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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-07-20
Charleston Board to Conform to Law.

I'VE are conscientiously carrying
cut the requirements of the statute,
according to our construction of it.
making the award to the lowest bid
dcrs and have so communicated TO
Gov. Blease. said Chairman b. II.
kutledge of the Charleston county dis
pensary board, in reply to the request
for a statement as to whether the
Charleston board is offending under
the rule of the governor that pur-
chases should not be made from
houses which have hitherto been
proven gully of robbing the state.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-07-20
Bates Goes .to Serve Life Sentence,

Joe Bates. the convicted murder
er of Docia Boiter, sentenced TO hang
on July 21, whose sentence was COM
mutted to one Of life imprisonment
Just few days ago by Governor
Blease. has been removed from the
Spartanburg County Jail, where he had
been confined since the day OF his
crime over two years ago, to the
State Pen;tentiary. He will serve the
remainder of his life in this prison.
His long gray beard and his shaggy
hair was still uncut when he was
taken away.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-07-20
Extend Railway in Pee Dee Section.

The North & South Carolina Rail
way company has been given the
right by the secretary of state TO ex
tend its lines for a distance of 2j
miles. from its present terminus al
Mullins to a point on the Pee Dee
river, in Britton's Neck township
through the townships Of Reeves. Leg
gett and Britton's Neck in Marion
county. The amount OF capital 10 be
invested is not stated in the petition
for amendment of charter. The roac
was first built through Maricn. MarI
boro and Dillon counties.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
YOUNG VIRGINIA ARTIST.

Miss Virginia Wood is one of the very youngest and most talented of American women artists. Like many daughters of the Old Dominion, she migrated few years ago to New York city, where she soon came to the fore. In her work Miss Wood employs either chalks or charcoal :; and she has been so exceptionally successful as a portraitist that her services are almost continually in demand by women of fashion and wealth. Still on the sunny side of twenty-five, Miss Wood of Virginia and New York is an extremely pret- ty girl, with an animated manner and possessed of many qualities which make her socially popular.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN
 TEMPERANCE UNION

Mrs. Curtis, president of the Texas W. c. T. U., gives the con. dition of affairs in a pretty terse statement as follows:
 On one side of this great bat. tie stand three great factors which constitute the tripod of civilization, upon which rests the safety of the town, state and na. tion. They are the church. the nome, the school. If the church is taken out, we go back into organism and idolatry; if the school is removed, we are plung- ed into ignorance and supersti- tlon; If the home is struck down oarbarism, a nomadic life, a country without God, govern. ment or civilization is our DOT. tiOn.
 'On the other side of this ques. tlon today stands three factors the saloon, the gambling hall, and the haunt of infamy.
 There they are-two armies of three battalions, camping along the banks of civil liberty. each contesting for supremacy in American life and government and one or the other must go down. Each day they draw near. CT and nearer to the final test fo strength.
 There are three great gener- als marshalling the forces of righteousness upon the plains of progress-the pulpit, the press and the pedagogue. I am glad of the activity of the pulpit in this political, financial and social reform-this call of christianity down the aisles of civilization and Gods clock has struck the hour"
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
ECONOMICS IS A FAVORITE.

The first report of the results of the new grouping of studies" sys- tenn at Harvard is now at hand. Un- der this system every student must take at least six of his courses in some one department and six more courses must be distributed among the three general groups in which his chief work does not lie. As to the five remaining courses necessary for a degree, free election prevails. Of the present sophomore class-a total of 133 are concentrating their work in economics, 55 in engineering and 45 in romance languages, English, history and chemistry follow in the order named. The report will cause no surprise. Economics has long been a popular subject with college men, principally because it is sup posed to bear a rather close relation to the life work of the ordinary grad- uate.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
COUGHING AT NIGHT

means loss of sleep. which is hard on everyone. Mrs, A. Pelzer, 9 w. Jeff
 ferson street, Omaha, Nebk. says: q can recommend Foley's Honea and Tar
 Compound as sure cure for coughs and colds. It cured my daughter of a bad cold, and my neighbor Mrs. Hen-
 son cured her whole family with Fo- ley's Honea and Tar Compound. Ev- eryone in our neighborhood speaks most highly of it. For dryneG3 and tick ling in the throat, hoarser ess, and al, coughs and colds, take Foley's Honea and Tar Compound. Keep always in the house. Contains no opiates. Tie genuine in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. Hesterly Drug Store. cod
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
FANCY SKATERS THERE.

