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J.The Fort Mill Times. BlVOLtiME 19?NO. -2?. FORT MILL, S. C? THI RSDAV, SEI'TFMRl.R 29. 1010. $1.25 IM-R YEAR. ^BbTIN OS9PPPF AN OBSERVER d of truO in the story sent I '*6m York fill# Saairday to a daily paper that the people of York county are opposed to the Absent Democratic ! primary. Neither is there any truth fa in the statement chatthrre is a growsentiment among ''the people of the BH^Kounty that only those qualified to vote ||gSHin the general elections be allowed to ^^BpaxUciDati in the primary elections, ^^mlnptorkville, as in many otoe* iaoulii arolina tqwns, there is to be found a j?^fTTlyiidfui of iconoclasts and a few ecala rwip wh<* would pri| marv plant of nominating county and | State officers with the old convention system. In nine arases out of ten if you stick a pin in ore of these men who art; insisting upon u change you will see jump ajdisappointed office-seeker or a chronic fault-finder who. while he would give his 9*#> be chosen by the people in a ^representative capacity, recognizes his unfitness for public trust and knows that he can never hope to he preferred for any office. Here you have a mental picture of the average opponent of the primary. This is not 1 saying that some good men do not j oppose our present plan. Good men are often wrong. Nobody claims that ^-tbe primary is perfect, but it is now almost universally recognized as the fairest way of nominating public officers. Not only the Democratic party has adopted the primary in nearly every State of the Union, but in most of the States even the Republican party, which believes in giving the people as little voice in the government as pos- i sible, has seen the wisdom of the j primary. Paradoxical, isn't it? that these objectors to the primary claim to be members of the party which in national convention at Denver two years ago demanded the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, thereby redwing ita faiUiia the wisdom of the people to i & i&kSct their own officials. Of course casea of abuses creep' into the v' -^rimary from time tb time, hut where now hear once of irregularities in ^ our primary we would hear a dozen F V times of convention delegates logrolling, wire-pulling and otherwise betraying the wishes of those they were elected to represent. Where one dollar is now spent illegally at the polls ten dollars would be spent in buying up convention delegates, with the result that too often the man with the fattest wallet would got the party nomination over worthier but poor opponents. Of course this last phase of the convention system would please those who measure man's success by the dollar mark those who would single out for political honors V the 'elevated man on the elevated plan, who keeps all he gets and gets all he can' meanwhile telling Unpeople to go to. Hut I opine that the people will have something to say about changing from the primary to the convention, and it is the veriest nonsense for anyone to assert that but for tinpoliticians the change would be made." Too Many School Books. There is no end to the making of books, especially school books, and the school children are overburdened with books and confused by the multiplication of the subjects which they are supposed to study, says the Sumter Item. Education as practiced today is on the extensive, rather than the intensive, plan, and the result is, as a rule, a smattering of a wide range of subjects, instead of a thorough knowledge of elemental and essential facts. It seems to be the aim and purpose of the public school course of instruction, with its many books and divers subjects, to give encyclopaedic knowledge, instead of laying a firm foundation of elementals upon which the matured mind may build as natural ability, time and op puriumiy may permit. ioo mucn instruction, too much education, between the apes of six and sixteen is as undesirable as too little. Used Knife on His Wife. Arrested on a warrant charpinp assault and battery with intent to kill and unable to pive bond in the sum of $300, Robt. McCrum, nepro, was committed to jail Monday morninp by Mapistrate J. W. McElhaney. McCrum worked at the plant of the Charlotte Brick company and lived in "Paradise." 