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NATIONAL HaXk From the cotton field to prosperity, and a large, constantly growing bank account awaits you if you plant, fertilize and cultivate your crop with sy: ton. The'most important thing is to apply to ymir soil, about ten days before seeding, a plant food in the shape of 400 to 1000 pounds of high grade / Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers per acre on fewer acres. If you follow this advice, your cotton will he waist high by the time many of your “exten sive culture’' neighbors are hoeing over their crop the first time. Then too they may have used a poor grade fertilizer. Insist upon having only ViRClMA- Carolina Fertilizers — accept no substitute, j Ask your dealer for a copy of our handsome new almanac, or write us for one—it is free. i Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., J BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. SALES OFFICES: J Atlanta, Qa. Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis. Tenn. Shreveport, La. Richmond, Va. Norfolk. Va. Durhum, N. C. Charleston, S. C. Baltimore. Md. Increase Your Yields Per Acre' “Where Did You Get That Watch, Friend ?” “I got it at the old reliable Jewelry Store. He guaran teed it to rae and it has not varied a minute a month since I got it. If you want to save from 25 to 50 per cent., call and see his line line of Jewelry, Watches and solid Silver ware.” Watches from $1 00 up to $150.00. Solid Silver Teaspoons, $3.50 a set up. Solid Silver Tablespoons, $7.50 a set up. The celebrated 1847 Rogers Bros. Knives and Forks, $3.75 a dozen. Tablespoons, $2.50 a set. Teaspoons, $1.15 a set. Eight Day Oak Clocks, $1.75. Watch repairing a specialty.| £l have one of the^ best repair shops in the State. Thos. H. Westrope, The Jeweler. forrv » >v w * ww** wvwva'Xvvwv* pi ■» * •» w '« ~w « * « « • r Gh6rokeeB.il. Association Fourth Series Now Open. Stock Being Taken-Applications For Loans Filed. One uian is now living in his own house who joined in Jan uary; made application for loan; paid his dues—75 cents— which was really due February 2. He made this payment as a matter of good faith. He is in his own happy home today—February 10. He is saving house rent today. His property—not the landlord’s property—is growing in value every day. Name furnished upon application : : : Read Our Booklet And Pass It Along, It Means A GREATER GAFFNEY. W, fl. Gooding, Sec’y H Treas. G. A. Jefferies, Prest. .. ft VVW | “Lest You Forget” Insure to-day. TO-MORROW may be too late. |DEATH is certain* LIFE uncertain, oo long as this is true, NOW is the time for every man of responsibility to act. THE5 Carolina Mutual Benefit Asaociation A Will provide for protection at a VERY small cost. Any one in sound health is able to carry insurance with us. You will never miss the money to invested. HEALTH is UNCERTAIN, therefore apply AT ONCE to one of our representatives or at our HOME OFFICE over the Merchants and Planters Bank, Gaffney, S. C. — — I W. C.' McArthur, Gen'l Mgr. I B. B. Steedly, Medical Director. I ! ! The Enormcut. Output and the Safe guards Against Forgery. The Bank of England refuses to use color for its notes on account of the fact that the authorities be lieve that its whiteness and appar- ent simplicity are the greatest safe guards against forgery. The white- ne-~ of a Bank of England note is different to that of any other pa per and is obtained by using only the very finest linen rags in the making. At Laverstoke, a little village in Hampshire, the paper is prepared, and at ihe mill there every blank is as zealously guarded as if it were already engraved. Every workman or workwoman employed at the mill is bound to secrecy, and the secrets of the mysterious water mark and texture of the paper are known only by the mo.-t tried and trusted of the workmen. It E not generally known that ev ery hank note bears a private water mark, which is constantly being changed in a way known only to the head otlicials and which is discern ible through a microscope only. And it says much for the vigilance and skill of the Bank of England cashier> that, although they pay on an average iX’T.OOO in exchange "for notes- even day, they have never yet paid a forged note. 'Plie ea-ii -t way i*> detect a forged note is hy dampening a eornor with the tongue. If genuine, the water mark appears very dntinet. In counterfeit notes it almost disap pears. On a genuine ‘‘liver” there is a small white dot on the right side of the Old English “I” in the word “Five.” The tail of the letter “F” in the sentence “For the Gov ernor and Company” is also left in an incomplete state. The ink with which bank notes are printed is made of charred husks and stems of Rhenish vines, and the recipe, like the manufac ture of the paper, is a carefully guarded secret. Each bank note costs about a halfpenny 10 produce and on an av erage is iu circulation about seventy days. After being paid the notes are stored hy the bank for five years, at the end of which time they are destroyed by burning in a large fur nace. Eighteen millions of money thus disappear in the course of ev ery year. Once a note is returned to the bank it is never reissued, and after being ranceled by having the sig nature of the chief cashier torn ofi' it is placed 1 what is known as the hank nolo library for purposes of referenc e. There are no