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! H?S HIRST I I ACHIEVEMENT | * . The telling of the stories of stage coach days on the frontier has only just begun. For every one yet told there are a thousand better one3 hidden in thc mountains, hanging in fainc echoes abort the campfires of the pioneers. If you live awhile in tho cabina along the Yuba, above Marysville, vou will find miners still coyoting among thc thrice sifted piles of gravel for the aftermath oi^9 ; you .will find old stage drivers, with bent and twisted hands, who know every noted driver of the Pacific coast; you will hear stories of staging in the fifties and sixties in the wiMest parts of the Sierras that have nevu reached print, but havo been car ried on through manifold trcditions until they have reached tho com pleteness .and the dignity of an epic ?of the stagecoach. Besides the longer stories one Sieurs, there arc dozens of lesser ep isodes of the staging days-the ep isode of Smoky's runaway, for in stance. Smoky was a famous stage driver between Grass Valley and Marys ville, by way of Penn Valley, Bough and Ready, Smartsville and Timbuc ioo. About 1861 he was in his glory, the ideal of a driver and able to hold his own with any one on the xoute. He received his name from Hie remark of a little girl, the 'daughter of the hotel keeper at Murphy's ranch. She once slid off his lap and ran off, saying that he was "too smoky to stay with;" she ""liked men who did not puff cigars in her face." After this episode Smoky's real name fell into disuse. He was "Smoky" and "Old Smol.y" from the Sierras to the Sacramento. On the day when Smoky had his runaway affair the stage swung into ?Grass Valley early in the morning with two passengers aboard, both inside. They had breakfast, and then Smoky took charge. He drove around in front of the store to wait for another passenger. He put on the brake, as he supposed, twisted the reins about the brake bar and went into the store. The four horses ?tarted off at full speed, and, strik ing a stone, the jar let the brake loose. Then the horses flew down the grade like sons of destruction. The passengers sat in silence, n little surprised at the rapid mo tion, but believing that the driver was on the box. One of them was a small, nervous, bright eyed young man, newly come to California, a .young man who was just beginning a career of invention and manufac turing achievement that has given him place among the score or so ol foremost Californians. The othei man was a mere nonentity. The young man with the bright eyes began to see that something was wrong with the stage, lt wenl too fast. It swung too much. He climbed on thc seat and let down the narrow window nearest thc driver's box. He leaned out anc managed to raise himself far enougr to see that the horses were run ning away. He called to the driver 'hut received no reply. The young man reflected that th< Toad ahead was not an easy one foi a runaway stagecoach to manage They were now on the down grade next came a hill, then another de ?scent, then a second hill, then i -long, steep and winding piece o: down grade. The horses must b< ?topped before this descent wai reached or a smashup was inevita ? hie. He decided to do his best t< check the horses. If he failed hi would jump out and leave them. The f?rst thing to do was to swinj on the driver's box. A lippier mai might have failed, b^t the youn| ?tranger was alert and muscular ?He watched his chance, caught 'th iron bar at the end of the seat ?drew himself out, poised a secon< on the windoy sill and leaped up ward just as^the stagecoach swunj (toward him. He found himsel landed, in consequence, upon th driver's seat and clinging to th oralee bar. The lines were fiyin? (Wildly over the heads of the horse or tangled under their feet. The young man began to put o] the brakes, not with haste, but slow ly and carefully. The great cur vin < blocks of oak settled down again J the wheels, but the rapidity of th . vehicle's motion was-now such tha ?there was danger of heating th ?tires and causing them to fly fror ,the wheels. Again and again ' h '. .tightened the brakes and ; release ?hem, steadying the massive coac as it swung