Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-01-09
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Puh, ,Apointx q "a ter<u tor the PerusaI
of Tines Readers.

NJ, Lee Hall is able to be out
again, after being i'll for several
days.
Miss Mason Harris is teaching
the musfa class at the Gold Hill
Academy.
Mrs Leroy Springs, of Lnncas-
ter, is visiting her parents, Capt.
and Mrs. S. E. White. /
Mr.. James Thornwell returned
to the Presbyterian COLLEGE, in
Clinton, Saturday morning.
Joe, the 13-year-old son of Mr.
Doc Nivens, who lives in the north
ern part of this township, died Sat
nrday morning.
Our young friend Mr.. Starr
Kihbrell left Fort Mill this morn
ing for an extended visit to rela-
tives in Jonesboro, Ark.
After a holiday recess of ten |
days, the graded school i'll this
opened last Wednesday with
Tnisollmeut of 12o scholars.
prSSTIPIo5ee,little 10 months-old daugh-
for it, Mr.. and Mrs. Il. a. Mills
ndn tai ann critically i'll for several
ever guilty of. The ev9idehic@a hi@aprlGryaaddy parlGrsady
submitted has shocked the nation. and
IL 1t cannot be stopped the nation is
ready right now to abolish the insti-
tuition. 1t is disgrace to humanity
But what concerns me is to find a
plausible reason for it-an excuse or
n palliation. The hazers say that 1t is
10 try young mans metal, his cour-
age. That is false, of course. for it re-.
GulrcS no metal or courage to stand
guard over dead rat or march along
side turtle or terrapin. The whole
course of treatment is one Of deviiish
cruelty and insanity. We are told that
some OF these haZers were considered
very good. kindhearted boys ut home
before they went to that lunatic asy-
Ium, and hence it must he that asso-
citation has deranged them like it uld
for awhile at Yale and Harvard and
other northern colleges. A crowd o.
boys away off from home influence
VIII do what no one boy Will wish or
d2r" to do at home or abroad. had I.
9dog once who was faithful and kind
4 good watch dog and fond of nv
children. | owned Il flock Of sneep and
ne protected them, but when other
dogs from the ncighborhood came af-
Ter MIN In the dead hour of night and
gave the sign he would so with them
Two or three miles and help TO Kill a
scroe OF sheep and be back at his post
on the piazza by daylight | would not
believe it for Il long time. but the
nelghbors came and found wool in his
teeth and he had to BE- killed. ! reckon
that S what the matter with those
good boy ha2ers. They have got wool
in their teeth and 10 my opinion. they
ought to he treated like the French
man did his dog. He wanted To preak
MN or sucking eggs. 80 he hung him
by the hind legs 10 limb and let him
swing for day or two. \ neighbor
said; Why don't you hang him by
The neck and let him CHOKE to death ?''
NO, sare" he said, me hangs heem
by de LEGS to gave heem time to tinll
vat Il tam rascal he vas" Those haZ-
ers ought 10 be hang By the.r hind legs
until thcy hat time to repent The
catalogue Of cruel and ridiculous
things that those towards in!ict uyon
freshman is fearful. Some of them
are unfit for publication. ] say COW
ards because it is maxim that a
cruel man IS coward. If they really
wished to test a young mans metal or
courage why don't they shut him in a
room and go in one ut time and
fight him fist and skull. They are
towards. that's all. They would ent
tight Philippine hand o hand. They
VIII graduate towards and smell the
battle from afar. and ler the privates
do the lighting. They are Of the same
breed as General Miles, who put the
manacles on jefferson Davis and IL led
20 lie out OF it. He won his spurs in
CUBA by getting on top OF a hill and
crying. beef, beef, beef" He remi nds
me of Patrick Henry's great spe sch
during the first revolution in which
he scarified n man for CRYING beef
beef. while the patriots were fighting
for independence l have but little
patience with the modern West Poker
General Otis is a fair sample He
whipped the Fflipinos every day before
the election. Pay and promotion is
their soie ambition. They are a stick
up swell set and would establish a
military monarch If they dared see
that some fellow Is defending General
George C.. Thomas and C"Black Jack"
Logan in q New York paper. Well. I
know all about them. have now in
my possession a letter written to mo
by Thomas in which he denouncesl us
all as traitors and guilty of treason
and says that treason embodies all the
crimes in the decalogue dozen OF
our Rome boys and girls had improved
tableau performance in the city hall
to raise a little money to pay for re-
placing pulpits and pews in the <ity
churches. Tho sacrilegious vantzals
had gutted the churches and used 2he
pews for horse troughs and the