THE FORT MILL TIMES
Publtahod Every Thursday.
FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.
It's pity there are no fail styles In
prices.
When we huve women Judges the
lawyers won't dare talk back.
We hope hobble skirts will not be
reduced under the new tariff law.
Some men enjoy their Indigestion.
Judging by the wuy they brag about It.
The latest Idea of luck In New York
Is to irct to Hon " tilnv hatnro ?K*?
lice Btop it_
ABsurance comes from Panama that
the lockB arc safe. Anything with
locks to It usually la.
Aa a general thing It doesn't Improve
a man's chance of going to heaven for
him to Inherit a lot of the earth.
One wonders what literature and
the drama would do without the recruits
they draw annually from baseball.
a. Pittsburgh man has been fined
$50 for winking twice at a girl. Perhaps
the first one was caused by a
cinder.
The lat-sst feminine fashion Is to
have their hands In their pockets.
Sarcastic husbands will welcome the
change. ?
England has at last won a sporting
championship from us, the women's
golf. Is this u tribute to the virility of
the militants?
Lace spats for women Is a late
tyle. but unfortunately they do not
displace the old fashioned clothes
line recriminations.
If the tailors wish to do something
unusual why do they not give the
men knickerbockers and thus start
a fashion worth while?
The superintendent of West Point
wants football eliminated. Ho seems
to think the students could be maimed
and killed in a "better cause.
Scientists hnve produced something
"Just as good as radium," but we
shall accept no substitute and shall
demand the old fashioned kind
The passenger who rode with
Pegoud when ho looped the loop
shures the fame of the man who
crossed Niagara Falls on Ulondln's
back.
"Fr.cills decensus," says a book reviewer
in discussing the latest novel
by the author of a former "best seller."
which means that he has hit the
toboggan.
A French dramatist declares that
"any dance cnn be made vulgar."
True; but the trouble with some is
that they are in the category of the
self-made.
A German paper says that when
a diplomat says "yes" he means "per
uups, una wnen no savs ' perliaps" ho
moans nnd If he says "no" he la
no diplomat.
A Scotch expert says thnt we nro
approaching tho smokeless age. Hut
as his prediction applies to locomotives
and factories and not cigarettes,
no alarm need ngituto the community.
If. as a careful statistician asserts.
Americans paid $<*>00,000,000 for music
fast year. It would seem to a plain
person that they ought to have something
to show for It?a creditable
Eong. at least.
A Philadelphia waiter has had a broker
convicted on a charge of false pretense
In handling $8,000 worth of securities.
How many of those who tipped
him had that much?
Radium is to he put within the
reach of the common people. This
will help to bring down the high cost
of living, as there is such a popular
demand for radium.
A i'hiladelphlan who undertook to
demonstrate how it was possible for a
man to stab himself In the back fatally
almost succeeded. If he recovers he
will Inllit it for irriintad
Accidents will happen even In the
"snfo" French Juris A sword expert
was badly pinked in his 173d encounter,
and is in a Pnris hospital. Honor
issues should be fought out over a
chess table or not at all
A noted English surgeon hns discovered
that cancer is sometimes
caused by conl used for fuel. He
might also discover with some more
observation that apoplexy is sometimes
due to tho coal bills.
African cannibals do not like white
men as food because of the rank flavor.
This would be a sweeter world
if the American mosquito were educated
up to the same high standard
of gustatory discrimination.
Creek women in Chicago will send
$10,000 to Ciroece to rebuild the
homes devastated by tho war. This
is In answer to the appeal of the
Queen of Greece, who acted on the
well known European maxim "When
in trouble of any kind, turn to tha
United Stateo."
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i BLAIR LEE
hitherto been passive, but developed
into violent action.
London, England.?The question of
the British East Indians again has
reached an acute stage, nearly every
dominion and colony to which these
British subjects emigrate either barring
them or have legislation which
effectually prevents them from entering
or remaining in those places.
