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\ THE FORT MILL TIMES ~ Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH ^AROLINA. This blessed winter wearies nobody with its prolonged monotony. A New Jersey man is experimenting raising wingless chickens. A fowl act that. It is only just that women should receive men's wages, and married women do. All of the new counterfeit money is in the shape of |5 and $10 bills. We should worry. Aviators are to be put through a rigid test. Flexible and resilient tests would be better. Another argument in favor of spring Is that It ...III l.lfn Iho ........ 11 ?I.. . mmm vuuv it, n 1*1 tunv IIIC UUOCUUII J/l? J" era off the stage. " "In God we trust,'" Bays the Toledo Blade, "Is not. on the new nickel." Nor on the old one. Approximately 175,000.000 persons traveled In the London tubes last year. What proportion sat down? * The Brazilians make beautiful lace from the fiber of the bannns. Bather a delicate food stuff, though. Pittsburg has started an anti-noise crusade. Lots of college town would do well to follow the example. A woman remarks: "The best husbands are the most accomplished liars." They've had experience. A Kansas City parson says that the turkey trot causes divorces. Hitting a fast trot like that always does. Sweden exported 35,000.000 pounds of matches during the last six months. No other country 1b a match for that. A canon of an English church has written a farce that Is said to be a corker. Evidently he hit the bullseye. Spain Is to have a government school of aviation. Wouldn't it be a good idea to sentence revolutionists to It? One octogenarian in Boston says the only rule he knows for long life 1b this: "Keep your temper nnd don't worry." Hoston papers are making n great stir over the discovery of an unkissed girl. Hut they have not printed her picture. Three Princeton students have opened a shop to shine shoes. Shoe shines ore preferable to monkeyshines any time. Three Alaskan legislators have to travel 2,000 miles by dog sled to attends session. They at least, will earn their mileage. At least there isn't much danger that any man will carry nround for days the eleven-pound parcel his wife gives him to mall. Now comes an expert who says automobile riding gives a person flat feet. Hut that probably isn't as annoying as flat tires. One can't help feeling but that the aviator who flew fifty-four miles to deliver twenty-flve pounds of beans didn't know his article. ? Copenhagen Ir possessed of a woman glazier. Probably preparing to go to London and turn over the proceeds from replacing broken windows to help the cause. Paris boasts a woman with a triple personality. Still, the average American woman can change her mind much fuster than that. Exports of American pianos have trebled in the last nine years. Perhaps that's why there Is always an old one In the adjoining flat. Pupils In the Ix>s Angeles cooking schools are required to eat their own pies. Here is an instance where pastry comes home to punish. Now it remains to be seen if the parcel postman will give heed to the upartment building Bign: "All packages must be dellved in the rear." Hut twenty-seven lives were lost In Pennsylvania during the 1912 hunting season. Which leads one to wonder whether there were poor Bhots or few guides. A New York mother paid her married daughter's rent for ten years in advance. Taking no chances on said daughter coming back to live with ber, evidently. "How to Keep Warm Without Fire," is the caption of an article written by a physician. It is suspected that be is simply boosting business. Indiana raised 2,000,000 bushels of onions last year. If there is anything in Hetty Green's theory, Indiana should be a mighty healthy state. A Worcester hynotlst, defendant in a divorce suit, claims that his wife said "look at me." and "biffed" him on the "nut." Trying to knock some sense into him, perhaps. / LOVE ANOTORTUNE Young Bank Clerk Saved Employer's Money and Wins Daughter for Bride. By GEORGE ELMER COBB. When John White, the banker of Scottbcro, announced that he had diB ; pensed with the services of Ned WalI ters, people were a good deal sur! prised. The young man was a general ' favorite in the town. He had been industrious in his province of cashier : and had helped upbuild the bank. Mr. White had peVsuaded him to give up 1 a promising position to come to Scottsboro, and Ned had every reason to believe that he had been awarded a permanent position. Suddenly, at a ; day's notice, he had been nsked to turn over his books to a new cashier. "Relative of mine, this new official," the bank president rather lamely explained. "Walters was all right?fine young fellow, and all that?but I had to make a place for my dead sister's boy. Sorry, but it couldn't be avoided." "Rubbish!" commented Mrs. Runsby, head gossip of the place. "Mr. Wali ters presumed to lift his eyes to Eloise White. That was enough for the old man, who