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The Fort Mill Times J; DEMOCRATIC. < Published Thursday Morninirs. , B. tV. & W. R. Bradford Pdbijsiiers ' W. R. Bradford Editor J B. W. Bradford ? Manager "j. r The Time-- invites contributions on live subjects. | but does not ajrrec to publish more than 200 words 1 on any auoject. i ne rurht in reserved to edit every ccmmunicntion submitted for publication. On application to the publisher. advertising rates are made known to those interested. Telephone, local and long distance. No. 112. Subscription Rates: One Year $1.25 SI* Months 65 r FORT MILL. S. C.. AUGUST 18. 1910. < Mr. Butler'* Pnrty Loyalty. The following is taken from the Chester Reporter of Septem- < ber 7, 1908: NOTICE TO DEMOCRATIC VOTERS. Gaffney, S. C.. Sept. 2. 1908. It having reaqhed my ears that it is reported that T. B. Butler, candidate for Congress, ran on independent ticket ' here, now I, J. Eb. Jeffries, clerk of j 1 court, hereby certify that it is untrue. 1 He ran in same election all county of- j ficers ran in and is beinp supported by his county almost solidly and deserves the support of all pood Democrats. ' J. Er. Jeffries, Clerk of Court. < The voters of the Fifth con- 1 gressional district are entitled to a little more information relative 1 to the party loyalty of Mr. 1 Butler than is conta'ned in the above certificate, which, in ad- 1 dition to being published in the Chester Reporter and perhaps other papers, was distributed in the form of a handbill through the counties of Chester, Chesterfield, Kershaw and Lancaster between the first and second congressional primaries two years ago. It will be recalled that in the campaign two years ago, Mr. Pollock was eliminated from the race by the first primary and that Mr. Finley and Mr. Butler entered the second primary. During the joint canvass of the district by Messrs. Finley, Pollock and Butler, neither Mr. Finley nor Mr. Pollock made any reference, publicly or privately, to the fact, known to both of them, that Mr. Butler bolted the party in 181X) and ran as an independent candidate for the Legislature. But Mr. Butler's political record became noised abroad through the district and his friend, the clerk of the court i?f Cherokee eonntv inmiwil the broeeh with the foregoing certificate, the purpuse of which was so obvious that it can be stated in a few words: It was designed to injure Mr. Finley with the voters, by leaving the impression that he had been responsible for the circulation throughout the district of the report, which we shall presently see was true, impugning Mr. Butler's Democracy. Mr. Butler has never run as an independent candidate for the Legislature in Cherokee county, and he is entitled to whatever credit is due , him for sticking to the party there. Certainly he did not run as an independent in Cherokee county in 181)0; that would have been impossible: the county had not been created. But how about his independent candidacy for the Letrislafnrp in TTninn county in 1890, along with Sam Farrar and a man named Littlejohn, against the Democratic nominees, John R. Jeffries, Godfrey B. Fowler and a Mr. Welch? The certificate of the clerk of the court was designed to deceive the Democrats of the Fifth dis-; trict into voting against a man ; who has always fought fair and boasts a clean party-record. Big Men in Legislature. Recently the Charlotte Observ- , er referred to the prospect of , the North Carolina Legislature i which is to be elected this fall I containing a number of distin- I guished men, among whom will 1 be Gen. Julian S. Carr and Col. 1 Ashley Horne, the latter ail un- 1 successful candidate against Gov- j ernor Kftchin for the guberna- \ torial nomination two years ago. | Both of these men doubtless will t make sacrifices to serve the peo- t pie of their respective counties1 c ^ \ in the Legislature and their pa- I triotism should influence other > eminent men of the Old North * State to subordinate their per- ' sonal interests to the general good. But the Legislature of North Carolina will not be the only i Southern Legislature which will contain distinguished men. In our own State the rolls of the lower house of the General Assembly probably will bear the name of an ex-United States senator. Frank B. Gary, besides those of three ex-speakers of the house, M. L. Smith, W. F. Stevenson and Richard