P Th? Fort Mil' Times.
I DEIJSITED WEDNE* DAYS.
Wm. !?. ItR
IJuii^ci.aptioa price >1 per year.
Correspondence on current subjects is
Juvitcd, b.it we do no; ai.vjree to pub isli
HpF o;umnnicatjo:i8 containing more than
f WJO word", aid no ivsi?ousU>:lity is a- I[
Manned for the \ jew
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^^ryr^-;-- AO all ilUVll JMI1 , UIII UK" \ Hill"lotto,
1 ineville, i'orf Mill. and Iloek
Jlill business ii ras< s: ho Timtcs is nu i
passed. Kates made known on application
to tho publisher.
Lo *nl Telephone No. 2(5.
MARCH 2K, l'KK).
f Where is the Hpr ot EnglS' d.
"And tin* winds of the world made answer,
North, South and East an 1 West,
Wherever there's wealth to covet,
Or land that tan he possessed;
Wlu rever are savage i aeos
To cozen, coerce, or scare.
Ye shall tint! the vuuuted ensign,
For the English lia^i is there.
| "It has floated o'or scenes of pillage,
L It has Daunted o'er deeds <>; shame,
B It has waved ?>'? ; the fell inurnudt .
ft As ho ravished with sword and liame;
B J, has looked upon ruthless slaughter,
|Bb And massacres dire and ;;rini,
9 It l>;is heard tho sh 'iok of tho victims
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Im.r.w>, ii >n u i ii'.' nyiiiii.
"Where is tin* flaf? c>f Ha^land?
Seek tln> liind where the natives rot.
Whore decay stud assured extinction
Musi soon bo the people's lot,
Go, search for the once ;;kui islands,
Where disease and death arc rile.
And the j^rcod of a soulless commerce
Now buttons on human lib'."
?Henry l?ihouchere.
Inasmuch us there are a great
many credulous and unwary penpie?
some, perhaps, in our community?we
desire to direct the
attention of tho renders of The
iTimls to what we believe to bo a
ifraud and a swindle, and which
Is being practiced, at great? xpense
|o those not viirilunt aioiinst ilivi n.
.on, by certniu Western sorcerls
who stylo them sol vch " uu
liders," but who, in our opinion,
* > absolutely without power to
effect their pretentions. Now, il
is said, and doubtless truthfully,
that n drowning man will grasp a
straw in effort to save himself
So, also, will those who imagine
themselves afflicted with an incurable
malady or who have h st confidence
in the medical profession.
And aH a result of this imagination
or lack of confidence, as the
case may be, thousands of dollars
are daily expended, by those least
able to pnrt with their money, in
answer to cure-all advertisements.
However, most of the fakirs who
advertise their infallible remedies
for every ailment of L ftti agree
upon consideration of n ^ipend to
forward to the applicant some
kind of medicinal concoction. But
Dot so with the '"magic nealera."
They send you nothing more than
typewritten letters and printed
instructions, in wliieh it is stated
that the affliction of tin? patent is
ronly imaginary, ami that thcyonly
hurc cure therefor is a cAtain
Pfciount of daily rest, and That
during this period of rest i\ is
neeesairily essential that the \>ntient
allow his thoughts to dwYll
k upon no other suhjeet than tyo
It wonderful inlluence which tft"
alleged "magic healer" is at th? i
very moment exercising over hint
Now, that this so-called treatment'
is nothing more than an admixture
of negro voodooism and Christian
Science, gotten up solely to defraud
the unwnrv wn r 1.? ?>.>< 1*-?
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to ho a proposition which
will bo questioned seriously by
those who cnro to think, But if
anything more thnn common sense
were necessary to substantiate
this offer, we find abundant proof
as to its reliability in a letter
recently written by Bev. ('. M.
