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THE FOBT MILL TIMES. Democratic ? Puublished Thursdays. . W. BRADFORD - Editor and Proprietor. VMCumoH Rates: On# Tear 11.25 fa Montha .66 Tha Time* in v'tee contributions on live subjects, bat does not agree to publish more than 200 words I an any subject. The right is reserved to edit geesjF communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those interested. Telephone, local and long distance. No. 112. Eatared at tvr 7-etoffice at Fort Mill. S. C.. as mail matter of the second class. PORT MILL. S. C.. MARCH 14. 1912. Talbert ?. Tillman. It is just like Col. W. J. Talbert, candidate for the United States Senate against Senator Tillman, to announce that he is in the race to the end. The Edgefiel-1 colonel is a stickler, and when he makes up his mind there is no calling him off or dissuading him. He is sot in his ways. Col. Talbert thinks he has a show of beating Senator Tillman, though he is old enough to know better. Nobody will suspect, however, that he is running for the fun he expects to get out of the race, for nobody will attribute to him such a perverted, disjointed incapacity of appreciating fun. In the language of the small boy, Col. Talbert is some scrapper, and when he rings off at the end of the campaign a considerable number of people will know that he comprises no inconsequential part of the citizenship of Parksville, Edgefield county. He will have much to say, win me tuiui.t.. He speaks out in meeting:, too. The man he is afraid to run against isn't chronicled in the census returns. But in the neighborhood of the first of next September, we fear that Col. Talbert is destined to connect with a solar plexus jolt. Likely enough he will learn when the election figures are all in and added up that about 95,000 of the 125,000 voters in the State do not agree with him that it would be wise to side-track Senator Tillman to give him the right-ofway on the main line. Meanwhile it is pleasing to the friends of Senator Tillman to learn that his health is steadily improving that hp is now able to attend MAJU VMWv the daily sittings of the Senate. Help the Rural Carriers. On account of the unusual and prolonged season of bad weather during the last two months, the public roads in this section are in many places well-nigh impasble, and as a consequence it has been a matter of impossibility for the rural mail carriers to serve their routes with any degree of regularity. It would therefore be well for the people along the routes to cooperate with the postoffice people insofar as possible in remedying the condition of the roads. At most bad places in the roads a convenient opening could be made and this would to a great extent lessen the time lost and heavy pulling necessary to get through these places. The rural carriers make every effort to serve their patrons with regularity, and it is but little to ask that the people aid them by mending the bad places in the roads. t The Progressive Farmer advises the farmers to grow more cotton per acre and plant fewer acres in cotton, so that what you make will be made at a lower TKo wicp farmpr will keep tuou X liv niuv -?. - m in view the chance of low prices and will endeavor to make his crops in the most economical manner to meet these chances. It is the cost of the crop to the grower that determines the question of profit or loss in current prices, and if your crop costs you all that it brings on the market you had better study improved methods and stop that sort of fanning. A report from Yorkville has it that State Senator W. H. Stewart of York will not enter the race this summer for reelection, but instead, will move with his family to Moore county, North Carolina, where he some time ago purchased a large farm. Just who will stand for election to the Senate from York county, should Senator Stewart be out of the running, is not yet known, but it is stated that two, and maybe three, of the present Representatives have an eye or the job and will make the race. Although the weather continues cold and not a single house fly has thus far come to plague the house-wife, it would be i move in the right direction ii people would begin now to screer their homes. It is declared bj officials of the various boards oj health that flies and mosquitoe: spread germs of tuberculosis typhoid, elephantiasis, and othei diseases, and that a