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* It means the hottest and cleanest flame produced by any stove. This is the flame the New Perfection Oil Stove gives the instant a ughted match is ap plied—no delay, no trouble, no soot, no dirt For cooking, the POLICE LADIES NEXT, Mrs. Goldzier of New Jersey Wants Women on the Force. HUNDREDS AGREE WITH HER. NEW PERFECTION Wick Bine Flame Oil Cook-Stove in two. TVIade in three sizes. Every stove warranted. If not at your deal er’s write to our nearest agency. FgnTo The ri&fe F , n is the best lamp for _ household use. Made of brass throughout and beautifully nickeled. Perfectly constructed; absolutely safe; unexcelled in light-giving power; an ornament to any room. Every lamp warranted. If not at your 4ealer's, write to our nearest agency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (jufoesreBATU) Comparison New York Standard Policy and The Mutual Benefit Contract. The Mutual Benefit Policy cost much less and guarantees a great deal more Its cash value, loan and extention provisions become effective 2nd year instead of the vrd. We will even make a loan to assist in paying the second premium. The New York Standard Policy offers no cash value—only loans. If a man, age 35, should take out, at the same time two 20 payment life policies for |io,ooo each, one in the Mutual Benefit, the other in the New York Standard policy form, he would pay a premium for the New York policy which would exceed that of the Mutual Benefit by $21 20 per annum, a difference, which improved at 6 per cent, compound interest, would amount in 20 years to $826.65. Then if he would sur render both policies, The Mutual Benefit would pay him $609.20 more than the New York company, making a total dif. ference in guaranteed results of $1.435-85• The above takes no account of divi dends, the amonnt of which must depend on future management, interest rates and mortality. Place your insurance with the Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co., through Jones J. Darby, Agt. Did Yo’ Ever Think what a bargain you are getting when you get THE LEDGER one hundred and three (103) times a year for Mi Sl.00 a Year? lit Is Op Fountain Is open’for’the sea- s 0 n . The best Crushed Fruits and Fruit Juices is what we use. Particular care is taken to make each drink to suit the individuals taste If you want [to be served to please drink at our foun tain j CHEROKEE ■ drug company Popular flavors of Ice Cream always on hand DR. J. M. HUNTER rrhe All-Round Specialist ROOK HILL S. O. Makes a specialty of Cancers, Tumors, Chronic Ulsers, Scrof- ula'and Rheumatism, Diseases of Liver and Kidneys, Dyspepsia aad Indigestion, Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs and Dis eases of the Rectum. Treats without the knife, loss of blood and little nain to patient. Consultation FREE. Terms of Treat- ment Satisfactory. Feb . mo . Sehscrika for Yhe Ledger 11.00 e *ear, She Already Hae Chosen a Uniform of Blue Blouses and Bloomera—-Plenty of Gold Buttons and Braid-Argu ments For the Innovation. Mrs. Julia Goldzier of Bayonne, N. J., says that about 500 persons have signed her petition for the appointment ; of women police In that city. Most of the signers are women. Many sent let- ; ters indorsing tire proposition. Mrs. Goldzier launched her scheme several months ago. appealing then to Mayor Pierre Garven and to the town counci to appoint women police. The mayor and council tabled the petition, and some Jokes were cracked over It. Mrs. Goldzier proposes to keep up the agitation until she succeeds, If i success Is possible, says the New York Sun. She thinks it Is. She has gone so far as to select a uniform for the policewomen. Dark bine blouses and bloomers, with or without skirts, mili tary caps with gold braid and patent leather boots are to be filled by the police ferns. Double rows of gold but tons adorn the blouses. Instead of clubs the policewomen will carry ■witches. In order to arouse Interest Id her project Mrs. Goldzier has Issued a pamphlet which has been largely cir culated. "When I sent a letter to Mayor Gar- Ten asking him to appoint policewomen to patrol the streets for the protection, assistance and entertainment of our children while they are out of their parents’ sight.’’ saya Mrs. Goldzier In the pamphlet, “I had no idea but that the mayor would say something In fa vor of the movement and that the press would note his statements on account of their novelty and there the matter would drop, except that In some remote place a progressive village whose in habitants were Intelligent enough to know a good thing when they beard of It and were not tied down by custom and the traditloni of their elders, would institute a police force of women whose sole duty was the care of children. "To my surprise and Joy I found that the citizens of Bayonne were quite ready to maintain a force of female guardians if they could be convinced that these would fill an evident want. In the minds of some, one doubt Is that policewomen would necessarily drag women Into politics. This argument la In favor and not against the project. Women purify the home, business, ■treets and camps, and women In poli tics would purify politics. Those who cannot realize this are in the lunatic asylum. Another argument which is only senseless twaddle Is that a wo man’s place is at home. Why is home a woman's place more than man’s? Not because tie has business elsewhere, for no has she. "The home is getting smaller every day, and woman’s capacities are