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I "Th.o Fort Mill T'mios, A DEMOCRATIC H *B. W. HitAl.H\>Kn. - 1M. and Prop. | On^' v< nr ?1.00 Six months f.O M Thr'.'o 10 (.Mi MppiWatjon to tlio I'Ublishor, o<1.' * ?V(M ."iroa ai" miOr kllov.Ji to] Br .thoMt* inti ror.t'v!. iOntorcl nt the posiofllceat Fort Mill, fi. <1.. mo('.i:ii1 o!:t?s matt< r. .1TTT.Y 11 10A7 '.J : The average country newspaper conies out in a new dress .about as seldom as the editor's The n : r' < ' \\ (" " TO has the tallest weeds in his cornfi d& and t feu -st in ? hi3 hills. We notice that the R-jck Hill newspapers do not have near so I much to say about the game of baseball as they did some days ago. Guess the sporting editoris away. Work is a moral and physical | upiifter; it is a panacea for sor- I row; idleness brings moral decay and furnishes an incentive to crirn . The avalanche of crime V/hicii is sweeping orer our land h today is largely duo to the fact too many prefer to got a living by swindling and stealing' than lay honest work. When you pull down the town in which is your home, you are j p illing down yourself, and who 1 j you build up your town you are building up yourself and your neighbor. Try and banish from 1 your mind the mistaken idea Hi it all good things are away oft* in, some other locality. Give your i-II ? ! i _ - . lA/wil <111 111C JJi'tllt-U IS. Cclll ICJfllimately bear. It certainly will do you no harm and will cost you nothing, and above all, patronise your ho no institutions. It is not surprising that some .of our young men seem to have such hard work to be decent. . .... Just remember that-the first man jto dwell upon earth was no saint. If we-can rely upon history he ( was a liar and a sneak. The first i woman kept bad company, and, I woman-like, pried into things thar did not concern her. The fir3t child born was a murderer and killed his brother. Our first ancestors wore a tough lot and it is hard to got it out of the biood. Running a newspaper is just fike running a hotel, only different. When a man go< s into hotel and finds something on the table which does not suit him, he does not raise hades with the landlord and tell him to slop his old hotel. Well hardly. He-sets that dish to one side and wades into the many dishes that suit him. Jit is different with some ! newspaper readers. They rind p,n article occasional';/ that d >os not exactly suit them and, without stopping to think that it may please hundreds of other read. . >, make a grand-star 1 play and loll + editor how a n:rncr shoul 1 !> frun and what should he put into it. But such people aie becoming fewer every year. Talking: of intemperance, did ! you ever notice that fathers of | drinking* boys are seldom found in the thick fight against whiskey? An overwhelming per cent of the active agitators are men v. ho never experienced the awful havoc wrought in the family circle by dissipated sons. Ninetynine per cent of those who drink form the habit before they are pf legal age when it is a crime ! to either sell or give them the jljBtuflf. If ail men would resolve, at this critical period, that the man who put the bottle to their pon's lips should suffer the consequences, the results would be n mo3t gratifying. B t so long as parents are indifferent, present conditions will continue. The evolutionists have for a long time been trying to find the missing link jqst where the ape drops his caudal appendage' and turns to a man. They have , never been able to propagate Siniiu species, Dut tne inventor has been more fortunate, for he has found the missing link in the farm implement bu.-iies3. The time was when the small farmer boy's dreams wore haunted with the thought of when harrowing time would come and when itcamo he felt at night like he was worn pff up to the knees, b it that time is past. Now the old man can l harrow, seated on his harrow k cart and do better work with all case. Anoth* r iinolement milks ^vt'necows without a pain or an 1 ;tche and empties the slop to the \hogs without a marm iring word, lafter a hard dav's work is done. \ Purm work fa not the drudgery that it was some years ago. *i "I huvd'fir *!l7lM?