9 Saturday morninp he went home in a half drunken condition and slashed his i wife, Bessie McCrum, with a pocket knife, inflictinp a number of serious wounds. Less than six months apo, McCrum completed a six month's sentence on the county chainpanp for . a similar offense. *5**. * CLEMSON DEPARTMENT ADVISES AGAINST "CREAMERY SHARKS" According to this week's bulletin of the Clemson college extension work, there is no field in tfouth Carolina for cooperative creameries. "The creamery promoter sharks have invaded sections of the Piedmont belt of this State," says the bulletin, "and we understand have succeeded in organizing at least one creamery company and are now at work in other communities. In the sections in which they are working it is safe to say that there are not enough cows to supply the local demand for milk, cream and butter, and yet thoAeople are led to believe that a plant copending upon a good milk supfor Success can be profitably operated. To mislead people into such an enterprise is nothing but deceit and Kraft, and the people in every community of the State should be on guard aKainst such dealers in gold bricks. "The establishing of creameries in sections where there is practically no | dairy interest and where local markets pay more for dairy products than a [ creamery can possibly pay is absolute folly, as is witnessed by the experience of Georgia, Kentucky and other States. Yet the people are being misled and deceived by smooth tou^uc^ sellers of machinery who charge about 50 per cent, more for their machinery than it can be purchased for elsewhere. "If any'section of the State is interj ested in a creamery it should carefully investigate the milk supply first and then form a company of interested men, buy the machinery necessary to equip it at a reasonable price and begin operations on a practical business basis and not be rushed into an enterprise pushed forward by a set of men who have no interest in its success further than the sale of the machinery at exorbitant prices. Hanks and other I business undertakings first investigate the possibilities of success before offices are erected, but the doctrine of the M^amory promoter is to get the building and equipment first regardless*of richer conditions. BWThe extension department of Clemson college will be glad to visit any ! community interested in creameries and advise them as to the requirements j for successful operation and assist them | in every way in establishing such an i enterprise should the outlook for sue I woo a|i|K ai lavuiauic, Oscar L. Potts in Federal Court. Oscar L. Potts, a former citizen of Fort Mill, who moved from here to Rock Hill some years ago, is in trouble in Charlotte. Friday night Potts was standing on "the square" and became angered because he thought A. .1. Rlandis, a mail carrier, drove his wagon j too close to him. Potts attacked the mail carrier with a knife and made a number of cuts across his clothing. Fortunately none of them penetrated the flesh to any depth, but the shirt of Mr. Blandis was literally slit into shreds. Potts was locked up on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Saturday morning Potts was tried in the recorder's court for the assault upon Brandis and was fined $1T> and the costs. Upon the conclusion of the trial in the city court. Potts was ar; rested upon a warrant charging assault ! upon a government employee, while the latter was in the discharge of his duties. ' He was sent up to the Federal court under a $250 l>ond by United States Commissions Cobb. At the hearing j before the commissioner. Potts was represented by counsel, who contended I mm wnne ine onense charged was a ; violation of the Federal law, his client had already been tried for the same i offense in a State court, which barred any further trial. The contention of counsel embodies a point of law which will be watched with interest in its progress through the Federal court. Theodore McGraw Essays Suicide. Theodore McGraw, some years ago a weaver in a Fort Mill cotton mill, attempted to commit suicide in Charlotte Saturday afternoon by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. He was walking on west Trade street and pulling the knife from his pocket, slashed his thioat three or four times. He fell ' on the street within u fatmr ^ . m ?* ?? reel \n where he had tried to end his life and a bystander ran up and wrapped a butcher's apron around the wounds. McGraw i was then taken to a hospital. His condition is said to be serious. McCIraw's home is in Hock Hill. He has had a rather checkered career. Some years ago he was convicted in the court at Yorkville of breaking into a freight car of the Southern railway at Rock Hill and served a term in the penitentiary for the offense. He is also said to have been in other trouble. ' ADVOCATE OF EXCLUSIVENESS SHOULD MARCH AT THE HEAD "What art' you talking about man?" asked the grocery store habitue who spends most of his time sitting on an empty soap hox whittling a white pine ; stick. "This is already a good town, ' and 1, for one, am opposed to inviting strangers to come here to live. We I have enough people. 