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j r . i ' ' ' *..\v '* * * NESTOR OF SOUTH'S JOURNALISM NOW BEYOND 70TH MILE-POST Col. Henry Watterson, Beloved Kentucky Editor, Passes Man's Allotted Three-Score-and-Ten. Henry Watterson. the veteran ^ editor of the Louisville CourierJournal and often referred to as the foremost journalist of the South, celebrated the 70th anniversary of his birth last Thursday and was the recipient of many congratulations. Family bereavements and failing eyesight have combined to cause the veteran editor to relinquish active work almost wholly during the past year, but his interest in public affairs is as active and his pen as ready, when he chooses to use it, as in the days of his youth when he was editor of the saucy "Chattanooga Rebel." Mr. Watterson was born in the storm-centre of national politics, at Washington, February 16, > 1840. In consequence of defective eyesight, which has always troubled him, he was sent but little to the public schools, but received much careful education at home. At the commencement of the war he enlisted in the Confederate army and became chief of scouts for Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Ac the end of the war he made his way practically penniless to Louisville, where a few years later he joined W. D. Haldeman in the newspaper enterprise which made fame and fortune for both of them. Mr. Watterson became active in politics in 1872, and between that time and 1892 no Democratic platform was written without his aid and counsel. He presided over the convention that nominated Tilden, and was prominent as a leader and platform framer until the convention of 1896, which nominated William J. Bryan upon a free silver platform, and called forth from Mr. Watterson, then in Switzerland, the famous telegram. "No compromise with dishonor" a message that confirmed \\. N. Haldeman, owner of the CourierJournal in his determination to nnrvAon Mv D^trn^ ivxit JL>I y an. Denounces Commander Peary. Denouncing Robert E. Peary, the explorer, as a "selfish egotist" and a "braggart," Captain B. S. Osbon. secretary of the Arctic Club of America, has written a letter to tne subcommittee of the Congress naval committee approving the hitter's action in voting down the proposition to make Peary a rear admiral. The committee has received a large number of letters, some of them condemning and some approving its action. Capt. Osbon say in his letter: "The action of the subcommittee on naval affairs in the matter of Civil Engineer Robert E. Perry - not Peary?for that is an assumed name?deserves the heartiest recommendation of every American citizen who values justice and respects the United States navy. "To have given this selfish egotist, this braggart, the rank of rear admiral, would be a foul blot on the records of Congress and an insult to the navy of the United States. It would have disgusted millions of our citizens who have no confidence in (his alleged Pole hunter and Arctic fur trader and story-teller, who for nearly a quarter of a century has been living off the people and sailing under a naval rank to which he has no legal right and for which he should have been severely reprimanded by the navy department long ago." Old York Good Enough. Editor Fort Mill Times: I see by The Times that there is a lot of discussion about the proposed new county and where the court house shall be located. I do not see how this change can be made. I remember in the year 18% there was a survey made for the proposed county with Rock Hill as the county seat. The survey was made by the Hon. Norman Elder, a prominent man in political circles in York county at that time. Mr. Elder would not make public the result of the survey and for that reason W. B. Love was pitted against Mr. Elder for the State , senate by western York and Mr. Elder was defeated. In January, 1907, I was in Columbia and met *i_ tru