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» ♦ WORKINGMEN EVERYWHERE USE PE-RU-NA. SMITHS IN THE LEAD. Dominate American Society, As serts Social Register Locator. DANGEROUS PIGS. Will The Average Household Finds Pe-ru-na Not Only a Friend ; BROWNS COME NEXT ON LIST in Time of Need, But a Sav ing of Doctor Bills. Pe-ru-na is to Be Found in Thousands of Homes of the Working Men. Mr. Victor Pstneaude, 32H Madison street, Topeka, Kas., a well-kuown car* penter aud member of Knights and Ladies of Security, writes: “Twelve years ago 1 had a severe at tack of la grippe and 1 never really re covered my health and strength, but grew weaker every year, until I was unable to work. “Two years ago 1 began using Peruna and it built up my strength so that in a couple of months I was able to go to work again.” /, Kc: No Jonesea In Providence, and Oak land's Preferred Know* None Named Jackson — Select Roll Has 84,500 Names—Strange Differences In the Spelling. Society Is led throughout the L'uited States the Smith, ns is shown by the Koeial Reg ister Loeater, the first number of I which was published the other day. This volume Is a compendium of the names of persons of social prominence ! in twenty American cities and has been prepared with painstaking care It consists of an alphabetical arrange ment of names, together with the cities where the persons reside. This furnishes a clew to many sources of Information concerning those whose doings arc of interest to society in the principal cities of the United States. Of the Smiths there are found to be find all told, while the Browns, who number .‘14(1, come next in preferment. Tlie Joneses number 262, while the The Fearlots Mexican Peccary Fight Man or Beast. A writer in the St. Louis Republic fays that the most vicious and fearless member of the brute creation is the peccary, or wild hog, of Mexico. This animal seerni utterly devoid of fear and displays an intelligence in fighting man strangely at variance with its ap parently complete lack of mental at tributes. Their ability to scent man is particu larly marked. The only thing to do when they get after you is to run away from them as fast as a horse A QUEER CALCULATION. The Power That Would Be Required to Move the Earth. Statisticians sometimes have queer idcas. One of them amused himself hv calculating how much energy, water and coal it would take to move the earth a foot, supposing that It was sub jected throughout Its mass to a force equivalent to terrestrial gravitation. Tills Is a gratuitous supposition, for in spite of Its enormous mass the earth weighs nothing. Starting with the fact that the earth’s mass is about 6,100 million- million-million tons, our statistician Robinsons have ITJ on the roll of the select elect, to quote Miss Carolyn a few years ago. and ids escape was j almost miraculous. He very foolishly shot and wounded a number of them. ! Then he took refuge in a tree. The peccaries kept him iu the tree all that day and through the night. They | circled round the tree, grunting aud squealing their delight at the prospect of a feast. He soon exhausted his am munition and brought down a peccary at each fire, but this had no terrors for the beasts. Toward morning they i>egan to eat those lie had killed, after which they j formed in line and trotted off. If they had not had some of their own number to devour they would have’ guarded ,,, ,, „„ • i i. i that tree uutil my friend through sheer Wells. I he numerically predominant .. . , . ,, , ... i J ,• exhaustion dropped from his perch and mimes iu New York are as follows: , 11 .,1^1,1— ., . . ...... allowed them to make a meal of him. Smith, 163; Brown, l.ii \Miite. 