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NOVMEBER 8, 1905.
Please put the acc?nt on tin?
last syllable of Romanoff.
A tiffin ronrlinff VAU?
? ? mmin^ v/i iiic e n x "i r\
papers dispels the notion that
there was such a tiling as the
''silent vote."
Wouldn't it huve been a joke on
the insurance compauies, if Col. |
Bryan hud been elected in 1896 or
J900, in spite of liieir "barrel."
Yon may have observed that t))e
dispatches did not quote what the
President said to the pilot of the
Ksparta, immediately after the
collision.
While the judges of the Flail of
fame were trying so hard to decide
who should have a niche, strange
none of them thought of Patrick
Crowe.
The announcement that eightteen
women are hank cashiers in
Iowa is a little surprising; supposing
that they would prefer being
''tellers."
When yon start a story about a
I town boing "in the throes" of
something or other, you have to
look twice to see whether the town
is in Russia or Kansas.
Another Oregon congressman
has been sentenced to the peniten|B|
itentiary. Oregon seems likely to
^|B be more prominently represented
in the peuitentiury than iu congress.
^ It is going to u.nke a 6overe
draft on Russia's supply of free
speech when the Finns and Poles
/start in to unload their thoughts
that have been surpressed for
years.
Depositors in that defunct Pittsburg
bank nay not get any of their
money back, but they are certain
to secure a vast amount of very
interesting side light on Penusylyania
politics.
From a careful reading of the
President's speeches, it is supposed
thut he is the staunch and 1
unchangeable friend of everybody,
without regnrd to race, color, or
previous condition ot servitude.
The expenses of the Equitable
for the third quarter of the pres- 1
ent year were $829,913 lower than '
for the corresponding quarter of
1904. A few showings like that 1
will remove the doubt as to whether
Mr Paul Mortou c#n earn hia
$80,000 salary.
The Southern Cotton Association
has issued a statement com- '
piled from the reports of 17,000 1
/correspondents throughout the cot- '
ton belt, estimating the present 1
crop at 9,144,314 bales. The state- 1
ment also estimatus that tfl.3 per '
pent of the crop has been picked 1
and that 54.7 per cent ginned '
October 31. '
One of the most important orders
ever issued to the constabulary
force was made public Thgrs- i
lay by Chit-f Constable Hammet. ]
The circular puts about thirty 1
beverages and patent jnedicines i
out of business in this State unless <
they are sold on prescription, and
ciders aro also put on the
tubooed list.
I , Judge Pritchnrd, of the United
* tJtRtee Circuit Court in Asheville,
.on Tuesday of last wjBek dismissed
the mandamus proceedings of J.
(&. Howell, formerly thp dispenser
of Uuiqn county against the board
pf control of tlint county to reinstate
him in the office of dispenser,
pn the ground that the court had
x no jurisdiction. The opinion atnt- j
ed that the court had power to is- {I
pue tit in fo in of relief ouly as an ;
ancillary remedy. i <
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3.JLjOLiWeare
please.4 to Bet* tiint war
rants have been served on about
thirty students of the University
of Neyada, and hope that, if con- j
V?ctrd they will be given the full
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MUliv vji IIIC Kin, iiit" ?#reui ipHlHOKll |
into which these youngsters have |
gotten themselves is the result of
brutally hazing a new student at
the college, the father of whom
is seeking satisfaction through the j
courts. This thing oF hazng is
about the biggest piece of fool
work we know cf, and if that mob
out in Nevada is given a taste of
the law, there will doubtles be a
decrease in the number and nature
of huzings in that institution hereafter,
Of course there are no such
things as gossips around a small
t >wn like Fort Mill, and for fear
that one might pass through unobserved,
we print the following
description as given by an exchange:
"A gossip is n humming bird
with eagle wings and a voice like
a fog horti. It can be hoard from
Dan to Beershebu and has caused
more trouble than all the ticks,
fleas, mosquitoes, coyotes, grasshoppers,
chinch bugs,ratilesuukos,
sharks, sore toes, cyclones, earthquakes,
blizzards, small pox, yellow
fever, gout and indigestion
that this great United States has
known or will know when the universe
shuts up ahop and begins
the final invoice."