around the sharp curve of the dusty road and reeled froi side to side like a drunken gian' ?At one moment the young man fe! the coach scrape against the clove pine roots of the mountain side, an at the next he felt it eddy along th v of the ravine and lean over th ab,*- as il ready to plunge dow into the tops of the oaks on Nigge Flat, 500 feet below. Pretty soon the bottom of th grade was reached, and the youn man "put the brakes down hard. But it waa only a little rise after al: and the horses were running at th top of their speed. The stage wen . . . on, hardly checked by the doubl? ; j , obstacles, and began another de sceht. Again .the ?arno tactic's foi lowed, The* brake was used wit! ' the utmost skill and patience, bu fin outsider woulcj have said ther was little gain. Thc second ascent ! came at last, and here, on u broken j road, full of deep ruts, which help I ed to check the stage, the young man brought everything up stand ing. A two mile run it had been, and the horses were still rearing and plunging. The other passenger peered care fully out of the window and asked what wes thc matter. He was or dered to open the door, jump out and take the leaders by the head. Tho young man "set" the brakes, climbed down, and began to collect the remnants of thc lines and knot them together. A little later Smoky came run ning up in a state of despair and ex haustion. His pleasure at discov ering tho coach and horses unin jured took the form of a series of wild yells and contortions that would have done credit to a Shasta Indian skeleton dance. Ho climbed back on the box, the passengers got in and thc stage started off at re doubled speed to make up for lost time. The story went around among the stage drivers. There waa ene young fellow that must be taken care of. He was to have tho seat with the driver, no matter who wanted it. He was the "man wot atopped Smoky's turnout on the Penn Valley grade." Even today if the hero of this true tale were to leave his great mills and busi ness enterprises in San Francisco and go to tho wilds of Modoc and Siskiyou beyond the outposts of the railroad he would be almost sure to discover that his name and fame were known, that the word would be sent along the line, "Smoky's passenger is goin* over this road," and the grumpiest of old stagers would unbend and treat him as an equal. The young man who climb ed out over the wheel and "put down the brakes" on Smoky's stagecoach thirty years ago is still an honorary member of the craft of ancient and weather beaten masters of the whip and ribbons. Perhaps the reader will think that the Btory is incomplete withe*- the name of the young maa. It was A. S. Kellidie, the inventor of the ca ble car system of San francisco and of many valuable raining and en gineering contrivances. Only a Puppy. The 3'outh had just left college, and his ambition, like his collar, was high. At home the. all engross ing subject was thc young man's future career, and he was discussing with his parents which of the pro fessions stood most in need of his genius. Thc father's idea of his son'*s ability was disgustingly low. "I think,'-' said the old man, "that you had betier adorn one of the stools in my office." The young man drew himself up, and the high collar grew tight as he ?trovp to swallow his righteous an ger. Folding his arms, he asked: "Is th}' servant a dog?" "Ko, but. you'll grow!" came the crushing response. Unfortunate Interpolation. Lawley (expert shorthand report er)-I say, James, the boy from the newspaper office has called for the report of that lecture. Is it finished? fluni.' yu ii\J 1 j-?XXX UUt C* OI1U1 ll sentence in the middle of it, and I can't for the life of me make out from my notes what it is. Lawley-Oh, just put in "great applause" and let it go. James acts on the suggestion, and the lecture is sent for publication with the doctored part reading: "Friends, I will detain you but a few moments . longer. (Great ap plause.)" _ A Shock. Sophy (who accepted 'Slr. Charles Fleetwood the night before)-Docs Mr. Fleetwood strike you as being a sensitive man. Pauline? Pauline (who doesn't know of the engagement)-Gracious, no 1 A man who has been rejected hy four girls wiitin