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THE FOBT MILL TIMES Published Every Thursday. FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA. L < This weather makes the turkey trol livelier. After it exceeds forty miles nn hour "wind" never rhymes with 'kind." The "V" is to go from the |6 piece. llrtntv utUk or m - ?r, nnu UIC ft) I I U III LI1UBI Ul US. Yes, sir. Some men are so gifted they can speak an hour on a minute's notice. Football Is a rough, rude game, but the players never talk as much as the boxers do. The tnan who wears the athletic kind all winter can be heard at Intervals boasting about It. Take It from the eminent surgeons that people are often Improved by being discriminate^ dissected. Paderewskl says- music Is still In Its Infancy. After hearing our ambitious neighbor we refuse to argue. English women enthusiasts are holding "at hotneB" on the golf links. More work for the tireless cooker! It must bo fine to be as youthful as the cub reporter who writes nbout a man fifty years old as "aged." To make the games really Interesting the billiard champions should play football with the wrestling champions. A famous beauty went through an accident and came out of It with an added dimple. Speaking of luck, how's this? "Nerves" nre responsible for moBt of our crime, says an expert, and nerve is responsible for quite a little of our art. An eastern man, advertising for a wife, says ho wants one with Ideas. Hut ho can't go wrong there, no matter whom he gets. Iloston is tho proud possessor of n lobster weighing twenty-seven pounds. That ought to be enough for an entire musical comedy chorus. Ilomblta. a Spanish bullfighter, is to retire after killing three thousand bulls In the ring. He would certainly make an ideal reformer for Wail 6treet. The old-fashioned girl whose mother took pains to teach her how to enter a parlor now has a daughter who is doing her dingdest to keep out of the kitchen. A New York man lias Just rented a flat containing thirty-four rooms, with eight baths. He must have reason to expect to havo to entertain his wife's relatives. When ai. eastern woman promised to cook better chicken soup, a suit for mvurcr was uroppeu. ah putusnmeni the judrg might have ordered It made every day. A leading physician declares: "Hard work Is the best euro for neurasthenia." Having decided tlint point, let hlni givo us a flrst-cluHs cure for Hard work. The government refused to lot one of Its life savers off to play football becauso It holds that life saving Is more important than football. Why. the very idea! People disposed to "view with nlarm" will doubtless be glad to hear that Plko's Peak Is not sinking. Pike's Peak will bo visible nbove ground for a long time yet There isn't much difference between some reformers and a common scold, except In the size of their audience. * r y Mr ________ baseball player who must p|ay his \vp,y around the world calls for yrtl'pAfhr, "but ns he gets nearly two yeartf" >Wgeji in one we think that ho ran Hud -substitutes If ho Insists on \ 1 them " ' -* ' 'r ' ' ? Glenn U. Curtlss foresees a flying v:.- mdtoffyciui several successful oxperl. mpnts - having boen made In Franco Y with ordinary bicycles with folding : * ',wings attached. What are wa com *- Ing to? A Detroit court ruled lately that a wife has a right to fascinate her husband and get his estate A wife who manatees to keeD fascination- o?r talnly ought to got something for the effort. The records show that a hen in an Oregon agricultural college laid 283 egga In a year. It mny be taken for granted that she wasn't fooling nway her timo with football and kindred porta. One remnrkablo aspect of this time la the fact that, Judging by the funny clothes, you cannot tell a college boy from a tired business man. Tho thoroughly unscientific man Is betrayed by his confessed inability to aee anything of practical importance about radium except the price. Don't worry If you can't understand the Income tax rules the government will see that you get a full explanation concerning your particular case. V. ^ * l.Tl'P<fI"iTTg'Jl WHtfi HPSE^Sfi '" yMANY DEAD AND SCORES IN PERIL MAROONED PERSONS IN INUNDATED REGION SUFFERING FROM HUNGER. | RIVER THREE MILES WIDE Vice President Henry Martin of I. 4L G. N. Railroad Drowned Leading Party of Rescuers. Bryan, Texas.?A dead list of more than fifty, with scores of flood refugees are in Imminent peril, and possibly a thousand others marooned and suffering from prolonged hunger and cold, was indicated by reports from the flooded Brazos river bottom in this section of south central Texas. For over fltfy miles the Brazos was three miles wide and running with great speed. The known dead In Texas floods numbered 3:1 before reports from the inundated territory in this district began coming in late brought by men on horseback, which was about, the only reliable means of communication. These couriers' reports indicated at least twenty piore