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I THE THRESHOLD | "And this is tho very last time," j muttered the man as the door open ed. "Tho very lasf. time," he repeat ed as he sat waiting in the pretty, . ' glowing drawing room. Then she come iu, and the room "became beautiful, because prettinesa was not of her. They sat together and talked^ and daring a little interval the man's heart jogged bis elbow in an irritat ing) way and murmured, "This is the very last time." "Yes," said the man aloud, and ' che, smiling, asked to what his af- } firm a t i vo referred. Then they talked again on various j aumccts which related to the man, j for she knew all his past and some thing of his future. wU "Why are you sad today?" she } =a?kea after awhile. The man hesitated. "Because I. don't know why I am sad?at least I can't tell you." ??iW "May I tell you a little story?" asked she. "Please." "Listen, then, but remember my stories are not personal. There was ; once a man who never was a boy be cause he had been unable to spare tho time. Being a boy or even, a youth uses up a lot of time at the Beginning, when time, seems short, and adds it on to the end, bur. cir cumstances and loneliness in strange places made it impossible for the man in my story to invest time in this way. So he skipped boyhood and youth, and went &?aight into nnonhood in a strange country."9 "And what effect on him did that (have?" asked he in the drawing room, who had become interested after the story's first sentence. She who told the' story smiled and, continuing, said: "It had on ?iim the effect of tropical sun upon vegetable life. It made him prema ture in all ways, but strong also and glorying in his strength. A great deal was shut put of his range of rvision, and his life's limits were, nar row, but in those limits very intense. fTo him the world was himself?he and his work, his aims, his strength. Nothing else, you understand. Hav ing missed youth, enjoyment did not $| ?corne into his.scheme. He did not look-about him for life's soft lights j . and its music and so never saw or . heard them. He had no time." "Ah!" "Yes, it was a pity. Well, then one day by chance he met Feminin ity?happened upon her munching cake and ripping tea. ' Feminiinty smiled prettily at th? man and 01 zered him cake and tea, which he took with nerveless fingers, gasping and staring the while in pleased amazement. Then Femininity's roBy, dimpled fingers went tripping dainti ly up and down the Heyboard of a ?piano, and she sang to him, every mote in her rippling little ballad itwanging a response on one of the man's heartstrings. And he asked ?nmself-^-w?ll, let me isee, he asked ?nmself?? "Why," interrupted he who lis tened in the drawing robnvp^h|'* \ tho had never before known that this .was the world and how ha had been led to think that his life was the real life of the world."' -'Tfes, that was what he asked liim^ i aelf. And so dainty Uttle Feminin ity, smiling all the.while, drew aside the lace curtains, which* had hidden jfrom his range of vision the Byzan . riine alley wherein she lived, and he, looking dovm the alley with her,[??$& cided that it was the real world; that his world so far had been a &reary fantasy of his own creation, j? -The man's lights were not wide or deep, but very intense, and of course Iho laid his heart, new found, rever entially and unreservedly at Fem ininity's feet, remininity laughing?. ly accepted the heart, andthen'? "fleeting another man at the cor ner of her alley," said the listener, . ' f'throw the heart down, still' laugh- ; i :', :ing, and went back to the piano with 'her new friend". "Exactly. Well, now th? mi in was in a very sorry plight, became the had lost his own world?the a? 9f ; created fantasy-^-and, being forealfe ?n m the new world by her to whoii; 'M Mb heart had been given, he could not find his way.K3^ -ed his eyes with tears, and, groping about in the Byzantine alley, he- ? "He met Fron Fr?n: You must l?t mo tell this piece/! Baid the man in the drawing