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IANNING, S. C.. _ . 1902. PUBLISIED EVERY WEDNESDAY. S,;USCRIPTION RATES: one year.- - - - - - - - -'.......................... 1 six months ............................------ - Four months-..-........................ ADVERTISING RATES: One square- one time. 1: each subsequent in sertion. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three. six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal character will be published except as an advertisement. Entered at the Postofflce at Mannim: as See ond Class matter. SENATOR TILLMAN'S HOT STUFF-OUR SOFT, WRATH-TURNING ANSWER. Trenton. S. C.. Dec. 28. 1901. Louis Appelt. Esq., Manning, S. C. SIR: A friend of mine in Clarendon has sent me a copy of THE MANNING TIMES of December, 11th, with the re quest that I answer through your pa per the scurrilous and lying editorial therein. I have not considered it worth -vhile for a long time to take any notice of the malicious falsehoods and insinua tions, that have from time to time ap peared in the newspapers of this and other States, and I depart from that custom in this instance only because, under the guise of a former friend and supporter, you rehearse all of the old slanders, revamped and touched up with your own gall, for the purpose 1 presuine of undermining the friendship and esteem of many men in Clarendon County who have always supported both of us. You do not go into any new or specific charge in regard to "rebates" on whiskey or "bond deals," and therefore I can only dismiss your insinuations on these subjects as too old and stale to require notice. Dur ing the campaign of '94, Gen. Butler and those newspapers and men friendly to him, gave the widest possible circu lation to these vague charges and ac cusations and insinuations, and my answer at Union and elsewhere were so perfectly satisfactory to the people, that my election then and my election last year without opposition. are in my opinion entirely sufficient answer, in less something new is produced that will make it worth while to go more into detail. I will only note in passing to other matters that your assertion that I obtained "free groceries from the penitentiary" is a new charge of of your own, which I denounce as ab solutely false. I never obtained any groceries from the penitentiary in my life, and nothing ever came to the Mansion from that institution. except a few vegetables sent by Col. Neil. You go on to say. "Now here we have a very poor man put in position which takes all of his income to meet expen ses, and not withstandIing this we find this same very poor man after a few years in public life changed from tin ancial cramp to financial affluence." Where is your evidence and where is the sign of wealth? I do not own a dollar in "Mexican Copper Mlines," and I have less than SI,500 invested in some Texas Oil Leases, and I am afraid that is lost so far as the present appearances go: but it is an honest investment made at the instance of a Penn. Democrat whom I met when campaigning in that State, and who together with his friends and kinsmen have gone to Tex as in the hope of striking oil, on some land they have leased near Beaumont. Mv name appears as a director simply because I hold a prominent public pition, and am considered outside of Suth Carolina and by 99 per cent. of those in S. . C. as an honest man. I have never endeavored to sell any of this stock to any man in this State, or any where else, and nothing but the lively imagination of a '-Commercial Democrat" whose doctrine is "Get money. honestly if you can but get it" would cause a pretended friend to charge me with corruption and dishon esty on such flimsy grounds. I do- not like to parade my personal and private affairs in the newspapers. and am only forced by this direct statement of yours that I am the possessor of " unexplain ed wealth" and hold property obtained dishonorably and dishonestly to state. that I vet owe S4.000 to the Carolina National Bank, and that I have no money or stock or bonds or other pro perty anywhere in or outside of S. C. except my land in Edgefield and Green woo Counties and a small tract in Florida and another in Georgia. which were inherited. Now sir. I demand that you shall specify the "questionable deals" which you charge me as having been "mixed up in." You say to all inquiries "Tillman sneers out the words prove it," and now I say to you make your in quiries direct and see whether he will ask you to prove it. You go on to put words in my mouth as having been ut tered in 1890, which I never uttered. What ever accusations I brought in that campaign I proved to the satisfac tion of the people as was shown by my overwhelming^ election. You are Sena tor from Clarendon County, and voted for me last January, and if you think