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The Fort Mill Times. I DEMOCRATIC. Published Thursday Mornings. B. W & W. R. Bradford Publishers ' W. R Bradford Editor ^ B. W. Bradford Manager j The Times invites contributions on live subjects. J but does not airree to publish more thun 200 words 1 on any subject. The ritrht is reserved to edit ^ very communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher. ndvertisinR ' rates are made known to those interested. 1 Telephone, local and lon?c distance. No. 112. | Subscription Ratks: One Year S1.25 I Six Months .66 j FORT MILL. S. C . SKITKMBKR 1. 1910 Columbia at the Foot, as Usual. The 1910 season of the South \ Atlantic baseball league closed \ Satur "ay with Columbia at the i ? foot of the percentage column, r as usual. Numerous reasons ? have been advanced why Colum- r bia never has a winning team. c Some of the apologists for the c poor record of the club say it is j because the city is the smallest . in the league and .cannot, there- y fore, compete with the larger y cities by hiring high-priced > ( players. This claim is short of a the facts, as Columbia is not the r smallest city in the league. I Columbus, Ga., which has just won the 1910 pennant race, lacks several thousand of population c 1 u:_ - iu a|uai VjUiumuiti ill blZO. j As we see it, one thing which ^ has militated against the success i * of the Columbia club is poor t management. The owners of \ the club have been imposed upon f by men who claimed to be able to direct successfully the affairs s of the club who were little more ^ than novices and failed to exercise the proper restraint over the players to insure the article of ball the patrons of the game were entitled to. In a word, there has been too much intemperance among the players ' ?too much liquor drinking, if , you please. But Columbia has done well to maintain the club and all South Carolina feels pride in the patriotism of the capital city enthusiasts who have spent thousands of dollars without hope of return rather than have the humiliating advertisement go abroad that their city could not support a ball club. May the 1911 season have in store better things for Columbia. Not So Many Blockheads. i A number of North Carolina s paper? are wondering why Mr. i Sunset McNinch, Republican can- i didate for Congress in the { Charlotte district, refused the ( invitation of Congressman Webb that Mr. McNinch meet him in , joint debate during the cam- ( paign. That's as easy as cracking t a papershell pecan. Mr. Mc- \ Ninch's political record is as < ? vulnerable as a toy balloon and, i knowing this to be true, he did ( not purpose to give Mr. Webb an ( opportunity to show him up. Aside from this, however, there appears an inclination among . some of our friends across the t line to take too seriously the ( candidacy of Mr. McNinch. i There are not enough block- t heads in the Ninth North Caro- < lina district to open their Con- * gressional jackpot with a pair of deuces, 1 A Duly of the Successful Man. W The man who makes money in | a community has a duty to per- j form to tbnt pommnnitu Tfmau i . A V, .uuj I be that he has made his money by his superior business ability, and that he would have done as I well anywhere. That does not alter the ease. If his gifts are , [ great his responsibility is equally j as great. No man was placed on <_ earth for the sole purpose of t making money, and the man who t has this as his ideal had better t never have been born. It is not 1 an act of charity but the per- J formance of a simple duty for the r man who has made money to pass ] a little of it on for the benefit of ! the community, even though he \ never expects to see a dollar of \ his contribution come back. c "THE LAND OF MURDER." In the United States the murierer claims more victims $very pear than in any other civilized and enlightened country in the world, says an exchange. Homicidal mania prevails in this progressive land to a far greater axtent than in any nation in Europe. Our people are shocked and horrified?ana very properly so?when a president or high )fficial is struck down by the land of the assassin. The at:empt to assassinate Mayor Say nor, of New York, has .? ui:~ J?i.u? l-IIC ICpUUilC l/U IIS Ut?[JUl?. Vet the country has never become aroused as it should be to :he appalling prevalence of nurder in the United States?to ,he frightful toll of human life vhich is taken every day. This rountry has, indeed, acquired an unenviable reputation as "the and or murder." Hardly adav lasses in which the newspapers lo not record many crimes of nanslaughter. The mania is not ocal or sectional. It is nationvide. Americans, as a rule, ire law-abiding and God-fearing nen. Yet there is an element imong them which is quicker and nore desperate in the use of leadly weapons than the people >f any other land. In 11)07 it vas estimated that we were laving about 9,000 murders a rear which was from eight to wenty-five times as many, in iroportion to population, as ( Ireat Britain, France, Germany ind Japan have. This is a ecord which the thoughtful leople of this country should Kinder long and seriously. That luman life should be held so heap in this progressive and ^lightened land, that the Jnited States should have the ghastly and evil distinction of eading the civilized world in the lumber of murders committed rpQ vl\7 ic