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BoardIna It Out.

Jabe Rogers prided himself on
his knowledge of arithmetic, as he
frequently remarked he was "born
with a head for fggers."
eLook here, Jabe," said IN ex-
asperated neighbor, show much lon
ger do you think I'm going to pas
ture your calf for nothing? I don't
believe you've got cent to your
name"
'sI have" said Jabe easily. "I'm
the owner Of two dollars and thutty-
seven cents in cash besides my veg
etable garden"
swell, I shan't take out my pay
in turnips this year," said the neigh
Dor testify. sYou owe me Sc on
that calf. I'll call her mine, and
that'n wipe of the debt"
''She's worth more'n So, and you
know it," said Jabe. ssBut I tell
you what I'll do. You pasture her
a month Longer, and then I'll make
out paper saying she's yours.
That1l be fair nll around -
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Anderson County MHutual BEN.
eft Association of America,

The Anderson County Mutual BENEFIT
Association Of America writes the ckeap-
est insurance of the day. The plen is to
take one thousand people, men and We.
men, bind them together in bueiness
way to help each other in time OF need
and tronble. You only paw when ona
dies. /! you Join nov your first paymepk
pays you up until January, 1904, uniers.
we lose ono Of our members, If the hano
of Providence should sever the si.yer
thread that holds the life OF one of our
loved ones. friend or neighbor, who
would hesitate moment on paving the
little sum OF One Dollar and ten cents tn
replace the amount and pay expenses
paid out on death claim. Consider the
matter, examine and study our plan
You are receiving insurance protect
your family at actual cost. Don't stand
back, let our agencies write you up at
once.
Ifthere is anything you wish to know
In regard TO the policy call on any of the
agents and they will take pleasure In
explaining the pulley to you. Remem-
Der this is the only opportunity ever
presented 10 you at actual cost. You
owe 1t to your family, you owe it to your
self to secure their projection in case you
are taken away from them. If you are
over thirty years Of age this ls the only
chance you will have of getting in.
After 900 members have been secnre1
no one over thirty gets in, and he only
to replare q deceased member.
N. r. GREEN, Pres.
j. NJ. PAYNE, Sec. and Treas.
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The Effect OF Repetition.

The sound of door bell may not
call up much Of a motor response,
but repeated often may cause very
considerable .esponaae. A slight
tickling when one is asleep or awake
ma, may, i continued, produce convul-
.sive responses. To strike q, horse
repeatedly on the same spot is to
invite him, to. kick. Continued drop
ping Of water. from q faucet during
the night or the intermittent sounds
of a mouse gnawing produce ex-
5treme irritability. The psychology
of advertising shows many evidences
Of this law. Temptation in oil its
forms usually works by the suinma-
ton Of stimuli. The young man otf
slight moral resistance on his way
shoTe in the evening passes through
one, it may be two, streets of ga
looms. \ In the third street his IN
shibitory power ID exhausted, and he
passes helplessly through the doors.
Success. s s, sjy{ ..ss}5s
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WELL IN LONDON TOWER.
DISCLOSURE of Secret which eafslcd
t;1o Antlquary.

DISCLOSURE OF Secret which safflcd
t;so Antlquary.
For ages antiquary after anti
quarry found himself bafiied by q
simple problem at the Tower. How
in the old days did the garrison get
supply Of drinking water? The
antiquary could show you the orig
inal fireplace at which William the
Conqueror warmed his hands, could
point approximately to the spot on
which tho murdered princes fell, he
could lead you to the place where
Henry Wills queens we're butchered
and TO the tombstone that collapsed
upon their poor bones, he knew the
tiny dungeon in which Sir Walter
Raleigh spent; twelve dreadful years
hidden from the light and could
have led you in a twinkling to the
stone dog kennel where still &C.
mains the ring to which they chain
ed Guy Fawkes, but how these un-
fortunates and their janitors drank
none could tell. The Thames hard by
was not the source, they were sure.
Organized search was vain. Then
there came q thick headed, unim-
aginative mason, to whom and his
fellows the work of converting GER
tain of the historic dungeons into
storehouses for war material meant
ninepence halfpenny an hour and
no more.
His pick struck through the floor
ing of the corridor from which the
prisoners used 70 enter their cells.
Behind these latter and correspond
ing with the main one ran and still
remains the little secret corridor
along which eavesdropping officers
tiptoed to listen to conversations
between captiyes, for the purposes
of evidence. A few blows from the
pick brought to light the mouth Of
pit Sixty feet down was water,
thirty feet Of it The mason had
happened upon the historic well for
which search had been made in vain
for centuries. It was ms perfect as
on the day the Conqueror sank it.
Today NJ still carries it's thirty feet
of sweet spring water, and should
ever the Tower be beleaguered its
garrison would still be independent
Of outside supply. We have our
holy wells of medicinal waters. If
this historic old shaft which the
mason brought to light were distant
10000 miles Londoners would make
pilgrimages to drink it's waters.-St.
James Gazette.
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: During the last college year ther

