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THE FORT MILL TIMES PuMlshsd Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. "Starve the fly" is much the better slogan. Every baseball team is a pennant winner just now. Women will wear smaller hats, but hats are not sold by the square foot. New York's spring cleaning will cost $28,000. It will be dirt cheap at that. Announcement of the centenary of the silk hat reminds us that the good : uie young. No man need be devoid of pride when he can preBs his own trousers successfully. Even a person without much other culture may point proudly to his ap- > pendlcitls Bear. A California man Is breeding striped rats, but what kind of liquor he Is using Is not stated. There are no new names to call the umpire, of course, hut then there are alwuys new umpires. No wonder the man who gave his wife thirty hats failed to win her love, considering the styles. The simplified spelling board is going right on simplifying words that refuse to he simplified. There Is reuson to think that those Zeppelin airships are dangerous con- j trlvunces?to those on board. Our respect for China is consider- j ably enhanced by the Information that the Chinese do not eat chop suey. Archaeologists nnnounce that Egypt fought a money trust 4,000 years ago. And look at what happened to Egypt! There be thoBe who maintain that It : Ib chenper to treat yourKelf to grapefruit every day than to pay doctor bills. Egypt had graft scandals, a BertllIon system and lots of other things, including gestures that cannot be Imitated. The suggestion has been made to have the man given away, too. at weddings. If coyly done, it will he a triumph. It may be true that music makes hair grow on bald heads, despite the fact that Richard Wugner wore a skullcap. As for rabbits, turtles, guinea pigs, etc.. Inoculation with some form of gerin seems to be the badge of all the tribe. A dispatch snys "lobsters are to have state protection." "Tls well to protect some lobsters for proper annihilation. An actress ndvlses girls to wear hatnlnlORK llfltM tr? mol/n n >il? I The advice is bo shrewd as to be fairly diabolical. Wifo of a millionaire eloped with a butcher. Probably had extrnvagnnt tastes and wnnted meat three or four times a dny. An eastern woman claims she would rather bo very thin than otherwise. At leaBt she takes a broad outlook of the situation. According to a Chicago professor, clothes are worn primarily for ornament. Then how does he account for tho derby hat7 It Is announced that a new Velasquez portrait has been discovered In lx>ndon. But It iB not announced who pnlnted It. In China the breaking of a cup means an oath of brotherhood. ?n an American restaurant It means one from tho proprietor. What has become of the old-fashioned man who used to write to the newspapers to say that "woman's sphere Is at homo"? itoBion conege giriB propose orgnn ir.lng a chain of don't'wed clubs, but say the membership will be limited. Limited to girls over sixty. Now York. It is reported, has an over-abundance of apartment houses and confidence game workers Sort 01 too many fiats aud sharps, as it were. There must bo a lot of poor shots In the old world. Dispatch says that eight out of every ten noblemen who come to America to inveigle heiresses In marriages, fail as fortune hunters. A funeral cortege was arrested fot exceeding the speed limit In Spokane recently. How hard It Is to lose the western habit of "hustling!" Insomula is contagious, says a late medical report. Quite so, especially when the baby of the house begins to bow even the slightest symptoms. An English woman, on separation from her husband, Is to have $70,000 a year, a town house and a country house. Talk about the land of the free! ...... ONE CENTJML Penny Token Left by Will Brings Great and Unexpected Min eral Riches. By MILDRED CAROLINE GOODRIDQE. "And to my second nephew, Ronald Blair, as a reminder of his remarkable powers of memory, I leave the munificent Bum of one penny. As he has seen fit to imitate my peculiarities in private, so may he copy my diligence, beginning life on one cent capital, which is more than I had at the start, and making his own way in the world." The legatee in question listened to the slow, measured tones of Lawyer Jones like one in a dream. The reader of the last will and testament of Jepthah Blair, stern, practical man as ho was, cast a mournful and sympa thetlc look at the young man. He liked Blair Immensely, as did every one else in the town, unlesB it was Hugh Telford, seated also in the apartment. He smiled viciously and triumphantly. He was safe ashore while Ronald was floundering in dark waters. The "Blair Plat" was to he given to Telford, together with stocks and bonds valued at $10,000. "I suppose you feel like cursing Uncle Jepthah." insinuated this precious young schemer and spendthrift. Ronald was pale; disappointment and chagrin showed in his frank, sensative face. It hardened as he fixed his clear accusing eyes upon his sneering relative. "No." ho replied steadily. "If I was of the cursing sort you might come in for your share, for?I under siana, now." He left the lawyer's office as ho spoke and a shade of anger and fear crossed the features of Telford. Ronald had to admit that he had expected a substantial legacy. He had every reason to anticipate It. It was cruel, after all his hopes and plans, and his heart sank like lead as he thought of Ruth Mason, his fiance. Where should he go for comfort save to her? It was his privilege, his ^ "That's the Real Stuff I" right, and half an hour later ho was seated by her side on the porch of the Mason home. "It must bo between you and me; all that I have to tell you, dear," he said to the pitying angel at his side. "Two years ngo when Hugh and I were at college there was a character play. In It was a miserly old fellow, in dress and actions so fully a countemart of Uncle .Tenthah thnt mnny recognized It. This came to his ears, and that will was made. In reality Hugh had mado the suggestion of the character to a chum, and rather gloated over 'showing up the old skinflint,' as he called his uncle Then when the matter got public, he became frightened and told uncle that I was the culprit." "Hut you told me that later everything was explained to Mr. Hlalr," suggested Ruth. "That Is true, and uncle took mo back Into his good graces. He even called upon Hugh in my presence to verify his statement that ho had destroyed the will made in anger. Then he died suddenly, Intestate. Now this will appears. Ry some trickery I am convinced Hugh preserved it." "Hut tho law," began Ruth. "I shall not appeal to it. Lot Hugh go his selfish, cowardly way. As long as I have you what does tho rest matter? We can wait a little whllo longer, can't we, dear?" Ruth lifted her sweet, bonny face to his. Ineffable tenderness and fidelity In Its beautiful depths. Ronnld Dreseived the nennv left tn him. Most fellows would have east It away with an anathema. Ronnld knew his old uncle meant to do him Justice. It was a rare old Scotch coin. had tho Jeweier make a hole In It and suspended It from his watch chain. The Rlalr Plat left to his cousin was a valuable property. Just before the death of Mr. Plair a deposit of a rare and valuable clay used in stereotyping and for electrical purposes hnd been discovered. It was known as onocerlte, found elsewhere only In Austria and Utah. If things turned I out as they promised. Hugh would some day become a wealthy man. Adjoining the plat was a twentyacre patch of sterile land which had been left to Ronald by his mother. It was of so little value that he made i IxS : %< . V no attempt to have tt cultivated, but secured a position as an accountant In a near city. There reached him the first week the disquieting Intelligence that Hugh was hanging around the Mason home a good deal. Then he received a letter from Ruth. It read: "Be patient for a year. I am going away and you must not write to me." There was no further word, and Ronald felt that everything he valued was fading away from him. His business went well. The penny seemed to bring him good luck. In a street melee the bullets severely wounded two Innocent bystanders, but one striking the penny glinted off and left him unscathed. Then the penny was observed by a loyal old Scotchman, leading to a friendship and a large amount of business. It was Just a year later when Ronald paid a visit to his home town. He learned that the wonderful ozocerite vein had run out. Hugh had pretty nearly dissipated all liis ready money. He boasted, however, that he was engaged to Ruth and Ronald believed this after her Inexplicable silence. In later years he never forgot a sad and moody ramble ending at the barren twenty-acre lot. In going over It he stumbled, his watch chain caught on a bush, and the penny snapped loose and disappeared down a great open crack in the ground. Ronald had no thought of losing a token which he sincerely treasured. He saw a mnn digging on an adjoining farm, went over to him and bargained for a careful excavation In quest of the lost memento. It took some delicacy of treatment to manipulate the dry, crumbling dirt. At a depth of four feet, the bottom of tho crack, the penny was produced. "Hello!" suddenly exclaimed the workman as he scraped off his spade ?"say, if this should bo the real vein!" "The