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The Fort 111 Times.' i DEMOCRATIC. Published Thursday Mornings. B. W. & W. R. Bradford Publishers W. R. Bradford Editor B. W. Bradford Manaokr Subscription Rates: One Year $1.25 Six Months , .66 On application to the publisher, advertising: rates are mad" known to those interested. The Times invites contributions on live subjects. out aocs not agreo to puonsn more tnan ztiu woroi on any subject. The right is reserved to edit | every communication submitted for publication, i Telephone, local and longdistance. No. 112. i FORT MILL. S. C.. FEBRUARY 3. 1910. Stenaland's Punishment. In these days, very happily, punishment is not imposed in a vindictive but j in a corrective sense and as some reparation for injury done. At the same time a too lenient view is occasionally taken and a criminal, especially if he has influential friends, is set free after a very inadequate term j of punishment. Whether this was the case or not in the matter of Stensland, the Chicago bank wrecker, who has just been set ! free after serving but three and a half years for his offense, is a matter of opinion. But certainly the devastation j he wrought by his misdeeds was far above the ordinary. Not only did he ! reduce many families to poverty, but his action was the direct cause of one | person falling down dead, of three others committing suicide and one or two others becoming hopeless maniacs. His career shows the wide swath of destruction one man may cut who defrauds other people that he may spend the money on wine and women. Of course no amount of punishment imposed could adequately atone for the evil done under such circumstances, and no amount of financial reparation can bring the dead to life again or restore reason to the unfortunate who were bereft of it. Hut it is questionable whether the law is sufficiently vindicated by so short an imprisonment in J which the work performed by the prisoner was of the lightest character. And certainly the leniency shown to Stensland is not likely to have a great deterrent influence upon other unprincipled men. The cadets at West Point Military academy are said to be considerably exercised over the probable admission to the academy in the near future of a negro who was recently named by Senator Clark, of Wyoming, as first alternate for the next senatorial vacancy at the academy to which that State is en- ] titled. There has always been a strong ^feeling in the North against the admis^lion of negro cadets to West Point. 1 Why this feeling against admitting negroes to the government's military school is so strong in the North, where j the color line is not drawn against the | negro either in the great colleges or public schools, is hard to understand. Yale, Princetcn, Harvard and many other great schools of the North admit negroes to their student body and their prc-3ciice does not seem to be objected to hy the white students. It is to be I I iL.i a V **r. *_ ... uuptu (.nut me v> yoming negro will ^ not be admitted to West Point on account of the Southern boys at the academy. What nearly every town net ds is a more pronounced public spirit. Civic stagnation is the result of indifference and that indifference has its root in a selfishness that considers nothing but private gain. Take any community whose citizens are intent only on their private afTairs and you find a community destitute of progress and public spirit. It is a short sighted policy based upon the wrong idea that it does not pay individually to spare even a fraction of time to devote to the general good. In truth it does not pay not to do it for in thete pushing days the town destitute of that wholesome, wideawake spirit which makes for the public welfare falls behind. Other towns pass it by, draw away its trade, and leave it hopelessly in the rear as a fossilized specimen of an tiquity petrified through clinging to a dead selfishness and obsolet" methods. There's something wrong in Columbia. For a full week the newspapers of that city have failed to greet their readers with the usual stori- s telling of great feats just accomplished in behalf of the people by Commissioner Watson's bureau. The propie have learned to look for Watson's "dope" in the Columbia papers every day and it is nothing short of a serious oversight for our Columbia contemporaries to thus disappoint them. The headline, "Commissioner Waison to Speak," has a charm about it that nothing can displace and we trust the Capital City's papers will hereafter be ? more considerate than to disappoint the public in this way. L -v.- ' y~ Some of ttte weekly newspapers of the State which seemingly devote more time and space to trying to tell the farmers how to run their business than to publishing the news are handing out the information that bacon can be raised for three cents a pound, notwithstanding the high price of corp. They have it figured out how it is possible to feed hogs on sweet potatoes and slot* until within a month of butrh ering time and then by n generous allowance of corn three times a day so harden the flesh that it will be first class and will have not cost the farmer | in excess ef three cents. Farmers who i know what it costs to raise hogs say | that the statement is absurd. A Northern man, temporarily re| siding in Columbia who is happy to sign ; John Adams Winthrop as his name, protests vigorously against The News and Courier's stating that the Republican party is responsible for the high price of meat. Winthrop does not think that the Republican party is the most corrupt political organization in this or any other country. He lacks information. The Republican party is , now, as it has ever been, hand in glove with the most putrefied set of scoundrels and thieves that has cursed the world since Pontius Pilate was sent to hell for crucifying the meek and lowly Nazarene. Rabbits and the English sparrow are generally acknowledged to be destructive pests, but they make good eating, all the same. 11 may be that in these days of soaring prices, when so many 1 people have sworn off meat until the price drops, sparrows and rabbits may be considered as a providential supply to replenish the larder with meat. If so, then in more ways than on?, the high price of meat may be regarded as i a blessing in disguise. Rut think of the | time spent and powder and shot used j in killing a sufficient number of spar- i rows to make a pie or in bagging the > sportive rabbit. At this season of the year many a | pleasant evening will be spent looking through the numerous seed catalogues that enter our homes, and in planning for the garde n, great er small, that is to he made in tne spring. '1 're giowing description of the flowers- ar.ei vegt - \ tables and the highly colored p.ctures showing everything on a mammoth scale, fire the imagination. But, aiasl the difference in the size of the ] lar.t grown by the average man and that pictured in the catalogue is so git af as tr than u gratifying comparison. Come one and"all and see "Crippled JinV* for your Cabbage Piants. Also fresh Oysters and Hot Lunches for sale by J. H. Patterson. I Beach-Ihrie's j 1 We have the most up-tc-dhte V Ilir.cs of Jewelry, Silverware, Cut GIrs*, China, Clock.-. 2 and many other useful and oina- I 1 mental poods' to be found in this B I section of the country. We sha'i he glad io hear from I you when in ne.d of anything in I our line. 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