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?mmomt? Department. The Intelligent Rabbit. "Well, sir" said the colonel, as h< settled back on the easiest sofa in th< club and motioned the boy to brinf him the usual, "you can talk about th< intelligence of animals, but I want t< say right here that a rabbit has got 'en all beat. Yes, sirree. I never knew s . rabbit was so smart. Smart? Say, i if one of them long-eared bunnie fel lows had a little education and knev how to mail seeds to his constituents v. hanged if we wouldn't be a sendinj them to congress. I had read in thi papers that somebody up at Fox Laki had thought up a smooth scheme t< .'get- .around the law forbidding the hunting of rabbits with ferrets. Thi ~ scheme this chap worked war to taki a phonograph and hold a ferret in fron > ' of It. He would pull the ferret's tai until it would squeal and howl, an< meantime the phonograph was takinj " down the record. Then he would tak< ' the machine and put it out in the . woods in front of a rabbit warren anv . start the thing agoin'. The rabbit: would hear the weasel's yell and thinl .it was coming right in after them. Ou would pop the rabbits, and then bang bang, bang would go the guns. Well I have a fine hound at my house, i 1 'great hunting dog. He hurt his foo the other day just as I wanted to taki him out on a rabbit hunt. So I rnadi the dog stand in front of the phono graph and bark, and then I took ou the machine and put it in front of i rabbit warren and went away. I sav a rabbit bob out, but instead of run ning it sat down in front of the bras: horn of the phonograph. It sat then awhile and then disappeared. I tool the phonograph back home and startei It going to see whether the barks o the dog could have been recorded plaii enough on the cylinder. Just as th< machine got to going hanged if m; hound dog didn't jump on it, and be fore I could stop him he had tha machine killed dead. Yes, sir, it wa just scattered all over the house. "What made the dog act that way colonel?" asked an interested listener. "Well, you see, that rabbit had madi a noise into the horn that had gone oi to the record and made the houn< think a rabbit was inside." "What kind of a noise can a rabbi make?" asked the interested listener. "What kind?" said the colonel, look ing up in surprise. "Why, he made ; noise like a rabbit, of course." Wanted a Rest.?At a certain cour the other day a man was charged witl wife desertion. The evidence showed the woman ii a very unfavorable light, and the opin ion was pretty freely expressed tha the man was more sinned against thai sinning. "However," said the chairman of th< bench to the prisoner, "the fact re mains that you have broken the law When a man marries a woman he mus keep her. You know, of course, tha we have the power to send you ti prison?" # "Yes, sir," responded the prisoner. "Well, we doa't wish to do that Couldn't you allow her 10 shillings i week?" "I could, sir, but it wouldn't do a bi o' good," was the reply. "I want t< get away from her for a rest, and shi follers me about and makes life a mis ery. If you'd put me in jail for a montl and guarantee to keep the missus out side you'd do me a real good turn Have a bit o' mercy, gentlemen."?Tit Bits. Distance Lends Enchantment.?Ii "one of Mr. Chase's classes in paintini was a young chap who could not pain pictures much better than he could sav< money, and the allowance given to hin by his father was very often gone be fore he knew it. One day Mr. Chas Ti-oa tollrlric tn tho rOaaa nrt thp Sllhiec of perspective, and this particular stu dent did not appear to get the idea ver; clearly. To make it plain Mr. Chas went back to the rudiments to get i good start. "You understand," he said, "that th farther you get away from any objec the smaller it appears?" The young fellow shook his head. "No," he replied doubtfully, "I'm rtb so sure about that." Mr. Chase was provoked and not t little surprised at such ignorance am said so. "It's all right as to some things," re sponded the student, 'but not ali Now there's a ten dollar bill. Th farther I get away from that the big ger it appears." The Wicked Multiplication Tablb ?A minister was hearing his Sunda; school repeat the catechism one Sun day preceding confirmation when a bo; from the class of small children ven tured to ask a question of the minis ter. i urmng iu ine Clergyman, ine uo; inquired in an anxious tone, 'Why doe the multiplication table make peopl wicked ?" The minister thought at first that th child had taken occasion to propoum a conundrum at a most unseemly tlm and was about to reprove him when th earnestness of the expression in th upturned face assured him that th' question was asked in good faith am required a reply. "Why do you ask such a question John? I never knew it to do." he said John turned to his catechism an< read from it with a mystified air th question. "Did man grow worse as h began to multiply?"