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tumorous department. Solved The Problem. A little boy went Into the village store the other afternoon and waited for some one to notice him. He carried a sheet of writing paper in his hand, at which he glanced from time to time. One of the assistants came to him finally, and the boy, reading from his paper, announced in a sing-song voice: "My mother wants ten pounds of rice, fifteen pounds of sugar, twelve pounds of oatmeal, twenty pounds of " "Hold on!" interrupted the assist ant. "Not so fast. Suppose you jive me that paper and I'll fill out the order!" But the boy insisted on calling' off the articles himself. Two other assistants were pressed into service, and the three men proceeded to do up the various packages as the boy called the articles off. He wanted all kinds of things, and he asked the price of each article as be went along, making a note of it on his paper. The assistants had the long counter stacked with packages when the boy wound up with "eighteen pounds of flour." One of the shopmen called out the price, and the boy continued, in his sing-song voice: "And now mucn money uue? my mother have to pay for her things?" One of the men counted up the total and announced It The boy made a note of the total and started out "Come back here! Where are you going?" they cried in chorus. "Why," said the boy, as he made for the door "that's me 'rithmetic lesson. I have to know it by the morning, or I'll get licked."?Tit-Bits. How the Wind Blew. ~ Senator La Follette, discussing certain tariff changes at a dinner in Washington, said: "One knows what will happen, even if one is not told outright. A word here and word there show how the wind blows. Thus Harvey Lanigan never said he disliked his mother-in-law, but? "Harvey Lanlgan's mother-in-law was taken sick at his house one r.ight and helped herself to a large dose of rat poison, thinking it was painkiller. "ThAv had a frlarhtful time with the old lady. She had consumed sufficient poison the doctor said, to kill a dozen persons. But she pulled through. " 'It was a close shave,' said' the doctor the next morning. "She took enough to kill the whole family, but the stuff, fortunately, must have been in stock for some time, and nearly all its strength was gone.' "A month later a friend asked Harvey Lanigan to recommend a reliable druggist to him. "Squills is a good man, I understand,' said the friend. 'Know anything about him?' " 'Well,' said Harvey Lanigan, slowly, 'I couldn't conscientiously recommend Squills & Co., to you, old man. They swindled me on some rat poison once.' "?Louisville Times. Strange They Didn't Meet?The recent convention of the advertising men brought together people from all over the United States. The greatest benefit resulting from a meeting like that is the rubbing of elbows and getting to know the point of view of a fellow a thousand miles or so from home. That tends to make provln ci&llsm disappear, ana unni everyouay understands everybody else better there will always be more or less of It found. As an Indication that there is still some work to be done along this line, one of the advertisers who lives in the west told a story of having met a man from New York. "Where are you from?" Inquired the New Yorker. "Los Angeles," said the man from California. "Oh, I see," exclaimed the Empire state inhabitant. "So you're from the west. Well, I've been west some myself. Now, last year I was out as far as Cleveland and stopped a while at Pittsburg. I was all around out west." "Is that so!" said the man from Los Angeles with a great show of interest. "Well, I was up east myself not so very long ago. I was in Denver and Salt Lake City, and all around. It's strange we didn't meet."?Louisville Courier-Journal. Turning Off th# Gas.?At a fraternal banquet In Washington one of the speakers, getting back at the toastmaster, a clergyman, for some of his witticisms, told the following: At a church service conducted by the toaatmaster, a lady in the congregation suddenly remembered that she had left her dinner, a roast, in the stove at home and had forgotten to turn down the gas. In her anxiety about her Sunday dinner she hastily wrote a note and handed it to her husband, a deacon, then engaged in taking up the collection. Mistaking the personal note for a church notice, the deacon carried it up and handed it to the minister,, who among other notices, read: "Go immediately home and turn off the gas." When the laughter had subsided a MAwtkAw a# *V?a Konnnnflnir nortv nriViP IXICIIIUCI V& lil? MUltvj uvwixg |/M. %?.wV? and said: "I would like to suggest that the lady got her note wrong end foremost. Sending It up to the minister she probably meant to say: "Turn ofT the gas Immediately and go home." ?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Her Safe Proposition.?She was trying to persuade her husband to give up smoking, and she had pointed out to him one day the exact amount of his expenses for tobacco during the course of a year. "Besides, my dear," she persisted, "you will be better off mentally, physically and financially, without the pipe and the cigars." "Well, maybe so; but all great men have smoked," he agreed. "Well," s(he sighed, "just promise me, dear, that you'll give up smoking until you are great. Then I'll be satisfied."