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The* Fort Mill Times.
DEMOCRATIC.
Published Thursday Morninm.
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on any ono subject. llm riatht is reserved to
?*nt every conununlcutlon xubnntUxl fur publication.
FORT Mill- S. C.. AUGUST 6.
There is no mistaking the fact
that the fools are in the saddle
in Georgia, as they have been
for the last two years. After
passing a senseless prohibition
law some months ago which
does not prohibit, they now favor,
according to The Constitution,
"hills to make every body psalmsing
from daylight till dark. Go
to bed at sunset. A bill to make
it a penitentiary offence for a
woman to wear a peek-a-boo
shirt waist or a drop stitch stocking.
A bill against undressed
piano legs. To cut down all
trees in winter because their
limbs are bare." Of course The
Constitution did not mean to be
taken seriously in pointing out
the "bills" which it says the
legislarors favor, but they are
already committed to enough
foolish legislation to make themselves
the laughing stock of the
country.
The advertisements in a newspaper,
if the advertiser means
what he says, are a very valuable
part of the paper to its readers.
Through them the people learn
where they can secure bargains
and thus save themselves money.
For this reason the merchant
who has bargains to offer and
who always does by his customers
just as he advertises that he will
do, is the man whose "ads" are
read with interest, and who is
sought when the readers wish to
buy. The prosperous merchant,
when ho has bargains to offer,
advertises the fact to the pcopile
because lie wishes them to come
and see him; and then he does
just as he advertised to do.
People are always looking for
bargains.
The man or woman who has
time enough to keep up with
every little whimsical piece of
gossip about their neighbors,
about their town, about anything,
anybody or everybody ?
such a man or such a woman
should enjoy our Christian
sympathy. They are usually
no good and perfeetiy harmless,
yeL their deplorable condition of
mind should elicit our kindly feel'
ing.
The authorities should see to
it that melon rinds and other
vegetable matter is not thrown
1 nf hn olloiro omd ~ -
imw i>11v- nuvjro IlIIU WttCft IUIK Li)
rot this hot weather. There is
nothing that will cause typhoid
fever quicker than old melon
rinds and rotten vegetables.
Advice to the city of Walterboro:
Be sure that the parties
to whom you sell your school
bonds are reliable. Experience
is our teacher.
Former York MaH 105 Years Old.
The Kuthorfordton (N. C.)
Sun of recent date carried a good
picture and story of the life of
Mr. Wm. Wiles, a native of this
county who is now an inmate of
the county home of Rutherford
county. Mr. Wiles, according
to The Sun. is now 105 years of
age. and with him at the home
is his wife, who is 60 years old
and almost helpless from iniirmities.
William Wiles was horn in York
district. South Carolina, in 1804,
near the present town of Yorkville.
He lived in that section
until after 1810, having been
bound out at 10 years of age to
Nathaniel Gibbons, He then
made his home in Gaston county,
N. C., for 25 years, moving from
there to Camp Creek township
in Rutherford county, where he
resided until taken to the county
home. Mr. Wiles has been married
three times and is the father
of three children all dead.
Rev. S. J. Bet'nea will leave
early .?? >' week for Saluda, S. C,,
where . '! assist Rev. D. P.
Boyd in a protracted meeting.
Dispensarires Closed?Ok, You Tifors! f
Monday evening at sundown L
every liquor dispensary in the
State was closed as a result of f
the law passed at the session of
the Legislature last winter order- 1
ing prohibition elections in every *
"wet" county. The elections are 11
to be held on the 17th inst. and ?
the chances are that most of the 8
counties will go "dry," very little
effort, except in a few coun- 11
ties, having been made by the 1
. friends of the dispensary to save c
the institution. On the other 1
hand, the prohibitionists have 1
been making a thorough canvass 3
in all the dispensary counties and ! 8
I 1 i. I-- . . 1 t . ( A
nave not . uniy put tneir Desi u
: speakers and most effective local
' campaigners in the field, but have
' been helped by a number of well
known politicians from other
I States, among the number being
, ex-Governor Robert Glenn, of
' North Carolina, and Seaborn
Wright, the prohibition leader of
Georgia.