I am a thief and a boodler, why have you not asked for an investigation? Where does your ne w born zeal for the integrity of South Carolina's public men come fromY If you are lending your self to this dirty work because of your recent political affiliations, decency would demand that you do not do it un der the cloak of, even a formner friend ship for me. If you will arrange for a public meeting in Clarendon I will come to that County and meet you face to face with all the proofs you choose to marshall and with all the witnesses you can bring, and will let your own people pass upon the matter-s between us. You say you believe 'Tillman has evoluted from a sturdy and honest farmer into a scheming and selfish politician'' but you have no right while pretending to have been my friend (which you never were) to give utterance to the infamous falsehoods you have published. Now sir, either put your accusationsI affecting my character in plain straightforward words, so that c-an answer them, or shut your' mouth: do not continue to publish lies in THE TImES, but arrange a meeting in Man ning or any other place and I will make it my business to be there, when ever you get ready to ask your questions. -If you are afraid to do this you 1- - better go on to the Republican 'xdtt without attempting to black-en my name with cowardly insinuatio~n and false hoods. B R. TILLMAN. Throughout our editorial ca reer-. we have made it a rule to open our columns to those that have had charges published against them in these columns, whether the char-ges originated with us, or were repr-oduced from other sources. In the is-! sue of Dec-ember 11th. 1901. there appear'ed an editor-ial based upon frequent published state-! ments. to which Senator Tillman has been requested to reply, and of course we do so, along with our answer to him. Hoping the Senator would r vise the border-ruffian language employed in his letter, we wrote! him calling his at-:ention thereto. son Mr. B. R. Tillman, Jr., pri vate secretary, who draws a handsome salary from the pres ent despised Republican admin i tration, saying that his father was away on a lecture trip, to explain our not getting a reply. We therefore concluded to wait no longer, as it might give the Senator an opportunity to make capital, and charge us with re fusing him the use of our col umns. So our readers have it this week- --every word of it. It is a very easy matter to use the words --scurrilous" and "lying" the vilest tiend now within the walls of the peniten tiary probably sneered forth sim ilar expressions when accused of the crime for which he was be ing punished, but he poor fallen man, had no comrades to secret the evidences of his offense, and now he is paying the penalty to an outraged State. Senator Tillman characterizes our edito rial in terms unworthy of him, but the dust he kicks up will not blind those who will permit rea son to outweigh favoriteism. We said Tillman's connection with the whiskey purchases was such as laid him liable to the strongest suspicion," and why? Because when John Gary Evans was a candidate for United States Senator he was charged publicly with having asserted that " Till man lined his pockets with re bates," and the party charging him had his witness present. Mr. Evans did not deny it and when the scandal became a stench throughout the State the General Assembly appointed a committee to visit the office of the whiskey concern to inves tigate the transactions had with Governor Tillman. This com mittee was denied the books and they had to come back to South Carolina to report their failure. and whry Governor Tillnan was a party in interest: his personal character had been impugned, not by his enemies, but by one who was his close friend and whom he tried to save from de feat, and also his successor in office. Notwithstanding this, Governor Tilnlan did not make the slightest attempt to make the parties from whom he bought thousands of gallons of liquor at a greater price than the same goods were sold to other liquor establishments, show that his conduct in the matter was honest. This committee repre sented the taxpayers of South Carolina with a delegated duty to perform: they were no busy bodies, and thousands of dollars, the estimate is about $70,000 that the State was entitled to from rebates, according to a binding agreement entered into with the whiskey trust. should have gone into our State treasury and has never to this day found its way there. For this reason thou sands of taxpayers are dissatis fied and believe that Tillman either permitted the taxpayers for whom he was acting to be robbed by the whiskey trust, or that Tillman pocketed those re bates himself. The fact of the trust refusing a scrutiny of their books to an authorized commit tee from the South Carolina Gen eral