room. "He met , Frou Frou, who happened to have , ' iwandered carelessly from out her , Moorish alley into ; Feminmity's do main. Ho looked like a , man, so Frou Frou welcomed him with fas IN fCihating,; lower Bohemian good fel j lowShip and swung aside the, rich , I , drapery and heavy perfumed curtain j j which had hid from his view the i :*y light* and dancing mimic in which, she Jivcl, ; "iio?king into the world, the man; drew a long breath of satisfaction, : - and, as Froui Frou challenged him with hrimminjg champagne glass up- I raised; he eaid^This-fe Undoubtedly reaKty?the abandon of real lifo in the world?unlike previ ous fancies, which wer', absurd.* 'And when the very first graynesa, came and the fiaahing lights paled in tho dawn hour Frou *You>vbeing th?d and sl?epy, carelessly hiXd open : ^e^n<?<js^"^^?r frail^ ^vete that he had not fought tho rval 1 TTOi?? after all. Still, he had lost ; his own, and when?well"? "No," said she who listened, "you . cannot tell this part. I must, for j he did not go into another alley, you . know. J "He wandered into the cloisters of a white marblo temple, because in j the brightness of the sunlight which J came after dawn he saw a pure pr?s- j ence ? a girl ? standing on the threshold. He approached the pr?s ence, so he longed for rest, though after his two phases he felt he had no right. "She was so pure and white, the innocence of knowing nothing gleaming on her forehead. She could not, like the others, conduct him into her world, because she had not yet crossed the threshold of the temple herself, and she knew noth ing of that which he had lived and seen. Still ehe was a girl, and his worship pleased her. "Very sweetly, though all un knowingly, she helped him to take ! his dtand beside her on the thresh- J old, she understanding nothing and j never dreaming but that he, too, had the earliest phases to pass and could enter her temple with her. "But when her innocence of ig norance had spread itself round the man for awhile the crude purity of it?the"? "Tho nothing knowing, nothing seeing, nothing understanding spot lessness of it all almost choked hun/* said the man in the dr awing room, "and he realized that since: he had not at the beginning found this world he could not enter it now or at least not accompanied by the cold whiteness.,of the little maid who hath no breasts/ So now in real despair he turned away from the classic temple, feeling not only that he had failed to find the real world* but was unfit to he taken into it. Then, as he walked miserably away, an angel from.heaven came across his path and laid her cool hand on his forehead, so that"? "No, dear! A woman?only a wo m?n. But she showed him that he J was already in -the real world .and that she was, too, but that he kept going into little phases of life and, thinking eveh was life itself, was al most broker hearted when ho found himself unfitted to live in a phase. He was very happy with the woman, because he loved ner, and yet, think ing that he must he of some one of the phases?the little phases?lie had seen, not knowing that they were of him merely, he fancied the woman must he opart from him; thQ-r? "This must be the lost time ?" "Exactly. But, ah, the .woman understood. She knew that he was really of the same life and world as she. She thought?that he loved her, and"* "She loved him?" "Yes, dear!"?A. J. Dawson in St. Louis Republic. 1 j His Expanse Account. A bright Harvard boy brought his first years expense account home with him* in socordanco with in ajtructions from his father. His par ents were very iauch puzzled when they inspected it ; to find a large proportion of their Gon's expenses charged up in one item-r-"S. P. Gl" j At the first glance they were in clined to think "S. P. Q/r might be the initiais of some fair maiden* and a storm began to brew for th* unr conscious freshman. But at the end of the expense list they found a foot note which quite cleared the mys tery and the atmosphere. It read: "S. P. G.?Sundries, principally Aft .tho North Poie. At the north-pole there is only one direction?south.' One could go south in as many ways as there are I points on the.compass card, but ev ery one of these ways is south?east ; and west, have vanished. 