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THE FOBT MILL TIMES. Deroocrmt'c ? Puublisheri Thursdays. B. W: BRADFORD - Editor and Proprietor. BmecwnoM Rates: One Year 11.25 Bbt kfcmths .66 The Tto? invitee contributions on live subjeeU. Bat does not scree to publish more than 200 words M any subject. The right is reserved to edit Tory communication submitted for publication. : On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those interested. TOioobone. local and long distance. No. 112. FORT MILL. S. C.. MAY 18.1911. The report some days ago of the State board of health on conditions at the penitentiary would seem to indicate that that institution is a veritable hotbed of disease germs and that filth in abundance is to be seen on every hand. People who have visited the penitentiary during the last few years have had to do little investigating to see that the j place was unsanitary, but if the ! report of the board of health is jjln^jtrect, and we have no reason doubt that it is, conditions ifo .. < there are bordering on the hor|j . rible. The governor has recomIfc.* ^mended that the yam mill at the i penitentiary be abolished and v. that the employes be given open-1 T/ air work. This department of 8^ the State prison is said to have caused more deaths from tuberculosis than all other departments combined and should the yarn mill be closed the workers therein will have every reason to heartily thank the governor. But the report of the State board is calculated to do good if in no other way than to cause the would-be criminal to str^p and think of what is ahead of him in! the penitentiary should he be convicted of crime. Writing to the Lancaster News from the Soldiers' Home at Columbia Mr. Sam F. Massey says: - i% / ?#- a n "mere is taiK 01 ivir. a. n. Banks running for State Superintendent. I think he would be more practical than the in-; cumbent. The present administration, if its policy is strictly adhered to, would create a scarcity of teachers; indeed the ranks have already been considerably thinned. This is in great measure owing to too high and varied attainment being required of a teacher for the poor pay and short employment that he gets/' Prof. Banks is one of the best known and most popular educators of the State and should he enter the race for State superintendent of education he would have a strong following. That the Yorkville cow show last week was a grand success may betaken aspo?i(i\e assurance that a York county fair would also prove successful. The York Live Stock association should establish headquarters in Rock Hill and this fall put on an exhibit of the county's commercial and agricultural products along with its show of fine cattle. Lancaster county may well be proud of its Pleasant Valley setment. In the way of new homes and improvements in general we doubt whether there is a country r settlement in the State that can equal it R , The announcement that Citizen Josh Ashley probably will be a candidate for Congress in next year's election raises the question as to who will administer the soothing syrup the morning after. What Governor Blease will say tonight to the Charlotte News, if fee pays attention at all to that ' ?er's unfriendly attitude to1 his administration, doubtHlpr. i ~o will make interesting read Conrtmartul for Capt. J. D. Fulp. Fort Miil people read with interest the article which appeared Friday in the Columbia papers stating that Capt. J. D. Fulp of Winnsboro, commanding Com-, pany M. Second Infantry regi-1 ment, N. G. S. C., is to be tried by general courtmartial in Columbia May 22 for disobedience of orders, on three specifications, in violation of the 21st article of war, having persisted, it is alleged, in failure to file certain quarterly reports, which the adjutant general requires in order to make up his own reports to the war department. Adjutant General Moore issued Friday special orders convening the courtmartiai and at this time no case other than that against Capt. Fulp is known of as likely to be tried, though the courtmartial is appointed "for the nAWPAno QO mQU KD LI lill Ul SUL.11 pel 3U1IO ao 1I1UJ uv properly brought before it." Capt. Fulp is a former Fort Mill man and his friends here hope that he will experience no difficulty in vindicating himself of the charges. Talk of New League. Alt hough nothing has previously been said about the matter in print, a movement has recently been gaining momentum in this coun ty to have either a four or six team baseball league during the present season. It is said that Chester, Rock Hill, Gastonia and Yorkville have riM/,ci/iQllv