davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
The Fort Mill Business School.

A splendid opportunity will be
offered the ambitious boys and
girls of this section to gain a
business education at home by
the opening of the Fort Mill
Business school, on the evening
of the Goth inst, with Prof. J. j.
Bales as principal. The school
will occupy rooms in the Ardrey
building, which have been nicely
fitted up for the purpose, and the
classes in double-entry bookkeep-
ing, business arithmetic, SPELL
ing, ornamental and business
penmanship, etc., will be taught
from 8 to 10 o'clock on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday evening.
AS soon as the machines can be
secured it is the purpose of Prof.
Bales to enroll classes in short
hand and typewriting. In this
work he probably will be assisted
by NJ. S. Young, bookkeeper for
the E. w. Kimbrell Co. Prof.
Bales has had wide experience
as a teacher of modern business
methods. He is graduate of
the Eastman National Business
college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
where he won first prize for ex-
pert penmanship over a large
number of competitors. Since
graduating at the Poughkeepsie
school Prof. Bales has taught
successfully in one of the largest
business colleges in Pennsyl-
vania. The outlook for the Fort
Mill Business school is encourage
ing, a score or more students
having already been enrolled.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Hawkers' and Peddlers' License.

The State senate passed Mon
day night Senator Summers bill
amending the present laws so
as to fix a license of $500 for
'hawkers and peddlers" who
take chattel mortgages to secure
unpaid balance of purchase
price. This bill is a compromise
for a bill introduced by Mr.. Mars
some time since to prevent the
foreclosure of a past due chattel
mortgage between certain months
of the year. That bill was killed
but its object, to provide a means
of defense against hawkers and
peddlers" who made practice
of collecting their past due mort
cages during the early months
OF the year, was recognized as a
good one, and Senator Summers
bill was framed accordingly.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
An Aiken Girls Achievement.

Aiken county has been afforded
a great deal of advertising by
Miss Katie Gunter, modest
little girl of Samaria, who is the
champion raiser of tomatoes in
the world. Miss Gunter raised,
last year, and canned on one
tenth of an acre of land SIP quart
cans of tomatoes, 10 quart jars
of pickles, 8 pint jars of pickles,
6 pint jars of catsup, 8 pint Jars
of tomato preserves and 5 quart
jars of peach preserves. At this
rate Miss Gunter was raising
$3.50 quart cans of tomatoes per
acre. These tomatoes were
packed much closer in cans than
the bought ones, and are cheap
at ten cents each, at which rate
her tomatoes were worth S51. 20,
which is $512 per acre.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED
BY APPROPRIATION BILL VETO

While it seems probable that
the General Assembly will ad-
journ sine die Saturday, final ad-
journment depends to consid-
cradle extent on what Governor
Blease does with the appropria-
tion bill and other important
matters, says the Columbia Rec
ord. If he should decide to veto
the appropriation bill, as it has
been urged by several news
papers that he should do, or if
he should veto certain other bills,
it would require a prolongation
of the session. The governor
has the power to veto any bill.
but in the case of an appropria-
tion bill he may veto any section
or item which he does not ap-
prove and may approve the
balance of the bill. He must re-
turn any bill that he vetoes to
the house in which it originated
within three days after it's re-
ceipt, unless in the meantime the
General Assembly has adjourned.
1t is customary for the General
Assembly not to adjourn until
message has been received from
the governor stating that he has
signed the appropriation bill.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Campaign for Farmers Union.

Beginning Monday, February
II, a two weeks campaign is to
be made in York county in the
interest of the Farmers union
by j. B. O'Neall Holloway, dep
uty organizer for the State. The
purpose of the canvass is to re-
vive and strengthen the local
unions in the county and to or
ganize new local unions, with a
view to putting the union in a
position to do more effective work
in the future than it has been
doing in the past.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Ernest Whitesell Station Agent.

