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r" ^*-vV>r*v . . vj- I I fORT MILL TIMES'' 0, W, BRADFORD, * ? EDITOR.;] On? year. 11.00 | J5l.< months 60 . Three months... 25 ' On application tu the publisher. ad- ' < ?MtUlntf rates are made kntrwn \o I intcreM*.*a. ga?xju^jLi _i_ -x ..a. ...JU.I THURSDAY. APRIL 1,1909. j i( THE SOUTH'* POPULATION. If further proof were necessary to establish the fact that the South is the best section of the country in which to live, i that proof is amply supplied in a publication just issued by the j director of the Federal census dealing with the growth of pbpu- j lation since the first census was ! taken in 1790. From this publi-1 cation the gratifying information is imparted that there has been I a noteworthy preservation in this section of the purity of the ! stock enumerated in 1790, con-! trasted with the extraordinary change in the composition of the ' Imputation taking place in the remainder of the nation during , the century and more which elapsed from 1790 to 1900. The {Southern States which form a part of the orignal area havej been practically silent partners so far as the subject of foreign born population is concerned. , Persons of foreign birth continue : to be practically a negligible elefn-mt in the South. Our people have steadfastly refused to invite to this section the undesirable hordes of foreigners which have overrun the North and West, and notwithstanding the argument which is sometimes : advanced that the South would! be more prosperous if immigrants 1 were induced to settle in our; midst, a study of the conditions which have resulted elsewhere throughout the country as a result of the presence of the for- ' signers proves unmistakably that the South has acted wisely in this matter as she does in all other matters. It is not, therefore, surprising that the South Carolina Legislature at its last, session repealed the act creating j the bureau of immigration which a few misguided individuals had < succeeded in influencing a former Legislature to establish. The I experience which our people had with the European rag-tag ar.d hob-tail brought here by the bu- , reau during its short life h i enough to last a century, and it is a safe guess that it will be a long time before the Common-, wealth again embarks in such a | /iangerous undertaking. - i JUBwK'vULUSiS. I 'TVhatis tuberculosis? Tubc-r-: jealohis is a chronic disease caused j by germs. * It is the most common and fatal of all diseases. It, mi?7 affect any organ or part ; of the body. It is a house disease and breeds in filth and dirt. "Consumption is tuberculosis of the lungs. It is not inherited, I but is principally spread by the (Consumptive's habit of spitting. The largest number of deaths, (in the crowded parts of rgc cities. i tyone may get consumption, lerculosis. Adults generally from consumption, whi'e en are crippled by tubcrcu-, of the bones, hump-back,. very death from tuberculcunnecessary, for tubcrculo preventable, communicable' urable;" ? foregoing concise stateregarding tuberculosis and mption has been issued by [Lsouri Association for the |f and Control of Tuberci loif. 1?? ^Ajft^ry man, woman and child 94olthej United fctates. It cor&?rt(^i|t'vpral fills'* notions rc;t. i^i'ding the most deadly disease u&wMern times. Emphasis j&Hihi ]bo laid upon the fact* that .tl^be^p(?^i3 is a tferm disease an^'t^etfelore communicable, but t flat^asiumption, or tuberculosis oiitWfprkr?, is not inherited and: jt.iBpjyralwhcn it manifests it>>'tfin,^3brsoti's system it is cvnSbie. |SThe best feature of t.iisttraiiHjg, however, is that it n?^jin the fact tnut all tuberculosis are pre\eutsit^ wQur crimej is, that ttnov^lnjy-thi.i, we do not t ake the , uacesKy steps to prevent i'. < K is a*Fidi?iual crime, char# yalo and women at < -S&L; y ' I leads of fair ilios. The gover. merit, by wise laws, may aid in ; putting down the disease, but its sictual eradication can only be ac- j aomplished through individual I effort. The sooner everyone in- ! forms himseif regarding the! disease, tlio sooner it will be overcome. One of the most etnbarassing things a country editor has to contend with is the disposition of people to wait until the last moment of going to press and then rush in with their items which they "want in this week, sure." This is particularly the case with those who wish to make announcements which they ; expect to have inserted gratis, i People do not reflect upon the fact that the paper is made up during the whole week and that its capacity is limited to just so much and the matter gauged accordingly. If the editor should await the convenience of those who have something they want published he would not get his paper out until the next week and then he would have to delay two or three days until some kind friend had made up his J mind about a notice he wants in but which he hasn't been able to j prepare just to suit him. A great j many people don't get their notices published in consequence j of this disposition to put off to the last minute, but those not j interested never notice the omission; the paper appears on time and the world moves on just the same. Cnti Oat Tobacco Coupons. The coupons in bags of tobac- ' co and the union 'abel on pack-! ages of tobacco is prohibited by one of the provisions of the ! Pavrio tariff hill Tho r>rm ' ? ?.J ..w *? ?