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THE FORT MILL TIMES
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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.
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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.
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tifie physicians who know hov
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