Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, C iV I* 1(1 M iV T T I IV O S IV I> R U O S VELVET RUGS. AXMINSTER RUGS, KREX RUGS. MATTING RUGS, ALL AT SPECIAL PRICES. CARPETS AND MATTINGS MADE AND LAID. 804.06 LIMESTONE STREET CARROLL & BYERS GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA Comparison New York Standard Policy and The Mutual Benefit Contract. The Mutual Benefit Policy cost much less and guarantees a great deal more Its oash value, loan and extention provisions become effective 2nd year instead of the ird. 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 $10,000 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 amount 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. I Real Estate For Sale.... Fifty-one acres 1)4 miles from town, with two houses on it, 10 acres woodland. This is an ideal vegetableffarm. There has been $350 worth of vegeta bles raised and sold from an acre in one season. It’s a bargain at $2,500. : : : : : One hundred and sixty-nine acres, one mile from town, one- half in heavy timber. One mile of Southern R. R. runs through it. Suitable for mill site. 75 acres in highest state of culti vation. Al>out $3,500 worth of buildings on it. It all goes for $50 an acre. Buy this and make a barrel of money on it in twelve months. See : : : IV Halt! Just stop and think one moment about your printed stationery. “A •firm or individual’s printed stationery is an index to his business judgement.” If you want something that you can be sure will make a good impression where* ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to us. We guarantee satisfac tion and can do work in a ‘‘hurry. n The Ledger, Geffaey, S. C. gVMail orders receive prompt attention. Proposed Constitution to Be Voted on by the People. MOST UP TO DATE ON EARTH. Many of the “Latest Improvements’' Adopted—Initiative and Referendum. Prohibition of Liquor Traffic—Water ed Stock Also Made Illegal. The spirit of the times and the ex perience of the people In the last score of years are reflected in the constitu tion for the new state of Oklahoma, the only state constitution to be pro duced under modern conditions. The work is finished. The constitutional convention has adjourned after being in session 115 days. The agitation against corporations lias ’eft its mark, many parts of the constitution being devoted to restric tions of the corporations, designed to pi event the pos. ibility of their doniina- iion in state affairs. Public ownership and operation of -•oal mines in the state is projected. The constitution will be submitted to the people of Oklahoma and Indian territories at a special election Aug. 0. One of the last acts of the convention was to appoint a committee to solicit funds to pay the expenses of the elec tion, the convention having exhausted practically all the money appropriated by congress'. If the constitution is ratified, some very modern applications of present day reforms will be tried In the new state. The convention was overwhelmingly Democratic, being composed of 1UU Democrats and twelve Republicans. Probably the most Important meas ure killed by the convention was the provision relative to separate coaches for whites and negroes, although the Democrats had been pledged to Insert it. Several delegates alleged on the convention floor that President Roose velt would reject the constitution If the “Jim Crow” provision were adopt- ed, and warning letters were sent dele gates by Senators Tillman and Pettus and others. Woman suffrage was defeated by a few votes. The Initiative and referendum, pat terned after the Oregon law, was adopted, as was a provision for the nomination of all state officers and United States senators by primaries. Succession In state offices la prohib ited, and It is provided that the senate committees shall not be named by the lieutenant governor, but be selected by the body Itself. Oklahoma will be a prohibition state, the most stringent liquor law in exist ence, prohibiting not only the sale, but the introduction of liquor Into the state, being provided for. The en abling act provided that Indian Terri tory must accept prohibition for twen ty-mo years. Tim convention provided that the whole state shall vote on the ( no: tion, and there is no doubt that (• • terms of tlie enabling act will be iii 'd'* enif mm over the whole state. !';• ,vl m is made for a state railway emnnission, to be elective, and a two- 1 passenger fare is ordered i Mil way companies tire prohibited fri>m owning any productive agency of a i"itUr'' 1 commodity, a provision par- ticuh.rly intended to cover coal lands. A fellow servant law is embodied in ti. * <• w-tiiiition. Cot; (orations are prohibited from own.11;; more land than is absolutely 1 . ry in the operation of their hi: dness. The issuance of watered stock is pr hibited, and the books of all cor porations are made subject to inspec tion at all times. The organization of corporations to deal in real estate outside of incor porated cities is prohibited. A commission is appointed to nego- tatc* the purchase of the segregated mineral lauds in the Indian Territory, valued at many millions of dollars, and state ownership and operation of the coal mines thereon are contem plated. The legal rate of Interest la fixed at 6 per