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K-: THB LEDQCft Tuesday and Friday. ■d. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publlahor. The Ledger la not responalble for the Ylewa of correspondent*. Watch your label and the date. And renew before 'tia too late; If there be an error, don’t set mad. Report to na—well make yon *lad. Remember, 11a our aim to pleaae. Bat errors ere like peak* flea*— They will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the date. —OrUdnal. CITY DIRECTORY. A. N. J. N. W. H ^W. C. J. C. Officials. Little MhTOT Spears Mayor Pro Tern . Rosa City Clerb Jones Treasurer Hallman Health Officer Lockhart Chief Police Bell City Attorney Board Public Works. Wood Chairman Lipscomb Treasurer . Ross Secretary Board of Trade Hamrick President Otts Secretary WORK AT LIMESTONE. Few of the people of our town and country have any clear Ideas of the nature and extent of the work that Is being done In Limestone Col- lege, though the college is located at our doors. It is true that the catar logue comes out year by year ex hibiting in detail the curriculum laid down and the work of the differ ent departments. But people re gard college catalogues somewhat as only advertisements, and they are read, if read at all, with all the mental reservations and allowances that attach to common adverise- ments. We have for this reason taken the time and trouble to look Into the inside workings of this g^eat institution, and we shall at tempt to give an outline of what we have seen and heard. The college comprises thirteen separate schools, each presided over by a trained and experienced teach er. The first of these schools to at tract our ettenion, because it Is the one In which we are most immediate ly Interested, Is The school of English, This school is presided over by the veteran soldier and teacher, Capt. H. P. Griffith, with Miss S. M. Werts as adjunct professor. Capt. Griffith has been at his post at Limestone for twenty-six years, and the readers of The Ledger and the people of the whole State have either known or heard of him, and are well acquainted with the kind of English he uses and teaches. Miss Werts had her training In English under him, and afterwards took a course in Harvard. She has been a teacher In the college for eight years in succession, and Is one of the most accomplished English scholars in the country. This school has had this year two hundred and seven pupils enrolled, though some few have done double work In dif ferent classes, and hence are count ed twice. The course begins in the Seminary Department which is un der the exclusive direction of Miss Werts. This is a three-years’ course. The work done lg equivalent to that of our high schools. The in struction in this department is given by the same teachers as that in the college department. Many of the students entering Limestone College unprepared to do fully freshman work find it to their advantage to take work In the semi nary department In some subjects. The following Is an outline of the course: (First Year—Spe/lling, English, grammar, composition, physical geo graphy, Latin begun, Greek begun, English hisory, arithemetic. Extras: Art and music. Second Year—Rhetoric, composi tion, study of English and American classics begun, Latin (Caesar, gram mar, prose composition), Greek (Xenophon, grammar) United States history and history of South Caro lina, aritmetic, algebra. Extras: Art and music. Third Year—(Rhetoric, composition, study of English and American classics continued, algebra, plane geometry, European history, Latin. Cicero’s orations, Vergil, grammar, exercises, Greek, (Homer grammar, prose composition), French begun, German begun. Extras: Art, music, stenography and typewriting. Some excellent work has been done in this department during the session now closing. Then come the collegiate classes which under Miss Werts, have com pleted the following prescribed courses: Freshman, Rhetoric (Genung’s working prin ciples); theme, writing, study of masterpieces of the nineteenth cen tury. The students are required to write themes almost dally. Great emphasis is laid on paragraph de velopment and sentence structure. The class this year has numbered twenty-eight. Several of the memb ers have don e remarkably fine work, the highest mark on final examina tion being 98. Junior—History and development of English literature from the earl iest times to the present Especial attention is paid to literary move ments, to the essential qualities which differentiate one period from another, and to showing the animat ing spirit of each of the following ages: Anglo-Saxon, age of Chaucer, the dark age and age of the Renais sance, Elizabethan age, Puritan age, the age of the restoration, the clas sical age, the Johnsonian age, the age of literary Ideas, or age of Romanticism, the Victorian age. The lives and teachings of the represen tative writers of each age are stud ied, and at least one or two master pieces of each author. The class this year numbered thirty-^even. The Sophomore Cla** is under Capt. Griffith, and studies th e history of the English language from its introduction into Great Britain In the oth century by the Teutonic invaders to the present time. This history traces its steady growth from the earlist beginning In the rude dialects among the An glo-Saxons through all the changes produced by the Norman Conquest and Italian influence on both gram mar and vocabulary to its full de velopment as the greatest language now spoken on the globe. This class has numbered over fifty this session, and out of that number only two have not missed a single recitation. These are Miss Lois Mc- Cluney, of Wllkinsville, and Miss Edith Watson. 