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< /- A Wonderful Oil Stove Entirely different from all others. Em bodies new ideas, new principles. Easily managed. Reduces fuel ex pense. Ready for business at moment of lighting. For your summer cook ing get a NEW PERFECTION Wiek Bine flame Ofl Cook-Stove Ita heat la highly concentrated. Does not overheat the kitchen. OH always at a maintained level. Three sizes. Fully warranted. It not at your dealer’s, write our nearest agency for descriptive circular. Lamp round household THE T ******* is the best lamp for all round household use. Made of brass throughout and beautifully nickeled. Per fectly constructed ; absolutely safe; unexcelled in light-giving power; an ornament to any room. Every lamp warranted. If not at your dealer's, write to our nearest agency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY USCOIU'UKATXD) 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.” The Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. tfV Mail orders receive prompt attention. U GREENE’S Knock-Out Drops" Directions For Use. Apply the solution freely with a feather upon the railings and into crevice of the bedstead. This preparation will destroy all kinds of vermin if the places are fre quently and well annointed with it. Be careful in applying it not to get it into the eye, or in a cut or sore. Being a violent Poison, it must he kept out of reach of children and not where food is kept. Antidote Give milk or white of egg in large quantities, GAFFNEY DRUG COMPANY DRUGGISTS. GAFFNEY, - - - S. C. BRIDGE TO LET. On Friday. April 19th I will be at the bridge at the Deck Tindall place, on Big Thickety. to let the contract for building the abutments. E. F. Lipscomb, County Supervisor. NOTICE TEACHERS. The regular teachers examination will be held at the court house on Friday. April 19th. beginning at 9: SO a. m. We shall expect every one ap plying to be present promptly on that day and at the hour. County Board of Examiners. J. L. Walker, R. C. Sarratt, Jas. C. Jefferlea Real Estate For Sale.... Fifty-one acres miles from town, with two houses on it, io acres woodland. This is an ideal vegetablejfarm. There has been $350 worth of vegeta bles raised and sold from ah acre in one season. It’s a bargain at fa,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. About $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 : : : Ik." • ALCOHOL GOOD FUEL Government Expert Says Gaso line’s Days Are Numbered. LARGE INCREASE OF POWER. DR. J. M. HUNTER The All-Round Specialist ROCK HILL S. C. Makes a specialty of Cancers, Tumors, Chronic Ulsers, Scrof- ula and Rheumatism, Diseases of Liver and Kidneys, Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Diseases of the Genito-Urinary 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. Feb. i-s-mos Subscribe for Tbu Ledger Sl.00 a near. SOUVENIR HAIR PILLOWS. Tests Seem to Show That the Use of the Untaxed Denatured Product Un der the New Law Will Revolutionizs the Running of Engine 1. The day of the smell In automobil- lug is past According to the report of Dr. Charles E. Lucke, assistant pro fessor of mechanical engineering at Columbia university, who has been conducting for the United States gov ernment a series of tests on alcohol as a fuel, for gas engines, a 20 per cent increase of power may be attain ed by the use of alcohol, says the New York Tribune. Dr. Lucke believes that alcohol, on account of its greater safe ty and Its adaptability to the work, Is likely to supplant gasoline as a fuel for boats Immediately, while In the case of antomobiles those who are willing tq pay a little more may rid themselves forever of the offensive odor of gaso line, at the same time having a fuel that !s much easier to handle, safer to store and which will give an equal speed. » Dr. Lucke predicts that in time, as kerosene and its distillates become scarcer and dearer by reason of the exhaustion of natural deposits, alcohol may entirely supplant the kerosene and gasoline engines. The results of Dr. Lneke’s experi ments are made public In bulletin No. 277, just Issued by the department of agriculture, which gives also the re sults of experiments eondueted by S. M. Woodward. United States irrigation engineer, whoso results coincide with those reached by the Columbia pro fessor. The report first takes up the comparative cost of energy in different fuels. It Is found that gasoline selling for a minimum price of 10 cents a gal lon will give 1.200,000 British thermal units a dollar expended, while, esti mating the cost of alcohol at 30 cents a gallon, It will give 270.000 heat units a dollar. Dr. Lucke has made known his results on the assumption that al cohol fuel has the same thermal effi ciency ns gasoline—that is. 19 per cent for fair working conditions. Dr. Lucke then finds that for each horsepower developed the cost of alcohol at 30 cents a gallon will be $5, while the cost of gasoline for each horsepower ranges from $1.70 to $3.40, according as the price of the fuel varies from 15 cents to 30 cents a gallon. The report goes on to show that the degree to which alcohol will be used depends not so much on its cost as Its efficiency. One difficulty that has been met with In making the Investigations Is In determining Just what the actual constitution of the denatured alcohol that It Is proposed to use will be, ns In order to be tux free It must contain nt least 10 per rent of methyl alcohol and may contain more. When It comes to a consideration <>f the amount of heat that will bo Illierated a pound, It Is found that i 'cohol would liberate 11.