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FORT MILL TIMES DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY B. W. BBADFORD. Terms of Subscription: One yenr $1.00 Six months 50 Three months 25 Correspondence on current subjects is Invited, but no responsibility is us- i ntniwi f.ie # Iwi fintvc i\f /birrrcMnnili'ii I M i " . ...? . Anonymous communications will uot be published in these columns. On application to the publisher, advertising rates cue made known to those interested. Fort Mill 'Phone (with long distance connections) No. 26. JANUARY 4.1905~ The unnual'^muuicipnl election will be held in this place on Monday, January 9,"at" which time an iutendant and four wardens will bo elected to succeed the present iucutnbonts, and to serve our town for this year. We want to say to the voting element of Fort Mill that it will be worth their time to consider who they elect. There is nothing calculated to work mora harm or injury to a town than a set of incompetent city fathers, and it would be a pity to elect such a board with the seemingly bright future in store for the town. We have no nominations to make, but sincerely hope that we may have the pleasure of publishing the names of worthy, conservative and fair minded men, who will work with an eye single to the best interests of the town, as our new board of councilmon. The year nineteen hundred nnd four (1904) is now numbered uImong the yenrs^thnt liuvo passed, j And it is with regret that a great many of ns look back at the old year and think of the ninny good resolutions that were*made at the beginning of it, only to know that ney were never fulfilled, and the ^ny bright prospects that it |Hmed to have in store for us, alas! they live only in memory. ^ leon the other'hnnd a number ^^Ahave only pleasant thoughts old year and our hearts are ^^Hwith joy ns we reilect back ^^Hhink how fortune smiled up during the time that her. Be hundred nnd sixty-five days Peru whiling away. But let us begin at once with a determination to do more than we have ever done ! in the past, both for the better- | ment of our country and selves, j The Times wishes one" nnd all of | its renders a happy and prosperous , year, and niuy their liberal patron- ! age towards our paper continue in tite future as in the pnst. Mr. Whltnsr's^Sohems. Mr. W. C. Whitner."n. farmer * who lives near Rock Hill has le- I cently issued a circular letter ask- | ing the publishers |to|jjco*opornte j with him in an effort to induce the farmers of the South burn (a million bales of cotton, claiming that such action would] immediately bring about an advance in the price of the stap'e. But the pub lishers do not seem to favor tlie scheme and should it gain headway it will be by other mens than through the co-operation of the press. Among the number of comments on such action, the Union Times has this to any: ' We fail to see how the burning of a million bales of cotton would raise the price high enough to make up the loss on a million bales of cotton. If a farmer had l bales and would burn two and sell the two left at 12 cents, if the bales weighed oOO pounds each, the two bales would bring $120; the four bales at 7 cents would bring $110; so he would lose $20., Consequently the price would have j to be high enough to make up the i difference in the number sold and burned. We don't know whether I Mr. Whitner has any cotton to sell or burn; but it strikes tis that such a thing would be cutting off the nose to spite the face. The idea lit ?f B gr^nt many cotton experts is that the government lias overesti- t mated the number of bales. L Whether this he true fir not it; wonld in our judgment he folly to J ^B^lburn any cotton should the farmer H9fl|^dy g;*t enough out of his cotton the better than would certainly be the l.n r I?. l^|B|^Bn^R^^^^K>'phenson and Part Arthur Su.ientiors to Japs. I; Port Arthur has at last eurreu- i tiered nnd the plucky Jrih now have possession of the fortress. Evhuuuted by months c?f almost constant fighting, decimated by disease and casualties, the gallant i garrison has yielded to its gallant ( beseigers, and the end is now written of the most drastic war incident of modern times. At b o'clock Sunday flight (leu. Nogi, commanding the Japanese army of investment, received from the Russian General Stoessel a note saying that he found further resistance useless, and asking for a meeting to arrange tonus of capitulation. The Japanese geneial iininediately named commissioners to confer with representatives of the Russian commander. They met Monday afternoon at I o'clock and arranged terms of surrender. The nature of tire terms