Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 28, 1910, Image 8
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SOUTH CAROLINA'S DARK CORNER *
A. B. Williams in Roanoke Times.
With some surprise we observe >
various Southern newspapers |
print and apparently accept as a 1
fact a story from the St. Louis 1
Post-Dispatch of the appearance ]
before the national conference of j
Charities and Corrections in that
city of Mrs. Shankie "of the j
Squirrel Mountain school in the <
Dark Corner of South Carolina."
Mrs. snariKie is matte to tell of '
conditions in her school and :;
neighborhood supposed to be;:
typical of those in the Southern
mountain countries. She is quoted
as saying: that the boys at her
school shoot pistols around her
head, that preachers who go into j
the section are shot at and chased
out, that the people generally
practically are savages and uncivilized.
The story bears falsehood ?
probably the falsehood of a newspaper
reporter- on the face of it.
The woman is represented as j
saying that her scholars have become
so far civilized that they
raised last year "six bales of
cotton and 400 bushels of corn"
on the 108 acres of school land.
If they have succeeded in raising
cotton in the depths of the mountains,
they have done what nobody
ever before succeeded in J
doing.
We happen to know this special
Dark Corner quite intimately and
also the people who live in it.
They have some moonshine stills,
but they treat revenue officers as |
revenue officers treat them. They
do not shoot at strangers or
flmmnnitinn firinor nrrmnrt
the heads of school teachers.
They have churches and we
never have heard of a preacher
being molested. To the contrary
all through the Southern mountains
the Methodist and Baptist
preachers have done far more to
run the blockade stills into the
farm hollows and to put 4;he
moonshiners out of business than
the United States government
has been able to do in 40 years.
The mountain people have their
own rows among themselves and
settle according to their own
codes. That is because they have
been an isolated people with little
access to towns and courts, but
they are getting out of that. In
most of the mountain sections
it can be said as was said of
England in King Alfonso's time
that a maiden might walk
through it from end to end with
a crock of gold on her head and
never be disturbed or injured.
They pester nobody who doesn't
pester them. They attend to
their own business and want
other people to do likewise. They
are as eager for education as any
people in the world and when
they get religion get it as hard 1
and stand to it as faithfully .and J
rigidly as any people in the world.
They have their peculiar faults
and their peculiar virtues, but
nearly always thev have charac
ter and force which if directed
in the right ways will make them
the strongest people on the continent.
There is no sense or justice in .
allowing these people to he,
advertised to t he world as i
swaggering, murderous savage j
ruffians. As fast as they get a
chance they develop into the
finest kind of men and women.
Like all people who are kept
shut off to themselves and depied
advantages, they have pre- j
judices, and their prejudices are
strong, but where the world gets 1
to them they play their hand j
against it and their part in it as
well as any people we know.
Fake Consumption Cures.
Over $15,000,000 annual 1 y is j
poured into the coffers of those
who exploit and advertise fake
consumption cures, according to j
a statement just issued by the j
National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis;
and in the majority of
cases cheated out of a chance
for a real cure. Worse still most
of this money is paid by those
who can least afford it.
{The national association has
Ynvestigated several hundred socalled
"cures" and "treatments"
for tuberculosis now being advertised
throughout the country
and finds that more than $3,000, 000
a year is being spent in soliciting
the patronage of the public.
On examination, it has been
found that the great majority of
these "cures" contain harmful
and habit-forming drugs, such as
morphine, opium and chloroform.
None of them will cure consumption.
The only cure for this disease
that has ever been discovered
is the combination of fresh
air, rest and wholesome food.
:OTTON CONDITION SUMMARY
INDICATES UNCERTAIN YIELD
Reliable information bearing
jpon the South's prospects for a
full cotton crop is a matter of
importance to every farmer in
Lhe cotton belt. The condition
reports of the government and
:>ne or two great Southern newspapers
are therefore1 awaited
with interest by every cotton
grower. monaay tne Memphis
Commercial-Appeal issued its
July summary of the crop conditions,
which indicates that a
short crop is in prospect. The
summary is as follows:
"The wek gives mixed and rather
uncertain returns from the cotton
fields. Considerable improvement attendant
upon dry weather is shown in
Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas, while northern Louisiana is
rounding into a state of fair promise.
"The Carolinas and Georgia sulTc red
from heavy rams early in th"e week, SO
that little cultivation was done on
the later days, while Texas and Oklahoma,
without rain, are approaching
a time when the crop may sulFer. In
fact, some lo s has already been sustained
in southern and southwestern
Texas.
"In the Central and Eastern States
the crop is being Maid by* in a rather
poor condition, some of the fields still
being very grassy. Ten days without
rain would permit of a rather considerable
improvement, but the crop has
received much less work than it would
have gotten with normal weather. The
plant remains small and teems late. It
has put on little fruit, and in many
places has not 1 egun to bloom freely.
Estimates on condition seldom run
higher than 75 per cent, and are often
below this. There are limited districts
in the Valley and Atlantic States, however,
that give a good account."
| GREAT FALLS.
