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" \v> ' . \ - v Slit rfovt 2-VUU Sinus. PUBLISH ED WEDNESDAYS. Wm. R BRADFORD. Subscription |?:ico . . fl per year. Correspondence on current subjects is invited, but wo do not n^ree to publish I'nmirtnliitvfcl rnnfniniiKr Dinvit f h:ii? ? JUKI words, and no responsibility is us Mimed for th<> views of <x>rr?'Sj?njnlonlK. As on advertising medium for t'harlot fe, f'ineville, Fort Mill, and llook Hill business houses The Times is utisur f passed. Rates made, known oil applies lion fc> the jmblirfior. I>ocnl Telephone No. 'id. FEBRUARY ?:<. HHil. The Cost of a Sonic. Over uud ov? r ami o'*cr t lio songs of our life are sun;.', The same today as in ages gray when llrst the lute was strung. The same today as in anus gray ttio sing er's highest nvt Is to sing of man and the soul of man from the depths of the human heart. To shift the song t hat lingers in his heart from t hat far day When men were brave ami women fair and life was in its May Is the singer's part, of gladness when he gives liis soul to inau In a song that lives because sweet pain has changed his earlier plan. The husk, flu; harvest and the bin and life's spreading plain To the singer must be singing if he man's soul would gain. Man in his soul unsatisfied strives for what etui not bo; He grasps at u star and holds in his hand , a drop from the sounding sea. Over and over and over, since t he tower's of time wore old; < >vor and over and over, since the cloud gave the sun its gold, Over and over and over, sineo the linos ?if our lives began, Has man gone out from the marching host losing of the soul of man. The singer who sang of the pyramid's prime has gone the ways of men, Hut the sun find moon and human heart nro just, the same as then. The heart of man is a restless sea of varied stur and clinic. Ami only when its depths are stirred comes song on the snores of time. . Ov or and over and over, siuce wrong hud ^ realm and state; Over aud over and over, sine* the shades ou tho'living wait; Over and over aud over, singing of sun iu the rain. The chosen of fiod are hrimriiitr tln< vnie.. of noiiy from paiu. ?J awe* Riley. . -? ? The General Assembly of South Carolina will adjourn this week. And according to the Columbia cor-1 respondent of the New* and Con- | tier, the seioiou has been hurnioniouH and has resulted in much good. It has emphasized the prosperity and good will existiug be tween the people of the State. The general appropriation bill 1 for this year will aggregate over 1 a million of dollars. It is the maximum amo'iut of appropriations for current r.nd legitimate expenses since the Democrats have taken charge of the State, and it only goes to accentuate the good feel-, ing and the satisfaction with the onward march of the State. What 11 goes more to show this than anything else is that none of the selfstyled economists braved the sen-!' timeut of the day and offered a bill looking to n reduction of the sala- ' i ies of the State officers. It is a 1 crying shame that this State pays 1 such poor salaries, and it will not 1 l>o long before justice is done, and 5 the salaries are made what they 1 ouoht to he ' The three great items of addi- 1 tion expense that were passed by the House of Representatives are ( $100,000 to the public schools, 1 $100,001) additional to the Con fed- r rnte^iensioners and $50,000 for the 1 Charleston exposition. The appro- ' printion bill reaches the million dollar mark without the $100,000 ' (Confederate pensions, which the 1 House declined to put in the gen- 1 ernl appropriation hill, and which 1 will not be effective until it iH ' placed in that act. ' There has been very little postive legislation and there is but little prospect of any. The greater portion of the session has been ( spent in discussing measures that ' were hilled or continued. f As was expected, there was ah- 1 solutelv nothing dono with the 1 dispensary law. The fnndumentnl ' law remains word for word ns it 1 stood before the session began, and ' there was but little suggestion of i r change, and the suggestions that { were made proved abortive. The ' ?