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FOllT MILL TIMES DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY B. W. BRADFORD. Terms of Buhscrlptlon: One year Jl.00 K|k months f.o Three months 2f? Correspondence on current subjects t? Invited, but no responsibility Is assumed for the views of norrespondeQts. Anonymous communications will not be published In these columns. Fort Mill '1'liono (with lonjc distance connections) No. 28. On application to the publisher, ndvertlrlnx J'ntes are made known to those Interest'-d. WEDNESDAY, SEPT'MB'H S3, 1903. If the liu Igariatis want to liek t|i'.Turks they might wiih advantage import a few sharpshooters from li.eHthitt county, Kontuc k y. m m m Scant provision ih made for the public schools in the Indian Territory. Possibly the grafters fear the result of educating the savages. 0 TJie mnn who went after President Roosevelt with a gun has been considered a "harmless idiot" for years. And yet the authorities 'allow such people to run at large, regaraiet-s ot tue tact Hint no idiot is ever really harmless. ! A Washington statistician, says Ihe Inter Ocean, hns discovered that seventy-seven members of the Fifty-eight Congress, twenty-six senators and Hfty one representatives, were soldiers in the civil war. Forty-seven were in the Union and thirty in tfie Confederate army. Civil war soldiers form more than 111 percent, of the total membership of Congress. The civil war ended more than thirty-eight years ago. The present average of these former Boldiers is not stated. But the boy of 16 who went into the army for a few months only in 1865 is now 54. The young man of 20 who enlisted in 1861 is now 62. Probably the average age of the civil war soldiers in Congress is at least 65. # There is a belief widely current in this country that the United States is the only country with a corn producing belt, hut this belief is erroneous. Iiecent statistics show that South America also mines corn. Argentine, a country two-tifths as large hs the United States, has only 5,000,000 population. With this spaiRu population 4,030.000 aores of coru were cultivated last year, yielding 130,000,000 bushels. The United States had in 04,000,000 acres, which yielded 2,253.000,000 bushels. Considering the population of the South American country the showing made was very flattering. The average yield in Argentine was tuirty bushels to the sere, while that of the United States was but twenty-seven. It hna not been generally known that the everglades of Florida have not been open to settlement, but such is the case. The government laud office has only recently thrown this large tract of laird open to those who desire to settle there and improve it and reclaim it to civilization. Lake Okeechobee receives the drainage of all Central Florida. It is bordered with vast morasses which extend southward for sixty or Beventy miles and this part is called the Everglades. This tract, covering something like n thousand square miles which the foot of white man may be said never to have pine* trated, although small seclotis have been visited at the risk of life and limb, is now to be partial* ly drained and parcelled out iuto small farms. To Prcytnt Wricks. J The work of putting in the run* sway switches on Saluda inouii* j tain is Hearing completion, and within a few days the dangers accompanying the handling heavy freight trains over the steep Saluda grade will be practically ellmi* nated. The rails on what is known as switch No. 1, have been laid, ii nrl ti t a uv 1 a/1 fKiu will C??iV? IV in V.IJMJI.IVM H1IO oni VWIJ Will be ready for use,* if the occasion requires, in a few days. The work of grading switch No. 2, which is locnted near the foot of thA" ountain, some two or three <jTuidred yHrds this side of Melrose,Is being rapidly pushed snd will be all oomplete in ten or fifteen day*. These switches will remain open day and night with a guard stationed at each one, and if the train going down the mountain gets from under the oontrol of the orew it simply runs into one of iue*eswitches snd, owing to their location, the train is easily brought to n standstill. If all is well with the downgoing train the engineer signals the mau stationed at the turn off, the switch is thrown and tl e train proceieds on down the uiouu tain.? Columbia Record. r: ) The Tillman Trial Next Monday. Dispatcher sent out