six months and gets fat on it cannot be sensitive. Why, So phy, what's the matter ? She had fainted. Self Denial. Self denial in all ways is the key to a long life and a happy one. A real liking for the practice of self denial is A pretty hard thing for some people to acquire; but, like the practice of beautiful music, the results are more than worth the la bor not only for yourself, hut also for those about you. - Maxwell's Talisman. -,- ^ ? --:-; CASTOR IA Por Infants and CMldrcn. Hie Kind You Have Altlays Besght Bears the Signatur? of - Tho great landmark of Montreal, Canada, is the Cathedral of Notre Dame, which, next to the famous cathedral tn the City of Mexico/ i*% the largest church building in Ameri ca, aod has a seating capacity of 12,000. The church waa built, in 1829, and is noted lor ita magnificent chimes. ..' I axative Bromo ftninhe Huf-i -i mmw i - im "* mam,m> Cures a CoW ia Ono Day, Grip la 2 Days /??JC4rww%m?w~ te'aso I ft WAR EXPERIENCE I j iVWVVWWVVWWSVWWVWli This story was told some years ugo by a congressman to a reporter: "I was rather young, a mero boy, in Texas when the war broke like a storm. Naturally, with my geog raphy, I went with the Confederacy. I was in the artillery. One day we captured a battery of three brass guns. It was given to me to com mand, and the day I got that bat tery was the proudest day in my life. "Such was my anxiety to get into trouble with those guns that I drag ged a couple over to the Mississippi -we were in Louisiana nt the timo -and pulled on a fight with a stray gunboat belonging to the Yankees which I found prowling around. Wo had a sharp, spitfire timo of it for a few moments, when, a lucky shot from one of my guns tore a hole in her in such a fashion that it let the river in, and she filled and sank. "Butler had New Orleans at the time, and, among other things, was running the paperc Later I read an account of my brush with the gunboat, in one of Butler's journals. It could not be called an unbiased statement. Il reviled me as a most abandoned and bloodthirsty char acter and declared that even after the gunboat surrendered I kept on pouring shot into her as if my ono purpose in life was wholesale mur der. Of course this was not so. I wouldn't have fired on anybody aft er he had hauled his flag down, and besides that I didn't have the am munition to waste. "Af* "r I rejoined the rest of my battery following the exploit of the gunboat I hunted trouble with the Yankees more zealously than ever. One day I was fully gratified. We were still in Louisiana. The sun .came up one morning and found some 10,000 of Uo facing a largely superior force of Yankees. We couldn't liave crawled out of a fight even were we so disposed, but no one suggested any retreat. The fact was we felt quite cocky and were full of a belief that we could whip the invaders. The fight began, and I soon had my heart's wish. I was in a peck of trouble with the Yan kees, I and my battery. I had buc ceeded in attracting the attention and getting a hearing, as it were, from three Yankee batteries all at once. They were a reasonably brisk outfit, and it didn't take them a minute to get my range. Then it bogan to rain sorrow and hail de spair for my battery. "To show you how hot those Yan kees made it one only need to say that they wounded or killed forty of my sixty-six men and dismounted two of my brass beauties in thirty minutes. You might have planted corn where my battery stood when they got through, it was so plowed and harrowed by the Yankee lire. "I was in the thick of the battle. I was standing near the No. 1 gun. A man of the name of Thompson was stepping forward with a shot in his hands to load. Without a word or cry he suddenly fell forward on the gun and then slipped to the ground, limp as a wet towel. A can non bali had torn through his chest. "I ordered a man to his place. Before he was there a moment a fragment of shell from out the sky struck him on top of his head, and he fell dead by the side of Thomp son. It was such a whirl of smoke and roar that I couldn't tell what was goi?g on at the other guns, much less in other parts of the field. I had been ordered to hold my position and had made up my