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THE FORT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. A good many women would rather Join a suffrage bike than wash dishes In an age of artificial Ice la It not wasteful to keep on discovering poles? Seems as though nobody was to be safe. It Is now proposed to take the tariff off lemons. One of the new dances Is called the "Jelly wabble." Perhaps you learn it out of the cook book. History has never recorded an Instance where the world has failed to mourn the loss of brave men. How much prettier a woman looks when photographed In the act of skating than when committing golf! A noted Mew York Physician advocates open air schools for all children. Not a bad Idea by an/ means. One of the biggest questions confronting the hotel men of the country Is running a hostelry to suit every patron China. It Is now reported. Is going to have an aeroplane fleet for police use. This will put the force In the air. Even If cockroaches do not produce cancer?a German scientist says that they do?why Bhould anybody cultivate them? Next year the 100th anniversary of the treaty of Ghent is to be celebrated with five minutes of silence. Glorious * and unique! now-legged men have Just cause to be peeved over the report that fashion ordains men to wear garments of a clinging variety. A Harvard professor has discover ed that a domestic pigeon leuds an Intellectual life. Then why can't It talk pigeon" English? uncus are now being sent by parcel post, but this will not Increase the facilities of those people who are fond of throwing them. Why do the advertisements for southern rescrts depict people sitting In perambulators? Is something the matter with their legs? The young woman who says she prefers death to a kiss can scarcely qualify as an expert, since she admits that she has tried neither. Nothing recalls the mind of the married man to the Joys of single lift so vividly as to find that the baby hat been eating crackers In bed. Intimation that a lion attempted tc eat up a moving picture actor sug gests the need of laws for the protec tlon of cinematograph heroes. Some of the popular magazines will have to bo printed a year or two ahead In order suitably to advertise tbe advanced styles In automobiles. A projectile has been Invented In Rermnny which will not only pierce a war balloon but will actunlly set It ablaze, a high test for results ? "" A philosopher snys: "Whistlers are always good-natured." Everybody knows that. It is the folks who huve to listen to the whistler that gets j ugly. Boston is using a new word, "fudgy," to express team work. We place the wrong construction on It if we said that the ball club showed great "fudgy." A Brooklyn Judge ruled that a broomstick Is not a deadly weapon. An Irate woman can wield it Just as effectively as a bludgeon, is the general belief. The married cadet at West Point will not be allowed to stay. This Is In line with the usual army policy of not allowing a divided command over its members. Even if the boast of the Chinese thnt China Is overtaking the rest of the world Is Justified. China need not feel entitled to any sprinting medals on .that account. Wives should take note of the fact thai < t Ih. -.1 ? ? ' tutu uic u}iriuuun ?n KIUHIU& (i dog's brain onto a man's head proves successful. they will have regular fireside companions A Chicago magistrate makes ante speeders take the pledge. The idea ot putting offenders on their honor h new only In this particular respect but if temptation proves too stronj pledges and pedestrians will have t< lake their chanceB. The era of superstition seems tc be weakening when a steamship com pany makes its day for sailing on Frl day. Rut It Is not averred that ever the big company can make passen gers occupy staterooms numbered 13 A Denver legislator proposes tc compel surgeons to exhibit the al leged diseased appendixes they re move, and If there is nothing wroni with any of them, send the experl menter to Jell. The doctors regarl this as hostile legislation, calculator to Interfere with prosperity. t.-~? MAID OFJHE MILL When the Clatter of the Reawakened Machinery Turned Into Music. By HAROLD CARTER. "Seems to me you young folks don't think of nothing but pleasure," said Mrs. Adams querulously, as she watched her daughter Lizzie put on her new hat. "I never had clothes like those you've bought since you've Konn U mill "For the Lord's sake, mother, don't you want me to go out at all?" replied the other crossly. "There, I'm sorry." she added, as she stooped to kiss the invalid. "I won't be gone Jong." "Well. Bee that SI Winton brings you back safe," grumbled the elder woman, watching her dnughter enviously as Blie passed through the door and into the village street. Itut Lizzie Adams was not thinking of Si Winton, whom her mother had selected as her beau. Si was not unwilling that' he