"Thers do not seem to be any just ordinary skaters at St. Moritz," said a New York woman who spent last winter at tho Swiss resort. Nobody goes in for plain skating, but all do fancy figures and feats, such l" in New York we are accustomed to see mainly at exhibitions. And nobody you meet there seems to get too old to put on skates.
 ''The most active fancy figure ar tist in the place last winter was an English noblewoman who is over seventy years old, but she was so &C., tive you would have thought she was not more than half her years"
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
SCHOOL TEACHER Kt.iG.

The versatile Peter the Great fol- lowed his various professions for pleasure; but there have been mon- archs who have had of necessity 10 follow profession other than that of reigning. When Louis Philippe, then duke of Chartres, fled from France in 1193, he took a post in a school in Switzerland, where he taught mathematics and geography under the name of NJ. Chabaud-La- tour. And in ancient times there was Dionysius, who, after reigning over Syracuse and getting deposed, earned a meager living as a school master, and later on less meager one as a barber. And now there IS a new chapter of "Rois en Exile" waiting 6 writer.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
PUT ONE OVER ON MR. TAFT
Orchin in Western Town Handed President One of His Discarded
 Bouquets and Got $1.

President Taft, while on one of his trips to the west, made a stop at a small town where he spoke a few minutes and received the usual bushel or two of flowers from the ad- hiring young ladies. Just as the special was pulling out of the sta- tion a barefoot boy, carrying a bou- quet, came running and squirming through the crowd. MT. Taft saw him.
 q can't run away from the little fellow like this,' he said, pulling the bell rope and bringing the train to stop.
 The youngster came up breathless- ly and delivered the roses. The pres ident smiled and handed him a dol- lar.
 ''Tom," said he to the porter, after the train had resumed its way, it seems to me those flowers are rather wilted. The boy must have had hard time getting through the crowd.
 ''They ought to be wilted," an- swered Tom, with grin. ''That there bouquet has been on this train for three days, and l just threw it out as we came into that town back there"
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
Fred Murrah Box Ball Alley Fresh Fruits Good Cigars
 Gold Drinks
 and Magazines
 Phone 65.
VoECERNlNG MEDICINE.

II doctors prescription is not ,u'lrely used, the remainder should " V. 'nroWn away, bearing in mind la', Ii liquid, the bottle should be aip'led ' and washed. Not one chance n n hundred would ever necessitate 'N use Of the medicine or the same SlOlnat>on ' U, of drugs, unless it be .l ' 'ne form of a linament or some s. Ssinal remedy, which should be s,Ypefly T. labeled. Most medicines do n.o Aeep well, and, if unnecessary ;,'. ieS are kept in the medicine cab as5 ns.' mistakes are more apt to be as' nsa;'. and confusion results. The rats s'tins f,Os. closet should be kept sepa- sa.s ,ss nom others, free from damp ,ibIs alIt' ana ,sn,1 under lock and key, if pos )eb, inrlnembering to exclude the
 Sns him., progs' especially powders, are lisa .au by dampness.-Suburban
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
EXPRESSED IN ART TERMS
Nr''st Nne" Just What the compI- ment Meant, but Miss verity
 Did Not.

