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THE FORT MILL TIMES 8 Published Every Thursday. ] FORT MILL, 80UTH CAROLINA. One seasonal occupation is going ? swimming. Nobody envleB a fat man In hot weather. If you can't swim, any depth of water is too deep. c Even Hoston hns started a crusade ^ against "animal dances." | ^ An outing for a man usually meant ' an inning for a mosquito. I t n Fiahlng muBt bo good. Mighty few stories of wonderful catches. * A woman'B face is her fortune, says ' an exchange. Yes; and money talka. f 13 The most popular currency bill la v one with a green back and a good fign ure. j r Vesuvius again showB signs of activ 1 lty. Ah a rule such signs are unmls- l takable. Still, they manngcd to play ball be- ^ foro the word "Jinx" entered the ve cabulary. c It does no good to turn the thermometer to the wall. You can't turn ofT the heat. |>< No matter how many troubles a man ^ haB. he can forget them all when a fish ^ grabs tho bait. H 0 Every time hot weather comes a man wishes he had the courage tc dress comfortably. Tho man who ate six dinners to win 11 a bet of $25 could have Bold tho food c' for twice as much. j a TongueH can get a man into trouble ? It more wnys thnn one. A Fhlladel phla man choked on his. n | t. A title doesn't seem to fit the man who wrote Peter ran. at least a n "tallor-mado" title doesn't. ^ There Is not sufficient tension In the ? baseball situation at present to make ? the fans enjoyably maniacal. : d a Excursion rates make It almost as cheap to travel as to stay at home 8 and not nearly so monotonous. As potaio cars are to bo heated in winter, the earnest hobo will proceed to disguise himself ns a potato. Little birds that 'rolic in the woods and cat berries do not get as much stomach-aches as the picnickers do. The Chlcngo husband who has to woo his wife all over again probably will not be so ardent as the first time. There Is an opportunity for some genius to bless mankind by thinking . up a reasonable excuse for going fishing. It is a mean business man who nsks the college graduate that applies for work to translato his college dl- , ploma As Lady Constance suggests, what's ? the use of acquiring a beautiful figure If you can't get rated accordingly? In New York one might sny, If one were sufficiently reekleHs, that the combination is "wine, women and Sing felng." ? To discover that last year's bathing j suit has shrunk does not daunt the j young woman who is as courageous as % she is fair. ! c People who tnko poison by inlptaka may bo careless, but what shall bo said of those who leave tho poison lying around? i A $19 steer is said to cost tho con- j sumors $99 Men arc given BtoerB occanionally that eventually cost them , more than that. | Jacksonville, Fla., announcea a movement in favor of more clothes for women, but nothing has been heard from Yuma. Ariz. It Is fortunate that ail tho bent poetry of lovo and practically all tho best romances were written before eugenics became a fad. According to a decision recently made by tho supreme court of Mis fUBBipi-i, n razor is noi a weapon. ( On the other hand It could hardly be | called a toy Now that the nary has abolished ( "starboard" and "port" for "right" and "loft." cannot somebody relieve the clash between "interstate" and "Intra- ( state?" A Chicago doctor says Americans are short-sighted. Still, that's not tho | real reason why they don't save money. The 8an Francisco Dishwashers' j union announced that It has 100 college men as members. A blow to persons who claim that the college man Is not practical. Might be pleasant to take a trip with Count Zeppelin about now in one of his airships. The atmosphere is quite cold when a certain elevation hove the earth's surface is reached [HEY WANTED A DOG lut Got a Baby Which Beats the Best Canine Living. By C. B. CRAWFORD. They were a lonely old couple, leth Earl waB Blxty and his wife, Ida, flfty-flve. If they had had chilIrpn llvincr thnv onnl/1 Kow? fho i> . i??5 vmvj wuiu iiaru iuvcu vuo uture more hopefully. But the lon?InesB that hud always encompassed hem since their only boy, Arthur, lad died in babyhood, seemed to be losing in around them more tightly roin day to day, like a tangible thing. They owned their house in tho vilage and Karl's pension from the corporation that had employed him for 0 yearB, small though it was, prodded them with tho necessities of ife. Since Earl had retired he had nooned aimlessly about the garden dot. He had always looked forward o his long holiday, to a life of leisired ease, and now life seemed to ffer nothing. Once, five years before, they had iscussed adopting a child. Hut Seth ad never returned to the subject, 'he look upon his wife's face harowed him, and he knew that no hild could ever take