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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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.
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llest Lighted and Ventilated Hotel
[ in the City.
A. A. SPRINGS, Proprietor.
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? 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.
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