'The hour of day at the pole is a paradoxical conception, for that point is the meeting place of every meridian, and the time of all holds good, so that it is any hour one cares to mention. TXnpunctuality is hence impossible, but the question grows complex and its practical solution concerns few. Bright Colored Boy. Frightened Mother?My child, ,what in the world are you doing with all that flaming red paint smeared . over your face and hands? j Foolish Boy?I wanted tf git a l job, an* I eeen an ad. in th* paper ; that said "Wanted?A Bright Coir ' orect Boy." So I jiat paints m'self ' the brightest color I could an* was jiat Btartin' out t* see th* ftlier what advertised.?Baltimore American. & Collies in s onto parts of the high landsare supposed; only to under stand English. The Spectator has heard of;h Gaelic speal?ing sh??herd. gravely assuring ah^ r Englishman !. that it was impossible' "to work a I dog" in Gaelic and adding: "There's V Sandy, how. ^e's hardly a word of . the Gaelic,'' ^yhilfe Sandy sat with a J)ok on his face which seemed to r^ay:, "It's quite true. X have ilmi | vbe^u able to acquire more than the bar&at smatt?ririg of the veraacu* lar*i>^~l?; ?.??- . - ^ iVfl awfully nice the way a girl's hand can -eom. to.x he getting away 1 frein your?, and^?tall the time be s?Oggliog in closer. '^Hmfl >" aeveg;;'sure she is a suo- 1 oess ftt a ball ""^^^?i0 maD tries to ' get ter o?.in a cr$>sned corner, where ! aVo Ought not to he. r : V ? A. man ran ao oii'^yind a great > deal logger than h? can'^b ou makieg, 1 )0V0. : I HER SAFE DEPOSITS. What Amazed tho Young Only Tired the Elderly Benedict. | "Have you over noticed," began the bridegroom, "what astonishing places a woman chooses for hiding things ?" ; '^1 ceased noticing and ceased be ing astonished at anything years ago," replied the elderly Benedict wearily. , i ."Well, the other night," went on the bridegroom, "there was a Bmall lire in tho apartment below us. ' Somebody upset a lamp, and while they were putting it opt my wife and I were gathering our valuables together and preparing to flee. For five minutes wo rushed about like mad people. Tho first thing I did was to open my wife's bureau drawer and feel for her jewel bos. "'Oh, it isn't thereV she called out. It's in tho ref rigor itor under tho lowest pan.' "'What!* I exclaimed. "Well/ she replied, 'that's the only place where a burglar wouldn't think of looking for them/ " 'What are you trying to take down that oil painting for?* I asked excitedly. " 'Grandfather's will is behind it, tacked to the wall, and I can't budge it/ she answered, with tears in her voice. " *No, don't come to help me/ ehe 'went on. 'Bun into the parlor and get the- deed to the Brooklyn prop erty. Itfs pinned in tho top af tho lace cartnrns. And1?and bring me thai hat -with the white feather on it. No* not my beet one; the-other. ?tVgot my marriage certificate, and tho contract for your book and your first love letter sewed in the crown. And, oh, John, do look in that bos TtttdOT the bathtub and find the manuscript of your play and your diamond sleeve links. Yea, that's the one I mean?that old cracker box. Well, I chose it because it did not look the least bit suspicious. Who would ever think u? looking under the bathtub in an old cracker bos for diamond ' sleeve buttons ? Now come on. We've got every thing/ '"No, we haven't/ I replied. 'Where's that hundred dollar bill I gave 3'ou to deposit yesterday and the cheek from Bradley and all the money ?' " 'Oh, they're all safe/ she replied nonchalantly, pulling me out of the door. 'The hundred dollar bill is in my stocking and the check is pinned under by back hair/ "Now, what do you think of that?" "The patent to those hiding places expired ages ago/* Baid the elderly Benedict, yawning.? New .York Press. Succeso Prolongs Life. It is now well known that in creased complexity of life with in creased expenditure distinctly aids longevity. 