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? Mrs. Gertrude McKleman. mm x^l: ii sfe 11 • V*>. .--•.V •y.- /* .< Pi! • y ^-x*x-. v.-: .. AGREE KOI TO ELOPE , i ^ '•n Young Kansas Sweethearts In a Queer Contract. SEQUEL CF ELOPEMENT. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER PRAISING PE RU NA. M rs. Gertrude x, 216 Xeoeho street, Empuna, Kas., writes: “I suffered very much with a severe cold in the head and was always com plaining of feeling tired and drowsy. When my mother suggested and in sisted on my taking a few bottles of Peruna, I did so, and in a short tim E felt like a new person. My mother praises It very highly and so do 1.” Confidence In Pe-ru-na. Mrs. M. F. Jones, Burning Springs, Ky., writes: “We have been using Peruna for some time and have no hesitancy in recom mending it for the thousand and one ailments of humanity. “From a personal test! shall not hes- :* ite to recommend it, especially to all suffering v. omen. ' Peruna has gained full confidence a permanent stay in our home.” A Great Tonic. Mrs. Anna Linder, R. R. 5, Dassell, Inn., writes: “I took Peruna and am • 11. I would not be without that great uu for ten times its cost.” FAST LOCOMOTIVE TEST. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—A good second hand square piano; low price. Apply to J. M. Nelson. 7-9-tf FOR RENT. FOR RENT—A seven-room cot tage; electric lights and city water. Apply to J. D. Goudelock. July 5 tf. ‘ FOR RENT—Store room now oc cupied by F. B. Gaffney. Possesion Sept. 1st. 1907. Store room now occupied by Boyd Sarratt as barber shop. Possession Sept. 1st, 1907. Office room fronting on Limestone street Possession now. A. N. Wood TO RENT -Office rooms over The ;L“JgfT. Apply to Ed. H. DeCamp. I Nov. 2-tf. George W. Roberts of Pawnee County, Kan., Agrees to Give His Daughter In Marriage to J. A. Morgan In Two Years if They Won’t Run Away. Suitor Determined to Win His Bride. On consideration that .1. A. Morgan will refrain for two years from trying to elope with Miss Stella Roberts. George W. Roberts, a Pawnee county farmer in Kansas, father of the girl, has signed an agreement with the young man promising to give him the voting woman In marriage at the end of that time, writes a Larned (Kau.) correspondent of the Kansas City Star. This most unusual agreement Is as fol lows : ••George W. Roberts and J. A. Mor gan enter into the following agree ment, to wit: The snId J. A. Morgan agrees to engage In some legitimate and profitable employment for the pe riod of two .tears from this date and for the said time not to interfere with the said George W. Roberts in the management of his daughter, Stella A. Roberts. George V.\ Roberts, in cou- slderation of the carrying out of the foregoing agreement by the said J. A. Morgan, hereby gives his consent for his said daughter and the said J. A. Morgan to enter into the bonds of matrimony at any time after the ex piration of the said two years.” The agreement is duly signed by Morgan and Roberts and witnessed by H. S. Rogers and Wesley Lane. This queer contract is the sequel of an elopement which occurred several days ago. Miss Roberts is not yet quite fifteen years old. Morgan is less than twenty, so that the two knew that they could not obtain the consent of her paivnts to their marriage. Knowing this, they decided upon uu elopement. After all the family had •tone to bod Miss Roberts slipped out of the hotiso and met Morgan in a grove a quarter of a mile away. The two drove to Macksville, return, ed their livery team and then got a man to drive them ro Stafford. From thetv they to k a train to Morgan's home In Carth; ,e. Mo. There was < onsternation in the Rob erts home t! e next morning, but the liveryman g .ve the father a dew, and a warrant was secured for Morgan charging I n, with abduction, lie was arrested in < ’arthage before he could secure a marriage license and readily agreed to return to Kansas. In the meantime Mr. Roberts had been making some inquiries and learn ed that Morgan was a hard working young man of good family and would apparently make a very acceptable son- in-law. Tliis induced the father not to prosecute the young mati and to pro pose the agreement which was after ward entered into. Miss Roberts is again at home, and Morgan Is back at work on the Brown farm nearby, do- term'ned to live up to the contract. LOST. LOST—A round gold pin with white cross enlayed In blue enamble with the letters “P. S. S.” surround ing cross Finder please return to this office. 2t. Pennsylvania Railroad Trias Biggest Electric Motor Ever Built. The Westinghouse Electric and Man ufacturlng company recently 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 Y’ork terminal of the Pennsylvania tunnel. This locomotive Is the result of two years of investigation and develop raent carried on by the Westinghousi eomi*t»ies iu conjunction witli 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 b be operated by the single phase alter natlng 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. and 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 Y’ork. New Haven and Hartford railroad, which has now thirty-five of these locomotives in use and which liegan 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 th“ 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 t een available the electrical experts said that a speed of ninety miles an hour could just as easily have been, readied. A 2.