\w:il\sug s i-'.i I * \ I 1 ' yivir<i\>:i :t < ui? > ' By Wi:'.* fhv ii >1 nl r/im\ !:i i'l ut luoQt, nuii! I ti*?sl hiJwW ii m \mi fciilve; th'.it bus Vbo h<ivo mid . i ' \ \ BS|^Bt4nrrot't. of Nor. b Ml IK O, Qnarun- j 8SKMki' '1 f?>r PH*;s. itn Jih, bit f :>> ull drag j A Ncrth Carolinian's View* of Tillman. Many years ago I first, heard lion. Ben Tillman, the irrepressible and one-eyed statesman, speak in Yorkvillo and Itock Hill during his lirst campaign, lie was then denouncing tne Bourbon democracy, the Huprenot aristocracy of South Carolina, j whose ambition was to rule or uin. The entire press of the n. . state, every townsman, every j wealthy aristocrat and the political machine were in arms against "Pitchfork Ben." It was a bitter' campaign that Tillman and the down - trodden country people waged against the maimed Gen. Butler, the cavalry hero in the U. S. senate and the landed aristocracy who believed in the old regime. Tillman won the fight and the sobriquet Pitchfork still j clings to his name. From the gubernatorial chair his ability, fearlessness, rough honesty and genius lwtve won him a national reputation. In rough debate ho is a peer of any in the U. S. Senate, and he can use classical language in debate, for he is a hard student. As a stump speaker, he is a bitter, incisive and forceful orator that captures and holds a crowd, north south and west. J once heard him in Charlotte follow the silver-tongued orator of Virginia, Senator Daniel, now mentioned as a candidate for the presidency. The crowd was wc?i n out and gave the one-legged hero a faint applause, but after the |one-eyed orator with his famous; pitchfork had spoken five minutes, applause followed in quick succession nearly every sentence ; until the crowd forgot their hunger and punctuated every sentence with a yell. Like Rev. Sain Jones, he was a master of invective, and dealt in words that every man under- \ stood. He captured that immense crowd in Charlotte and held it until the finish, when a hundred throats yelled. "Go on, go on." Then I said, "Ben Tillman is a genius!"- lie is a man of splendid family, his brother held a high position in congress for many years oeioie me war. At home he is gentle, kind and polite, and his life has always been clean and above reproach. He was a leader to break the shackles from South Carolina's aristocratic oligarchy and afterwards his genius and his noble tight in congress for the rights of ike .South have conquered his aristocratic enemies. Now, like Saul, Tillman stands head and shoulders above hi s comrades and no . other Southern man can draw as big a crowd as he. As a lecturer he made l'or many mont hs &i5'H) per month as he draws immense audiences. Now he is a rich i man ami his unaided won re- [ nown and wealth. All honor to ' the rough, magnetic and bold Ben, with his pitchfork to stir the Republican leaders and expose corruption and graft. Kutherfordton (N. C.) Sun. Trihula'-iow of a Filbert ivL't chant. In tearing away the ceiling of a Filbert storeroom recently workmen discovered -17 pairs of socks which had been stolen from the bedroom of one of the former proprietors of the store who 1im<1 slept in the building. The socks had evidently been carried there by rat-' and the discovery clears1 up a mystery that had caused the merchant no little worry in days gone by. The story is vouched for by a reliable citizen and he declares that the thing became so annoying that the merchant had to give up his room. Every morning nearly when the storekeeper arose from his bed .and began dressing he would miss his socks. lie first thought it the work of a practical joker, then he thought lie was being victimized by some lightfingered thief. II 1 set traps for either contingency but there was no satisfactory results. The socks continued to disappear and the merchant grew desperate. He even threatened to adopt the plan of the famous Kansas senator and wear Irs shoes just so. Indeed on several occasions he would have been forced to do this had it not been for a plentiful supply in the dry goods department. of