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\ HUMAN RACE AFFUCTED WITH QUEER DISEASE Cooper Says Internal Parasites Cause Much Suffering Everywhere. The following remarkable statement was recently made by L. T. Cooper. It concerns the preparation which has been so widely discussed throughout the country during the past year, and has sold in such enormous quantities in leading cities: “It is now a well-known fact that wherever I have introduced my New Discovery medicine, hundreds of peo ple have brought internal parasites, or tapeworms, to me. In many cases these people did not know the nature of the parasite, aqd were consequently extremely nervous until I explained the matter to them. In some cities so many have had this experience that the public generally became t-larmed. “I take this opportunity of explain ing what these creatures are, and what I have learned about them in the past. “Tapeworms are much more com mon than would be supposed. I ven ture to say that ten per cent, of all chronic stomach trouble, or what is known as a 'rundown’ condition, is caused by them. An individual may suffer for years with one of these great parasites and not be aware of it. “Contrary to general belief, the ap petite is not greatly increased—it only becomes irregular. There is a general feeling of faintness, however, and a gnawing sensation in the pit of the stomach. “People afflicted with one of these parasites are nervous and depressed. Their chief sensation is one of lan guor, and they tire very easily. Lack of dhergy and ambition affect the body, and the mind becomes dull and slug gish. The memory becomes not so good, and the eyesight is generally poorer. “The New Discovery, in freeing stom ach and bowels of all impurities, seems to be fatal to these great worms, and almost immediately expels them from the system. I wish to assure anyone who has the experience just related with my preparation, that there is no cause for alarm in the matter, and that it will as a rule mean a speedy restoration to good health.” The Cooper medicines are a boon to stomach sufferers. We sell them* Gaffney Drug Co. • W. E. BURNETT, President A. W. LAWTON, Vloe-Prest. A Mar. A. O. SIMPSON, Secy. A Tress. J. P. LAWTON, Superintendent Owned by Dealers and Consumers-Independent of any Trust FARMERS’ FERTILIZER CO. CAPITAL STOCK PAID IN $50,000 —Manufacturers of—r High Grade Fertilizers Our Specialty-Coode Without Filler SPARTANBURG, SO. CAR. Feb, lb-lmo ? Local and Long Dietanoe Phones: Offlee 546; Factory 416 The kind that — ■ i grow aud pro- 1 ducewhatyou 1 im plant for. nr Coorlc ■ I l jUI III Ouullu Are the pret- 1 I •i tiest sample 1 ■ shown in the 1 ■ city. Com- 1 C pare them 3 K and see for I vourself. i I / Met Drug Co. Spring is Coming! We are now ready to serve our custo mers with our new Spring and Sum mer line of Woolens. Never beforej | has such a beautiful line of fancy and novelty suitings been displayed in. Gaffney. See us early and avoid the’” rush. Cleaning and pressing neatly done. Phone 43. in Frederick StT" Rofiinson & (5 ray, Taiforc "Star Brand Chicken Feed" Is a specially mixed grain feed for poultry, composed of wheat, cracked corn, kalfir corn, millet, white chopped oats, buck wheat, cane seed, and granulated oyster shells. Try it and watch results, 30c peck at W. Kyle Davenport’s, The New Shoe Stc re. I am receiving New Shoes nearly every week and will give you new, fresh stock at the very lowest prices. Try me and be convinced. .'TCion Yours to please, I. M.tPeeler. OiTOPATHIC PHYSICIAN* DRS. W. K. AND ■. B. HALS. MoAtgomery-Cniwtord Mi*, •tvtubws. 0. a Qcteopathy-ApplleAbl* to all (LOMAM. W« gtf 66f6dAl to il»66M6 Of dan, an tplaai Horn, Administration and Construction of World’s Best Highways. RECORD OF ALL WORK KEPT % Building of Roads Supervised by the Government as Carefully as a Rail road Constructs Track*—Marked At tention Paid to Drainage. Good roads are among the best assets of any community, and the American state which first secures them in a systematic way will derive benefits which it will never fully appreciate. The Los Angeles highway commis sion recently addressed inquiries to American Consul Skiuner at Marseilles, asking him about the laws and en gineering methods in France. Consul Skinner investigated and has published a most interesting explanation of the subject, from which the following ex tracts were made: France lias the finest roads in the world, both in physical form and rela tion to the national geography. The French nation has spent more than $400,000,000 on them to more than $200,000,000 spent by the local depart ments. Down at the bottom of the French road system is the humble cautonniere, or road foreman, who has charge of one to three miles of road. He is to the roads what the section boss is to a railroad’s