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; V ?v* &!ic ;Koi't <38 ?U fci:acA PUBLIC IIBP "WEDNESDAYS. V>*. R. RRAOFORO. fc-abscrlpiiou pineo $J per year. CtTT"sttontlounp on carroat subjects is S'lvi'.utl, bat we <to not titer < to publish <coniiuunicat io.it <oniaiuinpe moro than JiOO words, and 110 responsibility -is u.siHtnne l for thu vuon*:, it? rorrptnio.uTetils. As tut a?l.crtisin?/ mcli'iui for v'lrir lotto. Kiuovilio, j'O "t Win. UT!-' lloo'v Hill busiueps houses Tlio Timks it; uusui* j.nssod. I.im s made kuo *vu ou application to tho pablish'T. Ixw-jI Toleplion.' No. 2t>. JUNE <i, 1'>K). The general conference of the : iNortliern Methodist Church, which whs i:i session in Chicago n few days ago, departod from one ?>f the nncient Inudmnrksof Methodism? the time limit of pastorates. We mo of opinion that a great mistake was made in erasing one of tin distinctive features of the church, mid that the ministers consulted J i. i f ... i i.... I lit.". I UWU UI'Hi if I'll iiJlll iU Aury more than the building up ol the Christian religion. Tho sun i.? one <>F the mighty riddles of human life. What feeds the fires of the sun? Whence the endless and increasing fuel that feeds the gigantic lire? Is the sun | growing old and weak? Will his iircH over dio dowu? Whence came the sun? 'The only reasona- . hie theory ever advanced to account for the sun's heat is that his body contracts about six miles in 10J ^ years - and the contraction of his gasi s produces the heat. The si^e j of tho suu is well known; tho dis tanco around the (Mirth in 20,000 miles; the distance around ihe sun id 500,000 miles. The rolalivosize of the sun, earth, an 1 moon are ! about as follows: On n level held place a globe 2 feet in diameter, which will represent the sun; at the distance of 215 feet place a common-size pea, which represents our earth; at the distance of about <? incites from the pea, put a grain of sand, which will represent our moon. Many wonderful things have been learned by astronomers in studying the sun, the eclipses, the spots, the bumps or projections or ridges on his surface. It has been learned that, the blazes or 1 ~ .... ?? l.l. i ~i\ rwm iic&citrn ica^j U[i iio ui^u n? j?iv,uwu miles sometimes much greater; the mm is surrounded by gaseous envelopes called the photosphere and chromosphere; it is known that in the sun are all the metals found on earth. The light of the sun is several thousand times brighter than the brightest light ever produced on earth; the In ahof the sun is inconceivable?about four or five times as hot as the greatest heat we know. The heat of the sun is s > great that, if a solid cylinder of ico > inilos in iliametor should extend from earth to sun that is, a solid cylinder 02,000,000 mill's long and throe mill's in diuniater?it would ho nu lled by the sun's heat in one second and converted into steam in the other. It has been found by watching black spots on the sun, which are but gaps in the llnme surface, sometimes constituting a gulf 100,000 to 200,000 miles wide, that the sun revolves on its axis onco in about 25 days. It must be remembered always that the sun is a real star; the starry heavens are dotted with suns and they would look precisely like our sun were we near enough to them. Tho multitude of these suns give us great and mighty ideas ?>f the glory and power and majesty and strength of (led. Reasoning from analogy, wo are bound to eonelude that the stars of the heavens, like our own star, have planets re volving around them and that these planets have intelligences ?.!??/.?\1 airiAVi t )?<m? 4/v < 1 o jSK4Vt VI ll^'VHI HM III i?? >t liUIII III*.* glories of the skies area delight the same as to us. Il is astonishing t.liO labor, the piins, the time, the care, the money b >ino spent in unravelling the mysteries of the heavens. It is astonishing how much has been learned. It is incomprehensible to the unlearned man what wondrous secrets have been made as plain as two and two inako four. The study of the heavens promotes piety ami jjodlipess; astronomy is at once ra j, pleasant, tpid more inviting than ^he most delightful novel ever \\ritten. w , ^ / L.i?.l?i ot Eventide. })?',nv: wo publish one of 1 i.e benrftiful prose poems thnt has iimtlc A. ji. Williams, editor of the Greenville News, {anions. Head it, and then cut it out and put it in your scrap book:. When v;e fjrow beyond the freshness of youth and have not yet be-1 mm to know the deeuv of old tare wo are in the land and time of prose. No poet sin^s of us, no painter paintn dh?exet