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m In the Name of Sense, that good common sense* of which all of us have a share, how can you continue to buy ordinary soda crackers, stale and dusty as they must fee, when for 5$ you can get Uneeda Biscuit fresh from the oven, protected from dirt by a package the very beauty of which makes you hungry* NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY WHAT HE KNOWS About Frand in the Management of the Dispensary. SENATOE TILLMAN 3 Gives Testimony Before the Investigate Jng Committee in Columbia. He N Says That Circumstantial Evi dcncelPoints to Much Thieving? The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Cbroniole says there was no standing room on Tuesday night of last week in the aiple or galleries cf the hall of the house of representa tives when Senator Tillman took the stand to testify bpfore the dispensary investigating committee. Senator Tillman wa?* on the stand over two w'urR. and though he Is not a man to w's'e words in comlner to the onfn^ New Magazine for You I am bringing out another new magazine that you will come pretty close to liking. I wouldn't be surprised if it hit you harder than anything in the shape of a magazine you have ever seen. There isn't much style to it, but it has the stuff in it that you and everybody else will want to read. It is called Something New in iyiagazine Making \ THE SCRAP/BOOK is the most elastic thing that ever happened in the way of a magazines?elastic enough to carry anything from a tin whistle to a battleship. "Every thing that appeals to the human brain and human heart comes within its compass?fiction, which is the backbone of periodical circulation; biography, review, philosophy, science, & art, poetry, wit, humor, pathos, satire, the weird, the mystical?everything that can be classified and everything that cannot be classified. 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Reliable Prescriptionists. To Road=tax Payers. A heavy penalty is imposed for not paying Road Tax by March Is . For convenience of its customers and people of Cow Castle and surrounding townships, the Bank of Bowman on payment by any one of the 81 00 at its oftlce in Bowman, will procure the County Treasurer's receipt for said tax, free of charge for same. E. N. Mittle. Cashier. Llie InHuranco. Dr. Woolley's PAINLESS PIUM AND Whiskey Cure SENT FREE to tH users of morphine, opium, laudanum, elixir of opium,co? calnoor whiskey, a large book of pap tlcularsonhomcoi sanatorium treat' ment. Address, Or. B. M. woolley P. o.-Box 287, Atlanta, Georgia Editor Times and Democrat. I wish to inform the public generally and my friends in particular, that 1 am writing Life Insurance for the Oldest Chartered Olu Line Com pany in Tue United States. Itl will pay those desiring a policy to see | me before placing their insurance. I Can Certainly Save Tuem Money, and Will Guarantee To Do So If They Will Give Me a Chance. Respectfully, H. ?. Wannamaker, (At the People's Bank.) .. ? "?-r. :. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One and a Half Million bottles. Does this record of merit appeal to you? No Core, No Pay. 50c Enclosed with every bottle is a Ten Cent* package of Grove's Blade Root* Liver PQls. bis evtd.-tcj disclosed nothing new. Still what re bad to say was received with muc i interest and frequently he was appl .uried generally. He often turned the tables on the attorneys question.in him, these incidents causing-laughter to his favor. At times tbe bearing resembled a typical Tillman campaign meeting. The sen ator arranged a seat for himself on top the speaker's desk so that ehe could see and he seen by tbe entire bouse. When bo mounted tbe desk and sat down be was vigorously ap plauded. ?'Have you any Hn formation in re gard to an" graft, rebate or improper dealing on the part of any dispensary official or any record about the dis pensary, Senator Tillman?'* was Mr. Lyons' first question. "In order to be able to have myselt so aright and have the committee understand just what I know and what 1 kon'o know and what I believe upon very strong evidence, I will have to answer that question in my own way. "As to knowing sp'Cifically of any instance of my knowledge that any such thing has occurred I answer. nr. And as for the iea.on which have In fluenced me in saying what 1 have ?aid in interviews and in speeches 1 win <ive the foundation for my opin ion" Here Senator Tillman trm,r t< read a recent advertisement of the board for bids. Ll_, "I have one other question," Inter rupted Mr. Lyon, "while you were In charge of tbe dispensary, did you re ceive any money In rebates, graft, or In any Improper way from the Mill Creek Distillery Co.?" "I did