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V »• I A SURGICAL OPERATION If there is any one thing that a woman dreads more than another it is a surgical operation. We can state without fear of a contradiction that there are hun dreds, yes, thousands, of operations performed upon women in our hos pitals which are entirely unneces sary and many have been avoided by LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND . For proof of this statement read the following letters. Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman, Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “ For eight years I suffered from the most severe form of female troubles and was told that an operation was my only hope, of recovery. I wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it has saved my life and made me a well woman.” v Mrs. Arthur It. House, of Church Road, Moores town. X. J., writes: “1 feel It is my duty to let people know what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound has done for me. „I Suffered from female troubles, and last March my physician decided that an operation was necessary. My husband objected, and urged me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and to-day l am well and strong.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia K. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the Standard remedy for female ills, and has posit ivclv eured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera- tioiu fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, and backache. Mrs. PSklinin invites all sick women to write her for advice. She lias guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Kodol For ■t-m Indigestion Our Guarantee Coupon If. after u«!n* two-thlrd* of a li.oo bottle of Kodol, you can honestly say it has not bene fited yon, we will refund your money. Try Kodol today on thla euarantee. Fill out and «gn the following, present it to the dealer at the tune of purchase, if it fails to satisfy you return the bottle containing one-third of the medicine to the dealer from whom you bonght It, and we will refund your money. Town State Sign here Cul. ThI. Out Digests What YouEat And Makes the^ Stomach Sweet IK. C. DeWITT Ac CO., Ciiicaogo. IUL POr Mle by Gaffney Drug C* NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. \ Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned will make application to the secretary of State for the State of South Carolina on the 28th day of May, 1908, at 12 o’clocb M., at his of fice, in the capitol, at (Columbia, South Carolina, to grant a charter for a railway company to be . known as South and Western Railroad Com pany, the line of railroad of which company shall extend from the city of Spartanburg, South Carolina, to a point on the boundry line, between the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, at or near a point one mile south of Island ford ferry of Broad river, through the counties of Spartanburg and Cherokee, South Carolina, the townships of Spartan burg and Cherokee, and the city of Spartanburg, in Spartanburg county, and the township of Morgan, in Chero kee county, by the most feasible route, the total length, of which road shall he about twenty miles, which corporation, if said charter is granted, will have the power to condemn lands for rights of way. Witness our hands this 17th day of April, A. D., 1908. Ralph K. Carson, J. Norment Powell, John B. Cleveland. April 24 to May 15, Fri. 4t. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, May 23rd, 1908, I will ap ply to the Hon. J. E. Webster, Pro bate Judge, at his office at the court * house in Gaffney, S. C., at 10 o’clock a. m. for a final settlement and dis charge as administrator of the estate of Andy Champion, deceased. AU per sons having claims against said estate Or interested therein, are required to present the same at or before said time, or be forever barred. T. ROBBS, Administrator estate Andy Champ ion, deceased. Pub. May 1, 8, 15 and 22, 1908, WHEN A A HURRY KIND TO THE LEDGER POR YOUR JOE PRINTING As Useful as Macadam Roads For All Practical Purposes. SIMPLE AND CHEAP TO BUILD EsewirM Less Money to Construct Than Any Other Type of Road Ex cept the Earth Kind and Less to Re pair. The office of public roads at Wash ington has issued a farmers’ bulletin, which contains the following reliable information about the construction and value of sand-clay roads: “The possibilities of the sand-clay road may not be fully realized by the public for a long time to come, still the progress being made in this form of road building in nearly every part of the United States is encouraging. Such benefits as have come to Rich land county, S. C.; Pike county, Ala.; Dallas county, Ala.; Cumberland