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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
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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.
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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