Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE FORT MILL TIMES NMhlWi Every Thursday. FO*T MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. Anyway, why not put the yeggs in cold storage? A man doesn't have to give security when be borrows trouble. Charity covereth a multitude of slus and exposes a multitude 01 sinners. Now the billiardlstB can begin trading their complicated ch-mpiousliips again. A synonym. Johnnie, is the word you use when you can't thinL of the right one. "Should a woman whis'le?" asks un exchange. Certainly. It keeps her from talking. Bach new guess about the cause of cancer shows how far away the answer remains. The editor of a "love-column" says she doesn't know what "steadies" are. Affectation pure and simple. A girl likes for you to tell her about baseball, especially if you will demonstrate tile umieo*i. tihiu "Shot Sharks by Searchlight," reads a headline. No. it is not the loan Bhurk to which the writer refers. Seventy Mexican pupils of French aviators have returned to their own land to lead double lives of thrills. Kansas City is going to have a busy little official?a municipal guardian to settle family rows in the home. A new baseball play, written by a woman, is described as "sweetly pretty." Musebaii is no pink tea affair. It's such a line old world that but for our motto, "Live and let live." we'd never oblige the undertakers by leaving it. 0 It is said that women will wear vests this winter. All right, .just so they don't carry cigars i:i the upper pockets. * Winn .lie scientists take to exploding powder by X-rays from any distance perhaps the "gun toter" will become discouraged Investigation lias proved that a wren rats more than its own weight In two days. Fortunately, birds are never afflicted with the gout. The woman out west who "clucks" III Imr clonn l'b.? ? lion" eww.itt.. -.? I?" tnid herself open to tin- suspicion tliut she is no spring chicken. I'roiessor Munsterberg has invented a machine which indicates whether a man is telling the truth of lying. If it comes into general use diplomacy will have to be re-established on a new basis. Over In Paris the women have begun to wear high silk hats. Womanhaters who have been compelled to wear high hats will consider the punishment no more titan the women who are adopting them deserve. One prominent Milwaukeo woman says that if the cigarette habit is not checked we shall soon have n nation of idiots This seems to throw some light upon the problem. Is cigarette smoking a cause or an effect? Woman correspondent writing to this ollice asks: "Should a woman tell her husband everything?" We would answer to said query that if she doesn't she is not taking advantage of woman's assumed prerogative. Electricity is a great clvlllzer. Here Is China threatening to discard Its picturesque decapitations for the more urbane form of electric chair executions. Relatives and alcohol are blamed for most of the woes that are aired In the court of domestic relation. As for alcohol, it is possible to sign the pledge. A New York man explains that he drinks highballs because his wife sea sons his food too highly- When a man wishes to he driven to drink ho doesn't have to look far for an excuse Tlie latest in prison reform is moV ing pictures to entertain the convicts in 8an tjuentin. It is to lie hoped the flln\s will he carefully censored lest anything be introduced to currupt the munners and morals of the inmates. A St. Ixmis man has invented a con trivance with which he can walk on water, but a sapient paragrapher points out that St. Louis water iK considerably thicker than the water found in some other pnrts of the country. An Kngllsh visitor says the American young women are very charming and pleasant, but that they are all alike and do not know how to flirt. 1 Perhaps the foreign critic does not 1 recognize expert work of the latter ] kind when he see? it Another stranp* thing about etl quette is that you wash your hands in the flngerbowl. but mustn't pick your teeth in the dining room. You may also give the waiter half a dollar, but you must not offer a tip directly to tbo proprietor of the hotel. TRYING TO CORNER ' THE POTATO CHOP | ??