- 900 Priti-h thermal units, while gaso line liberates 20,000 units a pound of oil. Dr. Lucke finds that by slightly changing the character of the engine now in use a higher degree of effi ciency may be attained. The report says: Any engine on the market today op erating with gasoline or kerosene can operate with alcohol fmjt without any structural change whatever with prop er manipulation. Alcohol eo Mains approximately 0.(1 of the heatinc value of gasoline by weight and in the department’s experi ments 1.8 times as much alcohol as gasoline a horsepower hour. This cor responds very closely with the relative heating value of the fuels. Indicating practically the same thermal efficiency with the two when vaporization Is complete. In some cases carburetors designed for gasoline do not vaporize all the alcohol supplied, and In such cases the excess of alcohol consumed la greater than indicated above. The absolute excess of alcohol con sumed over gasoline or kerosene will be reduced by such changes as will In crease the thermal efficiency of the engine. The thermal efficiency of these en gines can be improved when they are to be operated by alcohol just by alter ing the construction of the carburetor to accomplish complete vaporization and, second, by Increasing the com pression very materially. An engine designed for gasoline or kerosene can without any material al terations to adapt it to alcohol give slightly more power, about 10 per cent, than when operated with gasoline or kerosene, but this increase la at the expense of a greater consumption of fuel. By alterations designed to adapt the engine to new fuel this excess of power may be increased to about 20 per cent. Because of the increased output with out corresponding Increase In size al cohol engiues should sell for less a horsepower than gasoline or kerosene engines of the same class. The different designs of gasoline or kerosene engines are not. equally well adapted to the burning of alcohol, though all may burn It fairly well. Storage of alcohol and Its use In en glues are much less dangerous than the use of gasoline, as well as being de< ld edly more pleasant. Ihe exhaust from an alcohol engine Is less likely to be offensive than the exhaust from a gasoline or kerosene engine, although there will Ik* some odor due to lubricating oil and imper fect combustion If the engine is not skillfully operated. Latest Manifestation of Cushion Crazs Calls For Collection of Tresses. The beautiful maiden advanced stealthily. In her right hand she held a double Mndcd Instrument of threat ening appearauce. Its points were sharp and of glittering steel. She poised it menacingly above the head of her lover, who in his blind adoration made no sign of self defense. He was resigned to his fate. He did not even flinch as she approached nearer and nearer with the pair of scissors, with which she proceeded to cut off a lock of his hair. “Thanks, Raymond,” she said. “That will have a place of honor in my sou venir hair pillow.” And Raymond grinned foolishly. The* youth was flattered. Why not? His lock of hair was to go into a pillow along with locks from the golden tress es of Bertha Helen Jones, the raven ringlets of Luellu Loveydove Johnson and perhaps a cutting from the curls of the sweet creature who had just clipped his own back hair for her cushion. This harrowing episode happened the other day at Ossining, N. Y. Ossining used to be called Sing Slug because the Slug Sing prison Is located there, but the Inhabitants insisted that the name be changed to Ossining. Until the new pillow fad originated at Slug Bing—that is, Ossining—the town had no extraordinary claim to distinction other than its big prison save for the fact of its location on the beautiful Hudson river and for Its preponder ance of pretty girls. Now Ossining Is getting famous, for some of those pretty girls have origi nated the human hair sofa pillow. Up to this latest Invention the leather post card cushion was all the go In Ossi ning and other centers of culture. Now the human hair pillow Is In the saddle, so to speak. It Is In the saddle and galloping madly to other points, where It promises to become as popular as In the place of its birth. The method is simple. How many friends have you? A hundred and for ty-seven? Well, that’s quite a-plenty. If you collect the hair tax from all of the 147 you will have enough of the hirsute clippings to make a fat pillow. The girl who starts out after pillow material must not get discouraged. She must not take “No” for an answer. If any rude man should be disposed to re fuse her a cutting of his tresses she can advance upon him surreptitiously and commit an up to date rape of the lock before* he can yell "Jack Robin son!” or “Hully gee!” One young wo man in Ossining avers that she has 199 samples of hair cuttings in her ~il!ow. all from her dearest friends. "short talks by~ L. T. COOPER. NERVOUSNESS. Nervousness makes people miserable, blue, and unhappy. They think something terrible is going to happen. At night they' toss and worry and are not rested. They tire easily and havn’t much en ergy. They think many things are the matter witii them--- Consumption, Kid ney trouble, 01 twenty other di‘. eases. It’s jus! stomach trouble nothing else in t!u world. Two bottle.