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Treasurer's Notice! ' OFFICE WILL BE OPEN FROM FRIDAY, OCT. 15TH UNTIL MARCH 15, 1921. Taxes Paid From Friday, October 15, j Until Friday, December 31at | Without Penalty. The rate of State, County, School and Special Tax including one dollar Poll Tax, two dollars commutation tax. In accordance with an act to raise supplies for the fiscal year commenc ing January 1st, 1920, noticed here by given that the office of the County Treasurer for Abbeville County-will be open for the collection of taxes for said fiscal year from Friday, Oct. 15, until Friday, Dec. 31st without pen alty. There will be added?a penalty of one per cent, oh all taxes hot paid on January 1st, 1921. A penalty of two per cent, on all taxes not paid on Feb. 1st, 1921. A penalty of seven per cent, on all taxes not paid on March 1st, 1921. Rates per cent, of taxation are as follows: State Tax 12 mills. County Tax 8 mills. Good Roads Tax 3 mills. Constitutional school tax .. 3 mills. TOTAL 26 Mills. lax will be collected for school pur poses as follows: Abbeville City Shops Bonds 1% mills 1 Corner 2 mills 8. Lowndesville 16 "mills 4 Rocky River 2 mills 9 Calhoun Falls 6 mills *10 Santuc 4 mills 18 Bethia 8 mills 20 Sharon ? ? ? 8 mills 21 Bethel 3 mills 22 Abbeville 14 mills 23 Warrenton 8 mills 24 Reeds 8 mills 26 Brownlee 4 mills 26 Campbell 15 mills 24 Antreville 12 mills 29 Sunny Slope 8 mills 30 Cold Springs 4 mills | 31 Long Cane 2 mills 32 Smithville 2 mills 34 Central 8 mills #c 8 mills Oil iia^au ... ... 36 Parks Creek 3 mills I 37 Keowee 14 mills 38 Due West 12 mills 39 Donalds 17 mills 40 Pineville 6 mills 41 Vermilion 4 mills 42 Fonville 3 mills 43 Eureka 3 mills! 44 Broadmouth 8 mills 45 Rock Springs 2 mills 46 Ray 4 mills 47 Winona 8 mills 50 Cana 4 mills 54 Lebanon 4 mills A poll tax of one dollar per capita on all male citizens between the ages, of 21 and 60 years, except such as are exempt by law, will be collected. A commutation road tax of two dol lars will be collected the same time as other taxes from all male citizens, between the ages of 18 and 50 years, except such as are exempt by law. | Unless said tax is paid by the 1st of, March, 1921,.eight days work upon,1 the public highways will be required j nn/W an overseer, if so much be nec-1 essary. ' Taxes are payable in gold and sil ver, United States currency, National flank notes and coupons of State onds which become payable during the year 1920. At the same time as other taxes are collected a license of one dollar and twenty-five cents will be collecte4 on all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished by the Treasurer to each owner pay ing license. Parties desiring information by mail in regard to their taxes will please write before Dec. 16th, stat ing the location of their property and include postage for reply. AN ACT To Provide an Annual Dog Tax For ? p n 1:?. ?nri I he State or juuui v>?viu> Penalty (or Not Paying Said Tax. I Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by! the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That from and after the passage of this Act there shall be levied on all dogs, six months old or older, in the State of South Carolina an annual tax of one dollar and twen ty-five ($1.25) cents per head. Section 2. That upon the payment I of said annual tax of one dollar and twenty-five ($1.25) cents by the own er of any dog in the State, the Coun ty Treasurer shall issue to the said owner a receipt therefor and a met al tax marked "Dog Tax" and the year for which it is issued. Each | Tounty Treasurer shall keep a numer-1 cal record of every dog taxed and in addition thereto furnish to the owner \ of each dog such number stamped on I the metal tag:. Which tax shall be lev ied and paid to the County Treasur er, as other taxes are paid: Provided, further, That this tax shall be exclu-! sive of all other license taxes, either municipal or otherwise. Provided, That all such taxes collected here un -lu-J a- 1.1.