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FORT MILL. S. C.. MAY 19. 1910.
A Prime Necessity.
One of the first ear-marks of a
progressive and successful town
is its system of municipal waterworks.
Can Fort Mill, with its admitted
advantages as a business
and residence town, afford longer
to be without this improvement?
The decision of the citizens is
that it can not.
That decision was voiced last:
week at a mass meeting which
represented about two-thirds of
the taxable property of Fort
Mill. There seemed no doubt in
the minds of those present that
a waterworks system was
essential to the material welfare
of the town. The sole obstacle 1
apparently was the fear of increased
taxation.
It were a reflection upon the
business prospects of Fort Mill
to allow that argument to
triumph. The cost of waterv,
. works would not be excessive.
uouDtless a system could be
constructed at a maximum outlay
of $20,000. The interest on
$20,000 amounts to about $1,200
the year. This could not bankrupt
the town. A slight increase
in taxation for the benefit of the
whole community would be borne
by the property owners, who,
after all, would reap largely of
the benefits of the enterprise.
Such seemed to be the sentiment
of the mass meeting. Unfortunately,
however, nothing
was done to put into effect the
plans designed to increase at
once the joy of living and the
commercial advantages of the
town. Steps should be taken
immediately. Another mass
meeting might be called. A
committee might be apppointed
to circulate petitions calling for
an election on the proposition of
issuing the bonds necessary to
Secure the funds. That would
be half the battle. Once a movement
is started, it gains weight,
like a snow-ball, with every foot
it advances.
Why Th*y are Grouchy.
"Why is it that when a man
has to wait for "Central" to
answer him seconds seem
minutes? Many a busy man
will wait minutes for anything
else and never turn an eyelash.
But when he faces that formidable
gutta percha ear on the wall,
when he listens in vain for the
"What number, please?" of the
telephone girl, he loses all his
patience. With his patience go
his temper and his manners.
Why is it? The reason is
comparatively obvious to one who
analyzes the problem. People
are not accustomed to delay
at the telephone. Custom has
us all in its deadly grip. Any
deviation from custom affronts
those prehistoric nerve cells of
ours which tell us that a discursior.
from the beaten track leads
us into unknown terrors. Of
course, these world-old instincts
are dying, but they still possess
force enough to render a change
undesirable.
Men are used to waiting for
others. Therefore delay in a
bank or store causes no wrath.
But men-and women, too?are
not accustomed to delay in the
telephone service. They are
used to the quick, cheery inquiry
from "Central," almost instantly
following the first call. The
unwonted delay thus makes the
busy man wroth, leads him to
needless expenditure of valuable
temper and to equally futile
venting of his anger in heated
language.
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A Disingenuous Executive.
The latest developments in
I the Ballinger-Pinchot row ?the
Kerby charges, the- first indignant
denial from the White
House and the subsequent admission
that there was foundation
for the allegation?combine to
produce one of the most discreditable
ensembles in American
political history.
The break came on Saturday, i
For some time previously Mr.
Brandeis, attorney for L. R.
Glavis, had been intimating tnat
Mr. Taft's exoneration of Mr.
Ballinger was prepared outside
the executive offices and was
presented to the president for
his signature. Repeatedly he
had failed to get the documents.
Then, just when the BallingerPinchot
investigation, with its
weary, wrangling length, had
begun to pall on the people, an
obscure stenographer stepped into
the centre of the stage. Frederic
M. Kerby, employed in Seci
retary Ballinger's office, made
the statement that the "exoneration"
of Mr. Ballinger had been
drafted by Oscar Lawler, assistant
attorney for the interior department,
and had been signed
and promulgated by the presi- j
dent.
As might have been expected,
the White House promptly issued
an emphatic denial. There was
"absolutely no foundation," said
the executive, for the Kerby
charge. Very well. The country |
was safe. Mr. Taft had purged !
himself.
But, unfortunately for the
good name of Mr. Taft, Mr.
Wickersham, forced from his
cover, presented to the BallingerPinchot
committee the original
draft. The two were compared.
Two paragraphs of the Lawler
draft, which the White House
statement had declared non-existent,
apparently had been incorporated
almost verbatim in
the official statement exculpating
Mr. Ballinger. Yet there was
"absolutely no foundation" for
Kerby's charge that there had
been such a draft.
On Sunday Mr. Taft, after
! taking counsel, decided that a
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He wrote an open letter, in
| which he admitted that he had
directed Lawler to prepare a
draft?which his previous statement
had declared a figment of
Kerby's brain?and that he had
read this draft. Yet Kerby's
charge was absolutely without
foundation?so ran the first official
statement from the White
| House.
Not content with this combi,
nation of admission and denial? ;
he declared he had not found the
Lawler draft to his liking and
had not used it -the president
admitted further that the Wick-1
1 ersham memorandum on which
j the exoneration was said to have
been based was prepared subsequent
to the issuance to Mr.
Ballinger of an official credential
to the band of the good and true.
Further, Mr. Taft declared this
j back-dating was done by his own j
1 direction.
i Mr. Taft Stands in imminent
danger. The denial of the existence
of the Lawler draft and
' the subsequent admission that
it was prepared, coupled with
the confessed back-dating of the
memorandum on which it was
declared to be based, place Mr.
Taft in the unenviable position of
one caught playing tricks with the
exact truth. It appears that Mr.
Taft will be forced to coufess,
to use a term recently made classic,
that he has been "disingenuj
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THE PARTRIDGE.
