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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-09
CUT IN TWO.
Thlrty-Slx Men Perish In q Tor.
pedo Destroyer Which
GOES TO The BOTTOM

The Deck Grow Goes Down With the
Vessel-Dressed In Oilekins and
Boots, Victims Have No Chance
twenty-five Are Rescued by Boats
From the Other Ships-Destroyer
Tries to Cross Big Cruisers Bow.
A dispatch from Portsmouth. Eng
land, says thirty-six men. including
Lieut.. Middleton. commander of tho
torpedo boat destroyer Tiger. lost
their lives in a collision of the Isle
of Wright. Friday night. between
that vessel and the British cruiser
Berwick.
The vessels belong to the Ports
mouth division OF the British home
fleet and were engaged in night man
euvers in the channel on their way
to Portland.
The night was very dark and the
Berwick was steaming slowly. When
the destroyer attempted TO cross the
big cruisers bow she was caught
a1llUSul'tb anu SuS III haae "'N.
like percison. sinking almost imme-
diately.
The deck crew who were dressed In
heavy oilskins and boots. went down
with the vessel, not having time TO
free themselves from these heavy en-
cumbrances.
OF the twenty two men who were
rescued most of them were engineers
and stokers, who having light cloth
ing. we're able to keep themselves
afioat until boats from the other
ships, which were Immediately
launched. picked them up.
The smaller naval vessels we're IN
the midst OF an attack on their big
ger consorts when the disaster occur
red. The entire feet was under
masked lights. and In darkness. the
destroyer was cut in two as IL she
had been made:Sof paper. The for
ward half sunk instantaneously ann
the sea became dotted with struggling
men. Most of them. however, sank
before help could reach them. The
Tiger had a complement OF ffty-nine
men.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-09
AI,hev,IIe Gets Ruilding.

A dispatch from Washington says
building and grounds Wednesday or
dered reported bills for new build
thei Senate committee on public
ings OF Muskegee, Oklahoma, $685.
900: Abbeville. South Carolina, $751;
900; and Miami. Florida, $4,000.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-09
KILLED BY FALL.
On the Eve Of His Celebration OF His
Birthday.

Just as the family preparations for
a surprise party in honor OF his 10Th
birthday were being completed last
evening, Louis Lee. OF Seginow.
Mich. was killed by falling down
stairs. He died half an hour after
being picked up by his mother at the
foot of the stairway.
The young man who was we'll
known as an athelete and footoali
player. had been complaining that he
felt sick. Starting to descend the
stairs, he missed his footing. turned
a somersault in the air and landed
on his back on the floor below. Ply
sicians found that his back was
broken, 80
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-09
Republicans Are Jubilant That
Senator TiIIman is Absent.
ARE AFRAID OF HIM.
The Republican Leaders Said to 10
breathing Easier Than i'm Years
Because of the Enforced Absence
OF the Senior Senator From South
Carolina.-Democrats Will Greatly
Miss Him and His Leadership.


The Washington correspondent of
Inc News and Courier says since it
was announced few days ago that
senator Tllman's physicians had
positively forbidden him to return to
Washington before the beginning of
the next session of Congress and In
he meantime had ordered complete
change OF living In every respect,
here has been q considerable amount
of discussion as to who will take HIS
part In the Denver Convention and
VIII lead the Senate until be returns.
1t Ia said that Republican leaders
are breathing easy now for the first
time since Tillman went to the Sen
ite. While they admit that he has
toned down considerable since his
ldvent into Washington political life
he is still, they say, anything but
1ocile. and what troubles them most
is that they never can tell just where
)r when he is going to break out.
That part OF the Senator's makeup
has given them mol, trouble than
| little and many times when they
thought him quieted he was only
gathering more material for a still
nightier onslaught.
Beveridge. Lodge. Aldrich. Hale,
in fact all the big men on the Re
publican side OF the Senate wear q
iifferent look now from that to be
'ound on their features two weeks
ago. They knew Tillmnn was a
fighter who did not know the mean
ing OF the word fear and they had to
guess many times justwhere TO
tackle in order to get a hold. Some
times they held him, sometimes they
threw him, but 1t was always be-
cause of the combined forces OF the
on one side as opposed
TO the half-hearted help OF the DEM
ocrats on the other.
No man who had made plans to
attend the Denver Convention will be
more missed than Tillman and many
Democrats who expect to attend from
lifferent parts OF the United States
have 80 expressed themselves He
vas to be the central figure-certain-
" so far as the South is concerned
unless 1t be Bailey, Of Texas. and
there is now serious doubt whether
me great leNdS Will De III
owed to present his State or not.
owed to represent his State or
lot. There VIII be other
Democrats from various sections OF
he country, but all eyes We're be-
ginning to centre on Tillman and
bailey as the two Southern leaders.
The people of Texas have never
been able to believe that their for
mer idol. Bailey, was entirely divor-
ED from the scandal that two years
ago came near ending his political
life, when his alleged connection
with the Watefs-Pierce OIL Company
became known to them. In order
that the people of Texas may vote on
the issue as to whether Bailey shall
be one of the four delegates at large
to the Denver Convention special
election Is to be held May 2 Should
1t be decided at that election that
Bailey shall not attend two of the
foremost Democrats in political life
to-day Will be absent-Tillman and
Railpy
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-09
Retutu FLAGS.