- t ~r der shall De creaiteu tu tllC SVIIVVW v. the School District from which it is collected, to be used in support of the schools of the District: provided, fur ther, That said tax shall become due and payable at the same time State and County taxes become due and J payable. _ Section 3. That every owner of a 1 dog shall be required to collar and place the aforesaid dog tag upon the said collar. Except when such" dog! shall be used for the purpose of hunt-1 ing, when such dog shall be upon a I chase or hunt. Section 4. Any person owning, harboring or maintaining a dog, failing or refusing to return and pay the tax aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five ($5.00) dollars nor more than twenty^ ($20.00) dollars, one-half of which snail go 10 tne per-1 son reporting said failure to pay said tax, and one-half to the public school fund in which such derelict occurs. I J. E. JONES, County Treasurer. Oct. 27, 1920. TENNYSON AND BROWNING. (Proper Gander.) Alfred Tennyson was born at Som ersby, in Lincolnshire in 1809. He was the fourth child in a clergyman's family of twelve. Alfred was educat ed at the grammar school of South, and then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the chan cellor's medal for a poem on "Tim bustoo." Altho Tennyson was a stu dent of promise, he did not finish his University course, but lived with his widowed mother in rural retirement near London. He died at Aldworth in October 1892. He was buried in West minster Abbey by the side of his friend ai^d fellow-poet, Robert Brown ing Tennyson was honest, but sensitive to criticism. He had a mature intellect and never gave way to his feelings or to fancy. Tennyson had an aston ishing skill of musical accompani ment and, at last, unable to deal with men or their emotions "he passed his life beyond the struggles of the world and above the pressing wants of its poverty." From his father TennySon received his first instructions in verse making. His older brother, Charles, was thought to possess a more marked poetic gift than Alfred, winning in fact, more praiBe for his share in a small volume * entitled, "Poems by Two Brothers." Between 1832 and 1842 Tennyson published little, but his spiritual experiences were pro found. He wtfote many beautiful poems among which, "The Princess," ?T? XJrtrmrtrinm ? "MoilHp " "THvlls of All AWMWMV; the King," "Ulysses," "Enoch Arden" and '^Crossing of the Bar," are the most prominent. "To those who have ears to hear there is absolutely no poet so inexhaustible and original in harmony as Tennyson. His poetry discloses Grecian, Gothic, Italian and French influences. Mellowed in the light of his understanding to a chastened splendor." His work lacks humor; consequently, he lacks com pleteness of insight on many of the finer character sketches. Robert Browning was born in Camberwell, a supurb of London, in 1812. His father, a man with an ar tistic sense was a clerk in the Bank of England. Browning went to no re ligious school; and though his read ing was wide and appreciative, it lacked throughout his life the touch of scholarship in the full and liberal sense which distinguished Tennyson. The latfer part of his life Was spent in Italy. He died in Venice in 1889; as England claimed his body, he was * ??* -?* TX7 A Viknxr ounea in nr csuiiui3n;i nuuvj. Browning was intel'ested in human beings about him, but unlike Tenny son, he loved society and was ever a welconie guest at teas and receptions. Browning was an optimist; he loved music, was healthy and gentle; and had a deep religious feeling. He be lieved in the high destiny of man, in the "soul of goodness in things evil," v in the noble ends of art and of love. Like Tennyson, he values love as the greatest thing in the world; unlike Tennyson, he subordinates law to the individual will. Byron was Brownings' inspiration and model. His first pcem was "Pau line," his next, "Paracelsus," ap peared in 1835. From 1835 the poet's vocation may be considered as fixed; and though his public was, at first, smaller than Tennyson's and took far longer to increase, he always had his devotees, and never allowed detrac tion or neglcct to checK him. Brown ing