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• i \ No Operation 1 Mrs. Maiinda Akers, of Basham, Va,, writes: “I had what doctors call ‘prolapse,’ and couldn’t stand straight. I had pain in my back and shoulders, and was very irregular and profuse. Doctors said an operation was needed, but I couldn’t bear the thought of the knife. After tak ing three bottles of Wine of Cardui, I could walk around. Can now do my housework and am in splendid health.” Cardui is a pure, vegetable, medicinal essence, especially adapted to cure women’s diseases. It relieves excessive periodical pains, regulates irregularities, and is a safe, pleasant and re liable remedy for all sick women. In suc- cessfui use for over 70 years. Try it. FREE ADVICE Write us • letter describing all your symptoms, and we will send you Free Advice, in plain sealed envelope. Address: Ladles'Advisory Department, The Chattanooga MedicinaCo., Chatta nooga, Tenn. At Every Drug Store in $1.00 Bottles. WINE OF CARDUI S«Ml*n Opens August 12th. For Catalogue write to W. D. BURNS, Lawndale, N. C. J u life 2b-Auk 2-ltaw. 'i' iT< V Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. Hoary Nelson Snyder, M. A., Lift. D., LL. D., President. Ten Departments.—Gymnasium under competent director. Athletic Grounds. Library and Librarian. Science Hall. Fifty-fourth year be gins September 18, 1907. For catalogue ad dress J. A. Gameweli., Secy. V v * Wofford College Fitting School, Spartanburg, S. C. Three New Brick Buildings. Steam Heat and Electric Lights. Indi vidual attention to each studeut. Next Session begins September 18th, 1907. For catalogue and information address A. M. DuPre, Headmaster. r. Auk. 2 1 mo pd Are You Administrator and have the settlement of an estate? if so^request of the Judge of Probate that youradvertisementbe placed in :: :: It has'ithe largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District. FIRE FIGHTING IT SEI Methods of Extinguishing Flames on Board Ships. RIGID DISCIPLINE THE RULE. Just Over the Line in Cleve land County, N. C., is Situated PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL $63-$81 Pays Board, Tuition and Room Rent for the Full Session off Nine Months. Eleventh session. Never a case of serious sickness in school. Mineral water, magnificent scenery, splendid commnnity, experienced teachers. WHAT PEOPLE SAY OF PIEDMONT. Tii« School is one of the best preparatory schools In this State.—The Cleveland Star. Most heartily do I recommend the School to all who have sons and daughters to educate. C. E. Taylor, Ex-President Wake Forest College In my opinion there Is no High School In this part of the country doing more thorough e-cucatlonal work. E. Y. Webb, Member of Congress. We are all pleased with the progress made by the boys, and if nothing happens they will return next session. It Is the oest and cheapest school in the State. E. M. Koorcb, Member N. 0. Legislature. Faithful work has not only been done In text books, but work equally as good has been done In training the morals and developing the character of students. T. J. Uamsacr, Treasurer of Cleveland Cotton Mills. On ail sides I saw evidence of patient, painstaking labor, thorough scholarship and marked executive ability. I believe the school a good one and worthy of liberal patron age. J. B. Carlyle, Prof. Latin, Wake Forest College. I commend Prof. Burns and Piedmont High School warmly to those who desire their children to be taught the true idea of education and to be lead up into a higher life of useful manhood and womanhood. J. A. Anthony, Ex-Superintendent Schools. The Instruction is thorough and the influence surrounding the pupil excellent. The loca tion of the school Is fine, because of eleyatlon and water, and the community is one of the most refined In Western North Carolina. K. F. Tredway. Former Pastor at Shelby. Chapel Hill, N. C., May ft, 1905. Mr. W. D. Burns, Principal Piedmont High School. ^ Dear Sir: The young men who have come to tbo University from the Piedmont High School have taken a good stand in their classes, doing faithful and satisfactory work. F. P. Venable, President University of North Carolina. Shelby, N. 0.. May 1,1905. I take pleasure In bearlnK testimony regarding the Piedmont High School. I have spent some time in this school and found the work of the class rooms to be thorough, practical and far reaching In Its scope. The teachers are devoted to their work and thoroughly competent, and they spare no effort in making the class room a place of interest to the pupil. The school has an excellent literary society. One of tne strongest high school de bates 1 ever listened to was one given by the members of this society. In my opinion this school deserves a place among the best schools In this part of the State, and I commend .t to all the people. B. T. Falls, A. M.. County Superintendent public Instruction. When the Alarm Is Sounded Every Member of the Crew Has His Station