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THE TOET KILL TIMES. < Dnceatic ? Published Thursdays. B. V. BRADFORD - Editor and Proprietor. < 'V~7 < i " |BIK?n now Rates: '>T?... 11.26 , I St Maatba 66 J ' ftaTian invitas contributions on liverobjocts 1*1 (W* not agree to publish more than 200 words < a any subject. The right is reserved to edit j MO/ i?anaiihathai submitted for publication. , On application to the publisher, advertising ] rata* are aade known to those interested. ( Teleohone. local and long distance. No. 112. , * Entered ft the poe toffee at Fort Kill, S. C.. an | % a?0 toatter of the second class. 4>HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1912. aaaaaatgi i i .n i : ( Piasbytaey ami Praabytorianism. TJmno ie irorv irlnr) in. XUV Xlllico u iv? J ... deed to welcome to Fort Mill I; the visitors who are here as representatives of the various {hunches comprising Bethel Presbytery, which is meeting for the i fall session with the Fort Mill i church. To inadvertence is said i to be due the fact that the i Presbytery has met somewhat < infrequently in Fort Mill in i recent years. Twice only in the i last third century has the local J church had the pleasure of enter- i taining the Presbytery; but the rarity of its meetings here cannot be attributed to a decline of Presbyterian sentiment among the people of this section. Devotion to Calvinism in this com' munity is as strong as it was a century and more ago when the ancestors of many of the presentday membership of the church warshipped the Almighty in the Aide meeting-house then in use. Fort Mill Presbyterian i church is a virile Christian in- ( fluence, devoting its energies to ( the advancement of religion and ' morality not only locally but c in foreign lands where Protest- f antism has gained, or there is v the hope of it gaining, a foot- a N4. What the Fort Mill Pres-1 ^ byterian church has been to this a community, the other churches a df Bethel Presbytery doubtless ^ ||v? been to their communities, j j ^-esbyterians glory in the r tlw^ry and achievements of their ?|Urch. Well they may. Es- e tabfished in> the troublous times when no man's life was safe or hfe ' liberty assured who questioned the doctrines or censured the i corrupt practices of the 1 Cm^rch of IRome, the Presby-1 b tcyrjan Church has grown and spread out until today branches ' /"of it are to be found in practic00 alfyjevery country on earth and 1 itftlnims the" Largest membership of^ny Protestant organization in the iworld. On its rolls are to be found-the names of many of the I mostf**Wliient contributors to re- j ligiom philosophy, science, literature arid the art of government. IJbe'illy informed may not have learned that to the Presbyterian tihurch more than to any other B^otestant denomination is civiliJtion indebted for the religious iheavals of the 16th and 17th /uftntnt-ios u/biph pstahlished for fVer the right of freedom of conscience m the worship of God, bit students of history know that if it had not been for the unconquerable determination of the Caivinists to maintain their religion, even in the face of the gibbet, the block, the stake, and the unspeakable horrors of the boot and the thumbscrew, Charles , tbe First and James the Second vtould have triumphed in their campaigns of butchery and tdrture, and Protestantism would have gone down to rise no more. In those awful days the Presbyterian Church contributed by the thousand martyrs to the cause of true Christianity. Torture and death in its most horrible form were preferable to escape which could be gained only by apostatising to idolatry and super-1 stition. What Church would not be proud of John Calvin, who "stood alone among theologians" and who pointed out as no other man ever did the contradictions between the doctrines of the Holy Scriptures and the theology taught by the Church of Rome? To the Presbyterian Church Protestant Christianity owes a debt of gratitude for the u/rtrlr nf the trreat Scotch Re former John Knox, "who never feared the face of man," and of whom the eminent historian Froude says: "The one man without whom Scotland, as the modern world has known it, would have had no existence. His was the voice which