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~ ???????? THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic ? Published Thnndavt** 8. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor 4uiMnRitTioN RATF.H: On* Year .*1.21 Hi* Month* .61 The Times invito*contributions on live subject! but docs not ntfroe to publish more than 200 wonh on any subject. The ri^ht is reserved to ??di' ivory communication suhmitted for publication On Application to the publisher, ndvertisint rates are made known to those interested. Telephone, local and lonir distance. No. 112. Kntered ut the postolllce nt Fort Mill. S. C.. a; mill matter of the second class. THURSDAY. OCT. 8. 1914. The Christmas Ship. The Chicago Herald has started a movement to givo the ehildrer of Europe some little pleasure at Christmas time. It says that the Christmas ship which is tc hear gifts from the children of America to the orphan ehildrer of war-torn Europe offers a hit opportunity for doing good and a bigger opportunity for receiving it. It will bless the little child who gives as well as the littIt one who receives. What an opportunity it will provide to carry joy to thousands and thousands of homes that would otherwise be dark and cheerless on Christmas nighthomes whose defender and sustainer lies dead on some distant field of battle. What an opportunity to carry to all of Europe, in the most helpful way conceivable, the real sympathy which Americans, without distinction, feel for a continent in the rim clutch oi war and want. What an opportunity to raist amid the discordant clash of wai a note of pure humanity, sweet and sane and strong a note tr which the nations must respond?a note to awake tlu better angels of their nature. What an opportunity to lead the children of Ami rijta, througl a work of gentleness and love, to realize the great joy of giving, the beauty of self-sacrifice ami the blessedness of peace. What an opportunity to enlarge their sympathies till they lake in half a world, to implant lessons of humanity that it: future days shall stand like steel against war's crime and folly. What an opportunity to impress on childhood the rea meaning of the day that Christ was born, and with it the wholf gospel of help for the unfortunate, care for the orphan ant the widow, and that last, great est commandment of all "that we love one another." The Christmas ship is no idk fancy, it will bean accomplished fact. It will he ready in dut sea?on to carry to the war-swepl lands and homes of Europe the offerings which the children ol America make to the innocent victims of war's rage and mad ness. Think for a moment that army of orphans more pathetic thai any beaten, shattered host. A scattered little army without defense, hut with an appeal thai goes straight to the heart. A pitiful little army on w hich wai is moving as remorselessly at , against the armies of the field rpL!_ 1 t-A . i ihiik wnai i. nrisimas promise! to bo for most of them; of th< widowed mother with full heart and empty hands; of the cheer less home and the childish hope; all blasted; ol the vacant chair and of the father and protectoi they will never see again. No one is obliged to liv< where be is not suited. If on< hasn't an encouraging word foi business enterprise and institu tions of his town, he should shut up and go 'way back and sit down U HE' I I ll lfte ? I II Money invested judiciously in noads adds so much to the value j of the property in a community that every dollar invested comes back to the treasury in the form I of additional taxation. Good roads attract new settlers, encourage improvement and enrich a community. They bring in more people to help pay taxes, and reduce that rate o;' taxation white increasing the aggregate amomt collected. Money paid merely for salaries of officers of J! a dead and non-progressive . county urganization never comes i back in any form. Good roads (: are the arteries of trade, the promoters of value and the basis of prosperity. Give the peddlers the cold I -1 rpL.:_ :_i 11cikt*. i neir interests are nO| | concern to you. They take j 1 money out of a town but leave ~ none. They have no business ^ I reputation to sustain and are 4 i more likely to skin you than not. There is absolutely not a single 4 advantage in buying from a > peddler; therefore give these ^ ' itinerants the shake. There is i not an article they sell that can : not be bought just as cheap of i j the dealers in your town, who ; pay taxes and help build up, * I , while the peddler does nothing > for us. Trade with the mer chants and let the peddlers go. II * ; There are in many communi ties successful business men who 1; stand like stumps in the high ways of progress and in such a . situation the undertaker is an 4 i i mportant factor in development. ^ I Scarcely a day passes that he does not join with public spirited citizens in a movement for the 11 upholding of the community. | it takes live men to build a com t munity and there is no sadder ;signt in lite man a few noble <s? i spirited citizens staggering un- . I der a load of dead timber. The _ undertaker is oftirnes a de- jj veloper. Jj u The farmer bends the knee to C , none, and is less disturbed by B i he world-wide reign of graft g I md greed than any of his fel- g ! lows. May he live long and g prosper?this son of the soil, g j who is the balance wheel of the g i! universe. n ~ n "t es, young man. the glaciers L of life are hard to climb, and G .ou will never make the trip G I U without a guide. The name of n II the guide is "Work." Tie n I yourself to him, young man, and ? he will pull you thru all right. 0 G The Tillman Children Again. jj Mrs. Lucy Dugas, the divorced J] wife of B. R. Tillman, Jr., has jj ' j been ordered to produce her two [j girls, Doushka Pickens and Lucy [J i j Frances, before the supreme [] i court on November 25th to show ? cause why the custody of the children should not be taken ~ .! from her, "and why they should . I not be placed in the custody of ^ / those who may be more sue-1 ? ! fill Ml t t'O I n 11> /r . I. ^ > tiauiuiK uirin aim ill | teaching them the duty of obedience to legal authority." * The order is signed by Chief f t .justice Gary, a copy will be - served on United States Senator 4 Tillman who will have the right 4 i to introduce evidence and ex-! 4 , amine the witness of Mrs. 4 i Dugas. The children were to % ,(spend the months of July and , ^ t August with Senator and Mrs. j ^ Tillman, their grandparents, and ^ k itisalledged that they refused to ^ ' do so and Mrs. Dugas is alleged j "" * to have confessed her inability , 1 to make the children obey the 3 > court's order. The court says | * ? they will not permit its order to | ? t he set at naught by said chil- ? . dren. ; 4 ' ?- 1 1 New County Home. ! | ( Work on the new county home j J which is to be a hospital near the ^ site of the old home, a little ( ^ more than two miles east of % Yorkville, is progressing quite Z rapidly. All the frame work has been erected, and the bricklayers | " are now busy. The building is I to be a one-story structure with 1 t! two large wings. ? Yorkville Rn- * jquirer. 1 I i t V - - - ::.. . ' ' . * .. 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