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{ The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19?NO. 49. FORT MILL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1911. J1.25 PER YEAR i CAPT. SAMUEL ELLIOTT WHITE PASSES TO THE GREAT BEYOND ?f < Capt. Samuel E. White, gentleman of the old South, soldier of the Confederacy, patriot and philanthropist, died in Lancaster Saturday evening at the home of his son-in-law. Col. Leroy Springs. Capt. White had been in declining health for several months and his death was not unexpected. When the announcement of the death of Capt. White reached Fort Mill, his old home, where he was reared and spent Dracticallv all of his lonir and use ful life, there was universal sor- 1 row. for it told of the passing away of a man who was loved and respected in this community as are few men anywhere. As a man. Capt. White was the soul of honor, of genial temperament and magnetic personality. An extensive reader, and possessing a retentive memory and the gift of expression, he was an exceptionally entertaining conversationalist. Innumerable were his deeds of charity, but being of innate modesty, his contributions to relieve the unfortunate, the sick, and the suffering and to various praiseworthy objects were invariably made without ostentation. For a number of years preceding his death, he was a member of the Presbyterian church. Samuel Elliott White was born in Fort Mill February 22. 1837, and was therefore in his 75th year. He was the son of William Elliott White and Sarah Robinson (Wilson) White. His early boyhood was spent at the old White homestead, just outside the corporate limits of Fort Mill. He was prepared for college in the community school and received a thorough education at the King's Mountain Military academy and the Citadel, from which he graduated with honor. When the War Between the States came on in 1861 hppnlistpd in rnmnanv R Seventh North Carolina regiment. i and was elected lieutenant, af-! L terwards being promoted to the j captaincy of the company. At *he battle of Newbern, March 15, 1862, he was desperately wounded in the head. At the close of the war, Capt. 1 White returned home and engaged in farming, in which he J was notably successful, accumu latinga large and valuable estate. On the 21st of November. 1866, j he married Esther I'hifer Allison, i daughter of R. W. and S. A. i Allison, of Concord, N. C. They ; had four children, but all died young, except Grace Allison White, who married Col. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster. Mrs. White died April 28. 1903. and her daughter, Mrs. Springs, on April 30, 1907, the latter leaving one son, Elliott White Springs, who is Capt. White's only surviving heir. In addition to his large farming interests, Capt. White was also interested in manufacturing I 1 1-^ ... a . i auu uaiming enterprises, ana, at one time, in the mercantile business in Fort Mill. He promoted and built, in 1886, the Fort Mill Manufacturing company, one of the first gingham mills in the South. He also organized and established the Savings Bank of Fort Mill. He was made president of both institutions, which positions he still held at the time of his death. Capt. White's Funeral. Four counties united Monday in honoring the memory of Capt. White. Lancaster, Chester, York and Mecklenburg (N. C.) met at the grave of Fort Mill's lamented citizen, alluded to in the funeral nratinn r\f fUn T^v. T 15 U1HVIUII VX 1/liV IVCt. XVI. it. 13. Mack as the father of the town. The remains of Capt. White were brought to Fort Mill from Lancaster on a special train, aboard which not only a number of relatives of Capt. White but many of Lancaster's best and most substantial citizens. These were joined on the way by representative citizens of Chester and York counties, Rock Hill being i largely represented. The morn| ' ing train from Charlotte also brought many relatives and friends of Capt. White. When the funeral train reached the < Fort Mill station several hundred 1 people were in waiting and as 1 the casket containing all that was mortal of Capt. White was ] carried from the car to the hearse ; i M? . ! the solemnity of the occasion < was most impressive. As an evidence of the tribute which the people of Fort Mill ) wished to pay the memory of Capt. White the cotton mills were ' shut down for the day, the stores : and bank were closed and there was a suspension 01 me usual exercises at the graded school. When the funeral procession passed through Main and Booth streets every head was bowed! and when it reached the Presbyterian church the crowd in waiting was composed of several hun- i \ dred men. women and children. 1 Not more than half of those who 11 wished to witness the impressive funeral exercises were able to gain admittance to the church. Many beautiful floral tributes. 