organization. Up at the top is the School of Itoads and Bridges, a great technical college in which engi neering. construction and every detail of road building is taught. Between these two extremes the government controls, manages, regulates every- thing. A record is kept of every hit of road in the country, what it cost, who built it and how. the expenses for maintenance and rebuilding —every thing in its history is carefully record ed. France's highway system is card indexed like the list of patrons of a mail order house. France does not have the best roads because it has special skill in making them. An English engineer designed the scheme. No more so because it has especially large or unusually ex cellent supplies of materials. The same materials can be found all over the United States. French roods are per fect because the road laws are near perfection, because the road business is a profession nnd^not a job and be cause the men who make themselves proficient are certain oL special recog nition. But about the physical construction of a French road. To begin with, French experience proves that deep, solid foundations and fine surfaces are not so important as something else commonly overlooked—drainage, it is a primary and ironclad principle of French roadmaking that the roadway must receive no more than its own natural infall. Everything else must give way to this. A standard French national road is forty-six feet wide. ' In the middle is the road proper, twenty feet wide. Outside this, thirteen feet wide on either side, are driftways, sloping away from the surfaced road slightly. These are used as footpaths and must he hard and heavy enough to hold In place the surfacing material of the road proper. Finally outside all this must he a ditch on each side if the conforma tion of the ground makes this neces sary for drainage. They begin by digging out a “box*' in the earth the width of the roadway proper, twenty fcffl. This is carefully convexed at the l>ottom, so that the hard surfacing materials shall he of the same thickness throughout and give a surface of exactly the right curvature. This curvature is from oue- l.ftieth to one-fortieth of the width. V/nen the “box" has been carefully prepared the bottom and sides are vig orously “tamped” to assure that they will he hard enough to hold the solid materials firmly. Then It Is ready for the crushed stone, etc., to he put in. Every hit of crushed stone must pass through a two and one-third inch screen. Eight inches of this crushed material is deposited in the box. and then it is rolled with, a six ton roller. While the rolling is going on large amounts <»f water are constantly sprin kled on the surface. At the same time a mixture of sandy and argillaceous materials equal in volume to 10 per cent of the amount of crushed stone used is sprinkled slowly on the surface along with the water and very evenly, and the whole Is rolled down until the tire of a loaded wagon will make no track. Then the road is finished save for the requirement that it must sea son for fifteen days before being open ed to trafiic. This Is a description of a crushed stone surface. Where other materials most be used they are pro vided for in the French scheme—burn ed clay, gravel, etc. There is a plan for every material and every region. When the road Is built the cantou- niere tramps upland down itanA keeps it in repair, fills ruts with broken stone, clears the ditches, etc. Above the cantonnlore is a foreman in charge of a larger section, above him an en gineering superintendent, and so on up to the inspector general of high ways and bridges, who Is head of the whole system for the country. Every man In the list receives specific orders from his next superior and is ranked according to his execution of them. They have no broad tire laws In France, hut that happens because the people use brand tires by instinct. They have sense enough to know that good wide tires make the roads better In stead of worse. Nobody else except the French seems to have learned this. MARTYRS TO ETIQUETTE. Some Stern Ltws In Foreign Lands. Siamese Manners. It is astonishing how many strange mediaeval forms of etiquette have sur vived to rank among the greatest trib ulations of royal families of the pres ent time. When the present king of Spain was a child of seven he was playing in the palace at Madrid and pitched headlong down the great mar ble staircase. Undoubtedly he would have been killed had not a footman standing on one of the landings rushed forward and caught him. The next moment the footman realized with hor ror tbat he had committed a serious crime by laying hands on his sover eign. The stern laws of etiquette at the court compelled his dismissal in dis grace despite the gratitude of the queen and the royal family. The queen