Fort Mill Times, 1900-06-27

mo- some utile thing. i suspect n is a table 4for mo to write upon, for the obi one is riekety.but I'm attached to It. It is the second one that I have worn out with my ruminations of forty years. These birthdays keep on coming, especially in thin leafy month ot June for my mother, my wife, myself, my daughter, my RV.in.lson and mtu.ddaughter were all horn ni June. Net long ago I gave a problem to the young people about my wife's age and scores of answers have come back from them ?most of thorn from school gLrls about twelve years of age. Their solutions are in algebra and are nentlv and accurately done, tvnen my wife was two weeks old 1 was six years. You sec I took her so young so as to train her up to my notion, but you can't always tell. First ihing 1 knew she was training me. 1 have long observed that girls are smarter in figures than boys of rhoir ago. I know that, it always i strained my mind t > keep up with my girl classmates After all of the mod- j ern methods and improved conditions 1 do not see any difference in the Intel ligenpe or quickness < f sebrol children the step that the Templars marched by now and those of sixty yehrs ago. I believe that young people were happier intellectually then than now. for they had less"Irtish to rchlT and no harrowing things in nowspapers. Then we read Shakespeare, Milton, Cray. (' >\vpcr, Scott, Tlyron, M-oldsuiith. Cooper, etc. Now It is some foolishness by some sensational writer whose works are read ami then forgotten. 1 noted the other dav x momlizintr vriter's re -

ai i ivi'ii itt onangnai irom laku. Two Chinese cruisers nt Kiang Ying fort, 50 miles up the river, are kept under steam. The forts are provided with modern artillery and are instructed to watch for the approach of foreigners. Six American Presbyterian missionaries from Kian Ying have arrived at SShanghai. A wealthy Chinaman who fled from Pekin on the 14th says that all the legations except the 11 ritish. Austrian and Belgian have been burned, the foreigners taking refuge ih those three. Only ^>\en Krupp guns are emplcjed in the bombardment of Tien-Tsin. There is still no news of Vice Admiral Seymour. The officials hero are anxious; business is practically suspended and all the respectable Chinese look for foreign protection in the event of a rising. It is officially said that the Dowager Empress has issued emphatic instructions for the extermination of all foreigners in China. I^argo numbers of refugees are arriving here from the north. All is quiet here and in the Yang Tse Kiang Valley. Nine Americans Killed. Manila. By Cable.?A detachment of Yorty men of the Tortieth Regiment, fcaptain Thos. Miller, commanding, left. Caygan de Misamis, Island of Mindano, scouting on June 13. During the morn.

in licrmany a jica ant is rich if ho has two or throe acres of land, and his wife and daughters carry heavy loads of vegetables 011 their barks to marker, while the sons are serving in the army. In Italy the poor work, in malarial swam us or beg In Naples. In Mexico the peons get. 27 1-2 cerots a day in Mexican silver, which is worth about half as much as ours. In England the poor are kept, alive by charity and in Ireland the peasantry lose a crop about every third year and the little children go hungry and in rags. What is the 1 matter with our people? Why doit'; they quit fussing?quit envying the rich? Why nor lift up their voices and thank the Ixml for liis merry am! goodness unto us? A diligent man or woman can live for five or six months from a good garden?and besides the garden the country abounds in fruit. Peaches, apples, grapes, blackberries, dewberries and hutkleberi ie . I never saw the like. From our own garden wo ran have eight diff oeni vegetables ev^ry day bes'oles berries for a ees:'ort It makes me proo 1 to gather rhein and show them armin 1 ?o the family before I11T.11 L- f:iat t'iv if is liiv trai ler! I