0 f Johnston. In mentioning this fact, Capt. Griffith added with a smile, “It is hardly necessary to say that they have made the highest marks of the class.” On observing a stack of papers a foot or two high, we enquired the nature and purport of them. Capt. Griffith replied, “Those papers re present the final work of the Senior Class. “There are about twenty-four hun dred pages of legal cap manuscript in that stack and I have been three days in reading and grading those papers, and those are but a very small portion of the written work that has been done by the class during the session.” On hearing this, we were satisfied that we were the editor of a county paper instead of a teacher of English in a female college. This class, we were Informed, uses no text hooks, hut studies the works. This year It has studied the litera ture of the 19th century as repre sented in the standard works of the century in poetry and prose. The first term was devoted ot the poets, Burns, Moore, Byron, Coleridge, Shel ley. Wordsworth, Scott, Keats, Mrs. Hemans, Hood and Tennyson. The best productions of these poets were revlwed and analyzed both orally and in writing by the class with the help of lectures from the teacher. During the second term the prose writers were taken up and the rise and development of the modern novel were thoroughly exhibited. The authors studied were Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Macaulay and Caurlyle, while a cursory review of American literature wag made from the colonial period to the close of the 19th century, as represented by Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Bryant. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Poe. In taking care of the school of English Capt. Griffith said: “I wish you to understand that throughout this whole course from the first class in the seminary to the completion of the senior year, we lay as much em phasis on writing as the school of music does on practice. We not only study theory hut we put that theory Into practice. We produce English of our own as well as study that pro duced by others.” From this department of the work at Limestone, we pass to the School of Latin. This is under the charge of M ! ss \nnie McClain, who has conducted it for ^igat years with nn* , '•in•, , v tience and conspicuous ability. Miss McClain is a bom teacher, who has added to her natural “ndowments all the advantages of sense and persistent training. She ig a gra duate of Limeavme College and hag taken a courge in Cornell University. We will give a brief outline of the work done In her department in next iggue. very lovely weather they are haying for their commencement exercises. Time was when rain was almost invariably the first number on the programme. • • • There are slrty-one graduates at Limestone College this season, in the different departments of the col lege, and diplomas will be presented to them tonight. This is the largest of all the graduating classes under the present management of the col lege. GJANT GOLD DIGGING ANTS. Source of a Story Herodotus Told Found on Plains of Tibet. One by one the so called "fables” of the ancients are proving to be not so vo# fabulous after all. Every one knows bow Stanley dis covered the dwarfs with which Herod otus peopled the Kongo forest. And now comes news from Tibet which sheds an entirely new light on a still more puzzling statement of the same writer. Herodotus asserted that in the ex treme northwest of India there existed a race of giant ants whose mission in life it was to burrow’ for gold. The ants, moreover, were said to have train ed immense mastiffs, as big as bears, to guard them while at their work and to protect their hoards of precious met al from the predatory attacks of no mad robbers. Zugmayer, the Austrian explorer, who the other day returned to the com parative civilization of Leh after a march of many months across the gret central plateau, shows us exactly how the story originated. One day the expedition in traversing a supposedly uninhabited country near ly 20,000 feet above sea level came across a band of nomad Tibetan gold miners. They wore black blankets, frozen solid like coats of mail, and car ried in each hand an antelope horn, with which they scratched at the frozen soil. Moreover, they worked upon all fours, so that at a little distance each miner was to all appearances a huge horned ant grubbing up the auriferous soil. As for the dogs, they were there lu plenty—huge shaggy brutes of incredi ble ferocity. Gold, too, was there la plenty. But Dr. Zugmayer does not consider that there is any likelihood of a “rush” set ting In to the district. A country whose mean elevation is far alwve the summit of Mont Blanc and the climate of which is so severe, even in summer, that water has to be carried in sacks, frozen solid in chunks Is pretty certain to daunt the ardor of even the most adventurous of treasure seekers.