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%bt Jart pill DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED EVERY WEBTTESDAY B. W. BRADFORD. Terms of Subscription: One yenr It.OO fiix month* 50 Three months 2b OCTOBER 11, 1905. gL'JJ , They seem to be doing almost everything down in Panama eKr cept digging. Some people are so mean as to wonder when the foundations for the park cautions will be built. 'Good bye old booze." The Yorkville dispensary was closed Saturduy morning by a State officer. What we didn't know about the big insurance companies a few months ago would till a "cyclopedia." When a college boy is killed in a r*w, his relatives have the satisfaction of knowing that it was nothing but u hazing joke. If the New Orleans people really wnut an early frost, they sholnd invite Vice-President Fairbanks. Yj i ?u: - ?: ? jlilc laii piuuuuc ninvciq niijr nuic. j Now lliiit the yellow fever germs are overworked and are resting now and then, the New Orleans doctors any tli^t they "have the situation in hand.*' This light over the race question in Maryland is becoming very bitter. A young man at Fruitland, has sued his wife for divorce just because she ran away with a negro, A man in South Haven, Kansas, has a greivanco against an editor and consulted a lawyer to find out the best way to break up the paper. The lawyer told him the surest way would be to buy the paper und ruii it himself for a few mouths. <%% Secretary Shaw says the country is in need of a more elastic cur. rency. He is right. One that will stretch over the rer.t aud grocery bills and leave a little margin for the savings bank, is the kind of currency the country wants. */%That the mills have come to the cotton and oome to slay, requires the proof of no tedious array of statistics, but is convincingly shown in the single eloquent fact that in the last three years4S3 cotton mills have been erected, and of this number 405 linye been constructed South of Mason and Dixon's line. The work of re-surveying the historic Masou and Dixon line has been completed jointly by the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The work was very carefully douo, nnd the old stoue posts set along its course after Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had marked it out in 1703, were reset in solid cement bases and iron posts wero substituted in places where the old posts had disappeared. The census bureau has issued a bulletin showing the production and distribution of tho cotton of the United StateB available between September 1, 11)04, and September 1, 1005, to be 14,455,004 bales. Of this aniounf 61 per cent was exported, 30 per cent was usod in domestic consumption, leaving a surplus of 9 per cent. The do R mastic consumption includes 36,776 bales destroyed by tire. Blow Your Horn; Call Off the Dogs. ^r' Stribling, writing to the Anderson Intelligencer, has the following to say of the fellows ifltMP .who, despite the fall in price, conMfiSc"1' tinne to market their cotton; "We h?d just as well stop trying to bond otv that silly gang of farmers that are now rushing their cotton on the inRrket. "We have done onr full duty trying to keep them from losing and holding prices down, but it seems tho more we holler'slop'the faster they go. A large number of cotton growers nil over the cotton belt?as well as ^ near home?have made arrnngnients to take a large percentage L of this cheap cotton and set it aside I in warehouses to await for the pnA pennt. march r,f fools to pass by. "I* will now be to the interest 19 claps of furitroaaod imbepnms, to urge lieir cotton on iflt as possible, hell-hound at dv? of sending >88 speed. S<? fiumpera, and vn, and out of xiaaiLdP- interested m getr way." ' j & v. A Word to the Men of Means. There has never, to our knowledge* been ? time when honses were moie in demand In Fort Mill than at present, which ia an excellent sign of the towns growth. We do not know of n vacant dwelling in town at this time, bnt do know of several families who are compelled to board on account of being unable to get bouses in which to live. Some claim that there is no money iu renting bouses; that the returns do not justify the iqvestment; that there is a risk to take in renting the house. The returns from rent are, of course, not as