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r The Fort Mill Times. DEMOCRATIC. PnbUshsd Thursday Morninjm. ( B. w. and W. R. URADrOBD - - - PUBI-isheds. B. W. Bradford .... Rditor and Manages. Rt'DBCRirnoM RATES: _ Om Ynt I1.W ( On application tn the publisher, advertising J mte i are nade known to those interested. The Tiiae* iarites contribution* on Hve subjects. ' hut does not wrree to publish more than 200 words j /in onv iinp niiKUvf TKi? U *?* edit every conuaunicilkii ?atmitt?d for publi- * cAtion. FORT MILS-?. Ci SEPTEMBER*. * 1 1 < The Acquittal ol Far num. ( Perhaps points of law were in- i volved in the trial of Farnum for giving a bribe to ex-State < Dispensary Director Wylie that ] were unintelligible to the average i layman and upon which there is 11 a semblance of reason for the1 ] acquittal of Farnum, but to nine- ' ty-nine out of every hundred people who read from day to day the evidenee of guilt which ' the State presented against the 1 accused there is absolutely no * doubt that there has once more occurred in South Carolina a ^ gross miscarriage of justice that ' will add to the already deplorable 1 reputation of our Common- 1 wealth for lawlessness. If Far- < num can go unwhipped of jus- ;1 tice in the face of the showing 1 of his guilt which the State was 1 able to make, upon what peg is ; * there to hang the hope that the 11 other alleged grafters and 1 bribers against whom as strong ' evidence doubtless will be presented will not escape the just consequences of their crimes? It is to be hoped that there are < jjitanaub r ul l>l into ill DIULC iOr 1 the people of South Carolina in ] that not all those who have un doubtcdly robbed the State of , tens of thousands of dollars will i be acquitted, but the discourag- 5 ing fact stares one in the face j that since the jury refused to , convict Farnum, with every j evidence of guilt standing out < against him in unmistakable i strength, the others will not receive like consideration. Politics j had much to do with the acquit- < tal of Farnum. and politics is ctrtain to be a factor in the other graft trials. Of almost equal weight against the hope of . convictions is the mistake which ( Attorney General Lyon has made i in the selection of his assistant < counsel and in not taking the . lead in presenting the cases , against the accused. j < The Cue of George Washinton Murray, j There is something singular J about the case of George Washington Murray, the negro excongressmen from the Sumter district. In 1904 Murray was convicted in Sumter of forging a mortgage to a tract of land belonging to another negro and given a sentence of three years in the penitentiary. His case was appealed to the supreme Court, which rpfnar>d fr* with the sentence of the lower * court. Then Murray jumped the < $3,000 bond under which he had ( been placed pending the appeal 1 and, it seems, went to Chicago, * where he has since been living, j Recently he was arrested in Chi- ( cago as a fugitive from South t Carolina justice and an officer has been sent by Governor Ansel * to Chicago with the necessary requisition papers to bring Mur- \ ray back to serve the sentence, i During the last ten days, how- c ever, there has been some dis- * cussion between the governor jj and the Sumter authorities as to ? whether the State or Sumter 1 county should bear the expense > of bringing Murray back, the: J governor at first refusing to al- ! c low the State to bear the expense , a and giving as his reason therefor j \ that Sumter county had collected ; v . 1 AAA . cne ^,s,uuu Dona and should stand 1 the expense. The governor has ^ given in on this point, as he seems to have concluded that he t was wrong. But the singular j j feature of the case lies in the t fact that Murray's whereabouts | J have been known to the South [ E Carolina authorities for at least! a year and that during all this 11 time no efforts have been made F o to bring him to justice. One re- * port has it that during the presidential campaign last year cor- a respondence was had between Governor Ansel and some of Murray's Chicago friends upon the proposition that Murray would make speeches to the Illinois negroes in behalf of the Democratic candidates if the South Carolina prison sentence against him were suspended. Governor Ansel, it is said, refused to enter such an agreement; but no explanation is given the public why he has for a year! allowed Murray to remain at large without trying to effect his capture and imprisonment in the State npnitontinrv If urftitW seem that the governor should have had Murray arrested immediately upon learning of his whereabouts. Of course it is by no means certain that Murray will be brought back to South