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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
Death OF a Young Lady.

Miss Cora Johnston, daughter
of Mrs. Eliza Johnston, died
Sunday morning at IL O'Clock
at the home of her mother on
White street, this city. The de-
ceased was only 18 years of age,
just entering into young woman
hood and this is a most par
ticularly sad feature of the case.
She had been i'll for several
weeks of typhoid fever and all
that medical skill could devise
and loving hands could do was
done for her but without avail.
The deceased is survived by her
mother, several brothers and
sisters and a large number of
other relatives in this and other
nearby cities.
The funeral service was con-
Quoted from the home Monday
morning at IL o'clock by Rev.
+. l.. Glennan, the young lady S
pastor, the Rev. w. A. Hafner,
being absent from Fort Mill.
The interment was made in the
city cemetery.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
A Happy Occasion.

The near relatives of S. H.
EppS, Sr., gathered at his home
Thursday, July 24Jh, tor family
reunion. In the company was a
sister from Texas with SIX men,
bers OF her family; brother
from Florida with three mem
bers OF his family. 1t was hoped
that the other brother from
Texas would be present to make
the reunion complete but he
failed to come.
Mr.. Epps had his pastor and
family TO share the pleasures
OF the day.
Dinner was served on large
table in the yard beneath the
shade of the giant oaks. Such
d dinner it was? How shall | de-
scribe its excellent quality and
abundant quantity? ID. V. Epps
had supply OF Ice cold lemonade
on hand. This delightful drink
proved that ID. V. Is an expert
DIT MAKING IL.
The OCCASION in every way was
q great success ana Will ever live
IN the memory OF ali present.
The next Epps reunion Will like.
iy take place III eternity. Coo
grant that each may win the
reward of the faithful, that there
may be no final separation.
S. Z. Hair.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
FOR The COMMON GOOD.

At the Conference for the
Common Good to be held in
Columbia August CT. much
effort will be directed toward
welfare work of non-political
nature. Prominent men will
deliver addresses, after which
there will be general discussion.
Perhaps the greatest good of
the conference will be in these
informal expressions of opinion
by the plain, practical, every
day man in attendance. He it is
who is in a position best to feel
evils or maladjustments of our
life and may be sure that his
problem is vitally his neighbours
problem and that of his country.
The Conference will endeavor to
call forth the experience of all
preseut who have given thought
to the means of securing prog
ress. The addresses by such
men as w. X. Tate, rural school
Inspector; Clarence Poe, editor
of the Progressive Farmer: Rev.
w. H. Mills, cf Clemson college
and Hon. A. F. Lever; with the
stating of the purpose of the
meeting, a message to common
wealth builders, the church's s
place in rural development, a
national program for the develop
ment Of American agriculture
should attract a representative
gathering for the opening.
Wednesday afternoon. August 6.
The general topic will be, Co
operation for Rural Develop
ment. " In the evening the
Conference will consider the
means of securing permanent
homes for our people and talk
on farm ownership in relation to
good farming, will be given by
w. w. Long, State director OF
farm demonstration work. The
subject of home ownership will
be considered from four angles,
as it affects health, the school,
the church, and the life in the
mill village. j. A. Hines, OF
Seneca, and Rev. +. G.. Watson,
president OF Horny Industrial
school, will lead the discussion
Other speakers will be announced
later. Then will be considered
plans for helping mill worker.
to purchase homes and for tenant
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
DOG DAYS.