PQ11CO fAl* v,c%? ?ty , >v; vuuo\? x yjk uaiiv/iiai lumi'iiation. One of the reasons why manilaughter is so frequeut and so ;ommon in the United States is he habit which prevails to a videspread extent of carrying :oncealed weapons. This habit, t is well known, is not restricted o the lawless elements in our :itizenship. Men of good renite, law-abiding citizens, are >ften found among the class who :arry arms habitually. They are lot of the type of deliberate nurderers. They are not brawlers seeking a quarrel. But vhen disputes arise they are irone to make use of deadly veapons. The list of murders s swelled every year in this way. VIeii take human life in hot ilood over comparatively trivial natters. There ought to be a Dublic sentiment against the carrying of concealed weapons .vhich would outlaw every man ,vho went about armed unless he vas engaged in an occupation n which his life was constantly n danger. And this public jentiment should find expression n the vigorous and impartial mforcement of the law against ill men who make a practice of carrying pistols or other deadly veapons without the permission )f the authorities. The man A;ho goes about armed in a nvilized community ought not ,o be tolerated. In a moment of Dassion, when he has lost self:ontrol, he may do murder?and, n fact, often does murder?in a juarrel growing out of trifling causes. In Europe it is only the criminal classes and the anarchsts and revolutionaries who I iarry concealed weapons. The iverage citizen is not a "pistoloter." Hence the small number >f homices in England, France i ind Germany as compared with I ,he appalling number of cases )f manslaughter in the United I states. Public sentiment in Europe will not telerate the nstol-carrying habit by citizens ,vho profess to be law-abiding. . tVe should cultivate the same vholesale sentiment in the Jnited States and enforce it by aw more vigorously than ever Defore. Not a Charitable Institution This newspaper is in no sense i child of charity. It earns twice >ver every dollar it receives, and t is second to no enterprise in :ontributing to the upbuilding of he community. Its patrons reap 'ar more benefits from its pages ,han its publishers, and in calling ?or the support of the commulity in which it is published, it isks for no more than in all fairness belongs to it, though generally it receives less. Patronize ind help your paper as you would iny other enterprise because it lelps you, and not as an act of :harity. . . House Will Be Democratic. Congressman Ollie James, of Kentucky, one of the leaders of Democracy in the house of representatives, is certain that the November elections will signalize a great Democratic victory. "If the Democrats do not win the coming congressional election. hands down, there is not : much use in trying again to win," says Colonel James. "Everything is in their favor. It seems to me that it is impossi1 ble for them to fail. I estimate that the Democrats will have a majority of from 50 to 100 in the next house Fiftv is thf? ?mall_ est number that could be conceded. "The Republicans are carrying a weight which they have never been forced to bear in any campaign in which they have been successful. Events have been i playing into the hands of the Democratic party for the past year. The tariff law alone, it seems to me, would have been a sufficient foundation for Democratic success. But other factors will enter into the contest. The letter which Senator Aldrich sent to Representative McKinley furnishes one of the best Democratic campaign documents that could have been devised. This will be read by Democratic speakere throughout the country. It will be used as one of the arguments against the present tariff. "The spi t in the ranks of the Republicans has grown wider ever since the adjournment of the recent session of Congress. The party was in a bad way then. But it is in a much worse condition now. The insurgents in the Middle West, too, are more active than the regular Republicans thought they would be. They appear to have on their fighting clothes, and the chances for a reconciliation are so small as to be negligible in calculating the results of the contest. "On the other hand, the Democratic party is united. There never was a time in the history of the party when the spirit ot narmony ami cooperation was so clearly manifest. I believe that the Democrats could win this fall, even if the Republicans were not suffering from so many embarrassments. But with the conditions as they are, there is not the slightest doubt that we will have the next Congress by an overwhelming maioritv." Interest id Great Falls. Much interest just now centres in cotton manufacturing circles about the mill city which is in process of construction at Great Falls, in Chester county. ? As nothing but the finest goods will be manufactured, nothing but the best labor will be employed. In order to keep this labor a plant the equal of any in the South is being erected. The houses are of four and six rooms each, with hot and cold water, sewerage, wide porches and generous yards. There is a fine filtration plant in connection with the town which nrnmisps n splendid supply of drinking water. Messrs. Hal and Robert Mebane, the directing heads of the big Republic cotton mill, are having elegant homes built on the top of the hill overlooking the mill village. By December, or