Carolina, as he has the means to make a long legal fight in the courts of Illinois against extradition and doubtless will receive powerful Republican assistance in his efforts to escape justice; but however that may be, the people of South Carolina are entitled to know why this delay. If a news dispatch to a Charlotte paper is true the people of Chester are talking of trying to 3ust Mayor Samuels from office. They are said to be incensed that the mayor of their city is so closely identified with the dispensary grafters. Of course there is reason to feel humiliated >ver the revelations, but there nay be some truth in the remark nade by a gentleman a day or two a&o?that the people of Chester do not now know any:hing more about Samuels than :hey did when their votes made lim mayor. Nitiml Conference on Pellagra. A national conference on the ireaded disease pellagra, will bp lield in Columbia in the early part of November. Representatives of seventeen States will be in attendance. The disease, which is the worst known to science, is most prevalent in South Carolina, it being estimated that there are over one thousand well* developed cases within the State. Hardly a day ?oes by that there is not a report >f a death from the disease that is more dreaded than leprosy. The representatives who will attend the conference will come from the States where the disease is most prevalent. Farnum Verdict Amtued Tillman. On being asked what he :hought of the verdict in the case >f the State against J. S. Farnum, Senator Tillman is quoted is having replied: "Nothing very much. It las amused me to see how little :he prosecution got out of bamfoozling Wylie into confessing, md it has tickled me to see how nuch the verdict has worried >ome people." To King's Mountain for $1.00. A Yorkville dispatch to the Charlotte Observer says that :onsiderable rivalry has developed between the towns of Kings Mountain and Grover, N. C., luring the past ten days or two weeks relative to the transportation of visitors to and from the jattleground on the occasion of :he dedication of the monument erected by the United States government on tnat spot in honor )f the heroes who fell there on October 7, 1780, and the outlook low is that the public will profit jy the fight of the two towns for he advertising for their respectve communities and the reveuue lerived from transporting visiors. The committee on transporiaion originally fixed the price at >2 for the round trip in carriages, lurreys, buggies, etc., and at $1 n wagons from Yorkville, Clover, ting's Mountain and Grover. The listance from Yorkville and Clover to the battleground is ibout fifteen miles, while it is 1 nfiles from King's Mountain ind 3 from Grover. King's fountain started out about two veeks ago by cutting prices 25 H?r cent and Grover now comes orward with a cut of 60 per :ent and advises the world that he will be prepared to handle all vho come and will charge each 'isitor $1 for the round trip in a >uggy, surrey, carriage or auto- | noDiie and trt) cents by ordinary vagon fitted with spring seats. >o not be deceived by unscrupulous nitators who would have you belie ve hat the imitation pills are as Rood as 11 leWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills, "here isn't anything just as good as 1 heae wonderful pills for the relief of tackache, Weak Back, inflammation ; f the bladder, urinary disorders and ] II kidney complaints. Any one can j ake DeWitt'a Kidney and Bladder ills as directed in perfect confidence f good results. Sold by Arnrey's drug 1 tore. Regular 10c Poe Mills Bleaching at j |c. Great bargain. Mills & Young. A owiw wumm muni"! The man is a rarity these days of whom it can be said "there are no flies on him," for flies are everywhere: but twenty drops of carbolic acid evaporated from a shovel, says an exchange, will quickly banish either flies or mosquitoes from the room. We would rather be right than be president. All of us can be presidents, if we but lead an upricrht lifp nnH oam ""? onmo I that is, those of us who put our clothes on over our feet. Those dear ones who are compelled by nature and the laws of the commonwealth to put their clothes on over their heads, must for the present be content to be school ma'ams, typewriters, singers in the choir, female sufferers, and members of the W. C. T. U. Now is a good time to take a glance over your back yards and devise some plan to ostracise the fruit cans and rubbish which have accumulated since the last installment was carted off. You can generally judge the occupants of a house by the condition in which the front and back yards are kept. In a general sense, we all pride ourselves on being cleanly and tidy. Home and its surroundings above