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1 * -,'A : 4 ?h? $ori spill ?inw^'j PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS. I Wm. R. BRADFORD. j Subscription prieo $1 per year. i Correspondence on current subjects is invited, but we do not uktoo to publish communications containing more than 300 words, and no responsibility is as-J umed ror tne view* of correspondents. J As an advertising medium for Charlotte, Pinoville, Fort Mill, and ltook 5Iill business houses The Times is unsurpassed. Kates made known on applica-, tion to tlio publisher. Local Telephone No. 26. SEPTEMBER 26,1900. Last Monday Mark Hantia, boss of the Republican.* party and defender of imperialism and trusts, gavo a banquet at the Union League Club, Chicago, to a party of gentlemen, whoso combined weallli aggregated $125,000,000. On the same day 125,000 Penn- j sylvania conl miners laid down , their picks and shovels because the coal trust refused them living ! wages. At the Union League Club ban I nnot oivon l?v Tfn?,,in din '1 * r-? -'j HIV [Vinuw , coat 515 each. The wines were; contly beyond the dreams of Lucnllus. The rapped miners fed tlieir wan faced babeB that day on black crusts nnd water. Murk Hanna depicted to his niillionairo guests the prosperity that had been thrust upon them by McKinley and himself, and demanded a lordly contribution from them wherewith to "porpetuate1 ill.) nmennf nrlmii?!e(i<nii/?n ^ .... H?-* lilllllOllflilUUt On the same day the hard coal 1 trust raised the price of its pro-! duct one dollar a ton. The pro- j ?ccds of this robbery is expected to buy the election of William McKinley. In the meantime 250,000 men, women, and children are left to stnrve by the coal barons, while Haana brutally declares there are1 no trusts and that everybody has a | full dinner pail. Tho miners grievances have been of long standing. For years the average wages have been less than 80 cents a day. While trusts have, forced miners to pay an increase from 15 to 45 per cent for food and clothing the wage scale has remained the same. The miner was compelled to pny $2.75 per keg for powder, which cost the conl trust $1.00 ft keg, The miner was compelled to dig 3,560 pounds of coal for n ton, nnd was also compelled to purchase his supplies at a company store at trust prices. The situation in the mines is perhaps best, described by James Creclmflij, who is making a personal ir vestigatioD of the canses .hat led to the present strike. As Mr. I Creelmnn says, the American pi.hlic should understand the situation: "For a number of days," says Mr. Creelman, "I have boon wandering from shanty to shanty in the dreary anthracite coal settlements gathering from the miners and their wives the actual fact3 of the situation. MNo exaggeration is necessary to this story of patient suffering, for tho most moderate statement of truth is enough to damn the industrial system which lias darkened tho homes and blighted tho lives of something liko a million men, ( women, and children. "One does not have to be n political economist to understand the nature of this struggle for life. | The humblest man in the country is canablo of nointimr out thn n>al seat of responsibility. "Tho miners of the nnthraeito ; coal regions are striking because ' the trusts have so raised the cost of living that the men can not support life on their wages. This great multitude of toilers deserves the sympathy and support of every good mail or woman in the 1'nited j States. ' Nearly every Republican news-} paper has given evidence of the coldness with which the trusts and their allies have met the desperate protest and appeal of tho mine workers. Tho cruelost element in the whole scene is the light tone of scorn adopted by the organs of the coal trust. "Three days ago we were in McAdoo and toero we ate with t''ot , ' > S2BI 7 ' * l$c( miners iu their houses; end such # pitiful sheltera for human beings to live in! 'We were at the very heart of the trust quostion?the dinner tuble of the workingmnn. It would linve been interesting had Mr. McKinley and Mr. Hanua boon there to talk about prosperity and the full dinner pail. "The grizzled father sat nt the head of the table, his hands rough-1 ened by n life-time of labor. His threo daughters?all compelled to J work in the flower of their youth,! sat around him. The mother, with face seamed and puckered by the struggle against starvation, waited 011 the rest. "For twenty-four years the miner and his wife had lived in that little shanty. Ton children had been born there. Some were dead and the living were all engaged in the battle for bread. Not a dollar had been saved. "And this year? The trusts had put up the price of everything. Tho coal trust lias kept wanesj down." Tho Democrats, says the New 'York World, uro unquestionably j helped greatly by these factors in j tho presidential campaign: j The support of Mr. Bryan by two ! -bf the ablest and most effective of Mr. McKinley's advocates in lb'.lG, ChH Schurz and Bourke Cochran, and by ex-Secretary Olney aud tnany other gold Democrats and independents who stand with tliem I against MeKinleyisni. His support on tho anti-imperialist issue by ex-Secretary BoutWell, Col. Thomas W. Iligginson and many other representatives of 4il " i -11- i . J - ? 