should be the subject of parental approbation, for the Adams family was the first in the county, and it was a collateral branch, the WInthrop Adamses, who owned the big new cotton mill which drew thousands of young people from the mountain districts to work there. Lizzie Adams, however, was of the poorer branch. Her small wage was all that sustained their family of two? and before that they had lived in the utmost penury. Their tiny cottage was at the end of the village street, and almost bare. Mrs. Adams grudged Lizzie the few dollars she withheld for clothes. Lizzie Adams was not going to the village. Instead she made her way toward the brand new hrfpk man Bion of her cousin Herbert, who had conio from college the week before to tuke charge of the mill upon the occasion of his father's sudden demise. They had been sweethearts in the good old days, before Wlnthrop Adams had risen from a country store [i 1P%: So Long as Her Mother Lived She Must Go Back. keeper to a country magnate, by a shrewd Investment. But doubtless Herbert had long ago forgotten her. For she had not seen him for four? Ave years, it must be. And her last 1 memory of that Btolen kiss under the j mapleB, and her still more shameful I acquiescence in it. made her cheeks redden as she walked. She was not hoping to meet Herbert; she was JuHt taking a Btroll, attired in her best hat and her one [ wearable gown. And if he should remember hla promise about some day I returning?well? Dangerous thoughts i fluted through her little head. Those who Beek, find. Lizzie met | Herbert, driving a smart trap, and by his side sat a young lady, dressed in j what seemed to Lizzie the height of fashion. And because there was hard! ly room to pass the trnp Btopped, and Herbert recognized her and bowed and smiled and turned to the girl at his side and spoke. Then she smiled scornfully, and the trap disappeared behind her. "You hnven't quarreled with Si Winton?" asked her mother, crossly, when Lizzie returned. "No. I didn't meet him," answered the girl. Two minutes later she was stifling her sobs upon her bed in the little room adjoining the invalid's. If Herbert had no thoughts for her I upon the street, how would he greet I her In the mill when, dressed in her working clothes and covered with lint, she tolled at the machine? She could not bear to drag herself into the place next morning. The girls stood there, heavy-eyed, sullen of face, dreaming of Sunday and of their beaux. "Now, then, don't stand dreaming there!" shouted Miss Jones, the forewoman, to Lizzie. "Seems to me you're the unhandiest girl in the mill. Don't you know young Mr. Adams is coming round to Inspect this place this morning?" Lizzie Adams turned sullenly to her mnchlne. She had long ago learned that her distant relationship to the owner exposed her only to derision. Old Wlnthrop Adams had never liked the girl. The branches of the family had quarreled In the long ago, and he had Justified his conscience by giving her a place In the mill. It was toward noon when Herbert Adams came In, escorted by the foreman. He passed slowly along the Una of machines, listening to his V guide's expl?juUl>>& Half way down he came upon Ucalflk He must have Been her. But hd.ittd not even look at her. Lin> t*^eiftM||rsclf reddening; she heard MiwJuMUk-Bnicker audibly behind her. Bfcrbnxt passed on. "Seems to i$n iobm folks ought to know their plap^t'tiyjliss Jones remarked to one Qif ^?r friends, "end not , go making eyes betters." Lizzie workedjjon ift.fllence. The clatter of the m^^ilh^rkeemed a tor ture. She felt tfeWjPC-,caught helplessly In the ja\*? thase monsters, just as the cotton caught, ravelled. shredded ax^ fHMldifl- She was equally helpless. * And Athe future stretched away, as 1ST a* she could see, equally hopaMjMi* ,.?he would never be able to learillhe mill?unless At noon she crept a^fiy to Spend the half hour's recess BOlftewUsre under the trees, away front thf "prying eyeB of those who had sce^-the incident of the morning- The forsst SKtended almost to the mill fence; 4t was part of the old Adams estate and sacred j against the ax. In the distance, j through the trees, Llzsfo sou Id see the red brick house. A. thought came to her. Why should sh^not win away! Why not Just walk and jralk. and walk into those green vistas, of trees, any- i where, so long as shsinevor turned back? V No! So long as her mother lived she must go back, from day to day, i to endure the jeers and scoffs and coarse speech of those others who recognized that she wait riotox^e of them, and envied and hated her. Suddenly a shadow fell across her path and Hhe found herself looking up Into the face of a bronzecl yo\fng man whose eyes were bent upbn her with unmistakable interest. ^ "Lizzie!" exclaimed the mill own- 1 or. "I saw you leaving ^ie grounds, j and followed you. How do you do? I've often thought of you since we paried?let me see, years ago. It must be." "You seemed to forget ifour politeness this morning in the mill," the girl retorted, struggling to keep back her tears. ^ "Why," exclaimed the ypmng man in astonishment, "really, I was so embarrasesd?I thought it beat?" "Yes, you were embarrassed because I wasn't dressed like y^nir friend : yesterday," she blurted out, fcnd could have bitten her tongue afterward. "Miss Keith? Whv Hhfl i?hT I.It. ? - ?