Bishop, pastor of Oentt nary .Methodist
Church, Nevada, Mo., for the
columns of the Texas Christian
Advocate, and from which we
learq that this so-called " matr
f - \ netic healing" in disgusting igi^r
siorance and immoral charlatanry,
a^d that at the head of Home of
the inatilutiona, which number
about fifty in that city, are men
who, a few woeks or months ago,
were barbers or butchers or blacksmiths
or loafers and occasionally
i a wotuan of notoriously b <1 < harac
& ifter ten-days
has I >.'< <
^HLi' a full-th'il-oii |>r. wi:ii the
pretended ability to heal all man
ncr of disease, without medicine,
either in the institution or at ?
distance; that tho u healers" themselves.
when they become actually
sick, send for physicians just as
other people d >, and that the
mother of the most notoii ms of
them died a few months n*;o, notwithstand
n^ hisuiiruculous power
to heal; thut one of the leading
physicians <?i* thai ci'y, a niemhor
of Couti nary Church, recently
aX ll( II ! ill *1 i cnrn i.l' >?. 1.1 i
i L"? v u ' v l4lu,'n
iiant cuiK'ir which lie hail por.-onally
examined, and for tin' cure of
which, by these methods, if properly
authenticated, he had olTered
?1,01)0, w hich oil', r was published
in the daily press of that city, but
that not one of the professors h ?d
accepted the challenge, though
I hey pretend to cure cancer; that
the pa-tor of Centenary Church
h is lived for ten nu 111lis within one
block of the principal 0110 of these
institutions, arid that he has seen
hundreds of patients, lias ?0110 to
the sick bedside of seine, and
buried others, but that lie lias
never 8 'en one whom lie had sufficient
reason to believe had been
cured of any actual disease, nor
has lie ever heard any trustworthy
person say that he had personal
knowledge of a real cure; thn'
from five to twenty (lead bodies
are shipped out of that city every
week of persons who have been
taken there for treatment, many
of whom nii;_cht have had their
iivisnmeii prolong <1 under proper
medical treatment; that the number
stated is probably too low, as
the shipments uro made by niplit
and are concealed as much as possible.
Our section is now underpoinp n
eriu ial test in the matter of books
sold by agents. This method is
by all means commendable, and
we oupht to do all in our p nver to
supply our families'"fcwith pood
books on various topics of p< neral
interest. lint the proper selection
of what we want requires llio oxer
cise of intelligent discrimination.
In our humble judpmenl, we
oupht to oncourapo as far as posble
a literature that will pive us
and 'our children a true conception
of the causes that led to our
Civil War and a trustworthy relation
of its conduct, topether with
any personal heroism evolved
therein. The statesmanship of
some, the valiant heroism of others,
the hardships endured, the
iniphty strupples of embattled
hosts, the self-sacrifice of noble
women, the spirit that pervaded
our people, all appeal to us for
commemoration, and they oupht
to po down the apes of historical
memory in proper shape.
While there are many pood
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UumvN Oil Oilier h ll'Jl'CI.S OIIITIMI ID
our people, we believe wo ought to
j give our first encouragement to
such us wo have enumerated; then,
if we have the ability, let us till
our shelvoSjWith other good books
that will endure through succeeding
generations.
A few days ago the Nebraska
Democratic State Convention met
I at Lincoln to nominate candidates
Vfor State officers. The Chicago
\V?latfonn was reindorsed, free siller
at the ratio of 1(1 to 1 being
\ade a prominent plank, trusts
1 aVd impei ialism and the party
wlieh fosters and upholds them
htwig denounced. An income tax
antt'iidment to the constitution
waB favored; also the construei
tioiB of the Nienramja canal was
advBated, the Din^ley tariff hill
was An nelly denounced as fostering
trustMdan^erows to our civilization,
M?e Boers were sympathized
with, Aid a beautiful ovation was
^iven A the Hon. Win. J. Bryan.
The lApublicans wore roundly
scored Ar the Puerto Rioan tariiV
hill, them>olicy heinj* set forth that
tho "conAitution follows the ting-"'
This, in ?w'oet, will t>?? the Demo
cratic imSkmnl plotfonn, because
it is right V[ong the line of every
true thini&ng Demoernt. This
will be theSthnnderholt our Jove
of I)?'rnocrn?S Wm. ?T. Prynn, will
1 hrow into tl|i' cnnip of the enemy
and put thei^B to utter rout; and
WilliamMcK^iley will go down in
history as our^Bunicst President.