mind to hold it while a gun and a man of my battery held together. I ordered another to take thc pince of the second lying dead under thc gun. This man.got there just in time to receive a ri?e bullet in his mouth. It came out under his ear. This man, however, didn't die. I met him years after the war. "Three men were all that were available for this especial duty. They were dead and wounded and gone, and I took the post myself. I don't know how long it was, whether one minute or ten, when, without the slightest feeling of pain or warning, I was hurt, my legs gave way, and I sank to the ground. At the same instant an explosion like forty batteries all uniting in ono discharge broke loose just to the rear of me. A column of fire and smoke shot toward thc sky as ii a volcano had been loosed by the gen eral jar and din of battle. It was my ammunition wagon. I had 2,000 rounds of ammunition in a big army wagon. 1 It had been placed about fifty yards to the rear of my bat tery. When we opened tho fight I had made up my nind to stay, and I had brought up all my ammunition, resolved to win or lose right there. A shot from the Y?rakees had ex ploded it. That was the volcano. "As I look back I'm not sure but the chance explosion of my am? munition, wagon saved what was left af me and my battery. The .smoke iwept down and covered us up like a fog. The Yankees ceased firing on us. They probably thought we were wiped off the face of the ei.rth in the explosion. ?s the smoke drifted on, while it became clear about the battery, it hung like a blanket between us and the enemy and acted the part of a shield. The Yankees couldn't 6ee us, so they didn't shoot. "Two of .my men came alone and drugged me t?> the rear, om o? tho way of immediatn harm. '"'Aro you hurt, captain?' asked one. "I told him I couldn't tell. That was the extent of my information. "He tore open my coat and vest. My shirt was white, and save for powder stains and the general grime of battle it was white still. Not a drop of blood reddened it. I held up my left boot. " 'Pull off that boot/ I said. "The boot, a high cavalry sort, came ol?. Not a twinge of pain, not a color of blood. "At this point I broke into a pcr spira'icn. A fear seized me, tho like of wliivh har> never overcomo mc since. Hud I fainted away in the midst of battle and in view of two armies? 1 felt no wound, was tora by no pain. It came over nie like some dream of horror that I was unhurt and had fainted, and that in thc sequel of the story I would bc branded a coward from one er.d of the war to the other wherever soldiers built a campfire. "I held up thc right boot to bo removed. A cupful of blood ran out. I was never so glad to see any thing in my life. I would not havo taken gold for a single drop of it, such was the relief lt brought. I had been pierced through tho auklo by a rifle ball. "When night fell, while we still held our lines, we were whipped. It had begun to rain, with a Bad, hope less drizzle that took the heart out of a man. I was lying on somo blankets in one corner of a negro cabin. Over in another corner, un der a blanket, lay my dearest friend, dead. All about were wounded men. The doctors had turned the placo into a hospital. At last a doctor whom I knew came in. " 'Never while I'm alive/ I re plied. Tin too young to talk about going through life on one leg.' "Then he told mo tho army would have to retreat that night; that ho had no ambulances, no means of transportation. Tho wounded, including myself, would have to be left behind. They would be prisoners to the Yankees. All at once, like a landslide. I thought of Butler and that news paper account of my firing on tho funboat after it had surrendered, made sure Butler would hang mo like a dog, once he got hands on me. It was at this juncture when I determined he shouldn't get me. I was as strenuously against hanging as against amputation. "We were on an old sugar plan tation. Before the fight. I'd seen some rough, two wheeled sugar carts. I made them hustle about and get me a mule, a negro and a sugar cart. They bandaged my leg and put me in. The last thing the doctor did was to give me a two ounce bottle of morphine and show me how to take it. Then