-i-evje.u utALERS IN LA^GE I CITIES ARE BUYING UP THE SHORT SUPPLY. WASHINGTON INVESTIGATES Country Endorses Justice Department's Endeavor to Break High Food Prices. Washington.?A new phase of the cost of living problem was brought to the attention of the department of agriculture. T. 1*. (Jill, secretary of the Irish board of agriculture, told Secretary Houston that speculators in the large cities of the United States were actively buying up this year's short American potato crop and plan- I nlng to hold out fur high prices, counthig on the existing quarantine against | } potatoes from many foreign countries ] to aid them iy their undertaking. Mr. Hill is here to urge the removal of the embargo on potatoes from Ireland and has been getting private advices from various sources on the potato situation. ( Secretary Houston and the Federal horticultural hoard held a conference alter Mr. (Sill's statement, but no action was annum.cod. Representative Mt Kellar of Tenno- ' see, author of a pending bill to proliibit the keeping of products in cold storage for more than ninety days, was in conference with department justice officials over the department's | investigation of the storage <>l" eggs, poultry and dairy products. It is said a preliminary inquiry has revealed ' that r.Ii per cent, of the present" egg 1 supply held in storage is in the bands ? of the great meat packers of the coun- ] t ry. i Letters and telegrams poured in i from all parts of the country, from in- ' dividtials, associations of various kinds ; and from business men praising the i department's efforts to break high i food prices by dings against the alleged combination of cold storage dealers. Interest in Attorney (lenernl I McReynolds' declaration that a sweeping investigation will lie made of the alleged combination and that if viu- | lutions of the pure food act were dis- i closed prosecutions could be looked | for, apparently is greater than in any i move the department lias made in a l long time. WASHINGTON AS A SURVEYOR j George Washington Perfect Surveyor, ( Say Government Experts. | Washington. George Washington's surveying done in 17al when, as a lad 1 of 111, he ran lines with chain and , < compass through the wilderness of tlie j ( Virginia hills for laird Fairfax, lias i been cheeked up by government sur- i veyors who have just made their re- 1 ports and who found the work of the immortal patriot perfect. Washington, running his lines with primitive instruments and lion lires or 1 bill tops, left monuments and boundaries to which terhnicaly educated surveyors, using high power transits and all the relined and accurate methods of modern instruments, allow they have been able to timl no variation. From the top of Middle mountain in the Massanutten range the old Fnlr| lax line may be distinguished without the use of instruments and can be followed by boundary fences da.ng from the earliest days and by blocks of timber which come tip for the county lines and stand out like squares upon a checker board. Down across the valley of the south fork of the Shenandoah as far as the eye can. distinguish the line shows plainly. Washington's survey blazes cut into the trunks of trees and long grown over have been rediscovered and all are several feet higher from the ground than those the woodsmen of today would make. Some authorities contend Washington made them from the saddle with a long handled ax. The government has been retracing the old lines because it is buying land through the territory which they run for the new Appalachian forest rei serve. Sultan Loses Suit in New York. New York. ?The Sultan of Turkey ; was a losing litigant in the appellate division of the supreme court of New York, llis highness sued to recover $10,000 from the estate of llovhannes Tavshanjian, a wealthy Armenian rug I npmcr, muruereti hi mis euy Hi 15J07. I This sum was loft to Tuvshan jinn's * i mother, who died before receiving it. I llecause she died intestate in Constate J tlnople the sultan claimed the money. I The suit was decided against him by I the supreme court and the appellate I division affirmed the decision. \ Mayor Shank Resigns. Indianapolis, Ind.?Samuel Lewis Shank resigned as mayor of Indian- j ; npolis. The resignation is the result I I of labor troubles in the city and a r threat of impeachment proceedings t i by a committee of business men un- I less further disorders were averted, i llarrv It. Wallace, city controller, sue- I ceeded to the mayor's chair. Shank t offered his resignation after he had < conferred with a number of union la- 1 bor officials regarding an impending : strike of teamsters who told him there < was little Jiope of averting the strike < ?~n&*rr:-rm ?' . ? DMm ana sum m >^pr SIDNEY iVIOULTHROP Sidney Moulthrop is the former emaloye of Senator James Hamilton Lews who is believed to have given out the letter in the Pindell case. He was irrested on charges preferred by Senitsr Lewis. fRYING 10 BREAK HUERIA; GENERAL VILLA IS NOW MAKING READY FOR AN ATTACK ON CHIHUAHUA CITY. Spanish Residents Appeal to tee American Consul foi; Protection for Lives and Property. I'-l Puso, Texas. Rebel st*??ntm reported to General Francisco Villa at Juarez that they had sighted the Federal outposts at Villa Ahuuiada, S4 miles south of .lur.rez. The presence >f the- Federal forces at Villa Ahtitmida las caused no little concern in Juarez. ts in** rcnei diim'i rs no n*?i Know deli- | nitely whether they uri* the troop- J ivliich