Elections are to be held in 21
counties, just half the counties
of the State, only two of which,
Fairfield and Kershaw, are north
of Columbia. In Abbeville county
The Press and Banner ha3
! made an insistent fight^for the j
retention of the dispensary and
in Richland county the general;
understanding is that the newspapers
are opposed to prohibi- j
tion, though the two leading!
papers, The State and The Rec- j
ord, have had little to say on the
subject. The impression is that
j Richland will not go "dry." In
Charleston county the news-!
papers have scouted the idea of ,
prohibition, and in Bamberg a
light has been made by the dispensaryites
as in Aiken and one
or two other counties. i
All of the dispensaries are to
remain closed until the result of
the elections is declared, and in 1
those counties which go "dry" i
the dispensaries will be reopened
for a few weeks to dispose of I
the stock on hand. In the counties
which vote for the institution
the dispensaries will also be
; reopened as soon as the result of J i
; the election is officially an- ?
nounced and will continue to run ! i
as formerly. Meanwhile a par- ! c
ticularly stringent liquor law is *
in effect, providing a fine of at t
least $100 or imprisonment for i
three months or more for the ! c
first conviction for the illegal t
! sale of liquor and imprisonment | c
for from one to five years without <i
alternative fine for the second f
offense. t
South Carolina is not the only j?
Southern State which has a j y
; prohibition fight on hands. In 11
j Kentucky things are also warm t
between the prohis and antis, i
only a little more so than in this t
State. In the Blue Grass Com- t
monwealth the antis are being i
led by Col. Henry VVatterson, ; i
j the distinguished editor of The ] f
: Courier-Journal. In reply to one ;
1 or two critics Colonel Watterson i v
makes the following interesting j t
observations in a recent issue of ' c
: his paper: s
The unhappy victim of delirium tre- ; j,
mens sees nothing in his ravings but |
snakes, and the fanatical prohibitionist '
in his ravings nothing but drunkards. a
Brother Sommers fairly rivals Brother t fc
I Pickett. He looks through the knothole 1 .
; of a cross-road groggery and beholds j 1
! therein the world. To lum there is no ! c
I difference between a glass of wine drunk h
; bv a gentleman among gentlemen and a j
| glass of poison drunk by toughs among .
| toughs. Every meeting of men and j a
| women where wine is served becomes ac- , c
i cording to his distorted vision a bac- a
, chanla every social gathering a de- 8
bauch. Fifty habitual drunkards in a , .
community of ten thousand would De a
large percentage, and yet all others ?
the nine thousand nine hundred and 1
fifty? must nedds be disciplined by law ' j.
in order that Brother Pickett and j
Brother Sommers may try their hands j
; at sobering and keeping sober the de- | f
uuqueni nny.' ine sexual relation has J h
brought quite as much evil and suffer- s
ing into the world as drink. Time was
when fanaticism proclaimed celibacy
and the cloister as Rrother Pickett C
' and Brother Sommers shout prohibi- tion;
the argument in either case the 1 c
! same. To what end? Shall lawful love c
be extinguished because of lawless love? |
j Shall the world's acropolis of wisdom ; 3
j and virtue be transferred from Olympian S
shrines to the top of a henroost on Mul- t
j draugh's hill? Shall Kentucky crawl t
I into Symmes hole and draw the hole 3
I in after? v
1 Go to! Goto! We e'en shall still have ! s
j cake and ale; and Christmas egg-nog p
| shall tlow; and'each shall drink to each; c
and love shall sparkle and children yet e
be born; aye, and they shall laugh and j
sing too; though Hell and Brother Pick- b
ett stand at the door, though the Devil o
and Brother Sommers seex to crawl in 1
at the window! Did either ever read f
about the gentleman in Virginia, who rJ
made a fortune minding his own busi- i r
ness, or the rooster who thought the u
sun rose just to hear him crow? j J
Mr. Finley Scores Tariff Bill. ' ?