pi portraits for whiuh we are required to pay? no novelist puts us in I:is stories exoopt n: 1:11 itn; and bnek^ronmi. They do not make heroes or heroines of us, and our tria s and sorrows and triumphs and adventures e in to be of interest to nobodyit is ju t at that time when we are t old to tho very younj.? and youngj lo the wry old that is railed middle life, where we be??in to know and be part of real life that all tin.Re whoso business in with fnnev and poetry neglect us. "Youth and age h ive each their special graces and beauties, hut we between theui are allowed neither. One is loved and the other venerated, hut. we are merely useful. It is the privilege of youth to dream beautiful dreams and look forward longing to rainbows broad as the firm a me nt and distant, stately alabaster temples towering amid purple hill tops and tinged with the hues of the sunrise clouds, glowing in the glory of the dew-risen sun. 'f is the happiness of ago to dream yet more beautiful dreams of a past softened and glorified by the silver mist, of the gathering years, the far receding temples shining with the light of tender memories, the fragrance of old joys stealing across the shadowed hill tops in the deepening silence and thesubdm-d radiance of the sunset time. It is the part of middle age to be> to do. ami to sulTer?to be the Verbs of life, giving it meaning, to bear flu* liiiril>>n iiml civnin It is the time of strength and ripeness and production and value, for middle age must be the help i for the young and the prop for the old. It is the time, too, of struggle and weariness and discouragemeat when tlio lirst impulse and . en^vr, sanguine hope of youth have gone aud tho rest fulness and 1 resignation of age have not yet . . i come. 11 is the time wit on men and women aro said to bo in their prime, and they need to be, for all llioir power and strength nre demanded by the ever gathering weight of responsibilities. Yet it is tlio time when the least help and sympathy is given. Everybody is kindly and tolerant to ' youth, its follies nnd faults nre readily forgiven and sympathetic hands nnd hearts arc1 ready to raise it from its falls and aid it in its progress. Old ape appeals t? every instict of benevolence nnd its foibles and exactions and sins are condoned with prompt complaisance. For tin* middle aged there is no allowance. The man who , goes down at that t ime of life is in evil enso and must recover by his own strength an 1 cournge, f<.r the world is busy helping and pitying the old and the young. It is all right. It is just that in the time when our strength is groatist the burdens should be l. : . i .. .1 it x ? iii * UlU\USI JIIU1 UUll Wi' Klionui He MO helpers of those who are coming after us and the props of those who have gone before us, and somo of whom hor buidens for us in their day. Hut somebody ought to write some poetry or paint s >nic pictures about us or make us heroes ami heroines of somo novels. We are not yet ready to be venerated nor do we want anybody to pal its on tiro bead and feed us sugar plums or make lovo to us, but wo tiro now and then all of us of being so proHnio. Wo want to bo considered somehow n? something muro than tho world's working people and draught animals and general bunion bearers?things to bo made use of without being admired. Vet, brethrtm and sistors we wjio are living in tho late spring and the full summer and r'.po autumn lot us n .1 ropino been use wo must bo the prose part ui Hio story of life and looked on ax the general bearers and carriers ?A.*.. i. ... - i, arid helper-!. Surely there in no place more honorable. Let us do our work staunchly and sturdily and wilh cheerful and hopeful ami 1 clean and wholesome hearts. For the summer will begin to wane presently and glide gently hut swiftly into autumn and from autumn to winter. Little by little the light of the sun and the moon and Urn stars shall ho darkened and the cloud.; gather after the rain and those that look out of the windows shall see dimly and tin' strong men bow theniselv '3 and the keepers of the house shall trend le, and fall more and more and the grasshopper be a burden intolerable on the backs now broad and si long. Let thos? of us who must bear and can. rejoice that we can, I joking to that sure time, if we : be spared to it, when we can not? j thai time when tho golden b >wl of life shall be wearing thin to its in evil nolo urenUing and 1 ho siivor cord h 11i\lI vibrato but feebly to j the faint anil failing melodies of tlu* daughters of music because it is about