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THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic? Published Thursdays. 8. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor j tOSSCRirrioN Rates: One Year J1.26 91k Month* ..... .... .6P The Time* invites contributions on live subjects bat does not agree to publish more than 200 words | in any subject. The right is reserved to edit ivery communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising 'aten are made known to those interested. Telephone. local and longdistance. No. 112. Entered at the postoRlcc at Fort Mill. S. C.. as mall matter of the second class. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1916. j According to Dr. Evans, the well known medical authority of Chicago who writes for many daily newspapers in various sections of the country, there is no more healthful exercise for children than roller skating. The exercise not only promotes health but is a source of innocent pleasure for those who indulge it. It is therefore to be hoped that there is no truth in the report that members of the Fort Mill town council are thinking of trying to pass an ordinance prohibiting the use of the paved sidewalks to the children for this pastime. In a town the size of Fort Mill there are at best too few pleasures for the children and it is unthinkable that an anti-skating ordinance depriving them of skating privileges on the pavements which their parents have been taxed to build and are being taxed to maintain should be considered. Roller skating is popular all over the country?so popular in fact that manufacturers find it impossible to fill the orders for skates. Fort Mill is the first town we havt heard of in which such unreasonable legislation is proposed. It is not too much perhaps to hope that as a result of the action of the Legislature in passing the bill designed to dissolve the Southeaster!. Underwriters' Association much good will result to the people in the way oi decreased fire insurance rates. For years this association ha.1 fixed the rate of practically all fire insurance risks in the State without let or hindrance and it is needless to say that the rateshave been on the jump upward For this remedial legislation among those to be thanked are Warehouse Commissioner John I. M(<I .unrin unH Ronrocontofiifc W. P. Odom, of Chesterfield county, who successfully steered the bill over the breakers in the House. But whether there is any appreciable decrease in the cost of fire insurance or not, The Times thinks the Legislature did a good day's work in breaking up the monopoly. We are better off without monopolies of any kind. If you have not already done so, now is the proper time for a Spring cleaning in the yard. Rake up leaves, clean off paths and stake and prepare new flower beds for the Spring. A fratne for piling leaves, manure and green material to be rotted into fertilizer is a good thing for garueners u> prepare during tne winter months, but leaves and such refuse should be burned at this season as a pile of any moist j decaying matter is an excellent: place for flies to hatch their i Public attention might well be called to the amendment to the liquor law, published in another column. Some think that for the, first violation a fine maybe paid, hut not so. Offenders fa*.? a chaingang term. 1 "Fatty" a Turk County Boy? One of the best known comedians of the movies is "Fatty" | Arbuckle, known in the moving | picture world as Roscoe Arbuckle. He has appeared in the films of various big picture makers and is almost as well known as Charles Chaplin, and considera- j blv less obnoxious to the better class of people than Chaplin. The Herald is informed upon what appears to be reliable authority that "Fatty" Arbuckle is a native of York county, having been born in the Leslie neighborhood. It is said that his real name is Julian Giles. The story as it comes to The Herald is that f atty's" parents moved to Lancaster some years ago, where somebody connected with the Keystone Comedy company saw him and decided that he was good material for a movie comedian. In that way Julian broke into the game and began to appear in the pictures as Roscoe j Arbuckle, or "Fatty." ? Rock Hill Herald. Things Spiritual. Dear Ones: A friend of mine once said to me, in speaking of spiritual things, "Let's brush away these cobwebs." I wish to : try to get him and myself and all the rest to look for a moment j at one of the "wonders of the world.'' There are electrical wonders, and aeroplane wonders, but tViio nno Avnnn/Jn f **11 T A. - ? klllO UIIC CAVCCUO kllCIII Cill. It IS j night. Here is a person turning out of the road across which cobwebs are hanging, and trying to pull through and up and over rocks and hills and mountains, convinced that the cobwebs are the mountains and rocks. God is all through our lives as gently as he can be, shaking our shoulders, trying to show us the real cobwebs. Manassas and the Wilderness won't do, Charleston and Chicago fires are sent, Johnstown and Galveston floods, the boll weevil and drouths, the Titanic horror and at length the world war. But more nearly still. His kind hand has tried to wake up the loved one by taking away some of the cobwebs closet to him. One who had been his stay and staff of life, upon