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liw Fort Mill Times, DEMOCRATIC. PuUished Thursday liorninjrn. p. W. and W. R. B?AuroaD - Puiuihus. p. W. ItRAWijRu - - - Editor and Manages. ' Pdhs .-riition Rates: Ouu Year...... $1.00 ' i On application to the publisher. Advartisinir nt?i are n)idn kf.uwn to thoae ibUmtnl. Tha Tirana invites contributions on llv# rubject*. but does not a it rev to publish more than 200 words ; , an any one subject. The right is reserved to adit every communication submitted for publi- 1 Mtln> i- i ? i. . i ?. ! 1 i -i a. - t ! FOKT MILL. S. C.. SEPTEMBER 2. Uli II I' ...l i. 1L. *gg Excuses for Mr. Hollis. Last week The Times noted the lack of consistency and party i loyalty displayed by Mr. J. P, j Hollis, elected to the Legislature ' from York county as a Demo^ crat, in seeking the office of cen.- j pus supervisor for this congrea-: sional district from the national Republican administration as a protege of a Republican official, Now come the Columbia Record and the Rock Hill Herald as I apologists for Mr. Hollis, the former being unable to under- i ptand why a Democratic office- j holder should subject himself to j censure for seeking office under : the Republican party any more than a Democratic private citi-' zen's party loyalty should be questioned for the same offense. Mr. Hollis' principal mistake lay in hie effort to defeat the | candidate of the Democratic con- I gressman of this district through the instrumentality of Republi-: can influence, and it is begging the question for The Record to i undertake to excuse him upon ; the specious plea that the Republican influence was that of a j > 3 r* 1 9 9 personal iriena. But, unless our memory is at fault, it does not lie ir. the mouth of The Record to say much in i Mr. Hollis' behalf, for The Rec-: prd only a few months ago referred sarcastically to the j Pemocracy of ex-State Superin- | tendent of Education Martin be-1 pause he had accepted a position ! under the national agricultural J department. The voters of York county will pass upon Mr. Hollis' case should j be again be a candidate for of-; fice here, and they are not apt \ Jto accept the excuses offered for him. Tbe Stewart Road Law. Various opinions are heard from residents of the different sections of the township as to ! the working m{ tha roads under the new Stewart road law. It is argued by some that the work done shows little improvement over that done under the old system; that the work is more expensive and that a considerable j amount of money is being wasted ' jn paying the nine township supervisors who are performing i the identical work which the county supervisor has heretofore performed and for which ' he was elected and is at present i receiving pay. On the other hand there are those who contend that the new law is the only law that the county has ever had under which work that will ultimately result1 in the building of a system of good roads can be done. The Tiroes does not wish to take issue with those favoring or opposing \ the law. The Stewart law. iike most other new laws placed A>n the statute books, doubtless has imperfections. Granting that it has, is it not reasonable to suppose that our law-makers will detect these imperfections find remedy them when they are i^ext in position to do so. As to the work done in this township, or county, under the present law, the writer has seen very little of it, but we do not hesitate to say that those portions over which we have traveled show a decided improvement over the same roads worked under the old helter-skelter plan. It is too much to expect, as some seem to hope, that a perfect system of roads could be built in one year; much work is required and it is our belief that continued Operations under the Stewart law i will within a few years result in !, giving the people of York as ^ood system of roads as is to be found in any county in the 1'iod- ; njont section of the State which }j;^s no more macadam. , There is a more or less er- i roneous impression throughout South Carolina that the entire < daily press of the State is unfriendly to Senator Tillman. There is at least one daily paper in the State which is not only friendly to Senator Tillman, but is enthusiastic in its admiration for him and seldom allows an opportunity to pass to strike sledge-hammer blows in his behalf when the other dailies criticise him adversely. The Anderson Mail is the paper we have in mind. Following the visit of Senator Tillman to the great Red Shirt reunion which was held in Anderson recently. The Mail printed the following admonition to the senator to be careful of h}s health: "Senator Tillman's many friends were glad to see him in such good form yesterday. He stood the fatigue of the day bet-! ter than many a younger man. j At the same time there can be no concealment of the fact that Senator Tillmau is getting to be an old man. He is not as young as he used to be, and his illness ; of last year drew heavily on his vitality, although he has practU J cally recovered from it. But ; Senator Tillman ought to take j the best of care of himself, if for no other reason out of regard for j the people who love him so well j and who want his services