to be loosened. It will bo go< d in that time to 1 know* that the knees bending be-' neat li our own weight hnve been strong anil willing to bear the bur, dens of many and swift to answer ! where there was need. It will be comforting to know that, the hands; trembling impotontly have in their time done much work and builded well and been powerful to lift and raiso and hold and prop. When the eyes soo but dimly what is 'about them it will bo pence and glory to look back through the veil of silver mist of the gathering yours to the far oil' while temples of our sunrise ilreiuns ami know that while dreams were beautiful and have vanished work well done shall endure. So in the deepening silence and darkening shadows anil fading glories of the sunset time and the winter the memories of the noon and summer days shall live in the soul and illuminate and gladden it. And there shall be light at eventide. The Character of Lryau. Indianapolis Sentinel. It is now generally conceded i llinl the Kansas City convention j will merely ratify the popular choice of the rank and tile of the O .... 1 - -- '^1 1 t i /rnu)<_-rncv uiiu uoiuinnic v cuoiltM l'rynn fur tho Presidency. The | events of the prist four years have j revealed the political eharacter of this distinguished statesman us it was little understood at tho time of his llrst nomination. Ap] earing before a passionate body of men in nn enthusiastic and seemingly radical address ho appealed to many well-moaning persons as , n wild.supcrficinlenthusiast -weak i willed and dangerous ?whose words wen? seeds of death. Ilis youth withheld the air of stability and fixed purpose which should characterize a Presidential candidate. ITis enthusiasm impressed many with a belief in his superficiality. Many, not recognizing in his sen 1 runouts the part of a statesinnn and patriot, wore sincerely positive that lie was the mere helpless tool of dishonest and plotting politicians. Considering the brief period during which ho had been before the public in a national capacity he was placed at a great disadvantage. Four years have passed to Mr. Bryan years of intense activity. As the recognized lender of a grout political party, believing in the political education <>f lh? 1??> ? I'% "l',x 1 need make no apology for his aetivo course. Never perhaps since the marvelous leailor?sliii? of ITonry (.May has any ono man exercised such inlluenco over a parly as has the brilliant, tribune i f the people. His political utterances, given to the press and from the platform, have proven him a seasoned statesman, profoundly learned in the fundamental principles of political 1 science. Never, under the nest exciting circumstances has ho uttered one vord that would be unworthy of a statesman or patriot. He is not a "wild enthusiast." Hn takes counsel of a mature, wvllb da need judgment, and never has 1 he permitted his laudable enthu1 s: iu in the people's cau?c to h ad V . hii i from the path o':' wisdom, lit* sloos not "Jack stability of purpose." He has gleaned his political science from the declaration of independence end the sermon on the mount, ?ud every net or declaration of his political career has been entirely considered. Not oven the most bitter onrti.-na has of late ehurged !>ini with being a master of expediency. lie has a fixed pnrpose ?to protect the people and preserve our institutions?ami Jo* has never deviated one parthlc from thnt purpose. Nor is he "duporficial." (' ttainly he is no theorist, nor is hen ! scholastic drawing iiuespun theories from governments unlike our own. Neithor was Lincoln such*. ! lloth are profound, in that both : grasp hold of hed-rock. In view j of the persistent charge by Republicans to the effect.-that Bryan is an nbsi bite tyrant in his party, we t it that they have dropped llio bugbear of 180b which made him a puppet for the management of bosses. If then ho is absolute?his personal character will determine largely the character of his administration. The most beautiful comments upon his personal character lmve fallen from the lips of political opponents, ttlronp, straight-forward, honest, aggressive for the right, open to advice but! given to discrimination, indepon- 1 dent, conrngeous and high-minded. 