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% 'dhc ,fovt ;TH>ii 'gimfjs. I*U 1JLISIII"T> \VEDN : > YS V,'i:i. li. DilA.^r. Ivl> J-ubs'-riptiow price $1 j? r year. nrycs KidiVui'c tin current st bjerlw is \ svitetl. i> it we (V> n >t I'tfroe t" publish coiMiuunicu*ions containing nitre than iill'l u'ltiik 'itii 1 nit v<>imi'kiwii)ilitV i ; 11S Slimed t"?? tli" views ??r* eorivsixmfleiits. As :i:i ndvert isitiff metlbnsi Cut' Charlotte, 1 iucville, I'oVt Mill. and Koek 1 li 11 limitless Iu.'ukch The Times is n:nu?pnssod. Rates made kivowti on aopbcaj ion to (lie pablishuv. Local Telephone No- 20. JANUARY Hi, 11HU. Tin- Y'.nkvillo corrcsp indent of t ho News and Courier remarks thai *tho action of tin* House < f Representatives in ? xtendinjjj the time for the payment of taxes is not indorsed by anybody in this count)*, n> far tis my inforinatioii j^oes."' Well, your information doesn't lt?i very far, Mr. Correspondent. Fort Mill township is a considerable put of York county and practically everybody over hero indorses "llic notion of the lfonso of Representatives.'" ? . Mr. MeKinley has tlu? f^rip and if ho is half "as Indly fri^htend as the leaflet's of liis party are. ho is ritot to be envied. It. isn't Mr., MeKinley"s present condition that has fikdilcnd the Republicans, bnt 1 he po.-sibilities it. calls to their minds. When Teddy v*as j;iven the second plttco on the ticket it was not wit li any idea t lint ho won !<l over ha President. Tlinl i.s why even Mr. McNinley'a slight illness alarms lliom. Tlmy knowthegrip i.s treacherous. . F. Hopkins Smith, n prominent Northern man, talking before n social club in Xowton, Mass.. last Thursday night, after remarking that "Hncle Tom's Cabin" precipitated the war between the North and South.snid: "This book, 'I 'nole Tom's Cabin,' is the most vicious book that ever appeared. Lt compares with Kennan's lirst book on Russia. I could go into the prisons of the North today and write a similar book. Tho book precipitated the war, and made the North believe nothing but the very worst of tho South. We are not an inhuman people; wo are all alike; we are Americano. Tt was an outrage to raise tho North against the South. The book was appalling, nwfiii fitui eii11 t..i-.. " .. I?tavt v t luiiiKu iiuniaixr, Bryan to Stay In Politics. \Y. ?J. Bryan'* announced retirement from national politics lias made a sensation in Nebrska. It now hc^ins to look as if Bryan did not intend that his statement lie taken literally. He returned to Nebraska after his Chicago speech and there was much discussion as to whether he really intended the public to accept it as a fact that he was out of politics. The following editorial utterance of the Omaha World-Herald last Sunday morning, prepared by Richard L. Metcalfe, the bosom friend of Bryan and the man who took Bryan's ultimatum to the Knnsis City convention, may be accepted aspretically the uttcrence of Bryan on th.o subject, as it was evidently published so that the Bryan loaders ini^ht know where their choif stood: I'Ti.o r,.i.. *i... o > ' x nv; n ion in iru iiri M > i nr ( II I with those who would construe Mr. Brynn's Chicagospeeh to moan his active retirement from politics. That speoch is not capable of such a Construction. Instead of intimating an intention of retiring l'rom politics, Mr. Bryan emphasizes his purpose of continuing actively in the discussions of public questions, 'I rejoice,'said Mr. Bryan, 'that in the course of nature, I have many years in which to participate in the struggle between human rights and the usurpations of greed.' "It is not difficult, from Mr. Bryan's speech, to obtain the idea that he does not expect to again be a candidate for public office. Indeed, ho admitted that, in selecting journalism as a lield for usefulness, he was not placing himself in an advantageous position for a candidate, and he stated that the field was chosen deliberately because he was more inserested in the promulgating of democratic / ' / principles tlmti enjoying any honors which his countrynum could ! hestow. "There need he no lnisunder! stand in _r 01 .'Nir. J'rynn's position, tie <.o':id n-it, f he would, retire from active participation in politics. IF ever in the history of this country the people needed a (?ryan i to combat the insidilons influence | of corporati uis and tni-ta and to ' sneak out in behalf of n covern iiM'ist administered with a view of obtaining tlie greatest ^ >?h1 jo 11 it* greatest number, that, tinio is come. Mr. Bryan is today the great Democratic leader. < >* Tiltman Wasn't Snubbed, Senator Tillman makes prompt and vigorous denial of the report thut In; wes snubbed at tlie Jacksonian banquet in Omaha, Nebr., on account of alleged r deness on his part to Win. J. Bryan. In an interview the Senator says: "1 can not la* responsible for imaginary statements which newspaper report* rs make concerning my attitude towards -Mr. Bryan in in the future. 