for as ! long as possible." The plan of settlement adopted by the authorities of the debt in curred in putting clown the cement on the sidewalks recently does not meet with the approval of all our c'tizens. At least this is what we have been led to believe by listening to conversations upon the subject on the streets. The argument advanced by those opposed to the present plan is that it is unjust to collect j from property owners along whose premises the cement was , laid one-half the cost of the' work when it is known that an I extra tax levy will be necessary i for the town to pay its part of the expense and that those who j have already paid half for the ; work will, along with those who are receiving the benefits of the ! paving at no cost whatever, be compelled to bear their respective shares of the additional tax. There is a disposition on the part of at least one member of council to place the levy for this year at! a figure high enough to enable ; the town to bear the entire cost j of the paving and refund to the property owners the amounts which they have paid out. The killing of a prisoner by a ! police officer with his club in Columbia a day or two ago serves ' to direct attention to a too frequent practice which is more or j less general throughout the j omi.e. many ponce officers are j too eager to use their clubs and often, in doing so, become lawbreakers instead of preservers of the peace. No police officer is justified in striking a prisoner with his club unless he has reason to believe that the prisoner J is about to indict upon him great j bodily harm. If the officer is ; unable to take the prisoner to : the station because of physical inferiority, it is the duty of the ' officer to summon help, and not become a violator of the law which he is employed to uphold by clubbing the prisoner into submission. An occasional case , of assault and battery with intent j to kill against this class of policeofficers would have a salutary effect. The cotton buyers of Fort I Mill should the coming season ; pay the very highest prices for cotton. Heretofore it has been the cry with certain farmers of nn 'I--1 I iicdiu^ acLuuns mat uuyers in j other places were paying more for the staple than our buyers, ' and for this reason much cotton that should have come here was j taken elsewhere. Pay the best; prices possible and induce the farmers to market their cotton 1 and other products here. The Fort Mill buyers can pay as high prices as those of the nearby; towns and there is no reason why 1 they should not do so. The Rock Hill Herald very properly accredits Senator W. H. Stewart with the enactment of York's present road law, instead of giving the credit to ex-Senator J. H. Saye, to whom the Yorkville correspondent of the daily press would have the people believe w as responsible for the law. , It is a wc)J known fact that the < absurdity of Dr. Saye's ideas as to road work was partially the cause of his political undoing. Question for debate; "Re- | solved, That it is a rule of pro- c priety for Fort Mill maidens to meet the trains," j Tariff a Fraud, Says Judge Parker. j Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, who was the Democratic candidate for i ^ president in 1904, made the fol- j lowing statement recently on the !. new tariff bill: ; J "The opinion widely enter-; t tained and sometimes expressed j r in the campaign of 1908 that the ! j Republican platform's promise of a revision of the tariff was intended to deceive the people is now fully justified. "By bold and impudent speech j senators and members of Con- 1 gress have asserted that the plank promised a revision, not n , reduction of tariff duties. Their * only reward is public contempt/! ( for their arguments demonstrate that the purpose of the tariff } plank was to cheat and defraud j the voters. And at the same j time the action of a majority in ( Congress makes them parties to the fraud, in that they sought to l consummate it. "The president has made a.4 strong effort to secure at least1, an appearance of party honesty, but the little he has accomplished : j has been at great cost, for one , more precedent is created of an i executive using his great power i | to coerce a co-ordinate and inde- , < pendent department of govern- 1 ' ment in violation of the spirit of ,' the constitution. "And after all what shall this i ( unseemingly struggle to gain or t retain largess avail the tariff barons in the end? Only a little, for it will be found that this tariff act does not, like its predecessors, close the subject { for a period of years, but, instead, it and the circumstances ( surrounding its making will but J serve to open again the fight. , The final outcome will wipe out I the unjust results if not the ' stain of the fraud." { Rural Delivery in South Carolina. j On March 1, 1899, the rural j \ delivery mail system was first ( introduced into the State of ( South Carolina. On that day two routes were established out of Cope, one out of Orangeburg and two out of St. George post- j offices the rniitec haui??r , - ? _ average length of 23.8 miles. 