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m ' V THE FOBT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, 80UTM CAROLINA. Where there's a will there are a dosen lawyers. The man who jumps at conclusions very ouen geiB biuck. Getting about time to think of what one's going to swear off. The front porch spoon will change to the kitchen stove squeeze Not at any season does anybody grow ecstatic over prunes. At the wedding of the oceans not voice was heard In protest A piano phonograph has been Invented Another terror to tlat life. The rest cure was Inveuted for people who get tired out doing nothing. i For people who like queer dances the present kind are the right thing. The tango is a first class winter dance, as It keeps the blood circulating freely Those Russiun explorers who suw a green sun ean no longer withhold their Identity. An Oregon hen has laid 285 eggs In a year. We assume that she laid off uu nuuuayn. Wooden frhoes, which are gaining In popularity, must bo fine to throw at a serenading cat. One Irrepressible optimist Is the mnn who buys the wedding ring on the installment plan. A German prince Ih trying to obtain a loan of $5,500,000. Undoubtedly he is already married. Consider the majestic confidence of the man who eats free lunch sausage and never nsks a question l">octors never kick, say garnge owners. Why should they? They, too, make their living on repair work. The other day a man was fined $50 for winking twice at a pretty girl. Moral: Only wink once. It's cheaper. A phonograph Is bad enough at best, but there ought to be a law to suppress those that never change their tunes. There nre 100 dramas and 21 melodramas based on the life of Joan of Arc. Evidently there was nothing funny nbont her. A 12-ton Sphinx hns been received In Philadelphia from Egypt Thus has the population of the stone heads increased by one Cannibals are now said to object to white men us having an unpleasnnt salt and peppery taste. They are altogether too choosy. A Frenchman seventy-two years old has challenged another one seventyseven years old to a duel. There's no fool like an old fool. Parisian costumers say the trouser skirt Is soon to come; thnt means no doubt that they'll wear 'em literally as well as metaphorically. If the whale that ranwned the Danish tanker belonged to any pnrticulnr school of fish, it ought to qualify as center on tho football team. Since the oyster is becoming less popular in society It has more opportunities to pnss an evening now and then at homo with Its family The czar of Russia has claltnod tho new continent reported to havo been discovered near tho north pole; and. so fnr as wo are concerned, he is welcome to it. Even the dignified United States bureau of agriculture will have Its lit tie Joke. Inevstigators employed by the bureau report that a crow Is a crow Just becawa. A Chicago man who tried to commit suicide by drinking hair tonic Is exnected to recover. Hair tonic hiin'lv ever does what people who use It ex pect It to do for them. A bin inoncy prize Is to be offered at the San Francisco exposition for the best baby In the world. The project will cost a great deal of money; for every family In the country has that baby. A New York girl has broken the typewriting record by averaging 125 words a minute for an hour. It was a mnrvelous performance, even If incompatibility pud transubstantlation did Dot occur often In her copy. fly being sponsor nt a baptism, best man at a wedding, and pallbearer nt a funeral, a New Jersey man claims to have run lifo's gamut in n -day. Hut no man can make such a claim unless, in addition, he has been a witness in a divorce case. According to Doctor Hchmoll, four milligrams of radium, properly harnessed, would generate 80.000,000.000 horse power a second. These figures send a wild, sweet hope surging throtrth the breast of the young man with th. racing automobile habit CANT TELL WHEN I CANAL WILL OPEN I?V L/L.T IMI I c UM I C. Id Y Cm I d L I FOR OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL. fiOETHELS ISSUES REPORT Colonel Goethals, in Report, Makes No Prediction of When Ships May Pass Through. Washington.?No definite date tor the official opening of the Punaina cunal is set in the annual report of i Col. George Goethals, chairman and chief engineer of the canal commis, slon, which has just been submitted to Secretary Garrison. Neither is there any prediction of when the ships may first pass from ocean to ocean. The first day of the canal's actual operation still depends upon the treacherous slides of Culebra cut and how fast the dredges can keep the channels open. "It has been the general belief that the effect of the water in the cut would tend to retard slides, and experience below the Gatun locks fully justifies this belief," said Colonel Goethals. "On the other hand, the gelogist is of the opinion that the water may, to some | extent, develop new slides. Again. 