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W.y. BRADFORD,
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iou\ :?;2?: ?;.* m<i;t i ii
i 0.1 v>\>rUs. and t'i<? r Jr ilnlit;.' i.- : aanm.T
To J th view* oJ >") : j.?; .r.:l
As :li* ik'. v.ivi ii i: >i i'iv 4
lot'*.', Phivville, Imi1-. Mill, and. K.< k
Kill l?us:ne^M h m- . ThoTiunwis nn.-ctry,?sst?.l.
R:tfcs murio known 011 application
to lb'- publisher.
Ijc-.ohI ToloJ.'or.iio No. 2*?AtJtiUST
2'J, 11KX).
The war in llio Philippines line
been going on now for ju^t one
year and a half. For eighteen
weary months the beat blood of'
the 1'nited States has been drained
into a repulsive and apparently
bottomless swamp of guerilla. lighting
that leads to nothing, and we
have spent on the wretched job
than the Democratic party under;
JelTerson and Monroe needed to
tiiplo the area of the republic.
When we began war with Spain, 1
a nation of eighteen million people j
with a considerable navy, nn army
that could call upon a million;
trained men, a treasury, and a completely
organ izod government, wo
fought her to a standstill in three
months ami half, unci v?o never put >
more than 110,000 men in our lighting
lin". To suppress 2,000,000
nnorgnnized Tugalt?, in what we
have never recognized as a war,
we are using (Jo,000 men, and after i
eighteen months of lighting we do ;
not seem much nearer success!
than wc were in the beginning.
Does not this iini>ly atrocious
mismanagement somewhore? And
hov; long is it to ho kept up? Are
the Ann rican people prepared to
resign themselves to a permanent
state of war in the Philippines,
with a part of their resources in
men and money annually devoured
to no purpose?
Our army of occupation in the
islands is equal to the entire force
that n-State like New Jerssy could
1)0 expected to raise to resist inva- j
fliou. Practically, therefore, we ;
liave subtracted a State like New
Jersey from the defensive resources
of the nation. That is what has
been accomplished by imperialism,
masquerading in the rol)?o of expansion.
If wo had given the Filipinos a :
vuioo in the management of their
own country there would have
boon no war. If we would condescend
to negotiate with there the
war could be stopped even now.
In dealing with the savage Moroa I
of the Suln Islands, with their j
polygamy, slavory, and monarchy,
we were willing to recognize the
local authorities and customs, and
by doing so we obtained the allegiance
of these ferocious bandits
without a blow. Why should we
refuse to do as much for the civilized
and Christian inhabitants of
Luzon?
The London Morning Chronicle
of .Inly .">1), has a long communication
from its Washington correspondent,
in which ho calmly discusses
the present political situation
in this country, and the probable
outcome in the coining election.
From his connection with
otic of the leading English dailies
it may reasonably he .' opposed that
ho is in close touch with the leadAt*u
i->f f Iki TJoiMiKllrtftt* ?? ?"'" *
v* i liv j v ^;iu/iiv (in j m i \ \ , II f I v I
theroforo his conclusions are of
mora than ordinary interest. Tho
political mathematician, ho says,
sets down 21 BtalcB as "cortaiu"
for l?ryan, with n total electoral
Voto of I'.U. and 17 states as ''certain''
for McKinley, with a total
vote of 181. Anions those 17 ho
includes California, Illinois, Kansas,
Ohio, and Wisconsin, all of
which Democrats believe they can
enrrv. Ivnnana \rnnl f. .r l-inn.,.
J. ~ .... ^.VT.W.
four yearn ago.
The following statca, the o ^respondent
sots down as *'<1 mhlful:"
Colorado. Indiana, Michigan, Now
York, with an electoral voto of (?'.).
"If McKinhsy is to win ho must
onrry nil of the Stales which ! give
him r.a 'certain,' plus N*\v York,
find nt loast one other State, while
Bryan, if my calculations are correct,
has only to carry Now York
to march wiLh unobstructed path
(o the White Iloueo." lie mentions
many thiugs in favor of JklcELilBiliiik
f
r i: ! ' :i g moM'i"
i- '! 11 vr. -* isriuy of * dci:! em
V ., >llt \
Ii:cae tain;.:. :!; ir [ r
valu i, there 5till remuine the un- |
'..'H Htu! (1- Vr:? in'otr f i t ?r
??.. f?. \ i : - 4 t L'
jm? i in.;; \ ?;< (;: I : f ? I i
a_ ?, which this year wiii \ to for
tiryun to r? buko iruperialb m."
