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pgip THE FORT MILL TIMES ' Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. Keep cool and It won't be half bo hot. IllesslugB on the man who Invented the Butnmer vacation! Our respect for orotic explorers rises with the mercury. There Is only one way to account for the recent excess of thunderstorms. Picnics! Edison says there will be no poverty 100 years hence. Too late to do us any good. Ileholding those Hulgarian bathing su its, one gets a new idea of Halkan atrocities. China claims to have invented the photograph 1,000 years ago, but it has almost lived It down. Still, the real test of a Hoy Scout should be his willingness to do the chores around the house. if gasoline were chenper it might bo genuine charity to glvo the castoff automobiles to the poor. Sandals are cooler than shoes and cost less Perhaps theBe are reasons why so few of us wear them. Only fO.noo.OOO a year for corsets In United Stntes! That's certainly squeezing dough out of the public. It is a vain masculine hope that the less material the new fashions call for the cheaper will be the cost of the dress. Hoy seouts In France nro known bb "eclaireurs" and little Willie naturally wants to know if they are chocolate Boldlers. We Americans are nn ingenious ' race, as is evidenced by the woman who took to drink because her husband snored. . % The Fngllsh chorus girl who got $250,000 In lieu of n title In a hrenchof-promlse ruII will probably live to bless her luck "Keep falling in love If you would keep eternally young," says a philosopher. He should have added, "with the same person " Possibly the greatest tragedy of the bench In when the last year'B bathing suit BplltH up the back 100 yards from the dressing booth Henri Koehefort's achievement of living to be eighty-three seems to establish that the French duel 1b a healthful form of exercise. A new religion In Chicago tenches Its adherents to worship their feet. Must be something after all In those stories about Chicago feet. A supreme test of friendship Is , when the neighbors ask you if you ; will take care of their dog while they are away on their vacation We know of one man who greatly enjoyed the sermon last Sunday. He dreamed that n heh uncle had died and left him a million dollars. A Philadelphia mnn says he has dis- ! covered a way to burn water. That's nothing new. Wo snw a man burning up a river In a motor boat lust sum-, mer. The man who has been furnishing motive power for i pen all winter Is Just making his annual discovery that rowing a boat is not as easy as It looks. An export ndvlseB blondes to wear colored glasses when they go into the ; sunlight Which showa how much some experts really know about blondes. The mosquitoes and flies which were not swatted last summer In the annual war ot extermination, are now singing pnens of victory over their survival with biting refrains. A lot of valuable time Is being wasted nowadays listening to the thrilling tales told by friends who have Just returned from the national convention of some, fraternal order. The man wno has written n great many words In a very small space has bobbrd up again This time he used a postal card and wrote 7.10'J words on It when ho might have been doing something useful Tho Pennsylvania hlacksnake which climbed a tree to eat Knglish sparrows must have acted under the be llor that tho tlah story had had the field of picturesque fiction to itself entirely too long. While the wife of his bosom is away the uverage man feels as though he were regularly molting buttons Our notion of n truly superior person Is the boy scout, who actually looks down upon a college graduate! Ix>ng distance philanthropy is a doubtful business For example, a Hostonian, dead these 59 years, left $500 a year to be spent in buying cook stoves for the poor, who have long since discarded cook stoves in favor of gaa and electric heaters. ~ V - ,-j $3?S33?6SS?33i833?6SK$3$ PRICE OFJ SOUL How One Girl Gave All Her Money to Save Another From Ruin. By JOHN LAWSON. "Say, Belle, have you heard the aewB? Miss Harrison's going to leave!" The girls chattered animatedly at this piece of information. Flora Harrison had been nine years with Kemp and Waggers; she had started as cash girl, had become. In tho ordinary course of events, a saleswoman, and only two years before was promoted head of the millinery department. And now she was going to leave. "Yes, It's true, glrlB," Bho said, smiling. "No, I haven't gotten a better Job. Fact Is, no more jobs for me. I've got $500 saved up, and It's the country for Flora Harrison, with boarders and a chicken farm." And nobody could imagine how she longed fob the country home that she had planned. Five hundred would start her! Sho