At Trenton, n. j.. Thursday the
house passed the senate Joint reso-
lution providing for the return OF
Southern flags taken during tho CIV
Il war,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-02
When to Forget the Thanks.

We should be scrupulously careful
to thank every one who does anything
for us, and callously Indifferent when
those for whom we do things forget
to thank us. Life Is a miserable az
fair on any other basis. A mar who
had been studying and praying for
days over how to help a friend wis
was in dire need, found a way, by as
Stunning a large personal risk him
self. The friend was told the good
news, received the information as a
very fortunate happening, and ut
tered not a syllable of thanks to the
one who had brought it about. Cha
grin, ugly resentment, and the gen
eral blackness of soul that follows the
giving Of self chief place, were the
first feelings that the unthanked one
found were taking possession. He
decided to tell some one else about 1t;
and the resentment deepened with the
dissatisfaction that accompanied
that decision. But before he had car
ried out his intention he recognized
its self-centered sin, and resolutely he
put the whole matter from his
thoughts. Thereupon came peace,
light and a positive exhilaration of
joy-joy because self had been
downed. He almost laughed as he
c%ontrasted the comfort of his present
decision to forget it" with the mis-
cry Of his former intention to keep
the sting alive. The man who cannot
be happy in the service Of others
unless he is thanked wants to work
for too small wages.
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Carving Out Our Plans.

When the doing Of a proper thing
has been decided upon, then 1t ought
to be done at any cost save actual
wrong-doing. There is nothing that
so quickly and surely demoralizes our
character and our will-power as fall
ure to carry out our plans. There is
nothing that SO tones up and builds
I'D character and will-power as the
resolute, insistent carrying out OF
plans at heavy cost to ourselves. II
you have made a plan for to-day's
work, let nothing but the hand OF God
stop it. His hand may show in the
arising of unforeseen circumstances
that are wholly beyond our control,
or in the pointing out Of a new duty
that would make the carrying ont Of
the other plan clearly wrong. Moth
ing short of such proVidential him
drance ought to deter US. Yet most
Of us are more or less willingly turned
aside from our plans for hard work
by circumstances that were meant
only to test us. Every time this oc-
ours we have weakened our wills and
Slapped our characters. We say that
when we tell a child or an animal to
do a thing, we ought, for that ones
sake, to insist on its being done.
Why should we not be as fair to our
selves as we are to animals and chill
dren?
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Building a TreSle Bridge at the United States Military Academy at West Point