- m::s. w. j. schaukur- of Cooper’s New Discovery will out the stomach in shape in three weeks. 1 know this because I’ve seen it tried a thousand times. 'Then all nervousness will disap pear. I know this too, because I’ve seen it happen a thousand times. Here’s a let ter I got the otiier day: “My system was badly run down and my stomach and nerves in an awful shape. I could not digest my food, was always tired and would often feel faint and di2,zy. ” “I had heard so much of your New Discovery medicine that I began taking it. Relief and strength and happiness were found in the very first bftttle and the bene fit I have received from it has been truly wonderful. I am no longer nervous, my appetite and digestion arc good and I eat everything and sleep well.’’* Mrs. W. J. Schaurer, 220 Guthrie St., LouisviHe, Ky. RHEUMATISM CAN NOT BE, RUBBED AWAY It is perfectly natural to rub the spot that hurts, and when the muscles, nerves, joints and bones are throbbing and twitching with the pains 01 Rheumatism the sufferer is apt to turn to the liniment bottle, or some other external application, in an effort to get relief from the disease, by producing counter-irritation on the flesh. Such treatment will quiet the pain tempo rarily, but can have no direct curative effect on the real disease because It does not reach the blood, where the cause is located. Rheumatism is mors than jikin deep—it is rooted and grounded in the blood and can only bs reached by constitutional treatment—IT CANNOT BE RUBBED AWAY. Rheumatism is due to an excess of uric acid in the blood, brought about by the accumulation in the system of refuse matter which the natural avenues of bodily waste, the Bowels and Kidneys, have failed to carry off. This refuse matter, coming in contact with the different acids of the body, forms uric acid which is absorbed into the blood and distributed to all parts of the body, and Rheumatism gets possession of the system. The aches and pains •re on b r symptoms, and though they may be scattered or relieved for a tims by surface treatment, they will reappear at the first exposure to cold or dampness, or after an attack of indigestion or other irregularity. Rheuma tism can never be permanently cured while the circulation remains saturated with irritating, pain-producing uric acid poison. The disease will shift from muscle to muscle or joint to joint, settling on the nerves, causing inflammation and swelling and such terrible pains that the nervous system is often shattered, the health undermined, and perhaps the patient becomes deformed and crippled for life. S. S. S. thoroughly cleanses the blood and renovates the circulation by neutralizing the acids and expelling all foreign matter from the system. It warms and invigorates the blood so that instead of a weak, sour stream, constantly deposit ing acrid and corrosive matter in the mus cles, nerves, joints and bones, the body is fed and nourished by rich, health-sustaining blood which completely and permanently cures Rheumatism. S. 8. S. is composed S.S.S. of both purifying and tonic properties— just what is needed ii PURELY VEGETABLE .... . . , ^ in every case of Rheu matism. It contains no potash, alkali or other mineral ingredient, but Is made entirely of purifying, healing extracts and juices of roots, herbs and barks. If you are suffering from Rheumatism do not waste valuable time trying to rub a blood disease away, but begin the use of S. S. S. and write us about your case and our physicians will give you any information or advice desired free of charge and will send our special treatise on Rheumatism* THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GAm Cherokee Fourth Series Now Open. Stock Being Taken--Applicaiions 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 Bookiet And Pass It Along, It Means A GREATER GAFFNEY. W. II. Gooding, Sec’y & Trees. C. A. Jefferies, Prest. § v Ki : : * K* v >T( ft We sell Cooper’s New Discovery. It makes tired, worn out, nervous people happy. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. HONEST INSURANCE Plaiu, 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 opeaing 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 keenfv. x x X 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. x X x 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, Hgal 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 16th, 1008 I 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 Go-Carts are beauties and only have to be seen to be bought. are what you need »aud 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.