ocrrppH to PfltPr the piUV .JVUIIJ U^t vvv* vw arrangement, and it is hoped that Gaffney and Lancaster will come in, thus making it a six team affair. Yorkville supported a team last year, and while it was not profitable from a financial viewpoint, still its backers express themselves as being willing to try it again. A conference of representatives of the various towns interested is to be held during the next few days. About Christmas Packages. It is a long time off before Christmas comes again, says the Charleston Post, but still, the postoffice department with a view of improving the service, has just issued an order which relates to the festival, and will be of more interest and application next December when Christmas packages are being mailed. "Please do not open until Christmas." or an injunction in Windsor is a little town over I in Aiken county that outside of a1 radius of a few miles is perhaps almost unknown. But Windsor is now in line for a lot of advertising. The Aiken county dispensary board met one day last week and decided to open a dis pensary in the town and once a month after June 1 Windsor will cet its name in the papers just as prominently as some of the larger cities of the State. This dispensary-report-advertising may not be of the class that is most desired but who knows that it will not help Windsor grow into a city. The city of Florence will have no more carnival shows. At a recent meeting of the Florence city council it was determined to put the license on carnivals visiting that city at $1,000. This was done on a petition of a number of citizens who regard the modern cheap tent show as a very degenerating sort of amusement, and because carnivals there have' nearly always been productive of some form of disorder. The new license will be practically prohibitive. Florence is to be congratulated, and we commend her action to Fort Mill and other cities. similar words will he permitted on all third and fourth-class matter, in addition to the names of addresses and sender. The idea of this rule is to encourage people to mail their packages early, insuring a better and safer service, and it will probably have this effect. Heavy Loss by Fire. The ginnery system, sawmill, corn mill, shingle mill and other machinery owned and operated by McGill Brothers at Bethany, in this county, 10 miles north of Yorkville, were burned Saturday morning between 12 and 1 o'clock. The loss is total and amounts to about $4,000, with $1,500 in-i surance. The cause or origin of the fire is not known. Some of the machinery, including the engine, was operated Friday, but parties who passed the place an hour before the fire was discovered report that there was no sign of fire at that time. Would Seggregate the Negro. Concentration of all the blacks of the South in a section set apart for themselves is proposed in a measure which will be presented to the Georgia Legislature at its next session by Representativeelect J. J. Slade, of Columbus. Mr. Slade's plan is to start the movement in Georgia and have it extended throughout the South. ! Despatches say that he has written to every member of Congress asking their views on the subject and requesting suggestions. One of the provisions of the bill is designed to bar the black man from the ballot. Porfirio Diaz. Porfirio Diaz was born September 15, 1830. on the anniversary of Mexican independence, j Oaxaca was his birthplace. His I father was a Spaniard and his mother was of Indian extraction. His mother at first intended that he should enter the church, but finally yielded to his desires, so ; that he pursued the studies then ! required for a lawyer's career. Diaz was regularly elected president of Mexico for the first time in 1876, riding into power 011 the high tiue of a revolution. It was in 1854 that he joined the revolt against Santa Anna. He brought to its downfall the empire of Maximilian in 1867 by capturing the City of Mexico, where now he is beleagured by the same insurgent spirit for which he then fought. Four years later he was proscribed by the existing government for his revolutionary tendencies. A party of zealous followers, known after his own name as "Porfiristas" rallied to his cause and in 1876 made him provisional president of the republic. Since then he has held the office continuously, save for an interim of four years when, under the terms of the constitution as it then was, he was ineligible to succeed himself. When he was again chosen president in 1884. he caused the constitution so to be amended as to remove this inconvenient provision. It is said that no emperor ever ruled