and Carries Out the Particular Duty Intrusted to Him. Of all disasters that cau befall a ship uoue is more dreaded by the mariner than a tire at sea. Indeed, the annals of Lloyd's record faw greater ocean tragedies and, be it said, no more conspicuous instances of gal lantry and heroic effort than those con nected with ships a 11 re. No wonder, then, in view of the dreadful possibilities of an outbreak of fin* on board, that a thorough knowl edge of the proper steps to be taken in extinguishing the Haines at the out set or at least bolding them in check is expected of every officer from the captain downward. Most vessels are nowadays fitted with hydrants, several on each deck, and in the case of large liners hose is kept in handy places, ready to be attached to the hydrants at a mo ment’s notice. Moreover, every large passenger boat carries a number of ’ portable extinguishers which can be strapped on a man’s back. The spray from these is, of course, thin, but very effective iu subduing small outbreaks w here the fire has not secured too firm j a hold. Fire drill forms a weekly feature in the routine on every ocean liner. Ev ery member of the crew' literally, from captain to cabin boy, has his “fire station’’ allotted to him, at which, when the signal is given, he takes his position and carries out the particular duty intrusted to him. When an actual outbreak occurs the fire alarm is if possible avoided, so as to prevent panic among the passengers. Word is passed quietly around, the pas sengers being kept in ignorance as long as possible. In fact, more than one fire at sea has been extinguished without any suspicion on the part of the passengers that the outbreak was other than an imaginary one engineer ed by the officers to give the passengers a chance of seeing what could be done in the event of the real thing occurring. In many cases, of course, the passen gers have to be Informed, but the news Is always broken as lightly as possible, and some special entertainment—a con cert, a dance, theatricals, and so on—la got up to allay any natural feeling of nervous anxiety. Of course if the fire shows signs of becoming unmanage able the boats are got ready and swung out in case it appears necessary to abandon the ship. Every boat on large liners is kept fully provisioned, food sufficient for •everal days being contained in air and water tight tanks. The worst fires at sea are those which cannot easily be got at. These usually occur amid the cargo in the lower holds and are often spontaneous In their origin. In such cases it is highly dangerous to open the hatches. The fire, which may have been smol dering for days, will naturally burst Into a blaze as soon as the air is ad mitted. The proper course is to exclude the air In every possible way; consequently oven the ventilators are stopped up. If the holds are fitted with steam pipes, the steam is at once turned on; otherwise holes are cut in the deck, Just large enough to admit the nozzles of the fire hose, and water is vigorous ly pumped into the hold. In one form of extinguishing ap paratus, instead of steam or water, Hulphurous fumes are Injected Into the hold, the fumes being generated in a machine specially fitted for that purpose. This injection method is highly effective and rarely fail* if the pipes are properly placed in each hold. The steam or fumes are turned on from the upper deck. If a fire breaks out in the hold and assumes such dimensions that steam Injection is powerless to check it, the vessel is, when possible, got into shal low water and, if necessary, beached. In any case the sea cocks of the par ticular hold are opened and the hold allowed to fill with water. This can usually be done with very little fear of the vessel foundering, as modern built ships are divided Into many com partments separated by strong water tight bulkheads of steel or iron. Such Is the buoyancy of a vessel so con- structed that Instances have been known of a craft remaining afloat with only one or two of these compartments dry If the burning hold is a very large one and by flooding it with water there is danger of the vessel founder ing, the cargo in another bold is thrown overboard or “Jettisoned,” as It is called at sea, to counteract the weight of water admitted Into the first hold. As % last resource, the vessel. If in dock or shallow water, is scut tled by opening the sea cocks. This been done more than once In Tilbury docks. We seldom hear nowadays of fire breaking out in the passengers’ quar ters on large linere. The introductloii of electric lighting on board ship has no doubt conduced greatly to this im proved state of matters. When a fire does break out in the cabin, it is usu ally soon detected, for a constant watch is kept by the officers and night stewards, who make periodical tours of Inspection during the nocturne! boars.