1 no not regret going to Omaha, as some of the newspapers have stated. On the contrary. 1 am glad 1 went, hecause 1 had a royal good time. I could not have received a greater ovatitui than that which was given me ! at the banquet in Omaha. 1 gave iHem 1113- mens < u i?emoeracy 1 :i*n 1 from lii*' shoulder and they whooped it up for 1110 in ureal shape. I set thorn crazy when I pitched into Cleveland. I wish you could have j heard liioui shout when I tore hint to pieces, and the rest of the j^anjj that worsldp at the Cleveland sUrine, who want to reorganize the ! Democratic party, but who ^o to 1 the polls on election day and vote tho Republican ticket. I did not 1 pose as a leader of the Democratic 1 party, but I told them that I did I represent the sentiments of the j Democratic party in South Caro- ; linn. I told them thatMt would bo ' premature for tho Democratic par- < ty to commit itself to any man or ? any platform at this sln^e of the 1 f^ame, but assured theui that 1 1 . . . would rather 140 down to defeat ' a^ain four years hence than accept 1 the leadership of or .surrender my ' principles to Hindi a party and to shell a lender-hip as that Cleveland crowd. * Hob liiKiraoll on VV hl*ky ? A Reply. '"1 send you some of the most wonderful whisky that ever drove 1 the skeleton from the feast or painted landscapes in the brain of 1 man. It is the mingled souls of wheat and corn. In it you will liml the sunshine and shadow that 1 chased each other over billowy fields, the brenth of the lark, the i dew of the ni^lit. the wealth of < summer and ant 11 inn's rich content, all golden with imprisoned li^ht. Drink it, and you will hear the voice of men and maidens sin^in^ the'Harvest Home,' miauled with the laughter of children. Drink ? it and you will feel within your blood the starred dawns, the I dreamy tawny dusks of perfect days. For forty years tlim liquid 1 has been within staves of oak, M lonuinu to toueli the 1 ips of man." 1 DR. .1. M. lll't'KI.KV's RK1M.Y. j 'I send you some of the most i wonderful whisky that has ever brought n skeleton into the closet, or painted scenes of lust and bloodshed in the brain of man. It 1 is the ghost of wheat and corn, I crazed by tin- loss of their natural bodies, fn it you will iind a 1 transeient sunshine, chased by < a shadow cohl as Arctic mid- 1 night, in which the breath of ' Inin* grows ley, and the carol of i the lark given place to the foreboding cry of the raven. Drink it, ' and you shall have woe, sorrow, babbling, and wounds without I cause, your eyes shall behold strange women, your heart shall ! utter pre verse things. Drink it < deep and you shall hear the voice < of demons shrieking, women wailing and worse than orphaned ohil- ' dren mourning the loss of a father < who yet lives. Drink it deep and ) serprcnts will hiss mi y<?nr ears. I coil themselves about your neck and seize you with their fangs,; for t 'at layt it biteth bke a 8< rprent ,t V ** and stiugolh like an adder.' Fori forty yours this liquid (loath has boon within staves of oak, harmless there as purest water. I send it ^ t.