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f f s .NK THE LEDGER': GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST 13, 1896. Beware Of tiie Knife. Mr. Lincoln Nelson, of Marshfield, Mo., writes: “For six years I have been a sufferer from a scrofulous affection of the glands of my neck, and all efforts of physicians in Washington, D. C., Springfield, 111., and St. Louis failed to reduce the enlargement. After six months’ constant treatment here, my physician urged me to submit to a re moval of the gland. At this critical mo ment a friend recommended S.S.S., and laying aside a deep-rooted preju dice against all patent medicines, I be gan its use. llcfore I had used one bot tle the enlargement began to disappear, and now it is entirely gone, though lam not through with my second bottle yet. Had I only used your S.S.S. long ago, I would have escaped years of misery and saved over This experience is like that of all who suffer with deep-seated blood troubles. The doctors can do no good, and even their resorts to the knife prow either fruitless or fatal. S.S.S. is the only real blood remedy; it gets at the root of the disease and forces it out perma nently. S.S.S. {guaranteed purely vegetable) A Real Blood Remedy. LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS COUNTRY AIR PROMOTES LONG LIFE. ANY WIFE TO ANY HUS3AND. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS. North and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements and Their Ad vancements—-Opera tive Personals. is a blood remedy for real blood troubles; it cures the most obstinate cases of Scrofula, Eczema, Cancer, Rheumatism, etc,, which other so-called blood reme» dies fail to touch. S.S.S, gets at the root of tlie disease and forces it out per* maucntly. Valuable books will be sent free to any address by the Swift Specific Co., At lanta, Ga. ilnable hooks W» sss I RipansTabules. Ripans Tabulcs are com- pouiulcd from a prescription widely used by the best medi cal authorities and arc pre sented in a form that is be coming the fashion every where. Ripans Tabules act gently but promptly upon the liver, stomach and intestines; cure dyspepsia, habitual constipa tion, offensive breath and head ache. One tabule taken at the (list symptom of indigestion, biliousness, dizziness, distress after eating, or depression of spirits, will surely and quickly remove the whole difficulty. i Price, 50 cents a box. RipansTabules may be ob tained of nearest druggist; or by mail on receipt of price. Sample vial, io cents. RIPANS CHEMICAL CO. f IO Spruce Street, NEW YORK. A Preparation For Padding. Very many persons would like to know how to pad shoots of paper so as to innko tablets, but do not understand tho proper composition for putting ou the edges. The following recipe is vouched fdr by competent authority: Glue, 4 pounds; glycerin, 2 pounds; linseed oil, cue-half pound; sugar, one- quarter pound; aniline dyes in suffi cient quantity to color. The glue is softened by soaking it in a little cold water, then dissolved, together with the sugar, in thy glycerin by aid of hea( iiver a water liyWl. To this the dyes are added, after which the oil is well stir: rod. It is used hot. Another composi tion of a somewhat similar nature is pre pared as follows: Glue, a pound; glyeef- ju, 4 ounces; glucose sirup, about '4 tablespooufuls; tannin, ono-tenth Aunce. Give the compositions an hour or m<»? in which to dry or set before cutting or handling the pads.—Nc*’ York Lodger. We equal any in the world. Our patrons recommend us. All work guar anteed and com petition met. THE LEDGER. The Ada Cotton .Mill, of Charlotte, has closed down entirely for a time. There is now a little talk of reviv ing the Melrose Cotton Mill scheme at Raleigh, N. 0. The new Marlboro Cotton Mills, at Bennettsville, S. C., have ordered an electric light plant. Snpt. Kdw. C. Roach, of the Lock- hurt (S. C.)Cotton Mills was in Con cord, X. C., this week \isiting his family. R. F. Coble, of Concord, X. C., wants the address of <>. C. Towell (loom fixer) late of the Cabarrus Mill, Concord. H. Lee Fowler, overseer in the Wilson (X. C.) Cotton Mills, has re turned Io his post alter a 10 days visit to his parents at Burlington, X. C. The Dover Yarn Mills, Pineville, X. C.,*closed down Friday to give the operatives a holiday, and Supt. Ben. Xuttall an opportunity to ride tour nament on a prancing steed. Among the changes this week R B. Brown, of Piedmont, 8. C., went to Clifton Mill Xo. fi. Clifton, K. C.; J. W. Bishop left Kings Mtn., X. C., for Henrietta (X. C.) .Mill Xo. '2. The Spartanhurg (8. C.) Knitting Mills, capital (MM), is the result of the agitation there for several months past for a hosiery factory which they will proceed at once to establish. Shipimnts of machinery are fast arriving at the Granby Cotton Mills, Columbia. 