fewer than 320 clerks in thi- department, and so perfect is their system of filing that any on- of the 77,745,000 notes which form the usual stock on hand can ho reached in five min utes. Altogether the Bank of England has some £15,000,000 worth of notes in circulation and issues between 50,000 and 60,000 notes of various denoininat ions each day. There are seventy or eighty kinds of Bank of England otes of dilTcrcnt values. Every year about 3,000 of the notes issued are lost or destroyed by the owners. At any rate, they arc nev er returned to the bank and repre sent a clear profit. While it is true, however, that if a note never comes back the hank profits to that amount, they never can tell when these so < ailed missing notes may be presented. Some people possess a weakness for hoarding bank notes, and the re sult has been that frequently the bank is culled upon to cash dirty, crumnled notes which were issued years ago.—London Tit-Bits. Fooled Old Jowett. Once when Professor Jowett was visiting his friend and pupil, Pro fessor Sellar, he declared that he never gave to beggars. Mrs. Sellar was an adept in “mystifications,” an accomplishment popular in Scotch society since Sir Walter Scott’s time. Sim disguised herself as a poor highland woman and waylaid her husband and Jowett at a cross road, begging importunately and telling her tale of woe so piteously that Jowett at last said: “Poor thing! She seems very miserable. Give her half a crown.” Sellar said he had no money with him, and be fore the alms were forthcoming the secret was triumphantly unveiled. Her Idea of Remembranoe. A southern man tells of a con versation he overheard between his cook and a maid, both negroes, with reference to a recent funeral of a member of their race, at which fu neral there had been a profusion of floral tributes. Said the cook: “Dat’s all very well, Mandy, but when I dies I don’t want no flowers on my grave. Jes plant a good old watermelon vine, an’ when she gits ripe you come dar, an’ don’t you eat it, but jes bus’ it on de grave an‘ let de good old juice dribble down thro de ground 1”—Harper’s Weak- iy- ■ ■•xr HiSJ COMKOtJ IN i 1 A J g, o * * ■ %: U■ *au H u..* i '• -r-- ■ .3 V vk ! * ■v /cv- } A /f.j*-■ 'I i . ■/ \ / v* "/j:, * k S, L y:-.| ;.^/a fk u * ■'Vw. ? : \ ^ WM ' Y.'AjHL t?- j,■ •" • - -- r'X'PPi / i f ‘ 1 S*^" •- v - - Last Summer I had •*. severo at * • of Indamma* tory Rheumatism ::i the Ur - f a which J was unable to ?eavo my room fer - ral months. I was treate l by two dov ms .--.ud ;.'<o tried dider- ent kinds of Imiwems and m dicines which seemed to ro’ioro me iror. •- n tor awhile, but at the sarro time I " * an v ne ’ r get: :ng well. One day v i-'e r- id" r t tip r I - aw ai ac.ser- tiser-err o s. s. y. T ;h«» o-• sm. I decid, <1 to c’.ve i- a tr: •}. v---i ^ 1 : * o \ • -r v he 1 taken tn ee >- • It I cot — ned to ta ■ ■ tirely cured, i now 1 e-1 i,ort« vears. CHA.S. E. UI -:d i>--' ter. a: d 1.1 I v.-as e_- • tali I h tve for ■sld dgnd SStreet, Newjjort Ee .- s. \ a While the damp, cold, changing weather ot Winter intensifies the pains and other disagreeable symptoms of Rheumatism, it is by no means a winter disease exclusively. Through the long months of Summer its wandering pains and t\v itch ing nerves are felt by those in whose blood the uric acid, which produces the disease, has accumulated. Rheumatism is a disease that involves the en tire system. Its primary cause results from the failure of the eliminative organs, the Liver, Kid neys and Bowels, to carry out of the system the urea, or natural refuse matter. This coming in contact with the different acids of the body forms uric acid which is taken up and absorbed by the blood. This acid causes fermentation of the blood, maHug it sour and unfit for properly nourishing the oody, and as this vital stream goes to every nook and corner of the body, the poison is distrib uted to all pars. The nervous system weakens from lack of rich, pure blood, the skin becomes fe verish and swollen, the stomach and digestion are affected, the appetite fails and a general diseased condition of the entire system is the result. Not only is Rheumatism the most painful of all diseases, with its swollen, stiff joints, throbbing muscles and stinging nerves, but it is a formidable and dangerous trouble. If the uric acid h allowed to remain in the blood, and the disease becomes ch ronie, chalky deposits form the joints, and they are rendered immovable and stiff, and the patient left a helj les - cripple for life Every day the poison remains in the system the disease gets a tinner hold. Lie best time to get rid of Rheumatism is in warm weather; because then the blood lakes or ie\v Ike and the skin is more active and can better assist in the elimination of the poisons. With the proper remedy to force the acid out of the blood, and at the same time build up and streugten the Liver, Kidneys, Bowels and other organs of the body, Rheumatism can be per manently cured. External applications relieve the pain and temporarily reduce the inflam mation, and for this rearon are desirable, but they cannot have any effect on the disease. The blood is poisoned and the blood must be treated before a cure can be effected.. S. S. S., a .remedy made from roots, herbs and barks, is the best treatment for Rheumar tism. It goes into the blood and attacks the disease at its head, and