the place of heir little boy wIiobb photograph was he only picture in the neat little par>r. "I guess I'm too old to start caring ar a child now, Seth," said his wife, iesides, we'd be in our graves, as ke as not, before it was grown old nough to shift for itself." Both of them had always been omewhat afraid of life, and both hrank from new enterprises. The arrow round of their days had beome a rut along which they traveled imlesBly. "If only I had something, if only a og," he said to himself. "That would e company. He'd come to wake me lornings, barking and wagging his til, and then what walks we'd have 3gether. Well, why not? Why houldn't I have a dog? Other men ave one." As he expected. Adaoffered strong pposition to the suggestion. Hut eth was insistent over his tremer.ou& plan, and gradually his enthusisni won his wife over. "He'd muss up the house and cratch things," she protested. "But ?| if This Beats the Best Don Llvlnn." f you've set your heart on a dope I luppose you must havo one. Hut vhere'd you get a dog. Setli? A good log would eost $20 and wo haven't i dollar to Bpare. Nobody we know ins dogH to give away?leastways, lot good dogs." "O, yes. we can get a dog," aniwered Setli promptly. "The Society or iho Prevention of Cruelty to Aninais nas dogs to give away. I was ending something about It in the japer yesterday. It says they pick ip stray dogs that nobody wants, and ost dogs that no one claims, or that lave got turned adrift, and give them iway to anybody that will guarantee hem a good home. Ada," he eontinled firmly, "I'm going into town tomorrow to see that society, and I'm :omlng home with a dog." "Well, I suppose he can eat the scraps," said his wife grudgingly. The imminence of the event startled?almost terrified?her, but her husband's eagerness quenched all further objections on her part. She even began to picture their neat little home with Its new occupant. "I hope he won't be a noisy, ill-tem pereu (log. setn, she salmAnd tlon't you get one that's going to bark all night, unless there's burglars round. And mind he isn't a biting dog." They discussed all manner of doge that night and finally settled upon a fox terrier as likely to give the most satisfaction. When Seth had depart ed next morning Ada found, to hei astonishment, that Bhe had become almost as eager as her husband. She paced the floor nervously in the inter vals between her duties, and once she caught, herself in the act of polishing the chairs, as though some humar visitor were expected. "I wondei what sort of dog Seth will bring back w\th him." she mused. And when at length Seth stood a! the door, dejected and dogless, a great discontent settled upon her. ' p* V "(f 1 "Couldn't you find a single dog that would suit, Seth?" she snapped out. "Couldn't get near "em." her hus band answered apologetically. "I found the society all right, but the woman secretary wouldn't let me in. No, nor even finish what I had begun to say. I hadn't got the word 'adopt* out of my mouth before she asked me If I were married. "Married 30 years,' I answered, '30 years, ma'am, and to the best woman?' 'Then bring your wife along,' she said. 'We don't have dealings with men.' " "You mean to say they take all that trouble about a dog?" inquired his wife. "You'd think it might be babies they were giving away instead of J dogs. I reckon," she added thought- 1 fully, "she must be one of those suffragettes." "Well, I suppose we'll Just have to give up thinking about a dog," answered her husband gloomily. "Now, isn't that Just like you, Reth!" replied his wife. "The moment a trifle happens to upBet your plnns you want to give up. You promised me a dog and a dog I'm going to hnve." Seth looked at his variable wife in amazement. "But I thought you didn't like the idea of getting a dog. Ada." he said. "1 did nnd I didn't. When you first 3poke about getting a dog naturally I was scared a little. But I've been thinking it over since and?O, Seth, I want a dog as much as you and more," she sobbed. Her husband drew her to him ten derly. Her old gray head rested upon his shoulder. He knew it was the instinct of motherhood within her that had provoked her grief. At last she dabbed her handkerchief to her eyes and smiled at him. "Ada, my dear, you'ro going to have your dog, and the finest in tho land," he said, "even if it takes the last penny of our Bavings." "Hut it's not going to cost a penny, Seth." she answered. "Because I'm going into town tomorrow and?and? I'm going to bring back our dog." I Solh Earl put his wife aboard tuo train next morning. He was to do the housework that day, while she was gone upon their errand. And as the hours rolled by he, too, was overtaken by the ^ame impatience that had overcome his wife on the nreced ing day, and