S. Whaley. In the State senate there is certain to be one ex-congressman, G. W. Croft, of Aiken, and possibly another ex-congressman in the person of Dr. T. J. Strait, of Lancaster. The more or less trite saving that there is no longer honor in being a member of the General Assembly certainly is not true of the representative who strives to become a worthy colleague of such men as these. The Confederate Reunion. The State reunion of the Confederate veterans is in full swing at Spartanburg and hundreds of the old fellows who marched under the Starry Cross to the inspiring strains of "Dixie" are again living over the days of the early '60s. We have been fortunate enough to attend one1 or two of the reunions and it was one of the real pleasures of life for us to witness the meeting of comrades who had not seen each other for wellnigh half a century and to listen to the tales of the common hardships they suffered in behalf of the fairest land the j sun ever shone upon. We would < that the veterans of the Con- J federaey were not ncaring the ' clay when their annual reunions ! will forever be a thing of the past, but they, like all mankind. , must ere long answer the last bugle call. May a merciful . Providence he kind to all of them in their declining days. They \ suffered much for our common j countrv. ' t , t i SCOURGE OF SLEEPING SICKNESS. j We passed by many islands, < green with meadow and forest, j beautiful in the bright sunshine. \ but empty with the emptiness i of death, says Theodore Moose- 1 velt in "African (lame Trails" 1 in the August Scribner. A < decade previously these islands were thronged with tribes of <. fisher folk: their villages studded i the shores, and their long < canoes, planks held together \ with fiber, furrowed the surface of the lake. Then, from out of c the depths of the Congo forest c came the dreadful scourge of l the sleeping sickness, and smote \ the doomed people who dwelt c beside the Victorian Nile, and ? on the coasts of the Nyanza lakes and in the lands between. | \ Its agent was a biting fly, l brother to the tsetse whose bite { r?1 i-_ i.u_ j ?- - ib iciicti tu uie uomesnc animals. This fly dwells in forest, beside f lakes and rivers; and wherever ( it dwells after the sleeping sick-1 r ness came it was found that man could not live. In this country, between, and along the shores of. the great lakes, two hundred thousand people died in slow torment, before the hard-taxed * wisdom and skill of medical 1 science and governmental admin- (istration could work any better- ' ment whatever in the situation, j Men still die by thousands, and ! the disease is slowly spreading 1 into fresh districts. Hut it has * proved possible to keep it within N limits in the regions already 1 affected, yet only by absolutely ' abandoning certain districts, and 1 by clearing all the forest and 1 brush in .tracts which serve as ' barriers to the fly, and which 1 permit passage through the 1 infected belts. On the western ! shores of Victoria Nyanza. and ' in the islands adjacent thereto, ' vnt'OK-nn niv. iiiinf.;cn ui uif resilience were such, the mortality it * caused was so apalling, that the ( government was finally forced to 1 tleport all the survivors inland, c to forbid all residence beside or N fishing- in the lake, and with s this end in view to destroy the * tillages and the fishing fleets of 1 the people. The teeming lake ! ish were formerly a main ! source of food supply to all who I welt nearby, but this has now 1 icon cut off, and the myriads of ish are now left to themselves, o the host of water birds, and Y :o the monstrous man-eating Icrocodiles of the lake, on whose h v )lood the fly also feeds, and vhence it is supposed by some hat it draws the germs so deady to human kind. Much Interest in Magisterial Race. If the 30th of August does not ecord the largest vote ever rolled in a Democratic primary n Fort Mill it will not be the ?ault of the friends of the two candidates for magistrate of his township, who are working jetimes to interest every voter n the election. TKp onnnnnon?v??mf I * u-- cuMiv/vuiv.V(iiriii Iddl Cf U )f Mr. V. B. Blankenship that le would oppose the incumbent )f the office had the eirect of naking the friends of Magistrate VlcElhaney sit up and take lotice and they have gone to ,vork in earnest to see that he loes not run second best. Ditto Mr. Blankenship's