During the last college year there
were 81, ,615 medical students in at
tendance at institutions in the United
States. Of this number 24,930 were
at the regular schools, 1893 at the
homeopathic, 84S at the eclectic and
339 at the physiomedical and monde
script schools. Germany, with more
than two-thirds the population of the
United States, had less than third
as many students of medicine.
= A magistrates clerk has been
known to have his tie pin stolen while
in court, and one in Birmingham o few
years ago lost his coat in the same
way; but o more remarkable example,
perhaps, Of thief's oleverness under
the very eyes Of the police was that
Of the burglar at Clerkenwell, who
managed to conceal two diamond rings
while the police was searching him.
aud passed one Of them to his wife in
the cell while the police were looking
on. The rings were under hie tongue,
and one ethem passed from his
mouth to his wife's when he was kiss-
ing her goodbye.
A Chicago wife called up the
police station and demanded the ar
rest Of her husband because he refus.
ed to kiss her.
An old bachelor invariably speaks
Of baby as ''it."
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Power Of she Imagination.

IL never was more firmly con-
vinced Of the power Of imagina-
tion," said a man, ethan I waa by
something that happened to ma on
the occasion of o visit to a friend.
It had been an extremely hot day,
and when I went to bed at night the
heat seemed almost insupportable.
1t seemed to me that il / should
open the door from my room into
the hall it would make little cir
culation and make the air more
comfortable, and I felt safe in doing
this becauseI I am an early riser, and
I knew I could get the door shut
before anybody was stirring in the
morning. So I opened the door,
with the pleasant result that I had
anticipated, and when / went to
close It in the morning T found that
i had opened not the door into the
hall but the door into. q closes.s
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Value of English Votes.

According to an English election
agents statement, there are some
men occupying positions of very lit
tie consequence whose votes are new
ertheless of enormous value to any
political party. In the big manu-
featuring towns there are always
some local characters who 20 in
very hotly for the pursuit Of poll
tics and have considerable influence
over the political opinions Of their
friends. The votes Of such men ore
worth working hard Cor, because
their support means the votes OF
quite o large following. In one
town in the north Of England there
is bricklayer whose support is stat
ed 70 hs worth at least q hundred
votes to his party.-London Taller.
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The ART OF FALLING.
Easy TO Avoid Serious Injury IL You
Know the Trick.

