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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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,
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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.
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