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RATHER DEAD JHAN ALIVE Deplorable Condition of Lumpkiu Lady Whose Troubles Multiplied Until Life Became Almost Unbearable Lumpkin, Ga.?Mrs. G. W. Booth, or this place, says: "I suffered with j dumb chills and fever and was very Irregular. Was also nervous and weak, short of breath, couldn't do my housework without it being a burden, and then I began suffering untold mis in on/J Y or/\f fn J in Lxiy icil aiuc auu uava. x &vsi? \.\s i w here I would rather have been dead ; than alive. I tried many remedies, but they | failed to help me. Finally, I purchased two bottles of Cardui, the woman's tonic, and began taking it according to directions. Cardui helped me right away. I be lieve it saved my life. I cannot praise Cardui enough to my lady friends. It is certainly the medicine for suffering women and girls." If you have any of the ailments so common to women, or if you feel the need of a good, strengthening tonic, we urge you to give Cardui a trial. It i has helped thousands of women in its | past 50 years of success, as is proven j by the numerous enthusiastic letters of gratitude, similar to the above, which come to us every day. Don't delay. This letter from Mrs. Eooth should convince you that Cardui is worth a trial. Get a bottle from your druggist today. You'll never re gret 11.?aqv. Curtain Lecture. Miss Polly?When I was in the city I attended a vaudeville show, and it was just grand. Villager?What were the names of the pieces? Miss Polly?I don't remember all, but the curtain said the first piece was "Asbestos."?Buffalo Express. New Modern Dancing The leading Expert and Instructor in New York City, writes: "Dear Sit:?I hare used Allen's Foot-Kasi:, tbe antiseptic powder to be shaken Into the shoes, for the past ten years. It is a blessing to mil wbo are compelled to be on their feet. I dance eight or ten boars dally, and And that Allen's Foot.Kasf. keeps my feet cool, takes the frictloL. from the shoe, prevents corns and Sore, Aching feet. I recommend It to all my pupils." /cm m \ rr> rr wrn/^TT l?d ti ? t t a unon \oiguCTj; ju. riiOAV;uc>n dAUJUAinvivn. temple Fube. Address Allen S.01msted,LeBojr,N.Y. Its Class. "A clever lawyer must have some engineering ability." "Why so?" "Because the witness stand is a ?ort of pumping station, isn't it?" i ' Easy Payments. "Please, ?ir," said the maid to the head of the house, "there's a gentle man here to see you on business." "Tell him to take a chair." "Oh, he's already taken them all, and now he's after the table. He's from the installment house."?New York Herald. Time Serving. "What are you making such a fuss about? I thought being executor of an estate was a soft thing." "Perhaps it is sometimes. But I have to wind up the affairs of a clock maker."?Judge. Butterfly Decoration. Many artists have employed the but terfly in decoration, but neither brush nor crayon is as effective as nature itself. No imitation, however good, can do justice to the gorgeous colors of the tropical butterfly. One might as well try to reproduce a rainbow in oils. A most effective novelty?a but terfly tray?was shown me yesterday by a cdfarming North side hostess. It - was made on the same principle as ] the tapestry tray. A glittering butter- ] fly, the spread of whose wings must j have been all of ten inches, was 1 mounted on a stalk of milkweed. The 1 pressed butterfly was then covered 1 with glass and hermetically sealed in. To say that the tray was stunning is ; to speak very feebly of Its attractive- j ness. With this objet d'art as a cen terpiece a clever hostess could easily arrange a "butterfly luncheon."?Chi cago Inter Ocean. LIVING ADVERTISEMENT Glow of Health Speaks for Pottum. It requires no scientific training to i discover whether coffee disagrees or sot. Simply stop it for a time and use Postum in place of it, then note the beneficial effects. The truth will ap-, pear. "Six years ago I was in a very bad i condition," writes a Tenn. lady. "I j Buffered from indigestion, nervous- : ness and insomnia. "I was then an inveterate coffee drinker, but it was long before I could be persuaded that it was coffee that hurt me. Finally I decided to leave it off a few days and find out the truth. "The first morning I left off coffee I had a raging headache, 30 I decided I must have something to take the place of coffee." (The headache was caused by the reaction of the coffee drug?caffeine.) "Having heard of Postum through a friend who used it, I bought a package and tried it. I did not like it at first but after. I learned how to make it right, according to directions on pkg., I would not change