—London Stray Stories. SEASIDE HOKE FOR POPE. Gambling on Shavos. As the customer entered the six bar bers, who bad been chatting In a cor ner, moved to their respective chairs and stood beside them like faithful •entinels awaltiug the pleasure of the customer, who leisurely proceeded to divest himself of bis coat, collar and necktie. Being a comparative stranger to the place and therefore having no ’’favorite,” be dropped Into the nearest Chair. As be did so the other five bar bers moved back to tbe corner from whence they came, muttering under their breath and directing sullen glances at their fellow worker in whose chair the customer was seated. This barber was straightway seized with a fit of suppressed laughter. In the midst of his lathering he bad to stop to give vent to his feelings. The man in the chair lw?gan to get nervous. “Say, what is this all about, any way?” lie asked angrily. “Have I done anything unusual or violated any rules? I came here to get shaved, not to be laughed at or scowled at. Where Is tbe boss?” , "Your pardon, sir,” said the barber, ceasing his chuckle. “You see. It’s this way: Tills Is an off day for barbers. Very few people get shaved on this day. Then, too. it is storming, and that makes it even more dull. Just to while away the time we made up a p )ol of 2."* cents each to go to the man selected by a customer. You are the third who ha ; b-en here so far today, and the other two gentlemen, like yo :r«elf. rele-te*! me. I am lucky; they .are sor • ” New York Press. Americans Would Buy Groat Papal Way From Moditorranoan to Romo. 8oon there will be no “prisoner of the Vatican” if the plan of Martin Ma loney of Philadelphia, In association with Richard C. Kerens of 8t. Louis and other wealthy Americans, is car ried out, says the New York Herald. It Is Mr. Maloney’s idea to purchase a strip of land about sixty-five miles long and averaging ISO feet In width from the papal residence in Rome to Clvlta Vecchia, a small port on the Mediterranean. At,the end ©f this thoroughfare, facing the sea, is to be built a palace for the pope which will afford him a change from the house in which he spends his life. Slnco the papacy was shorn of Its temporal power by Garibaldi the holy father has limited his residence to tbe Vatican. In the palace and the sur rounding gardens be spends his life. Leo XIII. established the precedent, which is binding upon his successors, by refusing to leave the palace boun daries upon any pretext Under the canonical law this act meant that the head of the church felt that it was essential that he remain upon church territory. Thus he be came the self made “prisoner of the Vatican.” In the event of the con struction of the papal way he would be afforded an opportunity to extend his residence without impairing tbe precedent. Mr. Maloney outlined his plan at a breakfast given by Cardinal Satolll to several American friends late In April in Rome. Besides Mr. Maloney, who Is very wealthy, Rochard C. Kerens and other wealthy men were present and expressed decided approval of the plan. When Mr. Kerens, who has returned from abroad, was seen at the Holland House, New York, the other night he said: “This Is a matter that I prefer to have Mr. Maloney talk abont. It Is entirely his plan, and it Is very near and dear to him. He has deliberated over It for several years, and he pur poses to carry It to a successful Issue, lie Is a man who Is not easily daunted, and so I have no doubt he will attain results.” To enable the project to be carried out it will be necessary, after having obtained the consent of the Italian gov ernment, to lay the matter before The Hague tribunal. TWINE FOR IOWA HARVEST. Between Twenty and Twenty-three Million Pounds Ordered. Between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 worth of binding twine has been order ed to harvest the grain crop In Iowa In 1907, says the Des Moines Register Leader. This represents between 20,- 000,000 and 23,000,000 pounds. Much of this has already been ship ped to tbe retail dealers in various parts of the state, and the remainder will be within tbe next sixty days. This is, of course, estimating that there will be tbe usual crop of grain. Twine Is always ordered several months before harvesting time. Practically all of the twine used now is either sisal or standard. Some years ago manlla was the principal grade used. However, It has become scarce, and tbe price has advanced so much that only a few cars will be used this season where millions of pounds were used In days gone by. Formerly stand ard was made by mixing sisal with manlla, and the price was about mid way between manlla and sisal. Now there Is practically no manlla in stand ard, and tbe price Is about tbe same as sisal. Sisal bemp is secured In Mexico. ftealer 2081 With the pres e n t vogue of the short siirt it behooves every woman to look to her feet. Handsomer Shoes never were made than the new Spring and Summer styles we are now s h o wi n g . They are the delight of wearers, the despair of imitators. : ; ; If you value economy, if you appreciate com fort, il you want to have pretty feet, let us fit you with a pair of our smart, nev.' Shoes. : : : : Humphries Odd Souvenir Wedding Ring. One of the big jewelers’ firms on Fifth avenue Is making a gold ring for J. G. Phelps Stokes which when It Is finished will be a unique souvenir of hls marriage to Rose Pastor, says the New York Press. It will be a, simple baud of gold ornamented wftb two clasped hands, the unusual feature of | which Is that tbe hands are exact mod- ; els in miniature of the right bands of Phelps Stokes and hls wife. This ring Is the development of the sentimental Idea that caused the famous couple to have a plaster cast taken of their dnsned hands and made Into a bronze paperweight. From this, by means of a machine, the two life sized bands have been reduced accurately Into such dimensions as would be suitable fer the ring that Mr. Stokes is to wear. NOTEt AND COMMENTS How about that Fourth of July celebration? Tempus fuglt e( nos fugimus! • • • The officials of Limestone College are to he congratulated upon the Pipe Op : um Is Not Drue Opium. “People \v!: j have read of the present war i.giiust opiem i:i ( iiina have asked me Jiitely.” said the drug Importer, "whether the stopping of Its cultivation there would not seriously shorten our supply for medicinal purposes. Very row seem to understand that the Chi nese smoking onium, which is raised in lic’ia and china, is an entirely differ- r-t article from the opium of the drug market. That conies almost wholly f■*").') T’—key. though there is a little f -oci Persia too. Smyrna is the center '* the trade. The duty on Turkish opium Is only s dollar a ponnd, while on the opium of Chinatown is $d a rmnd. That would be sufficient to pro hibit rareh importation. Besides, the rnokhig variety Is of very fnferior drengt!.