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^tumorous department. The Doctor Fixed Him.?A certain North Side physician bears the reputation of being a practical joker. It | is said of him that he can almost see a joke in a funeral. A few days ago an old time friend, looking a bit worse for wear, came J into his office. It happened that his old time friend had been a benedict , for well-nigh six months, that his spouse was just a bit exacting in her demands and that he had not favor- , ed her with his presence for nigh two days. And fearing her just wrath | and indignation, he called on his , friend of former years for a bit of his worldly advice and a reasonable excuse for his absence. "Tell her you'.ve been sick," said tho Doc. | "Put what have I had?" was the . reply. "Oh. a club foot, wart, or anything." "Nix, be reasonable, Doc." "Well, you've had the lumbago." "What's that?" He was told and straightway had an awful pain in his back. He was told of a great evidence of recent lumbago. namely, a generous painting of the back with iodine. . To guard against ail mistakes, he pleaded with the Doc to paint his back. "Put it on thick. Doc. it will take an awful lot to convince her. She's going to raise a row anyway." The temptation was too great. When the patient was released from the operating room a certain doctor swelled In pride and a man went home to his wife with phantasmagoric figures on his back that would have made the tattooed man in a circus die of shame. It was a few days before he was able to be about again; but a certain doctor is again looking on the serious side of life and when "lumbago" is mentioned in his presence he is seen to take a generous portion of "nervine."?Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Hush Money.?Not long 3ince a large manufacturer telegraphed to a London safe-maker requesting that a man be sent at once to his place of business, a town about fifty miles from the city. Upon reaching his destination the expert, with his kit of tools, repaired to the establishment, and was informed that the vault, an old-fashioned affair, which locked with a key and which contained the safe and books of the concern, could not be opened. The man examined the lock ana men | the key, opened his kit, took out a bit I of wire, and began to dig a mass of ( crumbs, dust, and fluff out of the key. ( Then he inserted it in the lock, and ; when the proprietor, with a sickly smile, looked up, turned the implement : and opened the door. "What's your charge?" asked the s 1 manufacturer. (J "Five guineas." replied the expert. "Does any one know you are down i here?" ! "No." "Well, then, here are six guineas," , remarked the manufacturer. "I'll give you a guinea extra if you'll take the 1 first train back to London without , telling any one the price I've paid to have a man dig dust out of a key for < me."?Tit-Bits. ' "A Bad Speculation." There are penitents and penitents Fome are sorry that they did wrong; > others regret the unpleasant conse- ' qutn^es of their evil deeds. Governor ! Barbour of Virginia, once defended a man charged with s ealing a pair of shoes. The man was convicted. One 1 day. years after, the governor was | standing conversing with several law ycrs in front of the court house when 1 a man approached and said he wished ; to speak with him. They walked off together, and the man asked: "Squire, do you remember I once ( hired you to defend me?" "Yes." .< "Well, squire, the taking of them 1 shoes was the worst job I ever did. 1 , didn't keep 'em a week. They put I me in fail. I gave you the only horse 11 < had to defend me. My crop was lost J 'cause I couldn't see to it. and then, , squire, they gave me thirty-nine lashes at last. I tell, you, squire, it was a bad speculation."?Youth's Compan- ' ion. i The Conductor's Revenge. A well dressed man entered an Orange street car the other day, according to a story that is going the rounds of the street car men, and handed the conductor a ten dollar bill. The conductor was unable to change it. and he let the man ride free. The next day the man presented the same bill, and again the conductor was unable to change it. for the man had evidently found a time when he would be sure to catch the conductor without , much change. "I'll fix you." thought the conductor. and he obtained $10 worth of 1 nickels and was ready for the man when next day he flashed the bill. The man took the matter good na- ' turedly and soon left the car, his pockets fairly bulging with the nickels. The conductor was more than pleased with his coup until next day, when he learned that the bill was worthless.?Newark Star. Tale of a Temperance Worker.?A young woman rushed up to a young man on Superior avenue the other day and shook hands with him cordially. "I have a confession to make to you." she gurgled. "You won't believe it, but I always thought you drank ?" The young man fingered for a clove and tried not to blush. "And now," she pursued. "I find that you are actually a temperance worker. Now I see you are trying to be modest and deny it. but you can never fool me again. I overheard my brother saying, in his slangy way, that you were a great booze fighter! Oh. he was in earnest. Why, he said that you had punished more of the stuff than any other ten men in Cleveland. I am proud to know you. will you ever pardon me for misjudging you?" She was gone before he got through choking!?