back to coffee for anything.. "When I began to use Postum I weighed only 117 lbs. Now I weigh 170 and as I have not taken any tonic in that time I can only attribute my j present good health to the use of Pos- j turn in place of coffee. "My husband says I am a living ad vertisement for Postum." Name given by the Postum Co., Bat tle Creek, Mich. Postum now comes in two forms: Regular Postum ? must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum?is a soluble pow der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly In a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious bever age Instantly 30c and 50c tins. The cost per cup of both kinds is about the same. "There's a Reason" for Postum. ?sold by Grocer* Co-Opera Products. Flow It Is Done in Eu in America to t\ Farmer am By MATTHEW iCbtiyright. 1SH. Wtai Teaching Danish Agricultural S A CO-OPERATIVE Frederickssund, Denmark.?We take off our hats to the Danish packing house and its product./ Here a most efficient packing house takes a high grade pig and manufactures him into the best bacon on earth. If Armour or Cudahy or Morris were here he would be compelled to join us in our salutation of the packing houses of Denmark. Here is the last word as to efficient scientific treatment of the dead porker. Rut in Denmark thev demand some- I thing more than scientific treatment in the packing house. The Danish theory is that to produce good bacon you must go back into the history of the pig. They want to know of what breed he was, that he was raised in a sanitary pen, on pure, wholesome food, that he was between five and seven months old, and weighed from ISO to 200 pounds when butchered. He may not be a scrub, picked up by the buyers and rushed into the yards to be killed and cured, as may be the case In America. The Danish pig is an efficient scientific agency for transforming pure milk and grain and root crops and fodder into fine pig meat. And so when the best packing house methods deal with the best pig the result is sure to be the best bacon. And the farmers after l-hoir hovo -ralactri the nfe- and Clired the bacon In the bacon factory which they themselves own, Insist that they get the profit from the sale. So these Danish farmers keep possession of the bacon until it is placed upon the counters of the retail dealers in Eng land. In this way they get all the profits there are in the entire process. Organized Without Money. This is the way in which it is done. The bacon factory here at Fredericks 3und is owned by 3,000 farmers. There are big farmers and little farmers among them. Some of them have :>nly five acres, and others have hun ireds of acres. Some contribute only ane or two hogs per year, while oth ers send theirs In by the hundred. Strange to say, while the factory now represents a very large investment and while the farmers who own it have in the aggregate great wealth, the plant was established without the iirect investment of one dollar. There was no capital paid in and there were no bonds issued. A large number of farmers simply got together, organ ized. elected officers and directed that these officers should, in their behalf, borrow sufficient capital at the near by bank to erect ihe plant and start the business. And the bank stood for it. well knowing that the unlim ited liability of hundreds of farmers who were interested in the bacon fac " --A I torv was xne Desi security iu ui> world: well knowing also that under proper management a bacon factory was Itself one of the most sound and profitable business ventures into which these same farmers could go. The loan was obtained with the un derstanding that repayment should be in annual installments running ovei\ ten years and that these payments should be made out of the net earn ings of the concern. There Is one annual meeting of the members each year, and although the financial in terests which the different members have In the concern vary largely, it is one man one vote no matter who he may be, the owner of a small farm or of a large farm. The man who delivers one pig per year has the same voting power as he whose an nual product amounts to 1,000 pigs. The annual meeting elects a board of 21 directors. These directors hold four meetings per year. The direc tors employ the superintendent and manager. High Grade Manager. This concern is owned by 3.000 thrifty, close-fisted, money-making farmers, but they do not run this business on any narrow gauge plan. They know that incompetence does not pay. They want good results and so employ the best superintendent and manager that monetary consid erations can secure. His name is Frederick L.. sieck. He