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tumorous department. Mr. Penny's Yellow Dog. Erastus Penny, who accumulated a modest fortune years ago In the town of Bunker by farming and money loaning on improved real estate, was not renowned for his generosity as a giver. Two years before the . great mortgagee, death, foreclosed upon him he was the owner of a yellow dog. This dog had been a tramp, but one day while paying an informal call at the farm it had evidently discovered in Mr. Penny some agreeable qualities that had escaped the observation of his neighbors and promptly adopted him. The process of getting something for nothing, even in the case of a yellow dog, invariably appealed with pow er to Farmer Penny, and he graciously permitted himself to be adopted. In a few months the yellow dog was the talk of the neighborhood. He worried ducks, killed chickens, stampeded calves and even throttled sheep. On Christmas morning as the Rev. Abljah Jones, who lived half a mile away, was shoveling a path through the snow between the parsonage and the road Farmer Penny drove up with the yellow dog tied to his buggy. "Merry Christmas, Brother Jones!" he cried cheerily a few moments later as he led the dog into the yard. "The same to you, Brother Penny," was the hearty reply. "Waal, parson," continued Farmer Penny, "this bein' Christmas I thought I'd remember ye. Knowin' ye was powerful fond of animals, I've brought ye a dog." "Thank you, sir; thank you," cried the astonished and dismayed minister, who knew the yellow dog by reputa- J tion. "This present of yours calls to my mind more forcibly than ever before the truth of the Biblical saying that 'it is more blessed to give than to receive!'" , , , Putting Papa Up a Tree.?"Pop," I said little Willie, "do you know anything thing of science?" "Well, my boy," replied his father, modestly, "although I am no scientist, yet I may safely say that I have given some attention to matters scientific. Why?" "Oh, nothing. Only I thought I'd like to ask you a question." "My boy," said his father, confidently, "put your question and I'll answer it. Never hesitate In the pursuit of knowledge." "Well, pop, it's this: When you look into a mirror the left side of your face appears to be the right side, and the right side appears to be the left side, doesn't it?" m "Yes, my boy, the mirror reverses things." "That's what I thought. Well, pop, what I want to know is, if the mirror reverses the right and left side of the luce, w?y uucsu i n. icvci ac mc and bottom of your face the same way?" "H'm!" said his father. "If you haven't anything better to do than think up fool questions you'd better go to bed." St. Peter and the Broker.?This is going the rounds, says the New York Press. A broker from the financial vortex sought admission at the pearly gates. "Who are you?" said St. Peter. "I'm a Wall street broker." "What do you want?" "I want to get in." "What have you done that entitles you to admission?" "Well, I saw a decrepit woman on Broadway the other day and gave her two cents." "Gabriel, is that on the records?" "Yes, St. Peter; it's marked down to his credit." "What else have you done?" "Well, I crossed the Brooklyn bridge the other night and met a newsboy half frozen to death and gave him one cent." "Gabriel, is that on the records?" "Yes, St. Peter." "What else have you done?" "Well, I can't recollect anything else just now." "Gabriel, what do you think we ought to do with this fellow?" "Oh, give him back his three cents and tell him to go to hell." Disarmed.?An old clergyman has a son whose habits of unDunctuallty and indolence are a sore trial, but whose ready tongue secretly delights his father. On one occasion the young man appeared at Sunday morning breakfast fifteen minutes after the appointed time. The clergyman took out his watch, looked at it with a sorrowful face and turned to the transgressor. "My son," he said reproachfully, hold. ing the watch so that his son might see its accusing face, "do you think this is right? Do you honestly think it is right?" "Well, sir," said the young man regretfully, "I wish it were about fifteen minutes fast, but as you ask me to say honestly I am afraid it's just right." An Extended Paradox.?Some years ago there was a small branch railroad that ran one train a day from Reading to Slatington, the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch country. One morning when, to every one's surprise, the train had been on time for three consecutive days an old Pennsylvania Dutch market woman climbed aboard, deposited her basket on the floor of the car and turned to give up her ticket to the conductor. She was a regular passenger, and he greeted her with a cheery "good morning." "Goot mornin', Benny," she replied. "Say, Benny!" "Yes?" "Vot vas it happened? You vas early of late. You used to be behind before. Now you vas first at last."