8. C. The American Ma chine Co., of Pawtucket, R. I., are supplying the picking machinery. Supt. II. B. (ireason, of the Raleigh (X. C.) Cotton Mills went North last Saturday to look after new cards and fly frames, also to have a few days pleasure in visiting his friends and old home. W. A. Henderson lias resigned as Supt., of the mills of the Highland Park Mfg., Co.. Charlotte, and is suc ceeded by H C. Gildard, who was Supt. of the same mill about | years figo- The election at Orangeburg, 8. C., for the ratification of the ordinance I of the city council for the exemption j of the Enterprise Cotton Mills from I taxation for a period of o years, was i ratified by the citizens without » dis- ! senting votp. H. p. Johnson and II. J. McLaurin, j Jr., are establishing a collar pad fac- | tory on College St., Charlotte. They j will manufacture these horse collar ' pads iu wholesale quantities. The : South coining along encouragingly 1 in taking up tlio manufacture of specialties iu the fabric line. The cards in the Manchester Cotton ! Mill, Rock Hill, 8. C., are being | ground this week, and the machinery is starting up. There are (!.021 Foies A' > Jenk’s spindles, 1.V2 Knowles looms. J. R. Barron Is Prs.; W. \V. Moore, Supt.; J. T, Johnson, engineer; \V. Walden, weaver: J. A. Adams, spin ner. It is understood that there will lie a cotton mill erected at Mcbane, Al amance county, X. C., in the full. The capital stock will probably be Uo.UOO or •fl()0 000, and the stock holders are men of sterling worth and keen business sense. 8o says a re port that reached us this week. White Bros., of Mebane, who are ! among the most enterprising men of that section, write us under date of Aug., 1, ’!)(), that “there will be no cotton mill built in Mebane, this , year. There was a move to build one, but in view of the financial situ ation, it is all oil. The amount was subscribed, but parties withdrew— bejng afraid of Hi to 1.” Death of Rev. J. C. Tobias, Col. Rev. J. C. Tobias, pastor of the , colored Methodist church, died at the I parsonage yesterday about 2 o’clock j of consumption. He came to Gull-j ncy about the first of the year and has made many friends with both j white and colored hy his Christian demeanor. In his death the colored people lose one of their best preach ers and educators. — - — Cam of IlIIntcrtMi feet. Blisters on the feet, which are noecs- •arily very paiufnl, should be bathed on going to bed with strung salt water, to which, if they are very tender, it is an excellent thing to add just a very lit tle vinegar and fine jxmnded alum. People who suffer very much in this way will always do well to wear rather thick solisl lioots, having them especial ly made, us it is most important for any one who has very tender feet that the boots should be perfectly fitting. Into these Isiots a pair of lamb’s wool socks should lie placed, and these socks should be thickly spread over with soft soup oq the ftisida of the fisit of the sock. If the blisters come up very high, it is wise to let out the accumulated fluid by running a darning needle through the upper surface of the blister. If it is allowed to break the surface of the skin, it is apt to become very sore, sometimes being very difficult to heal.