taught the peasant of the Lothians that he was a free man, the equal in ' tue sight of God with the proudest p^er or prelate that had trampled on his forefathers." He was an antagonist whom Mary Stuart could neither soften nor deceive, and since his day no king, -noble, prince or priest lias been able to make the Scotch people submit to tyranny. Presbyterians point with pride to the fact that their Church has been identified with nearly all great I movements looking to the advancement of the highest interests of mankind; but it remains to be said, raore's the pity, that j I of Presbyterians, an { lommon with thousands of other Protestants, are ignorant of the loctrines and history of tbeir 3hurch?they have never studied their own peculiar institutions. "W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, must be some potato?all the little potatoes in the State are flinging mud at him. The 'littlest' potato in the hill seems to be the editor of the Fort Mill rimes."?Cheraw Chronicle. Some weeks ago when the unseemly controversy between the President of the United States and Theodore Roosevelt was filling more columns of the daily press than the public read with either pleasure or profit, old man Joe Cannon was asked if he thought the President had made a mistake in noticing the individual from Oyster Bay. "Yes," replied the old fellow, "I have very little respect for the judgment of any man who will enter a squirting match with a skunk." The affairs of the Democratic party of South Carolina have indeed come to a pretty pass when the chairman of a subcommittee ?f seven of the membership of the State Executive Comm ttee can threaten with a selfassurance that indicates he is certain of his ground that if a gubernatorial nominee of the recent primary is to be declared it will be on the report of the subcommittee. If a majority of the Democrats of South Carolina are so pusillanimous as to submit to their rights being taken from them by four men, they don't deserve anything better. Doubtless there is a good deal of truth in the statement that the present course of study in most of the rural schools creates a tendency on the part of the children to get away from the :ountry and flock to the city. This is for the reason that the :ourse followed is primarily ramcd for city schools and natirally is pervaded with an urban .tmosphere. This tendency may >e checked a good deal by doing way with some of the studies nd substituting for them studies ealing directly with rural life, tmong such subjects may be ightly included nature study, :ardening, domestic science and lementary agriculture. So gullible are some men that very gold-brick sheme appeals o them mining shares, rubber hares, lost treasure expeditions it matters not what, they fall ;asy victims. All such should jear in mind that people who try lo break into a gold mine usually find that the entrance leads to a poorhouse. Democrats Kept the Faith. The six principal things which we promised in 1910 to do if we carried the country, says Champ Clark, were: To liberalize the rules of the house; to economize to submit a constitutional amend; mpnf for the election of United States senators by popular vote to pass a bill compelling: the publication of campaign expenses before the election as well as after the election; to admit the States of New Mexico and Arizona as two separate States; tc reduce the tariff. We have kept all these pledges. In addition, we passed the best labor law ever placed on the statute books. We passed the canal bill, one of the most important pieces of legislation ir the history of the country. We passed bills to make the life oi our sailors more comfortable anc so induce young men to take tc the sea as in the old days. We passed multitudes of other laws of a remedial nature. Frost Dates in Cotton Belt. Occurrence of freezing weathei at Denver on Friday night lasl and the drop in temperature tc 35 degrees, in North Dakota or Monday night, point to the prevalence of lower temperature in northern crop regions, says the Wall Street Journal. In th< cotton belt itself, 80 degrees al Oklahoma City was the lowesl for Tuesday morning. No fear* are entertained now for killing frosts within the