?" and the accom panying answer, "He did." "Two of a Kind."?a man who hai just finished a comfortable meal at i restaurant the other day suddenly rosi from his chair, grabbed his hat urn umbrella that stood against the wal and rushed out of the building. "Stop him!" exclaimed the cashiei "That fellow went away without pay ing!" "I'll stop him." said a determine! looking man who rose up hastily fron a table near where the other had sat "He took my gold handled umbrella I'll stop him, and I'll bring him bad with a policeman. The scoundrel!" Without a moment's pause he dashet out of the house in hot pursuit of thi conscienceless villain. And the cash' ier, a cold, hard, unsympathetic kin< of man, has begun to suspect that neither of them will come back.?Ex. ittiscfllanrouiS grading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. i News and Comment That Is of More r or Less Local Interest. CHESTER. ' Lantern, January 26: Mr. Chandler 1 C. Owen and Miss Leila Weir were 1 married in Columbia last Wednesday ' evening, Jan. 20, 1904, at the resi" dence of the officiating minister, the '* Rev. Mark L. Carlisle. The bride is a ' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Weir ' and was a resident of this city for sevi eral years. She is known as a most 5 lovely young lady. Mr. Owen nas a 5 good position in the mercantile des partment of the Olympia Mills compa2 ny Mr. W. C. Hedgpath went to s Charlotte last night on the 8 o'clock 1 train and returned on the 11 o'clock ' train with Monroe Hoyle and Wesley 1 Hughes, two of the gang that were ' caught hauiing off Mr. W. O. Guy's e seed cotton last fall. Mose Benson, s another of the gang, was arrested yes1 terday afternoon, when it was learned s that the others were in the hands of 1 the Charlotte police. It is expected 1 that another of the gang will be arrest' ed today The next section of road '? to be macadamized is a continuation 1 of the Rossville road three miles, to 1 Pleasant Grove church. The camp 6 has been located at the Douglass place s and the hauling of rock begins today. - When working the lower end of the t section, the camp and crusher will be i located at the old Abraham White v place. It is not expected that work on - this road will begin until some time in s the spring. This will give time to get e rock laid down, and in the meantime < the chaingarig will be employed on 3 other roads. When this section is f completed there will be six miles of n macadam on the Rossville road, bee sides two miles on lateral branches, V and this will open up a long streich - of nearly level road, with all its tribt utaries. This comparatively good road s has been cut off from town by a succession of steep muddy hills and a mile " * -?j Ua/io?io noar? Or two OI level ruau mat uncuiiv ly Impassable In winter Rev. Mr. s Reeve preached an Impressive sermon i to a large congregation at the Pres1 byterian church last Sabbath, and by request, moderated a congregational t meetin?- the purpose of which was to make some changes in the call lately - addressed to Dr. Hyde. After some dlsr cussion a mot.on was adopted to raise the salary from $1,500 to $1,800, to refit the parsonage and to give the pasl tor five or s;ix weeks' vacation each 1 year. We understand that Dr. Hyde had agreed to accept the call with , these changes. LANCASTER, t Ledger, Jan. 27: Died, on Saturi day morning last, of paralysis, Mr. Mode Deas, aged about thirty-one s years. Mr. Deas had been paralyzed - about two years. He leaves a widow . and five* or six children. His remains t were interred at Pleasant Plain church. t Lula, the little colored girl who a was so badly burned by the overturning of a lamp while playing with another child in a room adjacent to the :. kitchen at the Cunningham hotel about \ two weeks ago, died of her injuries last Friday evening Last Friday t afternoon, the eleven-year-old daugha ter of Jane Wade, colored, was drowne ed in Rum creek. The child with - others was returning from school, and i the creek being swollen from the rains - that day undertook to cross it on a i. foot log. The girl was afraid to cross - and Hardy Reed, who was a few years older, offered to assist her and was leading