1 During that fiscal year a total of 10 routes covering 921 miles of roads were established, and during the next fiscal year this number was increased by but 10 f routes. In 1901 the number of : routes was more than doubled, I there being 103 in operation on j December 2. The increase in the i number of routes established j continued in about the same ratio until 1908 when there was a marked falling off. due to the fact that most of the territory available for rural delivery had been covered. On August 2 of this year South Carolina had in operation 750 . rural routes, 12 of which were * tri-weekly and the remainder i daily, except Sundays and holidays. These routes cover about 17,542 miles of roads, with an average of 23.39 miles to the i route, serving approximately 300,000 people, with an annual rate of cost of $068,790 main- 4 tain. Up to the present time the! service has been reorganized on j a county basis in 16 counties in the State and others will follow j as rapidly as practitable. i That the people of the State j fully appreciate the advantages of this service is evidenced by the fact that since the introduction there has been a steady and large increase in the amount I ol mail matter delivered and collected and in the number of subscriptions to periodicals and daily newspapers. L?t Future Delivery Alone. There is a disposition with j many of our farmers to be tempted by the price offered for future delivery cotton. It is not our purpose, says an exchange, to run other people's business, but we do think it well to caution against that which we believe to ! be injurious to their interests. | The indications are for cotton to bring a splendid price, every- j thing points that way. The mills are bare, and the demand for : manuiacturecl goodB is the great- j fl est ever known. Cotton goods, ? in anticipation of the high price, is advancing daily, the manufac- ! turers have their agents in the j field to make contracts for fall delivery, and with this condition it does strike us that the growers of cotton can atTord to wait for the markets to open and not j tie themselves to speculators. Every hale of cotton sold for future delivery aids in keeping the price from reaching the value that supply and demand creates, c and those who make these con- j tracts hurt themselves a well as c their fellow farmers. VVe therefore take the liberty to advise against selling future delivery ^ cotton. i Will Remodel York Jail. J, J. Kellar & Copipanv, archiects and contractors of Rock dill, hare been awarded the contact for remodeling the York :ounty jail at Yorkville, The entire upper tloor of the ail will be torn away and the luilding converted into a modern orison with steel cells and other levices for keeping prisoners lomfortably and safely inside.. Arrangemnts have been made vith the Chester county authorties to take charge of the York irisoners while work on the later's jail is in progress, and ;he prisoners, eight or ten in lumber, will this week be transferred to Chester jail. Keep toe Money at Home. Here is a sensible suggestion 'rom the Abbeville Press and manner: "Our two lar^"*- " , ?v?iurn* )ia and Charleston, have retained he dispensary. What objection :ould there be on the part of the prohibitionists to those who will pave their liquor ordering it ?rom these places? "It will make them rich, of course, but we would rather nake Columbia and Charleston "ich than to enrich Chattanooga md Cincinnati. "A certain amount of liquor ,vill be had, if it is possible to ?et it home without confiscation, ind why not make a law that .vill allow those who want it to ?et it in Columbia and Charles;on. Those places are near. They see what they represent, md the buyer knows what he is setting. It can be delivered "rom Columbia sooner than from >ther places, so why not get it here." News Items from Gold Hill. Gold Hill, Aug. 30.?The coton crop of this section is in a leplorable condition as a result )f the two weeks drought. Pracically all the young fruit has Fallen off, the bolls are falling, md, in short, the crop is going .o be bad. It has been quite a lumber of years since there has *een so good a time to save the 'odder crop. It has ripened apidly and the most of the crop las been harvested. Watermel>ns are about out and we are, of :ourse, saddened at the thought. Shoe Sale! We have placed on 8ale o ords at a tremendous reduct Edwin Cl^pp's $6.00 Oxfort Bostonian $5.00 Oxfords at 4,00 3 50 " 3 00 " Cxfcrds worth $2.50 at 2.25 at .... This is certainly your chan ow class prices. You can, tear Xmas, so come on at on MEACHAN The Co Of the town is under t handsome Soda Founta | for suffering from heat v tion and we serve you Ice Cream, and Crus to be had anywhere. ) refreshing drinks and se to-date manner. Our F and sanitary in every res Try "Fi The popular new drinl I Parks Dru I CAR LOAD REC We have all kinds of Bug iide or End Spring, Open or in a Buggy. Come and see I Our livery is complete and iV. F. HARRIS & S v . * -* W We are much elated, however, ^ after attending a melon feast Cj Kfiven Thursday flight by Mr. Porter Caiies and Miss Rosa a5 Bailes at their home in the Flint' X Hill community. j * Mr. S. P. Wilson deserves Jo credit for the splendid roads he 6 is providing. ? Mrs. S. P. Blankenship spent ^ last week with hpr nyother. Mrs. S T. M. Faris. ? Miss Eloise Smith, Jfi of Union, spent the past week Qj with Miss Maude Windle. ? Mrs. G< Tillie Anderson has been spend- ' ? ing a few days wjth her sister, ! Mrs. J. Z. Bai'es, of Pleasant X Valley.?Mrs. T. Epps, of ymar Jfi tilla, Fla., arJ Mrs. Edna Ed-lji na Edwards, of Braidentowp, j Fla., who have been visiting rel- ' & ativps in this community, left ^ Monday afternoon for their re- ft spectjv. homes.? Mr. Elmore > Croo1 spent Saturday in Rock jc F{a on business. . Many of the good old soldiers ft )f our community attended the $ reunion at Charlotte last week. 1 5 The Times' Advertisements. 