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f r tax returns. The office will be opened on the trst day of Januray. 1907, for the earpose of receiving returns taxable property for the year 1907. 1 will be in the Auditor’s office at Gaffney from the first day of Jan uary 1907 to the 6th day of January 1907. I will be at Draytonvllle, Monday 7th, from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Wilkinsville, Tuesday 8, from 10 A M. to 3 P. M. Sarratts. Wednesday. 9, from 10 A. M, to 3 P. M. Asbury. Thursday, 10, from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Ravenna. Friday 11, from 10 A. it. t 3 P. M Websters. Saturday 12, from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Thickety. Smith’s store, Monday 14, from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. White Plains. M. C. Lipscomb’s. Tuesday, 15 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Macedonia, E. P. Richards, Wed nesday. 16 from 10 to 3 P. M. Butlers, Thursday 17, from 19 A. M. to 3 P. M. Ezells. Geo. D. Scruggs’, Friday, 18 from 10 to 3 P. M. Maud, R. E. Linder’s, Saturday, 19 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Cherokee Falls, Monday, 21 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. King's Creek. Tuesday, 22 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Antioch Church, Wednesday, 23 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Blacksburg, Thursday and Friday, 24 and 26 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M Buffalo school house, Saturday, 26 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Allens. Monday, 28 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Grassy Pond. Tuesday, 29 from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. At the office at Gaffney till the 20th of February, 1907, at which time the time expires without the penalty. All persons are required at the time of making returns to state in what school district they live. W. D. Camp, Auditor. Star Theatre ONE NIGHT ONLY, TUESDAY, DEC. FATE AND ANDREW JACKSON. JOE W. SPEAR’S FAMOUS COMEDY “The Irish Pawnbrokers” With the Farce Comedy'[Star Trium- viate MURPHY&MURPHY AND MAZIE 111 MUSIC FUN SPECIALTIES 1 un PRICES, 25c, 50c, 75c. Fire, Life, Accident, Health Insur ance Surety Bonds. J. Darby NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that on Fri day, December 21st, next, we will ap ply to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge, at his office in the Court House Gaffney. S. C., at 10 o’clocb a. m., for final settlement and discharge, as Administrators of the estate of W. J. Hopper deceased. Mrs. D. J. Hopper, C. C. Hopper, Admrs Estate W. J. Hopper. Deed. Pub in Gaffney Ledger Nov. 27, Doc. 4. 11 6 18, 1906. HOLLISTER’S Rteky Mountain Ton Nuggets A Busy Medicine hr Busy People. Brins* Golden Health *nd Renewed Vigor. A •peoifle tor Constipation. Indigestion. Live, and Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood. Bed Breath. Sluggish Bowels. Headache end Backache. IU Kocky Mountain Tee In tab let form. 88 cents e box. Genuine made by Hoixistbb Dkco Compawt. Madison, Wit. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE DON'T FORGET I you oaa be cured of Oaner, Te- I I mor or Chronic OM Bores. Tea I I thousand omos treated. It la the I I sweet cure on earth. Delay to I I fatal. How to he cured? Joat I I write 9 I O. B. GLADDEN, Greyer. N. C. I What Going West, Not East, Meant to the Fiery Lawyer. During the young manhood of Andrew Jackson, when he rode the circuit in Tennessee, knowing more law than most off is brethren at the bar, afraid of ziothing on earth, ready to challenge to a duel some trained lawyer from the older set tlements when that lawyer tres passed upon his own preserves and made fun of his ignoranoe—as Waightstill Avery did—thus hold ing his ground against all coiners, partly by brute force and partly by mental superiority, he was probably nearer to happiness than he ever was afterward. Prom court to court he rode his race horse, pistols in holsters, carry ing his gun and his pack of hounds, ready for the courthouse, ready for the deer chase, ready for the shoot ing match, ready for the horse race, ready for the house raising and log rolling, ready to go out himself and drag into the courthouse the des perado whom the aherlff feared to arrest. Bough and tumble times these were in backwoods Tennessee, with rude and lawless elements boiling and bubbling in that ineritable pe riod of unrest and struggle which prevails in border settlements be fore the community takes form and everybody smugly congratulates everybody else on the “reign of law and order/* In just such a state of society young Jackson was peculiarly fitted to lead, dominate and prosper. Had he gone eastward instead of westward, had he oast in his lot with the lawyerk that were striving for advancement in the cities of the original thirteen seaboard states, notning is more certain than that the world would never have heard of him. His lack of knowledge of the law would have made him easy prey to those who were masters of tins pro fession. His fiery temper would have kept him constantly in battle array, and in fighting those lawyers who got the better or him in the ci tation of legal authorities he would, in tho nature of things, have met the wrong man sooner or later.