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C. i F" O R © JLv E2 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 FOR RENT—One 10-room dwelling with water, baths and electric lights. Brick store room with rooms overhead. If you are contemplating bnilding a new house, call at my office and see many new plans. SAM L. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insurance OFFICE OVER NATIONAL BANK Imbmmmivshnev I ! '»»»»: | Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. W Henry Nelson Snyder, M. A., Litt. D„ LL. D n President * 4 Ten Departments.—Gymnasium under competent director. Athletic ■ Grounds. Library and Librarian. Science Hall. Fifty-fourth year be- •£*| gins September 18, 1907. For catalogue address J. A. GaVirwell, Secy. Wofford College Fitting school, Spartanburg, S. C. Three New Brick Buildings Steam Heat and Electric Lights. Indi vidual attention to each student. Next Session begins September 18th, 1907. For catalogue and information address A. M. DuPrf., Headmaster. Auio 3-1 rar^iKl. ^ ^ ^ A M & it A W A.A A A - i W* A A A A A. .A A A ^ ^A .. A A A A A A A A A A A ■>P V' *: :i p tv ! I * Francis F. Brandewiede Believes In Joviality as a Remedy. CRACKED JOKES ON SICKBED Littleton Female College Splendid location. Health resort. Hot water* heat. Electric lights and other modern improvements. 240 bearding 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 pupil. Uniform worn on all public occasions. CHARGES VERY LOW. 26th Annual Session will begin on Septemper 18th 1907. For Catalogue, Address. REV. J. M. RHODES, President, Littleton,N. C. All kinds of Job Work done office at The Ledgei neatly and at orices commensurate ’w ith hish °Tade work Trv us. Aged Alton (Mo.) Court Clerk Tells How He Cured Himself of Parsly*is. Converts His Sick Wife, Who Is Fast Recovering—His Favorite Joke. Joviality—pure, unadulterated good humor—backed up by hearty laughter, is a positive cure for any disease, says Francis F. Braudewiede, eighty-two years old, clerk of the city court of Alton, Mo. Seven months ago he was stricken with paralysis, both arms and legs be ing helplessly crippled. Today he is walking the streets, bantering his friends, joking and telling how he cured himself by forgetting his trou bles and laughing and having a good time with those who called to conaole and offer their sympathy, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “If more persons would be good hu mored and laugh Instead of brooding over their Illness, there would not be half so many sick in the world,” said Brandewiede In relating how he cured himself. “At my age it would discour age almost any man to be stricken helpless with paralysis, but I have looked on the sunny side of things all my life, and I did not despair, though I often overheard friends who called to see me say that I was on my death bed this time all right. “I just kept my spirits up. Joked about my Illness, told good stories and made my visitors tell me some. I laughed heartily all the time and never for a moment gave way to gloom. I Blept just as peacefully and sweetly as when 1 was an infant in my mother's arms. I awoke bright and early each morning, feeling refreshed and ready for another day’s Joviality. “I did not take any medicine and attribute my recovery solely to the bright, cheerful manner In which I bore my Illness. The faith I have bad all my life in the efficacy of cheerful ness as a cure for all ails has been Increased a thousandfold. I am not a believer In the Osier theory, for at eighty-two I feel Just as spry physical ly and as capable mentally as I did forty years ago. I am going back to my official duties within a few weeks.” This rugged old man also says that he Is getting his wife, who has been seriously ill for some time. Into his way of thinking. She has been suffer ing from a complaint which the doc tors told her would soon necessitate an operation. Brandewiede was so cheer ful during his own IHnetw that his seventy-four-year-old wife began to partake of his spirit, and now she Is fast recovering, he says. For eighteen years Brandewiede has been clerk of the city court of Alton. So popular Is he with both political parties because of bis good humor and wit as a raconteur that within the past few years no one has been named on the opposition ticket. During the seven months in which be was regain ing his health by his laugh cure his duties at the city court were perform ed by Deputy Clerk 8. F. Conor. Mr. Brandewiede cured himself of paraly sis by spending his time on his sick bed telling funny stories and laughing as heartily as if he were sitting over a bumper of wine. There has been widespread curiosity in Alton to know these laugh cure talee. All day recently Brandewiede was buttonholed by acquaintances who wanted to hear him relate the stories which warded off the hand of death Chronic sufferers who know the Jolly old official were especially solicitous to have him use the beneficent influence of bis joviality on them. He was kept busy narrating mirthful tales from his seemingly unlimited fund, and it is said that perambulating Invalids with whom he conversed went away laugh Ing as lustily as he and determined to take up his cure. , Of course* this witty old veteran, who has all the vim and fire of a robust man of forty, has his favorite “contes ‘ * drolatiqnes.” One of them, In which he takes particular delight, though i r has a tinge of the grewsome. Is this: j “Some twenty years ago I was about I to alight from a street car when an i intoxi ated man placed his hand on I my shoulder and informed me that he j wished to talk with me a moment “I told him If he wanted to talk to i rne he would have to get off at that j comer. This seemed to Irritate him. ; lor he hurled me from the car. My I right foot went under the wheels, and two toes were mashed. I went home, removed the shoe and threw the toes out of the window. Soon I saw two of my chickens suddenly pounce upon j^wbat a few momenta ago were such a valuable part of my anatomy and gob ble them up. “ Til get even with both of you for that,’ I said to myself. The next day I caught them, chopped off their heads and ate them at the evening meal.’ ” Merely a Change of Energy and Not Annihilation. What we call death is not annihila tion: it is only a change of energy. Decay Is simply the breaking up of life Into new and more multiplied forms of life. The latest science recognizes at least nine different forms of energy into which a single force may pass and rc- | pass without diminution or loss. That, of course, Is the great discovery of modem science, that energy may be transformed from one form into an other. may be transferred from one body to another, but cannot be de stroyed. Not Immediately was the bearing of this scientific law on the doctrine of immortality recognized. And yet, as the mind adjusted Itself to the almost protean forms of energy, It became ap parent that life Itself, which Is the highest form of energy we know, must Inevitably become subject to this law. Death, when It touches a human life. Is not destruction of energy; It is sim ply a change through which life passes Into some new form of activity. Your candle, for Instance, burns down to the socket and after a flicker or two goes out To the eye of sense that Is the end of your candle, and It has been used over and over again as the image of death. Bnt according to the law of the conservation of ener gy the light and heat of that candle are not lost They have passed into other forms of energy more subtle, but not less real. A log Is slowly consumed upon the hearth until nothing remains bnt a heap of filmy ash, but the light and energies of that log are not lost The life which was In the tree deposited in that log certain forces, and the fire has liberated these forces In other modes of activity. The whole uni verse Is a vast area of ceaseless. Inde structible energy, of which life Is the highest type. Within the last half dosen years science has emphasized still another fact—namely, that the more powerful a force Is the less visible it Is to hu man sight, the less susceptible of rec ognition. The energy of radlnm, for example, is so tremendous that the hundredth part of a grain of radium dropped Into Its own weight of water will change the temperature of that water from the freezing point to the boiling point In a single hour. It Is of course admitted that this does not prove the Immortality of the individual soul by any means, but it does prove the Indestructibility of life. Religion has surely gained a magnifi cent trophy from science when science tells her that life is an Indestructible element In the universe.—North Ameri can Review. His Appetite Is Truly Royal. King Carlos of Portugal Is the lar- uest eater among the royal families of 1 lie world. Eating is a more important matter to him than any affair of state, on the occasion of his recent visit to Ning Edward he was asked what fea- i’tre of Ids English entertainment had pleased him most. “The roast beef,” said the king. “And after that, your majesty?” was Inquired. “More roast beef.’’ declared Carlos, with gusto. One afternoon it was down on the programme that he should review the army. The soldiers were in place, the generals in gorgeous uniforms at their heads, but no king. One hour, two hours, passed, but still no king. An official was sent to search for Carlos. He found him at table. “The army awaits your majesty.” au- nyuucc l the official. “Let the army wait until I have fin- ; shod this glorious lunch,’’ replied the king, and wait the army did until he had eaten three mor»* pheasants stuffed with truffles. Carlos weighs more than T'*) pounds. '■ an annual allowance of $000,- fOO, but never falls to overdraw it. . -t of the n oney going for fo >'. and rink, the rest, on the races.—London Times. FCR be*t prices on Mercies, W. J. lianess, Gaffney. — 1 Subscribe for Tbs Lsdaer. fl ■ 7ve cannot dwell too strongly upon the better service youll get Jrom the special line of X TRAGOOP boys' gar ments we are selling with such unusual success. do you want a Russian or sailor suit Jor the boy of three to ten years? Ora stylish Over coat? 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L THE CHEROKEE DRUG COMPANY J The Good Provider. ‘Th ugh Mrs. M-K' 'ey.” said :t r m- 'on clergyman, "left an estate* of about '2f; she was one of tic- nm-t •har:'tble women In Oh: - Her «*.•; • ii-ulMie.-s In charity ' ork von* i .vr- i; ; g. I u«ed to like to hour her talk >f them. “S’1 1 * <>u<-e t-.lil me about a c lu •-b iff whose children she had he!pc I i-. educate. The widow, rather ! * - : :'e, m fi i d. few . nth • a " !»• marriage Mr*. McKinley asked her t< she was gelt' ig <-n. •• Tse si-gbti.:’ mi line, thank ye,’ tin- '-ride answered. “•And is your h : ’>:uid g g>-> 1 pr-> I' ■!•?' said Mrs. McKinley. “ ‘I;, isl he 1 a good nrovi-lah. .4. a:;.,’ was t! • reply. -If., got :•»<* »lve now j ’at - to wash at dis las’ •• eel:.’’’—Pittsburg Telegraph. DR. J. F. GARRETT, DENTIST. Moved to now oMo* ovor FrodoHofc •treet Front of the Battery. ’Phone la Office and Reel danoe DR. W. K. GUNTER, O FI tN T X fc-i X Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. Crown and bridge work a spadalcy FOR ALL COUNTY NEWt, IN PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE •TATE AND EVENTS CF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS. TAKE AN! READ THK LE9D1R. Notice to tlie Public! ' On and after September 1st, 1907, I will sell no more bread or bread tickets on credit. My reasons for establishing a cash basis are too numerous to men tion, however, will mention a few: First. The material from which bread is made is bought strictly for cash, and must be sold accordingly. Second. Bread is sold for too small a margin to pay for carrying an entry through the number of books it must go when charged. Last, but not least, purchas ers of tickets frequently receive bread from the driver without giving him a ticket, as they are not convenient, and when bills are presented they are under the impression that tickets have been given in exchange and ^ unpleasant feelings are caused when such bills are presented to both purchaser and collector. I trust you will thoroughly undei stand my position and realize it is to the best interest of both purchasers and myself that I establish a cash basis, ^ and always send cash when you j want tickets or bread, and I, sliall continue to strive to de-1 serve your patronage. Respectfully, J F. Finckkn. w 'TOIvIvESOK Our Buyer Leaves (Markets. Look Out Today For the Eastern For Good Values. $ ¥