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INSPIRATION OF 7F1 THE COUNTY FAIR I ? sr. By Peter Radford. . When you enter the agricultural department of the county fair, you feel your bouI uplifted and your life takes on a new power?that 1b the Inspiration of the soil You are overpowered by the grandeur and magnificence of the scene?that is the spirit of the harvest. You can hear the voice of nature calling you hack to the soil? that 1b opportunity knocking at your door. It is a good chance to spend a quiet hour in contact with the purity and perfection of nature and to sweeten your life with its fragrance, elevate your ideals with its beauty and expand your imagination with itB power. These products as food ar? fit for the gods, and as an article of commerce they ought to bring tip-top prices on any market in the world. The products of thb Boil are teachers and preachers as well. Their beauty gives human life its first entertainment, ihe'r perfection stirs the genius in artists; tiieir purity furnishes models for growth of character and their marvelous achievements excite our curiositv and we fnnulre intn the won. derful process of nature. Hefore leaving the parlor of agriculture where nature is parading In her moat graceful attire and science Is climbing the giddy heights of perfection, let us pause and take a retrospective view. How many of you know that after these wonderful products are raised, they can seldom be marketed at a profit? Take the blushing Flberta, for example?they were fed to the hogs by the carload last year. The onion?the nation's favorite vegetable?every year rots by the acre in the Southwest for want of a market and as a result hundreds of farmers have lost their homes. Cotton?nature's capitalist?often goes begging on the market at leBB than cost of production. It is great to wander through the exhibits while the band is playing "Dixie" and boast of the marvelous fertility of the Boil and pride ourselves on our ability to master science, but it is also well to remember that there is a market side to agriculture that does not reflect its hardships in the exhibits at a county fair. UNIVtKSAL PLAUt Thts nation Is now in the midst of a controversy as to how best to promote universal peace. That question we will leave for diplomats to discuss, but peace within nations Is no less important than peace between nations und it is heavily laden with prosperity for every citizen within our commonwealth. Many leading politicians and ofttimes political platforms have declared war upon business and no cabinet crisis ever resulted. Many men have stood in high places and hurled "gas bombs" at industry: thrust bayonets into business enterprises and bombarded agriculture with indifference. Party leaders have many times broken dip-, lomatlc relations with industry; sent political aviators spying through the affairs of business, and political submarines have sent torpedoes crushing Into 4ho destiny of commerce. During the past quarter of a century we have fought many n duel with prog ress, permitted many politicians to carry on a guerrilla warfare against civilization and point a pistol at the heart of honest enterprise. No man should be permitted to cry out for universal peaco until his record has been* searched for explosives, for no vessel armed or laden with munitions of war should be given a clearance to sail for the port of Universal Peace. I^et us by all means have peace, but peace, like charity, should begin at home. GRASPING AT THE SHADOW No man?especially If he Is married?would deny woman any right ihn (lomo r, Hu Tol/? ? . v. 1 &ono iuo cauu ttllU glvo lis peace, but why does woman long for the ballot? When all Ih said and done, is not the selection of the butcher more important to the home than the election of a mayor; is not the employment of the dairyman a far more Important event in the life of the children than the appointment of a postmaster; is not the selection of books for ths family library more important than voting bonds for jail and court house? Why does woman lay aside the important things in life? Why leave the substance and grasp at the shadow? He it said to the credit of womanhood that it Is not. as a rule, the woman who rocks the cradle that wants to cast the ballot; It Is not the mother who tenohes her