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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
Cotton Made Advance.

The price of cotton moved
upward last week on a wave of
buying which appeared to have
it's origin in the growing opti-
mism in business circles of the
country generally. New high
levels for the highest, the trad
ing months were 13 to II points
over the former weeks closing
quotations. The close was at a
net gain of II to Is points.
Reports of Improvement in
business, speculation for the rise
in the stock market, easy money,
accounts of a big business in the
American textile trades, the
large exports movement and the
heavy mill-takings were the
principal features that stimulated
buying. Against them were the
favorable weather conditions
over the belt, the fast headway
being made with planting and
the growing belief that there
will be only a moderate decrease
an cotton acreage this spring,
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
National Guard Officers Elected.

The result of the National
Guard election, held Saturday,
was announced from Columbia
Monday.
The officers of the first infan-
try are Col. E. M. Blythe,
Greenville; Lieut.. Col. P. K.
McCully, of Anderson; Majors,
1st Battalion. r. F. Watson, of
Greenville; w. B. Moore. of
Yorkville, second. A second race
for third battalion is necessary,
being between ]. B. Tiller, of
Chesterfield, and Robert Nc
korrell, of Hartsville.
The officers of second regiment
are Col. H. B. Springs, of
Georgetown; Lieut.. Col. J. H.
Claffy, of Orangeburg; Majors,
first battalion, A. H. Silcox, of
Charleston; second battalion,
Dibert Jackson, of Columbia,
third battalion, j. w. Bradford,
Of Sumter.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
Government Furnishes Many Seed.

Hundreds of thousands of pack
ages of seed, provided and dis
tributed at Uncle Sans expense,
are being poured into the mails
from Washington City. Each
senator and representative is
shipping $4,000 packages of seed,
mostly vegetables, to constitu-
ents in his State. Each packet
contains five different varieties.
making total of close to 75,-
100000 packages of seed fur
nished free by Congress to the
agricultural constituents annual
lV
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
Col. Andrews Dead.

Col. A. B. Andrews, first vice
president of the Southern rail-
way, died at Raleigh, N. c.,
after a brief illness. He was
IA years old.
Col. Andrews was stricken
Friday night with an acute at
tack of pneumonia and his con-
dition grew worse until his
death. The funeral was held
in Raleigh Monday afternoon.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
Y0RK'S SCHOOL DAY
WAS A BIG SUCCESS

Something more than 100
pupils and teachers of the Fort
Mill graded schools attended
the annual Field Day exercises
of the York county schools held
at Yorkville on last Friday. The
Fort Mill contingent left on a
special train at $50 O'Clock,
going by way of Rock Hill,
where the city schools of that
town, together with the pupils
of several rural schools boarded
the train for the county seat.
The day was in marked con-
trast, from a weather stand
point, to the 3rd inst, the day
originally set apart fer the exer-
cises. Friday was bright and
warm ard all that could have
been desired to make the Field
Day exercises successful.
1t was stated by those who
attended that there were some
thing like 5000 school children
from the various schools of the
county present, and all were
loud in praising the people of
YorIVille for the entertainment
accorded them.
The exercises began with the
formation of a monster parade
at the station and the march to
the school grounds. The parade
was headed by the Hickory
Grove band, the Yorkville high
school military company coming
next, followed by the Yorkville
troop of Boy Scouts, after which
came the pupils of the following
schools: Yorkville, Glover, Mount
Holly, Ogden, Flint Hill. Cotton
Belt, Filbert, Rock Hill, Dixie,
Fort Mill, Sharon and Hickory
Grove, Winthrop Training school,
Newport and Ancona Mill, the
Tirzah band, the members of
which were in full uniform,
bringing up the rear. Lunch
was served on the graded school
grounds.
The exercises proper began
shortly after noon, when the
literary contests were held in
the various rooms of the school
building, while the athletic con-
tests were held on the recently
completed athletic field.
Following are the names, with
the standing, of the Fort Mill
students who won honors in the
literary contests:
First grade reading, Amidas
Link, third. Third grade spell
ing, William Hafner, tied for
second place. Sixth grade
arithmetic. Winnie Crook, Gold
Hill. first. intermediate girls
recitation contest, Alice Gibson,
Gold Hill, first. High school
composition contest, Gary Win
die, first.
In the athletic contest Fort
Mill carried off only one honor,
that of second place in the run
ming high jump for boys, Heath
Hafner being the winner.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
Nelson kldriCh Dead.

