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You ought to have Kodol bandy all ittn f Ima Ly\A i? r> 4 ovmm /* * 1 " viuiv* a j y / kj\j\j j a c rvuir luu^'" " and you cah't tell when?has poor digestion, doo to many different things, but' mostly to eating excessively or eating wrong kind of food. These little attacks of Indigestion are what bring on other ailments, such as acute Indigestion, chronic dyspepsia, and even more serious permanent Illness. Kodol Is guaranteed to give relief. Try it today. Sold by all druggists. Sometimes even the fault-finding rook knows how ta mak? the beet of things. Mrs. P. M. Bray, of Colnmbus, Oa., nays, UeWltt's Kidney and Bladder Pills cured her of kidney trouble. These pills are antlsceptlc and relieve pain quickly. Insist upon I>o? Witt's. Bend your name to R. C. DeWltt & Co., Chicago, for a free trial box. f$old by all druggists. He who takes advantage of the weakness of others doubles his own strength. TSftrn icn't uim irnrwju a a# ?./i una v ati j ^ u vii i\ u i;v/ vi v Kodol. Wc do not say to you, that It may or might euro your dyspepsia -wo say it will. Wo know It will, because it is made to digest food you oat, and whan your food digests you can't have indigestion?that's all indigestion is --your stomach fails tc digest your food. Heartburn, sour risings are all caused by indigestion. Kodol stops them by digesting all the food you eat. A tablespoonful of Kodol digests 2 1-4 pounds of food. It is a pleasant, palatable, liquid combination )of natural digestive Juices and vegetable acids. Sold by all druggists. Speaking of speak-easies, it is much harder for some people to keep -. > * x JLX . A Conway * LY. 8. C. W $50,000.00 w 150,000.00 M 1250,000.00 jlk\ .( TOKS JMy .1 no. C. Splvov, I). jfj\ Collins. C. IV Quat- illy Buck, 1). A. Spivov. ? 3rry antl a pionoor in Kastcm Car- U\ rapid pn^n^s of our Count) for 4k\ y lias boon for (11 <* upbuilding; of With this in virw wo oxl-ond sonahlo accommodation oonsis- rlx o solicit tho accounts of individu/IN /i\ ' 11.11., I ?? in ' l\, I /A Cashier. /|i ? HORRY, iy. S, C. $ 50 000 Hi 000, *5 5 OOOtf 110 000 CTORS W. R. LewiH.T W . A. .Johnson, \ Will A. freeman, est on yearly deposits, mdwe solicI. L. BUCK, Vk I I.I. A. MJKKMAN Vick Pkkmdkkt. .Cammkr DeWitt's Little Karly Risers, the famous little liver pills, small, gentle and sure. Sold by all druggists. I>eWitt's Kidney and Bladd'r j Pills quickly relieve backache, weak 1 back, pains in the groin, rheumatism, urinary disorders, etc. Insist on having DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. Send your name to K. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, tor free trial box. Sold by all druggists. Industry is the watchdog that keeps the wolf from the door. If you expect to get the original Carbollzed Witch Hazel Salvo, you i must be sure it is IJeWItt's Carbolizj ?*d Witch Haz-'l Salvo, DoWitt's is the original ?others are imita1 tions. It is good for cuts, burns and bruises, and is especially good tor piles. Refuse substitutes. Sold by all druggists. Advice to a Young Friend. So your school days are over and before going from home to enter business you wish some advice from the paper you have read since you were a little boy. You are the ouly young Knight going out into the world that has asked counsel of us, but there may be others like you, so we venture to publish our suggestions that can do no harm and may be some help. 1st. He slow to form confidential friendships with strangers. A man is judged by the company he keeps. There is a homely old saying that | one can not lie down with dogs and j get up without lleas. Had habits | are just as contagious, catching, as ! ' small pox, measles and scarlet fever. 2nd. He careful of health. You will need all your young vigor be- ' fore you got through life. Sleep eight hours a night, eat enough but not too much and take enough oxer- ( cise to keep body and brain healthy and active. 3rd. You will expect your em- ( ployer to pay you what your sevrices a rr* it? r\ Y* If * * I <? n > V* * % ** ?< ?% ? i ' aiu i. uiui. ii i.i mi uuui'ni man ; he'll do that. If he is not honest j quit him and get another place or do nothing. It will bo as much your duty to give him value in service for the salary he pays you. lie as honest as he is. 4th. Keep on the look out for ' better pay or position. You'll get it if you deserve it. If your employer does not give you a boost there will be others ready to take you away front him, provided you make good. Gth. Save a part of your salary, so that you will have something to start a business of your own. Don't be a miser. A stingy man is mighty little better, if any, than a spendthrift. Gth. Above all things don't get conceited, imagine yourself fully competent to hold your own in the game of life with players who have had long experience and who have over powering capital and credit. Many of the great fortunes of the present time were made by breaking ! bosrinmjrrfc. Hie head hns enniliui I many a promising career. 