is an eau cate'i. widely read, much traveled, scientifically trained business man, who understands farming and hog | raising In all its details. He knows I all about pigs from breeding to eat ing. He has studied every known process of transforming a live pig into the finest bacon. He knows all about the by-products, be they sausage or fertilizers made from the blood. He understands the problems of trans portation. He Is familiar with the markets of the world and with the demands of each. Into his plant he has introduced all the latest efficiency devices. He is in the broadest sense, a competent, efficient, high priced manager. ior some twentv or thirty tive Farm Marketing rope and May Be Done he Profit of Both i Consumer ' S. DUDGEON. .ern Newspaper Union, i tudents How to Handle a Horse.' BACON FACTORY years co-operation has been in suc cessful operation in Denmark, no co operative society can count upon the absence of rivalry and competition from private dealers. Earlier in the game more than one co-operative so ciety was sadly hindered in being out bid in its efforts to purchase the products of its members. It is hard indeed for the farmer to realize that he should accept $10 per hundred for his pigs from a cc-operative society while the outBide dealer is offering him $11 per hundred. The private dealers here played the game that they are playing in America. Whenever any co-operative concern started do ing business the private dealer at once outbid it. Here as in America the farmers sometimes abandoned their co-operative society and sold fo the highest bidder. Occasionally the co-operative concern was pushed to the wall and went out of business. Here as in America the private deal er immediately dropped his price and the farmer was where he was before getting Whatever price the dealers offrood linnn nmnnc themselves. No Selling to Rival Dealers. It did not take the organizers of the co-operative movement long to realize that this could not go on. Con sequently, when a new organization is started now the matter is fully ex plained to the prospective members. They are told that unless they expect J to give unlimited loyalty to the con cern, unless they are willing to agree 1 to bring all of their output to the so- ' ciety even when the Bociety is outbid , by private dealers, there is no use in starting a society at all. It is fully . explained to them that the high prices which may be offered can only be temporary and that the permanent ' welfare of the community demands ' that the co-operative concern be or ganized and be loyally supported. The. 1 matter thus fully before them the ^ Danish farmers do not hesitate to en ter into a contract to deliver all their j product to tne luctu uu-ujjciauio ou clety. The members of this bacon j factory here are under absolute agree ment to deliver pigs to no other deal- 1 er, although any member may of course use such hogs as he need? for his own use. Here is the contract: j "We, the undersigned hereby pledge \ ourselves to deliver to the i co-operative bacon factory, which It is l proposed to establish, all the pigs of < weight between 150 and 200 pounds, i which we may produce for sale. Such | pi?s will be delivered on conditions ] decided by the shareholders of the 1 society, and that we shall receive < such amount in payment of such de- i livered swine as may be realized for < them by the factory less preliminary ] expenses incurred in the organization ] of the society and the annual install ments on loan for building and plant 1 payable during a period of about tei) i years, together with current woiking ( expenses." If a member delivers pigs to any i dealer he is penalized. He has gone I into this agreement with full knowl- "] edge of its purpose. As a result no 1 one seems to be In the least dissat- ] isfied, although occasionally competi- 1 tors offer prices that are indeed tempt- 1 ing. The manager told us. however, 1 that repeatedly he had farmerd not i only express satisfaction over the < profits which they were receiving, but i when in addition to a fair price they have been paid a dividend they have i fVinf { + ( repeaieuiy iciiiuiibnaicu moi t?. j seemed to them they were getting ' more than they should out of the con- i cern. I Sixty Thousand Pigs Per Year. ' "We handle from sixty thousand to ' seventy thousand pigs each year. 1 said the manager. "During parts of the year two thousand pigs per week i will come in. These all are nearly ] of the same age and size, practically 1 all being between twenty-four and l twenty-eight weeks old and weighing < from 180 to 200 pounds. They have < been fed almost the same food and i have been raised upon conditions that are absolutely uniform. Slight difTer- ; 1? *1.