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THE FORT MILL TIMES
Published Every Thursday.
FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.
Spoil the rod and spare the child
la the modern way.
After all, how appropriate that epitapha
are usually graven.
A steel famine Is predicted. This
will call for Iron endurance.
Perhaps the millennium awaits the
discovery of a serum ugalnst old age.
The great trouble with the European
statUB quo is that it won't stay
put
dnn'! oam n
^v,.. ? VVUIIV J UUI tlliUAt'UD uuill
you're sure the incubator lamp doesn't
leak.
Clprlano Castro says ho is going to
remain permanently in Teneriffe.
Thanks.
In New York an ordinary taxi drivel
was arrested on supposition thut he
was a robber.
Another blow at the American workingman
with a tax contemplated on all
incomes over $3,000.
St. Ixmls policemen demand an
eight-hour day. He who runs may
read the time by the stars.
According to the census, there are
125,000 idiots in the country. But
only ono kind wero counted.
Two German oillcers flew 372 miles
in six hours. This may be called both
literally and figuratively going some.
Peoplo live longer in cities than
in villages, say German savants. Maybe
city poople are more afraid to die.
Women's smoking gowns are on
exhibition in New York stores. And
very likely they hook up in the back,
too.
Automobiles would never be driven
fifty miles an hour If none wero mndc
cnpable of going more than twentyfive.
In Constantinople, a deposed high
official dies of apoplexy. In Mexico
City he is taken on an automobile
ride.
Farmers In Pennsylvania flocked to
n bargain sale of coffins. A bargain
snle will excite u live interest in anything.
With onions selling at 15 cents a
bushel there's no perceptible increase
in the practice of smothering things
in them.
Now that St. Louis police are to
have an eight hour day, the night
force will bo provided with more time
to sleep.
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A clergyman finds that many plays
tench their morals hurriedly In the
last act?or during chair-slamming In
the first.
General Sung of China was killed by
assassins who were really looking for
General Sing. Chinese tenses are terribly
fatal.
The use of cosmetics Is said to he
very old Apparently that Is also
what some of those using them think
of themselves.
An eastern physician says that wornanhocd
will supply the drunkards of 1
the next century. Hather, lack of
womanhood.
Ten months Is said to be the life of
the average $10 bill. Hut the experience
of most of us is that it lingers
only a few days.
Hundreds of New York teachers are
said to hold their Jobs by keeping
their mnrrlages secrot. Hut hnve they
no fool friends?
A dentist Is asked to pay $1,000
for pulling the wrong tooth. Some
dentists have to wait a year for filling
the right ones.
Men. her? Is a harbor of refuge.
A lending Chicngo milliner snys the
niftiest kind of spring hat can be
"built" for 59 cents.
A domestic, theorist advises mistresses
to allow their servants to use
the family piano. But why add to the
horrors of civilization?
In all candor It must bo admitted
that it must be exceedingly annoying
to a thirsty man to get hold of the
syrup bottle by mistake.
Fifty thousand dollars is a neat sum,
useful In old age. Hut it's long odds
that an aviator so reckless as to be
willing to fly across the Atlantic to
get the money would never live to a
ripe old age anyway.
Did you ever observe that the people
who are always clamoring to
"muzzlo the press" are the ones who
need tho most watching?
People who were annoyed by the
beautified nickel will suffer paroxysms
at the attempt of tho reformers
to take the out of money.
This season's hobble skirts are to
be even tighter than ever before. Although
requiring less cloth, the price.
It Is assured, will not shrink in proportion.
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BADWATERHOLOUP
It Was Only for Moving Pictures
but Passengers Thought It
Real Thing.
By FRANK FILSON.
The journey across the desert Is
not a distracting one, and any diversion
is gladly welcomed, bo that,
when the flashily dressed man stood
up at the end of the Pullman and began
to address the passengers, everybody
went forward and gathered
around him, laughing and clapping.
They thought he was going to offer
something for sale.
However, he had nothing to sell.
He had a favor to ask, he said, and so
everybody became silent and listened
attentively.
"Ladies and gentlemen," began the
flashily dreBsed man, "I am going to
repeat to you what I have Just said to
the passengers in the next coach.
When we reach Had Water, In ten
minutes or so, a moving picture man
will be upon the platform to take
some pictures representing a hold-up.
Some of the performers, dressed as
bandits, will attack the mail car, while
others will go through the coaches, demanding
your money and valuables.
