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r THE FORT XfLL TIMES. Democratic ? Published Thursdays. B. W. B^^rORD - Editor and Proprietor. Subscription Rates: Ona Year...-.-.... 11.25 Six Months .66 Ths Times inyites contributions on live subjects but does got agree to publish more than 200 words on mny subject. The rUrht ia rcacrved to edit every communication submitted for publication. 6n application to the publisher, advertising ' rates are made known to those interested. Telephone, local and lonir distance. No. 112. . t ,. . . , Entered at the postoffice nt Fort Mill. S. C.. as mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1914. i"- ~ | Mail and Newspaper Frauds. There is a class of advertisers who patronize the want ad columns of many newspapers with , the' view of making capital out of that widespread idea among the uninformed that a man can be- j come a newspaper writer by mail, and that all he has to do is to take a short course in a corresponce school and thereafter - make $100 or more per month * at spare times writing newspaper stories. These advertisers catch thousands of ambitious j people, but sometimes they get | caught in turn. Clairvoyants, astrologers and palmists who advertise to tell you anything" you want to know about yourself or . about others, find almost as -? - ?? 1 n i__ A _ i_ * a many suckits reauy 10 one and the government net wgets . ! many of them in, a year's time. Perhaps one of the worst of the frauds is the advertisement of "work at home" schemes. You are told that if you order an ^*oulfit^from the advertiser you can use it and the advertiser will buy your product. Usually the scheme appeals to poor people who can ill afford to lose a cent, and yet who hope to supplement an all too meager family income by doing some little extra work. The list of species of fraud perpetrated through the mails is a long one. Impersonating relatives, picture puzzle schemes, fire insurance policies, advertising for traveling companions and taking a deposit from each person answering the "ad," advertising for partners and requiring a little "good faith" money, advertising that a young heiress is anxious to marry and advising the would-be swains v ho answer i that she needs a little money for her transportation?these are hut ' a few of the many kinds of frauds that use the mails as a medium. The postoffice department finds it rather hard to combat these evils because the Federal courts seem tofail to realize the nationwide operations of these individuals when brought into court by the work of the postoffice inspectors. In a number of instances persons who have robbed the people of millions of dollars have received jail sentences of only a few months. j If all the courts uphold the action of the district judge in the!1 northern district of Illinois the postoffice department will make short shrift of many of the peo-j' pie who use.the mails to defraud. This judge recently decide d that conviction might follow "if it', was the intent of the defendant that some one should be de- i frauded," and this decision gives the department a means hyji which it can drive out thousands j of unlawful users of the mails. ; i1 ' ^"" _ Too Many Lawyers. What may be taken as evidence that the lawers of South ( Carolina are able to get through j the Legislature almost any kind j of legislation they desire is found ; ( in the bill which recently passed , that body providing lor a new ?, judicial circuit?the Thirteenth, ( if we mistake not?to be com- I posed of Pickens and Greenville t counties. The interests- of the I people demand no such judicial j * circuit, but the opportunity was 1 presented to create two more ? good jobs for as many lawyers rj and the lawyer members of the Legislature lost no time in pass- ^ ing the bill. If the present cir- i cuit judges and solicitors earned anything like the salaries they are receiving there might bejl some little excuse for taxing: the people to provide two more of their kind with sinecures. But we despair of anything better until the people wake up to the fact that they are sending about three times as many lawyers to "the General Assembly as should be sent there. Senator Tillman says, according to the dispatches, that jeal ousy arid envy was the cause of the recent investigtion of the affairs at the State asylum. In this statement we heartily agree with Senator Tillman, and venture the opinion that no one is in better position to correctly size up the situation than Senator Tillman, whose letter made public several weeks ago in one of Governor Blease's messages seems to have been the upstart of the whole business. . The comment of the Charlotte Chronicle last Friday about the "Fort Mill Times" advocating John G. Clinkscales, of Wofford college, as the proper man for Governor of Soilth Carolina, would have been extremely interesting to this newspaper had tu ~ rp: i ? !