~ ences occur III me uiuiviuuais, avuic being a little fatter than their mates, others differing In the quality of meat, although it would take an expert to detect these differences. Our annual turn over of bacon amounts to about a million and a half dollars. We | send out some fresh pork. Our lead ing article is cured side bacon with | ham and shoulder attached. We send out also lard, sausage, boneless ham and a number of by-products. You will note as you go through the fac tory that every product which we send out is marked with a govern ment stamp with the number 39, which is the number of this factory. Utilizing All Except the Squeal. "All the waste from the factory is carefully cared for. We do not de j&y stroy a particle of material that comes i in. Some one has Baid that the only thing we have not been able to make money out of is the squeal. For ex ample, we manufacture bone meal for chicken feed. We turn the blood into a special quality of fertilizer, most of which is shipped to Germany and Holland and used largely upon their famous tulip beds. We burn noth ing. Most of the offal goes back to the farms of this region as manures. There is no more profitable use for it. The very water with which we flush out our slaughter rooms is UBed as a fertilizer. Each Friday we send out quotations of prices which will prevail during the coming week. About one-half of vui uuipuu, uwncrui, 10 ouiu iu au vance on standing orders from Eng land. They direct us to send them so many hundred pounds at the rul ing price. They understand, of course, that we will fix a fair market price upon what we send them. With these who want good bacon, however, it ia not so much a question of price as a question of quality, and it is because of our quality that we have these standing orders." Fixing Prices. Each of the factories has a local price-fixing committee, consisting of the president of the local society, a well-known farmer who is not a direc tor of the society, and the manager of the factory. The manager of course, produces the latest market reports, telegrams and all other information obtainable as to the results of previ ous shipments, the state of the mar ket and its trend whether up or down. After providing for a small profit which goes to the sinking fund and allowing a quarter of a cent per pound for working expense the committee decides upon the prices which should be paid and which it will recommend to the general district committee. The district committee of the Fed eration of Bacon Factories meets once a week to fix the prices which are to 1 prevail for the following week. This j general committee first learns the | views of all the local factory com mittees In the district and sets the prices according to their recommenda tions; that is to say, if five local committees recommend 45 ore per pound, while five others place the fig- i ures at 46, the general committee sets it at 45%. I It Pays the Farmer. "We are now paying a little over fifteen dollars per hundred weight. Other private dealers pay the same price, but with the private dealer the first return is all the farmer will ever get for his pigs. Each year we lay aside something for our reserve fund, and something to pay off what we bor rowed at the bank. After we have done this we declare an annual divi dend, which amounts to from $1.25 to $1.50 on each hog that has been delivered to us. You see also that at the end of the ten years' period ; each farmer has a share in our estab- ; lishment here, which may be termed j an additional price for his pigs. Un- I (Jer our system each farmer has an j Interest in this concern, when it is Rnallrr noM for In nrnnnrtlnn tn ; """"J number of pounds of pork which he has delivered to us during all these years. We figure that the average amount, which has been laid aside and Invested In this plant, Is about twenty-five dollars per member. We ' Jo not pay this in cash to them, but Issue a certificate which is evidence that they own a share In this plant ' md in the business which we are do- ; Ing here. This is not a closed cor poration, but any farmer who wishes to join it can do so by paying the sstimated value of membership. Standing Together? i "There are 43 co-operative bacoo ? ?J ? ? I? T\? ?a117/\ A?tA o i latiuneu 111 JLAruuiaifv. yvc nave a. v^u" :ral organization, which is rather a i voluntary association for the mutual aeneflt of the various co-operative ba- < :on factories. The office is in Cop- < ?nhagen. Weekly reports come in I from each factory giving the amount < killed and sold, the