single hous< rfly may be the bearer of six mil lion disease germs. It is there fore none too early in the gam< to prepare to "swat the fly." / Speaking of Presidential candidates, gentlemen, the one who promises to contribute most to the gaiety of the nation is Theodore, the sweet-tongued, the faunal naturalist, who brought to the United States the biggest collection of dead animals ever shot by some one else. The calm and judicial mind of this j candidate, his sanity and safety and his softness of speech toward all those who quote him correctly have given him the unqualified indorsement of many of the most obscure politicians in this vast country. He has adopted as his platform "Loyalty to Friend; Gentleness to Foe, Adherence to Pledges and Truth Always and Fvrr." If this splendid leader of conservative thought should be chosen as the standard bearer of the Republican hosts we will hasten to send felicitations and joyous greetings to Champ Clark, or Jud Harmon, or Woody Wil! son, or any candidate the De| mocracy may nominate. A South Carolinian has figured it out for the Charlotte Observer that Jones will beat Blease in the primay next fall by 25,000 votes, and the most preposterous thing about the prediction is that The Observer appears to believe it. The Fertilizer Tax Again. ; Editor Fort Mill Times. Two weeks ago you printed an I extract from an article 1 wrote ! to the Lancaster News. For the i sake of the enlightenment of "Observer," I am sorry that you did not publish the whole article. However, since "Observer" has said some things and advanced some opinions that are without much foundation in fact, 1 am constrained to make reply. In the first place he says that Plpmson receives annually 000 from the fertilizer tax, when the fact is that she has never received more than $200,000. The tax has usually been from $175,000 to $225,000, and this year it will probably fall back to about $200,000, owing to the reduction of fertilizer by the farmers. Of this amount Clemson last year spent over $100,000 in public work directly in behalf of the farmers. This work includes experimental station work, farmers' institutes, demonstration work, etc. Yet, "Observer" says that the farmers are not benefited directly or indirectly. If he had attended the demonstration work given by Clemson in Pleasant Valley a few weeks ago and not received any information, his powers of assimilation must be limited. Besides, there are practically 400 boys at Clemson pursuing the agricultural course and these will in time return as farmers and teachers of agriculture. "Observer" again errs when he says that Clemson is largely patronized by the parents of town boys, and we would like to know where he got his information to this effect. "Observer" thinks that the public schools should have twothirds of the tatr tax. We pre sume that he is a resident of Fort Mill (although we feel sure that he is no farmer), and we should like to know from him how much of this would go to the education ! of the farmers' children of the I township, how much would *ro to j the town school, and how much j to the piccaninnies of "Paradise"? He doesn't like to see i the farmers' money go to the | greatest agricultural college in i the South, yet it would be all ' right to help educate the chil\ dren of town parents, and dissi| pate the gloom that rests on the j minds of the sons of Ham. However, it is hardly worth : while to discuss this phase of the {subject, as every intelligent lawIyer and layman in the State knows that the Supi %me Court has ruled that the tax Car not he divided. No man in the J'nte who has visited the college an.' studied the work of the institution in an unbiased way has ever recommended that the tax be divided. The Legislature hasvisf ited the college enmasse, and re J peatedly sent investigating committees, and they have all with one accord recommended that the tag tax should remain intact and go to Clemson. If the college gets to the place {where it is really getting more than it needs for the best interests of the farmers, and this is ; not likely to happen for the next ! ten or fifteen years, I sou hi say reduce the tax; but divide it, never. S. E. 15. Pleasant Valley, March 11. Arthur B Youn-r D ad. From the Rock Hill Herald it is learned that Mrs. E. 1J. < ook, of that city, has received news of the death of hei brother, Arthur B. Young, which