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tumorous gfpartmrnt. W-here He Crossed the Equator.? As one of the very few occasions when the wit of Rufus Choate was foiled, an incident is recalled when that brilliant lawyer was examining one Dick Barton, chief mate of the ship Challenge. Choate had cross-examined him for over an hour, hurling questions with the speed of a rapid-fire gun. "Was there a moon that night?" X C9, Oil 'Did you see it?" "No, sir." "Then how did you know there was a moon?" "The 'National Almanac' said so, and I'll believe that sooner than any lawyer in the world." "Be civil, sir. And now tell me in what latitude and longitude you crossed the equator?" "Ah, you are joking?" "No. sir, I'm in earnest and I desire an answer." "That's more than I can give." "Indeed. You a chief mate and unable to answer so simple a question!" "Yes, the simplest question I ever was asked. I thought even a fool of a lawyer knew there's no latitude at the equator."?Success. Prize Puzzle Contest.?In the puzzle department of the Philistine for July was this problem: A lawyer collected for his client $467.50 and charged 5 per cent for his services; how much did the client receive? Up to date nine hundred and sixty-one answers have been received, but only one is correct, and that is the solution sent in by Darwin G. Jones of Atlanta. Mr. Jones works the matter out as fol lows: Let X equal the amount the client expected to receive. Let I equal the amount he actually got. Let N equal what he should have received. We then transpose the symbols according to the law of calculus, and we have the solution thus: NIX, which is what the client got?the lawyer having kept the whole amount he collected, and charged 5 per cent for his services, as stated in the original proposition, sending his client' a bill for $23.38. This answer is correct and Jonesey goes on the free list for 999 years.? The Philistine. Carried It too Far.?A Chicago millionaire, George T. Cline, had an extraordinary hobby. He was a connoisseur of Irishmen, according to the local papers. Though on himself he would never spend more than 15 or 20 cents a day, he thought nothing of buying Irishmen sumptuous dinners, with champagne, in order to hear them talk in their musical brogue. An Irishman once played Colonel Cline false. He stole a pair of boots from him. Discovering the theft, the millionaire pursued the Irishman, overtaking him as he was about to enter a pawnshop with the boots in his hand. "These are my boots; you have stolen them," said Colonel Cline. "Sure it was only a Joke," said the Irishman. But the inexorable millionaire hauled the thief before a magistrate, and here again the man repeated, "It was only a joke, your honor." "Only a joke, hey?" said the magistrate. "Well, Mr. Cline, how far away from your house had he carried the boots when you overtook him?"* "Over a mile, sir," replied the millionaire. "Held for court," said the magistrate. "This is a case of carrying the joke too far." An Old Hunter's Advice.?Here is the advice an old hunter gives to those who may come in unexpected contact with bad animals! "If you are cornered by a snake stand motionless and he will never bite. "If a vicious dog attacks you show him a knife or some similar instrument, and he will keep out of reach. A dog can never learn the deadliness of a revolver or a gun, but unless he has the rabies he knows how to respect a knife. "If a swarm of wild bees attacks you stand motionless and let out all your breath. Then only a few of the swarm will sting." This advice should be reversed at sea. A man who is swimming in shark infested waters is safe as long as he kicks about and makes a great deal of noise. The shark is too timid to approach anything that looks as if it meant to fight. "What would you do in case you were cornered by a cinnamon bear?" some one asked the old hunter. "Say my prayers," he answered laconically. A Polite Prisoner.?The lady who was visiting the jail had been much impressed with the appearance and KaV* r> i?1/vm ftP iUft wm! riftn r* nn n n V\ ft uciia> iui \jl '.lie pucuncio, anu onv took occasion to express her approval to the warden. "They seem as courteous as anybody," she si-id. enthusiastically, "even if they don't say anything." "Yes, they're polite enough," assented the warden. "But I'm a little suspicious of too fine manners." "I don't see how you can be!" exclaimed the lady. "Well, I am," declared the warden, "and I have been ever since one of the smoothest of them broke out of jail and left a note for me in which he wrote, 'I hope you will pardon me for the liberty I am taking.'"