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TWRT MILL TAteS OKMOOftATIO ^W ?. W. MASrORD, - - CDITOfT. . . One year 11.00 Wx months 60 Three months . .56 TMTtSOAY. DECEMBER 31,1906. How time flies! It seems only yesterday since this paper twelve months ago extended the greetings of the New Year to its, friends. Tonight at 12 o'clock the old year which was then young will have died and in its place will be enthroned a newborn babe, the year 1909, The king is dead, long Hve the king! And may the reign of the new king prove one of continued peace and prosperity for all his subjects. All hall 19091 PROHIBITION. The advoeates of State-wide prohibition for South Carolina, which subject probably will be thoroughly considered at the ceming session of the Legislature, are invited to sit up and take notice of the conditions that exist in Atlanta under the Georgia prohibition laws. The Saturday following Christmas day 74 cases were tried in the police court on the charge of drunkenness. This was a greater number than ever appeared in the court for the same offense under the bar-room system, according to press dispatches. We would not be understood : s favoring the bar-room system over prohibition, however, but pjint out the conditions in the Georgia metropolis as an illustration of what may be expected in this State if the Legislature enacts a general prohibition law. Fortunately South Carolina is not between the Scylla of saloons And the Charybdis of prohibition. The county dispensary law seems to be working satisfactorily in . those counties which still retain the system, and we see no reason for the repeal of the law. If the system is not satisfactory, it is within the power of the counties which retain it to vote it out. The proposition advocated by Governor Ansel during the campaign last summer was inane, to say the least. He would have the Legislature pass a State-wide prohibition law with the provision that those counties which wished the dispensary could then vote it in. There is no sane reason that can be advanced in support of such a proposition, but it is in line with other recommendations of the man who had nothing to say when the Democracy nominated Mr. Bryan for the presidency last July. We trust that York county's representatives in the Legislature will not lend their voice and votes to any such absurd proposition, and that they will not vote for a general prohibition law. It is not in keeping with the principles of the Democratic party for the representatives of one section of the State to force upon the people of another section of the State a law which they do not want. If Orangeburg, Florence, Abbeville, Sumter, Richland, Georgetown, Lee and a doeen other counties in the State are not satisfied with the dispensaries in their midst thev fare in position to get rid of them, but they should not be forced to do so at the pleasure of representatives from other sections of the State who are not acquainted with their interests. This paper is against the prohibition movement for another reason ?it is being engineered by the Anti-Saloon League, an organization which fights the Democracy of the North and West to the last ditch. As an example of its opposition to the Democraty party in the recent campaign one* has but to recall the strenuous efforts it made to defeat. Governor Marshall in Indiana to reach the conclusion that there is no field in South Carolina for its activities. Furthermore, the interests of the league in this State are being advanced, more or less, by a bunch of discredited preacherpoliticians?another good reason for leaving it severely alone. HUMAN GORILLAS. The Time? is pleased to note that the efforts of the officers of Florence county and the activity of th? white citizens generally yerc rewarded .Sunday by Jhjr m capture of the black gorilla who tm days ago assaulted a white #oman, Mrs. Perry, at her home in Hartsville, Darlington county. The negro slipped into the home of Mrs. Perry while her husband waa at his place of business and, at the point of a pistol, accomplished the diabolical purpose which consumed his degenerate being. The circumstances of the crime make it one of the most heinous J ever perpetrated against the womanhood of the State, and | there would have been little regret had the beast been cap' tured by the righteously in- j ! dignant citizens of Darlington ! county and the only punishment1 which fits the crime summarily meted out to him. The negro deserves to be put to death with| out the expense to the county of a trial and the exceeding humiliation to which his victim will be subjected in testifying against him. When the negro | laid