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tumorous departmentThe Way In Maine. There was no doubt about it; he was very angry when lie entered the village grocery store and demanded to see the proprietor. His face was very red, and his voice was raspy, and he shot out his words with short, sharp, dynamic jerks. "You sold my wife some eggs yesterday. Mr. Peavey," he said when the grocer appeared. "Waal, yes," said Mr. Peavey genially. "Believe I did." "And you told her that they were fresh eggs," continued the visitor. "Wall, yes, it seems to me I did," said Mr. Peavey. "Well, sir, every one of them has turned out bad." roared the visitor. * * ??. ? ?* nni/1 DaO. n aai, 1 naiuri i<? nuun ; wiu i ta-i vey incredulously. "Yes, sir, bad. Now what do you propose to do about it?" "Me?" I "Yes. sir, you." "Nothin* 's I knows on. I can't lay 'em all over again." "But. see here, Peavey, you had no business to say they were fresh eggs." "Why not? I bought 'em for fresh? from Si Wiley too." "I don't believe it. Si Wiley's an honest man. If he said the eggs were fresh, they were." "Waal. Si said it. all right. He come in here with his basket full of 'em and put 'em down on the counter an' traded 'em off for a box of sody biscuits." "When was this?" "Oh. I dun 'no. 'Bout six weeks ago, I guess."?Harper's Weekly. Mr. Asqi ith's Wit.?At a meeting in Liverpool on one occasion Mr. Asquith began a sentence, stopped in the middle of it, and took a gulp of water from a tumbler beside him. The audience roared. "Ah," said the premier, "that's a trick I learned of Bob Lowe. 'If you stop to drink at the end of a sentence, depend upon it some other fellow will pop up to cut you short,' he said." As an example of the premier's wit, the following might be recalled. One of the first law cases in which Mr. Asquith came into promi nence was me iamous inai ui rau.? ivc vs. Dunn, when the Anti-Gambling League did their utmost to prohibit betting on Hempton Park racecourse. Mr. Asqulth appeared for the league, . and argued that the course was "a place within the meaning of the act." During the hearing various more or less acceptable theories were put forward as to what did not constitute a place. "Suppose," said Mr. Justice Wright, "I were to give you an area marked by the meridians of longitude, would that constitute a place in your opinion, Mr. Asquith?" "That, my lord," was Mr. Asquith's instant and witty retort, "would be merely a matter of degree."?London Truth. A Truthful Answer.?He was a beggar, with old, worn clothes, unwashed face, unkempt hair, and unbrushed shoes. He walked up to the counter of a bank in Lombard street, and told, between his sobs, tears, groans and sighs, how his stomach yearned for a bite of bread. A sympathetic clerk drew forth a new and shining threepenny bit, which he laid kindly and gently into the beggar's quivering and blackened kon/1 "Now, my poor friend, what do you propose to do with that money?" seriously inquired the generous clerk. The beggar looked down at his soiled and tattered garments. He scanned his benefactor curiously for a moment, and then, in a tremulous tone, said: "Young man, you see me as I am, wearing the habiliments of an.outcast. Yet I am honest, and I will give you a truthful answer. I shall first go and buy me a good dinner, then I will take a bath and have a jhave and hair cut, and mayhap after that adorn this handsome form with a new suit of clothes. If there is any of it left after that I shall, upon my word, come back and deposit it in the bank. I am exceedingly obliged. Good day."?TitBits. Mr. Pail's Long Letter.?There has been recalled by the death of James W. Paul, the Philadelphia banker. this story which he told long ago: "I was going home one night late and saw a man who had evidently looked too deep into the cup making frantic but unsuccessful efforts to open a door with a latchkey. I decided to help the man, who was not so far gone as to have forgotten his politeness, for before entering the house through the door which I succeeded in opehing he asked my name and thanked me. I proceeded on my way, but had only gone a few steps when I heard some one call 'Mr. Paul, Mr. Paul!' I turned. and there was my friend of the latchkey coming toward me with unsteady gait. He put one hand affectionately on my shoulder, and, looking me in the face, said: 'Say, did you ever get an answer to that long letter you wrote to the Thessalonians?'"?Chicago Daily News. The Retort Aqueous,?Even in the midst of horror there is occasionally a rift of humor. It is said that at the time of the Johnstown flood a grocer, to whom one of the citizens of that illstarred community had owed for an overlong time a good-sized bill for provisions, while floating along on the top of the waters in a raft, made of two window blinds and a sky-light, caught sight of his delinquent debtor whirling around in one of the pools of the eddying current clinging to a large hogshead. "Ah, there you are!" cried the grocer, business like to the last. "Been looking' tor you ior several aays. wneu are you going to pay that bill?" "Can't say just now. Sands, old man," returned the unhappy debtor, "I'm having all I can do to keep my head above water these times."