high in proportion to the investment as they were a few years ago because the cost of building material has increased from 25 to 75 per oent, bqt why pot build and charge more rent. We do not believe there is a renter in this place who is paying as much house rent as he would in other towns of the same size. From inquiries of rales in several different towns we are led to believe that rents in Fort Mill are indeed low. A vacant house is seldom soen in the town, and if one is offered for reut, it is only a matter, or a very few days until a party takes it. We know of at least two families who are at present wanting dwellings and these have been on the lookout for a month or more for such but without success. We say to our monpyed men, build houses, and charge more rent. Then, too, this scarcity of houses is not at present confined to dwellings. We need QAunrnl m nrn hnoinnu linnonn UIWIU UUOIUWQ *AVSUOWr~. illtlC is not at present, and has not for several months been a VRcant business houso in town, and it has been only a short time ago that Fort Mill missed a valuable citizen and good family because the gentleman, who was a merchant, could not iind a store house in which to conduct his business. And again, we understand that one of the town's most enterprising and prosperous firms will be compelled to discontinue business here January 1st on account of being unable to secure a building for another year. Such conditions are deplorable to people who would like to see the town go forward, and it is hoped that those of our people who are able to build will do so and not allow their money to longer lay around idle. Government Control for Personal Profit. B. O. Flower, of Boston, editor of the Arena, thus comments on the revelation of the iusurunce inquiry: "If insurance officials are to be permitted to contribute from the company's money campaign fuuds without the permission or direction of the policy holders, it must bo evideut that the officials will have iu their hands the power to effect legislation favorable to their per 1 !-i A- 1 - -1 A- -1 Buiitu 1 merest mm mimical to me interest of those whose trust funds they hold, and to compass the election or appointment of officials who are blind to in6iirnuce corruptions and irregularity. "And more than this, if custodians of trust funds, such as are the insurance officials, can divert the money entrusted to them to influence election, it requires no special foresight to see the early overthrow of free government, by an inteiested plutocracy, a repetition of the old, old story of the destruction of democracy by class or privileged interests controlling government for personal enrichment an power." Letter to MoELHAN Y-PARKS CO, FORT MILL, 8. 0. Dear Sirs: Tho easiest business in this world is dry-goodB; tho ruaaon is: your customers want your stuff as much ns you want to sell it; they come-in; you show it and still it. That's tho whole business, except your buying tho goods. Devoe comes next. It saves money, and people like money. They like somebody else's more than their own; they like to make it more than save it; they like to kcc'p it perhaps as well as to make it. Building run-down fast, without paint; poor paint is the same. Dovoe is the means of stopping a leak; a big one. AH we'vo got to do, to sell Devoe, is to show that a man saves money by using it. E L> Jewell, Corry, Fa, painted his house 5 yoai ^ ugo with a mixed paint: 11 gallons. Tost spring ho pointed Dovoe: 10 gallops. Baved 915 to $20. Yours truly fl'.i F W Dkvok & Oo. F 8. W B Ardrey & Co sell our pnint. Best cotton was quoted 9.25 cents on this market yesterday. A Brutal Murder iq Camden. The whole State was shocked Wednesday when it became known that Mr. R. A. McDowall, a prominent citizen nud merchant of i Cauden, had been waylaid and foully murdered Tuesday night i while on the way home from his business. He was struck in the , baok of the head, presumably with t a heavy club, and robbed of his , wptcb, keys and money. The spot < selected for the foul deed whs near a large tree, opposite Hampton park. McDowall did not arrive at home as usual and his wife sent i ner 14-yenr-olci son to see was detaining bis father. The little fel- i low had gone only a short distance when he stumbled over his father, i who was