‘>0 ton freight haul was dSo;made at n speed of fifty miles an hour. The current used by thi“ giant loco motive is practically no more than that used by the common trolle’- car, hut the great po’ “ • is derived by using the electrli* current at a higher vol- tage. It is asserted by electrical engineers that owing to ♦be great saving In pow- -w and in transforming apparatus by tlie 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. SWOTS OF SOULS Henry Price Believes Spirits Can Be Pictured Leaving Body. THE SUBJECT HIS LIFE STUDY SEA SUPERSTITIONS. Are Millionaire Buys Reminder of Boyhood Days For His New Home. Daniel G. Roid once lived on a farm j MI8CELANEOU8. FOR SERVICE—St. Lambert Jer sey bull; registered; fee $2. Apply t E. R. Cash. April 19 1 a. w. tf. Fire Insurance! We rt-i, n-j-en’ some o' the largest and most m.i slant 1 al companies and would likev, WT' tc your busincs. 5-14-tf Smith & Lipssomb, Agents DR. J. C. THOMSON DENTIST. Office over Merchants Grocery Company, Gaffney, g. c. Office hours 8:30 to 12:3i), 1:30 to 5. Phone 46. In BlacKSburg on Tuesdays. 1 mo. pd. rOSTOFFICES FOR LINERS. Government Official Hae Scheme to Dietribute Mail at Sea. if Second Assistant Postmaster Gen eral McCleary succeeds in some plans be Las in mind sea postoffices will be established on the ships of the runard and the French Steamship companies’ lines, the only transatlantic liners which are equipped with postal facili ties. writes a Washington correspond ent of the Chicago News. Overtures have been made to these two compa nies looking to the equipment of post- offlees on ihelr ships. Mr. McCleary will go to Europe soon to investigate certain postal affairs. While abroad he will confer with the officers of the two steamship lines and endeavor to complete arrangements by which America!! and foreign employ ees -rill he plac< d on each one of the vessels of these two lines. DR. .». K. GUNTEn, ) i I 'i' ( ix. Star Theatre Bui ■} ’.Mk 'Jo. 2u. Crown and bridge work a apadalty BURNETT C. BLACK, BURGEON-DENTIST. Hickory Grove, - - • * 8. C. In 8har 0n on Thursday a and Fri *«y« 7-24-lmo near Richmond, Ind. He was not poor, neither was he rich, but be mov ed away, went to New York and ac cumulated his millions- In the steel and railway bnslnAs. 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 tlx* 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 “P. G. R.” which he bad cut j there when a youth. He bought the door, had it carefully crated and ship-1 pod 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 j said, “and there were some that were | not so pleasant when my father used to interview me Scientist and Singer Asks Permission of Hospital Authorities to Try Ex periments—Says Watchers Don't See Soul’s Flight as They Are Hypnotized. The unheard of claim that be has discovered a method by which he can photograph the human soul was ad vanced the other night by Henry Trice, a retired professor of music, at Mount Vernon, X. Y. Mr. Trice announced that be Is actually seeking permission to make experiments at Bellevue hos pltal that will demonstrate the extraor dinary scientific value of his discovery, says the New York American. Mr. Trice says he has made great headway In his researches as a result of the recent declaration by scientists in Boston that they had been able to weigh the human soul and had found that It balanced the scales at a good half ounce. Mr. Trice, who was for forty years the baritone soloist of Trinity church. New York, says he has made the sub ject a life study, and he Is convinced that the soul has a real existence and that the reason it cannot be seen In taking its flight from the body Is be cause those present at the time of death are invariably hypnotized. The theory the soul really exists, Professor Price says, is borne out by the fact that the body lightens immediately after death. His plan is to photograph the soul as It departs from the body with a num ber of quick snapshots. It would be Impossible, he says, to hypnotize the camera, as It record many things not visible to the naked eye. In speaking of the subject the other day Professor Price said: “I would like to have about a half dozen scientific men In the room as witnesses to the experiment, and I would also want a stop watch to re cord the transition.” “Have you formed any Idea of what the soul looks like?” asked a reporter “I don’t know what it looks like,” replied Mr. Price, "hut I am sure it does not weigh more than a dram.” “What, In your opinion, becomes of tlx* soul after It has taken its flight?” Mr. Price was askeh. “According to my belief,” wa^ tne reply, “the soul does not really take Its flight. It passes Into another body, but it has to be removed by some one whom we will call an angel or an agent of the Deity. The angel has to remove it from the body while it is yet warm and put it into another being. If the pers >u doesn’t deserve another life, then the Deity doesn’t send for his soul, and he is dead like a common