coun ty, S. C., and many other sections throughout the Atlantic and gulf states from the use of saud-clay roads should be a sufficient incentive for a general study of the subject in those parts of the United States where these ma terials exist in adequate quantities. “Sand and clay had always been abundant in Pike county, Ala. Still, a combination of the two for road pur poses was not thought of until four years ago. At the. present time there are nearly 120 miles pf saivl-clay road in Pike county, which for all practical purposes are as useful as macadam roads and which have cost about one- sixth of the amount standard mac adam of the same or less width would cost in this section. With this system the remotest section of the country may be reached. “At the present rate of improvement every important public road in Pike county will soon be a serviceable high way, over which a wagon loaded with six bales of cotton may be drawn easily and quickly, whereas before the im- CONSTRUCTING A SAND-CLAY ROAD. provement began only small loads were possible. It is important that success like this should be given wide publicity because it carries with it method as well as encouragement. The first thing done in Pike county was to find out which of the clays accessible would make a good road. After this impor tant matter had been decided bonds were issued to raise money to buy equipment. This comprised eight out; fits of fourteen to sixteen mules each, wagons, plows, scrapers and hand tools. “The extent to which this form of road construction can be used in public road Improvement throughout the coun try eun hardly he overestimated. In making small repairs to roads if in stead of filling mudboles with brush a few loads of sand or gravel from sand bars nud gravel beds found along the streams in hilly portions of the country were hauled to the road, permanent im provement would result. “It has been found that this kind of road Is admirably suited to the north western part of the United ^States as well as to the southern, and it is be lieved that It will be found worthy of more general study than It has ever received heretofore. Its study should be of interest to the public schools ini the rural districts of the country. If schoolboys were encouraged to make a sand-clay walk to the schoolhouse, the teacher’s task of keeping a clean school building would be sufficiently lessened to make up for the time taken to Inter est the boys. Besides tlds actual im provement. a lasting benefit would be given to that community from this sim ple study of a valuable process. For a large part of the country the sand-clay road is the only road possible or with in the reach of the rural districts. It requires less money to build than any other type of road except the earth road and less money to repair. It is simpler in its construction than any other except the earth road and lasts longer with the same amount of re pair.” On the subject of cost the bulletin says: “It is of course impossible to state definitely the cost of tlds form of con struction, as It will Im» found to vary with the price of labor, the length of haul, the width of roadway and depth and nature of material. If we ussume, however, that the clay can 1m* procured within a mile of <he road which is to be Improved and that the cost of labor la about $1 per day and teams $3 per day, the cost of constructing a twelve foot sand-clay roud on a sand founda tion, covered with day to an average depth of six Inches, would be approxi mately for a distance of one mile 1579.20. “According to the experience of thla i office, the cost of sand-clay construc tion in the south has been found to range from $2<x> to $i,2U0 per mile, In meat cases ruunlug from $3UO to $900. In case changes of grade have to be made, with consequent cuts and fllla, tbe coat would be proportionately greater than the figures given above.” THE JAPANESE WAY. NEW BREECHES BUOY. The Knock-out Blow. Rules For e Mass Meeting to Protest Against Higher Taxes. The Japanese governing Idea has sometimes u directness of application which Is only equaled by Its simplici ty. The same spirit which prompts a Japanese citizen to build the front door of his house so low that a possible bur glar could not get through It with a bundle of plunder on his back leads the Japanese official to siMsclfy in an emergency just what shall constitute a crime, so that the unruly may know when he transgresses. A short time ago a new holiday, con stitution day, was decreed in Japan, with the idea that the common people could pad along all together to some park and hold exercises in glorification of the event which made Japan nom inally a free government But the rest less politicians of Tokyo, ever on the alert to stir up