Once each year some people
are anxious to know when the
first dog day begins. They at
tach Importance to the weather
forecasted by that day. So far
as the records go the original
dog days were observed in Rome.
There was no fixed day for the
beginning. About the time the
dog star and sun rose together
the hot and sickly season began
on the Tiber. The Romans at
tributed their summer fevers
and deadly maladies to the influ-
ence of the dog star. In some
way the observance of the day
came down through the centu-
ries and ignorant people are al
ways on the lookout for a sign,
especially sign foreboding evil.
The early almanac makers of
this country had to give the date
of the first dog day. Without
that an almanac would not sell.
So each one fixed his own day.
If anyone has old almanacs stored
away he will find some day in
July this statement, First Dog
Day." Owing to certain laws
governing the movement of the
stars, the sun and the dog star
do not rise at the same time until
August when the hot weather is
passing. The modern almanac
makers had different dates. Some
of them said July "a to August
"a, others, July 3 to August IL.
So each one may select his own
dog days, the first being any
time in July that suits him.
There was another sign that
was formerly observed. 1t was
said that if it rained August TO-,
there would be an abundance of
rain for 80 days. If dry that
day there would be no rain, or
very little. Many people put
their faith in that sign. Spar
tanburg Journal.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
Texas Will Make 100000 Bales.

Texas is going to have some
cotton crop this year if the
weevlls are not too hungry.
Texas is not going to break any
records, (merely set a new one. J
A few years ago the folks in the
Southwest threw fit when
Texas marketed four million
bales. This year, with any sort
of luck, five million bales will be
marketed. But cotton is only
one of the things Texas has.
Texas is going to grow about
half a billion bushels of corn and
not buy quite so much. The
potato crop was a fizzle, but
from one station alone were
shipped hundred and fifty car
loads of watermelons and the
folks at that station are now put
ting in sweet potatoes.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
Yorkville Militiamen Arrested.

A dispatch Thursday from
Yorkville to the Columbia Record
said that Company l., First regi-
ment, N. G. S. c., left there
yesterday morning for Anderson
on an eight-day encampment.
They were two hours late in
leaving on account of the neces-
sary quota of men failing to re-
port. To cope with the situation
several soldiers were detailed
with military warrants and after
a two hours search, brought in
five of the unwilling ones.
The company left at II o'clock
with 80 men and two officers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
For the Weak and Nervous

Tired-out, werk, nervous MN and
women would feel ambitious, energetic,
fuli cf life and always nave coed APP
petite, if they would do the sensib
thing for health axe Electric BittcrsA
Nothing better Tor the stomach, liver
or kidneys. Thousands say they owe
their lives to this wonderful home
remedy. Mrs. O. Rhiaevault, of Vestal
Center, n. y, says: Il regard Electric
Bitters as one of the greatest of gifts.
! can never forget what 1t has done
for me. Get bottle yourself and
see what difference it will make in
your health. Only soc and 81 90.
Recommended by Fort Mil Drug Co.
Massey's Drug Store and Ardrey's
Drug Store.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
PROVISIONS OF DICK LAW
ARE SLACKLY 0BEYED

A Washington dispatch of re-
cent date says that the miX-up
between Governor Blease and
Secretary Garrison, of the United
States war department., is the
occasion for the following edi-
torial comment which appeared
in the Washington Post:
Secretary Garrison's policy
in urging governors of States to
organize and develop the State
militia in conformity with the
Dick law gives promise of
shaking up that will do the
militia establishment world of
good. The secretary's sharp
note of warning to Governor
Blease that unless the South
Carolina militia observed the
provisions of the Dick law,
federal aid would be withdrawn,
and the governors promptness
in wiring that the law would be
obeyed, has aroused general
interest in the matter and led to
additional disclosures of in
difference and neglect on the part
of many States.
So universal is slack obedience
that only two of the States
Michigan and Wisconsin have
faithfully adhered to the require
ments of the statutes. Arkansas
has forfeited federal aid on ac-
count of failure to establish
satisfactory conditions, and Ari-
Zona is about to be disciplined
for failing to account for equip
ment loaned by the war depart
ment. A considerable quantity
has been lost beyond recovery.
and much more is uncared for.
Part of the blame rests with the
Arkansas legislature for failing
to make the necessary appro-
priation. One beSetting sin of
militia authorities is the appoint
ment OF too many staff and line
officers. 1t is noticeable that
although the regiments may fall
short of the required number of
companies. the full quota OF
officers is invariably maintained.
Naturally, it is not to be eX-
pected that the national militia
arm will ever attain state OF
efficiency contemplated in the
enactment of the Dick law with
out the loyal and hearty coopera-
tlon of the State organizations.
Our young men lack nothing in
incentive and the military spirit,
but nothing short of continuous
and systematic drill and disci-
pline will ever find them pre-
pared and able to give d good ac-
count of themselves in the houl
of emergency. Secretary Gar.
rison's circular letter 10 the
governors of all States urging
closer enforcement of the Dick
law and the emphasis given his
instructions by his telegram tC
Governor Blease are well calcu
, lated to start the ball to rolling
|
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
FlLBERT.