Thirty "Prohibition11 Drunks.
We were somewhat surprised to
rond the following paragraphs in
the last issue of the YorkvilloXew
Era;
".The jug trade is doing nicely,
thank you."
"About 30 nrrosts were ipnde
circus duy for druiikenncK. Assuming
that there were other drunks
who eluded the police, and then
others still who drank only moderately,
the question is, how did they
manage to get so much liquor in a
prohibition town."
Perhaps, brother, there was not
"so much," after all. This "prohibition"
lieker do sometimes have
n stunniii' effect.
To Change Pistol Law.
Representative McFadden, of
Richland county, will, according
to the Columbia Record, at the
next session of the legislature call
for the consideration of a very important
amendment of the pistol
law of this state. The amendment
was introduced by its title last
year, but on account of the fact
that it was near the end of the session
wns continued.
Tho bill makes it necessary for
every dealer in firoarms to keep a
record of the pistols sold. The
ilealer must also make a record of
the purchaser of the weapon with
a description of him or her, as the
case may bo, and the purchaser
must not transfer the weapon to
some one else without notifying
the dealer from whom the purchase
was made.
Mr. McFadden snys that while
the amendment would do away
with tho Cooper law, which rei?
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jiiii re ci ^jioiui iu ui: ill lt"NMl I Wfll *
ty incites in length, he believes
that it would put a stop to many
dealers selling pistols of illegal
length. The dealer would he required
to take out a regular license
and be under a heave bond for the
performance of the feature of the
law.
The Season to Pay Up.
The season is now at hand when
every person who owes for a newspaper
should pay up without waiting
to bo asked "to do so. There
are always a few subscribers who
object to being dunned for the
little amount they owe, and the
way for them to avoid being dunned
is to pay up before the dunning
senson arrivos. It is not a
pleasure with the publisher of this
paper to dun his delinquent sub?
soribers, but when it is apparent
a dun is actunlly necessary, we invariably
brace up qpd do so. We 1
have quite a number of delinquent '
subscribers on our books and hope
that all who can possibly do so
will come in nt once and settle.
Save the publisher the unpleasantness
of presenting a dun, and
yourself the humiliation of being
Juuued.
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Polygamy as It Is.
The following incident, according
to the Spartanburg .Journal,
is an actual fno*, though on the
surface it appears unbelievable:
A certain unmarried woman was
ill and was thought to be about to
oie. ner mends, fearing For the
| fate of an unmarrit-d woman in the
hereafter, went hurriedly to a man
of their acquaintance, a bachelor,
requesting him to be sealed to her
immediately. Ho consented, being
willing to have lier.in the life
to come. But the unexpected happened,
and 'he young woman was
restored to health. The young
man to whom she had been sealed
continued to live as he had done,
and she lived at her home as a
single woman. Sometime after, the
woman met and married a man of
her faith and lives with him and
her children today. In the meantime
the man died to whom she
hud sealed for eterpity bpt pot
for time. He was a man of
wealth, and on the strength of the
sealing, the woman, the wife for
time of another man, sued for the
former's property in the Utah
courts ?and got it.
It is impossible to grasp the full
import of the whole Mormon situation.
Its unwholesomeness, its
repulsivenoss and its geyerul degradation
in its very protection.
The who)e story cannot be told
and insinuations seem vulgar. And
what makes it so intricate, so almost
hopeless, that individuality,
the mass of Mormon people, are so
admirable, so sincere and so oarnest.
Moimou womep nre as
womanly and lovely as other woUM.~..
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nu ll. j.uuy IUUIV II1U Hlllllt*, hCl lllf |
same and feel the same as other
women. And yet the women, who
constitute the only individuality
to he found in all Monnonisin,
have not been taken into consideration
in their religion, except as
tliey can assist in building up the
glory of their husbands.