'Luxury, "the fertile par ent of a whole family of diseases,** modifies it greatly, of course, but this is a nwiugeable factor. We have only to recall personal experi ence to realize the force of intel lectual stimulation. Tho interest of sport will sustain men without fa tigua for distances they otherwise could not traverse. Tno excitement of strife will often mask the pros-' enoe of wounds. Self forgeifulncss in all the walks of life under thai stress of love, cb -Iry or accepted duty doubles human endurance. Sue* cess gives new vitality, new powers, and this is anei^sr name'for new life.?New York World. Kis Varied industries. "He's interested in many indus tries, I believe?" "He is." "Is he in the shoe business ?" "Yes; be has quite a foothold there." "How about the glove business?" "Ho recently took a hand in it" "And the selling of canes?" "He carries them." "And hats?" "He has them on his mind too." "What else?" "He puts up umbrellas and turns out lamps."?Cleveland Plain Deal er. ' - , Utilizing the Camera.. Tess?Mr. Saphead gave you a camera for your birthday, didn't he? Jsssr-Yes; and we took it with us on our stroll through the country yesterday. Oh, what do you .think? He proposed to me; actually flopped down on his knees and? ^ Tess?What did you say? Jess?Why, I Baid, "Lrook plens ant, please," and I'do hope the pic ture will turn out weil. Cheerful. Youth, (to landlady)?Your terms are high. Landlady ? But consider the chc&t ful view, sir. f^Youth ? Cheerful view ? Why* there's a cemetery right opposite. X don't call that very cheerful >: I^dlady---Ohi yes. sir. Beflect how comfortin* and cheerin' it will be when you gaze out to think that you're not thefg. ? Many a man who. isn't satisfied with the ills he bas peruses drug store ?Imaoaoa and acquires others he kaows not of. ? Mnaio hath charmes to *oqthe the ftv^beast? buf the girl who floes a a continuous stunt on the piano for gets that the .neighbors1 are partly civ ilised. ? He who attends strictly to bis 3wobu*Jn*ss baa no time to ; waste oa visionaryjJchemea for saving the oo\\n HIS WATERLOO. How tho Officer of tho Day Triumphed I Over Private Murphy. ! In tho days when this country had a frontier every army post had to bo i in a constant state vt readiness, for ; there was no telling when troops might be called out to suppress un i Indian uprising or to rid tho road i of desperate highwaymen. Disci pline, the Brooklyn Eagle says, was j never relaxed, although the manner J in which it was preserved sometimes ? 1 savored of comedy. i Captain Troxell of the Seven teenth infantry, an Irishman and a . strict disciplinarian, had considera ble trouble with certain members of j his company who, being Hibernians ] from different counties, were dis posed to quarrel overmuch among themselves. Once when Captain Troxell was officer of the day the sergeant of the guard, a strapping Irishman, who I himself disapproved these frequent fights as being subversive of disci pline and disgraceful to the compa ny, approached the captain with the customary Balute and said : "Officer of tho day, sir, I havo the honor to report that Private Mur phy, of your company, a prisoner in the post guardhouse, struck at me 1 with a pickax handle.* Captain Troxell returned the sa lute and merely said, "All right." A few minutes later the sergeant of the guard presented himself again and after saluting said : ''Officer of the day, sir, I have tho honor to report that Privote Mur phy, a prisoner in the post guard house, struck at me again with a pfokox handle*" I Once more the captain returned the salute and said, "All right." The sergeant of the guard stood at attention a moment, then defer entially said: "But, sir, officer of the day, is it all right for a prisoner in the post guardhouse to Rt.riVo ?t the sergc-u.nl j of tho guard with a pickax handle ?" 