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T " * • ; . v;- IPP* ■^£Wr- - An Ordinance to rai&e supplies for 1905 1906. the vear Be it ordained by the Mayor and Alder men of Gaffney, in council assembled, and by authority of the same, that a tax to cover the expenses of the said town from the first Tuesday in March, 1905, to the first Tuesday in March, 1906, be levied and collected in manner and form follow- ing: Section 1. There shall be paid on each dollar of the assessed value of all real estate and personal property, the sum of eight mills for general purposes; and the sum of two mills for the payment of in terest on town hall, electric light ami water works bonds, making a total of ten mills. Section 2. That each and every able bodied male ]>erson between the ages of 18 and 50 years, except such persons as are exempted by the State law, shall pay on or before the first Tuesday in March, 1905, the sum of two dollars for road and street exemption; and any person liable to the said tax who shall fail to pay the same within the time specified shall be required to work the streets of the said town six day* under the direction of the street overseer; and any person liablef or said tax and fails to perform the said la bor, shall be,l|pon conviction thereof, fined in a sum not greater than ten dollars or imprisonment not more than twenty days. ITINERANT TRADERS AND AUCT IONEERS. Section 3. That not exceeding twenty- five dollars, within the discretion ot the Mayor, shall be paid per day by every itinerant trader or auctioneer offering for sale within the corporate limits of the town of Gaffney, at auction or otherwise, any goods, wares, or merchandise to others than the trade, to be paid each day in advance, and every itinerant trad er or auctioneer liable to said tax who shall fail to pay the same as herein pro vided, shall be fined not more than #40.00 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days for each and every day or fraction thereof he shall so offend; provided this section shall not be held to apply to deal ers in grains, fruits, poultry, earthenware or manufactures of like character raised or produced on the vender’s own farm. SPECIAL TAXES. •Section 4. No person, firm or corpor ation shall engage in, prosecute or carry on any business or profession hereinafter mentioned without first having paid a special tax therefor, as follows, to wit: Agents for or dealers In fertilizers for sale 100 tons or less I 5 00 Agents for or dealers In fertilizers from 100 to.2U0 tons 10 00 Agents for or dealers In fertilizers for each additlonol 100 tons or fraction thereof over 200 tons 2 50 Agents, resident or itinerant, soliciting mill operatives to leave employers or go elsewhere • • • 25 00 Agents selling or dealing In patent rights, whether In store or on the streets 25 00 Agents or dealers in sewing machines. 25 00 Architect, Surveyor, Civil Engineer, or either. 10 00 Auctioneer 5 00 Auctioneer replenishing stock from time to time as the same becomes di minished 50 00 5 00 admission is 00 5 00 Doelor in wagons, other vehicles, ex cept manufacturers 10 00 Dentist 10 00 Dyer 0 On F.xch' nge. bucket shop, firm or indi vidual carrying on the business of dealing in options or futures in cot ton, grain, provlsi jus or other sup plies, on margins or otherw ise if*' 00 Exhibitions outsldeof oper-* house, per day, not exceeding 10 0> Express company for business done within the State and riot including t hat done without 11re State, and not government business .. X» 00 Fairs, concerts or festixals, except for religious or benevolent purposes, per day 00 Fresh fish and oyster*.or either, not sold In connection with market by regular market licensed men 5 flO Fruit trees, agents for. per day 1 00 Tire same, per week 5 00 I Ciuii and locksmith repair shop 1 00 ; lias Utters, plumbers or electric wir ing > 5 00 Harness shop, repair only 1 00 Horses, persons selling at auction, per day 25 00 Hotel 25 00 Ice cream saloon or peddler 2 50 lee dealer, retailer 5 00 Insurance company, fire. life, health or live stock, and each insurance com pany of any kind, or any company or corporation or si ciety having insur ance features other than charitable, and every agent or agency for such . 15 00 Individuals ouying from merchants and selling to the trade on time 10 00 Kerosene Oil Company or agent or agency for same... 75 00 Land company, selling its own land exclusively i£* 25 00 Laundry, Steam 15 00 Laundry, agent for 15 00 Lawyer 10 00 Lawyer also lending money for self or others. In addition 30 00 Loans, saving* and investment com pany. lending money on real estate or otherwise, and similar companies, agent or attorney for same 25 00 Lunch dealer 2 CO Lime works 35 00 Machine shop, or foundry, or either. 75c for each fl,000 capital stock. Marble yard or agency for same 10 00 Merchants shall pay license according to tlie following gross sales: Under fl.000 5 00 Over fl.000 to 82,500 10 00 Over 82.500 to f5,(*X) 15 00 Over $5,000 to $10,000 20 00 For each fl.000 over f10.000 25 00 Mills, grist or flour 5 0( Mills, saw 5 0* M jney lender, other than bank or law yer 30 0* Newspaper less frequent than daily... 10 00 Oculist or optician, itinerant, per day . 