- \ ?* zie, dear, she's the agent for the cotton company?just a business woman, who Is negotiating for the-year's output. You didn't think?" Suddenly he caught her in hjs arms. "Lizzie," he whispered, with his face very close to hers, "did you think 1 had forgotten? Don't you know my father sent me away to college because 1 cared? I want you, Lizzde. Juat as I always did; I want a girl of my own country and my own peopled not? Miss Keith!" And the clatter of the reawakening mill suddenly turned into musicy. (Copyright, 1918, by W. Q. Cliapronn.) BUILDING RULES MOST STRICT Those of Switzerland Designed to^ Give Protection to Adjacent Prop-, erty Owners. \ A peculiar building regulation in force in most parts of Switzerland. It ! is required that before the erectiob of 1 a new building, frames or Bcrueds must be erected to mark out the shape ; of the building in protilo as well] as in plan. In practice this amounts! to erecting at each angle of the building a pole or mast with a projecting yri- : angular frame attached to it at tiho cornice level to indicate the height and projection of the cornice. Tpe ; building law of the canon Zurich requires that the framework shall t>e i erected when the plans are submitted for approval by the public authorities ilit* purpose or me rule apparently is to briiiR out, in advance of construction, the architectural relations of thl building to adjoining structures atiW to the districts in which it lies, hots for aiding the municipal authorities ill passing upon the plans from the archil tectural viewpoint and giving they neighboring owners an opportunity toV judge of the effect of the proposed | new building upon their interests. j Velocity of Light. Tho first determination of the ve- \ locity of light was made by Romer in | 1676. The method was based upon the observation of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, phenomena of frequent recurrence and eusy of observation. Assuming that light required time wherein to move from place to place through apnee, the interval between successive eclipses would appear too short when the earth is approaching Jupiter and too long when the earth is receding therefrom. Homer found in his observations that such was the case and | that the interval was conditioned by the rate of speed at which the earth changed places relatively to Jupiter From these constants Romer computed that light expended about sixteen and one-half minutes in crossing th< earth's orhlt Vrnm thin in HerlneeH a I velocity of about 186,500 miles a sec ond.?Harper's Weekly. Obvious Way. ' "My son writes me that he has goi into the swim." "He Is at a fashionable watering place. Isn't he?" . "Yes." "I thought so. Anybody can get lr It there." Suspicion. He?My dear, when I went up thai hill awhile ago, I saw a big snak< almost as thick as a man's body. She (scornfully)?Why not say at thick as your breath? It would mak< the atory stronger. i WOMEN JN FLEET They Do More Than Men in the Welsh Village of Llangwm. Builder* of Houses, Too?Mrs. Mary Palmer, 82 Years Old, Tells of a Day's Work Carrying 100 Pounds of Oysters to Market. London.?A special correspondent of the Daily Mirror sends from Haverford an Interesting account of conditions In the village of Llangwm, Pembrokeshire, where women "man" the fishing fleet, and at times even build the houses. They actually work harder than the men. "Never In all my experience have 1 known such Industry or such uncomplaining effort," the Rev. D. M. Pryse, the Ilaptist minister, Bald. Mr. Pryse and the rector are the only two Welshmen living in this village, for all the rest of the 880 persons, all related to each other, are descended from the Flemings, who settled near there in 1195. Mrs. Mary Palmer, aged 82, 1b a remarkable old woman. She walks with a stick now, and age is making the furrows deep in her forehead, but until a few years ago she tramped for miles selling fish, which she carried in a pannier on her shoulders. "Yes, 1 have fished in Milford Haven," she said, "ever since I was a little thing. We women here manage the boats as well as the men, and, although we go out in all weathers, 1 have never known a life lost or boat wrecked. "I have dredged for oysters with the other women, and then tramped to C'armathen with a hundredweight on my back in a day; sold the oysters that night, sometimes for as little as eight cents a hundred, before going to bed, and then