taking car that one side is a trife
heavier than the other. Then insert
the little boomerang under the nail
Of the index finger of the left hand,
as shown in the illustration, and hit
it sharply with the thumb and index
finger of the right hand. The missile
will fly upward with quick revolutions
similar to a rolling wheel, stop finally
and return to the starting point.
1t takes much practice to learn
to fly this little boomerang correctly,
and the first trials will certainly be
Observation-Disclosures Star.
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the sight Of men. Much less wise is
he who parleys with: Satan in the
| chambers of his heart.
Jesus didn't fool with Satan. He
heard his propositions and had doneA
And that was the end of 1t. There
were no dates for future conferences.
The matter was closed at once. He
was as fair with Satan as He was
with Himself. Satan wanted an an
swer. And he got it hot and fast.
Note you that he went away and left
Him.
We ought not to fool with temp
tation any more than did Christ. It's
not fair to the devil. It's not person
| ally honest. 1t is dangerous. He
who fools with tempters and tempta-
| tions Is a fool.
One afternoon last summer as I
| stood waiting for a car by the tracks
/ where the electric trains course, two
boys drew near. When opposite to
me they deliberately jumped from
a platform to the charged third rail.
nearly had heart disease. In a
moment they jumped safely off. To
my advice they offered this bit Of
wisdom: I'VE jumped off wood with
both feet to the rail. The rails on
wood. All you have to do Is to jump
off with both feet at once" A slip
and they would have jumped-into
eternity! A jump-a fash-a limp
body by the track side covered with
a paltry canvas. cof1n-a mound
in Greenwood. A boy dead, :. home
desolate, a soul gone pr~ematurely to
its God. Because a boy would fool
with death. Men and women and
temptation! How many are not like
the boys? j.
You wouldn't cross Niagara with a
rope for a walk and a pole for q sup
port and balance? MOI, Why? Be-
cause you're not; a fool! You would
mt jump the Twentieth Century Ex-
press. You're not a fool! You
wouldn't put you're hand, next q
whirring wheel. You wouldn't fool
with death or danger. But YOU will
fool with temptation. You will play
with tempters. You will think a long
while before you will do evil. But
you will think evil and give audience
to Satan now. Here! Now! Aren't
you a fool?, Wherein do you differ
from the boys? <sSles.sss=~~
Jesus dismissed Satan. We would
be better and safer did we the same.
Repulse him.. Get Christ to help. you.
Turn your back on him. Tell him
to go to. Kick him out If you have
to. But get rid of temptation. Dis
miss the tempter.
If you can't get loose from the
grip of the tempter any other way
then run. Better the woods than sin.
Better retreat than disgrace. Better
caution than dishonor. Many a man
would be without a spot that cannot
be blotted out to-day If he had only
run away. It Is better to run away
from an affinity in sin than to en-
brace.
When Jesus refused to parley,
when He showed nc mood to fool,
when He gave direct and unhesi-
tating answer Satan left Jesus. Not
otherwise Is it with you. The adver-
sary will go when you no longer bid
him stay. "And behold angels Will
come and minister unto you"
Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
Brooklyn, New York.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-02
Got 20 Cents After 40 Years.

William Young, a Civil War vet
eran, has received at the Soldiers
Home a check for twenty cents from
the Treasury Department, the amount
of change due him when forty years
ago he purchased five cents worth
of writing paper and received nc
change when he rendered a quarter
in payment therefor.
Ever since the war the Government
has been searching for, him and final
ly found him at the Dayton home
Dayton Correspondence, Columbus
Dispatch.
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The Boys Sacrifice.

He was a good little boy and very
thoughtful. He had heard about the
great scarcity of water throughout
the country.
He came to his mother and slipped
his hand into hers.
Mamma" he said, "is it true that
in some places the little boys and
girls have scafcely enough water to
drink" y.
THAT is what the papers say, my
dear"
Mamma" he presently said, "I'd
like to give up something for those
little boys and girls" 81
His mother gave him a fond look.
"Yes, dear. And what would you
like to give up?" l..
Mamma" he said, in his earnest
way, "as long as the water is so very,
very scarce 1 think I ought to give up
bein' washed!"- Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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~
JUST A NEWS e
The Sallow Passenger With Eye
glasses Knew When to Quit.

