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HUMAI Often Depen ?St. Louie In the absolutely healthy man or woman the great organs of the body do their moth impe?e?pubiy; in othtr words, s healthy human being ought not to know that it has a heart, longs, stomach, liver, or anything of that sort; and yet their working depends on Eome of the merest trifles?if suoh a word can be used in connection with nature's workings?and the absence of any one of them would mean the stop page of the whole vit*l machinery. For instance, to begin at the top: When you swing your head from side to side, or bend it backward or for ward, you have only a little oord of ligament between you and death. The head is balaooed on a doubl? joint, a pivot oh which it turns from side to side, and a sort of swing-joint, not exactly a hinge, on which it swings backward and forward. It is this cheek ligament, as it ?B called, whioh pre vents it from going too far either way. The reason is this: Immediately in front of the peg of the pivot-joint is the channel in tbe spine through whioh the spinal oord passes to the brain, and if it were not for ibis vital check-string the head, which is, bulk for bulk, the heaviest part of the body, would fall too far baokWard or forward and crush the spinal oord. Here is another vital trifle whioh, perhaps, you. have never considered. Bare your arms and press your finger hard on the upper part of one of the veins and pass it slowly down. You will see the vein swell up into little knots; take your finger away and they will vanish. The reason for this is that nearly all the veins have little cups in them. The cups open toward the heart, and thus, when the blood is flowing in the right direotion they fold baofc and offer no resistance. But they prevent any fluid flowing in the opposite direotion. During waking life many of the long veins are more or less perpen dicular, and but for these cups, or valves, the blood would naturally tend to flow down the vein, v. This would partially, if not entirely, arrest the circulation; the heart would be unable to pump the poisoned blond into the lungs, to be renewed by con tact with the air, and suffocation would follow in a few minutes. Where fore, without these insignificant little cups, none of whioh hold a quarter of a thimbleful, no human being oould live. The blood 1b oompooed of a gray fluid in which myriads of tiny little bodies, some white and some red, are floating. . They are about a 3,200th part of an inch in diameter. They are inclosed in an envelope whioh has the peculiar property of permitting gases, but not liquids, to pass through it. It is this which enables them to take up the oxygen of the air as it goes into the lungs and to convey it to all parts of. the body. Oxygen is, of course, as necessary to the body as air is to a fire. Now, if liqnids oould pass through these tiny envelopes the fluid in whioh they, float would enter them,' orowd out the oxygen and put out the vital flame just as surely as a flood of water would put out a fire. In fact, if this property of admitting gases and excluding fluids were to be re versed, tue human raoe would cease to exist inside a minute, because the time taken for the blood to traverse the whole system is about half a Can ute. > ^4 The same curious but beneficent property is possessed by the vast net work of tiny tubes, one 3,500th part of an inch in diameter, which lie im mediately under the skin ail over the body; but their function is even stran ger still, for they will allow nothing to pass through their walls save what is direotly hurtful or superfluous. The result is perspiration, whioh passes from,them through myriads of tiny glanda to tbe skin. At a reli gious festival in France during the Middle Ages a child was gilded over to make it represent a golden image of ?die Saviour. It died in a few hours, poisoned by the impurities of its own blood) which were, prevented from gotting through the skin. But perhaps the most striking fea ture connected with the working of the human body is the fact that we have two brains, a mechanical and a mental one, as they may be called. The former is situated low down at the back of the head, at the top of the spinal column. The other occupies the rest of the skull. This ia tho one we do our thinking and feeling and willing with.. But, although it is the noblest part of tbe human organism, it has no oontrol over the little brain at the back. No One knows exactly how this lit tle brain dees its work, but it does it continuously and unconsciously. Ite busfeess is to lesk after the working c-? the iiisgs, hea?t, eica?aah, and bc !? LIFE ds on Trifles. Republic. forth, and it attends to business day and night without ele'piug. It