1 "It is," answered the captain, "if 1 the sergeant of the guard is fool enough to let him." Ten minutes later the sergeant re- ' turned and saluted. "Officer of the day, sir," he said in. his gravest voice, "I have the hon or to report that Private Murphy of 1 your company^ a prisoner in the post ' guardhouse, desires to go to the hos pital on sick report, sir." Hypnotism and Matrimony. Why not use hypnotism as an aid j to matrimony? This brilliant idea 1 occurred to a lady who listened to a lecture on hypnotism by an eminent physician. Volunteers from the au dience went upon the platform and were thrown into harmless trances. So the lady wrote to the physician next day stating that she desired to consult him, and he awaited her coming, thinking she was a patient. "Oh, no," she said. "I am quite weil, but I am very much in love with a man who will not ask me to marry him. Now, I want to invite him and you to lunch, go that you can .hypnotize him and make him propose!" The doctor exploded in mirth, theo suggested that she should trust to her own hypnotic attractions. But. she, vsent away ob serr?og that hypnotists are most un practical.?London Chronie-K Prfou? R?ting Firm. Old Joshua Martin was noted for his ability to. make a close bargain, but once in awhile he met his match. **I say, mister," he began as he walked into a barber shop one mar ket day while waiting to dispose of bis load, "farming's mighty bad nowadays.: You ought to lemme have a- shave for 5 cents. Why, if I should tell you the price I had to take for my garden sass"? "Mebbe," returned the barber, "but fact is I ought to charg? you double price now by rights, for farmers' faces are just about twice as long, as they used to be. You ought to be thankful for being let o? on one fare." Definition of Duty. There was a small boy who went to Sunday school. When he went home hia mother asked him what the lesson was about. "Faith," said the boy. "What's that?" his mother asked. ^Believin* what you've got ev ery reason to suppose ain't so," the boy replied. "And then," he after ward remarked, "there was some talk about duty, too." "What's duty?" his mother asked him. '"Oh, duty," he replied, "is any old thing that you have got to do when you want to play baseball."?Judge. Poor Bachelor! "There's no use talking, I'm going ic get married," said a bachelor to a married acquaintance tho other day while busily engaged in sewing. "Here I have workea just twenty minutes by the watch trying to get thi? needle threaded, and then, just as I succeeded, I pulled the thread out. Finally I got it threaded, and now, efter sewing on this button fast toi? strong, I find Fue got it on the wrong ?de, and I haw my w*>rk all totio'eraor again* , ' ^i^i.? ?Probably more young people would embark on the sea of matrimony if stern parents would taiso the block ade. /- ?- uw> who thinks he under stands 'women is just as likely as not to invest.his money in a perpetual mo tion invention. ? A man doesn't want t? give h'?s photograph to afirl and pretends he does; a girl wants to and pretends she dus not. GOT THE THIEF. Ruse by Which a Oackwoods Parson Did too Business. "The; police have what they call the 'sweating' process, a means of forcing confessions and admissions from stubborn moral dere!.^/' said an old timer, "and sotno of these methods are ingenious, some of them cruel, whilo others uro posi tively barbarous and havo been frowned upon by the courts, as is ki evidenced in the doctrine which de- ^ clares that forced confessions aro of I ^ little or no value as evidence. I 6ay m this by way of priludo to a littlo story of a long tune ago which will show that there are more ways than cue of forcing a man to 'own up' to wrongdoing. As you probably know, the ax was at one time the most val uable implement around the place. It was in the time I fcr.