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? THE FORT MILL TIMES ' Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. However, the girl scout seems to b? quite inevitable. As a last resort for fads women are now making their own shoes. Old fashioned people like to think about the days before the tange. i Whenever women make up theli , iuiuuh iu wear trousers tney will. , 1 The elevator man who Inherited $100,000 probably Is having his "ups" ; now. , If you do your Christmas shopping j now. you will avoid some of the rush , later on. I i Duke Ludwlg of Havarla has tired of ( his morganatic wife. He Is elghty-twc ] and fussy. ( I Occasionally you will find a good clt- j Izen who doesn't take much Interest \ In baseball. , < TM surest way of enjoying summer ] resortH Is to stay at home and read ] about them. , The way to avoid a Bpllt Infinitive Is to write It the way you don't think It j ought to go. j j The shopgirl has one advantage ( over the housewife. She gets a vacation. anyhow. ( The cruel critic of the new-fledged college graduate Is seldom able to ^ give him a Job. j ( It Is hard to reBlst the temptation to look nt the thermometer when you know it's soaring. Mr. Morgan Is now said officially to have left only $100,000,000. However, he left all he had. * During the hot weather the tango Is laid among the moth balls. Few care If It never comes back. Rochester has barred split skirts and peekaboo waists, but bathing sulta still are In good form. A Massachusetts man nte seventeen eggs at a single sitting. There's no hog like a hog with money. It appenrs that the unmuzzled dog Is about as dangerous as the gun that nobody knows Is loaded. King George of Fngland says worn- | en must not ride astride. He Is making much out of a side Issue. Still, if there were no rain where woulil the dollars come from to buy tlcketH to the baseball game? In putting over an ethlcnl eugenic marringe Is ltoston attempting to revive local Interest In matrimony? Have you noted the shortage of files tills summer? And the excess of mosquitoes? However, go on swatting. A noted pianist Is nbout to retire after accumulating n big fortune. This shows one effoct, at least, of harmony. It Is explained that those Princeton seniors who said they had never been kissed made a boast and not n confession. A New York wife blames her husband because she has lost her beauty. He'll probably swear she had none to lose. It Is nlmost a tragedy when a damsel with a stunning figure lncks the means to spend a week or two at the seashore. There isn't much excuse for the weather forecasters when they go wrong. They have three guesses every day. Exchange says that people who marry late In life are well shaken before taken. Hut the married man will tell you that he la pretty well shaken nil the time. That man who went Into an uneon trollabln spasm of laughter over n venerable vaudeville joke has now gone crazy Doesn't this call for offl rial regulation of cold storage stage humor? An honest porter in New York who returned to the owner $8,000 he had found was given a $f>0 check, which he discovered to be worthless. Thus la virtue encouraged to be its own reward. Not many of the native women ol America will agree with that newly arrived immigrant in New York who thought she could marry as many men as she pleased because America is a free country. The Inventor of a beer bottle cork left $1,000,000 to his heirs, but doubtless the Inventor or the corkscrew left even more. As was to be expected, the silt skirt Is to be succeeded by even a more modest little garment, the pantaloon gown. We'll have to thank that Paris woman lor providing a new angle to the mother-in-law Joke Recently deserted by her husband, she compelled bis mother to pay her alimony. ?%*%%%%* %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%'?%% GIRL AND A BEAR Brave "Little Sister" Gets Reward for Capturing "A Great ferocious Monster." By GERTRUDE MARY SHERIDAN. "I should die of fright," declared Netta Farbes. "I am Bure I should." Why, Just think of it. Beauty?way off on the very edge of civilization, wild animals. savateB and mountain nut laws! No, thank you, not for me!" "But David will be there," explained Beatrice Merrill, the bride of a week, &nd she spoke in a simple confident way that indicated her brave bright husband to be a power of valqr and strength in her estimation. "Well, that is a good deal, I will confess," admitted Netta. "But David can't be with you all of the time, can he? If he's going to be the great cattle king he thinkB he is, he must have i lot of work to do. I'm sure you will Taint at the first sight of a fierce cowboy, and as to those Indians?think of seeing them creeping?creeping? creeping through the grass, with their hideous tomahawks and scalping knives?ugh!" and the