?Philadelphia Record. Behind the Screen.?A negro preacner in a Georgia town was edified on one occasion by the recital of a dream had by a member of his church. "I was a-dreamin' all dis time." said the narrator, "dat I was in Ole Satan's dominions. T tell you, pahson, dat was shore a bad dream!" "Was dere any white men dere?" asked the dusky divine. "Shore dere was?plenty of 'em," the other hastened to assure his minister. "What was dey a-doin'?" "Ebery one of 'em," was the answer, "was a-holdin' a cullud pusson between him an' de fire!"?Harper's Weekly. dttisccllanrous grading. RUSSIAN WOMEN! In Some Respects More Emancipated Than Americans. Russia has over twoscore fully qualihed women engineers, and for years she has had several thousand women doctors. This feature of Russian life always astonishes travelers. "I thought everything was Asiatic here," they say. .ns a matter of fact, Russian women are in many ways more emancipated than Americans. Hero vnn srut ihe turn PYfremps?the women of the upper classes who do nothing and go nowhere and those of the "intelligent" class, who do everything and live as free a life as men. And the Kussian men like it. They are much more liberal in their ideas about women than Anglo-Saxons, and they tirst started the sex equality crusade. The fact of it is the woman in Russia rules the household. Ever since the time of Peter the Great she has had complete control of her fortune. She generally puts most fingers into the revolutionary pie. Added to a great deal of temperament and personal charm, she possesses initiative to such an extent that her advice is generally asked by man at revolutionary meetings. It was Prof. Bielelinbsky, director of the St. Petersburg Technical college, who first offered places in his school to female students. This was four years ago. Nearly seven hundred joined during the next two years, and now the first batch has gone out into the various government workshops and railways. In Russia it is by no means uncommon to see a girl or woman directing men engaged in making a new road, or repairing a railroad. These are students of the Technical college sent about the country in holiday time to gain practical experience. Many women students prove themselves so good and capable at this kind of work that they received substantial bounties when leaving. Their chiefs are unanimous in praise of them. They not only work harder than young men, but are much more punctual in turning up every morning. The men amuse themselves at night in the various music huhs and restaurants and feel tired when they come at 5 a. m. straight from their amusements to the shops. T.ie girls go to bed early and wake up fresh for their work. On many railways the authorities ask for women to be sent. "We can trust them to be sober and clearheaded," is their verdict. When ready to start on their own account the women are paid good salaries. Women are now employed in the Nikolaensk shipbuilding works, the Perm railway and the Sevastopol electric station in large numbers. A big steel building which is to serve as a sort of Russian "Army and Navy Stores" is now being erected In St. Petersburg and all the work is supervised by a woman engineer. Women have no trouble whatever in directing the workmen. There is far less friction between them than when a man is supervisor. Indeed, workmen who were notorious for their bad manners and language begin to behave themselves when under the control of women. They seem to be ashamed to come to work Intoxicated. "You musn't drink until we've done for the day," one will remark at the dinner hour. "If you turn up fuddled the young lady will be angry." This is generally quite enough to prevent any more drinking. With her own sex the woman engineer gets on just as well. Many girls are employed in housebuilding to "feed" the bricklayers with bricks. Many used to complain that the men Joked too much with the good looking ones and made their plain sisters do more than their share of the work. Now that is stopped. The men are afraid to make themselves look foolish in the woman supervisor's eyes. 1 lie unit! uaj in 01. r ciciouui 6 when watching her workmen, a young engineer was able to catch a thief whom the police have been vainly seekinging for months. While still a student she had been staying with a rich uncle in Moscow. There was a burglary at the house and a quanity of jowelry was stolen. The owners searched for the thieves in vain. The next summer the girl now a fully qualified engineer, was watching her men at work when she suddenly noticed that one of them had a-handsome tiepin. Such an ornament was so out of keeping with a Russian workman's garb that she looked at it again. It seemed familiar to her. At last, after she had puzzled over It for some time, she remembered to have seen her uncle wear it. During the rlln nnx Vinnr ti'Vion t Ko m a n vi'Qo u uloon on his back In the sun she slipped away and telephoning to the police told her story, gave the man's address and suggested