from Lexington Monday say that the trial of Jus. H. Tillman, charged with the i murder of N. (Jr. Gonzales, has been informally fixed by acting Judge Frank 11. Gary to begin next Monday morning. Solicitor Thurmond for the State suggested that Thursday be fixed for the I trial and made a brief but clear nr! gument in favor of that day, but the judge, influenced, as he said, by a special i resentment of the grand jury and a petition from the fiscal officers of Lexington j county, complied with the earnest plea of the attorneys for the defense, named the first day of the second week of the sessions. Some Good Adviceliishop Fowler has given some good advice to the young men who would enter the ministry, and if followed hi? advice would produce a different grade of preachers than some with which we are aillicted now. Kays the good bishop: "Preaching is your business, and the question is. how can you beI come able preacheis? It means hard work. Get into your study at 7 o'clock Monday morning, and begin to prepare your sermon for the following Sunday. Work till about 1 o'clock, spend the afternoon visiting your flock, return to your study at <1 and stay there until 10 or even 12 o'clock at night, if your physique can stand it. I'se I only short words, ho that everybody in the Intermediate department at Sunday school knows what you are talking about. Big words are tombs in which to bury little ideas. Work on your address every day until Saturday afternoon, and then you will have the beginning of what may, by infinite charity, he called a sermon. In ten years you will be a good preacher. You must not talk trash Yon must compete with the best literary efforts.in the l>nok.s ami magizines. The pica her's toinplation is neither liquor nor woman. It is laziness. Excepting the bishop tttill presiding elder, tiie preacher has t.ue best opportunity in the world of anybody to become lazy. Even the cats and dogs must know by our lives that we are sanctified to Christ#" Fort Mill Negro in Trouble. Fred Truesdale. a young negro man who, up to about two weeks aco, lived in or near Fort Mill, was locked up at the police 'station in Charlotte Monday upon the very serious charge of having criminal, ly assaulted Mrs. T.J. Killough. a white lady who lives in the Gingham Mill district of that city. The assault is alleged to have been made on lust Wednesday, while Mrs. Killough was carrying dinner to her husband, at a point near the railroad crossing of the Southern and Seaboard roads Mrs. Killough says that she met Truesdale in a deeii cut. and atei> ped aside ho hh to allow the negro j to pasH. Trueadale confronted her with a demand for her money. Upon being told that Hhe had no money, the negro grappled with the woman, and, besides tearing her clothes, felled her with a blow. Mrs. ICiHough's screams frightened Trueadale and he ran. The assault, for an unknown reae.on, was not reported to the Ijol.ce until Monday, when Chief1 t win, nceompnnied by Mrs. Killough, went to a brick yard near the city, where it had been learned TrucHdell was at work. The negro was at once spotted, and. after being identified by Mrs. Killough, was taken to the guard house to await nn investigation. Truesdell denies the charge, and says that he did not even accost Mrs. Killough. The negro is a bright mulatto, about 17 years of age, and his mother is now residing in this place. r> i < /-> . t- v vjunncus v?cis itn i cars. The trinl of Robert T. Ounnells, I white, indicted for the rape, on Friday, the 11th, of a 4-yeu-old negro girl, began in Greenville at ' 10 o'clock Saturday morning and i ended at t> o'clock in the afternoon. The evidence against the accused was altogether circutnatant al, but it was strong and convincing and the only weak link in the chain of evidence waa whether or not the rape had been accomplished. The injury to the child waa serious and left no doubt as to what was the intention of the brutal ae- I sault, but the actual crime was not proven. The jury must have taken i this view of the case as after hii hour's deliberation the verdict was rendered of guilty under the second count of the indictment which was an assault with intent to ravish, the penalty for which is not exceeding ten years imprisonment, / Fort Mill's Oldest Citizen. Matthew ^1 11 whh horn .Tilly 1 (I, 1H12, 4 miles northwest of Foi^t Mill, oil 1h?' place now owned hy