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SOME NEW LAWS. *" A number of important laws wfcre passed at the recent session of the General Assembly with which the public should become familiar. Four of the new laws to which referent is made are as follows: Disorderly Conduct on Trains. ' Any one who shall in any way be guilty of riotous or disorderly conduct, or who shall conduct himself or herself in any way to the annoyance of the traveling * i public, on the train, coach or car of any common carrier, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemoQ nnr nrirl lirvrm nnn\rinfir\n shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days; any one conducting himself or herself in the manner- herein described shall be subject to be ejected from such car. No one so ejected shall have cause for action for such ejectment. Custody of White Children. Practices of disposing of the white children to negroes will be ' stopped in this State under the new ' law, which makes it a misdemeanor for any person to V ; . f dispose of the custody of a white child to a negro. It is now unlawful for any pa... , rent, relative or other white per.. son in this State, having the control or custody of any white ' child, by right of guardianship, natural or acquired otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance or support of a negro; and any person violating the provisf ions of this act shall be guilty of o rv\ic/1n?Y^no?iA?? n v\/l r? a iiiiouciiirauui , anu uu v.un viLtiuil jshail be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the presiding judge, but the provisions of the act shall not be construed so as to prevent the offices of a negro in the family of a white person . as a nurse. Fertilizer Lawa. Ar act regulating the weight of packages of commercial fertilizers and requiring it to be . , stamped thereon says that every package of commercial fertilizer or fertilizing material, sold or offered for sale in South Carolina, shall contain either 100 or 200 pounds each and the weight thereof plainly printed on such packages. Violators of the act are subject to a fine of $10 for each package so sold or offered for sale, or imprisonment not ' exceeding 30 days. Pistol "Toting" Act. An act of general interest is the one regulating the sale and carrying of pistols. The law goes into effect July 1, and thereafter it shall be unlawful for any one to carry about the person, whether concealed or not, any pistol less than 20 inches long and three pounds in weight, and it shall be unlawful to manufacture, sell or offer for i ? \ ?j. i?^ ? at*ic, lease ur rent, uiirtec, exchange or transport for sale into the State, a pistol of less length and weight. Violation of this act is to be punished by a fine not more than $100 or imprisonment for not more than 30 days; ana in case of a sale by a person, firm or corporation, the sum of $100 shall he forfeited to and for the use of the school fund of the county wherein the violation takes place, to be recovered as other fines and forfeitures; but the act shall not apply to peace officers in the actual discharge of their duties, or to carrying or keeping of pistols by persons while on their own premises. In case it shall appear to the satisfaction of the presiding judge or magistrate before whom such offense is tried that the defendant had good reason to fear injury to his person or property, and carried said weapon to protect himself or property, he may in his discretion suspend sentence. Speaking of the Best Town. [Contributed.] Anent the discussion as to which is the best town in South Carolina, Fort Mill rises to make a remark or two. No one claims that Fort Mill is the best town in the State, but there are scores of people here who know that it is a very much better town than some of its contemporaries which have recently laid claim to the distinction. One thing which makes Fort Mill a good town is the predominating proportion of first-class people who are proud to call the town home. Of course there are some trifling, shiftless people in Fort Mill, just as there are in other towns; some vagabonds, both white and black, . who should be on the chaingang since they refuse to produce their own livelihood ?but fortu nately they are in the minority, otherwise the town would have to pro out of business. Here we have a great many things which oJk ^ ^ ' anuuiu uc atUWUVC W 1116 outsider, not the least of which is the splendid school presided over by a first-class educator. Within a few months the school will be in its new and commodious brick building. Then better work than ever will be done. There are three Protestant churches here, each presided over by a j strong and active ministei Sometimes the people cuss the town government, but it is not so bad that it might not be worse? which is encouraging. Fort Mill has much to commend it to outsider in the fact that its women don't gamble at bridge whist or otherwise?which is worth remembering. The town has as good stores as any place this size in America and the merchants are not trying to get rich on any one sale. Everybody agrees that Fort Mill has the best drinking water in the world. These are some of the many reasons why Fort Mill is a good town, but if there is doubt in the mind of the outsider who is looking for a desirable