trumped all the way home the next day. I brought up a family, too. and have been a widow for 25 years. "Mr. Lloyd-George gives me a pension now of five shillings a week, but I think an old woman who's worked as hard as I have ought to have more, don't you?" Mrs. Palmer also pointed proudly to her cottage, which she helped to build herself, "working like a nigger," as she said, in the interval of catching herrings and taking oysters. She dug the foundations, made the mortar, carried stones by the hundredweight from I i Typical House in Welsh Village. all sorta of odd places, just where they could be found. When the cottage was complete, she white-washed the wnlls and ceilings. Scores of women in the village have done the same thing?a mason and a joiner being merely called in to do the expert work. Nearly all the villagers own their cottages, a donkey and cart, and a fishing boat. Living chiefly on bread, with a liberal spreading of butter, they have saved and scraped until they could buy the freehold. Their thrift has grown, too, since the women agitated so much against the liquor traffic that the last public house In the village was closed. Most of the men work In Pembroke dockyard, leaving their homes at 4:HO \er R in the morning for a long journey Ion foot and in big rowing boats. These inen are not home until 7 in the evening. and all the time the women of ihe village do the work that in every tither place is done by mtm. [(Some years ago when the fishing 'lli ft went down the haven the wornfe^ll who manned it all wore picturesque te I skirts and flat felt hats. i iBat now the influence of modernity s (felt even in Llangwm. and only the Ider women wear the garments which 'made even the plainer ones look t Arming. The young ones are not a tall proud of the fashions of their g. kndmothers. ?UWhy can't we wear modern clothes 111 Mother people?" said a young woman, I "Folks only laugh at old fashloii ! nowadays." But Mrs. Palmer, who, a beauty In her oaf, has had her photograph published all over the world, still wears her rfed skirt and felt hat when, with a janwty step, she goes on her rounds selling fish, just as she has done all her |Hfe. \ Boys Get Biggest Bite. NeW York.--Harry Glen and John Kockl two youngsters, received hlgger Bites than any fisherman ever told albout. They were fishing off the rallroAd bridge with a chain as a llsh line. The line touched some electrijc feed wires, and the boys wore tlossed in the air by a 11,000 volt ehargti. I a. $ , . .; " < y . \ > J One^ Bachelor in Presi WvSHlNGTON. Gatherers of statistics who have been compiling ' tacts about the new Wilson cabinet announced with satisfaction the other day that Its members are simple. . home-loving and by example, active | anti-race suicide propagandists. Of all the cabinet families, only that i , of Secretary of War Garrison Is with- j ' out children. Mrs. William Jennings Bryan is a ] lawyer, like her husband, but she haB found time amid her professional du- t ties to icar two children, Mrs. Richard ! llargreaves. Jr.. and William J. Bryan. Jr., whose wife will make her home In Washington with the family. Three daughters call Mrs. Albert Sidney Burleson, wife of the postmaster general "mother." One of the daughters. Mrs. Richard Van Wick Negley, has a son about six weeks ! old. I Brokers Do a Big Busii INSPECTORS have learned that ! stamps of all classes and denomi- | nations stolen by burglars from post ; ofliceB and embezzled by employes ; from great business houses and manu- j facturing establishments were pur- I chased nnd resold by the brokers at i prices lar below their face value. The postal laws make it a crime | punishable by imprisonment to sell any stamp Issued by the government ; for less than its face value. Investi; nations disclosed the fact that, in ad, dition to selling the stamps for less ] than a price they could have been purchased for from the government, the brokers In many cases knew that the stamps were stolen when they purchased them. Stamp frauds against the government and various business concerns aggregating hundreds of thousands of dollars nnnunlly have been unearthed in New York City alone, while illegal trafllcking in stamps in many other ; cities has reached large proportions. j One stamp broker in New York i i City who sells from $300 to $1,000 worth of stamps n day to merchants, it is alleged. has heen purchasing i i some of his supply from nil employe ' Expert Says Icebergs AHHOTT it. THAYER, an artist who lias given much study to the question, discusses the Invisibility of j icebergs at night in the lust issue of ; the bulletin of the hvdrographic of- ; fice. He writes, in pnrt: "The Titanic and the Arizona ran into icebergs because of the universal ! notion that white shows at night even j i against a clear sky. i'ntil this impression can be corrected the world | will continue at the mercy of the 1 chance of more ice accidents. I ?A _A ,,f mf -? - * ' j\ steamer may oe cioso 10 an iceberg on a clear, moonless night, and, , as stated above, often on a moonlit night, without the slightest sight of it. Any observing person who has lived ! in the country knows perfectly well , ! 