her across the log when she a fell in pulling him in with her. The g stream was very swift and they were t carried down by the current, but Hare dy being able to swim managed to get i near enough the bank to catch a limb - and was afterwards rescued, but the e girl was drowned. Her body was t found the following morning about - half a mile down the creek from where y she fell In Bunk Harris was killed e one day the past week by a bucket of a rock, which was being hoisted from a well he was digging, falling back on e him on account of the rope breaking, t The accident occurred just across the county line. In Chesterfield Mr. Jas. A. Cauthen had a yearling drownt ed in Camp creek last Friday. He undertook to drive his twenty odd yearla ings across a bridge while the creek i was swollen when several of them plunged into the creek above the - bridge and were washed down under 1. it. He was lucky not to lose more e of them Some boys, operatives at - the cotton mill, had a difficulty just after knocking off from work last Wednesday evening. The boys, Henry Aiken. John Jones, and Luther and y Albert Jordan, each received wounds - in the affray knives and rocks being y the weapons used. Two of the boys _ were right badly cut but they are all . able to be at work again Mr. Jake W. Knight of the Creek section, nary rowly escaped losing his home by fire s one dav the ppst week. The roof of e his kitchen caught afire from the stove flue and the shingles on one side e were entirely burned or torn off before a the flames were extinguished. One of q Mr. Knight's hands and one of his e legs were badly burned in putting the e fire out. e GASTON, j Gastonia Gazette, January 26: At the home of his son William, near , Harden, Mr. jacoo rriaay, aiea buii1_ day morning. The funeral was held 3 at the home yesterday morning at 11 e o'clock. Mr. Friday was about sevene t.v years old. and was twice married, _ but neither wife survives him. Besides the son at whose home he died, Mr. Friday leaves one other son. Robj ert and also a daughter,' Mrs. Charley Costner Mrs. Fred W. Phifer, a i ? niece of Dr. J. C. Oallowav, was see j verely injured in a runaway accident I at Statesville Wednesday. Mrs. Phifer was out driving with her husband . when their buggy collided with one in which their nephews, Messrs. Fred B. j iinu r^ukciie riiuiri, nne iuiiis. one 1 was thrown from the buggy .and both bones of her right leg were broken just above the ankle. Mrs. Phifer was to * have visited Dr. Galloway's family here 3 this week. She has visited here pree viously and has friends here who will j regret to hear of the accident The young lady students of Jones Seminary will give a unique and interesting entertainment, In the shape of an old folks' concert Friday evening at 8.30 o'clock. The proceeds will go to the library of the seminary. The public is cordially invited to attend. The nature and purpose of the entertainment are set forth on the first page of the programme thus: "A Lyste of Sacred Hymmes and Tunes and Likewife Worldly Songs, Certaine of Wh Were Sunge in Ye Year of Our Lord 1776; And Wh will be once more pleyed and sunge at a Greate Concerte to be attended at Ye School House, Wh is sette down at ye All Healing Springs near ye Town of Gastonia, N. C., on Ye 29th Day of January, 1904. All ye money wh shall be payed in for thys entertainment Is to go for ye Library. Ye entrance aores snaii oe upen awn alter candle lyte, wh is 8 by ye clock (ye Concerte will begin at 8:30) and certaine well-favored young womenne will show ye folks to comfortable syttlngs. Ye entrance mite shall be 25 cents: children 15 cents. N. B.?Ye Tune Highfter and ye Olde Folke can't be peftered with cryin' babies." An enjoyable evening is promised all who comer and there will doubtless be a good attendance from Gastonia. GOAT AND DONKEY. They Hated Each Other and Nursed the Feud to Death. There has been a feud between Valentine and Proteus. It is ended now, unless some of Valentine's relatives care to take up the quarrel. As this is unlikely, it is probable that the feud is over. The duel ended it. Valentine was a trick donkey. Proteus is a goat. You will notice the difference in tense. It is full of meaning. Valentine "was." Proteus still is. The goat which "is" was the cause of Valentine being in the past tense? to the sorrow of her owner, John F. Williams of Chicago Lawn. Mr. W11-, liams has a troupe of performing animals?eroats. donkeys and dogs. Miss Valentine was the star. She was a cake walker, and an artist in a dozen lines. The family was a happy