1 am for letting well enough alone. People who move j from one town to another will bear ! watching. We don't need 'ctn, and 1 am opposed to sending literature, as j you suggest, advertising this town as a ! good place to live in. About all you could say in your circulars is that Fort Mill has a presidential postoflice, a new school house, half a dozen or so stores, | a li ttle newspaper whose editor I was minded to wallop for opposing Pansier, and a few other advantages. All this talk about building up the town makes ' -1 ? i * me sure way uown 10 iny neeis. rts things are now we know who our neigh- j bora are, and don't have to sit up all ! night with shot Runs guarding our premises. You get a lot of strangers here and we'll have to put time-locks on our hen houses and invest our sav; ings in watch dogs. "I haven't any use for strangers, j Even if they don't steal anything that isn't nailed down, they are pretty sure ! to sell you mining stock, or lightning | rixls, or some fool thing you haven't < any use for. Does a sensible man invite every Tom, Dick and Harry into his house, just to have a lot of compa- | ny? You bet he doesn't. He shuts his j door against the cheap skates, and the ! man who wants to get into the house to | propose to the youngest daughter has to I have his shoes blacked and a clean set ! of teeth. A town should he just as ex- j ' elusive as a private family. Instead of I inviting all the four-flushers in the j | country to come here and settle down, 1 : we should get a spiked club and chase [ out a lot of undesirable citizens." "You would be at the head of the pa- j rade if 1 did the chasing," declared the I grocer, savagelv. * Conductor and Flagman Left. Passengers who went to the depot in Fort Mill Friday morning to board I southbound train No. which is due here at <5:47, had a wait of half an hour before the arrival of the train, due to a rather unusual cause. The conductor 1 and flagman of the train were left in Charlotte and the train had to be held in Pineville until a swith engine could take this \cry important part of the crew trom Charlotte to Pineville to overtake the train. Friday morning a w ti-.,j .u.< -.i --- ........ i i .in in ij; ll< <11 LI 11' passenger station in < harlotte and the conductor! and Hantaan wore standing on the ground near their train watching the work. Someone signalled the engineer of No. X."> ahead and he thought the signal came from the conductor. Hut it did not, and as neither the conductor nor the dayman saw the train pull out hoth were left behind. Telephone communication with Pineville was secured, however, and the train was held ! there until the conductor and flagman reached it. Offense to Teach Slaves to Read. In 18X4 the General Assembly of 1 South Carolina paSsed an act providing I that "if any person shall hereafter teach any slave to read or write, or shall aid or assist in teaching any slave ! to read or write, or cause or procure ! any slave to be taught to read or write, ; such person, if a free white person, | upon conviction thereof, shall, for each j and every offense, against this act, be fined not exceeding $100, and imprisoned not more than six months; or if a j iree person 01 color, shall be whipped I not exceeding 50 lashes, and fined not exceeding $50, at the discretion of the court of magistrates and freeholders before which such free person of color is tried; and if a slave, to be whipped not exceeding 50 lashes, the informer to be entitled to one half of the fine, and to be a competent witness. And if any free person of color or slave shall keep any school, or other place of instruction, for teaching any slave or free person of color to read or write, ; such free person of color or slave shall > be liable to the same fine, imprisonment! anil cornoral nunishmont ?a o.... K.. ?u:.. r r?..^ XV, ? .? mr wj VIIIO act imposed and indicted on free persona of color and slaves for teaching slaves to read or write." Orphans Infected With Hookworm. The examination of the 131 children in the North Carolina Methodist orphanage has just been completed and , it is found that 61 per cent, of the children are infected with hookworm, 75 | per cent, of the hoys and 53 per cent, i of the girls. There an 36 of the 43 boys and 48 of the 83 giri. infected. HITS FROM CHARLOTTE SPEECH OF OKLAHOMA'S BLIND SENATOR One of the most convincing ruinating political speeches ever delivered rti this section was that of United States Senator Thus. P. (lore, of Oklahoma, at the Academy of Music in Charlotte last Wednesday evening. Senator Gore's speech bristled with , pungent arguments against the Republican party and did much to stimulate the cause of Democracy in North Carolina. The following extracts from the speech are timely and worth reading: Inequality of fortune has resulted from special privileges. Democracy ' believes that a man should get what he earns, no more, no less. The Republi can party favors legislation which will enable one man to get something for nothing by forcing millions of people to get nothing for something. I wish it could be arranged so that every Democrat could buy articles less i the tariff and all Republicans had to pay the price plus the tariff, just to see how unanimously Democratic the country would go. Cheap blankets are taxed 161 per cent. The poor man pays