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Urnma. times Thursdays. ?* w/ -i ~> . The Times Invitee contributions on I ' live subjects but does not astee to '; publish more than 200 words on any |. subject. The right is reserved to edit S? every communication submitted for publication. / On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those Interested, lir- Telephone, local and long distance. No. lit. kL\, Entered at the postofllce at Fort *$1011. 8. C., as mall matter of the sJeond class. THURSDAY, FEIB. 24, 1921. * Hudbl's Cabinet. One of the things about which this paper has hot been losing any sleep is the personnel of Harding's cabinet. We do not care a picayune whether he selects a bewhiskercd g<nt or a clean shaVen guy for this or that portfolio. Charles Evans Hughes, for instance, will make as good secretary of state.as Ellhu Root would have made. Both arc of a kidney, and neither cares a continental whether the great mass of people b'nk or swim. They ure out of touch with the aims and aspirations of humanity, but it is gratifying to recall that each has always had a keen ear for the jingle of corporation coin when there was a fat legal fee ready to be grabbed. As for the Ohio party named Daugherty that the presidentelect has said he will name for attorney general, if reports be true concerning his stock of legnl learning it is to be hoped he will Improve upon the opportunity that will be ufforded Mm after he reaches Washington to attend one of the excellent night law srhools the city boasts. Not one man in a hundred thousand ever heard of Daugherty before he became the Friday of the Harding campaign last year, but for all that he may muke a very good attorney general?good to the extent of always having at hand an immunity bath for some big trust that ought to have the screws put to it for profiteering or strangling a weak competitor. Ana with the richest man in America, next to old John D. Rockefeller himself, for secretary of the treusury, truly there is much mod nlclilnir I n ulirhf for the plutes that make a specialty of , exploiting the people. Hut it will be ^ a typical ltepubllcan cabinet, and that is what the country last fall voted for. No Alternative. There Is but one thing that can save the South from ilnanclal colic pse. This is the consensus of opinion of bankers and farmers who have made a study of the situation now confronting us. The one hope lies in a drastic cut in the cotton acreage. # The most conservative estimates of the carry-over of American cotton from last year's crop place it at from 7 000,000 to 9,000,000 'bales, or almost a one-year crop. If the crop this year amounts to over 6.000,000 I bales, cotton experts predict that cotton will be bringing & and 6 cents i pound next fall. This is not hot air or propaganda, i It is a statement of fact. A Now York bank last week sent & noto of 1 warning to its correspondent banks I in South Carolina telling them that unless the acreage was reduced 50 per cent this year, the South would be in the midst of a bad fix next fall. The warning is timely, but will tl be heeded? We hope that the farmem of York eounfv will inkn tr I the farmers of no other county in the [ State or South do. Kvcn If no other I county In the South doss, the farmers f of York county will be better off for f having cut this year's cotton acreage. If all take heed and only a half ki crop is raised,, they may be able to I get a fair profit on what they do raise. The farmer who plants much 1 citton this yoar, however, is fllrtifig I with danger. / When the Ijnw 1>Ich. A mob last week stormed the coun. | ty jali at Athens, Oa., took therefrom a negro charged with tho murder of a white woman und burned him at i the stake. Many of the good people io." that State are naturally and justly [aroused oyer the occurrence. The most terrific arraignment of the mob's action that we have seen came from Andrew J. Cobb, formerly a Justice of the Ueorgiri ytnte su!promo court. After declaring that ['the life of an excellent woman had peon destroyed by a fiend," former Justice Cobb asserted in a signed statement that the negro burned was lot shown to be guilty and asserted Ipat "the murder of the law is a far ^graver offense than the murder of a lituman being." "Organised government," said Jus<9|pe Cobb, "has survived, and can suragain, tho murder of human bows. When the law dies, govern. *mt dies; all things desirable die; ' Is reigns and anarchy is encll^ed. Choose you this day whom you in serve, law or anarchy." Jiu^ce Cobb declared that there was a legal way In which tho negro, if k'ullty, surely would havo been I punished. I The dnngri* of inob law was strlkI liiRly Illustrated In South Carolina i several years aia In a county In this | 8>ate xS mob made a determined j fort to remove from the county Jail a < euro who was charged with attempt- i e?. assault upon a white woman. The < sheriff stood his ground, however. j and the Jail withstood the assault. ( made upon it. i When tho negro came to trial a I few months later he was proved in- ' r.? cent of the charges against him and was acquitted. ft the mob had | succeeded In Its efforts an innocent negro would have been cruelly put to death. The case against mob rule was jlcarly