not.". "Did you receive it from any source?" "No." Se. ator Tillman went on ^explain that be bad twice volunteered tocome before the committee, and though he was exceedingly busy in Washington and as a United States senator was not within the jurisdiction of the com mittee, he came because the commit tee was ready for him. After reading the advertisement, Senator Tillman said: :. ?idence8 of gbaft. "I have bad no time to get up any papers to produce the necessary basis for a legal argument. I am not a law yer as you all know, but I will call attention to this circular, and any man here who ohoses to examine tbe faots under tbe dispensary law will see that it required that purchases for the state dispensary shall be made by sompetlti e bids, and I say most emphatically that this method of purchasing has not one element of competition in it, and the law there fore as I understand it has been vit iated absolutely and without regard to the oath of c like or other conse quences, by those responsible servants of tbe people or of the legislature, I should say, and not tbe people who have been placed in charge of this business involving a million and a half or two million dollars. "Why do I say that there is no competition in tbe bidding? Let me say to vou that 'One-X' rye is not to be bid or for less than ,31.50. What is jX-rye? There is no definition whatever under this specification that woulU establish the test of what one X-rye is. No man living can tell by this advertisement what kind of liqu uor he is bidding on, except the price and the price is fixed with the kind of brand in any barrel which he might choose to sell and send here ont-X twc-X or four-X and no man living, chemist of nobody else, can detect tbe difference and be able to prevent fraud on the state.'' Eboard violated the law. , Accusing tha board of also violot ing the law in allowing discontinu ance of request blanks and criticising It for tl e revelations about bottles and labels and whiskey, Senator Tillman shouted: ? "This smoke has been getting very big, and it seems to me stealing has been go.ng on hero. 1 bad the coui age to t-.ay it as I believe It, and tha; In all there is to It, that Is the base af it. JNow, who has got it 1 don't know. I will say in this connection, I wa. t to see this committee probe this thing to the very root. Go back to the beginning and come on down, or begin here and go back, whichever Fou chose, just bo you travel in tbe road from end to end, investigate Govornors Tillman, Evans, Ellerbe, and McSweeny. I demand it so far as I am concerned. I have nothing to conceal or to be afraid of from an in vestigation by any mortal, either alive or dead, which could be brought out against me. (Applause.) accused him of stealing. "Ten or twelve years ago there were accusations, charges, insinua tions, sneers appearing in certain newspapers, and uttered by certain people, that I had lined my pockets witn rebates and had gotten rich. Wben I left the governor's office in 1894, I return? d to my home in Edge Held. I bad occasion to buy some land for the purpose of getting a home on the railroad. I was born and reared ten miles from a depot or a telegraph office. Having been elected to the seu ite of the United States it was neces sary that I should get in touch with the world more intimitely, so 1 ocught a plantation at Trenton, for which I paid cash. This buzzing in the air, these slanders and these lies, I will say, going about the country, notwithstanding the reople had pass ed on them by electing me?these 'Mugs caused some people to go to E Ige field and Bearcb the records to see what I had. The probe of the enemies of Ben Tillman went into my individual business. My friend, W. A Clark, president of the Caroline Na tional bank came out and stated tha* he had loaned me from his bank the full amount of the purchase money, 86,000, because I had entered public, life poor, and if there Is any credit to claim it, I am poor yet. (Applause. "I want to say without presuming to orlticise you gentlemen of the com mitte, you know your business ano you ought to be able to discharge it intelligently without suggestions from me?when I saw from the newspapers that your members had gone about trying to find out something about the present financial status of the present members of the board, ft was understood that von could not go into such things as that. Why make thesf discriminations? I had to endure it Are these men any better than I am? i If public money has found its way i into official's private pockets, it is , your duty to investigate it and cot honeygfuggje, but go to the bottom in any way possible." (Applause). MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING IN EP. Ohairman Hay: "Where is your au . thority for that?" Senator Tillman: "I am giving cir cumstantial evidence coupled with , various, statements that have been ! brought out in evidence and it is in evitably my conclusion that no man . would prostitute his office and disobey the law so brazenly and openly in making purchases for the state, at. ' these exorbitant rates over and above j prices people in other states are pay ing, if there was not something in it , for him. That is the logic of tbe slt , uation. Circumstantial evidence is j the strongest evidence when it will bold, and it is very week when it will . not hold. Why would any man object to his private affairs being Investiga ted If his oharacier is involved? I , cannot see bow any man can refuse to have the fullest investigation made in a financial way or In anv other way if his name is Involved. If he owns any poperty he ought to be able to explain where he got it and where the money came from." Senator Tillman then went into a minute description of the brands of whiskey that had been bought m-de als administration, hUVtrip to d ff ;i eut parts of the whiskey sections of the country, the manner of manufac turing the different brands, the pr.ceb piid for same and the manner in which purchased. OPPOSED BAD WHISKEY. Mr Lyon: "Did you ever request Boy. McSweeney to make any pur chase from the Mill Creek Distillery Co., at a higher price than tue B iss Co., f Sered, and if so what was paid on it?" Senator Tillman: "I do not recol lect thatl ever did, probably I did. I thought the man who stood by the dispensary in its infancy ought not to be thrown overboard, because some rectifier from Baltimore or elsewnere would come down here and offer rot gut to us at lower prices." Mr. Lyon: "Sofar as I amimfornc ed the committee has no other ques tion to ask, unless some individual member has or the board of dlrrctors who stand under accusation as I un derstand It. They may possibly di al re to be beard through their repn aentatixesi" QUESTIONED BY DEFDN8E. General Bellinger, who represents the directors Bey kin and To will, pro ceeded to question Senator Till man. " "Your intention in rffarirg your to tbe committee was to testify as a witness?" "I did not offer myself to the com mittee except under this condition: Tbe newspapers were sneering and using every imaginable arg j men against the dispensary and sug testet that Senator Tillman ought to conn before the committee and tel. wba he knows. I bad been making speeches and feeling then as now. 1 -?as willing to give any light I could I did not have as. auch information then as now but I was ready to ap pear before tbe committee whsnevei they, wanted mei" Q Your idea in coming before he committee v. as to nake a speech before tbe committee was it not, or t( ttitii/j l facts which you joursell ere arq^ain1 ed with ?" A. "I did not feel like making a speech. I have plenty of opportuni ties to make speechi s. Q "You will pbase answer my question Senator. Your intention in coming before tbe committee was for what purpose?" A "To make a suggestion, that they might get a truth '! Q "Did you not on several occa sions at various places in this state, ind perhaps in Washington once or twice, state that there was collusion i and fraud and you cc uld prove it?" A. What I stated was In the 1 papers. Q. That you could prove It? A. That I could prove it from cir cumstantial evidence, which I have adduced. Q. You wanted to come here to vindicate yourself? A. I have nothing to vindicate. Nobody has charged me with any thing. What do you mean by vindi cating my position? Q.' Wnon you charged tbe dispen sary board, the present managers of that board, with fraud, and stated that the dispensary By stem was good and . ouo thing to do was to turn out hi pre ent thieves, Ls that th> poi ' you desired to oome down nere and sustain yourself on? A. I did not desire to come hprp at all, if somebody had not asked thaO, I come and you are the very man, It believe who did. But for that I wou d be in Washington now. STANDS ON niS RECORD. Q. Don't you think representing a* 1 did some of the members of tbe hoard when I asked this committee tc bring you here, that vcu should try tv prove what you said you could prove? A. So far as I am concerned, I dir not think anything about it. I stand m my record, Btand on my character, stand on what I am aDd what I have done. q. You have said that you wer charged by many people in this stat< with lining your pockets with rebates ind commissions when you were man aging this dispensary. A, Yes sir. q, And a great many people Id ?be state believed that A. Yes I believe they did. Do you wart to know my reason? q. No use to give that