1 much ado was made in 1905) over the ! seamy character of rock on the isthmus. through which water flows quite rapidly, in consequence of which the question was raised that the lake might leak out through seams and i crevices. "If these things are lable to occur, the sooner, the better, if the official I opening of the canal is to occur January 1. 1915, for if water were nt ad iii iia'ii mis laii, (iui were uererrert mitil May J, 1914, the full height could not be reached until October, 1914, , leaving little time for tlie determination of these questions. These considerations led to the conclusion that the water should he turned Into tlie cut at the earliest date practicable for getting tiled redges to work on the slides. "The present plans, therefore, are I based upon the blowing up of Gainboa dike on October 10, its removal by dredges immediately thereafter, the l transfer of two suction dredges and a | ladder dredge to the Cucaraclia slide, the smaller dipper dredges to work on the other slides until the full width of the channel is attained, and the pass! age of vessels through te canal as soon as channels of full depth and of sufficient width have been secured. "Hefore boats can be passed it will be necessary to remove the Gnmboa dike by dredges and to remove the slides as already outlined. The passage of commercial vessels is dependent, therefore, upon the time when proper channels can be dredged through tlu> slides; should additional ones occur, they will necesasrily advance the date when this will be accomplished. COMMISSION WILL DECIDE Railroads Will Argue for Rate Increases. Washington. The interstate commerce commission will begin a hearing which will probably evtend for several months on the proposed freight rate Increases of approximately 5 per cent, filed October 15, last, by railroads in the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Though only the railroads in the classification terirtory included within the boundaries specified are directly i Involved in the hearing, actually every railroad In the country is concerned. : Should the commission permit the ! roads to apply increased rates, the same authority might he extended to other carriers to increase rates The railroads two years ago asked /or an increase of about ten per cent. After an inquiry the commission refused the request. When the tariffs i provided for the present proposed inj creases were filed, to become effective November 15, they were suspended by the commission pending investigation until March 12, 1911. In May. 1913. the railroads filed a petition for rehearing of the former freight rate case ! and the commission on June 21 last issued an order directing that inquiry he instituted as to whether the present rates yield adequate revenues "Bomb" Strikes South Dakota. San Francisco.?As the United ; States cruiser South Dakota steamed ' in through the Golden Gate. Silas I Cliristofferson, In u biplane, swept over ' the warship and dropped a sand I "bomb" that struck the vessel squarei ly amidships. This was a feature of an aviation meet at the Panama Pacilic Exposition grounds that was not ; on the program. It happened that the cruiser entered the bay at the time the aviators were preparing to take j part in a bomb-throwing contest at a target in the water. Government to Make Goods for Navy Washington. Secretary Daniels is preparing to begin the manufacture of cotton clothing for the navy in the Charleston, S. (\, navy yard, j There are unusued buildings at the plant available for the working force, and if has been found that there Is plenty of labor and raw material in the neighborhood. Only a trilling expenditure will be required, it is said, to provide the necessary machinery. Hefore deciding upon this move. Secretary Daniels had made a thorough inrestigatin into the conditions. JAMES THOMAS HEFLIN Congressman Hefiin of Alabama, familiarly known as "Tom," la considered one of the handsomest men in the house of representatives. REBELS WANT RECOGNITION VICTORY CAUSES A CHANGE IN DEMEANOR OF REBELS IN MEXICO. Hale Must Present Credentials Before Carranza Will Continue Any Negotiations. Nogales, Sonoro, Mexico.?Francisco Escudero .minister of foreign relations in tlie Carranza cazinet, asked Willard llayanl Hale, President Wilson's agent, to present his credentials before continuing further with the j conferences which have been under ' way here informally for several days. This was interpreted by many as a virtual demand for recognition of tlio Constitutionalist revolution before the exchanges between the Cararnzists i and the Washington government are concluded. "For our part unofficial negotiations art; ended, "Kscudero said. "We have asked Mr. Hale to present his formal credentials. I wotild receive them as minister of foreign relations and transmit them to my chief. "We have been very glad to meet Mr. Hale on terms of friendliness, knowing of his previous investigations in Mexico and in view of his relation with Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan. The cabinet members on previous occasions met as individuals only. Kach was a member of the cabinet, true, but the cabinet did not meet. The exchange of impressions now has ended." The announcement of the Constitutionalists' demand was a surprise. No one on the American side expected a reijuedt for formal recognition of the Insurgents, even in the event that permission to import war munitions from the United States were granted. At the beginning of the negotiations General Carranza asserted that the Constitutionalists were not seeking recognition in fact did not desire it -and only wanted the embargo on the importation of arms lifted. Washington. No official comment was forthcoming in Washington on tlie notion of General C'ararnza's foreign minister, Francisco Escudero, in asking William llayard Hale to present credentials before continuing the conferences which have been in progress at Nogales between Mr. Hale am' the Constitutionalist lenders. BROWN RESIGNS POSITION He Rose From Section Hand to the Presidency of Great System. New York.?William O. Drown, who rose from section hand to the presidency of the New York Central lines, lias resigned. The directorates of the four railroad companies comprising the New York Central system accepted his resignation. Mr. Drown is t'?0 years old, and lias been in railway service for more than forty-four years, lie lias been president of the New York Central for the past live years. Prior to that lie was, for two years, senior vice president of tiie system, and for live years was in charge of operation and maintenance. As president of the lines he was commander in chief of an army of one hundred and sixty thousand employees. U. S. Army Chargers Win. New York.-?America won the flrst two places and the fourth, the third going to Great Britain in tlie international contest for army chargers at the national horse show at Madison Sfjuafe Garden. "Poppy." a chestnut gelding, exhibited by the mountain service school and ridden by Lieut. J. T. Taulbee, second cavalry, took the blue ribbon award. "Deceiver," exhibited by the game school and rtdden by Lieut. Waldo G. Potter. First field ar unery, was sccona, ana t'oi. t\ A. Kcnnn af the Itritish arni> took third. Tramp Saves Many Lives. Jesnp. Ga. Scores of passengers left the coaches of a Southern railway train sixteen miles north of here to wring the hand of a tramp who saved many lives in a melodramatic manner. The train, carrying four crowded sleepers nnd veveral day coaches, was rushing toward a broken rail at a speed of flfty m'<es an hour when the tramp appeared in front of the locomotive wildly waving his arms. When the engineman stopped the train it was within a few feet of a misplaced rail , GINNING REPORT ! SHOWS INCREASE ) 10.434.C87 BALES GINNED PRIOR TO NOVEMBER 14. 1913. COMPARISONS ARE MADE 10.299,046 Bales Were Ginned Up to Corresponding Time Last Year. Washington.?The fifth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for l the season, just issued, announced that 10,434,387 bales of cotton, counting round us half bales, of the growth of 1913 had been ginned prior to Friday, November 14, to which date during the past seven years ginnings have averaged 3.9 per cent, of the entire crop. Last year to November 14 there had been ftinned 10,299,646 bales, or ! 76.4 per cent, of the entire crop; in 1911 to that date, 11,313,236 bales, or | 72.7 per cent., and in 190S to that date 9,595,809 bales, or 73.3 per cent. Including in the ginnings 74,127 round bales, compared with 62,768 bales last year, 75,963 bales in 1911, 93,364 bales in 1910, and 123,757 bales in 1909. The number of sea island cotton bales included were 62,679 compared with 40,389 bales last year, 71,204 bales In 1911, 68,495 bales n 1909, and 56.701 bales In loos. ( innings prior to November 14 by j states, with comparisons for last year I and other big crop years, ginned prior to that date in those years, fol' lows: jsiaios. Year. GinningAlabama . . . .1913 1.182.747 1912 961.313 1911 1,239,211 Arkansas . . . .1913 603,724 1912 517.614 1911 663.115 Florida 1913 63.219 1912 42,263 190S 51,497 Georgia . . . .1913 1.S24.290 1912 1.331.709 1911 2,106.305 Louisiana . . . .1913 274,997 1912 300.4S2 1911 269,548 Mississippi . . .1913 735,797 1912 664,554 1911 719,638 North Carolina .1913 493,027 1912 627.257 1911 716,200 Oklahoma . . .1913 666,679 1912 725,006 1911 657,497 South Caroli.ia .1913 995,897 1912 883,535 1911 1,163.984 Tennessee . . .1913 233,528 1912 158,161 1911 264,777 | Texas 1913 3,304,565 1912 4,020,939 1911 3,473,702 Other States. . .1913 65,919 1912 56,789 1911 74.023 The ginnings of se.t island cotton, prior to November 1?, by states, folj lows: I Year Florida. Georgia. S. Car. ] 1913 19,544 30,082 3.053 i 1912 15,052 19,873 2,464 1911 26,818 41,730 2,656 ; 1909 23.463 38,825 6,217 NO NEW YEAR S RECEPTION Society Suffers Greatest Shock of the Wilson Administration. Washington.?Society received the greatest shock administered since i'resldent Wilson assumed oftlce. Ofticial announcement was made that the annual New Year's reception, which has been held at the white house for nearly a century, will be abandoned for the present. Whether it will be resumed in 1915 is not known, but friends of the presdent and Mrs. Wilson do not believe it will be. Capital society got its tirst jolt from the president when he called off the inaugural bull. There came another when it was learned that many of the leaders here would not be invited to the wedding of Miss Jessie Wilson, l.iiil n ?liir,l ii'lmn H,o .