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tumorous Department. [ Easy Street.?There was once upon a time a church which labored under th? burden of exceeding: poverty such that its very mice were in a class by themselves. It means hard times for everybody. The minister starved, and even at that the congregation had to pinch and plan and rake and scrape to keep things going. But one day a philan-, throplst came to the rescue. "My friends. I like your spunk!" quoth he, and with that he bestowed upon the church an endowment such that it was lifted perpetually beyond mundane want. Of course, the people rose up and called him blessed. They rendered thanks to the Giver of gifts, and sang hymns of praise, and thought themselves very fortunate. "Henceforth!" they exclaimed joyfully, "we may devote ourselves wholly to the religious side of our church!" But before long they found them selves affected with a curious manner of drowsiness. They still performed the stated rites of worship, but perfunctorily. Though they held faithfully to the form of service, they were given somehow to feel that it did not greatly matter any more. They pondered. "Can it be that the soul of religion is the sacrifice it induces in its followers?" they asked one of another wonderingly. Whether or no they fell away, leaving the endowed church to become a mere social convenience, where grand dames resorted to show off their millinery, their gauds and their limousines,and wherein there were no poor folk that you could notice.?Ramsey Benson in Puck. . ? . I Too Much for Him.?A well-known humorist tells the following story, evidently meaning it to convey a warning: ^ "When I was a boy in Geneva," he said, "I was once taken through an asylum that was not far from the town. Many strange, terrible things I saw in this place, but what affected me most deeply was the sight of a young man of intelligent and refined appearance, who sat with his head in his hands, mumbling over* and over again, without a pause: " 'I can't strap it around my waist, and it won't go Into my pocket. It isn't a motor horn, because it won't blow. It isn't a lamp, for it won't light. I can't put it on my feet and it will not go over my head. It is neither a fountain pen, a pipe, nor a balloonist's barometer. It looks like a golf glove, but it is not a tennis racquet. I can't?' "Turning away, I asked the keeper the young man's history. " 'Ah, sir, a sad case,' the keeper said. 'One year ago that there young man was prosperous and renowned? the finest puzzle inventor and decipherer for miles around. But last Christmas his best girl gave him a present made with her own hands, and in try in' to determine Its name and its use the poor fellow became what you see.'" Ths Station Agsnt's Job.?Do you suppose No. 17 will be on time day after tomorrow? Why not?" "Can you tell me if a young lady in a blue dress and straw hat got off the train which got in from the north at O 1A "What time does the 5 o'clock train leave, and is It going to leave on time? "Is the train going to get into Fort Wayne on time, do you think?" "What made No. 7 so late a week ago laat Tuesday?" "Do you think it is safer to ride in a parlor car, or is there apt to be a rear-end collision?" "Why is No. 13 marked up for fifteen minutes late?" "Have you noticed an old gentleman with white whiskers and a telescope go through the gate at any time today?" "How do I get to Blink's Corner, Tex., without changing cars?" "I lost a backcomb on the southbound train three weeks ago last Wednesday. Can you tell me where I can find It?" "Will you watch for my sister and tell her how to get up to my house? I haven't time to wait for her train!"? Sioux City Journal. Thsir Preference.?"Now, boys," said the teacher, "I need not tell you anything further of the duty of cultivating a kindly disposition; but I will * teli you a little story of two dogs. "George had a nice little dog that was as gentle as a lamb. He would sit by George's side quietly for an hour at a time. He would not bark at passersby, nor at strange dogs, ami would WU/v nmtk/v<4if anirfKiner uur anj uuu> wi ouj 1111115. "Thomas' dog, on the contrary, was always fighting other dogs, and would sometimes tear them cruelly. He would also fly at the hens and cats in the neighborhood, and on several occasions had been known to seize a cow by the nostrils and throw her. He barked at all the strange men that came along, and would bite them unless somebody