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Obiter Dicta.?A member of the American Ear association, leaving one of the meetings at Chattanooga last summer, nut a colleague who asked him what was going on. "Judge Plank has been talking over an hour." "On what subject?" "The judge didn't say."?Chicago Legal News. Jttioccllancouo grading. RUSSIA'S JESTER. Balakireff Is the Joe Miller of the Muscovites. Every nation has its typical jester, around whom crystallize all tho floating stories of a people. Thus England has its Joe Miller. Germany its fill Eulenspiegel, Italy its Punchinello, .he orient its Xasreddin el Khoja and Russia its Palnkireff. Like Joe Miller, the last was a real character, though not all the jokes credited to him were his own. some were inventions of a later age; others were borrowed from the past. He shares the r-red it for many of the latter with Joe Miller and Eultnspiegel. His.ory records that Ealakireff was the favorite jester of Peter the Great. Tradition represents him as the- constant company of that czar, frequently exercising his wit at royal expense. Dne day. for example, a cousin of his had fallen under the czar's displeasure and was sentenced to death. Balakireff undertook to obtain a reprieve. The czar guessed his errand even before he opened his mouth. "No!" he cried. '"Tis no use your ?oming here. I swear that I will not grant what you are going to ask!" Balakireff dropped at once to his tnees. "Peter Alexeivitch." he cried, I pray you. put to death that scamp if a cousin of mine!" Peter, thus caught in his own trap, tad no choice but to laugh and send i pardon to the culprit. On another occasion Balakireff ask?d that he might be enrolled among lis master's domestic guards. Peter consented for the sake of the joke, lut warned his jester that death was he penalty if any officer of the guards absented himself from his post ir misled his word. Then to test :he volunteer he sent him up a flagon if wine to "moisten his commission." Balakireff, as was expected, drank to he intoxicating point. While he was sleeping off his debauch the czar himself crept into the room and carried iff his sword from the scabbard. Balakireff, though badly scared, on twaking made shift to replace the nissing weapon with own wooden imitation of the guardsmen's sword. He was called to parade next muning. when Peter feigned hot indignation at the untidiness of one of the guards. "Captain EalakirefT." he cried at ast, "draw your sword and cut off the head of that sloven!" EalakirefT cast his eyes up to heaven. "Oh. merciful God." he prayed, 'grant that my sword may turn into wood before I use it on one of my own fellow soldiers!" And, lo, when he unsheated It the t)lade stood revealed as a wooden one. Peter laughed heartily at the knave's presence of mind and restored him to favor. A more serious offense resulted in the banishment of the jester. "Never iare to appear again on Russian soil!" stormed the emperor. Judge then of Peter's surprise when, a week later, tie beheld his old favorite coolly drivng in a cart past the palace. "How dare you disobey me?" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did [ rot forbid you ever to show yourself on Russian soil?" "Nay." replied EalakirefT, "I have not disobeyed you. This is not Russian soil." "How say you?not Russian soil?" "Truly not. This cartload of earth an which I am sitting is Swedish soil. I dug it up in Finland only the other jay." gain the <-zar laughed uproariously and readmitted his buffoon to favor, ome his.orians add that when he heard the excuse he said, "If Finland be Swedish soil now it shall be Russian before long," a threat he was not slow to fulfill. This story, however, was an old one long before the time of EalakirefT. It orms the twenty-seventh adventure >f Till Eulenspiegel, who is reputed :o have died in 1350. Having oftend?d the Duke of Lunenberg, Till was 'forbidden the land." He purchased a shilling's worth of ear.h to fill his art with, and, being duly challenged y the duke, he answered: "My gracious lord, I am not in your and, but in mine own. wherein I do -it. I bought it of a boor for a shiling. And rightfully could he sell it. 'or from his forefathers he inherited t. So is this truly my land." At the close of one of Czar Peter's ampaigns Falakireff overheard some Russian oificers boasting of exploits hov VinH norformpd. "Nay." he cried. "I can tell a better *tory than any of you." And, being pressed for the story, he continued: "Never have I liked this modern ivay of fighting all in a body together, -'urely it would be more manly for ?ach to stand by himself. Therefore vent I out alone in search of advenures. One day while reconnoitering aear the enemy's outposts I espied a Swedish soldier lying on the ground. Pefore he could rise and give the ilarm I rushed upon him and with one blow from my sword cut off his right foot." "You fool!" cried one of the auditors. "Why did you not cut off his head ?" "So would I have done," retorted Palakireff, "except that somebody else had already done it."