Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 28, 1909, Image 2
The Fort Mill Times.
DEMOCRATIC,
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The Vl.it of Taft.
There is to he a big show in Columbia
on Saturday of next week, fair week:
President W. H. Taft will be there and j
will speak at the fair grounds. All
Columbia is putting on gala attire on
account of the coming t-f the president
and there is to be a luncheon in the
State capitol, to which many of the
prominent men of the State have been
invited. With each invitation was sent
the request that the recipient send to
the arrangements committee a check
for $10 if he contemplated being present.
The regular admission fee of
GO cents to the fair grounds will be
charged to hear the president speak, so '
it appears that Mr. Taft is to vie with
the other shows on the grounds.
While Mr. Taft is, of course, the j
country's most distinguished citizen and
should be accorded all the honor which
his exalted office calls for, it is well
that wc stop a minute and consider the
real purpose of his visit to the West
and South. He says it is to become
better acquainted with the people and
to learn their ways and condition. This
i.i all very well, but is not the primary
purpose of the trip which he is making
through the country in the interest of i
the Republican party? The partizan \
speeches he has so far made warrant, j
the belief, and we can but wonder what !
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sort of reception would have been ac- 1
corded Mr. Taft had he made this trip J
turouRn una section twelvemoninsago, |
when every true Southerner, recalling j
our political past and hoping for the j
election of Mr. Bryan as an augury I
that our section would be fairly treated
in the future, was straining every resource
to accomplish his defeat. Would
the people of South Carolina and
neighboring Southern Stales then have ;
^decorated their towns and prepared
in,000 banquets in his honor? We
hnrdly think so. What has Mr. Taft
since done for this section to warrant
this lavish expenditure of money and
more or less fulsome flattery? Has he !
as president of the United States shown
his interest in this section by reconi- i
mending to congress the passage of any
law which would lessen the burdens of
our people? Has not the recently enacted
tariff bill which he willingly
aigned as "the best tariff bill" ever
passed in this country added to the already
unfair and iniquitous discriminations
which have been heaped upon us
aince the Civil war? What has he done
for our people? Who is the beneficiary
of his so-called conciliatory attitude i
toward the South in the appointment of
an occasional Democrat t - a high federal j
office except the Republican party? (
Does he not thus hope to break the ,
solid South; is not this the underlying j
reason for these appointments rather i
man a amcere interest in the welfare ,
of our section? We would like to have
& diagram of the man's head who :
doubts it.
This visit of President Taft to the ;
South doubtless is plensing to all of i
the weak-kneed Democrats and to many i
of the strong, sincere men in our party
who are being carried away by the |
festivities of the hour, but it is time for
thinking men to stop and consider what
they are about. Let us have no double- 1
dealing or hypocrisy about this recep- :
tion to Mr. Taft. Mr. Taft knows
how this section voted last year and he ;
has an accurate idea of how it will vote '>
in 1912, and he would have no reason
for disappointment should this section
refuse to do him the homage which
neither he nor the party for which he
is sponsor deserves. Let our people !
bear in mind the fact that they are
Democrats and that if they are true ;
to themselves they will be Democrats
in the future.
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Unhealthy Court House*.
The commissioners of Anson county, \
North Carolina, have been presented
by the grand jury of that county for'
failure to keep the court house in I
proper sanitary condition. The statutes
of North Carolina provide that the
f u per in tendon t? of health in each county
shall fumigate the court house9 before
the sessions of court. We do not
know that thore is such a law in this
3tate, but it would be well if there
were. We have seen some court rooms
in South Carolina that were a disgrace
to the county and the officials in charge '
phoukl have been ashamed to let the
public enter such rooms. Whether the
jaw requires it or not, the superintendents
of opr court houses should keep
them in a decent condition, not only
during the terms of court, but throughnut
the entire year.
Jt used to be the practice, and maybe
is yet, for those in charge of the
Court houses in certain counties in this
Btatc to aprinkj.e the tjoor of the court j
rooms with sawdust just prior to the ;
pessiona of cpurt, in an effort to keep
down the nauseating odors arising from
tobacco spit and other offensive excretion*
CJ> the floor. JSuch practice is, to |
say tfce least, unhealthy and should not
be tolerated in a civilized community
where there is any regard for the comfort
or health of the public. The trouble
is with the court officials in failing to
discipline the attendants upon court
who are neither decent or clean; but
since they permit the floors and walls
of the court rooms to be used as cuspidorts
it should be their duty to have
the rooms fumigated, as is done in
North Carolina, before each session
of court.
