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THURSDAY FEBRUARY *, 1909.
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
There seems little liklihood of
the bill of Representative Rucker j
abolishing capital punishment in
South Carolina, except in cases >
of criminal assault upon women.;
becoming a law at this time, but;
there is, nevertheless, much to,
be said in behalf of the bill. This !
is a matter which we have given
considerable thought, and we
are unable to arrive at the conclusion
that hanging prevents
or deters the criminal classes
from murder, the crime responsi- j
ble for most legal executions. If;
it be true that hanging prevents
murder, as is generally claimed,
why do our authorities deem it
best to conduct the executions in
private? Why not invite the
public to witness the criminal
dangling at the end of the rope, I
instead of conducting the executions
in private? If hanging
serves as a warning to would-be
murderers, the public should be
invited in to profit by the warning.
If we were as civilized as we
claim to be, we would abolish
capital punishment, with its <
brutalizing horrors, and establish
a penal colony in one of the
State's sea islands where murderers
would be speedily exiled
for life. Murderers should be
allowed to live, exiled fnrever
from society. We would have
them alone with their own conscience,
"under its cold shadow
by day and its black win? by
night," If society wishes to enforce
the value and sanctity of
human life, can It do so by allowing
two murders for one
ciime?
It is a fact easily proved that
where hangings are most frequent,
murder is most common.
In the States of Rhode Island,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Maine,
where the death penalty has
been abolished, life is more secure
than in many other States
of the Union.
The death penalty was abolished
in Switzerland in 1879 and it
is the most peaceful nation of
Europe. Portugal abolished capital
punishment in 1867 and murders
in that country have decreased
more than half.
Because men are murderers is
the very reason why the State
should not be. Life imprisonment
is the humane solution of
this problem, but in order to be
effective, conviction should be
swift and sure, after a trial as
thorough and just as law cgn
m?!vP it witVirmt fVio
?f ?? pWXVM?> VIIV VIIOIII^C VII
technical appeal, executive clemency
or pardon,
THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
This world^famed gambling
institution was formed in 1792
by 24 brokers in the city of New
York, under a tree near the present
number, 60 Wall street In
1817 the New York Stock and Exchange
Board was constituted by
25 men. From that time down to
1853 it had its quarters in the
Merchants' Exchange, at Wall
and William streets. In the latter
year it removed to Beaver
and Wall streets, and in 1865 to
Ks present location on Broad
street,
It is a voluntary association
and not incorporated, with a
membership limited to 1,100,
Members are ejected and tnust
be nominated by two men, who
must say that they would accept
the uncertified check of the
nominee for $20,000. The initiation
fee is $90,000. The dues
a srA
lire nuoui *o(i, rnese memberships
are known as "seats," and
are sold or transferred at varying
prices. J? the seven years prior
to 1900 these seats were sold as
low as $10,000, In 1900 they
were quoted at from $88,000 to
$11,090. Prior to 1900 the highest
price of a seat was about
$95,000. In April, 1906, a seat
sold for $84,000, and in March,
1907, for $73,000.
The original object and purpose
of the exchange was to obtain
uniform commissions for
the buying and selling of stocks,
but this object and purpose has
been enlarged during the one
hundred and sixteen years of]
the existence of the exchange so
as to include the purchase and
sale of all and every variety of
stocks, bonds, and secui Hie?,
national, state, county, and
municipal, industrial, public, and
private; their manipulation, so as
to control prices, and, in short,
every form of speculation, legitimate
and illegitimate, from the
purchase and sale of stocks and
bonds, with an honest delivery,
to the wildest form of stock
gambling and stock jobbing.
Through its operation a few men
have become fabulously rich,
while hundreds of others possessing
comfortable fortunes have
passed from its doors penniless
and pauperized.
We have long suspected?and
a legislative report has just confirmed
our suspicion?that a considerable
percentage of the students
who receive free tuition at
the various State-supported institutions
as the result of competitive
examinations were not
entitled to receive their education
at the expense of the tax-payers'1
upon the plea that their parents
were not able to pay the tuition
charge.:. There is a law on the
statute books of the State designed
to remedy this evil, but
1 it still exists and will continue to
: exist until there are a few prosecutions
and convictions under it.