The imperial government, having
more to say in the government of the
crown colonies than it has in that of
the dominions, has tnken steps to
make the life of the East Indians in
those colonies more bearable. A commission
composed of a member of the
British Indian government and an East
Indian of industrial experience is now
visiting the crown colonies to which
Indentured immigration is stll permtted
The commission will make n
thorough investigation into the conditions
of employment of East Indians
and generally into their position and
treatment in those colonies.
In the dominions the imperial gov*
ernment, which would have Indians
treated as are other British subiects.
is faced with exactly the same difflculi
ty as the Federal government at
Washington has in connection with
j California's anti-Jananese legislation,
j The people of the dominions insist on
j having "white men's countries."
GLASS IS NAMED SENATOR
Is Appointed by Gov. O'Neal to Fill j
Unexpired Term of Johnston.
Birmingham, Ala.?Frank 1*. Glass,
j editor of the Birmingham News, and
j president of the Montgomery Adverj
User, was appointed United States sen|
ator by Governor O'Neal to succeed
the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston,
j Mr. Glass is one of the oldest and
j best-known newspaper men in the
j state of Alabama and in the South.
| Mr. Glass is n native of Alabama, an
j alumnus of Princeton and founded
The Blade in Bibb county in 1SS0,
j a year later bought the Solum Dally
| Times and in 1886 acquired a half inj
terest in the Montgomery Advertiser.
In making the appointment. Governor
O'Neal said: "1 am still of the
i opinion that the provisions of the sev'
enteenth amendment did not deprive
i me of power to till by appointment
j the vacancy in the senate of the IJnlt1
od States on the death of Hon. Jo!
seph F. Johnston. In the exercise,
therefore, of my constitutional power
and duty, I have this day appointed
Hon. F. P. Glass United States senator
from Alabama to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senator Joseph
, V. Johnston."
Observance of Tuberculosis Day.
Washington.?Observance of Tuber'
rulosis Day. December 7, promises to
j be more general this year than ever
before. Just four years ago the National
Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis established
the custom of setting aside one
day to direct the nation's attention to
the necessity for a universal fight
against the great plague and each
year since recognition of the custom
has been more widespread.
U. S. Content to Await Outcome.
Washington. ? That the United
j States, in its policy toward the pro1
visional government in Mexico is content
to await the outcome of the presi
stire being exerted to bring about the
,tii -r . i. _ it -
I uuniiiiiii m nil- nut'iiii regime was ap!
parent in official circles in Washing;
ton. Exciting rumors from Mexico
City wholly failed to ruffle the calm
confidence of President Wilson or Secretary
of State Bryan. "The mills of
the gods grind slowly," was the declaration
of one high official of the government
in discssing the question.
Jacksonville Greets Waterways People
Jacksonville. Fin. Formal greetings
by local commercial organizations featured
the welcome which the delegates
are getting to the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways' association's sixth annual
convention. Several special trains
arrived in Jacksonville, bringing delegates
from the North and East. The
coastal steamship lines will delivered
their quota of delegates on three ves- '
sels which arrived in port from Philadelphia.
J. Hampton Moore is the head
of a party on a specially chartered
stamper from Philadelphia
RAGE QUESTION
SHAKES EMPIRE
COLONIES OF GREAT BRITAIN IN i
ARMS AGAINST EAST
INDIANS.
MAY INVOKE MARTIAL LAW
Indians Resent by Striking in South
Africa and the Burning of Many
Sug.'ir Plantations.
Durban, Natal, Union of South Africa.?East
Indian residents of Natal
declared a general strike, which was
accompanied by rioting and the b-.xrning
of sugar plantations.
The police force is insufficient to
deal with the rioters, and white women
and children are in a state of terror.
Troops have Veen ordered to the
disaffected districts.
In Durban itself practically the
whole East Indian community struck
work and became so aggressive that
a demand was made for the proclamation
of martial law.
The revolt of the East Indians was
brought about by the exclusive laws i
in force neainst them h?*m it im#i I
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Blair Lac, the rusw United States
senator-elect from Maryland, chosen
by direct vote of the people to succeed
William P. Jackson, doesn't know
when he will be seated. Jackson was I
appointed bv the nr?.>mnr t? nu ?..?_L
the term or the fate Senator Raynee,
which doe* not expire until 1917.