1 sent by friends from both the Carolinas, were banked about the pulpit, these being taken to the grave after the exercises in the church. The pulpit was occupied by five ministers: The Rev. Dr. , J. B. Mack, the Rev. VV. A. Hafner. pastor of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church; the Rev. Dr. Chalmers Fraser of the First Presbyterian church of Lancaster; the Rev. Dr. J. H. Boldridge of the First Baptist church of Lancaster, and the Rev. M. M. Brabham of the First Methodist church of Lancaster. The funeral oration was by Dr. J. B. Mack, years ago pastor of Cant. Wrhite and always a devoted friend. Dr. Mack's tribute to Capt. White was beautiful in its simplicity, i He spoke of him as the "father of Fort Mill." "Well it is," said he, "thatthe hum of machinery is hushed, that all places of business are closed in honor of him who lies before us in his last sleep. Successful US a Ko ilaf ninnrl ? 1 ?w ?%?% invft | uv u\. taiucu (yuunj; , men here and encouraged others to come here by enterprises which he organized. He conceived the idea of a bank and made it what it is. He conceived the idea of a cotton mill and made Fort Mill a manufacturing town. His mind, i heart and purse were ever ready ! to help this place, which was his chief pride. He was the man who has made Fort Mill unique in the South, in some things having no rival. Here through Capt. White's gifts and influence was erected the first monument in the South to the women of the Confederacy, also to the Confederate soldier, to the faithful slaves, and jointly with the late . J. M. Spratt to the red men (the Catawba Indians) who were the friends of the Confederate soldiers. Not a dollar for these monuments was given outside of Fort Mill, and only those gave who wanted to. Confederate park. Fort Mill, S. C., tells the history of the races that is made , known in no other place in the land. We ought to honor Cant : White's memory for he loved J this town. He was a wide-awake j citizen, and a Southern gentleman. He was self-assertive and often imperious with his fellow- j man. but always humble before ! his God. Such a strong character as his had strong temptations, | but he met and conquered them, ; The father and mother passed, his wife and child were taken from his home, but never from his heart. Chastened but strengthened and purified by these afflictions, he comes now to lay down his life, hidden in Christ in death." The hymns sung were "HowFirm a Foundation," "Asleep in Jesus," and "I would Not Live , Always." After the benediction J the casket was opened and all present were griven the opportunity to look for the last time nnnn /-?f ?rw.. ?..w *MVV Vi kill o OV1UIC1 t ?1 the Confederacy, this gentleman > of the old South, who did so much for Fort Mill. In the audience were a score of Capt. White's army camrades. Some of these old men had walked several miles to attend his funeral. After the white people in at-, tendance upon the funeral had i passed the bier, the colored people were permitted to look upon "Marse Sam's" face. Many of these had worked upon Capt. White's plantations and two of them were former slaves of the White family who had served Capt. White in his boyhood days. The burial was in the town cemetery. Such a funeral has never before 1 been known in Fort Mill and perhaps not in York county. It was CLEMSON'S REVENUE PROMISES I TO REACH $300,000 THIS YEAR It is estimated that Clemson college will receive this year i approximately $900,000 from the I fertilizer tag tax. The amount received by the institution last year was nearly $250,000. It is < thought that at least 1,200,000 i tons of fertilizers will be sold to < the farmers of the State during i 1911. There has been much discus- < sion as to how the fertilizer ex- t animations are made. The State is "divided into 14 districts, there being an inspector for each dis- < trict. During the fertilizer sea-; son it is the duty of these in- j 1 spectors to draw samples from every place where fertilizer is sold in their districts and to send these samples to Clemson college ; for examination. Under the law if these samples are found to bet deficient in any manner, a refund must be made by the fertilizer companies. The samples drawn < by the inspectors are analyzed ; by expert chemists. The chemist only know the samples by number and do not know the name i of the company manufacturing: . them, as has been charged. Fortune-tellers Before Magistrate. Saturday morning a band of Gypsies composed of three or ( four men and an equal number of women arrived in Fort Mill i and set up for fortune-telling a short distance south of town. | Sunday afternoon two of the ( women did some more arriving? j ( this time in the court of Magistrate McElhaney, upon the j charge of bilking a boy out of 75 cents. Upon the complaint i! of the boy that he had given one , of the women a dollar for telling 25 cents worth of his fortune and , that she had refused to return the 75 cents which he had ex- ; pected to get in change, Magis- J trate McElhaney sent a constable ; j to the camp to bring the woman ( before him. There seemed to be no way of identifying the woman j the boy claimed had more of his , coin than she was entitled to. so ( two of them were arrested and brought to town. But Magistrate McElhaney did not waste much | time on the examination concluded that all hands includ- , iny, the boy, were lying about the ( transaction and allowed the j women to go on their way without a fine. The 75 cents was ; returned to the boy. , Attending Commercial Congress. Tuesday