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Ill The fort Mill Times. OEMOCRATIC. r Published Thins Jay Murnto.t* B. W. AND W. R. BKA?r?<tO . Puui.isukm IS W. Bradford , . Editor and Majhackh, {subscription Ratrs: Oris Y<*r tt .UU Six Months... .SO ' Throe Months .26' On application to the publisher, advertising rates are mado known to those interested. The Times iuvitas contribution* on iivenubjvcta, ' t>ut dous not agree to publish more thauW words pn au,y ocie subject. The right is rsaerveil to : ?dl\ everr communication submitted tor pi/bii- ' wit l ion. tMUIStU ^ j F?KT Mil,!,. 8. C., J<1N? 10. 4.1 _J .i. i 11 .a..? . ..? - i . ? us _ ?eAgain the Auto Highway. The editorial, last week, of Thk Times pointing out the disadvantages ; and danger which would re*ttit to our people fruin the establishment of the proposed New York-Atlanta automobile highwuy has had the effect of drawing "the fire of several papers which are working for the highway. it is a noticeable fact, however, that not one of these papers has undertaken to disprove what we said in opposition to j the highway. They have failed to point out in what way the henefits to he derived from the road would even remotely repay the taxpayers for building it. Let us suppose for instance, that the highway is to be built from Charlotte to Columbia, -without deviating from the most direct route j over the public roads already in use. ! The part of the highway which would i pass through York county certainly is not the most frequently used road in the county. So we would tax all the people of the county to provide a highly improved road for the benefit of a .ft>w nf mi r AU?n nnn^ln ?? 1 .? ,w? vu v ? ^/WJ'IC OlILl U ^1 l"(2l ( jnnny outsiders who have absolutely no I interest in the county and whose presence would result in practically no Revenue to any of our citizens. The i statement that the profits to local j deulers fpom the sale of gasoline to the ; automobilists who would use the high- ; way could be expected to offset the ex- ; pen so of building the road in a comparatively short time was made by a i fool who evidently imagined he was talking to idiots. There is not a town between Charlotte and Columbia which would receive $W) a year from out- ; aiders aa u direct result of tire building pf tire highway. Furthermore, aa we ' undertook to point out last week, such a highway uojuld mean serious danger to the life, limb and property of our j own people. It is useless for the i apologist ef the auto outlaw who is j jgeated ip a fast automobile driving jpckleBsly to say that this paper ex agge rates the conditions which certain- i Jy would .come with the auto highway. [ Every day we read of someunfortuaate person who happens to he in the path ! of an automobile being run down and ' killed or seriously injured. Most of these accidents could he avoided if t ie ! Automobile drivers cared less for their own pleasure and more for the life : and Hmb of their victims. The drivers wantonly ignore the fact that all the ' people have an equal right to the use pf the streets and public highways. We | Are confident that the people of York' .county will not agree to invest one j pent of the public funds in the nro D, A. Tot^pkint Squelched, D, A. Tompkins, of Chvlotte, than ! whom there is very properly no more ; unpopular man politically in this State, ! where he is well known, has been in W ashington for the last few days presuming to instruct Southern senators as to their duty with respect to the proposed national tariff commission, Tompkins is one of your precious twentieth century patriots who is an earnest advocate cf Congress legislating the rich richer and the poor poorer, through the agency of the protective tariff. He hopes to see the tariff commission created so that additional burdens of government can be laid upon the people. That is what this proposed tariff commission mearls, but that is not all. It means also that the per- j sonnel of the commission would be : appointive and that there would be no one U? hold to account in a political way ! for the increased discriminations which ; wouiu ue practiced against tne people, i That, of course, would suit Tompkins j and the other protectionists. Their \ idea is to give the people as little voice ! in the government as possible. On his proselyting trip to Washington, how- i ever, Tompkins seems to have tackled the wrong man when he undertook to j convert Senator Money, of Mississippi. "Why," said Senator Money, "you believe in protection; that is, you believe it. is right to