WAN1 TIME ON MONEY BILL
CURRENCY SNARL IS BEING UNTANGLED
BY THE COMMITTEE.
Further Time Is Given for the Consideration
of Provisions of the
Bill.
Washington.?The attempt to force
tlie administration currency bill
through the senate by way of the
Democratic caucus was abandoned and
the banking and currency committee
of the senate was given time for further
consideration of the bill. A practical
agreement by six I>emocratic senators,
half of the committee, and hope
for final report soon, was reported to
the Democratic conference when it
met by Senator Owen and at Ills request
the conference took no action.
Since the cull for the conference was
Issued Senators Reed uud O'Gorman
had joined Chairman Owen and Senators
Pomerene, Shafroth and Hollis,
supporters of the administration measure.
despite their votes against some of
its orn vision S in tlm Piimnilllon Tlioo/.
six Democrats liavo virtually agreed
on a bill whicli meets the views of i
President Wilson
A further attempt to swing Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska in line with his
Democratic colleagues. was made in a
meeting of Democrats of the committee
after the conference.
It is probable that the Democrats
and Republicans will make a unanimous
report on those details of the
bill which all approve and then sub- ,
mit supplementary reports showing ,
the senate their disagreement on the
fundamentals of the hill. The Republicans
and Senator Hitchcock have an- ,
nounced their determination to stand
out to the last for the public owner- (
ship of the regional bunks in the new
system uud for government control of
those bauks. ,
U. S. AGENT MEETS CARRANZA
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William Bayard Hale, Representing the 1
President, Confers With Rebels. 1
Nogales, Senora, Mexico.?Crossing '
a narrow little street from the United
States into Mexico William iiayard
Hale, personal representative of President
Wilson, met the Constitutionalist
chief. Gen. Venustiano Carranza, and
his cabinet and presented to them a
definite proposal from the American
government.
What the proposal was the Ameri
can diplomatic agent declined to suy.
The Mexican revolutionary leaders
also were silent, but tjo those who
have been anxiously awaiting the development
of the American policy with
regard to Mexico it was fraught with
oossibilities for the destinies of the
war-torn republic and her relations
with her northern neighbor.
Into a little room of the customs
house in which Ceneral Cararnza lias
established his "ad interim" capital,
the American emissary was ushered to
meet the chiefs of the revolution
against Huerta. Carurnra and his en- 1
tire cabinet were there and with them
Ackten Named Chief U. S. Warden.
Washington.?Col. J. H. Acklen of
Tennessee was commissioned chief
warden of the United States under
the recently enacted Federal migratory
ird luw. He was appointed by Secretary
Houston of the department of
agriculture, and is tli#? fir?t h?i>i ?? -
office. Colonel Acklen is president of
tlio National Association of Came Commissioners.
and formerly was game
warden of Tennessee. He will have
his headquarters !n Washington, aiding
tho department in the enforcement
of the migratory bird IaV.
Track Team Off for Australasia.
San Francisco.?Three members of
tho American t'.'ack and field team,
which is to tern* Australasia, sailed >
with Manager F?istace Polxotto. Cobleigh,
of New Orleans, the fourth
member, will Ic??ve this city ten days i
later and will join the party in New
Zealand. The athletes who sailed with
the tmm manager are Oeorge Par- <
ker, jumper, Olympic.Club; Rex Caughey,
Hhot potter. Ukiah, Cal., high
school, and James Powers, runner, Ilos- i
ton Athletic association. The team I
will not return until late in March. <
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ARE EXECUTED AS
PRISONERS OP WAR
STANDING BY GRAVES, TWO
PRISONERS ARE SHOT
DOWN.
TOOK PLACE AT CEMETERY
When Rebel Volleys Sounded, Ebave '
and Cordova Tumbled Into
Newly Dug Graves.