1 he would savo the public any such ! humiliations as now degrade them, j There would be no vulgar boss to domineer over the White House' ; Ho would use his own mind and handle his own pen. lie would be 1 open as honesty, and brave as sin- ; cerity. He would have a positive policy?one, mind you?and he would stand or fall by it. Tit' would listen to tho heart-beat of humanity?he would protect, prop- 1 erty niul encourage industry. lie would bo?an American President! | C'uss of the Indian Famine. India is a country not quite half j as largo us tlio United Stales, with four times its population. Those 11)00,000.000 people must be fed from , | their own crops, as there is, relatively, no manufacturing resource to buy food with. There are parts of India with a population of 1,000 people to the square mile; and there are millions of farm laborers, vni grants, gypsies, and nondescript' clashes, whoso means of living,evon in time of plenty, are inscrutable, j In a normal year, the country, as a whole, produces a little more food than is actually necessary to support its people. i?ut the crops are dependent on the monsoons?the ! southwest monsoon in the beginning of summer, and the north, east monsoon in the winter. If trie o permute ruins nre late, or are insullicient in quantity, trouble comes, and the spring and winter crops of wheat, barley, and pulses : in tho north, and of rice and millet 1 in the south, begin tosnffer. Whon the monsoons fail absolutely. there is destitution in tho affected district, and when a persistent succession of failures and partial failures occur, there comes a great ami terrible famine, like the country is now groaning under. Since the ' first threat, famine of which there are records devastated the land in 1770, when 10,000,000 perished in Bengal alone, India has scare dy j passed a decade free from scarcity of grain in one district or another. The British government expects a drought about twico in every nine years, a famine once in every eleven or twelve years, and a ?rrcat famine like the present about twice in a century.?Keview of fv ,\? '/?UM Political Potpourri. One of the ineidents thnt will Inst in American history was the treatment of Puerto llieo by the pres nt Congress, says tho Saturday Evening Post. Spain allowed the 800,000 people of this island tree trade, manhood miff rape, sixteen full deputies and four senators t.) the Cortex at Madrid, and twelve representatives in the local municipal iis?einhbos. President MeKinley in his message to the Pifty sixth Congress said: ''Our plain duty is to abolish ail custom tariffs between the Unite 1 States ' Li ly - 1 ? (ind Puerto Rico nu'! {jive her produe's free access to our markets.' On January S last, General J >avisllie Governor-General of Puerto Rico, appeared before a committee of the House of Representatives. "With free trade with the United States will the people of Puerto liieo bo able to work out their salvation?" asked Mr. Cann >u, of Illinois, "Quito able to support themselves," he repbel, "an 1 besides, to ontribute much t-i the wealth of the United States whenever the island is put upon a sound basis." Three weeks after this there was an unexnneted ehnnrre. A tarilT L- - - cd was proposed, and then followed those well-remombered developments which ended in the driving through both houses of Congre-s of a new measure. Some of the moro independent members, both of the House and tho Senate, rebelled, but tho party organization was too strong for the majority. The bill passed the Senate by n vote of JO to 81. This puts over Puerto Kieo a governor, gives tho Puerto Kieans the smaller part of a legislative assembly and keeps -in American hands the real authority. Even if this legislative assembly passes laws they must bo subject to the revision of the Congress of tho United States. It does not even allow Puerto Kieans to send a non-voting delegate to Congress. but creates a resident commissioner of Puerto Rico to represent Hip colony in Washington. And in addition to all that il imposes a fifteen per cent, tariff or Puerto Ricnn trade. The nation was humiliated and aroused to protest by this Puertr Rican incident. Almost the entire press of the country declared its opposition, and one of the extraordinary facts wr.s that some of the staid scientific j mrnals whichnevoi touched politics before in ail theii careers could not resist the temptation to express themselves. Almost every word that cntno fron the pulpit or the rostrum outside of Congress was a protest against the violation of the given promise of the nation. The argument for the bill wnt one of exnediencv -that it was bet tor to rnise the nocessnry revenues in this indirect way, and that ir any event every penny would bt devoted to Puerto Pico. Boyon< all this was the broader fact thai if the United States Government should give free trade to Puertc