all places in the world should be scrupulously guarded against contaminating influences. Did you ever think what your ad in the newspaper is doing for you? When you close your store in the evening and go home to your iamiiy ana nreside, laying? aside all thoughts of your business, it is then that the paper is being poured over in hundreds of homes?the homes from which your trade is drawn. And there is your ad doing its work silently, but surely, and if you have taken the pains to make it attractive its work will be all the more attractive. This is repeated over and over again, and is no doubt what inspired some writer to call newspaper advertising a "silent salesman." The great trouble with American youth is the lack of application and thoroughness in what they undertake. Anything that cannot be learned by superficial study is given the go-by for something less tedious. Study and hard labor are looked at from a wrong standpoint; and as a consequence the clerkship ranks are full of unemployed young men, and the professions are overflowing with mediocrity, while good merchants find plenty of work at living prices. The evil spoken of is seriously felt. And those who work at a trade do it in so loose and careless a manner that they often are not competent to do the work they promised to do. The local newspaper should be found in every home. No child will grow up ignorant who can be taught to appreciate the home paper. It is the stepping stone of intelligence in all those matters not to be learned in books. Uive your children a foreign paper which contains not one word about any person, place or thing which they ever saw or perhaps ever heard of, and how can you expect them to be interested? But let them have the home paper and read of persons whom they meet, and places with which they are familiar, and soon an interest is awakened which increases with every daily arrival of the local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed, and those children will read the papers all their lives and become intelligent men and women, a credit to their ancestors and strong in their knowledge of the world as it is today. A newspaper, if it has any brains, conscience and muscle back of it, must continually decide between doing its duty and injuring its pocket. In any position but that of an editor, the public is able to separate the individual home from the collective citizen. But if an editor does not please them it's at his pockets they aim. Thus it is the newspapers learn who their friends are. The man who reads the newspaper and admires it all the year around, yet gives his business support to some other concern, whose principles or the actions of its editor he detests, is not a friend to the former newspaper. Admiration alone will not run a newspaper. There are too many men who expect an 1 editor to slave in defence of their j pet notions and hobbies, avdoca- , tes their views against the J strongest opposition and coolly ' withhold the business support by ! which alone a country news- j paper can live. Talk about a paper having a public duty to ; perform, and an editor having to work for his principles, is cheap when others stand back and extend a lukewarm neutrality. The result is the editor may j starve while laboring for his principles and the cause of right and justice which they admire but do not support.__ NOTICE?Confederate Rebekah Lodge, No. 46, will assemble in regular rmmthiy meeting Friday night. All memWrs are requested to be present. | B. C. FTntc.iJSON. P. N. G. i TV* Stele Fair TVis FaJL From November 1st to 6th, inclusive, are the dates of the bi^ State fair this fall. On November 6th, the State will be honored by the visit of President Taft to Columbia. Other features of the week are the two bis foot* ball ga ihes to be played, one of i Which is the Carolina-Clemson | struggle and the other the I Davidson-Citadel game; educa*_S 1 J ?*? ... uvuiu uay on luesoay 01 tair week, military day for which j arrangements are now being [ made and a number of other matters for the entertainment of the visitors. The premium lists are very attractive this year. Altogether the prospects for a large attendance are very bright. DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the safe, 1 sure, easy, gentle little liver pills. The original Carbolised Witch Hazel Salve is DeWitt's. The name is plainly stamped on every box. It is good for cuts, burns, bruises, sores, boils and sunburn?but it is especially good for Plies. Soki by Ardrey's drug store. LOST?During the nast week a small Memorandum, or Note Book, either in Fort Mill or Pleasant Valley. Will pay liberal reward for return of same to The Times office. Rev. W. H. Airail, Rock Hill. S. C. - eo