take money by law out of one man's pocket and give it to another who has not earned it and who has no right to it. This government at present is in the hands of men who j agree with you. If a tariff commission is appointed by this administration such ! men as you would be on it, and, princi- ! pies upon which your commission would act would bo the same as those of the highway robber or the pirate. So-called j 'business men' would control it, and they would just make tha great mass of the American people pay a higher tribute to you and your kind." The Weekly Pre*?. As time goes on the great daily papapers of the country are becoming more and more the exponents of special interests. Their attitude toward the tariff bill which is now under consideration in Congress is a striking illustration of the fact. With few exceptions the great dailies are assisting Aldrich and his buccaneers to fasten this iniquitous bill upon the country, knowing that it will impose additional burdens upon the people. There is, of course, a reason for this attitude of the great dailies, and it is to be found in the fact that they are either owned by the trusts and corporations or are paid princely sums for supporting legislation designed to benefit the predatory posed highway. There is no reason why it should be built through the 1 county. Prohibitionists Outwitted. At the session of the Tennessee legislature which adjcurped some months ago a prohibition bill was passed making it unlawful to establish a buIlk^ within four miles of a school house. It was thought by the prohibitionists in the Legislature that there was not a spot in the State which, .under this provision, could be used for liquor-selling purposes, and the state- i ment was.made that if such a place . vwas found it would be the business of fhe prohibitionists to establish a school ' house in the neighborhood, thus closing the saloon. For once, however, the prohibitionists made the mistake of assuming that .other folk were less in- | geniouB than themselves. A Nashville dispatch says that W. P. Conger, of ' McMinnville, has found a spot on the j top of the Cumberland mountains in Sequatchie county where the State ; prohibition law, effective July 1, canpot touch him and he is now having a saloon erected there. It ia 18 miles from McMinnville and there is no school house within four miles of the place. ! It ia reported that Conger has leased pll the land fojr four miles ar6und in .order to prevent the erection of a Schoolhouse. Regular hack lines will he estabjished by the enterprising saloonist to furnish liquor to the neighbor- j ing towns. As the Legislature does ( not meet until 1811, he expects to poin money. ^ "Buck" Bryant says in the Charlotte Observer that the name of Senator K. P. Smith has been changed from Oatling Qun Smith to Pop Gun Smith. Changed by whom? "Buck" probably knows the name of tip* irresponsible blatherskite who proposed the change, ' put for some unexplained reason he has , not taken the public jnto his confidence. Yes, it's tpe littje .things that hurt.. A common eyery-dry measly little fly 1 tyifl Jp^lcc an orthodox Christian swear forty strokes to the minute, while jf the same man had his head taken off py a July tornado he wouldn't say a fyprd about it, ? ? interests. ine pcopie are tuhc icarn- ing that too often the editorial opinions and even news columns of the metropolitan and near-metropolitan pressure not to be relied upon where their interests nre involved, and for this reason the weekly press is increasing in j importance day by day. In nine cases out of ten the weekly paper is owned , by the man who edits it and, therefore, j has behind it a-conscience and a charac- j tor that can be identified. It is close j to the people and can give voice to the j sentiments of its readers. The people have to rely more and more upon the country papers for the educational work that is neeessary to a correct understanding of public questions. The | country newspaper can obtain its news ! from the metropolitan daily, but it | must do its own digesting and inter- j preting. There is a lot of difference be- ! tween the man who writes what he is told to write and the man who writes what he believes, and wirtes because he believes he has a message to deliver ' to hiB readers. Why Do Men Adverllto? The man who conducts his business ] on the theory that it doesn't pay and ' he can't afTord to advertise, seta up j his judgment in opposition to that of | all the beat business men in the world. I Says an expeeienced advertising au- i