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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
New School Completed.

John E. Carroll. county super
intendent of education, was in
Fort Mill Thursday for the pur-
pose of inspecting the new Flint
Hill school building, located six
miles north of town. and which
has just been completed. Mr..
Carroll was met at the school
house by Mr.. S. P. Blankenship
and Mr.. Thomas Davis, who
were largely instrumental in
planning and carrying out the
scheme for a new building to
replace the old one which was
built about 43 years ago. The
building is q very pretty one
and reflects credit on the pro-
moters and contractors. The
arrangement of the rooms is
good and the provision for heat
ing and light is excellent. AS a
consequence of the visit of Mr..
Carroll, Mr.. Davis authorizes
the statement that the building
is complete, accepted by the
county superintendent and paid
for.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
Influence on Gardens.

w. H. Wallace, editor Of the
Newberry Observer and amateur
gardener, says:
Speaking of gardening: Won
der how many people know how
to plant according to the moon.
If you don't know you had better
find out. Some things grow
better if planted in the dark of
the moon, others if planted in
the light of the moon. You may
not believe it, but it's so. Why
it is sol that's another question.
If you want good potatoes, plant
in the dark of the moon; if good
beans, plant in the light of the
moon. In short, things that
grow in the ground should be
planted in the dark and those
that grow out of the ground
should be planted in the light of
the MOON"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
CAL 0HHAEL when BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
MAKES YOU SICK And SALIVATES

Here's my guar rantee-Go to any drug
store and get 50 cent bottle of Dod-
sons Liver Tone. Take spoonful and
if it doesn't straighten you right up
and make you feel fine and vigorous l
want you to go back to the store and
get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of calomel because
it is real liver medicine; entirely vege-
table, therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick
| guarantee that one spoonful of bod
sons Liver Tone will put your sluggish
liver to work and clean your bowels of
that sour bile and constipated waste
which is clogging your system and max
ing you feel miserable. guarantee that
Il bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, will
keep your entire family feeling line iur
months. Give it TO your children. 1t /.
harmless; doesn't gripe and they like ~
pleasant taste.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
Does Advertising Paw?

The other day a local merchant
elevated his chin, squared his
shoulders, assumed a somewhat
belligerent attitude and defiantly
remarked that. advertising does
not pay"
He is still in business, but let
us consider minute:
A London baronet who manu-
features pills recently sold part
of his real estate for the tidy
sum of $3O,OOO,OOO. He made it
out of the profits of his business
and he built up that business by
advertising.
John Wannamaker, the best
known and most successful mer-
chant in this country, made his
millions by advertising, and said
so.
The large department stores of
the country are kept alive by ad-
vertising, and are coming money
by more advertising.
One never hears of large
mercantile house that does not
advertise and advertises heavily.
The politician who wishes to
make himself known to the dear
'peepul" uses the most effective
means-newspaper publicity.
Yes, advertising pays.
There is no ad so small, or in
significant, but that someone is
waiting for it.
There are plenty of people who
want tc buy what you have to
sell, but they are weary of look
ing through haystack for a
needle. They prefer to find it in
an advertisement.
And they will look in the local
paper for the ad.
They will find someone's-wiIl
it be yours.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
Record Cotton CrOp.

The greatest cotton crop ever
produced in the United States
was grown in 1914.
Census bureau statistics, issued
giving final ginning figures, of
ficially place the 1914 crops as a
record, with 16, 102, 143 bales of
500 pounds each. That is 400,
442 equivalent 500-pound bales.
or, 204, 72l, 600 pounds more
than produced in the great crop
of 1911.
In addition to the great pro-
duction of lint cotton record
quantity of Inter cotton, which
is extensively used in the manu-
facture of military explosives
was obtained. This cotton, de-
tinted from the seeds at oil mills.
amounted to 695, 732, 900 pounds
and brought the total 1914 crop
to 16, 1893, GOA equivalent 500
pound bales, or 8,446, 803, 500
pounds.
While the crop was a record
one. the only States to make new
records in production were
Alabama, Louisiana and Okla
homa. The other cotton States
all come close to their records.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
Of Special Interest to Women.