expense of the I business and the market returns re- t seived. The heatis of the various fac- ' lories meet from time to time to talk 1 jver the best business methods and possible improvements In our way of iandling bacon. We give each other < the benefit of our experience and 1 think of every way possible to hplp < ?ach other. We do not feel that we t ire, In any antagonistic sense, rivals. We fully belieye that every factory i is helped by the success of the other ] factories. The success of each de- 1 pends upon the fact that all of the 1 factories are putting out a good < product and are dealing in an honest business-like way with the foreign re tailers who take our products. What hurts one of us hurts all of us. We 1 ire anxious, therefore, to help each Dther in every way, since In helping Dthers we are helping ourselves. "You will find that there Is the same ' spirit among our members that there ' Is between the heads of the factories. ] The members do not feel that they J TirifV* AO Athfir Villt. cuiiipci.m5 TTiwji cavu vwmv?| feel that they should help each other 1 to Increase the quality of the pork produced. You will find them a very trlendly lot of people. "Our agricultural schools and our government departments help us, particularly upon all scientific prob lems. They help us along the tech nical side of all our work. They make experiments and give advice and co operate with us generally in a thou sand ways." Possibly the most striking thing about the factory is that a group of farmers should run a concern that rivals in efficiency and business methods the largest and best private ly owned packing houses of the j world. We expect farmers to farm ( well but we do not expect them to do business well. In America they | take what is given them for the raw product and go no further. Here they go so far as to get all there is in it. ' The farmer who raises the pig holds ] to it and keeps it as his property un- j til it lands In the retail shops of Eng- ( land. All intervening processes are > ander his control and all intervening . profits are his own. Denmark pre- , sents to the world the scientific farm- ( er who is an efficient business man. , Will the American farmer evar a* , tain that cosiUon? i SOUTH CAROLINA REFOIj PRIM STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVEN TIQN ADOPTS MANY SWEEP " ING CHANGES. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBU Doings and Happening* That Mark th? Progress of South Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around th? State Capitol. Columbia. Several sweeping changes in tht rules and in the constitution, to safe guard and reform the primary elec tions were passed by the State Demo cratic convention which adjournec Bine die after a session lasting twc days. The convention worked stead ily throughout the day and all during the afternoon refusing to recess foi dinner. The determination of the con vention to carry through the report of the overwhelming majority of the committee on constitution and rules was shown in the steady manner ir which it proceeded to reject amend ment after amendment, which were rained in following the tabling of the minority report of the committee. It was 5:30 o'clock when the motion to adjourn was carried. ' The main fight of the minority was made on the report of the majority which called for a personal enrollment and providing for a residence of two years in the state, one year in the county and 60 days in the voting pre cinct as qualifications to establish res idence before being eligible to partici pate in the primaries. Strenuous ef forts of the minority to knock out the personal enrollment were unsuccess ful, heavy majorities being recorded time and again in favor of the ma jority reports. An amendment by Sen ator Clifton allowing the voter to en roll by applying to the secretary of hia club in person or on written ap nlir.Rtinn siened hv ?. witTiPS-s hv rp jected by a vote of 256 to The last flght of any note developed on the substitute which former Gov ernor John Gary Evans offered for section 12 of the majority report. This substitute required the club boqks of enrollment to be closed on the last Tuesday in July, and three days thereafter each secretary is to transmit his original roll to the coun ty chairman, who shall file a certifi ed copy with the clerk of court. Ten days before the first primary the county commission.is to have publish ed in some newspaper of general cir culation in the county a notice of the meeting of the committee which shall then purge the rolls, hearing and dis posing of protesta and contests which may come up. No name shall be stricken