Interfered. "Now, boys, which is the dog you! would like to own, George's or Thorn- j as'?" Instantly came the answer in one eager shout: "Thomas'." A Matter of Brains.?Mr. and Mrs. Jinklets had stopped on the street corner after leaving the car and were having some words. "Don't you think I've got brains enough to drop off of a car?" he inquired with cutting carcasm. "No. I don't," she replied, without circumlocution of any kind. "You don't?" Mr. J. had not expected such a positive negative. "No. I don't." "Well. I got off all right, didn't I?" "Yes. but you brought your brains with you. You haven't got any to spare to drop oft a car. unless you did come with them, though." Mr. Jinklets. perceiving the futility of further argument, shut up. Any Port in a Storm.?In a northern seaport town there is a wealthy but illiterate man, who owns many vessels and follows their course over the seas by aid of a large atlas and a ten-horse power magnifying glass. "I've Just had a letter." he said to a neighbor, "from one of my captains, and he tells me he's been in a fearful storm. I'll read you from his letter what puzzles me. He says: " 'The waves rose like mountains. We were driven before the wind, to the danger of our lives, and put into great Jeopardy.' "What I want to know," said the ship owner, "is, where is Great Jeopardy? It's somewhere in the Mediterranean, but I can't And it on this map J anywhere." I ittisffllantous ilradinji. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES. Notes and Comments About Matters of Local Interest. Rock Hill Record, February 9: This afternoon about 2.30 an alarm of fire was turned In from Brooklyn, a negro suburb of the city. The Are company responded promptly and found a house occupied by a negro woman named Susie Benton, on fire. This was totally destroyed and the roof burned on another one adjoining. The houses belonged to Mr. J. Barron Steele and the loss was partly covered by Insurance A 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Long of the Highland Park mill village, died this morning and its remains were buried in Laurelwood cemetery this afternoon. Gastonia Gazette, February 9: Mr. George A. Gray, Sr., president and treasurer of the Gray Manufacturing company and one of the best known cotton goods manufacturers of the state, died at 10.20 o'clock yesterday I morning at the city hospital, following an Illness of a little more than * ?? ? in tha mree weens, wry ie? ? town knew of his desperate illness, and, hence, the announcement of his death came as a distinct shock. Up till Wednesday- his physicians had some hope for his recovery, but Wednesday night he suffered a serious setback and grew rapidly worse. It vyas known early in the morning that the end was but a few hours off. In the early hours of the morning Mr. Gray became unconscious. Four weeks ago he was operated on for appendicitis and was recovering satisfactorily from the effects of the operation when, 10 days ago, he developed a slight case of pneumonia. He battled bravely against the disease with his strong physique, but was unable to overcome it. Chester Lantern, February *9: Some little interest was aroused by the visit of Deputy Collector Fouche, of the U. S. internal revenue forces, this week. The collector levied the amount of the United States license, with penalty for delay in payment, upon seven 1 local dealers In soft drinks, who have been convicted in the city court for violation of the Sunday law. Mr. W. W. Bendlman is now Sheriff Colvln's deputy, since the resignation of Mr. Ernest T. Hardin, who will go back to farming. Mr. Bendlman was formerly guard on the chain gang and no doubt will make a good officer Mr. S. O. McKeown, superintendent of the county chaingang. who was operated on for appendicitis at the Magdalene hospital Saturday morning and whose condition has been extremely critical ever since, with the chances not very much In his favor, manifests decidedly encouraging symptoms today, and the physicians now have some hope of his recovery The burning out of a chimney in the residence of Mr. Carl Latimer, about 7 o'clock yesterday evening, was the cause of rather a disastrous run by the hose wagon. In attempting to make the turn at Wylle street at highspeed the wagon ran on to the postofflce sidewalk and missed capsizing by a very narrow margin, both horses being thrown down by the shock, and one of them, the gray, being pretty badly cut up about the knees. Several