next ten days, Last year the earliest frost ir Texas occurr,u at Fort Wort! and Palestine on October 29. The earliest dates of killing frosts have usually been much later. Estimates are now extani which place the yield of cottor this year at 14,500,000 bales, il killing frosts can be kept bad to November 1. The Texa* average is a good deal later thar that. Fort Worth had such frosi in 1910 on November 18, in 1901 on November 13, and in 1908 or November 11. The frost records of Memphis which are good for the uppei Mississippi valley, show the oc currence of killing frosts then last year on the same date a* those in Texas. In 1910 Mem phis had a damaging freeze ir her records on November 17 The year before it occurred or November 12, and the year prioi to that on November 11. Okla homa City has had frost date: about in keeping with Memphis In the Piedmont district of th< Atlantic seaboard, frost occur rences are more irregular. In th< past four years killing frost oc curred at Raleigh, N. C., befon the end of October, in three o these seasons. Columbia, S. C. averages about November 7 \ Employees Share Mill's Profits. Perhaps never in the history of cotton manufacturing in the 1 South was a greater and more agreeable surprise given to the employees of a mill than that wh?ch was sprung on the em- i Sloyees of. the Walton Mills, i [oriibe, Ga., * on August 31st. That date being the closing of < the mill's fiscal year, the operatives were asked to assemble in front of the mill's office. President E. S. Tichenor then addressed his men, women and i children in highest terms, thanking them for their year's work and assuring them of the fact that their efforts were appreciated. In concluding his remarks Mr. Tichenor stated that each person employed in the mill, from the superintendent down, would be presented with five per cent of their earnings for the fiscal year just ended. This present to the mill's people was made as a token of the appreciation of the work of the operatives and those over them. Envelopes bearing approximately $2,000 were distributed, each person in the mill's employ receiving their share. Josh Ashley Not Paralyzed. Hon. Josh W. Ashley was in Anderson Monday and was in his usual good humor, according to the Anderson Mail. When asked about his recent stroke of paralysis, Mr. Ashley said: "That was all a mistake about me having a stroke of paralysis. I'll tell you how it was: One night I got to dreaming, and dreamed I was in a fight. I reached around to bite the other fellow and made a grab for him, with my teeth, and then I woke up and found I had bitten my tongue." Mr. Ashley laughed about the affair as much as the bystanders and said he did not know how the report was started that he was paralyzed. Little Prospect for Horseless Age. Regardless of the increase in the number of automobiles and motorcycles the horse and mule seems to be holding their own in the United States. The last yearbook of the Department of Agriculture gives some interesting figures to show that the 1 horse and the mule are not on In 1867 there were 5,401,000 horses and 822,000 mules in this country, and in 1912 the number * * ' i - an of horses had increased 10 zv,-1 509,000 and mules to 4,362,000. The increase has been gradual. In 1902 there were 16,531,000 horses and 2,757,000 mules. The price of a horse in 1867 was $59.05 and a mule, $66.94 and in 1912, $105.94 and $120.51. Kansas is about the only State in the Union that shows in loss in horses during the last year. Must Not Spit on Floor. There must be no spitting on the floors of the new court house in Union. At the opening of court there a few days ago i Judge Frank- B. Gary, of Abbe> ville, who is presiding over the > present term of court, took oc> casion to let it be known that ; expectorating, except directly into the cuspidors, would not be 1 tolerated. He further gave in; structions to all the bailiffs to observe carefully and to bring 5 before him promptly all persons ? ignoring and violating this order i and he would see that the of fense was not repeated. > Warning Against Swindlers. The national department of ? agriculture in a report iu uc i.? sued soon will sound a note of - warning to the people