one until a couple of months ago, when two new goats were added to it. Proteus was one of the two. He made friends with all the performers except the donkey. Miss Valentine. The first outbreak of hostilities occurred one day while the donkey was eating hay in the barn. The go t, being a jovial fellow, seemed to get the idea that he had done wrong in permitting a coldness to exist between him and the donkey. He went up to her and wagged his beard good naturedly. To this salute Valentine made no response other than to lay back her ears and look at him out of the corners of her eyes. Proteus saw the flattened ears and knew enough of donkey to know just1 about what they meant. He shrugged his shoulders and walked away. Afterward he returned to see if there were any better chance for an under standing. This time the donkey paia no attention to him, and he walked up to the pile of hay and began eating. There was a sudden flash of hind feet, and Proteus found himself In a heap, not hit by the feet?he was too quick for that?but tumbling there in his jump to get out of the way. From that moment there was war. Proteus was back at the unfriendly donkey with his head lowered prepared to* butt her through ' the side of" the barn. The trainer Intervened and the goat was led away. It was thought the goat had discovered that Miss Valentine objected to his attentions and that he would quietly desist, through courtesy if not through fear, from bothering her any more. That is where they did not know Proteus. The goat kept a discreet distance for several weeks. He hustled past the vicinity of Valentine's hind feet, but he might have been observed frequently standing at a little distance from her, eying her pensively as if considering just where it would be best to plant his head. Each time he would shake his head and move away. Therefore the trainer thought there would be no difficulty with Proteus. The goat in reality was nursing a deep laid plan for revenge. His chance came last week. Valentine was suffering from a slight indisposition?a fact that seemed known to the goat. The lot In which the animals had been turned loose was covered with ice. This was another fact which the goat seemed to realize was to his advantage. He took poor Miss Valentine all of a sudden. She probably had just been thinking to herself how she had that poor goat scared to death. He dashed at her suddenly from an unexpected quarter, and the donkey's feet flew up in the air. By the time she had scrambled up Proteus had launched himself again. The lot was filled with scattering animals. The trainer was absent, but his assistant came running to the field of battle with a lash. This he laid over the back of the goat, who paid no attention to him or to it. As rapidly as the ill-fated donkey could reach her feet Proteus hit her. He landed at will. Time and time again Valentine went to the mat, getting weaker every time. She was unable to find an opening for her hoofs. The ice gave her poor footing:, and before she could wheel on the battering ram that was launched at her it had struck her and she was stretched out again. For a half hour the assistant tried to beat off the goat. The duel ended when Valentine, mortally injured and too weak to rise, gave up the fight. Then Proteus walked contentedly away. A half hour after Valentine had given up the fight she gave up the ghost, in spite of everything that could be done for her. The only marks on the goat were those of the lash.?Chicago Tribune. The Sun Is Seldom on Time.?The sun does not keep good time. He is almost always too fast or too slow. Once about the middle of April he is just on time, then not again before the middle of June. At the beginning of September he joins the clock a third time, and lastly once more late in December. Now, it would seem as if he were startled at the way he had neglected us.; In February he fell back until he was fifteen minutes late. By the beginning of March he had made up five, minutes of his loss, and before the month is over he will have caught up to within five minutes of the schedule. Meanwhile the days have been growing longer very rapidly. We begin March with our nights longer than our days. We end it with our days longer than our nights. In the one month we have added to the length of our day an hour and twenty minutes, a bigger gain than any other month can show.?Prof. S. C. Shmueker in Ladies' Home Journal. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. re ol The New Physics?Water In the Ground?A Perpetual Electric Gen- c' erator?Speaking Moving Pictures? ^ A Radium Indicator?Intensity of t( Sunlight?The Brain Under Electricity?Where the Air Is Hydrogen. lr Condensed Into a few words, these ? are the "Modern Views of Matter," as expounded by Sir Oliver Lodge. Elec- a trlclty Is a substance, the only kind of substance, and all matter is merely an accumulation of electric charges. n It appears probable that these charges r< are all of exactly ^he same amount, although some are positive and some negative, anfl that the atoms of the chemical elements are formed by varying numbers and arrangements of these charges, or electrons. There are a about 700 : electrons, 350 positive and 0 350 negative, In the hydrogen atom, which has been so long regarded as " the final and Indivisible unit of mat ter; there must be about sixteen nines as many in an oxygen atom, and about 255 times as many, say 160,000, in a V radium atom, the heaviest known. The land surface of the globe covers 52,000,000 square miles, and the water surface 144,700,000. Taking the aver- n age pore space of the surface rocks 11 occupied by moisture at 10 per cent, S. v Sllchter of the U. S. geological survey, s estimates the amount of ground water t ?which reaches a depth of six miles? h at 565,000 million cubic yards. This is f thought to be about one-third the ^ amount of oceanic water, and would P cover the globe to a depth of 3,000 or Q 3,500 feet. F Radium constantly generates heat, 1 and Wien has now shown that it may ^ constantly generate electricity. It p gives off both positive and negative 9 electron's, and the former?several hun- 0 dred times as large as the latter?may t be held back by a sieve of glass or r any other of a variety of substances, v Galton affirms that heredity is one- e half derived from parents, one-fourth t from grandparents, one-eight from " great-grandparents. t An apparently simple idea upon r ronont Inventors have toiled is t that of moving pictures that can speak, * The words and other sounds are easily * recorded by the phonograph and mov- * ing objects are pictured by the cine- '< matograph, but it has seemed well-nigh ' impossible to make the two kinds of i apparatus perform their work in ex- c actly the same time. It is claimed that f the difficulty is at last overcome by the ? "chronophone" of Gaumont arid De- t Caux, two French inventors. The s cineriiatograph needs considerable * power while the phonograph requires a uniform speed, but perfect synchron- t ism has been secured by operating I the moving-picture machine by a mo- g tor receiving electric current through t the phonograph shaft and automatical- c ly regulated by the turns of the latter, i Edison's early dream of mechanical c reproduction of operas and plays seems t destined to be realized. t Suggestive at least are the conclu- t slons of Hon. R. J. Strutt of Bath, ? Eng. Helium?which Sir William Ram- jsey has found to be slowly glveb off by radium?exists in the gases of the ? city's largest hot mineral springs, and a test of the deposit in the spring has revealed a small proportion of radium. It is believed that these substances are brought up from a large deposit of radium deep in the earth. By an ingenious arrangement, Ch. Fabry has diminished the sun's light by passage through a slit and then through an ammoniacal solution of copper sulphate, and has compared it with a light of known candle-power. 3 He concludes that, with the sun at t zenith, the solar light at sea-level Is * more than 100,000 times that of a ^ standard candle at a distance of one g meter. The intensity of light at the j( sun's surface is about ten times as u great for the same area as that in the r electric arc. 11 Paper car-wheels, made by pressure ^ from rye-straw paper, are usually in jj condition for a second set of steel tires ^ after the first set is worn out by a run of 300,000 miles. 11 Brain substance, Von Zlemssen has shown, is the best conductor of electricity in the body?about 3,000 time's ^ more conducting than muscle. Investigating the action of the current, S. Leduc concludes that electricity ^is avoided in the treatment of brain* dis- 5 ease on account of an exaggerated no- tion of the dangers, but that when * properly applied, from back to front, s the currents are not only harmless but f beneficial. When a continuous current jj is passed from ear to ear the effect is j different, giddiness being produced, s with an apparent whirling round of all e objects. Sleep may be produced, and ? for this the best arrangement is a cur- r rent of 4 milliamperes at 30 volts, in- a terrupted 100 times per second for '' nine-tenths of the period of interrup- F tion. Speech disappears first, then the t motor faculties. Respiration and pulse b are unaffected, but may be temporarily t or finally stopped by a more powerful current. Awakening is instantaneous, ii the after effect being one of refreshment. fj The atmosphere near sea-level is e found by Prof. Hahn to have this composition: nitrogen, 78 per cent; jj oxygen, 21; argon, .09; carbonic acid n 0.03; hydrogen. 