that they should search his lodgings at once so as to have it all done before he got back from the work. They did so, with the result Uiat they found nearly all the jewelry stolen from her uncle's house and pawn tickets for the rest hidden in various parts of the room. Their owner had made such a fuss about the burglary that the thief had been afraid to part with more than a few trinkets, and even those he had kept for months till he got a job in St. Petersburg. But of course it never occurred to him that the tiepin would Ho roor?cni?p?1 <in tho soaffoldine of a half built steel house. When questioned ho confessed everything. The women engineers are quite good to look on. They do not, like their medical sisters, crop their hair quite close and disdain collars. It has been proposed to give those in government service a tunic with brass buttons like those worn by the men. and dark green skirts to match. But the women have so far refused to wear anything like a uniform. "Everybody ought to be able to dress as she Dleases." they say. Even men in Rus Isla are fighting against the uniform, so it is not likely that women will adopt it. Gradually Russian women are taking up all callings monopolized by jmen. Though they are not yet allowled to practice as lawyers, they feel so sure of being able to do so before long that several hundred of them are now studying for that profession at the various universities. As soon as the coveted permission is given some sixty will begin to practice at once, as they are ready now. The postofflce authorities prefer to employ women and are gradually weeding out their men clerks. "They are more timid and therefore less Inclined to steal," was the verdict of one postmaster. Here, however, a woman clerk gets a lower salary than a man both in the government office.? and the big St. Petersburg banks, but women engineers are quite as well paid as the men and some women doctors take higher fees than their male colleagues. The Russian "medicine woman" Is rather a type. She goes In for advanced polltics and has as a rule a talkative husband, whom she keeps as well as a large family. She educates her children well, though rather impractlcally. Her house is gloriously untidy and all the meals are moveable feasts. But nobody minds and she herself is full of life and good spirits. Her husband admires her immensely and spends most of his time In restaurants and cafes. She works like the proverbial hnrso and never has time to dress her 'self properly. And these women live In a country where 200 years ago they were as secluded as the Turkish ladles of today. This was due of course to the Tartar Influence. But customs die hard, ever* when the reasons behind them have long since been forgotten. Today no Russian peasant woman would dream of going without having a handkerchief closely tied around her head.? Seattle Post Intelligencer. WATERLOO MUSEUM. Famous Collection of Relics Will Go Under Auctioneer's Hammer. Collectors all over the world will hear with interest that Waterloo Museum of Relics and the Grand Museum hotel are destined to undergo the prosaic fate of being "knocked down" to the highest bidders at Brussels by Notary Ectors In conjunction with Notary Brabant of Ohaln, near Waterloo, says the Pall Mall Gazette. The nucleus of the museum was formed by Edward Cotton, who fought In the great battle under Lord Anglesey, Seventh Hussars, between 1815 and his death in 1849. From time to time the collection has been Increased by gifts from Waterloo officers and many other individuals, until it has become unique 01 us Kina. There are upward of 3,000 objects In the collection, Including weapons and accoutrements of every description, engravings, photographs and books. One of Napoleon's camp kettles, stamped with the Imperial "N" and tne word "voyage," has always been regarded by visitors with much curiosity, as have the gold and silver crosses of the Legion of Honor and Napoleon's sliver spurs (taken from his carriage), stamped with a crown and "N." A case containing coins and a snuffbox, with a portrait of the Duke of Wellington taken at Paris, was the gift to Cotton of Major Anstruther, Eighteenth Hussars (1847). A medal with a portrait of the emperor was given as a prize at Bruges in 1812. The collection Is rich In French eagles, crowns, grenades, bugle3, belts, collar straps, bridle bits, cannon balls, lances, swords and helmets; British cavalry carbines and pistols and Infantry muskets; skull and bones of a British soldier; a tibia with a bullet under the knee and a hip bone with a bullet In it; a walking stick which belonged to General Bell lard when he was serving as a "ranker" with the "Grand Army" in Russia; to mention a few of the treasurer of the collec tlon, which, from the first to last, has been viewed by more than a million visitors of all nationalities. There can hardly fail to be a keen competition for these genuine relics of the celebrated battle, which broke the power of the "great" emperor as that of Spain "smashed and pulverized" the forces of Napoleon III. Cotton wrote "A Voice from Waterloo," and the author's rights of this volume will be sold with the relics, some