of the country against orchard invest * ment schemes that hold out * promises of profits far beyond ' what the government experts 1 regard as warranted. Many in) quiries have reached the depart 1 ment regarding orange, apple 5 and other enterprises, where the orchardizing is to be done by proxy and in some cases the claims of profits are alluring in , the extreme. It is possible that t some of these claims will be J called to the attention of the . postoffice department, because of > the circulating of alluring litera[ ture through the mails. Rhame the State Bank Examiner. [ According to a decision Satur. day of the State supreme court, 5 Governor Blease acted without r authority of law when he ousted B. J. Rhame from the position of j bank examiner and appointed in j his stead H. W. Frazer. The nnnnintnionl U'DC msHp AnHl 1 appUUlliiiVUk ?? IIIMV4V r and since that time chaos has [ reigned. The banks did not t know which officer to recognize , and in making their reports they f put it up to the postmaster, by . addressing all communications , to "State Bank Examiner." J The Supreme Court handed the t case in an en banc session, with j the chief justice and ten assoj ciate justices. There were two dissenting opinions, and nine concurring. ' When Governor Blease de. clared Rhame not entitled to the ] office he refused to vacate and ; proceedings were instituted by ' Attorney General Lyon in order to get a ruling on the question. The substance of the decision is ' "that the law does not provide for the removal of the bank examiner as it does in the case " of magistrates." ; Uncle Ezra Says * "It don't take more'n a gill uv effort to S't folks into a peck of trouble" and a ;tle neglect of constipation, bilious nesty indigestion or other liver derange3 ment will do. the same. If ailing, take r Dr. King's New Life Pills for quick results. Easy, safe, sure, and only 25 cents at Ardrey's Drug Store, Fart . Mill Dit? Co. and Part s Drag Cu. New Weekly for Charlotte. Mr. F. W. DeCroix, who has been manager of The News Printing House, has tendered his resignation which is effective today and will start a weekly paper in Charlotte, says The Observer of Saturday. He aims to have the first edition appear early in October and states that he has already secured a subscription of 1,000. He will first issue a four-page, six-column paper, planning to increase this to six pages and more later. The Men Who Succeed as heads of large enterprises are men of great energy. Success, today, demands health. To ail is to fail. It's utter folly for a man to endure a weak, run-down, half alive condition when Electric Bitters will put him right on his feet in short order. "Four bottles did me more real good than any other medicine 1 ever took," writes Chas. B. Allen, Sylvania, Ga. "After years of suffering whith rheumatism, liver trouble, stomach disorders and deranged kidneys, I am again, thanks to Electric Bitters, sound and well." Try them. Only 50 cents at Parks Drug Co., Ardrey's Drug Store and Fort Mili Drug Co. Teachers' Examination. The regular Fall Teachers' Examination of applicants to teach in the public schools will be held in Yorkville on Friday, October 4th, 1912, beginning at 9 a. m., and closing promptly at 4 p. m. The questions will be based on the State adopted text books. ThOSe on Pedagogy on the State Manuel for Elementary Schools, and the State Manuel for High Schools. J. W. QUINN. T. E. McMACKIN, J. H. WITHERSPOON. Flower Pots. We will have a shipment today of Flower Pots ranging in sizes from one quart to five gallons. It will be the best assortment you have seen before here and as it is very inconvenient to store them, we will make especially good prices for prompt delivery. The time for transplanting is almost at hand. Magazine Subscriptions. A few of the most popular magazines will advance their clubbing prices Nov. 1st. Let us have your renewals even if your subscriptions have not expired. We guarantee to save you money. Ardrey's Drug Store, Fresh arrival of HEADLEY'S and HERSHEY'S Celebrated Confections, All the popular brands of Chewing Gum. Haile's on the Corner. FOR SALE. We offer for sale Berkshire Pigs, $10 aeh. Let us breed your sow to one of our