0.01; the three other ii elements, from 0.001 to 0. 0001. At six Jj miles, the average temperature being zero F, the gases have these percent- t np-es- nitroeen. 81: oxveren. 18: argon, t 0.45; carbonic acid, 0.015; hydrogen, ? 0.035. At 63 miles, where the air is a nearly 4,000 times as light as at sea- 1 level and the probable temperature Is 110 degrees below zero, the proportions g are altogether different, being: nitro- p gen, 0.1; oxygen, 0; helium, 0.4; hydrogen, 99. Milk is ozonized by a German apparatus by being poured in a thin stream r from one vessel to another, an electric- 2 current being arranged to give con- g stunt sparking through the stream or d near it. It is claimed that sufficient li ozone is produced to destroy all germs in the milk. s; . . d Immovable Railroad.?To the late j Herbert Spencer, the English philoso- n pher, the minds of lunatics had an odd Ij fascination, says the Chicago Record- ' Herald. Mr. Spencer was a frequent visitor to a number of asylums, and he d would never laugh so heartily as when fcounting some unconscious witticism C a lunatic. Sometimes he would tell of the crltlIsm a lunatic woman made on a serlon that was preached in her asylum, his criticism was brief, but It was filing. "To think," said the woman, pointlg toward the clergyman?"to think f him out and me-in!" On another occasion Mr. Spencer and friend were walking toward an asylm they proposed to visit. Their way :d them across a railroad, and seated ear the track they saw a young man eading. Thl# young man was a lunaIc, but they did not know it at the me. "My friend," said Mr. Spencer, pauslg, "where does this railroad go to?" The lunatic looked up from his book nd gave his Interrogator a long stare f scorn. Then he replied: "It doesn't go anywhere. We keep t here to run trains on!" PROUD PEACOCK. Vent to His Death Because He Was Robbed of Plumage. "The saying 'As proud as a peacock,' 5 not a bit overdrawn, and I am reminded of the fact by a thing which lappened a good many years ago, ihile I was living in the country," aid an old-time citizen, "and I want o say right at the beginning that if I ad not been thoroughly familiar with he facts I should probably have oubted the story. But it all hapipned and happened to an old lady acualntance of mine. She owned a eacock, and he was one of the most ;orgeously plumed fowls I ever saw. md he seemed to know it. He was lOticeably proud of his feathers. He ^ eemed to know that he could laud it ^ ver other things of a feathery kind in hat section of the country. One day ? ny old lady friend concluded that she 1 iould pull out the peacock's tail feathrs and make a duster to use around ( he house. She acted accordingly. As j oon as she relinquished her hold on he fowl he went up in the air like a * ocket. 'Round and 'round the place ? le circled all the time. The old lady $ Imply looked on in amazement. She j hought the peacock would come back o the ground after awhile. But he 1 r^nt e-olner ud. She watched him un- I il her neck fairly ached. His shriek- j ng grew fainter and fainter until she i ould scarcely hear it. and finally the owl became a mere speck in the sky. She lost him altogether on account of he distance. And from that day on- s he never heard of him again. She s old the story to her neighbors, and j isked if they had seen or heard anyhing of the peacock. They had not. ' Je was gone for good. Probably he :ot up so high he could not get back i o earth. At any rate, there is no rec- ] ird of his ever coming back. Now, the ( >oint is, that the peacock was so put nit by the fact that he had been robled of his plumage that he simply leu 1 he earth. He could not stand to meet , hose who had known him under more . avorable circumstances, so he decided o pull out, and that was the last of, ,j ilm, so far as I was ever able to learn." -New Orleans Times-Democrat. 