morning Rev. S. P. Hair left Fort Mill for Atlanta to attend the sessions of the South- j ern Commercial congress, which opened yesterday. Mr. Hair will 11 remain in Atlanta for the Taber-1 : nacle Bible conference, to bej 1 held in the church of Dr. Len 11 Broughton, from the 10th to the 1 20th inst. During Mr. Hair's ab- ' sence, Mrs. Hair will visit rela- ! tives in .Jonesville, Union county. ( ^ y ] Surprised Their Friends. j Carl Morris, an employe of the < Southern Power company, at the 1 plant near Fort Mill, and Miss ' Kate Carothers, whose home was < in Ebenezer townshiu. were mar- I ried at the Presbyterian manse 1 Thursday evening by the Rev. 1 < W. A. Hafner. Mr. and Mrs. j J Morris left on the northbound 1 ] train Thursday evening for ail visit to relatives of the former at 1 Huntersville, N. C. h a tribute of love which any man might have envied. The people [ among whom this man spent the 1 greater part of his long life set \ aside the day to do him honor and almost the whole countryside 1 stood around his grave Capt. White's death marks the 1 passing of the last member of 1 William Elliott White's family. In less than half a century, Mr. 1 Whifp hifi urifo eiv ~ 1 If |>V, OIA ouiia <11IU three daughters have passed away. Capt. White outlived any 1 other member of the family ten 1 years. He is survived by one j descendant, his grandson, Elliott White Springs, 15 years old and s the only son of Col. Leroy Springs 1 and his wife, the late Mrs. (Jrace 1 White Springs. |{ Capt. White leaves a fortune estimated at $250,000 which it is i understood is given mainly to his i grandson and Col. Springs. j LONG AWAITED COTTON-PICKER SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN INVENTED One of the greatest obstacles the cotton farmers of the South have had to contend with is the necessity of gathering the staple by hand. Every year the cry goes up from various sections of the South that there is a scarcity of labor with which to harvest the crop. Not infrequently press dispatches tell of whole fields of open cotton being abandoned because there is no one to be had to pick it. Therefore any plan which will insure the harvesting of the crop is of great importance. For years Angus Camp Dell, a Scoteh inventor, has had his attention turned to the invention of a cotton-picker to take the place of hand labor, and it is now claimed that he has at last invented a machine which will solve the problem. Campbell's cotton-picker is so adjusted that it picks only the open bolls and leaves those which are not matured. The machine is said to operate so rapidly and is so efficient that the percentage of open cotton left after the machine has done its work is so small as to be insignificant, as compared with the great waste which results from careless picking by the negroes. The machine picks about 10 pounds of seed cotton per minute, or 6,000 pounds per day of 10 hours, if kept running continuously, or 5,400 pounds per day, allowing 10 per cent, for stoppage. The quantity picked varies somewhat, depending on the amount of open cotton on the stalks, but the above amount may be considered as a fair average. On the first trip it gathers 90 per cent, of the open cotton, and the remaining 10 per cent, is picked on the second trip. An average of 30 horse-power is required to operate this interesting cotton-picker. A gasolinn Oft 1 11iit muiui ui ix? nurse-power is usually installed for the service. Beneath the engine are what are termed two picking attachments swung under it. and a pair of L'anvas bags hung out behind. It moves over the field as fast as a man walks, the wheels passing between the cotton rows. The cotton is picked over by the revolving steel fingers which catch the lint but leave the plant uninjured, so that later bolls may mature. The picking machinery is on two drums which hang from the frame of the tractor. Every motion is delicately adjusted. While the needles move fast enough to catch the fiber, their speed is not fast enough Lo throw it out of the receiver. The cylinders bring each needle into place at the proper time, so that there is never a space large enough for an open boll to pass through without being stripped of its contents Th#? drum is moving backward at the same rate that the whole machine moves forward, so that the picking needles do not move horizontally through the plant, hut merely turn in it. In the cylinders of each picker are no less than 816 of the steel fingers which harvest the cotton. Rut Dne man is required to operate the engine, while he also steers the mechanism. A boy may be employed to sit in the rear to see that the cotton is all deposited through the conveyor into the storage bins, but unless the bolls are think on the stalk, all of the cotton is stored mechanically. Tests have been made of the new cotton picker in several States, while it is being operated extensively in the Texas fields. These tests of capacity and thoroughness were carried out by experts of the agricultural department, as well as the farmers themselves who are operating it. As to the cost of operation, the maximum expense does not exJttOd fl Hav iY>olnrUr?r? Ur* Tw ? V>MJ t IMVIUUIII^ tUC wages of the man and