>my ii'^miiiuoii in nny way atteet- " ing dispensary matters was the bill 11 which changes the mode of tin- dis- v tribulion *?f the fund,and in etVect " gives the profits to the counties N that make the diapcnanry profits, * by minimizing the State's share of i the profits and giving most of what F a li'is heretofore been i^??ito the Slut*' fund to the county and city ant linrit ies. There is no doubt the desire is to incrcasc lite profits for t he counties and cities, find while it 'Iocs look us if such legislation may he an ctVort to force the dispensaries on counties that have none, it is simply a matter of dollars and cents, and not and abstract polit ical issm . The countieI that have dispensaries outnumher those that have none, and they want, what they n ml am ont irnl v mil i iVn-oti t ...... .... .V...... .J mm to whether other counties have dispensaries or not.. They can continue not to have them. and thus do without what profit is credited. The child labor issue was uni|tiestinnnhlv the one which attracted most attention and elicited the greatest interest ami discussion. It was made unfortunately too much a matter for political advert iseincnl on the one side or the other,and it has trotten so now that political caution will in time brin^ about some such leuisla! ion. and when it is passed it will lie largely a stop to t he demands that are heini; made from certain quarters. The Senate, by one vote, passed the child labor bill. The House, by a decisive vole, killed just sin h a measure, and has continued till next session or killed a host of similar bills, so it is pretty safe to say that the House will either kill the Semite i bill or continue it until next session. so as to have a man of straw to talk at. ?To Raise the Maine. Five of the American contractors who went from this country to Havana a short time u^o to bid on the contract for rnisiiiir It... ? ..#.L of the American battleship Maine arrived in New Orleans last Welnesilay. There were twelve bills in all, that of a Chicago firm being accepted. Its offer was to raise the Maine nt its own coat and giyo the United States goveriunont d per cent, of the proceeds. All the contractors agreed that the Maine could be raised, but that the job would be difficult. A coffer dam must be built entirely around tho wreck It w ill be constructed of long pilings, and then etnlmiiked with dirt, making it water tight. Then the water can be pumped out of the inclosure, leaving the wreck exposed in the mud. Derricks and powerful lifting machinery will then he brought into use anil the hull lifted from its bed of mud. If it can be patched up so that it will Moat, that will be done. If it can not lie raised it will be torn to pieces, while the coffer dam keeps back the water. The divers found that the wreck had settled some forty feet, in the soft mud, the bottom of the ship being sixty feet below the low tide mark. The cost of raising the ves iel in estimated at from $200,000 to $.'100,000. Its value when raised nn not tie estimated, lint some of the eontractors thought it might be worth $400,000. One of the loutractors thought that it' the vessel eonhl tie thiated it would lie north $1,000,000. The general impression wns that it could not be ionted. The divers found two magazines in the vessel containing 1100 tons of powder intact and uninjured. All lie divers and surveyors agreed hat the Maine had been blown up iy a mine set otV from a land lattery. ?? Mark Twain on the Philippines. Mark Twain is speaking his mind m current public matters with re resiling frankness and force in this ra of nationalism, corruption and ant, says an exchange. Describ . !.. 11. ni.if . iil; uur course m uiu lmnppiues. n nn article in the February North \iueric?n, he nays: "There have >een lies, hut they were told in n rood online. We hnve been trench toiis, hut thnt wna only in order hat real ^ood ini^'it eonie out of ippnrent evil. We have crushed md deceived a c iiTidinu people; ve liavo turiu 1 n-rain. ! t! weak iml the friendless who trusted us-, ve have stamped out n just and iuellii^eut nnii w-dl-ordered rej i!:: ; ve have stabbed nit ally in tli" l.ri'-k md slapp d the faee of n mv.. t ' . 9 hav#? b mirht. a shadow from nn onemy that hadn't it to Bell: we have .robbed u tiustino friend of hit* land and hi* Wa rty; we have invited our clean voting men to thoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a f!a;j which bandits have deen accustomed to tear, not to follow ; we have debauched A morion's honornnd black ened her face before the world: but each detail was for the beat." i ?As Clirist would Run a Store. 11. -1. Norton, a grocer of Marion, hid., is running his store "as Christ would run it.'" and bids fair to run all his eonip 'litors out of business. 1 Me sells strietly for cash, refuses to deliver any floods at the houses of ! eustomers, d(splays the cost mark on HVtry article itm! thus shows ' exactly wlint profit lif is making. 