thority: "With a few years' experi- ] ence in conducting a small business on a few thousands of capital, he j assumes to know more than thousands whose hourly transactions aggregate more than his do in a year, and who have made their millions by pursuing a course that he says doesn't pay." If advertising doesn't pay, why is it : that the most successful merchants of every town, large or small, are the j heaviest advertisers? If advertising doesn't pay, who does the most busi- ! ness? If it does not pay, business j firms in the world squander millions in that way. Is it because they want to 1 donate those millions to the news- ' paper and magazine publishers, or be- ! cause they don't know as much about : business as the six-for-a-dollar mer- j chant who says money spent in ad- \ vertising is thrown away or donated j to the man to whom it is paid? Such talk is simply ridiculous, and it re- ; quires moie than the average patience , to discuss the proposition of whether advertising pays or not with that kind of a man. His complacent self-conceit in ussuming that he knows more than t ho whnlo WAflH ia lnnnrkuKl/. o ?'1 . . .w .rw. ??? UIIU IU" minds us of the man who proved that the world doesn't revolve by placing a pumpkin on a stump and watching it all ( night. We were a little surprised a few days ago when we noticed several hundred dollars of the town's funds lying in a j vacant lot in the rear of the cotton warehouse, and more so to find that it had lain there several years unmolested, but looking much the worse for the exposure. The money was in the shape of a rock crushing machine, the property of the town. It appears to us that the proper care of this machine would effect a considerable saving to the town should a rock crusher be needed in the future. ; . v The Wjndup. For forty years he schemed and struggled and saved. He abut himself apart from his fellows in order to accumulate great piles of gold. He waved away human companionship and sought only the glitter of the precious metala, What other men wrought he tore down to build higher the foundations of his own enterprises, and when they sunk helpless beneath the waters of oblivion be only muttered to himself and added to his store of gold. And then came the end. Of all the yellow metal he had accumulated not one glittering Speek could he carry with him when the dread 'messenger beckoned and he wi\p compelled to follow. After all the years of his striving he came to have only what even the poorest inay claim?six feet of earth! What was the use? The trade territory of a town is not all dependent upon the distance to neighboring trading points. The trade territory depends upon the enterprise of the merchants and the residents of the town. If a town does not reneh after the trade it will come only as | fast as it has to, and it will grow as 1 it 13 forced to. But if the merchants go after business in the surrounding country, advertising in every possible way, and making good every word of their advertising; trade will come from an ever-increasing radius, the town will gain a reputation for being awake and it will forge to the front. It is the men in the town and not altogether the men living within a certain number of miles from it that makes the town good for nothing. - Whether you talk with yonr neighbor or a stranger at home or abroad, always have a good word for your town. Speak of the beautiful homes, the nice streets, the schools and churches, the excellency of the surrounding country and the intelligence and enterprise of your neighbors. Stand by your town and you will find it more thriving than ever before. The "whitewash season" is at hand and a receipt to make whitewash that will not crumble off may be of use to someone who reads this. Here is the formula used by Uncle Sam at the various government works: Ten parts fresh slacked lime and one part hydraulic cement. Mix well with salt water and apply thin. Treasurer Neely's Splendid Record. The checking up of the accounts of the late County Treasurer H. A. D. Neely and the transfer of the books to Mr. Harry E. Neil, the newly appointed treasurer, was completed by the comptroller general's office the past ' week. Mr. Neely held the position of treas- | urer of York county for 28 years. He had on hand at the time of his death n balance of $40,073, which was on deposit in the various banks of the county. As was always the case, his books were in perfect condition and the State officials found no difficulty in checking up the accounts of the office. It is authoritatatively given