YiAitr Alll^HLCXraRIINCI V V J J * L j ^ ^ Ia I j a E Sl^B ^^B s B B V B v 1 Thaok Maims ^ BBT Dcsmns CosvsiaHTs Ac. itTWt NUtaf * iketrte and dwcrlpUoo may Mrllr ascertain rmr opinion fraa w bat bar as arwUnn liprobaMr ?arnt>Mc Cnnmntca tloos .txlctly con 0 '. .ntlal. HANDBOOK on Pat?f ant fraa. Oldest aaaney for sernntiff patents. Patents taken throosb Mann a Co. receive W'f mWa wtt boat ckatta, U? the Scientific American. A bandsomety Ulaat-atad weekly. Uraait etri cnlatlon of aar KlmUle InvruL Terms. S3 W year: foar asoatbs. |L Sold by all wswsdaatara. "SSUMsssggls X OUR LIST OF J Satisfied ( fi 6 fl / 8 The Housekeeper is * Your name will remain on < * trial order. We give persoi ft to all orders. Absolute sat Q handle everything in the | Grocery, Prodi v line and will make you the B all goods. fi Ring I 0 = | Stewart & Cu Fall and Opei of Mfflinery am Wednesda1 ? You are invited to I MEACHAM jr = H Com a The Parks Drug * H Fc || MACHINE OIL, I SEWING MACHINE OIL I FLOOR OIL, " HOUSE and BUGGY PA1 I DRUGS and RUBBER G< Largest assortment of C TOBACCO in town. I STATIONERY of the best I Fresh assortment of LOW Sf DIES. j-r*"5" TAX NOTICE-lOO?. * i Offka of the County Treasurer i of York County. . YorkviUe, S. C., Sept. 14, 1909. j 1 Notice Is hereby given that the TAX 4 BOOKS for York couuty will be opened j on FRIDAY, the I5TH DAY OF OCTO- 1 BER, 1909, and remain open until the 4 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER. 1909, for $ the collection of STATE, COUNTY, 2 LOCAL AND SCHOOL TAXES for 4 the fiscal year 1909, without penalty; 3 after which day ONE PER CENT pen- ' alty will be added to all payments made 4 in the month of JANUARY, 1910, and ^ ! TWO PER CENT penalty for all pay- ' ments made in the month of FEBRU- 4 ARY, 1910, and SEVEN PER CENT i \ penalty will be added on all payments <, made from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH. 4 to the 16TH DAY OF If ARC1L 19ld; and after this date all unpaid taxes fro ? into executions and all unpaid Single < Polls will be turned over to the several ] j Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I will attend at the following places on the days named: At Yorkville, Friday, October 15, to ' Wednesday, October 20th. At Smyrna, Thursday, October 21. At Hickory Grove, Friday aud Sat- ' urday, October 22 and 23. | At Sharon, Monday, October 25. At McConnellsville, Tuesday, October 26. At Tirzah, Wednesday, October 27. At Clover. Thursday and Friday, Oc- ' tober 28 and 29. At Yorkville from Saturday, Octo- < ber 80, to Tuesday, November 3. At Coates's Tavern, from 12 o'clock, Wednesday, November 3, until 12 m., < Thursday, November 4. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, November 5 and 6. At Rock Hill, from Monday, November 8, to Saturday, November 13. And at Yorkville from Monday, No- < vember 15, until the 81st day of December, 1909, after, which day the pen- < alties will attach as stated above. HARRY E. NEIL, County Treasurer. 9-23 4t ,r FARMERS?I am making a specialty ; of Ceiling for tenant houses at $1.00 1 per hundred. V. B. Blankenship. FOR SALE?One hundred bushels of choice Appier Seed Oats. Apply to J. L. K1MBRELL. Fort Mill, S. C. frMOHOOOOOOOOCaOOOOIjjt 9 Customers 8 Q IS GROWING. | , ==? fij our best recommendation. jj < 3ur list if you will give us a Jj ? rial and particular attention K 1 X 4 :isfaction guaranteed. We M j 6 j ice and Fruit | \ lowest prices possible on * 4 ? ? 0 'i g I 1 Telephone i ? HP) Number 15. S J e \ (OOOOOOUI ^ Wintftr I rung j 1 Coat Suits on | y, Sept 29. \ cordially \ >e present. j| r& epps. * ,=S=S-? 1 * to I Company's Store I " 1 ? NTS, X>DS, IGARS and SMOKING quality. NEVS FAMOUS CANg Comp'ymm*~m3SSSSSm7m5SES?mmm* 1+* $ ? $ \]\ The Growth <v IZ ??? it WHEN "OLD GLORY" unfurl j^l " can's heart cannot help t lT gladness that only a loyal Aroeric: .? land or sea the heart fairly ting ?? knows no bounds. When the traveler from Uncle ! shore, if the "Red, White and Bh t + like home; nothing honorable dai ^ those colors are his protection; th ^ is alert to the safety of his chiklr< 'It was on Saturday, the 14th of press resolved that the flag for tl , * over the "land of the free and ho thirteen stars and thirteen stripec Probably it will never be knowr + It is said, however, that Betsy R< designs were partially drawn by t ^ John Paul Jones, one of the grc ^ credit for being the flrst to displa. <? going vessel, as well as the distin stripes saluted by Europe. It was in 1794 that the original mont and Kentucky, two new Sta their Statehood. As a State was added to the Ns the blue background, but the orig and now our forty-sixth and newt State of Oklahoma, known as the to the Union on November 16, 