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."
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