in the last throes of death. Mr. McDowall, the murdered man, was 48 years old and was a highly respected and sober citizen. He leaves one son and a wife, who was a Miss Haile. He was a brothof Editor McDowall of the Camden Chronicle. Another chapter was added to the horrible tragedy of Tuesday night, when on Wednesday morning, Mr. R. W. Porter who was attending court at Camden ns a juror in u murder case, carne to consciouspeBS and found himself two miles from the scene of the McDownll murder, with a fractured skull. He was brought to Camden by a man coining in from the country. Mr. Porter remembered that he was with Mr. Mcdowall, going home with him to spend the night. It was about 8 o'clock, and he remembered the conversation up to the tune of the murder, but his mind was a blank after that until he found himself by the roadside the next niorning. He knows nothing about how he got to that place, but it is supposed he wandered off unconsciously. Mr. Porter wns taken to a hospital in Columbia for treatment, and it is believed will recover. Rewards aggregating $1,000 are offered for the perpetrators of the deed. Warm Times Ahead. It is easy enough to seo that the state campaign next year is going i l . il i i ii J ii 10 uo nit) most interesting ana me most hotly contested since 1892 and we will be lucky if we oscape a revival of the old antagonisms and hostilities that existed at the time, says the Spartanburg Journal. The dispensary is going to be the issue and will have strong assailants and defenders. Senator Tillman will be a candidate for re-election and will be the foremost champion of the dispensary. There will probnhly be one or more candidates against him, hoping that the anti-diapensnry sentiment will be the means of retireilig to private life the unquestioned leader of South Carolina politics for the past 15 years. The present legislature will hardly feel disposed to take rndical and definite action on the whiskey question until the people have passed on it at a primary election after a cnmpnign waged on that issue. After such a contest the people can if they so desire, eleot n legislature that will immediately abolish the dispensary law and substitute prohibition or another form of legalized liquor selling or local option to the counties as between dispensary, high license and | prohibition. The election of this legislature therefore will be the crucial point, of the contest. Candidates for state offices will in all probability be selected with reference to the popular will to the dispensary and if the issue should hpf>nmn snflRpiAnflv nruilo ? ?? / this measure might be applied also in some degree to the candidates for United {States senator, although, of course, a senator in congress lias nothing to do with the dispensary in South Carolina. This issue might also be forced on down and through county politics and every candidate for olfice be required to align himself on this 3 nest ion and stand or fall on the etermination of the democratic voters on this principal. Certainly some warm times are coining in South Carolina with the campaign of 1006. Nothing to compare with it has happened since 1802 and nothing to compare with it can happen without stiring up much bitterness and factional and party feeling. ? Mr. Marvin Wliitlook lias acoeptt d n clerkship in the store of Mr. JL. ?T. Mnssey. DON'T BORROW TROUBLE. It Is a bad habit to borrow anything, hot tho worst thing yon can possibly borrow is tronble. Whin sick, sore, heavy, weary and worn-out by thcjtain and poisons of dyspepsia, biliousnoss. Bright's disease and similar internal disorders, don't sit dowu and brood over your symptoms, but fly for relief to Electric Bitters. Here yon will find sure and permanent forget fulness of all your troubles, and your body will uot be burdened by a load of debt disease. At Ardrey's drug store. Price GOo. Guaranteed. Newbold Left Afoot. Reports sent out from Kershaw Inst Wednesday were to the effect that W. H. Newbold, a former dispensary detective, was practically run oat of the town on Tuesday. Newbold, who is at present i practicing law in Chester, had excited the ire of the people of Kershaw on account of his being engaged as a detective to work up evidence against the parties accused of lynching a white man, John