Easy to Avoid Serious injury IL You
Know the Trick.
e@The story that q men fel! zee gee
feet The other day and didn't hurt
b:mself is amusing" said the di-
rector Of gymnasium; e'but, cut
ting all foolishness out, there was
more than q grain Of truth in it.
What 1 mean is that o man who
knows how to fall can fall con-
siderable distance without getting
anything more than a bruise OF
two.
'SThe trouble is that the average
man doesn't know anything about
falling easily. Now, one of the first
things that gymaast or one VINO
performs anywhere above tho ground
must learn is just how to avoid seri-
Gus injury in falls.
Nearly every gymnast tumbles
: sooner or later; but, i you VIII
think it over. the number OF profes-
sional and amateur performers hurt
in year is comparatively small.
The reason for that is that they
have learned not only how to avoid
falling, but how to protect them
selves when the fall does come.
Gust as an example, had o fall
from height Of about twenty feet
the other day, and I got right up
from the floor practically unhurt,
although / confess that it shook
me up a good deal more than
liked. In falling, however, re-
laxed my muscles and, as the ath-
letes say, folded my head into my
chest. I struck on the uppermost
part of my back. just below the
neck. When anybody is falling, that
IS the part Of the body on which to
fall.
81 am not particularly heavy
man, but / am fairly well protected
by my muscles. Those on the back
of my neck we're sufficient cushion.
With that to help me the fall was
not SO terrifying.
sNow, the reason why the ordi-
nary man is so easily hurt in fall
is that he thinks he must ssteeY him
Self to the ordeal, as it were. He
comes down, sprawling out, with: his
arms and legs rigid. Nine times
out Of ten he either breaks limb
OF severely sprains muscle. That
is the, wrong way to fall.
IF you want to see the right way
take few lessons from your cat.
If she is good, healthy cat, with
8 good training, she never jumps or
falls as if she was trying to break
a leg.
"Let me sum all of this up by say
ing that, to be a really good athlete,
one must know how to relax his
muscles as we'll as distend them.
Try fall and see if I'm not right" /"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Got the Candy.

1t was Chicago child, not yet three
years old, who having beer punished
by her mother, called UP her father or
the telephone for sympathy. "Papa,"
was the call that his stenograph er
heard on answering the ring.
"Why, it's the baby said she to
her employer. The startled man, with
visions of disaster in his mind, caught
the receiver and said:
"What is it, baby?"
Mamma 'panked me- came tho
reply.
"What do you want to do about it2"
asked the relieved and amused pa
rent.
"Come right home and bring me a
pound Of candy" said the child.
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Riae Monday.

~ great many people have what
they call blue Monday that is, they
do not feel 81 well then as on other
days Of the week. The causa SIS
found IN oyereatings son Sunday. 81
good dinner is provided and eaten,
and then instead of taking the i cus- rl,
stomaTy exerciBe the man sits about
the house and reads or sleeps, or
scourse, he feels bad the next day.
/ the ssams amount iofE exercise and
kind Of diet were Stak ken on Sunday
Eas oil others days there would BE- no
such thing as d blue Monday
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with these sordid actualities and not
lind his soul defiled by them? Do
You suppose that he will sit down
quietly to toll for doubtful gains
indefinitely when he knows that q
sudden sudden turn Of IL the market may put
hundreds in his pockets No, no,
my friend, it is not possible. What
does he do? Way, he buys every
edition Of the evening paper to see
the prices. He runs into his club
to watch the tape. He drives up TO
the city in working hours to ask
his broker whether he ought not to
sell. That is how it was in my case.
That is how IL must be in every
case. My balance at the bank was
growing, hut while it grew my soul
my artists soul, in which I glo-
ried so-was dying, crushed out Of
its bright existence by the dead
weight of material cares. And SO
things went until 7 stood, as it were,
at the.parting of the ways and swore
that I would make my choice
"Your choice:?"
"My choice between the artistic
and the material life. Il meant to
make it dramatically too. There
was still enough of the artist eft
in me for that. It was at midnight,
in my chambers in the Temple.
took the manuscript of my half fin
ished noyel-the novel that was to
make me famous-from the desk
and placed it on the table. Beside
it I laid heap of share certificates
and transfer forms and contract
notes. Between the two piles there
stood a lighted candle. One of
them was to be burned to ashes in
its fame-one of them, and at this
solemn hour / was to determine
which and by determining decide
the whole course Of my future life"
He paused. I had to press him
before he would proceed.
"And then you burned"-
Neither" was his unexpected
answer. "Neither, for 1 could not
decide. NY novel went back into.
the drawer it came from to wait
there till the old joy in the higher
life came back to me. And that joy
never came. Even to this hour 1t
has not come. I look back to the
old days. I long for them, bot I
know quite well that they will not
return to me. The greed for gain,
it's ceaseless worries and anxieties,
has killed my soul, and that is why
l tell you that ] am q failure"
There was melancholy, at once
incredible and convincing; in his ac-
cents. Unless there were woman
in the case I would not have be-
iieved it possible for man SO well
to do to look so miserable. Isought
to say something that might lift
him out Of his despondency.
Failure or no failure, at least
you can go to Monte Carlo in the
winter" ] suggested.
II know. I'm going next week
with Morrison Parker" Everard
Deane replied
And then he shook his head slow
y and shrugged his shoulders gloom
lily, as though to say that the Joy
of sojourning on the Riviera while
we were toiling in the fogs was
nothing to the price that he had had
to pay for it.
And as [ drove home that night
1 tried to persuade myself that he
was right.
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Headless Body Found Hanging to g Tree

Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 6.-Thc
headless body of the late George Gray
was found hanging to tree near his
home at Fayette today by party of
hunters. A portion of the body was
on the ground beneath. It is now evil
dent that Gray hanged himself at the
time he disappeared in September and
that his body remained suspended un.
til it fell apart.
Gray, who was farmer, had become
weak-minded and depressed. When
he disappeared from home, search was
made for his body, but it could not be
found. and search yes finally given
up. The find today was accidental,
the hunters not believing they were
near the body.-Atlanta Journal.
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Omit the Third Stanza.

Mabelle had been unusually quiet
at church one Sunday. She was gen.
orally very restless listener. Her
Saotaor, noticing it, asked her:
"What made you so good during
service this morning, laughter?"
81 was thinking" answered the
child, "why the people who write
hymns always put something in them
bad that the minister cant let the
people sing. He always says omit
the third or some other stanza, SO i.
must be something wicked. IN. 7.
Times.
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he Tappsna os the Death Wate,,.

The Tapping es the Death Wates,.
The so called death watch. dread
ed By the stpesstii iitious, is a small
beetle which has q very powerful
joint In its neck and calls it's mate
by tapping with it's heed on the wall
or on any surface where it may
happen to. be located. The noise is
similar TO that which may ba pro-
sduced by tapping with the finger
nails on q table, and the insect can
frequently be made to answer such
taps. l.s.{ @
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\: 81 Life ID 8 burden imposed upon
syonl BY God. What you make of it,
that il will be to you. Take it up
brayely, bear IL josfally, lay it down
trump santly .G al Hamilton.
The pessimist who expects the
worst 20 happen ID sometimes diss-
graeably disappointed. .s'5 !,
stops coHeh ana ikerks 90 the csld. !
Laxative Brom Quinine Tablets
cure q cold In one zdny. No Cure, No
Pay Price 25 cents rs,
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Iustly ccndernned, j, !,

What an nfoolrtunate ,,contre-
temps that was Of Mrs. Gold
thwaites at the Rockingham Last
night said Mrs, Oldcastle. .
2sssI knnss Y = replied Her iisz 4 ssoss.sss. 81
81 was tellfn' Josiah on the way
horne that j vas surprised that q
woman whos the mother of grown
up daught htsrs should Of wore snch o
thing. and with her long neck too."'
Chicagc Record Herald.
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BEL TON HIGH SCHOOL. !

PREPARES for College and offers @
thoroughly practical course for students
unable TO take O College education,
Tuition rates reasonable.
Next session begins Sept. Z, 1908.
For further Information. write II,
a. G. HOLMES, PRINCIPAL
Aug 10, 1903 Bolton. a. G..
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/ "A f FAILURE