A late dispatch from W;u-hin</ton
savs that Kussin, lb runny,
and Japan have not declared nnr
upon China, either seperately or
in concert. This statement is made
u pon authority of the highest
character. W'lint those nations
may do widiin Hie nc::t hours or
within the next fortnight, is a
quo. tion which no one in Washton
in pre pared to answer.
A brief dispatch from Chefoo
conveying a rinm r current there
ttiat Russia, Cernmny, and Japan
iind joined in a declaration of
war upon China nroused some
int rested comment nninni:
Washington officials and ninmiR
diplomatic representatives of foreign
cover mm n t,s re.-Ment here.
In neither offininl nf fP?i!oii>nl
- - - i vtw
cirrlee, however, was tho rumor
taken seriously. No information
of such action has reached either
tho De?>urlr.i"nt of State or 111o
le^n* i(.iiB of the ?ovormw nts primarily
interested That fact alone
is accepted in ooicial circles uh a
snPiciont refutation < f tin> rumor.
Oliieinls of Iho State, War. m d
Navy dopaittn- nlB were at their
desks early lo-dny. hut up 1 > (he
hour of closing for llio day oof a
word had been received from M inister
Conger, CI en. ChatTee or Admind
Kenicy. Since tho dispatch
from Consul Fowler v."* ro-. Ivcd
late last Thursday uijd.f ,he department
of State has received no advices
from any source in China,
except a brit f cablegram from Minister
Conger inquiring how he
should route his message.?. The
text of the dispatch which it was
explained was very brief and
iiuiuiiiiriitHMB in c Kit racier
wns not inado public.
The war department has received
no dispatch from Gen. ChutFco,
known to have come directly from
liini, for about a week. Cablegrams
signed "ChaHee" have been
received, but as thoy contained
only lists of casualties, it is
assumed they were sent by some
sub u'diuato otlicer in General
ChaiFee's name. From no ollieial
source has the department learned
of the departure of 10 Americana
from Pekin for Tien Tsin, as rereported
in a special dispatch to a
London newspaper under dato of
Aug. 11).
"
Ntip.ro ne'p in Cuttou mils.
A new company has boon organized
within 1 tie past few clays at
Charleston, S. C., for the purposes
of eroding and operating a cotton
mill. It is said that some of the
largest stockholders in the proposed
company are also large holders of
stock in the Vesta cotton mill of
, the same place, which is now being
partly operated by colored labor.
One of the promoters of this
now company staled recently that
they would demonstrate that a
modern cotton mill could bo sueccessfully
operated in the city of
l Charleston by white labor.
A little over three years ago the
directors of the Charleston mills
reached a decision, tho result of
which was the employment of colored
operatives in ih" mill. At
the end of tho year no eat is factory
progress had been made, but instead.
the owners wore out several
thousands of dollars. The company
was again reorganized and
tho name changed t<> the Vesta
mills, colored help, of course, being
continued. The officials of
the mill still claim that this class
of help is a success, but when it is
remembered that at tho end of
three years the mill is not running
nml never has run to its full enpaeily,
anil that what machinery is
running has never turned olF its
fuil production, it will bo very
; p;ainly scon that the days of the
negro as a cotton mill operative
are numbered* Furthermore, if
tho operation of the Vesta mill by
j negroes has boon a success why
; should these same parties who are
interested in the muv company decide
in favor of white labor, when
such always has been a scarce article
in towns like (Charleston?
Their action is itself an admission
of tho unsuitability of the African
race to the duties of a cotton mill
operative.
In Charleston there are alnul
fin 010 negroes, yet il is said to he
almost impossible to obtain a msf
fieient number to operate thin ono
mill. The nvorns/e <*<?t?n:? mill opefntive
must he such as can 1>.> depended
upon at nil times, and il
^ocs without saying that the negro
is not of thin class. The experiment
of the Vesta mill ownors,
has been n costly one, nnd it
should he n warning to all those
;vii?> have id ?11?y limo *?u?n?
that the !" mo an pttrniivi in
(' il lis.i. VV t?V? I !)i.i <t GUI dt
es.?Textile tolsior.