are not yet known. Dispatches from Japan have shown the gallant defence of Gen. Stoessel, and his men has nowhere been given finer appreciation than in the land of his foes. It is more than likely that Japan will embrace the opportunity to show her magnanimity and admiration of Port Arthurs defenders by allowing them all honors which war permits a victorious army to bestow upon the vanquished. Mrs/Cassie?l Chadwlck. One of the most remarkable characters that has stalked across the field of freaks recently is Mrs. Cassie L. Chmiwiok, who now stands indictt d in several counties in the State of Ohio for forgery. It is alleged that this wo- 1 man has procured several million 1 dollars from different bankers by using negotiable paper purporting to have been executed by Andrew 1 Carnegie, the steel king, and other llleli of wealth. As to how these signatures were gotten, or as .to who forged the signatures, is not known, but one thing is suro that they were used and that Mrs. Chadwick managed to huncoe the financiers out of large sums of money. How tlid she do it? Inflnential relatives did not help her, f\*?* ulio UMIU ?vir ntifloe ??>_ . 1WI Ql|? ?? UO IIIUT 111^ until 1 rill CI o sunted name. S>>me say that she is a hypnotist and has done thin work by using her hypnotic powers. Then eo nes a San Francisco i lady and says that Mrs. Chndwiek ; is her sister; that they were raised j in Canada; there was nothing! strange aliout. the girl, but that! since she has gotten older, she has j developed n mania for forgery and its kindred crimes, ami that she is the same lady who was convicted , of forgery some yours ago. Her sister states that the idea of hypnotism is absurd. It lemains to be seen what^will he (he outcome of this remarkable case. Mrs.! Chndwiek is a remarkable''woman and thousands are eagerly watch j ing the trials as they progress. -? 9,258,000 Drinks of "Sow Paw." An anonymous correspondent, who has au aptitude at figures, writes to the .News and Courier as follows: \\ hat do you think ??f the last purchase of rum made by the board of control in Columbia for j litis poverty-stricken Slate in the rum sense? The awards analyzed mean that 1 17."tut gallons of nun were bought by the hoard; that iu'> arnt t...?11 ..." ..r ii... . e. 1 ill i M m i II w? till* rmillf llt'ty liquid wen* bought, or a total of l."?4,d(X) gallons wore forced on this people. When you consider that the above quantity represents I),258.000 drinks, or about seven drinks for every human being in t he Commonwealth, is it not shameful that such an iniquitous law should prevail? Yes, it is shameful, hut we can | do nothing about it. The State j has authorized the Irailie and is J pushing the business for all it is worth. The larger the sales, the I larger the profits. The more whiskey consumed. the more convincing the balance sheet when it is submitted to the General Assembly for judgment. The greater the number of drunken men, the,' more money for leaching of the children in the public schools. The larger the increase of crimes by violence in the :->tate, the morn business for t In' lawyers and c nirtH, I will) incidental benefits, of course, to the undertakers, who have coffins to sell, and to the merchants,! who deal in mourning goods. There ought to be at least IKK) vio ! lations of the law in 9,25^,000 drinks, nnd if the dispensary shall dispose of anything like the whole of.its Christinas stock, there will be a sternons time in South Cat\iIioh bef^ the present holiday season i^*ver, "The great mo?*al | instituti^i" is a great moral failure | a reproach to the State hndpui of! fence to decency and g6ojl order. R We liave been fighting/the sysj t.cn? ever since it was established, I^^growiagstcudily^is.-. TUoi K I I are Home h yns that the people nre beyinniny to see it in all its hideijuh deformity. t>tit it will yo on until the people yet strong euouyh to overthrow the machine by which it is controlled. The State is dominated today by the dispensary. It is woise than an open saloon, because the saloon could be p-yulateu and tho dispensary is above the law. The Speculative Spirit. There is nothing like it, this thiny of speculation. It limits are j hazy and an attempt to draw the tine lines seperatiny harmful spec- j ulatiou and buying with a view to I selliny at a pro tit always yets the! person so attempting into a mystic j maze. Hut there are certain broad : fields of di Here nee that anyone can i see anil the dangers ui these suouiu ; he gimrded against. There can be no denying the- fact that a specula- , tive spirit is growing rapidly in , the South. For years we have been content to allow other sec- , tions to use us as innocent victims , in the game of speculation by play- , ing battledore and shuttlecock with , our chief money crop, cotton, and whenever there was a battle the , dead and wounded wore not to be i found within their borders, lint things have changed. "The getrich-quiek" germ lias been planted here and its malignant symptoms are to be seen all over the country. Preaching from the pulpit and by the press does not seem to check 1 it. Perhaps after all there will ' have to be an attempt to legislate j against it. We have seen whiM the ' I Federal government can do ip the ' fate of the Louisiana Lottery. 