had not the cir # one, for his coats
were always fashionably cut, and his
taste in liqueurs was almost as deli
cate as my own, and ne could af-
ford to crafty it far more fre-
quently.
Such. was the testimony of ap-
pearanee, and so far as I knew his
history it pointed to the same con-
clusion. He had been, I under
stood, a writer, like myself, though
even less successful, and then 'for-
tunate speculations" had enabled
him to retire from calling which
he found more honorable than re-
mnneratiye and to spend his after
moons in playing billiards at the
club.
And yet Everard Deane esteemed
himself a failure. He told me so
emphatically one evening at the
hour when truth "peeps over the
glass edge when dinners DONE"
'It was all that confounded Stock
Exchange" he murmured, gazing
gloomily into q glass of green char
treuse.
I begged him to accept my cor
dial congratulations. ssIts better
way to fail than most" I said, for
had known SO many VINO failed upon
the Stock Exchange and lived hap
PLY, drinking champagne and driv-
ing about in broughams. ever after
ward, 81
But Everard Deane protested.
81 don't mean what you mean,"
he said. ri didn't lose money on
the Stock Exchange. 7 made it
lots of it. That is the mischief of
it. That is precisely why I am a
failure"
He looked gloomier than ever as
he spoke and ordered second green
chartreuse.
jerking his head so as to indicate
"a man at the farther end Of the
room a well dressed man, exces-
siyely bejeweled-with whom half
an honr since he had cordially shak-
en- hands, he whispered:
s0That is the man who has been
my evil genius. You know him?"
= 'sI think SO. It's Morrison Par
ker, the great financier, isn't it?"
cit is, and Morrison Parker, the
great financier. has heen my evil
genius. It's foolish story, but I
sometimes like, to tell it after din
ner. A brandy and soda?"
accepted, and when the waiter
had brought the glasses Everard
Deane resumed:
81 was an author, you know--a
young author-with great aims and
high ambitions. I made enough
money to live upon by writing for
the papers, but I looked upon lit
.erature not as a trade, but rs an
art. I was member of the Waste
Paper club, where all Of us profess
ed to take the same g tistic views
of life and letters aud sat UP till
the small hours discussing them
through q haze Of tobacco smoke
and steaming grog. I was very hap
yrSza. ~ e'.eie A unsa ~ IAe oay cdLne WneH
Morrison Parker joined the club.
He owned q newspaper--the Stock
exchange Recorder, I think nj, he call
ea land therefore ne was tech
nlcally qualified But when he
came 1ll'7.,, ana "a sat mp with us in the small
hollrs ne dld not talk literature. He
talked ssfAlksxsd finance 5.:
ct the two subjects may occa-
e 3 .sionaliy 1l have relations with each
other, suggested.
$ :. iseclseiy. mat l'fa ls the polnt that
MORRISON ,'l Parker USED 70 INSIST nrsa,
:especslaiiySWlhen ne he. had had g good
~ si aIa iAaus us aslna enlhpa
,Wa1n s..l ,i y s. zee sDIats ms iuck;
~ 9. ~ " - l..an nan eoucatso
..y inea !, .uaess % lpoA cow On
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TAX NOTICE.

THE Books for the collection OF State, School
at County Taxes will be opened from October
10Th, i0ol. TO December sis., 1903, Inclusive and
from January lat, 1904, to March 1st, 1904 I viii
collect with the penaty-for January 1 per cent,
February Der cent and from March 1st to tho
10Th with per cent penalty. After the 10th
March Executions will be Issued.
The rate OF Tax Levy fB as follow:
StAts Ia4eS Mills
Ordinary ounty........................ 3lS'
2@Sno9 @ ''.'..'..".....'....
IOIal .....,....1S1E
An additional levy of mills has been made for
No. "a, Hunter School District; an additional levy
Of mills has been made for the Town OF VIII.
liamston, which Is College District No. =; also
CAN'T School District, No.-,leyy made additional
School Bonds the total additional for CAN'T School
District ~ mills; making total tax levy for Hum
ter School District II mills. College School Die
trlct 10 mills. Total tax levy for CAN'T School
Diatrlct 18l5 mills
The State Constitution requires all males be.
tween tweuty.one and 9ixty yea.o OF age, oEeeps
those incapable OF earning O support from being
maimed or from othor causes, and those Who eery~
ed In tho war between the etases, 70 pay POLL
Tax Of One Dollar. c.>
All PERSONS between tho ag6s Of eighteen and
as yeaT5 of egv, VINO are aDIs 20 work the public
SoedD, or cause them to be worked, except Ptesch-
oEa who heve charge OF Congregations, and persors
Vino 56TIed IL iao va ss:-ess tbs Ssaie5, Scnosi
duty, and In lieu Of work may pay O tag of. Ono
Dollar, to be collected at tho Same tinao othae
taxes are collected.
will collect taxes ut slabtown, Mt. Airy. Pied
mont, Pelser,. Willlamston. Belton and Honea
J. NJ. PAYNE, Co. Trees: