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/ &> . . ?????^. Mwd^? THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic? Published Thursday*. B. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor Iomcmftion Rates: Ona Year 11.26 Six Months ..... .66 The Times invites contributions on live subjects oat does not agree to publish more than 200 words in any subject. The right is reserved to edit very communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising ten am made known to those interested. Teleohone. local and lonsr distance. No. 112. Entered at the postofflce at Fort Mill. S. C.. as mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. JANUARY 27. 1916. Will You Be Missed? Some of these days you, who are reading these lines, are going to die and pass on to your reward ? whatever that reward ' may be. But will you leave a void behind? Will you be missed? 1 The Creator has ordained thai man must carve out his own career in this world, and when he journeys to the great unknown 1 he leaves behind him a record founded upon his own acts. You may leave behind you a wife, or children, or other dependents. As you deal by them in life, so will their grief be ganged and tempered at your death. Will they miss you? In this town you have friends, and business associates, and perhaps many acquaintances? They know you as you are, as you have been in the years passed. They have judged you living, and they will judge you dead. Will they miss you? In the banks, and the stores, and the offices, and out upon the farms are people who have known you in the past and who know you today. As you have been, so are you known to them now. Will they miss you? In the house of darkened windows, where sweet toned music soothes the tired brain and the minister tells of the ways of a better life, are many people who know you for your acts and your deeds, for that which you have performed or left undone. Will they miss you? In our homes are many little children who know you, who i have ^passed you on the streets, i who, perchance, may have been greeted with a kindly smile or TU? ill nun u iiunii. incj win remember you. But will they miss you? Even your faithful animals or pets know you as you are and as you have been to them. Will they miss you? There is no place you may go. no point of the compass to which you may turn, but what people have known you or will know you, and by all of these you will be judged when you have passed away. As you shape your career in life, so do you write the record by which you be known after death. Your family, your associates, your acquaintances, even your dumb brutes will remember you after you have passed on. But will you be missed? Wi?e and Otherwise. The wise man picks his steDS and rises in life. The fool sinks in the mire of his own foolishness. If Andrew Carnegie achieve > his desire to die poor, it will not be because he blew in his millions on a bunch of gadding leg pullers. Between the war and the automobile, the unhappy horse is kept continually sidestepping, sudden death. When a youth reaches a cer-. ~ I tain age he is firmly convinced1 that the people of his home town are a bunch of mutts. An editorial squib writer is a gink who manufactures smiles for everybody but himself. A man's worst enemy is often the friend to whom he has refused to lend money. The Horrid Thing! Of course, that little old word, "has," first line of front page article, column 5, could just as easily have said "having," but since the thing "got by" as it is, we'll just grin and bear it. "Appalling Prosperity." If two or three years ago some New Year's prophet, who makes it a business to tell the world what is going to happen in the next 12 months, had predicted such an unprecedentedly gigantic war as the present we should have taken his prophecy with many grains of salt, despite the well known dangers of European rivalries and ambitions. That 15,000,000 or 20.000,000 men should be under arms, that the slain should be numbered by millions, that war debts should be counted by billions, would have seemed to most of us the horrible dream of a disordered imagination. But even more incredible would have seemed a prediction that the foreign trade of the United States in the 17 months from .*\ugusc i, i?i4, to tne end of 1915, would reach a total of $7,000,000, and create a new record in the commerce of the world. The human mind gets ost in the immensity of these figures. This war has surpassed all other wars in its tremendous proportions. But even more wonderful still is the tidal wave ?f trade and business which has swept over us from abroad. In truth, our commercial prosperity is in a certain sense, appalling It is magnificent, but it is not altogether normal or healthy. It is based to a con-: siderable extent on diseased conditions in other countries. We should be thankful that good has c me to us out of this evil, but th s phenomenal prosperity carries with it a warning, and .-h uld set us to thinking as well s rejoicing, to preparing for the fu'ure as well as utilizing the present.? Baltimore Sun. Yiews the Natter Lightly. There has been more or less talk about an alleged effort to secure legislation that will permit the holding of some terms of the court in Rock Hill and some in Yorkville. A petition has been circulated to that effect, so we are informed, and it is said that two local attorneys lave signed it. We are not disposed to take the matter seriously. however. Indeed, we are doubtful as to whether anybody, even Rock Hill people, want such a thing. We are doubtful also as to whether such an arrangement could be brought about without a change in the constitution. The idea, if car-: ied out, would involve a who'e lot of unnecessary tiouble, expense and general inconvenience o all people having business at .lourt and not be worth anything to anyfcx dy. It is our opinion that if the alleged movement has any purpose behind it at all, the Durnose is nnlv tn trv tr\ create a diversion with a view to trying to array Rock Hill voters behind a certain politician lor his own benefit, and for no public Rood. We refuse to get excited about the matter and we believe that most of our readers will likewise refuse to allow themselves to be stirred up or "worked" by any such absurd schemes of political tricksters. ? Yorkville Enquirer. Tax is Constitutional. The income tax was declared constitutional Monday by the United States snpreme court in a unanimous decision which swept aside every contention raised against it and, in the opinion of congressional leaders, opened the way for increasing the tax rate on great fortunes to help pay for national defense. To the Public! 1 have opened a First-class Fancy Grocery in the storeroom formerly occupied by W. L. Hall. It is my purpose to carry at all times the best in my lines and 1 will appreciate a share of your patronage. Fresh Meats and Fisn the year round, and Oysters in season. , 1 For this week?King Mackerel, sliced in any quantity you want. ? CABBAGE PLANTS-Big lot just received. Let me supply you. Phone No 29. M. K. Moore. .'i- *11. i . i ee ANNUAL ASSESSMENT FOR 1916 Notice of Opening Books of Auditor for Listing Returns for Taxation. State of South Carolina?County of York. Auditor's Office, November 30, 1915. i Pursuant to the requirement of the Statute on the subiect, Notice is heregiven that mv books will be opened in office in York Court House on Saturday, January 1, 1916, for the purpose of listing for taxation all Personal and Real Property held in York County, on January 1, 1916, and will be kept open until the 20th day of February. 1916. and for the convenience of the Taxpayers of the County I will be at the places enumerated below on the dates named: At Rock Hill, from Thursday, January 27, to Wednesday, February 2, At Ramah, Friday, February 4, 1916. At York, from Saturday, February 5, to February 20, 1916. All males between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederate soldiers over the age of fifty years, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00, and all persons so liable are especially requested to give the numbers of their respective school districts in making their returns. BROADUS M. LOVE, Auditor York County. Old newspapers for sale at The Times office. Need a ,*; > Our second shipment of Mi: days ago and are ready for y are mules of all sizes and | Several closely mated teams ? "Quick sales, short feed biL profit." is our motto. Come i * * 1Y1U1S JLlVe PAY ALL BU MAnd there wil! nev The Savings Bank well as business a< men Know how ditt their cash balance cash. You can av and worry by op }.U this bank. Then every cent of your ft ) \ a HFP We have the J >< ^ . f nm i o iviuier I ssouri Mules arrived several our inspection. In this lot t suitable for every purpose. | ind single mules of all sizes, i is and a small per cent, for $ o see us. i stock Co. I ,LS BY CHECK er be any disputes. 1 Ljjr invites household as J :counts. Most wn. IiM .1 icult it iB to make iji! when they pay in roid all the trouble ening an account at * you Ml know where .jfa.} money goes. t'ty " k of Fort Mill ??? TL AV, tamf fw w1 W*WS? 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