'hat snowy roofs on such a night nre Beautiful Bronze Sundial NEARLY all strangers who travel to | the beautiful close of the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, on ! Mount Saint Alban, gnther nround the ; sundial. Most of them mount the three granite steps to stand on the narrow granite platform about the sundial and Its rectangular pedestal the better to read the inscription and to study the devices engraved on stone and bronze. The structure Is called "the cathedral landmark and | sundial." According to the handbook of the Washington Cathedral, "On Ascension Day, A. D. 190C, the landmark given bv Mrs. Julian James to commemorate the freedom of the cathedral land from debt and the consequent hallowing of the cathedral close was presented and consecrated This landmark is a beautiful bronze sundial, surmounting an open air altar. on which are Inscribed the names of those It commemorates. Beginning at the northwest edge of the altar is this Inscription: "Transit umbra lax premonet. From i the rising of the sun even to the go- 1 Ing down of the same, my name shall ' I A \ . J: . . , ftjj # I cON CITY ident Wilson's Cabinet William C. R? Afield, secretary of commerce, and \*rs. Redfield have a married daughter and a son, Humphrey Fuller Redfield, who Is a student at Amherst college. Franklin K. l^ane, secretary of the interior, has a 16-year-old son. Franklin, Jr., and a daughter, Nancy, several years younger. Mrs. I.ane is a college woman, but thoroughly domes- j tic. If ever an actual anti-race suicide organization Is established among the families of the cabinet officers. Mrs. William B. Wilson, wife of the new secretary of labor, will be ut Its head by right of achievement. She hus nine children. Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secretary of the navy, ulso has several children. There are three children In the family of Pavid Houston, secretary of agriculture. Miss Nona McAdoo will preside over the Washington home of her father. William G. McAdoo. the new secretary of the treasury. She made her debut a short time ago. There are two other daughters, one married and three sons. The only bachelor in the cabinet, which Is why he is mentioned last, is Attorney General McReynolds. less in Stolen Stamps of the New York state government at Albany. The eunploye confessed u> posi oinco inspectors that ne remitted to the stamp broker from $25 to $50 a week in stamps stolen from . the state. J The department redeems postal enrds trom original purchasers at 75 per cent, of their face value. A few weeks ago a member of congress and a former deputy commissioner of police of New York City requested tho third assistant pOHtmaster-general to redeem more than a million cards for a constituent of the representative. Inquiry by inspectors developed the fact that the cards were the property of a stamp broker, whose business is declared by the department officials to be clearly Illegitimate. Are Invisible by Night apt to be Indistinguishable from the sky. and would always be so if they stood alone out on a plain or out at sea. "In order to test this matter, notice first that it is the most nearly horizontal top surfaces of a berg, snowy roof or other white object that receive the most skylight, and consequently most nearly match it. It follows that with the average hilltop shape of an iceberg It will be the highest expanses of it visible from the ship's wntch that are surest to be indistinguishable. These highest expanses of course constitute the contour that the watch would see if the berg were visible, and when these become thus effaced the berg itself is effaced. "Even when a near here Is not fait enough to Btand up against the sky to the eyes of the watch its top will necessnrily be looked at against the most distant part of the sea; and this part averages, especially in calm weather, much brighter than the nearer water; and a sky-matching berg top could not often he distinguished from it any better than from tlie sky itself." Serves as a Landmark be great among the nations, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name." On the eastern face of the altar is ' this inscription: "This landmark Is set up in the cathedral close in memory of Ascension day, A. D. 1906, in the eleventh year of the episcopate of the first Bishop of Washington." Some of the names carved on the altar side9 are Theodoras Bailey l Myers. 1821-1888; Catalina Juliana Mason, 1826-1905, and t'assie Mason Myers, Julia James, Frederick James. Kdmonla Phelps. Sidney Mason. Alphoneo Sidney Mason and Catherine Kobb.