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^ 7.7 v . m i f-. . * . Mi' ' ' v /The Fort Mill Times. / DEMOCRATIC / PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. rf B. W. BRADFORD, - Ed. and Prop. Six months 50 One year $1.00 Correspondence on current subjects Is invited, but no responsibility Is assumed for the views o? correspondents. ' On npptlcatlon to the publisher, advertising rates arc mude known to those Interested. i -r . . I Entered at the postoftieeat Forfc Mill, | SB. C., as second class mottor. W OCTOBER 11, 1900. J Lynching Record For 25 Years. f Tlie recent race riots at At-! -)anta, Ga., have attracted attion to the death rate among negroes due to mobs. Figures show that 4,000 persons have been put to death without warrant of law in the United States in the last 25 years, and that 95 pel* cent, of these were negro men, charged with assault on white women. The methods of execution adopted by the mobs1 comprise hanging, sl^ooting, j burning at the stake and flaying, i In one instance, in Arkansas, ! the victim's arms were twisted : from their sockets. As a rule it j has been the more atrocious the crime, the more terrible the punishment. Before the whosalc killing of negroes at Atlanta, Ga., Louisi-i ana and Alabama held the lynch- | ing record of the year, but Georgia now goes to the head with something like 55 victims. The mobs vent their hatred in various ways. Burning at the stake has been almost as freuqent as hanging and more so than shooting. Cotton Moulding in Boil. The moulding of the cotton in the boll lias beer, reported from many sections of the State where the fall of rain has been con- i siderable, and in the middle of the State, the damage is said to have been heavy. Picking has not been going! forward to any great extent, ! though some pickers are getting in ihe field this week. The j rains and cold snaps have been instrumental in retarding the. * growth and the ripening of the cron. ;ind it. is cronprnllv conrpH- I ed that an early frost would be | almost disastrous, as the crop is j much behind, and frost would 1 kill the fruit already in the bolls. ! But despite the somewhat | gloomy outlook for cotton in this j immediate section, the farmers | seem to be well supplied with i money and the merchants report j 'the usual increase in trade, al-1 ways noticeable in the fall. So far as is reported, there is ! very little damage from insects 1 and, except for the moulding, j the crOp seems in good condition. ' Very little of the staple has been , marketed this week, though the daily sales arc steadily increasing. Why March 4th is inauguration Day. There has been many objections raised to the date upon which the Presidents of the United States are inaugurated, chief among them being the ' usually inclement weather which prevails so early in the spring. The first President Harrison contracted the cold which caused | his death, soon after he assumed office, at the ceremonies attendtendinc hi* innncmriitirtn* ?jnd anxiety is always expressed lest the unhappy incident be repeated. There was a reason for choosing that date, however, which very few persons have evor heard of. When the day was fixed upon the 4th of March, it was because that date seldom occurred on Sunday. But three times during ! our history has the inauguration day fallen on that day. The first was the second inaugura- i tion of James Mouroe, the fifth president, March 4, 1721; the! second was when Zachary Taylor was marie president, March 4, .1849; the third was the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes on March 4, 1877. An exneriment will soon be tried on the passenger trains of the Southern railway which it is hoped will enable the conductors to devote their attention more exclusively to the running of j their trains and keeping them \ on their schedules. The conductors will be relieved of the duty of taking tickets and col-1 lectin# fares and will be given an assistant, who will attend to that part of the train work, i Only a few of the ticket takers ! will be put on the trains at first! until it is found how the plan will operate and these will be on those runs which are most| L - ffiiiV v ; Laurens Dispensary Case. The State board of election