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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01

shoulder. He never worked for tho
farmers Of his section and il was
not known where he got his money.
The writer on one occasion vis-
tied the habitation of the hermit.
The cabin was low, built of small
"unskinned" logs. the cracks filed
with mud. When called Maxwell
came hurriedly to tie door, but he
was anything but cordial host.
He did not speak when greeted
and. when questions. answered in
monosyi ables. He was clad in
coat,a shirt, pants and shoes.
which were in a dilapidated con-
dition, allowing the flesh TO slime
through in places and revealing
the secret that he was without
underclothes. He was above the
medium height and was gaunt. His
eyes roved and he had restless
look, feeling i'll at ease with com
pany. The story SO far as the in
terview was concerned was IL
failure.
During the two years Maxwell
spent Mt the cnunty home he con-
tlnurd to be recluse. Keeper
Holton stated that Maxwell kept
to himself always and spent a
a great deal of time in the woods,
Sometimes he would remain away
for several days and one time he
spent two weeks in the woods
without any shelter except the
trees. After he had been away two
or three days Mr.. Holton would
search for him and bring hin back.
And two weeks ago he ran away
for the last time. Life among his
kind had become unbearable to
him and he wanted to get away
from civilization, the civilization
OF county home. He walked to
Fort Mill, and two or three days
after he went through the town Ia.
was found dead in a haystack,
where he had sought shelter from
the elemeris. On his person WAS
found s47.65; s20 gold piece,
four So gold pieces and some silver.
Maxwell's death was like his
life lonely, desolate. During his
life of more than half century be
had never raised his hand to help
a fellow man; never had he smiled
to make life brighter for any one,
nor said an encouraging word that
might have changed the course of
life. He allowed himself to be-
come sour; he hated the very sight
of man; he shirked from filling his
place in the world. He died alone,
rs he had lived.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
Farm Work In Fun Swing.

Extensive preparations are being
made by the farmers in all sections
"f the county for the next crop
In fact. many farmers have taken
advantage Of The delightful wealth
er that prevailed the past week
and many plows were run steadily,
except for a slight interruption by
the rain of Wednesday.
While the farmers are making
ready for early planting the mer-
chauts and fertilizer men are also
preparing for considerable activi-
ty. During the past few days
general merchandise stores and
hardware dealers have received
large shipments OF plows, pillow
stocks and other farm implements
30 rs to be in position to supply
the demand.
The railroad companies are
handling thousands aud thousands
of tons OF fertilizer daily. Long
trains of the loud smelling stuff
pass through daily and a number
of cars have already been received
by the dealers here.
1t is believed that commercial
fertilizer will be ;i:o.e largely used
this year by our farmers than for
some years past.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
END OF A STRANGE CAREER.
George Maxwell Lived a Life of LoneIi.
ness.-f1ome in the Woods.

George Maxwell, the old man
who was found two miles south of
Fort Mi | about two weeks ago led
strange life. The following ac-
count OF his career and habits as
published in the Charlotte Obser.
yer. will readwith intereet:
Maxwell was about 60 years old
and WAS one of the strang, st char.
ncters that ever lived in Mecklen-
burg county. For more than a
qnarttr "f a century he lived the
l'tr OF hermit, refusing to asso-
clate with any one and making
his habitation a hut in the center
OF large tract of woods in Crab
Orchard township.
The older residents of Crab
Orchard township remember when
Maxwell WAS a member cf fam
lily. His father. two sisters and
himself lived on farm near the
Clear Greek line. They were ten
ants IN fair circumstances. The
father died, and shortly afterwards
sister. George and the second
sister lived together until the Sis
ter died and then George begun
the life of recluse. H. buried
himself in the woods, building him
log cabin as far from the public
highways and the residence of man
as he could.
He lived in his first hut 10 or II
years and then. being warned to
get off !he land, he moved into the
center OF 200-acre trAct Of woods
ON the Balm mining place, where
he built another cabin and cleared
about An acre of ground. Here he
lived for about IA years, until
about two yeare ago. when Mr.. j.
L. Lucas, the owner uf the land,
fearing that the old man starve or
freeze to death, had him removed
to the county home.
How Maxwell lived was mys-
terry. He had traps which furnish.
ed HIM meat and he could exist on
berries part of the year, but the
corn from one acre of land would
not u'nlsh him bread. He kept to
himself and WAS never seen except
on the annual or selui-annual oc.
casion when he came to Charlotte
to purchase a few supplies and
necessities. On these occasions he
wonld walk to the city, refusing to
accept ride. and rptnrn;no be
wonld carry, his purchases on his
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
A Fight on Tillman 2