There are today being educated
at Winthrop and Clemson a considerable
number of girls and
boys, we doubt not, whose
I parents are amply able to pay
their tuition but who are freestudents,
accepting the bounty
I of the Commonwealth which was
i intended for the daughters and
sons of parents who cannot af1
fo~d to give their children a
collegiate education. Thus do
I we see the Commonwealth being
! mulcted of thousands of dollars
annually and poor but deserving
girls and boys deprived of that to
which they are entitled.
A twnlinr afnto nf fonto ?n
known to thousands of citizens
throughout the State, exists in
i connection with the board of
i trustees of Clemson College, in
that a majority of the members
i of the board are not under
; State control, but were appointed
under the Clemson will and are
not responsible to the Legislature
for their official acts. So
far there seems to have been no
friction between the trustees of
the State and those serving under
the Clemson will, but it is
too much to expect these happy
conditions to continue indefinitely,
The day i3 almost certain to
come when there will be a schism
and South Carolina has too much
at stake to risk the disruption
j of the college if there is any way
to a/oid it. We were not, therefore,
surprised to read the report
of the legislative committee
AM QfafA J ? ?
| vii utaic-aiucu lii&ULUUUIlS recom|
mending that if it be possible
| under the terms of the Clemson
i will for the State to secure control
of the board, such steps be
taken at once. This is a matter
which should receive the earnest
consideration of the Legislature
1 at the present session.
.
Last week The Times printed
an editorial on "Sabbath Obserance,"
in which note was taken
of the sermons preached recently
by a number of Columbia ministers
on the subject. There was,
however, one phase of the matter
we failed to mention which
seems to be more or less perti,
nent, and it was the utter lack
, of consistency ?not to use a
i stronger word?displayed by
these same ministers in decry\
ing the desecration of the Sab|
bath and within the hour furnishing
(as they in all probability
Hiril tY\e> a#
? , ...v vu^ij v> until aci IllUItS
j for publication in tho Monday
1 morning: papers, with the certain
knowledge that the copy would
be edited, the type set, the proof
read and the forms made up
Sunday night.
There has been no change in
the status of the proposition for
the erection of a bridge over
Broad river at or near Howell's
ferry. The York commissioners
stood in the position of being
willing to meet the Cherokee
commissioners in the middle of
Ithe riyer and, as we understood
it, the people most interested on
both sides of the river are hold.
ing the Cherokee commissioners
! responsible for inaction,?Yorkvilte-inquirer,
'>* V * |
' Mr. Wiboa's Side of Cluinft Matter, i
1
In commenting last week on 3
the road bill which Senator W. t
i H. Stewart proposes for York i
| county, The Times referred to ]
' the differences which exist in the i
I legislative delegation as to the ]
: advisability of adopting certain ,
j provisions thereof. The bone <
of contention between Messrs. I
Stewart, Glasscock and Sanders |
on the one side and Messrs. Wilson
and Hollis on the other seems i
to be the employment of the,,!
county chaingang, the latter;
gentlemen objecting to the pro- ;
vision of Section 12 of Senator,
Stewart's bill which makes its
mandatory upon the supervisor
to first employ the chaingang in
repairing the public roads "running
east and west ana then
north and south throughout the
county. Mr. Wilson claims that
if this provision of the bill
is enacted into law, the townships
of Fort Mill, Bullock's
Creek and Bethel will not receive
the work of the chaingang to
which they are entitled. In a
statement written for The Times,
Mr. Wilson expresses himself in
opposition to the chaingang proviso
of Senator Stewart's bill as
follows:
"I do not agree with the chaingang
proviso of Mr. Stewart's
bill because the idea is that the
two main highways must be
completed before the caingang
can be removed from them to do
any work on any other road in
the county. The last proviso of
Section 12 of the bill is meaningless
and impossible of execution !