imaginative miss shivered in incipient hysterics. Beatrice only smiled sweetly, optimistically. It was true she had been brought up tenderly, the only child of Tond doting parents, shielded from every, rude alarm, her girlhood experience a path of ever-blooming rosea. But it was true alBO that the rugged earnest figure of David Merrill had come into her life as a hero. His love had filled her existence magically. One of nature's real noblemen, he had come from directly next to nature to woo and win and carry away to his rude far western home a timid. Inexperienced prairie flower. And when the eventful departure came, every stage of the Journey accomplished seemed to carry Beatrice Into a new realm of delight. Even that Inst stage drive over the lonely hills and into a settlement crude as a frontier mining town, was full of novelty and excitement. Beatrice clapped her hands ingenuously as some delighted child at the queer antics of I ' ^ There Burst From a Copse a Great Shagged Bear. the playful prairie dogs. She went wild over the splendid full colored flowers. Then when a cavalcade of genuine cowboys came to Last Limit to accompany them to the ranche. their honest loyal admiration charmed the pretty bride and she felt that she was going among true friends* . "Thero are no bears," she wrote exultingly to Netta two weeks later. "The Indians are poor harmless creatures who come to the door begging only once in awhile, and make you glad to be able to be charitable. But there is the clear, clear sky?oh, so infinitely blue all of the time! And such sunsets! And the boys?dear, rough, honest fellows, who come around bashful and proud of their 'little sister,' as they call me, and who Wr\lllH /Ho fr?r mo If I ool/^.l L .. viiv ?W? ti * (innvu uirill. And David?Oh, bo grand and splendid when he goea off on a horse that would searo you! And me, poor little me?guined ten pounds already, brown as a berry, and oh, bo happy in this lovely peaceful spot, bo sweet and solemn in the clear morning sunlight, that I reverently call it God's land! "As to tho mountain outlaws?booh! Once there was a few of them, but they have been driven off the trail. There's a band, they Bay, with a leader named BuckBkin Joe. They say he Is a bad, desperate fellow. There's a thousand dollars offered for his capture, bo It isn't likely he'll ever dare to venture near a ranche where half a dozen brave, powerful herders would .be glad to make a target of him. Bugaboo, all the horrid things you predicted! Come out and see me, and see what real men look like!" In fact Beatrice had become bo in ,ove with her new life, that one morning when she found the vicinity of the house deserted she was not one bit worried. David the day before had made a famous sale and hud gone off to a distance to negotiate for a new herd. Most of the men had accompanied him. The others had been given a holiday and had gone to Last Limit, where a circus had come along. Beatrice went nbout her pleasant home tasks happy as a sprite, singing merrily, planning with delight a famoub strawberry pie of gigantic proportions for her formidable horde when they should return, ravenous and d*? I lighted, at supper time. She had gath- I ered a great apron full of the rich, I luscious fruit In the ravine about a | quarter of a mile from the house, when she heard shots and shouts in the distance. These died away, and she started for the house leisurely, attributing the commotion to some hurrah exploits of the cowboys on a neighboring ranch. / Then suddenly Beatrice uttered a sharp cry. There burst from a copse a great shagged bear. Its mouth was foaming, the blood was trickling down from Its face, and it swung along at I a fearful rate in the direction of the ' house. "I won't faint!" determined Beatrice . ?"Although I hardly know what to do. Oh. dear!" She fluttered like a frightened hut terny. Seeking refuge or eatables, the bear tore through the little house garden. aimed for the open cellar doors, darted down the steps, and then? , r Beatrice ran fast as she could, reachftl 1 the house, slammed down the cellar a doors and set the heavy oaken bars u across the heavy planks. Then she c ran into the house, locked and bolted \ the door leading into the cellar and? j t sat down to cry. | t It was only as a relief to h?sr over- c wrought excitement that the tears s came, for Beatrice felt fairly trium- $ phant. She had controlled her fright, she had caged the enemy. What an j r exploit to write to Netta about! c What a grand thing to narrate to her 1 husband! How the gallant cowboys $ would praise and make a veritable r heroine of her! Beatrice was very p proud of her first exploit in capturing ' "a wild Bavage denizen of the primeval I forest." | \ Beatrice valiantly took down the t house rifle from the antlers over the t