86; A woikingman’s home is usually one with a large family. Children of all ages and both sexes are being reared. They are subject to slight ail ments, winter and summer. A doctor is sent for every time a petty sick ness occurs. The expense will keep the family poor. In such a household Peruna becomes a real blessing. It promptly meets the most common ailments due to the cold of winter or the heat of summer. A stitch in time saves nine. A dose or two of Peruna prevent* serious and extended illness many a time. The workingmen everywhere have come^to realife that Peruna is the workingman's friend and saves him not only sickness, but a great many dollars every year. Morgan, 84; Clark, 81; Robinson, 81; Taylor, 80, and Miller, 86. Boston has only 5 Smiths and 16 Browns, hut the ; Hub has 22 Williamses, 44 Peabodys , and 44 Coolidgcs. New York has the most Smiths and | 40 per cent of the Browns, while Bal timore is a close second in the posses sion of the clan of Brown. The Smiths ; predominate in Philadelphia, with a battalion of 123, although the Biddle ; family, which Is so much a part of : the City of Brotherly Love, has 72 ' members. TL<- Joneses are to l)e The wildcats and tigers that infest the Mexican wilds flee from the pec caries with instinctive fear, and even rattlesnakes keep out of their path. LOVE’S TEST. Rev. J. G. Dukes, Pastor of the Uni- always keep a bottle in tin* house, and tarian Church of Pinetown, N. C.,! Mrs. Dukes thinks it lias done her writes: j more good than anything she has ever “My w/fe has been in a very bad state 1 taken. 0/ health for several years, and nothing ! “My little boy ten years old, was p:i!e seemed to do her any good uutil she be- i a nd had hut little life. He began to u-u gan to use Peruna. Since then the color has returned to her face, and she Is gaining In flesh every day, and I be lieve she is a well woman to-day. We Peruna the day his mothci began. To-day his face is rosy, and he isout in the yard running and jumping with tha rest of the chi Id run ” f ' .t .1 .-'-if S'if Si* ■S( S’rsi c, ssrs’i• 1 COMING! WEST WELLS COMBINED Railroad Shows WILL EXHIBIT AT GAFFNEY, S. C. t' MONDAY, AUG. can carry you, and then there is no j calculates that we should require 70,- certalnty that they won’t catch you. ; 000,000.000 years for a 10,000 horse- north south east and west, hv Th °y are n ‘* arl y us sw,ft as a hors( ‘- ' Power engine to move our globe a foot, ancient ami honorable family of ! ^ ‘‘"durance is as great as ; The boiler that should feed this engine ... uv ti.« Hp*. ! their vidousness. j would vaporize a quantity of water A friend of mine encountered a that would cover the whole face of the drove of them in a wild part of Mexico | globe with a layer 30O feet deep. The vaporization of tills water would re quire 4,000 million-million tons of coal. This coal, carried iu cars holding ten tons each and having a total length of thirty feet, would require 400 million- million cars, which would reach 80,- 000,000 times around the earth. Tills train, moving at the rate of forty miles an hour, would take more than 5,000,000 years to travel Its own length. It would require for storage a shed that would cover 1,000 times the area of Europe. If we realize that this fantastically huge amount of energy is nothing at all compared with what the earth pos sesses In virtue of its rotation about its axis, its revolution about the sun and its translation iu space with the solar system, of which the earth is but an infinitesimal part of the universe, we may get some idea of the Importance of man in the universe and estimate his incommensurable pride at Its Just value. A PIQUED BONIFACE. Meilhac and a Costly Dish That He Did Not Eat. Among the most absentminded of geniuses was the French composer, Meilhac. On the occasion of the first presentation of one of his operas Meil hac, In evening dress, entered a fash ionable restaurant and threw himself down at a table, thinking earnestly about the event of the evening and nothing else. A waiter brought him a menu. Meil hac, a man of very simple tastes in the matter of food, abstractedly iudl cated with his finger the first dish on the bill that his eye had struck. Now it chanced that this was the most elab orate and costly dish on the bill, anc when the waiter went to the kitchen with the order there was in conse quence great commotion there. The proprietor himself was summoned, am he and the principal chef devoted them selves to the preparation of the famous dish. One man was sent for this choice ingredient and another for an other. Meanwhile Meilhac waited, ah* sorbed. At last the dish was brought with a great flourish, and the proprietor, wltli a proud smile, stood not far away to observe the result. When It was de posited In front of him Meilhac regard ed the dish with an expression of mel ancholy interest. “Did I order that?” he asked. “Certainly, M. Meilhac." “Do you like it?” “Yes—yes, monsieur; but’’— “Then kindly take it away and eat it yourself,” ordered Meilhac, “and bring me two fried eggs.”