I by the county board of commis;
sioeers. It will be impossible for
the board of commissioners to'
'distribute the benefits of the i
chaingang among the various
townships as impartially as posble'
when they are bound to complete
the two main highways before
they do any other work, and
| when these two main highways !
only run through six townships
i in the county. The townships of
Bethel, Bullock's Creek and Fort
Mill under this arrangement will
I not get any work from the chainCJl.nur
until thp main ViirrliHfovo o?i
; 0 0 ... ?..w uigiinajo aiC
completed and neither of these
highways will come anywhere
near touching any of these townships.
"Our delegation last year on
the stump were a unit on the
proposition that 'the money de|
rived from the two mill road tax
in each township should go to:
the township to be expended on j
the roads of that township/ as,
well as the commutation tax, and
that it should not be a county
road fund. That is the only fair
and just way to distribute it.
; Now, the county chaingang is
maintained by a levy of one mill
I on all property, real and personal,
in the county. Eeach township
pays this one mill on all property |
within its bounds. Why, there- j
fore, upon the same basis of
fairness and justice, should not
everp township in the county receive
its proportionate share of
the work of the chaingang, and
: why should three townships in
the county be required to contribute
a one mill tax on all property
in tl eir township to build
permanent roads in six other
townships and increase the value
: of property in those townships
when these three townships will
get no benefits whatever from
said roads? They are just as i
much entitled to their one mill i
tax as they are to their two mill
tax money.
"As to the disposition of the
| chaingang, I have advocated
| since the first and still advocate
that it should be left, as nearly
| as possible, in the complete control
of the supervisor and county
commissioners, and should be
worked by them in each township
of the county, as nearly as
possible, in proportion to the
amount each township contrib
utes to its maintenance."
Disappointed in the Stewart Road Bill.
Editor Times: After reading
i Mr. Stewart's bill on the road
law, I must confess I was some- j
i what disappointed. I was expecting
a different proposition entirei
ly?something to reduce our tax.
i In the last year our taxes have
, increased 20 per cent and the
' poor people already find it very
difficult to meet this obligation.
Then ten when *mn """
, , ........ jwu vitavc new j
office?, you increase taxes. His
| bill concentrates the working of
the roads too much, I think. ;
What we need is a good man in
each community who will take
charge of the roads in his sec-1,
' tion and have them worked <
without pav, and the poor man, j1
be he white or black, can work 8
or 10 days each year better than
I he can pay the required tax. I
think we need more and better
roads, and it seems to me the
best law for us is that every ablebodied
man be required to perform
road duty about four times 1
a year, say one day in January,
one day in April, one day in August,
and one day in December, ,
or from 4 to 6 days each year, ,
divided so as to fix up the broken <
places and keep the ditches clean. '1
rhen we can have fairly good 1
roads the year round. With the ,
| Stewart bill, 1 don't think ou-*
roads in the interior can ever 1
be what we would like to have [
| them. All we want is a plain, ,
(simple, strong roa<J lavyr that will <
i, ,1^, | K B ' l ?-i?
require every able- bodied tnan to
work so many days each year,
and make the penalty so jnreat
that we can press the people to
work. Give us more and better
roads but less tax. Ihaven't a
word to say about the chaingang.
[ am willing to leave the gang to
our county commissioners. We
don't want any more paid officers
when the work can best be done
without the extra township supervisors.
Brother, we as a
community of farmers don't want
so much red tape. Let us do our
roads up in the plain, old-fashioned
way, then we will not be
bored to death to pay men to do
this sunervisinn If nnvnno Vioo
a different view to this, please
let us hear from him. Maybe
someone can untangle this road
Froblem, for such it seems to be.
hope Mr. Stewart will reconsider
his bill and by some means
leave off the expensive part of it,
at least.
I hope to hear from someone
else on this subject.
Z. T. BAILES.
North Fort Mill, Feby. 1.
York County News.
(Turkvillo Enquirer, Friday.)