One pair 81 Silk Hose and pair 25c Hose $1OO
Three pairs SOC Hose, 81 so value, ---------- LOO
Five pairs 25c Hose, 81. 25 value LOO
One 75c Corset, pair SOC Hose 81 25 value LOO
Black Undersklrt, Soc pairs 25c Hose ST. 25 val LOO
Pair 81 Silk Hose, 25c Collar, 81 25 value - 100
pairs 25c Hose SOC Gown, 81. 25 value - LOO
Whte Underskrt 75c, 25c Corset Cover 81 25 LOO
Sl w mite waist and Zoe Neck Cord 81. 25 value LOO
l-2 yards SOC Wash Silk, 81. 25 value ------- LOO
yards 25c White Wolfe, 81. 25 value LOO
yards 25c Fancy striped Dress Goods ST. 25 val LOO
1-2 yards SOC Figured Dress Goods 81 25 value LOO
l 1-2 yards 9Oc Embroidered Crepe 81 35 value LOO
yards 25c Nainsook, 81. 25 value--- LOO
IL yards 3Oc Linen Crash, 81. 35 value LOO
30 yards Torchon Lace and Insertion 81 SO value LOO
80 yards Val. Lace and Insertion, 81 80 Value LOO
yards tlowered Kmono Goods and one Black I'm
derskirt, 81. 80 value - LOO
13 yards 10c Bleaching, 81 80 value - LOO
10 yards 13c Bleaching 81 25 value-- LOO
1S yards 36-inch Unbleach, 81 25 value 90
Palr sheets worth 81 SO LOO
pairs Sheets worth 81 so I 90
pairs Pillow Cases, 81 80 value / 90
l bolt Long Cloth, $1.25 value -- 100
l Ladies' House Dress, 81 SO value l 90
pairs Ladies SOC Pants, 81. so value --- LOO
pair LadleS I5c Pants soc Gown 81 25 value L 90
Ohe Long hlnono SlZ5 value 90
prs Pillow Cases pr Huck Towels ST 25 value 100
5 large size Turkish Towels ST. 25 value e 100
% yards Good Ginghams, 81 25 value l OO
II l-2 yards 1Cc Dress Gingham, 81 % value ! 90
10 yards II 1-2c Percae 81. 25 value - 100
2l2 yards SOC Table Linen, 81. 25 value ~ l. 90
lo yds lOc Curtain Goods, pair 25c Pillow Cases,
SIPS value ------- - I M
IL yus lc1c Sheetlng $lZI value LOO
Two 69c Sheets 81 38 value / 90
Three 39c Sheets, 81. IT value / on
T-------------------
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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
PLAINLY EVIDENT.

81 saw Smith pitch his alarm
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
Clean En-

Why not have that last Sum-
mers suit cleaned and pressed?
We call for and deliver goods in
town on short notice. Parcel post
packages will receive special at
tentiou.
Panic Prices as Follows:
Mems Suits, cleaned and pressed 4Oc TO 81 Is
Boys 25c $l.OO
Ladies SOC up
Palace Barber Shop
E.LEETRTC The Best Tonic,
DTmmMT Mild Laxative,
BITTEkS Family Medicine.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01

clock out of the window"
"Ah! | suspected he was throw
ing away his time"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
SElF-EvIDENT.

"Has the play you are speaking
of got punch in it?"
"It ought to have several. The
hero is a prize fighter"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01
MAKING THE POINT.

my boy, is the girl you are going
to marry good plain cook" ?"
"No, uncle; she's a good, pretty
one" 4
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-04-01

The best price offered for cot
ton'on the local market today is
9 cents
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
Personal Inventories,

From Golfers.
Some keen advice appears In an editoria
in the New England Homestead" See /.
you don't agree:
It's a good thing at least once a year
for every farmer to stand aside and look
at his place as IL it belonged to some other
fellow. and pick out the things this fel-
low has left undone. Sticking too close to
the work sometimes narrows a mans WIS.,
ion and makes him overlook important
things. BY going past a pile of rubbish
four or five times a day you finally come
to think II belongs there, just as a man
will sometimes plow around an old stump
year after year as IL 1t were established
by Divine mandate"
If this is true OF the farmer-and we
imagine II is-isn't it equally true Of every
other calling? Why shouldn't the doctor,
the lawyer. the minister, the teacher, the
business man. the carpenter. the grocer.
the Gay laborer. the butcher, the baker,
and The candlestick maker form the habit
of checking themselves up thoroughly and
mercilessly from time to time? At least
every six months one should try to detach
his vision from his personality. should put
himself under the microscope and profit
by what he discovers. And what time.
can be better than the beginning OF a new
year?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
Tie SURPLUS of Laws.