-s in mind, the time when southeastern Arkan sas was a wilderness and when the earlier settlers first began to cast their lot in tliat rich and now pros perous part of the world. The ax meant much in those days. So when some fellow pilfered some other fel low's ax the question was of largo moment for miles around. "A man thus circumstanced and of the time complained that his ax had been stolen. There happened to be a preacher in the section who was looked upon as having extraor dinary, almost supernatural powers, and whenever anything of this kind happened complaint was made to him. The theft of the ax was re ported to the preacher. I'll find it for you/ he said to the distressed man of the woods. "On a certain day when he had nearly every man within a radius of fifty miles around him ho lined them up in a row and stepped back about thirty feet, just far enough to al low him a good eyo sweep of the line. In a few words he related the case of the man who had lost the ax, dwelt on iha importance cf the ax, declaring it not only to be tho in dustrial capital of tho man who lost it, but the chief weapon with which he defended his home. 'Now, my friends, one of you men got that ax, and I know it, he said. 'I have a rock in my hand/ he eontinued, 'and while I do not care to hurt any liv ing human being, I am going to hit the man who got that ax/ And as he said this he swuT;g a long bony arm over Iiis head v/ith violence and brought it around with force. Only one man dodged in tho line of forty, and ho was the guilty man. In a short while tho ox was returned to its rightful owner, and tho back woods preacher was more popular than ever. Which littlo happening shovvs that there aro refined and un refined methods of 'sweating* men and making them"'own up' to their misdeeds." ? New Orleans Times Democrat. An Abrupt Translation. The small boy had been irritating his father with many vexatious ques tions, about a psalm he was studying for Sunday school next day. "Father, what does selah mean?" was the latest "Shut up F said paterfamilias. The boy said nothing, t ut in Sun day school tho paalm was -ander dis cussion. "Who knows what the word selah means asked the young superin tendent. The small boy's hands went up, find he was halfway out of his seit. No one else raised a hand. "Well?" said the superintendent. "Shut up!" said the smali boy. And seeing the look on the teachers face added: "It is. I asked papa and he said 'shut up!'" -??? A Champion. Miss Hoamley?Didn't 3t>u hear Miss Knox tell me yesterday that I was the "homeliest girl in our set V Miss Goodley ? Yes, tho hateful thing I I guve her a piece of my mind about it afterward. Miss Hoamiey?Oh, did vou? I hope you weren't too hard on her. Miss Goodley?Well, I told her she ought to consider how sensitive you must be about it.?Philadel phia Ledger. Art Explosion. * When the Afro-American bank failed an angry depositor met the president and demanded his money. "Where my money? I want my money. I don' keer fur de bank. I des want my money." "How I know wnere yo* money ?" said the president contemptuously? You ain't posted. Wat yo' know 'bout business ? When de bank fail hit des explode, and dey ain't no money."?rfew York Tribune. A Careful Man. "Have you noticed/' asked the man who keepn his eyes open, "that sidewalks -axe always laid so that there is a slight slant toward the curbstone? If you have not thought of it there is a thinking man in Brooklyn that has, and to save shoe leather he walks on different sides o' the street on alternate days to make ?are that his shoes will be worn off even,"?New York Press, F?l&'sTCidhey Care makes Sidneys mnd blmdd?r tight ? A true, gentleman never mr.rrics a woman because she has money; ho marries her because she has none. ? Tho youog man who works with one eye on the oloe?r is *pt to have plenty of time to* look for atotfaer job 1st er.- ' -r- One isn't necessarily wealthy be cause he has more mont y than brains. one Pains, Itching, Scabby Skin Diseases, Swellings, Carbuncles. Scrofuia rmanentty cured by takln? Botanic BlooJ Balm. 