by neutralizing the acid and driving it out, and building up the sour blood so it can supply nourishment and strength to every part of the body, it cures Rheumatism permanently. S. S. S. is the only safe cure for the disease; being purely vegetable, it will not injure the system in the least, as do those medicines which contain Potash or some other mineral ingredient. S. S. S. tones up every part of the IWtv i y its fine tonic properties. While cleansing the blood of all poisons it builds up the appetite and digestion, soothes the excited nerves, re duces all inflammation, relieves pain and completely cures Rheumatism in every form—Muscular, Inflamma tory, Articular or Sciatic. If you are worried with the nagging pains of Rheumatism, do not wait for it to be come chronic, but begin the use of S. S. S. and purge the blood of every particle of the poison."' Write for our book on Rheumatism, and ask our physicians for ayy advice you wish. We make 110 eh rge for either. sc iJL \jr ■M THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE HONEY and TAR P n\ Jbi Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, La Grippe, Asthma, Throat in . hc and Lung Troubles. Prevents Pneumonia and Consumption yellow packaob Sale by Oerokee Drug Co. Fei Sale bv Cherokee Druf C*. Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. the “Pin\F.i;ir calendar. Sum -i.lr ot‘ tin- Jamestown Expo- : sit Ion. I We has received a copy of a beautiful : calendar, leproduced by lithography in, fen differe t colors, from an oil painting by Chas. A. Winter, a New York artist. The foreground illustrates a young man, in the costume worn by the new-comers In colonial Virginia. In the immediate background there are about fifteen men building a fort or stockade. Further in the background is a very wide river, and on the bosom of its blue water are three sailing vessels, proudly riding at anchor, and from which the pioneers have just landed. There are many timely suggestions to farmers on th^- monthly calendar leaves* Any of our readers can obtain a copy of this pretty calendar by sending ten cents in stamps (or money) to Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., manufacturers of fertil izers, Advertising Department, Richmond, Va., to pay cost of packing and postage. Shelley and Butter Cakes. Shelley called on Southey one afternoon and found the latter and his wife at tea. Southey evinced such an appetite for buttered cakes that Shelley was shocked and at last broke out with: “Southey, I’m ashamed of you! It’s horrible to see a man like you greedily devour ing this nasty stuff!” Mrs. Southey came to her husband’s defense with a long tirade, during which Shelley, abashed, put down his face and cu riously scanned the cakes. He broke off a bit and ventured to taste it. Then he bo,nan to eat az greedily as Southey himself. When he went home his verdict on the cakes waa summed up in the report of Harriet Westbrook, to whom he was en gaged: “We were to have hot tea cakes every evening ‘forever.’ I was to make them myself and Mrs. Southey was to teach me.” HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at premium rates fixed on the basis of the actuaries’tables of life expectation, and therefore, absolutely fair is the only kind of life insurance written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Spartanburg, S. C No “deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, no schemes for profit, no opening for speculation, no element of scandal, but strict and straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family by providing an immediate cash estate on his death, the time of all times when they will need it most keenly. :-< It is every man’s sacred duty to carry life insurance for the benefit of those de pendant upon him, and all men know this. But no South Carolinan need go out of his own State to get it. The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution, chartered by the State of South Carolina and subject to the South Carolina laws governing Life Insurance. It is directed by men whose homes and interests are in this State. It is an old line, 1 gal reserve, Straight Life Company of tae soundert kind, and should have the support of the people of the State. Southeastern Life Insurance Company, ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. Mar. 16th. 1907 A Valuable Lesson. “Six years aKo I learned a valuable lesson.” writes John Pleasant, of Magnolia. Ind. “I then began taking Dr. King’s New Life Pills, and the longer I take thefti the better I find them.” They please everybody. Guar anteed at Cherobee Drug Co. 25c. i I I 1 r « jv iv e: One entire block on Depot and Logan stree s, with two 6 room cottages and a 7-room house on same. See me quick if you want a bargain in the block. This property must be sold. One city farm, containing 13 acres with good house on same. One lot just off Depot street, n >x 120, very de sirable location. One lot on Fredrick and I/Ogan streets, 180x200. a beauty. One farm miles out with be t im provements, containing 200 acres. One farm, containing 140 acres, 4^ miles out. Sumter Littlejohn house, sv* rooms, corner Sumter and Johnson streets. : : FOR RENT—Two city farms. SAM L. FORT, Real Estate and Insurance. IV —Sorghum and Kaffir Corn. Early Amber Sorghum and Early Orange Sorghum at Gaffney Drug Co. Subsoribo for Tbo Ledger $1.00 a »ear.