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THE FORT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. I _ Despite the numerous "cures,'' cancer continues to Increase. We often wonder if some self-made men do not suffer from remorse. A new consumption "cure" Is reported. This time the Tilnt in Intri In Rome. It Is easier to check the baggage than it is to check tho baggage smasher. Men who boast that their souIb are their own might not know a soul it they saw it. So far the airship's chief distinction is as a spectacular engine of manslaughter. Count among the benefactors of the race the man who has Invented the painless cucumber. It's surprising how much news people can give a reporter that is not Intended for publication. A Unit I more man has been operated upon two hundred times. Hut the last time an undertaker did It. The Russian government Is so determined to get rid of unrest that it Is creating a vast amount of It. Another comet has boon discovered, heading this way. Hut. having survived llalley's comet, who cares? It is almost time for somebody to break a valuable tooth Hading a ten cent pearl in a free lunch oyster. A Michigan doctor snvs we must cultivate health instead of disease. No one will deny it is a much better crop. Still, telephone operators probably have more than a fifth-grade child's knowledge of the vocabulary of Irritation. Gold production has fallen oft more than 000.000 in the United States, but most of us prefer paper money, anyway In view of the shortage of corn, may we not be driven to watch the supply of glucose lest It be adulterated with sugar? The American sewing machine has Invaded southeastern Arabia. Eastward the march of feminine Independence takes Its way. Women cab drivers are said to bo disappearing fro.w Paris through lack af patronage. Perhaps cab riders in Paris prefer to confide in men. Through all these years It has been sUBtomary to speak of Philadelphia as 'slow"?and now it develops that ine old city Is built on a bod or quicksand Vesuvius lias had Its temperature taken, and as it amounted to over ?lx hundred degrees. It may be easily seen that the investigators did seme hot work. That Oregon alderman who said "Let the women dress as they choose, but make them let the men alone," should go down In history with the author of "Give ir.e liberty or give nie death." A Chicago policewoman arrested a young man for trying to flirt with her. Tho magistrate took one look at her and discharged him. You nre welcome to either of the two possible reasons It doesn't take a bride long to discover that no woman can live In absolute content and a vino-clad cottage with a tightwad husband. According to the latest definition, the man who Induces somebody else to turn In a false flro alarm is a "gooph " Don't be a gooph. All Is lost! Throwing the Javelin Is the newest sport for women The bachelors who have escaped Cupid's bow will now be brought down. In the days of ancient Rome the populace was contented with bread nnd circuses. Now h demands peanuts and moving picture shows. Men In Ohio. In a contest of skill, nre defeating women In embroidery. This invasion of feminine fields by masculine boldness is enough to rouse determined protest. "City Jails are unfit oven for antninlH," says a headline.- Pursuing tliat line of thought, what offenses do animals rornmit that call for a Jail sentence as a punishment? The octopus is going to manufacture automobiles About the only flcid of Industry nf present overlooked is for it to lubricate slumber by composing lullabies. A London court has decided that a theatergoer 1ms the right to hiss when ho do?not like the performance. It Is n right, however, that that as n gem ral thing an American audience would not care to assert. The most poignant rebuke which a bad play or o bat! actor receives here is for the V GOUP BY HUERTA . i MAY SPLIT ARMY WIVES OF ARRESTED SOLONS BESIEGE U. S. REPRESENTATIVE. j THE SITUATION IS TENSE Jtartling Developments Expected to Follow Arrest of the Mexican Congressmen. Mexico City.?There has been endless speculation here regarding the efi feet of Provisional President Huerta's coup d'etat. Many appear to believe that the logical result will he a split , iu the army, which they assert has i been held together only by the force of General Huerta's personality. They argue that there has been dissatisfaction over Huerta's course in general, and that this will test loyalty to the ' danger point. They look for startling developments in the near future. On the other hand, there is a large I element which believes President Huerta took the only possible course, and expresses wonder that he had not taken the step long ago. Huerta's friends say it is no secret that ltad j the deputies believed any substantial part of t lie army would stand with them they would have overridden Huerta and taken the reins of government entirely in their hands. t ? A - _ 1 % /? mniiain ?