?Youth's Companion. Built of Yeas and Nays.?"Frankness." said Speaker Cannon, "is an attribute greatly to be admired. Frankest man I ever knew was a ehap out in Illinois who served several times in the legislature. Then he came home and built himself a fine house. It was a beauty and cost a power of money. " 'Nice house you've got there,' said a visitor in the town where the ex-legislator lived. "'Yes,' he replied, 'it is a nice house.' "'Where did you get the money?' " 'Down at Springfield, of course,' the ex-legislator replied. 'I tell you. my friend, there is a heap of yeas and nays in that house.' "?Exchange. Jttiscfllaurouis Reading. ; FROM CONTEMPORARIES. . J News and Comment That Is of More a or Less Local Interest. YORK. * Rock Hill Herald, November 14: The j amount of cotton ginned in this coun- v ty this fall shows a falling off of near- ^ ly one-third. The number of bales ginned last year up to the 18th of Octoher was 18,066. The number this g year up to the same date was 12,550 ^ bales?a shortage this year of 5,516 bales in comparison with last year. The number of gins in York county is 124 this year, several less than last year Rev. J. C. Johnes spent a a few days at Clemson College and r spoke to the students Thursday morn- I ing Rev. J. Walter Simpson spent j Wednesday in the city with his par- t ents. Dr. and Mrs. I. Simpson. He i o rviAnf tn<r nf ovn- f was i eiui 111115 ai v>in a. iiivviiiic w? .. ? od held at Winnsboro. He has been 1 located at Concord, N. C., for some t time past, and at this meeting it was t decided that he should remain at Con- t cord Mrs. Mary Janette Hanna, t wife of Mr. S. M. Hanna, died at her j home in this city Tuesday last after s an illness extending over a period u since June. Wednesday her body was I interred in the Bethesda cemetery at- J ter services by her pastor, Rev. J. K. . Hall. While Mrs. Hanna had been d unwell since June, her condition did I not become serious until last Satur- 5 day. when she had a convulsion that r night, followed by another the next s day. when she became unconscious, t continuing in that condition until she 1 died. Mrs. Hanna was born and rais- I ed in the Smith's Turnout neighbor- h hood. She was a daughter of the late j Alex Pagan of Chester county. In 1858 r she was married to S. M. Hanna of 1 Rock Hill, and to them was born Ave j children, R. S. Hanna of Rock Hill; A. c P. Hanna of Texas; Mrs. J. W. Moore j of Bethesda; Mrs. W. D. Hope of s Union, and T. M. Hanna of Bethesda, r who survive with their father to 0 grieve the death of a good mother, e She was seventy-six years of age and C her memory scarce went back to the S time when she was not a member of 0 the Bethesda church. a GASTON. 1 Gastonia Gazette, November 13: Mr. 8 Sam E. McArthur, who conducts a * general merchandise business near the v Avon Cotton Mill, and Miss Fannie I Chaney were married at Clover Satur- a day. The bride Is a daughter of Mr. a C. W. Chaney, engineer at the Avon, a while the groom is well known as a 1 business man. They are receiving the r congratulations of many friends on r the happy event The A. R. P. F Synod of the South at Winnsboro was ? the most largely attended session in c its history. Dr. J. C. Galloway, Mr. t R. W. Carson, and E. W. Carson, and fi Mr. George W. Falls attended from v Gastonia. Saturday and Sabbath were * devoted to the Centennial services. 1* The synod was organized in 1803 in the historic brick church twelve miles away. There were addresses on Centennial topics by Dr. J. C. Galloway, Dr. T. G. Bovce, Hon. J. C. Hemphill, ^ Rev. E. B. Kennedy, Rev. S. W. Haddon, Dr. J. S. Moffat*. Dr. W. L. Press1>% Rev. D. G. Phillips, and Dr. W. W. a Orr. The topics, the speakers and the r occasion combined to make these ser- p vices a great inspiration. The mat- ^ ter of union with the United Presby- t terians came up again, Dr. Wallace of ^ Iowa, being the delegate from the j, northern body. The synod drew up a ^ basis of possible union and overtured ^ it to the presbyteries for action this c year. This basis requires the separation of the races in their ecclesiastical organization in the south. The sing- 0 ing was a feature of the synod. The g choir was composed of picked voices j from over the synod, and the good v music has never been equalled at a a synod before. Dr. J. S. Moffatt was ^ requested to become the general agent t of Erskine college and the Home Mis- r sion fund. He has the matter under r advisement until the first of January. t Rev. S. W. Reid was chosen as the next moderator. The place of meeting v is Zion church near Auburn, Mo. f CHESTER. t Lantern, November 13: John Henry t Williams, a Negro boy, got into the t seed conveyor at the oil mill Monday t and his right leg was broken in two t places. One of the hands caught