Morrison, who had killed three men and ruthlessly and crueny anaoa a tourtti victim dii the streets of Kershaw. Under a Btatute allowing the estate of a mobbed citizen to bring suit for damages, New bold has sued Lancaster comity for $5,000, in behalf of Morrison's estate. Tuesday lie and McCaskell, administrator of the estate, went to Kershaw to get evidence in the suit. On all sides they were insulted, abused and the enraged citizens were with difficulty restrained from violenpe. Newbold appealed to Mayor Welsh in his office and the mayor was about shake hands with Newbold when the mayor's son stepped between them ami cursed Newbold J vilely. Steve Welsh was one of the pnrtics whom Detective New- I ; bold and H, B, Howie had charged with the murder of Morrison. Newbold then seeing that there ( was no protection for him, left afoot, going toward Camden. McCaskell attempted to go to Lancaster, and was taken from the train and would have been horsewhipped, but for hia pitiful appeals. Newbold caught a train and reached Camden. The jnob is said to have meant to whip him and to kill him if he drew a pistol. Green and Gay nor in Savannah. Gaynor and Green, the alleged grafters who have been hiding behind legal technicalities 111 Canada for the pust year or more, passed through this place Sunday night 011 train No. 29, bound for Savan- ( nah. The much-talked of tirieoner i occupied n smoking compartment in a Pullman car and were i 1 charge of two United States deputy marshals. (iaynor and Green are charged with conspiracy to dofraud the government out of large sums of money in connection with tho river and harbor improvement, at Savannah. NEW CURE FOR CANCER. All surface cancer t are now known to bo curable, by Bucklen's Arnica Balve. .Tas. Walters, of Dufticld, Ya., writes: "1 had a cam or ou my lip for years that seemed incurable, till Bucklen's Arnica ( Salvo healed it, and now it is perfectly S well." Guaranteed cure for cnts and burns. 25c at Ardrey's drug store. Tho Florida State board of health has issued an order forbidding boarding schools and colleges in the State to open before govern ber 1, on account of the yellow ! fever infection. PLANS TO GET RICH are often frustrated by sudden hreak- ' ] down, due to dyspepsia or constipation. } llrace up and take L)r. Kiug's New Life i J Pills. They tak.i out the materials ' which are cloggiug your energies, and J t give yon a now start. Cure lmadaolio | and dizziness too. At Ardrey's drug [ j store; 25c., guaranteed. Mr. John Youngblood is report-I ed to be seriously ill of typhoid i ; fever nt hie home in lower Steel Creek. ] FULL, OK TRAGIC MEANING ] are olicso linos from .T. H. Simmons, of Casey. Ia. Think whut might hnvo re- ; suited from this terrible cough if he had not takeu the medicine about which ho i writes: "1 had a fearful cough, that disturbed my night's rest. I tried every- . thing, but nothing would reliove it, un- ' til I took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Coughs and Colds, which completely cured me." Instantly re- ? lieves and permanently cures all throat , and lung diseases; prevents grip and pneumonia. At Ardrev's drug store; I guaranteed; fiOo and $1.00 Trial bottle free. ] OUll MAIL I ORDER BUSINESS < I 1 Is small, of course, but much ( more than one would naturally i suppose. Why? Principally lie- cause we keep up with all the now things, the good tilings that are ^ continually coming along. We | montion this because we are proud j ! of it, and as a hint to our own 1 home people?the rural route patrons. "Write or telephone us your wants and the goods will he forthcoming, alright, and you'll be satisfied. Lot us serve you to our mutual advantage. And when wo can accomodate you?aside from business?wo will gludly do so as far as time permits. |W. B. Ardrey & Co. .. / MODEL * Steam Laundry. Z : ???________ is ! CHARLOTTE, ? ? N. C. g ' si i PRICE LIST. ^ Shirts ,....10c fib, Skirts, new .12>?c ill : Collars... 2o ^ ; Caffs, per pair 4c ' Underskirts He t? ; Drawers.............. 