J? ? J nr. Eiiuer anu in our conversation this new county matt./ came up. Mr. Elder said the lack of territory was the trouble. I think this has been brought out lately and the only chance for the new county is to change the constitution so as to make it ft ., ? ? . / SUPPLBM ' fit the proposed county. I see an article in The Times of February 10, "Trying to Reach York-, ville." Was the trouble in the location of the court house or the , railroad? How would it do to , move the railroad and run it direct from Fort Mill to Yorki ville and let the old county alone? J T t io or/ ?in f a f nlr a V J ii/ io i>\j tar\c l ui l\v ilic <11111 Rock Hill both to watch Fort 1 ' Mill grow. In the last six or ' eight months there have been j built in Fort Mill four or five new i store rooms and seven or eight j dwellings and nearly a mile of concrete sidewalk put down. ] You may want to know' the ] secret of Fort Mill's success. We j have a first-class, up-to-date ; newspaper, with a bright young ] man as editor, broad-minded and i liberal in his views. Subscribe * to The Times and keep up with 1 the times. 1 am somewhat \ with John W. McElhaney: Old i York is good enough for me. but if we must have a new county j let's call it Fort Mill county and j have the court house at Fort Mill. ; SV. H. Windle. i Gold Hill, Feb. 22. j How Tillman Met His Match. ' An interesting story of.?how 1 Senator B. R. Tillman and Mrs. j Tillman, who was Miss Sallie * Starke, became acquainted is f now going the rounds of the ] press. It was during the [ troublous days of the Civil war ^ when the South was overrun with { Union soldiers and when homes t and lives were being sacrificed in the cause of the Southern ] States. Miss Starke, a fascinas- j ing young miss of 15, was ? seated in her father's house one v | afternoon when two elderly | i ladies and an emaciated boy t ! drove onto the plantation. The ! I i little party was on its way to j? I some secluded spot where the f i boy might recover from a serious , illness and stopped at the Starke a I plantation to rest. In those days f I every Southern home held its j ^ door open to visitors and t e two f elderly Indies m I : :r 'charge, ti.?cc ucii liiiiwuu, were mane ('c comfortable for several days.. | A little more than three years s later the hoy. 21 and fully re- c 1 stored to health, and the popular * I daughter of Samuel Starke were | v married. The romance, which f began under those conditions, \ has never lost its fervor and to- v day the devotion of Senator and , Mrs. Tillman to each other is one ( of the beautiful things to which $ the older congressional set point * with something like proprietary ( pride. I 3 Bales of Cot Mr. John B. Broadvvell : cotton per acre on his enti at the rate of 1,000 pounds able to do as well as Mr. Brc By U Virginia Fertil Get a copy of our 1910 Farm< * ? trom your fertilizer dealer, < Mr. Broadwell tells in this I he got this big yield. SALKS OR Richmond, Va. Mail ua thia Coupon Norfolk, Va. ,, _ ? Columbia. 9. ViaciNiA Carolina Chemical . ' . COMPANY. Durham. N < Pleaae tend me a copy o( pour iqio Winttnn-Sale Farmcra' Year Book Iree ol coat. Charleiton, 6 Baltimore, M Name............................. Columbuf, C _ Montgomerp, * Memphia, Tc Stare Shre?cpott, L Touring Car $950?1 1 * | . I jl:.. " ~r .. r ttt-.:1::. t ~;r : ! FORD AUTOP 1 c S w ENT TO THE FORT MI] r~ Ineffectual Braying of the Idaho Ass. I Now and then there comes an oppor- . tunity to the senate of the Unitec. States to show itself in its best light; and, curiously enough, perhaps, such opportunity comes usually in the guise of a relatively unimportant thing, says the Washington Herald. Neither the fate of empire nor the destiny of man hnng on the senate's decision as to whether a few old veterans of the late Confederacy should be permitted the use of a number of army tents and things during the progress of a forthcoming