had been Baving for the whole nine years, and a lucky plunge in stocks had doubled her savings In a single week. Now Bhe was through with Kemp and Waggers forever. "Her with $500 and me trying to save ten dollars for an ostrich plume!" said Belle in deep disgust. The words and the envious look were not missed by Miss Harrison. She knew Belle Bates was a flighty, foolish sort of girl?Just the sort that was In need of some one to take care of her. She lived alone In a cheap boarding house, and Jones of the men's furnishing department had spoken with her several times. Miss Harrison had noted how Mr. Jones piled on the flattery, and how foolish little Belle's face lit up when he approached her. And Jones was a married man with two children. But that Belle might not know. Bel]p Bates had Bet her heart on that ten-dollar ostrich plume. And ten dollars was as remote from her as a hundred. Who could save ten dollars on seven a week, with clothing to bo paid for and carfare as well out of her meager balance, which remained after the landlady had been satisfied? Miss Harrison had thought of giving Belle that plume, but ten itnllnm bmhM ?? ? ??*? - 1 - ? ? uwimia nuuiu IUUAU ((Ul lO tX UUlu 111 "I Guest He's Just Good for the Movies.'" her own hard-earned savings. Still, If she did not give It to her, Jones would. Belle, the chatterbox, could not have kept bo tremendous a secret from the bland and unctuous Jones, and Jones, with his $30 a week, as head of the department, would cer? tainly consider that ostrich plume nnlw <1 4^ #? ?Vlnn 1I?H uuij a iiiraiio iu <?n cuu. iuioo nairiBon had heard many things about Jones during her nine years. "Won't Mr. Merrick give you that plume, ray dear?" sho asked Bcllo. Everybody knew that Bello was supposed to bo engaged to Frank Merrick, ono of the clerks. But out of $12 a week it is difficult for a man to buy his fiancee an ostrich plume. "Him?" said Belle, laughing scornfully. "Why, that fellow's just a skate." She looked down at the cheap little ring ho had given her. "He hasn't no money, Miss Harrison," she continued. "But I thought you were engaged to him, my dear." said MIbs Harrison. Belle laughed derisively. "I guess he's Just good for the'movles,' " she said. "No, Miss Harrison, I'm too wise to fall for married life in furnished rooms." "If only you could know that you are Just a foolish girl!" thought the other, but Bho refrained from speech. She could no dothing. In fact?did nothing until a few nights later, when she saw Belle and Mr. Jones In earnest consultation outsldo a milliner's window on a street much frequented by shoppers. They were laughing, and Hello was pointing to a tnagnillcent hnt, with a long, drooping plume, the wholo creation being markod 124.90. Miss Harrison's mind was made up quickly. She, too, bad been through similar temptations, but sho was of stronger fiber than Belle. She detained her next evening, under some pretext, until the rest of the girls had gone home. Then she accompanied her to the room In which they dressed. "Belle, I want you to come home with me tonight," she said. * "I can't. Miss Harrison," said the girl. "Why not, my dear?" V ' * "1 have a date," said the other, pertly Blipplng Into her coat and moving toward the door. Miss Harrison I turned the koy. "You are going to moot Mr. Jones," she said. Belle's eyes widened with alarm. She looked at the locked door. "Suppose I am," she faltered. "You open that door at once, Miss Harrison," Bhe continued angrily. "What | business 1b it of yours?" "You shall not meet him," answered Miss Harrison. "He is a married man." "Open that door or 1 shall scream for ; help. Who are you to tell me who I shall meet?" "My dear," said Miss Harrison sadly, unlocking the door, "you can go if you must. But you need a friend more just at thiB moment than you have ever neded one." Belle halted, and the ready tears gushed from her eyeB. She sank into a chair. "J. am so miserable," she sobbed. Miss Harrison knelt benlde her. "Tell me about it. Belie," she said. "It's all right for you, with your $500," sobbed the girl. "I Just set my heart on having a plume, and 1 can't ever Bavo the money. And he?he promised me one If 1 would just have Bupper with him?what's the harm?" "Belle, do you knt'w the history of those ostrich plumes?" Miss Harrison asked. "Well, listen, then. Thoso tine, long, knotted feathers aro tied by poor girls, poorer than you, by day and night, to adorn vuln women's hats. But the girls who make them, they know they'd rather toil and labor than wear them and lose their bouIs and the respect of men and women. It's only silly, thoughtless women who put an ostrlclj. feather above their characters. Belle, dear, you are loved by an honest man. iBn't hlB love better than