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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. H - * 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- I RtCOMMSHPfO, CUARANTESD I AKCaOLDBV GIBSON DRUG COMPANY. DR, A- J. jort-TliE-W's. Y outh’s Roseate View of the Future 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 Let Us Preserve The Spirit Of Democracy' Our Clubbing List. The Progress will be sent for one year with following papers at, price named. Home and Farm. 1.25 Thrice-a week N. Y. World. 1.40 Pictorial Review. 1.40 Watson’s Magazine $1.75 Bob Taylor’s Magazine. 1.50 Southern Cultivator. 1.50 Atlanta Rent:- Weekly Journal. 1.50 Leslie’s Monthly Magazine. 1.50 Atlanta Tri-Weekly Coustitutionl.50 Chronicle. 1.50 Constitution and Sunuy South. 2.00 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. Woman's Home Companion 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,