of Chester's volunteer firemen, who were riding on the wagon, alighted with more speed than grace, and it is extremely fortunate that no serious injury was suffered. Chester Reporter, February 9: The store of Mr. T. B. Gibson at Leeds, was broken into and robbed Monday evening, a considerable quantity of merchandise being stolen, most of it Hoi r> rr oHrvoa onrl u'Mapinc n nna rpl From the information sent in it seems that the stolen goods comprise six pairs of shoes, three pairs of slippers, one 22-calibre rifle and two hats. A white man, a stranger, who was seen loitering around the village Monday evening, is suspected of the crime. He told the townspeople that he was going off on No. 41. which he probably did after robbing the Gibson store. He is described as tall, slender and smoothly shaven; had on a light suit of clothes and a light cap Last night the stores of J. C. Farls and W. B. Simpson, at Catawba Junction, were destroyed by fire, the contents and structures being a total loss. It is thought that the Are was of incendiary origin as the rear door of Mr. Simpson's store was open when the fire was discovered. The loss will amount to nearly (5,000, partially covered by insurance Deputies Bendiman and Hardin, after a spirited and extended chase, arrested Bob Wilks, colored, yeste' day afternoon In the Armenia neighborhood and committed him to jail on the charge of stealing a horse from Mr. J. O. Darby of R. F. D. 4, Sunday evening. It Is claimed that Wilks wanted to go to Yorkville in quest of a marriage license, and in his anxiety appropriated the services of Mr. Darby's horse without the owner's consent. He must have stolen a buggy from some one else, for when seen later by some parties who recognized Mr. Darby's horse he was driving j along in a buggy. When hailed he tied, leaving norse anu ouim. i ne buggy is at Mr. Darby's and may be secured by the rightful owner, after identifying property Again the man under arrest proved not to be W. E. Perry, who is wanted here for the murder of Langdon L. Boozer, in 1905. In answer to Sheriff Colvin's wire on Monday Sheriff Jesse A. Beard of Columbus, Ga., replied: "Perry not under arrest here." A letter received yesterday by Sheriff Colvln from Henry Truesdale, the man who is trying to capture Perry, said the man he had under surveillance at Columbus tallied perfectly with the description of Perry except as to scars. He had no scars while Perry, it will be remembered, at the time of the killing bore several scars which should make him easily recognized and which will stay with him as long as he lives. Truesdale went on to say that he knows people who have seen Perry recently, and Is in hopes of capturing him. A Standpatter.?Secretary Urey Woodson of the Democratic national committee, in returning to his hotel, the Shoreham, at Washington, D. C., from The Raleigh on the night of the recent Democratic banquet, hired a a cab from an old darky. The night was stormy, and the antiquated cab horse was about all in when the top of the Pennsylvania avenue hill was reached. The old horse stopped on reaching the top of the hill in sight of the White House and refused to go along another step. "What sort of a horse have you there?" Woodson inquired, sticking his head out of the cab window. Wielding the gad for all he was worth and endeavoring to get old Dobbin moving in the direction of the Shoreham, the old darky replied: "Dat horse, sir, am what I would call an uncompromising standpatter." ?In Norman E. Mack's National Monthly. CHARLES DICKFNS. Centenary Sketch of the Greatest English Author. Today, February 7th, is the one hundreth anniversary of Charles Dickens, "the last, and perhaps the greatest of mythologlsts." The day is being celebrated in every nation that speaks the language in which he wrought, and in scores of others-who see their Dickens but darkly through the glass of translations. The culmination of this centennial celebration will be the presentation to the heirs of the great author of a fund collected by means of selling Dickens' centennial stamps. This movement had its genesis in England and was taken up in the United States and other countries. Its sponsors were such men as Lord Alverstone, lord chief justice of England; Lord Roseberry, ex-prime minister; Andrew Lang, Hall Caine and H. Rider Raggara. " was presented to the world by such publicity agents as Gilbert K. Chesterton and William De Morgan. Every lover of Dickens was asked to buy