?Philadelphia Ledger. Necessary Precaition.?An American in Paris was one day looking at the Eiffei tower when he was accosted by an enthusiastic Frenchman with, "Ah. my friend, that is a beautiful tower, and I doubt very much whether you have anything to beat it in America." "Waal, stranger," replied the Amercan, "I guess it's good for France, but in America we have a tower so high that we have to lower the top at night." 'Lower the top at night!" replied the Frenchman. "For what reason?" "Waal, I guess it is Just to let the moon pass, stranger. Good day." I JHiscrUanrous trailing. | - 8 IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAPONS. ( Americans Furnish Ideas and Foreignera Utilize Them. ^ "A peculiar provision In revolver patents taken out previous to a certain year was that each made the cylinder fall to the right In ejecting exploded s cartridges, and it was because the ^ bull's-eye thus provided was hit square- 1 ly by a well-known manufacturer of 1 firearms that he was enabled to evade * patent rights and place upon the mar- ' i?> ? */v?- njhinh hp naid not a tVCl Oil CU lli i.vi ........ ... M cent. Apropos of the subject, I am re- * minded that all the improvements e made in destructive instruments since c almost the time of Friar John, have e been the fruit of the Inventive genius * of Americans," declared a man who ^ knows what's what when it comes to r gunpowder and its burning, last night at the Grunewald. r "To begin at the beginning," he con- S tinued, "the evolution of the revolver ? from the old pistol began in the brain t of an old gunsmith in a town in this t state?Baton Rouge, if I remember the t story aright. It's been a long time a since I heard the story; in fact, I was ? told when 1 first began the exploita- I lions of fowling pieces and man-de- v. stroying implements twenty years ago. <3 But the old gunsmith's name, as I re- C collect it, was La Tul, or some such s French name. Working at his bench t I there in the dead little town (I beg pardon, the capital of Louisiana) when r it was nothing more than an arsenal g depot, this old patcher of guns conceived the idea of building a pistol " that would repeat. He did build one, r but the loquacity of his French ances- a try bred in him a penchant for talking i of his plans before executing them; m and he committed the unpardonable f error of talking on an Important sub- f ject before he copyrighted his theme. I As a result he found that his idea had been sent to the patent office and pat- i ented in another's name long before fi he had completed his circulations of j the profits he expected to pocket. I "That, so far as I know, was the ad- j vent of the revolver. Old La Tul's f idea was turned into barking steel, and . made his smarter rival a millionaire before improvements began to be presented. Then inventive talents, strained in the effort to make death more 0 certain, began upon the old cap and s ball with the view of evolving some- ^ thing better, surer, and the next step? r radical, I mean?in revolver manufac- r ture was the brass cartridge or navy 4 gun. This brings me, in two Jumps, ; to the place at which I started. All patents for revolvers up to this time r provided for ejectment upon the right. c The first p itent for the navy was tak- * en out by i friend of mine, and by fol- 1 lowing the custom of ejectment from * the right he provided the bull's-eye. * This friend, Browning by name, lived c in St. Louis, and shortlv after taking out his patent papers I, with a brother I gunpowder man, went to see him. We r were both Interested, and finally my friend asked him, point blank, what he wanted for his rights. " 'Five hundred dollars," the patentee answered, and my friend immediately heard fortune knocking at his door. " 'Done,' he answered, and peeling off 100 crisp S5 bills from a large roll he closed the Val before one or the other had time to change his mind. Being sole owner of the patent rights to the largest improved revolver, my friend went to the well-known manufacturer with a proposition the latter saw fit not to take. The manufacturer offered $1,000 , for the patent. The powder man contemptuously refused the offer, and' betook himself to capitalists, who hemmed and hawed until too late. "Meantime the manufacturer, anxious to obtain the patent, set his attorneys to work. That is where the singular similarity of ejecting processes played its part The attorneys found that all patents covered only the ejectment to the right. The man uracturer promptly preptueu a. ing model with the cylinder falling: to the left, securing a patent Identical to all Intents and purposes, and for which he didn't have to pay a cent. "The addendum of the story Is that my friend, the gunpowder man, practically invested $500 in a gold