The following from the Laurens-
vile Herald is so much 10 our wav
of thinking that we consider it
worthy of production:
1T there Was ever any doubt that
the great hue and cry agninst the
dispensary system, charges Of what
is called graft, "rot,enness, etc,
was inspired more by hatred to
Tillman than an honest purpose to
reform the management of what
its enemies sarcastically term the
great moral institution" doubt
can no longer exist. In other words.
the whole fight is and has been
against Tllman rather than agains,
the dispensary; and if his political
enemies would candidly confess
the fact, they could not deny that
their sole purpose is Tillman's de-
feat for reelection to the United
States Senate. This the Herald
has said, substantially, more than
once before, and confidently re-
iierates the same now. The mouse
is no longer under the meal Il. b.
It's hand is not only shown, but its
whole form. Destroy the dispen-
sary and defeat Tillman is the
purpose of his enemies both po-
litical and personal-while caring
not snap for so-cnlled prohibi-
ton.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
What Fort Mill Has,"

The Times has received from a
subscriber an old copy of The
Clarion. Fort Mills FIRST news.
paper. The Clarion was edited and
published by j. S. Drakefnrd. for
merly of the Yorkville Yeoman.
and was fonr-page. fve-column
sheet. Among the more Interesting
items in the issue of August 2l.
1889, is the following, which is
somewhat amusing:
1--WE have61 girls (that is in the
neigh borhood of sweet sixieen) in
the incorporate limits Of Fort Mill.
Pretty? oh, hoys hush! They GER
tainly are. Why, visitors look at
them SO long that their mouths
begin 10 water and eyes 10 get
sore. We have 4 grass widows
whose husbands have gone AS mis-
sionaries for the clnb, b sides II
bona tide widows that will compare
with the same number in any
square mile in South Carolina.
Only z widowers. We have boy
of eighteen who weighs 2S5 pounds
man that will 20 265; one 225;
and three that tip the scnles a.
200. 2O5 and 2l0 respectively. Can
any 6l4 acres on this part of the
globe beat this? If so we would
like to hear from them"
Proud Citizen"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
WHIPPING POST FOR WIFE BEATERS.
\ New Law in Oregon Which is Accom-
p.ishiug Much Good

The whipping post law enacted
ny the Oregon legislature of 1905
is telis.el 10y lis fiends to huve
accomplished its purpn,e. Wife
heating has almost been stopped
IN Oregon they sny.
The law went into effect on May
}S, last. Twenty lashts is the max
.uum penalty that can be imposed
1t is optional with the Court
= ether convicted- wife beaters
shall he sentenced TO the ~ chipping
post or confined in Jail. There
have been only three inAiciions of
tne peuaity sitice the law was ell
acted. A month after the law
went into effect Portland waiter
WIS arrested for beating his wife
Ete was sentenced to receive twen-
- lashea.
He was taken TO Multnomah
county Jail, the upper part of the
body was barred aud his hands
were handcuifed together aud tied
TO the top of cellar door. Then
'he jaiIer struck him twenty times
The whip used WAS a short cow
hide stock with four buckskin
thongs. This made every lash
.eally ,ur blows on the body.
The whip )iny, the first Of its
Kind in the West, attracted wide
attention, and i, made tuublesome
husbanbs fearful. The mau whip
ped left Portland as soon as he was
at liberty.
An employee of the Southern
Pacific car shops in Portland was
sentenced in August TO receive ten
lnshes. His vie sued for divorce
while lie was in Jail awaiting trial,
1ut after he had received the
whipping and was at liber'y he
, ffecte'i reconciliation and the
wife withdrew her complaint. The
wife beater WAS discharged from
lis employment. and being unable
% get other work left the city.
The only other man TO be whip
led WAS former postmaster Of
6aker City, Oregon, and the pen
Atty was imposed ia Baker County.
Ie received twenty lashes.
An attempt was made nnder the
terms of the law TO whip a man
WHO had assaulted his divorced
wife; but rs at.e woman WAS not
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01

