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iuuuorous department. A Future Financier. There is a six-year-old West Philadelphian who already gives evidence of possessing the necessary qualifications to place him at the head of some great trust. For some weeks past he has been troubled with toothache, and his mother has coaxed, threatened and hired him to go and have the tooth extracted, but the small boy could not get his courage to the necessary point. Finally one morning when mamma had been making bids, like the crowd at an auction, "One dollar, one and one-half," and at last had reached "three," the small boy broke in with: "Say, mamma, would you give me fS?" The mother hesitated a moment and then said: "Yes. Anything to have it over." "I'll do it, then," said the small boy. So away they went in a hurry before he could repent of his bargain. Arrived at the dentist's, the operation was so painless and so soon over that the small boy didn't realize that the tooth was out until they told him. On the way home his mother said, "j$ow, Harold, don't you think that was a very little thing for mamma to give you $5 for?" *~"Yes, mamma, I do," said the young financier. "But I'll tell you what. We'll call it $4.75, and you give me the $5, and I'll give you back the 25 cents some time when I have another tooth pulled."?Philadelphia Ledger. Boutwf.t.t.'s Clever Rejoinder.? George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts, secretary of the treasury under General Grant, was a most efficient executive officer and won the good will of the employees by his generous treatment of his subordinates. He was a great enthusiast on baseball and on almost "<->? fine afternoon after his work at the treasury was over could be found at the ball ground applauding the good work of the home team. He encouraged the employees of the department to take plenty of outdoor exercise. He pointed out that it would fit the men for a better discharge of their duties. During his term of office some of the less efficient men were removed to give place to new blood. One clerk who was dropped averred that he had lost his position because he was a Democrat. He appealed to Secretary Boutwell for restoration. "Mr. Secretary," he said, "I am afraid that I have been removed because of my politics." "What makes you think so?" asked the secretary. "I think I was dropped because it is believed that I was a Democrat." "Indeed! And what are you?" "I am not a Democrat?at least not now." "Not now!" was the amused comment, with a shake of the head. "Not now, eh?" "Well, Mr. Secretary." was the rejoiner, with a little show of courage, "I know the time that you were a Democrat." "Yes," was the emphatic reply, "but when I was there never was any doubt about it. and there seems to ?be some doubt in your case." The Wrong Hocse.?The other day one of the telephone operators at the Hotel Cadillac received a severe shock to her nervous system, which even now disturbs her sleep. Girls at hotels often have very funny questions asked them over the 'phone, but the operator says this one was the limit. The bell rang and she answered. "Hello!" came the voice. "This is Mr. (the name of a prominent Detroit broker). Did you get that $100.000 draft I sent over to you a few minutes ago?" Dreams of Pierpont Morgan flashed across her brain as she tried to say "What?" but it was no use. After getting her breath she said: "No, I haven't seen it." "What!" roared the broker. "Didn't get it? Say, is this the First National Bank?" "You're in the wrong house." said the operator. "This is the Hotel Cadillac." The broker made a certain remark as he slammed up the receiver, which the operator says was "just mean of him." The Retort Courteous.?A Baltimore girl who has been living in California for several years and who has recently returned home has brought with her a number of stories of the way of the "heathen Chinee" as he appears to the dwellers on the Pacific coast. Thinking that her laundryman could understand pigeon English only, the girl from the effete east addressed him on one occasion thus: "Me no likee my washee blought home Fliday. Me likee washee Thursday. Why you no blingee washee Thursday?" And the Chinaman, to her complete discomfiture, replied, "Madam, it was not convenient." After that frost, so the teller of the story says, nothing but the most irreproachably correct English of the university type was spoken out to that Celestial.?Baltimore Sun. t5T Now, don't tell me this is a chestnut. For aught I know it may have been going the rounds of the vaudeville stage ever since Cain killed Abel for telling it. Two of a kind met in Hester street. One noticed that the other looked weak and wan. "Vy. Aaron, vat iss de matterv it you?" he asked. "I have choost come from de hospital." "Vat vas you doing there?" "I vas sick, very sick, und dey took my appendix avay from me." "Vot? Dey took it avay from you ven you vas sick? Veil, dat's a tarn shame. But say, Aaron, how does it come you didn't have it in your vife's name?"