Assembly, and Tillman not demanding of the trust that the committee from his State shall see them, is circumstancial evi dence that the transactions be tween the trust and himself would not permit the searchlight of investigation. We have never made the spe cific charge that Tillman got these rebates, for the reason that the proof was in possession of the parties the deal was consum mated with, and they refused to turn State's evidence. Tillman was in position to demand and force an investigation. He could have compelled the exhibition of those books, even if he had to invoke the aid of the courts, and had he done so, and his transac tions shown up clear, this suspi ion would not be haunting him to this day, and the people who now feel that they have been robbed by some one, would be satisfied. The Senator would have it as a token of his inno cence that the people have en dorsed him since the whiskey scandal, but to our mind his en dorsements can be attributed more to his shrewdness in being able to keep up an excitement, than to the people's belief in his innocence, but notwithstanding the endorsements the people have given him since, the whis key rebate scandal still lingers, and will continue to do so until something more definite than sneering and abusive denials can be obtained. Senator Tillman says: "free groceries is a new charge." Oh no, it is not, it has been charged before, and not only "free gro ceries," but coal, wood, fertiliz ers, cotton seed meat, and other things belonging to the State andretained from the peniten E by Tillman when he was governor has been charged; we have also seen it stated that he even had things sent to him fter he went out of office. Would the Senator prefer seeing affidavits along this line? Per sonally we know nothing of the truth of these charges, we read them in the newspapers. But new or old charges, the Senator' admits receiving vegetables from the penitentiary, he doesn't say how many dollars worth were 4hipped to him at his home in Tenton, nor does he say- any thing about the brick that were 4hipped to Tr-enton, and not one :ent was ever~ paid for them un ilU the investigation of the peni tentiar-y affairs made the expos Lu-e. He admits getting some vegetables from the penitentiary. The guards at the penitentiaryr Lsed to say "that penitentiary bogs had no hams.." The Sena because he says so, but what t right did he have to the products I of the penitentiary farms or It gardens? Are oats vegetables? The people placed him in a po- t sition with a handsome salary, and there was nothing in the law 1 him the right to use the products belonging to the State. I It will therefore be seen from his own admission that he did get things from the penitentiary which belonged to the people, 1 and he did not pay for them, and it is not "scurrilous" nor is it "lying" to say that Tillman I procured articles from the Sta < penitentiary without a lawful right. How many humble citi- I zens in South Carolina who toil ! in a broiling sun to eke out an i existance and scrape up money enough togetier to pay taxes, I could have been permitted a similar privilege. We would like to know how 1 many poor farmers, merchants, 1 or mechanics could have had < shipped to their homes, products i of the penitentiary several times a week, not even paying the ex press charges. This is no lie Senator, for this was done even after you were no longer Gov- i ernor. It is also no lie to say 1 that oats from the penitentiary farm was shipped to you atTren- 4 ton after you were no longer 1 governor. We have authority < for saying that cotton seed meal 4 was shipped to Senator Tillman ] to his farm at Trenton, and the 1 same was charged to the peni- i tentiary, and not paid for until years after, and then by way of a i compromise. We have -informa- I tion going to show that Governor Tillman instructed the book keeper of the penitentiary not to open an account with him on the books of that institution, and that the penitentiary deli vered to Tillman, cotton seed, commer cial fertilizers, coal, vegetables and brick. Now this is not the 1 lively imagination of a "Com mercial Democrat," but solid facts which can be established by certificates. With reference to his "change 1 from financial cramp to financial i affluence" here is our "evidence ] of wealth." Captain Tillman 4 started on his political career ] professing to be a very poor man, and in debt, his cry was to drive out from the temple the 1 money changers who were op- j pressing the people: it was a I catching and popular appeal, be cause of conditions then existing. i In a few years of official life, we I read in the newspapers where members of the Senator's fami ly have taken trips away up to Vermont to attend "house par ties," a luxury Captain Tillman prior to 1890 could not afford,< nor