now. A. Ah, you do not want my opin ion now? (the crowd laughed ) q. You can give, said Mr. Bel linger. A. I look at It from this Rtanr1 or-iot. There 1b no doubt if I baa ?jteu corrupt, and wanted to mcikt money out of my position as governoi m buying whiskey, 1 could have dona It. There is no use to dispute that proposition. It is too self evident. Taose men who were my enemhssaw I no'lH rln It. If T so wlllorl an<S thoy [Continued on Page six.] ?11 WEAKENS THE SYSTEM AND INVITES DISEASE Every part of the body is dependent on the blood for nourishment and Bt ingth, and when from any cause this vital stream of life becomes impov e ished or run-down, it invites disease to enter. No one can be well when the 7 iood is impure; they lack the energy that is natural with'; health, the com plexion becomes pale and sallow, the vital energies are at a low ebb, and they suffer from a general broken-down condition of health. The system is weak ened and unable to resist the diseases and disorders that are constantly assail inglt. The Liver and Kidneys, failing to receive the proper stimulation and nourishment from the blood, grow inactive and dull, and the waste matters arid bodily impurities that should pass off through these channels of nature are left in the system to pioduce Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sores' and Ulcers, Skin Diseases or some other blood d isprder. When the blood is in this weak ened and diseased condition it shot \be treated with a remedy that is not only thorough, but gentle in its actu \ ? S. S. S., a purely vegetable remedy, made of roots, herbs and barks, is jm' What is needed. It not only cleanses the blood of all impurities and poisont \ and enriches and strengthens it, but j gently builds up the entire system by its fine. tonic effect, S. S. S. reinvigorates every^mem- j ber Of the body, gives tone and vigor to the blood, I and as it goes to the different parts, carries rp-1 bus': health and strength. S. S. S. acts more promptly aar 0-ives better results than any other i medicine. It cures Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sores and Ulcers*, Skin Diseases and all other blood disorders, and cures them per manently. Our Medical Department will be glad to give advice without charge to all suffering with blood:or skin diseases. Address THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GAm PURELY VEGETABLE. = SMART = Fall and Winter CLOTHING For Big and Little Boys. Is your boy supplied with suitable apparel for fall. If he is not it will pay you to come here and see our immense collection of pretly and exclusive-styles we show in little boy's and big boy's fall and winter clothing. Stylish suits for the youngster's from 3 to 8 years in an unususliy fine assortment of styles and fabrics. Just the sort that mother's fancy the most, and that the lit tle fellows are proud of. Two piece suits for boys 8 to 16 years, either single or double btested style; well tailored and beautifully finished. Prices $1 to $6. Fairey & Weeks. Tombstones and Monuments. Irepresent three large marble works, tind it will pay anybody needing anything in this line to get my price's before buying. "You should not fail to mark the last resting place of your loved ones'with a stone whose inscription wll survive for many years v thecrumbling touch of t:me. It is a dulyof love that should be symbolized by something more lasting than flowers watered by tears of grief. Every slab, shaft, tombstone or monument I han dle is a triumph of the stone cutter's, sculptor's and engraver's art and my prices are most nasouable Mow about that neglecr grave of mother, or father, sister or brother? Can refer you to work done in this county by the companies I represent, and I think that you will agree that it is first-class iu every particular. ' Also take orders for high-grade sewing machines, pianos and organs. Others are higher in pri'-e?but none better. J. WANNAMAKFR, Orangeburg, S. C. Residence on Pearl street between Orange slreet and Eailroad Avenue. Come Quick_ as everyone is anxious tn try our "Little Daisy" Buggies. They are triumps nf modern inventive genius and a gna^ boon to horses?so easy and trio' ionlcss do they run. They're not the only ones, however, in our stock?''Everything on Wheels." un less it might bJ a lire engine, and^we could get you that. OSCAR R. L0W1AN, Oirangeburg, S.C. ,THE INSIDE TRACT s always "the way" to take for safety. Our inside trade leading up to..busi ness position comes through " -A [COMMERCIAL COURSE? i aken at our business~~coll<.'ge7~"Our tad uales have the preference. Why . uaskV It's because of proficiency. Proficiency is asked for and heads the ist. Southern BusinessXoIlege, ORANGEB?RG, S. C.