lives lose. Abc.ut two-thirds of the drowned were negroes. The riders' reports indicated that the property loss would total $4,000,000 or $f?.000,000 when losses along the Brazos are added to the already heavy damage in other portions of the BUIIU. Henry Martin, vice president and general manager of the International and Great Northern railroad. was drowned at Valley Junction, nenr this place, while attempting, to rescue marooned flood victims. Mr. Martin went to Valley Junction, where the confluence of the Little and Big Brabok rivers made a swirling lake, six miles across, to personally direct the roads' relief forces and was attempting to navignte a boat alone when the frail craft was upset. His body has not boon recovered. Six members of the Galveston lifesaving crew and a train load of motorboats from Houston, which were to have come to Bryan, were stopped by high water at Navasota. The boats were launched at that point and started up stream over the flooded bottoms ' to trees, on housetops, or occasionally standing in shalow water, hut o(T from shore. THE BRITISH CABINET ACTS England Forbids the importation of Arms Into Iceland. London.?The British cabinet, by a royal proclamation, promulgated, prohibited the importation of arms and ammunition into Ireland, for the (lrst time grasped the nettle of the revolution in Ulster, which it had hitherto ignore d, although the followers of Sir Edward Carson for months have been advertising their military preparations in every possible way and daring interference with them. Almost at the time of the publication of the proclamation. Premier Asquith made the longest step toward the conciliation of the Ulsterites that the gov eminent lias taken by announcing his acceptance of the principles of a basis of agreement which Sir Edward Carson suggested in his last speech. These principles are: 1. That the settlement must not be humiliating or degrading to Ulster. 3. Ulster's treatment must not be different or exceptional from that meted out to the other parts of the United Kingdom. 3. Ulster must retain full protection of the imperial parliament. 4. The home rule bill must not be such as to lead to ultimate separation of Ulster from Great Britain. Chicago.?Chicago women who qualify as judges and clerks of elections will not have to tell their ages. This concession was grnnbcd by County Judge Owens, who will make the appointments. "I^egal age" will be a satj isfactory answer to the question concerning age qualification. Nearly 300 applications have been received front women who wish to serve as judges or I clerks of elections. Appointments probably will be made within the next two weeks. Dates for Veterans' Reunion. Jacksonville, Fla.?April 119 juu 30 and May 1 have b*^*t selected as dates for the 1914 resnion of the United frtnfoHnrn in V<.tornnc * ?1-* 1" | TCWiailP, IU Iff llflll 111 (his city, according to announcement hero by Gen. Bennett H. Young, commander-in-chief of the organization. General Young was here to confer with locnl committees in charge of arrangements for the reunion. Present plans, which were heartily indorsed by the commander-in-chief. provide that all veterans he accorded accommodations in hotels. Two Feet of Snow in Denver. Denver, Col.?Den e* vwnkened to And every manner of traffic blocked by more than two feet of snow. Pedestrians made their way with diftlj eulty. Railroad trains were unable to move from the station and service on most of the roads was abandoned. Practically nil of the trades people of Denver weref orced to rVxy down town at night and were on hand at the opening of the business day, but there were few shoppers. Schools were as ; desolute as in midsummer. k ,4*s J,* "**- ' v, * SAILING AWAY- ON Francis B. Sayre and Mrs. Sayre. captain's bridge of the steamship Geor them away on their honeymoon trip to MA'S MEN SURRENDER JSEVEN GENERALS OF MEXICAN ARMY ANNOUNCE THEY WILL FIGHT NO LONGER. Peace Proposals Sent to General Villa by General Mercado, Who Is in Command cf Huerta Troops. Juarez.?Seven general of the Mexican regular army are ready to surrender and the backbone of the Huerta dictatorship in the north has been broken. A peuce commission is in Juarez bearing terms of surrender. The commission was headed by Odilon Hernandez, and came from Chihuahua, bearing a proclamation signed by General Salvador Mercado, Htierta's military governor and commander of the Federal forces in all the north. The proclamation stated that the Huerta government was bankrupt, and was unable to pay its soldiers. The simultaneous evacuation of other Federal strongholds in the north is believed by the rebels to be the result of a concerted decision to abandon the whole of northern Mexico The peace proposals were sent uy General Mercpdo to Gen. Franclscn Villa, rebel leader, through Frederlco Moye, civil governor of Chihuahua state, appointed ad interim. Along with it came an appeal signed by all the foregn consuls In