7th. In case of doubt think what 1 your mother would have you do, and you'll not go wrong. Wishing you good fortune we will be glad to hear from you from time to time, as your leisure and inclination may allow you to write. Some philosopher once said that beginning a thing is half the * nd. That is true when the beginning is right and made with resolution and purpose. Under such circumstances (the course leads Rtraight, if sometimes long, to the Roal.' 11 AX ON IKON ORE Senator Stone Tells Why many Democrats Voted For It. ONLY RLVENUE DUTY Was Yotfor by tho Democrats, Which Was in Accordance With All Democratic Precedence?The Tax Rather Hurls Than Helps the IIline Steel Trust. In thr 1?nited States senate, Senator Stone of Missouri, made a statement in which all Democrats will be interested. Senator Stone spoke on the vote of certain Democratic senators in favr f a tariff on iron ore, and as Senator Tillman lias been accused of being in leaRUc with the hit eel Trust because ho voted for the tariff on Iron ore, we present some extracts from Senator Stone's statement so as our leaders can see if the charge against Senator Tillman is true or false. Here is Senator Stone's statement: Mr. President, 1 am one of the eighteen Democrats who voted to put a duty of 25 cents per ton on iron ore. The eighteen Democrats who voted that way are Messrs. Bacon, Bailey, Bankhead, Chamberlain, Clay, Daniel, Fletcher, Foster, Krazier, .Johnston of Alabama, McKnery, Martin, Bayter, Simmons, Stone, Taliaferro, Taylor and Tillman. Ten Democrats voted to put iron ore on the free list, viz, Messrs. Clarke ot Arkansas, Culberson, Core, Hughes, Newlands, Overman, Rayner, Shivelv, Snrth of .Maryland and Smith of South Carolina. Mr. i resident, when the question of putting a duty on iron ore was before the senate, I was hesitant v?d somewhat uncertain as to what wi^ the right and proper thing to do; but ,'n the on 1 tin. best judgment of wnifi) ' am capable, not only as a party man, but as ono desirous o' promoting the best policy for the public welfare, 1 conceived it to be my duty to vote as I did. 1 believe in the doctrine of a revenue tariff, and this whether considered from the standpoint of the constitutional power vested in congress to levy tariffs or from the standpoint of economic policy. I believe that tariffs should be levied with the primary object of producing a needed public revenue, and that the duties should be as widely distributed and laid upon as many articles as possible, always, of course, having in view the needs of tho government; and I hold that the burden should be made lightest upon artclles of common use and heaviest, upon others. Under present circumstances 1 doubt the wisdom, or I might more properly say the feasibility, of an extended free list; but at the same lime, having in view the needs of the treasury, 1 favor admitting free of duty as many articles of common n?M?essity as possible where the articles are controlled by a monopoly. I do not as a general proposition subscribe to the notion advocated by | aome of free raw materials to those who manufacture them, and at the same time allow protective duties ^n the manufactured products. Succinctly stated that Is my view of the LH-mocrailc position on the tariff question. Now, in applying this view to the case of iron ore. The first fact confronting me was that the duty of 20 cents per ton was u purely revenue iuty, and In no sense a protective duty. Twenty-five cents per ton on ore is equivalent to about 10 per cent ad valorem. That means that under that rate all ores coming froin the outside into this country for consumption, except that coming from Cuba, would pay a duty of approximately 10 per cent. Under our r<sciprocity agreement with Cuba, ores from that island would come in under a reduced rate, and would pay i JO per cent less than ores from other foreign mines. In other words,! placing the rate at 25 cents per ton, while foreign ores generally would pay 10 per cent ad valorem, Cuba ores would pay 8 per cent. Whether in the one case or the other manifestly the duty is very low. Mr. President, every since we have had tariff laws, and we have had them for more than a c?mtury, there has been a duty on iron ore. In all our tariff laws up to this time, whether made by Democrats, Republicans, or others, a duty has been wild on these ores. The duty of 25 cents per ton, for which 1 voted, is the lowest duty ever Imposed upon iron ore in any tariff bill ever enacted by the American congress. Kven the Walker