"l consider the greatest compli- ment l ever had paid to my paint lng," said Rose Maddar, who was showing the results of her summers sketchlng to Miss Verify, "was that Euphemia Jones said about it. She expressed so much in such a few words"
 What did she say?" asked Miss Verify.
 "She said," replied Rose, '@that my pictures had great deal of vi- tality.'"
 And just what did she mean by that" inquired Miss Verify.
 "She meant-why, I perfectly un- derstand what she meant. Don't you really know?"
 "No," responded Miss Veritv with a sigh. "Just put it in plain words, won't you, Rose?"
 "Why, she meant-she meant that the pictures had-that the pie lures had-well, of course, that the pictures had "a great deal of vital- ity.'"
 "I'm dense, I suppose, for I still fall to grasp her exact meaning"
 "Euphemia Jones knows lots and lots about art and talks beautifully and Interestingly on, the subject, :" said Rose Maddar, bridling. Be cause you can't grasp the sutblety of her expression vitality used in this connection, is not reason why it does not mean something nice, and to have her say such things about ones pictures Is certainly great compli- ment .''
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
ANNOUNCEMENTS

corrNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE
 ~s. News is authorized to announce R. O.. uians,vmoreland inv as a candidate for County and n.eSats Iudge of Nevada County, subj eca to [ lloo",i o.ton Inf the Democratic primary. u..tsrlv ass as A candidate for County and Pr O. SSsVssIndre of Nevada county, subj ect to the sstou s'tIu of the Democratic party. ! The News is authorized to announce w. C.. ralts as candidate for County and Probate iudge of Nevada County subj ect to the action Inc Democratic party.
 The News is authorized to announce J. M, Thomas as candidate for county and pro- Mte judge of Nevada county, subj ect to the ston of the Democratic party,
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
WORSE THAN THE AILMENT
Soot Tea One of the Horrible Reme- dies They Used to Give for
 Stomach Ache.

"Speaking of old-fashioned reme- dies," caid reminiscent woman, ''hot water and peppermint was not the only connection they used for old-fashioned stomach ache. They had something for that distress that was awfully simple and simply awful"
 "What is it, mother?" asked her daughter.
 "Soot tea"
 "Where did they get the soot?'
 "Scraped from the chimney fire place with a case knife, stirred about a teacupful into bowl of hot water and gave it to children who had cramps in their stomachs. Yes, it was black, and also bitter, and such a repulsive mess that whenever 1 had those aches I'd run away and hide to get rid of having to drink it. I'd fairly double up with pain before I'd confess my misery. was glad when a stove came into the house and the old fireplace was boarded up, for then mother was unable to col- lect soot any more without taking the stovepipe apart. Soot teal The very thought of it makes me shiver r
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
WHEN CARE IS ADVISABLE.

''It took Branscomb six months to make up his mind concerning the kind of an automobile he would buy"
 "Yes, and 1 understand that he had known his wife only two week before they were married"
 "Well, buying an automobile is |, serious thing"
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
COUNTY AND PROBATE CLERK

The News is authorized to announce J. w. Franks as candidate for County and Probate Clerk of Nevada county, subject to the action of the Democratic party
 The News is authorized to announce Albert McGough as a candidate for County and Hobate Clerk, of Nevada County. subject to ths action of she Democratic party.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04

Let the women of Prescott show on which side they are al- ligned by being present at the meeting Thursday at three D. m. With Mrs A. P. Burrus.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
TAX ASSESSOR

The News is authorized to announce Fred Wais as candidate for Tax Assessor of Ne ,aos County subject to the action of the Democratic party
 me News IS authorized to announce T, ] |. Lamb as candidate for tax assessor of Ne. ,saa County' subject to the action of the Democratic party.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
COUNTY TREASURER

The News is authorized to announce T, R, Wright as candidate for Treasurer of Ne. rsda County. subject to to the action of the Democratic party.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
Hts BUSINESS.

irettnl r, ,. tel me Banks baby is very laos pas1n't Sa to mind that. You saRe.s professional floor
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
SHERIFF

The News is authorized to announce D. l. nIard as a candidate for sheriff and collector oiNeyada county, subject to the action of the democratic party.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
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'oIer, ,D t'..' voo link alr. Bliggins Ss 9'' eT"arerated ego s'' |ds,s. :. 'sp.s' " ss Cayenne. ~lIe stt. h5 .aut pleas.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
ANNOUNCEMENT FEES

rbo above is our price for an ,ouncing candidates for the diff
 saroot syr offices and the fee is in-
 sarjably in advance. ts
The Prescott daily news., 1911-12-04
1Ap Prescott Daily News "' evslisHE0 BY
 News Printing Go.

