Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 08, 1910, Image 9
I CONVICT STRIFES.
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Going to business evenr morning,
and passing the city hall,
we are brought into touch with
this form of degrading human
Is it right to thus degrade one?
No matter what the crime that
they are serving sentence for,
would it not be more humane to
clothe them in a manner that
would not humiliate them, every
, * moment of the day, and never
allow them respite in their working
hours?
Stripes! That word in itself is
like a brand, in fact is a brand,
for once a convict, always a convict.
No matter how well a man
has behaved in prison, nor how
much he has suffered during the
imprisonment, from remorse,
when the sentence is over, and
he comes again into the world,
there is no pla^e for him. No
one wants an ex-convict in any
capacity, his spirit is broken by
stripes, and other ways, and very
likely his health irypaired. Pitiful,
isn't it? No way for a man
to become a good citizen again.
Is this the way prisons should
be conducted? Wouldn't it be j
more Christ-like for criminals to '
be treated as if they were human,
not cattle?
There is a spark of good in the i
meanest man, and would it not
be better to appeal to the better
nature, and encourage, instead
of holding them up saying, here
is a man that has committed a i
crime?
The world changes slowly and
the stripes are but a substitute
for the cat-o'-nine-tails, the dif-1
ference being that one played
the flesh until the backs of the
criminals were bleeding gashes,
and the other sears the soul and
takes all self-respect. Which is
worse ?the physical pain, or the
mental?
Big Farms.
Home and Farm published in a
recent issue the story of the life
and success of David Rankin, who
is said to have been the first
farmer in Missouri. Mr. Rankin
was born on a farm in Indiana
and died on a farm in Missouri.
His first home was a log cabin
16 feet square. Eighty-five years
cover the time from the log
cabin in Indiana to the grave in
Missouri. Mr. Rankin began his
career as a farmer's boy with a
half yoke of oxen. He dies owning
2^.640 acres of land.
It is an interesting story well
worth cons'dering in these days,
when men who dream of large ,
fortunes, dream of great cities
and the wheat pit of Chicago and
the slock exchange of Now
York.
In the wheat pit and in the
stock exchange you make money
at others' expense. On the farm
every dollar you make brings
more than a dollar's benefit to the
rest of the world.
There is money on the farm
for more people now than ever
before. Farming is no longer a
haphazard employment. If you 1
have that idea, rid your mind of j
it. It rests upon a scientific
basis. If you will apply all the
knowledge you have to farming,
if you will stop guessing and go
to work measuring your fields
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emu wei^iiinK juur sou ana in- ;
8 pec ting your seed, and if you
will not spare labor, you c an as
certainly make money in farming
as you can by lending your
money on gilt-edged securities.
There is one thing abont the i
Rankin farm that is underirable, !
and that is the size of it. Twentyfive
thousand acres of land, even ;
if it does employ 250 men, means j
100 acres to one man. The bes>.
t results from agriculture arc going
^ to come from smaller farms than
this.
Uncle Sam's Sponge Farm.
The only submarine farm in existence
is operated by the United
States government, a id its product
is the festive sponge. Uncle
Sam has a big and profitable
farm at Biscay lie, Florida. There ;
tin oi t o q Ka? i f ?>" ? !
Uiwr. awvut, oiivs?lll? flirt
fishermen that there should be
spon. e farms, and thus put the
business 011 a more stable basis.
Ui de Sam is showing the
men that a big sponge may be
cut up into small pieces; that
these may be judiciously planted,
and that as a result of this planting
there will soon be a hundred
sponges in its place.
Uncle Sam planted an acre of
sponges at an expense of $133.
In four years he harvested the
crop of the successful acre and
the returns amounted to $968. If
he plants 100 acres once in four
years he will have $84,500 to
spend between crops.
The government is experiment}
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on various methods of artistically
growing sponges. They
are trying stringing the small
ones on a wire like clothes on a
line, and putting it out to sea for
years and pulling it in. They
are trying planting them on a
peg set in a cement triangle and
placing this on the bottom of the
sea. Then the sponge grows
larCPr anrl rnnnflnr ovoru uoor
until it is 8 inches through, when
it is taken up, looking like a
round Japanese ornamental tree
in a landscape garden. This is
so far the method that is yielding
the best returns. The government
believes in its new
method of farming on the food
of the ocean, and is urging its
citizens to get in on the ground
floor.
A Legend of Christmas Night.