he said 'Goodin'/ and I could seo that ho thought it was forever, lie proba bly figured that if tlvp Yankees did not kill me the morphine would. "All that night, all the next day, all the next night that rough cart jolted on through thc rain. For a whole thirty-six hours I lived on morphine. At last we got to Shreve port. When I was lifted out of tho cart my ankle was swollen to ele ?diantine size. But I escaped But er, and I had not fainted awTay in battle, and these two reliefs almost r.nde the rest easy. I got back into Tcras and at last was well again. A.a scon as I could sit in a saddle ? was back with my battery again in time to take part in a campaign against General Canby-who was afterward killed by the Modoc Cap tain Jack-in New Mexico. We left Texas with over 3,200 men, and on our return eight months later mus tered fewer than 1,000." CURES CATARRH. "Hyouiel Ilse Most Wonder ins <lure Ever D1%COY?T?-?1:" ISvaus I'fmruiacy. Do not try to cure catarrh by tak ing drugs into the stomach; it cannot be cured in that manner. The only way in which this too common dis ease can be cured is through a direct application that will kill the bacilli of catarrh and prevent their growth. Hyomei is the only known method of treatment that accomplishes this, lt is tho simplest, most pleasant, and the only absolute cure for catarrh that has ever been discovered. Thousands of unsolicited testimo nials have been received from the most prominent men and women in the country who have been cured by this' remarkable remedy. Ministers, bankers, lawyers, even eminent physi cians have given strong testimonials as to tue remarkable powers of Hyo mei to cure catarrh. Thc complete Hyomei outfit costs but Sl.OOand consisting of an inhaler, dropper and sufficient Hyomei to last several weeks. This will effect a cure in ordinary cases, but for chronic uad deep-seated cases of catarrh, longer use may be necessary, and then extra bottles of Hyomei can be obtained for 50o. It .is not alone tke best (it might be called the ouly) method of curiog catarrh, bat it ?B also the most economical. Evans Pharmacy have so muoh con fidence in the power of Hyomei tocare catarrh, that they will for a limited time, sell thia medicine ander their personal guarantee to refund the mon ey if the purchasers can say that it did not help them._ - We gain life as we ase what life we have, and wc gain it as we are ia sympathy, companionship or aecord with those who truly livo. ' Stops Conan aaa Works afr tba Cold. Laxative Brotno-Qainino Tablets care a cold in ono day. No Gare, No Pay. Price 25 cents. NO USE fO WHINE. A Medical View of a Very Disagree able Human Trait. There i*n't anything in thc world moro disagreeable than a whining person. He whines if it is hot. lie whines if it is cold, lie whine? at this, he whines at that, he whines at everything. Whine, whine, whine -it is just a habit he has fallen into. There is nothing tho matter with him. It ia just a bad habit. The whiner i? gonerolly an idle person or a lazy one. What ho needs is to bo set to work-at real j hard work, monta! or physical; Bomo work thut will intoroet him and engage his whole attontion-and ho will not have time to whine. We know two women. Ono of them does her own housework and takes care of her horse besides. She is happy nnd Binging all tho day long. Tho keyboard of her life sounds no whining note. It Ls a pleasure to be with hor, a good wholesome tonio to watch her. The other woman is GO situated that sho doce not have to work-nothing to do hut io amuse herself. Sho hos no zest in life, no interest in anything. She is a bunch of selfishness and whines at everything. Whining hos become such a habit with her that her most casual remark is tinged with a whine. She is miserablo herself and makes everybody else in her {?resenco miserable. She is a Weck ing, a parasite, a drag, a heavy weight on somebody all tho time. Get the whine out of your voice or it will stop the development and growth of your body, lt will nar row and shrink your mind, lt will drive away your friends, lt will make you unpopular. Quit your whining; brace up; go to work; bo something; stand for something; lill your place in the universe. In stead of whining around, exciting only pity and contempt, face about and make something of yourself? Keach up to the stature of a strong, ennobling manhood, to the beauty and strength of a superb woman hood. Them is nothing the matter with you. Just quit your whining and go to work.