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. . Z]\:c ;Uxt %}X\\l .Stows. j PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS. Win. B. BRADFORD. Bubseription price $1 per year. ("orresiiomlonre 011 current subjects is I invited, but we do not njfreo to publish J eonimunicnt ions containing more than j :!(>.) words, and no rosjionsibility is us-1 sinned for the views of correspondents.! As hu advertising medium for Cellar-1 lotto, 1 incvillc, Fort Mill, and Rock J, Hill business houses The Times is unsur-ji passed. Rates made known oil upplica-f lion to tlio publisher. l?oc;il Telephone No. 20. FEBRUARY 0. 1001. The child labor bill was killed in the House last Thursday ni^lit 1>} n vote of <>(> to 33. The main ob-j ject of the bill was to prohibti tlit> employment of children under li years of age in cotton mills. Till? arguments of tljose opposed to tin? ! bill were that operatives'should be allowed to govern themselves; tlwit their condition and that of their' children is not as hail as it is said to he. The entire York delegatioii voted against the hill. For two weeks or more the daily press of the country has published column after column telling of the j work of one Mrs. Nation, who libs been operating against the saloons | ill t lie State of Kansas. Kansas is a prohibit on State, but for some reason saloons are allowed to run there unmolested by the ullicerH of the law. inst as in other nrolohi. 1 i?hi Slates. Mrs. Nation, being a member of the W. C. T. U. and sundry other similar organizations,, started out to save tlio worl 1 by smn-diing the saloons with her lit- , tie nxe. And it ijiust be admitted that she has succeeded to somefex- I tent in the saloon smashing end of lier business, though it isn't generally b.dieved that she has saved i many sinnors. Just bow long this wanton destruction of property will be permitted in Kansas remains to be seett. iMrs Nation ought to come to South Carolina and undertake to smash a dispensary or two. Then her little game would soon reach its limit. -? ?. ? There are indications that the Republicans are going to do in the next vJcjtogress what they were; afraid^o'Alo in.connect ion with the ^.v reapportionment bill passed by the 1 present. Congress?interfere with the internal affairs of the Southern States that have, by constitutional provision, restricted negro suffVngo. IEi^ugh was eaiit when the creden<>f Senator-elect Siuimohs, of ^Vth Carolina, were presented to BM Senate to show that an attempt be made in the next Coi'greas B[et tin* matter before Coilgross objecting to the seating of SenHtrs from States with curtailed 1 Btfrnge? North Carolina, i^outli Hirolinn, Mississippi and Ir uisiRii. Whether the attempt will nount to much depends upon the Kipport it gets from the more conBervfttive Republican^, many of whom have said that they are opposed to any agitation of this matter in Congress. Talbert Knows the Uuma. 'Washington Pent. "Talk about the heroes of Ther Uiopyhe, of Marathon and of Salamis, exclaims Congressman Talpert, of South Carolina, in n burst of truly rural eloquence: "talk about the heroism of Wellington, Napoleon and others! It is not to ho compared for a single moment with the heroism of the one-horse farmer." This IM hilt II Klliirln nlinlnlirtii I from a speech by Mr. Talbert, in which the eulogy of the farmer rises to sublime heights. It. will be widely circulated in South Onr| linn, where Mr. Talbert is about Lo engage in the contest for the KUbertatorial nomination a contest In-which the one-horse farmer u an important factor. Mr. TnlLert is n wise politician in his day liul generation. | ? i I A "Blll-Kllllnjf Legislature." I _ ____ ( I Am theaessiog of tha Legislature raws to a close tlte moat promi into laraeteristic that stonjds forth ( >onnection witii i| is not so ^ In ii what it has<lope(but what it ( Is not done, or rather what, it has ( I' o e<l to. do in the qaattar of gen- t I anv |h Coiumi j v > riSL^ ir 11 mm ? Courier. It has Iven a ''bid-killing Legislature,*' as cue iih uiber expressed it, ami that is something that the State at large may >e most profoundly grnteful for in many respects. While there is a wide divergence of opinion as to whet her there should or should not have been some sort of lubor legis ation, j there will be a general agreement that in killing many other meusurea the Legislature has done wisely. A uumhor of these hills are old ones, which hob up at every session, such as the matter of the legal rate of interest, tinkering with tlie phosphate royalty,chang- I ing the distribution of dispensary profits and others of like character. Out of about i)8~? hills on the House calendar there are now only about. 12"). All of these have not been defeated, hut a majority of those that have been passed are of local character. Liberality of n Colored Man. A press dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., says: "The finance committee of the Confederate veterans' reunion has received u check for $1,000 from Robert It. Church, the wealthiest colored citizen of Memphis, who was horn a slave and ! o.w.i, i.:^ .1. mi.:.. ov i v v \ i un ctuvii in II in ^ i Ml I 11 . I 1 I I S> is the second largest contribution yet received by the cotnmiitee." It is said that Church is the origi- ' iiator of the bill recently passed by the T? nuesseo Legislature excluding white teachers from colored schools. His reasons for the bill was that if the State could get rid of the Northern teachers in public schools, the white and black people of the State could iret on belter together. The Course of True Love. [ Danville < Vu.) Hoe. ] Over thirty years ago, beneath the warm sunsbineof the()ld North State, a man and a j^irI discovered in their hearts the dew of youth. That strange, fragrant llower that has ever made sweet, the sum ?.f human existence since in the (iurden, long ago, Adam concluded that it was not good for man to be alone, gladdened their hearts with its wonderful beauty and the sweet - : ness ami strangeness of its intoxicating perfume. They loved, those two, nnd the world grew brighter as the mystical meaning of this new gladness lighted their paths il. .. 1.1 D..I II. 1 -1 If US Wil.II II 11H 1< >. 1)111 III*' (IU1K won of poverty howled in I he distance. They rend life's meaning in the loiitf line that stretched into the future, and would not. The man said he would go out and carve a fortune for himself in the lives of his fellowmen. The ^irl said she would wait for him. And so they parted. Not many days n?jo this man stood in his doorway in the wild and wooly West and ipized over the wide area of his arable lands. He heard the champ of many horses front his stables, lie heard the low of numerous cattle from the meadows. The hillsides in front of hint were white like snow with his herds of sheep. In Ids hands lie held a letter saying that his sweetheart of long ago still waited for him at her North Carolina home, lie tilled his pockets with a roll that would make one's wishbone quiver and started for the East. In Danville he met an old school friend and to him he told the tale. 1 He showed a photograph of a wo- 1 mil11 as young aim iri>sii-i?i?>KIiitr as when tin* dews of youth nourished tin1 blossom of love in her heart. 1 He 'lid not tarry long, but took the 1 tirst train for the South, anxious to 1 whisper in the woman's ear the ' same story that she listened to as 1 a maiden thirty years ago. Republican Rascality. , Kansas Republicans are reckless j nt times, but they are saints compared with the Nebraska Iltpuhli- 1 cans, says the Atchison (41obe ^ When a Nebraska Republican is 1 elected county treasurer, he c >n ' dthjis that he is entitled to the r] mofey that comes in. Any way, he usually keeps it; it is said thai \ very county in Nebraska has had ! i defaulting conn-y treasurer, to 1 inv nr thin-,' "f th> defaulting S'nb ,! |. f;v -,T-,>rsi f * ? The Hlght of T mes' Editor. (Yorkvillc ^t*ouian.] The eilitor of the Fort Mill Times has unexpeettdiy lauded in a tub of hot water. He inadvertently suvid a little wind and now the whirlwind of suspiciciou and calumny roars round his head, lie carelessly whispered through the top of his hat. as it were, and now all the voices of daylight have answered in a deafening, re-echoing < discord, from which we can <;et but one interpretation, and that is to the elVeet that, he was mistaken, is hound to have been mistaken, but mistaken or not mistaken, must hush; that if he doesn't hush some. thiiiLi will endeavor to make creepy sens.itions crawl up and down bis hackbone and slip oil' the ends of his lingers; t > make him fe? I very lonely, foilorn. quite fi rsakeu unci altogether vile. He had better liusli, hush, liusli | pronounce as "do, ra. mi'," in the musical scale ). for'twill be damned as the voice of treason and Patrick Henry is dead! If he does not heed, he will learn that, whatever lie may have previously b? lieved, the spirit of Salem witchcraft is not dead; that its evangels are still alwoad in the land; the tires only smoulder. That which was impiously, but in the name of piety, invoked to burn innocent women at the stake will not hesitate to burn a small and inconsequential thing like a country editoj into a crisp in a jdl'y?or even less were it possib e while the inquisition, like the spirit of John lirowii. "goes marching on," in search of more delicate and digestible game. 111.111 linallv it wears itself out :mil most of the people misplace the tajjjs thut have been fastened to them, and bijiiio new sin it may be eating chicken or wearing chin whiskers takes the form of an oj?re and the people will be re-taj???eil and eomtiience the Inrruppiit^ all over, with much noise and condemnation, no charity and little thought. Hut to retrace, the cause of the trouble in the Fort Mill sanctum is that the editor, anxious, as all rood editors are, to ?j;i ve his read- ; ers the news, publishes as informa- j tion some impressions of local condition* that favored dispensary sale of whisky in the town of Fort Mill as preferable to the nefarious and clandestine traffic now ^oin^j on. 11published simply as fact, news; \ not necessarily as his opinion or wish. Hut the local lions of morality grabbed the bit as if seized ! i i ? * 1 wiui ravenous niin^'r; unci llie ctlitor has, figuratively speaking, l.o take to the woods, tl? *? for his lift* it ml do other tiling not in pel feet alignment with dignity ittnl the most rigid decorum, lie has be* n charged l>y the local authorities 011 liquor ethics with a high and aggravated offense, and the whole thing lias been saddled oil him?not that the publication was a piece of news, a fact in esse, but an "(ditorinl," written with the covert intent ol betraying the high, immaculate and uninitiated tlower of young manhood of the locality into material for the whisky mill, whatever that may be. Poor fidlow! He is having the truth rudely shovel.ed home to him in cartloads, that they who arrogate to themselves a proprietary interest in 1 ighlcoukiicss and knowledge often know as little about what is mid what is not nil editorial as they do the wonderful charily that Christ tells us about in the Bible. I it I t lit- editor st irk to his colors; f hi* little ship is destined to perish in the storm of intemperance hut n supposedly temperance cause ins roused about him. let it lie with ho tliuc of Truth living at the topnast, a last challenge to those tvliose convictions conveniently ide the popular wave, llontin^ aim- : essly through life like dead cattish n the Catawba after an explosion if dynamite. Let him look in,\ardly and upward remembering hat things are not always what hey seem to be; that noise is not ilways to be interpreted either as Pruth or the voice < f the niajoi ity; hat even if it was the latter, maorilies are not always right. For iate v.e not by the highest nutliorfy "Wide is th got? and I r s tlv v ny. t ''.'detli V * ' > /# I 11 destruction, nml many there lie which go in thereat; because strnit :s the irate, and narrow it the way. that leadeth unto life, and few there be that lind it; beware of fa Ire prophets." Clamor is not eon' science; seeming is not being; ambition (in small leaders of men) is not the voice of God. Boers Sure to Win. Saturday morning Chnrh s P. Pierce, who signs himself consulgeneral of the Orange Free State, sent out from New York City a document entitled "The lloer Situation.'* In this Mr. Pierce snysc "Advices by cable ami private messages from Europe and South! Africa are more encouraging than! at any time since the beginning oft the war. There can be no doubt of! tln> final success of the Boers, who' will accept no other terms from (Jrent Britain than 'peace with honor,' meaning the full recognition of both republics, with full treaty-making powers and without the lag of suzerainty. The Boers are iK)t yet ready to negotiate with Fnglatid for peace, but are determined to continue the fighting until the general situation is strong enough in their fivor to make diplomatic steps certain. "The three pretended peaeeicommissoners sent to De Wet by the Biitish were spi? s and tinltors. They interfered with the burglliers; one. tin Englishman, was proroerly shot, and it is known that one jollier, Andries Wessels, was a burAher of the Orange Free State and wu!>jeel to the laws of that republic. "The Boer forces in the Sokith African Republic and the OraJigo Free State, including the invadjers of Cape Colony ? increased by laceessions to their ranks from 2,(|J0 to 8,000?number over 20.000 mini, st l ong, self-reliant, determined, liberty-loving patriots, with the breath l if f till lit llmie i./mti-ilo J-JWB II hunters and trained niarkstneli, they are admirably lit ted by lonL; training to curry on the guerilla warfare which lias so sorely hailassed and crippled the lhitisui army. They have so far succeeded! in obtaining by capture a lar?re portion of their suj plies from the British. I "tien. De Wet, that greatest cav- ; airy leader of modern times, in one , week has captiued $1)25,000 and 100,000 khaki uniforms?enough to last the army four years. He has also captured over 100,0o0 cat tie mid horses and 0,000 prisoners. He and liis forces alone have indicted on the British losses of over $25,000,000. The Boer forces are i divided into commandos of 200 to 500 men and can be quickly assein- [ bled at short notice for vigorous andsuccessful attack on the Hi itisli forces or outposts whenever de sired, and in tliis way have ad-1 vanced to within two days' march, ( or 100 miles, of Cape Town." Notice of Kltclion. 1 An election will be held in the town | of Fort Mill (S. C.) on the lStli (lay of ' February, 15101, for tin* purpose of oleekiu^u Warden to till the vacancy caused Iby tin* resignation of T. S. lvirkpatriek. IT. D. Faulkner, J. Hughes and, fa*. G. (Julp have been appointed niauavers of the election. T Bv order of the Town Council. J. W. McKLHANEY, lntemlant. 1 IRA G. SMYTHE, Secretary. J. U. Tray wick & Co., I DEALERS IN ihXE LIQIJOHS AND WINES, I No. IEast Trade St. CHARLOTTE, - - - N. C. BARBER SHOP. For first-class tousorial work to the harder shop of W. It. Carol hers in the bank liui 1 <1 i inr. Hair I'nltiiiir Slinin.r Shiii^iiKMtiii^aud Sia<;t'iu;j. I^nlios' hair KhatrJiKKM'd. WOOD WANTED. i \ WANTED AT ONCE ?ONE THO USA N D COR DS () F F( H'RFOOT WOOD AT OUR YARD NEAR FORT MILL. CHALOTTE BRICK CO. i HHBHKre/' U ' UW'WI.WK ^ - _L m J r. A DHPN .. SEEDS I lmve just received my FRESH SEED. Each paper is dated and an old pnpe" can not be sold by mistake. (loud Seed is necessary to secure a j^ood stand. Do not buy cheap Seed. They may be expensive in the end. A. 0. JONES. THE FORT MILL BRIiU - STORE, OPPOSITE T1IE HAVISOS HANK, Is the place at which yon can al ways find everything usually kept at a first-class apothecary shop. 1 am running a drug store, iti every sense of the word. 1 can prescribe for you. till prescriptions, and sell you drugs. I have had years of experience and am thoroughly acquainted with the drug business. A full line of the best ? CIGARS, CIGAKETTES, anl) SMOKING and CHEWING TOBACCO Eveytiiino in STATIONERY. T. B. ME A CHAM, M. D. It's a \Va*te ol Words to argue with tlio patrons of tho Mixh'l Strain l<auudrv. Charlotte. X. C. ?they know full well that washing and ironing of everything eleansible in the line of wearing apparrel is dono properly by ns. What we want you to know it. Hence this a<lver^^^HBf nieiit. Will you favor us with a order: We will he happy to cuI^hBHB ami to deliver anything you laundered. We make specially of lniui^BSHBE hd. L. flcBI.H \NAY, ' Fort mil, S. C. t w. rr. hoover, LIQUOR DEALER, I'HIRLOTTF, N. C. We look especially after the shipping trade and below quote very close fIir . vein ?- . i ? - t? hi iic ](iau iu nave your eiders. Terms cash with order. Corn, per gallon, in jug (boxed), $1.50, $1.75 and Sr. All first-class goods at $1.75 and $j VERY OLD. Ryes from $1.60 to $2, $2 50 and 3|| $.1 5? per gallon. (iins from $1 60 to $2, and $2 50. I (lenulne Imported 'Fish din" at $j H pei gallon. 9H Apple Brandy, $2.25 per gallon. H Peach Brandy $2 50 per gallon. I No charge for jug and box on above, H and no charge at these prices for keg lj when wanted in such quantities. I I ct us I ave your orders and oblige, I W 0. HOOVER. I * 'j, 1 \