place to locate the best thing for him to do is to come here and see for himself. Only One Out-of-State Encampment. Owing to the shortage of the fori nro 1 o 11 /-\f f .? ? ixvvtv&ui (Uiviuirnt KtL 1 U I iur> 1UI the encampments of the South Carolina National Guard, only lone of the State's three regii ments will be sent to Chickai mauga this year. This will be j the Third regiment, composed of companies in the low-country. The encampment will be held July 15 to 25, inclusive. The other two regiments, the First from the Piedmont counties, and the Second from the central portion of the State, will go into camp at or near such cities which offer the best inducements and which will be most accessible to the various companies composing the two organizations. The two commands will likely go into camp at different places and a week apart. The first of several rifle shoots to be held at various points over the State for the purpose of choosing teams of eight men from each company for the general shoot at Charleston, where the contest will determine the State's team at Camp Perry next August, will be held at Yorkville, April 25 to 30, inclusive. The companies competing at Yorkville will be those from Fort Mill, Yorkville, Rock Hill and Cornwell. The other shooting points will be selected later. 1 I ^ ^ Shooting in Rock Hill. In a quarrel which occurred in Rock Hill Saturday evening at 7 o'clock, S. H. White, a printer, shot M. Simes, an insurance agent, working for a Georgetown concern. Both were painfully, and Simes seriously, but not fatally, wounded. The men are close neighbors, and it is understood the matter was on account of their children, over which, it is stated, there were words some days since. Simes had just gotten up from the supper table and started uptown and met White entering his gate. There were no witnesses and the details cannot yet be learned. Two shots were fired by White, one of which struck Simes in the region of the groin, and just missed cutting a large artery, glancing out from the hip bone. White was cut in the breast, the knife glancing from the breast bone and inflicting a painful, but not serious, wound. As a special officer of the citv. White was legally armed. Add No. 37 to your phone list, Mills & Young Co. dry goods department. W. H. HOOVER'S PR CORN WHISKIES. IOi New Corn 12 One Yeat; Old 2. Two Year Old 3. Three Year Old 3. Hoover's' Old Mountain Corn 2. Hoover's' Private Stock 3. Pocahontas Corn 3. RYE WHISKIES. Hoover's Choice 3. Hoover 2. Southern States 2. Excelsior 2. Ulbson 4. Old Times 3. Old Prentice 4. Pennbrook (bottled in bond) 3. Cascade Green River (bottled in bond) Old Taylor (bottled In bond) 4. Mellwood (bottled in bond). J 3. Overholt Jefferson Club 3. Old Henry 3. Old Grand Dad 3. ! 1 W. Harper Va. Valley 2. NO CHARGE TOR JUGS OR PACK charges, deduct for I or 3 gallons 60 $1 05; 12 quarts, $1.10. Special prices W. H. HOOVER & Dayton Ntm. j Nearly every tiling in the universe ' is beautiful. The stars at night, the clouds, the sloping hillsides, or the far < stretches of low-lying plain; the water courses and the grasses and even the rank growths of weeds in the moist places; the sunsets and the flashes of lightning during the storm?there is beauty in everything, it seems. But in all the province of God there is nothing comparable with blossoms at this season of the year. In a sense, it is a pity that they are so numerous. If there were only one flowering tree in all the world, it would be more appreciated. Then we should behold annual migrations to that part of the earth where the tree blossomed. We would find that men would make every sacrifice to behold it* The newspapers and magazines would have their correspondents and artists on the ground weeks in advance of the blooming to chronicle the first faint budding. The moment a bit of color appeared, the news would be flashed over the world. People would make the pilgrimage to behold the beauty of the flowering shrub and talk about it the rest of their lives. Then, indeed, would the beauty of the blossoms be appreciated. But, since there are blooms everywhere, gorgeous clusters of them in nearly every yard, banks of them in the woods and orchards, vast expanses of country to be seen in flower at one glance?since there are so many blossoms, people become accustomed to i them and scarcely stop to meditate upon the glories thus wrought in the springtime. Man is a strange contradiction. He passes over the most beautiful things on earth and tries to solve the unknowable. He preaches about life and death, and fights his fellow-man who does not accept his guess as to eternity. He quarrels with his follows about the shape and form of heaven, and goes to war because other people will not use the methods he claims to be infallible in reaching a future reward. He writes books to prove the efficiency of a certain symbol known as baptism, and quarrels with others as to the mode of adopting the symbol. He imitates nature upon a canvas and pays a price to behold the imitation, while without his door is the more beautiful original. He makes an image in marble and worships it when the more perfect mold, warm with life and colored by the delicate brushes of Almighty God, sits beneath his roof. He thinks he can understand the mysteries of that