will now be easy to see that our lives de pend upon these two brains working separately. For what would happen if the little brain were controlled by the big one? We should have to think separately for every heartbeat, for every breath we drew and for every flow of the gastio juico whioh digests our food in the stomach. This would not give us inuoh time to attend to anything else, even during our waking life. But there is something worse than that?we oould never go to sleep. The moment we did so we should stop thinking about our hearts and lungs, wherefore they would both stop work. A Canine Kleptomaniac. Sur is a kleptomaniao, says a New York dispatoh. Many animals steal food; but Sur does n?t belong to this class of thieves. For weeks or months at a time he may not steal at all; then one of his strange attacks comes on, and he takes whatever he Can lay toe on that comes within the class of arti cles he has a liking for. Curiously these are all things in common use in any household, so were one Searching for motives he would say that Sur stole because he thought his family needed the things. Of course, in stead of pleasing, it mortifies them and things have come to suoh a pass that his young master has been known to rise before daybreak and sneak things baok into the neighbors' barns. ! Among the articles that Sur has pil fered are a garden hose, an ax, a ham-| mer, t, small mosquette rug, old shirt waists and aprons, six oarpet brooms, several yellow bowls and countless lard pails. He brings his booty and drops it on the front lawn, and then, wagging his tail, and barking, he scratches on the screen to let his y people know he has brought them a present. Sur in a thoroughbred white Lle welyn setter and if you knew him you would probably like him very much, for in addition to the Btrange traits you have been hearing abont, he does many pretty ?ricks. He can crawl on all fours like a baby, leap high over a stiok and walk on his hiud legs quite, steadily. Sur lives in Lob Angeles, Cal., in the land of oranges, and he is very fond of them. Ha likes to have them peeled and quartered for him. He also dotes on candy, raisins and ohoco late oake, but his chief standby is beefsteak. Sur is seven years old, and he will probably live as much longer, for no one takes his thefts seriously, as he is only a dog. Old Maids in Heaven. According to one of Miss Wilkino's characters in "The Portion of Labor," the punishment meted out to those who have been too much married is that they shall hereafter be doomed to oelibaoy. "I don't know what L should do," says Mrs. Norman Lloyd, "if I. thought Norman would marry again if I died. I think one husband and oue wife is enough for any man or woman if they believe in the resurrec tion. It has always seemed to me that the aaswer to that awful question in the New Testament, as to whose wife that woman who had so many nusbands would be in the other world, meant that people who had so much marrying on earth would have to be old maids and old bachelors in Heav en." Scrofule, Ulcers, Cancer, Skin Troubles. At Last a Cure?Trial Treatment Free. Is your skin palid, pale *or blood thin ? Are you easily tired or as tired in the morning as when you went to bed ? Is there loss of strength ?. Are you ail run down ? A?hes and pains in bones, joints or back ? Weak eyes or stye on the eyes ? If so, you have the poison of scrofula in your hlood, and tho least sickness, scratch or blow will bring to the surface all the horri ble symptoms of this terrible blood disease?ulcers, swelliogs.eating sores, foul breath, bumps or risings boils, . abscesses, white swelling, itching skin humors, eruptions, aches in bones, joints and muscles, cancer, catarrh, etc. If you are tired of doctoring, taking patent medicines and1' are not cured, than try B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm.) It is made especially for obstinate, deep-seated blood trou . bles, and cures the worst caaes after all.else fails. B. B. B. makes new, rich blood and builds up the weakened ' body, stops ali the aches and painB and . heals every sore, giving the rich glow , of health to the skin. Over 3,000 voluntary testimonials of cures of ' blood and skin diseases by using B. 1 B. B. Thoroughly tested for 30 years. Large bottles $1. Trial treatment - free by addressing Blood Balm Coin , pany, Atlanta. G a. Describe trouble uZ" fYao confidential medical advice 1 niven. Forsale by Kiii'OrrDr&sCiy., VVilhtte & Wilhito and Evans Phar K'tnaoy. A Brigade of Millionaires. It is stated on tho authority of sta tisticians who have investigated the subject that there are no fewer than 3,601 millionaires in the United S?tes. There are those who ean remember j when a millionaire was a