Nelson w. Aldrich, former u.
S. senator from Rhode Island,
and for years prominent in Re-
publican political circles, died at
his home in New York city Fri
day. Heart disease was given
as the cause of Mr.. Aldrich's
death.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
Ex-SENis just
WILL ilee~

State warehoto. toiie
has accepted an
tended by Mayor A.
haney of Fort Mill to delixe
address in this city the evem,.
of April 80. Senator McLaurin
is to address the people of Gold
Hill the afternoon of the 30th.
upon the occasion of the closing
of the Gold Hill school. Follow
ing is Mr.. McLaurin's letter of
acceptance:
"Bennettsville, April 16.
"Mr. A. R. McElhaney,
Mayor of Fort Mill.
Dear Sir:-Yours of the 18th
inst. to hand and it will afford
me pleasure to accept the invi-
tation to address the citizens of
your city on the night of April
Both.
Il am anxious to make our
business men and farmers
realize the advantages they can
secure through the State ware
house system in handling the
cotton crop. / have found it
impossible to reach them through
the press as many will not take
time to read long articles on
finance, etc. l thank you sin
cerely for giving me the oppor-
tunity to reach the intelligent
and progressive community of
Fort Mill and vicinity.
Yours truly,
'Jrio. l.. McLaurin.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22


Standard, which will be edited
by Walter E. Duncan, to make
it's appearance about May l.
The Greenville city council has
appointed committee of twelve
women as censors of the moving
pictures and vaudeville shows
given in that city each night.
According to the opinion of
Attorney General Peoples, the
code of laws for the State are of
a very doubtful legality, due to
the failure of the general as
sembly to properly attend to
some of the technicalities.
The estimates of the South
Carolina wheat crop are being
made up and it is said that $16,-
600, 900 will be derived by the
State for the crop. York county
leads in acreage, having 5000
acres sown. Over $4,000 acres
are claimed for the State.
Major J. L. Coker, founder of
Coker college, has just made an
additional gift to it of $120, 900.
This money will be used to build
a general service building and to
equip chemical, biological and
physical laboratory. Major Co.
ker has given over half a million
dollars to the college.
John w. Gregory. of Union,
has turned down the job offered
him by Congressman Johnson and
Senator Tillman on the grounds
that he is not an expert account
ant and feels that he could not
fill the place. His work would
have been in the internal revenue
department and would have car
ried an annual salary of So, 600.
Work was started the last
week on the new hydro-electric
power plant at Fishing Creek,
Chester county. This plant will
generate 80. 900 horsepower. 1t
is said that over LOCO people
will be given employment. The
work will be pushed through as
rapidly as possible, and it will
be finished by September /, 1916.
Since the death of j. G. Rob-
bins, the bloodhound pack at
the penitentiary has disbanded.
There remained three dogs after
the death of the leader, Bell,
which occurred in the chase of
the negro. Joel Green, who NOR
tally wounded Mr.. Robbins. Mr..
Robbins brother a few days ago
sold the bloodhounds to the
sheriff of Fairfield.
Robert A. Howard of Fort
Huacuca, Ariz., retired quarter
master sergeant, U. S. A, has
been appointed by w. w. Moore,
adjutant general, as property
officer for the South Carolina
National Guard. Sergeant How
ard will report for duty in
Columbia May 1. The last legis-
lature appropriated 1,500 for
salary and expenses of a property
officer.
The first experiments in selling
cattle specially fattened for the
market were decided success,
said w. w. Long of. Clemson
college, in charge of farm dem
onstration work in South Caro-
lima, who was in Columbia Fri
day. The sales were held at
Rock Hill Wednesday and at
Greenwood Thursday and they
were attended by some of the
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22
STATE NEWS ARRANGED
FOR QUICK READING.