-Medical Talk. The Automatio Burglar. "William/' said Mrs. llaw;kins in an awed whisper, "there arc bur glars in the house. I just heard them." "Oh, I think not, my dear," re plied William sleepily. "But if you wish it IT1 go and see." And ho got up and made an in VOC i 1 nro f ? r\r\ "Well?" said Mrs. Hawkins when he had returned. "You were right, my dear. We are being robbed." "Being robbed?" "Yes. What you heard was the gas meter, lt was registering gas like a cyclometer nnd clicking away like all possessed, though lhere isn't a jet burning anywhere about." His Selection. Denn Pigott writes in his book of anecdotes: "What stories bishops could tell of answers given by can didates for ordination! I have thia on good authority : A candidate waa asked what there was in the Bible I to encourage celibacy. His reply was : 1 "Their priests were slain by the sword, and there were no widowa to make lamentation." But, my lord, it is right to add that there ia another rendering-"Tho priests were slain with the sword, and their widows made no lamentation." ' " Applause by Hissing. Hissing means different things, according to where you happen to be at the time. In west Africa the natives hiss when they are astonish ed, in tho New Hebrides when they see anything beautiful. The Basu tos applaud a popular orator in tho assemblies by hissing at him. Thc Japanese, again, show their rever ence by a hiss which has probably somewhat thc force of the "hush" with which we command silence. In this country tho hiss only has one meaning-disapproval. Cures Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, and Blood Poison-Greatest Blood Purifier .^68. If your blood is impure, thin, dis eased, hot or foll of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and lumps, ?cabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheuma tism, or any blood or skin disease, take Botanic Bload B*lm (B. B. B.) according to directions. Soon all sores heal, aches and pains stop, thc blood is nude pure and rich, leaving tho skin free from every eruption, and giving thc rich glow of perfect health to thc skin. At the same time. B. B. B. improves the digestion, cures dys pepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just the medicine for old people, as it gives them new, vigorous blood. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with directions for home eure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Qa. Describe trouble and special free medical ad vice also sent in scaled letter. B. B. B. is especially advisd for chronic, deep-seated oases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures after all else fails. For sale by Evans Pharmacy. - Next to being pretty herself, a woman would rather have her best friend not be. - It takes heroism to be a good husband when ho has ceased to be a loving one. - Some candidates get there with both feet and others put both feet in it. J L. SHERARD. ATTORNEY AT L.A.W, ANDERSON, S C. .?* Ofiice over Post Office Building. GREENE & GREENE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ANDEItKON, - - - B. C. Office over Farmers and Merchants Bank. Money to Lend on Resl Estate Security. Oct 14, Um 17 3m - TDE - BANK OF ANDERSON. J. A. BROCK, President. JOS. N. BROWN, Vice President, B. F. MAULDIN. Cashier. THE largest, strongest Bank In tte County. Interest Paid on Deposits By special fcgroemen!. With unsurpassed facilities and resour ce: v.-o are at all times prepared to so commodate our customers. Jan 10,1000 29 FHM? Bai of Anderson, ANDERSON, S. C. We respectfully solicit a share of your business. BANNER BAJ?I th? moat titrating salvo In tho world. General Repair Shop. ALL? kinds of Blacksmithing, Wood Work, Painting, Trimming, Rubbei Tiros and Rabnor 1 torso Shoeing. All done at short notice by unit-class work men. We don't claim to be the only tlrst-olass workmen In town, but tu good as any in the South. Our work showB for Itself. Work and Prices guaranteed. Cal) and see our work and get pi Ices. Bring your Boggies and have them re paired and made as nice and good as DAW for Spring and s*uminer drives. Yours for business, J. P. ?ODD. P. S.