?Washington Star. FIXING REAL ESTATE VALUES. How Experts Make Their Appraisals. From a letter by Edward H. Gilbert before the real estate class of the Young Men's Hebrew association of New York. It is my belief that the best foundation for the growth of fair judgment as to value is laid in the actual personal negotiations of sales of property by the broker. Such negotiations are almost always carried on through discussions between buyer, seller and broker of the various influences affecting value; and the study and consideration of these influences under conditions most likely to Impress them upon the mind (notably the stimulating condition of self-interest on the part of all three parties to the discussion) are the best basis possible upon which to build a theory of values. This would exclude the purely academic appraisers from estimation as a proper judge, and, I believe, justly so. The man who never does anything but study quotations will never serve as a safe guide. He lacks the essential quality of contact with and knowledge of the actual basis of value, that is, the actual uses which underlie value. A thing to be really known must be known experimentally as well a t abstractly. There are two great classes of prope. ty?real property and personal. Real proper y is land, and land only. Its distinguishing characteristic is permanence. Personal property comprehends all that is an outgrowth of the land, such as crops and forests, all domestic animals and all the various forms of man's handiwork, which includes buildings. Its distinguishing characteristic is rion-perrnanenc e. J or the sake of convenience bu'ldirgs have been coupled with the land under the common term "real estate." but they are ephemeral and pass away, while the land remains forever. They must be considered separat< ly by the appraiser and the value of the land must be given first and then value of the whole, wnioh n' ludes su' h value as may be added to the real os ate by the building which may be standing upon it. It is in this way that valuations are assess' d in this city for purposes of ta-at'on. The land upon which our great city is built was divided up. gridiron fashion, into rectangular blocks or parallelograms In the laying out of streets an avenues, mostly at right angles with eaeh other, and these blocks when surveyed for use or for the market were cut up into lots 25 feet wide by 100 feet In depth. This subdivision came to be so common, particularly in what is now the Porough of Manhattan, that its ascertained value is the accepted basis from which all values of city land are calculated. The value of such a lot in any block at or about the middle of the block is what we call the unit value, and this value when ascertained is the starting point of every appraisal. Now th's value is the measure- in' money of the best use to which such a lot can be put, and the degree of its usefulness becomes expressed in the prices paid for such a lot or lots similar'y lora;ed and conditioned by buyers in the ooen market. These quoted prices where they are the outcome of agreements to buy and sell under equal and normal conditions are the appraiser's guide. These are the frst facts he seeks upon which to form a preliminary judgment of values? all transactions embracing the sale of property are matters of public rec orcl. and they are published by most of the newspapers from day to day and are grouped in a more available fashion by the trade journal called the Record and Guide, which issues a weekly and an annual publication in which all transfers of property are shown for these respective periods self-indexed. Since all values are built upon the value of the land unit, it is absolutely essential to the correctness of any appraisal that the unit should be truly estimated. If there should be an error made in determining this value correctly, all calculations based thereon would give a false conclusion. The prime essential, therefore, is the true appraisal of the value of the single lot. and when this is satisfactorily determined it is seldom difficult to conclude as to the value of any number of lots similarly situated. >ssuming for example, that we are requested to appraise the value of a plot of four city lots, 100 by 100, situated at or near the middle of a block front, what is the practical nrocess as inferred from the foregoing? There must first be a physical inspection of the property and a careful survey of the surroundings. Lots are usually appraised as at grade with the curb of the street. If they are above grade enough to make the expense of grading an important one. due allowance must be made for the cost of this operation. If they are below grade, allowance must be made for this advantage. These allowances are based upon a cost unit for removal of rock and earth varying from $1.25 to $2 per cubic yard, according to the state of the labor market and care required in protecting the adjoining improvements. The first value to be established is then that of the unit, or single city lot 25 by 100, standing alone and by itself, but not so limited that it cannot be used together with adjoining property. This value must be what is known as the "fair market value," which is the price obtainable for it when voluntarily offered for sale in . js ..akia the open marKei, dui unaer cquauic anil normal conditions to the competition of buyers. Having carefully searched