The Sallow Passenger With Eye.
glasses Knew When to Quit.
"Fine day." observed the sallow
passenger with the eyeglasses. :
"Huh?"
II say It's a fine day." i
"Oh, yes," answered the man who
was trying to read a newspaper.
"Be a lot of trouble with the fruit,
though, when the cold weather comes
along next month";"
@Huh?"
II say there'llj be a lot Of trouble
with the fruit when the cold wealth
err" i'..-r-
"Oh, yes.""1 $,,.
@It's all right, though, I guess.
Whatever happens is all right"
"Uh-huh."
II see old Jake schaefer beat the
| young fellow last night"
BEAT him?"
ayes; playing billiards, you know"
"Uh.huh." b
II don't know anything about bill
liards myself, but I am told it's a
fine game"
"So?"
@Yes. But I'd rather see a good
game Of baseball. Wouldn't you?"
"Uh-huh."
"Don't you think Taft stands a
good chance Of getting the nomina-
ton next June on the first ballot?"
"Uh-huh."
@Who do you think will be put up
for Vice-President?"
"Uh-huh."
think it'll be Hughes?"
@Uh-huh."
"or maybe it'll be La}Follette?'
@Uh-huh."
Anything new in the paper this
morning?"
Eyes. Man killed in an elevated
train"
"How?"
aHe was talked to death
The sallow-faced passenger with
the eyeglasses gulped once or twice
and breathed hard, but had nothing
further to- ofer.-Chicago Tribune.
d. .-F..-.. ~" fNIf#N 4us1Ht E"FrH |.E.st
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Teaching Nuggets.
Virtue is victory.

Virtue is victory.
They gain the glory who give It to
God.
They who are fearless are nsver
needless.
There are no triumphant lives
without their trials.
He only Is fitted to rule who is
afraid to rule wrong.
Reliance on the right is expressed
by defiance of the wrong.
He is never afraid to be alone who
knows he is never alone.
No one is too young to stand
against that which he knows to be
wrong.
Heaven never helps him who re-
fuses the aid Of that which lies at
hand.
The proof Of being worthy of re-
sponsibility is being ready for it.
Henry F. Cope.
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Democracy Under Foot.

One of the Ohio Congressman tells
the following as indicative of the pes
simistic, view of the average politician
when in the throes of defeat:
The day after the routing Of Parker
in 1904 one Of the Democratic news
papers In the Buckeye State sent out
a circular telegram soliciting expires.
sions Of opinion from various poll.
ticians throughout the State. It is
claimed that the quaintest Of the lot
was the report of n county chair
man, expressed in these terms:
County has gone for Roosevelt by
$50. The people r in minority.
Heaven help us!" - Philadelphia
Ledger.
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Mrs. Lenora Bodenhamer, r. i. d. l,
COX 80, Kernersyille, N, G., writes:
Il suffered with stomach trouble ard
indigestion for some times and nothint
that / atef agreed with me. was yer !
nervous and experienced a continual
feeling OF uneGstness;nnd fear. took
medicine from the doctor, but II did me
no good.
+ found in one of your Peruna books .
description Of my symptoms. then
wrote to DR.. Hartman for advice. he said
l had catarrh Of the stomach. took
Peruna and Manalin and followed his di-
rections and can now say that 1 feel al
well as J. ever did.
Il hope that all who are afflicted with.
the same symphonic will take Peruna, as it
has certainly cured mel
The above is only n of hundreds who
have written similar letters ytoTDr.sdart
man. Just one such case as thS entities
-Peruna to, the candid considerationsof every
one similarly afflicted. IL this be true of,
the testimony of one personcwhat. ought TO
be the testimony Of hundreds, yes thou,
sands, of honest, sincere people? We have
in our files q great many other testi-
moniais. ss
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Story of u Fall.

Fortesque Correspondence Mound
City (Mo.) J~effersonian: Answer to
the Bigelow correspondent of the
Jeffersonian in regard to Mrs. Bird
mon falling in the lake: There was
no scare on the south end of the lake.
At the same time n of our Fortes-
u girls fell in with her mouth open
and came up with it shut and caused
a thirteen inch fall. , Throw all your
big folks in at the north end, you
can't scare the south end.
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Sliding within the handle and the
cylinder are a piston and a plunger,
so devised that the insertion Of the
instrument into the receptacle con-
tanning the ice cream will cause the
receiver to be filled. Pressure upon
the piston causes the contents of the
cylinder to be expelled. The plunger
Is operated in a novel manner by
means of a trigger which is set in the
handle convenient for operation by
the fingers Of the operator.-Wash-
ington Star.
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The Red Breasts Note,

A deaf man was walking on the
railroad track with a friend when an
engine rounded a curve behind them
and opened its whistle full blast.
The deaf man smiled and turning TO
his friend said, LISTEN; that's the
first robin I've heard this spring.
The Argonaut.
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Insulated ~ScreWdriver.

