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f?ryan's Selection a Victory For j the People. I , -....>?> iLABOR IN THE CAMPAIGN. Reasons For the Belief That the Vote j of Organized Workincjmen Will Go Largely to the Democratic Candidate. Hearst's New Party an Outgrowth of Personal Pique. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. I The center of Democratic political | activity after shifting from Denver to j Lincoln has-shifted now to Chicago, j On the 25th of July Mr. Bryan met ihere with the subcommittee of the na tional committee which had been se lected to choose a national chairman. .The Republicans waited nearly three weeks after their nominations before they determined upon the man who should be the manager of the cam paign. I do not think they made any mistake in selecting Frank H. Hitch cock, for his experience in gathering delegates for Taft has ? given him a ?knowledge of the national situation such as no other man in the Republic-) an party whose name was mentioned possesses; The Democratic party faced a differ ent problem. Nobody gathered up any delegates for Mr. Bryan. No public offi cial enjoying a salary and having at this command the names of all the jpostoffice employees of the United !States was sent out over the entire ?nation to find men willing and able fto carry their primaries, their districts aud their slates. The overwhelming prJctwy won by Mr. Bryan at Denver, or perhaps ft would be better to say the wonderful outburst of devotion to the cause which he represents there, iwas dne to no sort of political manipu lation, had ho aid from any offlce ?holdcr?because the Democrats have ?no offices?or any salaried employees whatsoever. It sprang from the be lief of the American voter that here at last was a man who appealed to the people and who neglected the poli ticians. I do not exaggerate when I say that what was accomplished at Denver, practically without any or ganization or any expenditure of mon ey, paralleled what must have cost the Taft forces at Chicago nigh on to .three-quarters of a million dollars. But that very triumph, won by vol unteer aids, each working In hLs own section of the country, made It all the more difficult for the Democratic na ? rtional committee to choose a chair man. There are men of loyalty, abil ity and absolute devotion within the party who might have been drafted, though few care to undertake such a task. Bnt not one had. like Mr. Hitch cock, traveled the whole country over, seeking for proselytes to his cause. ?Many? have a national reputation. INone except Mr. Bryan himself has a sationnl acquaintance. Chairmanship Timber. Here are so ne of the names dis cussed, and, with a long experience in ?Democratic politics, I can fairly say ?that encta one is fit for the work: Hon. D. J. Campau of Detroit?Mr. Campau was the man who in 1896 made the fight in the state of Michigan (?which justified the seating of the silver delegation from that state. The vote of the Michigan delegation was essen tial, not necessarily for the nomination of Bryan, but to the triumph of the radicals in the Chicago convention. :After the convention Mr. Campau be came chairman of the executive com (mittee, worked in and out of season and made a contribution to the cam paign fund which be, as a quiet and Irather retiring man. would not like to. Ihave me record here. . ., James R. Kerr of Pennsylvania.?Mr. tKerr led the fight against Guffey.rthe Standard Oil magnate, in the repent convention and won it. He is a man Of means and of national experience. He has been in congress and served (twice as secretary of the congressional committee, a position which gave him a grasp upon national politics. His state, of course, is hopeless, but he himself is a man of Indomitable energy and of iwide knowledge of national political (management. ? J. T. Atwood. National Committee omau From Kansas.?Mr. Atwood has ?been throughout, his political career a' Joyal and progressive Democrat. He Is a lawyer of high standing and nec: essarily for that reason has engaged somewhat in corporation practice. .That this fact should hurt hhn seems Incredible, yet it will undoubtedly be Talsed to his detrlraeuL Nobody can speak for Mr. Bryan in this matter cf the selection of a chairman, but at least it may be said that Mr. Bry&a iwas in no way adverse to the choice Of Mr. Atwood. ' Senator R. F. Pettigrew.?Mr. Petti 'grew Is one of the keenest politicians ?in the Bryan movement and one of the ?most loyal. Ills name has been most -widely suggested for chairman of the national committee, but he himself will not permit It to be presented. I