children to say "Now 1 lay me down to sleep" that harangues the populace; it is not the daughter who hopes to reign as queen over a happy home that longs for tho uniform of the suffragette. It is. as a rvle, the woman who despises her ho-e, neglects her children and acorns motherhood that leads pari ' SHIP SAVED BY SEA SALAC Olive Oil on Troubled Water* Mixes With Seaweed and Is Eaten by Fish, Say Sailors. i Came into New York as strangr a story of a sea-made salad as evei drifted past quarantine to moorings Tt TT33 tofd by sailors aboard tht j Italian freighter Francesco Ciampa out o: l aiormo February 20 with an assorted cargo of lemons, olives, oils. | spaghetti, macaroni, vermicelli, raviola and what not. The stay of the Ciampa in the Mediterranean after leaving Palermo wag a prolonged one, due to storms that buffeted the Italian and had hot alternately wabbling over on beam ends or attempting to poise on hci bowsprit's tip. "Such a storm!" said the sailors spokesman, Giuseppe Ferra, between j immthfuls of spaghetti. ''Only by oil could we calm those seas that j wore.wrecking us. Oil hags we put over were torn awav ami what could we use instead, now that all our oil was gone? There remained olive oil. precious to all of us, hut over it ! went. "The olive oil calmed the seas easily. Ihit there was so much seaweed floating about that it mixed with the j oil ami behold! we were in the midst of a salad. Soon every fish for miles around was headed our way. They j finally nibbled up all the salad and ; we were able to move again. The I storm had ceased and we passed through Gibraltar and so to New York." | HAD HIS SHARE Mrs- B?So YOU thinlc vmi WAn't > ' u i i u?/ \ / ?11 ?i a~^x u > / It will open you a savings where it will earn 4 per cent ii Then make it a duty to save ings or spending money regul and hy the time you have reac tidy liitle sum ready for use. And, better still, you will h{ of saving money. No one can learned to conserve his resour< Take the first attp toward s w ith us today. v ________ 1 Savings Bank OUR PUBL IV?F. A, | On The Busin 111UOI tSlUU / . UU 25 11 f ) the fttftdnmental ?v J its functions to a .,/t there can bo no f standing. Mr. F. * City Bank of Net said in part: Ay that of gatherini * JgjikV small sums and I ' - voir upon which have temporary use for money. Itise aggregate available for the employme community. But much more is acc< actually deposited in the banks, for notes the efficiency of money is mult! business, for example one of the gr actual money;, on one Bide of its ba and drafts it is daily receiving froi while on the other side will be enter cattle, etc., its only use of money b otherwise. If there were but one hank in hills by drawing cheeks on that bank, diately deposited it in the bank, the i would not change at all and the entii settled on the books of the bank Ai when there are several hanks, for the the checks they receive on each othi although the small balances are paid in every largo elty there is a 'Clearli banks meet daily to settle their accon A hank is constantly receiving fro are shipping products to other locallt in other cities, which it usually sen hanks in the central cities with whlel (l.lo n.n.. V- K " turn <>?.? iii'-D?r manircu crouus are these accounts in supi)lying customei away from liome. As each local com amount abroad in the course of a yc other. It is evident that the banks a and Industry of a country. The banki a dpaler in money, and of course his < exchanges his credit for the credits credit for their accommodation, but h judgment that he can always meet hit This is the essential thing about ba same as cash." OUR PUBL v.?E. 1 ~~~ On Relations Mr E p RiI when asked to give his views in refe railroad and the public said in part: "Frequently wo hear statements Improving, that the era of railroad bi ment now favors treating the railroai sentiment. it' any unch there he, is not It is true that in the legislatures past winter there were fewer unrei than usual, but a consideration of t there is still reason for much disqui more or less of a majority. Moreover, the idea that the rail not seem to prevail in the offices of seem to cherish a notion that their between the railroads and tho people the railroads are able to take care ( act as attorney for the people even to the