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THE RIGHT GOODS AT THE RIGHT TIME 1 <v Beautiful Sheer Lawns in new floral designs and dots and small figures, worth 7 1-2 cents, a bargain at 5 cents. Organdies in large floral designs, rings, dots, stripes and smalHigures, very sheer, for only 10 cents. Mercerized Battiste, Mulls in rings, dots, large and small floral designs in every style wanted for dresses, for grown ups and children. Ribbons of all description, all about the old prices. All of these goods are higher for us to buy but fre are offering them cheaper than ever before; Give us a look, we will save you money. . 1 200 BARRELS FLOUR Bought lx.‘fore the advance. See us, we will save you money. CARROLL A BIG STOCK OF SUGAR Cheaper than we an buy today—Wholesale. Gaffney, S. C.V ' Do Not Worry About what will become » of your family or estate in case of accident or death. : : : : . Insure With the Carolina Mutual j and free yourself from this care. You will be amply protected at a i ! * * ' ‘minimum cost/ We do . * •» not make pleasant and *4 high sounding proposi- tions oi 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. G W. C McARTTOR, General Manager. 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 totil amount which the Aetna Life had at risk on the ijyes of passengers on this train was at least $154,l of those insured with the Company other i’.ie 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 emphasises 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, a_d 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 ail of the persons killed and in jured in this wreck had been insured in Aetna Lift, the resultant claims would 'y 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. DEVOTEu YALE MEN, Work of Graduates to Advance Their Alma Mater's Interests. MANY LINES OF ACTIVITIES. Time, Money and Attention Givvn—What Secretary Taft Has Often Done—Yale’s Grand Work In China—Labors of Class Secretaries. That the secretary of war should drop the reins at Washington and travel a thousand miles to spend three d' lii.s |ire*'ions days and nights at an iluinni gathering was not oonsldeml unusual by the members of Yale’s Westorn Alumni association, whose meeting at Cincinnati was engineered by William 11. Taft. ‘7*, a short time ago. says the New York Tribune. The time, money and attention which this occasion called for do not represent one-twentieth part of that which the secretary of war devotes each year to the interests of his alma mater. Every meeting of the Yale corporation this year, except the one when he was ab sent from the country, has taken the busy cabinet official from Washington to New Haven, and he has dropped af fairs of state on a dozen occasions to travel to New York city for a gather ing of the Yale club or to other towns where an important meeting of alumni was’being held. Mr. Taft Is wont to call this large proportionate outlay of his time and energy well worth while and to scout the remark that it is at all unusual. To prove his tlrst assertion he always tolls a story. To prove his second he cites the large part which Yale plays In the life of its graduates generally. The story Is laid In the Philippines years ago, at a moment when the big re organizer says he came as near to be ing discouraged ns he ever could be. A cable message from his class, in re union at New Haven, was laid on the stack of papers that littered his desk. "Good boy, Bill; we’re with you,” was the tenor of the message, and Mr. Taft says Its effect was worth all the time that any man can give in a life time to his alumni Interests. What the secretary of war says of the part which Yale plays in the life of Us graduates generally is largely borne out by recent statements by An son Phelps Stokes, Jr., secretary of the university. While It has been, of course, Impossible to determine exactly just what amount of energy and effort each one of Yale’s 13,000 alumni de votes to Yale’s interests, It is possible roughly to classify a large number of graduate types, the unusually high per centage of whose activities along these linos raises the average far above the minimum man, whose active Interest is confined to a few graduate dinners a year, periodical response to appeals for alumni funds ami a trip to a class reunion at New Haven every three or five years. Class secretaries rank high on the list of the graduates who give a goodly part of their time and activities to the interests of Yale and Us alumni. Many a class secretary has been found who Is devoting every hour of bis leisure to the burden of constant compilation and correspondence which the keeping and chronicling of the history of some 200 men, scattered to the ends of the earth, Involve. Every one of these men Is called upon at regular intervals to compile and publish a book containing the history and status of each man in the class up to date. Each Is always subject to a call by any member of his class for the latest and most detailed information regarding another member or group of members. It Is not unusual for a elass secretary to receive a de mand for a complete list of the class, with