animal.” Professor Price was asked if he h;xl formed any idea regarding the organ ism of the soul. “Necessarily,” replied he, “the or ganism must be very small. It may be like an oyster or a mollusk. W’e cannot see Its organism, yet we know It has life.” Mr. Price says all clergymen ought to be interested In the success of his experiments, because if the corporeal existence of the soul Is proved It will put an end to Infidelity. As yet the authorities at Bellevue have not taken up Professor Price’s Ideas. Nsarly Ail Those of Old Times Now Disregarded. Only about one superstition of the sea still remains, and that is losing ground. Yachtsmen and fishermen still whistle for tlx* wind, but the gaso line “kicker” is making even that lost art. Of tlx* other nautical super stitions few remain. No sailor will refuse to ship these days because there is a Finn on l oard. Finns used to have bad reputations as wizards in the old days. If any wind was want ed, all a Finu had to do. it was boliov ed. was to drive his knife Into tlx foremast, and the wind was forth coming, to last as long as the knit’** was In place. A corpse is still rath t an umlcslr able thing to have on noard. but no sailor these days objects to having ;• cat on board. In fact, as Captain Ro! lo Fonthworth. the water front expert, would testify, every vessel which comes to grief around this port has at least one cat on board. No one wor ries now when anybody sneezes on tlx port side of a boat, although there are a few old skippers left who would make it unhealthy for n snilorman who passed to windward of them on the quarterdeck. “Crossing the line” is unobserved bv anybody save landlubbers making their first trip on a passenger vessel, and no one has to pay his scot now to the crew the first time he goes aloft or similar tribute to the engine room fftlDg. The Flying Dutchman has not been sighted for many years and. with Hen ry Hudson’s pinnace, has probabh long ago made the Port of Missing Ships. So has the swimmer who used to paddle off the English channel w ith his head under his arm. foretell iu disaster. The stormv petrel has lost caste as a weather prophet, and half the sailormen of today could not quot« half a dozen weather proverbs. Equally lost are some of the old cus toms. In the days of the windjam mers. which used to round Cape Horn no Dutchman or “square head” dan- help himself out of the mess ki nntll the Yankees and Englishmen had served themselves. When. too. the cry of “all hands” sent everybody turn bling out on deck, a Dutchman wn put In front of the line. It being tb custom for the third mate to knock down the first man for not being on* sooner. 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Symbolic scenery will be used In place of make lK*lieve trees and rocks and Impossible landscapes, leaving to the imagination details which heretofore have l>eeu supplied by the scene paint er. In this respect the new theater v. Ill resemble the Greek theaters of old. The form of the stage will be changed, “cutting off," according to a Munich pap**!’, “the senseless perspec tive.” The proscenium will lie so ar ranged that It may be made large or small. In keeping with the require ments of the production, and the um- phitheatrical auditorium will be so arrauged that the action will be In plain view from all parts of the bouse. business end of a shingle.” Daring but Cool Aeronaut. Rene Gasnier. who will race under j the blue and buttercup ensign of the Aero Club de France In the Bennett cup race next October, is one of the eo lest aeronauts on record, says the New Y’ork Tribune. Up to the time of Lieutenant Lahtn’s capture of that cup last year Ihe English channel had been crossed only six 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 land on the downs beyond Dover castle, but the valve stuck oi>eu. The hallo m, pitching and swirling, was dropping at a dangerous rate, so Gasnier clambered up the rigging ami 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 atop 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. glad that his wish was not granted, for the two are now married, says a Portland (Ind.) special dispatch to the Indianapolis News. Perseverance and repeated declarations of his love for his once promised bride won the day, and the words were said by Justice Cartwright at Pennville which finally made the two discordant hearts beat as one. This is what he said: Barefooted I stand, With the ln*.v In my hand. These words I pronounce: Am a matter of course, You are now man and wife, for better or worse. On the sea of life I give you this start, Uve happy logetl er till death do you part. Rewarding Lord Oromor. It Is expected that the British par liament will he asked to make a grant of £50.000 to 1/ord Cromer, who did so much to put Egypt In the way of prog ress. snys the Montreal Gazette. Na tions are not always ungrateful. Even In these days of many millionaires a man with £50.000 has some claim* to substance. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. By J. E. Webster, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, Alice Lipscomb and Hat tie Whitworth have made suit to me, to grant E. H. 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