* * x iic nmes ueen gumy oi sucn an outburst. It was a clean case of mistaken identity on the part of The Chronicle. A prediction: If Gov. Blease is elected to the United States Senate, the South Carolina delegation to the National Democratic Convention two years hence will not be for the renomination of VVoodrow Wilson for President. And quite a number of people who have watched the trend of events in Washington think that worse things could happen. Labor Law is Void. In the circuit court at Bennettsville a few days ago, Judge Gary in a decision at habeas corpus proceedings brought by counsel for Rant Nichols, sentenced to the county chain gang by a local magistrate for violation of the contract labor law of the State code of 1912, declared the law null and void, saying that a similar decision had been made hy the United States supreme court on the Alabama cont ract labor iaw on which the South Carolina act was modeled and that he had the right at a habeas proceeding to declare the law unconstitutional. ? 1 * * i iIV,- (ji isuiicr was oraerea discharged. Nichols, a tenant farmer, had signed a labor contract with a local land owner, had never gone to the farm which he leased. However, he had been given no supplies by his landlord and the point was merely that of whether the contract would of itself hold. Doesn't Like 2-Cent Rate. Senator Tillman at Greenwood Saturday scored the House of Repu . t niMives for passing the tw o-cent pnsM nger rate bill and dec'a t<d tie income unjust to the Miii'd' ii? es ot this State. S? i ; tor 'J. ii an said that the as.\ i in investigation and the twoc ot 11::t, rale on the railroads have been the two things be fori1 tie General Assembly that ii;t< rest?.<1 him most. The Senator stated that the hill passed by the House nquirii g the twocent rie on .ill the loads should never have gone through that, way but should have been uuui ihd t> except the short lines ol lailway. He said also he s ,w liie earmarks of the rail-' load lobly present during the! ses. ion by the efforts now being in;.lie in kill the bill. He calls upon the Senate to amend the bill " . o as to make it reasonable and just." '1 he Senator also said the General Assembly should look after' the mileage question. Concert by Baraca Orchestra. On Thursday night, March 5, the Baraca Orchestra of Fort Mill, will give their first concert in the school auditorium. This orchestra has been organized ibout five weeks and is doing j some good work. The proceeds >f the concert will go for the benefit of the orchestra, to buy riusic, etc. The orchestra at j >resent consists of the following nstruments. Four violins, flute, ;wo clarinets, two trombones. taxaphone, bass violin, cello and >iano, under the direction of [\ R. Yarborough, who for the >ast two years has been conluctor of the Second regiment and of this State. The Kitchen Cabinet Contest closes larch 7th, SatnnUy, at Massey's. TBS FORTH II A S I Accompan I They know 1 I and therein ! I "for lea?." I * As this wi I stock to bott I about compb lIlt'IA'IiilUUISU who have ex Crepe de Chine (full yard Cream, Blue, Pink, Tai also Brocaded, the yd._ 27-inch Brocaded Silks ir best colors, the yd 36-inch Messaline in Na\ and Green, the yd 27-inch Tub Silks in neat per yd., only 10 pieces of Shirt Waist ( all colors, the yd 44-inch All Pure Wool Serj And last, but n it is their Footwi and feel sure you Pal HCCl I C IT C/Mi I ^ -T - A A r V7I\ A. A Letter From Chicago. [The following letter was written from Chicago a few days ago by Mr. Willis Howie to his grandmother, Mrs. W. R. Howie, of this city, and is published by request. Editor The Times.] Dear Grandmother: I am attending the Illinois Central training school; it is here that young men are trained to be operators and all expenses are paid, except board. Our professor's name isE. A. Barton. He is very strict in school, but outside is like one of the boys. Yesterday we went to school until noon, and then Mr. Barton took us for a trip over the city. First we crossed the city to Washington Park and from there went to the Illinois Central station and from there to the freight station of this great ; railroad system, on South Water ! street. The chief clerk is J. W. Phil pot, and he showed us through the station. They have seventy-two miles of underground tracks running from this station. Next we went into a banana house, capable of holding 35 carloads of the fruit. The I bananas are kept at the same I temperature in which they were packed in New Orleans. We met Mr. E. J. Kemp, whose position is almost as imnortunt SIS thsit r\f rwrxiciUorvl , ..... v 1/tiut v/J pi VOJV1VHI/ Ui the railroad. He is a jolly, good fellow and Rave us a very instructive lecture. We then went to Michigan Avenue bridge from which we saw a number of large steamers. Several large department stores 1 were then visited, among the ! number Marshall Field's, which i covers an entire block. In this 1 store there are employed 7,500 , clerks and 2,000 delivery wagons < are on the go. Next we saw Seigle-Cooper's. This store has a moving stairway, the first I ever saw, and you can imagine how we felt and looked when all hanks quit work and watched us. The greatest objection I have to Chicago is that they have negro policemen. We had a heavy snowstorm last night, the snow being ninejnehes deep this i rn i