>i nif llllfrior AlilllllCI liarza Aldape made the followiufg anI nouncement: "The deputies who have been arrested and imprisoned cannot he released on any writ. They will be tried for the various offenses of which they are accused. Not one of them bus been released by the government to date. They will be treated well while in confinement. "The dissolution of congress will not affect the holding of elections in the least. The ballots will be cast in October. The only change in the election program will be That new senators and deputies will be elected to replace these put out of office by the coup d'etat. "The governors, civil and military, of all the states have been notllied of the dissolution of congress, and all have responded accepting the government's course of action. President Huerta's defense of his action in causing the arrest of 110 members of the cabinet is that the deputies were Revolutionists. It is his lielief that they represented the Carranza sentiment in the capital. in a proclamation dissolving the chamber. i< is frnnlrU- .a.<i... deputies' threat to remove themselves from the capital and hold sessions where they would enjoy the protection which they alleged was denied them here meant that they would transfer their sessions to territory controlled by the rebels. TIMOTHY WOODRUFF DEAD Former Lieutenant Governor of New York Stricken in New York City. New York. Timothy L. Wood run*, former lieutenant governor of New York state, died here. He had lain in a critical condition for nearly two weeks after having been stricken with paralysis while addressing a Progressive party rally in this city. He was 5f? years old. Mr. Woodruff rallied for a time from his first attack and hopes were entertained for his recovery. However, his condition again became alarming. and he lapsed into unconsciousness, from which he emerged only once for a brief interval. During the night the use of stimulants and oxygen was resorted to, and this, together with his great vitality, kept him alive through the day. With him as he died were Mrs. Woodruff, Mrs. Rodney Ward, his only sister, and Mrs. Ward, and John K. Woodruff, his son, and the hitter's wife. Horn in New Haven, Conn., fi.r? years ago and graduated from Yale in the class of 1879, Mr. Woodruff shortly afterward entered a business career in New York, and soon began to take an active interest in politics. As a Republican he was nil active political figure in New York state for nearly thirty years, and until a year ago, when he left that party and joined the Progressives, Cut Off Hig Hand and Hanged Se.f. Savannah, (Ja. Paul Mcinig, a 81y< ar old white man. with a family of I three small children, committed sui , cme ihtp in a niosi unusual manner. ; lie first severed the artery in his right foot with a razor, and then crawli el under the house to die. I'neon; scionsness did not come as quickly as he desired, and then he limped hark out Into the yard and cut his ; right and from his wrist. Tie' sufferi ing was evidently intense aid d"ath still refused to eoino. so he tied a rope , around his neck and handed himself Memorial to Braddock. Union town. Pa. Plans have been completed for the dedication of the I monument to (leneral Praddock in tiie ! mountains near liere. The monument | has been placed on the grave of the I famous Kiiglish general, who was buried where he fell in a battle with Indian: in 1ST.'