., so.on1 class mail matter Eaterteur si ath. 1905, at the postoffice NovselnlllOoeeol I Ark, under the act of .t ..,.frsss, p1sss'iMia March g. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23

| trained in the political school of "Ad- dition, Division and Silence" Not that he is personally corrupt not that he would grow rich in the public service. He is too honest and too proud for that; but Penrose actually believes that certain interests should be granted privileges afd advantages In order that they may take care of the people It is the feudalsm of wealth as the other was the feudalism of arms. The steel trust could ask nothing of the repub- lican leader that he would refuse and be firm in the belief that he was doing his country and the American people 8 great and beneficent service. There is popular belief that Penrose Is only a brutal ward politician. It is mistake. He is man of great ability, highly
 educated and admirably cultured If Penrose had been reared in Iowa, or Minnesota, long ago he would have been looked upon IS Presidential tim
 ber But his lines were cast in Penn sylvania, and in Philadelphia at that.
 He fetched and carried for the old
 Cameron machine, and when Matt Quay grasped the crown he made Penrose his visier. his chief f-of-staff. Quay died and the crown fell to Penrose, and he is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23

do we wish to escape? I wonder. To1- stoy escaped. Thoreau escaped. I dar- say we are not big enough, strong enough to escape. even if we at heart wiued it.
 Where the thraldom of popular opin-
 ion begins one cannot say, even in ones own life-perhaps in boyhood days, when our jackets got fitted and fashioned just as the mother willed 1t, or the hair got cropped in the old absurd fashion that the mother willed. Presently the tyran- ny grows so insistent that submit, dumb and prone, to the manifold pun shments and iniquities of any barber in whose chair we sit And as we got "Crusoe" and "Gulliver' and "The Wide. Wide World" prescribed for us in the salad days, the bool<men now-printers and crities-fll our poor noggins with what is best for us" And we get our religions, and politics, philosophies, and all that, ready made And perhaps we should thank our stars and be glad for customs and traditions-for one need worry no more about what is what and who Is who, seeing that in the Book of Manners nothing is in doubt any more. All is as it should be. Well?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
THE

lof you now and that other self of you that dreamed and strove and climbed, b. 20 30, 50 years ago. You think deeper now-have developed into conscient being, perhaps. You have found that there are cosmic nuts to crack, and arc about the task. Mankind wrestled long and long in the night of darkness, and is emerging now from the groveling atti- tuda. He does not jabber any more-the manly man-but stands erect and speaks coherently. The beautiful religions ap- peared as they were needed, and aiaed in his uplift. The ingenuity of man has girded the earth and brought the na- tons into speaking distances. And all os these gestures, mental, spiritual or what not, have given us a pretty fair knowl- edge of these selves of ours, and of the working of natural law about us.
 After surmounting a million or so of steps. we seem to have come to a threshold through which we may not at once pass. This threshold we call the Threshold of Ultimate Knowledge-the Finish of Dreams-the Overword or whatever pleases us. Whatever it is, we believe that it holds back something
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23

legged. dish-faced little man they had made President. He had as great mind as anybody who ever held that great of fee, and he had character. Had he been as liberal toward the south as William H. Taft he would have made a better place in history; but he championed the Lorge force bill and that infuriated the south and repelled New York and other pivotal communities of the north. He ap- proved the Sherman silver law and that put the country on a silver basis, and 1t took a Grover Cleveland to extricate it from universal bankruptcy in the midst of a panic, due solely to the sherman sil- yer law that brought financial disaster in every community in the United States.
 When Ben Harrison was elected every body said Matt Quay was the greatest man of the lot. But Ben Harrison was not William Mckinley, and Mir. Quay did not play the part subsequently, so bril- lantly executed by Mark Hanna. The presidency would have been valueless to Ben Harrison unless he were President, and he alone.
 Congress met a few weeks after Harri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
C SIMPSON-By George Eaves, D. D.