Probably the most interesting
of the many interesting articles
which James Henry Rice, Jr.,
State secretary of the Audubon
society, has prepared for the
press on the birds of South
Carolina relates to the partridge.
l nis article is in part as follows:
Two things started the partridge
toward extinction, for he
was headed that way when the
Audubon Society of South Carolina
was formed and began its
work by shutting down sale of
birds.
The first of these causes was
the break-up of the large plantations
into small farms, consisting
mostly of negro tenants. The
large planters valued and protected
their game. Each negro
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settlement became a separate
; centre of destruction. Families
1 that had moved to town often encouraged
the negroes to kill birds
or to catch them and their town
neighbors followed suit.
The second great cause was
the sale of game, which became
a sort of business throughout the
State.
There were other causes, but
these two ranked first and accounted
for thousands, where
from other causes there might
be reckoned hundreds.
All this was aggravated by the
introduction of rapid-fire guns
of great accuracy and range,
made more effective by smokeless
powder and machine-loaded
shells. Shooters multiplied
amazingly; sportsmen increased
slowly.
This condition impressed itself
on my mind ten years ago, but
the remedy was not clear.
So soon as I had time to study
the one-dollar hunters' license, it
was plain that a solution had been
found for the vagrant man and
for the vagrant dog. It met all
the conditions. It lists the
hunter; it forces the owner to
confine his dog during the breeding
season for birds; it provides
revenue for enforcement and restocking.
It has been tried and
is now a success in every State
of the Union but four or five.
It is absolutely fair, putting
every man on the same footing,
taking away no man's privileges
and increasing his legitimate
pleasure.
Our laws now provide every
safeguard but that; the engine is
set up, the machinery is in place;
all that is lacking is steam in the
boilers and the whole thing
moves at once.
In all the argument on the
question no man has advanced
a single reason against it; no man
can, except some low appeal to
passion and prejudice. The man
who shoots the game furnishes
the means of protecting it.
The Piedmont section of the
State, or more properly, the upcountry,
was originally far better
stocked with partridges than
any other part of the State. It
can be so again and should be.
Multiplying farms multiplies
partridges, for it multiplies feed.
The small truck farms of Horry
are even now filled with birds.
The partridge does not love wildness
and is never so numerous
in wild sections for the simple
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reason that his natural enemies
keep his numbers down.
These enemies in the uncultivated
portions of the State are the
razor-back hog, that destroys
thousands of nests; the wild cat,
the raccoon, the snakes, the
fox, the great horned owl and
the sharp-shinned hawk and the
Cooper's hawk, known to the
country people as the "blue
darter," and the chicken hawk,
respectively. Stray house cats
are also great destroyers of
partridges. These homeless cats
should be killed on sight. The
roving, half-fed dog is also a
large destroyer of young birds
and eggs.
A well organized, adequately
paid warden force could manage^
all these thinge, except the razorback,
and he will go with the
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CHARLOTTE HARDWARE GROWS
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Separating Wholesale and Retail Departments?New
Building on Corner
of Sixth and Railroad With 25,000
Feet Floor Space ?Increasing Salesmen
From Four to Six.
To keep pace with the extension of
its business and the growth of Charlotte,
the Charlotte Hardware Company
is enlarging its stock of goods
and separating the wholesale and retail
departments. The company has
been very successful during the four i
years of its life and it has become
necessary to secure more floor space
and make an addition to the stock
of goods in order to cope with the
growing business. Mr. W. W. Hagood
is erecting a building at the
corner of Sixth street and Railroad
60x170 feet, two stories high with a
basement which has been leased for
the wholesale deparfr.ent of the concern.
This building will be of mill
construction and furnish 25,000
square feet of floor space. Being in
close proximity to both the Seaboard
and Southern tracks the shipments
can be received and dispatched in
short order without cost of drayage.
This building will be devoted entirely
to wholesale, while the office will be
maintained at the retail department
on East Trade street where it is at
present.
The business has outgrown the
present quarters which has been used
for wholesale and retail since its organization.
When the change is made
in the near future, the four floors in ;
the present building will be given up
entirely to retail trade. New lines
will be added and the office enlarged.
Four salesmen are now on the road
traveling the territory within a radius
of 100 miles in which the company
has substantial patronage in its line.
The number of salesmen will be increased
to six and the present territory
will be worked more thoroughly
and enlarged to some extent,
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ine omciTH are: Messrs. J. C. McNeely,
president; R. L. Erwin, vice
president; Robert Glasgow, treasurer,
and J. S. Neely, secretary.
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GOODS FOR U
Bleachings?the best 12 l-2c
inch Bleaching at 10c per yard,
for 8c per yasd.
Trimmings?Swiss and Hamb
sertion to match, at 5c to 25c p
Torchon Lace: We are run
Torchon Lace at 4c per yard.
MUSLIN UNI
Ladies* and Misses* Gowns, :
of long cloth, trimmed with lac
low necked, at 50c to $2.00.
Corset Covers in pretty st;
at 25c.
Ladies* Underskirts with dee
broidery, made up nice and full
Children*s Underwaists and ]
E. W. Kin
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a. m. and 2:30 to 3:3(
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to the cut prices that are
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llowing list:
NDERWEAR
i grade of soft finished, 36
A 10c, 36 inch Bleaching
urg Embroideries, with Inter
yard.
ning a very special value
DERWEAR
made of excellent qualites
e and embroidery, high and
yles, very neat and fancy
p flounces of lace and em,
at 50c to $2.00.
Pantb for 10c and 15c.
ibrell Co.
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URD'Y
3 p. m.
Jay night,
on hand,
price.
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