commissioners met Thursday at Columbia to consider the Laurens dispensary situation. The dispensaries there have remained open in spite of the State board's ruling last spring that the Laurens county board was in error in declaring the election against the dispensaries void on account of irregularities. Judge Hydrick decided in favor of the county board when the case went to him on a certiorari. The Laurens prohibitionists are now insisting that the case go to the Supreme Court, but there seems to be no appropriation for carrying it there. The board referred the matter to the attorney general, who will report later. Wants Twelve Cents For Cotton. Recent events in the cotton belt with the sensational advance in prices are bearing out the prodictions of Field Agent E. D. ? .J9 xi . a s-% li onuui, 01 ine ooum Carolina Cotton Association. Mr. Smith has always stood lor high prices. Some times he has been wrong, that is, he has failed more than once to get what he asked for, but on the other hand, he has hit the right mark time and again. Several days ago in talking of the cotton situation Mr. Smith made the following statement: "With trade condition as good as last year, a twelve million bale crop, which does not seem probable, ought to bring 121-2 cents instead of 10 cents, the price now being paid. By concert of action we can make it bring what it ought to bring. Without concert ol action we will have to take what we can get. The world consumed last year 12,186,000 bales of cotton. It consumed not only all the cotton produced last year but 840,000 1 ?ales that were carried over from the previous year. It consumed more cotton than was ever consumed any previous year. 310,000 bales more than in 1904-5, more than 2,000,000 bales more than 1903-4. The average price paid was eleven cents based upon the New Orleans market. Spinners sold their products on a much higher basis, a basis the average of which was not less than 121-2 cents." Southern Machinists on Strike. A special Monday from Spencer to the Charlotte Observer stated that about 900 machinists, helpers and apprentice men employed in 12 shops and a number of minor ]>oints on the Southern Railway system went out on a strike at 11 o'clock Monday. The shops affected are as follows: Atlanta, 115 men; Birmingham. 90; Macon, 40; Manchester, 28: Columbia, 80; Knoxville, 110; Spencer, 160; Charleston, flu Selma, Ala., 25; Alexandria, 00; Lawrenceville, Va., 12; Sheffield, Ala., 40, and a large number ol men at outlying points. The strike was made simultaneously all over the Southern system and at Spencer included nearly all the foremen. The helpers and apprentice boys went out in Pleasant Valley. Mr. \\ hite Cousart spent Friday in Charlotte.?Mr. J. J. Bailesand Mr. Bob Bryant passed j through lleasant Valley Sunday! i evening. ? Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stephenson of Providence spent Saturday at Mr. J. D. Wolfe's. Mr. Sam Harris, of Catawba Falls is visiting his mother for a week. Mrs. Joe Bailes has been j very iii for the past week.?Mr. I J. M. Harris went to Charlotte Friday with a load of produce from his farm. ? Mr. Editor when j does the baby show come off; we have a few over here that could enter the show.?Mr. Oscar Faris of Charlotte visited his parents Sunday. sympathy with the machinists. The cause of the strike was the refusal of the Southern officials to grant the demands of the employes for an increase in wages from 30 to 321-2 cents an hour. Signs of a Hard Winter. That the coming winter is going to be the haulest. one for the past 20 years there is an abundance of signs to show, and among them it maybe mentioned that: The corn husks are a foot and a half thick, and all the stalks lean to the west. The geese?, ducks and chickens are growing a coat of fur under their feathers, and are rubbing borax on the tlieir feet to harden them up. All the one-eyed owls are leaving the country a month earlier than usual, i.nd the bob-tailed squirrels are laying in sweet potatoes as well as nuts for winter provisions. The fanner who has taken the trouble to investigate has found vi>mv mii vtR tudUAlwl') tm Lilt" *1111 logs have wrinkles in them. The I last time this happened we had winter weather that froze the