.. A detachment of the i Coldstream (Juards of England and I many well known Pennsylvanians. i headed by CJoverner Teller, attend ui j the eerineonles. hient. Reginald A. R. I Codrlngton. former commander of the bring a message from tiie king ? " STEAMSHIP VULTURK A WIRELESS MESSAGE SAYS A VE DAM TO NEW YORK WA MID-ATL ONE HUNDRED AND THIR Ten Steamers Responded to the Voltu Were Unable to Be of Any Raging London.?The latest accounts of i no, burned and abandoned tn mid-o will be limited to about one bund first of the rescuing ,ships to reach Queenstoxvn, but, owing to the gale, ] A graphic story by the solitaM' sur ceived by wireless and presents a tt and confusion aboard the burning 11 who tells the story, however, is clearl ness* and his awful experience, and 1 cepted in every detail. Most important. If true, is his den Volturno. According to other acccoi leave his vessel, which was still bu lion. Forty of the one hundred and thirtj Volturno in mid-Atlantic were in the ting away from the burning vessel ani ed. The* majority of the other perse other boats which were smashed agai launch them. Ten steamers responded to the wir hours during a raging gale to save 1 ing steamer, which eventually was Occupants of six lifeboats were th were smashed against the steamer's f The Volturno caught fire in mtd-Atl furiously in the gale that the steamei A gallant tight was made by the ei responded to the Volturno's call. The Volturno sailed from Rotterdi way of Halifax. Captain llarr, of tlie Carmnnia, rec* 110 when 78 miles distant, in latitude Tiie Carinnnia crowded on full steam twenty knots an hour in the teeth < When the Carmania reached the vi forward end of the distressed vesseel was at tiie same time rolling heavil; with boat tncke used in lowering her It was learned by the captain of tl lifeboats had succeeded in getting sj other four crowded front stem to stei the crew, had been smashed against t rupants thrown into the s'ea and droi In spite of I lie terrific gale raging w turno, the captain of the < 'arniania In proceed to the Volturna to help in t with much difficulty, for even on the were terribly rough and it was only 1 small craft was prevented from being side of tiie ship. The Carmania's life boat in chargi hint but futile attempt to get alongsi 11ours' battle with the waves during > of her oars, the rest being Jiroken 01 First Officer Gardiner returned to t Cpptain Barr, of the Carmania, tin close to the Volturnao and finally g< dred feet of the Volturno's stern. It was found impossible, however, t or to get anybody off her. It was a terrifying sight for passeni so elose to them the hundreds of pi dren in horror-stricken fear on the i able to help them. Captain, of the Camiania, in \ apparatus at work communicating w ius of his instruments. i FOREIGNERS FIGHT TARIFF GERMANY, FRANCE AND S^AIN CLAIM THEY ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. The 5 Per Cent Rebate Clause Will Be Repealed Owing to Protests From Abroad. Washington.?It' the consent of Representative Underwood and other house leaders can he secured, a joint ; resolution will he passed through congress, repealing that portion of the new tariff law authorizing a live per cent, tariff rebate on goods brought to this country in American-owned ships. The decision to ask for the repeal j of the clause was reached by adminis- I trat ion ofticlnls after experts of the I state and treasury departments had 1 decided that to carry out its exact terms would mean a reduction of five per cent, in tariff on goods from pruc : tically nil of the chief exporting conn- ' tries except Brazil, France and Russia. Foreign countries, including Germany. France and Spain, which claim : they would be severely discriminated against by the shipping clause. Wants $35,000,000 From United States St. Petersburg. A claim of 70.000.000 rubles will soon lie instituted against the I'nited States government hv Lnska Burdzinsky of I'etrokov. Rim sian Poland. Rurd>;lnsky claims to bo a direct descendant of Pulaski, the j Polish soldier, who so materially assist"d General Washington in freeing the American colonies from liritisli i rule. Me bases his claims on the ac- ! cumulated receipts accruing from the sale of real estate in Chicago, which land was granted to General lhilaski for his services. Revival Breaks Up in Fight. Ualton, Ga.?A vicious light in which brass knucks, knives and pistols figured, occurred during services at Center Hill, in Murray county. The light is said to have followed a quarrel between the two men while the services were under way. One struck the other with knucks. a gun wa? drawn and the tiring began. With Irul- i lets flying through the church, the minister and congregation made haste to leave, jumping out of windows r?nd through the doors, the building being soon emptied. I \ 10 BURNS AT SEA SSEL BOUND FROM ROTTER- j iS ABANDONED APIRP IN .ANTIC. nr-six persons perish irno'i Wireless Calls for Help, But ' Assistance Because of a Gale. the disaster to the steamship Volturcean, confirm that the loss of life red and