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PRESCRIPTION EXERCISE. EXCHEQUER TALLIES. Call for an Ederheimer-Stein “Yale” Overcoat For Young Men TF you’ll acknowledge there’s any ■A value in the advice of a store that makes the study of clothing its business every day in the year, you’ll promptly decide on a “Yale" overcoat this time. Style, snap and smartness stand right out for everybody to see and admire. Everything about it is better because of the materials it’s made from and the new and superior way these materials are used. Absolutely the newest idea in good taste and correctness. Made from unusually good fabrics in fancy patterns. Sizes 30 to 38. Prices $18 to $35. Carroll & Byers Let Us Put You On A NEW ROOF Or Repair the Old One We do all kinds of roofing, slate, tin and metal shingles, and guaran tee all to be water-proof. |We do all kinds of tin and galvanized iron work, galvanized cornice, gutters, skylight, ridge roll valley, etc. Write or phone us. O. G. WILSON & CO Opposite Ledger Office. t/it tTit tfrt tfit Ifii tTit tfi'tA'v t f / < / / / / r.'.f f > t t V / - / - / / { . t :/ l ./■ / / / / / / c & r St ' S .■ t ■ t New Designs. You want to see the new things in Bracelets, Lockets, Combs, Chains, Cuff Buttons, Brooches, Stick Pins, Hat Pins, Barrettes, Rings, Buttons, Waist Sets, Cuff Pins, Baby Pins, Chains, Fobs, Gold and Silver goods, just go to the Gaffney Jewelry Co. The best and largest lines to select from. You just look around and you can see that we have the largest stock in Cherokee county. See our stock of Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Clocks, Silver ware, China, Cut Glass and Novelty Goods. Bring your Watch to us and have it fixed right. We will be pleased to see you right away. Gaffiiey Jewelry Co. Best Goods and Lowest Prices. HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at premium rates fixed on ^he basis of the actuaries’tables of lifej expectation, andj therefore, absolutely fair is 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 when they will need it most keenly. x • ... 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. x x 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 this State. It is.an old line, hgal reserve.JStraight Life Company of; tae soundest kind, and should have the support of the people of the State. x Southeastern Life Insurance Company, ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. PUIS WHILE ST SEA, Frohman’s Plan to Give Perform ances on Ocean Liners. BELIEVES IT WOULD PAY. Theatrical Manager Negotiating With Prominent Steamship Company. Even "First Nights” Contemplated as Part of His Scheme of Interna tional Interchange of Attractions. With theatera In New York and Lon don and companies playing In almost every country where theaters are looked upon as an amusement neces sity, Charles Frohman has gone him self one better, says the New York Herald. He recently made known his plans for presenting his stars and many of his large productions on the big transatlantic steamships. Mr. Frohman said: “I am negotiating with the Cunard Steamship company in regard to adding to their already extensive department equipment of the new Lusitania and her sister ship, the Mauretania, soon to make her maiden voyage to the United States, the nec essary stage facilities for giving a complete dramatic performance on board each of these mammoth vessels. “Every season since I began produc ing plays abroad l have brought Lon don and New York closer together un til players on both sides of the Atlantic think nothing of appearing in London one week and here next. •‘When I interrupted Miss Marie Tempest's successful London ruu in ‘The Marriage of Kitty’ to bring her ami her company to New York for a brief engagement I not only had to pay a heavy bill for transatlantic transportation, but I also had to sacri fice the profits of three weeks of per formances. It < ost me fully $17,000 to carry out that idea, but it was success ful, and I was satisfied. Speaking not from a nautical view, it paved the way for other quick trips of companies to and from London and demdUstrated that nothing but the question of ex pense stands Ik*tween making London and New York theatrical suburbs to each other. “And I think the expense of such trips is already solved! The arrival of the Lusitania the other day at New York with 2.000 passengers gave me the suggestion that I may soon be able to send an American company to Lou don every fortnight, playing them right across the Atlantic, with perhaps the loss of not