?Willis Brooks in Brooklyn Eagle. *3?"The readiness of repartee of the late Thomas B. Reed was never better illustrated than on one occasion when he went to visit a friend who lived at the top of a long and narrow flight of stairs. Half way up Reed missed his footing and fell to the bottom. His friend, hearing the racket, rushed to the door and shouted down the semidarkness of the hall: "Who is that?" "'Tis Eiser rolling rapidly." drawled the man from Maine as he picked himself up.?New York Times. Jttiscrltanrous Heading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, February 9: Near Begonia last Thursday a little child of Mr. Charlie Hoffman was nearly killed by an accident which happened while he and an older boy were in the woods getting pine. Mrs. Hoffman and her little four-year-old son. Leonard, were spending the day at the home of her brother, Mr. Nathan Jenkins. Laban, the six-year-old son of Mr. Jenkins, carried? the axe and the two were below the bam getting pine. Laban struck a knot with the back of the axe. and as the knot was rather solid it caused the axe to rebound with considerable force. Little Leonard was gathering the knots and raised up just in time for the axe-blade to catch him cross the upper lip. It knocked him unconscious, and Laban ran to the house calling for the child's mother saying "Get a rag and go down yonder; Leonard's dead." The sight of her child's motionless form and bloody face caused the mother to faint and fall. Walter Maxwell, a tenant, was near by, and seeing the commotion, ran up and rendered timely aid to the little boy while Miss Ferrie Jenkins assisted her aunt. Both of them soon came around all right, but the little boy's lip was swollen so much that sewing up the gash was out of the question. At the home of the bride's father, Mr. J. S. Huggins, in east Gastonia Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Mr. John A. Payne and Miss Esbie Huggins were united in marriage. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. A. Hoyle, pastor of the Second Baptist church, in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives of the contracting parties. The bride and groom will reside at Stanley, the home of the groom The Southern's fast mail train No. 97 struck and instantly killed Miss Lula Allen at King's Mountain Friday evening at 6.30 o'clock while running at a speed of sixty miles an hour. Her body was thrown fifteen feet into the air and hurled fifty feet distant. Miss Allen was thirty-two years old and was an employee of the Dilling Cotton mill, which is located about half a mile east of the depot. She was returning home after the day's work and was crossing the track when killed. Bystanders say she started to run across the track when the train was almost on her, which would indicate that she saw the train coming.... At the South Fork bridge beyond Lowell a man was ground to little bits by train No. 36 yesterday morning. This is the bridge beyond the sharp curve at the Holland farm. Mr. Will White, who was a passenger and returned from Charlotte at noon, says the man was at the bridge lying down when the engineer saw him. Whether he was merely- lying down or was trying to get down between the ties so the train might pass sareiy over mm me engineer was unable to say. The train at its usual speed at that place had swept around the downgrade curve and was straightening out its long length to cross the bridge when the sight of a man's body prostrate between the rails about middle way of the structure sent the engineer's strong hands swiftly to the lever and brakes. But it was too late. When across the bridge the train was stopped. The crew searched under the cars and along the track. They found his coat on some of the car-rigging. A hand with a short piece of forearm and a scrap of sleeve, a short piece of the upper aim stripped of clothing, and a yellow I travel stained shoe were found. The rest was mere bits and shreds scattered along the track for a long space. It was a white man. Nobody knew him j In his pocket was a receipt for car fart from Charlotte to Belmont. At Belmont he took the track afoot and walked to the bridge where he met his death Tom Long, aged about sixteen years, a son of Mr. John Long and an operative in the Avon Cotton mill, was severely injured on the railroad at Lowryville. a small station north of Chester, at 10 o'clock Saturday night, and came near losing his life in the accident. Long in company with Bon Dalton, another operative at the Avon, boarded a southbound freight on the C. & N.-W. here about 8 o'clock Saturday night with intention of beating his way to Chester. As the train neared Lowryvilie, Long, who was riding on top of a box car, fearing that he would be discovered by a brakeman, started to climb down the side ladder on the car. As he did so, the car came alongside a shed or ware house, and the space between the car and the shed being very narrow, his body was caught between them and rolled over and over. His body was bruised and he probably received internal injuries. His companion, Dalton, came to Gastonia Sunday morning and brought the news to the boy's father who went after him at once. The injured boy was brought to Gastonia on the C. & N.