handles oil' the plows. Itabbits are sitting around with a humped-up look to them, and field mice have wrinkles in their tails. If tlvs means anything, it means 20 degrees below zero from November through May. Tyrone (Henn.) Herald. Thin is t ho season of decay and weak oned vitality. Natnro is being shorn of its beauty and blootn. If you would retain yours, fortify yonr system with I loll is tor's Rocky Mountoin Tea. H5 cents, Tea or Tablets.?lJurks Drug Co. ' * vi ^ " V: . . . . ! < V || V ' k I ? The Skeleton of an Ex-Ku Kiux? An old ex-Ku Klux was in Yorkvillethir. week and recited an interesting story as to the sudden i ; disappearance of Kirkland L. J | Gunn while giving evidence in i the famous Ku-Klux trials in Coi lumhi-1 years ago, says the Yorkville New Era. Gunn was a native of LlcCon- | nellsvillo and had bee n a member i of the Ku Klux, but for some: | reason became a traitor to the j organization and was a witness against his former comrades. | His evidence was extremely dam| aging to York county Clansmen; j t hp had hr?f?n tm tl?i? \\ stand ' I nearly the entire day and when i court adjourned in the evening1, j i his story had been only partially; ; told and would no doubt have : consumed the greater part of the j following day. When court con- i i vened the next morning Gunn 1 J was not present, ilc had disap- j peared during the night. Dili-j ; gent search on the part of the' | authorities failed to locate the J i missing witness. Gunn?s,disap-! i pearar.ce battled everyone conI nccted with the court. He has j i never been heard-of from that I ! day to this. The old clansman then gave an ' i account of a skeleton that was unearthed in Columbia a few weeks ago when certain excavations were being made on lower j Main stree t. K j happened to be i in Columbia at the time and made , some quiet personal investigai tions into the matter. When (Innn 1 was "lost" in Columbia some 80 ; years ago that portion of the city ; | where the skeleton was found i 1 was almost in woods, so to speak, I and it would he hard for those who who were present at the j time to identify the spot now. , However, personal acquaintances ; remember that Gunn had a mouthful of sound teeth. The } ravages ef time had not robbed i the skeleton of this prominent ! feature. Was it the skeleton of Kirkland L. Gunn? The old Ku Kiux Clansman would not s: TLc S^atc Fair. The State Fair will be held in Columbia on the 2t?-27 of this month. This is the annual reunion for the South Carolinians. Another feature to be added this year is Home Coming Day i for those who have moved out i of the State, and who will be ! welcomed by their friends at i this great reunion of South Caro- J linians. In speaking of the fair to a reporter from the Columbia State, Secretary Love says: "i think you can safely say j i that the State fair will be the I biggest and best in the history of fairs. it would take a circus poster to describe all the attractions arranged ar.d all that I can say to the people oi the State and to the 'home comers' is that i we are going to have the bent fair in the South Atlantic States, i Think, for instance, of a free | arraction in which a man offers ; $100 to the person who can pro- \ duee a bull or a steer that ho cannot throw. We have that. Think of John L. Sullivan, the \ moving pictures, the midway, ; j the football games, the races and i the chance of meeting friends I not seen in years that the visi-; Lor to Columbia will have this! i year. It's going to be a great, i n ' liur auu nit; i>eopio are coming- , | Columbia must arrange to ac-1 j commodate several thousand I moro than last year and the I quicker the arrangements arc made the better for Columbia. Secretary Love further says | that he is not joking about the i attractions this year. All kinds | of amusements wiil be pat on and as to the exhibits, he has received applications for more space than ho can furnish. The railroads will give very cheap rates and run extra trains so that everybody in the State can go to this great reunion. The people of Columbia should arrange to house the large j crowds that will attend the lair i this \ ear. A Sad Deed* in Pleasant Valley. Parties from Pleasant Valley Tuesday brought the sad intelligence