the records for sales tending to show such market value and having arrived at a conclusion as to value of such a lot satisfactory to the judgment, all other lots adjoining it or near it will probably be worth, each the same, and if the unit figure arrived at be $10,000, then four lots are worth $40,000, and the plot together is worth $40,000, plus 10 per cent, or $44,000. and will be so appraised. This is the simplest proposition in appraising. The 10 per cent added to the aggregate value of the four lots is called plo.tage. and this added value acmes by reason of the more profitable use to which the larger plot can be put, because of the economies to be realized in the construction of any building thereon and the greater latitude afforded by the larger area in planning of sui h building. The common assignment of 10 per en. as the- proper percentage of the aggregate value, fairly representing su'h plottage value, is the result of the experience of appraisers in making their observations of the various data that are considered in the estimation of land value, and the figure still works out as a fair one so far as my own observations have extended. The next proposition in appraisirg city lajid values is more complex, in that it introduces to your consideration the principal of relative values, 'ha,. is. the value which attaches to any lot by reason of its situation in 4,1? if< v? vocnoot to nthpr lots. v. i ir; uiuv i\ wu u ivcjruv* It is, however, the next proposition in order of simplicity. The example is a plot 100 by 100 (four city lo.s of the unit size) at the corner of any intersecting street and avenue, each lot facing 25 feet on the most important of the two thoroughfares, which is usually the wider of the two and is, called an avenue. If the unit of value be assumed to be $10,000 we have the following process and result as an appraisal of the whole plot: Lot furthest from corner. ..... $10,000 Next lot 10,000 Lot adjoining corner lot, $10,000, plus 10 per cent .... 11,000 Corner lot is worth $11,000 plus 60 per cent or 17,000 Total $48,600 Add plottage, 10 per cent.... 4,860 Total appraised value $53,460 In this example of four lots we note that the land varies in value very materially directly as it lies nearer ;o the corner, and that while the second lot is still estimated as of the same value as the unit that the next lot gains 10 per cent over that value and the corner lot gains 60 per cent more of the value of the next adjoining inside lot.?New York Sun. Mammoth Ivory. Siberia furnishes a large quantity of ivory to the markets of the world, but the production of it belongs to another age and to a species of animal that does not now exist. The ivory is cut from the tusks of mastodons whose skeletons are found in masses of ice or buried in the mud of Siberian rivers and swamps. The northern portion of the country abounds in extensive bogs which are called urmans. In these are found the tusks of the mastodon, from which it is Inferred that these animals lost their lives venturing upon a surface that would not bear their weight. Even to wild animals these urmans are forbidden ground. The nimble reindeer can sometimes cross them safely in the summer time, but most other large animals attempting to do so would bo engulfed. In the museum at Tobolsk are numerous specimens of mammoth, and inrnugnnui im? rt-H"?o uirj aic uj no means rare. When an ice pack breaks down a river bank or the summer thaw penetrates more deeply than usual into the ground some of these antediluvian monsters are very likely) to bo exposed. In many cases their remains are so j fresh and well preserved, with their dark, shaggy hair and under wool of reddish brown, their tufted ears and long, curved tusks, that all the aborigines and even some of the Russian settlers persist in the belief that they are specimens of animals whi h s.ill li\?. burrowing underground like moles, and die the instant they are admitted to the light. The further the traveller goes northward it is said, the more abundant do these remain: befome. They are washed up with the tides upon the r tic shores, and some e tensive isI1 lands off the coast contain great quantiMes of fossil ivory and bones. Tusks which have been long or repeatedly exposed to the air are brittle and unserviceable, but those which have remained buried in the ice retain the qualities of recent ivory and are a | valuable arti le of mer handise. i There is a great market for these j mammoth tusks at Yakutsk, on the l/ma. chin i' they find their way to the workshops of European Russia and to the ivory carvers of Canton.? I Harper's Weekly. GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS. Retrospect of the Engineering Feats of 1910. In any retrospect of the engineering work of the past year, the Panama canal necessarily looms largest in the minds of all Americans. This great undertaking has made most satisfactory progress. The hydraulic fill of the Gatun dam has reached an elevation of about seventy feet above mean tide; the spillway has been cut through and concreted; the excavation for the adjoining locks is nearly done, and onequarter of the total 2,000,000 yards of I concrete required in the locks has been built into place. The contract for all the huge lock gates for the whole canal i