Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. *S1 w* I" 50c. IN CASH FOR 100 COUPONS FROM The Cigarette Of Qualitg 2 Coupons in Each Package Coupons also Redeemable for Valuable Presents Premium Department AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. Jersey City* N. J. St> Louis, Mo. If you are not carrying any stock in 'Flio F*eoples Building & Loan Association It is because you have not looked into the merits and advantages. It is good for the investor as well at the borrower. If you are paying rent, make up your mind today to stop paying rent and own your home. R. M. WILKINS, President. R. S. LIPSCOMB, Sec. and Treas. OFFICE IN MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK Gaffney, S. C. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE At a Bargain One lot 80x120, west side Oakland Avenue. Four lots 80x200 and one 140x80 west side of Victoria Avenue. House and lot on west side Limestone St. Lot 80x200, with eight-room house, electric lights aud water works, and all modern conveniences. One house and lot fronting on Frederick street, lot 136x152 with four room cottage and city water. Price very cheap. One house aud lot fronting ou Rcbinson street, lot 116x152 with four room cottage and city water. Price very cheap. This property must be sold at once. Call and see us if you are interested. ITOR KKIVT Four rooms for rent in Cherokee Drug Co.’s building. See us for REAL ESTATE, whether a buyer or seller. Before placing your Fire Insurance phone No. 170. Oaffney TTnist Go. Office in National Bank Building FAST LOCOMOTIVE TEST. Pennsylvania Railroad Trias Biggest Elaotrio Motar Ever Built. The Westinghouse Electric and Man- nfacturlng company recenUy made for the first time a public exhibition test of a half section of what is probably .the largest electric locomotive ever built, says the New York Tribune. The test was made with a view to the adoption by the Pennsylvania railroad of a high power electric locomotive that will meet the requirements of the traffic in the New York terminal of the Pennsylvania tunnel. This locomotive is the result of two jears of Inv^tlgation and develop ment carried on by the Westinghouse companies In conjunction with the Pennsylvania railroad, under the di rection of George Gibbs, chief engi neer of electric traction. It Is In many respects one of the most notable pieces of electrical apparatus ever produced. The maximum power developed Is 4,000 horsepower, and the speed Is ninety miles an hour. It was built to be operated by the single phase alter nating current from an overhead trol ley wire. The development of the single phase alternating current system for electric traction Is held by Its advocates to be the most Important advance In the electrical art, aud It is evidently grow Ing In favor. Several roads are oper ated by this system not only In this country, but also In Europe. It Is esti mated that 2,000 single phase electric- railway motors are operated In the United States over about a thousand miles of track, most of It being that of trolley lines. The most notable installation took place on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, which has now thirty-five of these locomotives In use and which began the operation of elec tric trains by the single phase alter nating current system on schedule time the other day. These single phase locomotives are also operated by the Grand Trunk and six other steam rail road companies. The experimental track at East Pitts burg Is about five miles long, and It Is practically a succession of curves. A speed of sixty-six miles an hour was reached on this track. -If a straight track had been available the electrical experts said that a speed of ninety miles an hour could just as easily have been reached. A 2. r t0 ton freight haul was also made at a specffcgf fifty miles an hour. ^ The current used by this giant loco motive Is practically no more than that used by the common trolley car, but the great power Is derived by using the electric current at a higher vol tage. It is asserted by electrical engineers that owing to the great saving In pow er and In transforming apparatus by the alternating current system the cost of heavy electric traction will be re duced, so that Its adoption by the steam roads will receive a great Im petus. THE OLD BARN DOOR. | F' O R. 8^ Two 5-room cottages. One 7-room residence. Two city farms. Seven beautifully located lots that are not five minutes walk from depot. Farms and lots everywhere. t FOR RENT—One lo-room dwelling with water, baths and electric lights. Brick store room with rooms overhead. If you are contemplating building a new house, call at my office and see many new plans. SAM L. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insuranoe OFFICE OVER NATIONAL BANK Millionaire Buys Reminder of Boyhood Days For Hie New Home. Daniel G. Reid once lived on a farm near Richmond, Ind. He was not poor, neither was he rich, but he mov ed away, went to New York and ac cumulated his millions In the steel and railway business. He is building a place second to none In America at Richmond Terrace, on the Hudson. A few days ago he revisited the scene of his childhood, says a Richmond spe cial to the New York World. He entered the old barn on the farm where he was raised and found carved deep In the oaken door panel the in itials “D. G. R.” which he had cut there when a youth. He bought the door, had It carefully crated and ship ped to his New York estate house, where it will occupy a prominent place. “Some of the happiest days of my life were spent in that old barn,” he said, “and there were some that were not so pleasant when my father used to Interview me with a birch or the business end of a shingle.” Daring but Cool Aeronaut. Rene Gasnier, who will race under the blue and buttercup ensign of the Aero Club de France In the Bennett cup race next October, is one of the coolest nerounuls on record, says the New York Tribune. Up to the time of Lieutenant Lahm’s capture of that cup last year the English channel had been crossed only alx times by bal loon. Right after that race Gasnier crossed the channel as pilot for Lady Harbord, who went to France In a balloon. They crossed back quickly, starting to lend on the downs beyond Dover castle, bnt the valve stuck open The balloon, pitching and swirling, was dropping at a dangerous rate, so Gasnier claml>ered up the rigging and In the nick of time closed the valve. As he was climbing down the side of the bag, still Jumping dangerously. Lady Harbord asked him to stop while she photographed him. Although In momentary danger of being hurled to the ground, the French sportsman hung on to the netting “by his eyelids' while a snapshot was taken of him. NATURE OF LIGHTNING. Reeent Discoveries Made Through the Use of the Camera. Remarkable studies of tbe nature of lightning have been made by a gifted Danish-American experimenter, under the auspices of the Smitbsoniau insti tution. Not only has it been learned that lightning flashes are made up of innumerable shorter flashes, and that streaks of lightning are really linked, or chain lightning, but the existence of black or invisible lightning has been ascertained. The genius who has taken lightning for his study Is Alexander Larsen, who came to this country from Denmark a few years ago, and whose education In photography, chemistry and electricity was picked up at night school. Several years ago Larsen wrote to the Smithsonian institution, inclosing photographs of lightning, w’hich he had taken with a common hand camera, and suggesting that If a camera Mere so geared as to be moved during light ning flashes tbe duration of the flash might be determined and Its nature made clearer. Tbe institution became Interested In tbe ingenious immigrant's work and grunted him a small sum with which to pursue bis studies with a better equipment. Larsen rigged up a revolving table, upou which be placed cameras In such position as to catch lightning flashes at various phases. It was soou discov ered that M-hat Is called a flash of lightning Is In reality a succession of flashes, folloM lug one another M ith al most inconceivable swiftness and de ceiving the eye M-ith an appeart ce of oneness. Mr. Larsen counted upon bis sensitive plates as many as forty flashes iu a single streak of lightning, and is convinced that in the forty were scores of swifter flashes which eluded tbe camera. Measurements were taken of the time elapsing between the flashes or rushes that could be seen on the negative. It was found that some of the flashes were 2-1000 of a second apart. The measurement M'as made by calculating the Midth of the film and the move ment of each camera. Many obscure things were noted about these rushes of lightning, but the most striking fact learned was that some of the rushes were not light, but dark—that is, the electric impulse was there, Just the same as in the flashes, but the camera did not catch any light. Repeated experiments established the fact that there is such a thing as “black” lightning, or atmospheric elec trical discharges that are not visible, and that they are mii4§l<'d with dis charges that are visible—the old fash ioned lightning. How is it accounted for? Mr. Larsen’s om*ii explanation Is as good as any other: “The flash.” he says, speakiug of the flash that gives no light, “must have given out light of a wave length much shorter than the wave lengths of visi ble light and with a power sufficient to render the part of the plate struck by It nousensitive to ordinary light. Such a flash would appear black on a partial ly illuminated background or be in visible.” In other words, “black lightning” is lightning of such short light waves that tbe illumination is not perceived by the human eye or by the camera. This has suggested the thought that there may be light waves of such ve locity as to be equally beyond the per ception of the eye or the camera, pro ducing light so intense that the human eye Is not only incapable of perceiving It, but is Ignorant of Its existence.