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PORT MILL TIMES DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED EVEHV WKDXpspAY B. W. BRADFORD. Ti rnin of Subscription: One year $1.00 Six monthH SO Three months..., 2I> Correspondence on current subjects is Invfted, hilt no responsibility is assumed for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications will not be published In these colurous. On application to the publisher, advertising; tatw are made known to those interested. Fort Mill Phone (with iotiK distance i onnectlons) No. NOVEMBER 2. 1H04. - L. J. - I . 1 JL1 . L Tile liopti 1)1 leans seem t<? lie ii)ote clisploaKeil will) .Judtie Park r s speeches than they were with liis silence. ? ? ? Political nietiu: llreakfast? Lod^e on Koosevelt; dinner i idi;e and Olney on Parker; sup per?Tuin Watson on both. Mr. Kongpvelt lias just had his forty-sixth birthday and expects a "present" next week. 9 Hon. Tom 'Watson sayH lie cares little where the votes come from ho lou^ ^ bo (>lds them. Tom is the nonparticularist pussou we ever homed of. Field Marshals (jyanm and Kitr ipatkiu both claim to be short of #111) til (111 111? Ml. Ull Ml IS BKIO Ot Ml ft water Field Marshals Taggart and iiud Cojteylou are secret ely making the same complaint. Several of Henry Uassawny Davie' railway shops were burned recently, but we haven't heard of any of hit) "bridges" burning lately, ft A western furmer lias shipped a Hue ct)w in a parlor car. This is a |ittle novel though we have several Junes heard of "hogs' traveling in parlor oars. , i. The tfapa have called o ir attention to the fact that while they may aisridently violate a rule of warfare they have never yet uttaekuii a tishirig crew. 9*9' Botbcampaign uianagers claim to be friends of labor. Why not join the jupiotiV If Grover Cleveland makes ninny more speeches it will he necessary to get up a pew dictionary. * 9 9 9' % Tljpfio who- are looking for iiuninrbvis literature might gave up the campaign prophecies and read them after the election. ? The General Election WitTj-in a week the vpterg of the country will again render their verdict at tho ballot box and declare whether they wiah a return to constitutional methods of government or whether they prefer Roosey.eltism, militarism, extravagance, .brag and bluster. The indentions are good that the former will be triumphant, and that good sense, good government and a regard for law and precedent will be established. There is little doubt that every n 'rve is being strained by people who expect to prosper by a continuance of the "big stick" policy to elect Mr. Kooseveii. Money is being poured out like water in what is known as the doubtful States. Campaign contributions are b?ing m<>st uublushingly and unscrupulously levied and the trust magnates the continuanoe of whose enormous, oppressive and outrageous - pruliis depend upon the further existence of Republican policy, are responding with lavish hands to the demands. Were this the sole element in the campaign, lovers of honest and good government might well d<'8paiv of the result. Hut the Bound dense of the American people, a onetimes temporarily in abeyance, < may still be relied upon, and the prospect is most good that it will make itself felt at the polls next Tuesday. From New York and other pivotal States oom*B cheering {intelligence and while the tight is by no means won and the battle is a desperate one, there is flo occasion yet for those wl\o love their country, adhere to her laws, revere the /? constitution and hope for a return to the "old paths" to despair. The chances are very good'that it will President Parker on the fourth ol&tfvU, ue*i, ' j Charleston the Unhealthlest City. The latest bulletin iwuiecj by tin j oensus bureau ou tlio vital statis I ties of the country, ways the Co , hinibia Record, shown that tin death rato of Charleston is tin highest of any city in the Unitec States, with Savannah, (in., 6ec ond. and .Jacksonville, Flu., third Tile death rate in all three of them cities is immensely increased bj the death tate among the colorei people, but the white death rati in the three cities is likewise high er than anion" the white people o any other ?'itie.s in the country The average annual death rate pei J.,000 people in Charleston at tin time of the taking of the census it 11)JO was .'$7.5 per cent, the aver *is_r?* among the white people beinj, 25.0. The Savannah death rati per 1,000 people, among all classes was J4..'