Charlie Crook. He wiih married in Ih.'iT to Mis-? Lucrecia Bennett, daughter of Jno, Bennett, To them were horn nine children, four living and live dead. There hio 45 grand-children, 15 being dead, 20 living, bee idea 44 great-grandchildren, 10 deail and 114 living. Mr. Merritt is now !)2yenrs old. lie remembers when there was n? t a threshing machine in this conn*} , the grain being tranifl'd out by I horses, and not a cotton press, cotton being packed by having a hole I cut in the tloorHiui a Hack fanttMiI'd there, and packed by a crowbar. A bab' weighing 250 pounds was considered a large bale' Mr. Meri l ilt says that in 1818 there whs frost in every month of the year except August, and that people had to set by the lire in June, in time of wheat harvest. He r? members the stars falling in 18351, also the first well dug in Fort Mill township, it being at the old Who ren blacksmith shop. Can recall the time when people lived on dirt floors, when plank had to tie Hawed by hand. He says that the last deer killed in or around Fort Mill W--H killed near where the cotton mill now stands. Mr. Merritt volunteered to go to the war in 1801. but was rejected on account of his age, he being then 54 years old, but was conscripted later and taken to Columbia, S. (J. He whh there when Sherman's army took Columbia. The nearest market they hail for their cotton in those days, lie says, was Charleston, S. 0. It generally required about 51 weeks logo to and return from Charleston. Mr. Merritt joined Flint Hill Baptist church in 1851G, of which he is hull h mamoer. ? The Plank Problem. Prof. ,T. A. Boyd, of Pineville, n few days ago forwarded The Times the solution, or rather results of operations of the plank problem published in last week's paper. According to Prof. Boyd*8 solution the plank, whieh is 12 feet long, 15 inches at one end and 9 inches at the other, would have to he cut at a point measuring 12.37 inches width, and each piece would then contain 0 square feet. For explanation of ti.e problem Prof-. Boyd refers Times readers to Colaw and Elwnod's Advanced School \ l 41 :n u ...l _ I ?\i 1111 uir i ii", \> 11i-j r inr^ >viii Li1111 <1 similui' problem worked out. ?? Of Local Interest. Although as yet nothing has been definitely decided, it is understood that, the York bar will ask for a special term of court this fall in addition to the regular term. The special term that was held by Judge Dantzler last spring relieved the calendars somewhat; but there is still pending a great deal more business than will likely lie disposed of at the next regular term.? Yorkvilie Enquirer. Railroad Commissioner Harris, with the expert, J. H. Averill, began an inspection of the trestles and bridges of the old Three C's road, beginning at Blacksburg Thursday. The inspection appears to have been pretty thorough, the whole day being consumed between Blacksburg and Rock Hill. ?Rock Hill Herald. Reuben Pitts Goes Free. The trial of Reuben Pitts, the sj....... I. - _ I I ?? ? > ^' 11111 iii 11 mi i ^ tii' 1i oo i leacuer who some months ago shot mid killed one of his pupils, Edward Foster, whs ended Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, and the defendant goes free. Argument was delivered by dudge Geo. \V. Nicholls and Mr. Stanyarne Wilson, for the defendant, and Solicitor Sease for the prosecution. The arguments of each of these gentlemen was the subject of high praise and comment. The findings of the jury were received with an enthusias' ic and prolonged burst of applause by the large crowd present. Anniversary of Sharpsburg Battle. Chariot to Observer, Friday. Yesterday was the forty-first anniversary of tho great battle of Sliarpsburg, at Sharpsburg, Md., between tho Fedoral forces under Geu. McClollau and the Confederates nndor Geu. Loo. After this battle thoro wero f?0,(KX) dead on the tiolds, tho Confederate loss being 3Q.