latest addresses and a ‘‘married or single” annotation, for purposes of sending out wedding announcements. In Inis work the secretary is not un aided. A large proportion of his class mates willingly assume a share of the burden of writing to their particular intimates and thus keeping the secre tary accurately Informed. Thus, weeks of time and attention are devoted by many Yale alumni to class record work. The class agents of the alumni fund have an almost equal amount of con stant and pressing labors to take up their leisure time. These meu see to It that each member of the class Is kept in touch with the work of raising funds by the general body of the alum ni for the support of the university and that each is solicited in a timely and tactful way to make Ids Individual contribution. To this work many of the class agents devote weeks of the time of their office clerical force and much more of their own. As officers and committeemen of the organization of the alumni fund a score of men whose time is unusually valuable serve regularly wnd willingly. laist year these' voluntary agents collected over $100,000 from about 2,. r i00 graduates of the university. In the hundred or more alumni associations throughout the land men of this type are also serv ing In a similar capacity. As a sum ole of graduate activity along specialized lines the Yale Mis sion college in China Is often cited. In the building of a new Yale in the heart of China an incorporated society under a council of forty prominent Yale alumni has been formed with a working membership that includes scores of the alumni and has as officers the leading men of the university and the graduate body. The conduct and financing of a project of such magni tude are calling each year for a large part of the attention of many of the most prominent Vale men. For each commencement reunion scores of grad uates devote weeks of time and effort to complete and carry out similar ac tivities at the university. LETTERS BY ELECTRICITY. New System by Which Mail Is De livered In Flats Automatically. The latest improvement to be In- stalled in 1 in* big city apartment house Is an aiili'inatic mail delivery system. The apparatus is authorized by the postmaster general and is taken under tile eustody of the government, so that the careless handling of mail by hall boys, elevator boys, butlers or maids is eliminated. The postman leaves the mail In the automatic carrier on the ground floor, and by merely shutting the door the electrical current is applied which op erates the apparatus. The mall Is de livered by this means to locked boxes Inside the apartments. The device consists of a straight up and down well, about eighteen inches square, running the height of the hou^i and containing an elevating and lowering apparatus which takes up and down a steel tray with metal boxes. Electricity Is used to work the lift, says the Architects and Builders’ Mag azine, and the operation of this carrier with Its boxes tilled with mail takes less power than will run a small hot weather fan. The postman has a key to the plate glass door inclosing the carrier, which when opened reveals three rows of small metal boxes, one box for each apartment. The postman drops the mall according to the ad dress, closes the door, which locks it self, and the carrier starts upward au tomatically. By a simple contrivance the boxes are dropped off from the carrier at the apartments where they belong and at the same time overturned, so that the mail falls out In the locked recep tacle Inside the apartment. The auto matic carrier keeps on going up until It reaches the top. when it descends again, picking up the boxes as It comes down. The device Is installed and now working In several of the new high class apartment houses recently com pleted, and arrangements are being made for Installation In some of the apartment houses which were built before the apparatus was invented. THE PARIS OF AMERICA. Atlantic City'a Ambitious Plans For Fifty Years Ahead. Representative citizens; hotel meu and city officers recently met at the Hotel Chalfonte to consider an elab orate plan to transform Atlantic City Into the Paris of America, says an At lantic City dispatch to the New York Evening Sun. Upward of $50,000,000 will lx* required to execute the plans, which the resort hopes to accomplish gradually in fifty years. A feature of the Improvements is to be an artificial drainage canal, orna mented like the “streets” of Venice, •Making a continuous waterway from Gardner’s basin, In the inlet section, to the thoroughfare In Chelsea. This will pursue a course through a number of ornamental public parks. In one of which will lie placed a huge water tower of groat architectural beauty. Many wide driveways are included In the plan, among them one running between Pacific avenue and the beach that will affect and greatly boom hotel values in Atlantic City’s most valuable property section. This Itoulevard, 135 feet wide, will curve from the Inlet to Illinois avenue, where It will rejoin Pacific avenue, which Is to be widened to Arkansas avenue, as,® continuation of tbe boulevard. Exposition