The work of cleaning up at
Ninety-nine islands preparatory
to resuming the construction of
the power dam at that place,
is now well under way. There
has been tremendous loss at the
dam on account of succeeding
freshets since the suspension of
the original operations, much of
the work having been washed
away. Up to the present time
about one hundred laborers are
busy; but within a few weeks
this number will be largely increased.
A barn and stable belonging to
Capt. W. B. Smith, at Clover,
was destroyed by fire last night
at about 9 o'clock. When discovered
the flames had already
made headway that put them beyond
control. The loss includes
the building, two horses, two
mules, buggies, harness, gears,
etc., a lot of roughness and aggregating
something like $1,500.
There is insurance to the amount
of $1,050 in the London, Live.pool
and Globe.
There is a good deal of cotton
being held in York county; but
the status of it is quite different
from much of that which was
being held at the same time last
year. Then, a great deal of the
cotton held back was encumbered
with airrirultiiriil anH
- ?a ?i MIIVI VVI1VI IICIIO,
Now, most of the cotton that is
being held is actually owned by
the holders, and they do not
have to sell until they get ready.
Congressman Finley spoke at
considerable length on the postoffice
appropriation bill Wednesday.
He reviewed briefly the
the work of the postal commission
and said that he did not
think congress ought to undertake
a consideration of so important
a matter now, but that
it should be taken up and discussed
at length at the extra
session in Match. He also explained
that it was necessary for
the committee on postoffices and
postroads, of which he is a member,
to increase the appropriation
for the rural free delivery system
over the estimates submitted by
the postmaster general, for the
reason that had this not been
done it would have been impossible
to establish new routes
because of lack of funds. He
paid a high tribute to the worth
and efficiency of the free delivery
system and the carriers
serving in the different routes
throughout the United States.
Besides these points he touches
on other features of the bill now
being considered.
<Rivr>lr Will v
*..? ituiuiu, nuiurujiy.l
Over 400 loads of rock were
placed on the old Saluda road
Wednesday to be used by the
county chaingang in macadamizing
the roda. The farmers living
along this road, and those
who have to travel this road,
realize the value of good roads
and are now showing the county
their appreciation by putting all
the rock that will be needed on
the road. The chaingang is at
Eresent in Ebenezer township,
ut will be moved to Saluda road
as soon as the convict camp is
completed.
Best price paid for cotton yesterday
on local market, 9.5-8 cts.
There is not any bet'er Salvo than DoWitt's
arboliz d Witch Hazel Salvo.
We hereby warn tho public that we
are not responsible for any injurious
effects caused fnmi worthless or poisonous
luiitntious of our Do Witt s L'arbolized
Witch Hazel Salve, tho original.
If. ia IVfiA 1 fni* anwfhS"'- * -
... ?.~S . .v.. n.ij I * 114*11 U Hltlve 1H
needed, but it it* especially k<*>d for
piles. Be dure yon yet Do Witt'*. Sold
by Ardrey's drug store.
Some of the oid citizens say
we always have two weeks of
colfi weather in February, and
that the recent cold snap was the
beginning of it.
This is just the time of year when yon
n o most likely to have kidney or bind
der trouble, with rheumatism and
rheumatic pains caused by weak kidneys.
Delays are dangerous Get
Dm Witt's Kidney ntid bladder Pills,
aud be sure you j<et what you ask for.
They are the best pills made for backache,
weak back, nniuary disorders, in
tiaiumatiou of the bladder ec. They
are antiseptic ami act promptly. We
sell and recommend thorn.?Aidrey's
drug store,
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| The Store'
? SEWING Oil
;? MACHINES
| You II Ackr
I That the FURN1
is the most compl
tion. Thousands ]
The latest and b
Q a simplified definit
| Our Terms
? If you desire ere
@ allowing you ainpl
@ Gill and see us.
1 MILLS &
g LEADERS IN FURNITI
LI EN -?E ORDIN XNOE.