—Chicago Record- Herald. Where Her Great Help Was Needed Her Heart Was Willing. “Professor,” said the fair co-ed after a pause, “let me ask you if you ever use the phrase ‘different than?’" “Never!” exclaimed the young pro fessor of rhetoric and English litera- found everywhere, except in Provi- ture ‘<it exasperates me, Miss Pinkie, deuce and Oakland. Oakland has no body at all in society named Jackson. Baltimoie is entitled to have the most Jenkinses present at any large social function. In Chicago the Walkers fol low the Smiths in preference, while iu Providence the name Aldrich is the open sesame to society. Pittsburg has the most Laugbiins. The Smiths are at the fore in Hf. Louis and St. Paul, and in .Minneapolis the question of prestige is a tie among the Washburns, Winstons and Woodworths. Summaries of the names which recur in the various cities reveal some inter esting facts culled from this American Alniauach do Gotha. There are 141) of whenever I see it in print.” “I am glad we have something in common,” site rejoined. “Neverthe less. Professor de Purey, I cannot be your wife.” “Mr. Koopong,” asked the young wo man, with downcast eyes, “now that I happen to think of it, do you ever use the phrase ‘different than?’ ” “I certainly do not,” said the enam ored capitalist. “It is not only Incor rect. but utterly absurd.” “I am glad to hear you say so. Still, Mr. Koopong, it is useless to urge me. I never can be anything more to you than a friend.” the family 01 Adams in 15 cities, while j ! the 1)4 Alexanders are distributed “Let me ask you one question, Mr. through 17 cities. There are 31 Am- Pnoodles,” she said. “Do you ever use | orys, and Boston society lias them all. the phrase ‘different than?’” j Of the Biddle family, besides the 72 in ' “Why—er I presume 1 have used it ; Philadelphia which have been men- ! carelessly sometimes, Miss P-PInkle,” tioued, there are 6 in New York and 1 stammered the embarrassed youth. HIS ODD AD. The Collar That Gava Plumlay a Sec ond Start In Busineaa. “Nothing succeeds like perse ver- 'ce.” said Mark Twain at a dinner. When the luck seems most ag.iinst , then we should work aud Upp* itdest of all. In moments o; dis- -uragement let us remember 1 y olu riend Henry Pluuiley of Virginia Uity. “Henry Plumley ran a collar factory, 'imes were reported to be hunl with im. When his factory, which was cry heavily insured, burned down, hero was every indication that he ad set the place ou fire himself in '.dor to get the insurance money. Vlr- inia City was the soul of honor in hose days. Shocked beyond words, it ose en masse, seized IT ury i’Unuley. ,ut a halter round his no k and iynch- d him. “But he did not die. The sheriff ar- ived and cut him down in time He n.- tried and found „nhiy. and he er\< 1 term in jail. "Cu !:!'■ . e you wouldn’t have thought that he’d return to Virginia City again, eh? He ilHl, though, lie came back, reopened his collar factory and prospered. “What gave him his start was the odd advertisement with which he an nounced his return to business among us. Preceded by a brass band, Henry, In a great gilt chariot, burst upon onr streets. He sat on a kind of golden throne^ and he held on a crimson cush ion In his lap an old, old collar. Above the collar on a crimson banner waved this inscription in huge letters of gold: “ ‘This is the collar we wore when we were lynched. It saved our life. Be wise in time and use no other. At all retailers, 10 cents apiece, three for a quarter.’ ’’—Indianapolis Star. The Limit of Life, The most eminent medical scien tists are unanimous In the conclusion that the generally accepted limita tion of human Hte Is many years be low the attainment possible with the advanced knowledge of which the race is now possessed. The critical period, that determines its duration, seems to be between 50 and 60; the proper care of the body during this decade cannot be too strongly urged; carelessness then being fatal to Ion ,evity. Nature’s best helper after 50 is Electric Bitters, the scientic tonic miedicine that revitalizes every organ of the body. Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. 50c. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—A food second hand square piano; low price. Apply to J. M. Nelson. 7-t4f FOR SALE—Old newspapers at this office, 10c a hundred. West & Wells’ Shows are a grand consolidation—con taining all that is wonderful, novel aud thrilling in the world of wonders. In the arena are to be seen some of the best ladies and gentlemen performers, and a host of funny Clowns, Acrobats, Daring Gymnasts, Agile Athletes, hkill^d Aerial Artists, Graceful Tumblers, Wonderful Leapers, Artistic Jugglers, Pretty Dogs and Ponies, Trained Elephants and Lions. in Washington, but they are really part of the parent stock which flourish- j es in the city of Penn. Five cities only have Appletons, of whom there are 21 in Boston, 17 in ! New York, 2 in Philadelphia, 2 In St. Paul aud 1 In Baltimore. All of the family of Auehindoss, to the num ber of 17, have uot wandered away j from New York. Of the 35 Cabots 32 j reside iu Boston. The 213 of the house : of Davis are scattered through 18 eities, and they are the most numerous 1 in Washington. Nearly every city, or 10 of the score, have some of the 163 Kings. Strange differentiations in the spell- j Ing of names appc.vr throughout the 1 volume. There are 230 of the family of Clarke and of the name with out the terminal “e.” Five ways are 1 offered for the spelling of what is in effect the same name, as is seen In such titles a> Beal, Beale, Beales, Beall ; and Beals. It is shown in the tables that there are 40 Reads, 71 Reeds and 31 Reids. There are 55 who bear the name of Robbins and 35 who leave out one “b” ami pronounce their name the same way. Forty-two are called Stor- ! gls and 32 Sturges. “But now that you have called my at tention to it I shall he careful to say ‘different from’ hereafter.” •“Claude,” she exclaimed, clasping her hands ecstatically and gazing at him with soulful eyes, “my answer is yes- yes! You poor, dear boy, you need a helpmate, and I’ll be tbe helpmate!”- Chicago Tribune. Mental Medicine. A somewhat eccentric physician who recently died would order patients to take walks, say daily, on the left side of the street, returning by the other side; another he would order to arise each morning at a certain hour and eat cheese with ginger beer: another to take supper precisely at midnight and eat only apples, or he would instruct the patient to put just so many grains of salt on the egg lie W’as to eat and part his hair In a different way each day. His object was to get the mind of the patient on something else than symptoms, aud this scheme worked well in many cases, especially when the patient was suffering from melan cholia.—New’ York Times. Funny Clowns to Make You Laugh TWO PERFORMANCES AFTERNOON AND NIGHT Don’t Miss Brand Street Parade at 1.00 O’clock DON'T FORGET DAY AND DATE « MONDAY, AUGUST 5th All kinds of Job Work d0 “ e •* The Led B ei ■Mmpmmhnmhnbmhhmmmmhmmb office neatly and at orices commenenrate n ith high «rade workl Trv ut. IMMENSE SWINE PAVILION. Iowa State Fair to Hava Thraa Aoraa of Hogs Under One Roof. The largest swine pavilion in the | world Is the latest Iowa boast It Is being built on the state fair grounds at Des Moines and when finished will occupy three acres under roof. The Judging ring occupies a square almost surrounded by pens. This will be the center of attraction for the Iowa people at their state ex position this year, says the Clinton Herald. Farmers interested in swine breeding have been urging this Im provement a long time. I^ist year they brought 2,700 hogs to the exposition, and many others were sent back for lack of space. This is a larger exhibit of hogs than at nil other state ftUrs together. With these improvements the Iowa state exhibit will be kept not only at the head of tbe list, but far In tbe lead of all others. In Automobiledom. Bcientist—Light travels at tbe rate of about 187.000 miles a second. Chauf feur-Gee. that’s goln’ some! Auto Enthusiast (slightly deaf)—Pardon me. sir. But what make machine was It you Just mentioned?—Bohemian. Muskrat Skin Curs. “The skin of a muskrat taken and worn next to the chest will cure any case of asthma in the world,” said a Louisville man. “I had an uncle who laid hands on it. suffered a thousand deaths with asth- ma aud tried everything that could be bought lu the way of medicine. Final ly one day an old time friend told him of the muskrat skin, and he tried it. In two months he was as well as he had ever been. Just how the akin works about a cure Is a mystery, but It will do It.”