Orlllith in South Af/ics.
i'. ' of t'lO Ctl-UUltiOH of
tiu ! t 1 iv. fi in South Africa,
ib.-u'.iv'l liy ' ;i v.vir o.'iiee on t.he2lst
- i i .si moutii, shows that there has
bean up to that titno.nofewer than
i deaths since the bc^inniiipf
??t' the war, as follows: Killed in
action 2,7U1, died of diBense, -i.Jr.07,
died i;i captivity 85, accidental
deaths 72, total deaths, 8,437, Of
tin1 dead 470 were oliiccrs and
8,COS non-oeiimiissioricd onic-ora
ntul privates. To tl?:s grim total
must l)i* added 2.218 for I ho missin;
mid prisoners deducting the
prisoners who worn released after
the fall of I'rotor'.u. Then there
is a ft arfuily -h.rge addition for the
soldi r? sent homo as invalids, who
tin inhered at tii dato of Ihe return
no fewer than 2o,0.~"> men.
The drain upon the strength of
i the British army through these
i various losses amounted to "J .3(30
men. It. was further estimated
that the sick and wounded men in
lit spitnlat diticr? nt points in South
Africa numbored 1S,000 in round
ligures. This addition brings the
aggregate of t he losses sustained
by the British to D2,3(JU men.
?? -*r. -???
Ird a*A Awful
Kow York Trilmao.
Siana, hi no 28.?It is the misfortune
of this country that she
has hoeu t.Olicted with the most
terrible calamity of which there is
any record in her thousand years
of history at ihe very moment
when evi nts of a most portentous
; cnarm.ter are going on in other
parts of the world; oveuts which
solve to distract the attention of
potential helpers i'roui India's
many woes. The pronuueed fuduro
of last year's monsoon rains, the
foils et origo of this unexampled
famine, made iUolf apparent about
St ptctnher of Inst year, or at the
very inone*nt when affairs wore
rapidly drifting into a highly critical
condition between hhiglnud
and the South African liepubiies.
In October we knew that we
1 were in for what was probably the
worst iainiue, the most acute distress
the country had ever seen.
But simultaneously with this
knowledge came tlie intelligence
that war had broken out at the
Capo and that the first engage- ,
uicnls had nctual y taken place. ,
In November and December last !
11.e distress throughout. India was
most bitter, hundreds of half j
starved people who mouths before
had sold their seantv olothimr i>i i
k? ' r% *'
order to buy food, perishing from
the bitter cold of the Indian winter.
But, again, this was just. the
period c?f the war, 1 ho period of J
Britain's roversfs, which drew the t
at ton lion of the whole world away
from India toward the tragedy!
being enacted in South Africa.
And ho it hus been all along.
The intense heat and the gradual
shrinking up of tho water supply,
together with the ripening of the
melon crop, a fruit which the people
are at all times prone to eagerly
and injudiciously devour, all these
! causes combined generated an out
break of cholera of an appalling
character. Camps which one day
contained 10,000 people, tho next
day only held 2,000. The grim
death had broken out, tho people
had tied before it. They had fled
into i he dreary parched up jungle,
die sun-baked fields, in all or any
directions, without food, without
even water. Many of them peri.-ln d
of starvation by the wayside. The
i * ' ? "
? ai >i* ruiiuiry WUHlOVCiftys llT.lOl'OCl
j with coipses. Many of thom
ulready had w ithin them the germs
of the cholera, and died, in frightful
ugonies, in the space of two or
three hours. The corpus lay for
days unhuritd and nnhurnt,alfortli
ing meals to vultures and jackals.
Meanwhile all the resources of
the administration, though strained
to the utmost, were hopelessly
inadequate to cope with such a
situation, ii is all the government
can do to d ad with the distress
when the people are collected in
camps numbering thousands.
When they arc spread in twos and
threes over an immense tract of
country, timid ami demoralized
by the cholera tiend, it is utterly
impossible to navo them. All that
could be done was done. The
oliice/'fi of the government worked
themselves to tne hone. The missionaries
and other voluntary
helpers.toiled nobly to the same
end. Vet fur several weeks the
mortality in Gujerat alone from
cholera wjm at the rate of 1,000
people a week. That, from actual
starvation is not known, but was
undoubtedly heavy. Thus in a
single week the deaths in one portion
of one atllictcd province were
more than have been caused by
the Fliers in eight long months of
vr?ft v
if Uiyan is HUccd.
A q nation wn? recently n<l.'r^btd
hv i UfpublK'un to the
i
no ton l'ost, ami to this the hitter
reiiiie ! vvi-li r.iivli sincerity, ?!it
hf',3 not bi'lievto ?>> on re1
'd us a strictly leguisr Demoi
ratio organ.
Suppose Dryr:xi were elected
President, what would Imp; ?V
What. sort of a Pret'iden. would
we have in in my
In the first place, we should
have n thoroughly honest man in
ilie White House. This is a fact
5 conceded by Mr. IJryau's political
foes H3 well as by lii.i political
friends. And it i-> more than the
Republicans can say of every candidate
for President put up by
their party.