from the club rolls without three days notice by mail to the per son concerned. The originals duly certified to are to fce returned to tWe secretaries of the respective clubs and a list of all names added or .drop ped by the committee filed by the chairman in the clerk's office, the rolls and list to be at all times open to public inspection. No person whose oame is not on the roll shall be allow ed to vote. The managers of election after they have counted and declared the vote shall return the rolls to the secretary of the club. If the original roll is lost a duplicate of the copy on file In the clerk's office shall be furnished the secretary of such club. This section was finally adopted )verwhelmingly, and after some dis jusslon an additional section offered jy W .N. Graydon, providing that in ;ase the managers nna more votes in ;he ballot box than there are names jn the club rolls one of the managers shall proceed to draw out the excess rotes, was adopted. A resolution of thanks to W. G. Sirrlne of GreenvilJe, B. E. Nicholson )f Edgefield and Neils Christensen of Beaufort for the time and work they lid in preparing the new rules was idopted amid cheers. Permanent organization: Presi dent, James A. Hoyt, Columbia; vice presidents, Joseph W. Barnwell, Charleston; R. B. Watson, Saluda; M. L. Bonhom, Anderson; H. H. Arn 3ld, Spartanburg; C. E. Spencer, Hand Made Still is Trophy. In the office of the collector of in ternal revenue there is a copper still which is a masterpiece of finished workmanship. The still was made from she^t copper, hammered, welded and cut out by hand. It was cap Lured by R. Q. Merrick, general dep uty collector, near Walhalla. James Patton, the owner and maker of the still, pleaded guilty at the April term r>f the United States court in Green ville and was sentenced * to four months' imprisonment}. The moon shiner had onther still. The other still, now in the office of the collector, was held in reserve. A pipe line from a spring brought water to Patton's barn to cool the worm of me oil 11. Auubiici line uaiucu the smake a good distance from the barn to a pile of brush which could be set on fire should the need arise, rhe still in the collector's office can liold 50 gallons of "beer." Those who liave seen it marvel at the skill and patience that Patton showed in mak ing it without machinery, the still will be advertised and sold by the revenue officers. i Richmond Take the Lead. The Richmond reserve hank district, of wheh the Columbia banks are a part, again took the lead recently in the movement for the organization of the nation's new banking system, rhe certificate of organization of the 'Regional Reserve Bank of Rich mond," which was executed at that city, was the first to reach the treas ury department. The certificate of organization of the reserve banks at Mew York and Philadelphia followed in hour behind Richmond's. York; D. R. Coker, Darlington; J. H. Clifton, Sumter; secretaries, M. M. Mann, St. Matthews; George C. Tay lor, Columbia; sergeant-at-arms, J. S. f Wilson, Lancaster. Credentials committee hears argu ment and testimony on Barnwell Grace contest and seats Barnwell del egation from Charleston county. Double delegation from Georgetown, * each member having half a vote, is seated intact, but the delegation is allowed only one member on each of the convention committees. Delegates cheer complimentary ref erences to Woodrow Wilson by Presi: [ dent Hoyt and applaud his declara tion : "This convention meets with I the plain mandate of the people to re ! form the primary." " j Meeting at noon, convention ad | journs shortly afterward until even i inj. Reconvening at. 8:17 p. m., ad journs again at 9:35 until 11:30 to j allow necessary time to committees j on platform and resolutions, constitu > i tion and rules. Latter committee sits . i behind closed doors. At 11:30 o'clock . j the platform committee's report com . i mending President Wilson's adminis I tration is adopted. A repess until ,! 