boars, ou! fee, a pig. Reliable party can have one of our boars on shares. See us if interested. L. A. HARRIS & BRO. House Out of Shape Sounds funny, doesn't it? But you have seen them; warped, settled and shrunken. Poor Lumber was tne cause of it. Houses built of sound, well seasoned Lumber like we sell, keep their shape. Remember this when making your next purchase. J. J. BAILES. Electric Bitters Made A New Man Of Him. "I was suffering from pain in mv stomach, head and back," writes 11. T. Alston, Raleigh, N. C., "and my ' liver and kidneys did not work right, but four bottles of Electric Bitters made me feel like a new man." I PRICE 50 CTS. AT ALL DRUG STORES. V FOR SALE VALUABLE PROPERTY One five-room house with large front and rear piazas, large barn and fine water, situated on one of the best streets in town, joins lands of D. A. Lee on west and Miss Ella Stewart on east, size of lot, one acre more or less, property of Mrs. E. K. Barber. Terms. 1-3 cash, balance in three equal annual payments at 8% interest. Price $2,100. One 7-room house with large front and rear piazza, good barn and best well of water in town; also one of the best finished houses in town. Halfacre lot, situated on Booth street. This is valuable property. Owner and terms same as above. Price, $2,625. One 2J acre lot on west side of Confederate street with one four-room dwelling and large barn. This property faces four streets. With small cost for grading, etc., can be made double its present value. Owner and terms same as above. 270 acres fine timber in Lancaster county on Catawba river, near new Ivy Mill bridge. Will cut about three million feet. See it and ask for price. Owner same as above. 440 acres, 2 miles southeast of Fort Mill, near Pleasant Valley, on Sugar creek. Ten farms in cultivation, good buildings, red sand land. Property of T. M. Hughes. Will sell on long credit Subject to present lease. Price, per acre, $32.50. 462 acres, 7 miles Southeast of Fort Mill, on Chariotte-Camden road. Twelve farms in cultivation, and within 3-4 of mile of two churches and one school. Property of J. L. Pettus. Easy terms. Price, per acre, $25.00. 97 acres at Pleasant Valley. Joins lands of Frank Therrell and others. Good, new residence, barns, etc., worth $1,400. Owner, J. 0. Hall; price $4,500. You should get some of the profits of steady increasing values of real estate. "DO IT NOW." T. M. HUGHES, Broker, LANCASTER. S. C. As Much < Of the Earth FOR SALE CF The P. K. Mull property, lccat C., with 5-room brick residence t The 7-room residence on lot on Main street, now occupied as a rt ~ ^ /*/\f 4-nncn An PIAKAMI' lilt; O-IUUIII un vyicuuui dence by P. L. Wagner. The 4-room cottage on Leonida The 6-room cottage on Elm Str The 6-room dwelling on 7-8 acr now occupied as a residence by E The 6-room residence on Booth now occupied as a residence by S COUNTRY The Wm. Nicholson farm, con bounded by lands of W. H. Win* Nivens, located about 5 miles fr< being offered at a bargain. The Sam Killue place containin miles of Fort Mill; o5 pcres unde es; good well and fine growth of FOR The home of Mrs. Jennie Sprai acres of land. Apply to us for t If you have property ET)R SAI we will handle it to your advant, BAILES & LI THIS * in your sta; ^ month, and wc Menz^'Eaae'* come to ua. Th you. MENZ "EASE" UPPERS KEEP 80PT. But that i?n't all. Wear a Menz "Ease" for your regular every-day work in all sorts of weather and they'll aatisfy you In three i other ways. They will fit you like a glove? 4 give your feet comfort all the day long and J wear like you want a ahoe to wear. Always M look for name on yellow label. Catalog Ho.12 I Illustrates the \ilj\ Menz "Ease", all fin \ heights; also the Kyi Jt : 1 "American Boy" \Ji \]fm / built to g've the ?7 ffl- / strons. sturdy M \lt/ out-d boy hon- ff f. #t shoe service. / / ^have made or ij/ ' ./Jf the Menz "Eai #(/. y%Sel/or Men and t /III! erican Hoy" ; |\\\y\V Boy*. Theon Lvvvv^~?upper leather we t it Menx"Ease"Spec Elk. It'a the beatlcatl tanned for every-day a vice. Its toughness and lo U wear will aurpriae you, and K aoftneaa will remind you of glove leather. rnUEUD FOR CATALOG NO. 12 containing Maample of Men* "Eaae" Elk. We have deali everywhere