Chinese Situation. London. By Cable.?The silence of 1'ekin continues unbroken. Four thousand men of the allied forces were having sharp defensive fighting at Tien-Twin, Tuesday and Wednesday, 'with a prospect of being re-enforced Thursday. This is the situation in China as set forth in the British government. dispatch. Eight hundred Americans are taking part in the Iight.ing in Tien-Tsin, says the Shangtai correspondent of the Daily Express, cabling Friday evening, "and they apparently form a part of a supplementary force, arriving with Oeranans and British after the conflict started, it is impossible to estimate the number of the Chinese there, but they bad a surprising number of guns." This information appears to have been brought by the United States gun-boat Nashville to Che Fu and telegraphed to Shanghai. The Chinese. are deserting Shanghai in large numbers and going into tho interior. Reports from native sources continue to reach Shanghai of anarchy in Pekin. According to these tales the streets are filled day amd night with Boxers, who are wholly beyond the control of the Chinese troops aud who

made to open and obtain new markets. especially in tlie Orient, and tho | administration is warmly to be eY>mmended for its successful effort to commit all trading and colonizing nations to the policy of the open door in Ohjya. In the interest of our expanding commerce we recommend that Congress ' 'create a Department of Commerce and Industries in the charge of a secretary 1 with a seat in the cabinet. The policy of the Republican parly in maintaining the efficiency of tho civil service is commended. ( We approve the annexation of the 1 Hawaiian Islands to the 1'nited States. In accepting, by the treaty of Paris, ! the just responsibility of our victories in the Spanih war. the President and the Senate won tho undoubted approval 1 of the American people. No other 1 course was possible than to destroy Spain's sovereignty throughout the West Indies and in tho Philippine Islands. That course created our responsibility before the world and with the unorganized population whom our intervention had freed from Spain, to , provide for the mKntenance of law and , oVder, and for the establishment of

there is enough to run :i worrying man crazy. Of course we should feci concerned about crime and do what we c in to prevent it. but worrying does not accomplish anything. Lot us preach and practice and he happy still. "Carpe diem," t^ijoy tlie day, saith the poet Horace. Why can't everybody in this country bo as contented and lawabiding as our i>ooplo here in north Georgia. There are no murders, no outrages, no lynchings, no fights hero in Hartow' county. There are 110 divorces nor burglaries, and no stealing of any consequence. A good old ante, helium darky did come to sec me tho other day to get ine to sign his sou's bond and get him out of jail. "What is he in there for?" said 1. " Well, boss, you see de man's corn was missin' and ho find de basket at Jim's house, hut he didn't fine no corn. But Jim aint. 'fused of stealin' do basket." | "Tho basket is to he the witness, I I reckon," said I. "Jes* so, boss?dat sail, and ile lKu-ket can't talk and tell how it got dar." I was ruminating how easy it is for j

successful as they hope to he. they believe Aguinaldo will issue orders in conjunction with the American authorities for the cessation of hostilities. The meeting. which was the first of the kind since the days of the Pillpino congress, was composed of the distinctly revolutionary element, the "Aniericanis'.as" being lacking. Thirty political prisoners were re. leased front jail in order to attend. Senor Patorno presided and Senor Buencamino, the originator of the movement. Senor Flores, Gen. Pio del Pilar. Gen. Garcia. Gen. Macabulos and other prominent revolutionists were present. It was pointed out that the questions to he considered were military and civil, the military being concerned 'with a cessation of hostilities and the civil with the determinetion of the political status of the Filipinos. The immediate object of the meeting was to effect peace and subsequently the leaders could consult with the civil commission ??j to political matters. It was evident that Senor Paterno was convinced that he could obtain Aguinaldo's sanction to a peace based

J "* W.I.,-. I.unil^. .America, which i3 considered (o hold the key to the solution because of be* ing beyond suspicion of land-grabbing motives, is in tlie best position to take the lead in making proposals for a iter* manent arrangement. There is a practical Anglo-American alliance in China. The commercial organizations of both nationalities are urging their respective governments to hurry more troops. Tho presence of enough soldiers to enforce the demands upon China, besides being a check to the ambitions of rival powers, is deemed vital. 'I ncrc is an insufficient number of English troops available to protect the interests tit stake in the treaty ports. The English and Americans confidently expect that Hcvcrnl regiments will be sent from tn? Philippines without delay. No confidence is expressed in l<i Hung Chang, who is expected to follow whatever policy is likely to result i* personal aggrandizement. Many missionaries front t?.e Yang Tse Kiang Valley are comitjg to Shanghai for snfety. Three Chinese gun-boats recently built by the Armstrongs have