> you that you may put an enemy in your mouth to steal away your brains. And yet 1 call myself your i'licnd.'' ... As I'o OebJ Paylnjc. Alone: this time of tin4 year, and , especially of a year like the present one. the struq^le between hou< sty and dishonesty begins in the i h arts of many people, says the Anderson I ntoili^cncer. There are j so many yood excuses for not pay iwhat wo owe, now that pnyitig] time liaa cotno. It is h > much easier to do.l^e or jmt oil' creditors than to take the hard earned and , Beauty supply of money and pay up. In fact the temptation is not j eonlined to those who can barely or not. quite make buckle and tongue meet. The straight forward, manly, honest way is always the best. Seek your creditor instead of limiting i him chase you and make you feel like an escaped jail bird or a criminal afraid of detection. Tell him the whole, direct, honest truth and make the best arr.anginents you can. It. will make him respect you and make you respect yourself and feel better. The poorer you are the more impoitant your character is to you. It is your only, capital. Aside from everything else and ignoring all higher and less practical considerations, remember that this is not likely to ho your last year on earth and that it is likely that you will la' in trouble ULraiti some day when a :;ood reputation will see lire friends for yoti, while a, bad one will deprive you of thorn when they are needed; ami reputation follows a man around the world and clings to him wherever he goes. Pay up, no matter if it takes your i:ist red cent. It will bo bet ter for you in the end. If you au pay and won't you are dishonest. That is the flat truth of it ind you know it. No matter how hard it may ho you have no rijd.il to make it harder for some other man by holding back from him what belongs to him. You have used his stutV, his money or his labor or whatever it was. IJe trusted to your honesty and if you wilfully disappoint him you are dishonest. Ti.o fact that others have wronged you jrives you no excuse for wroneiiiLr someone else. Anyhow, face your creditor liken man. Above nil. (lout leave him, in the lurch and then gonad spend what cash you have with someone else. If you owe a man and can't1 pay him. the least you can do is to ' help him all you can by throwing ill the money you can control in his way. -* *Uncle Sam Owes Us $170,000. The reckoning of interest from the beginning the middle of the century, oven on a modest sum, leads one into bio figures, as Congressman Latimer of this State well realizes. The decision of Congress as to whether or not certain interest shall lie allowed will determine whether the Palmetto' State owes the Federal government something like $*200,000, orwhother the Federal government owes the Palmetto State over $170,000. "! have been before the War Claims Committee," said Mr. Latimer to a Washington Post reporter 1.4 MM I . .. ... kidi -luiuwuiiy, if) argue tsoutli Carolina's claim. 1 think thegovernment owes our State a big sum. Dn .! uly 10, 1SJ2, thf government settled with South Carolina for money expended on arertunt of the , war of 1812 and the Florida war with the Indians, except $77,028.(12 The interest on this little item, from .Inly 10.J 1S22, till June JO, 1001, reaches the modest sum of ?:il8,0t>1.0(?. Hut we owe the gov- ; eminent $125,000 on the bonded debt incurred in 1850, and the interest on that up to 1881. when the ! State was ready to pay It,'amounthI to $123,750. or a total of $248,^7S. Hut we could not got a settlMiieut with the government in liiS" itlthough we had the money :o [^ ^ml^ antvd to pay. and now he ipB^p'ment ^'Ohorit ;ey w ant f \ * . f ' v c us to i>ay interest up to date. Tliey also object to paying interest on the old unsettled accounts of the, war of 1S12 and the Florida war, | although it was allowed many j years uljo to Maine, Maryland and Massachusetts.*' ??? Buried Treasure Located by a Dream. ! A singular cirtificntiou of a drc-ntn was the iccent experience of Mrs. Kachaul Moon s, *?f Texar- j katia, Ark. In lSf?(J, the year fol- : n.4i... ..r ?i... i\??? i tuv v. ???ou \jl mi; orvuuuai ( war. she was living with her hus- 1 band, Mnj. David Moores, on a plantation about thirty miles south of Texarkana. They had a large sum of money, which the husband took out one night and buried. I Ten years later he died quote ( suddenly, without ever revealing j to the wife the hiding p'ace of tihe j money, and although diligent alvd . repeated search was made, no trace ' of the tmried treasure was ever found. Mrs. Moores, who is now ; more than 70 years old, has re- mnined a widow, living alone most ) of the time since her husband's death. A few weeks ago she had a vivid dream one night, in which she saw I in the old plantation, with certain landmarks, the spot where as her dream indicated, the money was buried. In a few nights the drenin was repeated, and thereafter at in- 1 tervnls for more than a dozen times, each dream being an exact