?Harper's Weekly. He Was Getting Old.?It was closing time at the town library- Old Mr. Duke, who had tilled the post of librarian for years, took down his coat and hat and, with the assistance of his little daughter, got them safely on. Together they started for the door. It was raining hard. "Wait a moment, child," said her father, and went back into the building. The girl remained obediently. Five minutes passed. Then ten. She pushed open the door and walked in. Her father was bent over one of the card catalogues. "What are you looking for. father?" she inquired. He put the drawer back, suddenly abashed. "I'm getting old, Margaret." he said. "I couldn't find my umbrella, and I was searching for it under U in the lists."?Youth's Companion. iUistrllancous ilradiuti. EARLY CALIFORNIA DUELS. How Political and Business Disputes Were Settled. The custom of duelling in California arose in a large measure from the peculiar conditions of the early bonanza days. With those conditions the semibarbaric custom has passed into history. Duelling might have been looked for justly enough among the miners and the rough heterogeneous element of fortune hunters who led the train of emigrants to the Golden West. But it was not confined to the uncouth by any means. Public officials ever sought to settle their differences with lead, say the San Francisco Chronicle, and this method of settlement usually put " ** /llW/vwrtWrtA O Q riT* ro to <111 CI1U U? llic UIIICICIIVC ai anj *uw. Every schoolboy is familiar with the history of the Terry-Broderlck duel, and that may be passed for others of which history makes little or no mention. Previous to that affair of honor during the campaign of 1S53, Philip W. Thomas, district attoiney of Placer county, made some remarks regarding J. P. Rutland, a Democrat of his own county and a clerk in the state treasurer's office. If the remarks were intended to cast reflections on 'he character of Rutland they were not amiss. Rutland, considering that the gauntlet had been thrown at his feet, invited the district attorney to Sacramento. Dr. Dickson of San Francisco a warm personal friend of Rutland, was in the capital city at the time and be conveyed to Thomas the formal challenge. Thomas received Dickson with ceremonious courtesy, but his answer was direct enough not to be misconstrued: "Dr. Dickson, I take it that you are a gentleman, and as such I treat with you," he said. "But as for this fellow Rutland. I have no dealings with him and am not called upon to answer him in any way. I treat with gentlemen alone." "You have done me the courtesy to admit that while a friend of Mr. Rutland I am nevertheless a gentleman," replied the doctor. "I shall endeavor to perform the functions of both a friend and a gentleman. I ask you, then, to consider this challenge personal from myself." "If you knew the true character of onll o frlori rl trnn WHS 11 let 11 WIK'lll juu V.O.I1 a tiivnu j V would not take up his rows," protested Thomas. "I assure you that there is no insult in what I have said regarding him, for it is all true, as I can establish by reliable proofs." Dr. Dickson was not satisfied, however, and demanded a complete written retraction of all that had been said by Thomas against Rutland. Thomas firmly declined to comply and accepted the only alternative. Accordingly the two parties met at Oak Park, about nine miles northeast of Sacramento, on March 9, 1854, by appointment. Thomas was seconded by Dr. Hamilton Bowie of San Francisco and Dr. Dickson was attended by Judge Edward McGowan, also of San Francisco. The principals chose their weapons, regulation duelling pistols, and the fifteen paces were measured. With upraised guns they awaited the signal. At the drop of the flag both fired. Thomas, however, pulled nis trigger first and he found his mark. Dickson fell, mortally wounded, but as he was falling he fired a bullet which tore the ground at the feet of his antagonist. This quarrel arose indirectly over the senatorial aspirations of David Broderick. There were other duels fought over th*e same man's political bee during the year 1854. B. F. Washington, manager editor of the Times and Transcript, published an anti-Broderick article which reeked with political satire, and something a little worse perhaps. The answer was forthcoming from the pen of Editor Washburn of the old Alta. Then followed a printer's ink duel, in which personalities were indulged in. The result was a bloody duel, fought near San Francisco on March 21, 1854. The Alta was wrong evidently, for its editor received a wound which nearly cost him his life. The day before this duel another fight was held at Volcano Bar, on the middle fork of the American river, over the same argument. The principals were J. S. Landon, a reader and supporter of the Times and Transcript, and David E. Hacker, whose sympathies were all with the Alta. Indeed he had expressed his opinions openly in a publication. The senator's cause was vindicated, for Landon