for $1 of blanket and $1.61 for protection against the foreign laborer. The price paid by , him who has no money appears only in the vital statistics. In 189.'f under Cleveland about 60 banks closed and they called it a panic. In 1907 under Roosevelt they closed all the banks and called it a holiday. The tariff was reduced from 195 to 190 on sugar. Eat a hundred pounds and you'll save a nickel. Eat a ton and you will save $1. There is no legeriermain by which I the farmer may profit by the tariff, lbhas to compete in work! markets with other nations. He can never profit by it, so long as he has to buy in a closed market and sell in an open market. Four times the Republican party has promised taritf revision downward and four times the American people have1 been betrayed. Why should the promise ; have been believed at the last election? 1 Rut the people are not going to be fooled any. more. Democracy regards trade as a blessing. We should realize that we cannot close our doors to keep imports out without closing our doors to keep ex- , nort< in C.U1/.M num .\f ?K.. should realize that they cannot sell to the man across the seas unless we in turn buy abroad. A recent Congress appropriated , UOO.o<Ml to open rivers and harbors for the stimulation of trade. The same Congress raised the tariff to discourage trade. The ship subsidy proposition is the most brazen and unblushing graft ever attempted against the American people anil for that reason has never been enacted. President Taft for H months has been busy carrying out Roosevelt's policies on a stretcher. 0 m ^ Benton Goes to Chattanooga. Rube Benton, the Lancaster county baseball player who created a sensation j in the cities of the South Atlantic league early in the season which closed a few weeks ago by his phenomenal j pitching, has been sold to the Chattanooga team of the Southern league by the t incinnati Nationals. Benton was bought from Macon three months ago by Cincinnati, the consideration for the Georgia city in the deal being $7,(MX), which was said to be the high- J est price ever paid for a player from a Class I) team. But Rube has been a frost ill th*? N,' i*tnnl i* ... .. , U1UUKI> IV is said in his behalf that with a year or two of seasoning in the Southern league he will show up with sufficient class to get back in the ranks of the majors. He is young and has plenty of time yet to develop. Babb Succeeds Brock. Capt. Oscar Babb, of Laurens, has been appointed assistant adjutant general to succeed Col. W. T. Brock when the latter's resignation goes into effect November 1st. It is understood that Capt. Babb is the selection of Col. W. W. Moore, who was nominated for nujuiam general in me recent primary, and the Laurens man will, therefore, he likely to continue in office after January 1st. Textile Department Making Flags. In accordance with a law passed by the last General Assembly, the textile department of Clemson college is now manufacturing the State flag, to be furnished, at approximate cost, to the schools of the State. Schools desiring the flags can get them by sending their orders to the textile department, Clemson college. All checks should be made payable to P. H. E. Sloan, treasurer. NEW TEXTILE c^HOOL TO OPEN i FOR CARINA MILL WORKERS A matter of considerable interest to the cotton mill operatives of South I Carolina is the announcement of the . opening of the textile school for operatives at Monaghan mill, in Greenville. < on the .'tOth inst. The work is under the auspices of the V. M. C. A. of the Monaghan mill and an able corps of teachers will give instruction during the evening hours on the fundamentals of education, mill calculations, textile designing and mechanical drawning. The movement has been worked up to for some mnnlVic t>uo? ;# ia V. .V ID U..I..-Istood, and the authorities of tin- mills are giving it support and encouragement. While the beginning is small, there appears to he in the minds of those who are hack of the movement a purpose of enlarging the school, if it is sufficiently patronized, and possibly giving it a building of its own, with proper facilities to give mill operatives courses which will prepare them as experts in the textile branches. A number of pamphlets have been printed for distribution, and will be placed in the hands of all interested in the next few days. While the school is located at Monaghan mills, it will be open to any operative from any other cotton mill who wishes to take these lessons. Deas Ousted From Chairmanship. Ousting E. H. Deas, negro, from the State chairmanship, in accordance, it is said, with the wishes of the administration at Washington, the Republican State convention, composed for the most part of negroes, met in Columbia Monday, and following a stormy session elected .1. W. Tolbert. of Greenwood, a white man, to head the Republican party in this State. Although there was not a repetition of the