can poor people who are struggling to pay honest* debts; also, that Senator Tillman is a 1 director in a $5000,000 New Jer- I sey chartered corporation. We did not know whether it was true or false. but being a matter of public interest we commented 1 upon it, which was our right. The Senator admits holding the posi tion of director, but makes up a soft bed of excuses to lie upon, by explaining that he has only a small amount of the stock, and his "name appears as a director i simply because I hold a promi- I nent public position." Well I then, let us accept his confession, for it may be good for his soul, that, because he is a United States Senator the financial pol- t icy of a $5,000,000 corporation t chartered in a State which Till- < man himself has characterized as the -'incubator of fraudulent cor-( porations," was given him at "the instance of a Pennsylvania Democrat," then our references a to his directorship in such a con- 3 cern. was no lie, but a fact. Senator Tiliman professed to ( be a bitter enemy of trusts and I corporations, and in his cam- 1 paigns throughout this State he ( charged up to them many of the a people's ills, he denounced them 1 and those connected with them, & and the lawyers in the General t Assembly were characterized as j "the paid hirelings of corpora- f tions," today, after much tail- t twisting he roars forth a confes sion of his own inconsistency, 1 and undertakes to distract at ic tention by the lame, pitiful, but c incriminating excuse, that al- t though a very small share -hold er, a directorship in a 85,000,000) corporation was given him be- t cause he holds a "prominent c public position." e If Senator Tillman did not hold t a position where he could be of r service to the corporation in pro- 1: tecting it against adverse legis- t lation or securing for it such favor t able legislation,that its hold upon i the masses would be greater, by 'b his own confession, he would not t have a voice in the financial di- ni rectorship in that tremendous r corporation. When Judge Haskell e resigned a judgeship for a rail- g road presidency Tillman threw r out strong insinuations of brib- c ery, but what is damnable dis- a honesty in others, seems to be e sincere and honest with Tillman. c Attorney General Bellinger has o recently brought into the courts s' the Virginia-Carolina Chemical b Company, a corporation doing n business in this State. Suppose, d on account of the "prominent v public position" the Senator from Clar-endon holds a director- ti ship in this corporation should b be given to him "at the instance J of a Pennsylvania Democr-at,"1 p would not the circumstance point' J to suspicion that the SenatorS from Clarendon had been tamed, C bamboozled and debauched? The C question would come from all e uarters, where (lid the Senator h from Cla rendon get his money to t. hold a directing position in a powerful corporation ? And hads he at any time previous been in n a p)ostion where the p~eople are, r looking for- sixty or seventy. v hem, which they cannot fini >ecause the parties the transac ions were with, would not dis -lose, they would be convincei hat he either invested ill-gotte: rains in the corporation or tha he palm of his hand had bee: :overed with a bribe. And the: iolding a directorship in tha orporation, would it not expee >rotection from the Clarendo: enator should there be a vot o annul its charter for gros iolations of the terms of it ! This reasoning may be "th ively imagination of a Commer -ial Democrat whose doctrine i 'Get money honestly if you ca: >ut get it" as the distinguishei enator says: but if our memor s not a fault, he announced jus uch a doctrine on the floor c he senate when he said in effee -If there is to be any stealing vant my share." We think Sena :or Tillman has shown a] :hrough his political career lecided leaning towards con nercialism, by all the articles o :ommerce accredited to hir rom the State penitentiar Nhich he has never paid for. 1 enator Tillman is the hones nan those of us who supportei iim loyally arg erthusiasticall3 :hrough good and evil repor1 ften yielding our own judgmeni :o his, because of the implici onfidence we had in him. wh lid he not demand of the whis iey trust that .his transaction >e exhibited: it was the people' noney he spent, and they wer ?ntitled to know, and besides hi ndividual honesty in the matte 1ad been qustioned. Then wh; oes he denounce in others th< ery things he does himself rillman denounced the accepi mnce of free passes, and the: rabbed the first one offered hir le charged former governor vith getting things from th enitentiary without paying fo hem, and then took more tha: ll the balance of them put tc ether. He denounced trust nd corporations and now cor !esses that he is a director in >ig one. He denounced the ol -egime