1 ECZEMA.! ITCHING ft HUMORS Painful, unsightly eruptions, scabs and cales, itching sensation, prickling pains, < hin, diseased blood, bumps, and-dirty , pecks 011 the skin, pimples, boils, pale kin, eating sores and ulcers, skin and ilood humors cured by taking Botanic 1 Hood Balm (B.B.B.). A'l the soresjquickly , eal and blood is made pure and rich by its ise. Deep-seated, obstinate, cases that ' esist Doctors and patent medicine treat- ( aeutyield to Botanic Blood Halm (B.B.B.). 'he most perfect Blood Purifier made. 30 ears old. Try it. For sale by Druggists. < ll. per large bottle, including complete , ireetions for home treatment. Sfnrt ft nonU to pay pottage on Fre? Trial luttle. BLOOD BALM CO.. Atlanta. ?* TAX RETURNS FOR 1004. )ffice of the County Auditor of York ' * County, South Carolina, Yoiikville, S. C., December 2, 1903. \T"OTICE is hereby given that the unLt dersigned, Auditor of York Couny, will meet the several taxpayers of aid county, at the places and times tated, to receive their TAX RETURNS or 1904, of PERSONAL PROPERTY nd such CHANGES IN REAL ESI'ATE as have taken place SINCE ANUARY 1ST. 1903 by purchase or ale. ALL NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED SINCE JANUARY 1ST, 1903 must be eported, otherwise the penalty for non- . eturn attaches. Township assessors nd special assessors are required by aw to report all delinquents in this articular. The law requires taxpayers to list heir property at what they believe to e its "market value." ! A tax return, in due form, will be re- j luired, and any return which says SAME" or "NO CHANGES" is not . n conformity to law, will not be filed. ' All returns must be sworn to before he auditor, his assistant, or other ofIcer duly qualified to administer an ath. When parties so desire, they can aake returns under oath, on the proper lank, before a magistrate, notary pub- i ic, or other officer qualified to admin3ter the same, and send by registered nail to Auditor, at Yorkville, S, C? be- J ore the 20th day of February, 1904. Separate returns of all property locaed in School District No. 33, Bethesda | ownship; Nos. 9 and 18, Broad River ownshlp; No. 12, Catawba township; Jo. 12, Ebenezer township; Nos. 26 i nd 39, Fort Mill township; and Nos. J 1 and 13, in York township. For the Dumose of receiving returns, he Auditor will attend, either in peron or by assistant, at the following laces and at the times stated: At Yorkville, Saturday, January 30th, At Newport, Monday, February 1st. At Tirzah, Tuesday, February 2d. At Yorkville, from Wednesday, Febuary 3, and until Saturday, February 0th, inclusive. . ,, All males between the ages of 21 and j 0 years, except ex-Confederate sol-; iers above the age of 50 years, are able to J1 poll tax. Taxpayers, liable to poll tax, are pecially requested to inform themelves as to the number of the school c istrict in which they reside. ^ Taxpayers are requested to examine heir last tax receipt and see that the umber of acres, lots, etc., are correctr reported. W I respectfully request taxpayers to .eet me in their respective townships 1 order to avoid a rush at Yorkville I uring the closing days. W. B. WILLIAMS, County Auditor. J. M. HEA1 GENERAL ME READY FOR. I Carload of Is Just O Bought Early and Regard to The Prettiest Display ville So Our staples are coming in. They vere bought when prices were away lown and when the New York mer:hants were real anxious to sell. It was >efore the boom In the price of cotton. rr- ,J *?a?? tVmon o-nrtrla frVe I'UUIU IIUL occ awn :ould possibly go lower and we bought argely. To say how much money we >ut In staples would sound like an exiggeration, and it is not necessary to ;ay. But these staples are now coming n. A full oar load has been already joen piled into our shelves, and we jropose to give our customers a fair share of the benefits of our good luck. See some of the things we are offering low: Brown Sheeting, Check Sheeting, imall Check Ginghams, Percales for ihirting, Calicoes, Chambrays, Brnvn Linen, White Lawns, Ducks, the lo.rgjst line of White Goods ever brought o this market so early, and in every variety of the newest weaves Brocades, Mercerized, Chambrays, Mercerized ainghams, Madras, Vestings, Stripes in Waistlngs, White and Colored Linens, New Organdtes, Gallatea for boys' ivalsts In plaids and stripes; Danish Cloths in cream and colors; new wool weaves in Black Shrunken Serge, Arnures, Crepelines, Veils, best Black Broadcloth; full line of Cream Goods; special lot of Hosiery at from 5 cents ;o $2 per pair; Table Linens,- Sheets, ind Pillow Cases, Upholstery in Denims and Reps; cretons in Persian Designs, Silkalines and new Dotted Swisses, etc. The Bird and the Worm. It is said that the early bird catches :he worm. There are innumerable fat pretty worms to be seen all