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W': THE FORT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL. 80UTH CAROLINA. Baseball magnntee never got out of tbe limelight even In winter. Modern dressce seemed to aid more u oiiuniUK KUUU luria man lasie. Good form and Rood policy require one now to laugh at the Janitor's Jokes. ? Tights and titles are said to go to- j getlier over in Knglnud. One captures tho other. Those who start out to tear to tatters the styles generally wind up by wearing them. Estimates place the egg breakage loss nt $75,000,000 yearly. Throwage figures are not given. Tho hunters' license fee lu.n been raised in several states. Evidently guides are in demand. Three months from now we will all bo wondering why wo spent so much money during Christmas. Nothing will make a man quite bo good an to catch a train he felt Bare lie wa? going to miss. The censors of dross are mistaken if tliey think women change their character with their clothes. Spondylotherapy embraces the therapeutics of the reflexes and has com prehensive arms for the undertaking. Or perhaps the finger howl problem might be solved by each diner carrying his own finger bowl in collapsible form. A Huston talking machine company has gone into the hands of a receiver. Talk In this case seems to have been too cheap. What has become of the venerablo cfVizon who used to go to sleep Willi 'his pipe in his mouth and set the bed on fire? Gunpowder, it has been found, is ' excellent as fertilizer. In the interest of civilization no better use could l>?? mado of it. Colorado man has had his stomach removed. Ought to be able to eat without fear, at any of t|>ese lunch counters now. Twenty thousand dollars was stolen by masked men near Dawson, Alaska. That territory is wild and dangerous, like New York city. The French aviator who does gymnastic tricks in the air will probably be doing his stunts on the vaudeville stage before long. As a genius a man Is the real thing If ho can buy his wife a $f>.118 hat, and make her forget it was an electric runabout she wanted. Antiquarians say the slit gown was known to the Romans. Yes, a few slits were found in Caesar's robes, that famous Ides of March. The food expert who advises "Kat ?hnt yob want, when you feel like It," , might discreetly have added the stipulation "when you can get it." The west claims the host babies. The claim is clearly preposterous, for ss Is well known as an ineontrovert- ; Ible fact, every baby is the best over. ' Still If sauerkraut cabbage went to $70 per ton there are people whose olfactories would accept that part of the high cost dispensation with resignation. Who says that our personal rights are not being assailed when, as in an eastern instance, a Judge fined a man | j:, for "borrowing" another person's umbrella. According to one critic, there are i not enough husband* to go around In j Knglnnd, hut over here the complaint | !s sometimes heard that they go around too much. It having been confidently asserted that, the slit skirt will be a great help j to the tango, it would appear that all j those factitious arguments against It Vinst fall to the lrrnntwl It has been figured out that the cost of rearing children has increased 40 per cent, in tlte lout ten years. And Isn't it ntnuzing the way our neigh hots squander their money? The judge in New Mexico who sentenced a man to 150 years' imprison moot either has profound faith in tho salubrity of the climate or has invented a new kind of indeterminate sen t^nce. . Since tho kitchen is the cquhp of most of man's woes tho wonder is that our architects do not abolish it! Now that a French aviator has flown at the rnte of 125 miles an hour, motortats should gracefully concede the peed palm to him and proceed to do velop the "safety first" Idea. A French court rules that doctors must give their professional services free to their mothers-in-law. Rut even at that It may be difficult tc Cat the consent of the mothers-in-law WOMEN PLAY PART IN MEXICAN WAR MANY OF THEM ARE ACTING AS FORAGERS FOR THEIR MEN. 1 AT A/\ ? ' Al/l AS 5UUUI5 hUK AKMY Many of the Women of Mexico Joined Ranks Rather Than Stay at Home Alone. J)el Rio. Texas. Women of Mexico are playing a prominent part in the