fell dead in his tracks. Excitement prevailed in Nevada City at the election in 1853. The Democratic party had advanced as a candidate for the assembly a man named Billy Mason. leader of the "chivalry and bowie knife" wing of the party. The returns showed a complete victory for the Democrats in every office except that for which Mason was a candidate. As soon as the returns of the balloting showed Mason that he was defeated he went to Lark's drug store on Main street, obtained a pistol and a rawhide and in company with R. A. Davidge, postmaster of the town and editor of the Young American, started out to find H. C. Gardiner, who had been most active in procuring his opponent's victory. Mason located Gardiner in the barroom of the Phelps hotel and announced his presence and his desire to make a few remarks by thrusting a cocked gun under Gardiner's nose while he struck him across the face with the rawhide. Gardiner, leaning against the bar, drew a penknife, which was his only weapon. There was no blood shed that night, but it was agreed to meet and fight it out on fair terms at 9 o'clock in the morning. Gardiner obtained a navy pistol at the express office and started for the aDuointed field. On Broad street, how ever, he saw Mason and Davldge emerge from the postofflce and start up the street. When they saw Gardiner, however, they crossed the street abruptly and took refuge in the Young American office. Gardiner followed and inquired at the business office for Mason. He was told that he had left. As Gardiner left the building and started up the street. Mason fired at him from an alley, wounding him in the calf of the leg. Mason was in ambush. so that his opponent could not see him. Gardiner stood his ground, however, and emptied his gun. One of his bullets struck Mason in the leg. inflicting a flesh wound. The only other damage done by the two men was the killing of a pig with a stray bullet. When both pistols were emptied the crowd which had gathered stepped between the combatants and disarmed hem. Col. Totter, whom many will remember as a clerk for years in the California legislature, was a principal in a summer of 1850. It was on Saturday night that he became engaged in a quarrel over some mining property with George Melville, a well bred young Englishman who had run away from home to follow the sea. As the glasses were refilled the feeling grew hotter and a challenge passed. The following morning, armed with pistols and accompanied by seconds and friends, the combatants crossed the American river and took their positions at twenty paces on the site of what was later Ruckner's F?ar. At the signal both men fired and both missed the mark. "Load again!" cried the colonel, throwing his gun to the ground. Melville was willing, but friends intervened and a settlement was reached. The remainder of the day was spent in talking and drinking. Another shooting affair, with a less pleasant ending, took place on Murderer's Bar about this time. Black Walker?so called io distinguished him from Kentucky Walk?r, Long Walker, Scotch Walker and O le Ear Walker? conducted a small general merchandise store in a tent. A claim had fallen into his hands in return for some goods, and on the Saturday upon which the water was to be turned into the new flume which crossed' this claim, Walker went out to the ground. To his astonishment he found the property in the possession of two "Bluegrassers" by the names of Beck and Rice. In the wordy battle which followed Beck, who was an athletic young fellow just out of law college, lost his temper and threw Walker into a pond. The shopkeeper emerged wet and very angry. "I ain't a match for you young fellows that way, maybe,'' he cried. "But I know what way I am, and when I come back I'll be prepared for business. you can bet your lives! You'd better fix yourselves." When Walker returned from his tent he carried a shotgun. Beck meanwhile had borrowed a navy revolver and was waiting. "Look out there, everybody, 'cause there's going to be some fireworks!" Walker Is said to have called to the several hundred men who were in the immediate locality. He walked to within a few yards of Beck, when he paused and raised this gun to his shoulder. Two shots rang out together, but Beck was the one to fall. The young fellow struggled gamely to his feet, but could not raise his right arm. "I can't shoot; you use the pistol," he said to Rice. The partner took the j gun and Beck fell to the ground dead. He had been hit by buckshot in fourteen places. Rice lost his nerve and threw the gun to the ground. <'Unn? Wml" cnmnhndv nnd a mob was soon surrounding Walker. The man held his ground firmly, however, and declared that the first man to move a step closer to him would get the other dose of buckshot. "Then somebody in the rear cried, "Oh, give the poor devil a chance! Let him have a fair trial!" This sentiment prevailed and Walker was allowed to go to his tent unmolested. Coloma was the most convenient town and it was there Rice went for an officer. He was gone four days and when he returned with a deputy sheriff he found Black Walker