(KX) und the Union 24,000. Both sidosthought they wore defeated and the Federals began to withdraw. They learned of tho retreat of the Confederates. however, and followed. | The first tight was on the 17th and both sides spent the next day in bnrying tho dead. The Confederate retreat began before dawn on the morning of tho 10th and the Union forces followed them to Shepardstowu, Va.. which is on a river, and thohattloof Shepardstown was fonght that ovening. The Southern army crossed tho river and one-half of tho Federal forces were over when General Stonewall Jackson fell npon them likoa thunderbolt and utterly routed McClollan's army. The oarnugo in this battle was great, although Jackson lost very few men, tho Federals being too surprised to fight, "That Boy." Under the ubove caption the following article, written for the Southern ! Christian Advocate by Rev. J. W. Daniel. D. D.t appeared in Thursday's issue of the Chester Reporter: No enemy is more dangerous to a commonwealth than ignorance, or an education u]Kirt from religious tnttuen; ces. France is a country older than : ours, and a country where institutions of learning prevail: vet ovor the doors of her public lmlIs, I'm told by one recaiitly returned from that country, is written, "There is no God and no religion." That seutinient is fraught with more danger to Frauco than any invading army that might enter her t writory. Give that boy a chance. I know him. You urn needlessly i>erplexed utxmt him. W orse and more unpromising boys than he is have made great men and become a blessing to their oountry. Yes, I know you have ,alked to your wife about him, and she has gone into the closet to pray for him; God will hear her, if you will act with common sense | and not defeat your good wife's peti* i tiou. I know he is indifferent, careless, may be bad?smokes oigarettes, spends t >o much money?is visionary and sticks to nothing long at a time. 1 know ic is provoking, but don't be two hard on hiiu. Be thuukful that he is I not a fool. Toll him there is a place where boys may get broader visions, | where a well trained corps of guides ! undertake to lo.ul aspiring youth to heights where new beauties unfold, and unbound visions open up, to the honest seeker after truth. Try it and don't get discouraged too soon about that boy. That boy! Yes that boy! His mothI or don't think as you do; she has contidenee in him. Let. him go this fall. Talk hint full of the trip, get him exi cited over the prospect of what is to be learned, and encourage him to go. That boy! Why there is two hundred dol1 lurs annually in that boy?hear the doli lavs jingle?he can make two hundred dollars in the cotton field. Yes I know , it, but if you think of him that way yon put him on a par with your best mule. Think more highly of him, he is worthy of it because he is an immortal soul. Put two hundred dollars annually into h in until he arrives at young manhood and yon will bo prouder of i him than you are of tho whole plunta; tion, with nil tho mules you have ever | owned, and crops yon have ever made tin-own into the bargain. ! (iive that thought less boy a chance, ! and if nothing else results, you will not | be the father of the man with all of his failures and mistakes. That within itself is worth all that college education will oost you?worth that much to you. A Boy's Wild Bide For Life. W i 111 fnniilv arniiiid e*r??eti n?r i . j r> Iti 111 to 11 it*, ami a son riding for lift*, 18 miles, to yet Dr. Kind's New Discovery fttr Consumption, Coughs and Colds, W. H. Brown, of Leesville, lud., endured death's agonies from asthma; but this wonderful medicine gave iiiHtant relief and soon cured him. He writes: now sleep soundly every night." Like marvelous cures of Consumption, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds and Ctri*) prove it's matchless titerit fur all Throat and Lutig troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at all drug stores. There was a total eclipse of the sun last Sunday, but was invisible to this part of the world. The track of the shadow was confined to the Southern Indian and Antarctic Oceans. Fearful Odds Against HimBedridden, alone and destitute. Such, in brief was the condition of an old soldier by name of J. J. Havens. Versailles, O. For years he was troubled with Kidney dis[ ease and neither doctors nor incdij eines gave him relief. At length he tried Electric Bitters. It put him and materials. They're so much better than the ordinary run of clothes, yet prioes are astonishingly low, and your perfectly safe in ordering, because if garments are not satisfactory, you needn't take them. WE WILL BE PLEASED TO SHOW YOU OUR OREAT LINE OF SAMPLESCALL ON McElhany-Parks Co. j Fort Mill, S. C. | InaHssaaMBHHinMKCiouBaaJ on his fret in short order and now lie testifies: "I'm on the road to l complete recovery." Beet on earth for Liver and Kidney trochlea and all forms of Stomach ami Bowel complaints. Only 50c. Guaranteed by all druggists. We are continually closing the doors against the nngeL of opportunity because they wear a garb that seems menacing and repellaut to us. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Has woild-wide fame for marvellous cures It surpasses any other salve, lotion, ointment or 1 balm for Cuts, Corns, Burns, Boils, , Felons, Sores, Chapped Hands, 1 Skin Eruptions; infallible for Biles. ! Cure gu ran teed. Only 25c at all ! drug stores. The Jewish new year began ye?. terday. Aa the Hebrew calendar ia reckoned according to the lunar count, the Sabbath and all holitlnya are observed from sunset to suu| set, and accoidingly the service in consecration of the Rosh Haahonah | began Monday evening. What Is L<f?? In the last analysis nobody knows, but we do know thnt it is under strict law. Abuse that law, even slightly, pain results. Irregular living means derangment of the ; organs, resulting in Constipation, I Headache or Liver trouble. Dr. 1 King's New Life Pills quickly re' adjustr this. It's gentle, yet thorough. Only 25c at all drug stores. , ' . .1. - --J - -U ag NOTICE.?Persons desiring The State | can obtain it daily duriug the comi ing week by calling on R, E. Parks, i at Ardfey's drug store. | Old Relia FALL WJjffl L. Greif & IVo, Halt bear the reputation < best Clothing made in all over the country w ! goods say they give \n !customers sav the sn never before been so line of clothing; as we j garment is warrantee land color. The goo wear well, the styles ii well and the prices ai them well. They lit li! you. You are cordial examine the goods am TJndLei Before old Jack Fro I pear get a suit of Wri wear. All wool Sweaters $ Cotton Sweaters at Work shirts, "25 c uj) 81.50. Covert Coats i?i i*r> uiniy. %r v Close figures on Ell Old - Relic T. B. BELK, Highest prices lor c The Times will do DO YOU READ? If ho. I can furmeh you \vi 11? thei following btanoaul literature: Ainslee's ,, 10? i McCllire's ,, 10c I I^slio's Popular Monthly 10c Soribner's 2or j Smart Sot 2-V , Strand 10c j Collier'n Weekly 10c Vanity Fair 10c j Indies' Home Journal 10c American Boy 10c , I Jiulw I Or ' Puck lor ' Mn n Hey lOe , Argosy iocs The Hnrr Mcintosh Siics W ide World 10cs j Pernon'M 10c j "This Stnto," on Sundays oo Also several weekly ncwspa^ j pers for sale. K. E IP a, r k. s ,; At Ardrey's Drug Store S51' Tch^R ) MEASURE TAKEN for your new Fall garments. It is the only proper and satisfactory way of buying your clothes, being that "GOOD | CLOTHES ARE ALWAYS MADE TO ORDER." Make your selection from the tailoring line of STRAUSS BROS. Chicago, Est. 1S77 Good tsllors for over a quarter century You'll find a world of pleas- i ure in wcariug the clothes | made by Strauss Bros.,? /aiiltlouu ?n of vIa f fitiiuti ,ble - Store TfflKLOTBBt timore and New York, :>f manufacturing tlio Anieriea. Merchants ho have handled their Tiect satisfaction. Our mo tiling. Wo have well pleased with a are with this. Every 1 to retain its shape ds are the kind that ire the kind that look re the kind that sell vo they were made for ly invited to call and 1 compare t lie prices. st, with his chills np ii?ht's Health UnderSi .50. any price. i. Overshirts 40e to and work j)ants for win Blankets. ible Store ? , jrropneior, ottoii and cotton seed. ? ? vour Job Printing. DO YOIJ D1UNK? If So, Try Our OLD NORMAN CORN WHISKY (lunranL-rdto o ycarsold. Mild and Mellow. Always the Same. $2.50 per Gallon. 'Plioncand Mail Orders Promptly Filled O. W. NORMAN, Both 'Phonos P. O. Box 55. CHARLOTTE, K. C. J U. Trayw'c't & Co., DEALERS IN FINE LIQI OKS AND WINES. No. 12 East Trade St. CHARLOTTE. - - - N. O. FOR f ^ 4 X /"V TN "mmrww w w T' w -r-1 uuuu uiiiMvlJiS, WIN ES, BRANDIES, ETC., CALL ON OK WHITE TO W. I!. IIOOVE1L Ml \Ul 0 ITK. N C. GIVES US A TRIAL ORDER and get the BEST WHISKIES, W IN E S, 1>I> 4 VI \ ri,Ul TO divai^ipi riic., U (lie most reasonable prices. MARK A. TEETER, Manager, THE GOURD SALOON, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Nc. 29 W Trade Both 'Phones. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned against limit i-'Ft, fishing. or otherwise trespassing upon the lands of the undersigned, under penalty of the law. * W. II. WINDLE. FOR SALE?Several hundred old news]>n|>ers. 20 cents per hundred. Call at The Times oflicc, I