* ? vi<*? A 11V pi V . I #1V1I relating to the subject is as follows: "None of the packages of smoking tobacco and fine cut chewing tobacco and cigarette prescribed by law shall be permitted to have packed in or attached to or connected with any article or thing whatsoever than the manufacturers wrappers or labels, the internal revenue stamp and the tobacco or cigarettes respectively put up therein, on which tax is required to be paid under the internal revenue laws; nor shall there be affixed to or branded or stamped, marked, written or printed upon said packages or their contents any promise or offer of any order or certificate for any gilt, prize, 1 premium, payment or reward." This provision will not necessarily compel tobacco and cigarette manufacturers to" abandon the practice of giving premiums in exchange for coupons, but they will have to devise some means of distributing the caupons other than in packages of cigarettes or tobacco. Probably No Encampments. Tt !c nnifr* rviv\l\oKln f n l a w awi \fviivv, J;I UUUUl^ UUUC of the three regiments of the National Guard in this State will go into encampment this summer. says the Columbia Record. Adjututant General Boyd said today that the matter had not been finally determined, but from the present financial aspect of the situation it looked as if it would be best to call o!T the summer encampments and devote the money that would be spent 011 them to making purchases that would be necessary in order to have Federal aid continue to the State after January next. This State now gets about $70,000.a year from the Federal government for the military and the adjutant general's office does not want to see this endangered. General Boyd will know in a week or so whether there will be money enough to hold the encampments. Smallpox at Yorkville. Reports from Yoikville say that there is all but an epidemic of smallpox in the village of the York cotton mill. A young man, Kirby Puph, died there of the disease aLout two weeks ago and since that time six other cases of the same disease have dedevelop .tj among those who came , immem tely in contact with the ' first case before the disease had bet n uugnosed as smallpox. All who ha\ e e'ev -loped cases, as well an all suspects, have been : regtegaiea, una all others living in the \iltage have been vaccinated and a quarantine is being maintained against the village by the Yorkville board of health. Tnere are no cases inside thei corporate limits of YorKville, and those v/ho are keeping in touch with the situation set in to think it improfca ?le that there will bei any. Th* host known pill* anil Ihe b<?.ir pi' n mu?hr ;iit 1 /i wnt * . iiilo l\nrly Itiiwr*. riifj ant wtnnll, H3*y to lake, jpMitV [ in 1 nci'tAiii., .>nv .*>M by m > BITS OF IDLE COMMENT. You can get a pretty good idea of the personal habits and tastes of the occupants of property by the appearance of things about the premises. If the yard is full of rubbish, tVie bushes ur trimmed and a dearth of flowers and other evidences of carelessness, the chances are that the occupant is untidy and loose in habits. On the other hand, if everyiL( ! - -i tiling is ciean, neat and tidy, flowers blooming, and a homelike air of contentment prevades the premises the chances are that the occupant is neat and progressive. Let all keep these hints in mind and clean up and beautify their property. The frogs have begun to sing. What more welcome sound to the heart and soul than the tuneful melody of the little nocturnal, aquatic, webfoot trouhfidour? The meadow lark for the fields and the robin for the back yard, but for energetic, whole-souled crescendo, for care-dispelling, debt-forgetting enjoyment, give us the frog. The average housewife will soon begin to make life a burden to the other inmates of the household. She will tie a rag around her head and wade into the dirt in a way that will make your head swim. She will tear up the carpets, empty the cupboards, look sour when you show up for dinner and slam and bang things around to a queen's taste, and if you don't like it. take your meals up town. Spring time is