thirty-six. The Carmania, the burning steamer, carried off proceeded direct to Fishguard, rivor aboard the farmania was re rrible picture of the horror, the panic ner. Walter Trintepohl, a German, ly suffering from the stress of illliis story is too incoherent to be acial that two boats got away from the unts. Captain Inch was the last to ruing and uas a danger to navigar-six persons lost fr^~ ^.usnip two boats which succeeded in get(1 which, without doubt, were swampins who lost their lives were in four inst the steamer's side in attempts to eless calls for help and fought for lie passengers and crew of the burnabandoned. rown into the sea when the boats side and probably drowned, antic and that the flames raged so r was abandoned. "ewa of ten Atlantic steamers who j urn on October 11 for New York by iived the distress call of the Voltur4S.25 north, longitude 34.31! west, i and with extra stokers made over I >f the gale. icinity of the Volturnc she found the burning fiercely. The flaming ship v, while her propellers were fouled six lifeboats. ie Carman ia that two only out of six ifely away from ti.. Volturno. The *n with passengers and members of lie side of the vessel and all their oc.vned. hen his vessel arrived near the Yolid one of his lifeboats lowered to lie rescue. The boat was launched lee side of the ('arniania the seas jy extraordinary efforts that the smashed or capsized .as she left the I " First Officer Gardiner, made a gal- ] <ie the doomed Volturno. After two j vhich the lifeboat lost all but three - torn from the hands of the crew, he Carniania. en maneuvered his big vessel very at the Cnrmania's bow within a liuno cast a line on board the Volturno gors and crew of the Carniania to see iissengers. including women and chilleeks of tiie Volturno and yet be until e meanwhile kept his wireless itli all the vessels within the rad MEXICAN REBELS ROUIED HUERTA'S MEN CAPTURE PIEDRAS NEGRAS WITHOUT FIRING SHOT. Thousand of Mexicans Flee to the United States for Protection and Refuge. I'iedras Xegras, Mexico.?-Without firing u shot Federal soldiers took possession of I'iedras Xegras, erstwhile provisional capital of the Constitutionalists, culminating the victorious march of the government army under General .Maas through the state of Coahuiia, the home of Venustiano Carranza, Hevolutlonary commanderin-chief. Wit It tlie exception of four stragglers, who were cut down by Federal cavalry while attempting to escape across the border, all of the Constitutionalist troops in I'iedras Xegras marched away with the approach of the government army. They were not pursued, the victorious troops contenting themselves with a search of the city for rebels who might be in biding. The city is policed by troops, and so tar there has been no looting. Reforms Proposed by Exchanges. New York. That the New York cotton exchange is considering some action with reference to the grades and contract methods which figured so prominently in recent proposed legislation at Washington was made appar ont through the publication of resolutions passed by the board of managers. The resolutions provide for the appointment of a committee of seven by the president to consider the question of changing the existing type standards, the question of making such changes in the contracts. Blacke Ctorm Jail; Riot Follows. Joliet. 111. Fifty negroes and as many white persons almost caused a i riot in the village of Rexco, near here, I when the negroes attacked the wooden I jail and liberated Lnla Gibson, a negrcss, who had been arrested for drunkenness. In the tight one negro was killed and the little jail was demolished. Jantes Winfield, called out the negro citizens, led an assault on the jail and had succeeded in liberatj ing the woman when Village Trustee j 11 ousen opened tire, and Winfield was | killed * ; ? - V / iiKisi LAST PANAMA DAM PRESIDENT PUSHES BUTTON AND DIKE, 4,000 MILES AWAY, IS DEMOLISHED. THOUSANDS SEE EXPLOSION j Only a Little Work Now Remains Before Waters of Atlantic and Pacific Are 'Jnited. Punama.