12:30 a. m. Is taken, pending receipt .; of a report from the committee on < constitution and rules. Report of ptetform committee in doreses heartily the national adminis i tration and promises President Wil 1 son a continuation of the support, j j "commenced In faith" and "justified Jin fact;" urges extension of rural i .! credits; commends the president's , foreign policy; demands of the South , Carolina senators thafc they vote for ; repeal of free Panama tolls; suggests , federal aid in land reclamation by means of drainace: remommends to , the general assembly that It enact ( laws "to protect primary elections from fraud," and favors biennial leg- , islative sessions. . Convention at 12:36 a. m. took a re cess until 10 o'clock this morning, the . committee on constitution and rules having reported that it would be un- 1 able to finish its work earlier than that hour. Constitution and rules committee adjourned at 2:15 a. m., having adopt ed as its majority report the "Green ville plan" with amendments; this re port to be submitted to the conven tion when it should assemble this morning at 10 o'clock. JJummary of new constitution and rules of the Democratic party of South Carolina. Qualifications for club membership and voting in primary elections are: Applicant to be 21 years of age for r> + f rt of f Vi n I ! a wmic i/cuiutioif a i/in^cu ul vuo | I United States and of the State and | must have resided in the State two ( years, in the county six months and j in the club district 60 days. If a ne gro, applicant must have voted for Hampton in 1876. Applicant to renrollment in a Demo cratic club shall present themselves in person before the secretary and sign the roll or make their mark, if they are unable to write, giving their age, occupation and po^tofflce address, or their street number where such designations exist in the club district where they reside. The county com mittees shall furnish suitable and uni form books of enrollment to the sec retaries, such books to be provided by ' the State committee. The club rolls shall be closed on the I second Tuesday in July of each elec I tion year. Secretaries of clubs shall ille the rolls, properly certified, with copies, with the clerks of courts of the various counties, where they shall be open for inspeetion. County commit tees shall purge the rolls, giving due notice by mail to all citizens the le gality of whos^ enrollment is ques tioned. / Special provisions are made for Charleston, both as to enrollment in club districts and as to voting. >t State committee shall arrange for two separate campaign meetings in | each county, one to be addressed by candidates for State offices and the ! other by candidates for United States 1 senator. Chairman of county committees in the same congressional districts and judicial circuits shall arrange for sep : arate meetings for candidates for con gress and solicitor. Polls are to remain open on election day from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m., except in Charleston, where they shall re main open from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. All existing club rolls are declared null and void, as a special provision for 1914. This will require a new en ! rollment of all Democrats for the 1914 ; primary on the la3t Tuesday in j August. Sullivan in Out on Bail. Following a hearing at chambers a few days ago at the state house be j fore Chief Justice Gary, an order was j signed admitting Joseph G. Sullivan, the Laurans county farmer who is ; charged with killing John M. Cannon, 1 at Gray Court, to bail in the sum of ! $5,000, with not less than two nor more than five sureties. The petition er was represented by W. R. Richey of the Laurens bar. The state wes represented by R. A. Cooper, solicitor, and J. B. Park of the Greenwood bar. Still Hopes For Federal Bill. Congressman Byrnes of South Car , olina a few days ago held a confer j ence with the secretary of agriculture ! and the director of public roads re ! garding the policy of the administra tion towards the good roads question. ' Notwithstanding the fact that the road bill which passed the house some months ago has not yet been report ed to the senate. Mr.* Byrnes still hopes that such a bill will be enacted at this session. He has conferred also | with members of the subcommittee. : Rules For State Hospital. Rules and regulations fo rthe gov ; ernnient of the State Hospital for the : Insajie were adopted at a meeting of i the board t*f regents held recently at the asylum. The power of the board I is made supreme at the institution - under tht* ?-ules adopted. All com- * | plaints by employes are to be filed f with the superintendent to be trans- J mAtted to the board of regents. The (i regents adopted a rule to require all assistant physicians to reside on the g gj-ounds and give all of their tlm? to h the care of the inmates. \ Are Your Kidneys Weak ? Yon may have kidney trouble and not know it The only signs may be occa sional twinges in the small of the back, constant lameness, dizzy spells or some annoying irregularity of the kidney action. But no sign of kidney trouble can be safely ignored. Kidney disease moves rapidly. It leads to dropsy, gravel, Bright'* disease, rheumatism. 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