1 And only recently the Federal government through the Post Oflice department has decided to put down utterly all guessing contests ' and its end will bo beneficial. No 1 man on earth can content him self with a legitimate business 1 after ho has tasted of the fruits of i a successful speculation. If he is i ' making clear one hundred dollars I' a month and takes a "tlyei" in ' "futures" and clears up one huu- j ' tired dollars in one day lie at once j ' has a contempt for his small but j j steady business. If he continues j1 it at all. it is hut as a means to the :' end that he may have something 11 to furnish him money to carry on ' his speculation schemes. This is ; ' a dangerous condition and will bring deep and far-reaching harm I" to our people. The smull news- j papers can only reach a limited j 1 number of pe ?ple but a concerted I action will do much towards awak- j ening the people. We see now the i ovil rosubs of speculation. For | weeks there has been aim >st a I stagnat ion of business. We should profit by i he lesson.- Fx. -4 The Matter With Farmers. The trouble with the farmer itthut he does not put in time enoui.li. lie begins in the spring' and ri alien in his cotton and corn, ; cultivates until laying by time, when he has nothing more to do, j 1 1 A 1 ! 11 1 li wime inert' is enou^n :.aru wora to keep him busy twelve months of the year. There are weeds and brush Ihntoii^ht to be cut, fenles to build and repair, and the w<ld (tile needs to be replenished. Ajid then there are the roads. Great scot I! The roads some farmers travel are an abomination, when a week's concerted and concentrated effort on the part of the farmers of a neighborhood would put near !y any road in f^ood shape. Hut the farmer is a strange animal, lie will not work on the road if he can help it and when he has to he does more cursing than work. What enhances the value of n farm more than a (food road lead-: inijto it? Hut 1 think the farmer is h? giiiniiiu: to see the 1 i?_c111- ami when lie does he will wonder why he remained in dark ess so !oiij?. Another trouble with the farmer iK. ho has too mlicit ImikI. Ho lor- ! ircta the fact that n small farm well 1 tilled is a better one than a lnrjje J not half worked. 1 am a believer ; in intensive farming. Wo should keep something growing on our land all the time; and the most of j the farm.-ra do, but the main crop | i? weeds, I believe by crop rota- , lion, and a proper cultivation, we can keep up our land and make it yield much more than it does now. j We ought to keep more stock, but before wo rush in and get the atook, we ahould make sure of1 something to teed it on.?South- ' era Cultivator. ?? A GRIM TRAGEDY Is dnily onacted, in thousands of homes, as death claims, in oaeh one, iinotlier victim of Oonsainption or Pnoamouia. But when Coughs and Cold are jiroporly treated, tlio tragedy is averted. F. G Huntley,of Oakiaudon, lad., writes: "My wife had the consumption and three doctors gave her up. Finally she took Dr. King's Now Discovery for Consumption. Coughs and Colds, whioh cured her. nml today she I is weil and strong." It kills the germs j of ull diseases, one dose relievos. Gnaraufeod at .M)o aud #1.00 by all druggists. Trial bottles freo. ? Se:? notice of town election in another ifcduaiu. . The Cotton Mill Industry. . % The cotton mill development of the Piedmont section of South Carolina has been so rapid that few persons lealize to what extent it has grown. Anderson and Spartanbutg counties now have about seven millions of dollars each in cotton mills, followed by Greenville with over five millions, Richland with about three millions, Union and York close behind Richland, while Newberry has about one and a quarter millions and ami Laurens over a million. Other counties have a number of mills, but these are the leading counties. These figures represent stock issues only. As a matter of fact, the nctual investment is much larger, as some stocks represent mote than twice as much veal property and eell at neatly twice the.face value of the atock. This condition of alfaira indicates not only a pr mperous line of bnaitu'sa, but honest, safe and reliable management. There has been no watering of stocks in the Southern cotton mill business. In fact there ure few lines of industrial securities which represent as good values na the cotton mill stocks of South Carolina.