out that Mr. Ncely was one of the very few county treasurers of the State who got his mothly report into the comptroller general's office promptly. In brief, he was considered about the best county treasurer that the State has ever had at any point. In his 28 years' work he was accredited with having handled public funds amounting to over $3,500,000, an average of about $130,000 a year. Mr. Neely's salary was $900 a year. There are many imitations of DeWittV Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve ?DeWitt's is the original. Be sure you get DeWitt'a Carbolized Witch Hazel balve when you ask for it. It is good for cuts, burns and bruises, and is especially good for Piles. Sold by Ar(lrey's drug store. .LI H An Advertise | Let People K Rock Hill Preacher Scorers Taft. In his sermon in St. John's Methodist church in Rock Hill Sunday, > the pastor, the Rev. R. H. Milis, start- i led his hearers by a bitter attack on j the president's religion, saying the 1 president had "committed the utipar- i donablesin," I t "Unitarianism is a lie," said the! minister. "Mr. Taft, as a president. ! I may be all right, but as a religionist he J ] is A miserable failure. If he has not ] committed the sin against the Holy 1 1 Ghost, he has done the very next thing J j to it, for he has denied that Jesus Christ,' is of divine conceotion. which ponn-n- l ? ?"r j tion was the work of the Holy Ghost. ' Mr. Taft and the other Vnitarians tell ? us that Jesus Christ was a good man, < but an illegitimate; that He was same- 1 what of a genius, as such characters < usually are. They say He went about healing the sick and doing all manner < of good; was crucified, buried and that 1 was the end of Him. And yet these 1 people bolcUy presume to call them- i selves Christians. i ">Iow, either the Bible is a lie and Unitarianism is right, or the Bible is I right and Ur.itarianism is a lie. 1 pre- 1 fer to believe the Bible." ; ] I Pleasant Valley Newt Notes. ' I Pleasant Valley, June 8.? Farmers ] are badly behind owing to so much wet I weather. j Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Potts spent Sunday in Pineville. I Miss Edna Harris, who has beer. ] teaching near Monroe, is at home for 1 I the summer. < Misses Minnie and Grace Faris, of I Flint Hill, spent Saturday and Sunday < i in this community. Lester Therrell, Eugene Hall and < Misses Alda Therrell and Valley Pettus i are expected home this week. 1 Dr. R. M. Potts has returned from a visit. Ask where, and watch him i smile. i Miss Olive ^v.iis, of Fort Mill, spent < the past v?eek with relatives in Pleas- ] ant Valley. < Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell Sturgis, of i Rock Hill, were visitors Saturday and ] Sunday at the home of Mr. J. D. Wolfe. < Thorhwell Orphanage Cormencement. Invitations to Thornwell Orphanage commencement have been sent out by that institution HoWu 5u .? TV.il UlC program for commencement: 1 Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Ruth- erford E. Douglas, Macon, Ga., at the j First PreBbyterian church 11 a. m? j June 13. 1 Monday, June 14?Exercises of the William P. Jacobs Literary Society, ' I Carolina Memorial, 8:30 p. m. Tuesday, June 15?Board of trus! tees; Nellie Scott Literary, 3:30 p. m., commencement exercises. Annual address. Rev. T. Ellison Simpson of Society Hill, S. C., 8:30 p. in. Wednesday, June-16?Alumni Society, Nellie Scott Society, 10 a. m. Exhibition of technical departments 8. a. m. till 11 a. m. School exhibitions 8:30 p. m. Graduates class of 1909 Georgia Augusta Bremer, Atlanta, Go., Daisy Andrew Eichelborger, Laurens, S. C., Eula Eleanor Harrison, Greenville, S. C,, Eliza Earle Kern, Clinton S. C., Eloise Edelia Tinson, Huntington, S. C.; Cassie Lee Oliver, Lowndcsville, S. C.; Lois Martha Sims, Spartanburg, S. C.; Eula May Winn, Due West, S. C. Sometimes you may be told that there are c'Jier things just as good as DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. That isn't so. Nothing made is as good as DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for any ailmens of the kidney or bladder, which always result in weak back, backache, rheumatic pains, rheumatism and yrinary disorders. A trial of DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills is sufficient to convince you how good they are. Send your name to E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, for a free trial box. | They are sold here by Ardrey'a drug store. amTe Says: l fellow who tries usiness without ad\ ke the fellow who weetheart a kiss in e knows what he