has been let, and the successful bidders, will have them completed by June l,j 1913. In spite of heavy slides, the Culebra cut will be finished approximately at the same time as the locks, and, judging from present conditions, the canal will be practically finished fully twelve months before the date, January 1, 1915, originally set for completion by the army engineers who have charge of the works. Col. Goethals, his staff and the great body of workmen at the isthmus are to be congratulated on their successful mastery of this once seemingly hopeless task. | Second only in importance to the foregoing work is the construction of the New York State Barge canal, whose total length as completed will be 442 miles. It extends from the Hudson < river at an elevation of 125 above sea! level to Tonawanda near Buffalo, on Lake Erie, where the final stretch of the canal is at elevation 565.6. The ma- j sonry structures alone will require 4,250,000 cubic yards of concrete; and 113,000,000 cubic yards of earth and silt, and 11,000,000 cubic yards of rock will have been excavated by the time the canal is completed. At the present time nearly the whole of the work is under contract, and from now on progress will be greatly accelerated. Another vast enterprise designed to improve the waterways of the United States is the scheme known as the Atlantic Coast Canal, which, as contemplated by act of congress, is designed to provide an Inland waterwav, paral- , lei and adjacent to the Atlantic coast, over the whole distance from Boston, Mass., to Key West, Fla., and thence by way of the Gulf of Mexico to New Or- ; leans. Col. Black, of the corps of engi- ; neers, has recently presented a report i n 4 ^ f 4V./1 A upun I IIrtl SCTCLlUll U1 LUC tanai CAICIIUing from New York to Philadelphia, which pronounces the plan to be feasi- . ble. i The estimate of the time of transit between New York and Philadelphia through a sea-level canal costing under $40,000,000 would be about seven hours. Steady progress has been made on the Cape Cod canal, which is designed to provide a deep waterway about four ( miles in lenerth through the neck of Cape Cod, and thus afford an u.ibroken inland waterway from New York to Boston, by which shins can avoid the stormy ocean trip around Cape Cod and save several hours in the time of transit. The most notable canal project in Europe that has received public attention is the Firth of Forth canal, which will open a waterway for the largpst shins across Scotland from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde. It is estimated that the work can be completed in nine yrars at a cost of $100,000,000. The great project for bringing a dailv supply of 500 000.000 "aPons of water from the Castkills to New York city is being pushed through by the contractors with such activity that the ereat Ashokan dam is nearin?? completion, and the prospects of delivering the frst installment of water to the present Croton dam within four or five years' time are very encouraging. The citv government has recently authorised the construction of a remarkably deen tunnel aqueduct. 11 to 10* feet In diameter, for distributing the Cats^lll s"pnlv. which will extend at a depth of 10 feet or more from Vnnifora bpn^ath the full lenrth of Manhattan Tsland, a distance of nearly tw?ntv miles. At intervals shafts will communicate with the surface mains of the citv. Th's work will he altogether without precedent in the h'storv of munieinni water snonlv. A notable event of the year was the compleWHY SO WEAK? 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I shall always be glad .to give Doan's Kidney Pills my endorsement." For sale by all dealers. Price CO cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?DOAN'S?and take no other. ^ ine urig Mr. Roystei Manufacturer o1 above other cor idea Twenty-se1 to-day; the resi Factories to sup] f. s. \ NORFOLK. VA. " MACON. OA. C tlon of the four-mile tunnel through the Andes on the Transandine railway between Chile and Argentina. The Cape-to-Cairo railway has made1 steady progress and now extends north from the Cape over a continuous distance of nearly 2,500 miles. A notable! event of the closing days of the year was the offer of the Interborough company to build such elaborate extensions of the present elevated system and of the subway (the first to be finished within two years and the second, within five years' time) as to completely double the existing rapid transit facilities in New York city.?Scientific American. : II -v m -r- " m 1 I Wood speeds For The Farm arid Garden have an established reputation extending over thirty years, being planted and used extensively by the best Farmers and Gardeners throughout the Middle and Southern States. Wood's New for 1911 will Seed Catalog J}e|pJ.ou to ? determine as to what crops and seeds to plant for success and profit. Our publications have long been noted for the full and complete information which they give. Catalog mailed free on request. Write for it. T. W. WOOD 6 SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. Against Death From Any Cause. Owners of live stock are reminded that I represent the American Livestock Insurance Company of Indianapolis, Ind., and am prepared to write | applications for insurance on Horses, Mules and Cows