think I may say authoritatively that he will be glad to serve in a subordinate <:a pneity on the executive committee, the committee which really conducts the campaign. T. E. Ryan of Wisconsin.?Mr. Ryan -is a man of untarnished Democratie record, a man possessing the physique necessary for the hard work of the coming campaign and one who siuce he succeeded E. ('. Wall as Democratic national comuiitteeman for Wisconsin has never wavered in the cause. Ho Is a member of the committee appointed ?to recommend a chairman. Then there is .7. E. Lamb of Indiana, a tried parly wheel horse of that state Rev. I. W. Williams Testifies Rev I. \V. Williams. Huntington, W. Va., testifies as follows: "This is to certify that I used Foley's Kid ney Remedy for nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble, and am free to will do all that you claim for i t. Dr. A. C. Dukes, Lowman Drug, Co. Never say die! Try L. L. L. Buy Lowman's Liver Lifters. Take Lowman's Liver Lifters. Use Lowman's Liver Lifters. Try Lowman's Liver Lifters. Harris Lithla Water. For sal* b7 Lowman & Lowman. and a man who has long been close to j the vice presidential nominee. Then, too,. come Norman E. Mack of New I York and James, Dahlman of Nebras I ka. A?d, finally, though by no means least in the list, comes' Ollie James of j Kentucky. No closer friend has Mr. I Bryan bad in the house of rcpresenta , tives for years past than James. Hold ing as he does a district in a state which the Republicans profess to con sider doubtful, although we do not. bordering upon Illinois and Indiana and not far from Ohio, the three de batable Gelds of the forthcoming Gght, James is geographically well placed. Personally he is n fighter, a man with a keen knowledge of politics, with na tional acquaintance and of national reputation. The Hearst Outbreak. Chicago is about to witness what one of Mr. Hearst's editorial writers, all of whom have to be politicians on the side, describes as an "epoch mak ing political convention." It Is called to launch a new political party. In a cablegram to Mr. Gompers of the American Federation of Labor Mr. Hearst declared himself as being dis gusted with both old parties and de termined to launch a new one for the regeneration of mankind and for the uplifting of the working people. No body has a better right to express an accurate opinion about both old par ties than has Mr. William Randolph Hearst. When It served his purpose he has clutched at favors from either I the Democratic or the Republican or ganization. But for him California would long ago have had a Democratic governor, but there he found it to his political advantage or' to the profit of himself or of some of those-*employees' whom be allows to dominate him to support any ticket whatsoever that would beat the Democratic .ticket. In New York he has been independent, Democratic and Republican by turns. When he was an Independent candi date for mayor and beaten he spent I four years crying for the opening of j the ballQt boxes only to find that the J ballots did not reverse the original finding in his case. He traded on the alleged fraud against him long enough to get a Democratic nomination for governor and was beaten by 57.000 votes when every other man on the Democratic ticket was elected. That may -have been one of the things that disgusted Mr. Hearst with the Democratic party. And so, being disgusted, he turned to the Republican party and compelled his personally owned and conducted political organ ization to fuse with the Republicans in order that one of his employees might be eiected sheriff of New York county and enjoy the enormous fees and patronage attaching to that office. But the Republicans would not vote for Hearst's man any more than the Democrats would vote.for Hearst, and so be emerged from that struggle dis gusted again. It seems quite natural that after hav ing tried the part of a free lance, the part of a Democrat, the part of .a lie publican and having failed in all he should declare himself relentlessly against the organizations which have declared themselves very emphatically against him. What may come out of his new line of politics no one can defi nitely prophesy. But with all defer ence to his populistlc editorial writer, Mr. John Temple Graves, who bus de scribed the Independence party as the "birth of a uew party idea." I do not believe that a new party can be built upon the personal pique of a man who resents the failure of the Democratic party to nominate him for the presi dency or the utter refusal of either the Democratic or Republican voters of New York state to do his