studied Ita!:jn history and liter ature a.id thesi proved .a dominant influence ir. his tlOH.ht. Among his I best works are: "Pippa Passes," "The Ring and the Book," "Fra Sippo Lippi," "Rabbi Ben Ezra," and "My Lost Duchess.'"' Browning's works repay serious thought, and in his best writing he has proved himself a master of fluent musical and impressive verse. In his works, he sang, not like most I poets, Love and Death, but Love and Life. Both Tennyson and Browning [splendidly expressed the vigor and [idealism of the age in their works." ?Janie Vance Bowie, XI. A DELICATE StINSt "Which is the most delicate of the I sense?" asked the teacher. "The touch," said young Jones.1 "How's that?" asked the teacher, and Jones explained: "Well, when you sit on a pin you can't see it, you can't hear it, you can't taste it, but it's there."?Edinburgh Scots man. i CANADIAN DELEGATE* MAKES WARM SPEECH Criticises European Statesmanship In League Assembly?Cre ates Dismay By Bold Thrusts Geneva, Dec. 8.?The liveliest emotion the assembly of the league of nations has experienced was pro voked today by N. W. Rowell of Canada, who expressed his views re garding European statesmanship in a way that startled diplomatists of the old world. A sharp debate arose over the j recommendation of the committee' ] on technical organization that the' assembly propose to the govern ments to set up under the auspices 11 of the league three new organiza- i \ tions, finances, transit and health, 11 with annual conferences on these subjects. j i Mr. Rowell objected on the, < ground that it was impossible for' j distant countries to send their best' >. men abroad four times a year to at tend the assem/bly and the confer ences, and declared thpt the result would be to throw these organiza tions under European influence. 1 The assembly, he held, should ac cupy itself with these questions. Canada, at any rate, he said, felt that they were question that should | not be allowed to fall Into European , control. I "Fifty thousand Canadian sol diers under the sod in France and Flanders is the price Canada has i paid for European statesmanship," he cried to the astonishment of the j entire assembly and the dismay of , some of the delegates. Arthur Balfour and Mr. Fisher ; were plainly affected .by the thrust | from a British dominion. They re mained motionless In their seats through the balance of the debate, * * m * - ? -i with grace laces. i^ora rvvuei o vcim representing South Africa in the assembly, in a gentle way softened the blow by saying that he agreed with much that Mr. Rowell had said I but thought that Mr. Rowell was mia zations- would fall under the control of Europe. j Several of the delegates suggest ed to Mr. Rowell that his words had created a different impression than l he had intended. The Canadian dele- : gate took the floor again and said tie did not mean to attack European ' satesmen, and rather than give of- ] fense preferred to withdraw his 1 ' words. 8 I ! Mr. Rowell was supported by Mr. Miller of Australia and was mildly | taken to task by Gabriele Hanotaux ' of France. Dr. Gaston Da Cunha of ' Brazil, who had offered an amend ment, united with the others,' how ever, in agreeing to let the question go over until tomorrow. In the ' meantime endeavors will be made to : arrive at a compromise. Some of the principal delegates, wearying of the protracted discus | sions, and .somewhat discouraged in their efforts to hasten the work of the assembly are talking of going home. M. Vivani, who has been | away from his law practice for nearly a month, said he would not s/ay longer than the end of this week. The general opinion, how ever, is that it will be impossible to finish before the end of next week unless the debates are summarily shortened. Legal Blanks for Sale Here.? ;The Press and Banner Company. | j ORIGIN OF FIRE NOT DETERMINED j i Incendiarism Suspected In Costly Warehouse Blaze Orangeburg, Dec. 9.?A disas-j, trous fire visited Orangeburg last [ ! night when one of the several ware- j houses of the Farmers' Marketing J associaion was destroyed. There