warfare of the southern republic, either as "solduderaB." foraging successfully for tlieir men, or occasiaually as actual lighters. This is true probably because the present revolution has touched individuals and the homes more intimately tliun any other conflict of recent times. Nearly every woman in northern Mexico lias seen warfare, shorn of its theatricality, because it entered the home and left death and want. Many of these women l\avo left their homos rather than to remain alone, and a few of thorn have pone under tiro to pot revonpo. In the siepo in proprosj* at Monterey, a valued member of (Jen. I'ahlo Oonzales' Constitutional comniand is Senorita Maria Sanchez, said to he a wealthy Castilian whose brother was sliot by Federal irrcpulars. She pave up tiie comforts of a luxurious home and hepped for permission to replace her brotlier. A few months upo at Monclova a son of Senora IMmental of that city hud been sentenced to lie shot. The mother pot into the Federal jail by stealth and stabbed two of the puards and rescued her son. escupinp to the Constitutionalist headquarters, then at Hermanns, lift miles away. In tile Federal ranks there is told the story of the wife of an oflicer who led the Constitutionalists into an ambuscade at Puorta Carmen, and, thoupli fired upon by the maddened troops, palloped throuph the lines to her husband's side. When less than 21 month apo the Federal army of General Maas occupied the Constitutionalists' provisional capital at P'cdrns Nepras, on the American border across from Maple Pass, the "soldaderas" played an important role in the bloodless capture A small proup of them pitched theii tents on the overlookinp hills tw? days before their men arrived, actinp as lookouts. When the army arrived, fully live hundred of these soldier women aecompanied it. most of them puardinp the xvnpon trains, whieh their skill as forupors had stuffed to hurst hip. A few hours after the city war occupied the women spread supper for the entire army in the open pla::a. StNUb MtbbAUt IU WILSON General Carranza Tells President How to Deal With Mexico. Nogales, Sonora. -Through Dr. II. A Tuppor of the international peace fo rum. General Venustiano Carranza, head of the (Constitutionalists of Mex ico, transmitted to tlie United States government an official statonfeiit that suggests that President Wilson can solve the Mexican problem by merely according to the Constitutionalists the right to import arms freejy from the United States. The struggle in Mexico will continue until one side or the other is beaten into helplessness, the statement as serts. It further declares that the Con stitutionulists are eonfident of wiping out Huerta and his partisans in a short time if the embargo on arms is lifted. Carranza came here from llerniosil lo, the rebel capital, with Doctor Tup per, who had been with liiiu there for several days. General Carranza's statement, which was submitted in a formal letter t< Tapper will lie communicated by tilt latter to Secretary Itryuu. Tapper telegraphed to Secretary Bryan asking him if lie desired tlif statement. The secretary replied in the affirmative, adding, however, thai It would receive only unofficial at tcntion. Tupper's recommendation.' and impressions also were requested rrariK nnii uun gauges ueam. Tuskegee, Alu.-?Sterling Floyd, years old. son of a large turpentine operator, Is in jail, charged with inur | dering G. T. Holes, aged' .'10, at Mil stead. Floyd is said to hare playful!) I put his shotgun in the face of eael of five youijg men standing in Iron of a store, when ho returned frotr j hunting. Holes warnedvhim that In might a? ridentaily shoot some one when Floyd, it is claimed, raised hi< , gun. knocking Howies' hat off. This i Holes resented, and Floyd pulled hi: \ pistol and shot Holes. Shoots Four Men for Fall. Kvanston, 111.?An on know u mat | shot, four young men who threw bin from his bicycle, and two of then are expected to die. According t< August Steinkle, the only member o the party who was not wounded. on< of his friends shoved the rear 'whee of the bicycle and the rider had a bai fall. Cletttng to his feet the Cyells drew a revolver and began tiring. Tw< were shot in the abdomen and mpj not recover. The others were sho in the legs. ? * . I ? GEN. THOMAS J. STEWART * General Stewart is president of the National Guard association, having been re-elected at the meeting of tho na?.iniiuii iv\.ciiii/ iiciu in omccigo. POWERS WILL NOT OPPOSE UNITED STATES WILL ASK COOPERATION OF EUROPE TO ELIMINATE HUERTA. Great Britain, France and Germany Have Agreed to Wait for the American Proposals. Washington.