i>f the death of Mrs. Nettie Bailes, wife of Mr. Jos. Z. Bailes, which occurred about midnight Monday at her home in that section. Mrs. Bailes had bfeen in feeble health for several months, and, despite the best of lc cal and hospital treatment, she e mtiiiued to grow worse until t te end. Mrs. Bailes before marriage was Miss Nettie Crane, of Marvin. She was 2G yeai*3 of s go and is survived by a hus-j 1 and and four children, the j \ oungest of whom is less than < ne year of age. She was a Christian woman, a devoted wife ; nd mother and a good neighbor. ; r 'he sympathies 01 a large circle < f relatives and friends go out 1 o the bereaved husband and thildren 111 tiieir sad loss. 1 The funeral service was held yesterday morning at 10 o'clock , at the home, by Rev. .1. C. Chandler, and the burial took place at Pleasant Hill Methodist church. Cider Under the Ban. j The city council of Charlotte [at its last regular meeting passed a prohibitive tax ordinance upon the sale o\ all sorts of ciders, including cherry, orange, etc. ; Under the new ruling those who deal in the so-called soft drinks v ill have to pay an annual license of $1,000 and for every violation of the law they will be fined not more than $50. The new ordinance will become effective on the first of November, cv.. 1 i v^i rAiim.- LI i 11 L. im; IIUVL experienced a great deal of trouble with the drunks arising j from these sources; these alleged solt drinks being claimed Py the aldermen to contain, from four }>er cent alcohol up tc ten. A number of drunks who have faced the recorder have said that the cider has made i .cm intoxicated. Hereafter only fresh apple cider can be sold with immunity. Soiac Smctvt Mules. We see in one of the sensational weeklies that a farmer out in Kansas is bragging over the j possession of a mule that drinks beer and chews tobacco regularly, j It must, be acknowledged that the Kansas mule, intellectually, ranks ahead of the majority of his kind, but he can't touch a mule in this township which is said tog. with the best of the .1 - 1-1 * * u<?gn in a raumi cnase. I no owner of this mule will take him out one of these nights we are told, to learn what his abilities are in treeing 'possums. Now, there may some doubting Thomases among those who read of this \vr> sensible mule, and, if so, they are advised to communicate with his honor, Mayor Hall. Letter to T. S. 21251?AT22CZ. Pert Kill, S- C. Dear Sir: Our agent ought t<> soil nine truths of the paint ol' Ins 'own ami ; region, no use to try for the other tenth. The proportion of men, who won't take good advice, and use the, least gallons paint, is ah ut one in ten I among even owners ot houses ami I stores and shops ami burns and fences. I ?_>?jt man ::i ?en will buy a gold brick or gr. en g-nx'.s, if he h is the money and gets a good chance. Dmoc at $ 1 To a gallon is better than gold; adulterated and shortlneusure paints are green goods and gold bricks. Dtnoe saves half, more or less, of the labor and wages of painting: it is all paint, full strength and full mc:i....re. There's no oth"r such paint within ten per cent. Ten per c ent of labor and paint is worth saving; and ten is the least. There aro scores of paints that throw-away half of both gallons and labor on whiting, china-clap, ground stone, barytes. benzine, water? all j they are pond for is to ut tl gallons of no'hiuguml b.ok like paint in the can; more gallons to hex and more gallons to pay lot t it ring-on?gold bricks and gr? e:i goods. I hue's bow they work. Judge I J). Fairfield owns two house* exactly ahkein l.ufkiu, Texas, J. 11. Torrenee (minted both houses, one l?ec >e. I.V.J gallons, the oilier with ano her paint sold a! same price, :1."