-Horso Shoeing a Specialty. March ll, 1903_38_ Foley's Honey and T&r cures colds, prevents pneumonia. When you come to spend tho day al ways remember we have feeding and hitching piares, nod are always 12 lud to see you como, always ready to do your work at a reasonable price. And your Horse Shoeing-don't fu.il to let us do it if you want your horso to travel right. You will iiud me below Jail on the cor ner. You oan soo my sign. W. M. WALLACE. Page Woven Wire Fence Co., Adrien; Mich. KIDNEY DISEASES are the most fatal of ali dis eases. IQ KIDNEY CURE lt a 0 Guaranteed Remed? or money refunded. Contains remedies recognized by emi nent physicians as the best for Kidney and Bladder troubles. ODt/'o r-? FOR SALE BY EVANS' PHARMACY Assessment Notice. AUDITOR'S OFFICE, ANDERSON, S. C. This office will ba opea to receive Returns of iv. no na) Property for Taxation for tho next I 'meal Year, from tbe firrt day of January. 1904, to the *Uh day of February following inclusive.. Reil Estate ataoda aa before, but ah trau?fera of Real Estate made since last return HIIUIIIII bo noted upon thc return blank whan ii Hug. TneTowashlp Assesors ara required hy law to Hat for all those that fall to make their own re turna within the titae ireicribeil. Hence Urn difficulty of thu delinquents weaning the 50 per cent penalty, aa well aa tho freq-iency of errors re sulting from thia practice. Hr all means make your OWN returns and tberohy ?ava expense and trouble. Ex-Confodarate Soldiers ov.r SO yeara of age are exempt from Toll Tux. All other malea between tho ages of 21 and GU yeara, except those Incapable of . arning a nippon front belli? maimed or from any other cause shall be de meed taxable poUa For thc convenience of Tatpayera wo ^vill also hav. Deputies to lake lletunta at the following times and pl cos : Holland, Tuesday. January 12. MufFaitavillt?, Wediu-Jilar, January 13. I va, Thursday, January li. Moseley, l"ri?iay. January, 15 A K Scudd y'a, Saturday. January nv Htnrr, Monti ty, Jaumry 18 I blorevilto, TUewl**/. Januarv 19. CJInkneiles' Mill, Wednesday, Jaouary 24). Guyton, Monday, Janury ll. Bishop's Branch, Haturduy, January 23. Fife Forks, Monday, Janua y 25. Auton, Tuesday, January 19. Wyatt's Store, Wednesday January 13. Cedar Wreath. Friday, January 16-a. uv Junes' Store, Friday, January 16-p- m. Wigtngton'a Store, T hursday, January 14. Equality. Tuesday, January 12. Pendleton, * Friday and Saturday, January 15 and 16, lo J. T. Humor. Tovrnvllle, Friday, January IS. Tugaloo. Saturday, January 16. Hone? Path, Mooday and Cuesday, January IB and 19 or up to February 29th. to J. J. Truaaall. Belton, Friday and Saturday, January Mr.md 80 Pledmoat, Monday and Tuesday, January 25 and 26 Pelzer, Monday, Tue day and Wedneaday, Jan uar) 18,19 and 20. or up lo February 20 to John B Bonner. Wllllainston.Wednesday and Thursday, January 27 and 28. 00 per cent. Penalty for Non-Return. G. N. 0. BO LEMAN, _ \ i \ . >' CITV LOTS FOR!SALE.. SITUATED on and near North Main Street. Five minutos' walk Court House. Apply to J. F. Ollnksoales, lutelllgeroer offloe. Cotton Must Have Potash Fotash is an essential plant food 1 which must be added as a fertilizer I j '^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\ , We have books them fren la any farmer who asks ns for thuin. GERHAN KALI WORKS, New York -DB Nunnsu Ktrrct, op Atilinta, *i(L.