The Dispensary Situation.
Thirteen counties have held
elections within the past year under
the provisions of the Brice
law, and in all but one the dispensary
was voted out by decisive
majorities. Florence was tho only
county to rotniu tho dispensary,
and this was by the small majority
of 7-1 votes.
As a review of the elections held
thus far, tho following figures will
prove an interesting study:
Against For
Cherokee 2 2~>1 249
Pickens 707 222
Union 761 412
Newberry 808 248
Marion 1 149 281
York 72-") 131
Lancaster., 976 126
Florence 638 706
Darlington.. 680 271
Horry 822 214
Oconee (partial)... 560 80
Totals 9,081 2,156
Flections will be hold in other
counties on the following dates:
Greenville and Spartanburg, Nov.
14ih; Anderson, Nov. 25th; Edgefield,
Dec. 7th; Fairfield, Dec. 12th.
Petition for elections on the quea
tion are at present being circulated
in Saluda, Lexington, Chesterfield
and several other counties.
SON LOST MOTHER
"Consumption runs in our family,
ami through it I lost my mother," writes
15. B. Reid, of Harmony. Me. "For the
jKist live years, however, on the slightest
sign of u Cough or Cold, 1 have taken
Dr. King's Now Discovery for Consumption,
which has saved me from
serious lung trouble." His mother's
doulh wns u sad loss for Mr. Reid, bat
he learned that lung trouble must not
he neglected, and how to cure it.
Quickest relief and cure for coughs and
colds. Price 50c. and $1.00; guaranteed
at W. B. Ardrey's drug store. Trial
bottle free.
It ia stated on the authority of
fin otttcer in the Confederate army
that a balky mule decided the battle
of Gettysburg. The southern
and northern troops were both attempting
to reach an eminence the
position of which practice Hy derided
the battle, and the southern
column was blocked by a balky
mule just long enough to enable
the northern troops to gain the
eminence, so that a balky mule
really decided the battle.?Ex.
MAN'S U1 REASONABLENESS
is often as great us woman's. But
Thos. 8. Austin, Mgr of the "Republican,"
o# Leavenworth, Ind., was not
unreasonable, when ho refused to allow
tho doctors to operate ou his wife,
for fenuile trouble. "Instead," he
says, "we concluded to try Eleutrio
Bitters. My wife wus then ro sick,
she could hardly leave her bed. and five
[ft] physicians had failed to relieve her.
After taking Electric Bitters, sho was
perfectly cured and can now i>crforni all
her household duties." Guaranteed by
W. B. Ardrey, druggist, price ?0c.
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Inter-State Commerce a Hindrance tc
Prohibition.
Prom different teetions of tli*
State tlie authorities at Columbia
nre receiving inquiries regarding
the frequent visits of agents foi
whiskey houses in othor states.
Some believe that taking order*
for whiskey in a prohibition com ty
is a violation of the law ant!
should be stopped. That such is
not the case is proven by the following
letter which was sent some
time ago by Assistant Attorney
General Townsynd to a Mr, Pant,
of Whitniire, \v!ii) sought information
as to the law along this line:
"Dear Sir: Answering your letter
of the 28th, I beg to my that
the State cannot prohibit drummers
or salesmen from soliciting
| orders in this State for the sale
of liquor by non-residents in another
State to be shipped into this
State for delivery, as such transaction
is purely one of interstate
commerce over which this State
has r.o control. The sale in such
case is not complete until the delivery
the goods and the State
has no jri^ht to seize intoxicating
liquors so sold until after their arrival
in the State and delivered to
the consignee or purchaser, at
which time only they may became
to the State law; and are then
liable to seizure if held by the
consignee for other than his personal
use."
Thus it is thai the law of prohibition
fails. While a horde of
constables may he placed in a
county to prevent its citizens from
selling whiskey, when the nonresident
whiskey dealer comes
around the constable is compelled
by the interstate commerce law to
stand aside and allow the sale of
liquor to rock smoothly along.