bill, that wisest, best arranged, and most celebrated of Democratic tariff measures, laid a duty on these ori^s almost double that provided in the bill before the senate; and a duty of 4 0 per cent was laid on those ores in the Wilson bill. And so, Mr. President, at the very inception of my investigation and consideration of this subject, I was confronted with this situation and with these facts. Therefore, it seemed to me, unless Bomo excellent reaeon cauld be gtrei to the contrary, that I ought to rot< to Impose thle low rereau* tax, aa< I felt that in doing so 1 was fol lowing not only Democratic policy 1 but Democratic precedent. O course, this was a question abou which I)emocrut? might well and coa sistently differ. The question wa: whether iron ore should go on th< free list, or be subject to a low reve nun duty. Whenever that questioi as related to any article is pre8ente< to a Democratic legislator it is on< he is at liberty to decide accordinj to bis own judgment?according t< i his own view of the whole situatioi ?and this he can (lo without in anj degree violating his party obligatioi or ignoring his party policy. The chief argument against the taj was predicted upon the assertion tha the United steel corporation, knowr as the "steel trust," favored th? imposition (if a tariff duty on iroi ore. It was asserted that this grea' corporation had acquired possess lor and control, through ownership ant leaseholds of enormous areas of lant containing iron ore, and that in con sequence that corporation practical ly held a monopoly of the Ainerlcac supply. One senator, at least, and perhaps others, asserted that the trust controlled about 80 per cent of the iron ore area of the United States. Assuming these almost in credible statements to be true, It was urged that foreign ore should be admitted free in the interest of independent manufacturers of iron and steel. Now, Mr. President, it is undoubtedly true that the "steel trust," so called, has obtained possession and control of a large acreage of ore hearing land, but to say that the trust controls So per cent, or even 50 per cent, of these lands Is, to my mind, a gross exaggeration. The senator from Alabama (Mr. Johnston) says that the trust and its allied interests do not in any way control as much as 50 per cent of the ore lands and mines of his State, and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Smith) declares, as a natter of personal knowledge, that 1 b?* trust doe? not count I as u.u-rh as 50 per cent of the ore lands of h'.-t State. The same is declared to be true as to the lands and mines of other States. In fact, it is affirmed that in some of the States, as in Virginia, where great quantities of iron ore exist and are mined, tho trust has J no property interests whatever. Mr. President, to my mind it is perfectly evident and clear that if we should exclude and shut out every acre of ore lands owned or controlled by the trust there would still be left vastly mote than could be used by all the iron and steel industries of the country, including the trust, lor a century. Of course, I may be wrong as to this, but 1 do not believe so. I have the utmost confidence that my estimate in this behalf is at least approximately correct. If this be so, then the independent manufacturers of steel and iron, if indeed there renlly are any such, can obtain their domestic supply on equal terms with the trust; and if that be true, then of what peculiar advantage would free ore be to the "independents?" If foreign ore should be made free, the trust could go out into the world and buy and import as well as the "independents," and at least upon equal terms with them. One would hold no advantage over the other. Hut it has been asserted that the steel trust magnates favored a doty on iron ore. 1 am frank to say that in my view of the situation, as I have stat<nl It, I am unable to perceive now the Imposition of this cluty can possibly work to the advantage to tho trust, or how free on? would conj tribute to its disadvantage. I must j have clearer, more definite, and certain evidence than has been submitted to convince me to the contrary. I can not ignore what seems to me to be the plain truth of this situation, and be thrown off my feet and satmpeded because some one exhibits the specter of the steel trust. 1 must be controlled in my action by facts us 1 see them, and not by tho fear of some remote and improbable danger. Again, Mr. President, this further fact stands out and can not be overlook^: Knormous iron oro deposits have been recently discovered and are now being rapidly developed on the northern coast of Cuba. These? great properties have b?s*n acquired, ostensibly, at least, by the Bethlehem and the Pennsylvania steel companies. These ores can be mined cheaper in Cuba than In this country, and they can be shipped to our seaports by water at a comparatively light transportation charge. Therefore it is altogether probable thnt the great bulk of foreign ores coming to the States will come from these Cuban mines, owned, as I have said, hV t hl? Tlaf h ?