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The Fifth Congressional tlis- I
trict of this State is fortunate in t
being represented by a man who 1
is a student of public affairs and j
is able to express himself in- [!
telligently on the tariff, the most r
complex question whicli comes *
up for consideration in the ser- %
vice of a national representative. J,
Saturday n'ght after the passage
r ii .....
oi me rayne-Aldrich tariff bill r
Mr. Finley declared that the bill 1
is the worst ever enacted in this [
| country. Said he: t
"The Payne-Aldrich bill, which ha* i
been under consideration by Congress )
since the lf>th of March, is beyond F
question, a more objectionable measure , c
than any tarilT law ever enacted in 8
this country. The r?-ductions amount I
] to little or nothing from a material v
standpoint. Free nides, free oil and a t
small temporary reduction on lumber F
and on a few items in the iron and steel i f1
schedule are some of the largest re- 'I
ductions made. None of these will 1 t
affect the price of manufactured arti- 1 c
i t
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Lost Body of "Old Hickory's" Father.
In conversation with a number oi
riends a day or two ago, Mr. T. D.
Faulkner, one of the oldest citizens ol
his community, related an interesting
ncident in connection with the funeral
if the father of President Andrew Jackon.
The story is worth printing.
The elder Jackson, as is well known,
ived about 20 miles from Fort Mill, in
he Waxhaw neighborhood of Lancaster
ounty, where "Old Hickory" was born.
)own there, as elsewhere throughout
lie world and as is the way of man
ince old Adam ate the forbidden fruit
ome 6,000 years ago, men sometimes
lie. This was the portion of the eldei
ui-nsuii. Aim 11 was me custom in
hat neighborhood then, as it is now,
or friends to foregather at the home
if respectable citizens who had departid
this life and accord them a Christian
atrial. The elder Jackson being an upight
citizen who was well liked in his
ommunity, there was no scarcity ol
riends at his funeral.
In due course of time the hour ariveil
for the funeral party to begin the
ourney of several miles from the Jackon
home to the burying ground al
Vaxhaw church. No untoward incilent
occurred to mark the progress ol
he funeral party until Six-mile creek
vas reached. In those days wagons had
lot coine into general use?at least
here seems not to have been one in tht
Vaxhaw neighborhood?and hearses
vere unknown. So the best the friends
if the (lead Jackson could do in trans>orting
his body to the graveyard was
o place it on a slide. The slide was
>uilt close to the ground, not more thar
8 inches high from the runners to tht
op. This was an important fact ir
onnection with the elder Jackson's
'uneral, for when the creek was reached
t was seen to be in a swoolen conditior
rom recent rainB and therefore could
lot be forded at the point where tin
uneral party intended to cross.
A consultation was held as to tht
>est means of getting the body across
he creek and it was decided to send
hree or four of the party with tht
icxly to another ford several miles U|
lie creek, where all were reasonably
certain no trouble would be experienced
n crossing the stream. The members
if the party remaining behind were
lither horseback or afoot and conseluently
found it easy to cross tht
woolen stream on their mounts or walk
lie footloi?.
The two parties agreed to meet at 8
toss road two or three miles beyond
he lower ford and the party which
Tossed at this ford reached the
Icsignated meeting point on time. Iiul
or some reason the party in charge ol
he body did not appear as expected. Foj
i time little was thought of the delay,
iowever, as it was attributed to the
>ad roads of the time. Finally aftei
he minutes of waiting had stretched
nto hours, all became apprehensive
hat something had gone wrong anc
,wo or three men were detailed to gt
n search of the party in whose keepng
the body of the future presidents
ather had been entrusted.