- Three Kuropeun nations, Great Britain, Germany and Franco have agreed to adopt no new policy toward Mexico until tin' government of the United States can submit for their consideration a definite plan for the future treatment of the revolution-torn republic in Central America. | That a request of the powers to await a proposal regarding Mexico from this government had been'made and that the three great Kuropean nations had yielded to the request was announced by Secretary Bryan. Mexico City. In the event (liat the 1 luurta-Itlanquct ticket is shown to have polled a majority sufficient to l?e del lared elected, as now seems probable* congress will declare the Huerta votes void niftl Blanquet will take the oath us vice president and ' assume office as president pending ' tlie calling of further elections. A DEADLOCK THREATENED i Advocates of Central Bank and Friends of Regional Bank May Not Agree. Washington.?A threatened deadlock in the senate banking and currency committee over the proposal to sub| stitute a government-owned hank for the regional reserve hank plan in the i administration urrency bill became apparent when the committee began executive consideration of the measure. Discussion was confined to the ' central reserve bank scheme, and , while no vote was taken the debate . disclosed six senators for the government controlled hank and six for the administration regional system. The live Republicans on the com1 mittee, Senators Weeks, McLean, Nelson, Crawford and Ilrlstow, argued for the central bank scheme. They were joined by Senator Hitchcock, otie of the Democrats, who has opposed the administration bill in many of its pro' visions. Senators Reed and O'Gorman, who hud expressed themselves in favor of tlie central bank plan, swung Into Une with the other Democrats The vote was delayed, and Chairman 1 Owen at the close of the session said that he believed that the administration plan would ho finally adopted. nciicr i mommy oonon rigjrcs. New Orleans. Secretary Hester's 1 New Orleans cotton exchange stn#' meat issued covers the monthly move! ment to October 31. Compared with last year it shows a decrease for the r month In round figures of 16,000. an in' crease compared with year before lasf 1 of 129,000 and with 1910-11 an increase ( of 456.000.4 The total for October was 2.917,422. against 2,9.13,813 last year, ' 2,788.324 year tfefore last and 2,461, 016 for tliu same time in 1910. Troops Ordered to Strike Region. * Denver, Col. -Mobilized in approxi* mately six hours, the commands of the - Colorado National Guard began mov ing toward tliu south Colorado coal * lields, where martial law has been es? tahllshed in compliance with the gov t ernor's proclamation. While the or i tiering of troops to the coal lields fol> lowed the failure of Governor Am . nion's efforts to arrange a settlement, \ in addition reason for the action was . found in the list of casualties and * property damage that have marked the thirty-five days of the strike. Mrs. King Comes Clear. n dray. Ga.? The hand of tlie law that 1 held her in prison since last Christ mas. eharged with killing her hus 1 band, was lifted from Mrs. Kate King, [) when Foreman W. W. Iiarron, brother f to our of the lawyers who convicted Nick WUburn, read a verdict of "not guilty" after the jury had been out I four hours. Only a deep sigh be 1 tokened what the woman had heard From beneath her black veil not n f trace of emotion could he seen. Slu 1 seemed to realize the import of thi verdict , i % I \ !THE COnON CROP SHOWS A DECLINE DROP FIVE POINTS IN COTTON CONDITION?KILLING FROST TUP rAIICP MANY ESTIMATE* ARE MADE < Georgia Crop Declined 4.3 Points. Average Estimate of the Output 13,747,000 Bales. Now York.?According to 1.G44 imports ol' the special correspondents of the Journal of Commerce bearing at average date of October 23, cottoi shows