growing larger every day. If you con tract her sphere as her home contracts, you will be kept busy building prisons, madhouses and poorhouses to harbor •11 the wrecked minds, morals and constitutions. Woman’s growing en ergies cannot be safely confined in too small a place. T’le healthful outdoor exercise as a policewoman, with Its limited hours and easy work, will soon mako our women strong and free as men. Men with great care and sub tlety have reduced women to depend ency and fear for their miserable, de formed. lopsided civilization If women should he free and healthy. Many a woman disguised as a man has lived in close association with men and proved that man’s life, with its health ful variegated distractions, has ena bled her to reduce her curse beyond Its power to 1 rouble her. The horrified public shouts that policewomen would encourage race suicide. "Calm yourselves, dear people, and listen to common sense. Is not one child saved equal to one born? Then suppose In her wanderings through the streets the unwedded policewoman saves a child from a runaway borae, from the throning of missiles by a bully or blood poisoning by removing the fragments of a broken bottle would ahe not have done as much for human ity as If she herself had prodoced that child? My policewoman would dally and hourly Ik> performing such deeds, so they would do more than one moth er toward preventing race suicide. “ ‘Would not only Immoral women accept positions on the police force?* This Is a stunning question which sur prised me as much as though It had been asked if only Immoral women would take positions as wives, school teachers or nurses. It la the old tyr anny In man, fearing to give liberty to woman last she misuse It as be mis uses it” Mayor at 60 Cents a Year. John A. McCreery, anti-license candi date for mayor of Mason City, 111., has pledged himself to serve for a salary of 60 cents a year if elected. The candi dates for aldermen on the same ticket said they would strive for 26 cents a year each. Tb« Lunacy Commission. Said Oliifj to Meriurs. with Doe PoUsi close si hand, “It assms 10 mi- w*- ■ xpsrt three tngsthsr ought to srsnd." To Putsel said McClure, wfclls Pats Olnsy lingered m Mr. "It seams to rue that’s why wa three have bran collactad hare.” •aid Piilaal then to Olnsy. and MeChire gave a sob. "It seems to ma wa oan agree T'e’va drawn u crasy job." - Cleveland Plain Dealer ■W y<, a*. MEERSCHAUM IN NEW MEXICO Enough Discovered There to Supply the Whole World With Pipes. Because of the discovery of vast de posits of meerschaum in the moun tains of New Mexico It is likely that the monopoly of that mineral, hereto fore held by the Turkish government, will be broken, and pipes of that mate rial will be lessened in cost, says the Kansas City Star. Until recently all of the meerschaum used in the commerce of the world was produced from ■ mine In the 1 plains of E^kihi-sher, Anatolia. Turkey, in Asia. In those mines are employed 10.000 men. The output of the mine was owned by the Turkish govern ment. and it kept the price np. There is a pooular belief that meer- schaum is petrified sea foam washed np ages ago and solidified by some strange process of nature. Meer schaum Is a mineral known to scien tists as "aeplolite.” It Is composed principally of silica and magnesium. It Is found iu fissures In the rock, where volcanic action has forced It up to the surface. Meerschaum is used not only for making tobacco pipes, but because of its unique properties of residing a high degree of heat and its ready ab sorption of water It la pnt to various electrical and mechanical uses. In the mines of New Mexico a solid block of meerschaum weighing forty- two pounds was taken out. It was the largest block of meerschaum ever mined. Herees Wear Snewehees. Horses wear snowshoes in Dakota in winter. Thus equipped they trot lightly over drifts wherein they would otherwise sink out of sight, says the Minneapolis Journal. In some parts of Dakota the snow lies all winter long eight or ten feet deep. But a crust forms on it, and with anowsboes men skim over it easily. Lately the snow shod horses have also skimmed over It. The equine snowshoes are made of boards twenty Inches long and four teen inches wide. An indentation to fit the foot Is branded on each board with a hot horseshoe, and the contrivance is fastened ou the hoof with an iron clamu and u bolt. SHORT TALKS BY L. T. COOPER. BAD BLOOD THE SOURCE OF ALL DISEASl Every part of the body It dependent on the blood for nourishment id ■trength. When this life stream is flowing through the system in a statrf purity and richness we are assured of perfect and uninterrupted heal; because pure blood U nature’• aafe-/nard against disease. When, bower the body is fed on weak, impure or polluted blood, the system is deprived its strength, disease germs collect, and the trouble is manifested in varts ways. Pustular eruptions, pimples, rashes and the different akin affectls •now that the blood is in a feverish and diseased condition as a result of la much acid or the presence of some irritating humor. Sores and Ulcerere the result of morbid, unhealthy matter in the blood, and Rheumatism, a- tarrlL Scrofula, Contagious Blood Poison, etc., are all deep-seated bW disorders that will continue to grow worse as long as the poison remm These im pun ties and poisons find their way into the blood in various wg Often a sluggish, inactive condition of the system, and torpid state of m avenues of bodily waste, leaves the refuse and waste matters to soar id form uric and other acids, which are taken up by the blood and distribtd throughout the circulation. Coming in contact with contagious another cause for the poisoning of the blood; we also breathe the germ* 4 microbes of Malaria into our lungs, and when these get into the bloo<a sufficient quantity it becomes a carrier of disease instead of health 8«a are so unfortunate as to inherit bad blood, perhaps the dregs of somed const! tilt inn a 1 «a m 4 J a _ 4.1 a ^a. CONSTIPATION. fcAMt I.L HOOREN. 