the store He finally gave up his room in disgust and never had the mystery of his disappearing socks explained until the other day when he was apprised of the discovery noted above. Yorbviile Now Era. It will doubtless interest many of our readers to kn</?v that Prof. W. F. Massoy, so long and successfully identified with the Practical Farmer, has severed his connection with that paper and will hereafter write regulariarly for the Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh, N. C. Certainly no j man in Southern agricultural work Has won a greater following than Prof. Masssy, and as his Ike work has been in the South,' no , will hereafter contribute only to Southern farm papers. His letters will appear in the Progresivo Farmer each week. I For first-cl^ss blacksir.i thing, \ wrightihg ^ ncBSKmH^" CANAL 13 2,500-YEARS OLD. At I.cftst the Corinthian "Was Undjr Contemplation as \ Ago as That. "Speaking of cannls," said the engineer who had he en talking about Panama, "a very interesting canal, and one not much heard of, is (hat connected with the gulf of Corinth and the gulf of Aegina in (Jreece. "It's some older than any we have in the western hemisphere, also, for Periander, tyrant of Corinth, proposed to cut through til*. isthi.'iiiM ;i? lnn? mrn !i? ltMO years before Christ. Superstition stopped him, however. ''Julius Caesar and Caligula took it up again when Home had hold of < I recce, hut it was too much for them. Then came Nero, and he went at it with Vigor, hut the work stopped when he died. "Others kept pounding away at It for the next several hundred years', hut it was not until 1SS1 that real work of the Nero energy was put upon it. Then ("Jen. Turr, aide-de-camp to Victor I'mmanuel of Italy, organized a company and worked on lill the money gave out in 1890, the chief obstacle being some kind of Hint which dynamite couldn't break. "About ?10,000,000 was spent up to 1890, and then Mr. Syngroa took hold, organized a new company, with $9115.000 working capitaL ami. finished the job in 189'.. iX oniy1 about four miles long, hut it is 09 feet wide at the bottom. about 80 fret wide at waterline, 20 feet ami three inches deep in water, audit is cut nearly all the way through solid rock, rising at some points for 209 feet above the canal. "It is like a canyon, and ships do not take kindly to it, the entrance being bad, a strong wind blowing through it as through a great air ..t .. fi -?jt Minii, ami mere is at limes a strong reverse current. "It is sin interesting trip 1 hrough the ennnl, and it saves 1 "J:t miles of very rough water nnil 20 hours of time; but so far skippers prefer to go through the ]K'iiinsuh\ rather than through tlie canal, though with some changes wliieh will he made it is believed the ennal will become of general use as soon as a few ships begin to use it and remove the* prejudice now existing against it." A NEGRO AND STEAMBOAT. River Man's Reason for Eelieving Colorod Man Good Roustabout ?Superior to Whites. "The suggestion came out of St. Louis the other day that white labor had replaced the negro 011 the wharf and that after long service the black roustabout was about to enter upon the dee line of his sway," sai l an old river mail, according to the New Orleans Times IJeniocrat. "All of which, I ma\ add, I accept with a grain of sail, as the saving go'-s. Somehow ! can never think of the successful and really \ aluahlc roustabout as anything but a black man. "The negro seems to have been born to the calling, lie is. as a rule, forul of the steamboat, and naturally takes to steamboat work, lie has always hovered around the river. Of course, you will find negroes hack in the hills and scat tered around in t lie higher altitudes, but the vast majority of them you will find quartered in the lowlands of the country, ami on the rivers, where he can hear the Hotter of steamboat wheels. There is one other fart to he mentioned in connection with the ne gro's peculiar fitness for steamboat ng. "l>id you ever hear the steamboat mate talking to the 'musters'?say, for instance, when the boat was a little late in pulling oat and during