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THOMSON GA., FMDAY, AUGUST 24, 1906
KEEP YOUR EYE ON
[ Have One Hundred Thousand Dollars
to the Farmers of McDuffie County who had rather OWN their o\
and pay Eight Per Cent. Interest than to Rent.
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If You Are Interested in Owning your cm>n Farm, Come to See Me.
Irt X ATIT^T? kT Thomson,
Can You Explain II ?
An exchange prints the following
curious item: “Tie a string about a
yard long to a common door key. Then
take the string in the right hand and
hold it so the key will clear the lloor
four or five inches. If you can hold
the key steady enough it will begin to
swing back and fourth in a straight
line. I.«t another person take your
left hand in his and the motion of the
key will change from a pendulum-like
swixg to a circular swing. If a third
person will place his lianl on the shoul
der of the second person, the key will
stop. Try it and explain it if you can.”
Potato Alcohol ami Cotton Seed Oil
Mills.
It is said that the machinery in the
southern states is easily adapted to raak
ing the denaturized alcohol. Irish po
tatoes aan be grown so abundantly that
the machinery of the oil mills can be
used all the summer months in place
of standing idle as is now the case. This
will add millions of dollars to the pro
ducts of the south. It is reported that
in Cuba that the denaturized alcohol is
sold at 15 cents per gallon, with no soot
or disagreeable odor In engines.—South
cm Agriculturist.
57 Per Cent Dividend Paid
stop your Lting Irritation, relieve your Sore Jhroat
and drive out your Chronic Cold, with the dniy cer
tain,and stridUy &cient!i]o»Cure fjy Coughs and Colds:
Dff, KI?4C’8
THE RECORD OF AN OLD POLICY CLOSED
Policy No. 175 in the NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
was issued May 27, 1859, on he Life of
HON. CARL SCHURZ
For $?,ooo, on he ordinary life plan, a age 30, annual premium $115.10. All div
idends were used in reduction of premiums. Mr. Schurz died May 13, 1906, and
the result of his policy was as follows:
Forty-seven premiums paid in cash $ 5,409.70
Cash Dividends returned (including post mortem dividend of $07.85) , .2,584.58
Total net eost of $5,000 Insurance for 47 years $2,584.19
The dividends averaged over 53 per cent of the premiums during the whole period
making the average annual cost but $53.92 on $5,000, or $10.78 per thousand.
The above result is believed to be better than experienced in any other com-
pony during the same period on a similar policy.
Watermelon Syrup
In York county, Virginia, they are
making watermelon syrup, which is
said to be rich and soft in taste, and as
good as it sounds. The .South sends the
earliest watermelons away. She cr.n
by no means eat all the later and the
best. Inevitably, there is a great waste
•f watermelons. Watermelon syrup,
watermelon sugar, there is a new Indus
try in the bud, If the flavor of water
melon syrup is as happy as it is paint
ed, maple syrup will have to look to Its
laurels. Besides, it is gifting harder,
every year, in the cities at least, to get
genuine syrup.
THE GAME OF CHESS.
It le Probably the Oldest Paatima
Kntwa to Man.
The oldest grata known to man
is chess. The origin of this game,
or mimic battle, as Goldsmith call
ed it in his translation of Vida,
dates bock to 3000 B. C. It is rich
in legendary anecdotes, and its ven
erable nomenclature has been trans
mitted through all changes in lan
guage from the earliest tongues of
the Indo-Bnrspean to the latest.
A peculiar thing about chess,
with its combination of idle amuse
ment and extreme mental toil, is
ime sanctioned
FOR CONSUMPTION
liinobt £•-. Despair*
“Our little daughter- r /eu j-Tiven up % two physlelaas
with consumption of the throat, and We were almost
In despair, whe n our druggist recommended Dr. King’s
New Discovery. After taking four bottles she was
perfectly cured and has had no throat trouble sinoe.”
—GEO. A. EYLER, Cumberland, Kd.
TRIAL BOTTLES FREE
that it Is the onh
by priesthoods of all beliefs. The
principal piece in the game derives
A Long Wait.
“General,” said Mr. High five to his
wife at dinner, “I asked Slack for a
temporary loan of $10 today and his on
ly reply was this story:
“A newspaper reporter, having died
and gone to Heaven, was interviewing
Bt- Peter on conditions supernatural.
“ ‘How about money values?’ he ask-
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GIBSON DRUG COMPANY.
DR, A- J. jort-TliE-W's.
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JOHN S. BOYD, Agent
“ -Way up,’ replied St. Peter. ‘For
instance, a penny of earth’s currency
would be equal to a thousand dollars
here.’
“ ‘How do you compute time?’ in
quired the reporter.
“The good saint smiled. ‘My son,’
he said, ‘one minute of what you call
time is tantamount to one million years
of eternity.’
“Then the reporter slapped St. Peter
on the shoulder with his eld, ingratiat
ing geniality and cried, ‘Lend me a
ten, old man!’
“And the keeper of the keys replied,
‘Wait a minute!’ ”
By Jwtle, **
D. J. BREWER.
of thy United State* Supreme Court
among western nations, and nation
al chess tournaments are now held
by experts from nearly all countries.
The history of ehess may be di
vided into three periods—the age of
the primeval Indian game, extend
ing from its origin down to the sixth
centnrr A. D.; the age of the me
diaeval chess, from the sixth cen
tury to the sixteenth century, and
the age of the modem chess, from
the last of the sixteenth century to
the present day. Of course many
changes in the method of play took
place in the course of development
of the game, and 06 it is played now,
it is different from the game the
ancients knew.
Chess has been played in nearly
every country. Chessboards have
been found among the ruins at Pom
peii, and in the Roman Forum one
may still see the outline of a check-
T is one of the weaknesses, and yet one of the comforts of
youth, that it dees not wholly realize the RESPONSIBILI
TIES OF LIVING. The young look forward on.life as
Two Strange Language*.
Among the queerest languages
used by humankind throughout the
world are those of the Qoraeros, in
habitants of one of the Canary
group of islands, and the Kameruns
of west Africa. The Gomero whis
tles what he has to say to his neigh
bors, using both fingers and lips so
expertly as to express all the signals
that arc required to make the con
versation intelligible. A Kamorun
man uses a drum. The instrument
is rather peculiar, its surface being
divided into uneven halves, so that
when it is struck it yields two dif
ferent notes. With a code in char
acter not unlike the taps of the tele
graphic system, the people make
this drum express every syllable of
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i By Archbishop JOHN IRELAND
EMOCRACY has won in America, and, through America,
| it HAS WON IN THE WHOLE WORLD. America
is the PROVIDENTIAL NATION in this new era of
the world’s history. America does not live for herself
alone; she holds in her keeping THE DESTINIES OF
HUMANITY. No itouroe doctrine confines her democracy
their language. A Kamerun cpief-
erboard roughly scratched on the
others; ha would bo afraid of being laughed at. So'called pr .ctic;
Youth’s Companion (new
Review of Reviews.
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Cosmopoliiau
tam cun summon any one of his
subjects and at the same time inti<
mate the purpose for which ho if ro-
1 quire.) by the n use tO. drum.
stone walk by some senatorial page
of Caesar’s time. In the orient both
games have been played from time
immemorial.
men would smile at the folly of many of them,
