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, , tTr ^ THE FORT MILL TIME! P?W?>wd Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA i Ouce more "Is it hot enough ft you?" is a chestnut Changing seuts in the boat begii Its usual summer harvest. Philadelphia may be a sleepy tow but its ball teams play between nap Somebody is hoarding buffalo nlc els, for one is rarely seen in circul tlon. Physicians never prescribe the re cure for merchants who do not adve tlse. The mikado of Japan has recovere although he had eight doctors In a tendance. The open season for fish stories on, and It Is reported thero 1b a enormous supply. If nlrboats become as popular t automobiles It may be necessary I roof the streets. Was there ever a verdict of whlc so many persons said: "Just exactl what I expected?" Now that warm weather Is here w can listen to our neighbors' piano: We can't help It. One charm of a long fishing trip 1 that the fisherman gets a chance t let his whiskers grow. No doubt the generous bnseba fans are willing to give their shar of the rains to the farmers. A German doctor was fined for cal Ing a telephone girl a camel. Carat must sound terrible In German. It's a fact for which we can't b too thankful that not every year doe the frost antedate the pumpkin. In spite of all the free notices w don't know even yet what brand c uup oepiemuer Morn ' advertises. Our notion of a truly superior pel son Is the boy scout, who actuall looks down upon a college graduate If you want to change seats In th boat, and you don't know much abou handling a boat, beach the boat firs Judging by the feats of the Phlli dclphla baseball players, some othe teams could use a supply of somnan bullets. The number of times the will ca be broken by dissatisfied relatives In direct proportion to the umount ( the estate. For the majority of symptoms t physical disorders now in evldenci we suggest the blanket diagnosis "vi catlonltls." The designer of the Lincoln penn has Just been married, but a wors fate should bo devised for the deslgi er of the buffalo nickel. Not only did a young French avlj tor fly 9:t3 miles from Paris to Wa saw in thirteen hours, but be live to tell the tale Scientists way the world la not n volvlng as fast aa It used to do. but th man who haa a note coming duo in th bank doesn't believe It. A Pennsylvania woman one hur dred years old haa never worn hat. Yet on that account her hus band owna neither an automobi! nor a bank. This being a wide world, there ar plenty of places for the newlyweds t see. China Is to establish an avlatlo school. The new republic la dete mined to have all the latoat trln mlnga of up-to-date civilization. The bishop who advlHed a clas of young ministers not to be In an hurry to get married doubtless knei the sewing circle would attend t that Ixwk out for another booBt In th price of kerosene. It has been foun that this useful fluid Is highly ufllci clous in exterminating graashopperi Possibly, their unswerving faith 1 a futuro reward accounts for the fa< that, according to statistics, the a ernge salary of ministers of the gosp< la $600 a year. That society woman who advise the girls to wear trousers as a rell? from tight skirts hns no susplcio that some of them would wear tlgt trousers. If some people would think befor they speak they would have might little to say. Noblemen In Paris when sent t prison for forgery declared that the considered swindling to be sport. Al surd! Hgrw much more civilized t mob an umpire! That Chicago woman who asks pe mission to wear trousers might hav less trouble getting It if she woul promise not to be photographed 1 them first thing. .} ' \ % j 4 c FOUND HER IDEAL or Loss of Fortune and Socia 29 Standing Brought Love and Happiness. b' By GEORGE ELMER COBB. Daniel Forsythe considered hlmseli k. one of the most fortunate men in the B. World when he became a nartner with | Roger Bell. He was getting old, blf i new business cares would be llgbt Bl and Hell was a money maker. Hesidet ,iv that, young Denzll Hell and Lucia Forsythe were engage<l. It was true that young Bell was by j no means the man the old business tt- veteran would generally have selected for a son-in-law. The scion of the Hells was idle, without ambition, la fickle and a spendthrift. As to Lucia kn she had failed to find one ideal among the fashionable young men with whom she was brought in contact in the bolB cial swim. She had arrived at a marto rlngeable age, however, and the principal anxiety of her father was to see her "settlo down," as he expreBBed it. h She sighed a trifle, and then in her y ' great love for her father she decided to make a sacrifice of herself. Then, rudely, unexpectedly, came e the darkest day in the life of old Dans. lei Forsythe. With a crash the great i house of Bell, Forsythe & Co. went \ down in ruin. All of the Forsythe forts tune was involved. The Hells, howo | ever, were notorious for having ever j "an anchor to windward." When the creditors were settled with the Hells 11 flew as high as ever. Mrs. Bell had a e fortune of her own, and on that the i family could drift along very pleasantly. The first thing shallow, meanj. spirited Denzil Hell did was to break ,] the engagement with Lucia. She had expected it, and was devoutly glad ' that it had come about. P ] "We are paupers!" mourned her B father. "And now the engagement is broken. It crushes me to think of you, Lucia. 