wouldn't look nt a sonin-law with less than a million." Mrs. Runsby had read the situation aright, and no one knew it better than the sadly disconsolate Ned himself. Of course he looked around for a new position. Meantime, awaiting a decision on some of his applications, he had a dull time of it in Scottboro. Mr. White had put his foot down firmly, forbade Him the house, and Eloise i was a dutiful daughter. She had met her lover just once since her father had dismissed him from his Bervice. "It is the last time, Ned," she said, i like the brave, sensible little woman she was. "Until I am of age 1, shall j feel that I belong to papa. You have | told me that you love me. Now I am going to tell you that I return that ; love, and always shall. You must go ttwu.v una uiuKt' n name and position, and when 1 am eighteen we will meet again." "A whole year to give her father a chance to marry he? off!" reflected Ned dismally after that. But there seemed to be no UBe battling the inevitable. He wrote a final leiter to Eloise. It breathed undying fidelity, and as weH restored faith in Two Stealthy Figures Were Entering the Rear Door. Ilia ability to win for himself a place among men for her dear sake. The bank in another city where he first had been employed offered him a subordinate position. This was humiliating, but it was a start. Ned decided to accept the position. It was his last night in Scottboro. With the morning he planned to go to his new place of employment. He was under promise not to see nor write to Eloise. It was nearly midnight, and 1 he felt that he could not sleep, and left his room bent on a restless stroll. As a magnet, the home which held his one cherished treasure attracted him. He passed its palatial front. All was dark, and the* household apparently wrapt in slumber. Mournfully Ned passed the house. Then he started down a narrow lane. This was a short cut to the bank, which fronted on the next street. As he reached the point where it merged t into an alley that ran directly behind : the bank, Ned was surprised to notice, standing in the vacant space at the rear of the institution, a wagon. In an Instant Ned glided down the i lillav Thon oiirlrtolttf a %% <4 ? I ..... 1 UVII vui IWOII/ OI1U WUIIUIT gave way to rapid excitement. Tlie wagon wan a covered box vehicle, with hinged doors cloning tightly at its back. These were open. Two stealthy figures were Just entering the rear door of the bank. A metallic glint Inside of the vehicle caused Ned to gaze more closely. Deeply stirred at an extraordinary discovery, he gasped out: "The small safe from the bank vault!" , Then robbery, burglary, was afoot! Whoever had entered the institution must have penetrated to its most secret vault, to thus secure the little safe which was in fact John White's real treasure house. The moment lost in deciding what was best to do, run and sound an alarm or remain and face the raiders, was a precious one. A sound at the rear of the bank attracted Ned's attention. Two men were coming / thence, poking their pockets full of gold from bags of coin they carried. Acting on a quick impulse, Ned gave a spring and landed in the wagon. The next inBtant he regretted it. The men slammed shut the two rear doors of the vehicle. "Let's hurry," he heard a gruff voice Rpeak. "We've got about all there 1b worth taking?whoa!" Something had startled the horse. So suddenly did the animal start up that Ned was flung flat, striking the edge of the steel safe. He realized that the horse had run away. He stead led himself as he comprehended that the animal was dashing down the long incline sweeping to the river. The wagon swung about like the tail of a kite. It struck ono of the bridge pillars, the horBe tore loose, and the wagon crashed through the railing auu nrm uixi niio me river. Ned's head was bleeding from a severe wound. He felt the swift current swirling the wrecked vehicle about. He tore at the shattered side of the box, squeezed through the aperture, the water all but engulfing him, and reached the shore, how, he never knew. Ned must have been In a kind of delirium after that. When he was again restored to reason it was two days later. He lay on a couch in a strange room. A man, a farmer, Bat by his side. "Keep still, stranger," he urged. "You are all right, but the doctor says you must rest. You kept calling for , some one so much," added the man, "that when my wife found a photo- I graph in your pocket with a name under it. Miss Nellie White, she went to town and saw the young lady. She's here now, in the next room." "Who is?" almost shouted Ned, J springing up on his couch. "Easy, friend, easy," soothed the 1 farmer. "She's a grand girl, let me ' tell you. When she learned you was 1 hurt, Bhe gave up home, father, every- j thing to come and nurse you. I know the old miser?mai of means, and mean, too. He's down grade now, though?bank robbed, everything gone. Now, then, say, I'm curious