Chihuahua calling upon VJlla to give police protection to the citizens of Chihuahua Citv. BULLETS DROP STRIKERS Special Officers Kill One Man at Indianapolis and Wound Others. Indianapolis, Ind. ? A movement looking toward a general strike in sympathy with the teamsters and the chauffeurs' strike, was started at a meeting of the Teamsters' union here. The strike has been marked by one fatality. When a crowd interfered with an ice wagon in charge of bIx men on whom special police powers had been conferred and began throwing bricks and trying to prevent the wagon moving, the special bfficers tired, killing (Maud Lewis, . a negro, and wounding four other persons,- one fatally. -The special officers were , taken to police headquarters, but were released oil their own recognizance without being slated. Young Girl Cremated. Itoanoke, Va.?Jessie Robinson, 1? years old, attempting to fill the place made vacant by the recent death of her mother, was burned to death in the home of her father despite the heroic efforts of her six younger brothers asvi sisters, to save her life. The girl was at work in the kitchen, and seeing that the lire was not burning briskly, she poured coal oil on it. Immediately she was enveloped in flames. Her screams attracted the other children who rushed to the room and attempted to extinguish the fire. Bank Robbed by Yeggmen. Dublin.?The Hank of Dudley was robbed of about three hundred and thirty dollars, thieves blowing the safe open with nitroglycerin and wrecking the vault. A hardware store was entered also and four fine shotguns, a half case of sholls, about twenty-five horse blankets and a handsaw stolen. All of thsse were used by the robbers. The robbers stole a pick and some other tools from the railroad sec ton gang of the M? D. & S., near Dudley, entered the bank and dug a hole through the wall of the vault. *' 7 THEIR HONEYMOON : . -m"Sf^^" who was Miss Jessie Wilson, on the ge Washington, as the vessel bore Europe. MEETS IN REGULAR SESSION CONGRESS BEGINS SESSION THAT MAY CONTINUE INTO NEXT SUMMER. Galleries Crowded to Wtiness the Opening, But Formalities Were Curtailed. Washintgon.?Congress closed the extraordinary session, which began on April 7, and settled down to the regular "long" session, expected to continue Into next summer. Only the absolutely necessary formality marked the ending of the old session and the beginning of the new. An attempt to institute the proposed drastic program of day and night sessions for consideration of the administration currency bill failed, the Democrats agreeing to allow ilnal settlement o of the program to go over to give the Republicans time to consider it. The house contented itself with a brief meeting, formally opening the new session. The galleries were crowded to witness the opening, but the formalities were curtailed. Senator Burton, Republican, of Ohio, introduced a currency bill of his own which would provide for the formation of a central hank to he owned by the public and operated by the government. HARRISON HEADS SOUTHERN He Is Chosen to Succeed the Late President Finley. New York.?Fairfax Harrison, formerly vice president of the Southern Railway company, and for the last three years president of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway company, of which the Southern is part owner, was elected president of the Southern Railway company to succeed the late William Wilson Finley, President Harrison gave out the following statement: "1 am in entire accord and sympathy with tlie policies of my lamented friend, Mr. Finley, under whom 1 have worked for seventeen years. I hope to continue to build the Southern as he built it by promoting and enhancing its usefulness to and its cordial relations with the people of the South. I count on the support of the entire present working organization of the Southern, rank and file. Having grown up in the service with most of them, Defends Action of Judge. Washington.?Attorney General Felder of Georgia filed with the United States Supreme court a defense of the action in the superior court of Laurens county, Georgia, in refusing to accept the verdict of a jury finding Joe Dnrsey guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a murder case. The attorney general showed that it was the practice in New York, Texas. Tennessee, Virginia. Missouri, Kentucky and .u s? ? ? iiuiin vttiuuiiit lor me judges to refuse to accept a verdict which was not responsive to the jury charge. Georgia Exemptions Declared Legal. Washington.?The legality of exemptions alolwed to bankrupts under the Constitution of Georgia, adopted in 1868, was upheld by the United States supreme court, in affirming the decision of the Supreme court in the case of Thomas M. Kener vs. the LaGrange Mills. Justice Holmes, in rendering the decision, said, however, exemptions under the state Constitution in statutes were not valid agninst debts contiacted before these laws were passsed and