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^ PISO’S CURE FOR ro CURES WHERE All ELSE FAIIS. Ey t Cough 6yrup. Taate* Good. D»e In time. Bold by drugglsta. P~1 CONSUMPTION William S. Hall. Jr. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNSYS AT LAW. STAR THEATRE BI.DO. o a pf'rsi fc v, ». o. Notary Public in^offlce. Prompt attention jftven to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public.} All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE PERILS OF THE X RAY. DIXEY AND WHISTLER. The Actor Recalls Incident* In Con nection With H1m “StttlnK.” A TEST OF TELEPATHY, stor.es^ofph.l may. Edison Says He Is Afraid of "»«" neDr >' E - D “"' v ln I "°‘ y don playins “Adoivls” he snt for James the New Light. HIS EMPLOYEELOST HAND AND ARM Famoaa Inventor Telia Row Clar ence Dally Wna Injnred by the Raya—Haa Abandoned Search For Flnoreaeent Lamp, Finding: Ilia Bxperfmenta. to Do With ' Dr. D. P.i THOMSON, Dentist. Starlit Impaired by Will Rave Nothing Radium. That impaired sight, cancerous dis ease and even death may oome to him who is continuously exposed to* or in- McNeill Whistler, the Aniericnu artist wlio died a few days aao, and the two men became friends. IMxey's recollec tions of the eccentric painter are inter esting at this time, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. “lie sent me word one day,” said the actor recently, ‘‘that he would like to come to my dressing room and watch me make up my face for the imper sonation I was giving of Ileory Irving. He came and stood behind me, watch ing the process of the transformation in the mirror. ^ He acted like a delight ed child airtbrough the operation. With the addition of every new line q^vd ef fect he would tutor an exclamation of Stead Tells of Remarkable Ex periments In England. COLLUSION BARRED IN ADVANCE. experienced in the use of lioentgcn rays has been demonetmtod in a piti- pleaeupe ami then conf»ont me and ex- ablo manner in the laboratory of amine more closely the counterfeit Thomas A. Edison at Orange, N. J. countenance. When the task was com- “Ofllce over National Bank. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, u e; r* x i e T Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office OverjIThe Battery. ’Phone 82. Ninety Per Cent Clarence Dally, an SaelstAot to the “Wizard of Menlo Park',” lias con tributed an arm and a hand to this demonstration, while Mr. Edlqpn him self suffers .from the disturbed focus of one of his eyes through experiments with tin* mysterious light in an en deavor to find for it some oommercial utility. Mr. Edtoon was pecestly seen at his home in Llewellyn Park, Grange, by a New .York World reporter and asked to tell the story of the experiment .which disabled IMHy and'cnme boor making Mr. Edison sightless. “Don’t talk to me about X rays,” he i said. ‘T am afraid of tl#|m. I stopped ! experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near losing my eye sight, and Daily, my aesietant, prac tically lout the use of both of his arms. I am afraid of radium and polonium, too, and I don't wont to monkey with "them. “Up to two years ago I was deeply interested Ln X rays. I neod a fluoro- soope which I invented, a pyramidal lx)x with one open ctuj, the smaller, and a larger closed end, the covering of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s aud have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted WithfScientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and;|Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. pletod he* pronou nofid the resemblance ‘marvelous,’ even at close range. “He invited me to luncheon the next day and a^ked me to permit him to paint me in my white and blue cos tume. I sent for H, and he stood roe on a pink mat and before a lavender background. Then he discarded the monocle, pot on a pair of big specta cles, and, really, the man underwent a compile change of manner the mo ment be began to mix his colors. I rawer sow inspiration so ctearly de picted an a face in my life. He talked half to. himself as be worked. “ ‘Oh, we'll do aomethlng fine this time,’ he would say. ‘Wait, watt, wait; hold that pose, picoso. Oh, this will be all right—you’ll see.’ When 1 thought he had finished my figure at least I looked at the canvas and found he had mode nothing but the outlines. When I expressed my surprise he explained: ‘Ah, my boy, I don't work as many others do. I emsmeoco at the back ground and work out to my subject’ “After an Imur's time his cook sum moned him to dinner, but he still paint ed on. To my surprise the cook, a healthy, middle aged woman, began being a chemical si met against which , the object to lie exmuin^l is placed, the 1 lecturin « hlm in I, ' r ‘ >ach ^ ~ ew# Vtltt r> TX/I rays 1 wing focused upon it. I was making experiments in a dark room that 1 had constructed in am* end of the lnl>oratory. 1 was looking for an improved crystal, and then 1 wen? daily results Hint fascinated me and kept my eye glued to the ftuoroscope virtually nil the timo. “1 used my left eye, and one day when I came out of the dark room and closed my right eye for a moment ev erything looked double. I hostenod to , took the brash *tt of his hand and eomiiellod him to stop. The artist en- dim-d this just as a child might and allowed his dominating cook to lend us to the dining room. “I sat for him soveral more times, hut I hod to leave England before the picture was finished. I received letters from him teliing me of the prioress he was making, but when I last saw him, two years :igo in London, I was much ! disappointed to loam that the portrait Baiidinii aud Piasterlag Liaiei Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Paris ( Shingles. Portiaud Oement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, fuse and Dynamite Caps. Call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL &jCO., Lessees. Telephone an oculist, who said that my eye was t W4ia ^* nr * ti - “I liave met a great many famous men,” contlmmd Mr. Dixey, “but I can recall hoik. 1 so striking in character aa my doimrted friend Whistler.’* I sell and hang paper, paint carriages, wagons and buggies; also do house painting any where in the city or^country. I use paint that has an iron-clad guarantee. Let me " ' your work. Prices as low as the lowest for FIRST-CLASS work. “MYours for business, I>. IVdL OiVIIVK^ Next to PearliSteam Laundry. SURPRISING How much a new pair of jbroad laces brightens up]the old Shoes and Oxfords. We have them in QU^EN QUALITY ^ for Men and Ladies. something over a foot out of focus. It Ls still imperfect, and I do not think that it will ever be eudivly well. “Wlven I noticed the effect upon my eye I eautioned^Dully. I told him that there was danger in the coutinuous u«e of the tubes, I ait he peraistod bocauee hi 1 was so enthusiastic upon the sub ject. Tlu 1 only thing that savod my eyesight was that I used a very woak tube, while Doily insisted in using the most powerful one he cocM find. ‘The box of the fluocoBcope only par tially covered his face, no that the light fell upon hie hair and mode it full out— that is, what was left of it after expos ing his lu:ad to the light in a nvkbvis way tollluetrate its i»ower. Harts of his hand and arm were also exposed to the action of the light. “I am kee[Hiig him on the pay roll, although he Is not able to do any work, and I expect to take core of him as long as he lives. I have sent him away on a vacation to Woodbridge, N. J., where the change may do him good.” “Speaking of radium, Mr. Edison, whnt is your opinion of it?” asked the reporter. “I have tied several, pieces of it from ! Mum 1 . Curie in Paris, and I have ex perimented with it. I do not see its commercial utility, hut it opens up a great field of thought and sdentfflc re search. It overturns all the old the ories of force and energy and has sot scientists to thinking. Do I believe that it is the solution of perpetual mo tion? No. I have a peculiar theory about radium, and 1 behove it is the correct one. “I liefleve that there is some mysteri ous ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self constructed, hut tliat there is a mysterious some thing in the ntmospberc that scientists | have not found that Ls drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distribut ing them forcefully and Indestructi bly.” “Dkl you ever find any commercial utility In the X rays or radium?” “My researches,' I might as well tell you now that I Imve abandoned them, were In the direction of making a flu orescent lamp. I obtulntd results which brought me each day nearer to the ob ject of my desire. I found a crystal that was fluorescing 12^)00 times, and I thought I had my' lamp. Then came the question of practical use. I <xmld ' make the lamp all