Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 24, 1913, Image 6
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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. ,
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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.
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Duke Ludwlg of Havarla has tired of (
his morganatic wife. He Is elghty-twc ]
and fussy. (
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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*?
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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."
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M LEGAL FIGHT f
OVER LITTLE CALF
Animal Worth $10 May Cost
Some Thousands. j
T CAUSES ORATORY \
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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