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FORT MILL TIMES f DEMOCRATIC V PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY W B. W. BRADFORD. Terms of Subscription: g One year 11.00 li Bix months CO Three months 25 Correspondence on current nuhject* Is invited, but no responsibility is assumed for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications will not be published In theire columns. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those Interested. Fort Mill "Phone (with lontf distance connections) No. 26. ________ WEDNESDAY. AUOU8E 12. 1903. > mi'-iu.. . i- ?n. i. - w. . - J.'. (iMIIOml I * Vf\U vuir \f tt'ua (nn llttr x/.?v ? *. wojrviifcj n ?o ? ?/w *'?S a fellow to get caught m the Wall street flurry. The biggest coward under the aun in the man who deserts his wife because he iu too lazy to support her. The Stnte fair coiamitte is certainly fortunate in placing advertising contracts at the uo-ceut-nword rate. The ceremony of the coronation of Pope Pius X took place in the liasilica of St. Peter's, Rome, Sunday in the presence of the princes and high dignitaries of the cliurch. Those eastern college students who went out west to work in the harvest fields during their vacation were uot a very howling success. Tuey found it sotnowhatdif fereut from football aud croquet. The representatives of the powers have so far failed to renew the proamnion piucea upon the importation of arms into China, nud it is mummed that the agreement will be dropped when it expires August 25. Press dispatches state that the negroes in Illinois and Indiana ere leaving in large numbers and emigrating to the Southern States. It would seem that the South iB not the only section of the country that is open to the charge of brutality to the negro. When a new pope of the Cntholic church is installed one of the most interesting of the ceremonies is the bestowing upon him of the fisherman's ring. Iu the case of Pius X this ceremony wa* performed with A new ring, the old one having been lost after the death of Pope Leo. # President Roosevelt has bncked up his race suicide pronunciationto with a hundred dollar check to a Pittsburg man who has just become the father of his twentieth child. A distinguished citizen by U>e name of Grovor is doing nobly by his country, but as yet has not been the happy recipient of auy of the "long green." O ? If any genius or scieutist believes that he has hit upon a way to exterminate the pestiferous cotton boll weevil, now is the time for him to come forward. Fifty thousand dollars will be paid out of the State treasury of Texas to the person who presents a successful remedy, the award to be made by a committee of five members recently appointed by Governor Lauhau. t t Don't invest your hard earned dollars in the fake mining concerns that are flooding the mails with their literature. When enormous dividends are to be made you will flud the financial kings dabbling in that sort of thing themselves. The fakir always preys upon the credulity of the man with a few hundreds, and in uiost cases succeeds in getting his inouey without giving hiui anything in return but a little worthless paper. ? An exchange makes tbe following suggestion, which is worthy, of consideration: "In some future and more enlightened age people will see that it is as much the business of the government to provide weans for men to go where they are needed to garner the wheat, or dig the ore. or gather the fruit, or do the useful productive work of the city or oountry, as it is to send ships loaded with fighting men to 4strstegio points' in another hemisphere, or cart trAinloads of idle soldiers frotu one ocean to another.' The educated negro is the only solution to tbe race question now agitating the oountry, acoording to a writer in the Chicago Tribune. If tllia VIM or r?f tku i? 1 ww .w.w ??v?? w ?mo %0wam%f IB 1TCV| it will be many yearn before the question ia settled, for notwithstanding the negro hue been a free moral agent for about forty years, he ia sadly deficient from an educational standpoint, and ia making but lif-le improvement in that line. There are many f^ople even in the North now who are becoming eoni vinced that the negro is no better ; off today than he was when hi I bondage under a humane muster. 1 One of the beat ways to rolve the shortage of labor question in i the western farming country ia for | the railroads to adopt some reasonable method of getting the unemployed of other sections out to the country where they are needed. Many an eastern man without a dollar in his pocket would he glad to get out west ami on a farm if the transportation question was removed, but in nine cases out of ten the lack of funds compel them i to remain in their own towns. The ; 1 railroad companies might give the subject some profitable thought. Printing the News. There are certain individuals in ! every community where a news- 1 paper is published who have an j idea that every man connected with the publication can print ' what he pleases, says the New 1 London Day. Time and again 1 matters have been hunded up to 1 the newspaper men, which had ' they been printed without careful investigation into detail, would 1 have resulted in something more 1 than interesting to the newspaper concerned. People should understand that a newspaper is printed for the sole purpose of carrying ! the news of the day to every man, woman and child interested in what happens. It is a poor stick of a reporter or editor who listons to personal grievances and permits himself to lie influenced by personal friendship or family matters. The newspaper man wlin does not recognize news and who is influenced by any degreo of sentiment to suppress that news has no business to be engaged in the work. Time and again newspsper rennpfaru linen Konti im?