his foul hands upon Mrs. Perry he forfeited all claim to humane consideration, and the, sooner he is destroyed the more { salutary will be the lesson to the other black gorillas who want ! only the opportunity to follow in i his footsteps. But thanks to the activity of the Ansel administration in protecting this class of criminals, the negro was no sooner caught than he was rushed off to the penitentiary in Columbia for safekeeping, where he will be con- ! i fined till the day of trial, then , taken to Darlington, probably in I the custody of a comnany, or: numerous squad, of militia, at several hundred dollars expense to the State, to protect him from the fury of the outraged citizens. , This, however, is one of the j beneficent features of the Ansel j ! administration to which the peo-' pie will have to submit for the next two years. Doubtless there are those who will see in The Times after the ! expression of these sentiments J an advocate of lynch law and i anarchy. If there be such, they are entitled to their opinion. It is well to remember, however, i that this paper does not draw its inspiration from those who are 1 too indifferent to accord the women of South Carolina the protection which they must have if OI1P piviliTAfinn is tn Ko main ! tained. The experience of the | past teaches that no home in South Carolina is immune from } the depredations of the black ravisher. Down with these human gorillas. No punishment is too severe to inflict upon them. It is a very noticeable fact that people in attending public , entertainments in halls have j no hesitancy in taking front ! seats; in fact, there is a general rush for them, and usually a i higher price willingly is paid for the privilege. We also notice in church that the custom is just the reverse, everybody crowds into the back seats and-if there | are any empty pews they are always between the preacher and people, and the glad tidings of salvation lose half their charms in having to bound over empty j pews to reach the audience. Why this should be the custom is not _1 i- -- i cAntny ciear to ub, uniess in tne \ latter instance position is taken according to scripture, "The low- i est place first in order to be in- j vited higher." The delivery clerk in the country office has much to annoy him. There is the drummer who wants any letters that may come for him during the next ten days I forwarded him at New York; J the man who wants to know if a letter now will go east on the I 2:50 train; the boss mailed a let-' ter without a stamp and wants 1 it back; six men who forwarded ! their box kevs and want thp i mail handed out to them: the' i woman who knows there must be a letter for her, ask# the; clerk to "look again;" the man who gets angry and wants the 1 smart clerk to "come out on the sidewalk just two minutes." Fort Mill, S. C.?The mills at this place, the Fort Mill Mfg. Co., and the Millfort Mill, whicn have been closed down for several months, are making preparations to start up on full time on Mon? day, January 4th. C. H. Bran son still holds the position of , superintendent and we have had no notice of any changes in the o\ rl iter, .i wrul Dm With Carafob. ( As day by day we read in the papers of the crimes committed 3 in the different cities and towns , in which carnivals are being: held , we more and more respect the city author'ties of this place for , their stand against carnivals. ] And in this they have the backing of the great majority of our ; citizens. Only the other day a black and awful crime was committed in Hartsville and in the same article telling of the crime was 1 the statement that a carnival is now being held in that town. We do not say thdt the carnivals are responsible for the crimes directly but we do say that they are always the thing behind which the rowdy and lawless elemeut hide. The Hartsville crime, too awful for this paper to narrate, the murder in Barnwell, the killing in Greenville, the shooting in Newberry all took ; place while carnivals were in progress. It is useless to argue as to whether or not the carni- | vals are beneficial in other ways i /v? Tu:n ..1 ?i vi nuu una icvuiu ui me jjctst | few months is enough to set all. law abiding citizens against them. And the awful and fearfully revolting crime in Hartsville is the worst We hope that Chester will never allow one to come here. Thiy are no good to a place In fa.t they are a frightful source of harm. Down with Carnivals.?Chester Lantern. Jim Tillman Goes West. The latest issue of the Edgefield News contains the following communication: Varied emotions possess me in bidding adieu, perhaps farewell, to 'South Carolina, and to