-W. yesterday morning and was carried to his home. The shock seemed to have partially paralyzed the body as he was unable to use any of his limbs. His condition is serious, though his injuries will not necessarily prove fatal. CHESTER. Lantern, February 9: Mr. S. M. Mcnf Vrtft T.oivtl ivhn was in town today, told us about something of a cyclone which demolished a negro house on Mr. Frank Smith's place near Cedar Shoals. Two of the family were killed and two badly injured In the oratorical contest between members of the Preston and Calhoun societies of Wofford college last Friday night, Mr. E. K. Hardin, son of Dr. E. K. Hardin of Batesburg, won the medal. This, as we understand it, makes him Wofford's representative in the inter-collegiate contest Mr. W. R. Crowder and family went over to Crosbyville Saturday to attend the funeral of his mother. They were caught in the storm, which almost amounted to a cyclone Sabbath evening, as they were returning home and were unable to get any farther than Mr. T. J. Cunningham's, where they spent the night, and arrived at home early yesterday morning. Mr. Crcwder's father accompanied him home. He will spend only a few days in the city at this time, but expects to make his home here with his son... .Saturday night about midnight the last visitors and the janitor of the Commercial and Manufacturers' club rooms left the building, and about 4 o'clock fire was discovered in the bathroom, where the principal damage was done. It burnt through the floor into the telegraph office below, and was climbing into the tower. Considerable damage was done to other parts of the building by water. About the only damage in Robinson's jewelry store was to the naDerinE. The fire was soon quenched after it was discovered Lula, the three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bussel died yesterday from some stomach and liver trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Bussel and little daughter Minnie, left this morning with the corpse on the Southern, for Troutman, N. C., their old home, where the little body will be laid to rest. Mrs. Bussel will spend several days with her father's family before returning to this city Mrs. Rebecca Crowder, wife of Mr. T. A. Crowder of Crosbyville, and mother of our townsman, Mr. R. W. Crowder, died early Saturday morning and was buried at Antioch Baptist church, Fairfield county Sabbath. Funeral services were at the church conducted by Rev. D. E. Wells. She was a daughter of Mr. Uriah Wright and would have been sixty-nine years old the 18th of this month. COTTON PRODUCTION. Vast Extent of Land Yet Undeveloped. The era of improved lands in the United States is increasing at a more rapid rate than the national population. even though the urban population is increasing more rapidly than that of the agricultural districts. The last census shows that had the area of improved land increased at no greater rate than the population, it would have been 42,915,891 acres less than it actually is. The fact is due to use of improved agricultural machinery, by means of which one man in many instances is able to do the work of from five to twenty. The south has felt the influence and effects of this machinery less than any other section of the country. But under the teachings of the agricultural colleges, the experiment stations and the farmers' institutes, this condition is being rapidly changed, and it is only a question now of a few years when the cotton farmers will be using as manv improved agricultural im plements as any class of farmers in the land. With a few more improvements that are sure to be made, the cotton picker will be an entire success. Several pickers have been in operation this season, and our textile school has demonstrated that the cotton mill machinery has no trouble in removing the extra trash gathered by the picker. The cotton picking machines can run at night as well as in the daytime, which wil enable the farmer to operate a double force of hands and save the great loss of cotton caused by bad weather. With the improved disc, plows that are now being made, by which one man and a team can break six acres a day; with the improved cultivators, by which one man can do the work of three, and with the cotton picking machine a practical success, by which one man can pick six bales a day, there is no limit to our increase in the production of cotton even though our industrial development along other lines calls for a larger number of additional men who are now doing agricultural work. The south can increase and will increase her cotton production not only by more intelligent selection of seed, not only by improving the fertility of her soil by every scientific and available method, not only by the improvement of the inteligence and skill of her laborers, not only by the use of more and more improved agricultural machinery, but