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\ ' Hot Stove—Cool Kitchen THE NOISELESS GUI □ How do you expect to en dure the broiling days of summer if you prepare all the food over a glowing coal fire? You need a “ New Perfec tion ” Oil Stove that vttll do the cooking without cook ing the cook. It concen trates plenty of heat under the pot and diffuses little or none through the room. Therefore, when working with the NEW PERFECTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove the kitchen actually seems as comfortable as you could wish. it to be. u This, in itself, is wonderful, but, more than that, the New Perfection” Oil Stove does perfectly every thing that any stove can do. It is an ideal all-round cook-stove. Made in three sizes, and fully warranted. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. The Lamp _ a substantial, stron strong- ~ ly made and hand- ■ome lamp. Burns for hours with a strong, mellow light. Just what you need for even ing reading or to light the dining-room. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (iMeorpo rated) Halt! Just stop and think one moment about your printed stationery. “A firm or individual’s printed stationery is an index to his business judgement.” If you want something that you can be sure will make a good impression where- ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to us. We guarantee satisfac tion and can do work in a “hurry.” liie Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. && Mail orders receive prompt attention. 4 Smokeless Weapon Is to Be Tested at Sandy Hook. FIRED WITHOUT ANY POWDER Uncle Sam to Have First Chance at Weapon That Hurls 2,000,000 Bullets Hourly With No Danger of Burst ing—Cost of Firing Said to Be Small. The United States government has completed arrangements with Fred Bangerter, inventor of the new noise less and smokeless gun, whereby one of these destructive machines is to have a thorough trying out at Sandy Hook, with the ultimate view of the gun being taken over by the ordnance department. This gun, which is fired by some mysterious power which the inventor declines to divulge, but which he says is neither powder nor other explosive nor compressed air, is capable of dis charging 2.000,000 bullets an hour without recoiling or becoming over heated and with absolutely no danger of bursting. After a two hour visit from Colonel Birnie and Major Dickson of the army ordnance board, recently, at which the merits of the Bangerter gun were fully discussed, the two officers requested the inventor to build one of his guns for a tryout at Sandy Hook. Mr. Bau- gerter recently confirmed the news at his home in Brooklyn. The new gun, he said, will be of such a character that for the preservation of- life and property it can only be tested on the target range at the Hook. “I am arranging now,” said he, “to build a gun that will send a half inch ball a distance specified by Colonel Birnie and with sufficient velocity to kill or dangerously wound a man. The new gun will be made of steel and the parts will be perfect, so that the gun can be worked to the highest speed re quired to fulfill the maximum demands. The gun I have at present is made of brass in all its parts, and some of the parts are worn, so severe have been the tests to which they have been sub jected. “Brass is a much softer metal than steel and will therefore not stand the work that steel will. The bullets I use now are solid steel, and. being much lighter than lead, are uot capable of acquiring the velocity of the heavier metal by a large percentage. The bul lets that will be used in the real trial at Sandy Hook will be load incased in steel. They will be heavy enough to do the work properly.” The inventor said he told the officers everything about the gun except the power which is used to discharge it. He said they talked a long while i I out it, but eventually admitted that they could uot even venture a conjecture as to the power. Mr. Bangerter mad-- the interesting disclosure that the Uussian government may take over the new In vention if the United States does not show a disposition to move in the mat ter. Said be: “I know what I have. No individual can buy the secret, because it would take too much money to pay for it. Only a national government could af ford to buy such a thing, and I am not going to divulge the secret until I can get an assurance from a power able to compensate me as I think I should be. I have had all kinds of offers made to induce me to tell how I project those bullets, but I have also received a proposition from a wealthy promoter of New York city who proposes to go to Europe within a few weeks awl lay the matter before Russia’s war minister “This gentleman offers to pay his own expenses and to furnish .$25,000 with which to build a complete gun. mounted on an auto truck and equip ped with the necessary motive power to operate truck and guu—that is, a hundred horsepower motor. He has transacted business with the Russian government and is well acquainted with high officials there.” Other governments are also after the gun, according to the Inventor. He Is disposed to give the United States the first chance, he said, but be added: "It is the experience of all who have any invention to offer to the United States that the delay is disheartening I have had an extensive cable corre spondence with London, in which I am offered $5,000,000 for the world’s right, provided the gun will stand the British government test. A month’s option was requested by cable, but out of courtesy to the chief of the United States war ordnance board 1 declined to give an option to the Englishman. I cabled him that I would consider the proposition. You see, there are several good reasons why I am anxious to get some kind of an intimation from Uncle Sam that he will do business If I can provide the gun I describe. Of course, even after the transaction reaches the stage where an appropriation is asked for by General Crozier, It will take congress months if not years to pass upon it, and the delay might so mili tate against consideration by other powers tha* 1 may be prevented from making any kind of a deal with either one of them.” No date has yet been fixed for the trial of the new gun at Sandy Hook. The new gun £an be operated by two men, and one striking feature of it is that, whereas it costs $20,000 to fire 1,000,000 bullets for the present serv ice guns, the total cost using the Ban- gerter gun would be $10. C C C HEALS d.d.d.OLD SORES No old sore exists merely because the flesh is diseased at that partic ular spot; if this were true simple cleanliness and local applications would, heal them. Whenever a sore or ulcer refuses to heal readily, the blood is at fault; this vital fluid is filled with impurities and poisons which are being' constantly discharged Into the place, feeding it with noxious matter and irritating and inflaming the nerves and tissues so the sore cannot heal. These