him c and held him to prevent his going f farther in, while another is said to t have caught the belt and held it until v it could be thrown off up stairs. The f boy died Wednesday, and Coroner ? Gladden held an inquest yesterday, as c there were some intimations that the j boy was pushed Into the conveyor. He is said to have stated this himself, i but his mind was not clear at the i time. The jury did not think the ev- f idence sustained this charge. Dr. H. c E. McConnell said death resulted from s shock or from internal injuries that 1 ivoro nnt annarant Tr? tha on qp nf C Wm. W. Banks vs. Mary McCollum t et al., testing the validity of Miss c Nancy McCollum's will. Each of the t questions were answered in the af- a firmative, establishing the validity of t the will. In the case of S. J. Fergu- 1< son vs. Paul Hardin, concerning a strip of land, the jury has not yet a agreed. The case of A. J. Broom vs. a Western Union Telegraph company is t now on trial Mr. D. E. Boney of I Yorkville, is spending some time with a his daughter, Mrs. Sam Colvin, on C Church street Mrs. B. E. Wright p and baby and Miss Edna Whiteside h left Wednesday morning for a visit a of two weeks to their old home in the a Smyrna neighborhood, York county, o A telegram was received here yesterday morning announcing the t death of Mr. John Reddick of Brooks- c ville, Fla., and son-in-law of Mr. I. p McD. Hood. The message was for- \ b, Vf?? U n.k/v C UUIVtUU IU 1*11. XJ'JUU, V\ IIU ? iXZ> ill AU- C gusta. Mr. Reddick spent the summer 1 here. He was much run down when t he came, but improved very rapidly r and was looking well when he left.... c Revs. J. R. Milieu and \V. 13. Lindsay s made interesting addresses at the A. R. P. prayer meeting Wednesday af- e ternoon. The former took for his sub- i ject. Church Loyalty; the latter. The f Origin and Significance of the Word a Christian, as applied to believers in 1 Christ. Their addresses were very v nuch enjoyed by all present Revs, j 3. B.'and W. E. Anderson stopped over t n the city Tuesday night with Mr. jid Mrs. J.- K. Henry on their way rom synod to Spartanburg, to spend v . few days with their mother before eturning to their work. The former < vithln the bounds of the Second pres- j iytery, and the latter in Virginia i lr. S. B. Clowney's barn and stables t i'ere burned Tuesday evening about i lark. Some 400 bushels of corn and * nuch other feed were destroyed. We xe informed that there was no In- ' urance. It is thought that the fire i vas started by an engine used In hreddlng corn. ? LANCASTER. Ledger, November 14: Hood Stew- j ;rt, the Negro who was convicted of r nanslaughter for the killing of Ed ( lammond near Jacksonham, about a t -ear ago, and sentenced to the penl- t entiary for Ave years, has escaped and , s now at large. He made his escape { rnrri a farm in Abbeville county. , ?here is a reward of $25 or $50 for j lis capture and return to the peniten- { iary. We understand that he has ( teen seen in this county several ( imes this week, near his old home.... Jr. L. B. Thrallkill of the Fort Lawn ( ection, has gathered from one acre of ipland this year, 50J bushels of corn. ( t was planted about the middle of une after cutting oats from the lot. , At 5 o'clock I), m., last Wedneslay, November 11, 1903, in Richland 'resbyterian church of Gadsden, S. C., liss Linnie Kaminer, was united in narriage to Mr. Marion Sims Wither- t poon of this place, Rev. Dr. Byrd of , Vinnsboro, performing the ceremony. < 'he bride was attended by her sister, ( diss Herbert Kaminer, as maid of ( lonor, and the groom by his cousin, Jr. J. T. Stevens of Kershaw, as best t nan. The other attendants were: D. ? teece Williams of Lancaster, with ( Jiss Williamson of Darlington: John s Crawford of Lancaster with Miss Kate Joore of Columbia: Hazel Wither- s poon of Lancaster with Miss Margaet Carrison of Camden; George Heath { f Lancaster with Miss Connie With- , rspoon, sister of the groom; Gilbert , Ireen of Chester with Miss Emma { Shannon of Camden. The church dec- , rations and costumes were elegant, . Jid the marriage was attended by a arge and fashionable assemblage of . ruests...