But at the moment the searchers
vere ready to set out the party ii
harge of the body drove up to the
ross roads?without the body. Conternation
reigned for a short while
iut repeated inquiry elicited the inormation
that the body had been lost
ilong the way ?through the irresponsiile
condition into which its keepers
iad fallen by stopping too long at a
ountry tavern and drinking toe
leartily of the "brown October ale."
n other words, they had got drunk
nd forgot all about their mission. Of
ourse the body was recovered and
,fter a delay of several hours was conigned
to its last resting place in old
Vaxhaw cemetery.
Mr. T. D. Faulkner, to whom The
'imes is indebted for this little story,
3 a cousin of President Andrew
ackson. Mr. Faulkner was raised in
he Waxhaw neighborhood near the
irthplace of "Old Hickory" and he
ays there is no kind of doubt about
he fact that Andy was born in South
Carolina.
les to any considerable extent to the
onsumers.
"It is well known that the iron and
teel manufacturers of the United
tates would have a monopoly, pracically
speaking, without any tariff.
"In the larger items of iron, steel,
ugar and woolen goods the consumer
vill receive absolutely no relief. The
ame is true of the bill in all of its
revisions. The consumer will be
ailed U{?on to pay more for the necssaries
of life than at present.
"The trusts and monoplies have a
ill to suit them. It is not expected
>r intended that the Payne-Aldrich
ill will raise sufficient revenue to deray
the expenses of the Government,
'his is necessarily true because the
ate of taxation is so high on imports
is to be prohibitive to a large extent.
V Republican Congress having this in
nind has provided in the bill for an
inlimited issue of bonds not to exceed
wo hundred million dollars at anj
ime, but the authority to issue is
ontinuous, the money to be used tc
neet the oxpenses of the government.
The total amount of bonds that maj
>e issued under Section 40 of the bill
s unlimited, so that the bill might be
ailed a law to enable trusts and molopolies
to increase their Drofits at th?<
xpense of the consumers and to prodoe
for a bond issue in order to raise
noney to defray the expenses of the
government.
"It is impossible for the Republican
>arty to revise the tariff for the reason
hat the special interests control the
>arty. After making a promise of a
arilf revision to the people and carrying
he election for president in 1908 on this
ssue, and having an overwhelming maority
in the House and Senate, the Reiiiblicans
have labored for four and
we-half months to revise the tariff,
ind the result is a downright failure.
am sure that the American people
vill resent, this bunco game put up by
he Republicans ami repudiate the
tarty at the first opportunity. The
nusses of the American people are
n favor of an honest revision of the
aritf, and one that will be fair to the
oDsunier."
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| Here's a Dollar for You ;
; And more than a dollar, too, if you will take advantage of I
i I our summer prices on Footwear. All Mens' and Womens' I
: 9 Oxfords put down to prices that are surprising in cheapness g
I Mens' Patent Kid Oxford $4.00, now $3.30. f|
Mens' Tan Calf 44 4.00 44 3.30. B
Mens' Patent Colt 44 3.50 44 2.90. g
Mens' Tan Calf 44 3.50 44 2.90. H
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I ATiis v ici rviu Z.bU 1.98. 9
Ladies' Pat. Vici 2-eyelet Oxf. 3.00 " 2.35. 9
Ladies' Patent Colt Oxford 2.50 " 2.10. ?
, Ladies'Chocolate Vici " 2.50 " 2.10. A
r Ladies' Vici Kid " 2.00 " 1.75.
Ladies 1.50 1.25. H
I BAREFOOT SANDALS, FOR CHILDREN, "SCUFFER" H
t BRAND-BEST ON EARTH-AT REDUCED PRICES. ?
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MOSQUITO CANOPIES
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With Net ready to hang. They are worth the
, price for one night, yet they last for years. They
I fit any size bed. Price $1.50.
Always Something New,
New Sash Pins, 25c.
, New Dutch Collar Pins, 10 and 25c.
I New Scarf Pins, 10, 25 and 50c.
New Link Buttons, 25c, 50c and $1.50,
New Dutch Collars, nice line, 15 and 25c,
MEACHAM & EPPS.