John B. Stetson, the millionaire
hat manufacturer of Philadelphia,
died of heart disease at his winter
home at Gilien, near Deland Fla
Sunday, Feb. II.
Pat Grove. charged with the
robbery of Edward A. Cudahy, the
Omaha packer, of S25, 900 in con.
nection with the kidnapping of
Mr.. Cudahy's son, five years ago,
was acquitted at Omaha, Neb.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01

then his wife, the Court held that
the peIsalty could not be inflicted.
He WIS sentenced to one year on
the rock pile.
Judge George j. Cameron, of
the Mnuicipal Court Of Por.laud,
snys that men were frequently
charged with wife beating few
months ago. but now it is rare
occurrence. He believes the whip
ping post law is responsible for
the change.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
TiIkHan for Governor.

Something WAS said last summer
about Senator Tiliman running for
governor instead of for the senate
and there has been some such talk,
though perhaps emauating from
some ambitious representatives not
averse to being called upon by the
people to take a more exalted seat.
Asked the direct question Senator
Tillman said:
Yes, 1 have thought many
times of doing that. The only con.
dition that would iduce me to con
6 der it, however, from pei sonal
standpoint, would be the fact that
my health should be such as TO
make it unwise for me to remain in
Washington and attend to my du-
ties here. But somebody ought to
take up the fight in South Carolina
and straighten thiegs in the inter
est of the people who are being
hoodwinked, put the dlspensary
in good shape and otherwise give
an example Of honest politics"
Those who think lie contemplates
running for governor say that i'm
case of election, after serving one
term he would again seek election
to the senate aud thus break all
previous records in his or any other
state. OF course he would lose his
prestige on committees and his re-
cognized place as one of the leaders
in debate and 80 forth.
He says, however. that should he
ever leave the senate to become
governor he would never return.
In that event" he observes, Il am
done. Pm getting too old"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
The Plight of an Old Soldier.

Mr.. r. E. Brown, native of
Steel Creek township, is at ST.
Peter Hospital, ill and poor, says
the Charlotte Observer. When
the war broke out Mr.. Brown en-
listed here. He belonged to DR..
IL. j. Walkers company. After
The war MIR. Brown went to the
west and there lived until few
weeks ago, when he drifted back
here. An effort will be made TO
get him In the Soldiers Home at
Raleigh if lie improves so that he
can make the trip.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01
ACTS RATIFIED BY LEGISLATURE.
New Laws of Interest to the State in
General

General.
AS usual. says The State. the
general assembly did a great deal
OF local legislation and these acts
are not O. general interest, affect
ing generally ouly the counties in
which they arise. Below will be
found list of enactnents in which
tie public generally is intereeted:
Establishing Christmas holidays
IN the State colleges.
Changing the name Of South
Carollna college to University of
South Carolina.
Providing IL monument to mark
the grave OF Gen. Sumter.
Preventing restaurant and eat
ing house keepers ut railroad and
steamboat stations from furnishing
meals TO white and colored passen-
gers together.
To have application fees Of can
didates for medical licenses to 90
to the general fund.
Making appropriation for dis
pensury investigation.
Establishing board of pardons.
Establishing fish commission.
Establishing fund for disabled
tiremen by taxing insurance com
panies.
To fix the salaries of circuit
stenographers at 81 800.
To celebrate South Carolina
day in the public schools.
10 buy new flags for the State
house.
Providing punishment for the
stealing of car brasses.
To prevent merchants when in
debt from selling their stock 9TH
erwise than usual.
Requiring railroads at junction
al points through the railroad
commission TO erect drpots.
70 require railroads and other
common carriers to provide toilets
at stations.
To give the federal government
control over the quarantine sta
tions.
To prevent railroad companies
from charging extra fare for cross
ing bridges when entering the
State.
Requiring common carriers to
reweigh freight and to establish
scales for that purpose.
Requiring railroad companies to
give information coucerniug the
shipment of live stock.
TO cut dead trees flom near the
public roads.
Punishment for indecent expos
ure.
Allowing suits against insurance
companies to be brought in the
counties where the loss occurs.
TO allow an illegitinate child 20
Inherent from its mother.
To amend dispensary law, ma
king regulations as TO other coun-
ties the same III Horny and Beau
fort.
The general bill on voting pre-
cincis.
The pure food bill.
To appropriate $4,000 for the
Jamestown exposition.
The general magistrates bill.
10 establish an industrial school
for boys-the reformatory.
To publish the names IF hene-
tciaries in Stale institutions and
the names of their parents or
guardians.
To prevent supervisors and com
missioners from furnishing county
supplies while in office.
TO make the solicitoIs' salaries
$1,000.
To repeal the law exemptine
Confederate veterans from license
when dealing in seed cotton.
Allowing city councils rather
than boards of health to appoint
health officers.
no require State house clerks to
give bond.
To have expert chemists exam
inc the bodies OF persons supposed
to have been poisoned.
To prohibit wrong use of badges
or Insignia of Secret orders by per-
sons not memb bers.
The PLIGHT of an Nd SoI6;ar
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01