-r? ? % J ?* * ..j ?.?> ir<.vui< ii(7iii <iiiu rruii)i)'iVHniil steel companies. In tho management of these companies, at least of the Bethlehem, Mr. Schwab Is a central and commanding figure. And who is Mr. Schwab? He was educated in the iron and steel industry under the tutelago of Andrew Carnegie, and he was at tho head of the great Carnegie works when they were sold to the trust. He received pay for his stock In the Carnegie plant, amounting to millions, In tho stocks and securities of the steel corporation, and therefore for a long time served as the president of the great corporation : maniac butcher i KILLS FIVE MEN BEFORE UK f t COULD UK STOPPED. 9 15 8ommiIl? Mum Kims Amuck in i Packing House, Slushing Madly 1 With Itu/or-edge Knife. 3 I ? At Somervillo, Mass., Saturday, 5 ; John Murphy turned from pig-sticking to inan-killing in the North Packt | j ing and Provision Company's salugh: ter house and driving his fellow t working men before him,, slew live of them and wounded four others. , ^ Two of the wounded were reported j later a-s dying. According to some of I J the workmen, Murphy had been act 1 Ing peculiarly tor some clays, but J hp retuned from his dinner apparently in normal condition. Shortly after 2 o'clock he suddenly { uttered a blood-curdling scream and I 'sprang at Dr. Hayes, waving his 1 , inch razor-edge knife in his hand. , He cut Dr. Hayes a deep gash on the I j neck, stabbed him over tho heart and I practically disemboweled him. ( The terrified workmen rushed for the door, but Murphy ran after them, slashing right and left. Kvory man whom he struck went down with a groan. The crowd plunged clown stairs, with Murphy after thein, and , at every landing he cut somebody. On the second floor one of the , workmen, an Italian, seized a heavy , bar of iron and feiied Murphy, but he was quickly on his feet again and 1 wounded another man. On the street floor he was given another heavy blow on the head and : his knife was wrenched from his hand. Two police oflicers came in i ! to assist the workmen and Murphy I | was given a fearful beating ami i | finally overpowered and taken to i ; the police station. Murphy is &0 years old. weighs t 200 pounds and was regarded as one of the strongest men in the j , plant. He is married and lives in ! . Somerville. -? . A NAIUIOW KSCAI'K. I'uknown Parties Try to Burn Xegeo i and tils House. i .Tohn Hampton, a negro, who lives J I ' on Mr. Win. Itrirkli?'? in 7inn I i Township about seven miles from i i this city, had a very narrow escape j from being burned to death on Tues- j day night. During the uight he was j awakened by his bouse being discovered on fire, and had to move pretty lively to get out. Ou investigation it was found that someone had undoubtedly set the house on fire. Mr. Brickie communicated with Sheriff Sal ley as to the best methods as to the capture of the guilty parties, but up to yesterday afternoon i no arrests had been made. Hampton and his wife recently hat a row and she had Hampton arrested on the charge of assault and j battery with attempt to kill. Ho was ; tri<*d and let out on $'J00 bond by j Judge Brundou 011 Tuesday morning, f It is though that the affair of Tues- j day night is a development of that j cas*?. i I.AWYKR COMMITS KVIOIIJK. I ' ' j William Itrunson, Prominent Law* j i yo?\ RncN IUm Life. William Iirunson, one of the foremost attorneys of Macon, Cia., and ! former solicitor genera] of tho Bibb circuit for eight years, Saturday morning committed suicide at his residence in Macon. He had been in bad health for many weeks and three days ago his condition became alarming. In a fit of despondency ho shot himself while his wife was preparing him morning nourishment. ! known as the "trust." Several years | ago ho retired from the presidency | of that corporation to take charge and din'Ction of the Bethlehem esI tablishment. But does anyone s\ipj pose that he has severed his connecj tion with the trust; that he no long- | er holds Its stock and securities in large Amounts, or that ho is not still intimately connected and vitally interested in that stupendous organization? Are there any so credulous as to imagine that the corporation with which Mr. Schwab is at this time immediately and prominently identified is independent? Rather is it not more reasonable to suppose that these Schwab enterprises are in some way allied with the greater corporation? Mr. President, while I can not speak with knowbnlge, I have ! iiitle or