>, the white death rate be ing 24.7 The Jacksonville deatl rate for both white and black wai j 2D per cent, but the white doatl rate was as great as Charleston beilit? 25 (> per rout. The vital sta t.sties tit" all these cities is said tf have great! v improved since tin census of 1890. St. Joseph, Mo., is reported H) being tin4 healthirst city in tin country, the ijeath rate being 9.1 per 1,000 people. St. Paul, Minn was next, with 0 1, hut sotm doubt is cast upon those Hgurei by the suggestion that the dentin in theae cities were not fully re corded, the statistics being inac curate. Census Cotton Figures. The second bulletin showing tlie quantity of cotton ginned uj to October 18th was issued Thurs day and puts the crop at l,9(i9,t?7f running bales, as against 1,273,155 running bales reported to the sane date in 1903. The report coven 300 counties of tlie vurioua cottoi producing States. The figures included 22,128 rount bales for 1904, as against 4(5,771 round bales for 1903. These Hia counted are counted as half baleH and bring the total bnleage fo: hum down to nu equivalent oi 1 .{158,til 1, und for 1S?03 to 1,24(.(,771 Tim production of tlie countiei (represented id compared with tin ! production of the same countiei in 11)05, and include 12 in Ala | batna, (i in Arkansas. II in Fhu i da, OS in (Teor^in, 10 in Louisiana 22 in Mississippi, 0 in Misouri, 51 in North Carolina. 25 in Soul I; Carolina, 20 in Tennessee. 50 ii Texas and 8 in Virginia. Tin counties covered in Thursday's re port include those embraced ii tlie first cotton ^iutiin^; report is j sued last Tuesday. The total trin na^e for the entire season of iDOi j was 5,88(?,G'J7 bales collected frou St 2 count ies. ? Few Carolinians In Office. A bulletin just issued by tin | cesus bureau shows that on dub 1, 1 S?03. there were employed bj the government in the District o Columbia 25,(>75 persons, not in eluding several thousand clerks J engineers, laborers. etc. Of tliii I number, Virginia is the onb Southern State which seems t< : have its share of government em piuycu, which is perhaps due ! the close proximity to the capital On Judy \, l(.k)3, the govern men ; had employed in the city of Wash I'ington 1.11 'J persons who clniinei | Virginia as thoir legal residence North Carolina hud 44); Sontl Carolina, 21K), and Georgia, 51? It would appear from these ligure i that South Carolina 1ms beei slighted in the matter of govern tnent appointments. South Care linn's quota of government ap pointments is not mora than t> per cent exhausted, and at th present time it would seem to be comparatively easy matter fo young men and women from tlii ! State who stand high upon thei Slate registers to gel appointment in Washington. LETTER TO V. O. WHITIX>CK, KOKT MILL, S. O. I Dear Sir: If it took 10 gallons to jx\in ' your honso last time witlj somebod ' else's paint. ami takes S with Devoe, w I save yon *s or <10; for painting cost two or threo times as much as puiut, Mr. Bern Hathmell, Williamsport Pa always used 11 gallons of mixed pain for his honso; Devoe' took 6. Hut that isn't all; that's only tirt ' post.; how long will it wear? The paint, that go^s furthest in oo\ 1 ering, wears best too. All paint, true paint, antl fall-men! uro, are on one side; part paint, fnh paiutv atul Hhort-ineaauvo are on tli other. "What do yon expeat? Your* truly 22 P W Dbvob & Oo P. S. W. B. Axdrey A Co. sell gnr p^iv HONOR ROLL * Of the pprt Mill Graded School for . I the Month of October. First G bade. Advanced ? Morrhio Oulp, VioJ ] let Culp, .Jessie Little, Floyd ' j Skidmore, Jolitinie Gun?s. Class A.?Margaret Spratt, Cor* nolia Harris, Lawrence Hope, Finest Patterson, Clarence Link. (Mass B.?James Young, Zenas ' | Grior, Alice Harris. J | CIhhk C.?George Stutts, Eli | Bailee, Jim Gaston. Floy Gordon. M Second Grade: Polly Gams, Daisy Starnes, 1 I David Gaston, Brevard Merritte, Olive Harris, Bessie Smith, Joe 1 Beik. Third Grade: Jackson Massey, Maggie Skid3 more, Sarah Culp. Ereell Willson. ' i Lilly llaile, Willie Gordon, Elbert i Ray. 1 1 Fourth Grade: * i Clarence Patterson, Carl W hite1 1 sell, Willie Worrells, liosa Culp, ' Lila Hall. Fifth Grade: Lucy Merritt, Aline Barber, ' Lana Parks, Jessie Harris, Edwin Branson. Sixtii'Grade: a I Carrie Merritt, Marie Elms, . j Lena Whitesell, Eugene Ferguson. 