brick. Ho has the patent yet, and later Improvements have rendered it worthless. "But I think that his experience has been shared by nearly every American who has ever patented any kind of firearm. The Hotchklss gun was the invention of an American who could not gain the attention of this government until a foreign nation adopted it as part of its armament. Then the United States had to ask permission before manufacturing that particular type of engine of war for army service. "Sir Hiram Maxim was forced to sell his patent to England, though it was offered to this county first. And Maxims are now as well known in our navy and army as they are in the British. "The Martini-Henri rifle, at one time the arm of tj? 3ritish infantry, was also the invention of an American: and the French mitrelleuse, a prototype of Dr. Gatiing's gun, was regarded as the dream of a 'daffy' resident of Illinois long before the necessities engendered by the civil war induced the adoption of the Gatling. To come down to a later date, though the Krag-Jorgensen, s until lately the arm of the United s States army, bears a foreign name, it t is an American invention also. I c could continue through a whole list of 1 firearms which have never traveled farther than the patent office, but I'd { like to mention one more?the auto- r matic gun, the sort that fires eight f times with one pressure of the trigger. 1 "I am about to start for an eight c months' tour through South Africa. I 1 always carry a pocket gun with me, t and I especially desired one on this a trip. There is a certain Belgian auto- 1: matic pistol which I know to be the best on the market, but when I priced J it I was asked $30. That gun costs a $10 on the continent of Europe, and it is made in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the invention of an American, but its r value was not recognized, and he sold it to -the Belgian government. All of which brings me to the conclusion a hat inventive capacity, especially in he time of firearms, is not appreciated is it should be in this country."?New )rleans Times-Democrat. ENGLISHWOMAN'S TOUR. rirat British Woman to Go Alone Around the World. Mrs. Skefflngton Smyth, wife of MaJ. SkefHngton Smyth, of the Coldstream Juards, now serving with the North Nigeria regiment, is probably the first English lady to set out alone, says the London Express, on a tour round the vorld. A genuine love of traveling and a earless spirit carried this lady trav:ler safely through many perils, espe:ially in China, where, in addition to ixploring almost every corner of Pe dn, she journeyed l.uuo mue? up mc fang-tse-Kiang river as far as the emotest treaty port, Ichang. Starting in the middle of last Januay, accompanied only by her maid, Mrs. Skefflngton Smyth journeyed first from Southampton to Hong Kong by one of he North German Lloyd vessels. Canon, Woochow, Shanghai, Pekin and he Yang-tse-Kiang river were succesively visited, and leaving China, Mrs. Skefllngton Smyth made a tour of Ja>an. Crossing thence to Canada, she raversed the Dominion by the Canalian Pacific railway, visited Quebec, )ttowa, and finally, New York, whence he sailed for Plymouth and arrived tack in London three weeks ago. In an interview with an Express repesentative, Mrs. Skefllngton Smyth ,rave a few of her impressions of China. "When I reached Canton," she said, I had my first experience of real Chi""" There T was taken to Visit I i prison and saw a poor wretch kneel- I ng In chains before, two mandarins, vho were examining him for some ofence. I was told that If I waited for lve minutes I might see him tortured. 3ut I had had enough, so I left. "At every town or village I touched saw a great many men wandering ibout with huge square collars of wood ocked round their necks. It is a punshment akin to the old-time pillory. Sach collar Is inscribed with the ofence of the wearer and the punishment s known among the natives as 'losing ace.' "China impressed me fis an empire if blue. Everything In the way of ituffs Is dyed blue. The amount of inligo used in the process must be enornous. Except among people of high ank, whose dress displays other hues, here is a distinct want of color everyvhere." Mrs. Skefflngton Smyth found a narked improvement in the physique if the people as she Journeyed northvards. The temperament of the nalves seemed to improve as well. She vas also much struck with Wei-haivei, where, she says, large numbers >f villas and hotels are springing up. She visited the famous Temple of leaven, which, before the siege, had lever been entered by Europeans. It s said that the royal family of China lo not now know that foreigners enter his Drecious fabric or there would be rouble. Mrs. Skefflngton Smyth :limbed the glistening white marble iteps to the high platform under the >pen sky?for the temple Is roofless? iVhere the emperor repairs periodically or prayer. "There are traces of the siege all iver the city. Large tracts still remain n ruins and, of course, all the examilatlon halls are demolished. The legaion quarter has been enormously enarged and strongly fortified. Wherever she went in China, Mrs. Skefflngton Smyth was impressed by he natives' absolute hate of foreign:rs. 