a penny stamp, meaning the English penny, or 2 cents, to be affixed to the fly leaf of each volume of Dickens in his possession. The fund thus raised was to be presented to the Dickens heirs to serve as some compensation for the 'act that millions of volumes of his novels were printed in countries other than England itself, from which the author received no return on account of the absence of international copyright laws and the lax enforcement of the law in England. The movement probably arose from the fact that some of the heirs of Dickens had been granted old age pensions because of their poverty. How many stamps were sold and how much money was realized does not yet appear. While It is undoubtedly true that the absence of an international copyright law deprived Dickens during his lifetime, and his heirs after his death, of a great amount of money, for no author's books have had a wider sale, It is also true that few writers have realized as much money as did Dickens from his writings and public readings. When he died he left a fortune of more than half a million dollars, and in his last American tour, in 1867 and 1868, he made a net profit of more than 8100,000. Book piracy was not an exclusive American crime. Washington Irving, Bret Harte and Mark Twain were pirated in England, Just as Dickens was pirated in the United States, and there have been some genuine admirers of Dickens who have not warmed up to the stamp collection. The lecture tour of Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of the novelist, in this country, unhappily ended by his sudden death in New York, showed conclusively that Americans were not insensible to their great obligation to the novelist. One cannot help wondering how a similar movement originating in this country, based on the centennial of Bret Harte In 1939, would be received in England. English people assume a superior virtue in declaring that they have been more appreciative of Bret Harte's high literary ability than have his compatriots, but it is none the less true that British publishers pirated hiR books, and it is also true that Bret Harte did not lampoon and bitterly caricature the English as Dickens did the Americans. English biographers, with their instinct for refined social stratification, say that Dickens sprang from the lower middle classes, and some of the greatest English critics have bitterly complained that the author never was able to shake off his middle class atmosphere. Even to this day scholarly Englishmen refer with amazement to the fact that Dickens had the monumental effrontery to demand that his sons be educated at Elton along with the sons of gentlemen. It was many, many years before it was "good form" for an Englishman to read Dickens, and it is barely possible that an impartial historian would agree that, considering all circumstances, Dickens was better treated by Americans than he was by his own people. He has been called "the last of the mythologists" because he created characters that stepped out of the printed page and became living and breathing persons in the minds of all the English-speaking people, even those who have not read the books. Wilkins Micawber, a caricature of Dickens' own father, is a person as much as is Shakespeare's Hamlet or Homer's Helen, and as Hamlet and Helen are known to those who have never read Shakespeare or Homer, so Micawber and TTrish Heen and Sairev fiamn and Jerry Cruncher and Pecksniff and others of the modern Olympian host, are known to those who have never read Dickens. Lord Roseberry added to Lord Beaeonsfield's statement that "England is an island washed by a melancholy ocean," the assertion that it is canopied by a sunless sky. Laughter is not indigenous to British soil. Therefore, the greater the public debt to Charles Dlokens, the man who broke through the veils of the caste system in his native country, Introduced all circles of society to each other, and invented laughter in England. When Dickens was 24 years old he created Mr. Pickwick, and from that day to this. Pickwick and the Wellers and Alfred Jingle and the Fat Boy and the others of that crew have been making people laugh?hearty laughs for Weller, satirical laughs for Jingle, kindly laughs for Pickwick and a world-wide smile at human frailty that is represented in the dictionaries by the word "Pickwickian." Dickens' first American tour was made in 1842. when he was only 30 years old. He made speeches in favor of the