- 'Wie (-am boa dike, the last artificial harrier .o actual communication between 'ne Atlantic and Pa- ; cific oceans >y way of the Panama canal, was * ant In twain by the hand of Presid at Woodrow Wilson. Between * .ree thousand and four thousand persons from Pauutnu and Colon .lies and various sections of the Canal Zone journeyed to the scene to witness the demolition of the barrier, and while the event of destroying the i dike was spectacular to a degree and successful in its every detail, some disappointment was evinced because the entire dike was not destroyed. Utter demolition was not carried out because of the fear that the concussion might damage the railroad trestle crossing the cut near San Miguel I locks. The two remaining sections will be dynamited at some future date. The spectators lined the banks of the cut outside the danger zone, occupying every available vantage point. As the hour approached when the event was to happen expectancy fell over all. When the minute hand of watches passed the hour of two o'clock the suspense became still greater and the | ensuing two minutes seemed like as many hours. Then suddenly came tin- muffled roar of the dischur;^ of 1,600 pounds of dynamite which sent a shower of water and rock high into the air. spreading out as it went upward, the whole heavily veiled in a cloud of smoke, it was considered among local dynamite experts as a remarkably clean explosion. A section of the dike sixty feet wide was lilted bodily from its bed and its component parts scat tered far and wide. As water began to pour through the rent made by the explosion whistles were tied down and the crowd sent up a great cheer. Not an obstruction was h ft in the opening except some iron pipes which stuck up here and there. There was only one accident, a woman spectator was struck on the head by a rock which was dislodged by others from the hillside where she was ?<in iiihi; int* explosion. hit injury is not serious. A11 the heads of the canal departments were present for the epoch-making event, as also were all the members of the cabinet of President Perras. TROOPS DESERT GENERALS I I Soldiers Under General Aubert and General Alivrez Flee at Danger. Mexico City.?The failure of General Trucy Aubert to get to the city of i Torreon in time to relieve it a mission upon which he set out from Sultillo nearly a month ago with a large force of Federal troops is explained by the fact that the greater part of his 2,000 men deserted liim before he had completed half of his journey. lie had reached Madero, 25 miles east of Torreon, when news of the evacuation of the city reached him. | As soon as the vanguard of the retreating Federal troops came into view General Aubert's men lied with all their arms and ammunition. General Alvirea, who started with 1,000 men, two siege guns and a number of pieces of light artillery to retake the city of lhirango from the rebels and whose defeat caused the evacuation of Torreon. fell into an ambuscade at La I-onia, 20 miles to the southwest of Torreon. Relying on information that the rebels had left the vicinity, he moved forward. Suddenly he fc-und both his advance and his retreat cut off in a canyon by heavy forces of rebels, who poured in a siiarp lire from both sides of the 1 pass. General Alvirez made a stout resistance and managed to get word back to Torreon asking for reinforcements. Crew of Schooner Rescued. Norfolk. Va. ? The Mritish steam ship Kilnsea. Captain Husband, from uaiveston. Texas, to Hamburg, via Norfolk, landed here, the master and ten members of the crew of the four* masted schooner John Twohy of Boston. from Jacksonville, Kin., to New York, luhiber laden. The Kilnsca discovered the Twohy in distress sixty miles south of Fryin Fan Shoals Oetoi?er 7. A first effort to take the Twolty's crew from the schooner failed. and one man from the Kilns' a was rescued after h?jng thrown in the sea State Branches Urged. W'ashintgon. Active efforts to establish state branches of the National Conservation Congress and to make the next meeting, to be hold in November in Washington, the biggest in the history of the congress, are being undertaken. There is alreadv a state conservation society in (ieorg'a. but the national officers want state branches of the national conservation organization to give fresh impetus t ) its work. Will li. Shippen of Kill jay has been named vice president for Georgia. > J?Z? mpnm10nal SUNMTSOiOOL Lesson (By E. O. SEEDERS. Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR OCTOBER 19. REPORT OF THE SPIES. LESSON TEXT?Numbers 13:1-3. 