Tillman Won't Buy Ticket.
Replying to the invitation sent him
to attend the luncheon to be given
President Taft in Columbia on November
6th, Sent tor Tillman expresses his
resentment over the proposition to
charge $10 for the privilege of being
present at the luncheon. In a letter to
Mr. C. W. Moorman, secretary of the
Columbia Chamber of Commerce, which
is co-operating witn the central committee
in arranging for the entertainment
of the president during his stay
in Columbia, Senator Tillman has the
following to say;
Trenton, S. C., Oct. 23, 1609.
Mr. C. W. Moorman, Secretary Chamber
of Commerce, Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir: I have your letter of October
22. I replied yesterday to a previous
letter explaining the situation in
regard to my acting on the reception
committee on November 6, and I await
your answer to that before deciding
whether I will go to Columbia at nil
or not.
As for attending the luncheon, I received
an invitation some days ago,
signed James A. Hoyt, to attend the
luncheon, accompanied with an invitation
to send a check for $10. This
may be a new way of conducting entertainments
in South Carolina that
will find favor in the future, but it is
wholly contrary to all ideas of courtesy
and self-respecting hospitality that
I have ever heard of in the State,
and Ido not propose to lend any aid
or countenance to it. If the city of
Columbia is too poor to entertain the
president decently it ought not to attempt
it; if it wants to ask contributions
from outsiders, that is a different
thing; if it wants outsiders to bear
the expenses and insiders enjoy the
glory, thatanother thing. 1 have
known Mr. Taft very pleasantly some
eight or ten years, and I have dined
with him quite often, both as a guest
and as a host, and I do not feel like
encouraging the departurt from South
Carolina's reputation for decency and
hospitality which this transaction involves.
I did not respond to Mr. Hoyt's
invitation, but treated it with silent
contempt. Ilut inasmuch as you have
asked the point blank question, and it
seems to De the oliicial scheme to ask
men to meet the president and have
them pay the expenses, I tell you emphatically:
No, l will not attend the
luncheon. Very respectfully,
(Signed) It. R. Tillman.
The central committee did not like the
tenor of Senator Tillman's letter, and
when it was shown to Mr. J. A. Hoyt,
who was in part responsible for the
invitation sent to the senator, Mr.
Hoyt made the following statement:
"Personally I regret that the committee
of which 1 have the honor to be
chairman is unabie to set aside any
choice quarter section seats tit the Taft
luncheon gratis for our Chesterfieldian
senior senator."
The Cotton Mill Situation.
So far there are no indications that
the Fort Mill cotton mills will curtail
their output as a result of the serious
problem which is now confronting the
American cotton manufacturers of paying
a price for the raw cotton which
does not correspond with the price at
which the manufactured product must
be sold. The assumption that the mills
in this place will not shut down is
based upon a statement sent out from
Lancaster to the effect that the mills
in that city, of which Col. Leroy Springs
is president and with which the Fort
Mill mills are allied and also under the
presidency of Col. Springs, will continue
to run on full time regardless of the
price of cotton or of cotton goods.
It is likewise plessing to n?#te that
no suspension of work is contemplated
at the mills in Rock Hill. Monday
morning ihe managers of the Manchester,
Arcade, Aragon, Carharrt,
Wymojo, Victoria and Highland Park
mills stated that their mills have big
orders on hand with a good supply of
cotton in their warehouses and that
they could not close down, not even
partially. Indeed, two of the mills
will begin on Monday next to run a
double shift.
Conditions are different, however, in
the Greenville-Anderson-Greenwood
mill district where the manufacturers
are finding it as a rule impossible to
make cloth at cost on the present cotton
market and have decided to curtail
their productions one day a week beginning
this week. Mills that have
been in operation 25 years and longer
and that have never before curtailed
their production have agreed to stop
one day each week. The mills so
agreeing will aggregate about 1,000,000
spyulles and some 25,000 looms, and
consume annually about 300,000 bales
of cotton.