bidding. Labor In the Campaign. Now. mark this. Everything that was asked of the Republican contention by the forces of organized labor was re fused. All that was asked at Denver was granted. I would not say'this If 1 ? believed that the requests of labor were unreasonable in any -respect. But they were not.' and the expression given to them in the Denver platform gives no right to any critic to say that the De- j mocracy has surrendered to labor. Rather Is It just and fair to say that the Democratic party this year, as In 1S90 and 1900. recognized the fact that the working people of the country form the foundation of the country's prosperity and has extended to them the-promise of aid and assistance in achieving their substantial advance ment. What the labor vote may be no one can tell. It is necessarily a secret vote. We have been accustomed to talk of the vest pocket vote coming from the aristocratic districts In the good old times when a man could put his ballot in his vest pocket and cast it as he chose. But the labor vote is uecessarily secret. The man who owes his livelihood to another Is not likely to proclaim how he is going to vote if by so doing he may offend the other. But a very prominent labor organizer told me this week that four-fifths of the labor vote this year would go to j the Democratic ticket, partly because i of admiration for Bryan and his stead fastness, partly because of our plat form and partly because of antago nism to Taft, the father of government by injunction. And as an illustration of this he told me of a vote taken a week ago in the Central Federated union in New York. There were eighty-three members prevent. Bryan it.Ived fifty-throe votes. Debs eleven, scattering sixteen. Taft mio. The las* >:cems u> me ><< bo I he significant figure of the b?r. What ufleel the Hearst candidacy may have upon iMs labor vote uo one toll. Bui it is quite evident thai Taft and the Republicans are im::::: to sillier very seriously be cause of the well established attitude of the Itcpubli :an candidate in hostil ity to the forces of organized labor. ('hicago. Get my "Book No. 4 For Women." It will give weak women many valu able suggestions of relief?and with strictly confidential medical advice is entirely free. Simply write Dr. Shoop, Racine. Wis. The book No. 4 tells all about Dr. Shoop's Night Cure and how these soothing, heal ing, antiseptic suppositories can be successfully applied to correct these weaknesses. Write tor the book. The Night Cure is sola by Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co. Even the wise barber isn't always able to put you next. HAY BOX COCKING. A Boon to Bachelor Girls and Apart ment Dwellers. A hay box which works like'a charm has been made by a housekeeper out of a large wooden; cracker box. She was very careful to select one without knotholes, through which the heat could escape, and she had the carpen ter fit the cover with hinges. Then she put in a lining of asbestus. gluing j it to the inside of the box. This is i much better than newspapers, she says. Then she put in plenty of good fresb hay, which she renews every two or three weeks. The kettle in which she cooks her diuner Is put in this nest of bay. and a hay pillow witb a covering of cotton batting that just nts the top of the box is laid over it. and the cooker is ready for_ business. .Really ornamental cookers which look like a shirt waist box or a book case are a boon to bachelor girls and those who live In smatl quarters where everything must be in company dress all the time. The food is merely start ed on the oil stove or tiny gas burner and theu tucked apparently In the bookcase to cook peacefully till din ner time. A woman who has used such a stove gives the following directions for pre paring beef a la mode: She advises a piece of from four to six pounds. Aft er wiping aud trimming it turu spiced vinegar over it and let it stand for several hours, turning it now and then. Then score it in places, run in strips of lard and brown It in a fry ing pan with some slices of carrots and minced onion. Put the meat into the pot in which it is to be Anally cooked, nearly cover it with water and let it boll for twenty minutes. Put in a small bag of mixed herbs and pack away in the box for at least eight hours. When ready to serve the gravy should be thickened with a little flour. Another woman says that she has great luck making steamed puddings in her hay box. Any favorite recipe may be used. Put batter Into pound baking powder cans. Ailing them half full, cover, place them In kettle and pour as much boiling water around them as the