what?" questioned Ronald vaguely. "The vein of ozocerite. Look here? that's the real stuff." and he took up a handful of the scrapings from the Bpade. It was "the real stuff;" that was proven within the ensuing two dayri All the town was on fire over the rare good luck the old penny had brought to Ronald, for the real ozocerite vein had been tapped. Ronald was standing on the land that promised so much in the yellow dusk of the fading day a few evenings later, when a familiar figure came up ' over the rise in the* landscape. His heart stood still as she ap preached. Then a bitter thought came into his mind?Ruth had heard of his good fortune. "The year is over," she said bright- j ly as she approached him. "Did they never tell you? It was Hugh Telford who laid his fortune at my feet, and my foolish father encouraged his suit. , Finally it was agreed that I should take a year to decide, away from both of you. As if a year or a thousand could make me forget?you!" And she lifted the old penny from the hand of her lover, the lucky penny of old Jepthah Blair, and kissed it. (Copyright. 1913, by W. O. Chapman.) j TEACHING CHILDREN TO SWIM Valuable Course Has Been Added to the Public Schools of the City of Pittsburgh. A courso in swimming has been added to the required studies in the public schools of Pittsburgh, and l)r. Watson L. Savage is quoted as saying j that he will see to it that every child in tho city is taught to swim. This , is a Btep in public education that deserves the hearty approval of everjf parent and every seeker of the public welfare. "To ride, to shoot and to speak tho truth," was tho ancient Persian ideal of education. Needless to r.ay, this wua , for boys only; girls in this day fare better than when tho maxim was ; made. They are taught to exerciso ; as well as to develop their brains nowadays. Alike boys nnd girls ought ! to learn to swim, and the public ! should pro ide means of teaching that j most valuable and pleasurable accorn- ! plishment. Swimming is a splendid sport; it develops muscles rarely used in other sports and its usefulness is beyond question. Yet comparatively few per- I sons learn to swim. There are sailors who have spent many years on the : water but are unable to keep afloat when suddenly cast into tho element i with which they ought to bo thorough. I ly acquainted. Drownings are far too 1 numerous; knowledge of how to swim ' would greatly lessen their number. ' May tho time soon como when every child who passes through tho public schools will have learned how to ^ swim. Nelson's War Stores Found. An interesting ilnd is reported from Rome. Some fishermen declare that a biM'piicru nan iuunu near i ape testa, the extreme northerly point of Sar- ; diana, a largo cave, containing an enon mons quautity of powder and other war stores. It is thought probable that the stores were placed In the cave by Nelson when he was watching the French fleet at Toulon In the operations which ended in the battle of Trafalgar. Nelson used Sardinia as his base of supplies, and it was while he was refitting there that Villeneuve escaped from Toulon and got clear away to Martinique, whence he returned to European waters, where he was at last brought to bay. The Italian military authorities are invest*gating the And. % BIG PYTHON RUNS I AMUGKON^A SHIP Swallowed Mate and Then Played Sea Serpent. nPPK UAMnC IN PANIP | i/kvn nnni/w in 11111v After Battle With Ship's Carpenter, the Constrictor Darted to Rail and Disappeared Over Side of Boat Into the Ocean. New York.?When the freighter 1 Amazon left Singapore she had aboard j In two boxes on the uft deck a regal phython 24 feet long and another 14 feet In length. William Snoswell. chief engineer of the steamer, Is an animal fancier and ; from time to time when In the far : east he purchases animals and snnkes I for shows and zoos In America. Chief Snoswell had a collector friend who wanted a couple of pythons and that Is why the snakes went aboard at j Singapore. In the Indlnn ocean the big freighter Btmck rough weather. With the breaking of dawn Chiet Snoswell was awakened by terrific screams from the aft portion of the j ship. Jumping into his clothes he rushed on deck to find a group of the coolie deck hands pointing excitedly ' into the well of the i-hip. The chiel pushed his way through the badly | frightened Chinese demanding tc i know the cause of the trouble. "Big waves they bring sea serpent aboard!" explained one of the coolies j "But it didn't take me long to dis , cover that the 'sea serpent* was none | other than my 24 foot regal python.