>>,.,....1 .1!? I . . i reception was called off, but the latest announcement capped the climax of society's grief. Export Gain of (100,000,000. Washington.?An increase of $100,000,000 in the exports of manufacturers of the United States in 1913 is predicted in a report by the department of commerce. For the nine months of the year ended September 30, for which figures now are available, the exports of the manufactures ready for consumption increased 137.000.000over last year; manufactures for further use in manufacturing gained $26,000.000. and foodstuffs, partly or wholy manufactured, increased $17,000,0n0. making the total gain $s0,00t),000. Phone Message Is Sent 4,000 Miles. Uerlln, Germany. The transmission nearly 4,000 miles of n wireless telephonic communication from NeustadtAm-Ruebenberge. Hanover, to New Jersey, accomplished on October 27, by a German wireless company, according to a jeport submitted by Admiral George August Kmsmann to the German Shipbuilding society. The message was sent ard received in the middle of the afternoon, a time considered unfavorable for wireless communication. The two stations ore over 800 feet high. I . LOUISITA WOOD Little Loulsita Wood, the ten-yearold daughter of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, accompanied her father and Colonel Heisstand on their 90-mile test ride and said at the finish that she felt "bully." She is shown here holding her thoroughbred. Fort Hunter, which she rides almost as well as any officer under her distinguished father. General W?od Is very proud of the little girl. CONDITIONS Will IMfflOVt NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY PREDICTED FOR FARMERS OF UNITED STATES. Secr'tary Daniels Says Times Will Ee Better Under the New Tariff System. Kansas City.?A now era of prosperity and good living for the fanner under the new tariff law was predicted hy Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, speaking at the nineteenth annual John Jay banquet of the Kansas City Commercial Club here. The back to the farm movement now dormant would be revived in earnest, he said, under the improved conditions that are in store for the dweller in tliu country. "The new tariff," said Secretary Daniels, "which will remove from the farm the excessive charges for every article needed in the cultivation and in the home, will cheapen living for the farmer. The now currency bill that soon will be law will be followed by wise legislation providing for rural credits and for effective laws which will be put into execution against all form of monopoly. These blessings are almost in sight and their gradual unfolding will mean a new and better day lor the dwellers on the farms and, of course, when the farmers are prosperous their prosperity is of the sort that reaches out into the cities and towns and makes them properous also. "Products of the farm are bringing better prices, and we may look to see increased interest in the raising ot cattle, sheep and hogs. Ship Firemen Mutiny. San Francisco.?The British freight er Santa Rosalie of the .Maple l^eaf line, which cleared for Swansea and Dunkirk, returned to port with twelve firemen out of forty-one locked in the forecastle and nine armed men from the United States revenue cutter Golden Gate and McUullough on guard at the hatchways, ('apt. Thomas Pritchard said that shortly after he put to sea nine 01 nis nremen threw down their shovels, asserting that when they signed in Kn pi hi id they had agreed to work shifts of four hours, witli eight hours off, but in point of fact, sometime^ had been on duty sixteen hours at a stretch. Funeral Coach Beyond Speed Limit. New York. ? A funeral procession was halted in Long Island City and tho chauffeur of the automobile coach that headed it was arrested and convicted of exceeding the speed limit. The arrest was the outcome of many complaints that New York funeral processions on the way to Calvary cemetery have been so speedy as to endanger tin; lives of persons crossing the streets through which they pass. Other arrests, it was announced, will follow if the speed of funeral vehicles i? not slackened. Penalties Increased on r-.oCon. Now York. -The revision committer of the Now York cotton exchange at its meeting here increased the penalties on low grade cotton by from