'Time after time was "Foreign levil!" shouted at her as she walked hrough the towns and villages. This vas especially the case in Canton. Where the river ran between mounains, Mrs. Skefflngton Smyth says, the loral display on the riverside slopes vas beautiful In the extreme. Here md there were wonderful masses o' I vild rose blossoms and the verdure very where was splashed with sprays >f pink and white roses. The flowers! railed about even over the houses, the fables of which curved from among he lovely vegetation in the quaintest jossible manner. And the scent of >range blossoms around the little vilages was a delightful experience. At Ichang the river is three-quarters >f a mile broad, but beyond that town he rapids commence and navigation is perilous. Only half a mile further up he banks are but 200 yards apart and he water runs fast and deep between ligh mountains. "I went up one or two of these deep rorges," Mrs. Skeffington Smyth said, 'but dared not land anywhere or I should have been mobbed. Even in .he towns this would have happened, I ixcept in the British concessions. "Beyond Ichang there are ninety niles of rapids and the junks which ourney up and down the river to rade in produce have to be 'tracked.' This is done by coolies, between fifty md sixty hauling at each junk and the vhole journey of ninety miles up the apids takes about one month to compete. "I could not help being struck by he childish methods of labor. Everyhing far inland is carried in wheelbarows, each with a tiny sail to assist he locomotion. I saw coolies engaged n making dykes laboriously wheeling he earth in these barrows, which are icarcely more than eighteen Inches square. They have only one wheel and heir tiny sails, like pocket handkerchiefs, make them look all the more ike toys. "In the towns the better class people travel in rickshaws, but I saw a nan wheeling six girls to a cotton actory on a small wheelbarrow shaped ike a jaunting car. The girls were :ompelled to ride, owing to their tighty bound feet. I afterward found that he man calls for these girls at night md wheels them home, they paying lim $2 a month each for his trouble. "Yes; China is a deeply interesting ountry and I am looking forward to evisiting it, when I shall probably [gain make the Journey alone." Sin is not cured by calling it tames. W The man of great sighs is usully a small man. Site ^torjj Seller. THE DREAMER [Original.] I was born a dreamer. To say this is considered tantamount to saying that I was heir to the most unfortunate disposition a man can have. From earliest boyhood I was accustomed to fancy myself a military hero, a distinguished Jurist, artist, clergyman, but my favorite dream was to be Immensely rich and known as a great philanthropist. There was but one person to whom I ever told my dreams, my little playmate, Jennie Davey, who as a child was much Dleased with them, but she bad no sooner given up ber doll tban she gave up interest in my dreams. Indeed, at sixteen she said to me: "Vail, you'll never amount to anything in the world. Instead of giving away money lavishly you'll be begging it from others." This speech was a blow to me. It should have taught me to stop dreaming and bestir myself. Had I not been from my birth a besotted dreamer doubtless it would have helped mb. As it was it stimulated me to take the on'y action a dreamer is capable of. I read of the gold fields of Colorado, and when I was twenty-one and paid a legacy of $500 that had been left me by an aunt I departed for the Golden State. When I had reached the goal I had set out fob. Georgetown, I went to a hotel, where I met a man who sold me a claim for what money I had left, which I discovered soon after was worthless. Then I dreamed that I would find a fortune prospecting, and wandered about with a pick on my shoulder, which I had no time to put Into the earth, because I wa3 constantly lost In a dream as to what I would do with the proceeds of my bonanza mine when I should find it The consequence was that I was one day picked up by a prospector in a state of rags and starvation. He was nearly as ragged as I and completely discouraged. However, he took me to his camp and gave me something to eat, and after supper I wove for him a chain of circumstances which would end in fabulous wealth for him. The next day he went to work with renewed vigor, permitting me to remain wit'a him for the sake of my stimulating dreains. Every evening he would con e in