- Anderson Intelligencer. Catawba River Frozen Over. Catawba river was frozen oyer last Tuesday for the first time since February IS'.i.'i; hut it does not require anything like as much cold to free/.e the river now as formerly ?at least not in that portion affectee by back water from the dam if the Catawba Power company, jays the Yorkvillo Enquirer. This information conies from Mr. (J. Ij. Suggs, who lives near Wright's ferry. He was in Ynrkville on Wednesday and talked inli restingly about the river, with which lie has been acquainted nearly all his lib-. "It used to be." said Mr. Suggs 'that the river froze over only in intensely cold weather, and it would take a spell of about a week to do the work. That was the sit nation in February 18i>3. Ice formed t.o ft thickness of about 2 incites and then came a fall of 3iio\v. People were able to walk across on the ice and a great many cliil so; but your humble servant was not among the number. "The building of the dam has changed conditions considerably. We have n >t had ft practical domonstrat'ou until this year; but I he weather has not been anything like as cold as in 1893. With such weather as we had in 1893, 1 think tlm river would now be frozen to thickness of "? or 6 inches instead of only "2 inches as then. It would be thick enough to allow the driving of loaded wagons across in safely." ? Biennial Sessions The Edgefield correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle writes: "I note that your Columbia, S 0., correspondent says that the constitutional amendment providing fur biennial sessions of the gem nil assembly of South Carolina, pa?sed( in the recent elections by a handsome majority of to 14,491. 1 presume that those figures niu correct and do not di-pute them. It must lie remembered that far less than one half of those ontitled to vote, voted on the ameutl-i ir.ent. but. if everything else con-l tn-ft#- ?I with i! 1 matter whs in 1? I shape. we would i i ?' biennial si ssions.' in their haste in prep rinj; the nmendment to be voted on. the general assembly overlooked many important matteix which render the vote void. When the matter Comes up I) tore the general a-sembly n< xt session it wiil av?' o refuse to rat fy the vot. . i a-on of the many defe ts wh h en iei the amendment nugatory. Thus South Carolina will be spared the necessity of enacting into a law an amendment to the constitution that would be a complete farce. Errors sometimes prove beneiiciul and never n > more t-o than in this case, -Palmetto Poet. SICKENING SHIVERING FITS of Ague and Malaria can be rolievod niid cured with Electric Hitters. This i* u pure, tonic medicine; of especial benefit in malaria, for it exerts a true qWativo influence on the disease, drivit entirely out of the system. It is much tr> bo preferred to Quinine, having none of this drag's bad after -eft'eots. 1?. S. pinmlay, of Henrietta, Tex. writes: "My brother was very low with malayiai fever and jaundice till ho toolc Electric Bitters, which oared lnm." At A Cherokee Newspaper. 'ti *i ; ti The passing of the tribal gov- ti eminent of the Cherokee nation v will cause the end of theCheroke't* d /\uv<<cim\ mis newspaper is pr&bahly the oldest wept of the Mississippi river, having bten established in 1841 by W. P. Ross, wliose widow lives ut For* (iibson. says the Kansas City Journal. The Advocate is a curiosity.' It is printed half in English and : half ill Cherokee, tin* Cherokee j side beino printed in Cherokee characters, There are eighty- 1 five characters in the Cher- ; okee alphabet and on that account ^ a punter's cape of typ> is quite different from that in Kn^'ish and is quite a complicated affair. There (1 are in the Cherokee nation only ^ tive printers who are able to sot _ this Cherokee type for the news- _ paper. These live have n irrenter monopoly than any union or trust, but they have never been known to strike. Another peculiar feature about The Advocat" is that its editor and i manager never has to worry about : / how business keeps up. The pa- , j per is a national institution and is . supported by the nation, t lie conn- * cil passing an approjuiat ion every ! year for its support. The paper is J distributed fiee to the fullbiood j 1 Cherokecs who cannot read