But please do not be alarmed. The
whole proceeding will be In pantomime.
and If you will make a show of
| compliance, and bo aid us, nobody will
be annoyed. I ask of you, fellow-passengers,
to feign alarm, and if one or
two of the ladles will pretend to faint
j It will help things along."
Everybody began laughing and
I eagerly awaited- the stop at Bad Water.
This was the fourth day of the
trans-continental journey, and the passengers
were on very good terms with
one another. They began to discuss
train robberies.
"I'd never give up a cent," exclaimed
a stout, perspiring drummer, wiping
the alkali dust from his features.
"Not for all the train robbers In California.
No, slrree, and don't mistake
me. I'd duck their pistols and hit out
once or twice and then?well, thero
wouldn't be any train robbers."
"Well, as for me, I know I should
! Just faint," answered a demure young
lady. "And before I fainted I'd just
! hand over everything I had."
"Not with me around, you wouldn't
need to," answered the drummer gal:
lantly.
The other travelers did not commit
themselves, for at that moment the
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"Hands Up, You Silly Sheep!"
| train began to slow down and there
appeared the irrigation ditch from
which the station took Its nnme Thmi
tho littlo tin-roofed Bhanty came into
view, and a moment inter a half dozen
men, wearing sombreros and maski
ed. with pistols stuck all around their
waist lines, leaped forward across the
tracks. One Jumped into the engine
cab and held his pistol to the forehead
of tho engineer. Tho mail van
was next attacked, while two men
made their way into the foremost of
the coaches.
Upon the platform a moving picture
operator had set up his instrument
and was busily reeling off the film,
the passengers, interested in the
scene, gathered around him.
"Now, Indies, now. gentlemen," Interposed
the flashily dressed man in
1 tones of remonstrance, "won't you
| please go back into tho coaches and
be robbed? You're interfering with
the operator. It spoils the roality of
the pictures, yotir standing round
here as thongh nothing had liuppened.
People will think the picture's a fake,
and it's going to be exhibited in all
I the leading cities of America. Won't
you go back?"
j Two or three did turn back toward
tho conches in a half-hearted way, but
the rest remained obdurate, and the
flashily dressed man ran here and
, there among there, remonstrating and
Dleadlncr. His rnnniiolu ?~ii
tiv/ n\Jf v;i , It'll
on deaf oars. It was much pleasanter
outstrip In the fresh air than within,
and, besides, all wanted to see tho i
whole proceedings. At last, in des- i
pair, the flashily dressed man threw i
up his hands and disappeared inside i
one of the coaches.
Almost simultaneously a pistol shot
rang out, followed by a woman's
cream for help. The heads of the
spectators turned round with a simultaneous
movement and their features
betrayed an expression of sudden i
fear. ]
"You told me It was fun." shrieked
a woman's voice. "I won't give you i
my rings. I won't, I tell you. There, 1
take them, then. And that's every
penny I have In the world."
"It's Big Ike and his gang," somebody
screamed. 'It's real enough!
My God, It's all real!"
Then the flashily dressed man came
dashing out of his coach, a smoking
pistol in his hand. He was followed
by two of the gang.
"Hands up, you Billy sheep!" he yelled.
"Hands up or I fire. Now, then,
back into the cars. One at a time,
please. You'll keep them above your
heads while Ike goes through you."
oneep. no naa caucd ttiem, and like
sheep they obeyed. The first to do
so was the commercial traveler. There
was a look of terror on his red face,
and he held his arms erect as ramrods.
Only one traveler remained upon
the platform. It was tho demure
young lady who had been discussing
her courso of action In the event of a
real hold-up. Instead of fainting she
stamped her'foot violently and actually
shook her fist in the flashily
dressed man's face.
"I won't put my hands up and I
won't give you a cent. And I've got
ninety dollars Inside my waist and I
defy you to take it, you coward.
There!"
Upon the platform the operator was
still grinding ofT his films. The flashily
dressed man approached the young
lady, took off his hat, and made her a
bow.
"Madam*, you are the only man
among the lot," he said. "Pray keep
your money as a tribute to your courage!"
Tho passengers had all filed in
when the wheels of the train began
to move. The flashily dressed man
caught the young lady by the arm and
swung her nboard. Inside the travelers
stood huddled together, but there
fcas no bandit to receive their cash.
Tho flashily dressed man stood on
fhe step and leered at them.