trouble, planued a mon ster mass meeting in Hibiya park to protest against the alarming increase in taxation instead of to give banzais for a constitution. The police authorities remembered the three days of street fighting that followed the announcement of the Portsmouth peace treaty in the fall of 1905. On that occasion all the uproar was started by the barring of the gates to Ilibiya park by police order, and within three hours the house of the home minister, across the street, was burned and people were being cut down in the broad avenue facing tbe park by the swords of the mounted genda rmes. With ail these circumstances in mind the police authorities posted the fol lowing notice in prominent places about the city on the day that the mass meeting was to be held: No arras shall be carried by those who attend the meeting. No kerosene oil or matches shall be car ried. No electric car shall be burned. The diet buildings shall not be de stroyed by fire. No members of the diet who supported the tax increase bills shall be assaulted. Happily the police prohibitions speci fying what should constitute something more than a nuisance had their effect There was no riot—New York Sun. The Quaint Organ Blower. “The organ blower is passing; he will soon be. like the armorer, extinct,” said a musician.' “It’s a pity. He was a quaint type. “Most of my blowers were simple minded^ old chaps who firmly believed they must suit their blowing to the music. In soft, light passages they blew soft and light When the crescen dos thundered forth they worked fran tically, blowing with all their might and main. “Often a facetious reporter on the lo cal paper would refer to ‘the excellent blowing of the organist’s assistant, Mr. Bellows.’ Then the blower in his vanity would develop all the affecta tions ct a Paderewski or a Sousa. Now he’d blow delicately, a dreamy smile on h s lips, his eyes half closed. The musi. would change to a march and he’d stamp his foot in time, while up, down, up, doyra, the old bellows, in timq also, would be jerked. At a cli max his face would redden; he’d bend to his task and blow so fast and fu rious that the organ would nearly burst.” —New Orleans Times-Demo crat. An Ancient Tomb For Chicago. Negotiations have been begun by the representative of a Chicago museum for the transfer to that city of an an cient tomb weighing 250 tons, accord ing to an Assuan correspondent of the London Graphic. The tomb is situated near the pyramids of Sakkara, twenty miles from Cairo, and is a favorite resort of tourists, who usually make the journey on camels across the des ert from the great pyramids at Gizeh. The Chicago museum authorities wish to remove the tomb in its entirety. To achieve this will naturally be a difficult problem. It has been arranged that a ■vhole train shall carry the tomb in sections from the nearest point of the railway to the coast, but no arrange ments have yet been completed for moving the tomb from the desert sqnds to the railway line. The sections of the tomb will be carefully packed and placed on board a steamer at Port Said or Alexandria. Another special train will convey it from the American coast to Chicago, where the sections will be put together under direction of archae ologists. The Ma<f*and Murderous Pace. In the he^ti department reports for 1907 two items stand out with unpleas ant prominency—the 7,237 deaths from organic heart disease find the 4,914 vio lent deaths. The former reflects the mad driving of the human body under the excitement of our high speed exist ence; the latter Is a grewsome remind er of the disregard of Americans for their own lives. Of the 4,914 deaths by violence only 284 were homicides and 711 suicides. Nearly 4,000 citizens, then, were slaughtered by street cars, factory wheels, trucks, tenement house fli«s and other sanctioned methods of extermination. A comparison of this record with that of other large cities would surely put New York at the very Imttom of the list Where else is a good sized village obliterated by acci dents every twelvemonth?—New York Tribune. 'Literature of Japan. Japan has never produced a Shake speare or a Milton, a Goethe or a Hum- l>oldt, a Montaigne or an Emerson, a Gibbon or a Mommsen, but despite this fact It has a very respectable lit erature in all of its various branches— history, poetry, geography, art science and the novel. Education Is quite uni versal throughout the emplxe, and within the past thirty or for^ years the national literature has grown im mensely.