retreated from Tterra I Maura i ifter their defeat or are reinforcements from ('liihuiiluia, again moving north to engage Villa. "I will leave to attack Chihuahua just as soon as I can get my trains loaded with provisions ami trflops." mid (leneral Villa at Juarez. Ceneral Villa yjll hold a review and mirnde of his troops in celebration of he victory over the Federals at Tiorra Lilanca. After the parade the troops a ill make immediate preparations for eaving for the south. Thousands of doMars* worth of provisions were transferred from F.I I'aso lo Juarez to be loaded on Villa's rains. Villa expects to have at least 12,)00 men when he attacks Chihuahua, il*' said he had sent word for tlen. Thomas I'rhina to bring 000 men torth front Torreon district, and that lien. Manuel Choa is now in the vi inity of Chihuahua with 2.000 rebel roops. Villa will take 7,000 soldiers rotn Juarez, leaving a garirson of ibout one hundred men to protect the slty. NO BAIL ALLOWED ZELAYA pormer Ruler of Nicaragua \z Held on the Charge of Murder. New York. Jose Santos Zelaya, the lormer president of Nicaragua, arrest d in bed at midnight on charges of utving committed murder in Nicararillt VV'llv; wit hnnt l*t?il for ovn??? nation. Pending the arrival of a repiest for extradition to Nicaragua, lie vas remanded to prison. General Zelaya was arrested as a 'ugitive from justice on complaint of Roger it. Wood, an assistant United 3tntes attorney. Mr. Wood charged hat a warrant for Zelaya's apprehendon f<?r murder had been issued in Nicaragua, but did not name the sieged victims, it was said, however, hat they were two countrymen sir In welve years ago and that the death >f Leroy Cannon and Leonard Groce, \niericans slain in Nicaragua, in 1909. 11 an uprising against the Zelava retime, hail nothing to do with General Selaya's arrest. Zelaya was arrested at midnight in lie apartment of Washington S. Valmtine. lie made no effort to escape ind went uncomplaiiilngly to the poice station, asking them to give him vhut conveniences they could. 3icked His Wife From 400 Women. New York. Krnest \V. Harrow, a ontracting mason of Pateliogue, Long stand, celebrated Tlianksgiving Day ?y taking his pick of over 400 worn n wlio liad offered to lie liis 'ife nnte. Harrow had lieeu advertising 'or a wife since last May and the leveral hundred applicants not only icsieceil him l?v l>v ini..i.r,.ni. ind by telephone, but many visited llm in person. Miss Julia Stagg, an English girl who landed in Canada 'rom Kngland, won and the couple ,vere married. Two Boys Killed Hunting. Atlanta, Ga.?Charles llridwell, 10rear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. II. iridwell, residing on tlie Mayson and rurner road, was instantly killed at wo o'clock Thanksgiving Day in a mature not far from his homo, when i shctfgun in the hands of his brother, Itasil, aged 15, exploded, blowing off lie entire base of ills skull. Shot accidentally while on a Thanksgiving Hinting trip. Johnnie (iarst, aged 14 fears, son of James K. Garst, a recent candidate for rec'der, died in the Jrady hospital later the same day. - v - ; f ~rr?y * Mp'-f?? W ^ % daniels outlines i pc'licy fob urn govern :ent o;l and govcrnM INT ARMOR PLATE FAVORED. SECRETARY MAKES REPORT Wants Two More Dreadnoughts, Eight Cestroycrs and Three Sujmar.nes During Coming Year. Washington. ? Immediate ucrtlrement and operation of oil wells- and refineries to furnish fuel for the navy, an international ton Terence to sc. ure a reduction of naval construction, the addition of two dreadnuughts. eight destroyerj and three sun marines lor tiie navy during the coming year, government manufacture of armor, more naval ehua ains and religious l< a Iocs, better eu.icatioual facilities for enlisted iue.1 and a graduated r< :reincut law are chief recommonda ins n the iin.t annual report of Seciv.ary Daniels, made public. The secretary departs from the isual custom in addressing Mm ; resident in the tirst person sun-.liar, thereby adding to the directnes and force of the report's statements. The report rellects his enthusiasm over the navy, declaring that the sto y of the year's work "by this pat iotic body of officii nt defenders of the republic is replete with exanin'i of courage, devotion, sacrifice and progress." The secretary savs the navy was never in such a high slate of of.i.