Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, February 24, 1910, SUPPLEMENT TO THE FORT MILL TIMES, Image 9
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ,
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re crop by using fertilizers
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'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.
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Couch's PrHe > 75
?JjH Mscdon 3.50
Jacco 100
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If so, let me figure with you. I cut
save you money. At any rate, let me
furnish you estimates. I use the beat
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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.
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