19 As we all think of the most bea let us with loud voices shout: "Hail ColumbU ^ While Uncle Sam's stars have 1 into the commercial world only te greatness?this is the star trade-r Rand Shoe Company, a mark ot their shoes. ^ The star that started ten years of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousi ? > ers, and but uineteen traveling i times such strong policies of Unci rity and Straightforward Busi tal of Three Million, Seven Hi lars, a Battery of Ten Big Sped ^ ufacturing capacity of 52,000 pain f men, 15,000 loyal customers and c , T ers. Such rapid, gigantic grow ^ thing?Star Brand Shoes Are Betti ^ There are two ways by which y> is good. One, an expensive way, Bafe way is by looking for our "S shoes you buy. This star is there shoe making, solid leather outer s leather counters a,i' ?*xpert worki on any but good sho*s, and we wi ^ honestly constructed throughout, *5 honesty is backed by our reputatii Making. ^ WH#*n VA91 orn fn wah? ^ .? j gv w jr vu& ucaivi it*IJ "Stars", "R. J. R.," $5.00 and ^ $4.00 Shoes for men; "Mayflower, ^ "Our Family," popular-priced she ? boys' and girls' school shoes, and < > strongest and longest wearing ma f THE PEOPI | MILLS & YOl 51 TALL . F? | AHCIES = I Maraschino Ch< ? Tongue, Durkeet I White House Q I Macaroni, Best jj Cheese- White I 5 is the best- For ^ Fleischman's Yi ^ Our Storlr S? * $ of GOOD THI1 { JONES, T That Lame Kidney And to Relieve the L You Must First R There Is do question about that at all?for the lame and aching back la caused by a dlseaaed condition of the kidneys and bladder. It is only common sense, any way ?that you must cure a (v>ndMinn by removing the cause of the coo* dttlon. And lame and aching back are not by any means tha 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. Borne of these are. for Instance: Extreme end 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. DeWltt'g Kidney and Bladder pills 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 kidneys, bladder and liver, to perfect nd healthy condition?even In ome of the most advanced cases., Sold by Ardrcj of the Star. H ix Is in the breexe the true Aroeri- hh ut beat louder, quicker and with a an's heart can know?whether on les with an inexpressible Joy that Sam's realm sets foot on foreign le" is waving high, the place feels ints the wayfarer, for he knows hh at Uncle Sam's over watchful eye hi June, 1777, that the American Con- #<.-> le thirteen United States waving me the brave" should consist of > ?. <J- .. I who designed the stars and stripes. h ass made the first flag and that the he "Father of Our Country." a teat of naval commanders, claimed y the stars and stripes on an ocean- '?<*> ctlon of carrying the first stars and < -> * it, thirteen stars were broken and Ver- * tes, each received a star denoting || ition a new star was crowded into ho ;inal thirteen stripes never changed, Z.'Z >st star is the great and glorious "Home of the Red Man," admitted hh 97. ^ lutiful flag the world has ever known oo ^ ? /, Happy Land." ho Oeen growing, another star, ushered H* n years ago, has been increasing its nark of the RoMBXa, Johnson &. Oh ' honesty stamped on the heel of hh ago in a small w^y With a' and Dollars, no factories, nocastocn- x? salesmen, and by pursuing at all le Sam's as Honesty, Push, Integ- ?3 iness abiuty has grown to a eapi indued and fifty thousand dol- hh al Shoe Factories, with a daily man- ^ a AVur Ann Klih??? ?-.11? ? ?? - A ^ ?... w..v uamMsu ui?ciiiig saiea>ver three million enthusiastic wear'th can 1>e attributed to but one . * sr." ou can tell whether or not a shoe is cutting into the shoe; another tar" trade-mark on the heel of the : for a purpose. It denotes honest olea, solid leather inner soles, solid v* manship. You cannot find our star . T, II never put it on a shoe that is not and every shoe carrying this sign of ^ " on of Ten Years of Honest Shoe ' 2" I him to show you some of these + 16.00 shoes for men; "Patriot," ," $2.50 and $3.00 shoes for women; >ea for all the family; "Eternity," "Stronger Than the Law," the ? ' n's shoe on earth. JE/S STORE. 1 ft JNG, Proprietors. it wmmmmammmwmmmmamamam & IR riSTIDIOUS I = " I OLKS. | :rries. Luncheon g >' Salad Dressing, g >ffee, Best Italian I ^ American Prram 1 s taven Red Salmon jr better Bread use S :ast. Phone 14. 5 n Encyclopocdia (R NGS TO EAT. g he Grocer. | v&xxxx&aexxx ii i i in . 11. ? Back Means Disease | ime and Aching Back, * eiieve the Kidneys E. C. D?Wltt ft Co, ChloifA, 111, want erorr man aad women who bar? the leant mpktoa tkat tbef are afflicted with kidnap and WLadder diseases to at once write them. I and a trial box of theae Pills will be ! sent free bjr return snail fo?*?aJ4.. *'s Drug Store.