From the New York Evening Post.
What Mr.. Root puts first, however,
among the things to be remedied is a
thing which appears, on It's face, to be
outside the province OF members OF the
bar. as such: I'VE make too many laws.
According to a count made in the library
Of congress, our national and state legis-
latures passed 62J014 statutes during the
Ave years from 1909 to 1918 inclusive"
And parallel with his multiplicity of
laws Is the vast mass of decisions of
courts of last resort, national and state,
which, in the same five years, reached the
enormous total of Sc, $40, and the reports of
which fill $50 volumes. The making of
new laws merely because somebody sees
an evil or inconvenience and thinks that
he has a way to reform tin other
words. happy-thought legislation enacted
without being subjected to competent dis
cussion and cqiticism-is responsible for
much of this, and for the worst OF it.
Mr.. Root tells a story of the late
Charles f. Southmayd. of the firm of
fIvarts, Southmayd & Choate, one Of the
most learned, able and pure lawyers in all
the history of the American bar" who,
taking up his residence at Stockbridge
after retiring from practice. employed an
agent to attend the sessions Of the Mas
sachusetts legislature every winter and
report TO him Immediately upon their pas
sage all new laws creating offenses or i'm
posing penalties. ''in order that he nigh
regulate his conduct in such a way as to
keep out of Jail"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
ALBERT WINS FIRST
GARTER IN 600 YEARS
Scene "0n Field of Honor Recalls Glories of ChivaIry, Says
London Daily Telegraph. Describing Ceremony Of Bel
gian Kings Investture.

"On the field of honor" as the French
say, King Albert has received. at the
hands of King George, the Order of the
Garter. For such a distinction there is
no parallel in 600 years of history. 1t
Is true that no style or title could
magnify or embellish the glory which
the king of the Belgians has won from
the hearts of all the world. Yet men
are agreed that the distinction which
is buaZoned in name II insignia should
follow the distinction won by deeds.
No formal Acknowledgement of the
fight which King Albert has fought
could be too solemn or too splendid.
In all the world there is no title dignt-
fled with such splendor of ancient re-
nown as Knight of the Garter.
The words recall the glories of chiv-
airy. True it may be that the of
chivalry has gone" and an age of i'm
perial ~brigandage and scientific bar
barisrn has succeeded. But King AL
bert has proved that in the darkest
hour a man may yet preserve h old
knightly virtues of resolute faith and
stainless honor and indomitable cSur-
age, and still maintain the right to
be master of his fate and captain of
his soul"
OF al the orders Of knighthood which
now remain to us the Garter Is by a
hundred years the Oldest. Through all
the six centuries since its foundation
it has been a prize treasured by the
most puissant sovereigns, the greatest
heroes OF all European civilization. In
the long roll of those years there is no
name Of higher honor than King AL
bert's, Among all the knights there is
one who Has won his insignia like
King Albert, from the hands of an
English king On a battlefield gained
and held by the blood of his own peo-
pie, in alliance with the people of Eng
land.
1t was in 1914 that King Edward III
founded the order. None was to be
admitted to it's roll unless he be a
gentleman of BLOOD n a knight with
out ~reproach." The Knights Compan-
ions were to be &c. apart from the king,
the sovereign of the order, and year by
year, on the eve of st. George, We're to
take part in a solemn service in st.
Georges chapel, Windsor. They We're
to wear a mantle of dark blue velvet,
and the Garter of he same hue. The
collar was to be of gold, made up OF
26 carriers enameled blue. each en-
closing a red rose. and from it de-
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
MORE PIE
FOR JOB SEEKERS
Unless Senate Comes to Rescue
Assistant %Postmasters Will
Lose Jobs-BIoW at
Civil Service.