Working around electric wires with
an ordinary screwdriver has been the
cause of numerous injuries to the op.
orators. Contact with the live wire,
of course, results in a short circuit.
How easily such accidents can be
averted is shown by a Connecticut
man, who has invented and patented
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-02
The Second Self.

It is a simple yet wonderful COM
fort to have a second self which is a
child; to possess a childhood of feel
ing in the midst of manhood; and,
when the work of the day is passed,
to lay our folded hands upon the
knees of God as once we did upon our
mothers knee, and, looking up, to
say, "Our Father, which art in
Heaven. "-Stopford A. Brooke.
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American and English locomotives
are to be used largely on the private
railway lines in Austria, about 1000.
miles of which are to- be purchased
by the government next year at a cost
Of about $15, 10000.
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Why He Was Net Prepared.

On entering the stable suddenly
the head of the house found the hos
tier and his own son deeply engaged
with the broken tail Of a kite.
How is it, Williams" he began,
severely, that 1 never find you at
work when l come out here?"
Il know" volunteered his son;
"it's on account of those rubber heels
you're wearing now."-Youth's Com
panion.
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nrAy A
In North Wales there Is a section
Of single line worked on the electric
train staff system. When the signal
man tried recently to draw a staff
from the instrument In. order to
despatch a train he was unable ito do
SO. The failure OF the instrument
lasted for nearly five hours.
Investigation revealed that 2 small.
fly had crept into the instrument and
apparently died while in the act OF
examining the delicate mechanism Of
one of the contacts, leaving Its tiny
body as an insuperable barrier to
the passage of the electric current
Great Western Railway Magazine,
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LITTLE BOY KEPT SCRATCHING.
Eczema Lasted z Years-Face was ALI
Raw - Skin Specialists Failed,
But C%uticura Effected Cure. =

w But Cuttcura Erected cure. y
@When my little boy was six weeks old
an eruption broke out ON his face. ! took
him to a doctor, but his face kept on get.
ting worse until it got so, bad that no one
could look at him. His whole face was one
crust and must have been very painful. He
scratched day and night until his face was
raw. Then l took him to all the best
specialists in skin. diseases, but they could
not do much for him. The eczema got :.
his arms and legs and we could not get a
nights sleep in months. l got a set of
Cuticura Remedies and he felt relieved the
first time l used them. I gave the CUT.
cura Remedies a good trial and gradually
the eczema healed all up. He is now seven
years old and l think the trouble will
never return. Mrs. John e. Klumpp, 80
Niagara St., Newark, N. j., Oct: II and
%, 1907" ~ 49, 80
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STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO, b.
IuCAa COITNTY. e

LUCAS COUNTY,
FRANK >. CHENEY makes oath that be is
senior partner of the firm of FL. CHEyEY 4
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOL.
Lars for each and every case Of cATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use Of HALLS
CATARRH CURE. FRANK j. CHENEY. {
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day. of December, A. D.,
1885. -, .... A. w. GLEASON,
lsEAL.l Notary Public.
Halls CatarrhC Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials.
tree. W.. f.. j. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo. U.
Sold BY all Druggists, 75c.
2 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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Style Versus Fashion.

A coat may be fashionable but not
stylish, or it may be stylish and not
fashionable. Fashion is capricious
and ephemeral; sometimes sane and
beautiful, but frequently the fad or
feeting folly of the moment. Fash
ion Is for a day; style is for all time.
Tailor and Cutter.
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martyr TO kidney
trouble, backache,
dizzy spells, head
aches and a terri
BILE bearing down
pain. I used one
remedy after an
other without ben
eft. Finally !
used a box Of
Doan's Kidney Pills
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the insulated screwdriver shown here.
Instead of constructing the handle OF
wood it is made of non-conducttng
material. The latter also incases the
metal shank to within a few inches
of the end. This allows ample sur
face for the operator to grasp and
operate the screwdriver without fear
of being electrically shocked by con-
tact with a live wire, and is thus as
sured of protection from such acci-
d~ents.-Washington Star.