Aiken is to have a progressive
wsekly newspaper, the Aiken
Standard, which will be edited
by Walter E. Duncan, to make
it's appearance about May l.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-22

The Greenville city council has
appointed a committee of twelve
women as censors of the moving
pictures and vaudeville shows
given in that city each night.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13
Work of Earthworms,

The soil in which plants take root
and grow is the product, not OF inor'
ganic disintegration. but Of continual
tillage by innumerable minute organ
isms.
Attention was first called to the
work performed by earthworms in the
production of humus by Charles OAR
win in 1881. Darwin demonstrated that
earthworms regularly eat earth, as
simulate the digestible organic consti-
tuents and deposit the residue as excre-
ment in little heaps on the ground. In
this way they necessarily till the su-
perficial stratum of soil and carry
downward stones and other coarse
parts All of the soil passes through
their bodies every two years, and 1t Is
thus loosened. fertilized and prepared
for the growth of plants better than
can be done by human agency. Earth
worms improve the soil also by bury
ing leaves, which rot and are then
eaten by the worms.
Hence earthworms are among the
most valuable of animals and they
should never be killed, but their
enemies, moles, field mice and the
large running beetles and millipedes,
should be destroyed.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13

see a good deal of pleasure for hard
worker like myself. It's better to
wait, though" he added consolingly,
though with sigh.
Think that, eh?'
Tell you, uncle" explained Mark;
yesterday would have taken the ma
chine, for | could pay half for 1t and
I'm not afraid that there will be no
surplus when ! get rid of my two
crops this fall. You see. though, our
neighbOr, Mr.. Warner, came to me
this morning. His wife is very Ill and
the doctor says that all that will save
her is an expensive operation In the
city. Poor Warner He's in debt, the
bank won't loan him and-well, I'm
going to let him have the money"
why, Mark" exclaimed his pru-
dent, far-seeing uncle. Warner Is in
a pretty risky fix. He's got his place
mortgaged and can hardly pay the in
terest."
Its life or death to him." answered
Mark IF he never pays me, ! shall
have the satisfaction of knowing l
tried to help an honest worthy man in
his darkest hour"
Good boy" muttered the uncle, but
to himself. as Mark turned away.
Bless me. If taters go up and ! sell
that corner ten acres, il / don't give
him a lift on the automobile myself!
And IL Mary Dove sets up any pouting
pipes. he's too good for her, that 8
ALL"
But Mary did not. A sensible, truly
loving girl, she rewarded Mark with
sweeter smile than ever when he
| told her of his decision.
why Mark" she cried brightly, and
with a spice of mischief, I'VE can't sit
half as close together in one of those
big, sprawling machines as in the
coy, comfortable farm wagon, And
! ! don't care one bit for whizzing
through the air, and getting my hail
] out of order, and scared to death al
every narrow road. And you're to
help, poor Mr. Warner-you dear, good
fellow, 1t shows your noble, unselfist
heart, and I'm prouder of you than
evert"
Mary, you are a jewell" enthused
Mark. "No-more than that, an an
gel! | know you are hiding disap
pointment, for nearly all your cir
friends have auto rides innumerable
but-well have our own machine
yet"
Ours" felicitated Mary. beamint
with happiness. How nice tina
sounds!"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13
hg Description Of
Florida Reform School

etc. On the top floor will be the airy
sleeping apartments to accommo-
date from twenty-five to forty boys.
Thus will be obviated thenecessity
for the occupants going from build
ing to building in all sorts of
weather to eat, battle, study or
sleep. The home idea has been made
prominent in the construction of the
new building and will be kept for
ward in all future construction work
at the school. The building nov
urder construction is only one of
several already planned to be erect
ed in the near future.
Every building at the great re-
form school appears to be in excel
lentt con dition outside and inside.
The grounds appear to be well kept
end on every hand appear signs of
progress in the conduct of the in
stitution. Thb large brick build
ines and the beautiful bungalow
blend with the tall pines in the
background and the rich, red hill
lands in the front making pic
ture to captivate and hold the atten-
ton of visitors.
There are at present PSI boys in
the reform school, Seventy of these
arewhite and ISL are negroes. The
two departments of the school are
separated by a considerable field and
a public road. There appears to bi
practically no contact between the
white and colored boys. All posi-
BILE is being done to bring out the
very best talents of each class. The
boys are being taught to do al
kinds of work and when they come
from this institution they will b,
much better able to take theil
places among leaders in the various
branches of industrial life thar
when they entered. Florida is do
ing great work here.
Those In charge of school No.
which is the white department {
the institution, are: J. l.. Boone
, superintendent; Mrs. j. l.. Boone
general matron; M. A. Garrard. sec
rotary; Arthur Register, militar
: instructor, officer; Mrs. Eula May
field. matron; Tidel Windham. chap
? lain; Mrs. Tidal Widham, teacher
: G.. G. DickersOn, assistant teacher
Ike Solomon, chief baker.
r Prof. Boone is man well verse
c in the education of boys, havin
been teaching in Florida's leadin
schools for many years.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13

thick, shiny hair SO high on her pretty
head. One o'clock.
Something must have happened to
the child. He ought to have gone
with her-he who hadn't been to a
ball since his college days. That
chaperon he had trusted her with
must be very lax Nearly two o'clock!
There, thank goodness, was her step
on the stair
rs that you, Elsie?'
Eyes. daddy, dear"
"Why"-in tone of deep sarcasm
why did you come home so early?'
81 did hate to leave the party. dad
dy, but was afraid you'd worry
about me-
oh"
And, daddy, as you are awake,
may come in and sit on the edge of
your bed? | want to talk to you.
May ] stay little while?'
Yes, child, but you ought to be in
bed. Little girls need their sleep
"Your little girl has something
something to tell you, daddy. Jack
wanted to speak to you tomorrow
but | said | wanted to tell you first.
You know I have always told you
everything first and this time it's such
a big, strange, happy thing to tell
It's-well, daddy, you know-its Jack
and me. He loves me"
THE young rascal,
L., tty.a n i'm
best of all the boys who come here
MY child, this is all foolishness
You're baby yet, dear"
"a baby at 10, Why. daddy, have
you forgotten? I'm whole year Older
than mother was when she-when
she was taken away from us, and
| and love Jack"
There's no going back? Oh II
there no going back
! why, daddy, what do you mean
Why do you speak SO oddly? You
voice sounds so strange and sad"
IT'S nothing. dear | was dreaming
before you came in that we could turn
: our lives back for little while a
! least and it's hard to wake up to thu
fact that we cannot"
But wouldn't want TO, daddy
| Just think how much there is to lool
forward to. All that Is coming Is 81
sweet and SO beautiful"
God grant it, Good night, Elsie
daughter. Run away to bed and t.
happy dreams of the future, and Co
bless you
And Jack, daddy
Yes, and-and Jack, Of course. Go
bless Jack, too"
Moving lightly down the hall wit
the first words of love still ringing i
her ears, the girl could not hear tn
lonely man she had left saying b
meath his breath: There's no turnin
back-no turning back Oh. my bah
girI."-Chicago Daily News.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13
Precocious Dementia.

In precocious dementia. which 10
due to a congenital fault, the indi-
vidual is either possessed of paranoi'
&C decisions of persecution. or he 10
apathetic, without energy. and gradu-
ally becomes without mind. In the
latter subject the diagnosis is not diff
ficult. You see the youth who has
been fairly bright gradually losing
his intellect. So the process gradu-
ally goes on until he becomes merely
a human being almost entirely devoid
of mind.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13

maies that's got the name OF BEN
Nmber.tongued an free with the broom
handle, an there amt nary one that !
can call to mind that would take inst
prize at beauty show. They re
mostly homelier than sin in SER
mon.
1.-THE human man is so constitooted
that he has got to be driven or coaXed,
one O. the two. The human woman is
so Constructed that she's got to coax
or drive, one o the two. That bein
the case if she cant coax, by reason
of havin' a face fifteen to stop clock
an a figger to match, she's got to get
! a flow of language.
81 don't see why she can't talk de-
f, cent, even il she amt no beauty
said Aunt Hetty
1.-THE trouble is that she can't set
on her husbands knee and pull his
! whiskers." said my Uncle Alexander.
"She can't coozle II a womans
plump an has got rosy cheeks an
| bright eyes she can get anything she
! wants out of a man by just coozlin
up to him an talkin baby talk.
I'D like to know how you found
that out" said my Aunt Hetty, tartly.
81 should think you'd be ashamed TO
talk that way before young boy,
f, 81 amt never ashamed to tell the
truth" said my Uncle Alexander. You
never see a good-lookin' young WON
an resortin' to hardware and kitchen
supplies to carry her point. She don't
have to. An you don't never see a
lady like Huldah Reddick caressin
her husbands bald spot an cooin 10
him. II she did he'd have her put in
an insane asylum, an she knows It,
"It's easier to coax, an it's sight
nleasanter but it amt everybody thai
can do it. even If they wanted to
That's the reason that feel sorry fol
Eb's wife an make allowances for her
That's the reason that whenever
hear a right good lookin' woman sayin
that she can't understand why any
body should take a fiatirOn to her man
or call him out of his proper name a
the top of her voice. feel as II sh'
needed enlightenin'.
Its easy for folks TO set back an
find fault with their neighbors. but /
; Won wasn't the good-loOkin' womai
that YOU are, Het, an you had
trifiin'. no-account, mean cuss lik'
, Eben Reddick for husband. Std OF
sober. stiddy, sweet-tempered. lib'ral
, hardworkin, uncomplainin', sensible
; man like me, there's no tellin bu
: what you'd let loose some time an
> give him a taste o the rough side
I your tongue Mebbe you'd throw pc
r lids. but anyway you'd say things tina
D wasn't Complementary"
You'd be s'prised out of your lif
I II did. wouldn't you?" said my Aun
Hetty. sarcastically.
4 I'D never get over it, said m
a Uncle Alexander.
I Then you'd better put that fenc
S around my flowers that you've bee
|, agoiu' to for the last three weeks,
e said my Aunt Hetty, grimly. 'fv
waited jest about as long as inten
> to-"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13

Copyright 1915. by w. @. ChapmanO
six hundred dollars"
NO"
Five hundred. It's my last offer
and it's the biggest bargain on the
market. Cost eleven hundred. And
say-you've got three hundred dollars
cash. Good, pay that down and the
rest on any kind of installments. See?'
Mark Bartlett gazed admiringly and
longingly at the really handsome auto
mobile that a professional salesman
had just driven into the farmyard. 1t
had of course been especially burn
ished up for the occasion, but the
make was standard, and there was no
doubt that the price named was ex-
ceedingly low.
Nearly all the young farmer friends
of Mark had machines. Most Of them
were counting, or engaged. just as
Mark was to pretty Mary Dove. Mark
had felt for some time that it gave
distinction to a man to own one OF the
handsome flyers, and show his adored
one how fast it could run. In fact
the agent had appeared because MARI
had been making inquiries about
machine.
Not now" finally decided Mark
his lips setting resolutely as il 1t was
hard work to say it. Next season
maybe. Come and see me then
The agent got back into his ma
chine and returned townwards disap
pointed. Marks uncle, sharpening 1
scythe on a bench near by, looked VI
and addressed his nephew.
Wanted it bad. didn't you, Mark?
he suggested
81 did that-for Mary's sake" re
piled Mark, frankly, land because
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-13

- = Sespondent of thu
IrSor1 al visited the much
- Reform School at
|oul1n 61Eosting story of that
rkiS 16on Governor Park
n g II - Mr.. C. S. Hammett,
hf6lt11x timer of Jacksonville.
eom ~ ~ ~ the staff CORES
hdost = 4ho Journal. visited the
Ste 1n1ufm School located a
hpIs a n11es south of Mariana.
ThiS i11k1tution is fast forging to
fruot . enc of the best invest
&nta Into which Florida has ever
he'd nv or her public funds. 1t is
|nt enlarged and beautified every
ana shortly will present a view
& viii eclipse in beauty almost
y landscape IN West Florida.
At the administration building Of
3 great school the seventy white
-, clad In Khaki pants and white
buses with we'll arranged caps,
oes and stocking which made
en- appear quite military. were
ed up by their instructor and
bod at attention, while being
troduced In . body. Then the
Sungsters were assembled in the
sembly hall. where short addresses
ere made to them by the governor
IA Journal correspondent.
Today was q holiday for the white
bys Of this Institution and special
ran sements were made in advance
r them tc intend the West Flor
a. Fair now In full blast here. The
bys were allowed to go to the Fai!
rounds and throughout the same
hguarded and upon their own rec
Enhance. Thus they were no
Embarrassed by the attendance o
aards. The only thing that at al
stinguished them from the Other
pys Of the community was the WI
brm 81 tho school, khaki pants ant
Ehite hlouses. as described above
! every dcpartment of the fair the
build be seen throusho the after
DON ana their good behavior re
ected much credit upon their o.
cers ana instructors.
After lingering for a couple o
ours It tho reform school the gov
rnor,s party returned to Marianna
Governor Trammell left tonight TO
Tallahassee to resume his arduor
[uties . chief executive of the com
.onwealth.
A the Florida Reform School
plendid dcrmitory building is un
Ter construction. This is to be
brick building of mod
I'm type Of construction. In tn
basement will be facilities for athle
les, bathing. etc. In the secon
tory. which is the ground foe
proper, will be a large living room
library room, study room rest room