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The Cool Spot
l Of the town is under the big Electric Fan at our
> handsome Soda Fountain. There is no excuse I
, for suffering from heat when the big fan is in mos
tion and we serve you with the most delicious
? '
Ice Cream, Cream Soda
I and Crushed Fruits
to be had anywhere. We serve all the popular
refreshing drinks and serve them in the most upto-date
manner. Our Fountain is handsome, new
, and sanitary in every respect.
Try "Fan Taz,"
| The popular new drink of the baseball fans.
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CAR LOAD RECEIVED TO-DAY.
We have all kinds of Buggies?Rubber or Steel Tire,
Side or End Spring, Open or Top. We can save you $10
on a Buggy. Come and see them,
i Our livery is complete and prices reasonable.
: W. F. HARRIS & SONS, T^EPHO ^s c.
|i| Your Turnip P?ch I
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anuuiu uc aucuuea now.
>
Let us sell you some excellent Turnip Seed at
\ 40 cents per pound.
Purple Top White Globe,
Early Purple Top Strap Leaved,
i Pomeranean White Globe,
1 Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen.
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These seed are all carefully selected and will
Eest results.
M. KIMBRELL CO. I
FORT MILL, - - S. C,
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[ ate means, not poss
\ amount of nice, ne^
J niturc and house fi
) the home attracti\
* membered that we
) line to select from ;
1 prices and terms to
J What is
g It is just what 3
g for a very small c
g month you can nial
g as comfortable and
g could wish for. A\
<?> of everything in f
? parlor to the kitcln
g escaped our notice,
g day and you will b
g soon you will have
g fully furnished ai
g paid for. . Get our
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| Economy
i for all t
A August is the long, ch
the grocer sells the ch
Canning Time is Hen
We sell the best Frui
at the lowest prices.
fn Absolute cleanliness i:
(r part of our Meat Mar
^ nice Steak or Roast.
| JONES
? "Everythir
That Lame
Kidney
And to Relieve the La
You Must First Rc
There Is no question about that
at all?for the lame and aching
back is caused by a diseased condition
of the kidneys and bladder.
It is only common sense, any way
? that you must euro a condition
by removing the cause of the condition.
And lame and aching back
are not by any means the only
symptoms of derangement of the
kidneys and bladder. Thero are a
multitude of well-known and unmistakable
indications of a more or
less dangerous condition. Some of
these are, for instance: Extreme
and unnatural lassitude and weariness,
nervous irritability, heart irregularity,
"nerves on edge," sleeplessness
and iunhlHtv tr> aon nr?
rest, scalding sensation and sediment
In the urine, Inflammation of
the bladder and passages, etc.
DeWltt's Kidney and Bladder
Bills are an exceptionally meritorious
remedy for any and a'l affections
or diseased conditions of
these organs. These Pills operate
directly and promptly?and their
beneficial results are at once felt.
They regulate, purify, and effectually
heal and restore the Vldneys,
bladder and liver, to perfect
and healthy condition?even In
some of the most advanced cases.]
Sold by Ardrc>
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FIRE, LIFE an.
1 represent only the
Give me a share
B. W. BRADF
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le's Store 1
Store in York County ?
tely No Excuse |
en of only moder- <?
jessing a sufficient
>v and stylish Fur- 6&
irnishings to make 9
re, when it is re- ?
have ail excellent 9
at very reasonable ?
suit almost anyone 9
Home? ?
rou make it, and x
ost each week or ?
ke your home just x
attractive as one ?
e make a specialty x
urniture from the ?
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prices and terms. ?
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NG, Proprietors. ?
Month |
he Folks. |
"y, dull month when
eapest. ^R
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s demanded in every fR
ket. Try us for a ^R
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Back Means
Dispfisp
ime and Aching Back, ?
ilieve the Kidneys
want every man and woman who
have the least suspicion that they
are afflicted with kidney and blad?
der diseases to at once write them,
and a trial box of these fills will be
tent free by return mail postpaid.,
' s Drug Store.
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A N C E, I
d TORNADO.
beat of Compaies.
of your businesu.
ORD, Agent. |