— Washington Post. ■Turnip Russian Prison Horrors. Many horrors must be endured by Russians convicted of political of fenses. M. Nlkaleiff Petrovich Starod vorsky was sent to prison In April, 1884, a young fellow of twenty-one years. He came out a few months ago a man of forty-three, with an appalling experience behind him. He and bis companions were shut up In the prison of St. Peter^and St. Paul In St. Peters burg. The cells In which they were confined were hardly above the level ’of the river. When the river was in flood the rats Invaded the cells In or der to avoid drowning. One of the fe male prisoners, who bad a child In her arms when she was sentenced, was obliged to watch It night and day lest the rats should devour It. The food was Insufficient in quantity and detest able in quality and cockroaches were found In It. Of his terrible experi ence M. Starodvorsky says that of for ty-eight prisoners five committed sui cide, three got themselves shot In pris on, three died mad and nine of illness. Insane prisoners were kept with the sane, and be himself lived for a year and a half with a mad companion who was of noble birth.—Chicago News. DR. J. F. BARRETT. DCNTirr. Moved to now oMo* over Street Front of Bio tottory. ’Rhone In Offoo and RoeMoneo. Seeds ■Turnip Seeds The kind that grow and make Turnips. <4 Purple Top Ruta Baga White Egg Turnip Early White Flat Dutch Imperial Golden Ball Yellow Aberdeen Yellow Globe Purple Top White Globe Seven Top Southern Giant Mustard All fresh, new Seed. We guarantee them to be good. : : : j CHEROKEE [drug COMPANY GonpaoloslioprosoiiM ot Jones J. Darby Agency THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE IN SURANCE CO. The leading annual dividend com pany of the world. ACCIDENT DEPARTMENT, fAETNA LIFE INSURANOE DO. The largest Company in the>orld Writing Accident and Health In- ance. THE NOYAL FIRE INSURANOE CO. THE Nj B. A M. INSURANCE ©O.*^ UNION ASSURANCE CO. THE SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MA RINE INSURANCE CO. Your Insurance would be wisely placed in any of the above named Companies. THE W. S. F. AND GUARANTY CO. The most progressive Surety Com pany in the world. Careful attention to all business. Claims paid without cash discount upon ad justment of claims. OMoo In Star Thoatro Building. Laoal and Lang Dlatanoa Phonon. m ► 'nf '%} AT ■// 1 DR. W. K. GUNTER, O K N T I « T Jflice m Star Theatre Buiidiag. Phonk No. 20. Drown and brldica work a opacialtr. FOR Up-to-Date Job^Print- ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to tbe 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 opening for speculation, no element of scandal, hot 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 keenly. >: >; 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. The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution, chartered by the State of South Carolina and subject to the South Carolina laws governiqg Life Insurance. It is directed by men whose homes and interests are in this State. It is an old line, legal 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, /] Mar. Wth.,J908 Spartanburg, S. C. •ubaeribe for The r. $1 a Littleton Female College Splendid location. Health resort. Hot water heat. Electric lights and other modern improvements. 240 boarding pupils last year. High standard of scholarship, culture and social life. Conservatory advantages in Music. Ad vanced courses in Art and Elocution. Business College, Bible and Normal courses. Health record not surpassed. Close personal attention to the health and social development of each pnpil. Uniform worn on all public occasions. CHARGES VERY LOW. 26th Annual Session will begin on Septemper 18th 1S07. For Catalogue, Addroos. REV. J. M. RHODES, President, Littleton,N. C. i 1 Gee! How Quickl* and Neatly We Gan Do Job Work The Embroidery Sale! We have decided to continue our sale for the next ten days. It will be greatly to >our inter est to come and look through this beautiful line of Embroideries at cost. 20 per cent off on, low cut Shoes. The kind that's hard to wear out. The Company Store J