to know how you ever got into this fix. Ned told. The farmer evinced the greatest excitement as his patient spoke of the wagon box that went into the river. "Why," he exclaimed, "I noticed the | battered wreck of just such a contrap- | tion floated Into the cut-off on my j land. Thought I'd flBh it out for j kindling wood some time." "If it is the one I was in," declared Ned excitedly, "it holds the safe stolen , from the bank." It did. as they Roon ascertained. Old 1 John White had felt bndly at losing his daughter; he had felt worse at losing his fortune. Now, with a chance to get both back, he grnciously uc- ! cepted Ned aB a son-in-law. (Copyright, 1913, by W. Q. Chapman.) GET ALONG WITHOUT WATER Rabbits and Other Animals on the Southwestern Desert Have Never Been Known to Drink. A curious fact in connection with animal life on the deserts of the southwest is that rabbits, quail, squir- | rels, deer, antelope, the mouutain , Blieep. and any number of reptiles and insects, live at great distances from visible water. The jack rabbit is specially notable in this respect; and. , moreover, flourishes in regions with- : out a particle of green food in sight for miles and mileB. Westerners assert that the jack rab- i bit may be found, happy and fat, spending the day under a scrap of bush that makes little more shade than a fishnet. His skin is as porous as a piece of buckskin, and the heat is sufficient to evaporate every drop of blood in his body ; yet he seems to get on very nicely. Californians aver that no one has ever seen a jack rabbit drink. Those j who have camped for days on the ! deserts in vicinities where the only , water for miles round was to be found, and with rabbits everywhere, declare that never does one of the : little fellows come to th?j springs to | drink. Men have even gone so far as to examine the margins of waterholes in thoBo districts, with never a track of the rabbit disclosed beyond where the grass grew. One man tellB of a raid of rabbits one summer that was beyond all conception by an eastener. The animals | were so bold that they would come ; in before sundown. The irrigation ditches maintained by this man con- : tained the only water to be found for leagues. lie was irrigating sixty t acres alone, and was up at daylight and on the ground till dark, when | rabbits by the dozen were trying to get at the alfalfa; but, during the three months of extreme heat that then prevailed, when rabbits poured j in on him from the dry hills, he declares that never was one of them seen to touch the water.?The Sunday Magazine. Photographic Power of Wood. Experiments recently made havt shown that a section of a tree trunk, or of a branch, cut across the grain, possesses the power to impress upon a photographic plate in the dark a distinct image of itself, plainly showing | the rings of growth. There is a great difference in the intensity of this power among different kinds of wood. The conifers (pines and firs) uossess it in high degree. The wood is placed elth- j er In contact with the pate or at a short distance from it. and the ex-1 posure varies from half an hour to IS hours. Boards long exposed to the air, an oak box 100 years old, rotten wood from a stump, and even bogwood, have been found still photo graphically active. RICH FINDSjN RUMS Excavators Discover Synagogue on isand of Delos. Members of French Archaeological Society Reveal Many Treasure*? Important Jewish Colony Once Lived on Isle. Paris.?Interesting details have been supplied to the French institute by hll Homolle, director of the French school at Athens, as to the latest dis- ! coveries in connection with excava tions made under the auspices of the French Archaeological society in the island of Delos. Excavations on the stadium have ievealed the track, the seats of the judges and magitrates and the starting point and goal of the competitors, these fixing the length of the course at 500 feet. Confirmation of the report that ; Delos once possessed an important I Jewish colony is forthcoming by the discovery of a synagogue, with itB in- | Bcription, "To the Most High." Here, too, has been found a wail wuich, from an inscription, is shown to. have been a military work constructed by Valerius Triarius, one of the generals in the Mithridatic war. A ! bronze bust exhumed near this spot is believed to have been that of Tri- j arius himself. Great progress has been made in j connection with the theater, which i now stands fully displayed. Behind , the stage was found a huge cistern ; nearly 100 feet long by IS feet wide I and having a depth of 21 feet. Here were found fragments of an altar be- i longing to the theater, namely, two 1 young satyrs, upon whose back was I supported the architrave. Near the ; theater stood a huge building of three stories, which is presumed to have ! lodged the exponents of the Dlony- 1 sian cult. Of tho many temples which are ( known to have been erected in the , valley of the Inopos that of Aphrodite , has been identified by the discovery of two bases of statues bearing dedications to that divinity, and that of Serapis by the finding of a column on which is inscribed a history of the Egyptian deity. Here have been discovered the hall where the votaries assembled, and separated from it by columns that for the use of the crowd , , Distanv View of Island of Delos. In general; also the treasury where the offerings were depositd. Near this temple was a smaller one | built over a vault, through which | rolled the waters of the Inopos (now dry), employed in purification ceremonies. Here was found the column above referred to, the hundred lines of text on which deals with the his- i tory of the temple and the cult of the j god. The inscription shows that the worship of Serapis was introduced into Delos by an Egyptiau named Apollonius, who had a son named Dlmitrius. ACTORS GUARD THEIR AGES German Stage Favorites Appeal From Law to Reveal Secrets to the Public. Derlln, Germany.?Actors and actresses in Germany have been placed in cne awKward dilemma of being compelled to give their ages Under the new imperial insurance act. and they j petitioned the federal council through j the German Stage society to release j them from their predicament by amending the measure. The players pray the authorities to i permit them to guard the dates of their birth as a professional secret. They declare that it Is not a mere 1 question of vanity, but one of bread j and butter, especially for the women. ; many of whom obtain engagements ; because their talent is combined with | a youthful appearance. _????__ Too Enthusiastic. New York.?Serntino Marconi, on his way back to Italy with $3,000. bocame too enthusiastic in waving goodbye to friends and fell overboard. Then he had to wait for the next steamer. Priests Threaten to Strike. Rome.?Four hundred priests In the diocese of Bologna propose to send a , memorial to the archbishop demanding 1 an "amelioration of their material lot," j and threatening to go on strike if the demand is not granted. 8ame Old Story. London.?"A woman showed me host it could be done,1* was the explanation of a bartender of the Adam and EJvs saloon, convicted of robbing the till. 1 f| v- - ' ' F? .' *?>s v % i mspH XPijU An Interesting Group in fern WASHINGTON.?In a great show ease in the National museum five ' stalwart Americun Indians are represented as illustrating the art or the industry of making arrow heads. Their workshop is the wide, stony margin of a brook. It is an interesting exhibit and the process of making arrow heads, so puzzling to many per sons, is here bo clearly depicted that : any man can follow it. At one side of the case is the descriptive card, but the descriptive matter being of considerable length, few persons pause to reud it, interesting and instructive though it is. It giver one a pleasurable shock in reading this explanatory | matter to learn that this group rep- , resents Potomac Indians making arrowheads on Piney l-ranch at that point where "Eighteenth street, in i Washington city, would cross the | creek." On the descriptive card it is said that "This group is intended to illustrate the work carried on in the great quarries of Piney branch, and in the associated workshops not long before the arrival of the English, something about 300 years ago. Near the point Famous Row Almost I SO rapid has been the growth Washington and its population that many Washingtonlans have never heard of Minnesota row These conspicuous houses stand on the north clde of 1 street, beginning at the corner of Second street northwest. New Jersey avenue In its northwesterly course intersects 1 Btreet close to u,i - ? - ucvuuu num. nuu a triangular pam marks the intersection. It is quite high there, being up grade from U street. Originally there were three of these houses, but now there aret four, i the westernmost of them having been divided into two homes. They are distinguished looking buildings today and they were a sensation in private architecture in Washington when they were built, which was before the Civil war. Thousands of citizens have no- j ted these four story houses of pressed I brick with old-fashioned brown stone trimmings, broad fronts and ample lawns. There Is an air of spaciousness about these old houses not too common among the town houses of this day. Opposite the row is the Seaton public school and at the west end of the block is the Central Presbyterian church. Old residents recall that the rowwas called Minnesota row from the circumstance that Henry M. Rice, a senator from Minnesota, then recently admitted as a state, was one of the owners of the row, and had no doubt May Suppply Residences AN effort will be made during the approaching special session of congre.ss to have the government supply residences in Washington for members of the cabinet. Representative Stephen 11. Ayres of the Eighteenth