a very unhappy event when house cleaning is on. Superstition and distrust, with which ail societies known as secret orders were at one time viewed by a large number of people, was, happily, long ago dispelled, and today the lodge stands as one of the champions of the home and family. Whereever society has reached a high state of development, secret and fraternal orders have their greatest st rnn o-HnM An exchange pertinently remarks "A good newspaper cannot be made these days without good advertisers." But what is of more general concern is the broad fact that a good town cannot be made in these days without a good newspaper. It costs money to make a good town. It costs money to make a good newspaper. Spring is here without a doubt; the small boy has doffed his shoes and stockings, donned his last year's straw hat and with his I pockets full of marbles can be s Jen down on his kne<s in the dirt deep in the mysteries of knuckle and taw. A few days ' later when tired of marbles you ' will find him on the banks of a I creek with a can full of worms, a hickory pole and a fish line having a glorious time. The buds on the tree will hardly show a tint of green before he will be swimming, taking cramps and i just missed being drowned, having oceans of fun. had r>old? aid sore throat. Oh, halcyon days ! of youth, oh spring time of life, oh days of mumps, measles and I stonobruises, all too quickly you fly; the boys grow to manhood; : old age grows on apace, a few more years and he totters on the blink of the grave; yet a man never grows so old but that in the spring when the boys first get out with tlrtir marbles he will stop a moment to watch the game < and memory will recall days long . since past. Hon. Put. Rodgers, of Cqjk, I Ireland, will deliver an address at the city hall the night ot April 12th on the whiskey question, and, on the side, he wili tell you all about the clothes pressing business.?Adv. How to Increase Increased fruit crops arc mor ment than of good luck. Fruit tr supply of Virginia Ferti The trees absorb plant foods and potash ? troin the soil just the cnce has shown this over and ovc well recognized that " return to th would expect the best results " h. \ growers. Apple, pear, peach, orange ar careful fertilization. Lut be sure * I made a test with other cor I.owry, of Manatee County, Fla.,1 The yield where I used Virginia-C much as where the other two Hundreds of users say Virginia because of their good qualities?g results. Many f.-.cts of great interest a lisbeil in the new HKM Farmers' Y sent free on application to any of Virginia-Carolit Sci/es Offices Richmond, Va. HSfeWF' / Norfolk, V? I c'i I Columbia. C. Memphis, Tenn. jHIBbs ( Flint Hill. Editor Times: The wet weather continues. It seems that the Lord is regulating our cotton acreage. We have very little plowing done in this section, and only ten days until planting time. It appears that the farmers will be forced to plant less cotton this year. Well, from the 25th of March I to the 9th of April I am always j in a reminiscent mood. Takej these dates in 18(55 and they were j full of interest for every Con-; federate soldier. We will start a li .tie farther back, say January 1, 1865. Our case began to look I j hopeless, for we conld all see by that time that the South's cause , was a failure. About the mid- 1 die of February a man of some i degree of science lectured to our , army in an effort to raise funds ; to build some flying machines so that we could fly over the endmy's camp, drop a few bomb shells into their ranks and either exterminate them or drive them i from our soil. There was a gen-; eral in our army who was a great believer in the flying machine and he, too, took an active part. to build the machines. In one of . l.is lectures he compared the' Confederacy to a wet coon skin, i He said we were very much weakened and feeble at present, but very soon the coon skin would dry out and if you tramped ' it down at one placi it would: i rise up somewhere else. Then, ! ! as matters grew worse everyi j day, when this general would i make his appearance the soldiers I wcu'd ask, "How is the coon skin today?" The general soon got the place where the question did not sound go d to him, and : then you would hear some swear- J ing. Our most serious trouble began on March 25, 1865, when I General Grant broke our lines south of Petersburg, Va., and l our troubles became greater each day until we surrendered April 9. The last eight days we , marched day and night and ; fought some each day without a j single day's rations. We got' into camp just one night and1 that for the short space of 4: hours. Then, after staying in the Bull Pen seven days, j we tramped home, barefooted, , nearly naked, and