—Pearson’s Weekly. CHESS CLOCKS. There Are Specially Constructed Ones Used In the Game. Hourglasses, or sandglasses, were formerly us»hI for the purpose of meas uring time at chess matches, but now specially constructed clocks are in gen- eml use for this purpose. These clocks consist of two clocks mounted on a common base, which moves on a pivot, the two clocks therefore being on the arms of a sort of seesaw. The t>earn. or base, la so constructed that when one clock is elevated it stands perfect ly perpendicular, while the depressed clock lies over at an angle, but as the mechanism of each clock is so con structed that it only moves when the deck is perfectly perpendicular It fol lows that when the upright clock N going the depressed clock is at rest. Another and more modern variety has the two clocks fixed on the same level, but with a small brass arm reaching from the top of one to the top of the other. This arm acts on a pivot and can be brought down into actual contact with one clock at a time by a touch of the finger. When it is thus in contact by an Ingenious device the clock is stopped and the desired result is attained. The working of the clock during a match is simplicity Itself. At the commencement of the match the hands of each clock point to 12. Then at the call of “time to commence play’’ the clock of the first player is started; then as soon as he makes his first move he stops his own clock either by depressing it or by touching the arm referred to, the same moRbn starting his opponent’s clock. So It goes on during the entire course of the game, each move being marked by the stop ping of one clock and the starting of the other. COUNTERFEIT BILLS. The Check Letter Teat on United States Currency. The United States government prints its currency and numbers its bills in » series of four, so that every piece of paper money turned out bears one of the check letters—A, B, C, D. One of these letters is always found in two places on a United States bill, in the upper left hand corner and in the low er right hand corner. The placing of the letter on the bill ia not determined by the number of the bill. The rule is to divide the last two figures on the note by four. Should the remainder be one, the check letter must be A; should It be two, the check letter is B; three, the check letter Is C, and nothing, the letter D. For example, 1 have before me a five dollar certificate. Its number is 81489730. The terminal number is 30. Divide by four. The result is seven with two over. The check letter is B. Here ia a yellow back gold certificate with twenty-three as its terminal num ber. Divide this by four, and we have five with three over. C is the check letter. Should this rule of four fall to work on any United States currency note you may l»et all you have that the money is bad. Some counterfeited bills are right to their check letters, but a great many are not so if the rule of four works. The hill may be still bad. but if it doesn't it is surely bad. This rule applies snly to United States cur rency and not to national bank notes. —Minneaimiis Journal. Look on the poor with gentle eyet. fsr In such habits often angels deslrs alms.—Massinger. Spain’s Buried Wealth. The Carthaginians and the Tyrians regarded Spain as El Dorado. It Is but a poor country today, hut potential wealth lies in its r<•< k U»und hills, just as in th<* d: ys <»;* the ancients. When those acquisitive mariners, the Phoe nicians, first set fort in the country they exchanged their commodities, says Aristotle, for such immense quantities of silver that their ships could neither contain nor sustain the load, though they used it for ballast and made their anchors and other im plements of silver." So rich in silver was the country then that the people are said to have made their commonest domestic utensils of the metal and even their mangers. The Romans found that their greedy forerunners had sadly diminished the precious ■tore, yet enough was left to satisfy not a few proconrals. RHEUMATISM CAN NOT BE, RUBBED AWAY It to perfectly: to tub the spot that hurts, and when the _ _ f t to get relief from the disease, by prodnciiig gnmter-iffitatkm on the flesh. Such treatment will quiet the pain ferily. but can have so direct curative effect on the real disease because It floeo not resell the blood, where the cause is located. Rheumatism is then skin deep—it in rooted and grounded in the blood and con only ha PKiffiH by constitntianal treatment—IT CAHNOT BE RUBBED AWAY, ftheuiustiam is due to on excess of uric acid in the blood, brought about by the accumulation in the system of refuse matter which the natural avenues •ff bodily waste, the Dowels end Kidneys, have failed to carry off. Thin mfooe matter, coming in contact with the different acids of the body, forms •ric add which ia absorbed into the blood and distributed to all parts of the flady» and Rheumatism {gats possession of the system. The aches and pains ape only symptoms, and though they may be scattered or relieved for a time fey