international copyright, as his books were already being pirated here. Apparently Dickens was more outraged by the absence of caste in America than by Its presence in England. which he so keenlv ridiculed. He was offended when he was entertained too lavishly by the wealthy, and was offended when he was praised too heartily by the poor. He did not like America nor any of its institutions, and when he went home he printed "American Notes," and followed it closely with "Martin Chuzzlewlt." He changed his mind somewhat during his second tour of the states and stipulated that thereafter all editions of "American Notes" and "Martin Chuzzlewit" should contain a sort of half apology for his anti-American utterances. It is significant that "Martin Chuzzlewit," considered by many critics the best of all his books, has been more appreciated in the United States than in England. Dickens was a political radical, and many of his books were written for a purpose?the purpose of muckraking some existing evil in England?but they were too great to be ephemeral, and. in their direct purpose accomplished thev lived on to enrich the literature and delight the souls of scores of nations and millions of human beings who never knew a debtor's prison, who never were involved in the red tape of the Circumlocution Office, who never were schooled at Dotheboy's Hall and who never saw a Beadle. Perhaps one may be forgiven for mentioning for the benefit of the curious that Dickens was indirectly responsible for the current slang use of the number "23." The hero of "The Tale of Two Cities," vicariously sacrifices his life at the guillotine of the French Terror, and as his head falls into the basket, the ghoulish knitting women count: "Twenty-three!" When the play, "The Only Way," was adapted from this novel a few years ago, this word "twenty-three" signified the end of the play and the drop of the curtain. To the stage hands it meant that all was over for the time being, and from the region back of the proscenium arch, the slang spread over all the United States. Whatever the critics have said or may say, whatever may be the result iof the controversy over the copyrights, I whatever may be the result of the sale of Dickens stamps, whatever literary men may say tonight at dinners in his honor, the fact remains that Charles John Huffam Dickens, horn on the 7th of February, 1812, at 387 Mile End Terrace, Commercial road, Landport, Portsea, England, will live forever. His Immortality will be that of a great reporter, one who wrote the things he saw in a world that too seldom fooks at itself. His faults were many, perhaps, and obvious. He exaggerates, his pathos verges on the ridiculous, he is Insular, he outrages the probable and cultivates a puzzling vein of the mystic. But his virtues are so many and so wide that they cannot be brought into the compass of any catalogue. They find their exemplification in an ever-increasing host of readers who forgive him his faults and love him in spite of them, or perhaps, because of them.?Frederick J. Haskin. In Atlanta Journal. A DANGER0U8 CARGO. Sailing 8hip Loaded With Indian Wild Animals. That wild animals shipped across the sea sometimes get loose on the voyage appears from the case of an English dealer who came over from India to England with $10,000 worth of animals aboard a sailing ship. An Indian badger was loose for two weeks and a specimen of the sacred monkey of northern India for nearly the whole voyage. Where the badger concealed himself during the day nobody knew, but the meat and boiled rice that were put out for it at night always disappeared before morning. The monkey lived up in the rigging comfortably enough, notwithstanding five feet of chain hanging to its neck. Food was put out for it every night, and by day it satisfied its hunger by catching and eating the potatoes that the sailors amused themselves by throwing to it. A more dangerous experience was one in which a hyena broke loose on board a ship going to London from the Persian gulf. The captain ordered the shooting of the animal, but when it came to executing the order the hyena could not be found. Naturally everybody on board was more or less nervous, especially at night. It was decided to keep the hyena well fed, and to this end food in plenty was left in dark corners of the vessel. When the ship arrived in dock the stevedores hearing that a wild animal was at large upon her, hesitated about beginning to unload. In this