cent and the contract rate at 10 per cent A compulsory and separata school ayatem la eatabllshed. Commissions are created on labor and arbitration, charities, Insurance, railroads, agriculture, oil, gas and mines. The state la divided Into seventy-five counties, twenty-one judicial districts, forty-one senatorial districts and 105 legislative districts. The state seal adopted la a combina tion of the present seal of Oklahoma agfi the seals of the nations of tbs five civilized tribes. % u « * majority la peered to a»eqd the constitution. ‘ - v , THRASHED A PRINCESS. Voung Russian’s Queer Way to Hasten Hearing In a Lawsuit. An odd case of private vengeance growing out of the law’s delay la in the hands of the police of Odessa, Rus- ( sia, for settlement. Two men of high social standing are in a hospital for repairs preliminary to appearing in court. The trouble broke out one day in the latter part of last July, wheu the Prin cess Uruesowa appeared in the Odessa railway station to take a train for St. Petersburg. Just as she was about to itep into tbe railway carrinj^a hand somely dressed young unii^ armed with a riding whip, stepped up to her. “Madam,” said he, “it really causes me distress to hurt a lady’s feelings, but” He paused, raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders In token of dire necessity. Then, seizing the Indy by the arm, he administered a soiling thrashing with the whip upon her back and shoulders. Fainting and hysterical, the lady was hustled into the railway carriage. The young man walked coolly to tbe quar ters of the railway police and related what he had done. He said he was Edward Narzissowitcb .Tokitsch and be bad thrashed the princess as the re sult of a well considered resolve. Some time before the railway station scene .Tokitsch had sen) to every one who had any social standing In or about Odessa announcement cards with the picture of Prince Sergius Nicolai- witsch Urussow and a statement that he had by dishonest miv’ swindling methods obtained from h;*i an estate worth 500.000 rubles for 21.000 rubles. Jokitseh had also brought a suit against the prince for restitution of the property. The early hearings brought out from the prince admissions that In* had not acquired the property In a strictly proper way, hut he utterly re fused to giye It up on any terms. He fought the suit by dilatory tactics, and In the midst of them he died. After the death of the prince his wife, a young and handsome woman, showed herself equally obstinate. She would not let go the property, and she had Influence enough to keep the legal proceedings dragging along at a snail's pace. Jokitseh at last hit upon the idea of inflicting a public chastisement on her, with the idea that it would compel the authorities to take notice of the case and render a speedy decision. To make the goad of publicity more effec tive he sent out later another set of announcement cards with a portrait of the princess and a sketch of the whip and this text: “Princess Jewroslnia Constantinowa Urussowa, a notorious female cut throat, was thoroughly beaten for swln dllng in Odessa on July 27, 100G.” The princess refused to prosecute her assailant either for the assault or the cards. But Jokitseh brought vengeance on himself by sending a number of them abroad. One of these finally reached the hands of Anton d’Almelt, a Oreek and a relative of the princess. He was seized with a rage for revenge and posted hotfoot to Odessa, where he lay in wait for Jokitseh on the street. When they met Almeit without warn ing struck Jokltfjch a blow with a stick, which cut his bead open and knocked him down. Then he Jumped on the prostrate horsewlilpper and beat him unmercifully with a stick upon the head and body until Jokitseh drew a stiletto from his breast and, pulling Almeit down on top of him, plunged it Into his side. Both combatants were bathed in blood when the police reached them. There are criminal charges lodged against both, and when the trial comes up the princess will have to appear and explain her possession of the dis puted property.—Washington Post There Are many tonics in the As by the papers yon ess But nose of them esa equal Hollister's Reeky Mountain Henry James’ Loving Care. Mr. Henry James’ working methods are thus described by his publishers: “Mr. James dictates! He dictates only the first draft, however, and be does this slowly, and his secretary aft erward puts the draft into typewrit ing, with unusually wide spaces be tween the lines. This typewritten draft is then gone over by Mr. James with pen and Ink with Infinite rare. Every word Is weighed, every thought is pondered, and he begins to elabo rate, to Interpolate, to add new beau ties. Slowly the fabric grows under hie loving cure, slowly the sentences and phrases take on the final aspect toward which he has been working, and only when it is all to bis satisfac tion as an artistic literary workman does be permit it to go oat to tbe world.” Yet there is a story of a man who besought the author to explain the ex act meaning of a certain passage, “whereupon Mr. Jamea responded, with cool gravity, that if tbe passage as it stood, which represented bis care ful and studied thought, did not ex plain itself to the man’s mind be did not deem it advisable or worth fcrblle to enter into any verbal diecnasiou of It.