Not only this, but, according to
Mr. Townsend'a opinion hh expressed
above, interstate commerce
is a protection to the blind tiger.
No longer docs the tiger fear the
seizure of his goods from a transportation
company or their offices
but is given time and opportunity
to lie in hiding and in the absence
of tho officers, pay the charges.
tnke liiH whiskey uud continue to
dispense it.
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To Face the Court.
The following prisoners nre in
York jail nwailing trial at the November
term of court, which convenes
on the 20tli:
Alb o?*t Miller, for murder; Louis
Hutchinson, murder; Hob Smith,
murder; Will Currenee, murder;
Mort Williams, murder; George
McOlure, murder; Arthur McDowell,
assault ami battery with intent
to kill; .Jack Kirkp-itrick, housebreaking;
Will Gaines, assault and
battery and resisting an officer;
Fink Barber, grand larceny.
Besides the above prisoners, all
of whom are colored, there are a
number of other important criminal
cases, the defendants being out
on bond, which will be called at
the uppreacliing term.
"I THANK THE LOUD!"
oriod Hanna Plant, of Kittle Honk, Ark.
"for the relief I got from Burkina's Arnica
Salve. Itcnroit my fearful running
sores, which nothing else would heal,
and from which 1 have sniTered for 5
years." It. is a marvellous healer f>?r
cuts, burns and wounds. (iuarautci d at
Ardrey's drugstore; cents.
Host cotton sold 011 this market
yesterday for II cents.
A DISASTROUS CALAMITY.
It is a disastrous calamity, when yon
losu your health, because indigestion
and constipation have sapi>od it away.
Prompt relief can bo had in Dr. King's
Now Life Pills. Tlioy build up your digestive
organs, and euro headache, dizziness,
colic, constipation, etc. Guurantotal
at. Ardrcy's drug storo: U'c.
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Mtnthfols of Deliciousness.
Cigars to burn,
Yob Enjoy the burning.
The bent lesson is 1 lint of example.
Loarn n valuable lesson by following
the exainplo of the discriminating
smokers of Fort Mill, and
when you think of s nuking think
of uh. We carry the largest stock
mid beat assortment of thp best
Cigars?tlie happy, sat isfying kind.
We have many customers .who will
waft the length of the byyijiess
part of the town to get satisfaction.
Do you persist in sacrificing it
merely for the matter of a little
convenience.
We keep all grades, but the
lowest quality starts at good and
goes on up.
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YOU r=
<? About your fall
5k and winter suit.
Beyond a doubt
& we carry as re:
$ putablc a line
! $ of Clothing as
^ you will find in
j & ra city of 25,000
<5 . Our price is
& a 1 w a 3T s jus t
S RIGHT.
$ Also a nice stock o
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Nr rach, ot lis prico, in ao
TIIEliE IS MONEY
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Prof. II oward of the Missouii Slal
i tiv'ifn Aituric:;:; farmers to enlticnt?
| ized. It !8 u hardy plant and is east
the Pennsylvania State College in pi
(I inseng mot is rapidly diminishing,
respondin^ly increasing, while the e
! China stands as a guarantee ot a stoi
1 ture."?C Misul (ionoral Kuldec of II
| sular repoits: The wale of Ginseng
large here a'nd the demand is so grea
posed of advan'agcouply, Tlie root is
tired-million Chinese as is their riee.
Gingeng is a staple on the market
j ton. The present market price vari<
| while thee ?st of producing is hss tl
! ri (|ii'i"s V'-ry little ground. An nor
$40,000. There is room in one's gard
lars worth each year. The plant thri
and Canada in any soil or climate tl
W * sell roots and seeds for planting
to make money growing Ciusong.
! spring ami fall. With each order we
land ere for the garden. Yon can g
! a small outlay and soon have a nice
' day for literature tellinur all aliont tl.