kettle will hold or until the cans threaten to tip over. Boll one half hour on the stove and place in box at least four hours. If larger cans are used give an extra hour. The batter should be made a little stiffer than usual. Do not jar the box after pud ding is in. AN OLD STAIRCASE. Kow It Was Adapted to the Hall of a ?b New House. In building a new hous*? it is often possible, given artistic perception and a due sense of the proportionate fitness of things, to adapt old features to it with conspicuous success. Tha blend THE STAI8CA3K IN PL AC Ii. ing of the old with the new, If well planned and judiciously earned out, makes both for interest and beauty, imparting dignity to what Is new and creating around what Is old an atmos phere of reverent care and apprecia tion. The picturesque hall in the sketch Is a case In point. The original is In a country house built not loug ago and, beyoud the advantages of good propor I tlons and a pleasaut outlook toward a i sunny garden, possessing in itself no especial features of striking Interest While, however, the house was in building its future occupants were j lucky enough to hear of an old house about to be demolished. In which, it : was said, a fine oak staircase was for sale. They went to see it, found their ; most sanguine anticipations realized and arranged forthwith for Its removal I to the new house, where it was In : stalled with all honor. The staircase j is of English renaissance type, with graceful tapering balusters and classic moldings, wide steps of comfortable depth and a turn after the seventh, making a couvenient landing. This turu lent Itself exactly to the fitting in of a stoDe fireplace, which was thus re ! cessed Invitingly. The rich honey brown of the old oak. guiltless of stain or of other polish than that best of all polishes, the rubbing of generations, j was too beautiful to be hidden by a carpet, and so the stairs have been left uncovered, with only an old Persian ' rug at their foot, the glory of the hall, : which they beautify as no modern . stairway, however well designed, could j j have dune. Not So Bad. Mr. Subbs (after engaging cook)? There's one other thing I suppose you should know. .Miss Flanuigan. My ; wife is a chronic invalid, confined to ' her room. Miss riaunigan - That's fine! I wor afcerd she might be wan Iv thitu chronic kickers that ar-re confined f tu' kitchen, begobs! Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup acts gently upon the bowels and thereby drives the cold out of the [System and at the same time it allays linfiamaion aud stops irritation. Children liko it. Sold by A. C. Dukis. M. D., A. C. Doyle & Co. Post Cards at Sims' Book Store. Accidents will happen, but the j best-regulated families keen Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil for such emer : ger-cies. It subdues the pain and I heals the hurts. Businesslike Methods Not Used In Highway Construction. THE RIGHT SYSTEM LACKING. Road Bosses Should Be Removed From Politics and Made to Pass an Ex amination Showing Their Efficiency. Change Needed In Road Laws. A back Dumber?the bad country road is a back number. It is as mucl out of place and date as the grain era die or flail thrasher. They had bac roads away back in grandfather's tlm< ?ever since people began to travel, haul stuff In modern narrow tlrec wagons. They had good roads aw back in Caesar's time In the old world What-progress have we made in roac building? Very little. Over three fourths of all the miles of countrj roads in the midwest are stiil unim proved, says the Agricultural South west In most, states DO per cent won be more nearly correct. Of course every bit of road gets its annual tear lug up by the road officials, who dra a salary fov calling it road "improve meat." Why is it thus? There's a reason why country roads are bad. Can't lay it to the weather or the road mater either. As one farmer says, "I ha seen in twenty-three years hundreds thousands of dollars of taxpayers money expended on the roads in town and country; but, after all, our roads are still as bad as ever." As bad ever! What a comment to make upon the appearance of country homes had it been said thrft the farms had not been Improved In twenty-three years But, no; the farms have Improved, the towns have grown, and business place are better than they were twenty three years ago. but the country roads are "as bad as ever" after spending fortunes upon them. The reason is this?road building not done in the same businesslike manner as other things are managed We have seen the creamery come into existence. We have seen the skilled buttermaaer turning