The nine cotton mills in Union county,
representing 300,000 spindles and 8,000
looms, employing 5,000 operatives and
consuming annually more than 60,000
bales of cotton, will close down, it was
announced Monday for one week or
more.
State Cora Inspector Needed.
It is highly probable that the coming
legislature will be urged to pass more
stringent laws for the inspection of
corn, meal and other grain stuff coming
into this State, and provide the commissioner
of agriculture with additional
inspectors for the enforcement of these
laws.
In view of the apparently well-founded
reports from local dealers and others
that much damaged corn is being
dumped on this State, the information
in one case being that a lot of corn that
had been rejected found its way back
in the form of meal, Commissioner
Watson has conferred with the experts
at Clemson with a view to such action
by the legislature.
There is a law on the books now providing
for the inspection of grains, but,
like a great many other laws, little
attention is paid to it and the law is
accomplishing practically nothing. It
i3 proposed to frame the new law so as
to provide a tax against the shippers
sufficient to meet the expense of a
thorough system of inspection.
Meeting of Commissioners.
Office of County Board of Commissioners
of York County.
People Interested in the next meeting
of the County Board of Commissioners
will please take notice, that the
said meeting w:il be held on Wednesday,
November 10, instead of Wednesday,
November 3, the regular dav.
CI.EM F. GORDON, Supervisor.
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Big Mill for Great Fall*?
Again there is much talk of the erection
in the near future of a huge cotton
mill at Great Falls, Chesser county.
According to the rumor, which lias
some foundation in the way of circumstantial
evidence, a mill to cost ultimately
$600,000 is tube built somewhere
near Great Falls with Messrs. Hal. B.
Mebane president and Robt. S. Mebane
secretary ana treasurer. There are reports
to the effect that the Dukes are
argely interested in the new enterprise,
which will take the Southern
'ower "juice" and be operated in the
teld of this monster hydro-electric
power company. The presence in the
South the oast week of J. B. Duke has
revived ola stories and the projected
mill is again in the air.
Deaths Cuts Pension List.
Death's invasion of the fast thinning
ranks of war veterans caused
48,312 names to be dropped from the
pension rolls of the United States
last year. Of this number, 32,831
were survivors of the civil war. The
total loss to the pension roll from all
cnuses was Sl.KRf.
In striking contrast to these figures <
comprised in the annual report of '
Vespasian Warner, commissioner of !
pensions, is the statement that the <
government paid out in pensions in '
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909. 1
$161,973,703, which the commissioner
declared is the largest amount ever '
disbursed for pensions in one year. j ,
Summarized, the report shows these ' <
facts: Number of pensioners at the i '
j beginning of the year, 951,687; num- !
' ber of new pensioners added to the <
i roll, 46,088; pensioners on roll at close *
j of the year, 946,194, a net decrease of !
I 5,493; survivors of the civil war on the <
i roll now number 593,961. *
A Church With Airship Landing. !
The city of Atlanta sets the pnee. 1
i Out there the people confidently ex- <
; pect airships to be, in common use }
within a few years and to accomodate '
those who may travel bv such con
veyance the officials of Wesley Me- '
| morial Methodist church, now nearing ,
| completion, have instructed the build- i
ing committee to so arrange the roof
that there will be no difficulty in !
j adapting it to airship landings.
The officials declare that in future '
| years the communicants of the church .
' will sail to and from services in air- '
1 sbips, just as they now speed their ]
automobiles. They say that a3 they .
are erecting a structure that will stand s
; for 100 years it should be modern in |
i every respect.
The Care of Chickens.
There seems to be no chance for a ;
j slump in the egg and chicken market, i
; Turkeys will soon get out of reach of j
\ poor people. There is not going to be ! ,
a time si?nn when fresh healthy young j
[ chickens will not bring a large price. '
Then for the home table there is noth- j ]
ing more desirable than a large juicy ! ?
chicken pie after the family has done a
hard day's work. Of course it is a lit- '
tie trouble to raise chickens and turkeys .
j but any good thing costs something, j
; oomeonc was complaining of sorehead j ,
in chickens a few clays ago. We pub- ?
lished this remedy: Make an ointment
1 out of any tort of grease and kerosene,
add a little sulphur and if a little car
j bolic acid is mixed with it, so much the
' better. Make that and keep it on hand.