John A. Mccall, until recently
president of the New York Life
Insurance company, died at $50
O'Clock Sunday Feb. II, at the
Laurel House in Lakewood. N. j.,
where lac bad been taken throe
weeks ago in the hope that the
change might benefit his health,
WHICH had suffered break down.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01

Special 10 The Times.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-03-01

WANTED-Copies of The Times Of
August 9th, 1905, and November LIST,
1895. Will pay 10 cents each for
sapf. The Times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-22

shortage troubles are complained of in
many places. From nearly all parts OF
the country complaints of labor scar
city come, the pinch being apparently
greatest al present In the cotton fields
Pig iron for prompt delivery COM
large orders are being awarded and
demand for prompt shipment is insist
emit Crude steel is scarcer than ever.
Business in wire products is verp
good but some cutting is reported in
higher but tin is lower.
There is visible slow but rather
steady hardening of cereal values which
may have an important influence upon
crop movement # continued.
Leather demand has again improved.
Hides are firm and unchanged,
The outlook in tobacco is a very bull
ish r., Demand is active and Offer
ings Z Havana leaf are eagerly taken
at high prices. The Cuban trouble
makes an uncertainty as to the 1907
crop
Business failures for the week end
ing September 20 number III against
lS4 last week and 173 in the like week
of 1905.
In Canada failures for the week num-
Der 70 as compared with II last week
and 80 IN the corresponding week last
year.
Wheat. including -four exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending September 90 aggregated
40 ,,122 bushels against 4,953,216 last
we kand 2,17S.42S this week last year.
For the last twelve weeks of the fiscal
year the exports are 35,303.367 BUSH
els. against 13961 sol in 1905.
Corn exports for the week are 545,-
751 bushels last week and 1,272,495 a
year ago For the fiscal year to date
Isl ,037 in 1905
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-22

county for the purpose of securing a
location for peach orchard He met
Henry t. Babcock. who told him he
had suitable lands for the location of
an orchard where peaches were to be
grown for commercial purposes. They
entered into an agreement and were
to share equally and alike in the prot
its and losses of the business.
1t Is claimed by Jaquay that he
sent $4,000 peach trees to Shellhorn
and they were planted on the lands
The orchard. he AYERS. is now worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 including the
land which the Michigan dealer con-
trues to come within the partnership.
Jaquay claims that Babcock failed to
comply with agreements that had been
made and he alleges that Babcock has
instituted an action of attachment
against him in the Circuit Court of
Pike county. claiming a certain sum
of money from Jaquay for alleged
losses incurred by Babcock in tho
venture
For his relief, Jaquay asks the
court to require Bahcock to answer q
series of interrogatories embraced in
the bill and prays the court to refer
the whole matter to a special master
to ascertain the facts. and to appoint
receiver who shall take charge of
the partnership property and wind up
the affairs of the concern.
Judge Jones made no orders yester-
day in the case, but 1t is expected he
will take action today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-22
REMODEL THEATRE
PENSACOLA HOUSE TO BE MADE
SAFE.
Architects Inspect Old Building and
Make RecOmme N dations of Inn
prOvements "a Board of
safety of That City.