Fllbert is in York County on
the Carolina e North Western
Railroad, four or five miles north
of Yorkville and twice as far be-
low the North Carolina line. Its
honors as great place of popular
assemblage are comparatively
new, for nearby Tirzah Il en-
balmed in the name proudly worn
by Cansler of Tirzah, an eminent
near-politician of the day form
erly held this place. 1t was at
Tirzah that the Tillman move
ment had its chiefest stamping
ground. There the leader and
his lleutenantS would hold vast
rallies year after year, and such
whoops and thrills and frenzies
as supremely characterize South
Carolina political audiences would
transpire. But Filbert, supplant-
ing Tirzah, has now been the
scene of enough similar events
to offer a sufficiently haunted
air. There a population which
even its most purely personal
politics with the greatest serious
ness and it's factional politics at
white heat, relying upon politics
in general for its intensest pleas
ure and entertainment, resorts
every year. There stands the
highest altar of a politics-wor-
Shipping people. There on this
Friday week will appear Gov
ernor Blease, former United
States Senator John L. McLau-
rim, Representative George r.
Rembert and other great suns of
the political armament. Senator
f. ID. Smith, also invited, will
drop everything at Washington
and come if he knows what is
good for him. A big picnic din
ner will be served by the Fill
bertian ladies. Throngs will
pour thickly from all over the
Yorkville section and scattering
ly from far and wide. Doubtless.
too, many North Carolimans will
attend to gaze with the wonder
of cold-blooded Northern peo-
pie upon the spectacles which
their hot-blooded Southern neigh
bors create. Surely it will be a
great day. Charlotte Observer.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
Open Air Services Largely Attended

Rev. w. A. Hafner, paster of
the Presbyterian church of Fort
Mill, has introduced quite an
agreeable innovation in con-
nection with his Sunday night
services. His church is some
distance out from the center of
town, and then people do not
like to go out to church much on
hot nights anyway. The inno-
vation consists of services in the
Confederate park on the hillside
near the Savings Bank, and the
congregations that gather are
not only large, but include all
kinds of people. The plan is
proving quite d success. y York-
vile Enquirer.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31

persons were said to have been
bitten and are all doing we'll.
Yorkville's postoffice receipts
have reached the So, 000-mark.
Free delivery and a public build
ing are hoped for there.
Believing that it would be an
economical move, the Richland
county board of commissioners
have decided to build a small hos
pital at the almshouse to take
care of the county patients.
l.. S, Elliott, a merchant and
planter of Lancaster, dropped
dead Friday afternoon while
standing in the back door of his
store. Heart failure was given
as the cause of his death.
Dave Agnee, a white man of
the Lydia Mill village, Clinton,
is in Laurens Jail charged with
criminal assault on a married
woman. The woman swore out
the warrant.
The first passenger train over
the new Orangeburg Railway
left it's station Saturday with Is
passengers on board and a sue
cessful trip made for the first
run. The distance from Orange
burg to North is 1863 miles and
the new road gives Orangeburg
connection with the Seaboard
Air Line Railway.
A hearing will be held at
Washington September Is, be
fore Special Examiner Marshall
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, in the case of Cotton
Manufacturers association of
South Carolina against the C. c..
4 0. Railway Co.
Favorable reports are made
of the success being met with in
the scientific fig culture at pres
'ent in progress at The Orchards,
between Beaufort and Yemassee,
in Charleston. Conditions, it is
understood, in spite of the great
obstacles which it has been neces-
sary to overcome could not be
better. Some two hundred acres
of ground have been planted
with fig trees and the growth is
a great surprise to every one.
Chester City Council has created
some excitement by voting to
first reading two city ordinances
that aim at the drivers of the
ice wagons and provide for a fine
not greater than 500 or less
than $5, or 80 days on the city
streets, if they fail to give just
weights. If the drivers pass by
Offices or residences of holders
of ice tickets without needing the
admonitions of the occupants tt
stop and deliver the ice they shal
be fined $50 or made to work &c
days on the streets.
On Tuesday, August 10. thoss
counties in the State which votet
on the question of 'dispensar,
or no dispensary," in Angus
1909, will vote on the question
again, provided petition signed
by one-third of the qualified
voters Of the county shall hav,
been filed with the supervise
before the first of last June
The act governing this election
was passed by the General AS
sembly at its 1912 session.
The setting of $4,000 as al
approximate value for the inter
est of Sumter County in the sit
on which the City Hall is bull
by the county board is an even
which has caused considerabl
comment. The property wa
leased by the county to the cit
55 years ago for a period of 8
years, and therefore the leas
has a period of A years still t
operate. The city is anxious t
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31