lu to 85 points, making low middling 125 points under middling and placing good ordinary cotton at a discount of :!00 points, comparing the old differences of 80 and 215 points respectively. High grade premiums also were increased slightly. The committee ad justed the difference to meet the re quirements of a low grade crop. % RAILROADS WANT INCREASED RATES THE INCREASE WOULD EFFECT ROADS IN THE NORTHEAST fERN TERRTORY. WANT 5 PER CENT INCREASE Roads in Other Territory Would Be Effected However?Railroads Cla'm That "High Cost of Living" Make* It Necessary To Raise Rates. Washington.?Daniel Willard president of the Baltimore & Ohio; Fred: erick A. Delano president of the Wabash, and George Stuart Patterson, general solicitor of the Pennsylvania appeared before the interstate commerce conimissidon to argue for authority to increase rates on all classes of freight traffic approximately li.e per cent east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Though the proposed increased rates are asked by the railroads in the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac j rivers, the hearing is of the utmost importance to all the railroads of 'lie United States, for should the commission grant the authority for the increase it might extend the authority to other roads of the country. The commission will inquire whether present rates yield adequate revenues to the common carriers and much testimony will be taken. When the hearing began it was expected only the opening arguments by the representatives of the railroads would be heard. That the railroads of the country have felt the burden of the increased cost of living like all other enterprises and individuals, "but unlike all others have not been permitted so far 111 mist; iii?Mr prices or adjust their charges in recognition of that burden" whs the declaration of Air. .. Referring to the refusal of the commission in 1 ! 10 to grant ten per cent increase and the promise to re-investigate the rate question in the future should conditions warrant it Mr. Willard asserted that operation of tiie railroads during the last three years was not such as to inspire confidence of private capital or encourage the support of private enterprise. In presenting the facts upon which the railroads rely to prove tlie necessity for an increase in rates Mr. Willard asserted that during the past three years "the railroads in the territory affected had spent in property investment some $t>0(),000,000 or at the rate of $200,000,000 per year. Nevertheless," he added, "because of the fact that operating expenses had increased faster than operating revenue these railroads earned in the year ended June 110, 191J, by less $10,211,:t21 than for the year ending June SO, 1910." Huerta Government Crumbling. Washington. ? President Wilson's belief that the government of Provisional President Huerta is slowly crumbling was reiterated at the White House. Discussing the situation generally, the president pointed out that tlie local press in Mexico City could print, uncontradicted, baseless statements as to the future intentions of the United States. As evidence of the ability of the Huerta government to spread any impression it pleases through the Mexican press the president referred incidentally to optimistical predictions during the last few viaj? in .Mexican newspapers that recognition of the Huerta government by the 1'nlted States was forthcoming. The Washington government. It Is known, is irrevocably determined under no circumstances to recognize Huerta. Claims Relationship to "Mary." Lancaster, Mass.?Richard K. Powers, who claims close relationship to "Mary," who is the heroine of a nnrI sery rhyme about a persistent little lamb lias just celebrated his 103d anniversary here. "Mary," whose full name was Mary Sawyer, was a cousin j of Powers, he avers, and her lamb 1 was one of twins born on the Sawyer farm in March, 1S14. Foreign Meat is Cheaper. Washington. The navy department stocked the supply ship Culgoa. about to said for the Gulf of Mexico, with , Argentine beef at a saving e what more than half a cent a pound below the lowest estimate made by American packers. A consign u. of 2Sf>,000 pounds was bought at 11.90 cents per pounds, the lowest price for American beef b dne i" ? .-> ? The Culboa sailed from New York a few days svgo. The navy aho has just saved $9,r>2S by buying canned corn beef in the Australian mar.iet. President's Message Compl.te. Washington. - President Wilson's annual message which he will read to congress is finished, but just wh">n it will be delivered will depend upon the convenience of both houses in arranging a joint session. Hitherto the President's message' his been read the day after the convening of congress. It is expected that the president will dwell considerably on the need for early action on the currency bill and htat he will develop in a gen. eral way the attitude of the adininis>tratlon toward trust legislation