reunion in Mobile. The proposition as submitted by Senator Bankhead meant little in ' its."If. Unemphasized by Senator Heyburn's foolishly bitter tirade against the late wearers of the gray and their J loved and chivalric leader. General I Robert E. Lee, the resolution would nave passed quietly and in order on Monday last, and nothing untoward ivould have come of it whatever. The lead past has long ago been permitted to bury its dead in the matter of secession, the Civil war. and all that appertains to that fratricidal strife, ana it is mly here and there that a Senator Heyburn cotnes upon the scene with lis feeble effort to stir it up anew. The senate rose superbly to the demands of the crisis thrust upon it by Mr. Heyburn's vociferous vehemence, lowever, and voted to a man?saving ind excepting Mr. Heyburn himself to jfrant the petition as originally filed by Vlr. Banknead; and that despite the Idaho senator's jarring solo of protest. The quiet dignity of the entire pro:eeding that marked the undoing of Mr. Heyburn was inspiring, and could lardlv have failed to arouse a feeling )f profound respect for the senate even n the bosom of the most hardened icoffer. "Ave!" said New York, and Washington, and Kansas, and Wisconsin, and Indiana, and Minnesota, and Utah, and California, and Vermont, ind Ohio, and Michigan, and Maine, ind so on throughout the entire Union -of course, including the South. - ? ------ njiiiiw ? voici' uione was raised in opposition?and only half of that, indeed, iince Senator Borah voted "aye." We think it worth while to note, in passing, the splendid courtesy and idmirable restraint evidenced by the southern senators in refraining from a eplytoMr. Heyburn. The provocation vas admittedly great, but how honestly hrilling it was that the temptation vas refused! It was a fine compliment he Southern senators paid their Northern colleagues?if we may use an xpression in differentiating senators hat is, we think, all but obsolete at ast, praise be when the Southerners lected merely to pass the resolution to i vote, secure in tr.eir faith that their riendB of the North would meet the ssue in a manly and patriotic manner, ind that without one word of argument rom the defense! Mr. Th m :>? Nel on Page, in hi h i I .o c' . . L ' ' re.at oliowi.i0 incident, uccurr.ng alter ti ;lose of the Civil war: On one occasion, General Lee was ipproached with a tender of the presilency of a life insurance company, at a \ alary of $50,000 per annum. He de-! c dined it on the ground that it was work vith which he was not familiar. "But, c general," said the gentleman who epresented the insurance company, 'you will not be expected to do any vork; what we want is the use of your lame." "Do you not think," said jeneral Lee, "that if my name is worth >50,000 a year, 1 ought to be very care'ul about taking care of it?" It is, perhaps, that feature of jeneral Lee's character that Senator ley burn finds it difficult to understand. ton Per Acre , iveraged three bales of re crop by using fertilizers per acre. You should be * >adwell f. sing Carolina izers *rs' Year Book or Almanac Dr write us for a free copy. n )ook his own story of how I FICES: Atlanta. Ca. C Savannah, Ga. i m . Fully Equipped. Ri MOBILES and ACCESSORIES. WiiML- -iz&t LL TIMES, FEBRUARY | There i | to a F< | than Ai H The mere materials to o H sis requires J knowledge. A of a fertilizer ^ source from ^ plant food is ^ Each ing Royster good A with a view o A the plant froi A until harvest. A is not overf< A time and st< A other. T w l A years experien A every bag. T TRADE I \ "ti REGIST J Sold by reliable de the Sc 3 F. S. Roystei N NORFOL AKOLINA A MORTII-WESTEHN RV. COMPANY ?AND? AI.DWEM, A NOHTIIKHN R. R. CO. Soheilulr KITri'(l\<' Sept. Mh. IIMm. I ?i S a. T3 v cs . I <=.? .o ft.2 i 4"6 cz eJ Northbound. X as 3 _?s ? 4. m O) l "g 52 ?? x* So Q > W~ s* .v .Chester .... 