waiting to be taken into custody. The sentiment by this time was all for Walker and he never came to trial. But he sold his few things on the bar shortly after that and left the country. Some details of this gunplay serve as a reminder of the Dibble-Lundy duel, which was fought at Industry Bar, on the main Yuba, in 1851. The principals were George M. Dibble and E. B. Lundy, known as Jim. Dibble was a graduate of the naval academy at Annapolis and resigned from the navy on hearing the wonderful tales of easy wealth to be found in California. Lundy was a big, powerful Canadian, with a bullying disposition and a bad recm-A T-Tr> haa on pvp in n ficht in Sacramento. Dibble and Lundy, with J. C. Morehead, C. E. G. Morse and several others, took the part of a number of Chinese who had been driven from their claims by white men and in turn drove away the oppressors of the Celestials. The night after the white men had been routed from the mines a general jollification was held and angry words followed the jests of good fellowship. Lundy called Dibble a name which offended him and a challenge passed. Lundy was a dead shot and to Dibble's friends the challenge meant suicide. He could not be dissuaded, however, and sunrise of November 1, 1851, was selected for the settlement of the quarrel. The men met at the hour, Dibble attended by Gen. Morehead and Lundy by C. E. G. Morse. They selected their pistols and the fifteen paces were measured. Lundy was perfectly cool. He indicated the spot on Dibble's breast where the fatal bullet would strike. Though evidently so confident of his aim Lundy turned a coward's trick. As Dibble was waiting for the signal the Canadian fired at the fatal spot which he had selected. Dibble, fatally wounded. threw his pistol to the ground, refusing to shoot and waving off proffered assistance. As he turned to walk away he exclaimed to Lundy with contempt: "You're a nice one! You're a gentleman! You fired too soon!" He took two paces back and dropped lifeless to the grass. Though Lundy was arrested and indicted for murder two juries failed to reach an agreement and the district attorney finally entered a nolle prosequi in the case. Lundy went to Sonora, where he met a horrible end in a fire which consumed the one hotel in the town. The charges of incendiarism which were made were not followed by any arrests. One outcome of the Indian war in Nevada in 1860 was the Van HaganMoyes duel, fought at. Grizzly Flat, on the Yuba, on June 20 of that year. J. B. Van Hagan was the captain of a volunteer company which had gone from the California mines to quell the uprising of redskins. R. B. Moyes was a private in his command. Moyes had become miffed at the domineering attitude of his superior and after the return of the troops to civil life he challenged the captain to establish his right to issue imperative orders by proving his marksmanship. In other words, there was a challenge for a duel. Van Hagan accepted, asking for Minie rifles at sixty paces, but in the language of the times "there was blood on the moon." and though both men emptied their suns twice nobody was hurt. Then the seconds arbitrated and this sequel war was over. In the light of this comic tragedy may be recited the Soucher-Plcard incident. This happened in North Bloomfield on September 23, I860. The principals were Frenchmen and the weapons were Colts revolvers. They fired at twenty-five paces. But as the seconds. according to custom, had loaded the guns and had thoughtfully omltduel fought on Murderer's Bar in the ted the bullets nobody was hurt. The two men were in earnest, however. Dismissing their seconds, they reloaded the guns themselves and tried it over. Though bullets really flew this time the results were no more fatal. Seeing this. Souchet clubbed his gun and beat his opponent over the head until he was unconscious. At this stage officers arrived. Both duelists spent a month thereafter in jail. At Cherokee in 1874 a Christmas eve ball was given by the townspeople. On this occasion a certain belle of the ball was the cause of a wrangle between the town smith and a man of the appellation of Wall. Both, it seems, had engaged the same waltz. As the latter was considerably inferior to his ugly rival in brute force he challenged him to a chivalrous fray for the lady's hand, to take place on Badger Hill the fol'owing morning at sunrise. The duel was fought on Christmas morning and the blacksmith tried to pull off a "Lund.v turn." He fired at the count of two, but missed Wall. He stood trembling waiting to be shot down. At the count of four Wall magnanimously fired straight into the air. The blacksmith rushed up and shook hands, tears streaming down his face. It then developed that the seconds had loaded both guns with blanks. No doubt the funniest duel that was ever fought in California was the means of washing away an insult between two men by the names of Tompkins and Curley. It took place in Nevada City on July 12, 1861. The men were both angry: they were both serious enough in the settlement of the preliminary details. But when it came to choosing weapons no