For New Orleans. New Orleans purposes to hold an ex position to celebrate tbe completion of the Panama canal, and with this ob ject In view a call has been sent out for a conference to be held at New Orleans on June 27, 28 and 20, sa”s the Chicago Record-Herald. The call is Ix'lng sent to all commercial bodies in the southeastern Mississippi valley and southwestern states by the com mercial bodies of New Orleans, headed by the Progressive union and the Mer chants and Manufacturers’ association. The plan Is to hold the exposition in 1915 and 1010 on the shore of Lake Pontohartrain, Immediately In the rear of the city. New Orleans Itself pro- |x>ses to raise $5,000,000, and the ex- peetatlon Is that this sum will be aug mented from various sources to about $15,000,000. —Try Dr. Pierce’s wheat flake celery food at Bramlett’s. Wonderful Results of Experi ments With Fruits and Nuts. COMFORT FOR VEGETARIANS. Fashioned Apple Butter One of Beet Things to Eat, Say Agricultural Experts—Use of Fruits and Nuts With Other Foods Recommended. Genuine comfort for the vegetarians and fruitarians is given In a bulletin which has recently been issued by the department of agriculture ou the sub ject of fruit as food, says a Washing ton correspondent of the New York Globe. Comparison is made of the value of fruits from a nutritive standpoint and their cost with the nutritive value and cost of other foods. It Is shown that 10 cents will ou an average purchase fully as much energy when spent for fresh fruits and more when spent for dried fruits than for lean meats, but much less than when expended for wheat flour. From tbe data as a whole It Is apparent that fruits are reason- nbly cheap sources of’energy in the diet. For instance, 10 cents’ worth of fresh apples will furnish 1,407 calories of en ergy, while 10 cents’ wortli of porter house steak will furnish only about a tblrd as much vim, or 444 calorics of energy. One of the best things to eat from the standpoint of production of energy Is plain, old fashioned apple butter. Ten cents’ worth of apple butter pro duces four times as much energy as 10 cents’ worth of steak or mutton. Such plebeian substance as gooseberry jam will produce twice tbe energy of steak or mutton and nearly as much energy as milk. Generally speaking, Jams, preserves, etc., are high In their capacity to produce energy. The fact that bread Is the staff of life, however, is Indicated In the sta tistics, showing that for 10 cents one can buy 6,600 calories of energy, or more than can be had for this sum by Investment In fruit, meat, milk or vegetables. The data published In the bulletin Is based on experiments made by Professor M. E. Jaffa at the California agricultural experiment station In co operation with the nutrition investiga tions that have been carried on by the department of agriculture at Washing ton. Dietary studies have been made at the California agricultural experiment station, and It was found that a fruit and nut diet supplied the subjects with amounts of protein and energy which are directly comparable with those ob tained by many other persons from a mixed diet, though in general the quan tities were srfaller than are supplied by the diet of the average family. "It should be said,” according to the of ficial report, "that the persons living on a fruit and nut diet apparently maintained their normal health and strength, and it Is only fair to con clude that if for any reason such a course seems desirable It Is perfectly possible to select a diet made up of fruits ami nuts whieh, for long periods at any rate, will supply the body with I he requisite protein and energy, as was shown by a detailed study of the results of the California experiments. In such a diet nuts were the principal sources of protein and nuts, olives or the expressed olive oil tbe chief source of fat, while fruits, fresh and dried, supplied the bulk of the carbohy drates.” The department of agriculture does not go so far as to conclude that a fruitarian diet in general is equal or superior to the ordinary mix's! diet, but it does assert that "fruits and nuts should be considered a fairly econom ical source of nutritive material.” It commends these foods In combination with other foods. U a Goat a Sheep? "Is a goat a sheep?” Is a zoological question that the commissioners of Warren county have been called U|>on to decide officially, says a Columbus (Pa.) correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. There has long been a state law providing that the county shall re imburse farmers for sheep killed by dogs. A. B. Harward of Miffl'n town ship has filed a claim for $50 for an gora goats so destroyed. INDIGESTION A CRIME. It Is a positive crime to continue suffflng with the ills of Indigestion, such as headacbes. backaches, heavi ness, nausea and distress after eat ing. specks before the eves, despon dency and nervousness, now that we tell vou of the good- Ml-o-na stomach tablets will do. Ml-o-na will strengthen all the or gans of digestion, so that vou will get from vour food the nourishment that Is nedded to tmpport the vital forces and strenghten the nerve powers. Ask