at least of which may be found hereafter in French military museums. EARLY BALLOONING. First Ascension In Great Britain Was Made By Tytler in 1784. The first practical flights in balloons made by the Montgolflers created a feeling of insecurity in England that has hardly been exceeded by the flights of Count Zeppelin in his dirigible airships. The balloon was a French Invention; might it not be used us a means of invasion by the natural enemies of Britain? In this connection it may be recalled that the first balloon ascension made in Britain was by James Tytler, a Scotchman, wno anerwara was a newspaper man in the United States, who died in 1805 at Salem, Mass., where he conducted a paper for several years. Tytler was the son of a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, says the Indianapolis News. He had been educated as a surgeon, but adopted literature as a profession, and was the principal editor of the first edition of the British Encyclopedia. He lived In Edinburgh, Scotland, and made his first ascent at that place, August 27, 1784. This ascent was extra hazardous, as he employed the dangerous and unmanageable Montgolfier principle of hot air. His car was a common crate used for packing earthenware. His stay in the air was not of long duration, and he did not rise above 300 feet, did not travel more than half a mile and came suddenly to the ground. For a wonder, Tytler was uninjured and in the records of sky flights this Scotchman, afterward a citizen of the United States, has the credit of being the first man to make an ascension in Great Britain. The second ascent in Great Britain was made by Vlcent Lunardl, an attache of the Neapolitan Embassy at London, who sailed from the artillery', ground at Moorsfields, Sept. 15, 1784. He traveled some distance and made a creditable landing. The excitement caused bv this flieht exceeded the power of words to describe. Lunardi claims that on this occasion he saved a man's life, for a jury hastily brought in a verdict of "not guilty" In the trial of a notorious highwayman that they might rush out of court to see the Lunardi balloon. His success was due to the suggestion of a celebrated chemist, George Fordyce, who informed him of the buoyant nature of hydrogen gas and explained its manufacture. He adopted the suggestion and was the first to use this gas instead of hot air. But as an aeronaut Tytler had preceded him nineteen days, and while Tytler was being overYhelmed by the jeers of his compatriots, Lunardi, the Paul Bleriot of the day, came to Edinburgh In 1785 and thusiasm. tiT Lots of people who know what not to say haven't sense enough not to say It. \ \ A COUNTRY DOCTOR. Record* of a Rural Physician of tha "Good Old Time*." Among my collection of relics is a curious old tooth-puller, belonging to an old New Hampshire doctor, of a pattern in common use in the back country down to as late a period as a half century ago, and which may, for all we know to the contrary, have been the kind used for one hundred years back, or more. It is a rusty old instrument, of a sort of wrench-like pattern, and many a time have I looked upon it with dread as the doctor took it out of its wrappings of old cloth, and prepared to apply its Jaws to my own. Only a diagram could ffive its precise character understandlngly. Once fastened on the objective tooth, that tooth must come out unless the doctor or the patient's Jaw broke down. But the doctor, though short-winded, was pretty muscular and very persevering. If one grinding, horrible twist did not tear out the tooth, there must be repetitions of the agonizing operations. The charge made was Invariably seventeen cents. We have kept before us the old doctor's day-book. We keep it with the black old-Jawbreaker. We turn to the date of 1826, and run over a month or two of his charges to get the average rates of his tariff In those days. We run across many of those tooth-pulling Items. The charge Is always the same, seventeen cents. Visits to patients, where no charge was made for drugs, are entered at thirty-three cents. But the country doctor was then also a traveling apothecary. In a dingy, small black trunk (we have the trunk, and It still smells of drugs, and vividly recalls the old doctor) he carried the tooth-puller, a lancet or two, and a small stock of the drugglest kind of drugs?tough old favorites of the heroic practitioners of -IJ ? B??ll llo? n.