Capt. T. B. Spratt has been
succeeded as Fort Mill station
agent of the Southern railway by
Ernest Whitesell, who has held
the position of assistant to the
agent for several months. Tues
day morning Auditor Bethune
Glass came from Columbia to
Fort Mill and spent the day
checking in Capt. Spratt and
Wednesday morning Mr.. White
sell assumed the duties of station
agent. Mr.. Whitesell has had
considerable experience in rail-
road work and his friends are
confident he will fill the position
satisfactorily to both the company
and the local patrons of the road.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
New Home for Congressman Finley

Congressman D. E. Finley has
awarded a contract for the erec-
tion of a handsome and commo-
dious dwelling to be erected on
his lot on Congress street in
Yorkville. The material is now
being placed on the ground and
it is expected that the building
will be completed and ready for
occupancy during the coming
summer. The building now on
the lot, which Mr.. Finley and
his family have been occupying
for a number of years, has long
been a landmark. 1t was erected
in about 1910, and during the en-
tire interval, with the exception
of about Is or 20 years, has been
occupied by lawyers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Nice Looking People. 4"

Jesse j. Russell and Miss Nora
Davenport, a North Carolina
couple, drove through the country
from Charlotte to Fort Mill Satur-
day afternoon and were married
by Magistrate j. w. McElhaney.
When asked by the magistrate
to give their residence, Russell
replied that it was Charlotte, but
Magistrate McElhaney remarked
to The Times that he did not be-
lieve their home was in Charlotte
they were nice looking peo-
pie" "
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
AMENDMENTS TO MILITARY CODE
ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATURE

Members of the South Carolina
National Guard have watched
with considerable interest the
progress before the General AS
sembly of the bill, recommended
by the National Guard associa-
ton, amending the military code
of the State in several important
respects. Of particular interest
is the amendment providing for
the bonding of the adjutant
general in the sum of $4,000
and that with reference to
the compensation of the militia
when on duty aiding civil officers.
The bill has passed both the house
and senate and only lacks the
signature of the governor to be-
come law. The section of the
bill relating to the pay of officers
and men engaged in the service
of the State is as follow:
When the militia are ordered
out, or have volunteered for and
WiiiiS IiiSy oIC III dSIlNS SCI VICE,
as heretofore specified, or are in
camps of instruction, they shall
be subject to the same rules and
articles of war as troops of the
United States, and during their
term of service be entitled to the
same pay, rations and allowances
for clothing as are, or may be,
established by law for the army
of the United States. When
called upon as a military organi-
zation to aid any civil officer in
the execution of the law or the
preservation of the peace, each
officer and enlisted man of the
militia so engaged shall receive
the sum of $1.50 per day and
actual expenses, to be paid by
the governor, through the COM
manding officer of the organiza-
ton so ordered out. When the
National Guard and the Naval
Militia are on duty together at
the same time, the commanding
officer of the National Guard shall
command the whole force.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Fort Mills Live Stock Market.

The reputation of Fort Mill as
one of the best horse and mule
markets in this section has gone
abroad and within the last few
weeks a number of North Caro-
lima, Virginia and Tennessee
dealers have made their head
quarters in town and all have
been pleased with the amount of
business done. While the great
er number of sales of work
animals for use in this community
have been made by local dealers,
it is a good advertisement for the
town to have outside dealers come
In and go away pleased with
what they were able to do here.
Today there are perhaps more
first class mules and horses in
Fort Mill, town and township,
than at any previous time. The
farmer with poor stock is the ex-
ception rather than the rule. AS
an indication of the amount of
business done in Fort Mill by live
stock dealers since the first of
last December, the statement is
made by one who is in position to
know that between $50, 200 and
$25,0 has been invested in
young mules and horses.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Court House in the Country.