by the opening up of new lands to give employment to thousands who are coming from other sections, as well as to our fast increasing population. To realize the vast possibilities for expansion along this line one has only to examine the census report, that shows that less than 50 per cent of the farm lands or tne souin are unproved. The report shows that in Mississippi only 41.6 per cent of the farm land is improved; in North Carolina only 36.6 per cent; in South Carolina only 41.3 per cent; in Georgia only 40.2 per cent; in Alabama only 41.8 per cent; in Florida only 34.6 per cent; in Louisiana only 42.2 per cent; in Texas only 15.6 per cent: in Arkansas only 41.8 per cent; and in Tennessee only 50.4 per cent. By opening up this undeveloped territory, almost every acre of which is good cotton land, the south's ability to indefinitely expand her cotton production cannot be questioned. and therefore the alarm about a sufficient cotton supply in the future should be permanently dismissed.?J. C. Hardy, In Southern Farm Magazine. HOW IT IS DONE. Modus Operandi of Cotton Future Speculation. The general system under which the cotton market is conducted is familiar to those who study the market situation, but to the man who never deals in cotton very little is known of the speculative scheme. The buying and selling of cotton and produce futures is done on a basis of "margins," the customary margin on a cotton transaction being $1 per bale, or one-fifth of a cent per pound, the standard bale being fixed always at 500 pounds. The customer makes his contract through the dealer, who may act as broker, or who may himself become [ the party of the second part to the contract. In the latter case the dealer operates what is known as a "bucket shop." The usual cotton trade is one hundred bales. The customer places say $100 with the broker to a margin of twenty "points," the point being one-one-hundredth of a cent. The purchase is maue ui me 11kii nci |>i ii c ??v v....v., and if the market advances the purchaser wins. An advance of 20 points, or one-fifth of a cent per pound means a gain to the customer of $100. An advance of one cent a pound means a gain of $500 and so on. Vice versa a decline of 20 points or one-fifth of a cent a pound, means a loss of $100. and the customer's margins are thus wiped out. lie is then called upon to put up more margins to protect his purchase, and in the event of a failure to do this, he loses the original margin placed on the contract. The selling of cotton futures is practically the reverse process. The customer desiring to sell, puts up similar margins, which he loses in the event of cotton rising a sufficient number of points to wipe them out. But if cotton should decline in price he wins $100 for every 20 points it goes down.? Greenville Herald. THE DISPENSARY DEBATE. Senator Brice Appeals For the Right of Local Self-Government. News and Courier: Columbia, Feb. 8.?The chief forensic event In the senate session tonight was the very vigorous attack made by Senator Brice on the dispensary law and system. His speech came up on his bill relative to the manner of establishing dispensaries and doing away with them by popular vote. He argueJ that if the sale of liquor is iniquitous on the part of individuals, as is held, how much more immoral and injurious is u in me nunas or rne stare, n wua said that the dispensary would reduce the taxes, but he defied a single sena- < tor to point out a single man whose taxes had been reduced. It has been said that the newspapers ought not to have said anything about the number of homicides in the state. Why? Was it because it was feared that the true reason for all these murders would have been discovered? The dispensary corrupts and debauches all who i come in contact with it. "If I had a little dispensary, ring in my county," he said, "I would not mind standing trial before any court for almost any crime, because I would know that I would get free if I stood for it." Its black and polluting hand may be seen everywhere, even in the administration of justice. It affects all branches of the government and this can be easily seen. At the outset it was a fraud and it has been one ever since. He called upop senators as witnesses to the fact inui. wie uispensa-ry law uisieuu ui u*ring a step towards prohibition had been many steps from it. He arraigned the dispensary system in scathing terms. He said this bill is fair and it brings up the question very pertinently, whether the dispensary shall control the people or the people the dispensary. Under the bar-room system a lower element sold liquor, but under the dispensary system liquor is the god. The state's purpose is to put liquor in reach of every man. woman and child. He said that the constitutional provision as to liquor had been violated by the legislature granting authority for hotel privileges. If in Russia absolutism is the spirit, in Germany militarism, in the United States commercialism, in South Carolina it is liquor. Mr. Brice went on to say that the true people