El I'aso. Texas.?Two former. Federal
officials of Juarez, who were tak- !
en prisoners by General Panclio Vll-1
lu's rebel troops were executed at j
Juare:;. They were Pablo Ebave. an j
official in the Juarez police depart- i
ment. and Juan Cordova, chief of the I
Juarez secret police.
The executions took place at the !
Juarez cemetery, the condemned men !
standing on the brink of the newly i
dug graves and falling in when the i
firing squad shot them. Both men
were sentenced to death by General
Villa and orders were carried out by
subordinates.
Mrs. Ebave, wife of one of the condemned
men, was present when the
sentence was pronounced and pleaded
with Villa to pardon her husband, but
he refused.
A squad of 14 Federal prisoners was
taken to the cemetery to bury 89 of
the soldiers who were killed in the
Juarez battle. One of the prisoners,
fearing he was to be executed, tried
to escape and was shot by one oi
the guards.
The rebel officers say there are
more executions to take place in Juarez
and that all the Federal volunteer
army officers will be killed
United States Senator Thomas B.
Catron of New Mexico called on General
Villa at Jufcrez and cautioned
him against the wholesale execution
of Federal prisoners of war, which
has been conducted at Villa at Juarez
since the surrender of the town.
"I told General Villa that our government
had acted very favorably to
the rebel government and that it was
my opinion that the executions would
make a bad impression on the United
States government, and probably retard
any action toward recognition of
the rebels by the United States," said
Senator Catron, after his conference
with Villa. "He did not say he would
desist in the executions, but said it
was necessary that it he done, and
that it was his duty to his country and
orders from superior officers.
DEFENDS WHIPPING POST
Delaware Executive Tells the Evildoers
to Shun the State.
Wilmington, Del.?Governor Charles
Ft. Miller issued a statement in defense
of the whipping post and declared
that method of punishment for
criminals in Delaware would continue
until the law providing for it is reoeiili'it
"roi?npillf>i.'i! ..? *
, ..gu.U.WU U1 1111.1
8d interference by a member of conKress
or of individuals residing in
other states."
In liis statement the governor says:
"The courts and other leKal authorities
of the state of Delaware will administers
the internal affairs of the
commonwealth regardless of any Attempted
interference by a member of
congress or of individuals residing in
other states who are ignorant of conditions
and permit themselves to be
misled by extravagant and highly
colored newspaper articles.
"The persons who have written nie
numerous letters, some of them abusive
and insulting to the citizenship of
the state, should pause to consider
that state government in America is
based upon statutory laws enacted by
the people.
"I shall uphold the state courts in
the administration of the law, and
warn evil-doers to give Delaware a
wide berth If they wish to escape the
whipping post."
Scott Is Nominated to Succeed Lynch
New York.?At a meeting of printers
held here Marsden G. Scott, president
of Typographical Union No. 6
("Big Six") was nominated for president
of tin- International Typographical
Union to succeed James >1.
Lynch, who recently was appointed hy
Governor Glynn to be state commission
of labor.
Robbers Gets $11,000 From Expresc.
Tampa, Kla.?Representing himsc f
to be an attditor for the Southern Impress
company, an unknown man wall
ed into the St. Petersburg office < *
that company, took charge of th
hooka and papers, worked sovern:
hours over them and disappeared. >.
short time later the agent discovered
tliut money orders and travelers.;
checks to the amount of $11,000 werv
missing. Announcement of the thef?
was made here hy Superintendent (},
C. Wolfe of Jacksonville, who was/
summoned
15 Swept Off Flat Car by Limb.
Waycross.?When an overhanging
limb struck a flat car on the Way
cross and Southern between frnvcn'k
island un?' Hopkins, in the Okefenokee
swamp, fifteen pleasure seekers wore
thrown off, "Be being killed instantly,
two receivi. *z injuries that arc considered
fatty. and several being seriously
bruised ar.d cut. The dead: L.