boy, and a gallon of gasoline consumed every hour for a day of ten hours. This is the average outlay as shown by calculations made in Texas and other portions of the South. Except for a few green leaves, the cotton is as clean, if not leaner than, that hand picked. Mayor L. A. Harris has been ill at his home on White street for several days. The High Price of Males. J Notwithstanding the fact that | the present season has witnessed | the highest prices ever paid for mules in this county, the demand in York county for the long-eared j j work animal has been greater 1 than ever before. It now costs c almost as much to buy a pair of I good mules as a small house and V lot. Numerous sales of good ' mules for $750 have been recorded in the county in the past few weeks, and a cottage with honeysuckle vines thrown in for good measure is not much more expensive. "Why are mules so high, anyway?" This is a question that the public has been asking. One answer is that the SpanishAmerican war is responsible. A heavy draft was made on the country's mule stock at that time and since then the supply has not been equal to the demand. I Just before the Spanish-Ameri| can war a good mule could be ! bought in this section and else- i \1'V>ni?/\ ??-* 0^.-4-1- -C /-VA *? utic in i/iic? ouuui lor ?j>iuuf ana previous to that the price was J , sometimes as low as $75. Nowadays a good mule costs from $250 * to $300 and sometimes $400. ' ! ??? ^ York Teachers to Meet Saturday. The York County Teachers' association will meet in Yorkville on Saturday, March 11, in the || McNeel opera house at 11 a. m. 1 J. Harvey Witherspoon, superin- ? '! tendent of the Yorkville school, * 1 is making extensive preparations ? 11 for the entertainment of the visiting teachers, as well as to r i make the meeting a success. The % following program is announced: r Prayer. Rev. J. L. Oates; ad- T dresses of welcome by Mayor John R. Hart and Prof. J. C. Cork, president of the associa- ^ tion; roll call and reading of the minutes of last meeting; vocal rj solo, Miss Suader; "School Gardening," C. B. Haddon, of Clem- ?, son college: "Ardelia in Arcady." Miss Reid; "School Athletics." F. E. Schofield; vocal solo, Miss Suader: address. Dr. S. C. Mitchell. president of the University d of South Carolina; general dis- S cussion. "How to Secure Coopera- h tion Between Pupils, Patrons and h | Teachers." s |==ir=n ir=ii? i q e T Pardon F To all high prices and where it can demonstr U is exactly our motto o of SPRING CLOTHES shown the people o | Q] If you are interested : and want to improve i pay you to see our spr i and Shoes, for then yo 3 self the power of the < And, by the way, sine vertisement we find th rj| of Ladies', Misses' and in the depot, and we e: I in this neighborhood a the classiest line of 0 j here, at free silver pri< Now, listen, if you are of serviceable, stylis Low-cut Shoes, let us < best at a price in keep m ij McElhaney Clothing, Shoes, Groce 0 j (Ln-n ir=if====i ED G IUDGES MUST BE APPOINTED ON COURT'S RECOMMENDATION The governor must appoint spe:ial judges upon the recommendaion of the supreme court or the :hief justice. This is the em)hatic statement made by Chief lustice .Jones, in an opinion landed down Saturday involving i point very similar to that which las occasioned a breach between Governor Blease and the supreme :ourt. The whole law on the subject >f appointing special judges, ?rom the constitutional provisions o the statute pursuant to those provisions, is gone into by Chief lustice Jones. It was not the question of appointing special judges that uumea up in tne opinion. Put of ?special moment is the obiter licta of the court on this matter, rhe real issue in the James Davis :ase, which is the case in which ;he decision was handed down. ,vas whether or not the governor :an order a special term of court, fhe supreme court rules that the governor can order a special >f court, when the solicitor reluests it and when public policy lemands such. February's Weather Record. According to the weather bureau, February has the distinction >f having the highest mean emperature of any other Februiry since 1890. The mean temperature for the nonth was 51 degrees, which vas 4 degrees lower than the nean temperature for the same nonth in 1890, when the mean emperature was 55 degrees. In only five other Februarie.> ince 1879 has the mean temperaure been higher than it was last nonth. The highest temperature luring last month was 72 degrees, n the 18th, and the lowest 20 egrees, on the 22d. Child Burned to Death. Little Delia Smith, 3-year-old aughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. imith, of Tirzah, was fatally urned Sunday morning at the ome of her parents, death enuing Sunday afternoon. 3l Bi 3BE| 0 Issued 3 the almighty dollar ate its value. This n the swellest line I 5 and SHOES ever f this community, in your appearance [T it, it certainly will ing line of Clothing u will see for your iollar. |j le starting this adat we have 25 cases Children's Oxfords = rtend to every lady n invitation to sec xfords ever shown T ;es. f= interested in a pair h and comfortable equip you with the innr ^ wig nnu iue nines & Comp'yn ries, Hardware, Etc. ? =" if=r