\Yo should have a President of
u in pi est I?ned ability. Mr. Pryan
has shown himself a man of parts.
Ho is not only a brilliant orator,
I he has demonstrated his possession
of the qualities, of st'itesmanship.
V, ? should have a President who
is p ?rsonal!y unselfish. Mr. Rryan
is devoted to principles nioro than
to the advancement of his individual
interests. Iio is u broadminded
man.
Wo should have for President a
man of tact and pood humor. Mr.
Brynn would ruler the Ybhito
House without enemies to punish
or grudges to oatisty. Iio curries
no "knif
And touching the polities nml
j issues on which this election turn,
1 v.o should have u Pre. ident. det
voted to the lvopuMic as wi ll as
against li.o imperial theory of government;
to the proteeliou of the
interests of the meat body of the
people as against monopolistic cabals.
Ydo should have a President
who has pledged himself to what
we at the Past regard asa mistaken
j theory of linance, but who would
bo unable in the four years of his
term to put his theory in practice
in any form.
All in all, oven from the Ilepublicnn
point of view, there have
been many candidates, both Republican
and Democratic, whose
election to the Pr? sidc-ncy would
be properly regarded with creator
apprehension than that of William
.irnninov, fb-v:in
YOUR
ATTENTION
Is call*.<1 to the fact that you
can tind scores of odds anil ends
at our store that are indispensable
for household purposes.
The little wooden Tooth Pick,1
for instance. A f> cent pack
will last a year or more, and
what a source of comfort as well
ns profit. i
And there's Household Ammo- i
nia, 10 cents, for laundry and
toilet purposes and denning all
I sorts of furniture, silver, dishes,
f:.
W e keep a full line of Fla
vore, iinu npices, winnamon, I linger,
Clown, Nutmeg, Tumeric,
Celery, Mustard Seed, etc,
W. B. A3DKKY & CO.
TURNIPSNow
is the time to sow Turnips.
I lmvo just received u fresh supply
?in nil varieties.
Have also received a new lot of
molasses?re boiled tieorgin Syrup,
, Puerto lvioo, Sngnr House, and
Silver Drip Syrup.
Oetngon Soap is the best. I
lmvo it.
While Fij.li, Fresh Cakes,
Crackers ami Canned Goods of all
kinds.
Highest market prices paid for
count ry produce
A. 0. JONBS
HAND BROS.,
111IAMIT
ROCK HILL, S. ?
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wor s i t' . >
< i m i ~ T1 o to to r?j?'
Till 111 iini^
U> -ui u ?_,. !.- XjJ ?? <1 <jd _?-.iT
?^4EAG LE
When n man or woman has o
k^'r olf their whole apparel. The
i Southern slice, manufactured hy th
' ieksburg, Yu., shows that, like the gi
is made, "It is first in peace, lir.it in
| countryman," and can not lie.
The Southern Trade Record, o
I concerning the Eagle shoe:
"The shoo-making trade as it now oxi
who devote their attention to making soiu
I thereby Leeomo wondorfully quick and ex
"In this connection the industrial eoi
I ...
an unusual largo number of inquiries i
many of which had special reference to tl
j ufactnrer in the United Stutes.
"Now aftc r a careful investigation al<
rospoitdcncc with and interviewing as m
shoe dealers in the country, there was a g>
the Eagle ir'hoo Company, Frodericksbtu
anions the foremost shoe umnufacturevH i
vain boast, but an absolute fact, and La m:
successful contradiction.
"They only use the best grades of leat
tanneries in America and Euroite, and e
expert labor. Tlio lasts upon which tuesc
st>les, but in the main are the ovolution n
years, gradually improving until they ha\
"Iho writer, who has worn the shoes 1
i none oilier, and on various occasions, who:
orders them to be scut by express from 1
duties us a writer and n correspondent nisi
i better, aro handsomer in design, and more
i any other on the market. In consequent
I strongly and indorse the opinion of the ex
1 firm of Eagle Shoe Company, of Frederic!
in the United States.
"Wo might add in conclusion that tlii
direct, in this linn, who are not advertisi
The investigation was made at the requot
result published solely for their benefit, a
Test tbo honesty of those ee
your whole family. Sold by
T. B. BELIF the
ii f. grier,
DKAUUK IN ^ j
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HATS, SttOES, \
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RANTS, DRY OOODS, i \
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NOTIONS, DRESS (iOODS,
HARDWARE, j|
TINWARE,
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UL/VbSWAKG,
GROCERIES, ETC.,
AN1) THE
BEST LINK OK
POCKET AND
TABLE CUTLERY
I
IN TOWN.