Mr. Jones with his false words and llattery?" "1 know!" cried Belle. "But how can I marry Frank and live liko a drudge? It may be all right for some women, Miss Harrison, but I Just can't do it. And he will never be anything but an underpaid clerk. What is there before us? I tell you, I'd rather have ostrich feathers and no character, and no real love, than be a poor man's wife. O if only we had a little money of our own?Just something to put heart into us instead of this long round of drudgery, day after day, till wo grow old?and then nothing." "If you had money." said Visa Har-1 rlson gently, "what would you do with it?" "Frank used to talk of a chicken farm," she said. "But he doesn't hope for anything now. It's no use, Miss Harrison; 1 may be bad, but I must | llOVA ^1.. uaw,v.M pmmc. Impulsively Miss Harrison took out her purse wherein, neatly folded, lay five $100 bills. She had meant to pay them for the farm that night. Now she thrust them into the girl's hand. "I'll give you thlB for your soul, Belle," she said. "Will you and Frank leave this city tomorrow, now, with this?" "Miss Harrison?" "I can get plenty more," the elder ; woman answered. And she raised the frightened girl to her feet and led her gently out of the store. She put her on a car and looked after hor till the car was lost in the distance. | "I wonder why," she mused, "you ! can't have love and money both at the same time?" (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chaoman.) HIS START AS A FINANCIER " Dennis Enthusiastic Over Proposition of Saving, But of Course, He Had to Live. While building a hotel in St. Augus* 1 tine, Fla., the late Mr. H. M. Flagler had in his employe a man who, when sobor, was a valuable workman. But Dennis was self-indulgent and pay day was sure to be followed by his prolonged absence from work. yvuiih on a tour or inspection one day, Mr. Flagler overheard tho old man talking to himself, unconscious that ho had a listener. "Thank God!" exclaimed Dennis, "only two more hours to keep sober." ] Mr. Flagler approached him as though he had not heard him, and said: "Dennis, you have been receiving good wages for a long time. Have you anything laid up for a rainy day?" "Divll a thing, sor, but an umbrelly,'* replied Dennis, with a grin, "and i that's broko." "Don't you think It would be a good thing for you to put part of your.] wages In the savings bank when you get them?" askod his employer. "I do, sor," agreed Dennis with the alacrity which ho always exhibited In accepting any proposition that was made to him, good or bad. The following day, unabashed by the prosenco of Mr. Flagler, he applied to the bookkeeper for an advance upon his wages for the ensuing week. "How 1b this, Dennis?" Inquired Mr. Flagler, "you were paid only yesterday. "Wasn't It yerself bid me put me wages In the bank, sor? Didn't I do ^ as yer bid me?" replied Denrls with an Injured air, "and how can I be liv- ! In* this long week widout any j money?" Extended Honeymoon. The modern honeymoon Is mucft shorter than that of our grandparents. Still, a few years ago a German named Scharlieb and his bride spent a three years' honeymoon. On their wedding day they left Berlin on a tour round the world, which Included a visit to every European capital, and it was just three years before they were home again. It was stated at the time that they had traveled over 40,000 miles, and spent nearly ?5,000. JUST TO SEE IF = HE COU RUN IT Novice Killed a Child With a "Borrowed" Motor Car. PULLED WRONG LEVER I. Tried to Put Brake on and Throw CTutch, but Instead His Foot Caught the Accelerator and the i Machine Gave a Great Jump. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Edward Levy went by Douglass street the other afternoon and saw at the curb" a motor car which he recognized as ofie his broth- I er-in-law had purchased a few days \ ago. The idea came into his head, as he told the police lutcr. that he "wanted to see if he could run it." i i Within five minutes he had driven crazily around the blcck, startling pedestrians. and had let the machine get away from him, plunge up on the sidewalk and plunge into a crowd, mortal- j< ly injuring a child, and was being 1 protected by the police from an excited mob that wanted to kill him. The motor car is owned by Bernet Wlseff, a fur dealer. He was calling at 18S5 Douglass street when Levy came along. After Levy siarted the machine he managed to get it around the block, driving like a novice and causing people to rush olT in panic at all stuges of the journey. When he got back near where he started from the machine gathered speed. He tried to put the brake on and throw the clutch, but Instead his foot caught the accelerator and the machine gave a great jump. He lost control of