8c ! ai i f-ocks, per pair, He i 1! Handkerchiefs, liueu He jj' Handkerchiefs, silk 5c Punts 25c to 7oc | 11 Coats 25c to 75c ' R | Vests 25c Jshirt-Waists 15c up ' d, , Curtains 60c up tl Blankets, single, 15c; double, 2*c > Counterpanes 10c Table Cloths 10c MELKANEY-PARKS CO. j Agents, !; 2 ! FORT MILL, ? ? ? S. C. ; | J Go to ^ 5ASTON & HALL v * r or your a FRESH MEATS, J HUcll B3 |) BEEF, \ PORK, !j SAUSAGE, ! $ FISH. Etc. j Wo also carry a lino of a Heavy and Fancy Grpceries. # Canned Goode, Tobacoep. o1c. - I'll one orders receive prompt n attention. Call No. 2!) and let us serve you. ^ SASTON & HALL. ? ? SO YEARS'EXPERIENCE. OurCHARGES ARC D O THE LOWEST, hi ml mo.l. 1, photo or akelrli f ?r expert wiarr.h anil froo report on patentability. B il NFR'.NCEMENT milt* oondni-ted before nil B court*. Pati'nt* obtaineil through tie, ADVFn- Mf TISED ami SOLO, free TRADE-MARKS. PEN. n AIONS and COPYRICSTS .pikkly obtained. U , Opposite U. 8. Patent Office, K b ^\WA8HmOTON, D. C. < ^ ^ g \ ioo A HUNDRED?Old papers, at The Tinuis OfTico. y, Is Your Fail T: Who is taking the risl lTou are not carrying an ( Policy? Your family, of < eon tn take n nnlicv ilon' / ? ? f """ take it--I shall have to ru til I am able." Your fan ind your good wife, who money-making ability foi run the risk of living on j :ui insurance policy--les the risk of your dying an and her sustenance whicl Yes, she can do without tl a nee policy now, much be Without your monejveari Prospective policy h matter, and don't let you even your estate take sueby a small outlay assure t 1 am a home man and So call at my office and h nation for the best Old 1 world. John J. Ba 158!eil@lP@!@ 00131 IjOB PR!N" 1 NEATLY EXE ? THE TIMES C ro Lottprhmdf.NotohoficK Billheads, Ejj Circulars, Envelopes. Etc., at iho lo work. Scud us your orders and we < 1 "Tlx ? mmm ? ??? wm-*mw ?mi AN ORDINANCE. ixing the Levy and Providing for the Collection of Property Taxes in the Town of Fort Mill, S. O. Be it ordained by the intendaut and ardens of the town of Fort Mill, S. C.. ad by authority' of the same. Sec. 1. That two mills on the dollar i hereby levied on all taxable property ithin fhecoriK>rate limitsof Port Mill. . C.t on January 1, 1905, be and the inie is lieruby made, for ordinary pur* 3ses. Sec. 2. That said taxes shall bo and Bcome dne and payable on the lath ly of October, 1905, at the ofiico of S. 7. Parks, secretary and treasurer, ad the treasurer's books shall be open :i that date for the collection of said ixes, and the same may be paid up to ad including the 1st day of "November, M)5, after which date said taxes may a paid with 15 per cent penalty added ntil tho 15th day of November, 1905. Sec. 3. That on and after November 5th, 1905, executions will bo issued for II delinquents for the full amount of ixes due together with the iifteen per mt penalty and all costs, including one ollar cost for every execution issued by le treasurer. Done and ratified in council assembled tis 29tli day of September, 1995. \Y. 13. Mcaclutm Attest: Inteudanfc. S. W. Parks, Sec. and 'lreus. . : : . -s the I I ACME a : BARBER SHOP, $ ' ? A \ N, L, Carothers, j : % Proprietor. ? 1 $ CO OUR FRIENDS! We are now located at 121 JO. 'otincil street, Salisbury, N. C., nd solicit your trade. We have n hand a roinplcte line of tho tsi W hiskies. W Ities, UrandicH Iter., and can supply y?jtir wants itli nnvtliinrr i<> U...? <>.... J - Wl" Ir. M. A. Teeter, for*ii? rly oi 'harlot to, lias personal bupervision f our department and II mail orders receive prompt and arefnl attention at Ida hands. Ask. for price li-t and ordet lank with vnnr order. V. II. liOOVEK & CO.. AL1S1H KY. N. C. Pliom No Gloss (Jarkiaue Paint Mack ill wear as lonsr as Dovoe'a. No otlicr? re as heavy bodied, because Dovoe eigli 3 to 3 ounct s more to tho pint, old by W. 1). Ardrey & Co iM tin Risk? i, you or your family, if Hd Line Life Insurance :ourse. So, when I as! t say "I am not able to n the risk of dying up lily is taking the risk is depending on your * a livelihood, willingl\ K2o or$30--tlic price of s each year than run d be without both you i you are able to make, le cost of a life insirrtter than she could do ling anility. older, think over th'^ r wife, your family or h a risk, when you can, heir future happiness. 1 will treat you right ;t me take your appli. Line Insurance in the LllfiR. Afx't ? *? lx-? J "fcA W 4 ting | cited at IH'ICE. A III; Statements, Handbills, Poster? fj*' west prions consistent with ifiHxl will ph ase you. Pjjj e Times, j? i^vKirltfjfyltf ifclfnfrlB 1 'J&&