*, yielding not more than 4 or 5 per cent, of morphine, wblle crude opi um for drv.g purposes Is not allowed to be Imported unless It shows at least 9 per cent of morphine when tested. So, you see, tbe destruction of the Chinese poppy fields is not going to deprive ns of our necessary narcotics.”—New York Times. Chronic kickers soon develop a whine that won’t wear off. When a man’s find baby arrives, he wants to treat all bis friends; when the seventh comes along, he expert - ” *8 (o treat him. The Coming of June. Juno Is coming with her laughter and her Mlthe, blue eyoB. With n glory that shall dazzle where her pathway lies, i Coming over wide, green oceans, urged by every breeze— ! Wind swept oceans that shall later turn to golden seas; June Is coming with her laughter and her lack of care. j With her sweet Ups cherry stained, With her gladdest wishes gained. Garbed In gauzes and with roses fastened In her hair. June Is coming with her promise of rich harvestings. Boon the fledgeling will be learning how to use Its wings; All the eager garden closes wait to don their best For the glory and In honor of tho coming guest; June, with love lilts and with laughter, trips across the hills, Spilling blossoms o’er the land. Sowing with a lavish hand Buttercups and dandelions, as her fancy wills. June Is coming with the splendors only she may claim; There Is promise In her message: hope Is In her name; All the arbore and the hedges listen ea gerly For the flrst soft, pleasing rustle of her drepery; June is coming with her laughter and her lc?k of cr:re, Coming armed with all the Joy That n a'ren mav employ. '’raving kisses and with roses fastened la her hair. ^ K. K!s"r In Chicago Record.Hers’d. Company. — CO TO — Clary & Kirby FOR Fttsli Mials and Country Product DR. W. K. GUNTER, DEjrqxiex Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Grown and bridge work e specialty DR. J. F. GARRETT, DENTIST. Moved to mow oMoa ever Fredertet Street Front of the Battery. 'Rhine In OMoe and R sodden oa. Just to Sure as tbe Sun Will Rise Tomorrow Paris Green will kill Potato bugs. Just re ceived a shipment by express, 15 cents, two for 25 cents S. B. Crawley & Co. Druggists OMist Drue Housi in thi City. FOR ALL COUr:TV NEWS, III FORTANT HAFFENINOS IN THB •TATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FORBMN LANDS, TAKE ANC HEAD THE | EffT FOURTEEN Of the thirty-one persons killed in the wreck of the Mystic Shriners’ special train at Honda, Cal., on Saturday, May nth, were insured against accidents in the Aetna Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn. This involves a loss of $110,500, which is the largest loss ever incured by a company under accident policies in any one disaster. The total amount which the Aetna Life had at risk on the lives of passengers on this train was at least $154,cco, ;rlof those insured with.the Company other t'.ivj il.e four teen killed only one is reported severely! injured. The amounts payable for deaths in this wreck are all double the amounts insured, and in four cases they are triple the amounts insured through the fact that the beneficiaries were killed in the same disaster. This emphasizes most strongly the enlarged scope of accident insurance protection as furnished by the Aetna Life. The fact that nearly one-half of all who were killed carried their accident insur ance in the Aetna Life is striking evi dence of the confidence reposed in the Company by the insuring public, and that confidence is wisely so placed. It is only a large company like the Aetna Life that can withstand such a calamity as this. If all of the persons killed and in jured in this wreck had been insured in Aetna Life, the resultant claims would be paid immediately on receipt of proof of death and without in the slightest de gree impairing the strength of the Com pany. The Aetna Life furnishes absolute protection to those insured in it. Call on Jones J. Darby, - Dist. Agt. For Aetna Accident and Health Policies. Star Theatre Building. Do Not W orry About what will become of your family or estate in case of accident or death. : : : : : Insure With the Carolina Mutual and free yourself from this care. You will be amply protected at a minimum cost. We do not make pleasant and high sounding proposi tions of investments for future returns, but pre fer to protect you at ab solute cost and let you invest your own money for present returns. : : For further information apply to : : : : : The Carolina Mutual Benefit Association Gaffney, S. C ^ • w. c McArthur, General Manager. ATTENTION LI6NT AND WATEN PATRONS! Beginning June 1st, 1007, all accounts and dues will be pay able at the oftic of the Superin tendent on the 1st and 2nd of the month, unless Sunday inter venes, then on the 3rd, after which date all in arrears will be cut out without notice. BOARD Of PUOLIC WORKS, By A. N. Wood, Ohm. J. N. Lipscomb, W. H. Ross.