the busy season? llast not, eh? Well, there is something in store for 3011, sonic thing lurid and forceful, am) something that will force* you to run <h>* gamut of the emotions. The point is that the negro is stimulated and urged on to quicker work by ii.:- i i ** * iiu^ Mini m iiiiiv. rroianny is an es^enfinl in tin* mate's calling. The negro needs it. 1 was just wondering if the while man would ever gel used (o it. Maybe so, but I have liiv doubts about it." Queen Mary's Hnrp. The harp of Mary, Queen of Scots, has been bought by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for $1,500. An Old Time Tacky Party. The Village Improvement Society will have an old time tacky party in the town hall Friday night, July J h5th. to which all are cordially invited. Anjadmission ot ten and fifteen cents will he charged, and ice cream and lemonade will be on sale in the hall. - ? i Mr. I Joy J Smith spent Monthly in O.arl-/tie. I 7 I ' * : S* ' i? niirtjlx. % / f v/r. p |"Nothing Si j r |Like Succes $ ?? a except saving the resu .< labor or business. If I ^ small way, save a part. * the large, if left in 01 m small sum?even a dolla; 1^ it's here for you subjec i !* 4 PER GEriT INTEREST, ! !? $ COM ?> l 0 HTHE NATIONAL u , r (ABSOLUTE |J RGGS HILL, I# Good Price fcr Cottco Assured. There is every 'ndication now that the short cotton crop in the: South is going to he a blessing to! South Cnrolina, and especially to upper South Carolina. The late government report of the crop j condition shows that the condition in South Carolina is 791 against a ten-year average of 82: or only 3 points behind. The condition in the entire South was 1 72 against a ten-year average of ; i 83. The greatest deficiency is in the Ivg cotton producing States of the West. This has already begun to cause higher prices, and despite the efforts of the cotton association to prevent such dealings, farmers throughout the State are reported to be selling their: entire crops for fall delivery at prices ranging from 10 to 12 cents. The argument which is l>iit to the farmer is that the j price is always low when the i crop begins to come in and that by soiling in advance they git a price at the start which will in j all probability be much higher than prices in the open market. Be that as it may, the people of this State are going to malai a cotton crop this year, if nothing unforseen shall occur, and are going to get good prices for thH staple It is, of course, impossi-! ble to predict what the price of I of cotton will be, but with the general crop 13 points below the J average, a short crop will result and prices must necessarily soar skyward. Many are of the opinion that cotton will be 15 cents this fall and some predict 20 cent cotton. In this section cotton has improved wonderfully within the past two weeks, and many of our farmers who a short time P - I uuuuj-'.iil were lacing a year of disaster now have reas on to believe that the crop will be the most profitable one in a ! number of years. Gold Kill. Misses Mary Boyd, of Charlotte, and Mary Withhcrs and Hammie Smith, of Steel Creek, ; were the guests of Miss Lessie Epps Friday night and Saturday. Miss Corrinc Faris has returned from a ten weeks' visit to Florida. Her uncle, Mr. Frank Fai is. and Mr. Melton came with her. They will both visit the .Jamestown exposition before returning. Miss IsabeHe Crcighton is visiting Miss Grace Crook. It is announced that the meeting at Philadelphia will start next Tuesday. Rev. Ik A. Yongue will assist Rev. Owings. - In every postofficc in the. | union which transfers mail di! rect by railway mail service the postmasters are weighing all mail originating in the office and sent to the railroad. This will continue for a period of six months and from July 1st for 1 30 days an accurate record will I be kept of all mail received on all railroads carrying mail. Every piece of mail originating in the office was counted for seven days in order to determine the revenue and cost of handling the home business of those offices. The medicine that sots tho whole world t Milking, Tho r?