friends. They j ;oo are as active as bees in' buttonholing the voters and bromise to keep things humming 'or him until the votes are all in. The race for magistrate promises to redound to the advantage of other candidates as .veil as lending excitement to a Fort Mill election that has not been known since the strenuous lays of Tillmanism ?except that here will be no bitterness or! bersonalties injected into the ocal campaign. Congressman i D. E. Finley is expected to be >ne of the chief beneficiaries of he energetic contest for magisrate in Fort Mill. In and Around Clover. Fort Mill Times Corresi>ondence. Clover, August 10. A very incresting game of ball was played it Filbert Friday afternoon be:ween the Clover and Rock Mill cams. The game was good from start to finish, resulting in i score of 3 to 0, in favor of ? v. . i iiv w? uiu fame were the two-base hits by dudisill, Neil and Johnson for 'lover and Pickett for Itock Hill. Parish made a star catch in left ield for Clover. The batteries were: Clover. I)r. Neil and H. Johnson; Rock Hill. Rivers and J. Archer. Umpire, Walter Neil. The married and single men of the town played a very amusing fame of ball on Wednesday afternoon, the result being a victory for the married men. Howard Mathews, son of R. A. Mathews, met with a very peculiar, but quite serious, accident Thursday afternoon while engaged in pitching a fame of ball. In attempting to throw a ball to a base to retire a jase runner he broke his arm iet ween the shoulder and elbow, de suffered severe pain but is retting along nicely. Several from the surrounding country attended the good-roads neeting in Yorkville Saturday md were very much pleased vith Mr. Winslovv's talk. The work of repainting and iverhauling the school buildings if Bethany High school has ieen commenced and the school vill be in readiness for the ipening term of 1910-'ll on September 8. Yl?. r* 1- tt<?* itii. vix tiny r aris, wrio nasi >eing playing on the Forest City >aseball team, returned home Friday evening. Mr. Oscar Neil left Thursday or Spartanburg to join the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio ailway's excursion to Canada. J. L. R. Pat Objects to Courtin'. Pat Rodgers is a native of the Emerald Isle who is just now a esident of Fort Mill. When Pat] :ame over from the old country ie brought along an assortment )f ideas as to things generally, ncidentally, Pat is a prohibition- [ st sometimes ?and has adverised several temperance lectures j vhich he said he would give in he town hall, but has as often j ailed at the last minute to show ip for the lecture, thereby dis- j mnointiniT all of nnfrnns nf i lis clothes-cleaning establish-, nent and the other half of the jublic. Ordinarily, Pat is an j wen-tempered man. One day i ast week was the exception, ; lowever. Pat then got mad beause the cheery "busy" of cenral came in response to his reluest for a number over the elephone which has long borne vidence to the up-to-date conveniences of Pat's place on Booth treet. Forbearance soon ceased l o be a virtue with Pat. He got nad all at once and tore the telephone from the wall and pitched t out a window. ' Pat says there > too much courtin' over the elephone, anyway. * Miss Hattie Taylor, of Due Vest, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. 'red Harris, at the Palmetto lOtel. Progress of the County Campaign. < According to the scheule of luc* county uemocratic executive ! committe, the campaign meeting , for Fort Mill township will be j held in Confederate park Friday. , ] The meeting will open at 10:30 o'clock and probably will be 1 presided over by the local member : j of the executive committee, Mr. W. H. Windle. ( So far three campaign meetings have been held- the first at ' Blairsville, Friday; the second at j MeConnellsville. Tuesday, and,' the third at Ogden. yesterday. < Today the campaign party is at , Tirzah. Saturday the meeting will be held in Rock Hill and ( next week the meetings will be j as follows: Clover. Monday: U Poorest Hill, Tuesday; Bethany. Wednesday; Piedmont Springs, I' Thursday; Hickory Grove, Fri- ' day; Yorkville, Saturday. j, Both the State and county: primaries occur one week from i next Tuesday. iJ Saved the Life of a Negro Child. Miss Lizzie Kizer, wife of a!" well known Providence farmer, ^ saved the life of a little negro girl that fell in a well on the1 j Kizer plantation a few days ago. : The child was playing around j the mouth of the well, which was jJ [partially covered with boards.!', She walked out on one of the!