Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, August 21, 1913, Image 2
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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?"
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"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.
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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
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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