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1 i L ANNOUNCEMENT. Cards Inserted under this head from now until election day at the rate of $6 .00 for each announcement ll Fo r House of Representative. The friends of N. W. Hardin an nounce him as a candidate for re- election to the House of Representa tive. Prevention of Damaging Hard Highways by Automobiles. THE EFFECT OF TWO TIRES. Fo r Auditor. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Auditor of Chero kee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. H. Turuer. Soft Rubber Variety Injures Whero the Iron Improves—International Congress of Highway Engineera Will Discuss the Issue. Few would think that the soft pneu matic tire of the whizzing automobile I am a candidate for the office of c ° u,d 8horte “ th K e ll * e th « “ ac * Auditor Cherokee county, subject to adam roads as to absorb the attention the rules of the Democratic primary. | of highway engineers of every civilized James W. George. country of the globe, yet they are do- ■ r # l 1,11 incredible amount of damage The many friends °f I daily to rock surfaced highways, and feries, recognizing his abi y, Fr.mpo has enlled an International eon- announce his name as a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee County, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic primary. p i Fo r Supervisor. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Cherokee county. T. Felix Lipscomb. ONE CENT A WORD COLUMN Advertisements under this head l® - ■erted at the rate of one cent a word for each Insertion. No ad. accepted lor leas than 10c; except advertise ments of farm produce offered tor •ale by farmers residing In Cherokee county which will be Inserted one time free of charge until further no tice. FOR SALE FOR SALE—A young cow. Apply to J. J. Lipscomb, Gaffney, R. F. D. No. 4. May 12 pd. France has called an international con gress of highway engineers at Paris on Oct. 11 to discuss this latest and most startling road problem. To understand how the broad, soft rubber tires of the modern gasoline, propelled juggernaut kills the roads which iron tired wagons improve one must have at least an inkling of the methods adopted by Tresauget of Li moges and Macadam of Ayrshire when the so called modern first rock sur faced highways ere planned and put down. Macadam figured that the con stant passing of iron tired wagons Cast Up by the Sea. They thip g<* down to the sea in ships learn much ot the mysteries of life. From the coast of Africa there traveled to S arb n>. Me., the painting of an old time sea captain of that town who long years ago was lost with all on board ins ship in the China seas. The ship sailed tront the home port 1 with every prospect of a succefeful voyage, but she never returned to the home land. Years went by and she was given up ns lost, uer name was taken from the shipping list, and no news of her came back to the waiting ones at home. Long afterward a pass ing vessel picked up off the African coast the portrait of an American sea captain such as the Chinese artists paint, and on the back of the picture were the captain’s name and that of the port from which he sailed. The paint ing was forwarded to the little Amer ican town, and it was found to be a picture of the Scarboro sea captain, master of the lost vessel that had left the harbor so many years ago.—Kenne- hec Journal. 100 nice half gallon bottles; clean, cheap. Cherokee Drug Co. May 12 pd. DAMAGING EFFECT OF AUTOMOBILES. over a crushed stone highway would grind dust particles from the stones, that those particles would fill in all interstices and that wettings and roll- ! in gs would not only give a hard, FOR SALE—A soda fountain; $25. Apply O. S- Kendrick. May 12 tf. FOR SALE—One fine mill? oow. Mrs. M. L. Littlejohn, R. F. D. No. 5. May 2t pd. FOR SALE—A second-hand boiler; 15-hourse power. Apply at The Led ger office. FOR SALE—A second-hand Melts A Weiss kerosene engine; cheap. Ad dress The Ledger, Gaffney, 8. C. WHEN in need of wedding in vita-; tions call on The Ledger. We fur nish either printed or engraved work. Largest Grave In the World. The largest single grave in the world occupies just exactly one acre of ground, which is surrounded by an iron railing. This enormous grave is located at I’earto Cortez, in Honduras, and is the burial place of a woman. The tombstone occupies the center of the ground inclosed, and several wood en figures representing the deceased are arranged in statuelike form in dif ferent parts of the ground. There are no fewer than sixteen of these fig ures. which in the