1 had so counted on your e trip abroad to finish up your art and music. Now?" "Now. dear papa," cried Lucia, almost Joyously, "I am free to have my r. own way, to really live, to be of some I ' l ' ^ j || 18 "It Crushes Me to Think of You, Lucia!" ^ actual use In the world. Yes, art and e music are very dear to me, but thanks ? to your great goodness. I know a good deal worth knowing of both. 1 am going to try to share those treasures, to Impart my knowledge to the world at a ! largo." j; Even if the crash had not come," declared her father, "it would not have meant much to me, for 1 nm gradually breaking dowu in health. ' ''Nonsense!" cheered his hopefiU daughter. "A month up among tho pines with Aunt Carrie will soon drive away all such megrims. Papa, you r have taken care of me all my life? 4 now 1 am going to pay you back." Lucia wns as good as her word. She 1 did not realize that the removal of B social restrictions, the absence of y matrimonial fetterB. were elements in the vast courage and ambition that 0 began to come into her life in a prac tlcal way. Years previous Mr. Forsythe had e given his widowed sister a small home j at Wareham and had secured a perk. | manent pension to her. This was now # their refuge. Lucia found it to bo a ; very humble home, indeed, but comn ! fortable, cleanly kept, and, what made up for all other deficiencies, they were v. welcomed with true, lieartsome love. Q1 Lucia had arranged in the city to do some Illustrating for two publications. A music house, too, had agreed to id pay her something for arranging if songs, so she began her new life with n quite an encouraging Income. Her it work did not take up all her time, and she became immensely interested in the children of the poor factory work,e era of the town. y "I declare, papa." she said, one day about six months after their arrival in Wareham, "I believe 1 never knew o what real happiness was until now. y Think of It, this grand air and ex0 ercise have made you twenty years o younger, the bank is willing to pay you well for a few hours of your time as adviser, I am earning a nice little r> sum, and oh! these dear little child? ren. Mr. Page has selected those d who seem to have the musical and art a Instinct, and Saturdays I have four different free classes. You should see " some of their drawing*. 1 am really | proud of them, and there la not one of my mualc scholars who would not give up a whole holiday to practice on the piano." a The Mr. Page she had alluded to had come Into Lucia's life quite prominently of late. He had charge of a school supported by the manufacturing plants at the edge of the town. The work was purely philanthropic. It was profound admiration for the way In which he had won the Interest and love of his poor pupils, that had caused Lucia herself to long to be of F assistance In co-operating to raise the > social and educational status of the i forlorn little ones. ? Lucia would never forget to her . dying day one golden afternoon when Bhe was strolling by the riverside i with Harold Page, discussing new plans for the benefit of their mutual r work. Suddenly Harold had sprung from her side. Then she saw that a - little girl playing in a boat tied to > the Bhore near the mill dam had falli en into the water. Just in time Mr. . Pnge made a plunge that rescued the imperiled child from sure death, i The little one was more frightened than hurt. When Page carried her to a grassy plot, Lucia Bat down to care for the weeping child, and her rescuer hovered near by to soothe her with gentle words. "Oh, dear Mr. Page! You was so good, so grand to Jump In and get all wet and mussed up, Just for a bad, naughty little girl!" sue was so gr. teful, so happy, that she seized his hand. She drew it close to that of Lucia, and kissed them both, and held them there so close together that Lucin blushed and Page looked embarrassed. It awoke Lucia to a quick comprehension of the fact that she had found her ideal at last. It nerved Mr. Page to speak out what had been in his heart for some time. "Miss Forsythe," he said, as they walked slowly homeward, "anybody would be pardoned for the common belief that you are a princess in diBguiso, and really I was led to believe that you were the great heiress they said. But I have learned that your work here is real soul labor. I have something more in worldly wealth than my humble but glad position here would seem to indicate. Let me sbart it with you." And on such a dreamy, mellow evening, and with such earnest words from such a man, Lucia Forsythe could not say him nay. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) NOBLE INDIANS STILL LIVE Homeless Tribe in the Florldas Re fuses to Accept Favors From the Government. It is difllcult to realize that thlfe homeless fragment of a people still retains, after nearly two centuries of disaster, the traditional pride which distinguished the caciques of the early Floridns. savs ih?