railroads. It requires no argu are entitled to justice equally with o have not received it and are not r proof. That they have practically ni determined. The situation therefore Is that th must elect whether the services of th sated or not; and "it requires no fort in tho long run the service will take The natural competition hetwoei to perform first-class service has h< lnuch more than It was willing to impossible and no Ibwr. however dras J. Marry Foster, ATTORNEY AT I.AW Rock Hill, - - - S. C. Old newspapers for sale at The Times office. Taking the Step; to Do it today bring (OlMHC IBlfBllLH. Aff camp out during your vacation this summer? Mr. A?No. We moved this spring, and I think I have had all the discomforts that 1'really need. ANYTHING BUT THAT. "I)o you think thnt if I refuse him he will do something desperate?" "Nope, he'll probably live lo he glad of it." "Then 1 shall marry him, the brute!" NOT TO BE OUTSHONE. "Ma, Belle says the repartee at Mrs. Smartleigh's tea the other afternoon was simply delicious," "Well, dearie, find out where she gets it and we'll order some of it for our next reception." AFRAID TO RISK IT. Mis^ Withers?Do you think you eould come anywhere near guessing my age? lie?Not with any degrco of safety.?J udge. ALL IN THE GAME. Jinks?Throwing out hints won't make a great pitcl?er of a man. Jenks?No more than rapping out oaths will increase the hatting average !?Judge. THE PROPER KIND. ''I will give the boys' athletic club an acrobatic lunch today." "What is that?" "One consisting of turnovers." OUGHT TO BE. "Is that public man's family a cultivated one?" "It ought to l>e from the way they've been raking it. up." PROOF OF IT. "Why do you say that Jones girl is dumb?" "My dear fellow! Did you ever licar her talk?" ACCOUNTING FOR IT. "Smith says he can already smell powder irn Italy's atmosphere." "Oh, that's la-cause be has a ltoOUUI HOW." - g AC FORUM~ , Vanderlip ess of Banking of this nation to nnmn (-- WUOH U W ii less. We must, as a class, -understand principles that underlie every industry, Dctttv and its relation to agriculture, for intelligent co-operation without underA Vandcrlip, president or the National v York, when asked, "What 1b a bank?" id most familiar function of a bank is ; up the idle money of a community, arge, and thus forming a pool or reserresponsible persons may draw as they vldcnt that this makes large suras in the nt of labor and the development of the Hnpltshed than the use of the money by the use of drafts, checks and bank Iplied several times over. A very large eat beef packers, may use very little nk account will be entered the checks m everywhere in payment for meats, ed the checks it draws In payment for eing for small payments, to labor and a community and everybody paid all , and everyone receiving a check immeimount of money in the bank evidently re business of the community would be nd the situation is but slightly changed iy daily exchange among themselves all nr. whirh nrnrtirnllv nffaot fhomonlvno In cash. This is called 'clearing' and :ig House' where representatives of the nts with each other, m Its customers, particularly those that les. drafts and checks drawn on banks ds for deposit to a few correspondent h it maintains permanent accounts. In consolidated and the bank draws upon s with the means of making payments imunlty sells and buys about the same tar, these payments largely offset each ire very Intimately related to the trade ?r Is a dealer In credit much more than iwn credit must be above question. He acquired by the customers, and lends e must conduct the business with such i own obligations with cash on demand, nk credit, that It shall always be the .ic forum" Ripley of Railroads and People il leaders of this nation are talking to face through the columns of this paper, en if a corporation had anything to say y sent a hired hand, whispered It through oyed a lobbyist to explain It to the legl^ ten who know and the men who do are the fence to the man who plows, adlng business men of this qation get ' with their problems, strife and dissenir, for when men look Into each other's here is a better day coming, iley, president of the Santa Fe Railroad, rence to relations oxlsting between the to the effect that these relations are liting has passod and that public scntitls