"Sorry to frighten you all. ladies and
gents," he said. "If you'd obliged mo
as I asked of you to do, 1 wouldn't
have had to scare you. We ain't banditB;
we're just moving picture people;
but we had to get the picture and
as you wouldn't help us?why. we just
had to help ourselves. Good-bye."
And as the train was now in motion
he leaped to the ground and stood
smiling at them.
"When they had resumed their pieces
there was quite a long silence. Then
the drummer spoke.
"I knew it wasn't real," ho Bald. "II
I'd thought it was I'd have acted different."
Ho 6railed at the demure young
lady. Hut she was reading a textbook
on tho Montessori method of
teaching the young, and she never
looked up at him between Bad Water
and San Francisco.
(Copyright. 1913. by W. G. Chapman.)
RURAL TEACHERS' PAY SMALL
Average Pay Is Less Than That Received
by Street Laborers
in Cities.
The statisticians tell us that the average
salary of the teachers of the
nation in the common schools is less
than $400 a year, and in the rural
school districts less than $300, the
Hon. David Franklin Houston, secretary
of agriculture, writes in Leslie's.
Illinois reports rural salaries ranging
from $250 to $400; Kansas, a salary of
less than $250; Missouri, Mississippi
and Tennessee, one of less than $250;
Vermont, Maine and North Carolina,
one of less than $200. In urban communities
it ranges from $500 to $000 1
to $ 1,S00 or $2,000 or more. The annual
pompensation of rural teachers is
less than that of street laborers in cities.
less than that of hrtcklnvei-H niau.
terers, carpenters, plainters and brakemen,
and the superintendent of Alabama
reports that in that state it is
less than the average earnings of convicts.
Everywhere theso teachers are
stranded in one room buildings, for
the most part unsightly, devoid of the
ordinary comforts, lacking in facilities,
in unattractive and insanitary
surroundings, they teach all grades
und hold 30 to 35 or 40 recitations a
day for four, five, six or seven months i
a year, arid do this without advice or
usblstunce from competent supervisors
or inspectors. Illinois reports 10,600
ono teucher schools, 1,160 of them having
less than 15 pupils; Kansus, 7,800,
426 with less than 16 pupils, 300 ,
with less than 10; North Carolina,
more than 4,000 out of a total of 5,400; i
Indiana reports 1,085 schools with
less thun 15 pupils, and 2,000 with less
than 20; Missouri, 705 with less than
12, and 2,500 with less than 20.
When the people know the facts and
<ir?? Intullloontlo l-.'l ~.I11 t -1
?. w ...vvatigwuvi/ icu vurj \> III 1UUU L11U
situation, provide the means and will
regard the expenditure for developmental
purposes not as a burden,
but as an investment. They must
put more money into this business of
rural education to save what they
have already put in?to make good
what they have undertaken. As people
of ordinary business sense, they ,
must recognize the necessity of efficiency
of production. A nation which
is spending $700.01)0.000 a year on
war, pnst and future, $800,000,000 for
tobacco, and $1,500,000,000 for whisky
cannot make the plea of poverty and !
cannot afford to say that it will stop |
at an expenditure of $330,000,0000 for
Bchools.
An Extra.
Newsboy?Great mystery! Fifty
victims! Paper, mister?
Passer-by?Here, boy. I'll take one.
(After reading a moment.) Say. boy,
there's nothing of the kind In this paper.
Where is It?
Newsboy?That's the mystery, guvnor.
You're the fifty-first victim.?
Missouri Oveu.
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BAN IS PLACED ON
THIS CLEVER HOUND
Daschund Taught to Watch the
Players During the Progress
of Card Games.
Winsted, Conn.?Friends of Eugene
McCaskey have placed the "no admittance"
bar on his daschund whenever
he goes to their homes for an evening
at cards, because the canine has been
taught to watch the floor and seats
about a table while a game Is In progress.
Not only will he pick up a coin
or card which finds Its way to the
floor and carry it to his master, but
( the daschund watches players who are
, In the hnbit of concealing a card be1
tween their legs or on a seat beneath
| their legs for future playing.
One of Mr. McCaskey's friends was
| bitten In the leg after concealing a
curd, hence the edict. The <Jog has I
1 other Bporting proclivities. When hl?
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Was Bitten in the Leg.
master goes Ashing along the shore
of a lake, he will grab up the pole
when the bob disappears In the water
and run along with It until the flsli is
} on land.