3 Sarger Kimbrell. ' Seventh Grade: Juanita Gordon, Sunie Elms, . Mannie Oulp, Leon Massey. Eighth Grade: j Carrie Culp, Dora Grier, Paul Hoke, Louise Parks, r Ninth Grade: j Mary Harris, Lady Bird Thorn - well, Mamie Gordon. . - ] Inoreass of Immigration. A correspondent who is interesti ed in immigration says the situai lion looks good for i in migration to the South this winter. Thousands 1 from the middle Western States I ' will find homes in the South. 1 m' ' migration agents seom to be more ' ' active and hii?im'wn nl.nnr llmf lin p is meeting with greater results. For years the rice industry at 4 tracted agriculturists from the > North and middle West, while now i the South's cotton industry is get ting a share of thein. Most of them - will locate iti Louisiana and Texas , Pennsylvania will furnish most I j of them, the correspondent says, i This is duo partly to the fact that i many farmers have sold their 1 i lands to oil companies upon the i discovery of coal and oil on lands i they were using for agriculture. - I They received good prices for the I lands, and will invest in the i: South.?Southern Textile Journal. i , Where Are They 1 Where, oh where has the young man gone, who graduation clothes " : put on souie time along the last of r' May, and owned the whole wide ) world for a day? Arid where is ^ ftlA Birout trii*l itrurl nnio n>lw. nl.m.t I V..V. wf? vv/? mm J^niviuiu V, H IIU L linilf I ed ait essuy dreud with fate, and ' | started out with a gigiiug frown H , to turn this big world upside down? v And where is that last summer's '.candidate, who had things iixod for next year's slate; who carried around as you'd believe, a couple ' of oountiea in hia b'iled shirt t sleeve? And where is the scribe " with a vaulting will, who tried a j long-felt want to till, and counted shekels and renown with a minion ' i paper in a burgeois town? ^ j The lad haH divided the world ! up fair, holds but his own eights', billionth share; the sweet girl n "grnd" is a grRnd surprise, and conquers the world with well i- made pies; the candidate with ?- deathless "gall" is fixing himself 5 forauolher fall; while the journal e ist with haughty crest has gone a the wuy of the last year's nest. So r year by yoar and day by d iy thf s world runs on in the same old r way; the balloon that's the biggest s round about is the flabbiest rag when the gas is out. - ? ? ? More Tralm and New Sohfdules, ^ Owing to the increased travel y south during the winter month* " the Southern and other railway systems in this State are arranging to put on a number of new trains necessitating a general change ol lt schedules, withing a short time ' The number of visitors from tin North to the various Southern mi winter resorts has been on the in e crease for several seasons, and the railway people are looking for tin approaching season to break al $ records in this respect. 4 OPPOSE A CHANGE. ?Strong Article In Opposition to Bi" Ennial Session. Just nine years ago the people 1 of South Carolina assembled in ' convention by delegates to revise, alter and amend her old constitution; in fact, to udopt a new one. ; These delegates wen; supposed to be her ablest, wisest and most ex1 perienced representatives; and indeed proved to bo all that was exi pected of them. After nearly three months of | calin deliberation and faithful ; labor they promulgated the pres; ent constitution, known as the ; constitution of 1895. The cost of | this assemblage is said to have been ' #50.000. As preamble and pu. t of this constitution a "Declaration of \ Rights was adopted, which proini | ii'-niiy proclaims ui article i. rieetion 3. tlmt the General Assembly , ought frequently to assemble for redress of grievances and for making new laws, as Iho common good ! may require, i This constitution iH modeled in i spirit, even in letters in many pa? : tmolars, after the old state instrui inent, and both after tlio Federal I constitution. Thus most of its j provisions are hallowed by time ! and experience. I'nder this Seo; lion 3. Article 1. our General Assemble s have met and lived, respeeted, honored and admired by our sister states for more than a century and have trained,equipped and given to our National Counsels many of its greatest and most valued statesmen, amongst the many, Calhoun, McDuffie, L.egare, i Hayne and l* res ton. Then why a change? Why remove the ancient land mark? Why should we deny the wisdom of the : father's of the Republic.? AN hy I glinnh) u'a itrnoi'i) tl??? (roiling nl ?int? government? Why should we deny the young men of our state the arena or training school, for oratory, eloquence, statescraft and civic usefulness? Because forsooth, the demagogue, declaims '"it saves expense!" Because