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The Fort Hill Times. |i DEMOCRATIC. 1 Published Thursday Morninira. ] B. & W. R. Bradford Pvbi.ishkrs 1 W. R. Bradford ... Editor . B. W. Bradkoicw Manac;kr xnc iimw inviifn communions on live nunjecm. bat doe? not nrrwi to publish more thun 200 words on any subject. The rucht is reserved to edit very communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those interested. Telephone, local and lonir distance. No. 112. Subscription Rates: One Year S1.2S ; Six Months .... ... .65 FORT MIL.I.. S. C.. JANUARY 26. 1911. ? * 1 Use the Veto, Governor. ] Probably no better opportunity j will be presented Governor Blease ] during his term of office to do < the people of South Carolina a ] real service than to exercise his i veto power in connection with 1 certain items which are apt to t appear in the appropriation bills of the General Assembly. For a ' number of years such a thing as ( calling a halt to the extravagance , ( of the General Assembly through s the agency of the veto of the ( governor seems to have been for- , gotten or was not used because y of the fear of offending the law- j makers of the State. Many use- { less offices have been created by . the General Assembly during the : ( last decade, some apparently for j no better reason than to estab- { lish comfortable berths for politi- , cal favorites. Of course the \ upkeep of these offices has been met by increased taxation or by (] depriving other branches of the ( government of funds which could , have been used to great profit, i j Not only have useless and ex- pensive offices been created by j the General Assembly, but a mat- . cur ui niucu inure importance < which the governor may well .: afford to consider with the view ; of checking by the power vested in him under the constitution is the extravagant appropriations for the State-aided colleges. By and large the people of South Carolina are poor. To hundreds of thousands of citizens of the State the payment of a quarter score dollars of taxation is a hardship. It should therefore be the function of government to rereturn to these thousands in beneficial ways as nearly as |>ossible the money they pay in taxation. But it isn't done, hasn't been done ; for years. Every year we see thousands of dollars spent upon the State-aided colleges while the public schools are allowed to rock along as best they may receiving far less cansideration than the welfare of t he Commonwealth demands. Our educational system is being builded from the top downward instead of from the base upward. Some weeks ago Prof. W. II. Hand. State superintendent of high schools, remarked that nearly if not quite all the South Carolina colleges were doing high school work. It is fair to assume that Prof. Hand included two or three of the State-aided colleges at least, for he has no connection with the denominational institutions for higher learning and would hardly have gone out of his way to criticise them. Assuming that Prof. Hand was certain of his ground in making the statement, he wittingly or unwittingly admitted that the General Assembly appropriates money for the State-aided colleges to which they are not entitled. The money with which the high school work of the State colleges is maintained should go to the public schools, so that some benefit therefrom could be derived by the small taxpayer. Protection Unconatitutional ? Whatever the popular estimate of Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, as a politician, he is one of the country's most vigorous thinkers and eliminating the petty controversies ? controversies discreditable to a man dressed up mentally as he is?in which he too frequently becomes involved over a more or less trifling matter of party policy, his conclusions are sound and well worth the public ear. Mr. Watson is also a first-class lawyer. There fore when he expresses the opinion that Congress has not the right to tax imports for any purpose save the national revenue, that it is unconstitutional to tax Dne class of citizens at the expense of al) the others, there are many who will believe he knows what he is talking about. In a communication to a Northern newspaper, Mr. Watson says that it has been a mystery to him why the supreme court of tne united states nas never oeen asked to pass upon the constitutionality of the protective principle. "The only constitutional warrant for tariff duties," says Mr. Watson, "is the need of national revenue. Congress has no legal right to collect custom house duties for any other purpose." Mr. Watson adds that if the Tariff Reform league does not attack the "infernal system" in the courts along the lines he points out he intends to uo it himself. Strength to his arm. If he is successful in the assault jpon the citadel of greed, he will ae one of the greatest benefactors America has ever known. The proposition to repair the )ld court house at a cost of $4,000 j >r $5,000 strikes this paper as a step in the direction of false jconomy. What York county iceds is a new court house, a wilding in which the county ecords will be safe and the !ounty officers provided with idequate quarters. Repairing an >ld building is like resoling a )air of wornout shoes, then apilying to them a coat of dressing ind trying to fool yourself into he belief that you have a pair of shoes as good as new. You may "ool the casual observer, but you lon't fool yourseif. One thing vhich seems to be a certainty is hat if the people of western ifork do not successfully press Par M now miiift limicu 1-fnol- IJ 111 ind not Yorkville will be the county seat of York county in a few years. One of the best recommendations in the inaugural of Governor Rlease is that the General Assembly pass a law prohibiting the sale of toy pistols and guns. In the opinion of the governor many of the homicides of the day can be traced to the desire for firearms created in the minds of the youth of the State while playing with toys of this character. The General Assembly would do well to adopt the recommendations of the governor on the subject and to incorporate in the law the further recommendation that no child under 1(> years of age he allowed to own or have in his