more than two per formances on the way. “If the Cunard company agrees to my proposition, and I have every rea son to think it will, I am sure a satis factory arrangement can be made that will result in dozens of American com panies and as many English compa nies exchanging places for limited sea sons within a year after the plan is in augurated. “In months like January, February and March, when ocean travel is dull, the plan could not be carried out, but when travel is heavy I am sure there would be a splendid revenue for the •floating’ performances. As we carry all of the necessary properties, scenery and costumes to London when one of our companies goes there to play, there would l)e no handicap on performances on the ocean in that respect. “Whoever has crossed the ocean and doesn’t feel that an opportunity to go to the theater would be hailed with joy by almost everybody on the pas senger list? In the first place, It would Ik.* a genuine novelty. It would give the women a chance to dress, and it would furnish the men an excuse for cutting out the smoking room a night or two. There wouldn’t be any free list, and there wouldn't be any dramat ic critic to worry about. “It is not improbable that I would give first performances of plays under such circumstances. Think of It—a first night in midocean! L>o not be sur prised if some time, soon after the ocean greyhound theater l)ecoines an established fact, the newspapers get a wireless message like this: “On the Lusitania, midocean, Saturday, April 9.—Tonight Miss Hattie Williams, under Charles Krohman's management, appeared for the first time on any stage in a musical play entitled 'Fluffy Ruf fles.' scoring an immense hit, etc. "The Atlantic Ocean First Nighter. “That would almost beat the Her ald’s ‘American First Nighter’ In Lon don. I have only one regret in con templating those deep sea ‘trying out’ performances of new plays. I may not l)e able to go to Poughkeepsie or Atlantic City any more.” Long Distance Compressed Air. An example of how a big construc tion company economizes on its vari ous Jol)8 is afforded by present opera tions of the concern building the Bel mont tunnel under the East river at Forty-second street, New York, which also is doing a section of the new Sixth areftue tunnel, says a New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis patch. At the foot of Forty-second street the company has a compressed air plant. Instead of erecting another plant for its Sixth avenue contract it ran a line of pipe along Forty-second street to the subway at Park avenue, where a connection was wade with •» line used by the company when It was helping to build the subway. At Sixth avenue the connection was picked up again and the pipe carried on the ela- vuted structure clown to Thirteenth street, where the company’s men are working now. Thus the air that drives the drills deep underground at Thir teenth street originates at the foot of East Forty-second street, almost two miles away. Car* of Doctor* In th* Phytical Train ing of Patiant*. New York physicians are beginning to write an entirely new kind of pre scription which cannot lie filled at the ordinary drug store, and as a result an entirely new kind of pharmacy has come Into existence. It is a place where the doctor's prescription for a mixture of this kind and that form of physical exercise In just the proper proportion may be filled, for the meal ern prescription for exercise is entirely different from the old advice. “You need exercise; take it." which was giv en to the patient. Today in advising | exercise the medHil man is getting to : be as definite as he is in prf c. iblng drugs. In many cases llu* physicians have themselves studied physical training, and when they get through with an ex amination they prescrilte specific exer cises and combinations of exercises which will strengthen this or that set of muscles and so help the pa tient’s lungs or heart or relieve cor tain forms of stomach trouble or other i organic weakness. Often one set of exercises will help ! the patient, while another might Ik* hurtful for him. A certain uuml)er i of hours of activity might be good, but a longer time bad; cousouiient.'y the physician writes out a prescription and then sends the man to the new kind of laboratory, the physical train ing drug store, so to speak, to get it filled. Such a prescription might well read as follows: Free movements, light drill Vi hr. Light chest weight* Mr back, leg and waist muscles, breathing ex ercise Vi hr. Recreative gam >i hr. Anua In shower, graded tempera ture 75 F. to tiO F 3 min. Rub down 5 min. Met. Sig.