THE FORT MILL TIMES \
VOL. XVII. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1908. NO. 34.
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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. {
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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.
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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
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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
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"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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CAMPAIGN FUNDS Of
REPUBLICAN PARTY
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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 '
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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.
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