against liens by judgments in state courts. % FINANCIAL REPORT OF GOVERNMENT SECRETARY McADOO MAKES HI3 REPORT ON NATIONAL FINANCES. HE REVIEWS ACHIEVEMENTS He Expects Enactment of Currency Legislation to Cure Many Existing Ilia. Washington.?Secretary McAdoo's first report to congress is largely confined to a review of the achievements [ of tlie treasury department in matters | that have been of nation-wide interest; j to recommendations for increased ap- ! propriations for bureaus under his au- ' tliority, and for legislation, which he declures necessary to the better conduct of the government and the protection of the people. The secretary discussed at some length the subject of currency legislation, reviewing the activities in his department related to it. Mr. McAdoo details the treasury's offer to loan to banks of the country money to move the fall crops. The sum of $46,500,000 out of $50,000,000 estimated to be needed, was apportioned among the states. "It was essential," says the secretary, "that the action of the depart- . ment should he non-partisan and nonpoliti"al; the crops of Republicans, ! Democrats and Progressives and all other classes of people had to be mov- ) ed. and the earnest effort of the de- 1 part ment was to have the benefits of this action diffused as widely and impartially as possible." After praising the psychological value of these- incidents, the report continues: "They demonstrate clearly that any improvement in our financial system which will permanently establish ctflt- i fidence will in itself he an immenso gijn, and If that improved financial I system assures the opportunity to se? : cure at all times the necessary funds and credits to meet the expanding and loi'tl inintr, ?!.- --- ..v?ud v#i me vwiumvrce aim industry of the country, it will be nn achievement of enduring benefit. "These incidents also show conclu slvely the enormous value of nn altruistic government agency in the I financial affairs of the country. So long as the government has the power to intervene in a beneficent and on- 1 selfish way, thed anger of panics and of unjust practices will be largely. If not wholly, destroyed. This is one of ! the chief objects sought in the proposed reformation and reorganization ' of our banking and currency system. | The people of the country are to b? congratulated upon the early prospect of sound legislation on this vitally important subject. Should the eongressti enact thef undnmentals of the pend nact the fundamentals of the pend nent protection will be provided against recurring commercial crises EMPEROR REMOVES TROOPS Garrison Which Caused the Trouble in Zabern, Alsace, to Be Moved. Donaueschingen, Germany.?Kmper or William ordered the transfer of tlu entire garrison at Zabern, Alsace, owing to the trouble between the soldiers and the citizens there. He also directed that the court-martial pro- ; ceedings in connection with the recent rioting be accelerated. The emperor's solution of the diffi- ! culty is regarded in mahy quarters | as a two-edged sword. While it re moves the danger of further conflicts, the people and merchants of Zaberit will suffer a severe financial blow by the removal of an important source of revenue. Later the emperor decided that the Zabern garrison should go into camp temporarily on the army maneuver grounds at llagenau. but that the troops might ultimately return to Za- j born if its Inhabitants displayed a proper temper after the expected transfer to another regiment of Lieut. Huron von Forstner, who started the ! trouble by his references to some ci- I viliuns, and the retirement from net- | ive service of Col. von Router of the Ninety-ninth infantry regiment. House Passes Volunteer Army Bill. , Washington.?After a discussion in- j to whieh Republican Leader Mann in- , ject Ml the Mexican situation, the j house passed the Hay army volunteer bill that in varying forms has been talked of at the capital for ninny years. The bill, which now goes to : the senate, would put war volunteer : forces on an equal footing with the J regular army. It would provide that ' whenever, in the president's judgment, war is imminent or exactly exists, the president may organize volunteer regiments for war purposes. I Sugar Trust Sued for $100,000,000. New Orleans.?Fifty-eight suits asking $3:i,87!?,397, were filed in the United States court hen, against the \mcrican Sugar Refining company, un- I der the provisions of tlie Sherman anfl j trust law, making a total cf \J0 suits 1 Pled within the past two weeks against the same concern, asking for damages aggregating more than $lrto,0()0,00;. This sudden rush to file suits was due j to the fact that the statute of limitations was expected to expire. All records as to the number of suits fi'cd against one concern were broken. I ' ^ 1 %,jBK 4 v ?>'* MEIMnONAL SMSanoL Lesson (By B- O. SELLERS. Director of Hxulut Deportment, The Moody Bible lutttetv Chicago.