earlier, the company hopes to be ready to begin manufacturing. This is a $600,000 proposition. The mill will have 25,000 spindles and accompanying looms, etc. When it is completed the company will plan the erection of two additional mills, to have 75,000 spindles and accompanying looms, etc. This means a further expenditure of about $1,500,000. All these plants will be driven by electricity. Mrs. J. D. Whitesides Dead. Shortly after arriving in Yorkville Saturday morning to attend the county campaign meeting, Jeff D. Whitesides, one of the county's most highly esteemed citizens, who lives on his farm near Hickory Grove, was advised by telephone that his wife had died suddenly of heart disease. Mrs. Whitesides was a most excellent woman and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. She is survived by her husband and six or eight children, several of the latter being grown. VVANTKI) Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Fort Mill to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful. Salary and cornmission. Previous experience desirable but ndt essential. Whole time or spare time. Address with references, It. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1789 Broadway, New York City. 5. ? t&M Talking About Weather. There are two apparent reasons why people talk about the weather so much, says an exchange. One is, that it makes a decided impression on most of ; us, and constantly either forwards our plans and adds to our pleasures, or breaks them up and brinora IIS flisannnintmont Wo are so a part of all that we see and mingle in, and are so susceptible to conditions and changes around us, that our spirits are affected bv smiling or frowning skies. There are a few people so fortunately, or unfortunately, without nerves that they are able to declare that they care nothing about weather, that it does not make the slightest difference to them. If it is true, their capacity for enjoyment, and possibly for suffering as well by way of compensation, must be small. To most the difference between a perfect June morning, with all nature clad in beauty and vocal with song, with fresh, coql breezes fanning one's cheek and coquetting with the whispering tree tops, and a blazing day in August, with the mercury at the top and the air surcharged with moisture, is pretty nearly as wide as that betweeen paradise I and hades. Probably in tropical and subtropical climates, where there is little change, the weather is less talked about. The other reason why we talk about it so much is the obvious one of; paucity of subjects and lack of social initiative and tact. Furniture Bargains TTT _ ^ I w e are onering many attractive hot-weather bargains in our splendid stock of Fur- j niture. Lots of folks are taking advantage of our bargains. 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*? HAMMOCKS afford relief from hot weather. Anyone can enjoy the ! pleasure and comfort of a Hammock for a very small outlay; not only for this summer, but for years. Our handsome pillow Hammocks, with neat fringe, have several special features over other makes that we will be elad to have you examine carefully before you buy. W. G. REID & SON ROCK HILL, S. C. | Read This Lei W. B. MEACHAM. PRSSIDENT E. W. Klf GENERAL I Mr. Farmer: We beg market price for all yo great pleasure in quoti are sure to need withir. ?'Peerless11 2 poun< ?'Peerless1 2 poun< ?<New Arrow'1 Ties ; Extra large, 8 oz. 1 Big shipmemt of Red price for September. C Flour just received. L of Hardware. Come in a Thanking you for pai business with you in th / Mr. Fa The season is c you will buy such for deep plowing, rows, Harness, Whips, Steelyards leather and a lot c too numerous to will find our price lowest and a com lect from, and if y chance when you articles we will m go "just a little bit Your Cot This fall we v Buckeye Cotton C will give you all your cotton seed, terests, let's talk th fore you buy and this fall. Cotton Sheets, ( McElhaney Marhlft and Granite ?? pwav wmmmwm %1MA%V I ? Monuments. A large stock at prices from $5.00 up. 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, INI. C. A Take Dilworth street cars to ^ reach our plant. Iter, You'll Not W.H.BELK, V.DDfOT VIBRELL CO MERCHANDISE ANI Fort Mill, S. to inform you that we mi ur Cotton and Cotton See ng you below prices on i i the next few days: i Bagging at $3.75 per r? i Bagging, with Ties, at at $1.10 per bunch. Cotton Sheets at 25c, ot Rust Proof Oats to come Jar load' of "Our Best1* arge stock of Farm Implt ind let us figure with y< st favors and hoping to e near future, we are, Very truly yoi e. w. : # > I --jjgf . ' : rmer: BHBMKDKmm t lose at hand when l things as Plows Cultivators, HarStOVeS R nnfinnr ?? - F 5, Packing, Lace)f other hardware > mention. You down with the plete stock to serou will give us a go to buy these ake your dollars : farther/' ton Seed /ill represent the )il Company and that's going for For mutual inie matter over besell your goods i 30x80, at 22 1 -2c. ^ C. r ATOn'lT vx vump y H 1 HH 'iJ.-M'''MM'' : Waste Time. E. W. KIMBRELL? SECY-TREAS MPANY D COTTON C. , August 30, 1910? rill pay the highest id thi3 fall, and take some articles that you oil, 1 .70 per bale, j * in lots at 20c each, in this week. Special and ??Silver Leaf ^ sments and all kind3 ^ 311 A do a greater amount of J irs, KIMBRELL COMPANY, E. W. Kimbrell, Mgr.. #