in your atate- Ifthere ian't one m you we can introduce theahoeatoyou direct fri factory at regular retail pricea, delivery prepa iMenzloi Shoe Co., Makers, Detroit, MIc MENZ "EASE" and "AMERICAN BOY" si length of service, nor to repell water, and tl they are GOOD aboea worth considering 1 f pos: ^ All trespassing on our 4 hunting, fishing, or other from management, is fort t become a nuisance, carry pay $10 reward for evide: 11 , CHAItLOl | Woodrcw I Roose One of the T1 dent, Pro IMcElhaney & < of Clothing for M for Ladies, Miss< whole family. W line, too numerou Our Fall stock M'ELI ar as Little; as You Want. rY PROPERTY. cd on Main Street., Fort Mill, S. ind well thereon. Booth Street, 125 x 220 feet, near >sidence by the Hon. J. R. Haile. ' ne Street, now occupied as a resis Street. i i i? t r> r< : ? I eet, now occupied oy ,j. r>. r,rwm. e lot, located on Booth Street and ]. W. Kimbrell. Street, owned by J. W. Kims and 1. A. Epps. PROPERTY. taining 134 acres more or less, :lle, Sam Blankenship and L. S. jm Fort Mill. This property is g 121 acres of farm land within 5 r cultivation: houaes and outhousyoung timber. RENT. tt. located in Sprattville, with two erms. or RENT, list it with us and age. ]VT|^" Real Estate Brokers, IllS., Fort Mill, S. C. IF YOU SAW ADVERTISEMENT te agricultural paper this rndered where you could buy and "American Boy" shoes, ese letters prove the trip will pay H Meacham & Epps, | Fort Mill, S. C. M Dear Sirs; I I bought of you a| I pair of Mcnz-Ease Shoes ' and in them ditched 1285 rods in a meadow, plowed V in them all spring, wore 1 them until I got tired of them, gave them to a hand II on the place and he wore y them for several months. or 'jy Myrelf and two sons for wear nothing but Menzw Ease. It is the best shoe ier tr" T ?* I ever wore. its B Wm. Cranford, ert % R. F. D. 2, t. Fort Mill, S. C. ioea ore not guaranteed to give any certala hese letters are only offered as evidence that the nest time you need an every-day pair. TED! ] lands for the purpose of + wise, except by permission lidden. Depredators have ing off boats, etc. Will nee to convict trespassers. PTE BRICK COMPANY. I j Wilson, Theodore I :velt, Wm. Taft. J iree Will be Elected Presi- 1 ivided? I Company will sell the greatest line 3 en and Boys, Coat Suits and Suits 9 * ss and Children, and Shoes for the I Ie have other things in the wearing jj s to mention, at enticing prices. j has just arrived. HANEY&CO., Store of Style and Quality. fa ( 1 11 C" A \ M M r1 C D A M V ll IOM. v lilua uniiiiL, I THE OLD RELIABLE. g | Our purpose is to make our bank a material | benefit to the community in general and our patrons in particular. It would be a pleasure to have your name on our books. We invite you to start a checking account with us. The advantages I we offer will be a convenience and benefit to you, as it has been to others. ILEROY SPRINGS, President W. B. MEACHAM, Cashier. J| |g I? - ? ? What Does it Cost To Live? Note the following prices and see if they won't reduce the cost of your living: Good Rice, per pound, at 5c. 2 Cans 20c Pink Salmon for 25c. Choice Mackerel, each, at 5c. Seven bars Octagon Soap every Monday for 25c. No, we didn't say that "Diamond" Flour would rise without lard, but we did say it would reduce the cost of living. . i J McElhaney & Co., Store of Style and Quality. [Ul5Eg5555H5E5HE5H5H5H55g5a J H5a55H5g5H5H5Sg55a5H55SHfq ISI Bj I We Want This Store 1 a TO IM I.LLN' i: I. VI.ItV DIN. 1 K XKK TABLE IN THIS C1TV. | It's worth while to run a store that does that?or that does a K ^ S small part of that! QJ The dinner table is the "assembly" of the home ?the rallying [jj n{ point, where all the members of the household meet and rehearse jjj [jj the droll events of the day, and the sombre ones as well. The home jjj [Jj ties are cemented, reinforced, at the dinner table. What more jjj jjj irnjjortant work, then, than furnishing the eatables which play "the jjj I" star part at dinner tames: L.oo?ung at our ousiness as uue ui mgii i= jjj service, we're proud of it! |jj p Parks Grocery Company, ijj [jj E. S. PARKS, Manager. jg E5H5H5Z5SgSaE5Z5H5g5E5E5?a5-55g5ggSBSH5HgH5H5aga5BlG ti ?17 ? Everything 1 1 We Insure I | Bailes & Link. I