dining room clock and placed it on t the table. Then she got the axe from 1 the yard. Next she ndded the poker to this warlike equipment. j c ' She listened for some demonstra- s lions from below. The "frenzied i t growls," the "frightful leaps," 6ho had ? read about as pertaining to bears, did 1 not ensue as she had expected. She t wondered If the infuriated animal had t gone to sleep. She hoped he had not t discovered the old cupboard in which i she kept the butter and milk. 1 About an hour later Beatrice heard t the tramp of horses and the sound of 1 human voices along the trail. Six t mounted men came into view. Their leader doffed his hat as he drove up 1 to the doorway where Beatrice stood. t "We are looking for a stray bear,'"" < he began. "Oh, yes!" announced Beatrice eag erly, "a great ferocious monster?' I "Not at all?a harmless toothless old animal escaped from the circus in Last Limit, but valuable as a trick bear, and $100 offered for its capture." "Why, what is this?" inquired David Merrill, as he and his hearty crowd sat down to the smoking supper that evening, and he found a little heap of bank notes under his plate. Then Beatrice told her story, with dancing eyes. And David swung her up in the air and kissed her at its termination, while the enthusiastic, cowboys gave "Huzza!" with an admiring echo for their brave "little ^Copyright, 1913, by W. O. Chapman.) BROUGHT WEALTH TO PERU Guano Beds, Consisting of Most Wonderful of Known Fertilizers, Sold for Immense Sum. It is said that Humboldt added the greatest wealth to the reports of his discoveries when he called the serfous ( attention of Europe to the guano bedsof Peru. Near midway of the equator and the tropic of caprlcorn on the Peruvian coast ure the, Chincha. islands, whose i guano deposits have been worth mote i in money than the copper, gold) and slU j ver of the world's best 'min^s. For this < great fertiliser $1,000,0^0,090 had beep | paid up to the time that exports were ; prohibited by Peru Itself. ] ( The islands are small, high and , rocky, barren and uninviting to the \ last degree*, yfet It is said tfiero is-no j j other spot of equal size on the" earth's | surface from which so much wealth ( I has been taken. In some cases the deposits reached ( | a depth of 160 to 180 feet and are ( calculated to be thousands of years old. j Nowhere else in the world are ma- J ( rlne birds found in so great quantities as along this const. Their presence in such immense numbers is due to the j quantities of fish found there, upon which the birds feed. Cormorants, j pelicans, seagulls and marine crows, j in clouds, numbering hundreds of i thousands, may be seen flying low to , or from the islaniis. But the birds alone could not have produced the Peruvian guano, it was necessary to have the rainless climate of these lslandB in order to accomplish the result. "Rain so seldom falls that aged men can count on the fingers of one hand," says one commentator, "the times in their lives when they have seen this marvelous thing?water falling from the skies." It is on this account that Peruvian i guano in its natural state, never having been exposed to rain or dampness, has retained its nitrogen and is of such great value. Some guano contains all three elements of plant life? nitrates, phosphates and potash?and all of it contains two elements?phosphates and fixed nitrogen. It sells as high as $100 a ton. Breaking Into Print. "My cousin once wrote something and had luck?it was printed." "What was it?" "His marriage announcement." ?wfjper* _ " ' * M LEGAL FIGHT f OVER LITTLE CALF Animal Worth $10 May Cost Some Thousands. j T CAUSES ORATORY \ s tides Into Town in a Prairie Schooner > Dressed in Trousers With an Arm- j ed Native on the Bow and Another on the Stern. Muskogee. Okla.?The battle for the eu Dull calf of Brushy mountain lias >een on in a local justice court for : leveral months, and the indications ire it will continue until one or both ! if the litigants are dead or bankrupt. ! .Vhen the row began the calf was ' hree months old and worth $10. It is ; low seveu months old. Its rightful iwnership is still a matter of dispute, \ ud the cost of the suit has run to 1,000. | j M. C. Itucker, a farmci, charged his i iclghbor. L. P. Hatley, with the theft ] if the calf and had him arrested. Hat- I ey was acquitted and sued Itucker for I 6,000 damages. Itucker undertook to i eplevy the calf, but 1Ia''ey retained i lossess'on by giving a redelivery bond. I < The bearing of the replevin proceed- I ngs before Justice Matt Thompson is | 1 vhat brought as "witnessis practically ?very farrier in Brush Mountain ownshlp to .Muskogee. The litigants miployed the ablest lawyers in Mustogee. The calf?or. perhaps, a e*Uf?also :ame to town. It rode in * prairie ichooner with a Brushy mountain naive on the bow and another on the item, both armed with a six-shooter, i'he culf wore two pairs of gucny-sack .rousers, a coat of the same material md a kind of peek-a-boo calicc hat. All his sartorial adornment was for the purpose of concealing its exterior npjearance. It had been intended that , he calf be exhibited in the court room. Slut it had frown to a size th?.t made , .his undeslritble. The lawyers raved and roared their evel best. Jim Cosgrove. for Pucker, itung with Ma sarcasm until even the :alf belloweA. "This bov^-ie," shouted Cosgrove. 