-teney as today, and that in com im me its future needs lie has given !ess bought to the guns than to (lie men behind the guns. Itrlieving that th" ftieicnev of the nuv> as a li .ting force will lie in tlie liigliest sense promoted by the adoption of a serious and systematic course of lusiruction . hoard ship and at shore stations, i<< aint; out lin t the department is try . ... ....n.. in. Ii.nl .1 UII-.U UIIIYC! SINot only ordh ary s. anion, but even |tt tty officers liavo too little accurate knowledge and this will bo t orreeled by a systematic course of iustrnetion. Midshipmen of tin; graduating classes will be utili/.ed as instruc tirs "with mutual beliolit to the mop and thonisolves." and to lit tliein for :his work a short normal course will 10 addotl to tho naval academy curriculum. As tho war college is "the apox of tho navy systom of education the department will try to have all ot'lieors puss through tliis training, using mail courses whore advisable. WOMEN CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES They Will Urge Congress to Adopt Constitutional Amendment. Washington. -A week's campaign by the National American Woman Suffrage Association to secure the adoption of a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women was launched at a mass meeting in Washington. It was the formal opening of the fortyfifth annual convention of the association. An assemnlage, which packed the e'diiiee from footlights to gallery, listened for nearly three hours to dis missions on various phases of the sulfrage cause by conspicuous advocates the woman movement. Suspended above the drop curtain was a huge yellow banner hearing the! egend: "We Demand an Amendment to the United States Constitution Unfranchising Women." The association adopted almost unanimously a set of resolutions introduced by Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson, a member of the Colorado state senate, calling upon President Wilson, "in his forthcoming message to con- j gress to adopt the woman suffrageconstitutional amendment as an administration measure and to urge con k1iu iiii\r liuun'uiuip anu iavoranie action upon it," Soldiers Patrolled Zabern. Zabcrn, Alsace, Germany. Soldiers patrolled the streets in order to hold in check the townspeople, who are highly incensed at the repressive measures of the German army officers and the arrest and detention for alleged disorderly conduct of thirty citizens who, however, were discharged by the civil courts So strict were the measures taken that there was no signs of rioting. American Battleships Cheered. Ville Kranche. France. -The United States battleships Wyoming, Utah and Uelawaro sailed from here. As they slowly drew out the Wyoming's band struck up the Marseillaise and thousands of spectators who lined the shores fluttered handkerchiefs and cheered the departing Americans. The ships of the American licet will join company off Gibraltar and proceed together to the Azores. There the fourth division, comprising the Connecticut. Ohio and Kansas, will proceed for Lead Pencils Cause Diphtheria. Nuffield. Conn. -Load pencils, distributed and collected each day in the lower grades of the Mridge street grammar school. are lield to be responsible for an epidemic of diphtheria amonp the pupils by Dr. \V. K. Caldwell of the health board. He ordered the pencils burned and forbade continuance of the custom. Fifteen of the forty pupils in two rooms have the disease, some of the eases beinp serious. Doctor Caldwell found that nearly all the children put the pencils in their mouths. \ MARIA PUIS Among the persons rescued from the burning steamship Qalmes by the Pannonia and brought to America, was Maria Ruts, wife of one of the officers of the Eaimes. It was her pet parrot which gave the first alarm of i fire on the vessel by crying "fuego. uego." The bird was forgotten and perished. RAiLWAY CliiiirS ARE DLAD HEAD OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY IS OVERCOME IN WASHING TON BY APOPLEXY. President of Atlantic Coast Line Oies in Wilmington, North Carolina. Washington.?William Wilson Fin ley, president of the Southern rail way and a leading figure in movements for the development of tinsmith, died ln-re, as a result of a stroke of apoplexy lie suffered a few hours before. He did not regain consciousness after lie was stricken. Mr. Fitiley was born 011 September 2. 1 sr?3. in Pass Christian, 011 the gulf coast of Mississippi, lie was educated in tin- private school of Pass Christian and grew to early manhood in the atmosphere of this picturesque section of tin- South. At the age of 20 . lie entered the railroad service as a stenographer and by 1SS9 he had filled almost ever minor position in the clerical department of various railroads. During the succeeding six years Mr. Fitiley served several railroad systems in important executive capacities. lie became on October 1. ISOfi. third vice president of the Southern railway. Later lie was second vice president of the Great Northern railway, hut on September 1T>. lS9t>, he returned to the Southern railway as sec.....1 ..