* mhlnh mo uiu ouuuui u. oiiuui *iiov v& tt uivu were made to do service in all sorts of diseases, and which were administered in heavy doses, as the old book of charges shows. But though the medicines were heavy, the charges were light. Fifty cents often covered a visit and the cost of several medicines furnished. And these visits generally involved the harnessing up of the doctor's faithful, fast little horse?he always kept two good horses, which, for effect or of necessity, he always drove at the rate of ten miles an hour. The sight of the doctor In his light, open gig, flying over our country roads, was such a common one that we would hardly turn from our hoeing to give it a second glance, unless we had an idea that he had some new and sudden call of some case of sickness we had not heard of. The great majority of the doctor's visits were made to chronic patients, whose cases were familiar to all? which had been talked about year in and year out There was the Widow Jones, who had been dying from the dropsy for many a year, and who had to be regularly tapped by the doctor. We always looked upon this operation as something wonderful, and the doctor himself spoke of his doings in this line with a proud satisfaction. There was the case of Sally Smith, who had been bedridden for ten years. The doctor had to pay her regular visits, though he never gave her much medicine. Many years after the doctor had gone to his long home, Sally took a notion to "get weil" under the skilful care of some quack who had Yankee shrewdness to discover that there was nothing the matter with her, and so in some unexplained way got her on her legs once more. Sally afterward got married and raised a family. Then there was the case of Peter Brown, who had what used to be called the thirty-years' consumption; and Mrs. Davis, with chronic rheumatism so bad that her distorted joints were a sight to behold; and old Captain Roberts, who had had what he termed a liver complaint ever since we could remember; and Miss Cynthia Tasker, who was always In feeble health, yet somehow lived to be eighty years old; and the Towle boy, whose bones were made of so poor material that he always had on hand for the doctor's attention a broken limb. And speaking of broken limbs reminds us of our own painful experience. One day the doctor came flying over the road to us, for we had been slung upon the hard December ground from the bare back of our runaway horse, getting from the fall a broken arm. The memory of the hard pulling upon that broken arm comes vividly to mind as we write. The doctor tugged and sweat to get It into place, and we writhed and roared under the operation. The heaviest charges upon the doctor's books are for certain visits requiring often all-night detentions. One of these, which may be taken to Illustrate old-fashioned medical rates, stands thus: "John Rollins, to an allnlcht visit to his wife. 12.50." There Is no larger single charge In the book than this. John lived seven miles away. In a neighboring town, and this charge covered the ride in that old gig, and the whole night away from home. Our old doctor was a very busy man. He always endeavored to go to church at least a half a day on Sunday. But when In church it was no uncommon thing for him to be called out of meeting to attend some sick bed. And what a sensation of sympathy would run through the quiet congregation as the good doctor would quietly glide down the broad aisle to meet the serious messenger. And how quickly, af ter the service was ended, would every one In that kind-hearted assembly know Just where the doctor had been called, and just how much the caller needed his services. As we today run over the old doctor's daybook, we call to mind the fact that all the patients and the old doctor himself sleep the sleep that knows no waking. All his skill and all his powerful drugs could only ease their passage to the rural graveyard now so populous, and where so many generations of the town's people rest under the sod. Follow through the old book of charges the doctor's connection with one and another of these de parted patients, and you will be struck by the fact that they all must have swallowed a vast quantity of the doctor's potions before the day came when even the confident doctor would come to the conclusion that he might as well not open the old black medicine trunk. The doctor's death was a sudden one, and he had no opportunity to experiment upon himself In his last hours. One pleasant Sabbath morning. while sitting quietly In his pew at church, one ear listening to the good preacher, the other alert for the oft-coming summons from the porch, a messenger he little dreamed of seeing that morning came all unobserved and touched him lightly on the shoulder, and called him away from his old patients. The messenger was the messenger of death. In his long years of hard work he had many close views of the dread messenger, and many and many a time had he argued with him and parleyed with him in the sick chambers of the village when he had come for others. This time the message, the summons, was for the doctor himself, and there was not a moment's delay In serving It. FARM 8CHOOL8 IN BAVARIA. Traveling Teachers, Who Form Clubs and Ddivar Lectures. "In order to promote agricultural Interest the kingdom of Bavaria has established agricultural schools in almost every town," said Franz J. Ho fauer of Munich, Germany, to a Washington Herald reporter. "These schools are in charge of | teachers who, in addition to an academic education, must be versed in botany, geology, chemistry, physics, zoology and natural history. At a time when nothing Is doing in the fields, from November to March, these schools are open, and the peasants for a nominal fee can attend courses on cultivation and fertilization of the soil, the proper rotation of crops on the same land, the best sources for good seeds, Irrigation and the