right, but when I dj<1 so I found that it .would kill everybody who would use It continuously. “No, I do not want to know auythtng more about X rays. In the hands of experienced operators they nse a valu able adjunct to surgery, locating as they do objects concealed from view, and making, for Instance, the operation for appendicitis almost sore. Hot they are dangerous, deadly, in the hands of the inexperienced or ew in the hands of the man who to wring them continuously M-H.ES AND THE F>RES40ENCY I A Story oT the (K-imwoI’m AmMttou Rvoollea hr HI* lletfcrexuesrt. Apn>pos of the rettoement of General 1 Nelson A. Miles from the command of J tlio United Wales army, an Lntorview is recalled which occurred some yeans ago, In which the general told a story to illustrate his attitude on the question i ot being a candidate for the presidency. He whs then stationed on a western frontier, and was approached by the representative of an eastern paper, who i sold: “They say In the * i ust that you are aiming for the presidency.” •’I>o they?” the general .replied. “Weil, we wxai’t take much time for an lntorview on that subject- The thing reminds me of an experience that a scout had in the old days when we were fighting the Cheyennes in 1875. That scout was a clubfooted Frenchman, a plucky, good fellow too, He had to make his way from Fort j Kcough to a cantonment on the Mis- souri, and the Cheyennes were after 'aim. They pushed him like Satan, aud after a time his home gave out, and he had to hoof it. Well, it was a rough, bad country, ami his poor dubtiaet slipped and stumbled and slid so that his trail must have been something awful to contemplate. An Indian can | read marks in the ground as well as | you and I can rood a book, but they I had never dogged a clubfoot before. ; He got into the cantonment all right, and pretty soon the Cheyennes came along. They pointed to the trail and : asked our people' to look at them. 'We can’t make out which way that fellow was going,’ said they. Now, that's the case with these people who busy them- selvuB about me. They don't know any thing about me, aud they can't find out” After a pause General Miles turned his head and spoke a few words over his shoulder. “My only ambHlou is to command brave men,” said he, “and I've been doing that for thirty yeees.” Every Pvecnatlon, Say* Noted Ed itor, Wa* Taken So That Tekepn- thiirt* Could Hare No Prior Commu nication — Three Menmisren Sent From NottlnKhnm to London With out Aid of Wire* or Power. From positive evidence that I have at hand I have to make without quali fication the statement that the trans mission of long distance messages by direct mental vibration—i. e., telepathy —is an accomplishi'd fact, says William T. Stead in a special cable dispatch from London to the New York Ameri can and Journal. To myself aud a committee of other gentlemen the seemingly improbable feat of mental telepathy at great dis tances was shown to be absolutely pos sible. Indeed, it was positively proved. It has been demon««tr;rtad in a manner that has ieft none pr<»sent with the shadow of a doubt in bis mind. Dvery procautkm was taken to prevent impo sltion. Imposition was impossible. From.London to Nottingham is a dis tance of 125 miles. In Nottingham was f Mr. Franks, a telepathist, sta tioned. In l/indon was anotlier tele- pal hist, Dr. Kiohardson. w!k> is an American* a!nd New Yorker and who had undertaken to* receive from Mr. Frinks the telepathic messages. Pram the hour of 5 o'clock on Thurs day afternoon, July 16, Dr. RJcliardson was kept under observation. It was left to the committee to choose throe messages, or more, for that matter, that wera to be transmitted by means of telepathy between the men. At* the time that Dr. Richardson was put under observation (5 o'clock in the afternoon) the committee of which I was a member telegraphed to Mr. Franks, and absolutely without Dr. Richardson's cognizance, the three mes sages that he was to send telepathieal- ly to Dr.- Richardson. Following are the messages: The word “Scotland,” the number “579,” the hour "7:20 p. m.” Between 7 ;u*1 8 o’clock, after Dr. Richardson had spent the time in se rene mental contemplation, bo received faultlessly the three messages tele- pathed to him by Mr. Franks. I re peat that tharo existed absolutely no ebunoe of-hi# learning what the two numbers and tin 1 word were in any other maimer than by telepathy. Experiments were made afterward with thro* other messages telepafbed by Dr. Rlrlutrdson to Mr. Franks, and two of these Enirllnli Caricaturl*!’