! Use when a chicken shows the first sign i
of sorehead. Young chickens until they j
! are two months old sometimes suffer ! g
with gapes, which is caused by small i
worms in the windpipe.
Here is a remedy which it is claimed j
J never fails to relieve the chicks of the '
I gapes, and with proper care will not \
lose a bird: Take a tight box about .
three feet long, one foot high, and J
one foot wide; place a partition cross- I
wise about twelve inches from one
end, made of screen wire or lath. Then
place a brick or stone on the floor in
the small end of the box. After this
heat a piece of iron red hot, catch the
chicks and put in the larger end of the
box. Take the red hot iron and place
it on the stone or brick, and pour a
spoonful of carbolic acid on it. Close
j tne box for a few minutes, then open
and stir chicks around so they can all
i inhale some of the gas, which kills the
,;ape worm. If some are overcome
; lay them out, they will soon revive.
* Do not leave them in the box too long
I or the gas will suffocate them. The '
, first application usually cures, but j
| should there be any not cured by the
fast dose, repeat a second time, and it
will never fail to cure.
Predicts a Severe V/inter.
The fall prophet is again abroad in
the land and his prediction is that the
j coming winter is going to he a record- j
j breaker in the way of freezing weath'
cr. This prophet claims to base his j
I prophesies entirely upon nature's signs. !
He says:
i n,veryimng points to a cold fall and
rip-roaring winter. For one thing,
i have you notice this season's corn?
! Every ear has grown long whiskers,
and that's a sure sign. The corn seems
to have the sense of a Morris county
; ranger in this respect. A wise farmer
grows a good crop of whiskers as win\
ter advances. The harder the winter
the longer and thicker the whiskers.
I The same way with the corn. I've
never noticed longer breezers than they
have this season.
"You must have noticed, too, that !
j the sunflowers blossomed early. That
! means that we will have an early frost
! (we've had it) and early snow. We
will have a blizzard of the 1888 brand
i along about the middle of November,
i Then, look at the apple trees. I can't
remember when we had such a poor !
crop. That means that the trees are |
storing up all their sap and energy i
against a hard spell of weather and a I
long winter. In summers before a mild
winter there is always a fine crop of j
! apples. The present condition, by the '
t way, too, means a hard winter to the !
I lover of applejack.
"As a clincher I might say that the
cabbages are onto the fact that we are
. going to have a record-breaking winter.
When a man says 'cabbage head,' to
mean an ignoramus, he doesn't know
what he is talking about, for the cabbages
are the wisest of vegetables. 1
Every head of cabbage oil my farm
this summer grew thick, tough leaves,
and all because they were providing
warm coverings for the cold weather
that they know we are going to buck j
I up against this winter."
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The residence of Bovce Meyers in
Laurens was destroyed by fire Sunday.
The family barely escaped with their
lives.
A white boy in Chesterfield County "
plead guilty to the charge of man- j
slaughter and was sentenced to serve |
two years in the reformatory. j
TRESPASS NOTICE. 1
All persons are warned against hunt- |
ing, fishing or trespassing in any man- *
ncr upon the lands of the undersigned. I
J. H. SUTTON. j
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fact, they are better than the
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Accept ttis Difference?
of the year is at hand when
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so it will pay you,
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: Notice of Registration.
i The municipal hooks of roppstration
I will be open from the first day of
: | October 1909 until the first day ofJar.u|
: ary 1910. The books will bo open from
19 a. m. until 3 p. m. at the savings
| bank, W. B. MEACHAM, |
; Supervisor of Registration.
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The Leaders
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Two Year Old 3 o < S
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Hoover"*' I'rlvnio Stock ::.n I <
Pocahontas Corn 3.0 <
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Hoover*a Choice 3.0"> r.
Iloover j 7 . ;
Southern States 2 "> ? I
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Oihson I. So s
OliJ Times 3.75 7
Old I'rr lit ice I.o t 7
Pennhrook (bottled in bond) 3.7.7 7
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Green Klver (bottled In bond?
Old Taylor (bottled in bond) I.o i 7.
Mellwood (bottled In bond) :. 7 ? 7
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m<l Henry 3.so r
Old Grand Dad 3.SO C
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