will finally rise up and destroy this dispensary iniquity. There are thousands in this state who have never bowed down to the false god or worshipped at his shrine. There is a class who have fallen down before the serpent and have been stung to their bodily and spiritual death. There is a class who have accepted the law in good faith, when it was first introduced but who now see that it was a makeshift and fraud. Some ministers .endorsed it, but he didn't believe there is one now who would. If so, he had little religion and probably no sense. He iScllU lllttl lllciiiy |;apcto iiau ^uuviuvu .the law, but there is not one now which endorses or supports the dispensary system except those under the influence of the system. He quoted a well-known proverb of Solomon, and, applying it', he said it was "too wonderful for me" to understand the ways of the dispensary directors. He never had heard of officers who did not want more salary except these men. That was wonderful. There were people who were willing to give up $1,500 salaries for the $400 that a director would get. This is "too wonderful for me," he said, "I can't explain it." Mr. Brice then went on to explain some conditions as to the dispensary situation, so far as York is concerned, and he said it would never vote for the dispensary. The measure that he proposed is democratic, and however the senators may argue they cannot long dam the stream of condemnation which will finally sweep away the dispensary. Mr. Brice closed with a very eloquent peroration, the idea of which was that if this democratic principle was not adopted the spirits of Calhoun. Hampton and other patriotic Carolinians would rise up as ghosts to haunt them and condemn them. Senator Sharpe spoke in opposition to the bill. He said that if one principle was settled in South Carolina it is the dispensary system. He said one reason taxes had not been reduced is that we have kept pace with appropriations, even with the increase of the valuation of nroDerty. Our expenses | have been steadily increasing, and Senator Brice was always the first to rise up and shout "great is Winthrop college," and vote for almost any appropriation in its favor. Appropriations have so increased that dispensary profits could not reduce them. He denied that the dispensary had corrupted the courts or any other department of the government. The bill Is aimed at one of the institutions of this government and Is dangerous. The people have decided that they want the system and he did not believe in the local option feature argued for. If it was carried out there would be in certain counties prohibition, which would mean free liquor, and the state would get no benefit. He said that the bill really was an attack on the dispensary itself, and that is a well settled principle of the state government. As to salaries, he said, members got $400 and mileage, and worked on their farms between meetings or attended to any other business they might have, and the office and its salary is thus attiactive. The dispensary law is un iler the police regulations of the state. The privilege to sell liquor on the part of individuals was never a right, hut a matter of sufferance. The state, in taking charge of the business, has done what is right and in interest of the morality of the people. As to buying up papers, he asked Senator Brice if The Enquirer was bought up? Was the Lexington Dispatch bought up? He didn't think such broad assertions ought to be made. He personally knew Columbia papers had not been bought iu>. for they reserved the right to criticise the system. Senator Molver favored the bill. He said the bill was not hitting at the dispensary law. It is not the question in issue in the bill. The present law provides no way in which a dispensary may be voted out, although it provides how one may be voted in. This is not right. Suppose a people decide a dispensary is not to their interest? Shall they not get rid of it? Is not that right? The argument against the bill is that the larger towns would vote away the dispensary. That Is not the question, because it does not affect the principle of right. He said that he did not believe Charleston or Columbia would vote away dispensaries because both get large revenues. As long as the dispensaries pay in certain communities they will remain, but there is gooa democratic principle in tins bill, and those communities who find the operation of the law objectionable ought to be allowed the right to vote It away. Senator Peurlfoy, in speaking on the bill.' suggested that he would offer an amendment, that in case any town or city or county voted against the dispensary the government should be authorized to compel them to pay the expenses of the constabulary necessary to enforce the law. As to the bill itself he thought it necessary to be passed. Any idea to the contrary is abhorrent to free self-governmert." Senator Hardin suggested an amendment somewhat on the same line. Senator Sharpe moved to strike out the enacting words. This motion was lost by a vote of 20 to 8. The following is the vote: Yeas, opposed to bill?Aldrich, Blake, Dean, Gaines, Herndon, Hydrick, Williams, Sharpe?8. Nays, in favor of bill?Brice, Brown Butler, Carpenter, Douglas, Hardin. Holliday, Johnson, Marshall, McCall. Mclver, McLeod, Peurifoy, G. W. Ragsdale, Raysor, Sheppard, Stackhouse, Stanland, Talblrd, Von Kolnitz?20. iii firnfi ULUEltd Old Sores W Cancers & Tliin, Diseased, Impure Blood. 