* Experience* While limiting For “Type*.” In his later and more affluent days the late Phil May, the English carica turist, employed a man for the special purpose of luring models to his studio. These models often cost him several pounds a day, says the New York Her ald. They would not always pose sat isfactorily. Once In his studio the girls would become ridiculously shy, gig gling all the time he was at work. In the same way the male models were likely to drop al their assurance on the doorstep and become lifeless and vacu ous when they posed. “The other day,” the artist told a friend, “I got two new girls, to whom sitting was a strange and fearful ex perience. As usual, they giggled the whole time I was sketching them, but I only kept them an hour and then dismissed with 5 shillings apiece. The news of this evidently got about, and the next morning a fearfully groggy old woman knocked at my door with the inquiry. ‘‘Do you want any morals?” As he was always looking out for “types.” so he was always on the qui vive for Jokes. Everything was grist that came to his mill. When his fecund imagination ran temporarily dry, when accident failed to supply the needed hint, he was glad to fall back upon the suggestions of friends or correspond ents. He made a practice of jotting down upon his cuffs* anything that he o^ rheard or was told. "As almost ev ery one thinks he has something more or less funny to tell me as soon as we meet, you may Imagine,” said he, “the state of my euft’s after a day’s outing. The cuffs are carefully copied out by my wife before they are sent to the laundry.” Some of the jokes thus of fered to him, however, proved' more perplexing than usual. For instance, a Frenchman once ran up to him cry ing excitedly: “Here is a joke for you, Mr. Phil May. It will do splendidly well for yonr paper. Why was a mice when he was weaving a spider’s web? You do not know, eh? You give me up? I will tell you. Because the more you lick him the faster!” Not wishing to wound the French man's feelings, Phil May jotted the joke down upon his cuff and afterward gravely asserted that he land spent many days and nights trying to un ravel the mystery. SOME ONE MUST KNOW. It requires more than a general knowledge of drugs, more than knowing how to use scales and measures to rightly fill pre scriptions these days. Reme dies are multiplying, new pre parations are constantly com ing out and each prescription must have careful study and accurate attention. We give such work, the atten tion it should have; we see to it that our drugs are pure and of exact standard strength; we never substitute or vary a hair from the requirements of your prescription or recipe. CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Limestone and Frederick Sts. Oon't Forget MAIL DELIVERING DEVICE. Automatic Machine UenlKiied E*pe- cially For Rural Service. Nelson S. Howell of Gumming, Madi son county, la., has a working model eighty rods long of an automatic mall delivery and eolk'Ction apparatus, that the old man is still in the ring with the other butchers this sum- mer, and now the fall is open to us all. 1 will tell you good ladies what i keep at my market. AH kinds of nice meats and tish,.,when in season, and also a tirst-class grocery store In connection with the market. I keep most anything you want from the cheapest to the highest grades of meats. Call for Phone No. 23. I will be glad to sell you some nice tirst-class stuff. All goods sold under a guarantee, if not as represented I will take them hack and refund the money or give you credit for the same. Fresh fish every Friday and Saturday. Respectfully, yours to please, Notice to Bridge Builders. I will be at Morgan bridge on Buffalo creek in Cherokee township Tuesday, August i8th, 1903, at 11 o’clock a. m., to let contract to. build a bridge across Buf falo creek. Plans and specifications can be seen in my office. A right to reject any or all bids. J. V. WHEI.CHKI., 8-4 County Supervisor. BE IN THE SWIM which is built according to a device throe were correctly vthieb he rtMs>ntly had patented and is tnmamltted. At the third a sertabi mental weariness had come over Dr. Richardson, which was only natural under the