repot it ion of tho first. Mrs. Moores, while a leading member of the Baptist church, is not at all superstitious, yet this oft repoded dream led her to make a secret investigation during the past week, when, strange as it may seem, the lout* lost trenaure was found, and that, too. at a p.aee in the woods marked exactly as that so often in her dreams. The money was all in $20 yold pieces, and the total amount was $2,800. BARBER SHOP. For tirst -class tousorial work go to tho ! barber shop of W. 11. Caret hers in tho | bank building. Hair Cutting, Shaving, Shampooing anil Singing. Ladies' hair sh.llUjMMMMl. , t t <; o 0 "t11e0ldrei o Always in ?' jfertiliz cow f{ ^ we have on a srpi'i.y of loose ^ seed meal, per ^ standard soldi 4 i'hate, kaxit a a pnt ion ? v*n A aoiit i' \/1 T Kioiit, both fo Time. \YK IH'V AND R] Mclek. A Y Our stock is ( LINES AND Ol'R PI + von: INTER EST T( l T. r?. i THE OLD RELI a 1 ^ c.\ - * ?r' V.w; . * i V ?L ? " W - < r v- r i R. F. GRIER, DEALKll IS MATS, SHOES, PANTS, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, DRESS OOODS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, I OLASSWARE, GROCERIES, ETC., AND THE BEST LINE OF POCKET AND I TABLE CUTLERY IN TOWN. Run Right Here And you will find at the City Market dining the holidays the! finest Meats, Oysters, Hothead' Cheese, Liverelle, mixed and all pork Sausage as low as the lowest. I We served you through the sum-j nu'i* and took no advantage of our j monopoly and only ask a share of your patronage during the winter. SMYTHE & SON. J. U. Traywick & Co., DEALERS IN FINE LIQUOKS AND WINES, No. -Iv2 East. Trade St. CHARLOTTE, - - - N. C. REWARD. A reward of $100 will bo given to any party who will give us information nee- i essary to eonvict tho nialieions person who attempted to set fire to our mills 011 tho night of Dec. vJ'L Itltto. Partienlars can be obtained by railing at our office, Fort Mill, S. C. Fokt Mux Mko. Company. ! .! 1 I 3- ' 1 i 1 store.' ? I the Lead, j ERS, \ LED, ETC. 1iasdk a fl'i.l t Hl'i.Iav Cotton 4 uvian Soli:cle, k jle, Aoil) plios- t js*j> ml luate of t i*u Prices are 4 pk Cash axi> ox ^ 1 na.,1, nuiiSliS AND v X COMPLETE IX ALL ^ ICES MAKE IT TO ^ >1TKADE WITH I S. i E L K. ! V I.JBLE STARE." { w \ * * I I i I 1 i ? * $ A HAPPY NEW YEAR. , , Wo extend to one and all a lmppy and prosperous New Year. Wo np p roc i a to i no lioerni pat- I ronage bestowed upon us in tlio past and ask a continuance in the future. During tlie year 11)01 you will find our stork always complete and up-to-date. When iti nerd of anything in the Grocery line give us a call. A. O. JONES. THE FORT MILL DRUG - STORE. OPPOSITE THE SAVINGS l'.ANK, Is the place at which you can always find everything usually kept at a first-class apothecary shop. I am running a drug store, in every sense of the word. I can prescribe for you. fill prescriptions, and sell you drugs. I have had years of experience ami am thoroughly acquainted with 1 the drug business. M A full line of tho best? 0 C1G A US, C1G A RETT ES, I AND H SMOKING Ani> m C11K \YING TOBACCO. ^ EVLVTIUNC; IN STATIONERY. T. U. MKUIUM. M. D. ^1 & 3 i y jMgi | ' ~ CouvbiUBT It's ii \Va?!e of Words to argno with the jKitrons of tho Model Steam Liiumlrv. Chnrlotto. N. (J. ?they know full well that washing ami ironing of everything cleansihle in the lino of wearing apparrel is (lone nrtuw?rK? Ki* no W'U.?f *? " * " ? * ? , t".... " ' "l "" "Olll ?s lur 1 von to know it. Henoo tins advertisement. Will you favor us with u trial order':1 Wo will be happy to call for and to deliver anything yon may want laundered. We make a specialty of laundering window curtains. Lei. L. flcELtHNAY. Agent. l:ort Mill, S. C. W. ir. HOOVER, LIQUOR DEALER, IHIRLOITE, N. C. We look especially after the shipping trade and below quote very close figures. Will he glad to have your j oidcrs. Terms c.-nh with order. Corn, per gallon, in Jug (boxed), $1.50, $1.75 and $3. Ail first-class goods at $1.75 and $2 VERY OLD. Kyes from $1.60 to $2, $2 50 and $.? 50 per gallon. (iins from $1 60 to $j, and $2 50. Genuine Imported "Fish Gin" at $3 per gallon. Apple Brandy, $2.25 per gallon. Peach Brandy $2 50 per gallon. No charge for Jug and box on above, and no charge at these prices tor keg when wanted In such quantities. Let us I n\e your orders and oblige* \v. u n 0 0 v r. r . .