for keeping from th >eople the right to choose thei wn officers, and now wants t >revent from participating i: ;he primary those who do no Lgree with him on National ques ions. He denounced the DE nocracy under the successfu eadership of Cleveland, an umped astride of a pitchfork -ode out West hunting for ight among the Republicans tnd now when others are rest ess under the defeated leadeI ;hip of our present Democracy 1e combines with Republican Lnd Populists, to read them ou >f the party. In our offending editorial w aid: "He is reputed to be large y interested in Mexican co'ppe nines." this information cam~ rom the newspapers and othe: ources, and as it is the onl: >oint on which he makes a posi ive denial, .we consider oursel ortunate in hitting the bull': ye so often, and for the presen r-e will accept the Senator's de ial, that, he, does not owi vexicari copper mine stock, not ithstanding the fact, that hold ngs in such stock may be hel< >y parties very close to him, ii act, we have heard so. The senator springs that Caroline fational Bank chestnut on U: .nd says: "1 yet owe $4,000 t4 he Carolina National Bank, an< hat I have no money or stoci r bonds or other property any there in or outside of S. C. ex ept my land in Edgefield" etc hy, what has become of thos< 'Texas oil leases"-his director hip in a $5,000,000 corporatiol chich "at the instance of ennsylvania Democrat was giv n him" because I bold a promi ent public position"? It is to< ad the Senator still owes th< ~arolina National Bank $4,000 fter having received from th< >eople in salaries $14,000 a: ~overnor, and $30,000 as a Uni ed States Senator. Any of th< eople who were to be upliltec ro their down-trodden condi ion, and freed from the oppres ion of the "oligarchy," migh ae paid off a little hones ebt of $4,000 after receiving ou f the down-trodden people': axes, the magnificient sum o: .44, 000 in salaries alone. That note in the Carolina Na onal Bank must be glued dowr n Colonel Wilie Jones' desk and annot be lifted, because, ever) lie there is an intimation of his systerious affluence, he turne .is pockets inside out, offers tc *e searched, and with the dis ressed look of a mendican1 oints to the unpaid note in the ank. Grant the note to be Lere, it is no evidence of Till an's honesty. Why, many busi ess men in their experience have oe across notes and even mort ages which were given to hide ascality. There are hundreds f mortgages and notes that noi cent is honestly due the hold. rs, but they are held to coven rime and to defeat the payment f honest debts. We do not as* art this, in this instance, ut we do assert that Till an's note in bank is no evi ence to prove that his pockets ere not "lined with rebates.' enator Tillmnan has several mes pointed to the note in the ank in which Colonel Wilie ones, his personal friend, is a rominent official. and Colonel ones is also chairman of the tate Democratic Executive omiittee and, it was this same olonel Jones who went to Gov rnor McSweeney and in urging im to return the resignations of ce two United States Senators -o had made spectacles of them Aves at Gaffney, said: "Gover or, I am just from Senator Till an, and he regrets this thing ery much: the whole thing was one in passin andl T hona the 1 resignations 'will be returned." 1< - When all things are taken b into consideration the note in s I Colonel Jones' bank has created t. smiles before today-a standing h t joke, so to speak. c 1 " Specify the questionable c 1 deals" that he has been mixed up t! t in, cries the Senator-an old t urick of his, one of his " prove 1t " kind. He is shrewd enough S!to know, if an authorized com- ] s mittee from the South Carolina Seislature will not be allowed fc 1to examine the evidence, that it -s impossible for us to get it. V We voted for him last January, v 1 and in fact every time we had the 1 opportunity, because we had im- di ti v plicit confidence in him. It would d! t have been useless in us to have f introduced a resolution looking t to an investigation; that was I tried, and it was found that the e evidence would not be unlocked -from the safe of the whiskey a trust-his alleged copartners in - the rebate steal. t f The Senator bantering us to a t a joint debate is ludicrous. We t y would no more think of accept- t f -ng a challenge to debate with C t him than we would accept a chal- 1 I lenge to fight with Jeffries-one b , is a scientific handler of the pu , gilistic fists, the other a scien- 8 tific juggler of words and grim- S t aces, and a professional jaw- F 7 worker. Why, his jaw could slay t us as effectually as were the s Philistines by Samson. No, we P s will not accept his challenge, and f a we acknowledge our inability to C s cope with him in argument, but ' r his banter will not cause us to P r foolishly give him