—Nashville Tennesseean. Couldn’t Quit Gambling. Driving a cab In the streets of Lon don is a young man who has literally thrown away £80,000. The sou of a wealthy family In Yorkshire, he went Into the army, but soon became distin guished by his gambling propensities. He ruined himself and had to leave his regiment. Some time ago while living In a garret news was brought to him that he had been left £80,000. There was a condition attached to the lega cy—that the money was to Immediately pass to another person, named in the will, if the legatee was ever found gambling. A detective was set to watch the ex-captain and saw him en ter a well known club one evening, where he lost the sum of £800, which he had raised on his ex()ectations. He forfeited his £80,000 before he bad ever London Tit-Bits. Hsr CIsvsrnMs. She—Mary Graham Is certainly a very clever woman, yet she has little to say. He—That's where her clever ness comes In. She leads a roan to be lieve that she thinks be Is worth He- toning to.—Pick-Me-Up. The Comparison. Lesec and Ix-malgre, who ^Mk,both as thin ns laths, were discussing a mu tual friend. Lesec—1 met our friend Durand this morning. He has grown so thin. I^maigre—Really! And he waa so stout. Lesec-Yes, it is dreadful. He is thinner than both of us put together now.—Pele Mele. In Coils of a Python. Mr. Cocklin, walking In thick grass near the Marico river, Bechuanaland, was thrown to the ground by a four teen foot python, which coiled around his legs and then tried to drag him to a tree near by, so that, by colling its tail around the trunk. It might proceed to crash him to death. * When within two yards of the tree Mr. Cocklin got a band free and shot the snake, which was so heavy that it needed three men to lift It—East Lon don Dispatch. FOR SALE—Flrst-clMa babbit met al. Apply at Ledger office. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Store room now oc cupied by F. B. Gaffney. Poaeeakm Sept 1st 1907. Store room now occupied by Boyd Sarratt as barber shop. Possession Sept let 1907. Office room fronting on limestone street Possession now. A. N. Wood. TO RENT—Office rooms over The Ledger. Apply to Bd. H. DeCamp. Nov. 2-tf. . MISCELANEOUCk FOR SERVICE—St Lambert Jer sey bull; registered; lee 92. Apply H. R. Cash. April 19 1 a. w. tt Fire Insurance! We represent some o* the largest aud most substantial companies and would like to write your buslnes. 5-14-tf. Smith IA Lipscomb, Agents DR. J. C. THOMSON DENTIST. Office over Merchants Grocery Company, Gaffney, s. C. Office hours 8:30 to 12:20, 1:30 to 5. Phone 46. In Blacksburg on Tuesdays. 1 mo. pd. DR. W. K. GUNTER, 1> JR IV T 1 fc-4 T Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and bridge work a speeialtar. The Picture Was Good, of Course. Friend (to artist)—Well, were yon successful at the salon? Artist—No. They rejected my picture, the wretches! Friend—Why? Artist—How should I know? The oil was bad perhspe.—Nos Lois! re. Amusement. First Old Lady—What kind of a time did you have at the funeral? Second Old Lady—Well, I’ve enjoyed myself more at others.—LUC. If yon dsn’t scale the mountain yon can’t view the plain.—CUnese Proverb. Hardly. MIhs D.—Angelina, why don’t you marry Lieutenant Y.? MIkh A.—First, because he has no brains, aud be euu’t ride, dance or piay tennis. ,Wbat could we do with him? "But he swimw beautifully.” “Oh, yes. But one can’t keep one’s husband In an aquarium, you know.”— London Tit-Bits. BURNETT G. BLACK, •URGEON-DENTIST. Hickory Grove, • - • 8. C. l n Sharon on Thursdays and Fri days. ' 7-24-lmo The Poor Ooetor. “Say. Weary. here's a doctor ^at says de best kind of exercise la walk in’ to your work.” • “Is dat so, Llmpy? Den I suppose de doctor get£ his exercise by visitin’ de cemetery on foot.”—Cleveland Plata Dealer. Where might is master, justice fli servant—Gesanan Proverb. OR. J. F. GARRETT. DENTIST. Moved to row office over FredeHefc •treat. Front of the Battery. ’PbORt la OMo# aM Death to Fleas! Your dogs suffer. “BleaiM's Manes Ours” will keep a dog free from fleas. PrieeSOe. 8-2 Itnw-lmo OaRnsf Drug Go., Me Agents.