for one-half the actual value of all stock on which insurance is desired. The policy insures against death from any cause?disease, accident, fire, lightning or windstorm. No animal exceeding 12 years of age is Insurable. The rate is $6.00 per $100 annually on farm stock, not mortgaged, and $7.00 per $100 for mortgaged. If you desire to protect yourself against total loss in case of death of any of your stock you will do well to see me about it. If you are entirely i satisfied to carry the risk, notwith-! standing the present high prices of stock, why that is your affair. SAM M. GRIST, All Kinds of Good Insurance. NEW PERFECTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove Ideal for Rummer coolcjng. Cum fuel expemir In two. Hares labor. dives clean, quick resuite. Tiree sire. Pni'v .nr-nr' * STANDARD Oil. 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SPARTA OLUMDUO. CA. MONTCOMCRY, ALA. DAI Crockery, Glassware, Enameled Ware, Lamps, Etc. We have added the above lines of Roods to our stock of Furniture and House Furnishings and we want everybody to come and see us when in need of this class of goods. We expect to handle these lines regularly, and to buy in quantities sufficiently large to get the lowest prices and at all times will be in position to give our customers insiae prices on mis class of goods. Before you buy anything In Crockery, Glassware, Enameled Ware or Lamps, do yourself the justice of seeing our goods and getting our prices. FURNITURE. Before you buy anything in Furniture or House Furnishings, come and look over our stock. We have the goods, the variety, the quality and unless we make our prices right we can't expect you to buy. You will find that our prices are right for qualities offered. Remember that the latest and best thing in Sewing Machines is the Standard Rotary Central Needle Bar? Doesn't twist the spinal column. See rt. Cash or Credit and a Square Deal. YORK FURNITURE CO TAX RETURNS FOR 1911 Office of the County Auditor of York County, South Carolina. Yorkville, S. C.t December 2. 1910. AS required by statute my books will be opened at my office In Yorkville on MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1911. and kept open until FEBRUARY 20, 1911, for the purpose of listing for taxation all PERSONAL and REAL PROPERTY held in York county on January 1, 1911. All returns must be made In regular form and it is preferable that they be made by the property owner in person to me or my assistant, direct, on blanks provided for the purpose. The returns must be duly sworn to either before me or my assistant, or some other officer qualified to administer an oath. au itpma nf ren1tv. whether farms. or town lots, must be listed separately. Returns made on proper blanks, and sworn to before an officer qualified to administer an oath and forwarded to me by registered mail before February 20, 1911, will be accepted. All taxpayers are particularly requested to inform themselves as to the number of their respective school districts, and where they have property in more than one school district, they will please make separate returns indicating the location of each piece of property. The school districts in which there are special levies are as follows: Nos. 23 and 27, in Bethel township; Nos. 6. 29, 33 and 43 In Bethesda township: Nos. 9, 20, 40 and 44 in Broad River township; Nos. 9, 15 and 20 in Bullock's Creek township, No. 12 Catawba township; Nos. 7, 12, 35 and 43 In Ebenezer township; Nos. 26, 28 and 39 In Fort Mill township: Nos. 2 and 37 In King's Mountain township: Nos. 11. 20, 33, 35. 42 and 43 in York township. For the purpose of facilitating the taking of returns, and for the greater convenience of taxpayers, I will be at the following places on the dates named: At McConnellsville, on Monday, January 23. At Ogden, on Tuesday, January 24. At Coates's Tavern, (Roddey's), on Wednesday, January 25. At Rock Hill, from Thursday. January 26, to Wednesday, February 1. And at Yorkvllle from Thursday. February 2, until Monday. February 20. All males between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederate soldiers over the age of fifty years, are liable to a poll tax of $l.and all persons so liable are especially requested to give the numbers of their respective school districts In making their returns. It will be a matter of much accommodation to me if as many taxpayers as possible will meet me at the respective appointments mentioned above, so as to avoid the rush at Yorkvllle during the closing days. JOHN J. HUNTER. County Auditor. Vr>rlrvnio S P.. T">enemher 2. 1910. 96 f. 4t office will be open DURING my absence in attendance on the General Assembly, I have arranged to have my office kept open In the McNeel building. THOS. F. McDOW. 3 t.f t.f IVE FARMER: Lr anything in hardware, 'i <Y SAVE MONEY. BY COMING J HE CO. FOR WHAT YOU MAY 1 YERYTHING YOU CAN POSSI) AS WE BUY IN QUANTITIES LOWEST PRICES?WE GIVE 3 CAN SAVE TIME AND MONEY % HARDWARE NEEDS. iv Stocks, Plow Beams, Plow Back Bands, Collars. Lynch* " . Oliver Plow Repairs Dixie teliforks. Spades, Iloes, Mat'halns, Tongue and Breast Machinists' and Carpenters' ed and Painted Roofing, etc. ogressive Farmer, to know that is the BEST of all Turn Plows, and therefore Does More Work J >w on the market. See us about * t in 4, 8, 12. 