-.,,.1.1 . -n * ? IV r |M rnnniu, , it'll J 1'ilIS in December. he was chosen president of the Southern in succession to Samuel Spencer, who was killed in a rearend collision on the morning of Thanksgiving day, six years ago. Wilmington, N. C.?Thomas Martin Emerson, president of the AtlanticCoast Idne railroad company, died at his home in this city following an attack of acute indigestion while on a trip oW inspection over the system Mr. Emerson was elected president of the Atlantic Coast Dine eight years ago. He rose to the presidency of one of the South's greatest railroad syst ins from the very ranks by succcq ive steps, first as clerk in the freight offices, later as chief clerk in the pas en- ; ger office, then general freight, agent and later, until July, 1902. gen-ral traffic manager, being accounted at that time one of the best traffic "en in the entire country. Clements Found Guilty. Valdosta, (la. Warren Clemen; . who has been on trial In the super.ox court here, charged with the muroor of E. J. Griffin, a merchant of Cat Creek, was found guilty with a recommendation that he he sent to the penitentiary for life. The killing of Grif li 11 oceiirod about two years atto during a drinking bout, Clements was tried in the superior court last year. ' and found guilty with a recommendation to mercy. His attorneys carried the case to the court of appeals and ob tained a new trial Over $200,000 Stolen by fMtrk. Now York.?The theft of more than ' $200,000 worth of Union Pacific Hall- \ road company and General Klcctric i company securities from the Farmers' I.oan and Trust company of this city became known when James K. Foye, r.r. years old, a former $75 a month clerk of the trust company, was arrested as bo stepped from a train from Philadelphia. Foye was charged with being a fugitive from Justice. At police station, where Foye was searched. the police alleged that a certified olinol/ tr%f fQ7 000 Beam HAILS FROM DEF^H Train Crews Tell of Seeing Various Points Along the Lln^H^^^H ing Last Two Years?Was a Box San Diego, Cal.-?Tom, hobo oar tourist, sensational high and all-round well-known character, lias made his headqua^^B^^H at the Santa Fe D street freight for the last four months. He is seen almost any time, sometime? ing on a bale of cotton and someti^H^^H outside on a favorite -box car Little is known about Tom that ho appeared here four ago when a freight train pulle<;^^H^^| from Santa Ana. He crawled nut the brake rods in true shook the dust from his fuT^^Wdat and strolled into the warchouso, where he has made his hoYno ever since. Caboose crews tell of seeing him at various points along the line during the last two years, and it is said that he came originally from Denver, v here lie was born in a box car of tito Denver and Rio Grande. Charles Webster,'employed at the ireight house, makes Tom his special care, although all the other employes there vie with him for the favor of the hobo cat. Hut Webster is the only cm from whom Torn will accept food. \VY aster buys fish from a fish house across the street and keeps the cat supplied with plenty of food all the time. The cat scornfully refuses all proffe;s of food from anyone else. Tom can jump from the ground to the top of a box ear. He demonstrates this remarkable feat of agility sev r;il times a day, whenever the notion st i He ^ him to take the sun. He will tight a buz/, saw. and uo dog ever made him run, according to the railtoad m>n. llis friends in the freight house CJ?. I ' .f Crawled Out From the Brake Rods. become imbued again with the old wanderlust and "hit the road." The caboose crews are especially eager to get him, and it is said the Los Angeles railroad men have a standing reward of $10 for anyone who will bring the famous railroad cat to. their town. "DEATH-PROOF" MAN UNHURT Emerges From a Crash With Ruffled Hair?Once Fell One Hundred and Seventy Feet. Kansas t'ity. Mo.?L. K. Trout, known among bis friends as "the man who can't be killed," the other day was sorted out from a pile of wood I and scrap iron that had constituted a motorcycle and a buggy and found once more to have "narrowly escaped .certain death." Trout was precipitated among the scraps l?y a collision, lie was found to have sustained a skinned knuckle. lfis hair wae mussed up. ) t-iirn ago i rout fell 170 feet | from (lie top ot an office building upon which he was working, crashed through a skylight at the bottom of the light court and landed on his feet on the smooth tiles of the ground floor. Me was in a hospital a fewdays with bruises, abrasions and sprains. About a year ago Trout was somersaulted over a fence into a cabbage patch when his motorcycle collided with a cat. At that time his left arm was fractured. The cat was killed. Trout has advertised his business by using as a delivery wagon a twowheeled top buggy hitched to a motorcycle. His latest mishap resulted when this contrivance ran into the curbing at 25 miles an hour. Trout wag arrested recently for driving his motorcycle 50 miles an hour with his flve-year-old son on the handlebars. I \