free-for-all light of the last convention, there was much confusion, the meeting ending in a bubble when T. 1,. Grant, of Charleston, claimed that he was defrauded out of the vice-chairmanship. The convention was attended by about six white men and upwards of 100 negroes, regularly named delegates. Damage Suit Against 'Phone Exchange. Zeb Darnell, a Pineville township farmer, has entered suit in the Mecklenburg: superior court against the Fort Mill Telephone exchange for $1 ,0<H)damages which he alleges to have sustained to his person from shock during a thunderstorm some weeks ago. Mr. Darnell claims that the shock was due to the ! presence in his home of a telephone of | the local exchange. He has employed j Stewart McUae, of < 'harlot to, to i prosecute the case. The telephone ex- i change will he del ended by Hurwell , t'ansler. The case was to have been heard at the term of court which opens Monday, hut has been postponed. Woman Killed With Axe. One of the most brutal crimes in the annals of Chester county occurred on Mr. Joseph Lee's plantation, near l.owryville, Saturday afternoon, Martha Ellen Bratton, a colored woman, being struck in the head with an axe, and dying from the effects of the wound some few hours later. Carl Lowry. a nephew of the woman, is in jail charged with the crime, though he .trenuously denies his guilt. PONCE[ SYH Is a combination of Georgia put up in very handsomely cans. These cans have bot making: them vcrv conveni and come in thne sizes, viz gallons. The syrup is A] delicious flavor, contains n ANTS, and is consequent Try it. FOR SALE BY FOR] DOMESTIC TROUBLE PROMPTS ROCK HILL PASTOR TO RESIGN The Rev. II. R. Mills probably will be relieved of the pastorate of St. John's Methodist church. Rock Hill. In a statement yiven the press Tuesday, Presiding Elder Odell. of the Rock Hill district, to whom Mr. Mills tendered his resignation. srives as the reason for Mr. Mills' action differences between Mr. and Mrs. Mills. The statement of Presiding Elder Odell is as follows: "Inasmuch as the press will in all probability send out reports concerning the unfortunate atTair involving the Rev. H. R. Mills of the South Carolina conference, I deem it my duty to the church and to Brother and Mrs. Mills to give the facts to the public. "On Thursday, September 22, Brother Mills came to me and told me that he was in trouble; that he and his wife could not live together any longer and asked that 1 release him from his work, as he would feel a delicacy in appearing before his congregation under the circumstances. Having no authority to release him. 1 told him that the best and only thing to do was to have the matter investigated in due form by a committee. To do this he readily consent-id anil expressed a desire that it be done as quickly as possible. I appointed an investigating committee, consisting of Revs. Matthew M. Brabham. D. Melvin McLeod and S. D. Bailey. They very carefully investigated the mutter and reported that a trial was necessary. There was nothing of a scandalizing nature charged by either Mrs. Mills or Mr. Mills, the sole specification in the charge being that Mr. Mills had separated from his wife, for other than the Scriptural reason. The above is in brief a fair statement of the case." Did Self-interest Prompt Generosity? "That was a rather peculiar argument advanced by Mr. Fred Niins inThe Times last week in reference to the patriotism of Mr. i?. S. McNineh." said a well known Fort Mill citizen .vraii-nmy. i no not ooiiiti that Mr. Nims' statement that Mr. McNinch readily agreed to pay his proportionate part of the tax necessary to erect the new school building in Fort Mill is true. Mr. Nims would not have made the statement had it not been true. Hut it is possible that Mr. McNinch is not as patriotic as appears at lirst blush. He is the proprietor of the Charlotte Brick company, whose plant is two miles south of Fort Mill. This company manufactures brick and sells them to the public. There was no secret of th.- intention of tin- board of trustees of the Fort Mill graded school to erect the new building of brick. Likely enough Mr. McNinch had heard of this. Then he may have concluded that the trustees would tind it more convenient to secure the brick of him than to have them shipped in from a distance. He got the order for the brick and it is fair to assume that he did not .sell them to the trustees at cost. He is generally accredited with being a good business man. There are many patriotic people in the world." Governor Blease's Secretary. Governor-elect Cole L. Mease has appointed Mr. Alexander Rowland, of Columbia, his private secretary and Mr. Rowland has accepted. >E LEON (UP i and Florida Cane Syrups, r lithographed square tin h screw and friction tops, *U_ I 1 cuii iui uic tiuusc-K.eeper, : quarts, half gallons and BSOLUTELY PURE, of a to DRUGS or ADULTERly the best FOR YOU. f MILL GROCERS.