15, 18 and 24 inch l-inch Drain Tiling. )are Company. ? ADE MARK REGISTERED. rtilizcrs. ss awaited the i place quality Mr. Royster's lis is his idea squires Eight ?ter Fertilizers. NY. NCURQ. S. C. -TIMORC. MD. GET READY We wish to call the attenti* our goods, which are mad obtainable and mixed wit formulas are NEW and arc ducers. We want YOUR to have you write us for p prompt attention. _ . Congaree terti Columbia, So w For Sale By YORK S FOR FRESH MEATS PHONE the City Market. No. 74, for anything you want in the Fresh Meat line. I don't handle anything except good, fat Beef, Pork and Sausage. Also Irish Potatoes and Cabbage. I will appreciate a part of your trade and will give polite and prompt attention to all orders. C. F. SHERER. GET SUBSC1 T"E EN( *?*A *$* **+A Rfc+A *$*A *$+ It Is Pleasant, Easy *A *$*A **+A ***A ??*A *?+A I Quarter Leather TTTT OIL For the La ??*A ??+A ?t?+A *?+A *?*A *?* Two Horse PIEDMONT WAGOA ??*A *?+A *?*A r^+A H&+A *$+ 16 HIGH GRADE SE' To As Many DiftV ?t* *?? AA ?#+ *?? AA 5?+ +#? THE YORKVTLLE ENQUIRER AND SATISFACTORY FAMILY NE clean, reliable, high-toned and lnstr County home, and Is well worthy of e has a record of more than half a cei constantly seeking to make It more us that usefulness It Is necessary to get r the while of Clubmakers we are offerl OUR PROl To the Clubmaker who returns an before SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1911 Quarter Leather Top Rock Hill Bugj Dollars. To the Clubmaker who retu same conditions by the date mentlone Wagon, valued at $67.50. The contests for these two premlu place or residence. In addition to the will award Sixteen High Grade Sewlnj at $40 and the other retailing at $30, excepting to the townships In which tl After the Buggy and Wagon hav will be awarded in the remaining tow largest and second largest clubs, and the number of names In the two leadlni goes to one township Clubmaker for a second largest Clubmaker In that tow will be entitled to a Sewing Machine. Buggy nor Wagon shall be awarded. Machines made to the Clubmakers hav PRE? All of our readers know what th( running throughout this section for y to fall to give satisfaction. The bugf from Messrs. Carroll Bros., of Yorkvil all of the guarantees of the Rock HI The Wagon Is of the well known ai also be seen at the store of Messrs. < 2-inch tires and Is guaranteed for a ; Messrs. Carroll Bros, stand by the gua The best grade Sewing Machine o lift, five drawers and Is ball bearing $40.00 and It seldom sells for less. The second grade Sewing Machin drop head description, has five draw< other with the exception that it is not WHAT A Two or more names returned by a Club, and whoever desires to enter th a Clubmaker. but is assured that whel off one of the competitive premiums the work that will be involved. The a year or $1.00 for six months. In C the same, but for a year it is only $1.1 OTHER P Besides the Buggy, Wagon and Se go as full and complete rewards to tl the largest clubs in the county and t Ing SPECIAL PREMIUMS for all sme FOR THREE NAMES.?A year s the best agricultural weekly in the Sot FOR FOUR NAMES.?A Stylogra Bladed Pocket Knife with name and new Novels that retail for $1.00. FOR FIVE NAMES.?A "Banm pointed Fountain Pen or a Four-Blad* FOR SIX NAMES.?An "Eclipse" el 15, 22-calibre Rifle, a year's subsci day Evening Post, a 22-String Zithern Novels. FOR EIGHT NAMES.?An Inger ing Air Rifle?works like a Winchest< Rapid Writer Fountain Pen?plain cas Banjo. FOR TEN NAMES.?One year's si 2 Hamilton, 22-Cal. Rifle?model 11; at one year, or a Gold Mounted Fountain FOR TWENTY NAMES.?Crack Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector Single any one of the $4.00 Magazines for ot FOR THIRTY NAMES.?Either ol merless Shot Gun, a fine Toilet or Wai 22-Cal. Rifle. FOR FORTY NAMES.?A flue M Standard Open Face Watch, a Doubl ANYTHING DESIRED.?We will desired by a Clubmaker for a given n office. TERMS AND THE CONTEST BEGINS NOW an MARCH 18, at 6 o'clock p. m? sharp. Each Clubmaker will be held indi\ the amount due on all names returned stop a subscription before the close of do so by paying the amount due at the scriptlon has been paid In full. It can however, may. if he sees proper, trans scrlption to another subscriber, provid to be made was not a subscriber at the our books. No name will he counted in com| scrlption price has been |>aid. nor wil Clubmaker has either paid or made sa on the Club. In cases of contention by two or name, preference will be given to the c where both pay, we shall not attempt t the name for one year for each such pi After a name has been entered o mitted. This is positive and emphati make such transfers, they must coneed seem necessary to protect the fairness > returns names must pay for them. C for names already regularly returned peeially if there is evidence of an ur This is not for the protection of the fairness of the competition. Any and all Clubmakers will hav.e They Can. It is not necessary that al dress. The fact that a name was reti not give that Clubmaker a right to reti All subscriptions must be forward' Ing them, and we will be responsible only when it is sent by Draft. Register Order. In sending the names. Always give postollirc address, and if possible say w the paper. Careful observance of this trouble and confusion. In case of a tie for either the Buj miums, TWO WEEKS will be allowed After the close of the contest on the price of a year's subscription will I =L. M. GRIST'S ? Yorkville, So TO PLANT Dn of users of Fertilizers to le from the best materials h the greatest care. Our i oouna to prove great probusiness, and will be glad -S* rices. Same will have our l lizer Company, uth Carolina. UPPLY CO. . ? ? TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. ALL persons indebted to the estate of J. W. MARTIN, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to me at once. Persons having claims against this estate should present them to me duly authenticated within the time prescribed by law. W. C. SPENCER, Executor. 