agreement could be reached. At last it was decided to fight the battle with water. The main street was the field selected. With properly chosen seconds the men met and stood facing each other, each holding a twenty-five foot hose, at the Villi ui which was u ijuiii ici iui.il iiuii" zle. Then a pressure of 150 pounds was turned into each hose, while the spectators cheered and the participants swore. Neither would give in, however, until one hose burst under the terrific pressure. While, of course, this battle was not without its dangers It bore the appearance of a huge burlesque and it satisfied damaged honor quite as much as though firearms had been used. Both men, it is said, were "perfectly cool" when the struggle ended. PIONEER TELEGRAPHING. How the First Report of a Railroad Accident Was Wired. "I sent over the wire the first report of a railroad accident the telegraph ever carried, and without being a telegraph operator at that," said Wllmot M. Vail, an octogenarian citizen of Port Jervis, according to a New York Sun writer. "The original Cornell telegraph line opened at Goshen its first office in this state west of the Hudson. This was in 1849. The office was in my father's book store. I was a clerk in the store. My brothers, Hector and Nathaniel, soon learned to operate the instrument, and Hector became the first regular operator. The Erie railroad put its telegraph line in operation early in 1851. Its wires entered the Cornell offices. Hector Vail was sent to Port Jervis as operator for both lines. Nathaniel Vail took charge of the Goshen office. "I had not learned to operate the telegraph instrument, but from hearing and seeing my brothers working at ;|t I had obtained some little insight of its mysteries. One day in 1851 my brother Nat went to New York. That day the westbound train, known as the Day Express, ran off the track three miles east of Goshen and into the ditch. Although the Erie had its own telegraph line, it had not yet begun to utilize it for running trains on telegraphic order. "An hour and more having passed beyond the time the day express should have arrived at Port Jervis, people there began to want to know what was the matter with it. and Hec Vail began to call up Goshen. He didn't know) that Nat Vail was away. We knew at Goshen all about the accident to the train. I heard the call on the instrument. but telegraphing not being in myj line. I let it call. The calling kept up at intervals for an hour or two, and, thinking the matter over, I concluded that it was perhaps Hec Vail wanting to find out what had become of the Day Express, which was still off the track, so I thought I would answer the J call myself. "Studying the Morse alphabet a while, I pounded off on the keys as best I knew how the news about the wrecked train. I was a long time doing it, and the message I sent must have arrived at the Port Jervis end of the wire in a somewhat irregular and jumbled! form, for although Hec Vail got the news he had been hours clamoring for he sent back this forcible but ungrateful inquiry: "'What d fool sent this in?' "And that's the way the first report of an accident on the Erie or any other railroad was sent over the telegraph wire. "Recalling those days of pioneer telegraphing. I remember that Ezra Cornell was so poor after he got his line to working that when he came to Goshen to look over the property, if there was no money in the office from telegraph tolls my father would advance him some, so tha 'Old Bones,' as he was irreverently called, might get something to eat. A few cakes, a slice "f bread or a morsel of cheese sufficed him. Yet that struggling pioneer telegraph line was the source of his millions and the foundation of the fq.l nuua iii."?uiuir niiii uc?in no "Oinc. > r "THE JU l by opi WILL BE THE ENQl ?the opening CI - - to appear in these ! and read them if man interest, near to natu pathos, written in the Masi This story is copyright by Special Permission of t Be sure to read tht "THE JUCKLINS," * ? RECOVERS HIS GOLD. Montana Pioneer Finds Treasure Buried Forty-Four Years ago. Of all the thrilling stories told by visiting pioneers, one by George Llseom of Miles City, has a golden setting which makes it especially Interesting, says the Helena correspondent of the New York Tribune. In 1866 Ltscom was a member of a party of fur hunters who operated in this section of the state. Early in January of that year they were camped over near the "gap." One day Llscom rode several miles away from the camp after some otter skins which he believed could be obtained at a small creek out from the "gap." When some distance from the camp he met an Indian who manifested great interest in the destination of the white man. He asked ouestions which caused L<iscorn to grow suspicious. He wanted to show his friendliness by shaking hands with his white brother. Liscom reached out and shook hands but as he brought his hand back he pulled the Indian's revolver from the belt. A moment later the Indian exclaimed "Indians!" and pointed back of Liscom. The hunter looked back, but at the same time he divined the object of the redskin and threw his hand up over his head. As he did so the wagon spoke with which the aborigine intended to brain his victim came down on the upraised hand, and as a result Liscom has a stiff finger. The fur hunter sent a bullet into the Indian, who in toppling off his horse caught one arm in the surcingle on Liscom's horse. Thinking he was not dead and was holding on, the white man put another bullet through the Indian's throat. The weight of the redskin's body finally broke the surcingle and Liscom's horse ran away. Fortunately, the Indian's horse did not run away. About that time sixteen Indians got within firing distance and began to shoot. The Indian's horse was wounded. and using the body of the animal as a breastwork, Liscom began to do a little execution. He laid low an Indian with each of the first six shots. It finally became so warm for the Indians that the four or five of them who were still alive rode away. But the white man did not escape without wounds. He made his way back to camp. "Old Man" Buchanan, u-hM vitin lives out near Kendall, at tempted a bit of surgery, using a bullet mould in his effort to get a bullet which had been flattened against one of the bones in Liscom's leg. Later the camp in whiih Liscom was lying was attacked by Indians and he buried $800 in gold dust. He supposed that some member of the party had dug it up until Buchanan a few months ago told him that, so far as he knew, the gold dust was where it was buried. Accordingly, in May of this year, fortytwo years and four months after it was burled, Liscom went to the old camping place in the "gap" and uncovered the gold dust. The powder box and chamois bag in which it was buried had disintegrated, but all the gold dust was there. Liscom is now a well known stockman of Custer county. He carries thirteen scars, made by arrows and bullets, which speak eloquently of the vicissitudes through which the trail blazers passed while wresting this state from the redskins. INCAPABLE RUSSIA. Bureaucrats Pigeonholed Repots on Japan's Fighting Strength. Before the war with Japan. Russia sent officers to investigate Japan's fighting strength, but refused to credit their reports, says General Kuropatkin in McClure's. He continues: "In 1903 Colonel Adabash, who had just visited Japan, gave to General Zhilinski, of our general stall, very important information with regard to new reserves which the Japanese were organizing for service in case of war. Inasmuch, however, as this information did not agree at all with that previously furnished by Colonel Vannofski, General Zhilinski did not give it credence. A few months later Captain Rusine, a very talented omcer, wno was acting as naval observer In Japan, made a similar report upon Japanese reserves to his superiors, and extracts from it were furnished to General Sakharoff, chief of staff of the army. Although the Information contained In this report ultimately proved to be perfectly accurate, the report was pigeonholed, simply because Generals Zhilinski and Sakharoff did not believe it; and in our compendium of data with regard to the military strength of Japan In 1903-4, no reference whatever was made to additional reserve forces. According to the figures of our General Staff, therefore, the total number of available men in the standing army, the territorial army, and the regular reserve of Japan. was a little more than 400,000. "Recently published official reports of General Kipke, chief medical inspector of the Japanese army, showthat the loss of the Japanese in killed and wounded, in course of the war, was as follows: Killed 47,387 Wounded 173,425 Total 220,812 Their loss in killed, wounded and sick was 554,885?a number considerably greater than the whole force, which, according to the figures of our general staff, they could put into the field." ?? ' When a man is unable to choose between two evils he usually hunts up a third. r 1 CSS I CKLINS" I E READ J i ~qA JIRER'S next Serial Story i tiapters of which are soon ( columns. 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Remember the Dead Every grave in York county should he appropriately marked with a Tombstone or Monument. To do this is not only a mark of respect and esteem to one's departed relatives, but it is desirable and proper to place an enduring record in stone over all graves. If you have loved ones who have passed to the great beyond and are considering the idea of a suitable marker for their graves, we will appreciate a call from you that we may have an opportunity of showing you designs of Head Stones and Monuments and quoting you prices. YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS. W. B. Wylie, Sec. and Treas. {{ I w) j V ? ? Indigo and Shirting Prints at .. S Apron and Dross Ginghams at .. II y Xow line of Side Iiand Goods /t 12 1-2 Cents quail X w IK Cents quality a V Cotton Crepons for Kimonas * 18 Cents grade. X< ^ New lino of Novelty Dress Good 7 ^ pliant, Catawba, Navy B i $1.12 1-2 a Yard. Now go i ? jj TO OUR CI 9 V YOUR Merchandise Accoi SO Guano Account WILL BE DUE ^ and we wish to ask ONE AND A 9 ? FORE NOVEMBER 1ST. We n< \l YORKVILLE BANF 1 NOUNCEMENT IGKEN OWNERS s just received a shipment of no Poultry Feed >m a combination of only pure grain, scientific d?contains no grit which makes weight?no or weed seeds, which chickens will not eat? rke a?