discouraged, and every evening I v ould weave a new fancy, sending hin out the next day with Dew vigor. The result was that one day he struck a bonanza. "I'd never 'a' done It but for yon," he said, and when he organized a company to work his mine he gave me half his stock, and left me the other half In his will. Then something happened that had never entered Into my dreams for him?he was killed while blasting. That gave me three-quarters of the stock of the biggest paying mine In Colorado. I hadn't time to operate It myself. I was too busy dreaming how I would surprise the folks at home. So I left It In cbarge or tne directors ami started eastward. Of course It would have spoiled all my dreams to go back and at once announce myself a gold king. To make a fine climax I dressed myself In the rags that I had on when good Inck struck me and one day appeared in my native village and stood before the house where Jenule lived. She was going to the well for water, and, seeing what she thought a hungry looking tramp in the road, said, "Wait and I'll give you a piece of bread." When she returned with the water and saw me I thought she was going to topple over. "For heaven's sake, Vail," she said, "where did you come from? And is this what your dreams have' brought you to?" "Jennie," I said, "what would you think if I were to tell you that I'd been prospecting in Colorado and found a big mine and bad come home to make you and your mother and your father I and all your brothers and sisters rich?" i "Oh, Vail!" she said, the tears startI ing to her eyes. "Since you've been i ?way I've hoped that you would get your dreams knocked out 6f you. You are the best fellow, the loveliest fellow In the world, and but for"? "Jennie," I Interrupted, "have you 'reamed that I would redeem myself and come back and you and I would enjoy the fruits of my Industry together?" She made no reply to this, but I knew by a fresh outburst of tears that cbe had been doing that very thing. "Well, sweetheart," I went on, "I've dreamed a bigger dream than that I've dreamed that I've got a big mine and It's turning out $700 a day"? "Oh, VaU!" She sat down on the porch and burled her face In her bands. "Jennie, dear"?I went to her and put my arm about her while with the otl er hand I took hers away from her weeping eyeB?"It's true, every word of It Look!" I put my hand Into my pocket and pulled out a fat roll of bills, every one a hundred dollars. She looked at me In terror, thinking I'd stolen It. "Listen to me, Jennie. There's no faculty that may not be useful, even dreaming. I was starving In these clothes when I met a man who possessed what I do not?energy?and I what he did not?a fancy capable of lifting him out of a despondency that would have conquered him when otherwise he was fated to make a marvelous success. He gave me my portion and, dying, left me his." I married Jennie and became a philanthropist, dispensing funds through her, for I am too busy with new dreams to attend to the practical results of the old ones. I have listened to hundreds of addresses, the speakers referring to me as a noble example for1 the youth of America. My wife says that If I had got my deserts I would have occupied a poorhouse. F. A. MITCHEL. if Heights of philosophy are good places on which to freeze. SXi" A wise man will watch himself as well as his children. tir It is a sad religion that is never strong unless its owner is sick. That virtue is always desirable which the devil derides. T. M. WHI80NANT. T. H. LESSLIB. HICKORY SUPPLY COMPANY HICKORY, S. C. PAY UP. IT Is absolutely necessary that our business be closed up forthwith in order that a settlement can be made with the estate of T. H. Lesslie, formerly of our firm, but now deceased, and everybody who owes us is requested to settle by December 1. People failing to settle by that time will thereafter find thel .- accounts in the hands of an attorney. We are selling out our entire stock at and below cost and beginning on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, and continuing each WENDESDAY and SATURDAY AFTERNOON thereafter, from 2 to 5 o'clock, we will expose our goods in lots and by single articles, at auction to the highest bidders. Our store Is the place for genuine bargains. HICKORY SUPPLY CO. sKoan and pavings Bank. Yorkvllle, M. C. A General Banking Business. With good connections and supplied with all the conveniences and appliances necessary for the equipment ol a modern banking office, we are in position to extend to our patrons, and the public generally, prompt and Intelligent service at all times. Prompt attention to the needs ol out-of-town customers, country merchants and farmers throughout the county. A Special Savings Department. Using the Auxiliary Home Savings Banks and paying three per cent Interest on Savings Accounts. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued under special agreement. Correspondence or a call invited. W. P. HARRISON, Cashier. S. M. McNEEL, President. HOURS: Bank opens for Business 9 a. m., and Closes 3 p. m. Open Saturday Evenings 8 to 9. TAX RETURNS FOR 1904. Office of the County Auditor of York County, South Carolina, YoRKViiiE, S. C., December 2, 1903. NOTICE Is hereby given that the undersigned, Auditor of York County, will meet the several taxpayers ol said county, at the places and times stated, to receive their TAX RETURNS for 1904, of PERSONAL PROPERTY and such CHANGES IN REAL ESTATE as have taken place SINCE JANUARY 1ST, 1903 by purchase oi sale. ALL NEW BUILDINGS ERECTEE SINCE JANUARY 1ST, 1903 must be reported, otherwise the penalty for nonreturn attaches. Township assessors and special assessors are required by law to report all delinquents in this particular. The law requires taxpayers to list their property at what they believe to be its "market value." A tax return, in due form, will be reo.uired, and any return which says "SAME" or "NO CHANGES" is not in conformity to law, will not be filed All returns must be sworn to before the auditor, his assistant, or other officer duly qualified to administer an oath. When parties so desire, they can make returns under oath, on the propei blank, before a magistrate, notary public, or other officer qualified to administer the same, and send by registered - -rr?c? r% mail to AUUltor, i uiaviiic, d. ucfore the 20th day of February, 1904. Separate returns of all property located In School District No. 33, Bethesda township; Nos. 9 and 18, Broad Rivei township; No. 12, Catawba township; No. 12, Ebenezer township; Nos. 2( and 39, Fort Mill township; and Nos 11 and 13, In York township. For the purpose of receiving returns the Auditor will attend, either In person or by assistant, at the following places and at the times stated: At Clover, Friday and Saturday January 1st and 2nd. At Yorkville, Monday, January 4. At Bethel?Glenn & Riddle's storeTuesday, January 5th. At Point, Wednesday, January 6th. At Bandana?Ferguson's store?on Thursday, January 7. At Yorkville. Friday January 8th. At Bethany, Saturday January 9th. At Bullock's Creek?Good's storeMonday, January 11th, from 12 o'cloch until Tuesday, January 12th, at li o'clock. At McConnellsville, Wednesday, January 13th. At Smyrna, Thursday, January 14th. At Hickory Grove, Friday and Saturday, January 15th and 16th. At Sharon, on Monday and Tuesday January 18th and 19th. At Coates's Tavern, Wednesday, January, 20th. ' At Fort Mill, Thursday and Friday January 21st and 22nd. At Yorkville, Saturday, January 23rd, At Rock Hill, Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday, Januarj 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th. At Ogden, Friday, January 29th. At Yorkville, Saturday, January 30th, At Newport, Monday, February 1st. At Tlrzah, Tuesday, February 2d. At Yorkville, from Wednesday, Feb ruary 6, anu uimi ^aiux uay, rcui uai j 20th, inclusive. All males between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except ex-Confederate soldiers above the age of 50 years, are liable to $1 poll tax. Taxpayers, liable to poll tax, are specially requested to inform themselves as to the number of the school district in which they reside. Taxpayers are requested to examine their last tax receipt and see that the number of acres, lots, etc., are correctly reported. ?KT I respectfully request taxpayers to meet me in their respective townships in order to avoid a rush at Yorkville during the closing days. W. B. WILLIAMS, County Auditor. ATTENTION! AND all citizens of upper York. Now that'the Southern Railway has put on daily service to Blacksburg, S. C., we invite you to visit our MAGIC CITYROCK HILL; where you will find the Largest Selection of all merchandise? in her history?especially "THE WHITE FRONT GROCERY?which is supplied at all times with uaurornia Peaches, Tokay Grapes, Florida Oranges, Pineapples, Kalamazoo Celery, Tenny's anil Lowney's finest Chocolate and Bon-Hons, New York Apples and Pears, and the best selected stock of fancy Groceries in the city. We invite you to make our store headquarters, and if you don't object, take Lunch with us. "Established" Very respectfully, ?'1870? L. M. DAVIS, Prop., Railroad Ave. White Front Grocery. GUN REPAIRING. NOW that the hunting season is on you will probably need to have your gun repaired. If this is the case I will be glad to do the work for you. I do all kinds of GUN REPAIRING at moderate charges. I make a specialty of RESTOCKING GUNS, and guarantee satisfaction on this class of work. R. D. ALEXANDER. YORKVULE Most Complete S Newspaper Ii Da Tti T? TAifir CHIUUiU UC XII XJTCiJ $2 For Single SubscrJ Subscriptions LIBERAL PREMIUM OF The List Includes Buggies, < ing machines, Pocket K ; Articles of Value. Th Work Easy and the Pa The yorkville enquirer is the most complete semi-weekly ! newspaper In South Carolina. Its mission Is to keep Its readers promptly and correctly Informed as to all local, state and general happenings that are i of Immediate Interest and to stand for all that promises best for the welfare of Its constituents along business, industrial, social and religious lines. The contents of THE ENQUIRER represent more careful and painstaking labor than do the contents of any other semi-weekly newspaper published In the state, and the time and money expended In its production are also greater. At the same time, on the basis of I actual service rendered, its cost to the subscriber is less than that of any other South Carolina paper. the subscription price. The subscription price of THE EN': QIJIRER to single subscribers is $2 per annum; but In clubs of two or more we send it for only $1.75. This reduction is for business reasons and for the convenience of the subscriber, and to further both of these ends we t offer the following proposition i i to clubmakers. To the clubmaker who returns and I pays for the largest number of names ' between October 15, 1903, and Wednesday, March 16, 1904, at 6 o'clock p^m., > we will give a first-class Babcock Top ! Buggy, worth $85; or a first-class Co lumbia Top Buggy with rubber tires, valued at $85. The clubmaker will ' have the option of the two propositions, i To the clubmaker who returns and pays for the second largest club, we : will give a handsome Columbia Top i Buggy, worth $65. The Babcock and Columbia Buggies can be seen at Glenn & Allison's livery i stables. new subscribers. ! In order to afford clubmakers greater facility in introducing the paper to 1 New Subscribers, we hereby authorize fhem to take the subscription of any \ individual whose name was not on our list on September 15, 1903, and agree to send the paper to such individuals from | the date their names are entered until 1 January 1, 1905, for only $1.75. In such cases, however, the clubmaker must require cash of the subscriber and pay ' the subscription' price at the time the J name is entered on our books. other offers. I For Four Names. A TX7e?+/>V? a Stvlftcrflnhlc . Fountain Pen or a Three Bladed Pock; et Knife of good quality; or a 15String Zithern. For Five Names. A year's subscription to either one of the following Magazines: McClure's, Ladles' Home Journal, Munsey, Argosey, Cosmopolitan, Delineator, Frank Lesslle's Popular Monthly, or either of ' the following: A "Champion" Stem Winding Watch, a gold pointed Fountain Pen, a four-bladed Pocket Knife. For Six Names. : An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, ? King Repeating Air Rifle, a year's subscription to the Christian Herald; . or a 22-Strlng Zithern. For Eight Names. An Ingersoll "Triumph Watch, a ' Columbia Repeating Air Rifle?works like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a - Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Fountain Pen?plain case; or a Hcpf Model Vlo' lln or an 8-lnch Jianjo. For Ten Names. One year's subscription to THE EN, QUIRER, a "Quaker" Watch, valued , at $2.50; a Hamilton 22-calibre Rifle? - model 11; the Youth's Companion, one year; or a gold mounted Fountain Pen; a good Banjo, Violin or Guitar. For Twenty Names. Crack-Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-ounce canvas Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector ) Single Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, the Century or Harper's Magazine. L. M. GRIST'S S< professional dfards. J. S. BRICE, ; ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office Opposite Court House. ! Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. Thos. F. McDow. W. W. Lewis. McDOW & LEWIS, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, No. 4 Law Range, Yorkvllle, s. c. , Prompt Attention to all business. , Money loaned on approved security. ' July 25 sw t? : GEO. W. S. HART, ! ; ATTORNEY AT LAW, YDRKVILLE, S. C. I a LAW RANGE. 'Phone Office No. 58. ] D. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings. FIN LEY & JENNINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' Office in WILSON BUILDING, opposite j Court House. Telephoae No. 126. ( \ A. Y. CART WRIGHT, SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLE, S. C. OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to i p. m.;i p.m., tosp.m ^ Office in upstairs rooms of Cartwright ( Building, opposite Telegraph and Ex- r press Offices. ENQUIRER emi-Weekly 1 South Carolina York County Home iption; Two or More i $1.75 Each. FER TO OLUBMAKERS. / jruns, Rifles, Watches, Sewnives, Magazines and Other e Competition Is Free, the ty Good. For Thirty Nam**. Either of the following: A Single Barrel Hammerless Shot Gun; a fine 4x4 Kodak, a fine Toilet or