ut nobody else doe ment in THE 1 now What You ' ' * * V* ? The High Price of Foodstuffs. Through sympathy with the corner in 1 vheat, or from some other cause, re- j narks an exchange the rise in food j jrices shows no sign of receding. Flood i ,ide has not bedn reached yet, and it equires a brave purveyor of foodstuffs :o predict when the end will be reached. One advance was discovered by the lousewife when she went to buy a sup- | ply of sugar. Recently a dollar would procure nineteen pounds of granulated, aut now only eighteen pounds will be ?iven in exchange for the same coin. Another advance is in the price of tions and spring chickens. One dollar will perhaps bring in a trio of "springers" several sizes smaller than the picture of the eagle on the coin. Lard to | fry the lightweight will also be some- j what at a premium. Butter nes not taken its scheduled irop for the spring, but remains around the fancy prices obtained during the winter. Even the warm weather does not melt the prices so as to be noticeable. Eggs still occupy a place among the luxuries?or at least present prices would have put them in that class a year or two ago. It is said that the packers are taking eggs at 20 cents a iozen for storage, whereas it is usual to discontinue purchases for this purpose beyond the lG-cent line. One thing which keeps up the price of eggs is the high price for chickens. Flour is still badly affected by Pattenites. From $G.75 to $7.20 is the price for a barrel. This is $1.50 more than the material for the staff of life could be obtained a few months ago. Local dealers said that the price was >n the verge of another upward shoot. This is a kind of curve which will require the head of the household to takTa new grip on the big stick with which tie brings down the coins. Packing house products are firm, following a recent advance. In some nstances retailers have not made a corresponding increase in price, but promise to do so unless relief comes juickly, as they say they are not makng any money since they have had to pay the higher prices demanded by iealers. 1785 1909 College of Charleston. 12Stk Year Begins October 1. Entrance examinations will be held at t Via i 'Aim tsr ** ? ? *" 1 wuuiivjr vuui i UUU9C on maay, July 2, at 9 a. m. All candidates for admission can compete in October for for vacant Boyce scholarships, which pay $100 a year. One free tuition scholarship to each county of South Carolina. Board and furnished room in dormitory, 512. Tuition, $40. For catalogue, address HARRISON RANDOLPH, President. "A STITCH IN TIME WILL SAVE NINE^" Save the "nine" by having your Clothing attended to at the proper time. We do first-class Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing in connection with our Tailoring, and this for Ladiss' Clothing as well as Men All work left with us is promptly, skilfully and carefully done. All work is strictly guaranteed. FORT MILL PRESSING CLUB. GUY ROSS, Proprietor. 'Phone 146. RYAN 1 to attract 111 rertising is throws his ||? the dark; 1|| is doing, tg* IMES Will I Are Doing. 8 11 1 I f I I - ? ' "l .-^^rM M @?@@???????C{?0?S?SO6@ ? r ;'; |?WATCHi The Peopled Stor? g The Fa?te?t Growing Store in York County I Something New Every Da. Just in a new and up-to-now line t U A TC *_y A JL I~\, Jl kJ ^ 8 for old men, middle-aged men, yovn: ? men and boys. It is well worth yo g! while to see this line of stylish Ha< !* We have all the very latent shad( c and shapes at very low prices. Oi i | $1.50 hat looks like the other fellow 5 $3.00 one. Bring us your head, w? 5 can fit it, and make a better looking ; I % @ man of you. And if it s not a h?. q you want, maybe it's a Dress Shir! f g work Shirt or suit of Underwea ? We carry a full line of Gents' Fur ? nishings, and are here to serve you ? Something Good To Eat all the 0 time. 1 The People's Store g MILLS & YOUNG, Proprietors. WI'lliWIWH mm wm?a Sumner Time Is Fly Time! - !;*?. I 1 Let your worries be greatly lessened this summer jjL by putting in Fly Screens. You have no idea how ; H much more pleasant and beautiful summer will b<5 if you are freed from the awful fretting of the flies. Get Screens for your doors and windows and | j bid defiance to the "pesky pests." Bring us your window and door measure and . | you'll come back later and say, "Thank you!" E. W. Kimbrell Co. \ PHONE NO. 7. FORT MILL, S. C. j Tw^ktTlOT the' should be selected with the greatest care, as much depends KH Eg uj>on its rich, nutritious properties and absolute purity. 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