3 t 3t R IBERSFOR (HIRER i A *$+A *$+A *&+A *?AA **+A W Work and Good Pay *?*A **+A *$+A R?+A ?*+A Top, Rubber Tire X BUGGY X /^1 1 wuo ?#+A >t?+A *?+A *?+A **+A Kg I For the Second Largest Club , A *fc+A *?+A H?*A K$+A *?+A Kg WING MACHINES 16 jrent Competitors i AA ??* +*>2 AA ??+ +?5? AA ?5* IS ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE WSPAPERS IN THE SOUTH. It la uctlve. It should be in every York. i place in every home in the State. It ntury behind it, and its publishers are eful to its patrons. In order to extend nore subscribers, and to make it worth ng a liberal line of valuable premiums. POSITIONS. d pays for the largest number of names , at 8 o'clock p. m., we will give One ry (Carolina Grade), valued at Ninety irns the second largest club under the d, we will give a Two Horse Piedmont ims is open to all comers, regardless of (sc.- two leading premiums, however, we j Machines, of two styles, one retailing two Machines to go to each township, he Buggy and Wagon may be awarded, e been awarded, the Sewinlf Machines mships to the Clubmakers making the <1 the awards will be made regardless of g clubs. That is if the Buggy or Wagon , hundred names, more or less, and the rnship has only two names, he or she In each township where neither the there will be awards of two Sewing ing the largest and second largest clubs. HUMS. i Rock Hill Buggy is. They have been ears, and they have never been known ry we are offering has been purchased He. the Local Agents, and is subject to II Buggy Company. nfj iim? testoH Pladmnnt make, and mav Carroll Bros. It has 3-lnch skein and year as to material and workmanship, rantee. The price $67.50. ffered, has high arm, drop head, hand . The retail price ranges as high as e is almost as good. It is also of the ;rs and is practically the same as the fitted with ball bearings. , CLUB IS single Clubmaker will be regarded *s a le contest will not only be regarded as ther he or she Is successful In carrying will receive full compensation for all price of a single subscription is $2.00 Hubs the price for six months remains '5. REMIUMS. wing Machine premiums, which are to le Clubmakers making and paying for he respective townships, we are offer- . iller Clubs, from three names up. subscription to the Progressive Farmer, ith. phic Fountain Pen: a handsome Threeaddress on handle; or one of the late ityne" Stem Winding Watch, a gold id Pocket Knife. Stem Winding Watch, Hamilton Mod"iptlon to the Christian Herald, Saturi or any one of the new popular $1.50 soil "Triumph" Watch, Daisy Repeat;r?a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a e; or a Hopf Model Violin or an 8-inch ubscription to THE ENQUIRER, a No. ty one of the $1.75 or $2.00 publications Pen, a good Banjo, Guitar or Violin. -Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-oz. Canvas i-Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, or te year. f the following: A Single-Barrel Hamshstand Set, or a Hopkins & Allen, Jr., andolln, Guitar or Banjo, a New York e-Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun. arrange to furnish any special article umber of names on application at this CONDITIONS d will come to a close on SATURDAY, rtdually responsible for the payment of by him or her. Where it is desired to the Club contest, the Clubmaker may time of such stoppage. Where a subnot be discontinued. The Clubmaker, ifer the unfulfilled portion of the sub- J ed the person to whom the transfer is 1 time the original name was entered on [>etitlon for n premium until the sub1 any premium be delivered until the tisfactory settlement for all the names more Clubmakers over the right to a >ne who pays for the name FIRST; but 0 decide the matter except by crediting tyment. n our books, no transfer will be perc, and where Clubmakers attempt to le our right to take such steps as may of this provision. The Clubmaker who lubmakers who try to return and pay 1 by others will be called down, esiderstanding between the Clubmakers. publishers; but as a guarantee of the the right to CJet Subscribers Wherever 1 the names shall go to the same adtrned on a certain club last year does urn it this year. ed to us at the expense of those send; for the safe transmission of money ed Letter, Express or Postoffice Money correct names or initials, and present nether the subscribers are NOW taking i will be the means of avoiding much ?gy or Township Sewing Machine Prefor the working off of the tie. SATURDAY. MARCH 18. at ? p. m.. )e $2.00, unless New Clubs are formed. >0NS, Publishersuth Carolina