—New York Advertiser. Breathing an Atmoitplirre of Pnrlty Wants Off Deadly Disease. The loss of pure air, sunshine and other ‘ ‘free” goods and their effect on the physique of city dwellers are not adu- quately compensated by hygienic re forms of town life itself, while the in creased number and complexity of sen sations impose a greate r strain upon the nervous system. The nervous degenera tion which thus acc rues may perhaps ho checked in time hy further hygienic im provement of the town and by a gradual readjustment between the nervous sys tem and its changed environment. But meantime grave physical injuries arise directly from those very economic changes which have raised the economic condition of the gr^at mass of the Work ers ami nave probably reduced the quantity nf purely econo.’air poverty. When we reflect that the physical in- jnries of town life, attested hy tables of mortality and impaired muscular activ ity, fall most heavily upon the poor, we shall see grave reasons of industrial and social life are generally favorable to the physical vitality of the low paid worker or the residuum—that is to say, whether he gets any net vital advantage out of the higher rate of real wages which ho obtains when he is working. When we also bear in mind that each year a higher proportion of the workers are living in large towns, where the duration of life is about 15 per cent less than in the country, and that the ago of enforced retirement from regular wage earning is, by reason of the strain of competition aud the regulations of trade organizations, considerably earlier than it was formerly, and that an increased irregularity of employment is discerni ble in many of most trades, wo may hold it doubtful wlu thor the average worker of the lower order makes a total life wage which is any higher than lie made formerly. The conclusion applied by Charles Booth to the whole body of workers that “in one way or another effective working life is ten years longer in the country than in town” has an important significance when we remem ber that each decennial census shows a growing proportion of workers subject to the conditions of town life.—Contem porary Review. THIS TO PREVENT SEASICKNESS. Tiulny, if I were di'tul and could not fool Your kisses or your tejirs upon my f:wo, If nil the world could Ki'X' of woe o” wont. Could finiS within my le art no ro-tiiiK place. Von would not think of i:ny bitt< r past. You would not ehide me for a careless word, You eould not he so cruel at the last As to condemn mo, unconfessed, unheard. j tf I were lyini; wrapt about in white. With flowers all around me, on my breast I And ie my hands, and on my face the liRlit That iinx< Is shed upon their dead at n-st— If I were lyinp thus, and ons should say tsucli bitter things as yon have said to me. With sternest anger you would drive away j That one and swear 'tweroall baso calumny. 1 I’ll not rebuke you, though my heart lie full. I dare not chide. I, too, may be astray. Experience yet may teach—a bitter school— Me what to do and what, porehanee, to say. And yet 1 ask you, humbly, tenderly, If I should answer nevermore your call, Would yon not grieve of all most bitterly For words and deeds that are beyond recall? —Pearson's Weekly. A New York Doctor Prescribes Mixed Pep tone, Sheyry and Cracked Ice. A New York physician has originate^ a novel preventive for seasickness, which i P s< l n, ‘ THE CLIFF RUING OF COLORADO. A lleciou of Kspoclat Interest to Students of ttic Prehistoric. The cliff ruins of the San .Tuan and the Mancos have been the center of at traction, have been viewed from all sides, and their wonders have been told and retold to the world time and time again. Scientific men have visited the region, have penetrated southwestern Colorado and have considered that sec tion a place (if especial interest, because the cliff and cave dwellings are probably the oldest in this strange land, being the first built in that mjastcrions journey southward of u great but unknown peo ple. For 20 yours the pre.-iietor has followed the San Juan river and gazed with careless unroiK.rn on the rough aud broken walls, so lull of interest to the archaeologist. j But the mind of the prospector has | no room for curios, and lie has no time for nrchieologieal investigation. II* sees only the glitter of the gold in the sand, and thinks only e f tls- time when he shall have made his stake. In No vember of IS!):'hundreds of gold hunt ers rushed madly into the canyon north of the NaVajo mountain, traveled ilOO miles over bleak, desert tablelands, suf fering terribly from the cold, hunger and the long, weariseme journey. In a few days they had staked off till the available hind fey 50 mill sup and down the river pud then yctnruid home with out hayipg < btaipi d so pmc h as a color of gold, and today have nothing to show fpr it but the stakes. It is one of the most wildly