Washington, d. c., Jan 4.-Efforts
of democrats in congress to break
down she civil service nave been n1-
lmerous in the last two years. In sew
eral instances these efforts to return
I'd the spells system have been sue
cessfuI. The House has Just witnessed
another such attempt and 1T promises
TO be as much of a victory for the
spoils1nen as others that have pre-
coded it.
This time it is in the case of the as
sistant postmasters. The democrats in
congress have been laundering ever
since March 4, 1913, to find a way of
getting rid of the republicans who are
assistant postmasters and who are
under the civil service. They believe
they have at last found the way TWO
or three other efforts have been made
to accomplish this, but they have not
succeeded, because the assistant post
masters are civil service employees and
lot easy to get at.
The method used was TO provide in
the p~ostoffice appropriation bill for
a%bolishing the office of assistant post
master in first and second class Of
fees. In place of assistant postmas-
ters, new officials known as superin-
tendents of linancc and superintend-
ents of mails are provided for.
Unless the Senat takes q different
stand and opposes the change, there
is no doubt in the mind Of any prac-
happen. The assistant postmasters,
where they are republicans, will speed
lily find themselves legislated out of
inhG
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
BELGIAN ~BURGOMAsTERs
ARE LOYAL TO COUNTRY

Amsterdam. tNia 1ondon). Jan. "a
dispatch received mere from ebert de
scribeS a meeting of Belgian burgo-
masters to deliberate on methods OF
raising the German war levy of $50, 00G, =
goo francs in The course of which there
was witnessed an extraordinary out
burst of enthusiasm for Belgium. The
local German garrison made no at
.ternpts at interference. The hall in
which the meeting was held wa2
decorated with Belgium flags and
portraits and PLASTER casts Of the king
and queen of Belgium. The Belgian
civil governor of East Flanders, Her
man De Baetz. presided. He lost no
lime in making it clear that the meet
ing had taken place under tn
sovereignty Of the king and queen.
with whom Nj. Debates declared, ",
are more than ever united.
Al these words the entire assembly
arose, filled he hall with shouts ot
u ong live the King; Long live thu
queen, and long live Belgium
The meeting agreed that the German
demand hould be met by a genera,
levy OF udINiduals
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
WATCH CASE COMPANY
WINS ANTITRUST SUIT

Philadelphia, ian 1.-The United
States district court here today handed
down an opinion refusing the govern
ment's petition to break up the Key
stone Watch Case company, on the
ground that it is & trust in violation of
the sherman antitrust law.
The court in its decision. said:
The defendant declares that the
policy of boycott had been given up
before the bin of complaint WAS flied,
and there is some testimony to this
effect, but the circular has never heen
withdrawn OF negatired and the COM
pany's resolution OF January. 1910, has
never been rescinded. We have no
doubt that an Injunction should lie
granted but we see no sufficient evil
dence that the public interest requires
us to break up the existing corporate
entity"
The suit was brought three Years ago
against the keystone Watch
which is a combination of several
watch making concerns in various
parts of the country and alleged by
the government to control so per cent
of the business. The governments
charged that the company restrained
by forcing dealers TO use it's goods ex-
elu8ively under a threat of boycott if
they dealt with rival manufacturing
concerns.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
PRESIDENT
IS PRISONER OF WAR
E~scobar, Deposed Cabinet Of
ficer, Leads Revolt to Over
throw Government.

Buenos Ayres. Ian. 4.-lurther dis
patches received here from Paraguay,
where IL revolutionary movement has
broken ont setfoTth that the leader Of
the uprising is Colonel I.scobal, who
recently resigned the position of mip-
lister of war in the Paraguayan cab
met. The colonel has explained he re
Iinquishea his post because the pres
ident of the republic. DR.. Edurado
Scherer insisted or the practice of
in the army because of the
warfare in Europe.
Passengers who have arrived at For
mosa. Argentine. ON board the steamer
Mexico. from Asuncion. confirm the
reported imprisonment of the president.
He was arrested by Captains Pereyra
Mendoza and confined in an artil-
lery barracks. An artillery regiment
taken the field. Several encohn-
ters have occurred between the police
and the rebels. All the regular ways Of
communication with Paraguay ar in
~terrupted.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
Discountine. the Censorship.
Arnold Bennett in Harper's Weekly