out carloads of butter finer than that made by the farmers before the creameries took the job off their hands. Science and business methods have made the Change in butterruaklng. But the roads are "as bad as ever" because Is a farmer's job. to be done when suits his convenience. It is done by men who have never studied the sei ence of road building. It is done in hit and ndss method devoid of business principles. This is why hundreds of thousands of the taxpayers' money have failed to make the roads any better And again we say it Is not because of bad weather or poor road building material. The buttermaker takes bad cream and makes pretty good butter from it because he knows how. Of course he could do better with good cream. Likewise the skilled road builder can make good roads out of just plain country dirt because he knows how. Of course he could do better with crushed rock and all of that. It is not a scarcity of money or of material, but a lack of the right sys tem. that is responsible for bad roads. Dollar for dollar-what we want to see is a dollar's worth of good roads for a dollar spent in road tax. And why not have It? Isn't it about time to quit pouring money into a mud hole? Most roads could have been niceiy paved with the dollars they have cost since first laid out. Where has that money gone? Don't cry "graft" Of course there has been too much politics?ah. politics; there's the rub?but there has been no political graft to speak- of in Connection with country roads. The trouble Is the sys tem Is and has b'eeu wrong. Road building is for the public good, just as mall carrying is. The mail carrlprs are under civil service, out of politics entirely. They are paid for knowing their business. They roust give a dol lar's worth of service for a dollar in pay. Why not handle the road prob lem that way? Remove the road boss from politics and make him pass an examination showing his efficiency. Keep him just as long as he does his work well. Then you will see good dirt roads wherever there Is nothlug better. Enough money will soon be saved In road tax to macadamize every mile of the main traveled country roads. A farmer would be foolish to go ahead with a large job of tiling with out having the whole thing mapped ont and levels established by some one capable of doing It. Then he would be equally foolish should he not study the capacity of tile needed to drain the area intended. It is good business sense for him to hire a competent sur veyor or ditcher. Just one tile put in wrong will ruin the whole plan of drainage. But that same farmer will pay money every year in road tax and let men who know nothing about road building squander the money. It is time this foolishness was stopped. It will be stopped when the farmers who pay the money and who use the roads get together and demand a change of system, demand that it bo eliminated from politics, demand that the road laws be changed from anti quated forms to suit the needs of a progressive age of business sense. Good Rend Requisites. D. Ward King, the original road drag man. says there are three requi sites for a good road it must be oval.; hard and smooth, because three of these conditious are necessary to se cure drainage. Without drainage the best road soon goes to pieces. The World's Best Climate is not entirely free from disease, on | the high elevation? fevers prevail.; while on the lower levels malaria is encountered to a greater or less ex tent, according to altitude. 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Two cakes of Cuti cura Soap and a box of Cuticura Oint ment cured me. Two years after it broke out on my hands and wrist. I cured it for a while, but it came again m the summer. Sometimes I would fo nearly crazy for^it itched so badly, used ten dollars worth of so-called blood medicines which did no good at all, then I went back to my old stand-by, that had never failed me. One set of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent did the work. One set also cured my uncle's baby whose head was a cake of sores, and I know of another woman's baby who was in the same fix and nothing else did any good. I speak a word of praise for Cuticura whenever I see a case that needs it. Mrs. Lillie Wilcher, 770 Eleventh St., Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1907." CUTICURA OINTMENT The World's Greatest Skin Cure and Purest and Sweetest of ? Emollients. Cuticura Ointment is one of the most successful curatives for torturing, dis figuring humors of the skin and scalp, including loss of hair, ever compounded, in proof of which a single anointing with it, preceded by a hot bath with Cuticura Soap, and followed by mild doses of Cuticura Pills, is often suffi cient to afford immediate relief in the most distressing forms of itching, burn ing, and scaly humors, eczemas, irrita tions, and inflammations, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy cure when all else fails. Sold throuehout the world. Potter Dru* and Cbem. Corp.. Sole Props., Bo.iton. Moss. ?