—Take each afternoon and rest half hour before dinner. DR. UPTdDATE. The patient then is advised to take this prescription or the letter which embodies it to a gymnasium, prefer ably one in charge of a medical man. Possibly the prescribing physician will write privately to the gymnasium di rector that the man's heart is weak and to see that he does not depart i from the mild dose of exercise imli- j cated. The gymnasium man then takes hold | of the patient and seo?> that he gets Just Hit* sort of work he needs to build | him up and to give him physical tone. ; From time to time the physical phar- ; mneist tests the effect of the daily | medicine ami if indications are wrong consults with the physician as to changes in the treatment.—New York Sun. Irreligion and Psychology. We make a great mistake, I think. In attributing to irreligion the breaking away from church life of large num bers rof intelligent and pure minded pers<iis. Whatever proportion of this Is du| to lux of morality or to the love of plfasure, there is also much that arises from a vague sense of unreality In the position and claims of the minis try. People have studied the psychol ogy of religious experience, they have looked out more broadly upon the world, they have pondered the phenomena of I spiritual life appearing outside of Christian boundaries, they have sought and found communion with God un- mediated by sacerdotal permissions and authorities, aud their lives have lu consequence grown away from a ministry hedged about with unneces sary survivals of unverified theory. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as mysticism. It is merely more general today than ever before. True mysticism, which rests on belief in im mediacy of access to God, has found a powerful ally In true psychology. Moving into a larger freedom of the spirit, the enlightened religious con sciousness slips, with less compunc tion, ties of ecclesiastical custom that; seem uo longer essential to reality.— 1 C. C. Hall in Atlantic. | Th* Jew* of th* World. The American Jewish year book, Just Issued by the Jewish Publication society of Philadelphia, furnishes some Interesting figures. The Jewish popu- latlou of the United States is given as 1,777.185. which shows that only two countries have a greater Jewish popu lation—viz, Russia, with 5.215,806, and j Austria-Hungary, with 2.07(5,378. The Immigration through the ports of New j York, Philadelphia and Baltimore for' the year ended June 30 was 134,-' 113, of which number 117.468 landed In New Yorw. The Jewish population of the United States is larger by 531; than the combined Jewish population | of the British empire. Germany, j France, Italy, Morocco, Turkey, Spain. ; China, Netherlands, Denmark. Norway, ! Peru and Crete. The British empire ’ has only 3(51.639 Jews, of whom 17.- 403 are in Australia, 18,228 in India.' 48,820 in South Africa and 40,000 in! Canada and British Columbia, There are 463,686 Jews in Turkey, 30,578 in , Egypt and 49,500 in Persia. In these three countries there are about 100,000 less than there are in New York city. 1 The Jewish population of the world Is given as 11,585.202. No More Offhand Sermon*. The Brooklyn presbytery at its re cent session adopted a resolution re- 1 sdnding the rule which compelled can didates for the ministry to preach ex temporaneously for five minutes be*; fore the presbytery! A written ser- ! mon, however, is required in all cases. In advoeatiu.i the change Dr. Burrell said: ‘The Apostle Rt. John after years of preaching was able to condense the gosjK?! into a few words, but It Is not fair to expect a beginner to do so.”— New York Sun. Barbaric 8y*t*m of Account* Ling*r*d Long In England. The abrogation of the long estab lished British law forbidding marriage with “a deceased wife's sister” is In teresting in recalling the abandonment of other time hallowed customs of that country. Among these was the final giving up of the exchequer tall'es, an ancient mode of keeping accounts in the BritI h exchequer long after letter modes were in use everywhere else. I Macaulay, referring to this, said: “Ages ag > a sa\ ag;* mode of keeping accounts on notched sticks was intro duce 1 Into th;* court of exchequer, aud the accounts were kept mu< h as Robin son Crusoe kept bis calendar on the desert island.” Arithmetics and arithmeticians, a multitude of accountants and book keepers lived and died, “still official routine inclined to these notched sticks as if they were the pillars of the con- , stitution. . still the exchequer ac- i counts loutinued to be kept on ^er'.ain , splints of elm wood called tallies. “In the reign of George III. an in quiry was made by some revolutionary spiiit whether, pens, ink and paper and sl.