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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.
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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.
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I A "Blll-Kllllnjf Legislature."
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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
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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
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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 ,!
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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WANTED AT ONCE ?ONE
THO USA N D COR DS () F F( H'RFOOT
WOOD AT OUR YARD
NEAR FORT MILL.
CHALOTTE BRICK CO.
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.. 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.
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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
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