great curios-1 ity in this country, and there were not half a dosen of them all told. Now there are more than 600 in the State of New York alone. It is said that there are more mil lionaires in the United States than in all Europe. The returns under the new inoome tax law of Germany show how few immense fortunes there are in that country in comparison with this coun try. Her Krupp, the great gun maker, is the only german citizen who ranks with tbe very rich men in the United States. His income is about $5,000, 000 a year, whioh falls far below tbe incomes of several of our great money kings. But there is no other man in Ger many who approximates Krupp in wealth, and there are only 65 who have fortunes of $5,000,000 or more. The total number of those who are worth from a quarter to a half million is put down by the authorities at 2,774. There are 50 per cent more men in the United States who have $1,000,000 or more than there are in Germany whose fortunes are estimated at be tween a quarter and a half million. New York oity alone has more than twioe as many millionaires as all Ger man/. Never in the history of the world has money been accumulated so fast as in the United States during the last 30 years. The day is not far distant when New York will be recognized as the money capital of the world. It is actually so already. _ ? An eccentric Ohio man made his own coffin five years ago, and when he died tho other day it took considera ble muscular persuasion to get his in creased girth into the box. It was done, however, and two men sat on the coffin lid on the way to the grave, at the expressed wiBh of the dead man. KION Are located in both sides. ' Tl the early appe Prsck !s an effective I ening influence kidney tissue, and puts the < 8otd at Drug Store J. W. (i?ATTLEBAUH. EKNB9T F. CO OU RAN. lit ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ANDERgpy,- - - S. C. Office Removed to Post Office Building. Jan 8,1902 20 _4_ BONHAM & W ATKINS. ATK0BNBYS AT LAW, Anderson, .... - S. C, Have moved their office rear Peo ples Bank. Entrance through Bank and side of building. Jan 8, 1902_29. 3m Foley's Kidney Cure makes kidneys and bladder tight. WHITE STAR COFFEE Is Pure, Delicious, Economical, Healthy* From 15c. to 40c. a pound. If you like ?ood Coffee this will please yon Fresh lot of? CELERY, Nicely bleached at? C. FRANK BOLT. The Cash Grocer. I Still SteaUiur Franklin J. Moses, ex-governor of South Carolina, was before Judge Brown in the second session of the municipal oriminal court yesterday, says a Boston dispatch of January 10, oharged with giving a oheok for $50 in payment for a overcoat, said oheok having been drawn on a South Caro lina bank, in which it was learned the ex-governor had no funds. Then again it was further learned that after Moses got the coat he pawned U. Hit honor, the ex-governor, met both these claims. Concerning the money transaction, he said that at the time he gave the oheok he honestly believed that there was money in the bank to meet the face value. A few days after he got the coat he learned by letter that there was no money there and at onoe telephoned to Mr. James A. Hawkes, the tailor, that he expected a party from the South with money for him with which he expected to pay his obligations. Ex-Governor Moses thereupon gave vent to a burst of oratory, as follows: "In 1872, when I oceupicd the posi tion of ohief magistrate of one of the prominent states in the Union I was driven by social ostracism, despite my position and the counsel of men high in publio life, to seek relief in that alone whioh seemed to be able to give rest to a mind ill at rest; namely, to tho use of morphine. From morphine I took next to using opium. In fact, in 1876, the time when the Republi can party surrendered the state to the opposition, I had become so addicted to its influence that I could not live without it." Judge Brown then sentenced him to Deer island for four months. Constipation leads to liver trouble, and torpid liver to Bright's Disease, j Prickly Aoh Bitters is a certain oure at any stage of the disorder. Evans Pharmacy. ? Miss Touriste?"You have some strong and rugged types of manhood out in this Western country, don't you?" Stage Driver?"Yaas, miss, we hev men out here thet don't think it's nuthin' t' hold up a railroad train." ? After a woman is lost she hesi tates for the purpose of deliberating. EY PAINS the small of the back and may aj lese are dangerous symptoms becai tarance of, Bright's Disease. ly Ash Bi kidney medicine. It conveys a heali i to the suffering kidneys, stops th< stimulates digestion, cleanses the li mtire system in order. ?. _ Prie a. The Old Reliable Furnitu Let Hin NUMBERED. He is big, but none too bif el oven of