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 14 THE SIN OF ACHAN. LESSON TEXT?Joshua T:?-1A Reaff) Joshua chapter* 7-11. \ GOLDEN TEXT?"Be sure your atti will find you out."?Num. S2-23. Before proceeding against Jericho*. God, through his servant Joshua, buf given strict injunctions as regards ths taking of anything from the city for self-enrichment, ch. 6:17, 18. It sraus necessary at the outset of this campaign to safeguard Israel against anysuch motives. The fruits of their viotories must in no way seem to b* the rewards of, nor to be dependent upon*, the efforts of their own hands. Spiritual victories are, as we learned last week, won by means and upon princip'os utterly foolish and inadequate . in the view of human wisdom. Nor is the Christian dependent upon theprinciples of hum-tin thrift for his sustenance or enrichment. That does not* moan the divorcement of the Christian from those principles. The story of Achan is an illustmr tton. While his sin was indivldualistioyet it was national in its results (y. l.> After the fall of Jericho, Joshua sent a detachment of 2,000 or 3,000 men Intake possession of the small town of' At (literally, "ruins"). The task wan ' seemingly an unimportant and an easy one, but the result was that the expedition was turned into a miserable rout (vv. 1-6). Achan's Sins Revealed. Th? stages of the sin of Achan are wonderfully revealed In the confession (v. 21) which was finally wrung from ?"I aaw ... I coveted . . I took . . . they are hid." I. Joshua's error, vv. 6-9. It ws# right and proper for Joshua to bring his difficulty to God, but it was not right for him to lay upon him the blame for his defeat. Moses beforehim had made that same mistake (Ex. 5:22, 23), and It would seem that Joshua should have profited thereby. In this, however, he is supremely hnman. We of today with far greater light are constantly making this sams I nrriBtake of accusing God, instead ot ^ finding out and judging our sin. There is, however, an underlying not* of the master passion of Joshua'aheart, that note which had so governed the heart of his predecessor,. Moses. It is expressed in the last notnof his complaint, "What wilt thou ' for thy great name?" v. 9. This complaint and petition sounds very much, like those of the preceding generation uttered in the wilderness. For us to wish ourselves to be "content to dwelt beyond Jordon," when the testing times of our Christian life come, when the calls come for an advance, is to doubt his wisdom. No wonder Joshua, was amazed when he saw Israel turn its back upon its enemies (v. 8). Wo must beware lest we, too, be dismayed when we see the church of today give way before the world and the devil. II. The cause of defeat, vv. 10-12. Joshua's petition is answered by the voice of Jehovah in terms of rebuke* strong, yet tender. In verse two wo are told that Joshua sent men to view Ai. Why? Because in the language ot verso one "the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing." Joshua wanted the peoplo to <vuuw tuai mo sin of Achan and itaresults was the sin of the whole nation. God brings the essential oneness of the nation before us in verse eleven: for an illustration, Bee I. Cor_ 5:1-7 and 12:12-14, 16. God's Instructions. III. The victory ot' defeat, vv 13-15. It is a testimony as to the spiritual condition of this nation that the fraud: was so soon located. The early Christian church had a parallel incident in the case of Ananias and Sapphlra, Acts 6:1-11. In each case the evil was quickly Judged and reveals the closeness of God to his people. In the process of years Israel passed from that condition; has the church of today so * passed? God had given explicit in struct ions as to the spoil (ch. 6:18 R. V.). God commands JoBhua not to I cry unto him, but to "sanctify the peo- V pie." The church of Christ, as well as the individual, needs to judge ita fl sin and to set itself apart unto God It was a stern judgment and the H query arises what sort of bonfire H would the church have today were all H sinfully acquired property to suffer similar destruction. It is noticeable* however, that there is no suggestioo H of any confession on the part of Achat* fl until the narrowing circle of judge- H ment had closed upon him. He con- H fessed only when there was no poe- H sible escape. This seems like a stern* hard process, but yet God wa3 deal n'K iu mercy with the whole people. IV. The Golden Text. The words of this text were uttered by Moses to the two and a half tribes who settled on the east of Jordan, that in case they refused to come to the help of their brethren in the conflict necessary tc the possession of Canaan, their sin |^H would discovj r them This losso:. war rants the application of this prim iple. H A sin against Cod results in injury to youi n< ighh< It is a sin not to hen.your neighbor and conversely to In- II dulge in any act which results In the defeat, moral or otherwise, of those with whom we associate. Is sIbo a I