Bryan's reception in Memphis was
just like his reception at a thousand
other places?a triumphal on try. No
micro private, citizen ever attracted
the ateution that Mr. Bryan is receiving;
processions, banquets, lienors,
heaped up and overflowing, unnumbered,
enormous groups of eager hearers?tiie
satne kind ami degree of honor
that is ordinarily aeeor.led a erowned
head of Eurojie, a pre. -.blent ial party, or
a great niiliiary chieftain as In- moves
l'roin point, to point. Is this all a vain
sh ?\v or does It hear a deeper significance
to him who can read aright? It. lias
dawned oil t lie people at last who is
their real friend and what their real
interests are. They have asked the
President for bread and meat ami lie
lias given mom. stones ami serjients.
Dryuu'B magnetism is not liuto 1 on his
personality. He has struck tlio chord
ol I lie American heart; the people arc
convinced that llrvau represents the
American ideal of the greatest good to
the greatest uumlier; that ho is for the
ina-ses and not for the classes; that he
is the proph -t of the strict const ruction
of tlio Constitution, and for the preservation
uniuiiuiired of all the ancient
bulwarks that have hedged about the
greatness and freedom and the prosperity
of America. Tlio masses believe, ami
they liuio a right tob dieve, that Melvinley
has torn down tlio ancient temples
and si range priests in strange costumes
in strange templesotlieiato wit h strange
lire, in strange vessels around strange altars.
This is the verdict of (lie people.
No, even Washing! in or Andrew Jackson,
when in the blossom of palmiest
glory, over inspired the people with
greater confidence than has Mr. P.rvan.
llis entry into our various cities is not
unlike the entry of Dewey into Now
York as lie etnrned from the east or
like the Christ into Jerusalem or like
the triumph of a liou.au conqueror.
Modern times has .seen nothing like it.
Mr. llryan moves like the wind; to-day
in the lki t, to-morrow in the Smlli,
next day in tlio West. No living man
of his age has made s > many sjiceches,
said so many good things, or made so
few blunders.
MrKialey's burden is a hard one to
bear. A landslide of public condemnation
will bury him as the alien and sedition
laws buried the elder Adams.
The people believe lie is conspiring
against the masses; that lie is in secret
league Willi England; that he desires
the reigu of trusts and the rale of moaied
oligarchy; that he has attempted to
strike down the Monroe doetrine; that
lie has plundered the public treasury to
fatten pension thieves; that hi- has cowered
and fawned and cringed to England
and to tile Eiu\?i>eau dynasties in a
manner that is a disgrace to the glory
and greatness of our nation; that he has
been instrumental in establishing a
standing army, with its gigantic attending
expenses; that he has been the
ehi. f ajKistleof the tariff which, with
its venomous left hand, has robbed the
jK'ople and en ated a inonied oligarchy
that is corrupting and plundering the
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<t.?? iv.it, \ iiuu mn u*
ing it: that ho is responsible for thu war
of conquest in lho east, ami thai he
alone is responsible for the blood of -1,000
Americancitizens who have been butchered
in that unholy contest. This is
MeKinleyism that our rivers and harbors
and canals are neglected, whilst
untold stuns are wasted in fruitless
wars in a far-off land. Mclvinleyism
that l'enrto ltieans aro ground down
with a tariff, taxation without representation.
whilst a hypocritical sop is
held out to them that they are a free
pv'ople. * * The sum of the villianies.
the measure oT the iniquities of
the administration is lieajietl up and
running over?a modern Ilelsha/.xor, in
the midst of corrupt ion and unfaithfulness
has seen the fated and terrible
handwriting on the wall. Cod ami his
constituents have weighed him in the
balances divine and human and found
turn, as is every man's soul who is controlled
alone l>y the power of greet I and
gold, false to every trust, a tinieserverat
heart,ami true alone to the all powerful
line of gold that chains him to his
master [llanna] and dictates to him his
ties*, inv.
T:i the first sixty days of this year,
says t lit' Manufacturers' Record,$">.01X),OO'.t
was pledged for the building of new
cotton mills and the enlargement of old
ones ill South Carolina alone, the investment
in such enterprises being at the
rale of :fr?0,(X)i> a day.