the steering gear, and the car went Into the curb, bounding across the sidewalk and into a crowd of people airing themselves at the corner. In the midst of the crowd were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frcefeld of 1 i'itkin avenue and their twoyear-eld ron. Abraham. The machine made straight for them, tlie mother : almost going under tin wheels. The child was hit and thrown out of the way, and the machine stopped hard against the wall of a house. In an instant a movement was start- ; ed against the terrified driver. The i \ Lost Control of the Steering Cear. people were frenzied, and they shouted a desire to do harm to him. Luckily for him. there were Bevhral policemen there. Patrolmen Heheuser und j Petrus seized Levy, starting olT to the j Hrownsville station with him, but not I until they and other patrolmen had used violent means to shake off the J mob that tried to get at the prisoner, j They were followed all the way to the police station. Meanwhile the injured boy had been hurried in a physician's, car to St. Mary's hospital. ills skull was crushed in. lie died lf? minutes after his nrrival at the institution. When Wlseff. ignorant of what had happened, came out of the house, he j set up a shout that his machine had been stolen. When informed of what really had occurred he almost col i lansed rlor1jtrini? thnt tie vi?u not to. i sponsible, hs the machine had been taken without his permission. This fact will cause an additional charge to be added to that of homicide, which Levy now faces. GIANT EAGLE ATTACKS WOMAN Bird Measuring Nine Feet From Tip I to Tip Is Finally Killed by Georgian. Moultrie. fJa.? Mrs. ('. \V. Hall, who lives near here, was attacked by a monster eagle the other morning. Finding the huge bird attacking a pig. she tried to drive It away, when the eagle turned on her. The woman was badly scratched and beaten by the bird's wings. Her husband hurried to his wife's relief I The eagle, still defiant, attacked Mr nan ann was kiiiccj wiin a rence rail It measured from tip to tip nine fret, and la the largest i ver killed It this section. Oldest lllinoisan. Pann. 111.?Dr. James Lynn. 108. old est resident of Illinois, gave a dinner o 108 of his friends to celebrate hi? birthday, lie cut the cake Into 10Jpleces, but it wus a big one. v - r a *;r msniNQi ^ s roig Prehistoric Bones Are Fo nr \SHINGTON.?James W Qldl?y, ff assistant curator of the National museuin, has completed his work of exploring the cave at Corrigansville. Md., for the bones of prehistoric animals. The cave was opened when the big limestone cut was made for a railway extension from Cumberland to Connellsville. Thirty-two distinct forms of prehistoric animals were found, and when the bones are cleaned up and looked into closer the number may run up to more than 40. There are in all about 17 skulls, and ten forms are represented by good skulls. In the And one of the most Important yet made is the following: The mastodon, which lived in about the midpleistocene period, estimated at 150,000 years or more ago. An extinct species of the horse, similar In some Congressman Fields Tells <(V1T I EN I was making my camIt puign last fall." said Representative Fields of Kentucky, "I Btarted out to cover a country in which 1 was but little acquainted. Relieving, like l'olonius. that a fine front was a valuable asset. 1 arrayed myself in my best. When 1 got off the train at the county scat, whence 1 was to make my start, 1 met the candidate for Judge on my ticket, and making known 10 iiiiu niy views, 1 soumu oe agreed with me. ' Accordingly, after putting up in the best quarters at the best hotel in the town, we next morning engaged the handsomest rig the best livery stable could boast, and, with a haughty driver on the box, sallied forth to conquer. "Night overtook us some mile* from the village at which we had expected to put up, hut soon ufter It fell we spied through the gloom an imposing looking mansion with many lights agieam. "Ringing the bell, we announced ourselves; whereupon a hospitable gentleman came out and ushered us into a parlor whose modest furnishings seemed out of keeping with the dignity and size of the mansion. When Boy "Put One Ovei CARTER GLASS of Lynchburg. Va., has his seat in the lower house tied down so hard and fast that the folks down In his district consider it almost a sacrilege even to tulk about running against him. There was once 4 4 4 . 414 , 114* ?