Ku- ; ylisli. There are 1.0(H) copies sunt j to them every week. In addition to this, however, there are hundreds of copies sent out over the United SSlates as a curiosity. This is the oniy publication that lias | ever been printed in Indian Imi.I gunge, using Indian chiirnob rn. In the other nations of tin? Five Civilized Tiibes a good deal of nntter of interest to Indiana is, published in the Indian language i of that nation, hut Indian characters are n< t used. -------- We desire to extend to our patrons hearty Greetings and best wishes fox their ptospir ity during the New Year and to thank them for their very ' liberal patronage, which hi s i enabled ns to, m >re tha . ev? r. make this a store where pur phases of all those things kept in a drug store <>f the first class | may be made with absolute knowledge bit i-vcrvtbin<? is fxnct-ly :?h wo sr?y it is. , Ardrev^ Work^^^^^Dolne, o Have you Tali!** (Mollis, Coijmter- J : paines, Dvdlies, Wind* w- Curtains,, ; Blankets, etc., laundered by the Model Steam Laundry, of Charlotte, N. C. I Prices for laundering the above articles cheerfully furnished. Suits pressed u5c; suits dry- j cleaned and pressed, 50c; suits washed and pressed, 75c; ooat < r j pants pressed, 15c; cleaned and pressed, 25c; skirts pressed, 25c; cleaned and pressed, 50c. Our shipments "re made Thursday mornings and returned Satnr ' days. | McElhaney/Parks Co, ( Tiia Clothlni ?nl Sht? Mu ^ 1 J. ,?ij TKKSHfASS XSUnUIS. I All persons are hereby warned not to rvsspuss in any munnPr whatever upon ho lauds of the undersigned. The law rill bo rigidly enforce! against all who isregard this notice. 'J", S. Kirkpatrick, J. W. Audrey, J. D. "Withers, | Mrs. L. B. withers. 2 .1. h. colthaktv I o. Barber. 1 T. H.Barber. fi Mrs. T. is. Barber. ? Miss Adua Bakb&R. i I). Cr. Kinibrel!. hoa. J. McDow, E. Earle Thornwell. IcDOW. LEWIS & THORN WELL, Attorneys at Law, Yorkville, fc>. C. ? l'nictice in the State end U. S. courts Our Mr. E. E. Th uiiw. 11 will bo ill mr office in Fort Mill on Saturday of . ach week to attend to any business iu- j rusted to us. lim DR. KINC'S ' TRV NEW BiSCOVERY FOR THAT COLD. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. IJures Consumption,Coughs, 3olds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Pnei imon ia ,H ay Fe ve r,Pleurisy, LaGrippe, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Croup and Whooping Cough. KOCURE. NO PAY. Price BOc. TRIAL BOTTLES FREE. fc T he wlde*p??ul popularity of HTVUNS KlfU.h. | h PISTOLS a?l SHOTGUNS err "ha <*s th? deefr of H i?rrfct.iion ctu >odir?! In ??'ir slcrlii". t i^r. You*Ulfint) 8 anoihranc1e?lMSTKVF.NT' ?w; al HANGiis Lint fl velicx^vcrU'CtS it HuaUi*?. I T19 A r T E, V r. N S"$ itflmitvttcntwA IN ' 1 11' i t iJUAL. D 811V anJ fanwes lot all c. .. .i iircanu j r , . rtics. Cur Line 3 I Rifles, from ijJ.OO to $150 R Pistols, from ?.r,0 to 50 B 'Shotitunsi from to .* 3 11 Ask trouttlt u.er.iu . i.i ..s- N'T ! A I. I f.ir L . ir, .... " Nif.tr t . V..V. H is a a onou.Koo.? lfjouian- , , i rr?,iy reference. I nct<.!'iaintlie:n,lctuskn.i? > . , w to .-.li li.\-i<H and will thl;.llfe< > tn die I . , . . ?: < ft t tlmoting. Mailc i R j rcpniu, uprn receipt ?> xnts in ttiu>; 1 tr> { )> R I HIT TIIE MAKjv?!tl> .t K>l VIT/I.!" 1^ ThU I I J. STEVENS ARMS TOOL | A'ltv >."I^it! tlesrrtr f. i guy ?pi' ?ly !it<foruiln on. up tru? vloiirr tin tui'iitlcn Is probnbly pi.tontiihlo. ''omniumr*tlo.^strtctlycnntld. I".r,;,CB00K en Pntcnta rent f r??- ??! !* .-t itimw v J..r uru>i; p-Uenln. I'..touts taken tStroiii*li Mum v Co. rirotvo ' 9p- eiiri'fi'T, without chin ro, tut ho rScfHitflic .HtmrKait. Illustrate-! WooC,.". 1 ,ivr-t clr. f any s. lontitto Jen- ' i ni?, )? fl fl. rrill w^m ? Co.36t?^ ^- Hew York Office. ??$ F St? WuMhlufrton, I). C. B^etsia Cure Hsts what you eat. digests tho food and aids I lin strengthening and record the exhausted digestive or Hi-the latest discovered digest* I It'inic. Ko Other preparation lr :i- li indigestion, Heartburn, ^Hicc, Sour Stomach, Nausea, I iil:ii'iii .( last ralgla,Cramps and H H resulted ii -.t ion. H . i 'k i times Book - la Ms.lt Ufruo Hd by E. C Dc WIT r & SO , Cr.Ks.fiC. *- 'WWVWW> 1 1 "* And foreign ^ */i r- '.-i " ; -c ' 1 ?' t ?i .c *. IV r f?o?? book. i' . A I Itfr- ' ' ; . > r/u > .. U. S. Patent a*.cfice? '\SH?NC5TOW P. O. > ? ? . f\ ,? ,.., f,r T- fTlTtirTMfc \ KJLLthe COUCH 1 j! mioCURE the LUN ee l 1 *" Or. Sting's 1 I tt^HOisGovsry a I j*PTiON Prico !} ( I >13 and COc &$1.00 1 ' I I 5 Frco Trial, | . I I Ctuic-kc-?& Cora fur ail S I li ml uma I'ROVB-3 1 If KEY BACK. ^ jyf y.' j sLL KIN DS OF I JOB PRINTING Jb8[ g I AT TUE liME- OFF^S^jK |l i k