* I boards, which broke and precipi- } tated her into the water, eight feet below. Fortunately, the J water had risen to within six < feet of the mouth of the well, ? which enabled Mrs. Kizer to 1 fasten the prongs of a garden , rake into the child's clothing and i draw her safely from the well, j1 The child was in bad condition i1 when taken from the well, but , Mrs. Jftizer applied restoratives , which soon brought her around right. J FOR SALE Several hundred cords 1 of splendid four-foot pine wood and two-foot oak wood, at $11 per cord de- . livcred or $2 at the wondvard, two , miles from town. T. 11. MEKR1TT, ' Phone No. 53c. t FOR SALE llonie-grown Cabbage Plant* B. M. PARIS, Phono No. 111a. Congressional Campaign Schedule. The candidates for Congress from this (Fifth) district have arranged | their schedule for York county meet- , ings as follows: i Rock Hill Thursday, August 18. Yorkville Friday, August lib Clover Saturday, August 20. Hickory drove Monday, August 22. SOUND B PR1NC Every day since the Finevil opened its doors for business growth and development. 1 methods and painstaking att comprised of careful men wh correct rules of banking be ol This conservative manage safety of every dollar deposit We respectfully solicit youi The Pineville Loan GEO. W. BUNC PINEVILLE. I Marble and Granite Monuments. A larpe stock at prices from $5.00 ui). Call and see the line at our storeroom, Boulevard and Palmer streets. Phone 1618. Write and let us call and show designs. Queen City Marble & Granite Works, I Charlotte, N. C. & Take Dil worth street cars to ^ reach our plant. Phone 112 for ! "Haile's on the Corner" HEADQUARTERS FOR [CE CREAM AND DELICIOUS FOUNTAIN DRINKS, cigars, cigarettes, smoking anl) chewing tobacco. pipes, chewing gum, etc. pine line of drugs and medicines. cood place to loaf. welcome to all. Fort Mill Drug Comp'y J. R. HAILE, Mgr. KORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS (The Old Reliable) YORKVILLE, S. C. Monument dealers the country over :arry practically the same line of dedans. and usually the customer must .ake not what he wants, but the near st thing he can find to it in the list tubmitted. Or in other words, he must take one ?f the regular stock designs and consejuently gets a duplicate of hundreds of >ther monuments already erected and xaetly alike except possibly in the quality of the work and material. We make a specialty of giving our customers exactly what they want; taking their ideas and combining them .vith our exj?erience we endeavor to vork out an original design, which in the completed monument reflects the Laste and individuality of the purchaser. If you want something above the iveragc, let us make it for you. It kvill cost you no more than the ordinary tind. .11) 11N K. CARROLL, Pres. and Treas. IN U I The qualifications for voting in the i-nsuing Democratic Primary Election on the .'10th inst. are as follows: The voter must he a white Democrat, lil years of age, or become so before the St h clay of November, 1910, and a resident of the State fe>* one year, and of the county sixty days, and have had his name enrolled oil the particular club roll where he offers to vote at least five days before the first primary election. Then can be no other or further ? nrollment after the 2">th duv of August. W. lb WILSON. .III.. County Chairman. US1NESS iPLES le Loan and Savings Bank it has enjoyed a substantial This is due to the careful ention of the management | r, insist tk-?t lU,. 1 I v iiioioi. iliui Lilt I CtU^Ill^CU bserved at all tim s. ment insure* the absolute ed here. * account. and Savings Bank, H, Cashier , - n. c. i Job Printing. Political Announcements. ELECTION. AUGUST 30. For ConvrrM 5th District. The Times is authorized to announce I). E. F1NLEY as a candidate for reelection to the National House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. 