he, too, found himself dusting the furniture and straightening the chairs as though a human occupant were expected. And when at last he heard a tinkle at the bell he could hardly open the door, he felt so Bhaken. Ada stood at the door, a basket in her arms, and her eyes were bright with happiness, and the look on her face was almost like that she had worn on their wedding day. She entered and set the basket down. "Let mo see him," cried Seth, as she began to unfasten the blanket that covered It. "Is It a fox-terrier, Ada? It must be a puppy." He jumped as a child's feeble wall came to his ears and looked at his wifo in terror as, with motherly fingeis, she pinned back tho coverings, disclosing a fine baby boy. "You goose," said Ada softly. "That was the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children you sent me to. And when I saw the babies lying in their little cots nil in a row I wanted to take them all and?and?" "I wish you had. dear," answered her husband ecstatically. "This beats the best dog living." (Copyright. 1013. by W. C. Chapman.) PLOW DEVISED BY ABRAHAM * University of Pennsylvania Has Picture of Probably First Machine of Its Kind. Tho University of Pennsylvania has just discovered that it owns whr.t is believed to bo the first picture of the plow invented by Abraham centuries ago. According to the Egyptologists at the museum, their translations of the hieroglyphics show that Abraham was the progenitor of the harvester trust. While plows undoubtedly were used before the time of this invention, the Abraham plow is a combination seeder and planter, and. according to the inscription on the picture, three men were necessary to operate It. The picture was made upon a Ttabylnnian hrick, which was the custom in those days. The apparatus had a tube-like attachment, into which the seeds were poured. A vessel above the ground facing the frame of the plow was used as a receptacle for the seed, and then the harrow was attached to the back of the plow, i The Itabylonians sowed and tilled i according to Abraham's commands. and with his Invention they feared i neither the ravens nor any other birds that devoured their grain. i Royal 'Widow's Woes. Poor old Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, is again called upon to I use his kindly offices by another dis tressed lady who desires the approval i tl.? Jl.. * -- ? I wi mo iu me uivurt'c recenuy ; | granted to her by tho civil courts. The lady is tho Archduchess Isabella, i who married Prince George of Hai vaHa, a union that was but for a day. I Pius X has ratified the legnl decis ions, but has ordered as a pennance for the lady that for six months she > shall remain retired in the Red Cross ! convent and minister to the sick. - The archduchess finds this prescrlp? tlon of the pope altogether too set vere, as she desires to attend the i wedding of her cousin, the prince of r. Croy, with Miss Nancy Lelschman. c daughter of the United States minister to Berlin. In the meantime Frant cis Joseph will do what he can \o ret. lleve the lady of the discipline inflicted by the church. WILDCAT AnACKS A BOY IN MICHIGAN After Fierce Fight the Animal Is Killed by a Twelve-YearOld Lad. Houghton, Mich.?While playing about the grounds of his father's summer home at Twin Lakes, Sheldon, the twelve-year-old son of B. T. Barry, wealthy mining man of Houghton, was attacked by a vicious wildcat which pounced upon him from a tree and severely bit him about the right Bhoulder. The lad had presence of mind to grasp the animal by the naj>e of the 1 neck and wrench it from its perch on his back, throwing it to the ground Not daunted by the accident, he rushed into the house, secured his rifle | | and took up a search for the animal ' which had attacked him. He found ! the wildcat perched on the limb of a | u-A^rw j | Attacked by a Vicious Wildcat. nearby tree. Unloading the contents ut his gun lit the wildcat, the young man repaired to the house, where he toid of his experience to his parents. Medical ai<l was summoned immediately and the wounds 011 the lad's shoulder were dressed. Sheldon Barry is the grandson of Ransom Sheldon, a pioneer of the cop per country, who spent much of his early life in the camps of the Indians j along the shores of Lake Superior. {FIGHTS RHINO IN ZOO CAGE j New York Central Park Keeper Is Attacked by Animal and Has Narrow Escape. New York.?Old Smiles, the two! horned rhinoceros in the Central Park zoo, was not in the best of humor tho 1 other day. Hattie, the elephant next door, had given a long talk on wornI an's suffrage, and Jewel, her brother. ; had backed her up with a trunkful of I arguments. When Billy Snyder, the head keeper, went to give Old Smiles his annual j smear, the rhino was ready for war. ! He did not