piotur- aud beautiful regions in the Weevil* In Corn. Get a piero of gnspipe or other tube and force it nearly to the bottom of the corn and wet a ball of cotton or rags with the bisulphide and pash it down and withdraw the pipe, and do the same at almnt three places; also put some on top of the corn. It will kill the weevils, says Texas Farm and Ranch, and rats will probably take the Lint and leave, for a time at least. Ilorv to Drnrp a I>nop. For cheapness, durability and neat ness there is nothing better than either ♦he smooth wire fence or woven picket. The end posts are the secret of success. These must be solid, as the strain all comeson them. A plan, on which there is no patent, is illustrated and described as follows by Rural New Yorker for bracing an end post. The end post should not be less than six Inches square and eight feet long, four feet in the ground. About six inches from the end that goes into the ground rut two notches, 2 by 4 inches, on opposite sides of the post; spike into these notches two 2 by I pieces about , and let about six one side, the re- From the Jrlun. First Citizen—I beg your pardon, sir, but I am a stranger in Dublin. Can you direct me to Grafton street? Second ditto—With pleasure. Sure, it’s tlie second turn to the right. First ditto—Thank you, sir. (Walks off.) Second ditto (calling after him)—Hi! If you’re a left handed man it’s the other way entirely.—London Globe. Heart Trouble Quickly Cured. A. Convincing Testimonial. W (3 six or seven feet long, inches project past < n V ! -~-i V ‘.lie- SOI.11) END COST'S. maindcr on the other siiK Dig the hole four feet deep and long enough (paral lel with the fence) to admit of the scantling, with the long ends of the scantling from the fence. Get a large bowlder, the larger the better, and place on these scantling, fill up with dirt and tramp well; also put in a brace parallel from the first to the .second posts. In the cut a designates the scantling, b the bowlder, c the brace, d the ratchets on the post to hold the wires. End posts braced in this manner cannot give tlio least bit. Miss Era.a Kurtz. "For 19 years I suffered from heart trou ble. During that tiino I was treated by five different physicians. All of them claimed that I could uot he cured. I was greatly troubled with shortness of breath, palpitation and pain in tlie side. If I be came excited, or exerted myself in the least, the pain in my side became very severe. At times it seemed as though nccdlct x»crnhoot~ ino through my tide. Sometime in the month of November last, I commenced taking DR. MILES’ HEART CURE and since then I have improved steadily. I can now sleep on my left side, something I had never been able to do before. 1 can walk without being fatigued, and am in much better health than ever before, I would recommend ail su-fferers from heart trouble to try Dr. Miles’ invaluable remedy without delay." MISS ELLA KURTZ, 51S Wright St., Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. Miles Heart Cure Is sold on a positive guarantee that the first boll le wilt benefit. All druggists sell it at G, 0 bottles forf.i, or it will besent, prennid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lud. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure R “*ft r “ 1U | has the advantage of being simple anfi seemingly sure. At all events, it was triefi with marked success upon a young yeoman who is always effected I'Y the comparatively slight motion of sound steamers and railroad trains. In her case, after two doses, she was able to bear without inconvenience the rolling beyond Sandy Hook amt tlie subsequent tossings of the voyage. The remedy is the administration every half hour of two spoonfuls of pep tone in sherry, ooohsl by pouring over cracked ice. The tlieoiy of (his is no less interesting than Wic dose itself. The young doctor ttrgues that the swallow ing of frequent small quantities of pro- digested and slightly stimulating food produces a sedative effect upon the stomach and counteracts the jouncing brought about by the incessant and vio lent motion of a ship at sea. Other doctors have quite lately In vent* d a seasickness euro consisting of cocaine or bromides, the latter in large doses, these being given with the design of dulling the stomach, as it were, and so preventing nausea. But it cannot be