an excuse to a a carry out his program to come ? here and dictate who shali be sent to the conventions. Senator Till- p 2 man does not want a debate c with us, he simply threw out a P s glittering hook expecting us to 9 a bite at it. No thanks, we de- t r cline the distinguished consid a eration, hut offer him, free of a charge, our columns to reply to t S anything we might say about C -him. t He says we were never his t I friend. Ingratitude is the mean- t a est phase of a man's character, r and when Senator Tillman so P > far forgets the past as to make d a such a false assertion, because, t t forsooth, we do not agree with P him in his present unfair meth- t ods, and perhaps on certain nat- c 1 ional questions, then we are f I justified in denouncing him as a s cold-blooded ingrate a n d a t I wretch. The first speech made t in this county in his behalf was made by us, and from that day, - continuously on, until Tillman t ,abused his powerful influence to f s force from the primary those a 1 who have views not in accord f with his, on national questions, ~ 3 we have been his enthusiastic p - supporter with voice and pen, s r he had our confidence so imphic- p 3 itly that we turned a deaf ear to t* i those of our friends who en- 0 r deavored to differ with us. At ' - Sumter in '94 we think, a Mr. E Villeneau was, without just Scause, insulted by Tillman, the a young man, a giant in strength, - resented the insult, and was fa 1 about to do Tillman bodily harm -and probably kill him, we threw - ourself between hiim and the ob I ject of his wrath, and with the I aid of Mr. C. L. Emanuel suc Sceeded in saving Tillman. There I fore to now charge us with hy- ! a pocrisy in our friendship to him a ) is brazon effrontery and ingrat litude, and reminds us of whatm :poor John L. M. Irby; once pre- a -dicted about him, that we cannot f? -print, but the prediction has -come true. s SWe have a right to our opin- ~ -ions, an'd honesty demands that t we shall give them to our read Sers, as we believe them, and - whether it pleases Senator Till-. -man or-not we will express them. d~ >If the suspicions or charges against Senator Tillmaan are with out foundation,we would feel very . pround of it, but his rough, un- ba couth, swaggering denials, and f bantering demeanor will not help Yr to convince us that there is no l ground for at least some of the -charges against his character, m -especially since we have his written confession that some of them are true.r He orders us off into the Re publican party. Who gave himL such authority?' Public pap has swelled his head, but we will not -do his bidding, we shall stay where we are, and be a thorn in his flesh, we do not belong to any other- Than the Democratic party, and we propose to sink or swim with it. If the majority get deceived by bunco-steerers,: and are led wrong, we will go with it too, in order that we might hope to bring it back right. Whatever action the Democratic convention takes, we will sub mit to it, but until then, we will not be frightened out of present- it ing ourreasons why the primary ( system shall not be converted o into a close corporation of pro fessional politicians, but that it ~ shall be kept open and free for ~ every white man who pledges himself to a bide the result and support the nominees thereof. ,2 We recognize no power that gives Tillman any more rights in . the Democratic party than we have. He has been handsomely paid for whatever service he - may have rendered, and he is under obligations to the party and not the party to him. We will not be tricked into in viting Senator Tillman here for the gratification of his vindctive spleen and our possible oppon ents, but this is a free country and he may get others to invite him to help them in their opposition to us. Tillman gets our paper every week, and he has seen us since our opposition to his pres- J ent methods, and he did not to our face indulge in the foul as persions he indulges, in his let ter for public consumption, nor ass it was where others would ecome involved. Tillman is a trong man, but he is no more han any other man, even if he as been more fortunate politi ally than many men whose baracters have never been ques oned. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for iy case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by all's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.. Toledo, 0. We, the undersrned. have known F. J. 