'has been exulted to a throne. It has seen elevated and decorated like a i w^\\ The Calf Wore Two Pairs of Gunny - - Sack Trousers. . I than of royalty, placed In purple robes ^poetic license) and cloth of gleaming jpld." And It has been hidden as If it were too precious to be seen by com- } tnoti eyes." Parmer Rucker took the stand and i described the calf in detail. Then the ( court, the litigants, the lawyers and the onlookers moved in solemn procession into the street to inspect it. At the word of command the gun wran- | glers aboard the schooner began disrobing the cnlf. It kicked and butted against the indignity, but without avail. Parmer Rucker stepped forward then, fell back, gnashed his teeth. Ills 1 description as given in the court room i did not synchronize with the psyslcal in?i rl* ilk fy%? n P fliAi onlf IJ l-? !->- ? ?uvnci I thereupon shouted that he was the i victim of hocus-pocus; In other words. 1 another animal had been switched onto him. Search Is being made for the original calf. Rucker swears it is somewhere In the Drushy inountnin country. The lawyers on lioth sides are happy. Continuance means more fees. Snake Stops Cycle. Ilelleville. 111.? Arthur Will was thrown from his bicycle the other day j when a five and a half foot blucksnake ! which he ran over became entangled ! In the rear wheel He was scratched and bruised. He was speeding along a narrow path alongside the Wildermann cemetery when something lashed him on the back. The next instant the wheel stopped. When Will picked himself up he found the snake tangled in the spokes. The reptile was hissing and trying to strike. Will sharpened a stick and treed the prisoner. Powerful Lightship. Liverpool. ? The most powerful lightship in the world with a 40,000 candle power light, baa been placed in Mersey bay. \ T T-vRarti ? i? SfflffiSfflm! , -IKJX-J-JU);-! Washington Is a City c 117 \SHINGTON.?If you will look w* out of the window of a high build- j 11 g and begin a count of the tlagpolea that point upward from the tops of j private as well as government build- j inga you will probably be impressed j t?y the number. The idea of the build?r of a Washington business structure 5ee?is to be that the building is not complete without u tall flagpole on which at certain timeB Old Glory can be run up. One some of the more notable pri- j vate buildings a flag is kept flying all I the time, night and day, and when whipped into ribbons by the winds is , replaced. On many private buildingH j the flag is hauled down in the even- ! ing; on many buildings the Hag is run ! up only on occasions of celebration; | on a few buildings which are sur- j mounted by flagpoles u flag never ap- j pears and the inference is that a flag Subpoenaed Man "Cum I THERE walked Into the hearing room of the senate lobby Investigators the other day a lank man. wearing a yellow linen cluster, a black slouch hat, and a yellow-gray beard that looked like half a yard of cornsilk. He carried in his hand a yellow telegram. "Well. I'm here," announced the stranger to the capitol cop guarding the door of the committee room. "I cum ez quick ez 1 could, and here 1 am." The yellow telegram was a sub- 1 poena addressed to A I). Baldwin, i Cleveland. Ohio, and commanded the person designated to appear before the ' investigators forthwith. Mr. Baldwin J was attending a class reunion at Yale university, and the otllce boy at his Cleveland quarters had forwarded the message to New Haven. There the j telegraph company, for want of specific instructions, had looked up A. I). Baldwin in the city directory and served the telegraphic subpoena upon the first A. I) Baldwin in sight. There was parley with the committee clerk, and explanations followed. The wrong Mr. Baldwin averred that "if the committee wuzn't in a hurry for him" he thought he'd just stroll around and take a look at this shack. "I haint been to Washington sence lS6f>," he announced, as he indicated Battleships Indiana and ( ^ I l;;^r-:Lrv3 " : <^.s% > j3 *** ' vs TWO more warships of the United States navy, a few short years ago rated as among the most powerful battleships in the world, are to be pounded to pieces by the heavy guns of the modern dreadnoughts and their scarred remains then sold for junk. The