—New York American. Practically Only Three Tools Are Needed. ^ GRADER, HARROW AND DRAG. tow Dragging Has Benefited the Highways In an Illinois County. Method of Making a Foundation For Good Earth Roads. The people in Wabash county, 111., are becoming actively enthusiastic in the matter of good country roads of native earth. This is especially so in the community west of Allendale, 111.. and generally so all over the county and in adjoining counties. When the work was first started about four years ago, few people had any faith in re sults, and fewer still took any part in the work. But those few kept at it dragging the winter roads rain or shine, muddy or (Iry, till now almost everybody believes in road dragging, and*a very large number turn out with teams fov work every few days, says Hiram II. Shepard in the Woman’s National Daily. An exceedingly thor ough test is being made of the native earth to see what can be done. Al though all are constructed on the same general principles, yet many different kinds of road drags have been built and their respective merits tested. Most of them are constructed of 3 by 10 inch timbers from eight to ten feet longfand require two teams for draw-'' ing them. Some have steel cutting blades, and some have not; some have open space between the two main drag timbers, and others have solid, smooth bottoms. They have found so far that the drags with solid bottoms are best f for soft, muddy roads, while those with open spaces between the timbers are best for dry roads or for use just after a dry freeze. On Jan. • 25 the roads in Wabash county were frozen to a depth of five or six inches, and the surface had be come comparatively dry and loose. On the afternoon of this date all drags were put in opefation on the roadtfi One of the drags with two teams pass ed back and forth over six miles of country road in five hours on the after noon of that date. The surface of the roads was dry and rotten enough so that the earth was easily mayed, and, being frozen below, the track was left as smooth and bard as a floor. In many places as much earth wasfinoved and placed perfectly in the center of - the road as could be done in the sum mer with a good steel road gradtf. All horse tracks and wagon ruts were fill ed, and after the drag passed both ways the road was left as fine as the best city pavement. After two days’ travel these roads were in perfect con dition, with no ruts or horse tracks deeper than half an inch. There are practically only three tools necessary for making and maintaining good natural earth roads. They are the road grader, harrow and road drag. Road graders cost from $200 to $500 each, according to size and style. Har rows are on all farms, and the cost is reasonably low, while the road drag is so very simple of construction that al most any one can make one himself. For a road drag to do effective work it must be heavy eifough so that twq teams will be required.’ One team is hitched at either end of the drag, and when driven one team is made to go ahead of the other so that the drag moves forward at an angle of thirty to forty-five degrees toward the center of the road, thus forcing the surface earth always to the center, making the road rooflike, which allows surface water to escape. On the front timber a steel cutting blade is fastened so as to project below about half an Inch. This cutting blade is not particularly necessary for real muddy roads, but It does effective work when the sodl Is does effective work ou a dry soil, and real grading can be done with It The road drag’s greatest efficiency Is for roads in winter when they are wet and muddy or for leveling them In winter just after a dry freeze. By run ning the drag over bad whiter roads horse tracks, wagon ruts and other de pressions are filled easily and rapidly, the water being forced oat so It can run away and the surface left smooth. The common field harrow Is also an other excellent drag, and its use Is in creasing each year. Best results are obtained bY using the harrow when the rdads are rough but dry. It then acts as a leveler, but not a grader, by raking off the clods and bumps, mak ing them fine and filling in depressions to prevent the accumulation of surface water, which is the main cause of bad roads. Keeping the ruts and holes filled is the greater part of road mainte nance. The harrow and the drag are the two best tools known for doing it rapidly, cheaply and well. Tbe foundation for a good native earth country road Is made by drawing the dirt to the center, leaving drain ditches on either side to carry off the surface water. This style might right ly be called the roof road, since the roadbed slopes from the center to the sides like a house roof, carrying the water off In a similar manner. The roof ridging of native earth roads in the beginning can be done cheaply and neatly only with the mod em- iron road grader, which acts as both plow and scraper of former times. The blade of tbe grader is set at an angle