evening give the place a ghostlike appearance. The de ceased had died rich and in her will had specified the amount of ground to be purchased for her grave and the manner in which it should be deco rated. She had many curious notions, and the size and ornamentation of her grave was one of them. 8 1 The French “Mrs. Malaprc'p." Cnlino, the French ‘Mrs. Malnprnp," does not amuse so much by the con fusion of his words as by the quaint- ness and unintended plainness of his remarks. He entered the service of a well known doctor, who. afier < a lino had been Imying hay for ids horses for awhile, made up his mind that the hay was worthless. “That is very poor hay that you've bei n buying,” the doctor complaii.ed. “Gut the horses eat it. sir.” said Ciilino • No matter, it’s bad hay.” “Yes. sir.” said t'aliuo respertfully. "I’ll ehange it. I know you are a nine!) better judge of bay than the horses are!” One day the be!! ra g. and Calitio came in. lA patient has arrived, sir.” lie re ported "An i '1 patient or a new one?" asked 1 lie do< tor. "New one. of course, sir." said Ca lino. •‘The old cues never come back!" Calitio admired very much t' ■ beau tfful teeth of a lady among his mas ter's patients. "All!" he exclaimed. Tier teeth are as fresh and sound and white as a newborn baby’s!" FOR SALE—Cary & Kirby will have sweet potatoes on sue thin week. April 15 tf. FOR SALE—First-class babbit met al. ApjMy at Ledger Office. FOR SALE—Old newspapers at this office. 10c a hundred. FOR RENT- FOR RENT—Eleven rooms over J. E. Lipscomb Co., Limestone street. Suitable for barding bouse. See J. B. Lipscomb. May 5 tf. FOR RENT—Five-room cottage on Depot street. Logan Warmoth. May 8 tf. FOR RENT—Good farm to rent two miles from town. Apply to W. C. McArthur. May 1st tf. FOR RENT—Loom back Smitt Hardware Co.’s store. Apply to W. H. Smtih. Mar. 54 tt FOR RENT—The beautiful bouse of W. O. Lipscomb near the Globe Mill with good orchard, garden, pas ture and other patches. See Moses Wood. May 1 tf. TO RENT—Office rooms over Th« Ledger. Apply to Bd. H. DeCamp Nov. 2. tf. WANTED. 1 smooth surface, but that the highway would Improve as the years pass. For a century and a quarter the wis dom of the Scotch road builder was justified. Every country that lays claim to civilization adopted It, and thousands of miles of road were laid annually In France, Germany, England, Holland and the United States. Then came the automobile, and a few years after its arrival the road overseers began to notice the deteriora tion of these highways. Broad and level stretches became strewn with surface stones, ruts became frequent, and dust clouds were constantly set tling on the adjacent property. The trouble was quickly traced to the au tomobile. These machines through the tractive and centrifugal forces exerted by their rapidly turning wheels were pulling the rock dust from the roads and swirling it away in blinding clouds. While every iron bound wagon tire was doing its own small percentage of rock crushing, dust making, road smoothing and rock tamping, every rubber automobile tire was undoing that work by taking the dust away. Tresauget and Macadam knew that the effect of wagon traffic would be beneficial to rock surface roads, but they never suspected that In future years chugging machines, guided by begoggled. speed mad enthusiasts, would rush frantically across the face of nature or that the wheels of the odd vehicles In which they Journeyed would be bound by air stuffed rubber. The antidote lies in the discovery of a method which will benefit both the road and the car. Study to overcome existing conditions by creating better conditions is now going forward, and it Is practically certain that when the international congress meets there will be a solution of the road problem and the evil effects of the automobile will be turned to a benefit. Director Page of the office of public roads of the United States department of agriculture, who recently received through the French ambassador, M. Jusserand, an invitation to attend the congress at Paris in the fall, was ask- Coleridge’s Cloudiness. There Is in Mr. Ellis Yarnoll’s remi niscences. “Wordsworth and the Cole ridges.” a very amusing story of Sam uel Taylor Coleridge, whose thoughts were sometimes too profound even for poets to follow. Wordsworth and Sam uel Rogers had spent the evening with Coleridge, and as the two poets walked away together Rogers remarked cau tiously : “I did not altogether understand the latter part of what Coleridge said.” “I didn’t understand any of it” Wordsworth hastily replied. ‘‘No more did I!” exclaimed Rogers, with a sigh of relief. WANTED—to buy, or swap wagons buggies and harness for milch and ed recently if the life of the highways beef cows. Milch cows for sale, was so seriously menaced as to Justify Come to see us. Gaffney Live Stock a condemnation of the motor car and ^°‘ to warrant an international congress - — —— . .. ; to discuss it. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. ‘‘Nobody who has made a study of _ , . „ . , the hard surface roads of this or any held at the court house on Friday, May the 15th, 1908. J. L. Walker, Jas. C. Jefferies, R. C. Sarratt, Co. Board Education. A Formidable Army. The battle was going against him. The commander In chief, himself ruler of the South American republic, sent an aid to the rear, ordering General Blanco to bring up his regiment at once. Ten minutes passed, but it didn’t come. Twenty, thirty, an hour—still no regiment. The aid came tearing back hatless, breathless. *‘My regi ment! My regiment! Where is it? Where is it?” shrieked the commander “General,” answered the excited aid. "Blanco started It all right, but there are a couple of druuken Americans down the road and they won’t let it go by.”—Argonaut. A Fatal Diseaaa. A celebrated general once inquired of one of his soldiers the cause of his brother's death. “My brother died, sir,” replied the soldier, “because he had nothing to do.” “Well, my man,” said the general, “that is reason enough to kill the great est general of us all.”—Exchange. A Particular Patient. “Are you sure that is what is the matter with me?” “Yes, madam.” “Well, you’ll have to guess again, doctor. I won’t have it. It’s too com mon a complaint”—New York Press. A Natural Curiosity. “Do you know what I do when a man offers me advice?” said the curb stone philosopher. “No." “Ask him if he’s tried it”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. AN ORDINANCE. A Triple Coincide no*. An almost incredible triple coinci dence was noted in France some years ago. In 1894 the deputy for the Ar dennes was M. Ferry; for Loir et Cber, ii. Brisson, and for the Vosges, M. Hugo. In 1793, 101 years earlier, each district had been represented in the chamber by a man of exactly the same name. Pleasant. Mistress (midnight)—I don't Intend to come downstairs to let you In at this time of night again. New Girl (reas suringly)—You won’t have to, mum. One of my friends took an impression of your lock, and he’s making a nice key for me.—London Globe. I Fatal Error. “N. Peck’s wife leads him a rather merry gait, I fancy.” “Oh, yes. When he was courting her be told her one day she looked pretty when she was angry, and now it has got to be a habit” May 5. 8, 12, 15. that the motor car is constantly short j enlug the life of such thoroughfares," said the director, “but that is no rea- : son for the condemnation of the auto- | mobile. The arrival of this machine ; has created a new and unlooked for ! condition. That means that the new ——| condition must be studh-d and the mb ■ ■ problems which have arisen must lie insurance! It does not mean that because 1 the roads suffer through the arrival of the motor car the motor car ahall pass in the Interest of road presorva- We reurosent some o' Hie lurirent ttn'1 mostHubstiint'al companies and would like to write your busines. 5-U-tf Smith & Lipscomb, Agents SISTERS READ MY FREE OFFKR. This ad. with a two-eeut stamp mad your address to Mrs. M. A. Hilton, Kershaw, g. C., will entitle you to ten days treatment whieh cures leneor shea, nlceration, dteplaoement, falling of the womb, menstrual disorders, tumors, els. MAr. If Sm- A HORRIBLE DISEASE. Dyspepsia is in most every home, and If you want an absolute cure, we have It Forneberger’a Dyspepsia Remedy. 50c for tablets and 50c and $1.00 tor tbe liquid.- GAFFNEY DRUG CO. April 24 2 mo. tlon. “I regard the automobile aa an im portant factor in the upbuilding of civilization, and it has come to stay. It has created conditions demanding the best thought of the highway en gineers of the world. 1 see in the so lution nothing short of ideal dustiess roads.” Highway Raking. When rocks are raked out of the roadways they should be gathered up and hauled away. Too often they are left beside the wheel rut, where pass ing travel works them back Into the road or into the ditch, only to be handled over again. They should tx deposited in piles outside the traveled way, put upon the road location and later used in drainage work. He is lifeless French Proverb. that is faultless.