5 00 Opera house, per year 25 00 Fainting, contractor for. (sub-contract ors shall be liable for a similar license 5 00 Paper hanger or upholsterer 5 00 Photographer 10 00 Photographer, itinerant, per week or fraction thereof 5 00 Physician 10 00 Pliyslclan, itinerant 10 00 Pianos, organs and other musical in struments, or either of them, dealer In 25 00 Merchants selling placos, organs or oti^er musical instruments Instore... 10 00 Same, itinerant. 25 00 Pianos and organs, tuner and repairer of, or either, itinerant 5 00 Planing mill or machine 5 00 Printing office, or Job alone 5 00 Railroads, for business done within the State, and not including that done without the State, or inter state com merce, and not including.ti.at done for the government 200 (X) Restaurant 10 00 Stove repairer 5 op Sewing machine repairer 5 00 Stoves, itinerant dealer In. 5 00 Street drummer 25 00 Street wagon or dray, 2-horse 10 Ot) Street wagon or dray, 1-horse. 5 00 Shooting gallery per day, 82.00; per year 25 00 Skating rink 10 00 Soda fountain or goose neck connected with other business, oralone Stables, keeping vehicles and horses for hire, uut’er one roof Stables, feed and sale, under one roof.. Stables, feed and sale, under one roof, keeping horses and vehicles for hire.. 30 00 Tenpin alley 25 00 No person shall let or hire any wagon or dray or other carriage or vehicle for transporting passengers or goods within the limits of the town without first hav ing obtained a badge from town clerk, paying therefor fifty cents, under a pen ally of * PARCELS POST. And Other Features of the Proposed Postal Legislation Discussed. The proposed revision of the United States postal laws permitting the; transmission through the mails of all parcels not exceeding eleven pounds in weight was severely scored by T L. Grigg of the Drygoodsman at the • annual banquet of the St. Louis Adver tising Men’s league held recently in that city. Forty of the leading local advertis ing writers, relaxing from the tremen dous press^*' of the holidy season, sat comfortably about the board and gave to Mr. Grigg their undivided at tention. He is well versed in the mail order business, ami his views created general comment. Summarized, they were to the effect that postal laws permitting eleven pound packages to he sent through the mails at 5 cents for the first pound would work great injustice to all com munities wherein the dealers were competing with New York. Consumers coul i, he stated, secure catalogues and land goods in their homes at rates that would exclude the local merchants from the field entire ly, he being forced, buying in quanti-; ties, to pay heavy freight and express ; rates. Have Only Themselves to Blame. [New York American.] There are lots of girls who cannot get lovers, but why? They are nice enough girls. And all their friends like them; good looking, too, perhaps, yet lovers they cannot get. For all that they desire lovers—every girl does—and marvel why they should be left out in the cold. The probability is that they have themselves to blame. They may not go the right way about it. It takes a deal of science to really attract a man in these times. On the other hand, their tongues may be re- sponsible; again, their style of dress ing may keep the young men away. Regarding this latter—the dressing— van may wonder how that can keep a man from classing a certain girl as 0 sweetheart. Well, I will try to ex- • lain. Now, suppose a youth is earning a certain salary—perhaps enough to keep himself and wife in compara tive comfort, yet not sufflicent to per mit of any extravagance. What is he apt to conclude if he observes the girl he would like to make his wife everlastingly appearing in new clothes. If he is sensible he will readily decide that she is not for him, his salary could not stand a constant supplying of new dresses, and very likely he comes to another conclusion—that the girl, did she marry him, would be discon tented with her lot if he did not keep her in the style to which she had been accustomed. Perhaps not one girl In twenty has ever dreamed that the too frequent new gowns she is proud of are actu ally destroying her chances of getting a husband, and she should know for a fact that It is so, has been so and will be so. THE DISSATISFIED ONES. L1v**m l*>- a I’i-iiIf lt*«« f.oneinK l-’or Olli«*r I'I>1(1 n. Everywhere we find people who are disvnli.s(i:>d with their lot who think they x^ould be happy if they could only get somewhere else, into some other jccupation. They only the thorns in their own vocations, the roses in those of others. The shopgirl would be an actress; the cook would change places with her mistress, the butler t with his master, rhe lawyer would be a doctor, the doctor a lawyer. The farmer bemoans bis hard lot and longs to exchange ids life of drudgery for the career of the merchant or the man ufacturer. The country boy leans on his plow handle and looks toward the city with hungry eyes. If he could only be free from the slavery of the farm, he thinks, wear good clothes, get hold of a yardstick and stand behind a counter! Happiness, opportunity, for tune—everything, lies yonder; around him misery, toil, poverty—nothing de sirable. A city