1 can tell a person who is eonatipated >n sight. Their complexion ia pasty or yellow. Their eyes are dull, and they look and feel sleepy. No wonder they do. The bowels are a sewer. They carry away the poisonous re fuse. If they dont act the poisonous matter is absorbed by the body, and headaches, dull* ness, bad complex ion and eventually serious troubles re sult. There is no better rule lor good health than that the bowels should move eyery day at the same hour if possible. Regu larity can be acquired by making a habit of this. Foolish people neglect this and when chronic constipation effects them they take pills every few days to force the bowels to perform thtir natural function. An years go on they require more and more pills. This should he stopped. Cooper’s New Discovery will build up the stomach and cause the bowels to act naturally. While taking the medicine get the habit of regularity, then gradually stop taking the medicine. Here is a sample of letters from those who have trice 1 it: “For sixteen years I have suffered from stomach and liver trouble, and chronic constipation. 1 had frequent headaches and always felt tired and worn out. I heard of Cooper’s New Discovery and began its use, After I had finished one bottle I was wonderfully improved. Con stipation gave way to a pleasing regularity of the bowels and 1 ate better, slept bet ter and felt better than I had for months. It is the greatest medicine I have ever known.” Samuel Booren. 1742 Munsey Avc., Scranton Fa. Our customers who iiave used them say the Cooper medicines do the work. Wc sell them. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. constitutional diaeaae of ancestors is handed down to them and they-* constantly annoyed and troubled with it Bad blood is the source of all e- case, and until this vital fluid la cleansed and purified the body la sum •uffer in some way. For blood troubles of any character S. S. S. is the tt remedy ever discovered. It goes down into the circulation and removes y •ad all poiaona, supplies the healthful properties it needs, and complef and permanently cures blood diseaseSf every kind. The action of S. S. S. i» thorough that hereditary taints are remod and weak, diseased blood made strong d healthy so thst disease cannot remain. 1 , cores Rheumatism, Catarrh, Scrofula, Sgi PURELY VEGETABLE *"4 ^ C 5 T *> Skin Diseases, Contagis ^ . . Blood Poison, etc., and does not leave • •lightest tract of the trouble for future outbreaks. The whole volume? blood is renewed and cleansed after a course of S. 8. S. It is also natus S.S.S — — - —— —-w. a % A9 caaw uttvi itest tonic, made entirely of roots, herbs and barks, and is absolnb -i - ^ ~ ~ is for sale at all first ct mati barmless to any part of the system. S. 8. 8. ^ 41iav ^ irug stores. Book on the blood and any medical advice free to all who we. TH£ SWtFT SPECIFIC CO^ ATIANTA, GA, *>t*t*>>:*^ * I »T< Cherokee B.:L.' Fourth Series Now Open. Stock Being Taken-Applications For Loans Filed j One uiao is now living in his own house who joined in Jan uary; made application for loan; puid 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 io. 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 Meam A GREATER GAFFNEY. W. fl. Gooding, Sec'v & Trees. C. A. Jefferies, Prest;] to. r . w « "W.W.W.W.W^ W-WVW W-W-W'W-W WTWtWm. W.w <r HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at premium rates fixed on the basis of actuaries’tables of life expectation, and therefore, absolutely fair is the < kind of life insurance written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company Spartanburg, S. C No "deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, schemes for profit, no opeaing for speculation, no element of scandal, but si and straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family providing an immediate cash estate on his death, the time of all times w they will need it most keenly. It is every man’s sacred duty to carry life insurance for the benefit of those pendant upon him, and all men know this. But no South Carolinan need go of his own State to get it. The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution, charterer the State of South Carolina and subject to the South Carolina laws govert Life Insurance. It is directed by men whose homes and interests are in State. It is an old line, Irgal reserve, Straight Life Company of tae soun kind, and should have the support of the people of the State. Life Insnrance Compa, ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, 16tb. IW* Spartanburg, S. C. Iron Beds and Qo-Carts. We have a large assort ment of the “Foster” and “Hard GUARANTEED line of IRON BEDS, and these are the kind for you to buy. Our Spring Qo-Carts are beauties and only have to be seen to be bought. are what you need and we can cover your floors so that they will give the longest wear ^ possible. Whatever you need to go in your house, come and see us before buying. SHUFORD & LeMASTER, Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking.