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* f 'ke I HAVE PLENTY OF WOOD FIBER ■ To plaster that house you are putting up jand also have plenty of Cement on hand now. Don’t your house nee:! painting? Ladies, don’t your furniture and walls need painting? I have Cherrv. Dark Oak, Light Oak, Malogany and Walnut Stains in *25e, 40c and 65c cans. It don’t cost much to make everything look new and you can do it yourself. Come and iiet some of it. : : Iiit- .tn-O'-ly W. H. Philson, The Lumber Man. Hew thankless is man’s attitude to me For the support I have bestowed upon him! Yet should I fail his pantaloons to trim What ludicrous and sorry siijht you'd see! When fortune smiles, I, with apparent glee, * Cling to brass discs on trousers wide of limb And of a style that makes the sun look dim, So gorgeous is the plaid of which they be! But should misfortune overtake my man, I’m loyal still and hold to trousers thin By any .ort of fastening that I can, Tho’ be it rusty nail or safety pin; Then should these fail, on me he’ll still depend, For round his girth he’ll tie me end to end. Bull Dog Suspenders Out Wear 3 Ordinary Kinds 25 and 50 cents. 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.” The Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. ^M^Mail orders receive prompt attention. An Excellent Foundation Is a Prime Necessity. MUST BE FREE FROM WATER Provision Should Be Made For Thor ough Drainage—How to Roll the Foundation—Materials to Use For Surfacing Rural Highways. Before u fliiisliing surface of uny material is applied to a road nil the preliminary work should be complet ed. The road should have been grad ed, draius provided and the roaifmade safe by proper guard rails. With all this done, the dirt road Is a founda tion for the different materials that may be put upon it. For country roads there need be considered only pavements that are put on in small fragments. The ma terials most commonly used are gravel and broken stone. # Oyster shells aud slag from iron furnaces are ofteutimes employed In localities where these ma terials are at band, while under cer tain conditions, when no other ma terials could be obtained, burnt clay has proved serviceable. The object of a pavement is to furnish a wearing surface for the road and a protection for the foundation from water and con sequent softening. It is in reality a roof. When dry, all but the very saudy soils are firm enough to support the weight of wagons of all kinds, but when wet little support is furnished. It Is well known that sand when con fined will stand any pressure that can be put upou It. Thus if a sandy road- bed is covered with a surfacing ma terial which will hold the sand in place an excellent foundation is obtained. While a surfacing material is designed to take the wear, it is the foundation that must resist the pressure, and any road which is constructed without giv ing due attention to the foundation is wrong from the start and never will be a good road until the defect is rem edied. To prepare a natural roadbed for surfacing material it Is necessary to bring it to a proper grade and to conform Its cross section with that of the finished surface—that is, no sur facing should be put upon a roadbed which is flat or, as is oftentimes the case, lower in the middle than at the sides. In such instances the proper shape should be given to the roadbed by filling in with such material as is necessary aud then rolling the whole until it becomes firm and unyielding. During the course of construction of a roadbed, if there are places that have a wet. springy subsoil, they must be drained anil every precaution taken to make the foundation of the road dry. The pavement will keep water from going through from the top, but it will not keep water from percolating into the foundation from springs at the sides or underneath. Therefore where there is danger of water get ting to the foundation from the sides or from below it must be cut off either by side drains or by drains directly un derneath the road itself. Where the soil is too light, gravelly or saudy earth should be carted in to take its place. With the roadbed brought up to grade aud provision made for thor ough draluage it is theu compacted by rolling either by horse or steam power. In the rolling of the foundation per haps quite as good results can lie ob tained with a horse roller as with a steam roller, and in some loose soils much iess difficulty will be experienced, although more rolling will be required to compact the earth as firmly as by the heavier steam roller. This is a part of the work that is too often slighted and is the cause of depres sions subsequently appearing in the finished road. The rolling of the foun dation will bring out the weaker places, where there will be a settling. The depressions should be filled and brought to an even surface with grav el if it is at hand. It is cheaper to even up depressions by rolling the foundation than by attempting to smooth the finished surface with addi tional broken stone. When the founda tion has been rolled and all unevenness has disappeared it is men ready to re ceive the surfacing. It oftentimes bappeus when grading a particular piece of road preparatory to surfacing it with broken stone that It is necessary to do considerable heavy filling. In such instances it may be advisable to delay the laying of macadam for some time in order to give the embankments time to settle, for it is impossible to construct an em bankment of earth more than a few feet in height without having subse quent settlement. If this settling took place evenly all along the embankment, no particular harm would be