B. Lancaster, n*ed 21. Fatally injured:
I*. P. Stewart, legs broken, internal
injuries; Mrs. 1'. P. Stewart,
internal Injuries. Seriously injured:
CSeorge Squirt s and J. H. Smltlu
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REV. DR. W. H. LEAVELL
Dr. Leavell of Carrolltnrv Mi? i>
tha new American minister to Guatemala,
succeeding Reynolds Hitt. He
is a son-in-law of former Senator
George of Mississippi and is a Presbyterian
clergyman.
JAPS DO NOT WANT WAR
WE MUST KEEP FAtTH WITH THE
JAPANESE. SAYS EX-PRESIDENT
TAFT.
Only Danger of War Is in Our Injustice,
Declares Former
President.
Washington.?Asserting that the \
Japanese government had faithfully
lived up to its treaty obligations by
keeping its coolie labor from American
shores, former President Taft, in an
address before the National Geographic
Society here, declared that the
United States government must keep
faith with Japan l?y not discriminating
against its people!. "And," he said,
"no matter what the reckless and un
just acts of thoughtless people in California
or elsewhere may be, they
should be restrained."
"The only danger of a war." be added,
"Is in our injustice to the Japanese.
They are lighting ttie battle for
trade and not for conquest or further
acquisition of territory, at least in this
direction. All we have to do to avoid :
other than business rivalry is to treat
them as we would wish to be treated."
Critics who have spoken of the probability
of an armed conflict between
the two countries arid of the iimritne
of a great Japanese force on the California
coast, the speaker declared, proceed
on an assumption that never in I
fact will be realized.
"Tile transportation of any army ;
9,000 miles across the trackless waste >
of the Pacific, with all the chances of
attack upon the troop ships that would
have to carry them," he said, "is an i
idle dream and the Japanese would
not deal in idle dreams, even if they
coveted our country, as they do not."
Did Ape Spring From Man?
New York. ?Dr. J. Leon Williams I
of London, an eminent authority on I
anthropology and geology, arrived
from Liverpool with fifteen skulls oi
pre historic man. one of which he estimated
to be f,00,000 years old. This
skull was found by workmen near
Folkestone, Kngland, in strata that
dated hack prior to the pleistocene era
and its existence and discovery have
confirmed Doctor Williams in the belief
that mqnkind is at least half a
million years old. Doctor Williams
said the finding of these ancient
skulls and other human hones d d
not disprove, in his opinion, the poj- 1
ular theory of evolution, but altered
it in some degree. Instead of man
being a descendant of the ape, Mr. |
Williams said, these skulls tend ro
confirm the belief that the anthropoid i
ape was an offshoot of primitive man.
13 Dead 100 Hurt, in Wreck.
Kufaula, Ala.?Thirteen persons I
were killed and more than a hundred !
injured, some of them fatally,
when three coaches of a Central of !
Georgia passenger train left the rails |
at a point seventeen miles south of
here and plunged down a steep emlinnlimnnf
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of live cars crowded with excr"sionlsts,
was hn route frotn Ozark.
Ala., to Kufaula, where a fair is being
held. Among tliose who escaped with
minor injuries was Jefferson I). Clay
ton, brother of Congressman Clayton.
Hundreds Work to Recover Bodies.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.?The rear of
a seven-story concrete building Hearing
completion collapsed ea Tying with
it fourteen men who werr. working
on the roof slab. Four \v*re taken
from the ruins severely injured and
the others are believed to be buried
beneath a mass of concrete and twisted
steel us^r in the reinforcements.
Hundreds of men worked with axes
and shovels and with the aid of a big
steam derrick removing the debris lb
a search for the bodies.
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sdnmtsoiool
Lesson
iBy E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 23
JOSHUA THE NEW LEADER.
LESSON TEXT?Joshua 1:1-9.
GOLDEN TEXT?"Be strong atia of
jood courage." Joshua 1:9.
"Nov it came to pass" (v. 1). Tnmgs
do not happen in the kingdom of God.
they "come to pass." This world, nations,
families or individuals were not
Bet ir motion by a creator who has
gone off neglectful of his creatures,
nor has he left them to blind fato
or inflexible law. Attention is also
drawn to the time, "after the death
of Moses."