-... .Died at the cotton mill ( iere, on last Tuesday morning, No- ( ember 10, 1903, of consumption, Miss ?ula Fox, daughter of Mr. J. A. Fox, ged about seventeen years. She was , member of Newhope Baptist church ,nd her remains were taken there on Tuesday afternoon for burial Marled, at the home of the officiating ninister. Rev, R. J. Blackmon, at 3.30 ?. m., Wednesday, November 11, 1903, dr. Bon M. Welsh of Longsville, this ounty, and Miss Mabel Sowell, daugher of Mr. W. L. Sowell of Chesterield county. These young people are ery popular and a host of friends in he two counties will wish them a img, happy and prosperous life. GIVING THE THIRD DEGREE. low Police Sometimes Get Information From Criminals. This in all probability is the first .ccount ever written by an eye-witiess of the "third-degree" as it was iracticed by the police of this city luring the days when Tammany conrol had caused the force's thorough lemoralization. By the "third degree" t s meant the use of methods, not counenanced by the law, for the purpose of s Tightening a prisoner into making a onfession. During the administration of Mayor ran Wyck rumors more or less vague ccaslonally reached the public of perons arrested on suspicion being subected to the "third degree." It always happened that these rumors were iccompanied by vigorous denials from he police, for they knew full well that he enlightened sentiment of the comnunity never would tolerate such a eturn to the customs of mediaeval imes. It is an old truism, however, that vhere there is smoke there must be ire, and three newspaper men once tad an opportunity to testify from acual observation that the police someimes did resort to the "third degree" o accomplish their purposes. That he reporters did not take advantage >f the opportunity was due to the act that they were present by cour- 1 esy in the captain's private office, chich was the scene of the brutal perormance; and, being in a sense the ,'uests of the commander of the pre- ' inct, they felt he had a right to enoin them to silence. But now that the two leading actors i n the little tragedy that was played 1 n the captain's office have retired ' rom the force the obligation to se- 1 xecy has been removed. It can be 3 tated, then, that in the Tenderloin po- ] ice station, on West Thirty street, a : ireek, against whom there was only he flimsiest kind of evidence impliating him in a murder, was grabbed >y the throat by an inspector of police md after being nearly strangled, was hrown to the floor and repeatedly ;icked. The circumstances leading up to the issault were almost as extraordinary is the assault itself. One of the mem>ers of the Greek colony on West fifteenth street had been killed with i pistol shot. The assassin, also a Jreek, was caught red-handed by the (Olice, with the smoking revolver in lis possession, and when the reporters irrived at the station house he was ilready under guard in the captain's ifflce. The captain at that time evidently hought it was just a plain "common ir garden" murder and that all the >ollce work necessary in connection nth the case had been accomplished. < ?1 3 U. 4U* . picdacu Was IXC >V 1 til LUC quiL!\ au- < ution of what might have been a trou- i desome crime that he Invited the re- i >orters to accompany him into his ' office while he interrogated the assas- < in. When the captain and the reporters t ntered the murderer sat huddled up n a corner of the room, and upon his 1 ace there was a look of sullen defi- 1 nee. He had some knowledge of Eng- c ish and when the captain asked him A ihy he had killed the man it was ap- c jarent that he understood the ques;ion, although he refused to answer. "Now, remember," said the captain, 'that everything you tell me will be ised against you In court." This warning, which was given to lomply with the law, caused the rejorters to smile, for the captain's manler plainly Indicated to the prisoner hat If he didn't do what the captain ,vished him to do he would be made to suffer. "Come, now," continued the captain, 'speak up now. Why did you kill the nan?" At this junction the door opened md the inspector of the district enered. Nodding familiarly to the cap:aln, he helped himself to a seat where le could fix his eyes on the prisoner, rhe inspector's eyes were the kind :ommonly described as piercing, and lever once during the fifteen minutes hat the captain continued to try to vring from the prisoner the motive of he crime did he remove his gaze from he unfortunate Greek. When at last he captain gave up the attempt to get inything out of the Greek the inspec;or, looking more intently at the prismer than ever, suddenly ejaculated: "I believe that man was hired to :ommit murder!" The assassin's eyes glittered and he :rouched down lower in his chair. "Who paid you to kill the man?" denanded the inspector. "Nobody," faltered the Greek in a tone so low he could hardly be heard. "You lie!" thundered the inspector. 'Now, remember," he continued, "anyhing you say will be used against mu. Where did you get that pistol? 