- V.'iyi Hr?, Broad Ki. 5 BELTON HIGH SCHOOL i PREPARES for Colloge and offers a thoroughly practical course for students unablo to tako a College education. Tuition raten reasonable. Next session begins Sept. 7, 1903. For further informsMon, writ? io A. G. HOLMES, Prlnoloal Aug 19, 1903_Bolton, 3. C. MONET TO LOAN. f WE can negotiate Loans on Improved Farm Landa for sums oxoeeding $3.09 on reasonable terina, on tho installment plan. It ls worth the white of persona contemplating borrowing money to soe us. Bring your land naners with you. BONHAM A WATKINS, Oilice In Peoplo'a Bank. Sept 30, 1903_16_ Anderson County Mutual Ben efit ?ssociaion of America. Tho Anderson County Mutual Benefit Association of America writes tho cheap est insurance of the day. The plan la to take one thousand people, men and wo mon, bind them together in a business way to help each other in time of need and trouble. You ouly pay when one dies. Ii you.join now your first payment paya you up until January, 1904, unlew we lose ono of our members, If the hand of Providence should sever the silver thread that holds the life of one ot our loved ODOM, friend or neighbor, who would hesitate a moment on paying the little Hum of One Dollar and ten cents to replace the amount and pay expensen paid out on death claim. Consider th? matter, examine and study our plan You are receiving insurance o protect your family M actual jost. Don't stand back, let our agencien write you np at once. If there ls anything you wish to know in regard to the policy call on any of the agents at>d they will take pleasure In explaining the policy to you. Remem ber this IH the only opportunity ever presented to you at actual cost. Yon owa it to your family, you owe it to your self to secure their protection in COGO you are taken away from them. If you are I over thirty years of age this le tho only chance you will have of getting in. After 1.000 members have been secured no one over thirty gets in, and ho only to replace a deceased member. N. R. GREEN,Pres. J. M. PAYNE, Seo. and Treas. Here is our Ne\* T"-e Setter Wo worked so successfully last season. Sets 'em cold, right on tho wheel, and keeps the dish right, too. With plenty good seasoned lumber, improved machinery, well selected stock of different sizes, shapes and parts, wo give you tho Bervico you ex pect in short time. Overhauling Ca* riagcf. and Buggies from start to finish is our specialty. PAUL E. STEPHENS. Foley's Kidney Cure wakes kldndys and bladder right? TAX NOTICE. THE Hooks for tho collection of State, School KL i County Tuces will bo orenel from October 16th, lil )-'. lo Doeamhor -sl.st, lim, inclusive, and fioin January i?t, iv04, to March ist, ?U?i I wiii collect with the penalty-for January 1 percent, February 'J ter cent, and from March lit to tho loth wi ll 7 per cent penalty. After tho )5th of March Executions will be issued. ') he rale of Tax Levy ia aa follow j : State Tax^s.5 Kl Illa Ordinary County. SJ-C" School.? ?. 8 " Post Indebtedness. 1 " Public Roads. 1 " Total.#.ityf An additional levy of 3 milla ha* been male far" Ko 24, Hunter School District; aa additional tory of 2 milis ha? been made for tho rown of Wlf llamston. which ls College District. No - ; also Gantt School District, No. -.levy male additionalf 8 mills for School aad i' ? mills for interest on Behool Bonds, tho total additional for Gantt School District 41 j mills ; m akin? tot Al tax lory for Hun ter School District 17 milla. College SJ?IWI Dla- I trict 16 milln. Total tar levy fjr Gantt School,, District is' j mills The State Coastitution requires all mala? be-J tween twontT-one and sixty years of ai;?, except k thone iucapablo of earuln< u support from hiing* maimed or from other c mes, and those mho serv-f ed in the war between the States, to pay a Poll ? Tax of One Dollar. .) All persons between the a<e? of eighteen ?nd ?" flf y years of ax?, woo aro aol" i > warfc me publlo I roads, or can so th MU to bi worked, except Preach- ? ers who have ch ir<u of contrabati? is. ani pyrton* I who served la the war UCLWOUJ dbe State*, Ssho-ri Teachers and Tunic ..? aro exoaptol iro n road * duty, and in lieu of work may pay a tat of Ono Dollar, to be collected at the earn? timo other! taxes are collect?. I I will collect uxesat SlaMowi. Mt. Airy, Pied- j; mom, Pfizer, Wililamiion, Bjiton and llonea . Path, Int will give uj'.i:e later tho tims I wUJ ) visit these places. ; J. M. PAYNE.ro Tacar: I Foley's Honey and Tar for chi id ten, safe, sure. No opiates* TRADE MARKS J > DESIGNS \ COPYRIGHTS 4C.' Anyone sending a sketch andJ?Mrtg0?mi o iii ok ly ascertain ?sr opinion free wkMh sr a? neeU? nolle*, wi thoa- ohatire, tn tho . ^ Scientific Jfaterican, A handsomely Illustrated weetfly. I^TOOSt Ctr? MUNN &C??6!-^N8W Yort Erl* ah & y Bt, WaalUu^ou. D.2T .