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THE FORT MILL TIMES
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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
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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?
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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.
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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An Interesting Group in
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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."
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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.