the people who have known me from childhood. It is hard to say good-bye, and only those who do so can feel its sorrow. When I think of the thousand kindnesses friends did me, of the forbearances they have shown my shortcomings, 'tis then the heart throbs strongest with gratitude, and beats the sad farewell. But destiny decrees that I go. In a distant section of the country, in far-off California, where it is said all is sunshine and clouds are unknown, I wander in search of health. There, among strangers in coming years, if years be left to me, I nope to clasp the hands of many and call them friends?friends such as I leave behind. But if it be otherwise, then, as in the oft-quoted, but none the iv.ol.j bUU?.illlig lilies U1 ill-lit teu Byron: "Here's a sifh to tlup^who love me. And a smite to {Rose** ho hate; And whatever sfcy's^L? me. Here's a Uear^J^^m fate J^^^WIMILLMAN. B^bt Skopo ttd 0 | 'ton Prices. The Pleasant Valley correspondent of the Lancaster News gives the follov^ng interesting comment on the operation of the bucket shop and the/ price of cotton: It is said that death and taxes are the two most certain things in the world. I think that the next most certain thing is that in the course of human events all Southern farmers at divers times and places theorize on and i "cuss" and discuss the price of cotton. On seeing quite a number of bales of the fleecy staple being hauled to town a few days ago, your correspondent fell into a contemplative mood and began to soliloquize somewhat as follows: Did not the Southern States make a mistake when f V>t\noo/wJ !?% - J ?' ? ?- 1 * - mcj ^ooacu i?wa ueBtruying tne bucket shops? The Southern people are all bulls and the members of the New York cotton exchange who are financially able to do anything are nearly all bears, and it seems that the South is pursuing a suicidal policy when she takes away from her own people the privilege of rendering aggressive bull support to the cotton market. Daniel J. Sully, the erstwhile cotton king who a few years ago raised the price of cotton to 17 cents, did so with the solid support of the Southern speculators, and did it in spite of the combined opposition of the rest of the New York cotton exchange. Since the abolition of the bucket shops in the j South the price of cotton has j gradually gone down, and who; is there to help bring it back to a good price since the Southern speculators have be6n deprived ; of their only medium of 4 boost-1 ing" the market? The bucket | shops doubtless had their bad features, but it seems somewhat absurd to kill the Southern bulls on account of a so-called moral issue and then let the New York I bears flourish like the green bay tree. Before destroying her bucket shops the South should have i restricted and regulated them < and then proceeded to rout the ? gambling element of the New 1 York stock exchange. This last;* we must yet do if we would insure a better price for cotton; , and if the South will make as I \ great an effort to do this as she < did to destroy the bucket shops, ' we may yet have "peace within ! our borders and prosperity within i our pa)*cesr'' jr Mriw OkcnriBe? tkL^ni Ago. The following'article Written for the News and Courier by Capt. Chas. Petty will be of interest at this season: The approach of Christmas, with Its tinsel toys, tooting: horns, bespangled trees, blazing and popping fireworks, turns the mind backward to the Christmas times 75 to 100 years ago. From 1800 to 1840 there was not a toy store in the county, and perhaps j not in the upper part of tne State. In those days the stockings were not hung up and Santa Claus never came down the chimneys. x There were very few towns at that time. Greenville, Spartanburg, Union and Yorkville were little straggling villages. There j were no firecrackers, no rockets, ! no toys. The men and women j in the county, 75 and 80 years old, never expected Christmas gifts. Preachers never gave special sermons suited to the season. There were no* big school celebrations. You will think that the boys and girls, 80 years ago, must have had a very dull time. But they did not. They had fun and enioved themsplvps 5irid crrpw up to be good men and women. They were your grandfathers and grandmothers. One joy that came -especially to the boys was the fact that they got their new shoes at Christmas or a few days before. You see in that day boys got only one pair of shoes a year. The leather was tanned at home and a neighborhood shoemaker made the shoes. The women of that day had big dinners. They swapped around and went from house to hou&e. Sometimes there would be a quilting, which afforded much fun. The men would