The call was clear and unquestioned,
for the Lord "spake." Our highest
responsibility is to that call which
eomes from the highest source of authority.
This call came in the time of
great need, Israel is without a leader.
Then follow the first words of
Jehovah to this newly chosen leader
(v. 2) and which constitute his
charge, "Moses my servant is dead,
now, therefore arise." This suggests
a prayerful attitude on the part of
Joshua, but in no way is it to be consti-ued
that Moses was a hindrance
to this forward march of the people of
God- Rather that Mn?oo' n-nrlr
completed and on the basis of his
work an advance was to be made.
Obedience to Law.
The conditions laid upon Joshua
were: (1) Confidence due to this promise
of the presence of Jehovah (v. 5).
The personal pronoun "I" is used
seven times in these nine verses as
though God would make confidence
doubly assured. But confidence alone
was not enough, hence the necessity
of "courage" (v. 6). Strength is due
to confidence and quietness, Isa. 30:
15. but courage is the active principle
which is the evidence of our strength
and courage. Conquei'.t was not alone
conditioned upon courage (v. 6), but
also upon the sure foundation of the
word and oath of Jehovah. But
strength and courage are maintained
by obedience to law whether it be
physical, civil or spiritual, hence the
words of verse 7, the possession of
this land depended upon absolute unflinching,
invariable adherence and observance
of the law, "which Moses my
servant commanded "
Confidence ana Authority.
But Jehovah never leaves hia own
iv. 5). Matt. 28:20, nor does he leave
man to blind fate or fortuitous circumstances.
Therefore we read in
verse 8 the counsel of Jehovah as to
the nir^chod whereby Joshua and Israel
may " prosper" (v. 7) or according
to the margin "do wisely," viz., they
shall meditate upon the books of the
law. This verse is enough for the
entire class session. The leader, be
he preacher or teacher, who has any
doubt about the word of God, or
stands dumb before the empty tomb
had better seek s. new vocation for
he is the apostle, of a dying, disintegrating
class or church and a decadent
faith. The origin of man, the
mystery of life, the destiny of the
soul, demands the voice of confidence
and authority not of uncertainty and
doubt. True prosperity and wisdom
are conditioned upon our taking the
word of God as the man of our counsel.
the light of our path, our daily
meditation. The definite result of
such a course is set before Joshua,
and in addition he was promised the
companionship iv. 91 of lehovoh av**
step of the way. It is interesting in
this connection to remember that
Joshua was associated with Moses in
the first experience of war In the history
of this young nation.
Conclusion. The greatest \esson before
us at this time is that continuity
of tho purposes of (lod. As great
and important as Moses lias been during
his 10 years of leadership, yet he
was not necessary. The instrument
of divine deliverance, direction and
discipline, yea, the voice of God to Israel,
the receiver of their complaints
and of their confessions, yet now he
has been removed. What a tremendous
blank he must have left. Yet
Israel is to go forward, there li to be
no halting in its progress. God had
been training men for 40 years, one
of whose faith failed not at the sight
of the giants, one who had fellowship
with the old and is now to face the
new. We recall the words of John
Wesley, inscribed upon his memorial
tablet in Westminster abbey, "God
buries his workmt :i, but carries on
his work." Kach individual in the
long succession of leaders has his appointed
task, and as he is loyal completes
that task thereby preparing tho
way for a new leader? The abiding
principles that condition each man's
success are loyalty and obedience.
Tho Golden Text is in substance
thrice repeated. First, Joshua was to
bo strong and of good courage bocause
of the work ahead of him (v. 6);
second, he was to be strong and courageous
in the observance of the law;
and lastly he was to be strong and
courageous in order to avoid the perils
of fear and dismay which were
to beset the path of advance (v. 9).
A 3tudy of the remainder of this
chapter reveals not only the orderly
response of the people but that the
people, as well as Qod. also demanded
of their leader that he should "be
strong and of a good courage."