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THE FOBT MILL TIMES
Published Every Thursday.
FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.
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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.
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* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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..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
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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
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