Another part of the Record's article
which is of most interest topeoplein this
State, however, is that which relates to
the in.'uonco of the mills as town
makers. It says: "Not only do cotton
mills bring prolits to stockholders, they
bring profits to all in a community by
building up the towns in which they
are located. They are emphatically the
town builders of t his sect ion. Thev are
tilling the Caroliuas and (leorgia with
prosperous towns. ('-olumliia, which
was sleepy and unpromising, has sprung
from u jmpnlat ion of lti.Olhiin ispo [The
Iiovcrunient consus of is >o ^avct' ilnnibia
:t population of ?Tim. s.) to
80,000. It is now wideawake and full
of promise. Grill'm, in tJoorjjin, a town
midway of Atlanta and Macon, sapped
l?y both, was in a state of decay, but
cotton mills have placed it in a piMs|>orous
and substantial condition. (In-euv
i iit*, in ^onth ('a.-oliim, had n.?7 pe n
pie in r-'Ki; it will show in t lie new census
ov? .* !'Oo. Spartanburg, which had
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5,r?00 i?oplo ia 18JO, will show 12.0(H)
this year. GalTuoy, which consisted u
few years ago of a railroad station and
a limekiln, lias been turned by mills
into a prosperous little city of 3,000 people.
IVl/iov, which was a spot on the
map, now contains 8,(XX) people. North
Carolina is full of similar examples of
growth from and through cotton mills.
" When one investment brings in dividends
and general prosperity, it is no
v.onder that towns from the Kio Grande
all around to tlu; Potomacure gathering
capital and building many mills, and
large mills, too, in some cases. The
cotton-mill movement in the South is
i P.- i ._i . .4? si. t:
' tire uuuuri ?vhii ^rji v wi uiuno uiuun in
tlu> cotton States. It can not bo carried
too far. Build mills in big towns and
in little towns, and even at road crossings.
tor every well-managed mill is a
(told mine alike to stockholders and to
t he public."
lO.VN ORDINANCES.
Ordinance prohibiting gambling within
the town of Fort Mill.
Six". 1. Be it ordained by the Intend'
nut and Wardens of the Town ol' Fort
Mill, in Uouncil assembled: That here- !
after it shall be unlawful for any person
or persons within the incorporate
limits of the town of Fort Mill to play
at, or bet upon, any name or games with
cards or dice, or at any gambling tables I
commonly called A B Cor E O, or any I
gaming table known or distinguished by ,
any other letters, or by any lignros, or
roley polev table, or at rouge and noir, !
or at any faro bank, or at any other!
table or bank of the same or like kind, ;
under any denomination whatsoever j
(except the game of billiards, pool, |
bowls, backgammon, chess, draughts,
?>; whist, where there is 110 betting 011 1
such games) or to bet on the side or
hands of such as do play organic.
Sk<\ It shall hereafter he unlawful
for any person to permit any of the 1
games mentioned and prohibited in Sec- I
tion 1 of this ordinance to be set up, or !
played upon, his or her premises within !
the town of For: Mill.
>. 1 nar an violations 01 tins or-|
diiiancc shall lit' punished by a lino not \
exceeding twenty tin dollars or by imprisonment,
with labor on the streets of
th town of Fort Mil!, for a period not
exceeding thirty days.
All ordinances. 01 jiarts of ordinances,
confheting with this ordinance, are
hereby repealed.
Untitled lliis nth day of Mareh, liHK).
lv. F. (< 111 nit,
Inteiuluut.
J. M. Sl'llATT,
Clerk.
Ordinance against loafing near and
around raiirond depot or jumping on |
01* oil trains while in motion.
St:c. 1. lie it ordained by the In-I
tendant and Wardens of the town of
Fort Mill 111 Council assembled: That
hereafter it shall be unlawful for any)
minor under the age of seventeen years
to loiter, loaf, or play on the depot I
gronndsof tlie Southern Railway Co. in
tlie town of Fort Mill, or upon any of
the public streets at a point within tifty
yards of said depot grounds.
Suit. Hereafter it shall be unlaw- j
fill for any person or persons to jump j
011 or oil'of any train within the incur-j
pornre limits of the town of Fort Mill ,
while said train shall be in motion.