aay& the honest economist "it saves expense. ' This is the sum and substance of the argument. When ali is heard. ! "Thrift Horatio, thrift." Well, I does it save expense? When the I claims for extra sessions and the probability of increased length of ] term is considered, it seems at least, very doubtful. Georgia has tried the hi-eunial session plan and Iihh returned to the annual plan.as her people are very like ours, her I experience should suflice for uh, or at least give uh pause. But it is p. gued most of the other states have bi-ennial sessions. Granted, hut do not all the other states grant, divorce? and ure dissatisfied and ashamed of our pro ' hibitory land? Besides majorities, i as experiences Iiiih proved are not | infalible. The House of Kepre ! sentnlivos, represents population? j j the people anil popular govern- | 1 ment, such a a ours, ought to be J "of the people, for the people and ! by the people, and our representatives ought to be very near in touch with the people; under con stnnt eurveilnnce; amenable to advice and instruction; subject to responsibility, and speedy change if desirable. Are we willing to change the whole spirit and genius of our present government more aliude more independence and less re-' sponsibility? I think not, after a bitter factional war under the name of reform against clerku, rings are we willing to force opportunity. and give encouragement to our Representrtives by long terms and intimate association! 1 hope not. Even now most of our stnte of1 ficials are are ex-members either ! i of the House or Senate. I name only a few to wit: Su- ; I perintendant of Penitentiary. Li-i quor Commissioner, Board of Con 1 trol, Penitentiary Directors and j Railroad Commissioners. Does it look well for the chances of an 1 outsider? The House of Representatives i inaugurate all financial bills, and is thus, our quasi financial agent, j Shall we entrust the same mem- . ' | bers four years with our business? 1 or Would it not he better to imuril ' against mistakes or unfaithfulness? j i Don't let us abjure the check and j ; I balance system of the old instru- 1 ! j ment. Two houses and one fresh I fioin the people every two years, a four year term for the' Senate is ! portnis^abio because at its birth I senators were divided in two class es, half for long and half for short , 1 terms, and new blood is infused ' into that body every two years. [ The United States Congress assembles every year and members ^ come from far distant, Maine, Ore| gon, Texas and Florida, and we have no complaint of distance or expense. If we must tamper with i our constitution, let us icvert to the old 30 day sessions, with limit j of 40 without pay. At every gener al election now, there is a consti1 tutjonal amendment proposed, and if we continue that practice wo will soon'have a "ciazy quilt" eon- i glomeratioii, which will require all J the time and ingenuity of our Supreme Court to in let pref,?Ciyie ( in Greenwood Index. Ifcjustrotic Wrecks. ( Carelessness is responsible for many a ] railway wreck and the same causes are , making human wrecks from sutl'crers of ' Throat and Lung troubles, lint since ( the advent of Dr. Kind's New Discov- ( erv for Consumption, Coughs and Colds ] even the worst eases can be cured, and hopeless resignation is no longer neces- * sary. Mrs. Lois Cragg, of Dorchester, Mass., is one of many whose life was t saved by Dr. King's New Discovery. This great remedy is guaranteed for all r Throat and Lung diseases bv all drug- J gists. Price 50c. $1. Trial bottles free, * m ^ J Hon. .Martin F. Ansel, of Green- ' vilic. who was defeated in the race ( for governor two years ago by such r 1 I * * * ' m email margin, iiiih announced | ^ 111at ho will again ho a candidate for governor in ItHJfi. ' Net a Sick Da7 Since. "I was ta'.ien very sick with kidney ^ trouble. I tried all sorts of medicines, none of which relieved me. < >ne day I ( saw an ad. of your Electric Bitters and ' determined to try that. After taking a 1 few doses I * '! relieved, and soon there- i after was entirely cured, and have not set n a sick day since. Neighbors of " mine have been cured of Hheumulism, Neuralgia, Liver ami Kidney troubles and General Debility." This iswhat U. F. Bass, of Freemoiit", N. (J. writes. " Only 5dc at all drug stores. 