fairly. As yet this change In public effective In results. i of the southwestern states during the isonable and unreasoning laws passed he hostile bills introduced shows that et even though they were defeated by roads have been harshly treated does the State Railroad Commissions which business is not to act as an arbitrator . but which proceed on the theory that >f themselves and that their duty is to though in so doing they deny justice ment to demonstrate that the railroads ither citizens and taxpayers. That they eceivlng it is perfectly susceptible of ? recourse in the courts has also been is people, through their representatives e railroads shall be adequately compenune teller or soothsayer to predict that the class that is paid for and no better, a the railroads and the natural desire ?retofore resulted in giving the public pay for. Continuation of this will be tic, can long accomplish the impossible." A. A. BRADFORD, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Estimates cheerfully furnished on al classes of brick and wood work. Telephone No. 30 Old newspapers for sale at The Times. account in this strong bank nterest, compounded quarterly, a small portion of your earnarly and put it in this bank, hed manhood, you will have a we learned the valuable lesson make a success until he has ?es. uccess by opening an account : of Fort Mill. | =11 =n ir=i i 11 Mnur 1\ j] 1 JLKJ YY JL1 Do You The Net Prerr the Union Centra Policies written ir lows: C ti? i ^ rur q?i,uuu.V Kind of Policy. Agt [T Ordinary Life__, $1^ 20-Payment Life 2u 15-Payment Life 21 10-Payment Life 31 5-Year Term ; i We write all and rates are pro] i Ask for specimen Bailes & I " ! I r=lL : VERY LOW RA Panama Pacif SAN FRANCISO Opened February 20th, CI Panama-Calif SAN DIEGO, i Opened January 1st, 1915, 1 VI Southern Premier Carrie Tickets on sale daily and Hi Good going via one route anc Stop-overs allowed. Fr?a R wad-Trip F Columbia, S. C $82, Charleston, S. C. 85. Orangeburg, S. C I 82. Sumter, S. C 84. Camden, S. C 84. Aiken, S. C. 79. Chester, S. C. 82. Rock Hill. S. C 82. Spartanburg, S. C. 81. Greenville, S. C 80. Greenwood, S. C. 79. Newberry, S, C. 81. Proportionately low rates from c trip rates to Seattle, Wash.; Portl many other western points. Full information regarding the \ schednles. etc.. gladlv furnished. request. Let us help you plan you Why pay tourist agencies, when S. H. McLEAN, Division I W. H. Tayloe, P. T. M., H. F. Car Washington, D,C. Washin i 1 BUILD While the bi and the sav If you contemplate the erecl barn, or outhouse, or the rem present buildings, DO IT NO1 ! if vou act at once, for von ?u now than you can possibly do 30 or 60 days, we verily believ have passed. Labor will be< Building Material market is al know say that prices will be b We will supply you at close fit nish you estimates on what yo Take advantage of conditior Build Fort Mill 1 I Phon v 1' '' t"'* 1 "i fluch h Pay? _ L. lium charged by j 1 Life this year on = c 1 1 91 4 is as fol)0 Insurance. ? 20 Age 25 Age 30 Age 40 j 4 Q L38i $15.93 $18.32 $25.33 n u 2.39 24.09 26.58 33.30 I r.33 29.35 32.30 40.05 U r.46 40.11 44.04 54.20 *.07 8.39 8.90 10.67 ? ~ j forms of policies, portionately low. policy at YOUR age. District Agents I - ISllij Fort Mill, S. C. [ iB I ll 1I==J cTES ACCOUNT ic Exposition, ' 0, CALIFORNIA. oses December 4th, 1915' ornia Expos'n CALIFORNIA. Closes December 31st 1915. 1A i Railway. m* J r of the South. mited 90 days for returning1. \ returning via another. uti 0i>c way ui Par (bod, OrtfM .45 $104.24 .15 106.85 15.. ... . 104.79 15 1 105.55 14 10b.05 15.. 102.45 90 1.. 102.32 90 102.32 50 101.00 00 101.00 .20 101.00 .10 102.81 >ther points. Also very low roundand, Ore.; Vancouver. B. C , and rarious routes, points of interest, Also descriptive literature upon ir trip. our services are free? Address? 3ass. Agt., Columbia, S. C. y, G.P.A., W. E. McGee, A.G.P.A gton.D.C. Columbia, S. C. 4 ? NOW lilding's good ing is great. :ion of a new home, tenement, odeling or repairing of your W. You will be the winner i do the work cheaper right it a little later. If you wait e the golden opportunity will :ome higher, the Lumber and ready firmer, and people who " ack to normal in a short while, jures afid will cheerfully furur work will require, is and Now. I Lumber Co. e 72.