Mr.. V. B. Blankenship returned
to Fort Mill Sunday from a pro-
specting trip to Sanford, N. c..
and the country roundabout.
whittier he had gone with a view
of moving to that section and
engaging in the lumber business.
Sanford is almost in the central
part of North Carolina and is a
progressive town of 2, 500 people,
to which it has grown from 900
five years ago. An odd and in
teresting thing noted by Mr..
Blankenship on his trip through
the country near Sanford is that
the court house of Lee county is
IN the country midway between
Sanford and Jonesboro. Sanford
and Jonesboro are rival towns.
two miles apart. Both are in
Lee county and when the forma-
ton of the county was under way
a few years ago neither would
give way to the other as the
most suitable place for the coun-
ty seat, so compromise was eff
fected by locating the court house
midway between the towns. Mr..
Blankenship is undecided wheth-
er he will move to Sanford. but
thinks that the town has a prom
ising future.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
What Direct Election of Senators Means.

The injection of the race ques-
ton into the debate in the United
States senate on the adoption of
the proposed amendment to the
Federal constitution for the popu-
lar election of senators has had
the effect of making the passage
of the amendment doubtful, but
it is nevertheless interesting to
note the advantages that would
be gained by a change from the
present mode of electing United
States senators by the Legisla-
lures of the various States to the
plan of choosing them by direct
vote of the people:
1t would make United States
senators more responsive to the
wishes of the people, whose
States they represent, by placing
them in closer touch with the
people.
1t would prevent, to large de-
gree, the corruption of Legis-
latures, and particularly prevent
their corruption in connection
with the election of senator's. for
they would have nothing more
to do with such matters. The
corruption of Legislatures in the
matter of electing senators now
frequently is reflected in the
legislative action of the legisla-
tors In State matters, apart from
the election of senators, and such
corruption tends to the destruc-
ton of the rights and liberties
of the people. Such agitation as
followed the election of Senator
William Lorimer in Illinois, and
which is now before the senate.
would not be possible under a
plan of electing senators by di-
rect vote of the people.
1t would prevent the improper
use of money in the campaigns
before the electorate, by men
with ambition to obtain a seat
in the senate, frequently by men
without Legislative experience,
and whose only recommendation
is the size of the check they are
able to draw.
1t would prevent disturbance
and turmoil in State Legislatures.
1t would compel candidates to
subject themselves to the severe
scrutiny of a campaign before
the people, whose suffrages they
might seek, and tend toward the
selection of men best fitted for
the important office.
1t would prevent Legislative
deadlocks due to the contest
among rival candidates, such as
are witnessed almost every other
year, when a senator is to be
chosen in some State.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Convincing Argument.
Yorkville Enquirer.

I0rkVlIIe Enquirer.
We are inclined to think that a
few thousand dollars might be
invested in the court house to
advantage in the installation of a
steam heating plant, and we
think also that a fireproof vault
might be installed in the office of
the county treasurer to advan-
tage. At the same time it
will have to be admitted that the
present building is fully equal to
any present, practical need.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16
Unjust Discrimination. &"
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte Observer.
The Fort Mill Times wants to
know why the train announcers
at the Southern Railway station
IN Charlotte and Columbia persist
in omitting the name of that
community. We think this is an
undoubted case of unjust dis
elimination and wish The Times
every success in its attempt to
bring the careless heralds to
time.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-02-16

The next meeting of the County
Teachers association will be held
in Yorkville March II. An inter-
esting program has been arranged
for the days exercises.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03
"AMERICA'S HOUSE OF LORDS"
In a Remarkable Article London Newspaper Says
that the United States Senate Is a Failure