Pensacola. Fla, Sept. 21.-- Especial -
II the recommendations of the archi-
tects employed by the city to inspect
the Pensacola opera house as to Its
safety are carried out the play house
will undergo many alterations and re-
pairs Immediately.
At special meeting of the Board OF
Safety held today this report was re-
ceived from Architects Ausfeld and
Blount, and 1t recommended changes in
many instances, the installation of fire.
proof curtains and better exits. These
are only a few of the many recommen
dations made by the architects, who
were employed to make a thorough in
spection of the opera house and to re-
port to the Board, the intention being
to compel the opera house manage
ment to comply with these require
ments before opening the house for
further performances.
The Board. however. after hearing
the report, ordered that a copy be flu
nished the opera house manager and
that he be given until next Monday to
notify the Board what changes could
be Instituted. To carry out the plans
of the architects would mean a large
expenditure, and to place it in thor
ough condition would, as stated by
them mean it's almost entire recon-
struction The building is an old one,
but was recently remodeled to some
extent and is considered as safe as
many of the theatres of the South,
While 1t is probably that many of the
recommenda tions of the architects will
be carried out, it is hardly possible
that all of them will. or that the city
authorities will insist that such Will
be done. 1t is the intention of the au-
thorities, however to see that the thea
tire is placed in a safe condition for
this season.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-22
WILL IMPROVE HoADs.
City to Repair Highways Leading to
Fair Grounds


If the roads to the State Fair
grounds are not in good shape, for the
big crowds that will visit the exposi-
ton at Vandiver Park next month, II
will not be the fault of the city off,
Gals.
The purpose that the portions of the
roads to the Fair grounds, that. lie
within the city, limits. shall be in tip
top condition when the time for the
Fair arrives. Y
Mayor league yesterday issued in
structions to City Engineer Gilchrist
to make a careful inspection of the
Lower Wetumpka road, one of the
principal thoroughfares leading to the
Fair grounds, and to make repairs
wherever they may be needed. All
holes are to be filled and the road put
in the best possible condition for the
Fair travel 1t is understood to be the
intention of the city officials having
the matter in charge to spread some
gravel on the road, putting it in. ex-
cellent condition.
The instructions of the Mayor refer
particularly to that portion of the
Lower Wetumpka road from this tracks
of the Georgia Central Railway at
North Decatur street to the city linz
It'll.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-22
R. G. DUN'S REVIEW
HIGH TEMPERATURES RETARDED
DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS.
Enormous Rates of Money Have Seri-
Ously Delayed Mercantile Col
lectiOns End Labor Com
Plants are still Made.

New York. Sept Pr. G. Dun & CO. s
weekly review of trade will say to-
morrow:
Unseasonably high temperatures in
some sections of the country retarded
the distribution of fall goods but with
the assistance of special sales reduced
stocks of summer merchandise to a
most satisfactory position. High rates
for money have delayed mercantile col
lections somewhat and there is still
complaint regarding the scarcity of
labor, but confidence in the future re-
mains mistaken. Preparations for
winter and spring keeps machinery well
employed Large crops are being se-
cured and building operations are very
heavy. The volume of domestic trade is
beyond all records and foreign COM
merce exhibits some striking COMPARE
sons Total merchandise exports in
August were valued at about $4,000, 900
more than the same month in the pre-
vious year and imports rose 10000. 900
above the record for August Traffic
blockades are frequent despite in
creased facilities that made possible a
gain of Ill per cent in railway earn
ings in September thus far
Textile conditions have not material
ly altered, the mills operating large
ing much new forward business.
Footwear jobbers have not been OPP
Grating in case lots for spring deliv-
cry during the past week which made
lTdue SOneWI nat more quiet, Dul LAST
ern wholesalers are placing duplicate
orders for fall goods. maintaining a
strong market Commercial failures
this week in the United States are 200
against ia last week and POS the cor
responding week last year Failures
in Canada numbered against 26 last
week and "a last year.
Brads. reefs Review.
New York. Sept. 21.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow Will say:
Wholesale and jobbing trade continue
active though something like natural
reaction from :he high tension buying
of the past six weeks is noted. Manu-
featuring industry is active as hereto
fore and sold up conditions and back
ward deliveries are almost universal,
though shipments on orders are very
heavy. Retail trade is rather slow to
open up. Crop reports are rather more
irregular, in that while corn is now prac-
tically out of danger. threshing returns
are less heavy than expected, point
ing to a smaller yield of bread wheat
than earlier indicated.
The demand from the country for cur
rency is still very heavy and high rates
are loked for, despite heavy gold i'm
ports until after October J. Business
failures are down to the minimum,
bank clearings continue to expand and
current gross railway earnings exceed
last year by fully 10 per cent. Car