I were just a few bales less than 1,- I 000 in this bulidnig. The fire oc- j curred at about 1:30 o'clock this | j morning, entailing a loss of about \ j $75,000, fully covered by insur- j ance. The building was "of sheet metal, j ! had been filled wiffr cotton and j locked for a month, and no one is' known to have entered the building j during that time. The origin of the I fire is undetermined, but incendi-' arism is suspected. The other ware houses nearby were saved. These I warehouses are located on the I county fair property, and some of j | the fair buildings are being used by I j this company. The structure de- j stroyed was not one of the fair 1 'buildings. \MERICANS BEATING ENGLISH COAL MEN ' Paris, Dec. 4.?Large arrivals of Ajnerican coal at French ports are causing much comment in the coal ;rade of France, especilly among the English coal interests here. "England is losing her privileged position in the world as coal export er," the Paris edition of the Daily Mail, quotes S. Samuel of Instone and Company, a coal firm, as saying with reference to this situation. American deliveries says the news papers, are now being made at $14 i ton, against 629 two months ago. [t sums the situation up thus: "England is threatened in the world's coal market. America is liming at obtaining control, and foreign consumers will benefit from ;his free competition." American coal can be imported iow at about teh shillings a ton low ?r than English coal of correspond ng qualities.. Sound I |! I irdninmLninLJiLnijiLnmLniJT a BL AND Consult i sultii Large Sto I on Han< No Order i o Rece Builder Sfi / Abbeville, !fi S uaBnonnnnanflaa jijiju hj ijuij mmummi: PENSION DISBURSEMENTS FOR 1920, $213,295,314 Washington, Dec. 9.?Pension dis bursements for the fiscal year 1920 aggregated $213,295,314 according to the annual report of Commissioner Zaltzgaber of the pension bureau, made public'today The figures show ed a decrease of about nine million dollars from 119 totals and report i recorded the death during the year of 27,851 civil war pensioners, leav ing 243,520 soldiers of that war on the pension roll in addition to 290, 100 civil war widows. TX/Vii 1 o r?r\ ciiYnnvnro nf nrot* If iiv UUA WX V1IV TTOl V/X 1812 were shown, 71 widows of sol diers in that war are receiving gov ernment pensions. Only 148 Mexican war survivors were reported and 243 Mexican war widows. Survivors of the world war do not show on the roll. urn ianldmr Pr plus determination to financial requirement in a large measure fo prosperity of the Plai More than a year's in the people of the coui Planters Bank to take an efficient and symp You will find the Plai to give me service yuj A friendly call will b Planter: "TheFrien ABBEVil The Home of Over 1C LramaraiarainfiifEfgfaiisii'J riLD REPAIR rour Own intere tor I Tn Rpfnrp R Ig V/M JUVivi ck of Rough an JJMBEI d For Immediate Too Small nor ive Our Prompt i {Supply Ci V H. JACKSON, Mg . ?c ? 'Am llllltlliBliJillEllillllliilllil1 BBBIillllllll 1 SALE OF LAND. Notice is hereby given that we wiH sell on December the 15th, 1920 at 11 o'clock the Jno. Evans tract of land consisting of 82 acres at public auction to the highest bidder. The place will be sold as a whole and then sold as two tracts with 41 acres to each tract. Each tract has a good dwelling and outbuildings. The pin which brings the most money will be accented. This is an ideal home and smaH farm and is located one-half of mile trom the Antreville High School oa the main road from Abbeville to A? treville. The terms of sale are cash, pur chasers to pay for paper and stantfo. or all bids. This sale will be held at the old home place. J. M. Seawright, Charlie Ferguson, 12-3-2t-col. Executors. keep pace with the s of the time, account , r the ever-increasing iters Bank. timate contact with ity has equipped the i care of business in athetic manner. nters Bank prepared i desire. e welcome. s Bank dly Bank" XE, S. C. 100 Bank Accounts. n? st by Con uying a n VDCCO, U L/iV^OC7W ^ I Delivery Too Large Attention. ompany r. >. Carolina i j i j ijijij iiiuiiiriiiiiiiuzjzi^ maimammmar \