Great Falls,, on the Catawba
river, where the Southern Power
company has one of its plants, is
a picturesque place, and well
worth a visit by all who can do
so, says a writer in the Rock Hill
District Bulletin. The natural
scenery, the high hills, the huge
rocks, the deep ravines, the turbid
river waters, the trees and
wild flowers ? all conspire to make
it a place of more than ordinary
interest. But the work of man
ac KAV>/\ ^Inrvlo??/vJ ? ^ J- A
iicic viiojjic?jrcu in inc construction
of a 70-foot dam, which
holds back an ocean of water,
to be applied as needed to turn
the gigantic wheels, and the
whirling, buzzing machinery itself
is as interesting as the natural
scenery. From this great
plant go out currents of electric
energy to turn the millions of
spindles and operate the thousands
of looms in the cotton mills
of Lancaster, Chester, Rock Hill,
Yorkville, Charlotte, etc., as well
as to light the streets and residences
and business houses of all
these growing cities. Besides
all this, several cotton mill companies
are planning to erect in
the near future three or four
very large mills here ?one very
large mill having been already
begun. It is conjectured by
many that within a very short
time there will be a city of several
thousand inhabitants nestling
among these hills which,
until recently, were known only
to the few settlers in the immediate
vicinity.
Already a railroad has been
built to the Falls connecting with
the Seaboard at Catawba Junction,
and having a regular
schedule of two trains a day each
way. A splendid hotel overlooks
the great pond and power house
and has up-to-date conveniences
and splendid fare, as the writer
can testify. So far no denomination
has built a church, but as
soon as the first cotton mill is
buik, a handsome church, for the
use of all denominations, will be
erected by the company. There
is already a good school here.
D. A. R. Picnic at Old Waxhaw.
No more delightful or interesting
place could have beer
selected by the local Daughters
of the American Revolution foi
their picnic last Friday than the
churchyard of old Waxhaw
Presbyterian church, in Lan
caster county, some 20-odd miles
southeast of Fort Mill. The
grounds are ideal for such ar
j excursion, the sober and inviting
I shade 01 t he old wateroaks seem
i ing to prepare the mind for th<
solemn cotemplation of the live:
and services to their country o
the Continental soldiers whos<
graves are in the churchy an
hardby, for, be it known, it wa
the purpose of the Daughters ii
visiting this old and histori
meeting-house and its cemeter
to speculate on the "wrecks o
splendid mortality" that li
buried in this magazine for th
final reception of mankind rathe
than to enjoy the delights of
social occasion.
Both the old church and th
i cemetery are rich in Revolutioi
ary tradition. This was th
house of worship of many sol- j"
diers who bared their breasts to I
I 11 J 1 i - / i r* . 1
uau anu oayonec 01 ureal cmain's
armies in the cause of the
struggling colonies. The graves
of most of the soldiers who went
to the front from the W&xhaws
settlement are in the old churchyard.
It is an interesting place.
Many of the old tombstones,
now moss-covered and crumbling,
bear unique inscriptions from
which may be gathered much of
the life and customs of the hardy
pioneers of that remote era.
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Furniture
Bargains
We are offering many attractive
hot-weather bargains
in our splendid stock of Furniture.
Lots of folks are <
taking advantage of our bar- '
gains. We are sure that you
too could find something here
you would like to have. Can't
you come down here where
the goods are to be seen"?
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afford relief from hot weather.
Anyone can enjoy the
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Hammock for a very small
outlay; not only for this sum
mer, but for years. Our handsome
pillow Hammocks, with
: neat fringe, have several special
features over other makes
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that we will be glad to have
11 you examine carefully before
' you buy.
W. G. RE1D & SON
ROCK HILL, S. C.
YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS
(The Old Reliable)
J YORKVILLE, S. C.
, Monument dealers the country over
| carry practically the same line of designs,
and usually the customer must
- take not what he wants, but the near5
est thing he can find to it in the list
i submitted.
' Or in other words, he must take one
of the regular stock designs and console
quently gets a duplicate of hundreds of
- other monuments already erected and
a I exactly alike except possibly in the
lilialitv of the wnrk ?rwl
We make a specialty of Riving our
1 customers exactly what they want;
D taking their ideas and combining them
^ with our experience we endeavor to
work out an original design, which in
the completed monument reflects the
ft taste and individuality of the purC
chaser.
y If you want something above the
'e average, let us make it for you. It
will cost you no more than the ordinary
e kind.
e JOHN E. CARROLL,
,j> Pres. and Treas.
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WANTED?To lease for a term of
? three or five years, beginning January
1, 1910, a tract of land containing 10 to
J" 30 acres within three miles of Fort Mill.
ie Address, "Lessee," care The Times.
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One-Year-Old Corn. 2 35 4
Two-Year-Old Corn 3 00 5
Three-Year-Old Corn 3 25 5
Old Mountain Corn 2 75 4
Old Private Stock Corn
Pocahontas Corn
Old Process Corn ........... . ..
Primrose Corn, old and mellow
RYE WHISKEY.
Gibson .. 4 50 8
Old Times 3 75 7
Old Prentice (case goods) ......
C ascade ..
Old Taylor ...... 1 <k? 7
Moll wood (bottled in bond) .. . 3 75 7
Overholt
Jefferson Club . ..... 3 75 7
Old Henry 3 60 6
Savage Mountain Rye 3 50 l?
Old Grand I>ad 3 50 6
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Rose Valley Rye .
Sherweed Rye. ......
Excelsior 2 25 4
Hoover's Private Stock Rye
Mellwood . .. 4 5(>
Wilson Rye
Green River 4's
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MALT WHISKIES.
Hoover's Old Malt .3 25 5
Rooney's Malt .. .3 50 6
DufFy s Malt
GINS.
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Swan Gin . . 2 50 4
Holland Gin . 8 00 <>
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COLUMBIA. S. C.
Notice to Landowners.
Notice is hereby given to all landowners
and their agents in York county
to remove from the running streams
of water upon their lands all trash,
trees, rafts and timber during the
month of Augutt as required under the
statute law. Any streams not so
cleaned during the month of August
will be cleaned by the township supervisor
after August and the costs there
of is made a lien upon the land.
C. F. GORDON,
Supervisor of York County.
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