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The primary system is he fairest way to determine the rishes of the people, but if the eople are restricted to select rom those only who agree with ertain leaders, then the primary D far as giving free and inde endant action, is a delusion and snare. The primary system ras inaugurated in 1890, after a ard fought contest, it was the' eople's victory over the ma hine, and now we warn the eople to hold to the victory ained, and not let themselves arough indifference be tricked. On account of new conditions rising out of the war between 2e United States and Spain, rtain questions of policy are ) be considered. those in con -ol of our party machinery in ais State have a line of policy rhich they would force upon the eople without giving those who iffer with them a chance to let eir views be known. If the rimary system must be confined ) the views of a few men in ontrol, why not just let those aw dictate what the people ball do and save the farcical camping over the State under e pretense of ascertaining the rishes of the people. We are in favor of keeping J e primary just as it has been -om the start, we do not want ny dickering with the pledge >r it is a dangerous thing to do. 'ermit politicans to change the ledge so that it will exclude ame from participation in the rimary this time, another time 1ey will fix it so as to keep off pposition to themselves, thus taking their offices life tenures. ,,yn-a Beneves EigtAay and mikes apeedy6end of coughs and colds. You may close your eyes to your ults, but your neighbors will not. Fortunate is the man who falls only Ir the purpose of rising higher. uarkable Cure of Croup---A Little Boy's Life Saved, have a few words to say r.egarding Chamber ins Cough Remedy. It saved my little boy's e and I feel that I cannot praise It enough. I ught a bottle of it from A. E. Steere of Good n, S. D., and when I got home with it the or baby could hardly breathe.- I gave the dicine as directed every ten minutes until he brew up " and then I thought sure he wats go g to choke to death. We had to pull the tiegm out of his mouth mn great long strings. t positive that if I had not got that bottle of ugh medicine, my boy would not be on earth day.-JOEL DEMONT, Inwood, Iowa. For sale The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. Isaac M. Lor 'a. Prop. It is much easier to reach the top of Le ladder than it is to stay there. Too much pleasure is apt to be the rect cause of a man's troubles. A Cure for Lumbago. W. C. williamson of Amherst. va.. says: 'or more than a year I suffered from lum go. I finally tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm d It gave me entire relief, wrhich all other medies failed to do." Sold by The R. B. Lor a Drug Store. Isaac M. Loryea. Prop. A man feels like praying when he is iserable; a woman when she is happy. Bginning of Woan8hdO How many cases of *chbonic invalidism among women are caus ed directly by ignorance oimproper treatment when thy are at the beginning of the the menstrual period! G. F. P. (Gerstle's Female Panace)+taken at this time w start the delicate feale organ ism along the right and regu lar path. Mothers, start a girl tight and she will be healthy and hapy wih. etbeznd~ ny a?ch du in remothl pedoh I violens sprou ..1whch produed a pcla pan eeremve and the erkng san tOp2d id. I think it is the best 1evera fryoung ilS. r your ase is not fully covered by our FREE 8S01 "HEALTHY MOTES MAKE HAPPY HOMES." Write in consdence for free advice to ADIES HEALTH CLUB easeLI. Geratle & Co.1 C-t+----- Tens. PRICE $1.00 A BOTTLE. yorduga oes no handle G. .P ~ him t will supply you direct, espressage prepsid. ERSTLE & @0., Chattanooga, Tn. Th R. B. Loryea Drug Store, ISAAC M'. LORYEA, Prop. The Times DOE'S NEAlT rob Printing. IVE'U S T A TTTALT. l 3K3K1 ; NOWISTHETIE I' TO BUY iGoods I Cheap TILL'S. S1WI Now is the time to get -geods t TILL'S without any profit. Friends. I fully realize the scarcity of money and we know you need goods that you have not bought yet for the winter. So we need the money and are willing to change goods for money without any profit. A $5,000 Stock To Be Sold in Thirty Days. We ask that you come to our store and price the goods, even if you don't buy one cent's worth, and yoU will see that it is to your advantage to buy from us, as we sell strictly for cash, and when you buy one dol lar's worth from us 50 cents of that don't have to go to pay for some bad debt. Yours for the cash, S. I. TILL, Proprietor Racket Store. 1902 1902 "OLD RELIABLE" S. A. FRIGBY Wishes a br-ight and nrosperous New Year to one and all We hmresolve this yar to carry the best stock of goods We furthe rsolve tokeep in the forefront by giving th etvle ~d -aig h Lowest Prices. gAine dstock-takir'~ we ah a s have somec bi >ar winter goods are cut in priece s e em DRESS-GOODS, CAPES, JACKETS, BLANKETS, *LAP ROBES, COMFORTABLES, CLOTHING, SHOES and lots of. REMNANTS. Many of these articles go at about Bequick andu lake advantage ofti plendida offer hoping to serve you better still in the future, we are Yours to please, OLD RIELT ABLE. iS. A. R IGCBY. . B.Twenty-orne inche ln,5 inches wide and