-.fe-- and pencils being In exist ence. tiiis obstinate adherence to an obsolete < uu.oui ought to be continued aud whether a change ought not to be effected. All the red tape in the coun try grew redder at the bare mention of this bold and original conception, and it took until 1826 to get these sticks abolished. In 1834 It was found that there was considerable accumu lation of them. The question arose as to what was to be done with such wornout. woiln eaten, rotten old bits of wood. The sticks wore housed at Westminster, and it would naturally occur to any intelligent person that nothing could 1)6 easier than to allow them to Ik? carried away for firewood by the miserable people who lived in that neighborhood. However, they never had been useful, and official rou tine required that they never should be. So the order went forth that they were to be privately and confidentially burned. "It cauu* to pass that they wore to be burned in a stove in tlx* house of lords. The stove, overgorged with these preposterous sticks, set tire to the paneling, the paneling set lire to the house < f lords, the house of lords set fire to the house of commons, and the two houses were reduced to ashes “Now. we may reasonably remark'in conclusion that all obstinate adherence to rubbi !i •vhich the time has long outlived io < •rtain to have in the soul of it more or less that is pernicious# and destructive and that will some day set fire to something or other which, if given boldly to the winds, would have been harmless, but which, obstinately retained, is ruinous.” There is or was a kind of rationality in the tally stick system, one stick be ing for the creditor, the other for the debtor, aud the tallying of the notches a proof that both were genuine. In Scotland even as late as half a century ago it was customary for the baker's lad to bring what were called "the nick sticks" with his bread, a notch being made for each loaf that was de livered. While the notches on this stick corresponded with those on the one he had left both parties were sat isfied that the account was truly kept. —Indianapolis News. The Humorou* Korean Budget. While a government’s budget Is not a conclusive test as to its fitness to rule, It is nevertheless valuable evi dence as to the things upon which the government throws the emphasis. It gives an Idea of the judgment of the government as to the relative value of things. Such being the case, It is well worth while examining the Korean budget, in glancing through this one cannot fail to be struck by the fact that in the Fame budget in which $1,- 103.359 is appropriated for the “Im perial privy purse” $424 Is appropri ated for public works. When we find $1,000,000 appropriated for the funeral expenses of the crown princess and $27 ,718 for all public schools outside the capital we cannot escape the con clusion that it overestimates the value of pageantry and. what is more serious, sadly underestimates the duty which a government owes to the people to promote a wide diffusion of intelli gence. Such a disproportionate outlay evidences an exaggerated estimate of the value of pageantry and an abbrevi ated notion of the value of education. —Edwin Maxey In Forum. New Town, New Name. Damsite is the name of a new town In Texas recently included In the list of postoffices. It is a village located on the 10,000 acre farm of Colonel Ce cil Lyon and associates in the Texas Panhandle. They have their own sys tem of Irrigation and are not selling the land, but will cultivate it, employ ing abodt 200 farm bands. A commis sary store Is conducted as a part of the farm enterprise, and a large amuse ment hall has Just been finished. The aim is to make Damsite a model com munity.—Forestry Association Report. Artistic Masterpiece. Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema has Just finished a picture which has engaged bis attention, for three years. It is the most wonderful and elaborate of Sir Laurem-eV work, for on a single canvas not five feet long there are painted no fewer than 2.500 figures. The scene shown is the Interior of the Roman Coliseum in the reign of Sep timus Severus. Just about the begin-, ning of the third century A. D., while I the ugun * are those of ballet dancers, j gladiaton. senators, etc., all dressed In brilliant coetumee.