raising of stock. They are made acquainted with Improvements and new inven tlons in agricultural implements, the adoption of which can be recommended. They are taught the rudiments of bookkeeping and other commercial knowledge essential for the up-to-date farmer. "In the spring, after these farmers have returned to their work In the fields it becomes the duty of the teachers who Instructed them during the winter to travel from county to county and to act as advisers to the farmers. Much good results from the travels of these teachers. By practical suggestion to the farmers they Induce them to make valuable Improvements in the cultivation of their farms. "The wandering teacher helps to form co-operative clubs for the Joint Interests of a number of farmers in one district From time to time the teacher has to lecture in these clubs on any subject which might prove of Interest to the members. These visits and lectures to the different districts are entirely free to the people, since the state assumes all expenses. There is probably no other country In the world In which so much Is done by the state for Its rural Inhabitants as is the case in Bavaria. Other German states have these agricultural schools, but their teachers are not sent in such a practical way direct to the places where they can do the most good, as is done in Bavaria. The results of this commendable care have been very gratifying." JWMany a man prides himself on his judgment when he is merely a good guesser. "What's in a Name?" When you refer to pianos, there's a great deal In the name. The StlelT Piano has become a synonym for merit, and the name Is a sufficient guarantee on which to purchase. If you will get acquainted with the manufacturer of the Artistic Stleflf, note Its quality, tone, workmanship and durability, when you buy, yours will be a Chas. M. Stleff Piano. liiidii. in. olicit riANUFACTURER of the Artiatic Stieff, Shaw and Stieff Self-Player Piano. Baltimore, - Maryland Southern Wareroom j 5 West Trade Steet |Charlotte, N. C. |c. H. WILMOTH, Manager FAIR EXCHANGE A New Back Fop an Old One. How It Can be Done: In Yorkville. The back aches at times with a dull, Indescribable feeling, making you weary and restless; piercing pains shoot across the region 3f the kidneys, and again the loins are so lame to stoop is agony. No use to rub or apply a plaster to the back in this condition. You cannot reach the cause. Exchange the bad back for a new and stronger one. Yorkville residents would do well to profit by the following example. W. M. Mooney, Gastonia,, N. C., says: "For months I was subject to pains in the small of my back. I was also annoyed by irregular passages of tlie Kidney secretions ana tnousn i took several remedies, no benefit followed. Recently I decided to grive Doan's Kidney Pills a trial and obtained a supply. The contents of one box cured me entire:/ and there has been no return of the trouble up to the present time. I consider Doan's Kidney h'llis tne oest Kianey renieuy un mo market today. I have no hesitation In advising any one suffering from kidney trouble to use them." For sale by all dealers. Price .r.O cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the I nlted States. Remember the name?DOAN'S?and take no other. YO M, With all the protection you about the home.. There are not be found. There are no fireproof. 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FRESH SUPPLY OF SEASON- 4* RE. ^ RUST WARE 8 ANTI-RU8T TINWARE IS TRY IT. ^ OF TINWARE, ENAMELED J \ND TIES J SAKE THE REST PRICES ON ^ ) ALSO ON REWOVEN BAGN NEED OF A BUGGY, WAGAND RAKES. OUR PRICES 3 ABOUT THE WIRE IF YOU WE HAVE THE BEST WOV- V MERICAN MARKET TODAY. A OU BUY. ^ UK & MER. CO. * WHY IS IT ro YOUR ADVANTAGE TO DO YOUR BANKING BU8INE88 WITH THE LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK Because: Its dealings with all customers are absolutely confidential. Because: This Bank studies the needs of its customers, and properly takes care of them, whether the business is large or smalL Because: This Bank has an excellent fire proof and Modern Burglar Proof Safe, in which to put your funds and papers. Because: We do not believe you can get better treatment than this Bank will give you, and beg that you call to see us. MELOAN AND SAVINGS BANK YORKVILLE., 8. C. FOR REWT. DICKSON HOUSE, King's Mountain street, next Garrison. C. E. 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No metal cases. ^ RITER of any make, write us ^ in get wnai you wuui m duuh. ^ ERS, we also sell TYPEWRIT cut to sizes desired; CARBON y S, Etc. st's Sons j ,E, S. C. J STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of York. Court of Common PkM. So N. Jane White, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estats of B. Frank White, deceased?Plaintiff against Moses 'White, William White, John Whlsonant, William Whlsonant, Martha W. Qoforth, C. W. Whlso- Ife nant, Henry Whlsonant, Sarah A. ~ Rhyne, John White, R. W. Whits, W. M. White, Louisa V. Hullender, Mary S. Crawford, Nancy S. Wllkerson, J. J. Scogglns, W. E. Scoggins, Sallle S. Castles, Ida Scogglns, B. Frank Scogglns, R. L Scogglns, Nancy J. Moore, William Moore, Emma Byers, Alice Webber, Elisabeth Ellis, John F. Moore, John H. Howser, Russell Howser, Mary h Harmon. Robert Moore. Fulton Moore. John Moore. Ida Anthony, Fredonla Boston Armstrong, Julius E. Boston, and the children of Sella W. Nesbit, If any, names unknown. ?Defendants.?Summons for Relief.?