— Watson’s Magazine. Two Famous Kisses. History has taken notice of some famous kisses. There was that which Queen Margaret gave to Alain Chartier over 300 years ago, the memory of which is fresh in the minds of men if not on their lips. Chartier was a poet, but he was the Ugliest man personally in all “the •ttnny land of France.** The queen, with her maids, one day founa him asleep and, bending over him, kissed his dreaming lips. Turning to her maids, she prettily said: “I kiss not the man. I kiss the soul that sings.” Two centuries later Voltaire, an other Frenchman and also a poet, was publicly kissed in the stage box of the theater by the voung and lovely Countess de Yillars, but in his case the lady gave the kiss not as a voluntary tribute to genius, but in obedience to the commands of the claque in the pit, who, mad with enthusiasm for the poet’s “Me- rope,” bade her kiss him. Baited the Wrong Fish. It happens sometimes that the cure is worse than the disease. It was in the case of the mother who tried to break her little Theodore of the habit of taking sweets off the sideboard. ‘‘We often have bon bons when there are guests to lunch- ; eon,” she said, “and although Theo dore promises not to touch them he always does.” <r V ou might do as I did in the same circumstances,” suggested the neighbor, smiling reminiscently. “What did you do ?’* “I carefully removed the inside filling from a chocolate drop and stuffed the shell with red pepper.” “Did it work?” “It might have worked,” replied the neighbor, “if Johnny had Hap pened to spy it. As it was, I forgot all about it in the press of other matters, and at dinner time the guest of the evening got it.** Conscientious. At a cricket match, Married ver- •us Single, the former took first in nings, and chiefly by the aid of some blind hits by one of the players, named Jones, made a score of 84. Just as the bachelors were about to commence their innings news of a local railway accident, in which some of tho passengers had been killed, reached the field. “I’m in a bit of a quandary,” said Jones to the curate who had organ ized the match. “My missus was in that train.” “Dear me. I’m sorry to hear it,” was the reply. “You are anxious to get away, of course?” “Well, no, sir. It ain’t that. I was only thinking if anything has happened to my Mary I ought to be pleying for the single chape.**—Lon don Queen RIGHTS UNDER A PATENT. Each of tho Thro* Constitutes a Sepa rate Monopoly. To make, to use aud to sell are the only ways in which an invention is capable of commercial enjoyment. The patentee can, if he wishes, sit down and not only not use the in vention himself, but prevent others from making or using or selling the patented thing. If any one else makes, uses or sells the subject of the patent the courts will grant the patentee an injunction against fur ther infringement and a recovery of the profits made. Each of these three rights—to make, to use and to sell—-u a sep arate monopoly and may, by proper instruments, be granted or sold sep arately. For instance, a patentee of a machine could grant to a manu facturer the exclusive right to make the machines for him (of course un der proper restrictions as to price, etc.), and the manufacturer would be an infringer if he used the ma chines or sold them to others. The patentee could then grant to a job- oer the exclusive rignt to sell the machines (reserving proper compen sation to himself, such as a percent age of the profits), and the jobber would be an infringer if he either made or used the machine. The exclusive right to use the machines could then he granted to a given consumer, who m turn would nave no right to make or sell the ma chines. The exclusive right to use ai\ in vention for each of several given purposes can be separately solcL For instance, a patentee of a process for making watch dials not only sold the exclusive right to make watch dials by that process, but he also sold to a separate company the ex clusive right to use the process in making enameled signs under the same patent. The watch manufac turer would have been an infringer if he had made signs and, vice versa, the sign manufacturer would have been restrained from making watch dials. A process of drying gunpowder was found to be applicable to dry ing breakfast foods, and the owners, after getting all they had ever look ed for from the patent from the gunpowder rights, reaped a second and unexpected harvest from the sale of the rights for breakfast foods. The rights under a patent for a machine can be divided in the same wav.