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'ihe Township Arsetiors are required bylaw to 1st for all those that fall to make their own re urns within the time prescribed Hence the llmcultv of delinquents escaping the 50 per cent jopolty. as well as the frequency of error* re lulling from this practice. By all moans make rour OWN returns and thereby save expanse and rouble Ex*Confed(,vate Soldiers over 60 years of ago are ixempt from Poll Tax. All other male* between ho ages of 21 and CO ye rs, except those Incapable >f earning a support from being rusimod or from luv other cause shall be deemed taxablo polls. rorihe convenience of Taxpayers wewlllalro jstb Deputies to tako Beturns at the following 11 f a and places: Holland, Tuesday, January 10. MofTsttsvlllo, Wednesday, January 11. Iva, Thursday, Jaunary 12. Moseley, Ft Hay, January 18. A E 8cuddy'a, raturday, January 14. Starr, Monday, January 16. btorevllle, Tues lay, January ?7. CUnkecaleV Mill, Wednesday, January 18. G ay ton, Monday, January 16. Bfsnop's Branch, Saturday, January 21. , Uro t onka, Monday, January 36. A utun. Tuesday, January i7. WyaU'a Store, Wednosday, ? ".huary 18. Oda.- Wreath. Friday, January 20?a. tu. James' Store, Fsidavy, January 20?p. m. Wlglngton's Store, Tftur. day, January 19.' Fquality, Tuesday, January 17. Pendlcton, Friday and Saturday, January 20 mil 21, to J. T. Hun or. Townvllle, Friday, January 27. Tugaloo, Saturday, January 26, Honea Path, Monday and Tuesday, January 16 tnd 17, or up to February 20th, to Deputy. Belton, Friday and Saturday, January 17 and 28. Piedmont, Monday and Tuesday, January 28 tod 24. Pelznr, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan tary 1$, 17 and 18, or up to February 20th, to lohn B Bonner. Willlamstou, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan tary 26 and 26. G. H. C BOLEMaN, Auditor. 4*r* 60 pe: cent penalty for Non-Return. Dec 7 1901. 26 TAX NOTICE. TUE Books for the collection of etato, School ni County T ixes will be opened from October 5th, 1904, to December ?1st, 150?, inciosive, and ,om January lot, !90t, to March 1st, 1903,1 will nllect with the i enalty?for January ! per cent, 'ebcuaryS ier cent, and from March let to the Mli wi'h 7 per cent penalty. After the 16th of durch Executions will be issued, i he rate of Tax Levy is as follows : state Taxes.6 Mills School.-. 8 Ordinary County.-.4 " Public Roada,....m.r. 1 " Total......18 " An additional lory 4 nr. ills Ecbool District No 60. Additional levy 4 n ills School District No. 43 additional levy 8 mills School District No. 61. Additional levy A]4 mills School District Mo. 84. Additional iety 6 mills School District No. 20. Additional levy 8 mills School District No. 24. Making 17 mills for Walker-MeElmojIe School )lstrict So 60. Making 17 mills for Good Hope School District Co. 41. Making 16 mills for Melton School District No. ii. Making 17)4 mills for Gantt School District No. Making is mills for Collegs School District No. Making 16 mil's for Hanter School District No. The State Constitution requires all males be* ween the sate of 21 and e? years, except thoso t capable of earning a support from b log malm* id or other causes, and those who sirvedln the rar between the States, to pay a PoU Tax of One toiler. All persons between the ages of eighteen iod fifty years of age who are able to work the >ubllc roads, or caose them to be worked, exoepi preachers who have charge of a congregation and persons who served in the war. between the States. School Teachers and Trustees are exempted fre>ta read doty, and In lieu of work may pay a tax er )ne Dollar, to be collected at ihe aanae tlxeother ixes are collected. I will collect taxes i? Slab* own, Mt. Airy. Piedmont, Pelser, Bel to ? Mills uiA at Honea Path, but will give notice later the line I will visit these places. j;M. PAYNE, County Treasurer. to the farmer who under stands how to feed his ^ crops. Fertilizers for Corn 1 must contain at least 7 per cent, actual Potash Send for our books?they tell why Potash is as necessary to plant life as sun and rain; sent free, if you ask. Write to-day. GERMAN KALI WORKS New York?93 Nuuu Street, or Atlanta, Ga. ia>J Soudi Broad St. G. H. GEIGER, ATTORNEY A.T LA.W, ANDERSON, S. . Office tOver I8oat Office. 