*—Hew York Tribune. OUR WARSHIPS TODAY. To Siioot and Penetrate Armor at Six Mi !es Is Nothing Nowadays. The war ! ps of today arc. as most people know, armored; but, contrarx to the popular idea, they are : 4 pro teeted all over. - A recent authority lias said that the improvement in rapid tiring guns in late years has resulted In armor pro tecting more of the side of the ship and in increasing the number of guns protected by tlio armor. The armor is not so thick as formerly, but this Is made up for by an improved kind of material whose resisting power is greater. The modern battleship Is in tended to combine in one vessel the most powerful offensive and defensive weapons of floating warfare. These battleships may be divided into three portions—namely, the part under wa ter, the part near the water line and the upper works. In the first named parts are carried the machinery and boilers, coal, the steering gear, the submerged torpedo tubes, the ammu nition and the greater part of the stores. These parts are the most vul nerable parts of the ship. Attempts have been made to armor the bottom of battleships against explosions of torpedoes, hut they have not been suc cessful owing to the fact that to have the armor effective it would have to lie very thick and therefore very heavy, an objection that engineers have not successfully overcome. To prevent the penetration of pro jectiles from above there Is a protec tive armor deck, usually from two to four inches thick, the middle part of which Is a little above the water line. This deck slopes down at the sides to the bottom edge of the armor belt, from four to six feet under water. There is sometimes a second protec tive deck below the first one to catch fragments which might pass through the first, and this is sometimes ( ailed the “splinter deck.” The part of the ship Immediately above the protective deck In the vicinity of the water line Is sometimes called the “raft body.” It Is protected from the enemy’s pro jectiles by a heavy armor belt. In modern battleships this armor belt ex tends over the w hole or over the great er part of the length. The gun posi tions are all well armored. So is the conning tower, which is the place from which the captain directs the fighting. This tower Is connected by telephones and speaking tubes with all the im portant parts of the craft The guns mounted by a modern bat tleship are generally two big twelve inch ones at each end, protected by armored turrets, and a large number of eight and six Inch ones, in case ments also armored. Just now there is a constant battle between guns and armor. As the penetrating power of the guns Is increased so Is the resist ing power of the armor Increased. In the new British ship Dreadnought the smaller six Inch guns ha 'e disap peared, and instead we see a battery of ten twelve-inch guns. This vessel Is supposed to have been constructed In consequence of the lessons learned during the late war between Russia and Japan. Our own ships now generally seem to have a displacement of about 16,000 tons, but the rate Is constantly In creasing. It Is bigger, bigger, bigger, all the time, and each new design shows a greater displacement. To shoot and penetrate the armor at six miles is nothing nowadays.—Frank E. Cbannon in St. Nicholas. W« do not do all kinds of printing —we do the GOOD kind. § Cherokee B. i L. ‘ Fourth Series Now Open. Stock Being Taken-Applications For Loans Filed. One man 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 & Treas. C. A. Jefferies, Prest, P + + + + + 44 444444 ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 ♦ a 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 ia the only kind of life insurance written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company Spartanburg, S. C No “deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, no schemes for profit, no opeaing for speculation, no element of scandal, but strict and straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family bf providing an immediate cash estate on his death, the time of all time* whea they will need it most keenly. x It is everv man’s sacred duly to carry life insurance for the benefit of thoa* 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 thl? State. It is an old line, 1 -gal reserve, Straight Life Company of tae soundest 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. loth, 1#08 DR. J. M. HUNTER The All-Round Specialist ROCK HILL S. O. Makes a specialty of Cancers, Tumors, Chrouic Ulsers, Scrof ula and Rheumatism, Diseases of Liver and Kidneys, Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Diseases of the Genito-Uriuary Organs and Dis eases of the Rectum. Treats without the knife, loss of blood and little pain to patient. Consultation FREE. Terms of Treat ment Satisfactory. reb . ,_*_„** Subscribe for Tbe Ledger Sl.00 a «oar. •ubeerlb* for Tl»« r( H a rear. Iron Beds and Go-Carts. [Tr- 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 Go-Carts are beauties and only have to be seen to be bought. and Rugs are what you need and we oan 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. 'J. 11 > V Ctb A . i V4 ^ SHUFORDSrLeMASTER; Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking. UIK' ID —