11 I vut? mieiioci 11 mi conscience m me I Kepublican p?irty in its better; days. The fact, which Mr. Brynn nnd r.ther Democratic speakers are j bringing to public nolico, tlmt the Undoubted pn sperity of the rmintry lias been and is very unevenly distributed. While railroads, bank- I j ers, manufacturers and speculators | have grown richer, tho increased [cost of living has in many in: stances tnoro than otTect every advance in wages, while persons1 with a email fixed income have! gained no ndvantngo whatever. The undeniable fact that trusts and other monopolies have greatly | multiplied since the Republicans i . .... I wimo mio power, and mat nothing whatever has been ilono or honestly j attempted to punish or prevent i them. Last?and perhaps yet to be the moat important of all?the gront j coal strike. It is not impossible j th|at this will be, even more than was the Homestead trouble bo ' | hurtful to Mr. Harrison in 3S'.>2, ' an object lesson on the effects of ' monoply that no flap doodle about j | "full dinner pails" will bo able to i | offset; and this despite llio fact so ! 1 strongly procluimed by President Mitchell that "politics will not, can not, and mubt not enter into the st-fee." in actual ?ffoclivo work the cam' paign is Bt ill young. Ah n veteran ' campaigner waid yesterday: "The Democrats have only just begun j to fight A Political Fro>cnost (cation. More provoking things have happened. 88) a the Dillon Herald, but we will bet dollars to doughnuts that if Bryan is elected to the presidency and Senator Tillman is given a sent in his cabinet, Jim Tillman will be our next governor and McSwronoy ill sncced Tillman to the senate. It has been whis??CTe<l around that 15ryan will make Tillman secretary of tho navy. Well, it in reasonable to suppose flint tho astute senator will want to leave the dispensary .1 li 1- ~ 1 i H in goou nanus una in me Bfinie time keep the name Tillman prominently before the voters of the State, in that cveut the Legis-1 laturo will bo given tho |)o\ver of electing Tillman's successor; and what could pleuae both Tillmans more than tb have that honor fall on MoSweepey'i shoulders? Of course this ip mero political speculation; but dhould such changes in our State gctverumonl he brought about by vintue of Bryan's election, th*> hii?|dv ?H?te?iued (Y<lnr?-' an i. M bill State, which is tin ardent Bryan supporter, would have our j most profound sympathy in its J severe aflliction. Two Constitutional Amen Jaunt*. The Stato. In the iron oral election in No vember there are two constitu- i tionul amendments to he voted i upon by tho people. Both are most important ones. The first is to insert a clause in the constitution that will permit Columbia, Clmrloston, Rock ITill and Georgetown to isBuo additional bonds 1 with which to obtain sewerage, j etc. Tho other relates to the , drainage and reclaiming of swamp lands in the State. '< Both these measures have received the necessary two-thirds vote in the General Assembly. If j ihe peoplo approve them they must then receive the same vote 1 in tho General Assembly before j llicy cun become of eliect. Tropica*. Cyclones. Chicago Record. While interest is rife and the ! community stands aghast at the j' ..i' i:r... ..i *v,r; Wi I'l' V uur<l u r' ,nK tho gulf const by tin* rccont West 1 Indian hurricane, n short history of these gicat storms, together with their cause, mny not be amiss. Hurricanes or tropical cyclones may be said to be children of tho sun in their incipient stages, growing by degrees until they become levinthiauH of the deep, vast whirlwinds, dealing death and dentine-!1 il'on to everything i:i their paths.;' The North Atlantic ocean, six ! to eight degrees north of the cqt.a- J tor, toward its wanner westward side in tho vicinity of the "Windward islands, appears to bo tho; favored locality for thoir formation. the months of August, September, and October being tln.se of greatest frequency. This is the region of equatorial calms or the doldrums, a licit lying between the trade winds of light variable winds , frequent calms and thunderstorms. . The air of thisrog'ou being quiet \ becomes rapidly licatocl and i charged