possession any gun or pistol whatsoever. Had such a law been passed years ago many valuable lives would have been saved to the State. Since West Virginia has elected to the United States senate a man in Anrlu llf'o nornn/l Viic? rioiltr bread by doing the hardest kind of manual labor, perhaps it is not too much for country editors who have political ambition to hope for a place on the town council. Old Reliable Hi IJSMii f^fjaP Busies, Surries, IIarne.v glad to have you call and see B. D. S Phone 28 Persuasion never persuades the < linthinkino- roannninnr ' will not divert the anger of the unreasoning. The Tennessee Legislature played smash Monday by electing Luke Lea, a half-baked ' Democrat, to the United States senate instead of a straightout party man. The election of Lea, who, by the way, ought to spell i his name right, is the result of a coalition of so called prohibition Democrats and Republicans. The daily papers which could find noththing more elevating and interesting to fill the columns of space which they have been devoting to the trial of the Schenck poisoning case in Wheeling, W. Va., were hard pressed for news. The country probably would be better off if both he and she Schenck were sent to the penitentiary for life. OUT CAME A MOUSE One day in the month of Janu- ' ary a country editor sat in his ; office in great perplexity to write I something his brethren of the press had not already written concerning a current event of , more or less importance. Steen times he had looked at the ' 'copy" paper before him and had many i times taken up his lead pencil < and as often laid it down, not ( knowing what to write, lie could }j think no new thought to put toT] the paper. Assuredly if there 11 was any nascent thing to he < written of the event someone else < would have to do the writing. Unmistakably the country editor < was in great distress otherwise ] he would not have oeen found, i with his elbow on the desk, his 1 cheek resting in h:s hand, his | tongue so dry that a match could I be struck on it. the while gazing! in a dazed sort of way at a gaudy Another St Mules ant Immrt - * we nave just received a n< | souri Mules and Horses, the It ever had. Come and buy yoi until spring you certainly wil best posted stockmen of the \ mules will be higher in the sp and get your mules before the Mills & Youi litchell?Monarc ViTCH-i-iwisco racine" wis. ^ <s, Rubber Tires, Farminc: impleme our line. PRINGS & CON 22 S. College St. . calendar hanging on the wall a few feet away. An intelligent friend entering the office and not5 i.1 _ l*i ? nig euuor s posture inquired what harassed him. The friend n hearing the editor's tale of distress broke into laughter so loud that a hungry mule passing by mistook the hilarity for a call to his semi-occasional allowance of crab-grass hay and brayed a not ungrateful answer, as was his wont?the which so angered the burr-head driver that he allowed three sticks of the 60 cent load of pine wood he had just sold for 80 cents to : roll off the wagon. "I now' see," said the friend, "that though we have been much together for many years I have been in error since I have known you. I have mistaken I you for a sensible man, but now you convince me that you are as far from it as Cook and Peary j were from the North Pole. Is it possible that such a small thing i should have such power to confound yon! By my faith, this is not incapacity; it is sheer idleness, and if you would be conconvinced what I say is as true as the needle to the pole the fakers never found attend my words. But set it down as the first chapter of my discourse that there is no new thing under the sun. You have wasted much valuable time, if 1 mistake not, trying to evolve something new lo say over a commonplace occurrence. You can't doit; neither . can I. .So we shall dismiss the idea and consider the event: A mountain was once greatly ag'i-; tated. l.oud groans and noises were heard; and crowds of people j came from all parts to sop what was the matter. While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calami i ty, out came a mouse." The highest price paid for cotton on the Fort Mill market yesterday was 14.50 cents. lipment of 1 Horses ;w shipment of choice Mis>est to select from we have ir mules now. If you wait il pay more for them. The' Vest te!! us that the prices of ring than ever before. Come ; prices advance. ng Company. h of the Road nts, Fertilizers. We will be 1PANY, I CHARLOTTE, N. C. Did You Ever See Such Prices? Skirts. $4.00 Skirts for $2.50"^ $5.00 Skirts for 3.25 $5.50 Skirts for 3.75 $6.00 Skirts for. 4.50 ^ tQ no yu.uu Kjrvil 13 I Or . 6.50 Cloaks. Just a few long cloaks left. $10 Cloaks, latest styles and patterns $ 4.00 $4.75 Cloaks, " " " " 3.25 Children's curly Bear Skin Cloaks, light blue, white, red and apricot 1.75 $15 Coat suits (just a few) at 11.00 $14 " " " " " " .... 11.00 Gingham. French Mercerized Gingham, fancy plaids, at 25c per yard. 45 pieces pretty plaid and striped Gingham, the kind that does not fade, at __ 10c Specials for This Week Infant's 25c Silk Caps at.. 20c 50c " n " 42c 75c " " " 60c See our Remnant Counter of Outings, Percales, Calicoes. Cheviots, Wool Goods and Gingham. E. W. Kimbrell Co. "The Place Where Quality Counts." MENU. BREAKFAST Oranges, Bananas, Wheat Hearts, Puffed Wheat. Puffed Rice, Oat Flakes, Cream of Wheat, Steak, Pork, Sausage, King Mackerel and Hominy, Fried Oysters, Lye Hominy,. Cakes, Maple Syrup, Coffee, Cocoa, Tea. DINNER Soup, Rice, Potatoes (Sweet or Irish), Peas, Turnips, Cabbage, Sauer Kraut, Roast (Pork or beef). Macaroni and Cheese, Spaghette. Peeled Apricots, Cherries, Sliced Pineapple, Mince Meat Pie. SUPPER Stewed Oysters, Chicken Salad, Olive Relish, Peanut Sandwich, Olive Tips, Ham, Ice Cream with Marasquin Cherries, Cake, Salted Almonds. A. O. JONES. The Grocer. "Rnrif HII I " | BU^GmS. If you want the host buggy on the market buy a fcfcltock Hill and you will have it. Farm Wagons. ( ^11/1. <111/] i ll'i l - ll/ \ / w ? ?? * I I ^ -1- ' 1 \/m - iiiiu ? nwinnav in <111 till* (iiTiorciit sizes and of the best makes manufactured, such as Studchakcr, Carver, Nissen and % Thornhill. See us if you need a wagon. Mills & Young Co. I