1 am a candidate for r*onKress. and will abide the result of the Democratic primary election. TIIOS. B. BUTLER, GafTney, S. C. For House of Representatives. JAMES E. GETTYS of York town- ^ ship is hereby announced as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the choice of the Democratic voters in the primary election. The Times is authorized to announce Dr. J. II. SAYE, of Sharon, as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to tlie action cf the Democratic primary. The Times is authorized to announce C. W. WALLACE as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the choice of the Democratic party in the approaching primary election. The Times is authorized to announce S. H. ERRS, Sr., of Fort Mill township, as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic voters in the primary election. I am a candidate for election to the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. THOS. F. Me DOW. The Times is authorized to announce J. S. GLASSCOCK as a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic party in the primaries. The Times is authorized to announce O. L. SANDERS, of McConnellsville, as a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives, subject to the approval of the 1 )emocrat ic primary. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the House of Representatives from York county, subject to the ' action of the Democratic primary. J. E. REAMGUARD. For County Treasurer. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Treasurer of York county, subject t?> the rules and regulations of the Democratic primaries. ROR.T. L. GO Eh. I hereby artnounee myself a sa candidate for nomination for appointment to the office of County Teasurer, subject to the action of the Democratic voters in the primary election. JOHN A. NEELY. The Times is authorized to announce HARRY E. NEIL as a eandidate for appointment as Treasurer for York county, subject to the recommendation of tin- Democratic voters in the primary election. For Supt. of FducAtion. 1 hereby announce myself as a candidate for Supeaintendcnt of Education for York county, subiect to tbe of the Democratic voters in the primary election. MINOR R. RIGGERS. The Times is authorized to announce *"" Mr. JOHN WARREN (Jl'lNN, formerly of Rroad River, now of York township, as a candidate for County Superintendent of Education, subject to the action of the Democratic voters in the approaching primary election. For County Sup?-rvinor. The Times is authorized to announce THOS. W. ROYI) as a candidate for Supervisor of York county, subject to the choice of the Democratic voters in the primary election. I hereby announce myself a candidate for reelection to the office of Supervisor of York county, subject to the rules of the approaching Democratic primary election. CLEM F. GORDON. The Fort Mill friends of JOHN F. GORDON take pleasure in presenting his name to the voters of York county for the office of County Supervisor. Mr. Gordon tilled this office some years ago and his administration redowned to the interests of the county as well as reflecting credit upon himself. For County Audito . The Times is authorized to announce JOE M. TAYLOR, of Newport, as a candidate for Auditor of York county, subject to the recommendation of Ihe Democratic voters in the primary election. The Times is authorized to announce Broadus M. Love, of Smyrna, as a canf. T' mi inr wemocrattc recommendation f<?r appointment as Auditor of York county; subject to the choice of the voters in th?* primary election. 1 hereby announce myself as a candidate for nomination for reappointment to the office of County Auditor, subject to the action of the Democratic voters in the primary election. JOHN J. HUNTER. We are authorized to announce T. E. McMACKIN as a candidate for appointment as Auditor of York county, subject to the recommendation of the Demociatic voters in the primary election. County Committsioncr. The Times is authorized to announce W. A. AYCOCK as a candidate for reappointment to the oflice of County Commissioner, subject to the choice of the Democratic party in the primary election. 'riw. ? * .... ir> .luuKinxi'u 10 announce I.. J. I.LJMPKIN as a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the recommendation of the Democratic voters in tlie primary election. For Maitiilralr. The Times is authorized to announce V. It. HLANKENSH11'as a candidate for Magistrate for Fort Mill township, subject to the recommendation of the Democratic voters in the primary election. t 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for reappointment as Magistrate for Fort Mill township, subject to the recommendation of the Democratic primary election. JOHN W. MoELHANEY.