2ome, now, you'll get in the electric ^hair if you don't watch sharp. Where lid you get that pistol, I say?" The prisoner began to mumble somehing and he was finally understood to say that the revolver belonged to a 3reek he named, who kept a flower stand in a big department store. "That's the man you want, cap," said the inspector. The captain nodded, rang his bell ind gave orders to two detectives who .vere summoned to bring in the flower nan. About five minutes later the lower man arrived. He spoke English vith scarcely any ascent and appeared Kri o mon r\f intolltcyari/ta "We just want to find out what you tnow about this murder," began the captain pleasantly as the new arrival :ook a seat. "I don't know much, captain," reeled the man. "I Just hpard people diking about it and that is all." "Um-m! Well, you know the pris>ner over there, don't you?" "Oh, yes: I've seen him several :imes." "But don't you know how he came ;o commit this murder?" "No; I haven't the least idea, capain." "Um-m!" With the quickest movement apparently of which he was capable the ?aptain snatched the pistol with which :he murder had been committed from he drawer of his desk, thrust it under ;he flower seller's nose and cried: "Where did you buy this, you ?" Wildly excited, the flower seller eaped to his feet. ?<T T T imii X A A uuu k iviik/u n naw jvu nean!" he grasped. No sooner were the words out of his mouth that the inspector jumped up, cnocklng over his chair, which went lown with a crash. Fairly flying icross the room the inspector grabbed :he flower seller by the throat. "You lie, you hound!" he cried, jhaking him violently, so that his eyes protruded. "But you had better not lie :o me, you ?. Where did you juy that gun?" Shaking his victim once more, the inspector threw him heavily to the loor and proceeded to kick him until ihe captain grasped him by the arm ind pulled him away. "Inspector, inspector," said the cap:ain, with an anxious look at the astounded reporters, "for God's sake, remember!" The inspector recovered himself with i start and the captain turned to the newspaper men. "I'll have to ask you to leave now, gentlemen," he said, "and please remember that what you have seen here in my office is not for publication." The outcome of the case was that the 3reek who fired the shot was sent to prison for life, while the flower seller svas eventually released, there being no evidence against him. MASTER OF THE VESSEL. ^ Story of Farragut In Command When But Twelve Years of Age. The story or a hoy of twelve years acting as commander of a ship seems rather wonderful, yet Farragut was aut twelve years and four days old when he was put in command of the Barclay, a prize ship taken by Captain Porter. In consideration of his tender i*ears, says the author of "Twenty-six Historic ships," the former English master of the vessel was sent in her for the possible benefit the young prize master might find in his advice. Farragut tells the story of the queer livision of authority in his journal as Follows: "I considered that the day of trial Pad arrived, for I was a little afraid of the old fellow, as every one else was. But the time had come for me at least to play the man. So I mustered up courage and informed the captain that [ desired the main topsail filled away in order that we might close up with the Essex Junior. He replied that he would shoot any man who dared to ouch a rone without his orders. He ivould go his own course and l:ad no dea of trusting himself with 'a blasted nutshell,' and then he went below for lis pistols. "I called my right hand man of the ;rew and told him of my situation, i ilso informed hint that I wanted the main topsail filled. He answered with i clear 'Aye, aye, sir,' in a manner that ivas not to be misunderstood, and nr.y :onfidenee was perfectly restored. "From that moment I became mas:er of the vessel and immediately gave ill necessary orders for making sail, notifying the captain not to come on ,vith his pistols unless he wished to go ner board, for I really would have had ,ery little trouble in having such an >rder obeyed." /\n Aninjal Sfory For Little Folks A Cat-Eye-Clism Tom Cat and Dick Cat met one night on the back fence. Tom was minus one eye. "How did you lose your eye?" asked JJ1CK. "Well, it was like this: My mistress was coming home on the train from the seashore and got a cinder in her eye. It bothered her so that the doctor was called in. He said it was a serious case and they would have to take out her eye and look for the cinder. He put it on a table and began to hunt I came in just then, hungry as usual, for they don't half feed me, and saw the eye, thought it was good to eat and swallowed it." "Oh!" sal- Oku. "Then you had three eyes." "Yes, but listen. The doctor saw what I had done, said be would have m M ' ' ' GAVE CHASE WITH A BIG KNIFE. to get an eye from me to take the place of the other I had inside and gave chase with a big knife. He caught me, took out my eye and put it in the mis tress. That leaves me, you see, with only this one." "Yes." said Dick. "But you've got two all the same." "But bow can I use the one I swallowed?" asked Tom sadly. "But. say." asked Dick quickly, as the new thought struck him, "how did the mistress get along with your lonely orb?" "Oh, pretty well, except that when one of her eyes is In bed asleep the other is down cellar with me hunting rats." "Terrible!" said Dick. "Yes. Doctors ought to be more careful," replied Tom.?St Louis Post-Dispatch. Professional <^ards. J. S. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. Thos. F. McDow. W. W. Lewis. McDOW & LEWIS, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, No. 4 Law Range, Yorkville, S. C. Prompt Attention to all business. Money loaned on approved security. July 25 sw tf GEO. W. S. HART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, YORKVILLE, S. C. a LAW RANGE. 'Phone Office No. 58. D. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings. FINLEY & JENNINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office in WILSON BUILDING, opposite Court House. Telephone No. 126, A. Y. CARTWRIGHT, SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLE, S. C. OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to x p. m.; 2 p.m., t05p.tr Office in upstairs rooms of Cartwright Building, opposite Telegraph and Express Offices. TAX COLLECTION'S?1903. Yorkville, S. C., Sept. 15, 1903. IN accordance with the law, my books will be opened on the 15TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1903, for the collection of STATE, COUNTY AND SPECIAL TAXES for the fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1903, and will be kept open UNTIL DECEMBER 31ST, 1903, without penalty, after which day ONE T->T7i-r? /-1T71XTT1 ???? ! ,. ,,,411 arirlori fnr X ^CUCUbJ Tt AIM fcJW ? all payments made In the month of JANUARY, TWO PER CENT penalty on all payments made during the month of FEBRUARY, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty for payments from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH TO THE 15TH DAY OF MARCH, after which date all taxes not paid will go Into execution and be placed In the hands of the sheriff for collection. For the convenience of tax payers I will meet them at the following places on the dates named: At Yorkvllle, Friday, the 13th day of November, until Saturday, the 28th day of November. At Rock Hill, Monday, the 30th day of November, until Tuesday, the 8th day of December. At Yorkville, Wednesday, the 9th day of December until Thursday, the 31st day of December, 1903, and after this day my office will be kept open for the collection of taxes with PENALTIES ATTACHED until the 15th day of March, 1904. Also during the collection of regular taxes up to the 1st day of March, I will receive VOLUNTARY PAYMENTS OF COMMUTATION ROAD TAXES for the year 1904. H. A. D. NEELY, County Treasurer. NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS. ALL persons, without distinction of r\r> a ro Vi orohv wnrnpH against Hunting, Fishing, Driving, Riding or otherwise Trespassing on the lands owned or controlled by us, all of which lands are in York county. Any disregard of this notice will be punished to the full extent of the R. J. 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To the clubmaker who returns and , pays for the largest number of names between October 15, 1903, and Wednesday, March 16, 1904, at 6 o'clock p. m., we will give a first-class Babcock Top Buggy, worth $85; or a first-class Columbia Top Buggy with rubber tires, valued at $85. The clubmaker will have the option of the two propositions. To the clubmaker who returns and pays for the second largest club, we will give a handsome Columbia Top Buoav. worth $65. The Babcock and Columbia Buggies i can be seen at Glenn & Allison's livery stables. NEW SUBSCRIBERS. | In order to afford clubmakers greater , facility In introducing the paper to New Subscribers, we hereby authorize them to take the subscription of any individual whose name was not on our list on September 15, 1903, and agree to send the paper to such individuals from the date their names are entered until January 1, 1905, for only $1.75. In such cases, however, the clubmaker must require cash of the subscriber and pay the subscription price at the time the name is entered on our books. OTHER OFFERS. For Four Names. A "Yankee" Watch, a Stylographic Fountain Pen or a Three Bladed Pocket Knife of good quality; or a 15String Zithern. For Five Names. A year's subscription to either one of the following Magazines: McClure's, Ladies' Home Journal, Munsey, Argosey, Cosmopolitan, Delineator, Frank