emergency a telegram was sent to another dealer in wild beasts, asking him to send additional men to capture the hyena, As fate would have it, this dealer was away, and the telegram lay unopened until the next day. In the meantime the stevedores summoned sufficient courage to begin work, and soon found and captured the hyena It was in the hold, and was in splendid condition. How it came into its hiding place could never be explained. Another .unexplained mystery was the loss of a python. The dealer had occasion to send nine pythons across the continent. They are usually sent by threes in a sack, the sacks being put in a large box and the lid nailed down. This time, however, they were sent loose in a box. The dealer himself saw nine put in, but only eight were there at the ehd of the Journey. The box was perfectly tight, and the python could not have gotten out. It was never known what happened, whether one swallowed another?and pythons are not known to do this?or whether the box had been tampered with. Anyhow, the snake was gone. IMPORTANCE OF HEALTHY KIDNEYS Yorkville Readers Should Learn to Keep the Kidneys Welt. The kidneys have a big work to do. All the blood In the body is coursing through the kidneys constantly to be freed of poisonous matter. It is a heavy enough task when the kidneys are well, but a cold, chill, fever or some thoughtless exposure is likely to Irritate, inflame and congest the kidneys and interrupt the purifying work. Then the aching begins, and is usually accompanied by some irregularity of the urine?too frequent passages, sediment or retention. ThouoonHa ?ooHfv tn the wonderful merit of Doan's Kidney Pills, a remedy for the kidneys only, that has been used In kidney troubles 75 years. You will make no mistake In following this Yorkville citizen's advice. W. H. Herndon, Main St., Yorkville, S. C., says: "I was subject to attacks of backache and I was also troubled by irregular passages of the kidney secretions. Doan's Kidney Pills, which I got at the York Drug Store, restored me to good health. I can recommend this remedy highly, for I know that it acts just as represented." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. ToEconomiz Not So In \ Wessoi For Because its quality mak< the superior of butter be if on far avcol UCUlUOC) 11 OV VAVVH tUesson SNOWDRIFT OIL Ncu)0rt^^ ON DEPOSIT 40 YEARS. A Lone Dime Stayed That Long in i New Jereey Bank. There was a sigh of relief among the employes of the Half-Dime Savings Bank. Orange, N. J., at closing time last month, when an account ol 10 cents was closed by a depositor says a New York special. It had beer on the books for the last forty years Frederick Rgncr, assistant cashier, wa* surprised when the man walked Intt the institution today and asked for hit deposit. The man, who is employed by a New Jersey newspaper, was a lad of 12 in 1872 when he deposited a dime which he hoped would be the nuclew for a substantial account. Son aftei he left it with the bank he moved with his family from the city. The deposit was recalled to him and today, while on a business trip to Orange, the man stODDed at th? bank. He showed his original recet and Mr. Egner passed him out a new piece of silver. In the forty years the dime has beer placed to the depositor's account 11 has figured in many balance sheets and its worth has been consumed many times over in the ink. paper and tlmr given it by clerks who had to keej track of it. In all trial balances thai stubborn dime had to be reckoned with and its withdrawal has ended an ode existence rare in banking annals. Af no interest is allowed in Jersey savings banks to sums less than Ji, the solitary coin in Its forty years in bank did not increase. A Profound Linguist.?There had been a fatal accident at the railroad crossing In a little Pennsylvania town, says the Philadelphia Record, and.thf coroner, a pompous old fellow, whe magnified conscientiously both his office and its Incumbent, had Impanelled a jury for the Inquest. There was only one witness of the accident, an Illiterate Slav from the coal mines, who could understand nc English. With him the coroner begar to struggle. "Can you speak German?" he asked The man shook his head. "Can you speak Italian?" continued the official. Again the man shook hit head. "Can you speak Hungarian?" The same response. "Can you speak Russian?" finally asked the coroner. Again the mar shook his head. "It's no use, gentlemen," said the coroner, turning to the Jury. "We can't proceed with the case. I've spoken to this man in five different languages and can't make him understand me." CHEAPEST NITF are p-oduced by the action of bacteria on legumes. Nature's me.hod has been i bacteria to increase their power of pre The COE-MC CHARLESTON, I once more takes the lead in scientnc fert ducing bacteria. Used with Thimas Ph results. 