youth behind a counter or sitting on a high office stool rails at fate for confining him to the limits of brick walls and the dreary details of merchandise, buying and selling, or of figuring up accounts. Oh, if he could anly go to sea and travel to distant jountries. become a captain in the na ry or skipper or owner of a merchant ressei! Life would be worth something then. But now— How much energy has been lost, how many lives have been spoiled by this fruitless longing for other fields, other opportunities out of reach. What is the use of sighing or dreaming of what you would do if you were in somebody else’s place? What is the use of trying to reach into your neighbor’s (imture when you do not know’ what bitterness may iie at the root of it. bidden from your sight, when you have never tried to develop or to call out the sweetness and juiciness which thrive in your own?—O. S. Marden in Success. THE DISCOVERER Df Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, the Great Woman’s Remedy for Woman’s Ills* '// IT % Vi SALT LAKE WATER. 5 00 5 00 25 00 Baker Balls, public, when charged, pjr night Banks, private. State or savings, $1.00 foreaci’ fi,000capital stock. Hanks, national, $100 for each $1,000 capital stock. Barber, 1 chair Barber, 2d chair 2 50 Barber, for each additional chair 1 00 Bicycles, dealers in or agents for the sale of 10 00 Bicycles, persons running establish ment for hiring or renting 5 00 Bill Posters, local or itinerant 10 00 Blacksmith, for one forge 5 (X) Blacksmith, for each additional forge 1 00 Boarding House, private, except for students or factory operatives exclu sively •> d0 Bootor shoe shop, making or repairing 2 50 Brick manufacturer 15 00 Broker, dealing In bonds or stocks alone 25 00 Broker, dealer in cattle, bon es or other live stock, not paying a license for sale stable or stock yard, per day 2 50 _ ^ - The same per year 25 00 that such vehicle shall run, or five days Broker, merchandise 10 00: imprisonment for each day so run. Broker, pawn 50 00 Street railway or dummy line. 35 00 Billiard, pool or bigatelle table, for Tailor, mercliant or manufacturer 10 00 one table 25 00 1 Telegraph company or agency for busi- For each additional table 15 00 ness done within the State, and not Building aud Loan Associations, or j including business done without the agents for the same 15 00 , state, or for tlie government 25 00 Butcher, dealers in meats, fresh or salt Tin or tinker shop 5 00 less than 20 days old 20 00 Telephone exchange 25 00 Boot black 1 00 Telephone office 10 O0 Chiropodist, per day 1 00 Tatmery 2 50 Circus or menagerie, per day In ad- I Undertaker 15 00 vance $50 00 to$150.00 in the dlscre- Veterinary surgeon 5(0 tlon of the mayor Watchmaker and Jeweler, for repairing ally of five dollars for each and every day Circus, side show, per day In advance. Circus street parade, in advance not more than 850.00. In the discretion of the mayor 15 00 and selling, or either 10 (X) Warehouse, storage 10 (XI W<x>d yard or dealer 10 00 All licenses issued by the clerk, as Any person or persons who shall ex- herein provided, if to be a firm, shall hibit or assist iu exhibiting any circus ! contain the name of the firm proposing or menageries in said town without first to do business under same, and also all having paid the license tax therefot, the names of individuals composing such shall each be liable to a fine of $100.00 , firm. If to a corporation it shall contain or imprisonment not more than 30 days ' the name of tlie corporation and tire for each day or fraction thereof such names of the officers of same, show or exhibition continues. ! ^ n y p erson or persons carrying on Coal dealer 10 (xi business or occupation or running any Coal and wood dealer 15 oo establishment or business named in this Commission merchant ,w I or preceding sections, without having Contractors for contracts less than ^ taken out a license therefor, as herein $ : -’ rj0 - 00 • " 50 provided, shall be fined, except iu cases Contractors for contracts less than where special penalties are imposed, tlie The Girl That Laugh*. (Exchange.) Girls spend considerable time try ing to find out how to be popular. It is natural that a girl should seek ap proval and admiration. Her popu larity means a good time, boxes of candy, theatres, dances, flowers—ev erything that the hearts of the young people delight in. The girl that is popular is the girl who laughs. Not the girl that sim pers and puckers or giggles, but the girl that laughs and means it. The girl that laughs can have candy and flowers and theatres every day ’n the week. Men flock about her. They adore her. She laughs herself straight in to the hearts of beaux and admirers and straight into all the good times that a girl can dream of. She laughs, but she is careful when she laughs. She laughs with her beaux at what they say when they say it, but never afterward. She never laughs at any one’s blunders or misfortunes. Women forget to worry when they hear the cheerful girl’s laugh. Old men are warmed at the sound of it. young men listen and follow it; pay court to it, marry it. For i is the laugh that keeps the heart young, the laugh that keeps the face bright. $5(XUH) 5 00 Contractors' for contracts for over $50(l.