25-33. GOLDEN TEXT?"If God Is for us. who Is uK&lnst us." Horn. 8:31. Kadesh Harnca marks the place of the Israelites' first great defeat. Long and bitterly did they regret that day of unbelief and not till a new generation was reared did the nation as such enter into the land of promise. The act of that day was the culmination of a whole train of unbelief, and truly they chose death rather than life. (Josh. 24.lf>.) I. The Spies, vv. 1-3. God had commanded Israel to possess the land, now as a precautionary measure they went about to "investigate." Thia ati, nuicu nue noi h. part or (iOUi* jirogram. but by divine permission, was a reflect ion upon God's word about the character of the land. (See v. 19.) The eternal questions of man are to know the why and the how. God told Moses to send these men as a concession to their lack of faith, but it cost Israel forty added years of exile. The inheritance prepared for the faithful are always conditioned upon obedience. (Heb. 11:8. etc.! This act, commanded by God at the request of the people, was a means, an opportunity, whereby they discovered themselves. A True Type. II. The Majority Report, vv. 25-29. Though these spies spent forty days in conducting their investigation ia modern form of political graft), vet every step was a corroboration of God's word and the years of desolation which followed correspond to the number of days they ware absent from tho camp. The first or the affirmative part of their report was fine, but the negative was so exnpr. *rated as to turn the twelve trib: 3 'o an act which amounted to a catastrophe. This land and this report is such a true type of our Christian experience. They brought back the evidence of the truth of God's description of the land (Ex. 13:f? and Dent. 8:7-10) which was to be for them a ' resting place after their wilderness Inurncv iMr>H t-fi.ii i * ?--i ni But these spies had seen other things, things to discourage, viz.. men. strong men. entrenched men (v. 28). They saw those tribes God had said they would find <Hx. 13:5). They not only saw all of this but, like all unbelievers. they magnified their enemies. Today we see evil entrenched behind special privilege, we see the forces of evil that appear to us as giants and unbelief cries out. "Who is sufficient ?" III. The Minority Report, vv. 30-33. Majorities may rule but minorities are more frequently right, witness history. A great cry of despair (Ch. 14:1) greeted this report. Caleb stilled the people (v. 30) that they might got the other side of the story. His report, agreed with the majority as to the desirability of possessing the land: indeed, we surmise it was Caleb and Joshua who brought their evidence with theni (v. 231. Their report differed, however, in its conclusion. To the picture of the strength of those scattered throughout the land Caleb bluntly replied. "Let us go up at once and possess it: for we nre well able to overcome it." (Cf. Rom. 8:37: Phil. 4:19.1 Ten men looked upon man. the two saw behind man. God. a God who was able. The ten lost their liver, even as they feared, whereas Caleb and Joshua 1 { 17 A/1 O i-.?? ' ' ' " * ' * ?.?j ciijuv nit' nuns oi-uieir vision of faith. (Ch. 14:6-9. Josh. IT.: 14.) Unbelief cries. "We be not nblo." of course not. for "vain is the help of man," but belief, seeing God. in the words of Caleb cries out for immediate action. "Unbelief shuts itself out of promised blessings < Heb. 3: 19). it always has jfnd is still so doing. Unbelief exaggerates and contradicts. Must Consider Entire Story. . IV. The Sequel. Ch. 14. N'o teacher can properly present this lesson without considering the entire story. The amazed people (11:1-4); the solemn protest of Joshua and Caleb fvv. till) was met with threatened death and God interviewed to protect his faithful ones (Us. .34:7). The enkindled anger of Jehovah (v. 11, 12? is met by that magnificent revelation of the beauty and strength of tho character of Mosp3 (vv 13-19). lie based his appeal upon the necessity of maintaining tho lienor of God's \ ord and pleads for mercy and cor.:; assion. This appeal was answered by a gracious pardon for the people, but with it came a declaration that d..;cip!ino was necessary. We must remember that those Israelites had tho benefit of the full revelation of the law, yet we see its Insufficiency in predu. in.- a perfect character. l..v s will not cure the ills of tlie body politic. Sinning men must enter into that fellowship with God that is tho result of a life of obedience ere they can enter ihat delectnole land of peace, plenty and power which lie? before them. Failing in a knowledge of hint and his resources, difHcrtlties are magnified and our strength is minimized. To view people as giants and ourselves r.s gratshoppers is to eon:' defeat. !' ' i