mother, however, gave the man a sum of nfoney with an annuity for life and appointed him a gatekeeper on one of her private estates, but he was Never again quite the same. He could never forget the disgrace that his ab- sentmindedness had brought upon him. The same rule of etiquette was re sponsible for the death of a queen of Slam, wife of the present king, who celebrated his birthday so munificently in Homburg recently. The present queen of Siam, by the way, is the king’s half-sister, was formerly only the second queen, and another half- sister of the king shared his throne ns principal wife and first queen. She perished almost twenty years ago. While embarking one evening on board her state barge for u trip on the river Meuam, on the shores of which Bangkok is built, she fell overboard. For any one but the king to have touched her in attempting her rescue would have constituted a violation of the laws of etiquette, punishable with death in its most horrible form. And it happened that the king was not pres ent. Nobody could see a way of rescu ing the queen without laying hands on her, and the attendants had too ranch regard for their own lives to take any chances at heroism. They gazed down at the floundering, shrieking queen and discussed the etiquette for the occa sion. After awhile the shrieks ceased, and the discussion was changed to the rules of etiquette connected with the fishing out of her I tody. The court mourned the queen's death for many days, hut there was one consolation- the rules of etiquette had beeu observ ed to the letter. Etiquette has always been an awe inspiring influence at the court of Rus sia, and by no one were its details more rigidly observed than by Prince Gortchakoff, who was prime minister under Alexander II. One day Lord Duffeiln asked the prince whether the emperor's cold was better. With bow ed head and eyes.half closed, the prime minister replied in a reverent voice, TIis majesty hue deigned to feel a lit tle better this morning.” The Pukede Moray, ball' brother of .Napoleon III. and ambassador to Russia, said of Gortchakoff that he seemed to pur when he spoke of any creature at court, even of the Grand Olga’s monkey.— New York Times. A Hair Raising Dog Story. The Kansas City Star is now devot ing much space to true dog stories, and the cheerful liars are contributing all sorts of anecdotes showing that dogs have almost human intelligence. The only really true story received by the {star went to it from Emporia, and it wasn’t printed, showing that the edi tor of the dog department doesn’t know truth when he sees It. An Emporia cit izen was horrified one morning by see ing a large golden eagle seize his mother-in-law. who was chopping kin dling wood in the yard. The rapacious bird flew witli her to the top of a neighboring telephone pole and began to eat her. The man bad a dog that he valued highly. It was a cross between a sleuth hound and a Teddy bear. The noble animal sized up the situation at once, climbed the pole and rescued* the unfortunate woman, also bringing down the golden eagle, which proved to be a stuffed one that had escaped from the laboratory of Mr. Dyche at Topeka.—Emporia Gazette. ItaMBy vM pM a* $Bi to MM < ■o m, JO par. - !• Vtt COST OF GOOD ROADS. Point* of Value From an Illinois High way Commissioner. George Stevens, a road commissioner of eleven years’ experience in Illinois, is quoted as follows by Farm Prog ress as to the cost of making good roads at a small expense: The grading can he done with a twenty horsepower traction engine at 40 cents per rod on an average. Four loads of rubble per rod and two loads of gravel make u good road. The av erage number of loads hauled near Rockford, III., per day would be about six. Of course this varies accordiug to distance, but six is about the aver age. We have no stone crusher, some thing I very much regret. I have tried to get one for years, but the cost of same has prohibited it so far. We break our rubble by hand. The cost of this road is as follows: Four loads of stone or rubble, 40 cents; IMPROVING ILLINOIS HIGHWAY. two loads of gravel, 20 cents; hauling same, at 50 cents per load, $3; break ing stone per rod, 15 cents: work in quarry getting out stone, 40 cents; grading road, 40 cents; total, $4.55 per rod, or $1,45G per mile. This makes a good road at all times of the year. Of course more money would make a still better road, hut the major part of our stone roads are made still cheaper than this, being made of three loads of rub ble per rod aud about one and one- half loads of gravel at a cost per mile of $1,120. There is not one farmer that kicks on account of the cost of these roads. The kick is on the other side or because we do not have more of them. The north part of our township (south of Rockford) is very sandy, and I doubt if the road drag would do any good there. Here the soil is dif ferent, and the drag works all right. 