An ordinance declaring and fixing n
special License Tax to be (mid by person.
firm, company or corporation en
gug<-<i 111 uiiv uumiii'hm, proiessiou or
vocation therein mentioned, within the
incorporate limits of the town of Fort
Mill, providing for the col eel ion of
same.
b'ec 1. Be it ordained by th? Mayor
and the Wardens of the 1 own of Fort
Mill, S. (J., in t ouncil assembled, that
on and after the let day of January,
J'JOO, every person, linn, company
or corporation then engaged, or that
thereafter may become engaged, in any
business, profession or vocation hereinafter
mentioned, within the incorporate
limits of the town of Fort Mill, shall
take out u license therefor from the
Town i ouncil for which he, it or they
shall pre-pay to the said Town Council,
for the public use of suid town, and for
t]ie purpose of meeting in part the current
expenses thereof, a special License
tax, as follows.
Te ephone Company or agency,
each, for loll business done between
the town of Fort Mill
and auy other point without
tlio corporate limits of said
town, within the State of
SonthOaro ina. ami not including
that done without the Statu
and not including that done for
the government, i?er year $ 10 00
' telephone Company, or agency,
each, for local business done exclusively
within tho town of
Fort Mill, S. U., and not including
that done for the government,
jier year 2 00
Express Company, or agency,
each, for business done exchu.
ively in the town of Fort Mill,
S. t , and not including that
done without the Stale,and not
lnelndiug government business,
per year 25 00
Telegraph (. oinpany, or Agency,
each, for business done exclusively
iu the town of Fort MiU,
S.1 ., and not including business
done without the State,
ami not including government
business, per year 10 00
Kerosene Oil Oompanv, or Agen
cy, eacn, receiving, storing,
selling or delivering oil to nierchunts
either by wagon or
otherwise, per year 25 00
Fire Insurance Company, or
Agency, represented by eithor
local or transient Agents, for
either soliciting or selling insurance,
each, per year 2 50
Life Insurance Company, or
Agency, represented by oithor
local or transient Agents, for
either soliciting or selling life
liuuruuce, per year 10 00
Transient dealers in fruit or pro|
duce, provided this license
shall not apply to people living
within the surrounding
country who make their own
fruit or produce in the town of
Fort Mill, per day 1 00
I Mugic Lantern iShows, for each
performance 5 00
Theatrical performances,for ea h
performance 5 00
Palmistry, for each and every
person p ving such vocal iou or
calling, per day,,, 5 00
Lightning Rod Company, or
Agency, each per year 100 00
i Itinerant traders,-vender* of any
kind of wares, merchandise or
pateut medioiues, worm medicines,
or pateut rights, each,
per year 50 00
i Citcus or Equestrian shows, or
menagerie, or carnivals, per
day, (in the discretion of the
mayor) $5 00 to 100 00
Sewing Machine Companies, or
their Agents, selling tnuchiues
within the town of Kort Mill,
S. ' .,per year 10 00
| Photographers, per year... 5 00
Sec. 2 No liceuse shall be trans '
ferred from one person, firm or corporation,
to anotper except with the sale
of the stock of goods, or business, and
with the consent of the Mayor. All licenses
shall be paid by the 1st day of
March.
Sec. 1}. Any person, firm or corporation
refusing qr neglecting to pay any
license required by this ordinance shall
be fined in the sum of not less than
$10.00, nor nioro thun $100.00, or Jin- j
prison rnaut of a term of not less than i
H55S5fc'^fiV$5i5B!?9B8K^ &
^060S^3OS?0(
rhat Saves
1 |
.GAMS and PIANOS
iowled&e to i
TURE Department
lete and most satb
lave already made <:
est styles from the 1
ion of the store.
are Liberal
dit, we will make tl
e time between pay
We guarantee sati
YOUNG
IRE,
I PIFNTV
A I h k- II I I
I FOR F
We are prepared to
? coming year. A1 reads
us and made arrangem
Iper cent, whieh is to b
their farms this year,
well as old ones, and n<
gard to how much mor
doubled our Capital ai
loaned. We prefer lo;
rather than standing lo
to farmers who will u
their crops, loans to be
not want loans to run
loans that will be paid
re-loan it on cotton, w
in the Spring. The g
are in the above kind c
accommodate a greater
basis and cause our Ci
much more rapid rate
in standing loans. W
of loans, even though \
rather than get 8 per c
have a tendency to con
pand it.