From the London Chronicle, April II.
The Senate of the United States, which
has been described as the strongest
Second Chamber in the world" is rapidly
being undermined. The present system
of indirect election is doomed. With all
but unanimity the House Of Representa-
tives has declared in favor Of the direct
election of Senators (the opposition only
numbered sikh. A few weeks ago the
Senate itself voted in favor of its own
reform by fifty-four votes to thirty-three
The majority was ineffective, as it must
be two-thirds; but the issue was confused
by the introduction of an amendment in
volving the question of Federal regulation
and control of election, otherwise a de-
cisive vote might have been secured. The
new Senate. which meets soon, will con-
tain the necessary majority, after which
the amendment will go to the States for
ratification, and will finally be embodied
in the Constitution. In the meantime
some of the States are taking the matter
into their own hands. and allowing the
electors to designate their candidates for
the Senate, so that the legislatures have
Only to formally endorse the peoples
choice.
The Senate of the United States con-
tains nfnety-two members-two for each
State in the Union. The Senators repre-
sent territories rather than people-State
interests and not numerical majorities
Thus the old small State of Delaware,
with its population of 100000. and the new
State of Nevada, with only 5000 people,
have the same voice in the Senate as the
State of Pennsylvania. with 7.00o, 900, or
of New York, with 100000. The Senators
are elected by the State legislatures
No doubt the original plan was good,
but the scheme of the founders of the
Constitution has miscarried. The Senate
has come to represent interests-the
interests which are opposed to public
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03
Working and Spending.

Some philosopher says that the way
to get rich is to work like Thomas A.
Edison and spend like Hetty Green.
There is world of wisdom in the
suggestion. 1t takes industry, energy.
and application to work like Edison.
He seems to have the constitution of
an OK. At the same time, work is not
everything. What is the value of labor
If its results are dissipated in extrava-
gance and thriftlessness?
Working and spending! The daily
grind of human existence is made I'D
OF these two words. Perhaps it is
not necessary to work like Edison or
to be as frugal as the richest woman in
the world. AT the same time, the way
to impress a thought upon the human
mind Is to exaggerate it. The lesson
to be learned is that labor and econ
omy ought to 60 hand in hand.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03
A SHREWD RASCAL.
COunterfeiter's Little Trick that De-
ceived Many for Years.

From the New York Mail
In circulars warning against a counter
felt so note on the United States National
bank of Los Angeles attention Is called
TO the fact that the word national on
the spurious note is spelled with a final
- instead OF an Il" The inference
would seem to be that the counterfeiter is
poor speller. Yet it by no means fol-
lows that such is necessarily the case,
as a little story will show.
On the so national bank note design in
use many years ago was the sentence
The union, maintain it." A wonderfully
executed counterfeit of that note was
placed in circulation, the spurious charac-
ter Of which was revealed only by the
discovery that in the sentence quoted
above the counterfeiter had spelled the
word maintain without the st" Every
body was put on guard against the SO
note bearing the word "mainain." That
was virtually the only test applied and
the note that withstood 1t was recognized
as genuine. But as soon as that warning
had been spread broadcast in the public
mind, Mr.. Counterfeiter put out a second
and vastly larger edition of notes on
which the word maintain" was properly
spelled, many OF which passed for several
years as genuine.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03
The Limit of High BUILDINGS

Freak construction for advertising
purposes undoubtedly will continue.
Each new record is an incentive for ad-
ditional height, and sixty and sixty-five
or seventy stories are possibilities. The
architectural and engineering problems
of Notwithstanding capacity of steel
and cement, the power of wind resist
ance, and the like are considered to have
been reduced to science, and we may
have to wait until some freak of na.
ture shall demonstrate the fallibility of
science before we realize that there is
limit to this sort of construction.
From an architectural or engineering
standpoint the latest skyscraper for
New York, which is to be ffty-ive
stories. or five more than the tower of
the Metropolitan Building, is not the
limit. Confirming the theory, as ex-
emplihed in the Singer and Metropoli-
tan structures, of using tower construc-
ton to lessen interference with the COM
mon right in light and air, neither this
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03
TRAINS BRING HORSES
FOR PRIZE CONTESTS
Number of Entries and Keen Competition Ensure
Unprecedented Success of Show and Struggle
for Ribbons in Every Glass;