>inody on which till doctors agree, Tho proscription till your friends are talcing is Ilollister's Pocky Mountain Tea"? l'arks Drui? C?">. - / j A FCETuMATE 7EXAN. Mr E* W. Goodloe, of Ii7 St. Leois St. D ,11ns, Tex. says, "In the past yotjr I have become acquainted with pn. KiUK'sEitw Life IMlls. ntnf I ever before tried so oilt "JJ, pos"s of malaria ami hUUcmshffk" They don't ^riml or gripe. j 35c gt alj drug stores. 'AY YOU TO SAVE.ft iyi^ls \ s" K\ i * *! 5 : ?! ! Its of success be it from Sit ' your success comes in a Si ! o K ... 51 ! oiuaw amounts soon yield ! nr Savings department. A i | v will start an account andf j t to your call any time. ? j POUNDED QUARTERLY. J ' f . UNION BANK.*; I :ly safe.) i. - - S. G.p qw.n.r r""iiui_> .j li_ BBUABKABLE BE80US. That truth is stranger tiiuii fiction, lms once more been demonstrated in tlm little town of Fedora, Tenn.. the residence of C. V. Pepper, Ho writes, j "1 was in bed, entirely disabled with | hemorrhages of the lungs and throat, j Doctors failed to help me, and all hope had tied when I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery. Then instant ; relief canio. The coughing soon ceased; i the bleeding diminished rapidly, and in three weeks I was able to go to work." i (inaranteed cure for coughs and colds j .The and $1.00 at ail drug stores. Trial ! hotf le free. NOTICE All persons living within the town of Fort Mill, S. C., are hereby notified to get their hog pens in first class condition. Any person or persons failing j to comply with this notice will be cWlt with according to law. V. D. POTTS Chief of Police. | WHEN THE BRIDE PROMISES . TO OBEYThat's a Fake. \VHK?V-T1IE BRIDE PREMISES! IMPERIAL FLOUR? That's the Truth, Jones Sells It. Phone 14. AN OKDINANCK. if ordained mid by tlio town council now sitting in common council and by authority of srniio; That after ilie passage of thin ordinance i! shall bo unlawful for any peronii /\r iu?rci\i?c f.v h? ?f - *? --- ............ n> i?Jitt <JII t?n> nmn 111 tlio town of Fort Mill, S C. after 1J p. 111. without a reasonable excuse. Section 'J, That any person or per sons violating the above onlinaiice shall he pnni li <1 by -a fine not exceeding 00 or less than $i."iO and cost, or more (than ' 25 days.'work upon the stroets nor less than 5 days work. Done and ratified ill couneil assembled this 12th day of .Tune W. L. HALL. Attest: Iut'd ' A. H. MoElhanoy. Clerk. IT your buggy gets "rattled" or your horse loses a shoe, tell your troubles to Young, the village blacksmith, and be made, happy again.?Adv. I HELLO CENTRAL, | | give ma No. 11, \ \ttie MODEL Steam; % * ? Laundry Agency. | z We do correct Launder | ing. Let us know early in j! j the week nnrl wo will r?o!1 Z \\ at your door and j?et your j \\ laundry. Give us a trial, and ? \\ if the work is not satisfac- J 1 !} tory, it costs you nothing. J 11 It satisfies everybody, why, 5 ? not try a bundle? All work 5 !| guaranteed. * I R. F. GRIER, Jr? f , and . i f Agent. | / Grand Sixty Sixteen of the Best Kn able Papers and Maga2 One year for Read this Wc Planters' Journal, Memphis. Tenn. American Farmer. Indianapolis, hidSuccessful Farming. Des Moines, la. Maxwell's Talisman Magazine, Chicago The Farm Money Maker, Cincinnati, 0. Green's Fruit Grower, Rochester, N. V. Modern Stories Magazine, New York. Southern Poultry Fancier, Atlanta. Seventeen Great Paper All One Year 1 zfc,y This offer, which will be ope new subscribers to The Times, ant scribers anti will pay up one year Send the subscription price?$1. and get it and the above named p; IS?! H? 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I out and go fishing I business, IALL. j \4\<tS4\ ?\4S4\4S4\?N4MS4\4 OOVER, 1 its in y> ;ars, tobacco. Etc. ?>: - - - Salisbury, N. C. ving prices on Whiskies koy $1.50 f| Whiskey . 1.75 Sy Whiskey. 2.oo Whiskey 2.50 // Whiskey 3.00 >> 1.75 gg Whiskey .2.00 yy Whiskey . _ 2.50 Rye Whiskey 3.00 <^ hiskey 3.00 >/j re Whiskey 3.00 w) * 2 .50 'A d) 3.00 ;asc goods) 4.00 /> old) 7.00 'A ^rTTTTTTTTT- iv r 3.80 J? 3.70 fSi lye 3.00 ?8 np: in our line and all mail * tention. VN\\VNSN\\\\\\N\V\\\\S\S\\ Big Clubbing OflbjrJ _ kiiiiki