Lesslie's Popular Monthly, or either of the following: A "Champion" Stem Winding Watch, a gold pointed Fountain Pen, a four-bladed Pocket Knife. For Six Names. An "Eclipse" Stem Winding Watch, King Repeating Air Rifle, a year's subscription to the Christian Herald; or a 22-String Zithern. For Eight Names. An Ingersoll "Triumph Watch, a Columbia Repeating Air Rifle?works like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Fountain Pen?plain case; or a Hopf Model Violin or an 8-inch Banjo. For Ten Names. One year's subscription to THE ENQUIRER, a "Quaker" Watch, valued at $2.50; a Hamilton 22-callbre Rifle? model 11; the Youth's Companion, one year; or a gold mounted Fountain Pen; a good Banjo, Violin or Guitar. For Twenty Names. Crack-Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-ounce canvas Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector Single Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun. the Century or Harper's Magazine. I L. M. GRIST'S S MILLS STORE. 3ent SCOUNT f their interests when buy, Hats, etc., are eagerly ica Vioiro loot*norl fliir. ,oy lat we are determined to earliest possible moment, v have cut prices with an and today we announce an it ichest of bargains within tinstaking and economical thing, we want you to res you buy here are abso.lity. If you are seeking rtunity is wide open here. HILLS STORE Congress and Jefferson Streets, IS? Semi-Weekly n South Carolina York County Home iption; Two or More s $1.75 Each. TER TO CLUBMAKERS. Guns, Rifles, Watches, Sewtnives, Magazines and Other tie Competition Is Free, the ay Good. For Thirty Name*. Either of the following: A Single Barrel Hammerless Shot Gun; a fine 4x4 Kodak, a fine Toilet or Washstand Set, or a Hopkins & Allen Jr., 22 Calibre Rifle. Fop Fortv Names. A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York Standard Open Face Watch, a W. Richards Double Barrel BreechLoading Shot Gun, or a Low Arm Singer Sewing Machine. For Fifty Name*. A Winchester or Colt's Repeating Rifle, 22 calibre; or a Baker Double Barrel Breechloadlng Gun. For Sixty Name*. A High-Arm Sewing Machine; or a first-class Double Barrel Breech Loading Shot Gun. For Ninety Names. A B .avia Hammerless Gun, 12gauge, furnished by H. & D. Folsom Arms Co., of New York. A first-class gun and fully guaranteed, SPECIAL CLUBS. We will arrange to furnish any special article desired by a clubmaker for a given number of names on application to this office. TIME TO BEGIN. The time for clubmakers to begin work in competition for the foregoing offers Is RIGHT NOW. Let all names, whether old or new, be returned as rapidly as secured, so they may be properly entered upon our books. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Two Six Months Subscribers at $1 each will be considered the equivalent I of one yearly subsoriber at $1.76, and I an nnnntnrl. A SllhflCrlntion Dald for two or more years In advance at )1.76, will be counted as one name for each year so paid. Clubmakers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by them. After a clubmaker has returned and paid for any name, he can, at anytime thereafter, discontinue the sending of the paper to the person for whom he has paid and transfer the unexpired time to any other person, provided the person to whom the transfer is desired was not a subscriber at the time the original name was entered on our books. No name will be counted in competition for a premium until the subscription price has been paid; nor will any premium be delivered until a satisfactory settlement has been made for all names returned by the clubmaker. Persons who commence making clubs will not be permitted to transfer their club to another clubmaker's list after the names have been entered on our books. It is not necessary that the names on a club should all be at the same postoffice. Names may be taken at any number of places. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe J transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkville postofflce. In sending names, write plainly, and give postoffice, county and state. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each name sent, so that the number sent by any clubmaker may be ascertained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, two weeks will be allowed in which to work off the tie. The time in which names may be returned, under our propositions will commence NOW, and expires at 6 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the T6th day of March, 1904. After the closing of this contest on March 16, 1904, no single yearly subscription will be received for less than the yearly subscription price of 12.00, except new clubs are formed. ONS, Publishers.