'Tis said when day is over,
And midnight shadows fall,
On Christinas Eve the cattle
Kneel humbly in the stall;
They bow in loving homage
Before the manger low,
Because the blessed Christ-Child
Was laid there long ago.
And when the hour of midnight
Chimes forth from many a bell,
The glad notes ringing sweetly
O'er hill, and plain, and fell,
For one brief hour, 'tis whispered,
The hegsts like men can speak.
That they may join in praising
The Babe and Mother meek.
The donkey, scorned, ill-treated,
Though marked with Holy Sign,
Knei Is down amid the darkness
To hail the Child Divine;
For he, like kine and horses.
Was in that cattle-stall.
The birthplace of the Savior?
The King and Lord of all!
The sheep upon the hillsides
Turn eastward, kneeling low,
In memory of the Angels
At Bethlehem long ago;
And shepherds by the sheep-fold
First heard the woundrous song?
The earliest Christmas carol,
Hymned by the heavenly throng.
-MAUD E. SARGENT.
Tax Returns for 1911.
Office of the County Auditor of York
County, South Carolina.
Yorkville, S. C., December 2, 1910.
Ah required by statute mv books will
bo opened at my office in Yorkville on
Monday, January 2, 1911, and kept open
until February 20, 1911, for the purpose
of listing for taxation all personal and
real property held in York county on
'January 1, 1911.
All returns must be made in regular
form and it is preferable that they be
made by the property owner in person
to me or my assistant, direct, on blanks
provided for the purpose. The returns
must be duly sworn to either before me
or my assistant, or some other officer
qualified to administ r an oath.
All items of realty, whether farms,
or town lots, must be listed separately.
Returns made on proper blanks, and
sworn to before an officer qualified to
administi r an oath and forwarded to
me by registered mail before February
20, 1911, will be accepted.
All taxpayers are particularly requested
to inform themselves as to the
number of their respective school districts,
and where they have property in
more than one school district, they will
please make separate returns indicating
the location of each piece of property.
The school districts in which
there are special levies are as follows:
Nos. 2ft at d 27, in Bethel township;
Nos. 6, 29, 33 and -13 in Bethesda township;
Nos. 9, 20, 40 and 41 in Broad
River township; Nos. 9, 15 and 20 in
Bullock's Creek township: No. 12 Catawba
township; Nos. 7, 12, 35 and 43
in Ebenezer township; Nos. 20, 28 and
39 in Fort Mill township; Nos. 2 and
37 in King's Mountain township; Nos.
ix, no, iz and 4a in York townshin.
For the purpose of facilitating the
taking of returns and for the greater
convenience of taxpayers, I will be at
the following places on the dates
named:
At Bethany (McGill's Store), Monday,
January 2.
At Clover, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
January 3 and 4.
At Bethel (Ford, Harnett & Co.'s
Store), Thursday, January 5.
At Bandana (Perry Ferguson's Store),
on Friday, January 6.
At Point (at Harper's) on Saturday,
January 7.
At Smyrna, on Monday, January 9.
At Hickory Grove, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, January 10 and 11.
At Sharon, on Thursday and Friday,
January 12 and 13.
At Bullock's Creek (Good's Store),
on Saturday, January 14.
At Tirzah, on Monday, January 16.
At Newport,on Tuesday, January 17.
At Fort Mill, on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, January 18, 19 and 20.
At McConnellsville, on Monday, January
23.
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v/Kuvu, lin iui-puu)', tiiiiiuury c\.
At Coates' Tavern (Roddey's), on
Wednesday, January 25.
At Rock Mill, from Thursday, January
26, to Wednesday, February 1.
And at Yorkville, from Thursday,
February 2 until Monday, February 2*0.
All males between the ages of twenty-one
and sixty years, except Confederate
soldiers over the age of fifty
years, are liable to a poll tax of $1, and
all persons so liable are especially requested
to give the numbers of their
respective school districts in making
their returns.
It will be a matter of much accommodation
to me if as many taxpayers as
possible will meet me at the respective
appointments mentioned above, so as to
avoid the rush at Yorkville during the
closing dai s.
JOHN J. HUNTER,
County Auditor.
Yorkville, S. C., December 2, 1910.
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REWARD?1 will pay 50c to any one
who furnishes evidence sufficient to
convict any person who has not paid
the tax this year for keeping a dog in
town. L. A. Harris, Mayor.
THE FORT HILL TIMES, DECEMBER 8, 1910.
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