with more iron hand than Diaz. His service to Mexico has .been of a rich and constructive , cnaracter so far as things mai terial go. 1 i The Outlook in Washington. Correspondence of The Times. Washington, May 14.?The extra session of the Sixty-second Congress, which convened something like a month ago, has been distinctly disappointing?to the Republicans. Following the election of the Democratic house last fall the Grand Old Party?having successfully double-crossed the country for the last 16 years and imagining that it would be able to do so again next year as the j result of inefficiency which all were assured could be depended upon to develop as soon as the Democracy assumed control of the popular branch of Congress? i reared back on its hind legs and arrogantly let it be known that the backset was only temporary?that it would come into its own again in 1912. But there's I many a slip 'twixt the cup and ; the lip. The Democratic house i has stubbornly refused to show j the least earmarks of inefficien! cy. On the contrary, the party ; of the people has given the country an illustration of how a mai jority bent upon doing things for the public good is able to accomplish even more than it had promised. Many important measures?measures which the people demand?have been passed by the lower house in the last four weeks and the work of legislai tion has run along as smoothly j as a ball-bearing bicycle. Consequently, the Republicans are down in the mouth. Contrasting the work of the lower house with the failure of the Republican senate to get to work because of party dissension, they are admitting among themselves that something miraculous will have to happen before the elections next year to save them from the worst defeat their party has ever sustained. It is generally admitted that President Taft will be renominated. About that there does not appear to be much doubt?or concern. The question of interest is, Who will the Democrats nominate. At present, the eyes of the country are turned upon Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, and the indications are that he will he the nominee. Just now Governor Wilson is in the West and is making a splen Old impression, accuruiug iu itports coming to Washington. The campaign for Governor Harmon, of Ohio, does not seem to be making much headway and if Governor Wilson is not nominated Speaker Champ Clark, of Missouri, is almost certain to be the man. Both Governor Wilson and Speaker Clark are Southern j men and the nomination of either i would be p.easing to the South. The South, by the way, is in the saddle good and strong in the lower house. With one or two i exceptions, all the important ! committees have Southern men ! for chairmen and with Southern men for speaker and party leader, Dixie land has nothing of which to complain in the distribution of the fruits of last fall's victory. Southern men are also filling many of the important elective and appointive offices of the house. Nowadays one does not look in vain among the attaches of the house for men who say "I reckon" and who refer to the South's wards as "niggers." And when the country elects a Democratic president and a Democratic house and senate next year, the South is. going to run the government for a season, and run it right. B. Two Sales to the Acre. The Southern Cultivator in its j current issue has a very interestI ing and rather striking account ! of the farming operations of Mr. i J. D. Whittle, of Blackville, Barnwell county, who last year raised 408 bales of cotton on 200 acres of land, and who expects this year to increase the product to 500 bales. Mr. Whittle had broken his ground with disk and two-horse plows three times, and had broadcasted 2,000 pounds of commercial fertilizer to the acre and was going to use 600 pounds to the acre more in the drill when he planted his cotton. Last year, when he raised the 108 bales on the zuo acres, ne broke the land twice, broadcasted live loads of stable manure per acre, from stables where steers were fed; then 2,000 pounds of guano, composed of 800 pounds 16 per cent, acid; 11.000 pounds cotton seed meal, 200 pounds muriate of potash ? a total of 2.000 pounds. Then he used 100 pounds of the same in the drill, thus making 2.400 pounds per acre. He tried nitrate of soda on some but it did not pay, as he already had ample nitrogen in the soil. Mr. Whittle paid .