the Gaffney Drug Co. to * 'ow you the guarantee they give with every 50c box of Ml-o-na. SECOND PAUL REVERE. Exploit of a Grandson of the Famous Patriot. Officers of the Historical society at York, Pa., recently discovered that Paul Revere, grandson of the man whose midnight ride is known to fame, also figured as the hero in a notable ride in an engine cab between York and Washington In tbe war of the re- bellion, says a York special dispatch to the New York Tribune. Colonel Fletcher Webster, son of the great American orator and statesman participated In this ride on a troop train, together with the Twelfth Mas sachusetts regiment, which he organ ized. This regiment was largely re cruited In Boston and the town of Worcester. Many of those composing it were hardy youths, descendants of those who participated in the Revolu tion and In the war of 1812. After Colonel Webster and his 1.200 men were prepared to move toward Washington, following the call of Lin coln for 75,000 troops, it was necessary to transport them from Jersey Cit^ through Easton, Allentown and Har risburg. It was 9 o’clock in the mom- Ing when this twelve car train with Its 1.200 men steamed out of Harris burg and made its way down the Sus quehanna to York. After a halt of ten minutes In York the train pulled out for Baltimore. Before it started the actions of the en gineer were noted as peculiar. He was watched, and the suspicions of Colonel Webster were aroused. Dis satisfaction spread throughout the train. The soldiers and the officers feared he would embrace the first op portunity to ditch it or cause some ac cident to revenge himself upon those who espoused a cause with which he was not In sympathy. Colonel Webster finally halted the train at Glenroek and directed the en gineer to take it Into a siding. He had learned something to Increase his fears for the safety of his troops with that engineer at the throttle. Colonel Webster, with his subordinate officers, entered the Cold Springs hotel near by and held a consultation. "Do you know If there is an engineer In our regiment?” asked the colonel of the captain of Company A. “There Is a young man who has fre quently run the train between Boston and Worcester,” was the reply. "He is a member of my company. I wili call him hereJ’ “What Is his name?” asked the colo nel. “Sergeant Paul Revere, grandson of the patriot.” A few minutes later a handsome young man of twenty-five stood before the colonel of the Twelfth Massachu setts. "Can you run this train In safety to Baltimore?” asked the colonel. “I can, sir,” responded Sergeant Re vere. A few minutes later young Revere opened tbe throttle, and the long train labored up the grade after passing tbe curve at that place. It required all the steam that he could generate in his locomotive to pull the heavy train load of soldiers up the steep hill at New Freedom, the highest point along the Northern Central railroad between York and Baltimore, nils was about April 26, 1861. Within an hour and thirty minutes the train and troops were landed in Baltimore. The forty mile stretch then to Washington was covered. "You have done well, Revere,” said Colonel Webster. President Liucoln then reviewed the regiment, and Colonel Webster pre sented young Revere, the president grasping his hand in a hearty shake. The New French Marriage Law. “The youth of France,” says a Part* paper, "applaud tbe French lawmak ers because of the bill which was re cently passed wiping out a venerable clause in tbe Code Napoleon.” Tbe new law provides that "a marriage contract may be entered into between a man and a woman, each being twen ty-one years old,” without the consent of the parents of either. "This,” says the French writer, “Is a long step to ward the equality of man with woman. The woman, according to the oM law, was fully competent to make a mar riage agreement at twenty-one, bol the man, although ‘of age’ In all other re spects at that time of hh lifet was compelled- to wait four years If at twenty-one his parents refused to con sent to Ids marriage. Children love tbelr parents Ju*t as much as they ever did,” says the writer, "but the abroga tion of the law shows that (he day of blind submisslveness Is over and that the word 'f»tlbJec1: , applied la tbe fam ily or the state has a bad and a musty taste” The medicine that sets the whole world thinking, The remedy on which all doctors agree. The prescription all your friends are taking Is Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. Gaffney Drug Oo. WHEN IN A HURRY SEND TO THE LEDGER FOR YOUR JOB PRINT- INO. | We have a good line of j Base Ball Goods You can get any Base ■ Ball article that you want of us. Come in and examine our line Extra fine line Catch ers’ Mits, big supply of good Masks, Bats for boys and Bats for men. Any quality you want .... j Ses Ours Before 1 l- YooBoy I CHEROKEE 1 ! DRUG COMPANY UrtI I IQTFD’C Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggofe A Busy Medicine for Busy Peopled Brings Golden Healtti *nd Renewed Vicor. A specific for Constipation. Indigestion, L,]ver and Kidney troubles. 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