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The Fort Mill Times.
DEMOCRATIC.
Published Thursday Mornings.
B. #. A W. r. Bradfo'd poei.isiiers
W. R. Bradford Editor
B. W. Bradford Manager
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en any subject. The right is reserved to edit
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FORT MILL. S. C.. FKBRUARY 16. 1911.
Clemaon's Fertilizer Analyse*.
Within the last few days there
has been received at The Times .
office a bulletin entitled "Analyses
of Commercial Fertilizers" by
Clemson college for the season
of 1909-'10. It is stated in the
bulletin that most of the samples
analyzed "were taken by inspectors
sent out for that purpose
to every depot and hamlet in the
State, instructed to see that the
laws were faithfully observed
and to be very careful in drawing
a representative sample from
at least one-tenth of every lot
found." In the bulletin is given
the result of the analyses of
1.188 samples at various places
in the State. A careful reading
of the bulletin, however, fails to
show that the inspectors analyzed
samples of commercial fertilizers
shipped to "every depot and hamlet
in the State." For instance,
there is nothing in the bulletin
to indicate that the inspectors
prosecuted their duties at any of
the dozen and more depots in
York county save that at Rock
Hill. Fort Mill, Yorkville, Clover,
Hickory Grove, Sharon, Tirzah j
and the various other towns and
hamlets in the county at which
there are depots do not seem to
have been on the map of the inspectors,
although it is generally
known that commercial fertilizers
are shipped to all these places.
It is not, therefore, amiss to
inquire why the inspectors failed
to observe the law by depriving
the farmers and others who were
thus overlooked of the benefit of
Clemson's approval of the commercial
fertilizers they used last
year. Whatever the reason for
the violation of the law. it is certain
there will be no violation of j
the law respecting the 2">-cetu
tag tax which m ist be paid to
Clemson on every ton of commercial
fertilizer used in the
State this year. All of which
strengthens the contention of this
paper that not one in ten of the
users of commercial fertilizers in
South Carolina receive any re
turns lor the money they are
forced to pay for the support of
Clemson college.
The New Court Houie.
If there are any good reasons
why York county should not put
up a new court house those who
have spoken against the proposition
have not made the best of
the opportunity. The cost cer-1
tainly cannot be used as an ar- j
gument expected to carry much
weight against a modern court 1
building In a county rich enough
to appropriate the principal part
of a large sum of money necessary
to build a bridge that will at
best prove profitable or convenient
to a minority of its citizens.
If the people of York
county can afford to be taxed,
to bridge the Catawba for the
acecomodation of the people of
the panhandle of Lancaster county
in the hope of diverting to
Rock Hill a part of the trade of
that community, certainly the
same people cannot plead poverty
as an excuse for refusing to put
up a court house in keeping with
the needs of the county. The
statement that the legislative
delegation isinfavorof repairing
the old court house instead of
issuing bonds for a new building
lacks a deal of convincing this
paper that the county does not
n ;ed a new court house. York's
members of the General Assembly
are entitled to their own
opinion, of course, hut they are
not commissioned to do the thinking
of a considerable number of
other people.
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Jury Service for Editor*.
Other newspapers may take j
whatever view they will of the
bill which has just passed the
General Assembly and only lacks
the signature of the governor to
become law removing from the
list of citizens exempted from
jury service in South Carolina
ministers of the gospel, newspaper
editors and bank cashiers,
but this paper has no stomach
for any such law so far as it
affects newspaper men. It is certain
to result in serious inconvenience
and great financial loss
to the editors of the State and
will not raise the standard of
intelligence in the jury box, especially
in criminal cases, for the
reason that not in one case in ten
will the lawyers for the defense
accept an editor as a juror. And
looking at the matter from the
standpoint of the defense there
will be reasonable grounds for
the rejection of the editor. If he
is the head of a newspaper which
has printed an account of the
case before the court, it will be
an easy undertaking for the
counsel for the defense to find
something in the article to which
he can object as tending to indicate
the prejudice of the editor
against his client. It will be
done and the editor will be told to
stand aside. Such a law would
undoubtedly result in hardships
upon the country editors of the
State and the Commonwealth
would derive no marked advantage
therefrom. But we suppose
there ought to be some
consolation in the thought that
now and then an editor will get
in the jury box in p civil suit to
determine the amount of damages
due the plaintiff for the killing
in the public road of his dollar
and a quarter pig by an automobile
driven by an irresp rnsible
boy.