* ! : said the chief enegineer in telling the ' story, "and before he had gone into the well of the ship to play sea serpent he had satisfied his appetite by swallowing his fourteen foot brother, j "Well, one snake was gone for certain. so I made up my mind to save the other. I got u rope and tried to . lasso my sea serpent, but he would have none of it. "Along about the middle of the 1 afternoon my python was minus his swimming tank and began traveling about the decks Ho linil fho rnnllos I terrified "Kun Fung Soo. the ship's rarpen- ; ter, is (ibout as much afraid of a snake j as 1 am of a butterfly and hung close I to Mr. Python with a ropo watching his chance. The python begnn to get ; real wicked by this time and I thought j it would be best to shoot him rather ; than take any chances. ( "When the python is about midway 1 up a mast Soo started after him. Soo , had his rope and was awaiting a i chance to slip it over the long boy's head. Suddenly that snak^. tightened his lower body around the mast and ' lunged at Soo with his head. He had His Mouth Wide Open. his mouth wide open and as Soo throw up his right arm to guard himself the snake's wicked teeth gave his hand a severe gashing. "And then began a battle to the death up that mast. The coolie got out his clasp knife and a9 the snake lunged down on him he would strike out with the knife. The python was not taking an chances with the knife, for he seemed to know what it would mean. But flnnlly Soo got in a hard cut with the knife and the big python went wild with fury. "1 called to the doolie to come down and he obeyed just in time. Hardly had ho descended the mast and jumped to one side when all 24 feet of that writhing, striking python hit the deck The big reptile colled and uncoiled and stmck about on all sides in his desperatenesa. "Then the python suddenly started toward the rail, pulled himself on top and as Soo darted toward him in a final attempt to capture the hi* I ? ? I I stridor wont over tho side. We could , see him swimming about for a few | moments nnd then he was swallowed 1 up by the sea even as he had swal lowed his brother python." Some Singer! Paterson, N. J.?When Matilda Sim- ( on saw a burglar ransacking her , apartment she began to sing The | Intruder dropped everything he had ( and fled. "Canned" Indian Songs WASHINGTON.?Geoffrey O'Hara. recently appointed by the Interior department at Washington to record the tribal songs and music of all American Indians, began his work in New York city the other day bv taking his first chonographic records of the songs of the Blackfeet Indians from Glacier National park. Mont. Secretary of the Interior I?ane took advantage of the Dlackfeet Indians being in New York. He sent Mr. O'Hara on to New York from Washington to begin his laborious task with these IndianB. Mr. O'Hara is having them sing into phonographs and the records will be brought to this city to be put in the government archives, preserving for all time the music of the original Americans. Defendants in Court " NO. HARPER, clerk of the police court, reading charges of disorderly conduct to Harry Johnson and Charles O'Connor, knowing that the charge of "cursing and swearing" was generally contained In such information. included these words: "How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?" Mr. Harper demanded. No answer. To facilitate the business of the court. Bailiff Hopkins went close to the men and asked them In a low tone whether they were disorderly or not at the time mentioned in the paper. Rut he received no answer. "Are you guilty or not?" Mr. Harper asked, in a polite but somewhat louder tone than he had used before Still no answer. A ftPT ?nmo nonfncsl/>?? n"" ? ' -W...W VVIIIUOIUI1, rUilUCIimil I Brennan. who arrested the men. was | pnlled. and explained to the court that the men were both deaf and dumb. "How could these men be 'cussln' and swearln* If they can't talk?" the court demanded. "They weren't, your honor." Brennan responded, "bnt In spite of that they sure were having a hot time up on Seventh street Saturday night. I Why Mrs. Townsend's Gr THERE Is a splendid great Dane In Washington, who Is also a bit distrait, and inclined to be lonesome because he cannot realize the perfectlyat-home feeling, which makes dogs of high and low degree at ease with the world, and utterly content. He belonged to M. Constantin Brun, the minister from Denmark, who presented him to Mrs. Townsend, and the great Dane was Introduced to one of the most magnificent homes In Washington, shown every attention, und given every luxury that the most ambitious dog in the world could dream of. But he was not happy, and began calling upon the people across the i street, at fli?t only occasionally, and j then twice a day, once