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AGREE KOI TO ELOPE
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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.
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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.
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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. The last i-::u! out was also al
ways a Dutchman. ::*■ lx* ha.d to starx
"• •hmont for being iu that p' !.-< -
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POETICAL MARRYING SQUIRE.
How a Montpelier Man and a Widow
Were United at Pennville.
Lee Rhoton, the Montpelier (Ind.)
man whose matrimonial disappointment
formed the basis of an appeal to the
clerk of the Jay circuit court to take
back a license issued to him to marry
Mrs. Emma McPherson, a widow, of
with a birch or the | near Pennville. Ind., is now perhaps
Munich Exhibition Novelty.
One of the novel Men planned for the
Munich exhibition of lOuS Is an “artis
tic theater" t\' . L will l»e different In
every respect from the modern play
house, says the New York Tribune.
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. DeCamp Letters of
Administration of the Estate and ef
fects of Henry L. Lipscomb, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all and singular the kindred i jd
and creditors of the deceased, that | *>
they be and appear before me, In the ^
Court of Probate, to he held at Chero- M
ke e Court House, Gaffney, 8. C., on T
Thursday, August 1st, next after pub
lication thereof, at eleven o’clock In
the forenoon, to show cause, if any
they have, why the said Administra
tion should not be granted.
Given under my hand, this 17th
day of July.
Anno Domini, 1907.
J. E. YVEBSTER,
Probate Judge
Pub. in Gaffney Ledger July 19 and
26, 1907.
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