with moisture, this pro- i dueing an unstalablo condition of < the atmosphere and a gradual eon- ! ventional overturning, and from , this development proceeds, the spi-1 ral rotations of its surface winds j being caused by the deflective force of the earth's rotation to the right in this hemisphere, or contrary to the motion of the hands of u watch. The hurricane having once started, a variety of causes tend to its rapid development, the principal one being the latent heal released during itn excessive rainfall. The storm center itself, with its radical inflowing winds, generally moves at the rato of eight or ten miles an hour northwestward to a about latitude 'J.r? or 30, where they generally recurve to the north and east, being carried along in the general trend of the upper currents. The r< cent hurricane pursued a track seldom traversed by this class of storms, its deflection across j the gulf being caused by an urea of high barometer oveilying the i Lll.r . 1- ? 1 * i <i eastern oihh'h wuicii prouaniy navcul tin* south Atlantic seaboard : from its ravages. Fortunately these storms break up or diminish greatly in intensity 1 on entering the contineut, t!ie sea, the great storehouse of their en- : ergy. being withdrawn. While in all great hurricanes the wind attains a v. locity of (30 to 100 miles an hour, yet the i gfeat est loss of life is invariably j caused by the high tides forced in- ; land by the winds and waves and , carrying death and destruction to all before them, and had not Galveston been situated on a low lying island, subject to the high titles, while the loss by wind would have boon considerable, the appalling disaster duo to wind and wave would not have resulted. In the following list appear some of the great tropical storms of the century: Indiauola, Tex., near Galveston, totally destroyed in 1ST") ami 17G lives lost. Ilurrieano which devastated Gaudaloupo September, 18(15, the ; barometer fabiug to 27.05 inohes j and over an inch and a half in 70 : minutes. Jamaica hurricane, August, 1881,, cievftHinica innmicn, with a loss ot 1,200 lives. Hurricane of August, 15-09, I which devastated Porto Kico, with great loss of life. All of the above storms, though, sink into insignificance compared ; with what is known as the Puckergunge cyclone in eastern Bengal in | 1S70, which Hooded the low lying islands at the mouth of the Brahmaputra river with a huge tidal wave, in which over 100,000 natives nro supposed to have pert F'rttying (or YiJiuian. News and Courier. The Mid annual meeting of the Edgefield Buptist Association was held at Horn's Creek church in Edgefield county Inst week. The South Caroliua Baptist saya that at this meeting u collection was taken up for 1ho bom lit of tho aged ministers of the Association, and that "while the brethren were marching to the front with their money the central figure in that I'odl V mm till n V umim .-.iir TT:-?i!i-rl -? j *1 J N/ V*k t*' "? V^ i ' States Senator, Benjamin R. Tiilman." The Baptist adds: ' He did nut ouly attend the Association with his good wife, but actually contributed of bin substance to the support of aged ministers and Connie Mnxwoil Orphanage. We did see him spread his clean shaven hps in the singing of the melodious songs of Zion. The Horn's Creek church is located within a few miles of the home of his 'childhood. Who knows but that ho may ho meditating upon Jiviuo things and that when he grows old he will not depart from tho wholesome truths and the good counsel ho received in his voulhV May Cod gruut that this highly honored servant of tho people may yet bo a highly moral force in the elevation of tho common people. Suppose wo turn all censure and iniiauv. !i ini<> earnest unci faithful praying lo Ibis ond." The Abbeville Medium protests that Senator Tillman's conduct was commendable, in a way, but that, he ought to 1 avo been singing the IVulms of Duvid and not tiie ' merely huinnn compositions" that around in the praiso sorviccs at U.ondo ("reek church. In the circumstances, however, Senator Tillman could not have sung i'Halmn while the rest of the congregation were sinking Hymns, and he had to sing Hymns or not sing at all, and those who havo heard him on such occasions say that ho has ft fine, rich bass voice of groat volume and particularly full in the lowest register. However, ?that may l?e, wo are sure that good people of tho Stnte will join the South Carolina Baptist in its aspiration that "this highly honored servant of the people may yet be a mighty moral force in the elevation of the common people." We have a strong boliof in the efficacy of prayer and have been as-ured that the i\ rvent prayers of the righteous avail much. But while wo are "praying to this