Beware of yagueness in official reports.
A grain of detail is usually more import
ant than a ton of generality in any Off
cial report. II YOU read that "the Ger
mans have advanced somewhat at p;
our forces have made good progress else
where you may assume that the German
advance was more important than the al
lies progress.
And seriously beware of one-sided state
ments as to losses. The German losses
exceeded 1000 killed and wounded They
gerated. In our minds we accordingly
write offewith slee 5000 from the effective
strength Of the German army, and that
is the end of the transaction for us. We
forget the allies losses, because rheyshave
not been brought to our notice. Yet the
very fact that they have not vet been
brought to our notice Gas they often are
noD should make us pause. The allies,
losses may have been only 1000; but they
may have been 5000; the chances are that
they are round about 5000.
There cannot now be much difference
in the wastage of the opposing forces, but
while reading the news this fact is extra
ordinarily difficult to keep In mind. The
picture of a German army continually
ravaged by death. disease, and demoraliz-
alton. and an allied army always
lously at full strength and full of courage,
simply can not be permanently destroyed.
1t reconstrue:s itself each morning at
breakfast by a magic process of Its own.
Intensely ridiculous, it still imposes Itself
even on the sagacious It is one Of the
official bulletin. II can oniyssbe nullified
by persistent mental effort. IN by rsr-
sistent reading of the Berlin wtrelessaxe.
+ nnlst6.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07
Comparative Troubles.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
We are full of affection and complaints.
Our salary is too low. our rent too high.
Somebody Of less merit gets a better job.
our investment has gone wrong. Our
children are .lisobedient and extravagant
The street cars are slow and crowded.
The wheat CROP has failed. Cholera gets
the hogs.
the real measure of these trihuIations.
This neighbor is not worrying much about
salary or rent, because the doctors have
told him he must soon die of cancer. That
neighbor finds no fault In his child, be-
cause 1t lies dead. The poor ventilation of
our house seems quite toierable In CONTRAST
with that other house where snow beats
through the cracks and there is neither
fuel nor food.
Before such comparisons we are dumb
and contented for n day or a week. So in
our national life; how manifold and poig-
nant are the causes of compIaint-untll we
look across at those places Ia Europe
where death, wounds and beggary are the
common lot.
Then-well, we shall complain as often
and as bitterly as ever: but we shall
whistle Hall Columbia! under our breath
while doing 1t.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07

pended the George, an enameled figure
OF st. George staying the dragon.
1t is to be noted that in many such
matters the only two orders of Knight
mood now existing which can compare
IN age and splendor with the Garter, the
Italian Annunciata and the Spanish and
Austrian Toison dor, We're modelled
like the once famous but now extinct
French Saint Esprit, upon the Eng
lish rule. Among the first Cartel
knights We're, besides Edward III and
the Black Prince, his son, Sir John
Chandos, the flower n exemplar OF
chivalry.
But of the best known part OF the in
sigma we have said nothing. Every
one knows that upon the Garter intselt
and upon it's miniatures on the star and
the collar appear the words "Honi soft
Qui NAL y pense." Everybody has
heard the vulgar and general story: OF
the origin of those words. King Ed
ward III was dancing with the fair and
brave Countess OF Salisbury when her
garter fell to the ground. The king
picked it up and tied 1t round the
lady's leg. Then he saw significant
smiles around, for he had been sus-
pected of a warm admiration for the
countess. 'Honi soft qui ma y pense."
quoth he. "Dishonored be he who thinks
i'll Of it," II thereafter made the lady's
garter the badge of an order OF pure
chivalry.
No one can prove that this never
happened. But there is no reason to
believe that it ever did. The ancient
c%hronicler ~pronounces 1t in his stately
way, "a vain and idle derog-
atory both to the founder and the order.
first published by Polydor Vergl, q
stranger to the affairs of England, and
by him taken up or nc better ground
than fama vulgi, the tradition of the
common people, too trifling a founda-
ton for so great a building"
The better opinion seems to be that
the king founded the order in honor OF
the military glory of England, past and
to come, n that the motto refers
either to England and her fame or to
the order itself. AS for the badge of a
garter. such devices were common
enough at tournaments, and his in par
ticular was associated with the exploits
of Occur de Lion. Whatever be the
truth of the origin, there can be no
question that "Dishonored be he who
thinks i'll of 1t" is a very apt motto for
the deeds of our new Knight OF the
! Garter and his gallant people.