-Post Free. How to Cure Skin Humors Getting the Girls Ready for College Is always an import ant event. We have been thinking about you and have prepared our stock to meet your wants. Our stock is being filled every day wirh such goods as you will find needful in fix ing up her wadrobe for school' days. Just a Few Items We Mention ::: i?6in Soft Bleaching extra value 7c. 36 Best quality Lonsdale Bleaching at.10c. Sheeting in Black or Brown, best quality. White Bed Spreads at 75c, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50. Sheets and Pillow Cases rend made. 30in Madras for Shirt Waists, white at.12 and l-2c. Ground with black figures j lovely goods.: . . . . 1 Oc. Elegant Assortment of white goods, especially made for waists at 10c to 20c per yard. Linen in white and all colors 12 l-2c Cannon Cloth .0 soft finish at.. 10c. 50 pieces of solid color, and fancy Cham brays, nothing nicer for School wear all at 10c per yard. Remember when1'you get ready to fit up for school days to call on It's not much use using your little finger to uplift race when yon tire using your tongue to run your brother down. The function ??[ the kindneys is to strain out the impurities of Ibe blood which is constantly passing through them. Foley's Kidney) Remedy makes the kidneys healthy. They will strain out all waste mutter from the blood. Take Foley's Ki-1 ney Remedy and it will make you well. Dr. A. C. Dukes, Lowman,, Drug, Co. Will cure any case beyond the reach of n Big Crops I Mean Bigger such garden crops as and all other vegeta Big profits from cotton, tobacco, and corn, tomatoes,'cabbage, lettuce, beets bles and fruits depend upon their uniform * and rapid growth. Big- mJvt ger crops and quicker7and larger growth are positively assured through Ifffh high fertilization with /jyh'\\ ViiyMa-Carolina Fertilizers That Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers are far superior to any other fertilizers Is proved by the experience of Mr. D. M. Griffin, D. D. S. of Plant Citv, Fla., who sap: "I was trucking on a small scale, and decided I would try a few sacks of your fertilizer, as it was cheap and said to be good. I put it un der some tomatoes by the side of some other high grade fertilizer which cost me $15 a ton more, and in the same proportion per acre. I don't think I exaggerate in the least in saying that the yield where I used Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers was three times that of where I used the other brand of so-called high-grade fertilizer." Many valuable pointers on truck farming written by government and private authorities, will be found in our new Farmers' Year Book or Almanac. Get a copy at your fertilizer dealers', or write to our nearest sales office. It is Free. Virginia-Carolina Cheini //cal Richmond, V?. Norfolk. Va. Columbia, S. C. Atlanta, Ga. Durham, N. C. Charleston, S. C Baltimore, Md. Columbus, Ca. Savannah, Ca. Montgomery, Ala. Mempnls, Term. Shrereport, La. PIKE'S WE HAVE RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT OF GOODS WHICH WE WILL SELL AT A BIG BARGAIN 1 lot 10c chambrys at 6 1-4 10 and 12 l-2c percals81-3 Navy blue, garnet and all light pattern calico 5 Best apron ginghams 5 1 lot beautiful lawns in dots and rings 5 See our 75c gowns at 50 Lady's draws at 15 PIKE'S Next Door to Geo. Zeigler.21 RUSSELL ST. There is nothing more disastrous than the rear view of a man who is putting up a front. The mule has a reputation because it knows which end of its ability to use while your reputation at times may de pend upon your ability to appreciate this fact. In selecting a vehicle don't turn your back on us as the mule but exercise your real ability and make a wise selec tion. We carry over one hundred vehicles in stock and want everyone within reach of Orcngeburg to see them before buying as we can better any offer you have had and make the terms to suit evervbedy. "Tyson and Jones," "fiock Hill" and. "Anchor" bug gies; 1 Studabaker's Big Four harness and "White Hickory" wagons are our leaders. of Kidney or Bladder Disease not ledicine. No medicine can do more. Cures Backschq Corrects Irregularities Do not risk having Bright's Disease or Diabetes, Dr. >. C. DUKES. LOWMA?\ DRUG CO.