a deterioration of R points k condition was 67.1. Killing frosts and | excessive rain were the chief cause; of damage. A year ago at this time condition lost 1.5 points, in l'.ill it lost 1.5 points, in 1010 it lost nothing in 1000 it lost 3.0 points, and in 100S" it lost ::.tl points. Declines occurred ] in all states except Tennessee and Florida, which improved 2 po nts and 3 points, resp%tively. Important de clines were: Louisiana, 15 points; Mississippi, 8.6 points: Texas, 6.3 points; .Norm t aroiinn, o.p. points; I Georgia 4.3 points, Arkansas 4.4 i points, anil South Carolina, 4 points. Condition changes for tho past four years together with percentage condition last month, are given in the accompanying table: Condition Condition States. Oct, Nov. '12 '11 N. Carolina. , , .7.43 ,r>.8 .7 .5 S. Carolina . . ,74.0 4.0 3.3 2.(1 Georgia 75.8 4.3 5.3 2.0 Florida 77.0 3.0 8.4 3.0 Alabama 08.2 1.0 4.0 .6 Mississippi . . . .68.0 8.6 2.0 3.4 Louisina 62.4 15.0 1.5 6.0 Texas 64.6 6.3 .2 1.3 Arkansas . . . .67.0 4.4 .6 1.2 Tennessee . . . .68.0 2.0 1.8. 4.2 Missouri . . . .52.0 1.0 5.0 6.5 Oklahoma 50.5 2.0 8.0 .2 Totals . . . .67 5.00 1.5 1.5 From the above table it will be seen that condit on on October 23 was 61.1, against 6S.S a year ago, 60.8 in 1911. The Journal of Commerce has no opinion of its own to offer regarding the yield of this season's crop; but ir order to gather tile concensus of Southern opinion its correspondent; were specially requested to give thoi; individual estimates of the crop, with these rostilts. Thirty-two replies ranged twelve million to thirteen million live hundred thousand; 97 replies ranged thirteen million to tbirt en million live hundred thousand; 226 repl es ranged thirteen million to fourteen mil lion; 121 replies ranged fourteen million to fourteen million and live hundred; 71 replies ranged lifteen million to sixteen million. Tl?,* ..fornrro .,11 loo is thirteen million seven hundred and forty-seven thousand bales, which closely approximates the estimates made by several good authorities out side of the growing districts, where the tendency is usually to underestimate the,crop. Out of the fi47 estimates received. P.47 ranged between thirteen million live hundred thousand and fifteen million live hundred thousand bales. U. S. WANTS FAIR ELECTION Believed the United States Is Planning to Take Active Part. Washington.-' Reticence which lueenveloped the plans of the Washington on the Mexican problem continues In whatever is attempted, due consideration of the Constitutional.sts as an important factor in the situation will probably bo given. It was inferred in many quarters that the eardinul features of the administration's plan will he a comprehensive scheme to bring about a fair and free clce tlon, efforts to be mnde by the American government to use its good office to secure the participation of the Constltutionalists. In some quarters the suggestion was advanced that the Washington gov ernment contemplated assisting materially in the conduct of the proposed elections to insure certain safeguards. It is admitted that no action will be taken until an announcement of an official character is made in Mexico as to the result of the elections. Woman Found Guilty of Murder. New Hnven. Conn.- Mrs. Bessie J Wakefield of Bristol, mother or Bio tliroe little children, was fount] guilty of murder in the first degree for her part in the killing or tier husband. Kvi donee in the trial showed that .Mrs. Wakefield conspired to get rid of Wakefield. While Mrs. Wakefield took her children out for a walk, James , Plew partly drugged her husband and ( then shot him to death. A knife was I driven in the body and a rope placed ! around the neck to give the appearance of suicide. Two Men Are Killed. Atlanta. ?Two men were killed outright and two seriously injured and a hundred passengers severely shaken up when Southern railway passenger I train N'o. l!9, en route from Columbus t to Atlanta, was derailed along a curve ; over a steep embankment near tiriftin. Ga. The dead nion are Kngineer . Thotnns II. Gay and Fireman B. C. i Pearson of Atlanta. They were bur > ted beneath the heavy engine. Coni ductor I). Willlanrs was terribly rut about the face. "y . .y.y- . ? ANTHONY