— Idiomatic English. Mrs. Fremont, in ;i sketch of her f;: llier. ‘Senator I ten ton. tells tbe folio' inu story of tbe French bishop at St Loris at the time of the purchase o, Louisiana She says: It was a point <>f honor among Mu older French not to learn English, bn the bishop decided 111 it it would b better to acquire it. especially for us from the pulpit. To force himsc., into the familiar practice of the an guago lie secluded himself for awhili with the family of an American fniiii er. where he would hear no French The c-periment proved very success ful Soon iie had gained a sufficient fluency to deliver a sermon in English. Senator Benton was present when ii was to be given, and bis feelings may he inu gined as the bishop, a refined and polished gentleman, announced: “My friends. I’m right'down glad to sec: such a smart chance of folks here today.” Lincoln's History of Himself, When Abraham Lincoln was elected to congress Charles Lanman. then editor of the Congressional Record, ac cording to the regular custom, for warded to Mr. Lincoln as well as to all other members elect a blank to be filled out with facts and dates which might be made the basis for a bio graphical sketch In the directory. Mr. Lincoln’s blank was returned prompt ly, filled up in his own handwriting with the following information: “Born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin coun ty, Ky. “Education, defective. “Profession, lawyer. “Military service, captain of volun teers in the Black Hawk war. “Offices held: Postmaster at a very small office, four times a member of the Illinois legislature and elected to the lower bouse of the next congress.” Letter to Thos. Spencer, Gaffney, S. C. Dear Sir; How two men differ! N Avery, Delhi, N Y, had two houses painted two ways; the houses alike, same painter, different paints. One paint 6 gallons; the other 12. A dealer there who was selling the 12-gallon paint, threw It out and put- in the 6-gallon paint. Do you see why? The less-gallons paint cost less for the job by 6 gal lons of paint and G days’ labor; $10.75 for paint and $12 to $24 for labor (according to painters’ wages $2 to $4 aday.) A dealer in paint at Malone, N Y, was selling this G-gallon paint, was offered the 12-gallon paint for 15c less a gallon, and took it! To make that extra 15c a gallon, he saddles a loss of $22.75 to $24.75 a job on his customers. What if they find it out? The people had better look-out for that $22.75 or $34.75, whichever it Is —we don’t know what painters’ day wages are there. The two paints are Devoe and another sold at the same price by the gallon. Will you figure-out that 12- gallon paint; what a man can afford to pay for a gallon of it? The answer is (if you figure it right) taking wages $2 a day: A man could afford to put-on that paint if somebody pays him 121-2c a gal lon; and, taking wages $4 a day, he must get $1.25 a gallon. Yours truly 75 F W DEVOE & CO P. S. Gaffney Hardware Company sell our paint. Be careful; otherwise trouble may follow in your wake; the “con” man will sell you gold bricks and the pro moter will brand you as an easy mark. Winthrop College Scholarship and Entrance Examination. Ancient Waterworks. Hezekiah, king of Judah, who reigned In the years 717 to 688 B. C., was a pioneer In constructing a system of waterworks, bringing water into the city of Jerusalem. In the holy book we read: “He made the pool and con duit and brought the water into the city, stopping the upper part of Gihon. and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.” From the “pools of Solomon,” near Bethlehem, water was conveyed to Jerusalem, a distance of six or seven miles, through a conduit of earthen pipe about ten Inches in diameter. Tbe pipe was incased within two stones, hewn out to fit it, then covered over with rough stones cemented together. Even in those days “boil tbe water” was a well known injunction. Alphabetical. Two commercial travelers in a rail way carriage entered into conversa tion. One of them tried hard to make tbe other understand something, bat he was either very hard of hearing or slow in believing. At last his friend lost his temper and exclaimed: “Why, don’t yon see? It’s as plain as A B Cl” “That may be,” said the other; “hot yon see, I am D B F.” NOTICE TO FIRE ARMS DEALERS- State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. Notice is hereby given, that all parties dealing In pistols, or cart ridges, less than 45-calibre, are re quired to pay an annual license of $25 to the Board of County Commis sioners. Any dealer failing to obtain such license before offering for sale such cartridges or pistols, is sub ject to a fine not