Washatand Set, or a Hopkins & Allen Jr., 22 Callbre Rifle. For Forty Names. A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a XTAnr Vr>rl/ Anon 1?o AA U/ofoh iicw X \Jl rw uianuaiu V|/cil A' ow ITWWH| a W. Richards Double Barrel BreechLoading Shot Oun, or a Low Arm Singer Sewing Machine. For Fifty Nam**. A Winchester or Colt's Repeating Rifle, 22 calibre; or a Baker Double Barrel Breechloading Gun. For Sixty Names. A High-Arm Sewing Machine; or a first-class Double Barrel Breech Loading Shot Gun. For Ninety Namas. A Batavia Hammerless Gun, 12gauge, furnished by E ft D. Folsom Arms Co., of New York. A first-class gun and fully guaranteed. SPECIAL CLUBS. We will arrange to furnish any special article desired by a clubmaker for a given number of names on application to this office. TIME TO BEGIN. The time for clubmakers to begin work in competition for the foregoing offers is RIGHT NOW. Let all names, whether old or new, be returned as rapidly as secured, so they may be properly entered upon our books. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Two Six Months Subscribers at |1 each will be considered the equivalent of one yearly subscriber at $1.76, and so counted. A subscription paid for two or more years in advance at $1.76, will be counted as one name for each year so paid. Clubmakers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by them. After a clubmaker has returned and paid for nny name, he can, at anytime thereafter, discontinue the sending of the paper to the person for whom he has paid ana transrer me unexpireu nine iu <u</ other person, provided the person to whom the transfer Is desired was not a subscriber at the time the original name was entered on our books. No name will be counted In competition for a premium until the subscription price has been paid; nor will any premium be delivered until a satisfactory settlement has been made for all names returned by the clubmaker. Persons who commence making clubs will not be permitted to transfer their club to another clubmaker's list after the names have been entered on our books. It is not necessary that the names on a club should all be at the same postoffice. Names may be taken at any number of places. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. * We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Torkvllle postof flee. In sending names, write plainly, and . give postoffice, county and state. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each name sent, so that the number sent by any clubmaker may be ascertained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, , two weeks will be allowed in which to work off the tie. The time in which names may be returned, under our propositions will commence NOW, and expires at 6 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the 16th day of March, 1904. After the closing of this contest on March 16, 1904, no single yearly subscription will be received for less than the yearly subscription price of 62.00, except new clubs are formed. 3NS, Publishers. TAX COLLECTIONS?1903. Yorkville, S. C., Sept 16, 1003. IN accordance with the law, my books will be opened on the 16TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1903, for the collection of STATE, COUNTY AND SPECIAL TAXES for the fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1903, and will be kept open UNTIL DECEMBER 31ST, 1903, without penalty, after which day ONE PER CENT penalty will be added for all payments made in the month of JANUARY, TWO PER CENT penalty on all payments made during the month of FEBRUARY, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty for payments from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH TO THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, after which date all laxes not paid will go into execution and be placed in the hands of the sheriff for collection. At Yorkville, Wednesday, the 9th day of December until Thursday, the 31st Jay of December, 1903, and after this Jay my office will be kept open for the collection of taxes with PENALTIES ATTACHED until the 16th day of March, 1904. Also during the collection of regular taxes up to the 1st day of March, I will receive VOLUNTARY PAYMENTS OF COMMUTATION ROAD TAXES for the year 1904. H. A. D. NEELY, County Treasurer. MY CUSTOMERS SAY THAT the BEEF I am furnishing these days is just us good as has iver been furnished in this town. It Is my constant effort to buy and kill )nly fat beeves, and I think that if rou will purchase your meats here ('ou will get meats that you can eat. VIeats that are tender and Juicy. I ivill appreciate your orders. WALTER ROSE. WHITE BARBER SHOP. Located next door to the First Naional Bank. Employs only first-class vorkmen, and guarantees satisfaction. Tome and see us for haircut, shave, nassage, shoeshine, etc. J. A. HOWE. * /