so that the earth at each furrow Is pushed toward tbe center of the road. Besides the rapid work of the grader, tbe long, sharp Iron blade moves straight, leaving the surface hard and smooth. If maintained In the condition In which the grader leaves It the road will remain dry, smooth and passable for a large part of the year. fhe Device Can Be Used at Well at Night aa In Day. After having boon In use for over S century without improvement or change, the breeches buoy used by or- gt .xzed life saving crews has Just been improved by a device that has beeft adopted by the United States life saving service. The main difficulty with the breeches buoy as heretofore constructed lias been that at night when it left the shore uo one know definitely where it was, whether It had reached the wrecked ship or not or whether any one had got In unless tho mariners had lights on the vessel. John W. Dalton of Gloucester, known to mariners all along the Mas sachusetts const, Is the.inventor of the device. The improvement in question comprises, speaking in general terms, a small case mounted on an Inflated rub ber cushion and surrounded by four small hollow posts which are affixed to the rubber cushion buoy and ou top to a square steel spreader. , lu the case is a storage battery that’ operates a set of lamps. One light, a green one, shows toward the ship wreck when the device is started out to.the vessel. The other light, a white one, shows down through the rubber cushion into the breeches, enabling tbe shipwrecked people to see how to get Into the apparatus. Another white light shows toward the shore until the breeches buoy is occupied, when it auto matically turns to a bright red, going back to white again when the pas senger is landed. Under the old system when the breeches buoy was sent out to a wreck It was often hauled back to the shore by the life savers before it had reached Its destination. Now the position of the breeches buoy will always be known to those on shore # aud on the wreck. The green light moving toward the vessel mutely tells the shipwreck ed passengers that help Is at hand and encourages them to hold on until the buoy reaches them. As soon as one of the Imperiled mariners gets Into the breeches the red light sjgrals to those on land to haul the passenger ashore. The Rubber cushion prevents the oc cupant below from being injured by the block striking him while being dragged through the surf. Numbers of persons have been severely injured while being saved from a wreck by the big iron traveler block as the vessel lurched back and forth. — Scientific American. [ FROM EARTH TO SUN. It Is 92376,795 Miles, With a Possible Error of 56,000 Miles. For a long time astronomers have been trying to measure accurately the distance from the earth to the sun. Once ascertained, this would serve as a unit of measure in exploring the starry realms. The stupefying pre cision with which these learned men announce the goings and the comings of celestial bodies seems to indicate that an error of a few million miles more^ or less in the measurement of distances makes little difference in the perfection of their calculations. In the method of direct measure ment the center of the sun is sighted from two points as far apart as possi ble. This gives the base and two an gles of a triangle, the apex of which is the center of the sun, and it is only a simple calculation in trigonometry to obtain the third angle and the height. ' But this measuring proces^ is very in exact. for in such a vast distance an infinitesimal error in measuring one of tho angles would produce an enormous error in the result. Kepler showed that if we could meas ure the exact distance from the earth to one other planet it would give us data enough from which to calculate the distance from Abe sun to all other bodies of the solar system, and sin-.v- his day this indirect method of meas urement has been employed, the dis tances from the earth to Mars and Venus, the nearest planets. Being the principal objects of the attention of as tronomers. The results obtained uut\i a few years ago left a possible error of about 1,000.000 miles. In 1.898 Professor Witt of tbe Berlin observatory discovered the planet Eros, which *at certain tunes is4bnly a few million miles from us. Fifty-eight as tronomers at once took concerted meas urements. and the Abbe Moreux bus just published the first results of this gigantic work, which represents about 35.000 observations through the tele scope and 40,000 with a camera, all at the expense of the French government. The distance from the earth toTlie sun is proved by the time of these ob servations to be 92,870.795 miles, with a possible error of about 50,000 miles, which error, comments the reverend astronomer, is insignificant, for it Is just in the proportion of one in 1,000. The abbe promises us that when all the observations on Eros shall have been tabulated the possible error will be reduced to about 28.000 miles.