SQUALOR IN BABY FARMS
California County Health Officer Finds
Twenty "Homes" Dealing in
Nameless Chiidren.
I.os Angeles. Cal.?Twenty "baby
farms," where profits are coined out
of nameless little lives, have been |
j found operating just outside the city
limits of I.os Angeles, by Dr. E. O
| Sawyer, county health officer, who has
| demanded immediate action on the
part of the board of supervisors.
These institutions, said Dr. Sawyer,
are conducted for profit by persons
who have no Interest in the children,
and were removed from the citv to
escape municipal regulation. They
harbor mostly foundlings and the babies
of persons who would rather hide
their parenthood.
"I found babies kept in the most
repulsive squalor," said T>r. Sawyer
"To make profits out of the small
sums paid as 'board' some of the proprietors
of baby homes kept the children
in a half starved and half clothed
condition. Insanitary conditions exist
in every case."
Each of the "farms" harbors from
three to sixty babies. Dr. Sawyer j
said that n county ordinance providing
strict regulations was necessary to j
protect not only the children in the \
homes, but also to protect the health
of the community.
"00H, LA, LA, LA," SMACK!!
Judge Gives Prisoner $1 and Freedom
and Receives Resounding Ki68
From Happy Peddler.
Aurora. III.?Another blow at the
dignity of tho bench was dealt the other
day.
It was struck when an Aurora justice
of the peace, tempering justice I
with mercy, was kissed in open court
by a man he had dismissed. The resounding
smack upon the justice's i
cheek was delivered before anyone
could interfere and after that every- ,
one was too startled to do so.
Frank de Cook, arrested for ped- j
dllng without a license, was the man
who introduced the European method
ef expressing gratitude Into an Amer- 1
lean court, lie had told Police Magistrate
Thomas Harlow such an affecting
hard luck story that the justice >
not only dismissed the charges against
him. but called him to the bench and
gave him one dollar.
Then came the kiss.
The justice refused to say whether
he considered it in the light of a
bribe.
Must Have Certificates.
Passaic, NT. J,?Rev. Hugh I). Wilson,
pastor of St. George's Episcopal
church, announced that he will refuse i
to marry couples who cannot present ;
certificates of physical and mental j
health.
Recovered His Reason.
Mlnrola, 111.?In a lit of insanity Edwnrd
Gorham Jumped from a window
of the William H. Ross sanitarium
and was seriously hurt. Then he recovered
his reason and won a verdict
for $6,600.
Doorkeeper at the Capit<
WASHINGTON.?Just as the day
shift of the Capitol police force
was about to knock off dutv at dusk the
other evening an automobile rolled into
the driveway, under the house
Hteps. and a middle-aged man and a
young woman got out and walked
briskly through the doorway. One of
the officers 011 the door stopped them
and politely gave the information
that the time for receiving visitors
for the day was over.
For a moment the man hesitated.
Then, from behind him there stepped
out hurriedly a much younger man.
who said something in a low voice to
the officer. The latter's manner
changed immediately. He grabbed his
cap from his head, and, bowing low,
said:
"Come right in, Mr. President."
"I just thought I would like to look
over the new seats in the house,"
said President Wilson with a smile.
Riskiest Deed in the Wt
SHE was a pallid woman who looked
as if her dyspepsia tabletB had run
out.
And she stood behind the counter of
a small homemade shop, submitting a
mended umbrella to a customer with
two chins and another coming.
Thw Pllulonu^ ...LI.
. ..v VMUVW4..WI , UUklOIICW ? nil nil* JUU,
rummaged in her bag for the even
change, handed it over and then, in a
sudden gust of energy, emptied the
bag's insides on the counter.
"Well, if I haven't lost that thing at
last?and I wouldn't a-done it for a
dollar!"
The sympathy in the umbrella woman's
face flushed it to an almost lifelike
hue.
"Was it your mascot?"
The chin woman wasn't up to psychological
snuff. She had to ask
what a mascot was.
"Why, a charm?to keep off bad
luck."
The customer chuckled till the third
chin took courage and asserted itself.
"My soul and body, woman, you talk
as if I hadn't cut my eye teeth. No,
indeedy, it wasn't no charm. It was
Just a little chunk of quartz. 1 been
earryin' around because my son Jimmie
sent it to me to show what they
dig up in the mine where he works,
out west yonder. If the good Lord
chooses to send me troubles there
Connecting. Link Betwee
TWO women board in the same
house tip Georgetown way. Each
has her personal treasures set on
walls, shelves and tables In the "furnished
room" that stands for her home.