spending the Daniels Gathers Eggs; SECRETARY of the Navy Daniels the other day disclosed the fact that he keeps at his country place near Washington some ninety chickens, that yield him every day twenty eggs, and he thereby put himself In Une for a lot of trouble. For when Secretary of State Rryan. who keeps a riding horse by the name of Rex. but who owns no chickens, t eard about his colleague's wealth, he made the proposal that Mr. Daniels ought to divide those fresh eggs among the other members of the cabinet. Mr. Daniels has not yet been heard from on the proposal, but the general opinion is that if the secretary j Df state wants any of the eggs from the Ihiniels chicken coop, he will have to mount his horse Rex some morn- I Ing before daybreak and ride out and 1 get them himself. Secretary Daniels said incidentally that he is opposed to having the clerks of the government departments report at 8 o'clock, because it would necessitate his making his morning i rounds to gather eggs at least an hour , parller each day. Mr. Daniels allows , himself to be an hour later than the : clerks of bis department, but makos to Be Placed in Archive^H The Indians have been singing the phonographs under the directlH^^| of Mr. O'Hara. The Indians hardly grasp the idea at first of they could sing Into a tin horn thereby record their music. Aft^^^H) the first song had been sung, ho^^^H ever, the reproduction was given theH^H In a few minutes and the magic of ti^f^D operation was bewildering to thei^^^H Mr. O'Hara is arranging to via^^^H Glacier National park early this mer and complete his records of tl^^^H Hlackfeet tribe there. . Through the interior departmcj^^^H arrangements were made to tali^^^H these records privately in New Yor^^^H in an out-of-the-way loft. There one song in particular which Glacier Park Indians sing, in whiu^^^H musical critics find considerabl^^^^H merit. This is a song descriptive the Hlackfeet Indian's love of home environment. Hig Top, the dian interpreter, says: "My people always sing this Bong/HBH because when they go away from the^^^H mountains their hearts are lonely.^^HB and it makes them think of home.^^^B ' sweet home." Demonstrate" innocence ftfe guess they won't do it any more. though. One of them wrote me a note to that effect." After Mr. Harper wrote out the j charge of disorderly conduct, not ineluding profanity, for them, they both gave a nod. Indicating they were guilty. After hearing the testimony, and on the recommendation of the policeman. Judge Pugh took their I bonds^^r^ ^^^B^B Thtf is a Tegal form which requlre:^^^^^H| 1 that the clerk read a certain formul;^^^^H^| I to the prisoners whose personal^^^^^^J i bonds are taken, after which he is^^^^^B | allowed to go free, and the last check B B on the laughter of the large Monday IB i crowd in court was removed when the B B I clerk had to conform to this requireeat Dane Was Lonesome ^B greater part of the forenoon, and ^^^B again staying two or three- hours in the afternoon. Finally he went back ^B^J in the evening, and guests arrlvTng for* -B B a dinner party at the house across B B from Mrs. Townsend's found the great l>ane at the steps. B One guest, whose dog is a dainty, B coquettish Chow, passed an awful mo- ^^B inent when she had visions of never ^^B getting past the treat linno o?iw?. Beemed greater and greater as he stood above her, on the topmost step. across the carved walnut doors. When she finally accomplished It. with the help of the chauffeur and ^fl footman, she entered the drawing- . ^B room all but breathless. I , "Why doesn't that great Dane of [ Mrs. Townsend's stay at home? He H has nil of that large garden to wander | about in, over there, and?" she stop| ped. because she was nervous. H | "Oh, that dog Is simply lonesome," fl her hostess explained. "You see they V only speak French and English to him B over there, and he g( is so homesick B to hear his nntivo tongue that he comes here to visit my Danish but- I ler!" 1 Bryan Wants Division 1 I "?X (OOH7 YOtT up for it by staying half an hour later in the afternoon. Raising babies as a fine art Is the latest subject for the output of Uncle Sam's printing ofllce, according to < the announcement made by Miss Julia l^nthrop, head of the children's bureau of the government. Work has already been begun, she said, on a series of "infant bulletins." "These bulletins," said Miss La? throp, "will be a series of pictures of Infant life as we have found It. They will be issued in an effort to disseminate and popularize scientific knowledge of child-bearing and raising in a manner that will be understood and appreciated by every mother In all . '* stations of life." ' - I