received in all $620,644.77 and spent $019,410.06 during the recent presidential campaign, lenving a balance on hand of $1,234.71. So reads a statement made public by the officers of the pnmmit. tec and the itemized statement will ho filed for record in the office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky in compliance with the resolution adojfted by the national committee at Lincoln, Neb., last July. The statement made public by the committee includes a certificate of audit by Myion D. King, auditor of the national 'committee. Briefs of General News. I Oen. William L. Marshall recommends that Congress appropriate I "fOfio.OOO for next year's work on the ^Baltimore channels. . a John D. Rockefeller began testifyling for the defense in the suit of the government to dissolve the Standard Oil Comuany. f Sunday Tragedy In Alabama Town. Birminghom, Ala., Special.?J. A. Northcutt, a well-known citizen of Henry Ellen, Jefferson county, was shot and almost instantly killed by J. W. Dement. The shooting occurred in front of Northcutt's home and three bullets took effect. Dement was brought her and lodged in the county iail. Tie will say nothing as to the cause of thct ragedy. Cleveland Stroet Car Strike Called Off. Cleveland, O., Special.?At a meet ing of the local union of the street railway motormen nnd conductors it was unanimously voted to call off the strike against the Municipal Traction r"ompany, which was begun last May. The company was forced into the hands of receivers who now are in charge of the railway property. The Mutual Traction Company refused to grant nn increase in wages, which was demanded by the union nnd the strike was ordered. Atlanta Negro Murders His Wife. Atlanta, (la., Special.?Using a razor with which h(v severed the carotid artery and jugular vein. Sam Jones, n negro, Sunday killed his wife nnd left her dead body in a pool of blood in n houso in the rear of 177 West Mitchell street. Jones made his escape. He is described as a low, heavy-set negro, very black and weighs about 340 pounds. ? CAMPAIGN FUNDS Of REPUBLICAN PARTY > J. Pierpont Morgan Has Second Place ?Andrew Carnegie and WMtelaw Rcid, However, Also in $25,000 Class? President $1,000. New York dispntch, 21st. When tlu? report of George S. Sheldon, Republican national treasurer, is tiled with the State Auditor of New York at Albany it will be found it is said that the Republican campaign which elected William II. Tail was conducted with a fund of about $1,700,000. Charles P. Taft was the heaviest contributor having added $100,000 to the fund. The following isthe list of leading contributors who gave over $250: wiumico x. ian $JLOUfUUU J. Piorpont Morgan 25,000 Andrew Carnegie 25,000 William Nelson Cromwell... <25,000 Whitelaw Roid 25.000 D. 0. Mills 5,000 Adolphus Husch 5,000 R. C. Kerens 5,000 W. C. Dickey 5,000 William Barrett Ridgcly .. 1,200 President Roosevelt 1,000 Frank B. Kellogg 1,000 C. A. Severance 1,000 E. N. Saunders 1,000 Thomas F. Cole 1,000 Edward R. Stettinius 1,000 Marvin Huphitt 1,000 N. W. Harris 1,000 H. K. Conch ran 1.000 Charles R. Crane 1,000 Samuel Insull 1,000 John C. Wharton 1,000 Charles Page Bryan 1,000 W. H. Bartlett 1,000 James A. Patten 1,000 Robert T. Lincon 1,000 E. P. Frazicr 1,000 John Q. Shedd 1,000 Joy Morton 1,000 E, A. W. Kicckheifer 1,000 Gave Less Than $1,000. William Kent 800 F. H. Smith 800 A. S. Littlcfleld C25 John Miltou Oliver 500 Walter Burroughs 500 Clayton Mark 500 C. A. Smith 500 W. K. Bixby 500 0. B. Gorin 500 A. W. Goodrich 500 W. H. Evans 500 C. B. Borland 500 C. R. Jobes 500 F. E. Grimes 500 F. II. Smith 500 T. P. Jones 500 B. E. Sunny 500 John A. Spoor 500 Samuel Cupples 500 R. S. Brookings 500 Julius Rosenwnld-. -r?^n A. A. McKay 500 John S. Runnells 500 W. F. Comstock 500 William McLaughlin 500 J. A. Holmes 500 Spencer Otis 500 E. ft. Price 500 William T. Joyce 500 And These Gave $500. J. C. Shaffer 500 George F. Griffin 500 D. A. Compbcll 500 E. F. Swinney 500 D. M. Ilouser 500 Edward ft. Butler 500 H. W. Coe 500 J. H. Etought 500 Stewart Spalding 500 E. J. Buffington 500 A. II. Mulliken 500 David B. Jones 500 R. W. Scars 500 Mark S. Willing 400 John Duprce 400 F. J. Dewes 400 J. C. Ames 300 Warren Nichols 300 Harry Ilart 300 J. F. Downing.. 