feel anu more kindly when , he was roped and trussed to one of { I the bars The only entrance to the cage is a I door in the back, which never has I boon unlocked since the rhinocerc s ! was put behind the bars. Snyder I i reached the top of the cage by means of a long ladder, then lowered nnother ladder into the cage. Old Smiles tugged at his ropes until he got free. The keeper jumped around the cage. He made the ladder and scampered for the top. Khino was not to be fooled so easily. He rushed for the ladder and threw Snyder into the air. but the keeper, much to his 1 and Old Smiles' surprise, landed on i the back of the rhino. Snyder made a Jump for the ladder, and his assistant. Hob Hurton, stuck i a pitchfork into Old Smiles. The an!- | innl was kept at bay until the keeper ' escaped. Then Old Smiles was trussed | up again and bis annual toilet was 1 made, despite bis protestations. He's ! new for another year. STUNG TO DEATH BY BEES Old Man Walks Into Swarming Hive and Is Enveloped by Angry Insects. Pittsburgh. Pa.?Unknowingly because of poor sight. Jeremiah Kramer, j aged seventy-two. of Wind Cap road > in Chartiers township, ran into a big hive of bees which were about to | swarm on a projecting beam in his 1 wagon shop the other day. The bees enveloped Kramer and ! piled onto his face and two-foot-long whiskers. The old man yelled for help and fought the bees as best he could, but he was soon blinded and helpless , from their stings. The onslaught of 1 ? " ucrn 9UUII reiiutrrfu mill unconBClOUS und ho was found by his son, Joshua, three hoursJater laying on the wagon shed floor with tho myriads of bees on his head, arms and neck which were swolled to twice their natural size. A1 hough medical aid was hurriedly sum moned Kramer died. Tipped the Plaintiff. New York.?After the court had decided for him in a suit for $9.30 instituted by Mayor Oaynor'B lawyer. Dr. George Dickaon handed the plaintiff a $10 note and told him "keep the change." ^ 'W". f" " f M^7|NGj| Uncle Sam Manufactures AA II AT ""? t. 1 i- -f ] WASHINGTON.?In the midst of the i ponderous national duties which 1 constantly beset him, lTncle Sam finds j time to indulge in the occupation of toymaker, an occupation which makes him beloved by children and admired by grown-ups who may never hope to Bee the mighty originals of the wonderful toys. Three rooms in a tiny brick building. tucked away in a secluded corner of the Washington navy yard, where the thuuder of giant machinery making mighty guns is shut out and the everlak ing crashing of metal is faint and dim. constitute the toy shop for things marine. Six of Uncle Sam's most able assistants, all experts in their line, are employed hero steadily turning out the expensive playthings. There is one workman laboriously threading wire into a long cage. Here is another slowly carving with small instruments many pieces of wood that dovetail Jackson Monument Guns WITHIN the circular fence which girdles the green mound on which the Jackson monument stands in I,afayette square are four old field guns pointing outward from the corners of the white stone pedestal. They are slightly depressed. Tho gun* are bronze, muzzle-load- j iiiK smoothbores, with a caliber of abouv. two inches. They are crusted with the gray-green which conies to cannon with age and l?nds charm to antique ordinance. The carriage? have been freshly painted, tin- wood gra^ and the iron parts black. The ^trriages are well preserved. It seems impossible that they can be the original carriages of these guns. The wheels have wooden hubs as big as b >er kegs, with fourteen spokes and seven felloes. The lynch pin through .he spindle is of a pattern that was superseded several years ago by the new artillery hubcap fastening. The elevating screws, square wooden axles, square timber trails, the brackets for trail handspike, the slings for rammer staffs and the trunnion seats and fastenings seem to mark these gun carriages as of the Civil war type of field artillery. Two of the guns, those at the southeast and the northwest corners Says Failure to Kill Flies THAT the failure to destroy house flies in a community is a blot 011 civilized methods of life is the opinion of I)r L. C). Howard, chief of the bureau of notoniology of the United States department of agriculture, who probably has made a more exhaustive study of the insect than any other scientist in America. Doctor Howard Is watching with Interest the campaign against the pest and believes that the preventive methods being urged constitute the only feasible means of eradicating tiiis source of danger to mankind The conclusion reached by the department of agriculture expert is that lie fly acts as n freight train for the output of Germville. The carrying of typhoid germs, he