(X) and less than 82,5(X>.(X) 10 (X) Contractors for over $2.5<jo.(Xl 25 00 Sub-contractors shall be liable for a like license tax Cotton seed oil mill, 75c for each ft.COO (X) capital stock Cotton factory 75c for each $1,000.00 capital stock Cotton »iln and press For each additional press Dons to la; paid for by the person or persons on whose place the dox is kept 20.00 5 on sum of not more than twenty-five dollars per day or fraction thereof, or be impris oned in the town prison or county jad, or l>e sentenced to hard lalxxr on tlie streets or other public works of tlie town for a period of not more than five days for each and every day or fraction there of such busines*, occupation or profes sion is carried on without such license. specified in II be (xi: Except where otherwise s the foregoing, no license shalf be issued for a less period than one year from the date thereof, and shall date from first of month in which said license is issued. The police of the Town of Gaffney are For any business, calling, occupation hereby authorized and empowered to ! or profession not enumerated in the fore- seize and confine every dog running at : going, a license tax of not more than large and not having on the town badge twenty-five dollars shall l>e paid to the for current year; and for every dog so clerk by person, firm or corporation en- taken by the” police #1.00 additional shall be paid. Dealer In building supplies- gaged or running same. All licenses issued under this ordinance shall be posted in a conspicuous place on prem. ises where business or profession is car ried on, and subject at any and all times to inspection by the officers of the town. Any person or persons failing to post said license shall be subject to a fine of not more than five dollars or imprison ment for not more than ten days. Section 6. The tax on real and per sonal property provided for in this ordi nance shall be paid on or before the first Tuesday in March, 1905, and any person liable for the same who shall fail to pay the same on or before the said date, shall be liable to a penalty of 20 per cent, of such tax, and the tax and the penalty with tlie costs shall lie collected by exe cution or other legal process. Any person, firm or officer of any oc cupation making any false or fraudulent returns where a return under oatli is by this oreinauce required, shall, ut on con viction. be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned not more than thirty days nor less than twenty days at the discietion of the mayor. Section 7. Any person, firm or cor poration liable to the license tax herein- before set forth, whose said tax is regu lated by the amount of business done or the amount of stock carried, is required to make a return under oath to the clerk of the town council on or before the first 1 uesday in March, 1905, and on failure so to do such person or the officer or agent of such firm or corporation shall lie liable to a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment not ex ceeding thirty days for each and every day or fraction thereof such person, or officer, or agent aforesaid shall be in de limit ot making such return. Section 8. All licenses issued under the foregoing section* are NON-TRANS- FEKABLE AND WILL ONLY PRO TECT THOSE TO WHOM THEY ARE ISSUED Done and ratified in town council semhled this the 9th January, 1905, R. M. GAFFNEY, Mayor. W. H. Ross, Town Clerk. [Seal.] Effect of Its Wonderful Buoyancy on Bodies and Boats. The buoyancy of the water of the Great Salt lake is such that it is al most Impossible for a person to remain upright in it, his body being lifted as a strip of wood thrown into the water at a vertical or oblique direction like a dart Is returned to the surface in a horizontal position. In fact, it is be lieved that the Great Sait lake will support more xveight to a given volume of water than even the Dead sea. It is a very popular resort with bathers for the reason that it is impossible for a person to drown unless he should deliberately place his head under the surface or tie a weight to his feet The bather can float upon the water, lying on his back or chest, and keep his head entirely above tlie surface with no ef- 1 fort of the arms or legs. The large quantity of salt in solution is the prin cipal reason for tlie buoyancy. While j the buoyancy of the water is so great that it will support a person without aid, the boats which are designed to be used upou tlie lake must be con structed especially to counteract this feature. The ordinary wooden vessel when empty is actually too light to be navigated with safety upon it. since such a small portion of it would be j immersed. Therefore care has to be I taken, in building sailboats especially, lest they be top heavy. For this reason navigation is very dangerous on the lake wheu the wind is blowing even moderately unless the vessel is loaded ' so that it sits deep enough in the wa ter to counteract the buoyant tendency. The quantity of salt hef^^n solution is so great that it is dangerous for one to swallow even a monthful of the water, as it is liable to cause strangula tion. Several deaths from this cause have ensued among persons who have ventured into the lake.