organize hunting parties. There were no double-barrel shotguns and the men did not fool with partridges. They used the homemade, double-trigger rifle which shot 75 to 100 bullets to the pound of lead. They never measured by calibre. The fact is, that French word had not been heard of by the Piedmont pioneers. It may be well to state that 38calibre means thirty-eight hundredths of an inch; Some of the hunters used shotguns, singlebarrel, mostly^gL English mpiif^ The barrels wen*48 to {j^TirtcIH long and when load^l With buSf shot, they would wfag do^H deer at 100 yards. There vjflKa also a few muskets in the couiH[ that were used in the Revolution Bear in mind th-?t all these had flint and ? eel lockfc^'S'^H expressions as 'pick y&hHrth^Bg "a flash in the pan," & powder dry," were in use in the flint and period. Expert gunners v^rT rifles could bring a deer down when running. While at a stand | they would be able to tell from the barking of the dogs when the deer was approaching. They would get the range and pull j down just as the deer's head was j i:^^ !I.L al. - i i * ' in line wim ine signis 01 tne gun. When it came to Christmas hunting it meant the shooting of rabbits and squirrels. Several neighbors would unite and form a party and then divide into smaller parties and see which one could kill most squirrels. It was considered bad markmanship to shoot a squirrel below the shoulders. The expert would always aim at the head. Often a good rifleman would kill a half dozen or more without missing one, and every one shot through the head. No one with any pride would shoot with a rest. After the morning's hunt they would meet at an appointed home and enjoy a hunter's din- j ner. Turkeys were never hunted by these parties. The successful turkey hunter would go alone or only with one companion. The hunting of deer was also a specialty. The deer had certain ranges. The experienced hunters knew the best stands. The stand was a place which deer j would pass when driven from one place to another. *** But by degrees this graceful animal has passed out of the Piedmont. It is doubftul whether or not a wild deer has been seen in this | county in the last 25 years, unloCO A?/\ J J ' * * ?<_oo one ou ayea uown irom tne mountains of North Carolina, j Shooting matches were not unusual in those days. Sometimes they would shoot for a beef, which was always divided into five quarters. Prof. Clinkscales, of Wofford, may know enough about beeves and "figgers" to explain how one beef can have five quarters. The shooting was generally offhand, but sometimes with lying-down rest. The distance ranged from 10 paces to 100 yards. There was never any apprehension of accidents from firearms then. The old style guns were slow, but they were safe and sure. After the quilting*, hunting, horse racing and social enjoyments, the people would settle down to work again che first of January, and then began the work for the New Year. T Kenuedy'u Loxatlve Cough. Syrup jha l)^al^yiiig Home-Raited Can aid Neat Pleatifal. ? "Well I did not make a big: jj crop of cotto i but ! have some- V thing: better -plenty of corn and C home raised meat," said a well ( known farmer, who lives near ? the city, upon being ask 3d how J his crop turned out this year. J And if every farmer in the coun- \ ty was in the same shape?had ( plenty of hog: and hominy, low ( priced cotton would not hurt so # bad. It is very gratifying to know however, that the farmers 1 of this county are in better shape than in former years. And i while the slump in the cotton j market may work a harkship on some, they will not feel the j effects of it so keenly as they I did a few years ago. The farmer quoted above went on to ;ay that he cut his cotton acreage this year and he expected to cut it again next year if he had i to let the land lay out. And it will pay him or any other farj mer too. ? Rock Hill Herald. Every case of backache, weak back, , bladder inflammation and rheumatic ; V pains is dangerous if neglected, for such I troubles are nearly always due to weak . kidneys. Take DeWitt's Kidney and I Bladder Pills, They are antiseptic and / soothe pain quickly. Insist ui>on De- . Witt's Kidney and Bladder pillsRegu I lar size 60c. Sold here by Ardrey's | drug store. . Doster Held Guiltless. ( " The case which has been a pending for some time in the J Federal courts against Mr. J. E. ' Doster, of this place, in which ( he was charged with certain ( irregularities while in the err- j I ployment of the United States i ! Government as a rural mail J earner, has, after careful pri- V vate investigation, been nol ( prossed by District Attorney ( Holton, for want of evidence ( to justify further Droceedure in a the case. This ends the matter : finally, and Mr. Doster stands ' vindicated of the charges against ( him. This will be good news to ( Mr. Doster's friends every- I where. ? Waxhaw Enterprise. a Kodol for Dyspepsia, indig"?