learned that any actual results have been attained in this way—New York Herald. KncllHliincn Who Traveled. Where one Englishman traveled in the reigns of the first two Georges ten now go on a grand tour. “Indeed,” Bays a contemporary writer, “to such a pitch is the spirit of traveling come in the kingdom that there is scarcely a cit izen of large fortune but takes a flying view of France, Italy and Germany iq n summer’s excursion.” Gibbon wrote, from Lausanne describing the crowd of English who were already thronging the beautiful shores of Lake Leman. An interesting series of hints to “persons traveling from Britain to France” ap peared in The Gentleman’s Magazine for tii(> year 178(1. From them we gath er that no such thing was to be had in trance as ready furnished lodgings auft that it was impossible to board in q “genteel family,” and extremely diffi cult It) get into “genteel company.” The aulhov adds the remark that “this keeping of good company is attended with somi' expeiist—a man must game, he must keep a carnage, and he must) dress according to the fashion.”—Corn- hill Magazine. world. The bleak old Navajo mountain rises abruptly and towers like a grim sentinel over the surrounding mesas, while in u < auyon gorge more than 8,000 feet 1 clow its base the Rio 8an Juan appeals like usilver tbread. The canyon is several miles wide, and a descent can be made to the river only by a precipi tous trail, but as the river approaches the great Colorado the tunycn become* more narrow and the wall more pt<rpen< dicular, and when it morges into the ttrund canyon it is scarcely more than a deep, dark < hanncl. A few miles from the Colorado river, where the canyon is not more than 800 or 1,000 feet from wall to wall, and where the walls are perpendicular and sineith, ou the right wall are the pic tures of seven warriors with bow* drawn to tlio last notch, while across the rive r on the opposite side are the pictures tf seven antelope, apparently in full mu to < scape the hunters. These pictures are well executed aud are in the most inaetessiule place.% Evidently the artisit had to be lowered from a ledge hundreds of feet above tlie picture and held suspended while he performed his tedious task. There r.re many places in the mystic southwest where such paintings are to lx; found.—Denver Field and Farm. CARROLL & CARPENTER. SWEEPING * REDUCTIONS « IN SUMMER » GOODS « OF » EVERY DESCRIPTION. « * * Ballet* That Wear Out Giin*. There is one thing which users of tlio new high velocity riflo of 80 caliber have to consider, and that is the effect of the eopjHT or nickel jacket on the grooves of the rifle. A bullet that leaves the muzzle of a riflo at a velocity of 2,000 feet a second is so wearing on the rifling, especially near the muzzle, that the accuracy of even the hardest bored rifles is seriously impaired inside of 12,- 000 shots at the most. The lead bullets, or those but slightly hardened with a mixture of tin, do not wear the barrels to the same extent, and the barrels last far longer.—Now York Sun. part Made h Dlfforcnco. Forrester—You live in a quiet of the towq, do you not? Lancaster—Not now. “Moved?” “No. Twins.”—London Answers. If n machine or device lias licui in public use or on sale for more than two years previous to the application this fact will generally prevent the granting of a patent. John Hunter, the famous anatomist, once said that the feminine love of con versation was a consequence of a pe culiarity in bruin tissue. Leeuwenhoek and Humboldt both say that a single pound of the finest spider webs would reach around the. world, Most of the distinguished women of Greece in longed to what is now culled thp put vas t i fiuji. In Germany patents maybe taken out for improvements of inventions already yatented. THE LITTLE ONES Are the joy and sunlight of our homes. Use all care to keep the little ones in health. Do not give them nauseous doses. You can overcome their troubles with Dr. King's Royal' '... They all like to take it because it does not taste like a medicine, but like a lemonade. It cures colic in young children, overcomes all bowel troubles, gives good digestion, and quiet, healthful sleep. As a tonic for weak children and as a remedy for use in teething, it is the greatest in the world. 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