> Christian iter. aid. They ask nothing from the United StateB government, would accept nothing, indeed unless tactfully offered as their righteous due, and through the men who have won their confidence, or through others aligning with these. The gauntest straggler who drops in at the mission store in times of bad hunting and deluged crops will hardly admit that the Indians are needy. "Injun no hungry now." he will nnswer to your hospitable question throwing hack his proud, melancholy head as if gazing into that remote paBt with which?who knows? ?he may be mentally contrasting the present moment. They ask for nothing except by way of purchase and it would be unprecedented for a Seminole to "jump his account." It is not difficult to see why the mission needed the store. Besides the advantage of location and the closer contact with the Indians in general, the mission can also, through this agency, help the Indians in general, without seeming to dispense charity. Dr. Golden hns steadily kept the prices of skins nnd furs up and of provisions down. The store is thus run at some loss in dollars and cents, but of great gain in the efficiency and Bcope of the mission's relief work. The doctor and his assistants of the landing, moreover, kept open house for the Seminoles at all times, dispensing a simple, cordial hospitality frankly accepted by the glade people. I whoso appreciation,' as well as sense I of reciprocity, is shown bv their eus torn of bringing "gift offerings" of their best to these good neighbors who with kindness and truth, are gradually wiping the stains from the white man's name. Maimed History. "Quebec is taking its place as a summer resort for American tourists," Charles M. Schwab said the other day. "Some of our tourists show in Quebec a remarkable ignorance of history; but, then, the natives in a tourist's presence show a remarkable ignorance of history, too. "I overheard one morning a dialogue between a native and a tourist before the Wolfe monument. " 'What's this here?' the tourist said. " 'That,' said the natlvo, 'is where a great hero fell.' " 'Fell, eh?' Bald the tourist. "Did it hurt him?' "'Hurt him?' said the native, with a disgusted look. 'Why, it killed him!'" Road to Happiness. Happy the man who in early life seizes a worthy thought to which, in the routine of dally toll, he may add examples In point, qualifications In due measure, and at last discern law as It lights up a welter of detail. TO ENCOURAGE HOG RAISING Southern Railway Issues Booklet MHog Production and Conditions For Success in The South." Atlanta, Ga.?In the effort to encourage Southern farmers to raise nmre hogs, the Southern Railway, through Its Live Stock Department, has issued a booklet entitled, "Hog Pfoductton and Conditions for Success in the South." a copy of which will be furnished on request by F. L. Word, Live Stock Agent, Atlanta. Ga. The booklet contains much practical and valuable information as to the care and feeding of hogs, selection of breeds, treatment of diseases, and I Pllttinc n n H rnrlncr moo* f^onUre each subject have been supplied by experts. That the South consumes more i pork and raises less than any other ! part of the United States despite the 1 fact that pork can be produced more ' , cheaply in the South than in the North or West, is a well known fact and a condtilon that greatly impedes the I progress of the section^ The long open season and the great variety of ! food crops at his command give the | Southern farmer the opportunity to j make, more money raising hogs than Is l possible in any other territory. The Live Stock Department of the Southern Railway devotes its effortr entirely to stimulating interest in live stock raising in the territory along the Southern Railway and the services of , its experts are a\ailabie without charge of any kind to any farmer or ; other person interested in live stock. Land Show For Big Exposition. Knoxville, Tenn.?'Realizing that I land is primarily the basis of all wealth and that from the land must I come fod and clothing for the pres ent and future generations, the management of the National Conservation i Exposition has prepared for the greatest land show ever held in the South and for one of the greatest land shows ever held anywhere. Scientists say that the land of the United States ! must be conserved, must be nurtured i and cared for, must he nursed and doctored and in no wise maltreated if the nation is to maintain its present ; proud position at the head of all the j nations of the earth. It Is to teach the lesson of the necessity of conj serving our lands as well as of teaching the lessons of conservation of ' other resources, that the Nationa' Conservation Exposition comes into being. In the big new land building on the exposition grounds the land show will be held. The land building, comJ pleted to the last nail, is one of six big exposition buildings erected for i the conservation exposition. Attache*" ) to it is an annex with an auditorium , thnt