stated by Justlcp Cobb. Stopping anil Thinking. The parents of the country, or 1 rather It should be said koine of the parents of the country', seem to be waking up at last to the dangerous social conditions that now prevail. The preachers are beginning to take note also and there is hope that the awakening will become general. There can be no doubt but that this old country hus been traveling at a mighty fast clip during the last two or three years. The parents in some sections seem to have thrown restraint to the winds and permitted their sons and daughters to do as they pleased. The results been shocking. Let us hope that the worst is over and that there will be a return to normalcy along social lines as well aa along other lines. The safety of the cf-uhtry in the future depends upon the safety of the girls and boys of today, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow. BOUNDARY DINE EXPLAINED. A. S. Sal ley Tolls Wliy Fort Mill is In South Carolina. A. S. Sal ley, secretary of the South Carolina historical commission, has furnished The Times wth a copy of the following letter which he recently Wote to former State Senator W. H. 'Stewart of York county explaining what brought about the "Jagged" Statclind between portions of the upper section of South Carolina, including York county, and North Carolina. Mr. Salley's letter was written in response to a request of Senator Stewart, who is now making his home in Charlotte, for authentic Information on the subject: t "I was very glad to hear from you and am very glad to be able to give you the facts as to that wedge in the boundary line. The story about the still is like a great many other tilings that people who don't know write about. These people see something that puzzles them; they haven't the explanation; they Invent one. "When North Carolina and South i Carolina were officially separated by the crown of Englnnd In 1730 the boundary line was tlxed by royal Instructions to the two governors appointed for the two provinces. Immediately a controversy arose as to (he construction of those Instructions, but In 1735 the dispute w.ns settled and a surveyor was told to go to a . certain point on the Atlantic ocean and run a line in a certain course until it intersected the 35th parallel of north latitude and there to place a marker. The royal instructions were that from that point the line should follow the said parallel due west to the South seas (which indefinite body of water was by treaty with Spain about 176 3 tlxed upon as the Mississippi river). "In August, 1763, the governors of the several Southern provinces and the commissioner of Indian affairs for those provinces met in Augusta Mid arranged a grand treaty with many tribes of Southern Ifidlans. among them the Catawbas. Under the terms of the provision relating to the Catawbas they were to have a tract, of land 15 miles square on the river of their tribal name. I,ater in the year this reservation was laid out for them and extended both nbove and below the 35th parnllel, so that each of the provinces of North and South Carolina contributed to the Indian reservation a portion of the land thereof. "In 1764, the white people having begun to Hettle in the. vicinity of the 35th parallel. Governor Bull directed a party of surveyors to go to the marker set up in 1736 at the point of intersection of the line of that year with the 35th parallel and run a line duo west to the eastern boundary of the Catawba reservation. These surveyors soon located the marker of 1735 and proceeded to run the line due west on what they supposed was the 35th parnllel. After running and blazing out the line about .. miles to where It struck the Charles TownSalisbury road they failed to tlnd the eastern line of the Catawba reservation, which had beee run out the preceding year, and sat dawn to calculate the position of the 35tl/ parallel and found they were between 11 and 12 miles south thereof. The surveyor of 1735 had stopped short of the 35th parallel. "Thoy reported their trouble to Governor* Bull, who ordered them to stop the survey. He stated that the line which they had Just completed und a straight line connecting the western end thereof, whereat the sur veyors had set up a stone which la there today, with the southeaatern corner of the Catawba sereryatlon wculd bo considered temporarily as the boundary between the two provinces. "In 1772 each province appointed commissioners and surveyors to meet, agree upon and run out the line from the end of the line of 1736. Theao commissioners. In accordance with Instructions from the crown, agreed that the line of 1764 be a part of the ofhetnl line; that the straight lino from its westtyn extremity to the southeastern corner of the Catawba reservation, the eastern boundary of the Catawba reservation, and the northern boundary of the reservation to Its Intersection with the Catawba river be an additional part of the official boundary and that North Carolina take the strip of land between the line of 1764 and the 36th parullol and west of the Catawba river, thereby also allowing tho entire Catawba reservation to South Caroll- ' na Frt>m the tnterflectton of the 3?th parallel with the Catawba river, the middle of tho river to Its confluence of its two principal forku was fixed as tho line. From this last point du^ west to tho intersection of the Cherokee boundary line was fixed as the | rest of the line. "This arrangement, produced prl * V * * ; ^-: ., .