300 E. E. Morgan 300 Charles Piez 300 T. B. Lyon 300 H. P. Knapp 300 E. V. Price 300 Francis fteidler 300 Calvin Durand 300 E. J. Lehmann 300 Alexander Robertson 300 Ar.d Theso Gave $250. The following gave $250 each: Charles J. Singer, H. Ortman, R. A. Kcyes, John P. Wilson, Levy Mayer. OoGrffA .1 ( nnlrn (1 PoiMtnl/le L. Willcy, A. C. Bartlctt, j. I). Bascom, II. Woodland, F. S. Winston, Henry f?. Hart, W. II Whiteside, J. B. Tarbell, II. M. Vlyllosby, R. L. W. Bowers, William Buttcrworth, W. V. Kellcy, P. .7. Bennett, M. J. Spiegal. A. B. Conover, M. A. Ryerson, I). II Bnrnhnm, ('. II. Hurlburd, Matz Boyden Fisher, K. I,. Ryerson, Engene S. Pike, 1). N. Barker, Orahnm II. Harris, .1. S. Field, I). M. Cummings, Joseph B. Field, F. II. Rawson, O. W. Korion. A. M. Bamhnrt, W. Stone, Kenneth Clark, T. A. Sehnlze, John T. II. Field, C. K. Sharood, John R. Mitchell, Cehhard Rohn. A. II. Lindke, C. W. Cordon, E. II. Bailey, F B. Wells, F. C. Vnnn Dusen, W. Peering, Byron L. Smith and II. ~-I Porter. Governor of Florida Will Open Cot ton Convention. Lake City, Fin., Special.?The committee on arrangements for t he cotton convention here November 25th, received a message from Covernoi Bix?ward that he xvruhl he on hand to open the convention. Senators Taliaferro and Fletcher, together with many merchants and bankers of prominence will be present and every phase of the cotton. business *.vill be discussed. PALACE TO COTTAGE ' ^ Mayor Tom L Johnston Goes Into Bankruptcy HE WAS ONCE VERY WEALTHY Mayor of Cleveland, Tor Tear* Credited With Possessing a Large Fortune, Announces That He Has Lost Everything and Will Be Compelled to Move Into Smaller and Less Expensive Quarters. Cleveland, 0., Special.?Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who for years has been accredited with possessing a very large fortune announced that he had lost everything and would be compelled to give up his beautiful homo on Euclid avenue and move into smaller and less expensive quarters. The mayor nlso stated that he would give up his automobiles and other luxuries, as he could no longer afford to keep them. His fortune was wrecked, the mayor declared, by his devotion to affairs of the estate of his dead brother, Albcri, who was heavilv intKrostml ?r? --J A?t iiUVUUU ptvp* erty in the East. After Albert's death a question was put up to him whether he should resign his office as mayor and take up the management of Albert'a estate. "I decided that I would not. I had entered the fight in this city with cortain ideals before me. I wanted to fight privilege and special interest, and I had already decided to give up working for dollars. So I concluded to stay right here and do what I could to help my brother's children at long istance. "Why did I choose the course I did! I'll tell you. I wanted happiness and nothing else when I closed up my business affairs and took up civic activity. "And I've been happy, too. "I'm going to be happy yet, too. We may have to go back to a cottage, but that *8 the way we started, and we ran look upon life just as joyfully there ns we did in the big house on Euclid avenue. "They tell me my enemies are planning to bring financial trouble upon me. I've been expecting it. "My enemies are cauable of doing that. One may expect nothing else from special privilege. Let them make any sort of attack upon me that the}' choose. I'll never give up and they'll always find me at the front. "If I had been a coward?if I had run away fro mtliis fight for the people of Cleveland?I could have saved my fortune nnd built it up. But I had chosen my course. I haven't been laboring as mayor with the expectation of being rewarded by the gratitudo of the people. One cannot count on that. It's plensure in doing work that I like that has kept me in the fight. "I have never made a single penny out of the street railways since I became mayor. I don't feel discouraged. I'm a free man, and that means a great deal to me. Don't you suppose it will be worth something to me to have my friends realize that I entered the mayor's office rich and left it poor? "I'm going to keep on just as I've started. I'm going to be a candidate for mayor again when this term ia over." Chauffeur Killed In Auto Crash. Washington, Special.?Noble Davis a chauffeur, was killed and several others were injured by the overturning of an automobile near Hyattsrille, Md. The automobile was owned by Joseph Strasburger, a merchant of this city, and Daivs, who was his chauffeur, had taken out a party of his friends in the machine. Famous Federal Scout Dies at Mount Vernon, N. Y. Mount Vernon, N. Y., Special.? Col. John C. Ilnbcock, who was one ? e a. ?:?: ?? ?- * - Al ui mi- uu ijiiu scirniH n?r me army of the Potomac during the Civil war, died at his homo here. Colonel Babcock was 72 years of age. At the outbreak of the war be enlisted at Chicago in the Sturgis Rifles. He was later assigned to the secret service of the army under Major Allen, and it was bo who discovered General lice's forward movement which ended at Gettysburg. Many Dio in Explosion. New York, Special.?Twenty-flvc persons arc believed to have lost theit lives in nn explosion of gas which tore a great section of Gold street, Brooklyn. It is definitely knoAm that fifteen persons were buried under tlie hundreds of tons of earth and timber that were thrown into the air by the explosion, and ten more persons are reported as missing. The exact number of dead cannot be determined. hbbk e