end" it wouid be well to udd a petition that the good Lord will not permit Senator Tiliman to grow too old before accomplishing bis reform, before making "the good counsel he received in Ids youth" oTeolivc iu his present life. It would be such a long time to wait for the subject of prayi rful meditation to ba made an angel?we want liiin to be good hero and not hereafter. Itumips Now is the time to sow Turnips. I have just received a fresh supply ? in nil varieties. Have also received a new lot of molasses?re hoi led Georgia Syrup, Puerto Itico, Sugar House, and Silver Drip Syrup. Octagon Soap is the best. I have it. "NY hi to Fish, Fresh Cakes, Crackers and Canned Goods of all kinds. Highest markot prices paid for country produce. A. 0. JONES, New York's T .CP r! Grohi-n iur? u.v4Vu. tjjLxx 'i Thorp is one kind of apparel wherein Now York's pre-eminence is established tho world over. That is apparel for boys. Pronounced as tho leadership of Paris for womoti's wear and of London for men's, it is universally admitted that Now York has evolved a distinct order of style for its youth everywhere admired. Crescent Clothes for Hoy's are the product of the best known makers in New York. They are the perfection of lit, fashion, and fabiio. They arc till* Mlllv llAVK1 I'lllflinu lllflil.v 4 1 . r. 4 will retain shnpo. Any woman whose purso allows tho least looway in tho gratification of pride in dressing her boy will be delighted with the style and positive economy of Crescent Clothes. In nil ages from I> up and for young men to 35 chest measure. This beautiful line of Boys' apparel will be found only at? ED. W. MELLON & CO.S, CHARLOTTE, N, C. m i r?" * ' ' * V. "spiff? FIT?? TJFT IJllj if til IE I I j WANTED, ! W A N i Wanted bv T. B. BELK: Cot Oats, Potatoes, Chickens, Eggs, a ' which the Highest Market Price I FOR SALE, FOR E Fou Sale by T. B. BELIC: Ai $15,000 worth of Clothiso, Shoes ies, etc.; also "Old Hickory" as Grain Brills, and other Farm Im Call on us for Guano and Ba< OUR PRICES T 1* lB?T ir~~ X. JX. UUJUIL) "Till It. F. G1UER, I DEALER IS HATS, StiOES, PANTS, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, DRESS GOODS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, I GLASSWARE, GROCERIES, ETC., AND THE BEST LINE OF POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY IN TOWN. Wo IT. IIOOVEP, ! LIQUOR DEALER, CHARLOTTE, N. C. We look especially after the sfcfp! ping trade and below quote very cloci I figures. Will be glad to have your nfdtM. Ti>rn, 1 rxh uilll. ? << ? Corn, per gallon, In jug (boxed), ; . $1.50, $1.75 and $2. All first-class goods at $1.75 and $2 VERY OLD. Ryes from $1.60 to $2, $2.50 and $3 50 per gallon. Gins from $1.60 to $2, and $2.50. .Genuine Impottcd "Fish Gin" at $3 per gallon. Apple Biandy, $2.25 per gallon. Peach Brandy $2 50 per gallon. No charge for jug and box on above, and no charge at these prices for keg when wanted in such quantities. Let us have your orders and oblige. ~~~" = "y~ ' ( TED, WANTED. ton, Cotton Seed, Coen, Pear, nd other Country Produce, for s wtli. he Paid. ? - SALE, FOR SALE. ? the Lowest Trices ? 10,000 to , Dry Goods, Hardware, Grocerd "Piedmont" "Wagons, Buggies, elements. 3g1ng and tler. are riqht. >ROPRIETOR 2 OLD RELIABLE STORE.* Fresh Meat AND Fresh Ice. Yes; Ira G. Smytlio & Son will keep constantly on hand a supply of Meats and loo. Comparatively speaking1, wo luvve been unavoidably out of t ho business for two mont hs, but wo hope to bo il.bll' ill I 111. flll.ini liv .. f tr... t i.... . .. . ... ... ^ , aiiv:uiiVPil IU business ami fair dealing with our patrons, to furnish them witli both Meat nnd Ice in season, and merit a. liberal share of the public patronage. Orders for Sunday Ice received Saturday, and Ico delivered from 7 to t? a. in. Sundays. Call up No. 27 any time you need lloof or Ico. 1!U <i. SMYTHE & SON. Spratt Machine Oo. Brick, Lumber, Laths, Lime, Shingles, Building Supplies, and House Pitiings of all kinds. Contractors and builders. Estimates on nil work furnished promptly. The Center of Attraction for thoso who are ospooially particular about tho laundering of thoir Summer garments is the laundry. Everyouo knows except tho.se who haven't tried our work, how clean; properly starched and ironed every article proves itself to bo after it hasbeou through our hands. If you dou't know iuj, let's got acquainted. For ease of mind and comfort of body, ho sure t hat your laundry goes to tho Model 8team Laundry, Charlotto. N. (J. Ed. L. flchLtlaNAY, Agent, Fort Mill, S. C. We Feed the Hungry. J When in town and you want n \ pood meal, remember we feed \ the pooplo. A pood inenl for 25 cents. Our llestaurant ia on Depot street. "f"T ^ ^ ^ nit i o ? 1 4 i\ ' 5 r * 9