morning, inree persons are reported to have perished in the storm. * This is a brief description of my first peep at the great city of Chicago. Your Grandson, Willis Howie Remember the Partridge Wyandotte* at Maisey's Drug Store, Saturday, March the 7th. WANTKI) Beef Cattle, and Hogs for Pork, Butter, Chickens and Eggs. Be sure and see us. Phone 82. L. A. Harris & Co. The Contest postponed until Saturday, March 7th, at Maasey's. . ]|r. - ELL TIMES, FORT MILL, SOU mile * ies every man, woman hey have made a good lies the secret of the sr 11 be our first Spring s< ler with, we have mad< ete in every departmen in this section, not on amined the goods and LADIES: We want wide) in Navy and Gray, th< n, i5iacK; 3t>-inch All Pure Wool 48c and Navy, the yd.. 1 all the 36-inch Cream Serge, 48c for, the yd., only.. ry, Black 50-inch Panama, real 95c the yd., only stripes at 42-inch Sheppard Che 25c yd., only joods, in 36-inch Waffle Check 17 l-2c yd., only ?e, Black, 27-inch Waffle Check lot least, if there is ail} ?ar. We just tried oui will award lis the Gol tterson's .ESS." HISTORY OF POLICY No. 252194, Issued on the Life of Mr. L. A. Harris. Age 29, Amount $1,000.00, Uct. 3D, 1902, Premium $49.35, 10-Paymeiit Plan. * Year Dividend . Net Premium 1904 $4.6G $44.69 1905 5.49 43.86 1906 6.42 42.93 1907 7.37 41.98 1908 7.85 41:50 1909 8 34 41.01 1910 8.85 40.50 1911 9.38 39.97 1912 9.93 Paid up 1913 , 10.50 Paid up Premiums paid $493.50 Dividends received 78.79 Net cost to date $414.71 Cash surrender value _$415.00 Policy was paid up in 1911, but Mr. Harris will receive annual dividend check so long as he lives. If you don't get it from the %Imon Central, you pay more than you ought to. BAILES & LINK, , Fort Mill, - - S. C. DCG T/ X DUE Notice is hereby given to owners of ;|ogs or those having dogs in their possession that a tax of one dollar on males and two dollars on females is now due. Failure to comply with the ordinance made and provided covering the above tax will subject the person I lo doing to a fine of not less than ten I lollars. I By order of the Mayor. C. S. LINK. Clerk. _ Call C r Whether yo great or smal make an effor all. JONES, THE Phones 14 and 8. m TH CAROLINA of Sa nr r?ViiWl wVi v/* viiiiu vv in; v (II I 1C! investment. They k nile of contentment. Bason in business, and b an early start on Ne it. We have the vei ly in our opinion, but who know what they you to see our Pretty j yd 72 l-2c yd., only 1 Serge, Black 50 pieces Sprinj _.48c Crepe Voile, a 50c value, Crepe Bulgai 39c you may war 50-cent value. Percales, Gin 39c Laces, Embro ck (Wool) the injrs. 48c Ladies' All-woo (Cotton) the to. 22 l-2c Ladies' Silk Un< (Cotton) the to 'thing that appeals to selves in selecting oi (1 Medal when you se< Dry Gc It's ALL Last Ch Spend a quarter with'u ?j ^ i vatuc xuuuivuu ior every ( FIRST PRIZE?A $25. CABINET SPECIAL No. 1 ?With end Nyal's Family Renedics or Nya we will issue two chances at the SPECIAL No. 2?With ey? ry our Paint department we will is at these prizes. SPECIAL No. " Everyone worth of Nyal's Family Rcirrdii Articles this month will r? < ? ive a Globe free (as lorp as the i eight chances at these prizes. Contest closes positively 1914?Just one mor Mass Get it at Massey's?There THE MA. J| FORT - MIL TODi Five Riff Reole n I I u mg IIUUIU tl In Us !i ur orders be L We will 1 t to fill them : GROCER. I ????????J I AS* ^ ~ . \ v ~^r' sseessss? _as& ? - - J ?memmmm. * 0 4* * * l tislaction $ the package wrapped in green. I now that it came from Patterson's I They also know they bought it i not having any old, carricd-ever I w Spring Goods. Our stocks are I y newest, best selected stock of 1 in the expressed opinion of people I -1 ' mu LillKlUg aoour. I Line of Piece Goods. I ? 15c Ladies'Mercerized Underskirts, all ? i Goods in Crepes, colors, each 48c and 98c 9 Ratines. Plisse. D , fril lo sr(. ,he Grei>t | -e; also everything Va|urs on h 5 Cen, c 1 it in White Cioods, | phams, Domestics, "Five to $10.00 less th?n 1 paid 5 ideries, and Flounc- last season." This is the unani- H mous verdict of all men who see g 1 Skirts, each, $3.98 and examine our (No Tariff) Suits 33 $5.48 at $10.00, $12.00 and $14.00. They l| lerskirts, each $1.48 all place the stamp of approval on 3g $2.48 Mr. Underwood's efforts. 9 a ?<><><1 dresser, man, woman or child, ir Spring lino of Oxfords and Pumps I ? thoin. >ods Store, 'PHONE No. S5. , In YOUR Favor! I ance -- LasL?^2th! HI r s and get a chance at the Handsome prizes. You get ient you spend and the prizes are absolutely FREE. cn March 4th, SECOND PRIZE?Fen of Partridge e month. Wyandottes?3Hens, 1 Rooster ey's Drug Store, 's a Reason. Phone No. 91. JESTIC THEATRE L'S - POPULAR - PI AYHniNF I J (VY (Wednesday) if Good Pictures. Prices same. m ? ?? - ?* ? j . I Magazines. I | For t.hft T.fltpat nnd Mao4 P?n..1n? ^ ?? -i ? ?...vuv MUU Auuob x. U|MU.ll UiilgU^lUCS <U1U | Papers, see our assortment before you buy. | Ladies should see Page 44 of the Ladies' Home | Companion for March?the advance Fashion Sheet. | We also carry Post Cards, Stationery, Etc. ' PARKS DRUG COMP'Y, I S. W. PARKS, Manager. |j 4