New York district is forwarding the project. He ia preparing a bill carrying sufficient money to enable, the gov- ! eminent to purchase homes for cabinet members. The argument that has been used in the campaign to purchase residences for our ambassadors and ministers in foreign capitals to the effect that only very rich men can afford to accept place in the service, will be used in connection with the effort to supply oflicia". homes in Washington What Congress Did Not I n Kl'HESENTATlYK Rurleson of I 1\ Texas, who is one of the most j l>rominent politicians in congress, was hurrying away from the capitol at the close of a session the other day. It had b<?en a long session, devoted to much talk hut to little else. Hurleson j was out of humor. Also, he was in a hurry to get home, and his long legs were making the ground fly beneath them. Suddenly an old man bobbed up in front of him and effectually blocked His way. "Say," said the old man, "ain't you ! Congressman Hurleson?" "Yes." said the Texan, "what can I j do for you?" "Thought I recognized your pic- 1 ture," said the old man. "What did I you all do up there In the capitol today." J 'OUOT PCDSSSJIP _____________ m the National Museum where Eighteenth street would cross that stream the broken bowlders and 'flnlrncro' loft ?1 V -! 1 ?VIV V/il IUU DUU|I DI ICO alO iu places ten feet or more In depth." The information is given that the Indians of the new world had not advanced beyond the stone age of culture, and the quarrying and shaping of stone implements was to them an industry of vital importance. Suitable stone was gathered from the surface of the ground cr was obtained at the expense of greet labor from deposits in place. The quarrying of flint and other bedded minerals was carried on in many sections of the country, and the pittings may still be seen among the hills. In like manner water-worn stones and pebbles were quarried from the river blufTs or uncient beaches, "and extensive workings of this class are found in the suburbs of Washington city." In this group one man is represented as using a heavy wooden pike in prying up a large bowlder, while at the same time a second Indian is breaking it, or splitting off layers of it by throwing with great force another and a harder stone upon it. A third Indian is roughing out the forms of the implements by means of sharp, quick blows with a bowlder hammer, and a fourth Indian is trimming the edges of the hewn stone with a tool of bone, set in a wooden handle. A fifth Indian is putting on the tinlshing touches by "flaking" the edges of the arrow head with a small "flaker" of bone. :orgotten by Residents rrjgr."igs""a,n^i o a Q ? been mainly instrumental in its erection. The ground was purchased hy Senator Rice in 1857. Stephen A. Douglas, then a senator from Illinois, joined Senator Rice in the enterprise, and so. too, did John C. Breckinridge * of Kentucky, who was at that time vice-president. The houses were of a magnificence not usual In the Washington of that period, and were the talk of the town. They were given a frontage of 48 feet and the land on which they were huilt extended 300 feet north to K street. When completed. the corner house was occupied by Stephen A. Douglas, the middle one hy Senator Rice and the house at the west end of the row was occupied by Mr. Breckinridge. Senator Rice put a deed of trust ngalnst the property, or at least against his interest in it. and the mortgage came to be acquired by Alfred Dee, a colored man. who kept a feed store in Georgetown, and died in about the year 1868. for Cabinet Members lur niruiuers 01 me piestuent 8 omctal family. "I have been working on a plan to have the government appropriate half a million collars to he used in the purchase of homes for cabinet members." said Representative Ayres. "Only a ween or so ago the house passed a bill carrying appropriations of over J2f>,000,000 for the purchase of sites and the erection of federal buildings in various sections of the country. This government is big enough and rich enough to provide homes for cabinet officers. The amount of money they receive as salaries is not sufficient to meet all the demands made upon them." Mr. Ayrea says that his idea already has met with much encouragement. His contention is that if such an Inducement as he proposes is held cut to poor men who cannot afford to accept positions in the cabinet of a president on account of expenses attached to the office, in the future the list from which an executive will select his official family will be Increased at least 100 per cent. Do Pleased the Old Man "Nothing!" barked Burleson. "Absolutely nothing!" Solemnly the old man produced a little red notebook and a pencil. "You say you didn't do nothing?" he repeated, doubtfully. "Absolutely nothing." affirmed tho Texan. Solemnly again the old man made a long, black mark in his book. "One good day for the people." said he calmly, and passed on.