1 Saturday a rare sight was RPen in Spartanburg, says The Journal i Mr. and Mrs. K. R Holder, of Rich lie!, and the mother of Mr. Holder each had a fair-haired, lively hahy in arms. They were triplets, burn Oetoher l2th, 1 They are the three I >'s, being named Boyd, Boyee and Bernice. When horn the aggregate weight j was lt> pounds. Now the largest hoy weighs that much and the other two are nearly as heavy. ^ A T*. 1 - t A nuBAway xncysie. ^ Terminated with an ugly cut 011 tliu t log of J. H. Ornor, Franklin (trove, ill. It dev loped u stubborn ulcer uuyielding to doctors situl remedies for four years. 'J lien Hucklen's Arnica Salve | cured. It's just us good for Burns, i Scalds, Skin eruptions, and Piles. 25e, 1 ] at all drugstores. Tho eyolution of politics is shown by the fact that n lute issue of the Saturday Kvening Post, published in i Mtilndolpli ia, con- c tabled a pnge ad vei t isement ask- e ing the American people to vote 1 1 for Theodore Roosevelt for presi- | dent Tho advertisement is illustrated by a half tone picture of the j < republican candidate. Doesn't Respect Old Age. j It's shameful when youth fails to show proper resp >et for old age, hut just j '.he contrary in tin? case of Dr. King's i New l ife Pills. They rut off maladies | no matter how severe and irrespective j of old age. Dyspepsia. Jaundice, Fever. ( Constipation all yield to this perfect ' Pill. at all drug stores. A Correction. The Times was in error last ^ week in regard to the funeral no- ; tice of Miss L. L. Poag. The ser- , vice was conducted by the Rev. . J. (I. Chandler, instead, us stated,: by Dr. J. 11. Thornwell, the latter | being absent from Fort .Mill ut [ ?!,,.? t:.nn I I Ml I VI III*'. Fx*??. Everybody tal MONEY *' * i Now on exhibits It's Absoluts Some say it contains $100.00; ever shown in Fort Mill. If yon lm try your luck. A key divert with e^ from now until I lectin ber 24th. If, The money is , This is n trade winner and fliou sell aln.ost everything and have mon 31?- A.- ttu SOU. RAILW A' EFFECTIVE AUG SOUTUB rain No. 25 Lv Charlotte 6.25 p. Ar 1 ?. ?< 27 ,, ,, 0?0.? a. ? ? ,, 29 ? ,, 10.05 p. ? ? ,, 3S ,, tf 9.35 a. ? NORTHB Train No. 20 Lv Chester 10.00 a. Ar ] ,, ,, 2S ? Cola. 3.10 p. ,, 30 ? 6.10 a. ,, H ?? 34 i? ii 5,15 p. ii Note?Fort Mill is a regular stopping Npg. 29. 33 and 34, which stop ou Hag. FOR BIRTHDAY SIFTS M iss Petticoats I rip of Honor Daughter of the Sioux David Harurn Veil in Joneerniny ['oily [deaits Conraueoita Dorothy Vernon The Cavalier Warwick of the lynohn for 75 eentB each. The \ irginian The One Woman The Choir Inviaihle The Heart of limine Calumet "KM The Conqueror Wedding Bells Etc., etc. r . ? lor ow cen is each. Dont worry thinking of scinehing when n hook is always ac eptable. Some of these are regllar $1.50 editions, others Hre ittle cheaper paper and binding, l'on had better pick some out for ^inas at these prices. Ardrey's Drugstore, tVANTED?Purchasers for OO.OOO Hliingles. Will s 11 at a bar pain. A. A. bKADFORD, JH. IVA! TED -At once, male teacher for Pleasant Valley High School. Apply to I). K. Hall. Osceola, S U., or.T. M. Harris, Fort Mill, S. C. TRESSPASS NOTICE? All persons tire hereby forbidden to resspass in any manner upon the lands ?f the undersigned, which include the tuff man place. D. A. LEE. TRESSPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned not to resspass in any manner whatever upon he lauds of the undersigned. The law vill be rigidly enforce i against all who lisregard this notice. T. S. Kirkvatrick, ,T. W. Akdrrv, ,T. 13. WlTHF.RS, Mrs. L. 15. Withers. Thos. F. McDow, E. Earlo Thornwell. W. W. Lewis, T t'WlLi D_ rmfiAr^T - uv uu ?t, >v lO IV UlUKiS W hLLi, Attoruoys at Law, Yorkville, S. C. Practice* in the State and U. S. courts Our Mr. E. E. Thorn well will be in air ofliee in Fort Mill on Saturday of inch week to attend to any business iurusted to us. Stu J. U. Traywick & Co., DEALERS IN FINE L.1QCJOK8 AND WINES, No. 13 East Trade St. 3HARLOTTE. - - - N. O. FOR nrtATA MrTTTCtTrrrtn mv>vyj/ lllOIVlUjiS, V \ NES, BRANDIES, ETC,, CA1.1. ON OH WRITE TO W. II. HOOVER, flMKl OTTK. N C. Free. ks about the !||| MONEY >n at our store. >iy FREE. some SeOO.OO. Nothing like it ve money and want to mnke rnoro /ery dollar your spend with us your key unlocks the money box \LL YOURS. Id hring us your business. We ey to give away. So come along. ? SCHEDULE. UST 2STH, 11*04OUND. fort Mill 7.80 p. Ar Chester 8.SO p ,, ,, 0.40 a. ,, Cola. 10.15 a ,, ,, 10.85 p. ,, ,, 1.26 p ,, 10.07 a. ? ? 12.46 p OUND. fort Mill 2.IS p. Ar Charlotte 8.20 p ? ? 0.36 p. ? 7.10 p ? ? 0.18 a. 9.50 a ? ? 7.80 p. ,, ? 8.03 p point for all tho above trains, excep No*. 25 and 20 do not run Sundaye. V - .