surface treatment, they wL 1 reappear at the first exposure to cold or or after an attack of indigestion or other irregularity. p ^mma- tfcmoaa never be permanently coxed while the circulation remains saturated irritating, pain-producing uric acid poison. The disease will muscle to muscle or joint to joint, settling on the nerves, and swelling and such terrible pains that the nervous system tbs health undermined, and perhaps the patient becomsa axbd crippled for HAs. 8. S. S. thoroughly cleanses the blood and the circulation by neutralizing the acids and expelling all foreign a warms and invigorates the blood so that instead of a weak, sour stream, constantly deposit ing acrid and corrosive matter in the mu^ dee, nerves, joints and bones, the body is fed and nourished by rich, heidth-eustaining blood which completely and permanently cores Rheumatism. S. 8. 8. is composed of both purifying and tonic properties-’- just what la needed in every case of Rheu- It contains no potash, alkali or other mineral ingredient, but ia blade entirely of purifying, healing extracts and juices of roots, herbs and barks. If yon are suffering from Rheumatism do not waste valuable tlms trying to rub a blood disease away, but begin the use of S. S. S. and writs OS about your case and our physicians will give you any information or advice desired free of charge and will send oar special treatise on Rheumatiaaa. THE &WIFT SPBOtnC CO», ATUUtTAg GAs S.S.S. PURELY VEGETABLE An Attractive Proposition! The Peoples Building^ Loan Association Invitee Your Attention To The Subject of ‘'SAVING NOONEV.*' Controlled by careful men and managed at a minimum expense. It will prove a great benefit to any investor. There can be no safer investment for earnings, and no more favorable opportunity offered for home building than through the medium of this Association. It will enlist the wage earner and business man alike, and serve as a savings institution for the farmer, and a safe and reliable investment for the later. It will encourage thrift and in every way promite prosperity in Cherokee county. R. S. Lipscomb cashier of the Merchante & Planters Bank is Secretary and Treasmer of the Associ ation, and either he or its President R. M. Wilkins, Vice President J F. Garrett, or H. K. Osborne, its Attorney will give full particulars. Th# Truthful Woman. It is no exaggeration to say that a more or less truthful woman is looked upon with grave suspicion. What is more, nobody believes her. If she quite truthfully pronounces her age to be twenty-nine everybody at once says then she must be at least thirty-five, while If she should ever be cajoled in to admitting the number of proposals ■he had in her youth it will only con firm the popular impression that she had been very lucky to catch a bus- band at all.—London Indies’ Field. Cures Blood, Skin Diseases. Cancer* Greatest Blood PuHfler Fr—. It your Mood Is impure, thin, die- ■seed, hot or full humors, if yos have blood poison, onnoer, eerbse- den. eating sores, oerofota, snssms, itching, rleinas and bumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood or sktn disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) Soon all sores heal, aches sad pains stop and the blood Is made pare and rich. Druggists or by ex press 91 per Urge bottle. Sample free by writing Blood Balm Oo.. At lanta, Ga. B. B. B. is especially ad viced Cor chronic, deep seated eases, so it oners after all else fails. Sold in Gaffney. 8. C., by Cherokee Drag Co. f. 1107. 1 year. —When the machinery of the Pare Food laws gets la operation to the refuse pile will go stacks of ground apices nod flavoring extracts which are sSU being used by the unsuspect ing pubtto. hr The Ledger, #1 a year. HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at premium rates fixed oc the basis of the actuaries'tables of life expectation, and'therefore, absolutely f air ts 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 but 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 j, 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 governing Life Insurance. It is directed by men whose homes and interests are in Mas 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, Spartanburg, S. C. Mar. 10th.’190fc o rc a. 1^ E 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. roa aENT—One 10-room dwelling with water, baths and electric lights. Brick store room with rooms overhead. If yoa are contemplating building a new house, call at my office aud .see many new plana. t iM L. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insurance OFFICE OVEa NATIONAL BANK 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 coarses. Health record not surpassed. Close personal attention to the health and social development of eacn pupil. Uniform worn on all public occasion** CHARGES VERY LOW. ESSi Annuel Seeeten wM begin en fleptemper 1 Sth 1#07. For Catalogue, AAdreeo. REV. J. M. RHODES, President, UMeton.N. C.