-? : *yoBT xiarily by the trlfllnlneea of the surreyors employed In 17*5. caused the |t(f*d appearance- of the line be- i :ween the present counties of Lancaster and York, In 8outh Carolina, ind Mecklenburg and Union, In North Carolina. The territory acquired from Worth Carolina now comprises those portions of the coupties of York.. Cherokee and Spartanburg that lie torth of the 35th parallel,- and Fort Hill Just does fall within trie territory >y the grace of the 35th parallel lyng on the southern edge thereof, rhe line from the fork of the Catawsa to the old Cherokee boundary line (the present line between Greenville xnd Spartanburg countlesV was not run due west, but veered somewhat northwest and its western extremity was fixed on Tryon mountain. Those portions of Mecklenburg, Union, Anson and Richmond counties. North Carolina, that lie south of the 35 parallel and west of the line of 1735 continued to that parallel fell to North Carolina by this trade. viu*ci uui owmu ui v.urunna once wrote a letter to a South Carolina official on this subject and therein ' stated that. South Carolina got the better of the swap. Most likely she did so fAr as lands were concerned and Governor Montagu of South Carolina writing at the time stated that South Carolina had secured about ] 5.000 additional population thereby, but South Carolina got the Catawba Indians and has had to pension them ( nearly ever since. Had the reserva- < tlon remained partly In one State and 1 partly In the other It is likely that the J general government would have had < the wardship of them rather than J South Carolina. ?' < "If you will compare this statement < with a map you will readily see how ' It all came about. It was all done be- < fore the Revolution. When Great ' Britain acknowledged the Independ- ( cnce of North Carolina and South Car. < olina 'along with 11 other States, ac- J knowledging .the sepnrate sovereignty < of each; the territory contained in 1 each State became forever fixed un- ' der the sovereignty of that State and < only a revolution, such as the West Virginia Yankees accomplished in 1861-1865 with the aid of the powerful Federal armies sent to their aid, could take a piece of South Carolina territory to North Carolina. "Knowng your fondness for a good story I will close with one. Almost from the beginning of our prosperity those who have been jealous of that prosperity have found first one excuse and then another to damn us. The earliest propaganda against us from Now Rngland and elsewhere above the Potomac was that South Carolina was very unhealthy: that people could not liv to old age therein. When it became noised abroad that this strip ' above the 35th parallel, which became known In South Carolina as The New Acquistlon, was to become a part of South Carolina an old woman who lived therein exclaimed: 'I don't want to live In South Carolina. I've alius heered it was unhealthy in South Carolina.' The Fort Mill people ought to know better bv now." Vnlfornw for the Asking. Former Fort MIH soldiers read with interest a few days ago Washington press dispatches announcing the offer of the war department to present to each overseas veteran of the World war a uniform, gas mask and helmet ns service souvenirs. It is presumed that every ex-soldier in the community entitled to share in the department's distribution of these souvenirs will improve upon the opportunity. There are between 75 and 100 overseas veterans in Fort Mill, town and township. "If you arc an overseas army veteran," said an Associated Press dispatch, "and wnnt a uniform, gas mask and helmet ns service souvenirs, Just write the war department for 'em and don't pay anybody to make out an application for you. Swindlers are offering to prepnre such applications at $5 per head, the department warned Friday, and defrauding the ex-soldiers out of Just that much, because there's no red tape about the business and 'it is well for the soldiers to know that no money is to be paid for the uniforms they arc entitled to draw.' " DR. A. L_. OTT , . DENTIST Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. (Dr. Spratt's office) Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C. CALL \ on CULPBROS. for your i ' Groceries, Coal, Ice, Gasoline. Kerosene and n . motor uiis. CULP BROS. PHONE IS % [ mix TD08, TOKT MUX, & . . MRS. ELEANOR JONES DEAD. Motinr of Well Knoini Citizens SacquDte to Dfame. . Following an illness of several reeks, due. to the Infirmities of ue. tfrs. Eleanor Jones, mother of Messrs. W. H. Jones, A. O. Jones, Edgar Tones and Mrs. W. H. Crook, died it her home on the riser road near ^ort Mill this mornlnfe Mrs.- Jones tad been critically 111 for several days ind hope for her recovery had been given up. She was born in York county on April 4, 1836, and was* herefore In her 86th year. Mrs. Jones vas the widow of John C. Jones, a highly esteemed citizen ot the township, who died on May 23, 1898. She ir.d Mr. Jones were married in 1860. Hcfore her marriuge she was Miss Eleanor Aycock, member of the well known York county family of that name. Mrs. Jones had long been a devoted member of Philadelphia Methodist church and was a model hurch member and devoted mother. 