In one the decorations run to Remington
sketches and Kipling There is
a winged victory on a bookcase, a
couple of hatided-down brass candlesticks
nnd a squatty Chinese god that
once had its day In a museum.
The walls of the other room are
broken out in the rash of "popular"
art that includes a chroino Iteatrice
Cenci in a walnut frame, a near engraving
of "The Ironworker" and another
of that especially rigid George
Washington with fish bladder legs.
Stranger Wanted Whack
AKAMOKKK was digging up the wire
grass which was already asserting
Itself in the new volwot /.f ?
park \ip Capitol Hill way. A welldressed
middle-aged man, who was
passing, paused to say:
"l,et me htve a turn at that spade,
won't you?"
The laborer?a white man?straightened
up, grinned politely, but kept his
spade.
"Say, hand over that shovel for a
minute, son. I haven't had a whack at
this sort of fun for 15 years. Ileen liv.
ing on the desert, where there isn't
a blade of civilized grass in a day's
ride?"
No good-natured laborer could possibly
withstand an appeal liko that,
especially with no park guards around,
bo the spade was handed over.
The well dressed man rammed it in
the sod with an expertness that
showed he had lived in God's country j
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ji oiups rresiueru mm suii
Tho officer led the way to the elevator,
and they were lifted up to the
next floor
The officer hurled back downstairs
to the seigeant-at-arms' office to get
the key.
While tbis was going on Neal, the
negro messenger, who sits continually
outside of| Speaker Clark's door, left
his post and rushed into Mr. Clark's
private ofBce.
"The president is outside, Bir," said
Neal, excitedely.
"The who?" said the speaker. 1
"The president, sir," repeated Neal. \
"He's right out in the corridor." 1
Mr. Clark went out. Sure enough
thero was the president, and the
speaker greeted him warmly.
"Welcome to the house," said the
speaker.
President Wilson explained thnt he
wanted to see the house chamber and
that he am^his daughter, Jessie, were
especially interested in reading in the
newspapers about the new bench
seats which have been installed in
place the time-honored desks.
By that tllme the officer had returned
with the key and Mr. Clark did
the honors He ushered the president
and his daughter into the chamber,
told them about tho new seating
scheme, and invited them to try the
seats.
iole List of Bad Omens
I ain't any luck < harm going to stave
it off. 1 don't b< lleve in no such foolj
ishness ns th it."
"You ougbtene* talk like that. I
wouldn't do It for the world. 1 know
too much abut it. See this horseshoe
I'm wearing? I wouldn't dast leave off
wearing this hors? shoe for any money
you could nan.o.'
"What good does it do you any morej
than any other preastpin?"
"What good? \ Just listen at you!
Why, It keeps tine well and gets me
| customers and-'-everything. That's
the reason so miiny people have troubles,
because they keep on doing un|
lucky things without knowing it."
And a third wpman, who was waitj
ing to have her Umbrella operated on
I for a floating rib. wondered how the
mascot devotee l uld reconcile herself
j to risking that awfulest deed in the
I whole list of bad omens?raising um1
hrellas in a rooin.
in Opposite Mentalities
The women themselves are as opposite
mentally, as the atmosphere of
the room they livi in. One studies.
Thft /\t ? ^
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wishes with ull her soul that she
was capable of jloing great deeds.
The other is serekely satisfied to let
things go as they1 are.
And they are such good friends that
they take tea with each other, evenings,
and have friendly powwows
i that both honestly enjoy.
None of the other boarders in the
j house could understand the friendliness
between two su.-h apparently
' uncongenial women un.il a third woman
ferreted out what she believed
to be the cause.
Working on the principle of that
early wise man, that all humanity is.
bound in a common chain, with its
connecting link visible to any eye
sharp enough to find it, she looked
the two rooms over. And she found
them alike in one small detail. On
the wall above each bed hung a small
crucifix.
It was the link between.
at the Wire Grass Turf
j-'
before he took to the desert. When lit
had turned over a turn of wire grass
I and loam he handed the spade back.
! offered the luborer a fat, black cigar
I and wulked oft with his face a solid
pink shine of satisfaction.
The laborer watched the man until
he wound around a path. Then he
| tucked his cigar Into the pocket of hi?
; coat that was hanging on a tree
j branch and went back to the wire
grass. And the only word he had U?
say was:
"Gee!"