impurities in the blood may be the remains of some constitutional trouble, the effect of a debilitating spell of sickness, leaving disease germs in the system, or the absorption by the blood of the fermented refuse matter which the bodily channels of waste have failed to remove. Again the cause may be hcreditarj’, the diseased blood of ancestry being handed down to posterity; but whatever the cause, the fact that the sore will not heal shows the necessity for the very best constitutional treatment. There is nothing that causes more worry and anxiety than an old sore ■which resists treatment. Every symptom suggests pollution The Craze Over Bridge Whist. Then the good lady went on to tell him what bridge had come to be; how people played it on trains all the way from New York to San Francisco; how they had tables in their autos and played while they were touring over the world. “Once,” she said, “I took a party to see the America’s cup races off Sandy Hook, and when we got back to the pier some one called, ‘Who won?’ and the answer was “Mrs. Billy’s ahead, but we’re going on this evening.’ I took a party of friends through the Mediterranean and up the Nile, and we passed Venice and Cairo and the pyramids and the Suez caual, and they never once looked up. They were playing bridge. And you think I’m jok ing, but I mean just literally what I say. I know a man who was travel ing from New York to Philadelphia and got into a game with some stran gers and role all the way to Palm Beach to finish it!”-Upton Sinclair is American Magazine. and disease—the discharge, the red, angry looking flesh, the pain and in flammation, and the discoloration of surrounding parts, all show that deep down in the blood there are morbid and dangerous forces at work, con stantly creating poisons which may in the end lead to Cancer. Local applications are valuable only for their cleansing and antiseptic effects; they do not reach the blood, where the real cause is located, and can therefore have no real curative worth. S. S. S. heals old sores by going down to the fountain-head of the trouble and driving out the poison-producing germs and morbid matters which are keeping the ulcer open. It removes every particle of impurity from the cir culation and makes this life-stream pure, fresh and health-sustaining. Then as new, rich blood is carried to the place the healing begins, all discharge ceases, the inflammation leaves, new tissue and healthy flesh are formed, and soon the sore or ulcer is well. S. S. S. is the greatest of all blood puri fiers and finest of tonics, just what is needed in the treatment, and in addi tion to curing the sore will build up and strengthen every part of the system. Special book on Sores and Ulcers and any medical advice desired furnished free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. I want to recommend S. S. S. to any win am in need of a blood purifier,'and especially as a remedy fo|soresand obstinate ulcers. In 1377 I had my leg badly cut on the sharp edge of a barrel, and having on a blue woolen stocking the place was badly poisoned from the dye. ^ great sore formed and for years no one knowfl what I suffered with the place. I tried, it seemed to me, everything I had ever heard of, but I got no relief and I thought I would have to go through life with an angry, discharging sore on my leg. At last I began the ute >f S. S. S., and it was but a short time untit I saw that the place was improving. I continued it until it removed all the poison from my bi >•>! and made a complete and permanent cure of the sore. JNO. ELLIS- 250 Navy Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. What About a Cook-Stove? Now that summer time and ‘dog-days’’ are just ahead, everybody who “summers” at home, is consider ing how to simplify things and get the most comfort out of an uncom fortable situation. "Wle interview the ice man; order thin clothes; plan to ease up here and relax there; but more than like ly forget the one most important item in the whole hot-weather scheme —some means of doing the family cooking without the Insufferable heat of a coal fire in the bitchen. Everyone with experience knows how tiresome it is to stay in a stuffy room to prepare a meal, let alone the doing of a big baking. But everyone doesn’t know how very easy it is to change a hot kitchen to a cool one, anfi do better cooking at the same time. Just add to your list of summer conveniences a New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook Stove and you’ve done all that any one can do to les sen hot weather discomfort. Wouldn’t It be fine of a summer; morning to step in the kitchen, put on the kettle, broil the steak, bake the muffins, filter the coffee and give the breakfast call In one fourth the time you’d take to do it all on a coal stove? i And wouldn’t It be fine to be as; cool when the breakfast was prepar-, ed as when you first entered the kitchen? People who have tried It say that the New Perfection Oil Stove actual-! ly does everything In the line of cook-, Ing and domestic service without overheating the room or the worker.; Undoubtedly the reason is to'be found in the blue flame principle on which the stove works. A cylindrical chimney concentrates the heat at the stove top and in this way prevents surface radiation as in a coal or wood stove. It is easy to see that this lessens very much the matter of' personal dis comfort in summer housekeeping. i So don’t forget the New Perfection Oil Stove In your summer plans and you will have a comfortable kitchen and the best cook stove In the world. Good Harness. Don’t you want a good Harness, a better Harness than you ever owned before? Then come to see us. We know how to make good Harness—been making good Harness eighteen years. We use Old Fashion Pure Oak Tanned Leather, give you good, honest work, make the price right and guarantee the goods Prompt Shoe Repairing. 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We are glad to have you in spect, and if you wish, compare quality and prices with anyone. ^ on will find in our stock the necessary things for your Spring and Summer outfit. Nice, airy Lawns, Batiste, Shear Linens in plain, checks, stripes, and shadow plaids and stripes. See our nice black Taffeta at 98c per yard ; a better one at $1.15 and $1.85. New Waist Patterns with rings or dots—very stylish. SHOES! SHOES!! Low Cuts in Tans, Vici or Patent Leather, Pumps or Oxfords. Imperial Brand— none better and very few lines the equal. Tan and Black Hosiery in Gauze and Lace Lisle from 10c to 60c the pair. Our long black Silk Gloves at $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 are the best we have seen for the price. Nice, large hitching lot and stalls for your convenience in rear off store. w. j. FOUR. BUTTERICK PATTERNS We invite you to call at our pattern department and we will tell you how you can get THE DELINEATOR AND FOUR COPIES OF BUTTERICK FASHIONS ALL FOR $1.50 Really a remarkable offer.