7.i"?Ba| I l.lBpl Yorkvillo ...' N.42AI j 2.40p Gastonln ...! 9.10a' ..Ar.l 4.30p Gastonia ...I I . .L.v.1 Kincolnton ..110 ::?ia ( O -Jt'.p Newton .... I 1.05a 7.40p| Hickory ....11.55a I 8.35p I yen for I l.lOpf 10.05p 3.15p Mortimer ...: 2.42p I I 6.36p .r.Kdgemont .] 2.65p| I | fi.OOp 'hound. Nob. I 9^ | * I 61 | 63 v.KdKemont .|12.06p[ I 7.1&a Mortimer ...J12.13p ! 7.25a l^'nolr I 1.28pf 7.00a! 9.40a Hickory ....] 2.52pl 8.40a Newton ....I 3.20p< 9.30a l.incolnton .! 3.57p! 10.13a Gastonia . ..I 4.60C ..Ar.l 1.40a Gas ton la ...! . . L.V Yorkvillo ...I 5.39p{ 1.45a r.Ohester ...( 6.25p| 3.20p Arrive Connections Chester?-Southern Ry? S. A. I., and ? & C. Yorkvillo- Southern Railway. Gastonia Southern Railway. l.incolnton?S. A. I.. Newton and Hickory--Southern Ry. Renoir?Blowing Itock StaKe Line n?J C. A- N. K. P. Held, G. P. AKt.. Chester. S. C. MITCHELL HOTEL, (Formerly Nicholson Hotel) :hester, - - s. c. nuu'R, l'er L'ay and Up. S W. Mitchell, Proprietor. 'OR SAI.E One horse, one mule and a one-horse wagon. Cheap for cash or will sell on time. Also, I will buy 100 bushels corn, in ear. L. A. HARRIS. WriW :>adster $900?Fully Equipped Syleec * /* ' 24, 1910. is more | utilizer | talyses g mixing of M btain analy- n no special jh rhe value p lies in the p which the fobtained. Q redient i n Is is selected f supplying m sprouting n The plant ed at one irved at ane n ty-f ive ce goes with MARK 0 ERED M alers throughout U luth. r Guano Co. U ,K. VA. N Lumber 1 Wo are prepared to fill orders, 1 n J l n uressea ana i\< Our mills are located near Fort 1 in this section, and with improved ence we guarantee satisfaction HOKE, MASSEY gg^Tj^Emnn L23mai % cor P"?! Vmisi Vhisvuey I B The above brands are wi FIVE." Their range of flt Highest Qyality and Lowes Ulnji prepaid. Send for free price-list. Pure F< Prices on the above ar? as follows : ?|1| Hunting Creek W OO tfW'vJ Cooper's Laurel Valley 3-t5 Couch's PrHe > 75 ?JjH Mscdon 3.50 Jacco 100 Y/]gm Original Cascade. fit 00 per case ^=3 Kemit Y. O. or Express Money O first express. No charge (or jugs or packing fe J. A. COUCH, M THC J. A. McDONO nmJj fost orrlee box Tta. ITAHI?wpf i. Tourabout $950au Manufac Rock Hill, South < ' ' -'fii 4 . * C'Xj t Thinking of Building? If so, let me figure with you. I cut save you money. At any rate, let me furnish you estimates. I use the beat (Trflflo r\f W>nf~4. at l M. b?"~v wi uiairci mi ui uie lowest prices. No jobs too large, none too small. A. A. BRADFORD Builder and Contractor, Ft Mill, S. C. CLERK'S NOTICE. Office of the Clerk of Court of York County, S. C. Yorkville, S. C., Feb. 2, 1909. To the Public: Please take notice that the fee for recording Deeds, including Auditor's fee, is reduced from $1.25 to $1.00 on and after Feb. 1st. For the last three years the fee has been $1.25 and several years ago the fee was $1.50, and $1.75 with dower. This fee applies to Deeds of usual form and length, and if the Deed is unusually long, the fee is in proportion to the length. Yours truly, J. A. TATE, C. C. C. Pis. Z. V. BRADFORD, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Estimates furnished for buildings of every description. Prompt and satisfactory work at fair prices is my motto. Phone 1-e and let me figure with you. Why Pay Rent When $2.50 a week will Buy a Home? For Particulars see L. A. HARRIS. For Sale. large or small, for all kinds of ough Lumber. Mill in the finest tract of timber machinery and years of experiwith every order. Phone 1-a. & COMPANY. >od guarantee coven all of ouibrand!ir|! 2 Gal 3 Gal. 4 Gal- 4Qta. 6Qts- 12 Qt. Hr?| $5 60 18.25 $10.00 03.25 $5.00 $8 25 fc3i>5 V 6 25 9-00 12-00 4.00 5 75 10.00 H| i^H 5.00 7..15 9 65 - RHM 660 9JO 12.00 3-75 5 35 9.75 R?3H 5-00 8.25 10.00 3.25 4.75 $75 J rder, and goods will be forwarded by 99 g. Every thing in Wine* and Liquor*. anager Shipping Dept. UGH COMPANY. Vfl? ?Fully Equipped. turing Co. Carolina. * .. n tiSih