exceeding $500, or one year’s Imprisonment. All hawkers are peddlers are re quired to take out a license as pro vided in chapter XLI of the Code of 1902. Such hawkers and peddlers are hereby notified to take out such license, any falling so to do are sub ject to the penalties prescribed in 364, criminal code. It Is the duty of every Magistrate, every Constable, the Sheriff of Chero kee county and the Deputy Sheriff, to enforce the above statute, any citi zen has the right to demand and In spect the license for hawkers and peddlers, and they are requested to ex hibit such license to the party so de manding It, for Inspection. E. F. Llpsocmb, Co. Supervisor. May 12 tf. NOTICE. By virtue of authority given tile un dersigned by » commission Issued by the Honorable R. M- McCown, Secre tary of State for the State of South Carolina, on the 18th day of April, 1908, notice la hereby given that hooka of subscription to the capital stock of South and Western Railroad Company will be opened at the office of Ralph K. Canon, No. 4 Cleveland Building, Spartanburg, Sooth Caro lina, on Tuesday, the 26th day of May, 1908, at twelve o'clbck, M. Ralph K. Canon, J. Norment Powell, Board of Oorpon^ora. April 21 to May 18. The examination for itie award of vacant Scholarships In Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 3, at O a. m. Applicants must be not less Loan fifteen y» ars of age When Scholarships are vacant after July M, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this ex amination. provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for Schol arships should write to President .lahnson before the examination for Scholarship ex amlnation blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 16. 1908. For further information and catalogue, ad dress Proa. D. B. Johnson, liock Hill, S. C. .Tun 30-pd NEW SHOE STORE I am receiving new Shoes nearly every week and will give yon new, fresh stock at the very lowest prices. I am now selling at cut prices for 30 days. Will sell you a Bench-Made $5 Shoe for $4, a $4 Shoe for $3, a #3 Shoe for $2.50, a $2.50 Shoe for $2, and other Shoes in proportion. Yours to please. I. M. PEELER. Star Brand Chicken Feed is a specially mixed grain feed for Poultry, composed of Wheat, Cracked Corn, Kaffir Corn, Millet, White Clip ped Oats, Buckwheat, Sorghum, Sun flower Seed and Chicken Powder. 30 cents a peck. W. Kyle Davenport’s rCCHNICALLV EDUCATED M E I* IN K E D JE5 D I The demand is far greater than the supply Let the International Corres pondence Schools, of Soranton. Pa., pre pare you. Postal xlll bring Information on 208courses. It's free. 8-27-ly-i.p BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF GAFFNEY, |N COUN CIL ASSEMBLED AND AUTHOR ITY OF THE SAME: Section 1. That hereafter, it shall be unlawful for any person or per sons to tap or connect with any weo- trie wires within the town of Gaffney or to tap or connect between the main lines and meters or to wire around or cross meters so that they will not register current, or in any way to tamper with or injure meters, poll lines or any electric equipment, with out the permission of the superinten dent of the Electric Light Plant, if it be the property of the town and with out permission from the owner there of, if the property belongs to a person . or corporation. And the person so offending shall be guilty of a misde meanor. *1* Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to tap any water main or pipe or fixture leading to a water main within said town or to turn water in to the supply pipes at street from mains, or to add extra openings to supply pipes or to allow any person other than persons occupying the house supplied by pipe to take water from supply pipes in any vessel with in said town without first obtaining permission from the superintendent of the plant. And any person so of fending shall be guilty of a misde meanor. Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon premises upon which are supply pipes and take water continuously therefrom in any vessel without first obtaining permis sion from the owner or occupants of such premises and from the superin tendent of the Water Works Plant And any person s 0 offending, shall be guilty of a misdemeagy. Sec. 4. Any persoigfyiolating any of the provisions of the foregoing Ordinance, shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding one hundred dol lars or sentenced to the guard house or public works, not exceeding thirty days. Done and ratified in Council as sembled, this, April 3, 1908. Geo. E. Hood, W. H. Ross, City clerk. Major. I j 1 1