$26 per acre for his farm about six years ago. He has refncorl ?150 npp acre, askint? S200. Many good farmers no doubt will think Mr. Whittle extremely foolish for breaking: land three times and putting: 2.000 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. Perhaps he is, perhaps the last breaking and the last few hundred pounds of fertilizer do not return full value, but Mr. Whittle. who started poor, lias made sufficient money to acquire very nearly 5,000 acres of land by this method of farming and he is now running 138 plows. He is evidently a man of tine business qualities and while he may be extreme, his manner of farming shows what could be done by many farmers who are barely making a living if they would break their land deep with twohorse plows and put in 1,000 pounds or so of fertilizer and then cultivate their crop a little more carefully. FOR SALE?A few pairs of registered big-bone Berkshire Pigs, extra fine growth, at reasonable prices. , R. M. BRYANT. To Destroy the Potato Bug. The potato bug, or beetle, a gnawing insect familiar to every one, is again making his pres-, ence known to the gardeners of this section. No time should be lost in destroying the visitor, for if let alone he will destroy the ordinary potato patch in a very short time. The following preparation will exterminate his bugship in short order: In the small family garden mix a tablespoon full of Paris green with a little water to form a paste, then add it to a 21-2 to 3 gallon pail full of water. Then slake a lump of stone lime about, the size of a man's fist and also add it to the pail of water. Stir and the spray is complete. Apply with a spray pump or with a whisk broom. Paris green may be used dry. ; ! A teaspoon full of Paris green is 1 thoroughly mixed with one quart of dilutent, as airclaked lime, land plaster, or flour and then | dusted on the plants in the morning when the dew is on; it may be dusted by means of a muslin bag or a can with holes made through the bottom. The Champion Butter Producer. E. H. Dollar, of Huevelton, N. Y., is the possessor of a cow of the Holstein-Friesian breed which holds the world's record for any cow of any age or breed on butter production. Within the last few days Mr. Dollar has completed a seven-day test with his cow. In that time she won the blue ribbon, producing 590.7 pounds of milk and 37.87 pounds ! of butter. Pontiac Pet was retested by j two Cornell university experts I for two days and gave 5.35 pounds of butter in one day and 5.1 per cent, fat on an average. The cow is seven years old and is the same blood as the famous Ray Apple cow that Mr. Dollar ; sold recently for $8,000. To Form an Outlaw League. With a strictly observed salary ' limit of $000, plans are on foot I for the formation of an outlaw I league, in the lower section of the State, to include six clubs. ! According to the plans as now proposed, the leagne is to open1 its session about the beginning of June, in order to recruit its ranks from the college players. Charleston, Sumter, Florence, ! Orangeburg, and Georgetown, it is stated, can be counted upon, ! so far to come in, but the sixth > I club has not so far been located, i It is thought that such a league (with the low salary limit, could1 be operated cheaply, and might be something of a success financially and afford considerablej recreation for the towns in-1 volved. Where Did the Negroes Go? The Columbia State says that in ten years 1,597 negroes, onehalf the negro population, left the town of Beaufort, and asks where are they? The population of the coast counties nas not increased. While Charleston city has gained 3,000 people, the county's population has remained practically stationary and it is said that the colored population I of the city has not incresed. Certainly there are no evidences that the negroes have increased in the interior of the State, signs pointing d rectly contrary. In a : ; word, examination of the census j figures so far as published tend to the conclusion that the publication of the census race figures will reveal that South Carolina is losing a considerable part of its negro population and that the ratio of negroes to whites in the State has grown perceptibly smaller. That the negroes are "thinning out" in what has been regarded the "black diserict" is of particular interest and significance. Pleasant Valley News Items. Correspondence Lancaster News: We attended yesterday the exercises of the closing of Belair school, which has been very successfully taught by Misses Valley Pet! us and Lula Therrell. Exercises opened with prayer by Mr. G. B. Collins. Music was furnished by the Tabernacle band. Printed copies of the program were distributed among the auj dience. We are glad to note that Mr. A. P. Spratt, who was hurt recently in a runaway team in Fort Mill, is improving. The