\e/?i>ol.nfl ' i v so ii ii ? w wvvii n lJlJ 1 ia \ i ujr people who have risked to have certain items of an interesting nature suppressed because they were an interested party and if the mutter reflected upon some action of theirs, have advanced either the plea that their families would suffer or that someone in an influential position is their friend. Not l(>"ls "go a man who was concerned in a police court case made a request that his name be kept from the public and that a matter of public interest should he suppressed. He was incontinently turned down for the renson that news of public interest to everybody is what a newspaper is require to print, no matter how much they sympathize with the party who is concerned. Joy and gloom are taken equnl care of by the daily publications; but when a man is concerned with something that is wronj;, he cannot expect that a newspaper will shield him from any matter of friendship or influence, because 1 the editor recognizes the fact tlint a man who does not live a life of purity cannot expect to have his actions hidden. He alone is to hlame As lorn* nw he k?>enn with. in the bounds of propriety he has nothing to fear, but when he oversteps these bounds to the extent of making his action a matter of public interest, there is nothing that can either help or save him. Horein lies the fact that a newt paper, bh much ao the church or any social intTuenee, is an advantage. It is through this media that people know their neighbors, and there are few who step over the line of respectability who can ever hope to prevent their actions becoming public in a community where a good, live publication is disseminated. It is silly nonsense to approach a legitimate publication with any idea of it withholding n matter that is of public ii?- , portance or interesting to the community. If such a thing was possible there would be no use subscribing for a paper. If people behave themselves and go _ I i it A # J ? ft dou i uie even tenor oi ineir way they will not receive newspaper i notoriety, but when people are be- i having themaelvea and are a bene* ( tit and honor to the community in ( which they reside, the newapaper 1 takes pleasure in chronicling their ( movements and telling their friends j when sickness and sorrow is their portion. While the people who pass the pale of the ordinary from any downward tendency on their | part are having their actions chronicled in a just and proper manner, those who are recognized by their good works and honest, good behavior will receive the laudations they deservo. It does not matter whether a man is in a public position or in a private capacity, this holds equally true. A newspaper that is a newspaper will always chronicle facts. The house of Lawson Talley, with its coutenta, waa burnt near Jowprille one night last week. The lose was very hoavy to the old negro, who ia well thought of; jip-" ' ' ? t The Contract Law. The state supreme court has nf- J irmed the opinion of .Indue Forty in the caae of the State vs. r^rank Rhody, which wont up :roin Anderson county. } Mr. Rliody was indicted for em- ( ploying a minor who was under > ontract to work for another, the | :ontrnct being umde by the father ( >f the minor. Magistrate B. F. , tVilsou held that it was ugainst , he law to employ a minor under , he above circumstances, and from , lis decision the defendant appeal* < ?d to the circuit court, and .Judge Purdy at the February term of < he court of gonerul sessions for | Anderson county, reversed the , nagistruteV decision and dismissed Lhe case. Tlie State then appeal- j , ?d to the supreme court and the supreme court affirmed the judg- ( ineiit of the circuit jud^e. Tine ( in an important decision, as it af- : fects the faun lat)or contracts, riio law as construed hy the State supreme court is that it is not an i idictable offense for one to emp'oy n minor knowing the minor Lo be under contract to work for mother. lentil the law is chanced hy the general assembly the farm, tT8 of the State will be in no hurry to hire minors. The New Pope. The Human Catholic church is again pursuing the even tenor of its ways with a pope in control of its destinies. The conclave closed its labors on the 4th by electing Cardinal Sarto, known ns the Patriarch of Venice, to succeed Leo XIII as the head of the church. So many names had been prominently mentioned that the result was a surprise, although the dispatches indicate that the choice is wise and that it will meet with the approbation of the people. Snrto has assumed the name of Pius X. For years he was one of the greatest preachers sf his church, is a man of unquestioned ability and firmness, and it is believed he will pursue a liberal policy throughout his administration. He was a ..I i i - t it. - i - i uuibm personal liionu ui lilt* ai'HU pontiff. Sarto belongs to the ecclesiastical congregation of bishops, ami enjoys great popularity in his diocese. Beheaded Her Two Daughters. One of the most brutal crimes ever committed in this State occurred Sunday evening in Colleton county. Lizzie Aiken, n colored woman of about 40 years of age. killed her two children by cutting off their heads with an axe. it is said that their heads were completely severed from their bodies, not a nerve, vein or other ligiment being left toconnect the two. It appears that an effort was made to dispose of the bodies, for a tire had been kindled around the corpse of the younger child. The woman has been committed to jail, and is thought to be insane. Both ..f ?.? .