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Growers t
' ZANESVILLE,
CUR PRICE LIST. i";
Combining good quality and low prices. ^
The prices quoted below are guaranteed '
j to be the lowest for quality of Goods: '
1 year old Corn Whiskv, jht gallon $1 .*0 i 5
I '3 * ?a ,, ? ? * ? ,, 1.75 <?
j :$ ,, ,, 2.00 4
4 << i 2.2f> c
ii ,, ,, Tar Heel Corn Whiskey 8.0 > ^
; 1 ,. ,, Good Kye Whisky per gal 1.75j g
,3 ,, ..Good Hye Whisky " " 2.on j
1$ ,, Good Kye Whisky " " 2.f>0 i J
' I ? Good K>e Whisky " " 8.001 *
' 5 ,, ., Good Kvo Whisky " " 1 00 (
No charge for vessel or packing. <
50c extra will prepay ox press on one
j to three gallons; over 8 gallons, Tec. ; {
SHUtifiil a COMP&UY, '
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Council & Leo rtroots; ^
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5500 Telegraphers]!
sEZXBSm MEE1BED |
Annually, to till tho new positions created by |
Railroad and Telegraph Companies. Wo want f
! Y0DNU MEN nntl LADIES of good habits, to 1
IBKH TELEGRAPHY
AND R R. ACCOUNTING
Wo furnioh73 per cent, of tho Operators and l
Station Agents in America. Our six schools j
are tho largest exclusive Telegraph Schools iu $
the world. Established 2'J yoara and ondorsod &
by all loading Railway Giticials.
We execute a $250 bond to every stn- j
cionr to itirnisn hint or Iter :i ]>osition 2
l>ay iiij,' fr.?m $10 to ? >0 a mont h in states I
cast of the Itncky nionntaiiis, or from g
$7o to $1 :hi a nionlh i suites west of t he
i l'oeiiit s, immediately n{>nn gradual ion. j'
Students can cuter at any I into. )v o
vacations. For full particulars regard- <<
j ing any of our schools write direct t<> j
i our o*;cent it e otllcc at I in; iinat i. Ohio,
Catalogue free, i
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I Atlanta, On. la1 rosso. Wis. ]
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M INFRINGEMENT ?Ults r.ni.lu. n .1 I i .r. nil V? ?
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>W!NG GINSENG.
< .VjLfficixItiirnl College says: '*f
? (iinseng. l?ig profits are really
grown." A bulletin issued by
irt Buys: "The supply of native
and tlu* price per pound is coronstant
demand for the drug in
idy market for (iinu'iig in the fnong
Kong says in the l". S. Con
root grown in Amnion . ve: V
l that much more could be dis;
as indispensable to the fourdnut?
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the same ns corn, wheat and eott?s
from S<? 00 to *>') pel p mud,
lan Sl.oO. It is easy to grow and
e of matured (linseng is worth
on to grow several hundred dolvos
throughout the United States
lat will grow garden vegetables,
pm pos's and call show you how
There are two planting seasons,
give full instructions how to plant
1 a good start m the hiedness for
income. Sc.iul two cent stamp to*
is w aide; fill :; . nst i y.
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| Steam Laundry. |
| CHARLOTTE, ? ? N. C. |
j PRICE LIST. t
| Shirts 10c ^
! Fhirts, now, lS'.^c ?
1 Collars.. 2o 3
i Cuffs, pov pair lo o
| I'u.loi'shiris 8c j
1 13raw?i-? Ho ji
i : jk,j* pair "?c '
IlaiidluM'cliiors, linen I?o
i Iumlk( ivliiofs, silk f>o
> 1 ants :?">o to 7">c |
i C(KltS 2 jfi to 7 in %
| Vests 2.)0 t
Miirf Waists l.jc up K
! Curtains .">0c up K
blankets, single, Ioc? double, 2"c H
Counterpanes 10c B
I Table Cloths 10o- 5
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PORT MILL. ? ? ? S. C |
>o Ckoss Cakki \i;k Paint M.m?b
ill vciir as Ion# !>* Devo n's. JS'o other*
s heavy bodied, because Devon's,
eijjo to 4 onnei more to the pint,
old by W L>. A r.livy <Ss (Jo