1'hc funeral services will bo conducted at the home Friday aftei'hoon at 3 o'clock by her pastor, the Rev. W. It. liauknight. and Interment will follow immediately thereafter in the Sort Mill cemetery. We atill have some good Shoes that we are almost giving away to make room for new goodH coming in nt Massey's. I || Figaro F Fori ! t FIGARO PRESERVAR is i ; condensing wood smoke and ! I cial ingredients, forming a p Meat, being better and mor ; l fashioned smoke house. ! I' Tbe Preservar is/guaranteed ; for it?preserve meat in a m much less work and care tha 20 Ounce Bo I; LYTLE DRU< It Vim 5^22 Garden We have a compl Ferry's Gai In packag B. C. FEB Groceries and i -A? O. JC GOOD TH; (irwerios, Market, Country "Prod nee. l'lione Fourteen. 1 Bring Your ii Heath Note * > 0 * 1 * J; For first class repair worh ;; Spring season will soon be ); will want his car put in good ; | tion to completely overhaul \ \ tice and at a price that wi J \ owner. * J | We have recently installed a renewal of Ford Bearings i \ \ work to the best advantage. ! \ complete assortment of genu 0 1 * 1 HEATHM ^ Fort Mi o * * % _, # \ , 0. LET US HALF-SOLE YOU* SHOES WITH PANCO Guaranteed to outwear the best oak tanned leather, two toxnie! Not to breal^ away at stitches! Not to deteriorate! Not to rip away at the shank! Heat proof! Cold proof! Will not sweat the feet! THE ELEGTRIG SHOE SHOP NEXT DOOR TO TELEPHONE EXCHANGE * More new goods at new prices at Massey's. Ginghams and Domestic 10 to 20 cents. T O Veservar II ? Meat 4 ? ?> ? a liquid compound made by % the addition of other benefi- J >erfect agent for curing Salt t e economical than the old- | to do just what is claimed f ore palatable state and with t n under the old method. ttle 85 Cents | v 1 COMPANY I c\?JLSearo | I Seeds ete assortment of rden Seeds *c or bulk. ! 1GUSON, 1 Fresh Meats. IITIEjS INGS TO EAT \ Car To The >r Company jj. : at reasonable prices. The < here and every automobilist ;; condition. We are in posi- ;; any make of car on short no- ; ill prove satisfactory to the ;? i Burning-in Machine for the ; ind can now do this class of ;; We also carry in stock a ;; 1 ine Ford Parts. ;; < 1 it 1 OTOR CO. I/, S. C. / ik -I H \ = That Photoj mat mut Are you giving tl possessions the chi which they deserv Any picture wort the right treatment ment to give is a \ Our framing depar ern equipment a your service. Work And Pri Prompt service, work will be calk returned same da^ a ' YOUNG i THE FORT MILL Time t Onion Sets Seed Irisl Flowe See us for Garden T our Commercial Lir It will pay you well. THE CAS S. A. LEE and T. STARNESI Get the pep in that An ing your Repair Work d EleQtric Starters, Gene The Best of Sen STARNESJ A. R. Starnes, Gen'!. Mgr TAX NOTICE?1920-21 Office of tlic County Treasurer of York Notice la hereby given thut the Tax Books for York County will be opened on Friday, the 15th day of October, 1920, and remain open until the 31st day of December, 3920, for the collection of State, County, School and Ixocal Taxes, for the liscal year, without penalty, after which flay One Per Cent Penalty will be added to all payments made In the month of January, 1921, and Two Per Cent Penaty for all payments made In the month of February, 1921, and Seven Per Cent Penalty will be added to all payments made from the 1st day of March, 1921, to the 15th day of March, 1921, and after this date all unpaid taxes will go into execution :ind all unpaid single polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution In accordance with law. All of the banks of the county will offer their accommodations and facilities to taxpayers who may desire to make use of the same, and I shall take pleasure In giving prompt atten. lion to all correspondence on the rub m v ^ ? Vf: : $K?". W , > '1 * rraph e . , r t ^ icse highly prized anro frv*" o lr\r<rr lif<i 1VI U IVllg 111C e. h keeping is worth , and the best treatveil made frame. tment with its modnd materials is at / ) > ces Guaranteed Phone 144 and *d for, finished and VV WOLFE FURNITURE MEN. n Plant Garden Seed i Potatoes r Seed ools and try a sack of ne on your garden. 1 00 lb. sack 50c. ;h store F. LYTLE, Mgrs. motor co. tomobile of yours by hav one at Starnes Motor Co rators,Magnetos Repaired rice Guaranteed. VIOTOR CO. .?W. J. Steele, Machinist. ect. All taxpayers appearing at my office* will receive prompt attention. Note? The Tax Hooks vvill he madeup by townships, and parties writing about taxes will always expedite matters if they can mention the townshipor townships if) which their property or properties are located. IIA It It Y K. NKI1. Treasurer of York County. Pyramid Paint Shop ROCK II1LL, S. O. ! PAINTING If your car needs painting we will J paint It for you and do it in such a way that you will be surprised &t the difference <t makes in the looks of your old car. Our corps of painters are the best that can be obtained and jonly those who are experienced in jcar painting are on our force. The i looks of your car is lust like the looks of your person. It fcoes a lang way. I JAMBS A. JOHNSON, Proprietor. a.. r nip""