—New York World. / Where 3 Multitude of fine are Covered The L. 1C. PAINT coven de fects In prevtooe paintings, end ween for 10 to li Tears, because the L. A If. to pare Unseed oil Meder pure aside of kino pure white toed, end yon help to make the petal tar mix ing three quarts of Urmeed ou with ea«h gallon of paint He done In t minutes. Makes cost only tlJO par gallon. Emit* Hardware do. Xi. A M. Paint Agents. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPEN 1 NOE IN THE ETATE AND EVENTS OP INTER EST IN POREIQN LANDS, TAKE / AND READ THE LEDGER* The blow which knocked out Corbett was s revelation to the pri/.e lighters. From the oarliesfr days of the ring tho knock-out blow was alun-d for tho Juw, the'temple or the jugular vein. Stomach punches were thrown In to worry and weary the fighter, but If a scientific man h&d told one of the old fighteN that the most vulnerable sjH»t was the region of the stomach, he’d have laughed at him for an Ignoramus. Dr. Pierce is bringing hon^to the public a parallel fact; that thq s^omacWis the most vulnerable organ out of Y»e prhm ring as well as in it. • We protect pur JiaaHs, throats, feet and lungs, but the'dAmu^Nwe are utterly indiffer ent to, until diseb^Minds the solar plexus and lAocks us out?* Mltke your stomach wa 1 , aafl gtrh’ig ftxjTm uai (jf j^ctor hgrcejtJ.ohloiL Mcdlcaj Jbscoverjr, anj you pnasq. ypur mojuLuC ' ahle spot. "Golden Medical Discovery 11 cures "weHk stomach,” indigestion, or dyspepsia, torpjd liver, bad, thin and Im pure blood and other diseases of the or gans of digestion and nutrition. The"GoIden Medial Discovery"has a specific curative effect upon all mucous surfaces and hence cures catarrh, no matter where located or what stage it may have reached. In Nasal Catarrh it Is well to cleanse the passages with Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Rormdy fluid while using the ”Discovery ” as a constitutional rem edy. Why tho "Golden Medical Discov ery ” cures catarrhal diseases, as of the Stomach, bowels, bladder and other pelvic organs will be plain to you if you will read a bqoklet of extracts from the^rit- Ings of femindnt medical authorities, en dorsing its ingredients and explaining their curative properties. It is mailed free on request. Address Dr. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. This booklet gives all the ingredients entering into Dr. Pierce’s medicines from which it will be seen that they contain not a drop of alcohol, pure, triple-refined glycerine being used instead. Dr. Pierce’s great thousand-page Illus trated Common Sense Medical Adviser will be sent free, paper-bound, for 21 one- cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 31 stamps. Address Dr. Pierce as above. Buck-Draught Liver Medicine The reputation of this old, relia ble medicine, for constipation, in digestion and liver trouble, is firm* ly established. It does not imitate other medicines. It is better than others, or it would not be the fa vorite liver powder, with a larger sale than all others combined. SOLD IN TOWN ft LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. State of South Carolina;* County of Cherokee. By J. E. Webster, Esquire, Probate Judge. . Whereas, J. m. Green has made suit to me, to grant him Letters of Administration of the Hstate add ef fects of John Weece, deceased. These are therefore to cite and Ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said John Weece, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in tbe Conrt of Probate, to be held at Cherokee Court House. Gaffney, S. C., on Wednesday, Mur 13th, next after publication thereof at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given, under my hand, this day of April. Anno Domini, 1908. J. E. WEBSTER, Probate Judge. Pub. May l and 8, 1908. Star Brand Chicken Feed is a specially mixed grain feed for Poultry, composed of Wheat, Caacked Corn, Kaffir Corn, Millet, White Clip ped Gats, Buckwheat, Sorghum, Sun flower Seed and Chicken Powder. 30 dents a peck. V. Kyle Davenpoifs REMOVED. I have moved my Blacksmith SI from the rear of Wilkin^ Bros, the rear of Carroll & Byars’ , Bring me yonr work. May Forest MpCul >R. W.^ K. GU , I>EI«T1«T ffice in Star Theatre Bu Phonb No. 20. wwa aM brides work a TECHNICALLY EDUCATED M EJ IN’ Pf ID ID I> 15 X> !:j The demand Is far greater than tbe supply. Let tbe International Corroo* pondenoe Sohoolo, of Screnton. Pa., pre pare you. Postal vill bring information on 20e courses. It's free. 8-27-ly-np We d# net do all iclnds ef printing —we de Me GOOD ktod