^ We arc building one
M South Carolina are pro
? is growing at a radid n
be progressive and b<
^ that we cannot help 01
(5^ ourselves.
Call in to see us or <
09 service to you. All
v careful attention.
I THE NATION
g ROCK HILL,
ten (10) days, nor more than a tern
thirty (SO) days
Sec. 4. The charges for licenses
any business not enumerated in an;
the above sections shall be deter mi
by the Mayor.
Sec. 6. All Ordinances, or parts
A-A: s * *
vruiunilCVN, inconsistent llQITWit U
hereby repealed.
Done and ratified in open council I
the 8th day of December 1908.
L A. HARRIS,
Attest: Mayoi
A. R MoELHAlfKY. ? lerk.
NOTIUK OF ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that nil e
tion for an Alderman, from Ward
will be held in tho Town Hall on T\
day, February 9, 1909, to fill a vaca
now existi??k in bourd l olls will o
at 8 a. m. and clos at 4 p. m.
Only tho qualified voters of War
can participate in this election.
J. 11 Patterson, A. A. Bradford i
T. D. Faulkner are appointed mana*
for said election.
By order of Council this January
1908 A. R. MoKI HANEY,
Clerk o' Coiincl
You Money. f
m i
and HEATERS |
the Fact== 1
of our establishment g
^factory in this see- g
obeisance?have you? ?
best manufacturers is g
le terms satisfactory, ?
ments. ?
sfactory prices to all. q
COMPANY, 1
FORT MILL, S. C. g
OF MONEY I
ARMERS. |
supply farmers money for the ?
r a large number have been to
ents to borrow money at six Q?
e used by them for running 50
We want new customers as ? ,
dw want to talk with vou in re- ??
ley you will need. We have X
id this money has got to be Xf '
aning ft on commercial paper 5)
ans. That is, we want to loan 00
ise the money in cultivating Qjri
paid back in the fall. We do x
one or two years, but prefer X
to us in the fall so that we can X
hich will be turned into money
;reater part of our investments 50
>f loans. We find that we can Op
number of people on the above 5L
ty and County to grow at a
than if we invested our money iK
c prefer taking the above kind
ve get only 6 per cent for them,
ent on standing loans which
itract business rather than ex- /a
: of the largest institution., in (g ,
ud to say that our community
ire. We have always tried to ^
dieve firm'y in the principle 50
ir customers without helping ^
write us if we can be of any
propssitions given our most jgj
(AL UNION BANK, ? ,
dutely Safe) X '
1 of To Whom If May Concern. 9
for ThiH in to certify that onr boy hart J
^ ?J been nufferiitK with u bticl chm? of piles jf
ned for lonj{ time, and it WM thought by H
sonic that ho could not bo cored. I
1 ?' finally triml fill Roddey (col) of Fort
are Mill, 8. U and t hit* in lo certify that he
nag cor t'<! llie boy. fl
th'9 John F. Phillip* *? Wife. g;
-j. -fa u.-sr?. ? -g. i_I 3 11 ? H
r. Cleaning, Pressing, I
and Dyeing. g
. Join the Kurt Mill Pressinpr^H
i'Y Club, membership
mh- month. Dry, chemical
?cy cleaning. Besides Cloth iflBp8g|^9H
P?? clean or dye Furs, Skins^^igs^^^H
d 4 Mats, Feathers, bleach Straw or B
Panama Hats; old Neckties and H
md Ribbons made new; cleaning and
jew dyeing of Gloves. jj
19 'Phone orders to 146, or call on H
us up stairs over Parks Drug Co, 99
l- GUY A. ROS?, Proprietor, 89
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