with no money j in our pockets. Such was the j fate of one of the best armies | that ever saw the light. Some I of us have kept the wolf from j our doors and some haven't. : Brother, don't let us be forgetful of the unfortunate ones. Z. T. B. Jas. H. Thomwell For G. K. R. & S A Fort Mill dispatch to The State says that considerable in- j terest is being taken here in1 Pythian circles over the election of the next grand keeper of records and seal for the South Carolina domain. The name of Jas. H. Thomwell, superintendent of Mount Zion Institute, Winnsboro, having been suggested for the place, his many friends here, at his old home, are endorsing him enthusiastically. Mr. Thomwell is the second son of thelat^Rev. Jas. H. Thomwell, who for many 1 years filled the office of grand keoper of fecords and seal most j acceptably. Following the suggestion oi | Mr. Thomwell for the place, the Rock Hill Herald offers thif : strong endorsement: "The Herald feels satisfied | that a more suitable man for thf {office could not be found than Mr. James H. Thomwell, Jr. Although not an old man, Mr. ;jThomwell is fully capaple of taking care of the office in 1 most creditable manner, lie has a host of friends all over South i Carolina, in fact his friends ar. ; unlimited, and much of thi friendship was gained by bir amiable character, his true friondi ship of others, and his devotion to that which is grand and noble." the Yield of Fruit e often the result of pood manape ecs and iiuit plants need a liberal -Carolina lizers ? that Is, nitrogen, phosphoric acid : same as any other crop. Kxperir again. This truth has become so c land what the tree removes if yon is become an axiom with the best id other fruit trees soon respond to to use the best fertilizers, npaoies' fertilizers," says Mr. If O. ' and yours proved to be the best. Carolina Fertilizer, was just twice as companies' fertilizer was used." i-Carolina Fertilizers are cheapest ;ive better satisfaction and quicker nd value to fruit growers are pubear Hook, a copy of which will be our sales offices. na Chemical Co. m(oi I Columbus, Ga. 1 - . Wo ?ay without hesitation that DoWitt's Kidney aud Hladdur Pills are 4 1111 equaled for weak kidneys, backache, V iufhiuinintion of the bladder and all C urinary disorders. Thev are nntiseptic 4 and act profuptly in all cases of weak V buck, backache. rheumatism and ? rheumatic pains. Accept no substi- 4 tute. We soli and rccommuud them.? V Ardroy's drug store. ? ~ TOTJr'lVlOKS AKD CUEpIlORS. C All persous indebted to tlpj odnte of 4 J. M. Sprntt, deceased, aro hereby a notified to make payment to us without t delay. Persons having claims against } the said estate will present them with- f in the time required by law, duly at- f tested, or be forever barred. . ) Thos li Spratt. V i Jno. L. Spratt. Ex. Fst. J. M. Sprntt. Dt>cd. IF YOU WANT ' | 1 A Steak or Roast that is tender, j sweet and juicy, I can furnish it. I have Steaks, Roasts, Chops, Ham and Sausage, the best that money can buy. I also handle Groceries and all kinds of Canned Goods. Peas, Beans, Cabbage and Potatoes on hand at all times. See me, it's my treat. W. LEE HALL, 'Phone 29. NOTICE. We Exchange MEAL FOR CORN. Toll same ns that charged by grist mills. Bring us your corn. ----The Cotton Hill Store, L. A. HARRIS & CO. ABOUT COUGHS. Look out for that little cough. It will grow if you let it. Your throat won't stand teasing long. You cannot afford to catch cold and trust to luck to get rid of the cough. The cough may be a trifle easier ono day and worse the next. Acoucrh?a tight cough?is one of the ( hardest things to lose. But < there is a way ?an easy ' t way ?to shake it out of the ' system. Simply take H Bell's Pine Tar-Honey < A few dose bring relief. A . few more complete the cure, j 25 cents a bottle and your' money cheerfully back if it ] don't do you good. We sell , lots of Laxative Quinine ; Tablets. They are the best t we know of to break up a ! cold, and we recommend , ( them confidently. 1! Fort Mill Drug Comp'y J. R. HAILE, Mgr. || I $1.75 Tho Best ? THE TRI-WEE together with the super magazine; or THE ? paper; or TALKS FROI Iyji mini wibuuin, worm it The Tri-Weekly brightest, and biggest Souther Almost a Daily, yet at the price < or The Weekly Constituti The Weekly Constitution is : The Tri-Weekly Constitutior news of the country, state, n; the departments of Farm and ers' Union, Rural Free Deli\ appeal directly to those addr The Weekly Constitution co and The Tri-Weekly is that 1 other three times a week?3 If you want the Constitution Constitution at $i per year, c Atlanta, Ga. One sample .cc THE CON! FOR RURA A club of 40 or 50 or more w for daily mail service. 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