COMSTOCK Mr. Comstock Is the ever active foe, of vice and Indecency in New YorkrLETCHtR ELECItO AGAIN FLORIDA SENATOR REELECTED PRESIDENT AT MOBILE CONVENTION. Seventh Convention of Southern Com mercial Congress Comes to a Close at Mobile. Moliilc. Ma - The seventh convention of the Southern Commercial con ,^rc .ss was brought to a close after a directorate composed of many new membe rs was elected and rescnutions upon important subjects discussed had aeen pasfitnl. Soon after tlie election those directors present met and heard nrgulnents of representatives of Okla inu City and Houston in favor of their cities for the next convention, and elected officers. The directors will select the next meeting place at some future date. Only the two cites menioned put in a formal invitation fot he lit 14 convention. These officer-, were elected: > 1'resident. Senator Duncan I". Fletch ?r: first vice presid? lit. T. S. South tate; second vice president, Albert I'. liusii: managing director, 1 >r. Clar nee Owens; treasurer and resident lireetor, \V. 11. Sanders. Chief among resolutions adopted was one instructing the directors of he congress to at once begin a sy. einatized propaganda aiming at >!i/orting trade made possible l?y ope ting tlie Panama canal to southern ?orts. Officials of the congress an ordered to do this as quickly as po< dble. Another important resolution urges upon the Ctiifed States contress to put into effect as soon as iratticnble a syst 'tn of rural credits. This resolution v'as adopted unan mously after it had lieen pointed out in several speeche* how the Southern farmer is handicapped by lack of a iound system of credit and how much is lost to the South each year because of the absence of system in growing and handling crops. Tlie Federal government is called on in another resolution furnished early in each year the cotton spindle cap i' i ity of the country so that the prolucer may have an equal advantage* i with the consumer in this respect. Tin i congress also urged that cotton be graded at the Kin under Federal supervision in order to save the great total loss caused by takliiK samples from hales and that bonded warehous es receipts be given certifyinK the correct weight and grade of the prod act. BUSCH LEAVES MILLIONS Only $210,000 of the Brewer's Estate for Charitable* Purposes. St. Imuis.- The will of Adolp'nu. Kitsch, liled for probate, makes charitable bequests aggregating $170,bOe to a number of St. Imuls institutions, and places the hulk of the estate ir. trust. Mrs. Fillip ltusch, (.'barges Nagel and August A. Husch are named trustees. ^ In addition to the churitame be quests in the will, Mr. lluscli left a private memorandum requesting members of his family to make certain other donations, most of which are private in their nature. The attorneys, however, made public the names of eight St. lmuis institutions, which are to receive, under the memorandum, a total of $40.i)?0. making the total be quests for charitable purposes Jl'l.OOO Big Rail Bond Issue Fought. Huston. Former Governor Morgan C. Hulk ley of Hartford, Conn., and Charles S. Ensign, of Newton, brought a hill in equity in the supreme court asking that the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad company he enjoined from issuing bonds to the amount of $67,552,000 and 675,520 additional shares of stock authorized at the meeting of stockholders August 22. The complainant^ who stockholders, say it is contemplated that the additional shares of stock shall be distributed Killed 80-Year-Old Wife. Pelham. N. II. -The 80-yeur-old wife of Ernest McCoy, a farmer, was :'ound murdered in th'e parlor of their home | with two revolver bullets in her body. McCoy made an attempt at suicide by i shooting himself in the head just as | his three daughters arrived hurriedly j in response to letters he had written theni. saying he was about to commit suicide. While McCoy was receiving medical attention, an inquest was being held in the parlor of the house to determine whether he should be | charged w ith killing his wife. awe . t * ? . v ^ , mFi > -1 % HUERTA 1ST GIVE UP PRESIDENCY FORCED TO GIVE ONE OF TWO ANSWERS; BUT HAS NOT ANSWERED VET. DIPLOMATIC CORPS MEET Southern Republic No Longer Doucts That