occurn d recently at the home of tie deceased in Pine Blulf, Ark. In the message to Mrs. Cook no de1 tails were given. Arthur B. Young was the son i of the late Richard Young, for years a resident of Fort Mill, and ! a nephew of A. A. Young, of this city. He was about 55 years of age and was born and reared ? in Fort Mill. His mother, Mrs. ? Kittie Young, resides with hei i daughter, Mrs. J. C. Williams, f in Charlotte, where also lives hi.1 only surviving brother, Herbert j Young. Besides these Mr. f Young has a number of othei . relatives in this section. Jit leaves a wife and several chil' dren in Arkansas. Mr. Young r was an expert telegraph opera 5 tor and was engaged in this worl - up to the time of his death. - j 2 Lynn Massey is visiting at tin i home of his father, B. F. Massey Nickels of 1911 Worth 35c? There is a great deal of talk and some excitement about the nickels of the 1911 issue. They are not wooden nickels, but on the contrary are said to be gold I nickels. Whatever the reason is can not be definitely learned, but the Government has recalled all the nickels of this issue, and it is said by those who claim to know that a big mistake was made in the mint. According to the story going the rounds a large Quantity ol gold was put into the melting pot. instead of copper, and through the blunder these nickels have a mineral value of 35 cents. How true this theory is, it is hard to sa"^. It is being noised about that the Government is | willing to give seven cents for "' n"' m'pLrU of this issue re - - turned to it. Several people in Charleston are collecting the' precious nickels. One young 1 lady has nearly a hundred in her possession. She says that she is not going to turn them into the Government, but that she will keen them until site learns the truth about the gold theory. If it be true that these nickels are worth 35 cents each, the young lady is drawing a large amount of interest on her savings.?News and Courier. To Destroy Cut-worms. Now is the time to get rid of the troublesome cut-worms. Do not wait until they are ruining your stand of cotton and corn and then attempt tocontrol them; for then there is little that can be done. In the fields where j they did damage last year, plow the land deep this spring; for the worms which are going to give you trouble are now in little! rounded cells in the soil, dug out for their protection last fall when cold weather came on. This deep-plowing will turn many oi the worms under so that they will never b- able to get to the ' surface to do any damage. Not all of them will be killed in tins way. Experience has shown that it is a good plan to follow this up by an additional measure, j About planting time, in clear weather, cut any fresh, green material which may be about the place, preferably clover and dip this into a barrel of poison ; I solution, made by dissolving one | | pound of Paris green (the sub1 stance that is used for killing I potato bugs) in fifty gallons ol ! water. In the late afternoon scatter this poisoned vegetation lightly over the worst infested acres so that it will not wilt too 1 quickly. The starved cut-worms, having had no food all winter. I come out at night and eat this I greedily, and are poisoned. ? The Cotton Prtspect. In this State the promised reduction of cotton acreage does not amount to much, says the Spartanburg Journal. A very wet July and August will cut down the yield much more than the short acreage. Texas and Oklahoma will not reduce. If there 0 any change in Texas they will plant more than they did last year. Up to this date there lias been little guano hauled I out*to the larms of this State and other Slates which use commercial fertilizer. But as soon as the ground gets dry enough for preparation the farmers will rush to the guano depots. The best plan is to*decide how many bales to make to the horse. If , a farmer says he wants ten bales. . | let him cut his acreage and make a bale to the acre with the aid ol : fertilizer. It will cost much less than making the necessary ten bales on twenty acres without 1 the use of fertilizer. The preparation will have to he done hurriedly this spring. Even if there is no rain for some time the plows cannot start before the middle of next week. In this county there will he little reduction of acreage unless the wei I.oi- ormf i linos several weeks. ??Nincteen Miles a Second ! w'thout a jar, shock or disturbance, is j th awful !