-i-i- * iiic ?.uimien one ^Iim, uuo U i yara of aye, and the other 3. A Record Breaking Raid. Thirty-five hundred gallons of beer, a 125-gullou copper still with cap and worm, 20 gallons of low wine, 18 fermenters, 10 gallons of whiskey and other fixtures belonging to n large still seized, besides two men arrested and placed under heavy bond is the result of one of the biggest raids ever made in Spartanburg county by dispensary constables and revenue men. The raid was made on Thursday at ihe foot of the Hogback mountain, near the-North Carolina Hue. Z&A Of Bitter Tight. . "Two physicians had a long and stubborn tight with an nboess on my right lung" writes J. F. Hughes of Dupont, Ga., and gave me up. Everybody thought my time had come. As a last resort I tried Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption. The benefit I received was striking and I was on my feet in a few days. Now I've entirely regained my health." It conquers nil Coughs, Colds and Thioat and Lung troubles. Guaranteed by all druggists. Price 00c, and $1.00. Trial bottles free. Jeffries and Corbett, the cele* hrated pugilistic stars, are to engage in a battle next Friday night in San Francisco for the heavy* weight championship of the world. Pnti An End To It All. A grevious wail oftimes comes as a result of unbearable pain from over taxed organs. Dizziness, Back nclie, Liver complaint and Constipation. But thanks to Dr. King's New Life Pills they put an end to it all. They are gentle hut thorough. Try theui. Only 25c. Gnarauteed by all druggists. The cxar of Russia receives the higheet wage iu the world?$78.30 a minute for a day of six hours. j NEWS OF PLEASANT VALLEY. Jhurley Monument Unveiled?Har* rison Church Dedicated.? Baseball. ?Personal Mention. The unveiling of the Shiuley nonument took place last Thnrs:lay, with sppropriate exercises. L'lie inonutneut whs unveiled by Four little girls, viz: Misses Inez Culp, Mildred Hall, Lizzie Harris tnd Marie Kims. After the exercises at the * emetery wereconclud?d, the crowd retired to the chnrch where addresses were made bv Dapt. W. E. Ardrey, Hon. V. S. Bryant Rud Thi>s. F. McDow Esq. The addresses woreeloquent, highly entertaining and very instructive. It was estimated that be tween eight hundred and a thousand people were present. A large crowd of people attend* ed the dedicatory services of the new Harrison church last Sunday morning Ht 11 o'clock. There were representatives from Charlotte, Lancaster, Wnxhaw, Pine* ville. Fort Mill and other places. Two gHrnes of baseball were plnyed on the Pleasant Valley diamond Thursday afternoon. One between Pleat a t Valley and Fort Mill, resulting in a victory for the lutter by a score of 10 to 3. The other game was between Pineville and Fort Mill, the score being 11 to 2 in favor of Pineville. A delightful ice crearn supper and lawn party whs enjoyed Thursday evening at the home of Mr. J. P. Bailee, there being about 100 present. Misses Blanche Smith and Birdie Stephenson, of Wnxhaw, visited relatives here the past week. Miss Florence Grier has returned I.l .t T?: :11.. -i? .. .. tu un iiuiiio en a. iiieviue nut*r ? visit to this section. Miss Daisy Hortou, of Heath Spring, is teaching school at Beluir. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Warwick, of Lancaster, visited rfriends here the past week. Mr. O. Barber has taken a two weeks* vacation in the mountains of North Carolina. 8. e. b. [And now, our assistant typo, who is a member of the Fort Mill ball nine, threatens to no <?? strike unless we make amends for the "other*1 ^ame, as reported in the above correspondence. He says that the ^nme was played immediately after Fort Mill had waxed it onto Plensnut Valley and that the meu were tired and worn out and unfit for a name with anybody. Besides this, he says that the ^aaie could not l>e properly called a match game, ns it was played ouly to practice the Pineville Imys, and liiai 11 lasteu (or ouly live in niugs.? Ed. Time*.] Trouble Ahead ? Captain J. W. Ardrey, of Fort Mill, may get in to trouble as the result of the good roads convention last Wednesday. Quite n number of i>eople were impressed with the idea that the captain is not only a man with au idea hh to what the county needs; hut he known also how to say what he wants to say in the right way and at the right time. Heretofore more than one man has suggested that he ought to go to the general assembly. Of course, it is generally understood that the captain does not want to go to the general assembly, or into politics nt all; but the voters do not always defer to the preference of the individual citizen.?Yorkville Enquirer. The Times would regret to wish anyone trouble, but should such trouble (?) as the above befall Mr. Ardrey a year heuce, we will be more than pleased. A man of such eloquence, firmness and ability would be a worthy addition to the York delegation in the general assembly. Sttidds Prsvsatsd. The startling announcement that a preventive of suicide hnd been discovered will interest many. A rundown system, or despondency invarahly precede suicide and something has been found that will Drevent that condition uliicli makes suicide likely. At the first thought of self destruction take Electric Bitters. It being a great tonic and nervine will strengthen then nerves and build up the system. It's also a great Stomach, Liver and Kidney regulator. Only 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by ail druggists. The failures in Wall street indii ate that the people are sobering up. It will not affect the general prosperity of the country. The Stalk feasily. A little thing sometimes results in death. Thus a mere scratch, insignificant outs or puny boils have paid the death peualty. It ia 'wise to have Bucklens Arnica Salve ever handy. It'a the best salve on earth sud will prevent fatality, when Burns, Sores, Ulcers sud Piles threaten. Only 25c at all drugstores. ..... .... 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