(Complaint Filed). To the Defendants Above Named: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint In this action, which has this day been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said jmd County and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office In Torkvllle, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fall to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded In the Complaint J. S. BRICE, Plaintiff's Attorney. Dated at Torkvllle, 8. C., Sept 4,1901. Notice to Absent Defendants. To the absent defendants John F. Moore, Ida Anthony, Robert Moore, Fulton Moore, John Moore, Henry W. Whlsonant John H. Howser, Russell Howser, Mary H. Harmon, Sarah A. Rhyne, John White, R. W. White, W. M. White, William White, Fredonla Boston Armstrong, Julius E. Boston and the children of Sella W. Nesbit If any, names unknown: Please take notice that the Summons. of which the foregoing Is a copy, together with the Complaint In this action were filed In the office of 4k the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for York County, South Carolina, at Yorkvllle, South Carolina, on the 4th day of September A. D. 1909. J. S. BRICE, Plaintiff's Atty. TAX NOTICE?1900, ' Office of the County Treasurer of York County. Yorkvllle, 8. C., Sept 14, 1909. VT OTICE la hereby given that the .131 TAX BOOKS for York oounty will be opened on FRIDAY, the 1ITH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1909, and remain open ^ until the 81ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1909, for the collection of STATE, COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL TAXES for the fiscal year 1909, with- ^ out penalty; after which day ONE W PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made In the month of w T A XTTY A DV 1A1A A TWH Plft U<WA| AVAV| IbUU * V< V ? ? CENT penalty tor all payments made In the month of FEBRUARY, lilt, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be added on all payment* made from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH, to the 1STH DAY OF MARCH, 1910, and after this * date all unpaid taxes go Into executions and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution In accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I will attend at the following places on the days named: ^ At Yorkvllle, Friday, October IS, to Wednesday, October 20th. At Smyrna, Thursday, October SI. At Hickory Grove, Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 22. At Sharon, Monday, October 28. At McConnellsvllle, Tuesday, Octo- jl ber 26. ? At Tlrsah, Wednesday, October 27. At Clover, Thursday and Friday, October 28 and 29. At Yorkvllle from Saturday, October 30, to Tuesday, November 2. At Coates's Tavern, from 12 o'clock, Wednesday, November 2, until, 12 m, Thursday, November 4. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, Jm November 6 and 6. At Rock Hill from Monday, Novem ber 8, to Saturday, November 13. M And at Torkvllle from Monday, November 16, until the Slet day of December, 1909, after which day the penalties will attach ae stated above. ~ HARRY E. NEIL. County Treasurer. 74 t 4t |rofwsionaI awards. W. W. LEWIS ATTOPNTHV AT T.AW YORKVUiLE - - - 8. C. Office Opposite the Court House on West Liberty Street. ^ A. T. GARTWRIGHT SURGEON DENTIST YORKVILLE, 8. C. OFFICE HOURS: f 9 sin. to 1 pm.; 2 pm. to 5 pm. Office upstairs In the Moore building over I. W. Johnson's store. JOHN R. HART > ATTORNEY AT LAW No. S Law Range YORKVILLE. 8. C. '?? J. S. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. GEO. W. S. HAKT, ATTORNEY AT LAW YORKVILLE, 8. C. 2 Law Range. 'Phone Office No. 58 4% D. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings. FINLEY & JENNINGS, YORKVILLE, S. C. Office in Wilson Building, opposite ^ No. 9633. TREA8URY DEPARTMENT. Office of Comptroller of tho Currsnoy. Washington, D. C., Sept 7, 1909. Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear that "THE FIRST A NATIONAL BANK OF SHARON." W in the Town of Sharon, in the County ^ of York, and the State of South Carolina, has complied' with all of the provisions of the Statutes of the United States, required to be complied with before an association shall be authorized to commence the busi- w ness of Banking: Now therefore, I, Willis J. Fowler, Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby certify that "THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SHARON," in the Town of Sharon, in the County of York, and State of South v^nruiiua, is ttuuiuriscu w wuawvuw the business of Banking as provided in Section Fifty-one hundred and sixty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States. In testimony whereof, witness my a hand and seal of office, this seventh * day of September, 1909. [Seal] WILLIS J. FOWLER, Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Currency. 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