no doubt that when Mr. Schwab's Cuban mines begin to empty their ores into our markets the trust will share with the Schwab company in whatever benefits may accrue. It seems to me, therefore, that free ore would work no hnrm to any of these great establishments, but would be of greater benefit to them than to anybody else. As I view this subject, I would not be willing to give free admission to tho foreign products of theee great corporations. ? G. 0. P. DOOMED Senator Smith Thinks its Days Are Numbered. ! PEOPLE IN EARNEST I ! | And the Tariff Hill Will Cause the riuloing of the llcptibllcttnA?The i Democratic Party Has the Opportunity, I'nder Skillful Mifcanfrcmoiit, to (jet New Life. Hon. E. I). Smith, junior United States Senator from this State, spent ! Monday in Columbia on personal i business. The State says Mr. Smith i is in the very best of health and spirits and his work at Washington agrees with him, although be said I J that really he prefers "cotton enro puigning" with its activity and work i to the more sedate occupation as a I member of the Senate. Mr. Smith was generally congratulated upon his stand on the tariff j question and many of his friends expressed their gratification that he had received such flattering attention I and such complimentary notice upj on the occasion of his speech In the I Senate Inst week. Mr. Smith declares his belief that the tariff bill is the rock upon which the Republican party ship wjl) get ! a jar which will send it to the botj tnin in the next presidential cami paign. "In this present tariff bill, in the j present discussion," ho said, "11 is made apparent that the Republican j tariff policy has at last reached its logical outcome. The principle has been applied and its disastrous effects, understood when this bill becomes law, will defeat the llepuhlian party. And, in order to prevent this logical result of their outrageous policy, the Republican press is attempting to magnify what seems to be the disloyalty of some Iiemocrats. "Ry holding this up before the public, they are hoping to distract attention t'roiu the disastrous of? * i fects of their own applied policy. "The difference between the Democratic situation and the Republican situation is that the Republican principle has been applied, has been tested, put into law and has proved disastrously disappointing "Its advocates have been loyal practically unanimous, while, on the other hand, the Democratic doctrine has not been applied, and the Jew Democrats who have seemingly deserted have in nowise affected the principles of Democracy but have simply emphasized the. misleading and pernicious doctrine of prtrtoC* i tion. "Therefore, the hope of the country is in pruning the Democratic, forces of such as will not stand tor I>emocratic principle and the application of the plans of Democracy in government. "The p?*>ple must not be mislead in thinking that l>emocrncy as a principle of government Is a failure because a few men may be untrue to their pledgee, but it is true that the Republican protection principle is a failure, because the Republicans have been true to their pledges, carry thera iuto effect and i ?n? result is that the people will repudiate it. "If the press of this country will kw-p this distinction and will insist on the repudiation of the graft system now on us, and will plead lor the principles of Democracy being put in practice by the genuine Democrats. I believe that the next election will witness an overwhelming victory for tho Democratic party. The line of distinction between the two parties, as I sec it now, is not sectional to the extent that it has been, but Is the line between the masses and the protected Interests. "This will be the battle ground of the coming conflict; and if handled properly, I have no doubt of the issue. I think the nten^ats of tbft people would be. better served if more prominence were given to the distinctions between the present system and real Democracy, than to magnify the shortcomings of some few Democrats." - \ Put the Money in the Bank. Mrs. George Rhea of Duluth, Minn., who was visiting her sister, Mrs. John Kngland, at Akin Point, a soburb of Seattle reported the ot'ior night that she had been robbed of $20>,000 in cum'rfqy. The ladles had planed to visit Seattle the day J the money was received by Mrs. Shea, i and they hid it between the sheets of the bed. On returning home* it was found that the money had been , j stolen. These ladies should have M put the money in some bank. That 1 is wh-at banks are for, and citizens ) who keep money in sums about their homes invite loss. , Devastated by Knrthquukc. The towp of Korinchi, in Sumatra, was devastated by an earthquake on the night,,of June 3. Two hundred and thirty were killed and many others injured. -