tnmor from patients neck. On the 1851 of February, 1S47, Simpson was delightedly relating the story of a suc- cessful use of ether in his genealogical hospital, in the forenoon to his class. anc in the evening to the members of the Obstetrical society. But ether was not ideal even for surgery, and still less for Simpsons purpose: and he set himself heartily to the task of finding ar alternative It was on Novem Der 4th. 1S47, not without danger to himself and his assistants, Dr. George Keith and pr Matthews Duncan, that he made his most memorable discovery of the values of chloroform. Hencefor- ward the rights of women to be re- lieved of their travail bangs and for surgeons to operate without causing pain to their patients" were to be recl,oned as vindicated. Ignorance and prejudice still fought against the in
 novatiou. arguing that it was an irrev- erent interference with the laws of GCd, but when, in 1853, the Queen s phyrician, Sir James Clarke, could write, Her Majesty was greatly pleased with the effect (of chloroform)' and she certainly has never had bet ter recovery Simpsons battle may be regarded as having been won.
 Tn 1866 Professor Simpson received a letter from Earl Russell, offering him a baronetcy 'They ought to make you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23

But we will make mention of the name
 of the Lord our God"
 You need not look far for a spiritual nobility when you hear lips of faith repeating these immortal songs of tri- umph. The London league of brave poor things" can withstand the noxious atmosphere of slums and want with these indomitable heart-cres No won = der that the toiling peasant woman in West Lothian could reach out and pluck the flowers Of Paradise, and make one bloom for the blessing of many generations, by like courageous faith Mary Jervey and the six older sons and the one daughter not only believed and pray ed, but stinted themselves that this seventh son, Jamie, vertically a flower of Paradise, might grow unstint- university.
 At fourteen years of age he entered the arts classes of the University of Edinburgh. At nineteen he had won the diploma of the Royal College of Sur geons. Only his extreme youth was his hindrance in securing profitable prac- tice. Presently the university degree of M. D. was obtained. when the young mar read thesis of such mark that he was at once invited to assist the pro- lessor of pathology, but he was attract
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
How Baseballs Are Made

The evolution of the modern baseball and it's manufacture are the subject of an interesting illustrated article in the August number of Popular Mechanics Magazine. It says:
 "Outwardly the 1O-cent ban bears a close resemblance to the dollar ball, but, as every boy knows there is a vast differ ence in the life and durability of the two spheres The center of the cheap ball is made Of ground-up carpet rags closely pressed into core by machinery.
 Over this core string is wound--a very
 little string compared to the quantity used in winding one of the professional
 league balls-and then the unfinished arti- cle is sent to the room where the women sewers put the cover on, the seam being drawn together by hand.
 But the league ball is very different product. In the first place the construc- ton of this ball has been undergoing an evolution for years. At the present time there is much complaint from some who would have few Puns and a. quick game, on account of the way in which the bat ters are hitting this new cork-center ball. The complaint Is heard that the ball is too fast and runs too frequent. The ex- panation of the experts is that ball hit on the ground, with the new ball is no
 faster than with the old one, but that a ball hit in the air goes farther, thus accounting for the great number of ex- tra-base hits made in recent years.
 Some years ago the balls were made with rubher centerS Then in ,.aspon ga to demand for more runs to make the game interesting to the spectators the experiment was tried of making a ball with a small piece of cork in the center, in the heart of the rubber core. This produced little of the desired effect. and every year from that time the relative sizes of the rubber and the cork in the center of the spheres has been changed
 until the present fast ball was evclved.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23

humiliation would be great. For s critical study of this Blue Book of Manners would satisfy the Martians I believe, that nowhere in the solar sys- tenn, save on earth, are giants and pyg- mics clothed in the same skins In this book of Manners a diligent Martian would find that it is highly correct for neighbors, cordially dislikng each other, to smile at, kiss, and outwardly love each other.
 He would discover that on earth it is not deliberate lying for enemies to reg ularly visit each other.
 He would discover that on earth it Is not called swindling when one gets the best of a bargain. It is commonly called success.
 This book would reveal that certain brave peoples of earth at times crowned and applauded as king and master, de generate and diseased persons, instead oi virile and kingly persons. It would reveal to the Martian that earths chief glory-her children-were dwarfed and stunted in sweat shops and cotton mills and department stores. q pray. let not this shame of ours be known to our starry neighbors)