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, A Good Time t>o buy a Good Timepiece I have Just received i a lot of new Watches which ?re worth your seeing?probably the most interest ng its* sot-tnteni that e er came to t.ancusler. I never saw handsomer styles anil as I bought them at a iliscoun t. for cash, 1 ineuu to sell th e m at pleasing prices If you need a Watch I can tit your tnste and y ur purse, right now. Conic in B. C. HOUGH, Jeweler and Stationer. LANCASTER * ENTERPRISE. Published Wednesdays by Entkrpkisk Publishing Co. A. J. CLARK. Editor. One Year, ... $1.00 Six Months, - - .50 Three Mor hs, - - .25 IN ADVANCE. Wednesday, December 30, 1903 The French republic is doing a brave thing in doing justice to Dreylus at last?a thing that will elevate it infinitely in the estimation of the justice loving por tion of the human race.?Atlanta Constitution. Who steals $100 steals trash: 1 or will he he obliged to serve hi* term. Who steals $1,000,000 Steals solid velvet: for then he will escape all punishment.?Atlanta Journal. To give some idea of the enor nous wealth of John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in the world, it has been estimated that if he were to give away $100,000 a day and live twenty-five years yet, he couldn't give away his fortune, but would leave enough to make all his heirs as rich as any one has a right to be in any well regulated country. And yet, if Rockefeller happens to give $100,000 to some college occasionally, the papers all over the country are at, once blowing his great philanthropy.?Monroe Eoq uirer. Christmas was first celebrated in the year 98, but it was 40 years later before it was officially adopted as a Christian festival; nor was it until about the fifth eentury that the day of celebra lion became permanently fixed on the 25th of December, up to that time it had been iriegularly oh served at various times of the year?in December, in April and in May, but most irequently in January. The "industrially educated" negro is yet destined to be a blessing, ll in disguise, to the south. lie has been "industriously educated" and he iudustriously avoids work and his absence from the cotton patch has so decreased the cotton crop as to advance the price to 12^ cents a pound and still higher later. It is Christmas eve. Great crowds are here. Men are sober, not a drunken man to be seen any where. Goods are being bought and carried home to wives :and children by men who would be spending their money for liquor, if there was a dispe i or barrooms here. This is the best time we have ever seen in "Monroe on Christmas eve, so far as drunkenness is concerned. Not a single arrest has been made. Last Christina* eve hundreds of dollars were spent in the dispensary and men went home reeling drunk. Say what yon may about ? prohibition, it's ft good thing? . Monroe Enquirer. In sharp contrast with this was the sale in Lancaster's dispensary on Christmas eve ot $1,050 worth o; liquors. Gen. Merriam blames the reporter for that interview eriljois ing the promotion of Gen. Wood It's a mighty poor reporter who PAtirmt (runaa ivhut militnrv imoi " MV,V ? -v ? think of the appointment.? Washington Post. H'riyhrtl to Christmas* Up to Christmas 9,665 bales of cotton had been weighed by Mr. Nisbet, against 10,275 up to same time last year. This leaves a shortage of 610 bales up to that time. The total number of bales weighed hist season was 11,500. fc To get that much this season J will require 1835 bales more to come in. Mr. Nisbet thinks he may probably get 1,000 more. If he does, that will loavo a shortage of 835 bales. Xotlce to Vensioners. I will he at the court house every Saturday in January, 1904, to meet new applicants for pensions and to fix up all pension papers to go before the county pension board. W. P. Bruce, Oi T s i Zl VJOII1. 1J. KJ. Creek Items. Christmas in this section is about over and some of the farmers are already at work preparing for another year's crop. The cotton crop in this section turned out fairly well as did also the corn crop. Both crop# were above expectations. The farmers are all pleased at the high price of cotton and are looking forward with bright hopes and increased energy. Mr. Richardson, one of our good farmers, has been sick for some rime, and ir still very low. Mr. Chalmers Williams and his young bride, who was Miss Belva Bruce, spent Friday with the family of the former's father, Mr. Jno. C. Williams. The Misses Long gave a party to a number of their friends at their home on Christmas night. M iss Maude Williams will entertain a number of her friends at a sociable at her home Tuesday night compli mentary to Miss Lee Mobley of Heath Springs. Mr. John T. Hough, who has been in Texas sometime, is home. Mr. Leiter Hough, who has been taking a course in phar |i macy in Atlanta, (Ja., is spend- j ing the holidays with his ] parents. t/< : -_ t ?i - * i miss I'jUWICW IjOWg, WHO IS teaching at Pleasant Plains, is spending the holidays at home. Mr. W. T. Morris spent aday or two at Waxliaw, N. C., last week with relatives. Rex. Sheriff Hunter returned FrF day from Florida where he went after Walter McManus who some time ago escaped jail hero and lied to Florida, where ho was captured. He is now incarcerated here. WANTED?Persimmon,Dogwood, Hickory and Holly Logs. Freight paid on carloads James Cockshott, Charleston, S.C. o21.4m How'h Thin. W e offe. One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J. CHENEY Sc Co , Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and bellere him to t>e perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to curry out any obligations made by their firm WKSTATKUaX, Wholosale Druggists, Toledo, o. WaDDINO, KINNAN % MAKVaN, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's family Pills are the best I For This Mo a ^ vtx ^ In order to reduce our stock, in the i ^ we will offer to the public Dry Gop ^ Hats at a great reduction. Being c ^ for the next 30 days we will make J customers to call and purchase wl ^ need, for surely we intend to sell CI ^ and those wishing to take advantage 4 t Call Early?30 Day J We will not quote you prices on an1 ^ do not, approve of that way, as ther 4 ception offered you by others and > # things advertised they say, "we are j J make you any prices in this adverti: ^ come to our store and from the cour ^ you prices that will open your eye ^ sacrifice on all Dry Goods, but the ^ in the Clothing Department. VVe ? Strous Bros. Higl i i r* * i i ? ? the best htting and cheapest line of $ Douglas ?> Got + Can't be matched by any of our coir ^ line that is manufc I DRY GC .jki The best and cheapest that has ever 1 I Remember 1 jmg only holds good for 30 days, and w 80 our customers to call early before Kg Thanking our customers for their lit |8 and hoping they will take advantage I next 30 days, we are, YOURS TO i Heath Banking & i UHQQQHN I ^ t ^QBCasSCTS lysaongQ (9BB9M^BBEIB^I^9n89^L^B9D nth Only | ? 1 next THIRTY DAYS J ds, Clothing, Shoes and ^ iverstocked on Clothing, 4) it to the interest of our w nat wearing annarel thev ^ / ?- ? J ^ othing regardless of cost, ^ of the low prices must ^ s is Not Long ? y particular article, for we \ e has been so much de- ? when you call for certain A just out." So we will not ^ sement, but will say must ? iters our clerks will make 5 s. This will be a great \ greatest slaughter will be A are handling this season # i Art Clothing t nice Clothing on earth. ^ Iman Shoes J ipetitors. The strongest 4 ictured. W : mwsEB v n ?S3j& >ODS 1 )een offered to the public "his Sale re would be glad for all | the stock is picked over. | >eral patronage in the past 58 of the cut prices for the E Mercantile Co. j l H ^ y i