> gallons. That 2u gullon paint is weak | ami ! *> per cent whiting, that's why it took U'j. gallons more. ^ Yours truly 5 FW DKTOEACO New York i 1'. \V. I'.. Ardrey & Co. sell our paint The negro, Isaac Knicrht. lias been convicted of criminal assault at Aiken, in spite of Ids ( pica of not guilty, and Judge Gary has sentenced him to hang j on October 26. Knight assaulted IV)rs. E. S. Chaplain, a Northern woman, who had been living near Aiken a number of years. She had befriended Knight, and when her neighbors warned her of the danger of allowing him too much consideration she replied thashe was all right, that he was n "perfect gentleman." EI.F.CTR3C BUTTERS AN1> KLDNEYS. i / > , * ^ \ ^ * ** * RB 'VA*;! i-l. Governor Heyward has offered a reward of $75 for the delivery to the sheriff of Spartanburg of Mrs. Coburn, the white wofnan who was whipped in that county and who was last seen in Lancaster county. The annual State Baptist convention will be held at Spartan- j burg, commencing November 27, j and lasting several days. Five j hundred delegates, representing I 110,000 Baptists in the State, j will attend the convention. Quite I a number of prominent Baptists j from various States in the South will attend the meeting. Col. John M. Patrick, of Anderson, has been appointed professor in the South Western College of Alabama. 3AS0SB FSCM THE PLAQUE. Tlirrc's grave (lunger from tho plague /.r i .... ' i \7i * i lltu (II V" S?? j lent, unless you take t)r. King's New. ?Jiscovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. N:rs. Ci>o. Walls, of Forest City. Me., writes: "It'sn (hid svml to people living in climates when? coughs and colds prov ail. 1 lind it quickly ends them. 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N 37 ICE TO ST0CKM0L3ERS. l'i: 1 aunt to a nvohition of the Hoard of Directors >? the Port Mill Muuafasturin.'/ t'oinpuuy, passed at a meeting hold i his day . increasing capital stork f s.i.d conijianj from $100,000 , to r- H>.tMi ) l>y issuing One Thousand shares of Preferred Stock of tho pir j value of $100 ca h, stiul Preferred stock to have i he following preferences, liuhilitiff an<l conditions, to wit: "Haiti stock shall l>e entitled to a svrai inn.;al dividend of Jl'j i>or cent (and i.o n or ). out of t he not earnings of said orpni.it ion and -hall ho redeemablo at par on and after Jany. 1st, 1917, at the option of tin eorjxrratiou. TiiaC no lien or mortgage shall 1 o placed on the corporalioti's property during the life ot said stock, unless provision is made for the retirement of said stdck at. par, together with any unpaid dividends. And the bonded indebtedness now outstanding shall he retired before the issuing of this slock. No dividend shall be paid on the ?'omnion i-'.toekof tho covjiortttion until the so hi i annual dividend of per , cent has been i?iid or sot aside tolw paid 0:1 the 1Jreferred Stook." A moot ing of the stockholders of the coii!|wfiv is called for tho. purpose of eodsidot'iutf said resolution, said nieetto bo held at thootlice of the Company in h'ort Mill, S. 0. at the regular semiannual met ting of tho stockholders. ' viz. November l'lth, I*)lkJ at 10 o'clock ' a. in. I CLOTHING. A more complete stock of clothing would be imrvl to find. We can fit the boys, the young' men, the middle used man, .and the settled man. Considering quality of goods, we can't be undersold. Here are the weapons that we fight competition with. They have been conquerors for the past half century, and if fair treatment and honest dealing will accomplish anything, they will continue to ! >? i: feclilosc Bros, and GritFon brand Clothes. J no. B. Stetson and Howard Hats. Hanan and Crawford Shops Sweet, Orr, find Brand Bros. Trousers. Bull Dog shirts and other popular lines of goods. Our motto: "The best goods for the least money." McElliiy k Co. fBSOFS HMR RESTORER Is a fragrant preparation for invigorating and beautifying the Hair. It will gradually restore grey hair to its original color, promote a new and healthy growth where th^ hair is fallen, and is remarkably useful in preventing dandruff ami destroying parasitic hair-killers. Price 50c per bottle, at ARDREY'S DRUGSTORE. iflOTJECBli Y Owing to ill ? delay in ^ $ finishing'v.; : tudio it will be impossible or me to open a T up for business before Octo- a her 22. ^ My representative is now ? ? ? in Forr Mill delivering the < ? work for which I was given 2 5 / orders on my recent vis-t ? ? ? here, and th.o delivery will ^ > ^ <$. continue until every order t has been filled. 1 I thank the people of I 2 Fort Miil for their past $ A f > .i*c ;J>.1 liiiiia ' r\ Iia oKIa A y t vi ? iv 11 '4 I iv/J'V vV LitJ?V. 3 ? ^ to serve them again, not ? later than the iotl) inst. { t Respectfully, x t Z. E. Scctt t 0 - - ' I \ ? I