7&S~- Money to Lend on Real Estate. April IS, 1904 43 ly . J. L. ?Hr *ARD. ATTORNEY >?T LAW, ANDERSON, 8 C. Office over Post Office Building Money to lend on Raal Estate. Foley's Honey and 7?9J* torchlldrea,sofet8ure. Nooplstmh PARKER'? HAIR BALSAM CIuam* and bexatinca the Intel ProrootM luxuriant growth. I Merer Falls to Bettor* OrmjI Hair to lto Youthful Color. Cure* acalp dlwim ft hair f?I <Oc,anqtLO0at ProggUta C. & W. Carolina Railway. Schedule in effect Sept. 5, 1904. Lv Anderson. " Calhoun Falls... Ar McCormiok. Ar Augusta. Lv Augusta. " Allendale. "' Yemassee. " Charleston. '.' Savannah b (cen t) " Beaufort b. " Port Royal. 7.00 a m 8.21 a m ?.1G a m 11.00 a tn 2 35 p m 4.30 p m 6 40 p w 7.40 p m 0.80 p ro U.30 p m ii.40 p m 2.1C V.JI 4.10 pm G.05 p m 0 7.00 am 8.55 a m 10.05 a m 11.55 pm 01 1.15 am 011.05 am Il 10 a m Lv Port Hoya! b. '? Beaufort. H Savannah b (cen t) " Charleston b . ? Yomassee. M Allendale. Ar August?,. Lv Augusta. Lv McCormick . Ar Calbonn Falls. " Anderson.:. J.Jo a uj 7.40 a m 5.40 a m 7.10 a m 0.15 a m 10.25 a m 12.20 p m 2.55 p m 4.40 p m 5.45 p m 7.10 d m cO.O? p m 9.10 pm 1-7.15 p m C8.20 p m 10 20 p m 11.31 p m 1.30 a m 6.00 a m 7.37 a m 10.00 a m Lv Anuerson . Ar Greenwood. M Waterloo (Harris Sprirjgs) " LaurenB . " Greenville. 14 Spartanburg. 7.00 a m 12.39 p m 1.17 p m 1.45 p m 8.25 p m ? 3.30 p m " Glenn Springs b.1 5.25 p m Lv Glnnu Sorlnus (G. n. h. lt.). Lv Sparlanburg (O. & W. ?J. Lv Gfreenvllle. Lv Laurens. Lv Waterloo. Lv Sreenwood. Ar Anderson.*.. 9.00 a m 12.01 p m 12.15 p m 160pm 2.?0 p m 2.46 p m 7.10 p m ?2oept Sunday; 0, Sunday only;. Through train service between Au gusta ana Charleston. For information relative to rata?, eta, apply to W. B. Steele. U. T. A-; 4^dsr S. C, Geo. T. Bryan, G. A., Green ville, ?C, Ernest Willlame, Geb. P?se. ?gt, ugusta, Ga., T. M. Emerson, Tsamo Manager._ ' Dr. Wooltn'3: PAINLESS PP ' ? ANH???* Whiskey Cure SENT F11EE 10 Oft ntsra of morpalBfl, Spion, lsBdsaasB, elixir of opium,co caine or wblatsy.? largo book ot par tlculnra on boms OS* ssnstoriom treat* ment. Address,Dr. B. M. WOOLLBT, P.O. Box 287, Atlanta, Georgia* Blue Ridge Railroad. Effective Nor. 2?, 1906. JWESTBOUND. No. 11 (dally)?Leave Belton 3.50 p. m. ; Anders >n 415 p. ro. ; Ps'idletoo 4.47 p. lu. ; Cherry 4 51 p. m. ; 8oaeoa 5.31 p. m ; arrive Walballa 5.55 p. m. No. 9 (dniijr except ?und-*v)?Lsav?? Belton 10.45 s. m.; Anderson 11.07 s. m.; Pend le ton 11.32 a m.; Cherry 11.39 a. m.; arrive at Seneca 11.57 a m. No. 5 (Sunday only)?Leave Bniton 11.45 a.m.; Anderson 11.07 s. ra.; Pon dleton 11.32 a. m.; Cherry 11.39 a. m.; Seneca 1.05 p. m.; arrive Walhalla 1.2, p. m. No. 7 (dsllv except Sunday)?Leave Anderson 10.30 a. tn.; Pendleton 10.50 a. m.; Cherry 11.09 a. m.; Seneca 1.05 p. m,; arrive Walhalla 1.40 p m. No. 3 (dally)?Leave Belton 9.15 p. m.; arrive Anderson 9.42 p. m. No. 23 (daily except 8undsy)?Leave Belton 9.00 a. m.; arrive Anderson 9.3a a. m. EA8B0UNI). No. 12 (daily)?Leave Walhslla 8 35 a. m.; Seneca 8.58 a. m ; Chen y 9.17 s. m.; Pendleton 9 25 s. m.; Anderson 10.00 a. m.; arrive Belton 10.25 a. m. No= 15 (daily es pt Sunday)?Leave Seneca 2 00 p. m ; Cherry 2.19 p. m.; Pen dleton 2 26 p. m.; Anderson 3 10 p. m.; arrive Belton 3.35 p. m. No. 6 (Sunday only)? Leave Anderson 3.10 p. m.; arrive Belton 3 83 p. m. No 8 (daily)?Leave Walhalla 3.10 p. m.; Senses 5.31 p. m.; Cherry 5 59 p. m.; Fendleton 6 12 p m.; Anderson 7.30 p. ra ; arrive Belton 7 58 p. m. No. 24 (dully except Sundav)?Leave Anderson 7.50 a. m.; arrive Belton 8.20 s. m. HO. BEATTIE, Pres., Greenville, 8. C. J. R. ANDERSON, Snpt., Anderson, 8. C. 60 'EARS* EXPERIENCE Patents Designs 4 ' Copyrights Ac. loos Lrtctlyoornr lent 1 reo. Oldest inns svri cUr eofn0dsntff?^?nd^kt Oldest ajrency for aecartnapftte? taken th-^upb Mann A Co. recolv? "nchs notice, without charge, In tho ientffle Jltncrican. -irsest elr l handsomelr ntnstTAted weekly. XfU*^_ flUNN&Co.3C-0o3d"yNewYori Kr" ch ?fflo k jjfcaf SU Wa.hinfftou.?.*.