Pleasant Valley school building is well under way and will be completed by the middle of June. Mrs. .J. \V. Davidson's handsome residence is nearing completion. I Pleasant Valley, as well as other sections, was well filled with spectators Thursday to view the I automobile race.. Miss Nettie I-Jm.iU 1 rvV \T ill cnpnl h 1)1 til I 1 I ' I VI V'l X \Sk V A'All., I'1'V..V ? day or so in Pleasant Valley this week. J. 0. H. | May 13, 1911. NOTICE ?We have a customer >vho desires to place $">00 to $1,000 on longterm real estate mortgage. FIRST NATIONAL RANK. Winthrop College SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Collegt and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House ori Friday, July 7, at 9 a. m. | Applicants must be not less than 15 ! years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July 7 they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson before the examii nation for scholarship examination j blanks. 1 Scholarships are worth $100 and free ( tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1911. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. If You Were From Missouri, You Would Know, The value of Stock Foods and Tonics and Regulators can be easily demonstrated by a trial. Too many close observers and close calculators are convinced of this fact for a few to remain negligent of their virtues. You will never be convinced of its advantages by buying a 25-cent package, turning it over to your hired help, and then forgetting it. You must feed it and watch results, and you will surely get them. We have the four brands best known in America: INTERNATIONAL. PRATT'S. <1 BLACK DRAUGHT. BARKER'S. If the large stock raisers of the country find them profitable so will you. We have also a large stock of Veterinary remedies for the common complaints of the Horse, Cattle, Hog and Poultry. Ardrey's AN ORDINANCE. Be it ordained by the mayor and wardens of the town of Fort Mill, S. C., now sitting in open council and by the authority of the same: Sec. 1. That all able bodied male residents of the town of Fort Mill, S. C., between the ages of 21 and 55 years I and who are not exempt by the State law, shall, between tne 15th day of May, 1911, and the 15th day of June, 1911, pay unto the town treasurer commutation street tax in the sum of $3.00, or perform five days' labor on the streets of said town. sec. 2. That after the 15th day of June, 1911, all delinquents will be pun-; ished as provided by law in such cases, j Done and ratified this 2nd day of, Aiav. L. A. HARRIS, Attest: Mayor, J. L. SPRATT, Clerk. 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It has always been the lightest running ever ridden in, and the wheels you use can't I gladly volunteer this testimonial a: making what I honestly believe to be the bef Your buggies are "A Little Higher In 1 have ever used. Wishing you continued success, and a> booster from conviction, 1 am, MILLS & YOUNG . . ifou Do Money? root of all evil." iney should be the a man should slave lily and his future. ods of quality and on every purchase. ;he following list of ^ uality is there: | c I Vests with ean't-slip this garment over the e shoulder straps are >ff, no matter what po * nn ze tne name luiiiij 15c better in a Warner's ther make. We have $1.00 igs j it of Hand Bagsat 25c, ^ $2.50 S / ' * 50c 50c $1.50 * pretty assortment of 39c Beautiful figured Musty cool dresses for sumind. 15c ELL CO., ality Counts." 31 IF==3I IS IATURE | t jen in the Springtime, j this requirement and u fl ,erve you. Q fl etables for the house- X J bage, Onions, Potatoes J i it will be delivered * n taken every day. Q ? I V he Grocer. j} lirough The Times. iskey By Mail rhese Prices. :r the Pure Food Laws. 4 Gal 4 Qts 6 Qts 12 Qts $10.00 $3.25 $5.00 $8.25 9.50 3.00 4.20 8.00 7.50 2.50 3.60 7.00 12.75 4.00 6.00 12.00 8.75 2.75 4.25 7.75 4.50 6.75 12.00 13.00 4.75 6.75 12.50 13.00 4.00 5.80 10.00 10.00 3.25 5.00 8.25 8.50 2.75 4.50 7.50 10. oo 3.60 3.00 8.25 14.00 4.50 6.75 12.50 10.00 3.50 5.00 8.25 14.00 4.50 6.75 12.50 fine, etc., furnished in our com- ?. ?d letter. Address ? Manaorpr* AVJLUAftMgv* y RICHMOND, Va. > After 18 Years he Bag. Lake Park. Ga., Feb. 10, 1911. erested in hearing praises sung re- , vrite you relative to a Hock Hill le, Ga., 15 years ago, and it has > it has been run to Hawk ins ville h trip. I never had any repairs on augh the whole service of the bug- | r and easiest riding buggy I have be beat. ? I am confident you merit it by it buggy made. Price But?" far superior to any isuring vou I am a "Rock Hill" Very truly yours, E. W. MASON. f ; C0MPAN1^_j