Indiana and the Massachusetts, twenty-year-old war vessels that cost more than $3.000,000 apiece, are the victim.? selected for the slaughter. The Indiana distinguished herself in the battle of Santiago in 189S, when the Spanish fleet was destroyed as it att< mpted to run to safety. The Massachusetts also participated in the same war. Development of warship building has left the Indiana and tlie Massachusetts far behind. The MassachuExperts Would Dress Bi F)W1, fanciers and experts in the bureau of animal industry are seeking some method of cross-breeding whereby the unattractive but useful hen can sprout plumage aj variegated as Joseph's coat of many colors. The activity of the experts is inspired by the fact that an ever-increas ing number of states are passing stringent laws against the destruction of hirds for their plumage, while several federal laws prohibiting the traffic in such plumage already are in effect. The bird division of the National Museum nlso has the matter under conslderaMon. but it is inclined to believe that the evolution of the common hen along the lines desired is scarcely practicable. "It might be accomplished." said one of the museum scientists facetiously, "by hatchiug the eggs in a CDSMP I gggON | if Many Tall Flagpoles I is not among the accessories of that H building. S A man who has an intimate knowl- B edge of such things told the writer H that he had computed that there aro B 500 flagpoles above the roofs of Wash- B ington city. A number of private and public buildings support more than B one pole. The capltol has four per- fl manent staffs, one on the senate side. fl one on the roof of the house, one at H the weBt front and one at the east fl front. On the state, war and navy building are three poles, one for each of the departments quartered In that crowded structure. On the postofflce department are two poles, one on the east and the other on the west tower. Some of the big new office buildings carry more than one flagpole. On the 3 Colorado building are three. Even some of the older buildings are not content with one. On the Ebbitt house are four. A tail pole is 50 feet. A few in the < city rise a little above this height- j The average cost of one of these polei.. including the installation of it, i is $200. f i In the grounds of the naval and mil- j itary establishments in and around i Washington the masts rise 150 feet, j but they are in two or three sections. 4 Ez Quick Ez He Could" I a little bronze button in the lapel of his faded coat, "and I'd like to seo ef r it hez changed much." Finally, it waa explained to Mr. f Baldwin that he was not the man ( wanted. "The committee will pay M your expenses and your day's service," j said the clerk. "What are your ex penses?" "Oh, 1 dunno," replied the wrong Mr. Baldwin. "I paid fer my railroad ticket. I guess that was all. Oh, no 1 1 had to pay a nickel ter ride acrost New York." "Haven't you eaten anything?" de manded the clerk. "Oh, sure," replied the wrong Mr Baldwin. "I et a snack in New York this morning. 1 guess it was nbout e ....... V.. num. 1 mm i IUI IIIUCU, UII less I'm hungry." The sergoant-at-arms was Instruct ed to pay the wrong Mr. Buldwin the ' sum of $20.80. Massachusetts as Targets I setts and Indiana were built at i Cramps' shipyard and were launched F* In 1893. Their main armament consists of four 13-lncli guns and eight 8Inch guns and their speed was about 16 knots an hour. Each vessel cost $3,003,333. Modern battleships have a speed of 21 knots, a displacement of 27,506 tons, and their armament cdnststs of j.ten 14-inch guns, each BO feet long; twenty 5-inch guns and other smaller weapons. The new vessels can place a shot accurately far beyond the guns of the batteries of the Indiana and I Massachusetts. ! "The best use the government could make of the Massachusetts end the Indiana is to take them out to X'hosapeake lmy and use thorn as targets for our modern long-distance guns," de; clares Capt. CIrant of the Philadelphia j navy yard, where the two old vessels <iuurififu. i ney are slow In speed, and way behind the standards i ! of modern war vebsels in every respect. The Missouri and Alabama i will soon be as obsolete as the Massa- 1 ehusctts and Indiana and will very 1 . soon be consigned to the target service or the junk heap." iddy in Much Gay Attire , ylJV h 1CK E N r_ ~ I [3%.A?H ywu 3^"l&'L' 5 Tmfe x ! Jgyj: dye house, or a paint shop. "It might also be accomplished by feeding the chick-a biddies ochre, Prussian blue and other varicolored , paint powders Instead of corn or other ' grain. One, you know, can never tell what might happen in such a truly scientific experiment." | The bureau of animal industry, how- ? ever, is taking the matter more serl- I ouslv and is casting about for some 1 solution of the subject. I