- -Edwin J. Prindle in Engineering Magazine. The Lest Bulletin. The editor of a newspaper in a small eastern town had occasion to visit Washington a day or two after President McKinley was shot and was greatly impressed by the bulle tin boards containing the hourly condition of the president. Imme diately after his return he had a bulletin board made and placed in front of his office. For awhile he had no use for the board, but the opportunity came when Deacon Jones, one of the leading men of the town, became ill. The following is the way the board appeared: Monday, 10 a. m.—Deacon Jones quite sick. Monday, 1 p. m.—Deacon Jones luus slight rally. Monday, 5 p. m.—Deacon Jones worse. Tuesday, 9 a. in.—Deacon Jones very much worse—family has been summoned. Tuesday, 11a. m.—Deacon Jones has died and gone to heaven. Fu neral at 3. When the mourners returned j from the funeral they were startled by another notice made by a wag- I gish traveling man: Tuesday, 5 p. m.—Great excite ment in heaven. Deacon Jones not yet arrived. An III Timed Lecture. “There was once a minister in Hartford,” said Mark Twain, “who had a lot of boys in his Sunday school who were in the habit of staying away on the Sunday when the big steamer City of Hartford docked in the morning. One Sun day the minister came down to Sun day school and found all the boys there. He wfcs profoundly affected. "Boys/ he said, 70U cannot imagine how much this exhibition of loyalty on your part to the Sunday school Affects me. When I eame by the dock this morning and saw the City of Hartford there*— “ ‘Gee whiz!’ shouted the boys in chorus. Ts she in?’ And they left in a body.” A Thoughtful Offioor. Some years ago a battery of artil lery was at gun practice at Bermu da. One of the guns, a thirty-eight ton, was found to have a serious flaw. The officer in charge, not car ing to risk half a dozen valuable lives, inquired, “Sergeant, have we any time expired men here?” “Yes, •ir,” answered the sergeant. “John Jackson has just completed his time.” “Well, then,” replied the thoughtful officer, “John Jackson will fire, the gun.” And John Jack- son did fire the gun, happily with no fatal result. JOYS OF THE SIGHTLESS The Blind Take More Pleasure In Travel Than Many Suppose. A blind man was making a tour of the New England coast on his va cation. In Maine, in the pretty vil lage of Castine, a lady said as she waited with him at the pier: “What pleasure is there in travel “More pleasure than you think,” he replied. *‘l enjoy this fine, in vigorating wind from the sea aa well as you do. The noise of the water is as pleasant to me as to you, and the warmth of the sunshine is as agreeable, and when we get aboard the boat do you think I shan’t appreciate the swift sail sea ward? “The blind are not so blind as the world imagines. When I walk the streets I know the shops I am pass ing by their odors. Meat, perfumes, tobacco, leather and flowers tell me as well as eyes would that a butch er’s, a tobacconist’s, a shoemaker’s or a florist’s is near. “So it is in the country. A spicy smell tells me I am in a grove of pines. The sweet breath of new mown hay floats from the meadows, and in fancy I see the haymakers. The wild black lorries have their pungent odor, and it is easy to know the presence of the wild honey suckle. The lowing cows, the neigh of a horse, the bleating of aheep tall me the occupants of the field I pass, and the gurgle of water as sures me that in that field is a run ning brook. “Do you wonder how a blind man makes his way in a crowded street? I will tell you. He walks fearlessly as long as he hears nothing, but when the sound of approaching footsteps reaches him he turns a little to the right and passes by without delay and without collision. Farther on he meets children. Chil dren are easy to recognize by their noisy prattle and their light, quick, irregular steps. And the blind man, knowing that it is difficult to count with any degree of certainty upon the actions of these little people, goes very prudently, creeping along at a snail’s pare until the children are passed. “He knows a street crossing by the increased violence of the wind, the louder noises and the gradual descent of the pavement for some fortv or fifty feet. He knows when he draws near a wall or big station ary object by the different sound hia steps have and by the different feel to his flesh of the air, which is much more compressed. “A blind man gets along better on a dark night than at any other time, for then all the world goes cautiously and slowly, and there is little danger of being run over or run down.”