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No man In South Carolina is better prepared to supply the insurance needs of the public than myself, and If you want Life, Accident, Health or Fire Insurance, you will be sure to get a square deal. SAM M. GRIST. Phones?Office: 124; Residence, 77. CITY MEAT MARKET C. F. SHERER, Prop. BEEF There is Beef of various kinds; but I handle only two kinds?Better and BEST, which means Stall Fed and the Dressed Product from the West. PORK AND SAUSAGE? I am putting in a lot of time buying nice hogs and handle Pork In all cuts, and Power Ground Sausage, Pure Pork and Mixed. HAMS AND BACON? Don't forget my Hams and Bacon, by the Pound, by the Strip or by the Ham. The Hams are skinned or Boiled Boneless. Many customers And it convenient to be able to buy a pound at a time. BEEF CATTLE? I am In the market for all the Beef Cattle I can get of the kind and quality I handle. I pay a good price and feed the cattle until ready for slaughter. People who have such cattle should notify me. I want Butter and Eggs?especially Eggs. Yours for Quality, ? C. F. SHERER. i LUMBER i if you need any kind of Lumber, euner unnta or neugn, umn ur Kiln-Dried, come and see us for what you need. We can supply your wants ' at the Right Prices. , If you want Doors, 8ash, Blinds, 1 Frames, Window Weights,, Looks, ' Hinges, Nails or other Building 8up* j plies come and see us before you buy. If you expect to Build or Remodel i \ any buildings see us about the work < before making any contracts. { J. J. KELLER & COMPANY ; i STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of York. In Uio Court of Common Pleas. Adaline Ward, Eliza Irving, Katie Fressly, William Wilson and Llla Wilson, Plaintiffs, against J. C. Wal- ' lace, Robert Tate, Isaac Tate, Brother Tate, the Heirs-at-Law if any of John Wilson, Deceased, names and residences unknown, and the Heirsat-Law if any of Elijah Davis, De- < ceased, names, and residences unknown, Defendants?Amended Sum- ] mons for Relief.?(Complaint Fil- ' ed). j To the Defendants Above Named: YOU are hereby summoned and re- * quired to answer the Complaint j in this action, which has this day been . filed in the office of the Clerk of the , Court of Common Pleas for the said j County, and to serve a copy of your , Answer to the said Complaint on the | subscriber at his office, In Yorkvllle, ( South Carolina, within twenty days a/- . ter the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to , answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action ? will apply to the Court for the relief t demanded in the Complaint. J. S. BRICE, j Plaintiffs' Attorney. Ctk A n -1Q11 L/ttlCll L/CLCIUUi UVI1, rt. L/., *?** NOTICE. To the Absent Defendant, Isaac Tate. Please take notice that the Amended Summons, of which the foregoing Is a copy, together with the Amended Complaint In this action, were filed In the office of J. A. Tate, Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid, at York Court House In Yorkville. S. C., on the 6th day of December. A. D., 1911. J. S. BRICE, Plaintiffs' Attorney. NOTICE. To Isaac Tate: Please take notice that unless you shall In the meantime procure the appointment of a Guardian ad litem, the plaintiffs will after the twentieth day after the service of this Notice upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, apply to J. A. Tate, Clerk of this Court, for an Order appointing some suitable person Guardian ad litem for you the said Isaac Tate, and Instructing said guardian when appointed to appear and defend the action In your behalf. J. S. BRICE. Plaintiffs' Attorney. Yorkville. S. C., December 6th, 1911. 6-17 t 8t W You are measured by the Stationery you send out. Us? The Enquii^r Enquirer kind. ,/ i IIUZED ' fnniej ire TJfa I ^ n Reserve and Capital A savings account answers both purposes. J| It Is a reserve for times of hardship, weakness, and want It is capital for use, when a business proposition offers. We invite your account First National Bank Of Sharon, S. C. FOR SALE A 319 Acres?Joins R. B. Hartness, M. 1 B. Love and others. 