—Chambers’ j Journal. t I Very Old Tree*. An old yew tree stands in the church yard at Fortlngal, in Perthshire, which De Candolle nearly a century ago proved to the satisfaction of botanists to be twenty-five centuries old, and an other is still standing at Hedsor, in Bu- clas. which is 3,240 years old. How De Candolle arrived at an apparently cor rect estimate of the enormous age of these living trees is a simple thing, and the principle is doubtless well known today to all. The yew. like most other trees, adds one line, about the tenth of an inch, to its circumference each year. But the oldest living thing in the world today as far as known is a cypress tree in Chapultepec. Mexico, that is 0,260 years old. Fame. Schumann, the famous musician, is the principal character of an amusing story told by a Vienna critic: “The corajKiser once accompanied bis wife, who was even then a celebrated pi anist. to the palace when she went to play before the king of Holland and waGratified by the monarch’s com pliments of her performance. The com poser was somewhat surprised, how ever. when the king turned to him and courteously inquired, ‘Are you also mu sical?* ’* No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and Unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts uf grateful friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration. Falling and Displacement of the Womb, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. It has cured more cases of Backache and Leucorrhoea than any other rem edy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels tumors from the Uterus in an early stage of de velopment. Irregular, Suppressed or Painful Menstruation, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostration. Headache. General Debil ity quickly yield to it. Womb troubles, causing pain, weight and backache, in stantly relieved and permanently’ cured by its use. Under all circumstances it invigorates the female system, and is as harmless as water. It quickly removes that Bearing-down Feeling, extreme lassitude, “don’t care’’ and “want-to-be-left-alone” feeling, excitability, irritability, nervous ness, Dizziness, Faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the “ blues n end headache. These are sure indications of Female Weakness, or some de rangement of the Uterus, which this medicine always cures. Kidney Complaints and Backache, of either sex, the Vegetable Compound always cures. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want—a cure. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Refuse all substitutes. SPECIALSI I will offer, until closed out my entire line of Ladies’ and Misses Jackets and Ladies’ Coat Suits at greatly reduced prices. Don’t fail to see them if you are looking for bargains. Ladies’ Under Skirts from $1.00 to $5.00, All styles in Rubbers for Men, Ladies and Misses. A few Men’s Youths’ and Boys’ Overcoats left which will be closed out at bargain prices. I can fit all sizes in Clothing, both in quality aud price. Men’s all Wool Sweaters $1.00. Blankets 60 cents per pair up. Quilts from $1.00 to $2.00 each. Shoes to fit everybody from the wee tot to a 13 size for Men. Corload Barbed Wire and Nails at away down price. See me for anything usually kept in a first-class general store and I will do your pocket book good. Thanking all my friends and customers for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon me and wishing all a happy and prosperous New Year. I am yours for more business, J. I. SARRATTV. Tit Gaffney City Uni ao( Impmimint Cl. Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney; also Farms ne by and in reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, in lots of 80 to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm .purposes For full particulars apply to J. V. SARRATT, Agent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through or over the lands of thl* company, cutting and removing- timber or Ashing, hunting, under penaltv of law. Dared. “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” “Well, I H’pone I eat more Wiener wurst than anything else. Now, con found you. go on with your theory if you’ve got the nerve.”—Chicago Bec- ord-Herald. wW- FERTILIZERS;^ “dokk it VIKCiKiA'CARr.lHA COMICAL £0*5 i iAU.5 C rtcu: 1 f*M«|AN,$A. NCMdnift.ttttM Wi ( A"urrA.f*A. at gua*. u.c. j[ »UMTC0*tWV, AU’* $IG«rCtm,Vd. ouiucroif. s.c. *c««o**0.va. n m. as- At the Cotillon. Elderly Lady (watching the dancers) —How well Mr. Heavyweight dances! He la ao light on his feet. Young Lady (who has had experience)— Humphi I wish he were the same on other people’s.- Smart Set. mi For Sale The entire business of the Acme Furniture Co., including the stock of W. V. Humphries ifc Co., will be closed out at the earliest date possible. Any one wishing to engage in business of this kind will find this a splendid opportunity. How ever, we will lose no time wait ing for a purchaser of this kind, but will begin closing out at ouce. Now r is your time to ave money and you may not have a like opportunity again soon. All parties owing bills are ■requested to call and settle • promptly. Yours truly, If your Dottier cannot Supply You. Write Utt. Am Furniture Co.