*,ion, weak 4 stomach, sour stomach, Aas on the a stomach, etc., is a combination of the ' natural digestiva juiuus found iut | healthy stomach with necessary vege- a table acids.?uid is theonly thing known V I completely digest all ( tder any couditiou. It a give prompt relief from v Mnnch trouble. Tako ( niviuced. It will cure a Sold by Ardrey's drug v -Two good mules V lick buyer. G Osmond Barber. 6 ly knows .DeWitt's Lit y are the best pills made. ? . plevtnut, sure Little 2 >old by Ardrey's druir V store. l-p LU-U> i. H &30Q-90?????? SK I THE NET ? AT ?ppor^11 op rH sire to thank ^ customers for the 1 ? given us during tin 0 solicit is continual @ surance that we g merit it in point of \% dise and value. 5 May the recoiled year live as a pleas* ? time that's gone. H And sorrow?ma g the goodness and tl ? New Year has in si And now, a Hapj] ? New Year to our fi ? mers! M^y you li IL W. KIM! A A >" ^ ' 11908 K A year in the career ?5 marks some in^provement |9 vancament in ideas?is ceri c> tor enthusiasm. Such is th ^ ing with us. A new record Iopnc uic cry or "nard time: of customers who have helj due the compliment of clea in choosing a house with w is not weighted down with chandising, nor disposed tc the demands ot the hour as Our aim has always been tc ^ service, better goods and n! could get in any other esta! secret ot the success of th g| reason that the year 1908 h r* last, the last better rhan tin 3 back to the start. We ha< Sc things just as you have wai & we have been to a degree s 5 deavor to inprove the next o! merit to even a greater ex 5a patronage. We trust that 5 on you during the year 19c K prosperity on your every v< | Mills & Y 1 3???????????? | N YEAR I ine time, we deour friends and ? liberal patronage @ ^ past year. We ? ice with the aswill endeavor to g service, merciiantions of the dying ? fint memory of a K y it he buried by g 10 j<>y which the g ore for you. ? >y and Prosperous ? iends and custom |c ve long and pros- @ BRELL CO I V 1909L of .1 business house-that a : in methods?some ad- ^ :ainly fertile in matctial Sj| f ^ 1 p b- i iir) ?? % "?? ? ?? -' rviliu Wl ^ fcrtl JUSL I gA ^ I has been established de? Da s," and to the hundreds' V I led us to this record is irness of business vision ? hich to do business that Sic obsolete ideas of mer- \ fig > be unwilling to bend to Vx voiced by its Customers. > give our customers better fin better values than they ? blishment, and that is the lis business; that is the ? as been better than the t year belore, and so on fift ye tried our best to do ? nted them, and feel that * uccessful. We will en- 6$ year in order that we may v | tent your friendship and Dame Fortune will smile ? )9 and stamp her seal of :nture. X I 'M oung Co. |t| ? jm Cleaning, Pressing, aiul Dyeing. Join the Fort Mill Pressing r J Club, membership $1.00 per |?| month. Dry, chemical or wet V cleaning. Besides Clothing, we clean or dye Furs, Skins, Rugs. Mats, Feathers, bleach Straw pr Panama Hats; old Neckties and Ribbons made new; cleaning and dyeing of Gloves. 'wM 'Phone orders to 146, or caii ui, us up stairs over Parks Drug Co GUY A. ROSS, Proprietor. STEVENS I DON'T BUY A GUN g until you have seen our New Douhle Barrel Models fitted, with Stevens Compressed Forged | Steel Barrels? DEMI-BLOC SYSTEM The mode of constructing theao superb Trap and Field Gunn is fully sot forth In our New Shot I gun Pamphlet.^ Scud two-cent I stamp for it. / I ^ 111 Aak yoar Dealer MM ,?v, I for StCTMS Demi-Bloc Goa*. Insist on our tnnArr? WL?]M&f J. STEVENS BSlffel UKjjBfV ARMS A TOOL CO. |MR" F.O. BeaSOM iv CHwiii F*U?, Kodol F<fl| Indigestion Our Guarantee Cotrpon If. after using two-third* of aft.oo bott1*^ Kodol. you can hoiieitly say it ha* rot besl fited yon. we will refund your money. Tr* K?dol today on thi* guarantee. Fill out am aign the following, preterit it to the dealer a nit* time or iiureliane. If it faila to satisfy Toi return Hie bottle eontaniinir one-third cf lit meilieine to the <lraler from whom you bouttk it. and we will refund yum money. Town JfLrj * Stat? i > 1 ' -***- f*i ^ | Siynhere.__ ? .^1 -? nflbleum i jf| W Digests What Y ouMf -A And Make* the Stomach H B. C. OaWITT & CO.. Ch*c??<wHH Sold by Ardrey's Drug S TRESPASS NOTI' k-HHH Notice hor-l.y Kiveu that H irn forbidden to hunt, rinh, * >r trespass any inaini<<r^^Hn|^^^H^pRQ 1 uf tin- uudersigmxl. H Pr. J VHffiH