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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 you will give us the opportunity by coming to see us we will point out the various advantages of these drills that are not embodied in any other make. We have them for sale and prompt delivery at the right prices and on the easiest terms. YORKVILLE BUGGY COMPANY, Yorkville, S. C. TAX RETURNS FOR 1904. Office of the County Auditor of York County, South Carolina, Yorkville, S. C., December 2, 1903. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Auditor of York County, will meet the several taxpayers of said county, at the places and times stated, to receive their TAX RETURNS for 1904, of PERSONAL PROPERTY and such CHANGES IN REAL ESTATE as have taken place SINCE tivttadv 1qt 1001 hv rmrohnse or sale. ALL NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED SINCE JANUARY 1ST, 1903 must be reported, otherwise the penalty for nonreturn attaches. Township assessors and special assessors are required by law to report all delinquents in this particular. The law requires taxpayers to list their property at what they believe to be its "market value." A tax return, in due form, will be required, and any return which says "SAME" or "NO CHANGES" is not in conformity to law, will not be filed. All returns must be sworn to before the auditor, his assistant, or other officer duly qualified to administer an oath. When parties so desire, they can make returns under oath, on the proper blank, before a magistrate, notary public, or other officer qualified to administer the same, and send by registered mail to Auditor, at Yorkville, S. C., before the 20th day of February, 1904. Separate returns of all property located in School District No. 33, Bethesda township: Nos. 9 and 18, Broad River township: No. 12, Catawba township; No. 12, Ebenuzer township: Nos. 26 and 39. Fort Mill township; and Nos. 11 and 13. In York township. The Auditor will be at his office for the purpose of taking returns until Feb. 20th, after which date the books will ho plrtcod All males between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except ex-Confederate soldiers above the ape of 50 years, are liable to $1 poll tax. Taxpayers, liable to poll tax, are specially requested to inform themselves as to the number of the school district in which they reside. Taxpayers are requested to examine their last tax receipt and see that the number of acres, lots, etc., are correctly reported. *?'" I respectfully request taxpayers to meet me in their respective townships in order to avoid a rush at Yorkville luring the closing days. \V. B. WILLIAMS. County Auditor. IS WOULD YOU KNOW HIM? T0 BOOTH ; OUR READERS ? == Great : THE GEN1 i FROM INI Will be published in this papi ; > We are not going- to say mucl i you why. , If we describe the story as 1 , you have read it that we have < ' ter you have read it you will s; 1 t It is the story of a fearles 1 hatred of white caps and wai , ' them, and?but we must not s; | would be telling, and would t i ure in reading it. It pictures vividly a |T~?' ; 1 phase of life which is i too common in Ameri- ^ | ca. It ought to be read /\ bv ftverv man who JL * !ss his country and every person who rj / ss a lover?for the VV 0 is a passionate f ;r, whose love mak- [ is superb. Ve know you will j 1 it if you dip into / i first chapters?and Lf word for it, you . enjoy it as you e seldom enjoyed ory. 1 YORKVILLE Should Be In Every $2 For Single Subscri Subscriptions rin^RAT. PRFMITTM OF] UlUUIWi^LI a. M w ?. The List Includes Buggies, ( ing Machines, Pocket K Articles of Value. Th Work Easy and the Pa The yorkville enquirer isi the most complete semi-weekly newspaper in South Carolina. Its mis- ; slon Is to keep its readers promptly j and correctly informed as to all local, ] state and general happenings that are { of immediate interest and to stand for all that promises best for the welfare of its constituents along business, industrial, social and religious lines. The I contents of THE ENQUIRER repre- 1 sent more careful and painstaking labor than do the contents of any other semi-weekly newspaper published in , the state, and the time and money ex- j pended in its production are also greater. At the same time, on the basis of actual service rendered, its cost to the subscriber is less than that of any oth- i er South Carolina paper. . 1 THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of THE ENQUIRER to single subscribers Is $2 per annum; but In clubs of two or j more we send it for only $1.75. This 1 reduction is for business reasons and * for the convenience of the subscriber, and to further both of these ends we offer the following proposition TO CLUBMAKERS. i 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 CoL T D UU ...UU.. +lr?o , lumom I op ouyy/ wnn uwww> * ? ? 