says, is the tly's Problem of Feeding the * *?" K problem of feeding the help in 1 large hotels has perplexed managers in every city in the world," said the hc<-i4 of one of Washington's largest hotels the other day. "The question is now being considered by many of the large hotels in this country whether it i? cheaper to raise the salary of the emoloves and not to fur nish them with meals or to provide regular meals for them. "In many large hotels there is a class of help that is fed In the kitchen, while other employes have special dining rooms. The chambermaids, bellboys, porters, scrubwomen and all employes of the lower grade are fed usually from the help's kitchen. One of tho leading hotels of Chicago allows the first officers $90 per month for their meals, and they ort\er from the regular menu. As this Is the most exclusive house and the cafe'.prices are almost prohibitive, this amount is not too much to give any officer ki fair 'y good meal. Two other hotelf a little leas pretentious allow the fii^t of ' ' .. 4?_^ ' * i' * < t x i^Gos^ i Some Expensive Toys * perfectly once their jigsaw Individualities are united in a whole. There is another with a tiny braziar melting small pigs of metal with anxious care, and far in a Bhadowy corner another is arranging his paintB. A room in the building of the army signal corps is the home of the army toy, the tiny field gun, the mule team with animals complete, all less than three feet long; the miniature field hospital and a horde of other things. Children going through the war and navy departments cry out in delight when they first learn what a wonderful Santa Claus Uncle Sam can be if he puts his hand to it. One millionaire gravely offered a secretary of the navy $15,000 for a single toy and was refused because Uncle Sam desire? that his playthings be enjoyed by all alike Hardy plainsmen, visiting fairs In desert towns, stare open-mouthed at Uncle Sam's toys and chuckle with pride at the strength which he huB shown them in minature. Uncle Sam's toyshop at the navy yard is wonderful. Here exact models ?on a scale of one-quarter of an inch to one foot?of the mighty fighting craft of the nation are huilt. Tools no larger than a surgeon's lancet are used to cut and shape the hull, for every line in the miniature dreadnought is made according to the plans of the original. A mistake of one onehundredth of an inch would be fatal. Are Bronze Smoothbores p i t of the pedestal, have the ornamented handles that were common In seventeenth and eighteenth century French and Spanish ships' guns and fortress artillery. The guns at the southwest and northeast angles of the monument are without these handles. The guns with hanules are chased on the barrel. The writer asked Col. Spencer Cosby, engineer corps. United States army, ollleer In charge of public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, about these guns. Colonel Cosby said: "Nino years ago the office made an effort to ascertain the history of the four cannons located at the base of the Jackson statue in Uafayette square, but was unable to learn anything delinite either from our own. records or from those of the war department." Is Blot Upon Civilization chief asset, but, in addition, the insects manage to distribute a few hundred thousand tuberculosis* cholera. Infantum and dysentery bacilli. As a general thing, every lly carries a quarter of a million bacill' and spends most of the summer months in scatering free samples, wherever he goes. . A careful collection of garbage in cans, watertight floors for stables, absolute cleanliness and careful inspection by hoard of health employes are the fly-prevention methods suggested by I>octor Howard. The final solution of the fly nuisance, he points out, must rest entirely on prevention?that is to say, thebreeding plafces of flies must be done away with. The majority of flies being reared in stable refuse, it ia stated, would seem to point the way for the successful abatement of the fly nuisance. I)r Arthur L. Murray of the District of Columbia health department, who is supervising the local cnrnpalga of a large number of stables and sug Rest to owners steps that may be taken to prevent these places from ' serving as fly hatcheries. Help in Large Hotels foorfr co* too sjmc fleers 60 cents for breakfast, 75 cents for lunch and $1 for dinner fron? a bill of fare prepared especially for them, the prices being about 25 per^fl^^^B I cent, lest than a regular card. Sec^fl H I ond and third offlcers are furnislu>d|^^^^^^^H ; menu, also especially prepared, them a soup, meat or or coffee and a Several New their officers on a basis mercantile business and men on weekly salary, board, laundry or other^^B^^^B^Bi^^^^B have been so lo^| I the employe.'^^H^^B^B^^^^^H