done to the surfacing laid upou it, but owing to the difference In the soils composing embankments and also the way the eartli is dumped there is always a tend ency for some parts to settle more than others. If there arise circumstances making it impracticable to wait for the em bankment to “season,” every precau tion should be taken in its formation to guard against uneven settling. This can he done by spreading the earth in successive layers of about a foot in thickness, which are rolled or tamped as solid as possible. Another advan tage in delaying the surfacing of a newly graded road is that a chance is given to observe the action under frost of certain sections and so provide ad ditional underdrain, which if omitted might have caused a failure in that portion of the macadam. Beware of Narrow Tires. Where the soil is stiff or loamy It pays to use the split log road drag after it rains and before the ground dries hard. .Nine-tenths of the country roads could be made into splendid thoroughfares by the proper persistent use of the road drag and wide tires. Wide tires alone will keep a loamy road in fairly good condition with Just one scraping in the spring to round up the turnpike. Sandy roads are a much more serious problem, but sometimes a surface of clay will soon mix with the sand to form a hard track, and wide tires will keep it hard and smooth so the rainwater will run off quickly to the sides, but narrow tires will ruin such a road surface quickly by cutting ruts to hold water. It would be diffi cult to invent a worse implement of destruction, especially on roads that are Inclined to l)e sandy. Economy In 1906> Pure Linseed (Ml costs much lew sold from the barrel than It does put up In Tin Cans as Mixed Paint—In the first Instance you pay 60 cents per gallon—in the second 61.60. Now mix 3 gallon of pore linseed oil with 4 gallons L. ft M. Paint and you have, ready for use, 7 gallons of the best paint made costing only $1.20 per gal lon. Done In 2 minutes. Smith Hard ware Co. L. ft M. Paint Agents. We do not do all kinds of printing -'we do the QOOD kind. NOTICE SECOND PRIMARY ELEC TION. Pursuant to the constitution and rules governing the Democratic pri mary election a second primary la hereby ordered to be held on Tues day, September 8, 1908, at which elec tion candidates for United States Senate, Congressman for the Fifth Congressional District, Railroad Com missioners, and County Auditor will be voted for in Cherokee county. The same managers who conducted the primary election on August 26th, 1908, will conduct the election, and are requested to call on the County Chairman for boxes and tickets. Polls will open at 8 a. m. and close at 4 p. m. By order of the County Democratic Executive Committee. J. C. OTTS, Chairman. ife v Buy a Home With Rent Money! You can do this by taking stock in the Cherokee Building and Loan Associa tion. This is the oldest Building and Loan Association in Gaffney. It is conducted aloug conservative lines. % We can help you to the road of wealth. See any of our officers. Read our Booklet and learn our plans. ; Cherokee B.iL Association W. W, Gaffney, Sec’y 4 Treas. C. A. Jefferies, Prest. ►I' g) •i' 4 ft $ * Johnson’s School of Music Term Commences Week of September 1st. Pupils may enter at any time after above date. Terms $4.00 per scholastic month (4 weeks) payable monthly. No pupil received for less than 3 months. Instruction given on Piano, Organ, Violin or Guitar, and Cultivation of the Voice, either single or in class. Studio on 2nd floor of Spake bldg, opposite Star Theatre, Limestone St. 8-26-tf Littleton Female College One of the most successful and best equipped boarding schools in the South with hot water heat, electric lights and other modern improvements. 58 boarding pupils last year. 27th annual session will begin Sept. 16, 1908. For catalogue address J. M. Rhodes, President, Littleton, N. C. Ppntral Aparipmv ^ high-grade Preparatory School for boys and UullllUl HbQUwlllJ young men, with industrial and agricultural equip ment. Located on 700-acre farm one mile from Littleton College and un der the management of the same board of Trustees. For new. illustrated catalogue address J/B. Aiken, Prin., Littleton, N, C. 6-12-08-Fri.-im. ^ Desirable Property For Sale & Four-room cottage with brick store room on lot (80x200) on \ Cherokee avenue. Valuable lot fronting Limestone St. 40x200. F yft The V. E. Lemmons house in West End, Peachtree ‘■treet, 150x250. A nice farm (the J. J. Jamison place) six and one-half / miles from town. For prices and terms see : : : : ^ SAfl L*. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insurance, u Phone 258. Office second floor National Bank Building. Would YOU like for your Stationery to be neatly printed and promptly delivered? If so, will you let ns prove to you that our work will THE LEDGER. CaHnay, S. C. Please? Cures Biliousness, Sick T IkT Cleanses the system Headache, Sour Stotn- M XX. 1 IX U thoroughly and clean ach. Torpid Liver and sallow complexions of Laxative Frnit Syrup It is guarantftftd For aalo by Chorokoo Dmo Co. For aalo by Chorokoo Dr U a Co. For salo by Chorokoo Dfua Co. NBW OOODS Are arriving now almost daily. Don’t m»ss an opportunity of visiting W. J. Wilkins & Co. Fail Dress Goods now on display. New Shoes in all grades. See us for your heavy work Shoes. Our Shoes wear well. J are coming in by almost every train. We believe we can serve you as well if not better than any other place in the city. Our prices are always right. Good stock of heavy Groceries at rock bottom prices all the time. Buy your Flour from us. W. J. WILKINS « WAN!, Mmk St, GAFFNEY, SOUTH CABOUNA