> -e.l of our earth through , spa *. We wonder at such ease of i nntu *'s movement, ami so do those who ike Dr. King's New I.ife i'ills. No gr ing, nodistrtsjust tin rougl work t at brings go< <i health and fine feeling. 2'?e at l'arks Drug Co., for Mill D ig Co. and Ardrey's Drug ! Store. Card oi If.anl.x. Kditor file 1 mes; We d'sire to expres tin u 'ii your column our t! atikr am! appreciation to those friends v tho so kindly as is ted ns during the Lt? illn ss and death of our son, A istin i Moss. Tha* in the future we may be I able to ri turn tin ? favors in a mor? sul) tantial way than words can express | is the wi h of ( . A. Moss and W ife. .. . - _ -- - . MM ^^ j {r'AOn Your i 0V Next Walk OM$f) . "]\ stop m ami 7r/. VI si c our now ^- stuck of toilet ; ^ We've a whole lot | here that will V particularly our P ' '* \ 'tew assortment of ; \ ! 1 Diane .11(1 1 )\ es. 'i f< &-'' ' '1 All the new : |i ?/>-' ' "J . t . j s.J eol< .rs are ' I %' ^^represented,? i [' I ?. L_ J > FORT MILL DRUG COMP'Y J. R. HAILE, Mgr. ^ 1 ff| iij!\\ MM B: - \-^'/ ?r" ?"'Tf <^ALr/TRousE??( t?? '?it \.t u | We also have a nice line i | wear. Call and take a look McElha ^mtmamBssemxssama^tmKmaammm HOWE i HITS THE J Ihe explanation, - imdcwilh ihegr every iuppedien test of o owl there's no iut or 11 Fertilizers. ; Sold 3y Reliable F.S.ROYSTE Sale^ C Norfo IK Va. Ta rb o i BaltimoreMd. Montgoii FlacouOa. ( ran yurfixji mi fin'nr'Fu* rtM u* nj* r^r r*j* * py X?HM>rw>ra2 iru.^rw o-u n-u *^i4>TM>f-u rfvyii>n* ii | THREE-YE j; Order fof ?3 THE BIGGEST ANI { SEI Kindly Sign the Blan We desire to invite attcntio tain one hundred thousand addi f: three years. It is practically a t Jjj subscription can be stopped at a ft The subscription price of t {J tion is sent to the subscriber at t jf* of handy premiums for the subs jf! the general result is that the bill h Southern Moralist, 20 South For jjrjj Gentlemen: You arc hercb; IJiiJ Ruralist J ?r three years. UN /\ jfij This order is given with the unc j5? by paying the subscription to tl Name \ui Postoffice Date 1912. IK >tfS553T;.-:KKa:3?Ksgig?: v. f - . J \ - ?--? " ' V'V . ' f EGGS FOR SALE ? I am now offering eggs for ? hatching from my ? Famous Fields' Strain of Partridge Wyandottes. I do not claim to have the < finest chickens in the world, for | 1 ave not sen all the Partridge! Wyandottes, but do say that my * stock is bred pure from a strain of birds that have not been de-, ? feated in the show room for the 4 last six years. 1 * Eggs, $1.00 per 13. B. C. FERGUSON, 1 Fori Mill, S. C. I rl ry a Special Notice in '1 he Times and f watch results. 25 words for 25c. I 1 Vew Styles for 11 Young Men. 1f As usual, we are first to show the new goods for I jjj pring. We believe that the new Spring Styles we I jjj re now showing will exactly hit the fancy of the $ trerage young man. We are now ready to show I (J ou these goods, having just received a large shiplent of them?Schloss Bros.' make?for young men I jj nd men who feel young. I jj Also a nice line of I |j Wl n 1 IrAK T vnucorc VV CUU IT aiivci A i uucviui | y If you are not going to buy a suit, come in and let I [] s match your coat with a pair of these trousers. ! jj of Men's and Boys' new Spring Porosknit Underat our new Crossett Shoes, Silk Hosiery, Etc. ' ney & Company J j R FERTILIZER 'POT EVERY TIME] _?Ji?^ M rs simplerfhey are I eatest care and j] u 1 thus to pass the j S i laboratories; #1 1 lissabou tRqyster ff jf 11 dealers Everywhere je Ifl i R GUANO CO.// | ! 'fficea M ill o N.C. Columbia S C.^ /$ ;] iery\Ala. Spartanburg 30. ^ i JolaTRbu5 ba. j VJ ' nr ?vr"vr 'nit 'mf' n.#r~F^nr n * >ru>ni tfXAfk >ru>ru>ra4>^ir^*>rv>ru Vy><-i4 Wv >th WyVv Vv^kri^ (Ux<| ^r^jrVjirji ff? :ar subscriptions 1 i SOUTHERN RURAL 1ST w BEST AGRICULTURAL PAPER IN THC SOUTH {] WD NO MONEY jj k Form Below and Become a Regular Subscriber. M n to our tlirce-ycar subscription proposition. We hope to ob- ?