The Failure of the Court*.
No better illustration of the
claim that the courts of South
Carolina are not invariably administered
in the interest of the
people could be brought forth
than the failure of the common
pleas court in Yorkville last week,
when the presiding judge closed
the court after a few hours' session
because none of the lawyers
were ready to have their cases
go to trial. Many witnesses were
on hand expecting to be called.
Not a few of these had gone to
the court house at considerable
financial loss and inconvenience
t) themselves and others. Of
course the trip was fruitless, as
was that of the jurors who had
responded to the summons of the
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snerm. 11 mere is any way to
relieve the people of such flukes,
which are not infrequent in South
Carolina, it is high time the relief
were forthcoming. Let the lawyers
realize that their causes will
be called and tried on a certain
day unless there is an unavoidable
reason for delay, and there
will be a decided reform in the
practice of closing the courts because
the cases on the calendar
can be postponed with more convenience
to the lawyers. We
need a few judges who will exercise
more care in consulting
the interests of the people and
display less zeal in accommodating
the lawyers.
Baseball practice at the University
of South Carolina commenced
Monday afternoon and
"the prospects appear to be very
bright," we are told. Which is
well enough in a way. but
one cannot help wondering how
bright the prospects are for the
baseball players to win when they '
face their professors on final
examination. Usually the college
athlete develops his muscle at
the expense of his mind, l> it
there are almost invariably at
hand apologist; for him who
claim that the statement is not
true. He is pictured as a strongboy
who not only leads in the
various college sports, but is almost
invariably well up in his
classes. If the class marks of
the average college athlete are
good, it is a safe guess that it is
due to the favoriti^yn of the professors.
Referring to the refusal of the
house of representatives to appropriate
a large sum of money
with which to advertise the resources
of the State, the Chester
i Reporter observes that it is "tin
fortunate that some money for
advertising purposes can't be
spared at this time by the General
Assembly." We were under the
impression that one of the duties
of Commissioner V\ atson's department
was to advertise the
resources of the State. If the
numerous trips Watson has made
to various parts of the country
at the expense of the State were
not for advertising purposes, how
does he account for the hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of dollars the
trips have cost the taxpayers?
Comptroller General Jones was
heard t"f? remnvlr cr?tr?t? rlawo -tcrr\
that if the General Assembly did
not do something to equalize the
burdens of taxation and at the
same time afford the people relief
from the oppressive conditions
which have resulted from
that body's extravagant appropriations,
in his opinion a revolution
in South Carolina politics
was one of the certainties of the
near future: We shall see. Nothing
has been done at the present
session of the General Assembly
to revise the tax laws and the
total appropriation of two million
dollars is the largest in recent
years.
WHITE LEGHORN EGGS.
I have for sale for hatching
purposes pure Wycofl'
strain White Leghorn Eggs
at one dollar for 15.
D. A. LEE,
Fort Mill, S. C.
D. A. R. Entertainment.
Ye Daughters of Kanawha
Chapter of ye American Revolution
asketh thee to come to an
4'Infair of to be given at
ye nighte of ye 23rd of February
at ye town hall. Ye doors will
open at seven thirty o'clock, but
ye singers will not tune unne on
til eitfht o'clock.
Ye are asked to wear quaint
costumes of ye olden time, if
ye can.
Brinw: two kits to pay for ye
liyiits and ye music.
FOK SALK 100,000 frost-proof Cabbage
Plants, Eariy Jersey an<l Charleston
Wakefield varieties.
2-2-tf B. M. FARIS.
When Yc
Drink pure, el
CAHAJA
Largest seller i
WHITE HOI
is the wo
Good Grocers
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Are you just in line or in t
con of youth, but at a standsi
along day after day in the sa:
der to the wheel and get in tl
Fort Mill Bu:
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WILL HELP YOI
System of instruction equa
in the leading Business Colle
instruction given, which is b
tion given at many business
Nicely furnished rooms ovi
thing refined and up to date.