will seat 3.000 persons. Tlu | United States government display in I the land building as well as state dis j 1 plays will be particularly line am' j comprehensive. The exposition will , I open on September 1 and will con ! : tinue until November 1. Servia Through With Bulgaria. Belgrade.?The Servian government has addressed a note to Bulgaria for ( mally breaking off diplomatic rela , ilons and announcing the recall of i her minister. Servian troops have i entered Kotchana. A semi-official j i statement claims that Servia has pre ; vented Bulgaria from executing her ! plan of gaining possession of the Mac- 1 I edonia territories which she wished to occupy pending arbitration. The ! I statement says thaat Servians sue i i ceeded in repelling the Bulgarians ad vance. The Servian army graduall: j | assumed the offensive and the Servi ans forced the Bulgarians right win? ; hack ever the river Bregallnitz. An other semi-fTioclal communication say- j battles cost the Servians lf>.000 killer, annd wounded; the Bulgarians 20,000. Town Destroyed By Fire. Nashville, Tenn.?A special says Sturgis, Ky? a town of about 2,000 i ' people on the Illinois Central Rail- ' road, 40 miles south of Evansvllle, ' J Ind , was practically destroyed by fire several days ago. The fire started in 1 S. E. Graves' drug store. All the busi ; ness houses were in ashes and about 20 dwelling houses had been destroy- | i II 11 ft tllQ flrn n-na oHII Tt. - . . .. ...V ..... .. ovwi Iiihins- I Ul| town had no waterworks and thr 1 | people fought the flames with a buck i et brigade. x Charlton Must Go to Italy. Jersey City.?Porter Charlton will start for Italy soon to answer for the , killing of his wife, Mrs. Mary Scott Castle Charlton. Pierre P. Garven who has represented the Italian Gov | eminent in the case, had received ! from Washington the decision and mandate of the United States Supreme ; Court that Charlton must he surrend ered to Italy. Mr. Garven has sent I the papers to the Federal District j Court In Trentop and will commnni- 1 rate at once with the Italian consul in : New York. "Conscience Fund" Decreased. Washington.?Fewer penitents, tortured by the "still small voice" confessed and surrendered "conscience money" to the Federal Government during the fiscal year 1013 than for many years. The "conscience fund" received, totalled only $2,814.44, the lowest amount since 1901 and com parable with a hundred-year average of $4,200. That fund Is the only ofll clal Index to scruples but no Treas ury official attempts to explain the decrease in money received from the Government by fraud or error. Ohio Congressman Ch: \SHINGTON.?The groat am ww LuuBt? wuo recora meir greatness assembled the other night at the Nev Willard hotel, and casting oft th? cares of tariff, lobbies and land law: returned to childhood days to enrol themselves lu "Professor" Houston'* Class A at the old-fashioned spelling bee held by the National Press clul as the feature event of that organiza tion's annual "ladies' day." President Wilson and his daughter Miss Eleanor Wilson, and Secretarj and Mrs. Bryan sat in the audience which laughed and applauded as con gressmen and newspaper representa lives vied with each other in twistlnf their tongues around some of the "jaw breaking"* words which Secretary o Agriculture Houston, the pronouncer propounded. Though the guests of their rivals it the "bee," the statesmen were no' without their supporters in the audi ence. Scattered through the larg< room were many members of botl house and senate who were not t< enter the competition. There wen also present wives and daughters wh< sat nervously watching to see hov Why Visitors to Capita! IT is interesting to hear visitors tc the White House relate the pur poses for which they desire to see th< president. With many it is a mat ter of idle curiosity. Some want tc see If he is taller than they though he was, whethef his eyes are blue whether he has a dimple when he smiles, and a myriad of small detail: that would be thought ordinarily o; little consequence, and yet it is thes< very details that go to make up th< popular impression of a public serv ant. At a recent reception one solemn visaged man, evidently a professor was standing In line shuffling his feet He was an exceedingly well-read gen tleman, and called attention to the fact that 25 of the 27 presidents o the United States had parental ances tors in the British Isles?