1 House, 1-story, 7 6 rooms; 6 tenant houses, all well finished; 1 5-room, 4 3-room; good barn, double crib; hydraulic ram running water to house; 3 good pastures; 116 t acres under cultivation; 150 in timber. Prioe upon application. Property of John T. Feemster. * 20 Adrss?At Filbert. One-story house, 4 rooms; one-half red and other sandy. Price, $1,000.00. 35 Acres?20 acres under cultivation, balance in timber; joins E. Price, Wm. A Burns and R. N. McElwee. Price, $350.00. 11 Aero*?Joins L. Ferguson, Frank ? Smith .1 W TVihnnn 1 hnniA 1 .atnrv BM 6 room*. Price, $1,80040. Se 220 Acres?Near King's Mountain Battleground; 1 house; 1-story, seven rooms, New; 26 acres under cultivation, balance In timber; 6 miles from King's Creek. Good new barn, dressed % lumber; 2 tenant houses, S rooms each. Pries $15.75 per Acre. 74 66-100 Acres?Joins R. J. Davis. Sandy Watson and others. One-story. 5-room house;,barn, cotton house and crib. Pries $1,31250. 200 Aoree?Fronting public road, 1story 4-room house; 4 horse farm open; 75 acres In timber; 2 miles from Roddey. Pries $3000 per Acre. /dw 84-100 Acres Residence of J. J. W Smith, deceased. In Clover, on Klhg's Mountain street; 2 stories 7 rooms; wood house; barn; cow stable; good ? garden; well for stock, near barn. 75 Acres?Level land, 2| miles from i Sharon; 1 house; 40 acres in cultlva- w Hon. Pries $8000 per Acre. Walter O. Hayes. 300 Acres?3i miles from Sharon; a large 8-story brick residence; good well and springs; 8 tenant honaes; 2 cribs; rolling land; Very Cheap. 57 Acrsa?2 miles of Hickory Orovs; on public highway; fronting Southern railway. Price, $2000 an Acre. 153 Acres?Joins T. W. Jackson, L. r. Wood and others; 1 2-story l-room house; 1 tenant house, 4 rooms; f tp. miles of Newport. Prioe, $2100 Acre. A beautiful lot and residence of Mrs. Ada E. Faulconer. On Bast Liberty itreet, 100 feet front, about 400 feet Seep; joins Rev. E. E. Gillespie and Hon. G. W. S. Hart. Prioe on Application. . 180 Acres?24 acres bottom land; 1 dwelling house, 11-2 story, 5 rooms: Hne barn; 1 tenant house. Prioe, $11 in Acre. J. C. WILBORN. Yorkville, 8. C. TAX RETURNS FOR 1912 Office of the County Auditor of York County, South Carolina. Yorkville, S. C., December 1,1911. AS required by statute my books will be opened at my office in VHn Yorkville on MONDAY, JANUARY 1, L 912. and kept open until FEBRUARY N SO, 1912, for the purpose of listing for axatlon all PERSONAL and REAL PROPERTY held in York county on lanuary 1. 1912. All returns must be made in regular 'orm and it is preferable that they be nade by the property owner In person ;o me or my assistant, direct, on * >lanks provided for the purpose. The -eturns must be duly sworn to either jefore me or my assistant, or some >ther officer qualified to administer in oath. All items of realty, whether farms, >r town lots, must be listed separately. W Returns made on proper blanks, and iworn to before an officer qualified to idminister an oath and forwarded to ne by registered mall before February !0, 1912, will be accepted. All taxpayers are .particularly reluested to Inform themselves as to the lumber of their respective school dlsricts, and where they have property n more than one school district, they vill please make separate returns inlicating the location of each piece of iroperty. The school districts In which here are special levies are as follows: * 4 s'oa. 22, 23 and and 27, In Bethel ownshlp; Nos. 6, 13, 14, 29; 33 and 13 in Bethesda township; Nos. 9, 20, 18, 40 and 44 in Broad River townihip; Nos. 9. 15, 20, 38 and 48 in Bui- a ock's Creek township; Nos. 12, 4B ?| ind 46 In Catawba, township, Nos.7, 12, 32. 35. 36 and 43 In Bbeneser ownshlp; Nos. 26, 28 and 39. In Fort m dill township; Nos. 2, 21, 22. 37, 41. ^ 14 and 49 in King's Mountain townihip; Nos. 11, 20. 21, 33, 35. 42, 43. 17, 48 and 49 in York township. And at Yorkville from Thursday, Tebruary 1, until Tuesday, February !0. All males between the ages of tweny-one and sixty years, except Confedsrate soldiers over the age of fifty rears, are liable to a poll tax of $1, and til persons so liable are especially reluested to give the numbers of their a espectlve school districts In making % T heir returns. ,V It will be a matter of much accomnodation to me if as many taxpayers is possible will meet me at the restectlve appointments mentioned above. 10 as to avoid the rush at Yorkville luring the closing days. ? BROADUS M. LOVE. . County Auditor. 96 f 4t J A