circumstances, aud further exertions wore postponed. This is but the beginning of wireless telegraphy without electricity or elec trical mochlnns. Here UH me avoid the personal and working satisfactorily, says a dispatch from Red Oak, la., to the Chicago Rec ord-Herald. It is designed especially for rural mail service, supplanting car- riel's, but seems to be capable of devel opment to an extent that would do away with many of the country post offices and centralize the handling of mail to a great extent', expediting the add to what I have wrid the story of nervioe, reducing the number of car- whut took pinoe, as related by an un prejudiced obnorver: “Tlx* moet astonadring experiments in thought transference were made in the offices of Mr. William T. Stead at tlie Review «f Reviews. A committee of six distinguished men, that Included Mr. Stead himself iuxl the noted Dr. Wallace had the matter in charge, and none who wiinetwod the experiments doubts in the least that what he wit nessed was a genuine psyclkologieal ac complishment, too marvelous to credit though It might at first imve seemed. “Telepathic messages were success fully transmitted between Nottingham awl tike Review of Reviews office In stall taissously. Nottingham is 135 or more miles from London. Franks was statiorM'd at Nottingham, and was told to expect the messages from the com mittee by telegraph that he was to transmit bock to Richardson telepathic- ully. “The eminence of the men who formed the committee makes the thought that there was any collusion In the wonderful results subsequently attained al>surd. Besides Dr. Richard son, the American, was closely guarded in his room after 5 o’clock. There was no opi>ortunlty for a confederate to pass to him what went on in the com mittee room. .As for Franks at Not- tingikam, be had no pooslble way of sending information other than the manner in which he did—telepathioaUy. “The first test was a telepathic trans mission from Dr. Richardson to Franks at Nottingham. The committee gave him the number *579.’ At 6:34 Dr. Richardson went Into an adjoining room. This was done for the purpose of, allowing him tbo solitude neceaeary for the concentration of his mind. “Been had Ike wished to do #0 there was no possibility of his establishing any normal means of eommuaicatfan acquaints them wtth a subject for dte- with Franks from this room. At 20 crwslon and seats them hi the center of minutes of 7 o'clock the ootnnrtttae got the room. The* guests crowd around at an answering telegram from Pranks- a respectful distance and assist at the i It read, ‘579.’ fight with many marks of enoooaa^- “Then Mr. Steed's secretary sent by merit. Rets are made, although It to to Franks three messages—a not easy to decide which is the vtotoe. time, a number, a name. In the course | of an hour Richardson received three telepathic messages from Franks. The rk'rs and clerks and greatly reducing expense. Tike apparatus consists of an endless cable, carried im poles and delivering and collecting mail by clockwork. The cable in a line thirty miles long can be operated by a one and a half horse power gasoline engine, and the cable can be operated at a spevd which will permit ’as many deliveries in a day as arc desired. The power is applied by a drum. The deliveries are regulated au tomatically. For instance, if there are fifty patroiks on the endless chain route the mail pouch of No. 1 drops at his mail box. while ’the other forty-ulne pouched are carried on, each dropping at its respective place. The collections are also wade automatically. The ap paratus hi not intricate and does not readily get out of order. Give me your clothes to clean, press or dye and you will always look nice and stylish. Old suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over W. U. Telegraph Office. FOR SALE Small stock of Merchandise; also store to rent. j. o. ottH, LANGLEY'S AERODROME. WARNING! TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Information having been received that Cotton, Cloth and Lumber, property of the undersigned, is being removed from the Pacolet River and adjoining lands by unauthorized persons—reference being again made to our Circular of June 26th, 1903.