-England hav ing 16, Scotland two, Ireland three and Wales one. Martin Van Ilurei nna i neociore Koosevelt represented : Hutch ancestry, he said, and the curl ous fact is noted that although Franci has been so closely associated with tin birth and history of the country, there has not been a president of French 01 Latin blood. "Hut with the influx o immigration from the south of Eu rope," said the professor, as he shift ted to the other foot, "this conditioi is sure to change." The physiognomy of the men toda3 as compared with the portraits of met who had lived in former times pre sents a most interesting study. Tin He Can Tell Them by tl OF the several hundred polici chiefs who came here for the con vention one of the most interacting characters is Chief Henry Curran ol Nashville, Tenn. In addition to having one of the besl regulated departments in the countryChief Curran attained fame June 4 1908, at Detroit, Mich., when the police convention met there, by throwing a colored man out of a restauarnt when he attempted to ent at the same table a warrant lor t urran s arrest wa* sworn out, but before it could br served the chief grabbed a train ant] Men Skated and Women THK crowd that frequents the soda fountain nt the drug store at the corner of F and Fifteenth streets, just across from the Treasury building where women in their new gowns leave the street cars to commence the parade up fashionable F street, had a grand time for two hours the othet lay. A barrel of syrup dropped from thr tail end of a transfer wagon, the head of the barrel came out, and f?0 gallon* of juice covered about 200 square feet of sidewalk. Five women wearing ttght-tlttlnp skirts went down almost in a hear when they struck the syrup. The tight skirts kept them front skating through as the men did. Soon an army of drug clerks were out 'shooing" the people nround th? slick spot and escorting those who fell ampion Speller of Capital these representatives of the "common peepul" were going to acquit themselves. Fourteen statesmen and an equal number of newspaper men faced "Professor Houston when he rnllnit Mo roll, but when after neaily an hour had elapsed, during which time tho teacher had selected some vT the most difficult specimens from the well-worn f "blue-backed" speller, iTe'presentatlve Frank B. Willis of Ohio was the lone f occupant of tho stage. Not only had tho doughty represen, tative shamed tho press, but he had j trailed the colors of the senate In tho j dust as well. His last rlvel was Sena^ tor Miles Poindexter of Washington, , | who had tripped on "hydrocephalus" . by adding an o to the last syllable. "Hydrocephalus," which for the edification of the general public Mr. Web'r ster and other authorities define as "an accumulation of serout lluid with' In the cranial cavity," or "fcater in the head," appeared to be a ft vorite word , with "Professor" Houston and a stum. bling block for his pupils. It had f proved a Waterloo for Ite-presentativo Thetus \V. Sims of Tennessee before Senator Poindexter stumHed over it. i The statesmen only won by "two t up" however, for Ira E. Bennett had - upheld the spelling reputation of the ? press manfully, until the pronouncer i sprang bdellum upon him. He paused > to rack his brain and theo made his ? best effort with "delium," which sent ) him from tho stage, to leave the vjo v | tory between the house a:?*l senate. Call on the President J [ president necessarily reflects the type - of his times. The stately dignity of official position in years past, with tall - 1 collars, stuffy cravats, laces and ruf, lies, has passed away, and now in. | stead of gaining personal distinction - | through rich attire or an appearance ? of official position, it is studiously f avoided, in response to the popular - j ideas of democracy. The only op | portunity accorded the American of . i adorning himself in gold and lace is l j in the precinctB of the lodge room or i on the governor's staff, for even tho - | military itself is becoming most se; j date and unobtrusive in military trapi , pings. J I As we waited our turn for an audir ence with the president, there was f plenty of time for discussion on all - j these points, for there were some 15 - prospective postmasters in the adl j vance guard, and progress was slow. i Am wo ndvnnfAH tn flm K*x*wi r line iny pedagogue friend put on his i extra pair of glasses to get a good pro tile view for his ethnological study ol j presidents.?National Magazine. lie Color of Their Hair be!kt it for Tennessee. In the meantime hundreds of southern men and woni'en contributed to a fund amounting to $10,000 to defend Curran in the courts should he bo brought back for trial. Anothpr thing has made Chief Curran famous among his brother chiefs; his ability to tell where a negro is from by the color, kinkiness and length of the hair, and shape of the head. Tho ? other day at the Raleigh hotel the . news of the chief's power leaked out ; among the colored waiters. One for r curiosity asked the veteran: "Mister, can you tell where I'se from?" "Take > off your hat, nigger," commanded Chief , Curran. The waiter did so. "Why 1 , 1 would say that you were from Pensa> j cola, Fla.," said the chief And the i chief was right. "Great Gawd, mister, i how does you do that?" the waiter inquired. The chief llgured out this i j way: "Negroes from Pensacola and i ! that particular section of Florida have I ' a peculiar reddish hair," Flopped in Spilled Syrup 1 into the store to have their clothes t cleaned. Three men who dashed to the rescue ! of >yomen lost their feet and went > down with them. Twenty-6ix skirts and fourteen men's , suits suffered. Several women whose skirts were a little high and who s wore up-to-date summer under-outhts : declined the offer of drug-store help I | and hurried houia