a Buck's Stove. Do You < If so come in at once and tions at once, and save expeni Shared une House, but did not Speak. Sprino Valley, N. Y., Jan 4.? Death has ended the long life part nership of Henry Eska and his wife, Mary, but it has nut added a jot to the silence between them. For thirty years, living in the same house, they spoke no word to each ether. When Mrs. Eska, who was 79 years old, drew near to death, she did not ask to see her hutband and he did not go to see her. To the surprise of the townpeople, however, he did at tend the funeral yesterday. Mystery surrounds the origin of the quarrel that divided the little home in Mannet, where Eska, bis wife and their four ohildren lived. Gossips say a mother-in-law was tbe firebrand, but it is thirty years gone now, aod none really know but Eska. The Eskas had married after a ro mantic courtship, and were a happy and loving couple. When the vil lage first heard that they had eaoh sworn never to speak a word to tho other, they said it would not last. But it did. Dividing their little frame house on the outskirts of the village, each lived in his or her part and never encroached on the other's. Mrs. Eska cut her own firewood, car ried water and tended her half of tho garden. Eska sewed on his own but tons, darned his socks and baked his pancakes. Ho oould stay out with impunity every night in the year. There was no neighborly borrowing between the two households in one. When tho house burned a year ago eaoh reooived one-half of tho insur ance money. Eaoh went to live with one of the children, but their silence I still was unbroken. ? A muscular paBtor of a Connec ticut church, who once played on tho Yale eleven, is reported to have lifted the mortgage off his ohurch. Score one more in favor of college athletics! ? Red-haired Indians are very rare. One of them, belonging to the Passamaquoddy tribe's reservation at Pleasant Point, near Kastport, Me., recently died there, aged sixty-nine, His name was Sopiel Haney, and all through his life he was shunned b j the other members of his tribe be cause of his bright red hair. ? Be sure you have the proper bait when you fish for compliments._ A Well Furnished Home Is not necessarily an expensive!; furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURI is procurable without great outlay Not. that we deal in knocked-togethe made-to-sell sort, but because we ar content with a reasonable profit o: really good articles of Furnitur Our best witness is tho Goods then] selves. Yours truly P. TOLLY & SON, re Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C. ?i Strut! f to fill the roomy, white enani Owe Me ? settle, as I must make collec se of coming tc see you. Bespectfuliy, 1N T. BUKRISS. D.S. VAN DIVER. E. P. VAN DIVER VANDIVER BROS., MERCHANTS, ANDERSON, S. C, January 8,1902.^ TO THOSE INDEBTED TO US : WE are compelled to collect what is owing to us in order to pay our debts, &ad if you owe us, either Note or Account, wo must have the money or some satisfactory arrangement in the next few days, or such claim will be placed iu the hands of our Attorney for collection. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROTHERS, and VANDIVER BROTHERS & MAJOR. NEARLY EVERY Piano We Sell SELLS US ANOTHER, WHEN you look Over the list of famous builders wc represent, aud tho long list of actual and delighted buyers?men and women famous throughout tho South for their acknowledged artistic culture and social and political standing?you will know the reason. If you need a? Sewing Ma.ch.ine, See our large stock. We represent as good as the world has produced. *SU GRAPHOPHONES and Supplies also. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. Liver and Kidney Pills. DIRECTIONS?One every night. 25c. By mail. EVANS PHARMACY. Attention, Farmers ! We have just received one Car Load of Fancy Winter Grazing Oats. Come quick and secure some of them before they are all soi?. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Slightly Disfigured but Still in the Bing! YES, we have disfiured the Hayes Stock considerably the pa&t six weeks, but still have some Bargains left in? Shoes, Hats, Pants and Notions of all Kinds. I am adding on a Stock of? Groceries, Sugar, Coffee and Flour. Try a Barrel of Bransford, Clifton or Spotless, and I am sure you will bo pleased. White Wine Vinegar 25c. per gallon. C. M. BUCHANAN, Masonic Temple. LANDRETH'S Fresh Onion FOR FALL PLANTING, - AT Ori>Gray & Co O < ? <? H ?S M S O Sis ? g ? ? Il ? 2 fe S M 5 * S W pa a ? m ? to P CELEBRATED Acme Paint and Cement Cure Specially used on Tin Roofs and Iron Work of any kind. For aale by? ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO, Reference : F. B. GRAYTON & CO., Druggists, Anderson, S. C.