1 llf ivfuses to sell tobacco, cigars <?r any prep t r;i) ions t lint have cider, brandy or other lit|nor in them, lit* carries tin a soup house for the poor with his grocery business.ami : 1 sells all floods there at actual cost. | Tillman ami IX pew. Washington Post. Two extremes in the Senate met ; at the niollt session last Wedlies lay when Senator Depew and Sen. ator Tillman had the iloor at the, same time. I )epe\v ha i just eome from a dinner party, ami was the picture of a man at ease with all the world. lie was immaeulately tlressed in evening a* lire and his face was as smiling as a basket of chips, 'iVnator Tillman, who rose t from the plow to be governor of his Slate, and a t w ice-o!eeted Senator, so.ol lis till' i'let;.llieics ol roei oty, and is literally a roujjh di imoiid. He is as frank in his speech as he it} unci nventional in his dress. i Senator IVpew asked the pre- ' siding otlieer to inform liini vhnl J question was before tin* Senate. Ho seemed to loo!: upon 11n? per* ] fornianee as an entertainment, and J was evidently ?;nitc ready to treat the large audience in tin- galleries to a witty after-dinner speech. * Senator Tillman broke in upon 1 him. "If the Senator had b:en in the Senate, as he was bound to be ' under his obligation to the Repob lienn bosses h?rve,'' said Tillman to Depow, 'die would have known i what was going on." Kitchener's Iron Mand. The following passages from a letter of a soldier serving in South Africa show the horrible brutality of the British army in t hat country: "From that on during the rest of the trek, which lasted four days, our progress was like the old-time forays in the Highlands of Scotland two centuries ago. The country is very like Scotland ami we moved on from valley to valley 'lifting* cattle and sheep, burning, looting and turning out the women n.ud children to Hit nnd cry beside their once beautiful farmsteads. It was the first touch of Kichners iron hand. Aiuf we were the knuckles. It was a terrible thins* to see. and I don t know that I want to sec anot her trip of the aort. AVc burned a track about six miles through t liese fertile valleys,and completely | destroyed the village of Witpoort and the town of Dulsroon. Some of the houses that were too solidly built to burn were blown up. Away oil" on a think you would see a hujjfe toadstool of dust, rocks and rafters rise solemnly into the air and then subside in a heap of debris. Ten seconds afterwards a tremendous roar would rend the air, and the dust would blow slowly nwav. A ^rent many of the houses were sursiirrounded by beautiful gardens abloom with roses, lillios ami liolyhoeks, ami embowered with fruit trees. As we snt by the ljiiiis we eotild see m troop of mounted men streaming otV toward a farm. With my glasses I eouhl so > the women and children bundled out, their bedding thrown after them. The soldiers would carry it out of reach of the dairies, and the next moment smoke would commence curling up from tiie windows and d ors ?at lirst a faint blue mist, then becoming denser until it rolled in clouds. The cavalry would ride rapidly away, and the p >or women and ! Id> n. utterly confounded by the "> Y sudden visitation, would remain1 standing in the yard or garden ; watching their hoineB disappear in i tire and smoke. "The column inarched into 'A it- ; poort, a pretty little village snr- j rounded by hills. The ^uns wore} placed on the hills and trained on the place, and the cavalry and j mounted infantry rode into it and looted and burned every house ami shoo, except one belonging to a I'ritish subject. The Hour mill was blown up. We sat on tin' hills and watched the scene. When the mounted troops rode back they looked like a gang^>f dissolute pad illers. Their saddles were limp; j iiKv the i "iiristnias t tves with c!>ic!;s, shawls, mandolins. lamps, tea hollies every sort of imaginable article besides chickens,ducks. stick- i ling pigs. geese, and ag- I riculturnl prod. e'.s galore. *+ ?? The Last Negro Congressman. I Tiiero will I??? no colored men in 1 lite next House of Representatives , White, of Xmtl. Carolina, whose term expires on .March o. wiii pruh nl>Iy he 1 In hint of his race for tunny \i nrs to occupy a seat in Congress, l.'he restriction pluceil upon negro mlVrage in t he Southern States will prevent any more from being elect- , nl to either House of Congress, mil they are growing scarcer in the Stat-1 legislatures. T\ven1y-iiv?