* tional subscriptions during the present year to continue for ? rial subscription and payable at the end of the first year. The h ny time by paying for the period the paper is taken. tj his paper is $1.00 for three years, and the ()ill for the subscrip- ^ lie end of the first year. When the bill goes out we slip in a list criber to select from, providing he pays the bill promptly, and is soon paid. jj SUBSCRIPTION BLANK. \\ syth St., Atlanta, Ga., Dept. 6-L 3 y authorized to enter my name as a subscriber to the Southern ?5 PRIL 1, 1913, I will pay One Dollar for the three-year period. lerstanding that I am at liberty to stop the paper at any time \\ lat date. H I K R. F. D. No State fijll ; n-f n j* rut n-*! T5fl"iHl u-u *r** >ru uu *ru wu ?n< krU kru kruiru ^ru^hr^ u-u ? i AN OP PORT UNITY. I ~~ IF you were offered a good investment tomorrow, requiring an outlay of ^ of more than you had, would you have to turn it down? Such opportunities may come at any time. ^ It is the policy of this bank to aid in every legitimate way those who deposit money with us. ? , ----- - " THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, ""J ?1L \ T. S. K1RKPATRICK, T. B. SPRATT, J , President. Cashier. 4 irAn The Times'offer of a Years Sub- ITJC CDCC| lEHU scription to Southern Ruralist. 11 0 iULLi 5E555B5asaSg5Z5Z5asa5aSg|5ZE " Fair PI DoY When you get tired of i shoes, try a pair of IRVING est Shoe manufactured. A | date lady. She will tell you j on and wear them every'sinf ment's discomfort. Besides | they're unusually stylish. I We have just received i j very latest Spring and Sumi Tans, White Canvas, Buck ] Kids. Prices range from $2 J lower and you will find thi 1 comfortable than last. m j The maker's guarantee i ] up by ours. Both assure yc 1 LW.Kim J | "The Place Where G 3l5g5H5Z5H5Z5aS5H5H5E55H5aigf | Parks Gro j [] jj You to call and look jj Style book of Wooler J Summer wear. We've jj season for a number c {] men and every one hat Ji Jj See what we can sell y j{] made suit. Let us tak | Parks Grocer E. S. PARKS WsEsassHsaHSHSHgasasas \ g What Women I There is no need of so much misery and weakness When in a weakened condition, anemic, impoverished and nerves shattered, Nyal's Vegetabl Don't be continually suffering year in tern build up the delicate organs strain accompanying the irregularit To insure regularity to the functions p and cure any irregularities Nyal's plish the desired results. Investigate this reme C? Aaultt tknt it wil 1 K U1I1 1 touuo ? ??? ?, Our personal recommendation goes witl we know of, $1.00 the bottle. A very fine line of Rubber Good* Fountain Syringes, e Parks Drui 1 up PRICE 5 EXPRESS PRE! 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HOOVER, 522 E. Br T^CARB^L^BER that wiil please all customers ELECTRIC- Th0 I' BITTEBS Family Medicine. ' e Dr. King's New Discovery L KILLS TME COUGH. CURES THE UiNGt. ' na5E5H5H5H5H5g5E5HS551p] ay" I OUR Feet Get It? 9 11-fitting, foot-pinching Hij| \ DREWS?the grand- sj sk almost any up-to- jjj] thatyou can put them Gj jle day without a mo- jjj s being comfortable, jjj a big shipment of the rjj ner styles in Patents, K Skin, and the newest S * .25 to S3.50. Heels are jjj s season's shoes more K of satisfaction is backed jjj >u "Fair Play." jj] brell Co. jj tuality Counts." jjj 15H5H5Z5asa5HSH5a5H5Zsdc3 i555H5H5H5g5g5H5H5H5E5aB eery Co. | ! |H mmmm SHfe. K TED ; through our big [} is for Spring and q ordered suits this g >f men and young |j i given satisfaction. C ou in a $15 Tailor- ^ e your order today. jj y Company, jj , Manager. jj] -/ 5S555gB5H5H5SgH5H525E5HlB VJeed to Know I the worry associated with female with a sluggish circulation, blood there is but one remedy to think of?" !e Prescription and year out?strengthen the sysprepare yourself to withstand the ies peculiar to your sex. eeuliar to womanhood?to correct Vegetable Prescription will accomdy thoroughly, see 1 do just as we say. i every sale. 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Kt .'iO I'ocuhontMM (.'orn. 11* lon?f record proven it* peril lloncxt k<?*Ik, honrnt prices. honeat nioaajrr. and aired m wool. 4 full <iuurta. *1.00; > qta M.25. a i|t? 12 .|ti JGS OR PACKING. oad Street, Richmond, Va. and meet the demands and requirements of the most exacting builders is no small undertaking. You cannot find a Lumber yard stocked with BETTER LUMBER and Building material, that will come nearer to meeting all demands than our yard. Do not make a purchase without first obtaining our estimates. It will be money in your pocket. J. J. BAILES. \ PILLOWS FREE If ail ua $10 for 3ft-poun<l Feather Bed and loceive -pound pair pillows free. Freight prepaid. Now em til era, beat ticking, aatiafaction guaranteed. .AGENTS WANTED TURNER A CORN WELL ' after Dealer*. Da*. A. CkerleOe. N. C Jteferenca: Commercial National Beak.