Si 1' !I Vll viitldtinnw ni' tliio nvili. I
nance shall bo punished by a lino not
exceeding throe dollars or by imprisonincm
not exceeding ton days, at the
discretion of the Intendant.
All ordinances, or parts of ordinances,
contacting with this ordinance, are
hereby repealed.
Untitled this 5th day of March, 1900.
11. F. Guiku,
Intendant.
J. M. SrtiATT,
Clerk.
send yolu
(1RDEKS FOR
JOIU'IIINTIXG
TO THE
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1 I .lll'.n Ktc L' IVJCj. j
M. W. GKIUG,
Real Estate Agent
If yon have any proporty to sell, I will
try ami Unci yon a purchaser. If you
want to buy any proj>erty, I will try
and find it for you. If you have any
proi?erty to let, coma place it 011 my
free list. If you want to rent any
property, come and sec* what I have
listed. All business matters guarded
with confidence, and no charges are
made unless Inflect a transaction, and
t hen a very small pel* cent.
Magic Stock Food
Acts lik^ magic upon
MORSES AND CATTLE.
Mag'c Poultry Focd
/"lakes
CHICKENS
Healthy, prevents disease,
and Is a magical
EOCI PRODUCER.
They are the brat articles of
the kind sold, for the principal
reason that they cost
the merchant more than
others, but are sold to the
consumer for the
SAME PRICE
as cheaper goods.
Rrilsli (III van r iirionknu
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We have ali kinds of
PAINTS,
Ready-mixed In cans, from
a pint to a gallon, or the
raw ingredients for Faint
to be made to order.
w. b ardbi;y & to.
H^aUtiusrterj for fresh
UARDti.N SHEDS.
1,16 COMPANY S'J
Tlinnks nil of its custom
to remind the public that we i
HEADQUARTERS FOR L(
CASH BIJYEKS shou
STORE for greatest burgaine
Clearance Clothing Se
For the next CO days we <
make room for our new stock.
MENS' SUITS, $3 and upw
BOVS* SUITS, all prices, goln
MENS' PANTS from 50 c. to
This is an opportunity yc
want good clothing cheap.
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes.
Our Stock is CouipletcOur
Shoes will wear wel
quality leather and by experie
you will be a shoe customer f<
Cash buyers are grent I
procession and come to the
save money.
Store, Fort Mill 1/
13. Ili^liost cnsh pric
nil Country Produce.
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THIS SPACE BELONGS TO !
PEGAAS & COJ
AD. NEXT WEEK.
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icrs for past favors, and wo flej*
)WEST CASH PRICES. I
Id come to the strictly CASH
i uud best qualities. .. ^
offer special cut price on suits^Hf w
?rd,?io^per cent discount. ?
X ?t 10 per cent discount. jf
$4.50. worth as per cent more. #
?u can not afford to miss_if yo^?,
-Best Quality, Lowest Prices.
1. because thev are made of first
need workmen. Buy one pair and
jr us.
'or bargains, therefore join in the
Company Store, because you can
[anufacturing Co.
os paid for Chickens, Eggs, and
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' IIIK OLD RELIABLE STORE."
We thank oui* friends and customers
for their loyalty to us during
the last few years of low-priced
cotton and consequent hard times;
but we feel there is a better time
coining to all of us in a financial
way and we confidently assert that
we are here to merit a continuance
of your patronage. Season in and
senson out, wo carry the stock of
this town. Every department of
our establishment is filled with
new goods, and a careful inspection
will pay you. We allow no legitimate
competitor to undersell us.
That's one of the principles?a
material one to you?on which our
business is run; and our stock,
wlncli comprises very nearly everything
necessary to the comfort of
man, is easily the lnrgest between
Charlotte and Hock Hill.
This is^the time of year to buy
GARDEN SEEDS,
SEED POTATOES,
OATS, FERTILIZERS, ETC.
Ours aro sold nt.bottom prices.
Besides carrying in stock the
largest line of lteady-made Clothe
ing in town, wo are solo agents for ^
th.- celebrated Continental Tailor*
ing Company in this place.
We solicit trade from those who
desire to buy on installments. Accounts
to be paid in the fall are
offered, if gooi collateral can bo
given.
T. B. BELK.
Prop. The Old Rellale Store."
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