* years ago tin re were a dozen eol? >red men on the tloorofthe House itit 1 two or three in tin* Senate Mruce. of Mississippi, was the last >f the colored Senators and White [.'loses the career of the negro in die House. BARBER SHOP. For first class tonsorial work go tot he i?i 1*1 mi' wlii... .\l* 1? ? ? 2 ........ ?' i ?v . n. * iun?nn> 111 I ill* . ianU buildin;;. Hair Cutting, Shaving, <hainiH>"iin>r and Sinpdnj?. l?adirs' hair diani|MVM>d. Mule and Wagon Cheap. A (inc. miiind young ninle Blimp (or cash or on lime Also i (hrte-horse'itfitcbelP wagon. Apply to T. M. BUGBRS. 1 1 "THE OLD REE1 Get Our Wliilo our hits hotter during the the preceding yea tholess anxious t< year, and if low p modal ion count 1 will certainlv succ We offer special Seed, in exchange and Fertilizers, sell Horses and M We have in sloe aII sizes of "Old Hi mont" Wni>oiis. A i 1 wo ask of on tumors is to ?>ivo submit prioos bofo: suro to soo us bo Cotton Sood. T. B. BE1X .nn 9 -f V' f- 7 WTCP* Springfield Stock Farm. (Pra^on 9581-7.) Hereford, Short Horn, Aberdecn-An;pis Cattle.; Shropshire Sheep; B V Kii;;hsli Berkshire. Hn^s; Bronze Turkeys, and Barred Plymouth Roek aiul Indian Gaime Chickens. Write for prices. J. P. CHOWDER. Sept., FORT MILL, S. C. ' Notice of Election. An election will he held in the town ! ol Fort Mill (S.C.I ou the 18th day of February, 1901, for the purpose of electing a Warden to till the vacancy caused hv the resignation of T. S. lvirkpatriek. T. 1). Faulkner, .1. C. Hughes at ml (?. Culp have been aipi?ointed managers of the election. By order of the Town Council. J. W. MeKl.llANKY. lutemlaiU. IK A SMYTHK. Secretary. .T T1 TvnrrTTinlr i/v fra \J . U JL 1 CLJ VVl^n. UO l(U., . DKALKKS IN FIXE LIQIJOKS AN J) "U'lXES, No. I I Kust Trade Si. ( HARLOTTE, - - - X. 0. WOOD WAWTEDJ WANTED AT ONCE ?ONE j TIIOFSAN D CORDS OF FOPRFOOT WOOD AT OFU YAliI) NEAR FORT MILL. CHALOTTE BRICK CO. UMSE )J< promptly procured. OK HO FIX. 8euU sketch.Br vjtf *>r plioto for free report oq p*4eatahilU) . D"<k ?*Hco W t.? Obtain U.H.ind Voevifm Intern* u.?Tr?U.? XI ark ?."(*) FREE Fairest t?rins ever offered tu iin?ul??r? (t JJPATEHT LAWTf.RS OF tft TEAKS' PRACTICE A $ 20.000 PATENTS MWCURfD THROUGH THEM. 0? j All bauuMi ranhoeiitikl. Hven4 advice Keithfuinl I TjienrlcA. MndomU herjree flj) t*?-C. A. SNOW & CO.g ? Op* 0.1 P?i?M OMm, WASMMWT0N. a t.sf ABLE STORE/" j I Prices. iness avhs much year HHK) than in j ir, we are never> increase it this rices and accointor anything we I eed. prices for Cotton V T r . . 1 I * a mr nuns, meal SYe also l)iiv and ules. k and on 1 he way ckorv" and "Pied r friends and casus a chance to re buying, and be fore selling your PROPRIETOR = 01.0 RELIABLE STORB.*' GARDEN .. SEES)! I hnve just received my FllDSH SEFD. Each paper is dated and an old paper can not he sold oy I mistake, (iood Seed in neceseary to se- ^ cure n good stand. Do not iniy I cheap Seed. They may he ex pen. sive la the end. A. 0. J OSES. ! i THE FORT MILL DIG-STORE, ' OPPOSITE THE F WINUS b v.-.k. jj" Is the place at which you can always tiiill everything usually kept at a first-class apothecary O?op. y 1 nut running a drug store, in every sense of the word. 1 ran prescribe for you, till pre- I script ions, auil sell you drugs. I 1 have had years of experience and fl am thoroughly acquainted with I the drug business. I A full line of the best? 1 C1U A US, C1G A UETT ES, K AN*1> J SMOKING and CT115WING TOBACCO Evkythinu in STATIONERY. ] T. tt. MEAIHAM, M. D. | It s a Waste of Words t?> argue with the patron* of the M<xlol Steam laundry. Charlotte. N. C. ?they know full well that washing and ironing of everything cleausible in the line of wearing apixirrel is done properly hy us. What we want is for you to know it. Henee this advertiseinent. Will you favor uu with a trial order? We will 1m> happy t(# call for and to deliver anything you may want laundered. We make a specialty of lauutleriug window eurtaius. Ed. L. ncELHANAY, Agent. Fort AMU. S. C. w. n. IIOOVEK, LIODOR TVF.AT.P.ft CHARLOTTE, N. C. / We look especially after the ship* ping trade and below quote very cloaa figures. Will be glad to have yoar orders. Terms cash with order. ' Corn, per gallon. In Jug (boxed), $1.50, $1.75 and $a. All flrst-cla?s goods at $1.75 and $3 VERY OLD. t Ryes from $1.60 to $3, $3 50 and $.1 50 per gallon. (ilns from $1.60 to $3, and $3.50. MCMUing im ported "Fish din" ml $j per xtllon. Apple Brandy, $2.35 per gallon. Peach Brandy $3 50 per gallon. No charge for )ug 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 . U. H 0 0 V F R i:M i