which is to come hereafter, but utterly fails to solve the problem of these myriad blooms about him. Take a single bloom and look at it. Study the delicate fabric of the parts. Behold the perfect blending of the color, how it vanishes into shade after shade or hue after hue. Try to follow the faint streak of pink for instance, and ascertain if you can exactly where it terminates. How perfectly the petals are formed. How gracefully each part is shaped. With what delicacy it is perfumed. Understand these things, if you can. Where did it come from? It grew, you say. What does that mean? It came from the bud, of course, but what is a bud? Oh, you understand the circulation of the sap of the plant, you say. Very well. But take a particle of that sap and see if there is pigment in it. Where, than, did the coloring come from?and how? From the sunshine? But why does not the same sunshine put the same color into bloom you see? From the earth? Then why does not the bloom of a peach tree resemble that of a poppy? It is natural, you state, that these blossoms should be as they are; they could not be otherwise and be the particular blossoms you are beholding. Meaningless again. No; there is no way of understanding these blossoms, nor how they were made. But it is not necessary; it was not intended that we should understand them, perhaps. Our enjoyment of them ought not to depend upon our | understanding them. They are here? | i that is quite enough. They are j beautiful?beautiful beyond compare. Their fragrance is inspiring. Their purity ought to purify the world. Their color is that of joy. They quiver in the spring breezes with delight. They glorify the God who made them, j Behold the blossoms! Millions and millions of them everywhere! A boundless wreath of fragrant love placed upon the brow of the earth; festoons of gladness fluttering in the winds; a mantle of softened color hung upon the branches of the trees?and all to be enjoyed without effort and without price. IPE IICT ^PRESS CHARGES ILL LlJl, PREPAID. al. 2 Gal. 3 Gnl. 4 Gal. 4 Qta. 6 Qts. 12QtS. 00 $3.60 $5.25 $ $ $ 1 35 4.10 6.00 ! 00 5.60 8.00 ! 25 6.00 8.25 60 6.00 7.00 2.60 3.60 8.26 09 6.00 7.60 3.00 4.25 8.00 00 6.00 7.60 3.00 4.25 9.00 00 5.50 8.25 2.00 3.00 75 4.76 6.76 60 4.26 6.76 10 3.60 6.25 60 8.60 12.75 16.00 4.76 7.00 is.Vo 75 7.10 10.60 13.00 4.00 6.00 12 00 00 7.60 11.25 \ 4.25 6.25 12.00 75 7.10 10.60 13.00 4.25 6.35 12 00 6.00 6.75 12.76 6.00 6.76 13.26 00 7.60 11.25 14.00 6.00 6.75 13 25 75 7.10 10.50 13.00 4.76 6.75 13126 4.60 6.85 12.60 75 7.10 10.50 13.00 4.00 5.80 10.00 . 60 6.60 9.50 12.00 4.00 5.76 10 00 60 6.50 9.50 12.00 j 5.00 7.00 i 2.26 60 4.60 6.75 8.60 | INO. If you desire to pay the express cents; 3 pillions. 76 cents; 4 gallons, on large quantities. . _ 522 E. Broad Street, lllC. RICHMOND, VA. for R*ck HO. { It begins to look as if the old passenger depot of the Southern [n Rock Hill is at last to make way for a structure more in keeping with the city's needs. GO CARTS AND CARRIAGES. We can suit you in anything you may want in the way of a Cart or Carriage and | it will pay you to get our I prices before you buy. ( Only $6.50, delivered. We will sell 50 of these up-to-date carts for the remainder of April at the special price of $6.50, delivered anywhere in South Carolina. Send us your check or money order and you will get the cart by the next express. ^ g W. G. REID & SON r ROCK HILL, S. C. COTTON SEED ?Limited amount of Sure Culpeper Cotton Seed. Apply to t. M. Fans, R. F. D. No. 1, Fort , Mill, S. C. A TWEN1 The Savings D Bank will place 1] girl under sixte< the greatest nun "THE PEOF 1 Suhipct tn'thp fnlln WUMjUVi IV IUU iUUU 1. No proper name: 2. Each word must 3. "The Peoples Na 4. No word shall cc letter appears in "The Pe 5. Each list when i therein. 6. The lists of wore first day the Bank occup nounced later. 17. This deposit of other deposits in the Savi it will draw interest at pounded quarterly. The Peoj ROCK 1 SAFE, 'Rock Hill? Buggies. j AV e are the Fort Mill agents of the cele>rated "ltoek Hill" Buggy. If you want o ride in the best and easiest riding buggy m earth buy a "Rock Hill." No amount >f money could buy you a more comfortable uiggy. As to its durabilit y, we refer you to he hundreds of users. Ask your neighbor; le has one. Farm Wagons. I One- and two-horse in all of the different iizes and of the best makes manufactured, *uch as Studebakor, Carver, Nissen and rhornhill. See us if you need a wagon. Fort Mill Mule Co. fY DOLLAR PRIZE.1* epartment oi: The Peoples National >20.00 to the credit of the boy or sn years of age, who will form nber of words from the letters in 'LES NATIONAL BANK." * ?z=zz=iz=zi==iziiiiizirzzz==izirzi=z=rzir?~? " ? ' . win it rnnriitinnc nxug uuuuiuuui). 9 shall be used. appear in Webster's Dictionary. itional Bank" may be counted as four words. >ntain a letter a greater number of times than the copies National Bank." tent in must state the number of words contained Is will be received, and the deposit awarded on the ies its new building, the date of which will be an i wenty Dollars may be withdrawn at any time, as all ings Department, but if left three months, or longer, : the rate of four per cent (4) per annum, comDies National Bank, I HILL, - - SOUTH CAROLINA. SUCCESSFUL, SECURE. I * ^ 1