There is a postoffice ruling
which imposes a fine OF $500 or a
years Imprisonment on anyone
who through carelessness or
otherwise takes mail from the
postoffice not belonging to hlm
ard fails to return il Immediate
ly. This applies to newspapers
as well letters. To say it's the
postmaster's fault cuts no figure
under the ruling. Better look
over your mail before leaving
the Office.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
Henry F. Johnston Dead.

The Times on Saturday re-
ceived from Palestine, Texas, a
short newspaper clipping telling
of the death on July 16, at his
home near Rockdale, Texas, of
Henry F. Johnston, aged about
Is years. The news item was
brief and contained little infor-
nation concerning the death of
Mr.. Johnson, except that death
came rather suddenly and un-
expected to the family.
Henry F. Johnston is we'll re-
membered in Fort Mill. He was
reared in the Gold Hill section of
the township and resided in this
community until about 30 years
ago when he moved to Texas.
He was a Confederate soldier, a
member OF Company B, Sixth
South Carolila regiment, and
served faithfully through the
entire conflict. Mr.. Johnston
was three times married and
was the father of "a children.
He is survived by his wife and a
majority of the children. Sur
viving also are number OF
relatives In this section.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31

Notwithstanding the increas-
ing use of automobiles through
out the corn belt, the agricultural
department is far from Certain
that the farmer is getting all
there is in it out of the corn
crop, and new line of investi-
CATION is now being followed
with view of increasing the by
products of the cereal. The
corn coo, for instance. has been
thought of recently as a possib t.
source of artificial tire material.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31
BITS OF INTERESTING NEWS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
An earthquake shock was felt
in Camden on Wednesday afer-
noon at 1:55.

Anderson has subsided after a
general mad-dog scare. Eleven
persons were said to have been
bitten and are all doing we'll.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31

Yorkville's postoffice receipts
have reached the $9,000-mark.
Free delivery and a public build
ing are hoped for there.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31

L. S, Elliott, a merchant and
planter of Lancaster, dropped
dead Friday afternoon while
standing in the back door of his
store. Heart failure was given
as the cause of his death.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-07-31

Believing that it would be an
economical move, the Richland
county board of commissioners
have decided to build small hos
pital at the almshouse to take
care of the county patients.
The city itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1894-1918, 1913-12-25

bludgeon away but she can't break
our spirits unless we decree it.
With all the ills of the year that
is passing, has it given you wider
sympathies through your failures
and your misfortunes? Has it
given you fresh viewpoint on
some world problemp Has it
brought you new friend, perhapsp
Has it given you some small share
in the worlds work? Has it,
through fighting, strengthened
your muscle. to GO on with the
battle? If it has done any of these
things then it has not been wholly
a bad year for you.
There's ever the chance that the
new year may be a much better
year than the old. 1t may be our
very best of all years. It's at least !
a new year and full of possibilities
Will you have the courage to loq k
II Straight inn Tho 'facs? wiz It
find you with unbowed head, with
the courage to go on?-To-day's
Magazine.
The city itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1894-1918, 1913-12-25
Swift Chances a Large Facts.