about here n the shape of BARGAINS. They are 'or the early birds; but we feel sure that nobody can afford to await. After the fine new stock we have just iescribed is exhausted, we feel pretty sure that no more like them will be jffered- in this community again soon? riot even by ourselves. Our Clearance Sale. We are still offering handsome bargains under our Clearance Sale proposition. J. M. HEA J. L. WILLIAMS, Manage 10,000 FEET 1-INCH PLANK FOR SALE. Wfe have 10,000 FEET 1-INCH BOARDS which we wish to dispose of at once at the right price. Mow is the time to fix up your fences, jams, sheds, etc. COFFINS, CASKETS, ROBES, SLIPPERS and GLOVES. Our stock Is the largest In the upper part of the State, and we are prepared o make close prices. If you will consult your own lnterjst when required to purchase in this ine, you will send to W-. B. MOORE & CO. Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, Mattings, *UGS. LACE CURTAINS, POLES, PICTURES and a full line of BEDROOM SUITS, WARDROBES, IRON 3EDS, COTS, MATTRESSES, PILLOWS?cotton and feathers; COMFORTS, TABLES?Center and Dinng, ROCKING and DINING CHAIRS, ind in fact a full line of all kinds of : Furniture at LOWEST PRICES. Hardware. TABLE and POCKET CUTLERY, j JLAUSS SHEARS. RAZORS, GUNS, , :ARTRIDGES, etc. W. B. MOORE & CO. WANTED j 1 A AAA BUSHELS of COT1 U,UUU TON SEED at once. Ilghest CASH prices paid. LATTA BROS. Jan. 6 t-f tf rH & co., RCHANDISE. INSPECTION. V 4ew Staples pened. Offered Without the Rise. Ever Hade In YorkEarly. On our Shirt counter we are offering $1.25, $1.00 and 75 cents, at 50 cents, and 50 cents Shirts for 25 cents. We are selling $5 Black Worsted Suits for $3.50, and there are others lhat are going as low as $2.50. Boys' and youths' Black Suits worth double the money are going at $225, and Knee Suits woryi $1 are going at 75 cents; $1.25 Suits going at $1; $1.50 Suits going at $125. At the front door we are showing a big lot of Pants marked with tickets that appeal with irresistible effect. In the Grocery Line. We saw the clouds coming and bought everything in Groceries in solid oars before the rise. We have never be'ore bought so heavily and we have never before been more fortunate. We have Just got in five more carloads of flour bought low. Most of it is Heath's Best and Dunlop's Patent which the country is beginning to learn is the best Flour on earth. We have a carload of Molasses direct from the caneflelds of Louisiana at 20, 25, 40 and 50 cents a gallon. Two cars of Salt; one of Meat and another of Oats are on the way. In stock we how have 700 boxes of Chewing . Tobacco, whjch because we played the role of Early Bird, we are now able to offer as low as the factories from which we bought our supply. The brands Include Early Bird, Alabama Coon, Heart's Content, Long Cotton, Rich and Waxy, Ogburrr and Uill'a U.fiip.l l .if. Brown Mule, etc. Hardware Headquarters. We are undisputed Headquarters for Hardware of all kinds. Nobody pretends to keep such a full stock and nobody thinks of trying to undersell us. See us for single and double Plow Stocks, Plow Molds, Axes, Barbed Wire, Guns, Cartridges, and everytlng one would reasonably expect to find at a first-class Hardware store. Fertilizers. Our Fertilizers are now here and ready to deliver. Come and see us about them and let us talk the matter over. TH & CO., I The "Farmers' Favorite" Is Selected by the Experts? In competitive tests the Blckford & Huffman Drills always carry off the blue ribbon. They have done this a great many times in the past and will do the same trick many times in the future. At the State Fair, Raleigh, N. C., in October, 1900, the manager of the State Agricultural Fajm, located near Raleigh, selected the Blckford & Huffman Combination ' Hoe and Disc Drills in preference over six other drills which were put up for selection at the same fair. Recently the Virginia State Experimental Farm selected the Bickford & Huffman Improved 8 disc drill to be used on the farm lately established by Virginia. This selection was made after a close comparison with every other make of drill sold on the Richmond market. The Farmers' Favorite?that is the Bickford & Huffman Drill, is used on the Clemson College Farm. Are these facts not enough to convince the most skeptical? If not If vou will give us the opportunity by coming to see us we will point out the various advantages of these drills that ire not embodied in any other make. We have them for sale and prompt delivery at the right prices and on the ;aslest terms. YORKVILLE BUGGY COMPANY, ' Yorkville, 8. C.