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AW IT. HOOVER,
LIQUOR DEALER,
CniJtLOTTE, N. C.
We look especially nftcr the sklppii'V
trade R-.itl below uutite vcrvcln?p
figures. WIIJ bo rlad to Iiav? your
orders. .Terms ca*li with order.
Corn, per gallon, In jug (boxed),
$1.50, $1.75 end $3.
Atl flr?t*d?s Roods nt $1.75 and $3
VERY OLD.
Ryes from $1.60 to $3, $1 30 and
! $.? 5? per 8nl!on.
Gins from $1.60 to $3, and $2.50.
Genuine Imported pish Gin" at $3
psi gnuon.
Apple Brnrdy, $3.25 per gallon.
I'er.cii Brandy $2 50 per gallon.
No charge for jug and box on above,
ar?d no charge at these price* lor keg
when wanted in Mich (juantltles.
1 et us I nve your 01 darn and nb'rjje,
w. a. 55?ovrj?.
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SILOESM I
n ft nice fitting and -djlish shojit
growing demand i' i thin grj ;it
e Eagle Shoo Comfniy, Frewsritat
Wtiehington at whoo hotnl it
war, and iirst in the beirts off s
f Cincinatti, Ohio, has his to V y
sts is composed of a series tf spocinW^'t
e particular part <>f the bootor sh;xH
iMVPt- ill llu>iv rn^nnid i vo yned.iltUo *
tor of this journal has recently roocM
rpfpiruinjf shoo liiaimfaot nvrs, a fB
10 fore 111 os*. and most artisCa shoe ifinn
:>U? those lines, after opouiij up apV''
any as worn available of tin foremost
moral concensus of opii i< ?i i 1 favor of
?, Ya. This firm is un [oeet ionahly
u the United States. ' hii i. no idle or
ikinjj this statement \v <k not four any
her from I ho best hides Iron the b?'st.
in ploy exclusively the mist skilled of
shoes are made ai*e not inly the latest
nil development from thi experience of
:e almost reached per fee ion.
made by this llrni, for ye rs would have
a not convenient to bo iad otherwise,
liis shoe dealer, to whatever point his
,y call him. He finds th> shoes to wear
? comfortable and n >re jononiical than
j he can not emphasize tho matter too
IKirts quoted above, in myiny that tho
isbur^, Ya., mauufa nu.o the best shoes
is journal lias no in er st, direct or incrs
nor even subscribers to this paper,
it of many of our subsoriliorH, and the
lid to them ulono wo are responsible."
lebrated shoos by using them for
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PROPRIETOR
I OLD RELIABLE STORB."
Fresh Meat
AN D
Fresh Ice.
Yes; Ira C!. Smytlio & Son will keep
onstanl ly on hand ' a supply of Meats
iiul Ice. Coinpiirnjtivoly shaking, we
lave been unavoidajbly out of the busiioss
for two month/s, but we lioi?e to be
iblo in tlio future, l>y closo attention to
lusiness and fair dtalinp with ouv parous,
to furnish tjhem with both Meat
iiul Ico in season, laud merit a liberal
share of the pubb'4 patronage.
Orders for Si.n i;i. v T/ >,. i sotn,-.
- * I J ? V>v- ' WWW!
lay, and Ice delivered from 7 to i? a. in.
Sundays. Call n|| No. 27 any time you
need licef or Ie . f
HU SNYTHE SON.
Spratt Machine Oo.
Brick, Lutt.bejr, Laths, Lime, Shingles,
Building Supplier, and House
i'lttlnga of u.lt k^uds.
Contractors and builders. Estimates
on all work furnished promptly.
M
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Tlifi ('filler ol Allraclion
for tho--o who are osiK/cially particular
about the laundering of their Summer
garments is the laundry. Exoryono
knows except those who haven't tried
our work, now clean; properly starched
and ironed every article proves itself to
be after it has been through our hands.
If you don't know us, let's get acquainted.
1
For ease'of mind and comfort of Ixody,
be sure that your laundry goes to tho
Model Steiini laiundry. Charlotte. N. U.
Ell. L. riebLtl AN AY, Agent.
i wii iuiii, o. w?
The Arlington Hotel,
CIURI.OTTE N. C.
I
Host ?hted and Ventilated Hotel
In the City.
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