- hrn-. chifl nn?ifiv^lv no jund of CORNO Poultry Feed is an honest of full feeding value. ORNO HEN FEED, makes hens lay. > CHICK FEED, made from grain and ?d, saves the life of little chicks, our chickens will be a profit to you when you n right live CORNO Poultry Feed a trial?that's ,k. SOLD BY iRROLL BROS. DO IT TODAY KICiHT NOW while the weather is warm and pleasant, is a good time to have us put up a COAL or WOOD HEATER in your sitting room, dining room, parlor or office. Don't wait until you need it. Come and see us about a Coal or Wood Heater TODAY ?our stock is large and com- J plete and we can please you in sizes and price. Come TODAY. Also' we will be glad to show you Cook Stoves and 1 lunges. Coal Sets, Coal Tongs, Coal Scuttles, Fir" Shovels. Tongs, Pokers, Brass ai d Cast Andirons. Coal Vases, Piping, Floor Mats, etc. If it is anything in connection with your neaung or tooKing apparatus, I you can get it here of the right quality at the right prices. Yorkville Hardware Co. i the market, and Is Guaranteed to give W. R. CARROLL TAX NOTICE?1908. Office of County Treasurer. Yorkville, S. C., Sept. 15, 1908. NOTICE is hereby given that the TAX BOOKS for York county will be opened on the 15TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1908, and remain open until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1908, for the collection of STATE, COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL TAXES for the fiscal year 1908, without penalty; after which day ONE PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made In the month of JANUARY, 1909, and TWO PER CENT penalty for all payments made in the month of FEBRUARY, 1909, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be added on all payments made from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH, to the 15TH DAY OF MARCH, 1909, and after this date all unpaid taxes go into executions and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I will attend at the following places on the days named: Af DnnU Mill fmm Mnndflv. N'ovem ber 9th, to Saturday, November 14th. And at Yorkvllle from Monday, November 16th. until the 31st day of December, 1908, after which day the penalties will attach as stated above. H. A. D. NEELY, County Treasurer. 74 t 4t BUILDING MATERIAL We always carry in stock, ready for delivery and at the lowest prices aJl grades of Rough and Dressea Lumber, including Flooring, Ceiling, Moulding, Studding, Rafters, Sheeting, Shingles, Laths, Framing, Frames, etc., and will make Doors, and Sa3h, and Frames, * A ? I? ?A ? *MV\mnt1u on Vrtlir AP/lor rviamois, uic*p ^iwiujjuj v? jvu* v.v.. See us for all kinds of Building Hardware, including Nails, Hinges, Screws, Locks, etc. See us for Lime, Cement and Brick. J. J. KELLER & CO. 90* Be sure to see us before buying any kind of Lumber. 90* It pays to use the Best Quality of Stationery the other fellow judges you by the quality of your printed matter. jjlfe* n ? i v I Specials, f| I CENTS A YARD. ? f 5 CENTS A YARD, ff jjj ? in rr\TS \ YARD. A t 15 CENTS A YARD. X h nv 15 CENTS A YARD. J s?Shades: Drake, Bronze, Ele- x ^ lue and Brown. Regular I*rlce, V X Ing at ...$1.00 A YARD. J J ? H JSTOMERS. j unts ARE NOW DUE; YOUR 5 on or before NOVEMBER 1ST, A LL to CALL AND SETTLE BE- X J hhI the money. y LING & MER. CO. ? - _____ J. C. WILBORN FOR 8ALE The lilgliani Place?Two miles ^ north of Aharon; 6 miles west of Yorkville; 113 acres of land; 65 acres under cultivation; rents for 1,650 lbs. very Cheap. Land of W. A. Darby?339J acres, 5J miies east of Chester, at Orr Station. Has 8 good tenant houses; good 2-story barn; 1 dwelling, 8-rooms; six horse farm, open. 1 he home of T. C. Alexander?62J acres, 3 miles of Smyrna Station, one * mile of Mew Zion church and school; 45 acres in cultivation, 4 acres good branch bottom; one 6-room cottage; new barn; all necessary outbuildings, loeal little home?CHEAP. 1/1 Acres?40 acres good bottom land; beautiful 2-story dwelling; new ? barn, 2 stories and 12 stalls; 2 good tenant nouses- nas a corn ana wiiem mill; 60 saw gin and Boss press; 20horse water power. New turbine wheel. The property of J. J. Scoggins?very cheap. Terms to suit. 11/ Acres?Adjoins the land of D. M. Hall, Lee Pursley and others; 12 acres hne corn bottom land; one 5-room house; all necessary outbuildings; 60 acres in cultivation, some saw timber. <20 per acre. Property of J. L. Tempieton. 341-2 Acres?20 acres in cultivation; good 3-room house; new barn, 1 mile of New Zion. Price $350. J Land of V. J. Erwin?100 acres on yorkville road; south side, Steel Creek ^ township, Mecklenburg county, N. C.; / 10 acres cleared, baiance in pine and '. oak timber. Price $15 per acre. ^ 100 Acres?2} mhes north of Piedmont Springs; 3& miles northeast of King's Creek station; 91 acres in timber. 