Washington Government Fa vors Rebel Cause.?Wrleon ar* Bryan Plan to Assist Czrranza. Mexico ttity. Presiden! lluerta lias been told lie must resign the presidency of Mexico without loss of tin: and that ho must not leave aH his successor (Ion. AurelianojBalnquet, liiMinister of War, or any other member of his official family or of l unofficial coterie whom he might expected to control. This ultimatum from Washington was conveyed to President lluerta through his private secretary. Senor Reb&go liy Nelson O'Shauglinessy, the American Charge d'Affairs, acting under instruction-from tiie state department. Senor Rabago presented the memorandum to his chief recently , but President lluerta has returned no answer and, as far as could be learned. had guarded its contents from almost all of his official anil intimate counsellors.. Those wljo learned of the Washington note regard (Jeneral 11 aorta's potion as one in which lie will forced to give one of two answers- refu.sjii point blank, to comply with the ??? 11121 II 11 imuutllH' * , -? till US l' hand the diplomatic representative liis passport, or the elimination <?f himself ofllciolly. Those most inriinate with the President insist .that the latter course will not 1m> taker, for many reasons, chief anions which is that suelt action woiri-d be tar* .amount to submission to the rebels. Official Mexico is no longer in doubt that the Washington Administration favors the rebel cause and is convinced that this is the means adopted by President Wilson and Secretary Bryan to assist l'arranv.a to win. (General Huerta summoned to the National Palace the Dipolmatic Corp*, hut tor what purpt?se was not revealed. Three of the Ministers, those of (iermany; Norway and Kussia, were absent. They have been in Vera Cruz, where they were in conference with President Wilson's representative. John Lind, who is understood to h** fully conversant with the latest representations from Washington. Fire Causes $5,000,000 Loss Bucharest.- A loss estimated ar $5,000,000 lias been oausisl by iir.es which spread from one oil well to another in the petroleum district of Moreni. The fires started with the explosion of a large well and spread through the -whole valley and along rho hillsides which were a mass of flames. Over 25 wells were alight, all burning furiously. Two Killed by Fallina Buitriinn ? a Hartford, Conn.?Two persons were killed. three fatally injured and another seriously hurt here when the | entire side of a four-story brick stove I house in North Front street collapsed and crushed througu t'oe adjoining frame dwelling house <xf John Hughes. The dead are: John Hughes, f.a years old, and K>va Dooly. .*> years old. | his granddaughter. High Tides Cause Damage. j Windsor, <Nova S<-ot)La lmmeu.se damage has been caused by the neeeut high tides along ?ne coast het a eon Windsor and Oram! l're. Sov! eral miles of dikes have been swept away and large areas of valuable land are under several feel of wafer. Spanish Officer Executed. Madrid, Spain.?A Itriov squad <rf Spanish troops at dawn executed gaptain Manuel Sanchez, Spanish a.rmy nfflon. luuiiii gamy t>> a court nr.trtkil of I he murder of Don Garcia .faIon, a wealthy land owner last May. Train Strikes Boulder. lacrosse, Wis. ? Pttenenger train No. 56 on the Chicago, Burlington Xi llutnoy Railroad was wrecked near (ienoa. Wis., w en the locomotive struck a boulder half the size of a box car, weighing inn tons which had been dislodged by recent rains and rolled upon the bluff onto the track Kngineer James M. Pratt. of Lacrosse, was i>ossibly fatally in-ured. .His jaw war broken and the side of his crushed in. Four Italian track 'laborers and a negro porter also were in* 1 jured. but not fatally. Edward Morris, Packer, Dead. f I Chicago.--hidward Morris, president / of Morris & Co., packers, died at 'Jrl? home recently after an Illness of more than a year. .Mr. Morris waborn in Chicago 47 years ago and wa the eldest son of tne late Nelson Morris, pioneer packer. He suffered a nervous breakdown about a year ago and was obliged to give up aotiv business. He spent last winter in traveling in search or health but when ho returned last *pr>?g his friends noted that he had ?ot Itecu benefited by the trip. ' > '] i.e;