* 4 *41. **11^11 4IHJ ? UIVH (I Mill I come so easy, and in those days Glaas made it a practice to get out in a buggy and cover his entire district, shaking every voter by the hand and kissing all their babies. On one of these tours Glass, driving nloig a lonely stretch of Virginia road, came to a huge field of scraggly corn being hoed by a boy of perhaps fifteen years. Glass drew his horse up, leaped out of the buggy, walked over and leaned against the fence. After n moment the boy, stopping hoeing, Declares He Will Be Moi Frank n. hester. chief of a sub division of the division of war claims of the pension bureau, is at his desk again. Commissioner Salt/.gaber decided that the fin days' suspension ho had imposed upon Mr. Hester was too severe for such a trifling indiscre tion as Mr. Heater had committed. In the laticr's subdivision was a pretty temporary clerk who had completed her work and was about to leave. She had been a favorite, and as she was leaving she made a round of the room and planted a smacking kiss upon the mouth of every woman clerk Reaching the desk of her now former chief, the smiling young woman, amid the titters of the other clerks, challenged Mr. Hester with: "Aren't you going to kiss me good by, too?" Mr Hester, with mind engrossed on n official paper, but with chivalry up pcrmost. rose to the occasion and gave he young woman as good an osculaory farewell as she presented The tale was carried to t'ommlsloner Saltzgaber, wbo promptly suspended Mr. Hester for 00 days, for (.he story bad been enlarged upon on gJ^CITYB und in a Maryland Cava^M respects to the horse of the present' day, but of which there was living \ ^HHj at tnut time at least 14 distinct Bpe- { cles. The tapir, now to be found no ' farther north than Central and South flH America. 9H An extinct peccary, a*hoglike anl- VH mat of more than twice the size now round in Central America. Bears, two ]H small ones, about the size of the coin- IK mon black bear, but of extinct species. K and one large one about the size of a fl grizzly bear. \ S The wolverine, an extinct species of an animal not now known except in 1 northern Canada. An extinct species 1 of a large dog like animal about the 1 size of a gray wolf, also ono or two J smaller species of the same animal. now extinct. Several species of the rodent family, including woodchuck. poqpupine and small field mice families. Two now extinct species of the rabbit family, one about the size of the jack rabbit, the other belonging to the group of little coney rabbits, now known only on the high peaks of the Rocky mountains and the high plateaus of Asia. Three different forms of bats now living in this vicinity, and one form of which is now living in New Mexico. a Good One on Himself "When, later, wc went to a belated supper, we were astonished to find a spacious dining room furnlbhed aa barely as the parlor. "It's the true yeoman Bpirlt," explained the candidate for judge, and we got through a most meager meal aa best we could. ^ "We were up betimes next morning, after sleeping in most primitive quar tera. that did injustice to the nobie mansion, and after a breakfast on k par with the supper we got in our rig: and started away. Reaching the iu|m- -. ^ mit of a hill some half a mile away, qpi we paused to look back at our night's resting place. Just then a horseman drew up beside us. " What place is that?' I queried. " 'That ?' he replied. 'Why, that's the county poorhouse!'" r" on the Congressman I came_ over and also leaned on the fence on the other side. Glass introduced himself, and got directions as to how to find the boy's father. Nevertheless, he stopped to chat a while, but the toy was silent and then some. Finally Glass turned i to the crops 'Torn rows are pretty far apart, aren't they?" he asked. 'Wop. Planted "em that way," responded the boy, briefly. "Looks pretty small to me for this time of year," said Glass. "Planted small corn." said the boy, and spat contentedly. "Maybe you were a little late in planting?" suggested Glass. "Nope." snid the boy succinctly. "We aim to have late corn." Glass was now rather peeved. He looked at the boy sharply.. The lat i^r was -cnawin'" tobacco, and gazing calmly out Into space "H'mmm," said Cllass. clearing hla throat. "There isn't much between you and a fool, is there?" The boy looked up quickly, and then spat ruminatively. "Nope," he remarked. "JuBt the fence " *e Careful in the Future its final recital. Investigation by~thb commissioner resulted in the withdrawal of the suspension order. Mr. Hester declares he is going to 1 careful of his kissing in the future. To Meet Demand for Dialect. "Papa, how often have 1 told you not to say 'I seen you?' " "Now, ye look a-here, Maggie," Interrupted Pnclo Charlie Seaver, layi ing down his knife and fork, "maybe you will make your livin' by good i i grammar and higher eddecatlon; but ' your ma and me, we're just obliged to take in summer boarders, and they demand th' dialect if they pay our rates So what 1 says goes, whether she's grammatic or notl"?Puck'* t i Qoarterly. A