—St. Louis Globe-Demo orat. Study of tho Wild. There is no more healthful and instructive recreation for the intel ligent boy (or man, either, for that matter) than that which is easily obtainable by studying the ways of the wild things that inhabit the swamps, wmods and forests in the vicinity of the town in which he lives. It is good for brain, nerves, eves and muscles. It is good foi tne disposition, too, for the more you know of any living creatures (except beasts of prey, rattlesnakes and such) the less inclined to do them an injury. Ignorance is the parent of cruelty. One need not seek the great forests of the north and w r est to study wild things and their ways. The habits of many in teresting birds and smaller wild ani mals may he studied at the expense of a not very long walk by the dwellers in most country towns all over the United States and Canada. —Field and Stream. THE GREAT 10 Per Cent. Sale SSZSSS Is NOW IN PROGRESS AT THE and will continue until Dec. 24th. We appreciate the con fidence already shown by so many people’s patronage thus far, and we will establish the fact to your satisfaction that THE GOODS SHALL BE DELIVERED TO YOU at an advance of only 10 per oent. above actual cost. Each and every article, no matter how large or small, you can get from our big stock just exactly as we claim. We want your trade; WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, so do not fail to come to The Dixie.Respectfully, li LITTLEJOHN BROS. Closing Out aj Actual Cost! lOi Until Jan. 1st, we will offer our entire stock consisting of $10,000 Worth Of Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Notions, Ladies* Cloaks, Groceries, Etc., at Actual Cost If you want bargains you now have the opportunity. W. Samuel Lipscomb Co. Limestone Street. Dec. 14-18-21. Gaffney, S. C. Beyond Speech. The conversation of pigs ia not usually considered a matter of seri ous import, yet by it Uncle David gauged the physical condition of his porkers. Uncle David was a native of old Saco, Me. Some of hia pecu liarities are recorded by Mr. Red- Ion in his book on the town. The old man raised pigs for the market. At one time a scourge devastated hia sties. During tma affliction a neighbor, meeting him and seeing his doleful countenance, Inquired sympathetically for hia stock. “Well, Uncle David,” he said cheerily, “how is the litter getting on?” “Getting on!” replied Uncle Da vid mournfully. “Getting on! They are all dead but two, and they are ipeechlesa!" Chaap Braina. One day as John W. Mugridge, the lawyer, and Judge Minot were walking along the street in Concord, N. H., together, Mr. Mugridge, in his sepulchral voice, said: “Judge, let’s go into partnership. Yon fur nish the capital and I’ll furnish the brains.” The judge quickly pulled a two cant piece from his pocket and, holding it in the palm of his hand, said to Mugridge: “Very well Cover that. John! Cover that!” The Southeastern Life Insurance Company. SPARTANBURG, S. C. OFFICERS. Bluott Estes, President. A. H. Twitcheu., 1st Vice President. Giles L. Wilson, Secy, and Tres. John B. Cleveland, and Vice President. George R. Dean, M. D., and George W. Heinitsch, M. D., . Medical Directors. DIRECTORS. A. H. Twichell, President and Treasurer Clifton Mfg. Co. and D. E. Converse Co. Jno. B. Cleveland, President C. & W. C. Railroad and Whitney Mfg, Co. Jno, A. Law, President and Treasurer Saxon Mills and President Central National Bank, L. E. Carrigan, President People’s Bank of Darlington. W. S. Montgomery, President and Treasurer .Spartan Mills. Stobo J. Simpson, Attorney-at-Law. Aug. W. Smith, President Wofxlmff Cotton Mills and Bank of Woodruff. A. L. White, President Merchants and Farmers Bank. Elliott Estes, President Southeastern Life Insurance Co. A. corporation chartered by the State of South Carolina, founded and controlled by South Carolina men, and writing strictly non-speculative, straight Life In surance of the safest kind only. A South Carolina home company for the protection of South Carolina homes. rACENT WANTED FOR CHAROKEE COUNTY. ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. E PARTICULAR about your CHEWING TOBACCO It is just as necessary to your health to chew pure, clean To bacco, as it is to eat pure, clean food. Chew RAM’S HORN To bacco. Every piece made by hand under the personal supervision of men who have spent their lives making good chewing Tobacco. MANUFACTURED BY TA.YLOR BROTHERS, Winston-Salem, N. C. Dec 18-pd Chew RAM’S HORN Tobacco REAL ESTATE Handled on Commission. I handle both City and County property; pay costs of advertising and making titles. If you want to buy see me. If you want to sell see me. I bring buyer and seller together. The buyers nearly always come to me. Those who have lands for sale will act wise by placing 'their property with me for sale.’ ::::::::: Z. A. ROBERTSON.