Rico it would havo to do the saint to the Philippines, and thus oper the pates for the Knstorn invasior of cheap products and cheap labor But at the same time the fae remains to-day that the 800,00( Puerto Ricans,like the two millior Americans one hundred and twenty five years apo, are enjoyinp tin privileges and pleasures of taxa tion wiiiiout roprcsensatton. Hon. Frank IS. Gary, the Ab beville county candidate for gover , nor, in n recent letter to the Co , lumhia State defines liis views o the liquor question as follows: The Dispensary plan, when prop erly and strictly carried out, is tlx best method of controlling tin liquor frnfiie and of curtailing tin evils of liquor. That it suits u: iu Abbovi.le and we prefer it ! However, since the recent act o the Legislature on the subject, tin benefits if there are any, and tin evils, if there are any, which at tend a D'.spens try are confined t< ; the county in which the Dispon t-ary is located. This being so. ! county may have a Dispensary, o 4- 1 O! , . I lll \ tu I1IIVO OIU" WllllOUl 1 < 1 T (* 1' ferinjr. in any way, with rights <> any other county. I can tin re fori sec no objection to allowing i county, upon the petition of one thiol of its (jualitierl voters, to voli upon ihetpit'stion of "Dispensary' or "no Dispensary." Should ; county vote "Dispensary," ullo\ one to be placed in the county s< voting. Should a majority voti "no Dispt usury," it sh ?uld bo uu lawful t.< place one in the count; .-o voting. The Dispensaries shouh remain as n ?w located unti changed in the manner indicated Surely nor unty can object to All bovil'.c having hor Dispensary i she desires it; on the other bund 110 county should desire to force any other county to accept, a Dispensary against the will of its qualified voters. I am opposed to open barrooms in any form, and 1> ?. lieve that the Dispensaries should he rim with n view to curtailing the evils of whiskey drinking and not with a view to making money out of the traffic. This is the p0i fcition which I shall adrocuto ! throughout the campaign. Representative Bellamy, of North Carolina, is an advocate cf tiio McClellan vice-Presidential boom,says the Washington Post. "1 intend to go to Kansas City," said he, "and I strongly believe in Mr.MoClellan's availability. "In the first place, Mr. McClcllan is a young man with a clean record. Mis nomination would be popular with young men and also with many older men in New York and i New Jersey, who revere the memory cf General McCleUan, his , father. Representative McClellan has been conservative as a legisla..4 a.n ? 4:....- i .... i IU1 IIV. nil.' HUIUi: lilllU UllR DH1UU : with his party in Congress, llo voted with us on the financial bill. ; New York and New Jersey will bo very essential in carrying th<> country for Bryan this fall. Mr. McClellnn would bo a tower of strength for us in the East, and at the snmo timo would be very acceptable to the South." NOTICE.?A meeting of the* Hoard of Trustees of tlio Fort. Mill Public School will be held on Friday, June S, 1000, for the purpose of electing a principal au?l two ussissant teachers to conduct said school from September 1. 1000, to Juuo ! 1, 1901. All applications must boi submitted on or before June 7, 1000. , W. 15. Meacham, Secretary ?>f hoard. ; The "CITY MARKET" . j Is where you can find any kind of Fresh Meat you want at any time. Wo are always there and we always have what , you want, provided you want the choicest quality. Our ^ prices are reasonable for FIRST CLASS MEATS. We won't sell you any other kind. Send ua your orders or Telephone No. 27. Woguarantee prompt attention ? and satisfactory treatment, i FRESH FISII every Saturday. ! IRA C. SMYTBE & SONS. | ; | The Arlington Hotel, ' CHARLOTTE, N. C. 1 i llest Lighted and Ventilated Hotel [ in the City. A. A. SPRINGS, Proprietor. 1 - | * P H ' :| i||| MRI f ' -? ;* i^' l "?0 / all Uf I n : ?.i>a' I ? A Well Groomed Man. s Nothing is so distinctive in a fjentlo man as his linen. Bo it broadcloth or f homespun in which a man is dressed, it > is his linen?his collars, cull's, and shirts* 1 ^ which display his individuality to the I observing?and who aro ho quietly observing as women? 5 Curtains, blankets, table linen, bod - linen, &c. Wo also clean, press, and , dye suits at moderate rates. For ease of mind and comfort of body, bo sure that your laundry goes to the* Model Steam Laundry. Charlotte. N. C. Ld. L. flcELH ANAY, Agent, e Fort Mill, S. C. n ; HANI) BROS, j I1TMMIT, 1 PAP.Y TJTTT o n I Auuvii. J-iJLUJ-J, )J. V. ? DEPOT STREET. ^