Meet Manager J. J. Bailes
at 8 o'clock and enroll for a i
Double-entry Bookkeeping
ing, Ornamental and Busincs
BIG DISCOUNT to the fin
men who enroll. Prices rea
We Are Headquarters
For the Following:
Hardware, Crockery and Stoves,
Back's Steel Ranges, Lime, Cement
and Plaster, Elwood Field and Hog
Fence, McCormick Mowers and Rakes,
I International Gasoline Engines, Shredders,
Corn Harvesters and Disc Harrows,
Sewer Pipe and Farm Drain Tile,
Grates and Tile, Chattanooga Turn and
Disc Plows, Cole's Hot Blast Heaters,
Wilson Heaters. Machinery, Fittings
and Supplies. Window Glass and Putty,
Rooting of all kinds. Farmers' Favorite
Grain Drills, Stalk Cutters, Spokes and
Rims, Guns and Ammunition.
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Rock Hill Hardware Company,
Rock Hill. - S. C.
Here's Your Chance
We have several thousand dollars
worth of finished marble and granite
monuments on our yard. This is more
than we consider necessary to carry
and w wish to reduce it by one half
bet wee i this time and the end of the
y< ar. In order to do this we are offerirg
any h ?adstone or monument now in
| siock at a lower price than other dealers
have to pay for the same work.
No us to pay $100 for a monument
I when y >u can buy the same thing from
usat$7 >. The ageilt gets the difference.
v oint to our yard and keep the $25 in
| your pocket.
YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS,
JOHN E. CARROLL.
Pres. and Treas.
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"Haile's on the Corner"
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Pure Drugs and Medicines.
Cigars and Tobacco.
Garden Seeds.
Headley's Chocolates are
fresh and delicious. On
hand at all times.
Come to see us.
Fort Mill Drug Comp'y
J. R. HAILE, Prop.
hi Prink
can Coffee like
COFFEE,
in the Carolina*
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JSECOFFEE
rhl's best.
; Everywhere. !
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he lead?which? In the lexitill?
Do you intend toiling
me old rut? Put your shoultie
lead.
pinnoo QPIIAAI
D1UCOO Ul/UUUl
IRUARY 20)
U PUSH AHEAD.
1 to the best training received
gcs of the South. Individual
ctter than the class instruccollcges.
cr Ardrcy's drug store. Evcryin
the building Monday night
combination course.
rt, Business Arithmetic, Spells
Penmanship.
3t 20 young ladies or young
sonable.
Sale of Muslin Underwear
We have just received a big new line of Muslin Underwear
which we ordered especially for this SALE. When
these goods were opened up we were very much surprised.
"Just leave it with us " the quality is right. We have
put a special sale price on this entire line of Muslin Under- ^
wear, and can save you some money. Drop in and we will
be glad to show you through.
Sale Begins Saturday, 18th,
and Continues Through Saturday, 25th,
One Week Only.
Skirts from 50c to ..I... $2.00
Gowns from 50c to $2.00
Corset covers from 15c to $1.00
Pants from 25c to SI.00
Combination Suits (Cerset Covers and Pants
together) from 7 5c to SI.50
Princess Slips from $1 to SI.75
Shirtwaist Goods in lace stripes and checks
at, per yard, 10c to 30c
A few Xmns goods at a big sacrifice: also, a big reduction
on "Wool Goods.
E. w. kimbrell"company
"The Place Where duality Counts."
"ROCK HILL"
BUGGIES.
If you want the best buggy on the market
buy a "Koek Hill" ailri you will have it*
rafm Warr/\r?o
A 1A1 JIA1 T f UgUllO*
One- and two-horse in all the different
si/es and of the best makes manufactured,
such as Studebaker, Carver, Nissen and
Thornhill. See us if you need a wagon.
Mules and Horses
j maSmKf v ' " wflnl \
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We have just received a new shipment of choice Missouri
Mules and Horses, the best to select from we have
ever had. Come and buy your mules now. If you wait
until spring you certainly will pay more for them. The
best posted stockmen of the West tell us that the prices of
mules will be higher in the spring than ever before. Come /
and get your mules before the prices advance.
Mills & Young f.nmnanv
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