5 The advertising columns of ; (g The Times should not be over- i J looked by any of the paper's j ft readers. As the fall and winter ft season approaches, the wide- ( S awake merchants of the town (c are making preparations to sup- ^ ply the wants of the people and j ft 1 are making the fact known J through these columns. You 5 . will tind it a great deal less. J trouble to watch your paper and learn where you can find certain ! (J articles yoit desire than to at- ft tempt to look them up after you ft i reach town. Then, too, you 5 should patronize those mer- j > chants who have prepared for Q your coming and extend you an Qj invitation through The Times to ft visit them. Tell the merchant ft you saw his wares advertised. 5 You will pleasC him and do your t ? paper a service. j Qj FARMERS !|| When you need any kind of Black- (/ smithing. Painting, Wheelwrighting ; ft or Repairing, give me a trial. My ft work gives satisfaction and my ' 5 prices are reasonable. I *4 Horseshoeing is my specialty. j C Fred. B. Kimbrell. | Shoe Sale! | ? - i ur entire line of Mens' Ox ion. Note the following: 4 Is at $4.90 I y 3.90 IS .. 2.90 # ... 250 \U 2.35 iS 1.75 |S 1.50 jf ce to get high class goods at y and do, wear Oxfords until y ce before sizes are broken. y \ & EPPS. \ >ol Spot f wmrmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmKammaammmmmmmmmammma he big Electric Fan at our in. There is no excuse fhen the big fan is in mowith the most delicious Cream Soda bed Fruits Ne serve all the popular rve them in the most up:ountain is handsome, new | pect. I i in Taz," ' c of the baseball fans. I mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtaamammma I ig Comp'y.! BUGGIES, Surries, Wagons and Harness. EIVED TO-DAY. * j [gies Rubber or Steel Tire, Top. We can save you $10 them. prices reasonable. '/^VXJC TELEPHONE NO. 28, FORT MILL, S. C. )???SH8@@8e?&f?< | The Peop ) The Fastest Growing S SOME" | NI J Is 50 Cents Worth j ? We give you a c S cash purchase and i Z worth of coupons 1 | 50 Cents y (Wholesale bills t Tliis includes e 2 Dry Goods and Gn 5 except Feed Stuff, ^ oats. If the pu | you get coupon; i > get a coupon, and 5 alike. Come in an 2 the big cash registi | the trade checks w< 5 The Best goods a S Highest prices | produce. Come to I The Peop I MILLS & YOU1 Economy for all t August is the long, dr the grocer sells the chi Canning Time is Her< We sell the best Frui at the lowest prices. Absolute cleanliness ij part of our Meat Mar nice Steak or Roast. JONES "Everythin That Lame Kidney And to Relieve the La You Must First Re There Is no question about that | nt all?for the lame and aching hack Is caused by a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder. It Is only common sense, any way ?that you must cure a condition by removing the cause of the condition. And lame and aching back are not by any meuns the only symptoms of derangement of the kidneys and bladder. There 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 inability to secure rest, scalding sensation and sediment In the urine, inflammation of the bladder and passages, etc. DeWitt'a Kidney and Bladder Pills are an exceptionally meritorious remedy for any and a'l affections or diseased conditions of these organs. Theso Pills operate directly and promptly?and their beneficial results are at once felt. They regulate, purify, and effec tually heal and restoro the VId- j lioys, bladder und liver, to perfect and healthy condition?even In, some of the most advanced cases.', Sold by Ardrey I N S U R LIFE, HEALTH I represent only the Give me a share B. W. BRADF &<&2?6?G?&? >?0 le's Store 11 itore in York County 3 rHING 1 ] ? II biything To You ? 1 I ionpon with each ? | Alien you get &20 ?J I we give you free ? I in Trade 11 being excepted) ? I verytliing in our ? H jcery Department, ? I such as corn and g 1 rchase is 1 cent g I f it is $50.00 you ? I everybody shares ?? I d let us show you g 1 >r and explain how g I ork. @ I t Lowest prices. gj I paid for country ? I see us. ? >le's Store 1 I MG, Proprietors. A 1 ????????????? 1 Month | he Folks. 1 y, dull month when eapest. t# f \ t jars and Rubbers flR|m } demanded in every ket. rry us for a ^R V| the: qroceir, 5 ,] rhone; no. s g to Eat." * 1 ~'X*MI(%VX&X*?&KK Back Means Disease .j me and Aching Back, ' lieve the Kidheys want every man and woman who have the least simpleton that they nro afflicted with kidney and bladder diseases to at onc.e write them, and a trial box of those rills will be sent free by return mall postpaid., *s Drug Store. - ! w ' a A N C E, and ACCIDENT best Companies, of your business. ORD, Agent.