whose strong arms he had leaned for home and bread and board. His father is brushed away and seen to be as a flower of the field. A mother, such a reality that life itself seems dependent upon, is shown to him to be but a shadow. Now the light of day opens and oh, how he is shocked to find he has been running all night from cobwebs. Eternity! Eternity! Eternity! Oh, who can beforehand conceive at all the apnallintr snmrisf* of ? Hoar bahI I vvakecf up by thy solemn waves of unending years and centuries and ages of life and death beyond the grave. Oh, Calvary is the only stand from which the real things can be seen as they are. Materialism, how awful thou art. James Spratt. Fort Mill, Feb. 21. The last statement made by Mr. W. F. Stevenson as to what Congress should do for a farmng district like this was that it uad spent $475,000,000.00 on rivers and nothing on roads. It lias also spent $100,000,000.00 on n igation projects, to water lands for less than 1,000,000 in the West. Why not do something to take water out of the roads in the South? In South Carolina, the state and counties and towns and townships spent in 1914 about $1,000,000.00 on roads, and still of the 45,549 miles of roads in the State only 4,888 miles are surfaced and really improved ? and that is the work of years. 40,061 miles are yet to be fixed, and all must hp mninfninprl Thn Government carries mail over most of them; why is it not right for it to help fix them. ?Adv. Paid Big Price for Ram. The price of mutton has gone up in Australia. When the Red Cross fund was being raised one wealthy sheepowner presented a ram to be sold by auction and the proceeds de- ; voted to the fund. The ram was soid in Sydney. The auctioneer who wielded the hammer made an eloquent appeal to the pastoralists and others present to see to it that the ram brought a sum worthy of the object, ; and one that would live for ever In the history of these sales. The ram. which was appropriately named "Australia Day." was sold aud resold 22 times, mostly in straightout bids, and when 2,000 guineas had been realised he was put up for final sale and knocked down at 200 guineas ($1,020). I Time About Up for Returns. Corporations and individuals who have not yet filed their annual net income return with the internal revenue department in Columbia had better attend to this matter by March 1, or they will be penalized and their tax increased 50 per cent. " J -.1UL* ... NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notii*P is h(*rphu crivon f-Viot on nlon tion will be held in &ort Mill on Thursday, March 2, 1916, to fill a vacancy on | i the board of alderman from Ward No. 3. Polls will open at 8 a. m. and close at | 4 p. m. Herbert Harris, J. Y. Starnes and i C. A. Jones are hereby appointed managers of said election. B. E. PATTERSON, Mayor. ANNUAL ASSESSMENT FOR 1916 Notice of Opening Book* 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 subject, 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 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. T7f.Pf!TPI<! The Best Tonic, QfmmnmC! Mild - Laxative, BITTER& Familv Medicine Old newspapers for sale at The Times office. f%??i C. This building is e thrifty Scots. T1 pass the million: contented peopU them at a time w are needed. C. Our banK is a thrifty people of 1 is the burglar p judicious deposit' tracted the value] C. W? want those \ bered among our positors to enlist 1 banner and let 1 with us. C. Money in the b feeling of prospi pleasure t , Start a banK accc a Savings Banl IJust A More New S Although prices have ad we bought early and have Ci-J- -? I jiock ai oia prices, and so for a great deal less. You will save money if ; early, for we are selling s< today's wholesale prices. Come, see the New Gooi l. j. a \ 2 E.W. Get We sell v< ? ** I goods obtaii I low as it i I T | 5SSSSS5S Th o P>an k of ScoHa l monument to th? trough its portals s of savings of a ?. to be returned to ben these savings monument to the this community. It >roof vault of our ors who have conble habit of saving. /ho are not numsmall army of deunder the savings heir money grow anK produces a 14 9n\y. tnjoy tnat iunt with us today oL k of Fort Mill. .rrived pring Goods. vanced all along the line, | almost our entire Spring me SPECIAL BARGAINS j I you buy your Spring goods ome things for less than Is. /lassey. X Kimbre leral Merchanc du only the be* nable and our pr is possible to n elephone No. 7 A l Tvtfiivs bIM this time^ Jl ^ ? Rags and improper d 4 sponsible for blood poii 4 salts in many cases 4 do when any wound is y ior annscpcic gauze, b y Better still, don't wait u 4 but come now and have 4 stant use. 4 We have everything y every occasion. Hutchinson's 4 I HAVF. It JST RF A FRI BU1S PRIZE MEDAL < The kind you pi and they "come BUIST assures . All varieties, pa 1 Parks Drug Phone ] / ? ? % 11 Co., lise st onrade of ices are as I lake them. g I KL-wl tlie biclc I'oooi t L 0 f kb Antiseptics ressing have been resoning and serious re- * . The safe thing to > made is to come to us k andages and supplies. / ntil someone is injured >. it in the house for in- jg for the sick room for > i Pharmacy, \ REIVED I -J5H SHIPMENT I 5T'S GARDEN SEED, it in the ground up." The name Reliability. _ ckage and bulk. : Company. I So. 43.