1051-2 Acres?Land of J. P. Barnes; 4 miles southwest of Yorkville; 12 acres of wired pasture; will divide this piace and let line run on northwest corner with the branch; has 1 dwelling, 2 tenant houses. _ 44 Acres?Some of the land perfectly level, other parts rolling; one small dwelling; one mile from Zion church and school; 20 acres cleared; good, strong land; 10,000 feet of fine saw iimiM-r- nlentv of wood. It is the home of G. N. Wilson; Joins the land of George McCarter, Andy Biggers and * others. Price, $1,000. . 9b Acres?Absolutely level land; will make a bale to the acre on any of it; 1 dwelling, 5 rooms; 3 tenant houses; 9 acres in pasture; 80 acres in cultivation, any of which will produce a bale to the acre; joins the lands of J. B. Scott; 2 mile Delphos church and high school. Land of H. R. Merrltt ^ 60 Acres?Land of Walter McClain; J mile of Filbert R. R. station and | school; 1 mile of church; land lies comparatively level; 4-room dwelling; I new barn with shed. Price, $1,800. fl Property of H. C. Strauss?-? tenant houses, located on an acre and 1-4 of J ground, near the old C. & N.-W. depot ?4 houses are new, 12 per cent income. A. C. White Place?220 acres, 3 miles from Kings Creek, 1 mile of Piedmont Springs. Crawford Springs in the middle of it One new 7-room dwelling, one tenant house; good barn, on both places, and all necessary outbuildings. 85 acres in cultivation, 15 acres in rail pasture. Saw timber enough to do the place. Eight or ten thousand cords of wood on public road; 10 acres of fine bottom land, not subject to overflow. % (Fine spring, known as the Crawford Spring.) For Sale?One small Coal Stove; 3 good Wood Heaters?At bargain. See me at once. J. W. & M. A. McFarland. Part of Paul Bratton tract, 116 acres, 1-2 mile ^ south of limits of Yorkville; 2 new houses, 4-rooms to each. Barn and other buildings; 2-horse farm, about 75 acres in timber, 30 acres in original timber?oak, poplar, pine. 456 Acres in Bullock's Creek township. Land of E. M. and Jas. E. Bankhead. From 250 to 300 acres in open land; nearly 200 acres of bottoms?fine corn land. Plenty of wood. J. H. Neely Home?73 acres Inside of a the incorporation of Clover; 5-room house; barn shedded on 3 sides, stables; 2 branches, one tenant house; 60 acres in cultivation. At a bargain?for quick sale. B 38 Acres?Good 3-room dwelling; good barn and cotton house; one mile B of the incorporate limits of Yorkville. Adjoins C. M. Inman; land level and in high state of cultivation; a beautiful little home. $35 per Acre. 109 Acres of Land?Six miles of Yorkville; bounded by the YorkvilleRock Hill road; on another side by the Chester and Armstrong Ford road; land lies level; & mile from high school academy; joining lands of C. M. Hughes; for quick sale; $2,500. Property of H. C. StrauM?181 acres f Inside of the incorporate limits of Yorkville; 3J acres in timber. Good spring. 15 acres in high state of cultivation. Price $35 Der acre. Adjoins the L. W. Louthian place and others. One tract 146 acres, 2 miles west of Bethany High school and church. Joins ? lands of Mrs. Pursley, J. Lee McGlll. 70 acres in open land, balance in woods, 2 streams, 2 houses?good; 4 stalls and barn; fine orchard. Robert Caldwell residence; most beautiful street In Yorkville. Twostory, 8-room, newly painted; 15 acres of land. On King's Mountain street. At a bargain. J. F. Youngblood?New residence, 5 rooms, electric lignts, water, sewerage; Lincoln street, Yorkville, S. C. ^ Miss Belle Crepes?Residence; 5- V rooms; 225 feet front, adjoins C. H. W Sandlfer and W. C. Latimer. For a ^ quick sale. j Land of J. Q. Howe?116$ acres; 7 A miles of Rock Hill, $ mile of Newport; 1 dwelling, 5-rooms, 2 stories; one new ? tenant house; 50 acres in cultivation; V 10 acres fine botton land in cultivation, not subject to overflew. About 35 acres in wood. W. H. Stewart land?430 acres; one 5-room cottage, a large barn?two stories, 50 by 30"; also a large cow barn; 4 tenant houses; 50 acres in pasture; 200 acres in cultivation, at Ebenezer, J mile from church. A nice place for a home, and fine community, about 2| miles from Winthrop. Price J25 per Acre. 51 acres of land?the J. W. Sherrer M tract, 2J miles of court house; two good houses, four rooms each, thirty acres In cultivation, 8 acres in fine bottom corn. This is a bargain, and a profit yielder. Now is the time to make your trades. You trade nov- and make your pay- Jk ments in the fall or the first of the year. J. C. WTLRORN. Real Estate. professional (Tarda. A. Y7 CART WRIGHT, SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLE, S. C. OFFICE HOURS: 9 am. to ipm.;jpm. tojpir A Office upstairs in the Moore building over I. W. Johnson's store. DR. M. W. WHITE, J DENTIST YORKVILLE, 8. C. Opposite Pottoffice. - Yorkville. 8. C. JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Ilange YORKVILLE, S. C. ^ ?J. 8. BK1CE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. GEO. W. S. HAKT. ATTORNEY AT LAW YORKVILLE, S. C. 2 Law Range. 'Phone Office No. 58 ?? 1 0. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings. FINLFY & JENNINGS, YORKVILLE, S. C. Office in Wilson Building, opposite ^ Court House. Telephont No. 126.