Horses are coming to Washington on
every train to participate in the Ma
tional Capital Horse Show which opens
Tomorrow. and grooms. trainers. and
stable boys are busy installing the ami
mails in quarters about town. While
100 Of them will be stabbed on the
grounds at Eighteenth and C streets. a
great many have been sent to other
stables. The Riding Club of Washing
ton, the stables of r. G.. Hollingsworth,
the Potomac Park Stables, and many
others are being filled with the finest
horses in the. country. and by tonight
practically every horse entered in the
show will be in the city, under the care
of his grooms.
The show grounds are a scene of the
greatest activity. Hundreds of specta-
tors yesterday went down to look at
them, and many more are expected to-
day. All about the grounds is evidence
Of the impending events. At any hour
Of the day, except feed times, grooms
may be seen leading their horses about
the grounds for exercise, polishing har-
ness and carriages and doing odd jobs
in the track rooms preparatory TO the big
exhibition.
Interest is particularly keen. as many
of the exhibitors have shipped direct to
Washington from Atlantic City, and
horses are entered in the same classes
here as there. Consequently those beat
en- at the seaside are doing everything
to get their horses in shape to reverse
their fortunes here.
The last entry of the show came in
under peculiar circumstances. AS the
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03

building nor others that may follow
will strengthen the demand for legal
limit on the height of buildings.
Practical considerations relating to in
come-producing possibilities are more
likely to be the determining factor, and
in the opinion of authorities these now
may fix a limit within or not far be-
yond the height of this latest enter
prise. A current writer of authority
on this topic demonstrates that the de-
mand for elevator service occupying
nonproductice space, increasing with the
height of the building, will of itself,
by encroachment on the rental aera,
fix the limit for profitable" construc-
ton
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03
An English View of the Senate.

1t is an old proverb that one has tc
go away from home to hear the news
Simply because it is, in many respects
a remarkable article, we reprint this
morning the London Chronicles attack
upon the United States Senate. 1t is
interesting to learn that the Senate is
being undermined. and that as an Ameri-
can institution it is failure.
Perhaps in London they would like
to see the Senate abolished and the
American people admit that the system
OF government upon which this nation
was founded is a failure. George III
used to think that the colonies could
not govern themselves, and hoped that
the new republic established by. liberty
loving people would crumble and fall.
His wish was not realized. The Ameri-
can nation grew and prospered. and even
withstood the shock of civil war.
So now it is said in London that we
are on the verge Of political disinte-
grafton 1t would be unkind to say
that the wish is father to the thought.
Let us content ourselves with the re-
Election that mere assertion is not
truth. The United States is neither
being undermined nor is it a failure.
And it will be in existence long after
the House of Lords shall have been
abolished.
The Washington herald., 1911-05-03

welfare. 1t stands for the trusts, and
it represents political corruption. The
most demoralizing spectacles in Ameri-
can politics are the corrupt campaigns
witnessed in too many cases when Sem
ators are being elected. Powerful in
terests support rival candidates. Legis-
lators are bribed, and Senators go to
Washington stamped and ticketed as the
creatures of some great railway corpora
ton. some scheming trust or powerful
tariff interest. The sordid dealings over
tariffs are most notorious in the Senate.
1t has great powers to block reform
legislation-like our House of Lords-but
unlike the Peers it is a dangerous con-
structive force, as its energies are too
often directed to uphold corporate privi-
leges and conserve vested interests
Only recently the Senate gave an exhibi-
tion of its Indifference to purity of gov
eminent by retaining as a member Mr..
Lorimer, of Illinois, admittedly elected
by bribery.
The demand for the reform of the
Senate is not a party question. 1t is
supported by both Democratic and Re-
publican States. Many of them have
passed resolutions in its favor. The
party conventions embody the reform in
their platforms, the candidates accept
it, and the members of the legislatures
compel Senatorial candidates to SUBJ
scribe to it. Hence America is coming
to close quarters with its second cham
Der problem. Its example is alike
warning and an encouragement to us
a warning against any system of in
direct election and delegated powers;
an encouragement to go on with a real
reform. The American SEN
ate has been tried for over 100 years.
and as a democratic institution 1t has
failed. 1t Is only by giving the people
direct control over the Senators that
the Senate can be purged of influences
which now degrade it, and raised above
the sordid rivalries of corrupt interests
TO its true position in democratic
State.