The religious statistics for the
Dark Continent give 100000 as
adherents to Christianity; 4O,O0O,-
900 Mohammedans, and 81 ,O0O,006
pagans. If the entire populati
We're divided among the ordaile
missionaries now at work, each
would receive $4,000 persons as
parish.
A writer in the Chinese Recorder
gives the total nun Der of missions
ary schools in China as 3,728, with
over 100000 pupils. The Chinese
gl oam5nt ap;4ts 'eses II
uG. II its cent al, besI4eA nanfy
professional schools. with total
enrolment of 100000 students.
1t is also an interesting fact that
perhaps Is per cent of the text
books used in the government
schools have been prepared by
Christians or under Christian su-
pervision. There are perhaps 200
European and American teachers;
the rest, more than one-third, are
largely those who have studied for
a longer or shorter time in the
Mission schools.-The Visitor.
The city itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1894-1918, 1913-12-25

SuOuluOIo duu ooy w uo1 WV
use?" When we find that phrase
of futility Oh our tongue ard know
that the mouth is speaking out of
the fullness of our heart, we might
as we'll dig our spiritual grave and
crawl beneath the sla ID, cat Rest"
for we can be sure we are standing
still, that all growth has ceased.
Doubtless it has been hard
year for you! All years, in look
ing back on them, are apt to be
hard. And if you knew that this
coming year is to be as hard as last
you shouldn't have the courage to
go on? No. but then you can't
know. There is always that bless
ing. And there is always chance
that it is going to be better year.
And at least there is lots of work
to be done in each year-which is
a blessing that is ceeseless,
$ \ hard Jear-yes., One of the
hardest years, maybe, because you
lost some one very near, perhaps
the one most near to your heart
That is thing for which no
philosophy seems to give US calm
reason. But what happiness there
was in having such a dear one
through even a little space. We
are hurt through loving, but we
ale as greatly and richly blessed.
The year has perhaps ground
you down with poverty, has thrust
some ugly phase of life with its
steach under your very nose? The
vital thing is, have you had the
courage to rebel? Then yen may
win out and in fighting you may
make the way easier ffr some one
behind ySo, you azaheip to llot
out the stencil.
Beneath the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed."
Does your spirit echo the words
of this poet?
The greatest crime of all, is the
crime of bowling the head, of
standing still, of struggling ones
shoulders and greeting Fate with
that phrase, whats the use?'
leaving her to do with one what
she will She can batter and
The city itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1894-1918, 1913-12-25
How Will the New Year Find
You?

We are all more or less sus-
ceptible to seasons. The tasks of
our little individual workshops
never so wholly absorb us that we
fail to feel the call of the out-of-
doors in the spring of the year
nor the impulse to begin new
things when the sharp air of
October quickens the blood in
our veins. The close of one year
and the start of another finds US,
despite ourselves, ruminative. Not
many of us can dodge the inevi.!
table stock. taking, although we
may sneak off to it alone with a
backward look over our shoulder
lest anyone be watching.
I wonder why we feel ashamed
Of this reckqning? Because II TIE
face of intentions, the summing
up shows such despica BILE shortage?
Because we have made so many
resolutions to shatter them shame
lessly to bits?
What matter? If we had kept
all the resolutions we might have
become self-righteous Pharisee.
At least we should have lost the
very human joy of sympathizing
with our fellow workers who stun
bic and break their good resolu
tions And surely we should have
missed the fun of making the
same resolutions all over. There
is always the stimulus, you know,
that some day we may surpris
one of those resolutions by keep
ing It. 4,
OF course, we fall short of our
intentions. And, of course, we
break our resolutions. We con
tinually shall, unless We be one of
those terrible persons that always
does her duty. And SO we find
ourselves each New Year at the
tombs of our spiritual offspring
with tears and lamentations.
But the only real moment to
dread is that when with no courage
fora reckoning, we shrug our