—Notice is hereby given that all per sons removing Cotton, Cloth or Lumber, except by authority from us, or from R. G. Hitt&Bko., will be prosecuted by us to the fullest extent of the law, and we further offer a liberal Reward, with proof to convict, for the names of any and all unauthorized persons who may be guilty of removing any of this property from the river or lands adjoining. PACOLET MFG. CO., CLIFTON MFG. GO." Spartanburg. S. C. August 6th, 1903. ^-11-14-18 and 2i. New Society Sport fn Par**. The sport of the hour In Parte Is taking place in a modern drawing room, says the Gentlewoman. The hostess, a well known woman of let ters, Invites two scientists, academi cians, Jttferatenrs of opposed views. FewtupeH of Novel Air Ship Invented by Noted Scleutlat. Professor Samuel T. Langley’s fifteen foot model aerodrome, which hud its first Ilight at VVidewater, Va., recently, is al*out fifteen feet long from stem to stern and nearly as wide lietween the tips of the wings, says the New Y'ork World. Us body Is composed mainly of an intricate network of delicate steel rods supporting tbo motor, cylinders and apparatun extending to the pro pellers and steering gear. This por tion contains also the apparatus for balancing. The wings jure about six feet long by four feet wide. They are-made of the finest oil silk stretched tight over an exceedingly light but durable wood en frame. When set for sailing they have a somewhat tent tike form, being eouskioxably elevated In the center. Of these wings there are four, two on ouch side. Behind the front set of wings are situated the two propellers, one on ouch side. These are of the divest steel and have two blades, each about two feet long. The motor, which generates some thing In excess of two horse power, Is stationed near the center of the body. At the roar of this central structure the steering goor Is attached. This Is * j n Ovc»hf«04Wi toTexx^toi^r'The^ Wome^^ gl'ris are waated ta ^ ^ a ^ ^ uwch like the The R. S. Lipscomb « ST*- ’■vi—* •» -v'n-waaM .Shoe Co. Shoes and Hosiery Exclusively. are two pretty good object lessons of this fact to be found in the Grrknqm " Ooloved PiMtraMMsAroi In Vt»*4iUn. The colored pharmacists of Virginia met recently and perfected an organ isation for their mutual ndvanoement throughout the state, says tbs Ameri can Druggist. The organization will be known ns the Virginia Association of Colored Pharmacists. ferula to harvest the fruit crop, says fhe Now York Evening Journal. A rep resentative of the fruit growers to In ; the east looking for help. The men are paid on an average 82 a day for picking fruit. The women and gtrta are paid 81 to $2J)0 a day for catting and drying the fruit, while the men and women who work In the packing houses receive sometimes as high U $3.50 a day. - — 1—riMiT——■—i ond was that of a number, ‘TTT,’ the third was the name ‘Scotland.' “These were the identical things that Mr. Stead’s secretary bod telegraphed earlier to Franks at Nottingham. Che telepathic communications were In stantaneous. “When the test bad ended there was not one who had been privileged to witness the extraordinary demonstra tion who felt himself assailed by the least doubt as to Its genuineness.” wings and has four blades. It can be turned with ease In any direction, guiding the air ship Just as a rudder di rects the course of a marine vessel. Moor BnvcNofMMi For an Eire* I on. About 20,000,000 envelopes Intended to cover voting papers and insure addi tional secrecy of the ballot are being prepared for the next elections to the German reichstajf. Not less than sev enty tons of paper will be used. The manager of one of the most successful furniture houses in Greater New York was asked to what one thing, in his opinion, the success of the concern was most due. He replied: “The founder of the firm was a great believer in advertising, and to this fact may be ascribed the enormous business we are handling.” There is no business, however SQiall, that cannot be increased by judicious, systematic, per sistent advertising. The giant oak does not gain its strength in a day. Magnificent buildings are not reared all at once, nor can their strength and beauty be appreciated until the finishing touches are put on. Is your business satisfactory? Are you making headway? Are you using to the best advantage the greatest of all business lev ers—advertising? If you are satisfied that you are, well and good; if not, drop in and talk it over with us. We have advertising space to sell, and advertising to a part of our Perhaps wo can help you.