1 am not saying anything againct the use of the road drag, as I think it a fine thing, hut where stone and gravel are plentiful I say use them and make a hard road that will be good at all times of the year. LESSONS ON ROAD BUILDING. Campaign of Education Bogins In Louisiana. At a meeting of the parish superin tendents of education held about a year ago at Baton Rouge. La., the sen timent was in favor of consolidating several of the small rural schools into one large one. A meeting of the superintendents was held Dec. 14, 1907, at which the subject of road improvement was ear nestly discussed. The result of the discussion was the adoption of the fol lowing resolution, says the Good Roads Magazine: “Recognizing the improvement of our schools depends upon the building and maintenance of good roads and further recognizing that It Is the func tion of the public school to promote the social well being of Its people, It is the sense of this conference that those who are directly responsiule for the management of our schools should give more serious attention to the problem of road building, and in accordance with this belief we recommend that the sub ject receive more prominent considera tion in our institutes, Teachers’ asso ciation and sitoto Improvement asso ciation, that ^Jpchools regularly of fer to their sBoents carefully arrang ed series of lessons on the subject aud that superintendents and teachers defi nitely undertake to create among the people a livelier appreciation of the importance of lietter highways and dis seminate a better understanding of the improved methods of road construc- lion.” Value of Good Roads. Governor Warfield of Maryland has during his administration stood firmly for road Improvement and is one of the most ardent advocates of adopting measures to carry on the work In his state. The governor recently said: “Good roads cost money, but they are far less expensive to the public than had roads. The roads which the state geological survey commission are constructing cost no more than similar roads north and south and will prove a permanent investment for the people of the state. It is far more econom ical in the long run to build highways that require but a small amount of maintenance than to construct cheap temporary structures that will con stantly require repair, to say nothing of the comfort and pleasure to be de rived from smooth, dry roads.” Subscribe to The Ledger, $140. Watches! A 20 year gold filled case with 11 jeweled movement for $7.60; only a few left—a sure bargain. We will make you some special prices on Watches, ’Diamonds, Jewelry, China and Cut Glass. Now is the time to get some good values. Let us have your watches and fix them right. Every week we find some watch that has been FIXED AT, yet NOT FIXED. We guarantee our work and stand by our guarantee. Give us a call. Saifney Jewelry Co. NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION. A primary election is ordered to be held on March 17th, 1908, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the vacancy on the Board of Pub* Ho Works. All candidates must sign the pledge by Saturday at 1'2 o’clock March 14th, and pay their assess ments. The polls will be open at $ o’clock a. m. and close at 4 o’clock p. m. The following managers have been ap pointed to conduct said election: Ward 1. C. Wl Durham, Andy Moore and Morris Sanders. Ward 2. Sam Hopper, Dr. W. A. Fort and William Self. Ward 3. R. EL Johnson, D. A. Thomas and J. V. SarratL Ward 4. T. R. Wilkins, Thompson Robbs and W. S- Smith. Ward 8.—Rev. W. T. Thompson, 8.- ML Littlejohn and J. J. Gallagher. Ward 6. Rev. I. J. Newberry, Lee Hope and J. D. Martin. The managers will call at the law office of J. C. Otts on Monday after noon, March 16th, 1908, for the boxee and tickets. J. c. Otts, Secty-Treas. T. B. Butler, Ohrm., Mch. 9 2t. BRIDGE TO LET- I will be at Blue Branch bridge oa Friday, March 20th, 1908, at 11 a. m. to receive proposals for the eonstrae- tion of approaches to said bridge. I reserve the right to reject any and all bids. ■. 7. Lipscomb, Ooonty Supervisor. Mar. 3, 6, 10, 1$. 17. Special Sale For a Few Days I will sell at cost Tomatoes, Pickles, Sauces, Dressings, Olive Oils, Kraut, Mince Meat, Saratoga Ceips, White Fish, Gold Dust and many other things I will not mention* Yours for business, 3-20-4t Jno. G .Bramlett, Gem Oyster Parlor, Gaffney, S. C. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, s* C. NEWGOODSI NEW GOODS! We are receiving new Dress Goods, White Goods, Linens, Embroideries, Laces, Shirt Waists Goods, Ginghams, Etc. NewlShirt Waist, a beautiful line. Advance Spring Styles in Men’s, Young Men’s and Boy’s Clothing and Hats. CARROLL A BYERS. GAFFNEY. SO. CAR > -■-!