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 Buggy, worth $65. The Babcock and Columbia Buggies can be seen at Glenn & Allison's livery stables. 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, Ladles' 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 zatnern. t For Eight Names. An Ingersoll "Triumph Watch, a t Columbia Repeating Air Rifle?works I like a Winchester?a fine Razor or a c Pocket Knife, a Rapid Writer Fountain f Pen?plain case; or a Hopf Model Violin or an 8-inch Jtanjo. g For Ten Names. L One year's subscription to THE EN- f QUIRER, a "Quaker" Watch, valued at $2.50; a Hamilton 22-calibre Rifle? c model 11; the Youth's Companion, one e year; or a gold mounted Fountain Pen; sa gooJ Banjo, Violin or Guitar. t For Twenty Names. Crack-Shot Stevens Rifle, a 10-ounce * canvas Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector v Single Barrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, the Century or Harper's Maga- 1 zine. c For Thirty Names. d Either of the following: A Single Barrel Ilammerless Shot Gun; a fine J 1x4 Kodak, a fine Toilet or Washstand s Set. or a Hopkins & Allen Jr., 22 Cal- tl ibre Rifle. ' e L. M. GRIST'S S(J ***************** [ TARKINGTON'S American Story :: rLEMAN : DIANA | sr beginning in a few days, m 1 about it and we will tell ? ; it is you will say before | greatly exaggerated. Af- < ly we failed to do it justice. < s editor who incurred the ! , s murderously attacked by ; ay what came of it, for that ' , ake away from your pleas- J ENQUIRER York County Home ption; Two or More $1.75 Each. FER TO CLUBMAKER8. 3ulis, Rifles, Watches, Sewnivfts. Mil<?azines and Other e Competition Is Free, tbe y Good. For Forty Names. A fine Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York Standard Open Face Watch, 1 W. Richards Double Barrel BreechLoading Shot Gun, or a Low Arm Singiv Sewing Machine. For Fifty Names. A "Winchester or Colt's Repeating Rifle, 22 calibre; or a Baker Double Barrel Breechloading Gun. For Sixty Names. A High-Arm Sewing Machine; or a first-class Double Barrel Breech Loading Shot Gun. For Ninety Names. A Batavla Hammerless Gun, 12jauge, furnished by H. & D. Folsom A.rms Co., of New York. A first-class 5un and fully guaranteed. SPECIAL CLUBS. We will arrange to furnish any special article desired by a clubmaker for i given number of name3 on application to this office. TIME TO BEGIN. The time for clubmakers to begin kvork in competition for the foregoing lifers is RIGHT NOW. Let all names, whether old or new, be returned as 'apidly as secured, so they may be properly entered upon our books. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Two Six Months Subscribers at $1 ;ach will be considered the equivalent if one yearly subscriber at $1.75, and jo counted. A subscription paid for :wo or more years in advance at $1.75, % * A'lH ue (JOUIIieu lUS one UU-II1C 1UI cawu ,'ear so paid. Clubmakers will be held personally -esponsible for the payment of all lames returned by them. After a dubmaker has returned and paid for xny name, he can, at anytime thereaf:er, discontinue the sending of the paper to the person for whom he has paid xnd transfer the unexpired time to any pther person, provided the person to vhom the transfer is desired was not x subscriber at the time the original lame was entered on our books. No name will be counted in competitor. for a premium until the subscrip:ion price has been paid; nor will any premium be delivered until a satisfac;ory settlement has been made for all lames returned by the clubmaker. Persons who commence making ilubs will not be permitted to transfer ;heir club to another clubmaker's list xfter the names have been entered on >ur books. It is not necessary that the names on i club should all be at the same postxffice. Names may be taken at any lumber of places. All subscriptions must be forwarded :o us at the expense of those sending hem. We will be responsible for the safe ransmission of money only when sent >y draft, registered letter or money >rder drawn on the Yorkville postofice. In sending names, write plainly, and five postoffice, county and state. All subscriptions will be disconflnled at the exniratlon of the time Daid or. A separate list will be kept for each lubmaker, who will be credited with ach name sent, so that the number ent by any clubmaker may oe ascerained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, wo weeks will be allowed in which to tork off the tie. The time in which names may be reurned, under our propositions will ommence NOW, and expires at 6 'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the 16th ay of March, 1904. After the closing of this contest on larch 16. 1901, no single yearly subcription will be received for less than he yearly subscription price of $2.00, xcept new clubs are formed. >NS, Publishers.