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Buy It Now. Now Is the time to buy Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is certain to be needed sooner or later and when that time comes you will need it badl v you will need it quickly. Buy it now. It may save life. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Perhaps a few rich men may be able to «et into heaven by showing their tax receipts. The pills that act as a tonic, and not as a drastic purge, are DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. They cure Head ache, Constipation, Biliousness, etc. Early Risers are small, easy to take and easy to act—a safe pill. Mack Hamilton, hotel .clerk at \ alley City v N D. says: “Two bottles of these Famous 'Little Pills cured me of chronic constipation. Good for either children or adults. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. \llison, Cow- pens. * More dust seems to accumulate on the family Bible than on the cook book. Two Battles Cured Him. "I was troubled with kidney plaint for about two years.” H. Davis, of Mt. Sterling, two bottles of Foley’s Kidney Cure effected a permanent cure.” Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. com- writes A. la., “nut THE PRESIDENT AND THE RAILROADS HIS BLIND REGARDING FREIGHT RATES. Roosevelt Refuses to Allow Prosecu tion of Mr. Morton for Participation in Certain Rebate Paying. Washington, D. C., July 5.—The \n unsuccessful man has more con- fidence in others than he has in him self. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25c. When a married man pleasure trip he leaves home. goes on his wife a at When you want a pleasant laxative that is easy to take and certain to act, use Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tablets . For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. A college education doesn't cost much more than learning by experi ence. Sound kidneys are safeguards of life. Make the kidneys healthy with Foley’s Kidney Cure. Sold by Chero kee Drug Co. A fool begins to acquire sense after he is divorced from his money. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro truding Piles. Druggists refund mon ey if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, in 6 to 14 days. First ap plication gives ease and rest. 50c. If your druggist hasn’t it send 50c in stamps and it will be forwarded post-paid by Paris Medicine Co., EL Louis, Mo. The mantle of charity is soon worn threadbare by a hypocrite. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat a BANNER SALVE the most healing salve in the world. Overworked KIDNEYS .Murruy’it Itarliu, (iln and Juniper is prescribed and-endorsed by emi nent physicians. It cures when all else fails. Prevents Kidney Disease, Dropsy, Bright’s Disease, etc. At all drug stores. 4SR.OO rt TE3ottlCt or direct from The Murray Drug Co.,Columbia, S. C. THE BEST MEDICINE *>* WOMEN 1 If yea arc nervous and tired out continually you could have no clearer warning of the approach of serious female trouble. Do not wait until you suffer un bearable pain before you seek treat ment. You need Wine of Cardui now just as much as if tho trouble were more developed and the tor turing pains of disordered men struation, bearing down pains, leucorrhoea, backache and head ache were driving you to the un failing relief that Wine of Cardui has brought hundreds of thousands of women and will bring you. Wine of Cardui will drive out all trace of weakness and banish nervous spells, headache and back ache ana prevent the symptoms from quickly devch »ping into dan gerous troubles that will be hard to check. Secure a $1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui today. If your dealer does not keep it, send the money to tho Ladies’ Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., and the medicine will be sent you. WlNEsf CARDUl president of the United States, the Hon. T. Roosevelt, is getting himself disliked by the thick and thin party papers that have always hitherto stood for anything that the Republi can administration ever did. It all comes up over the rather remarkable correspondence recently made public between President Roosevelt, Secre tary Morton of the Navy, Attorney- General Moody and the special coun sel designated to investigate the charges of rebate paying against the A. T. & S. F. R. R„ with President Roosevelt’s direct refusal to allow the prosecution of Mr. Morton for his participation in that rebate paying, bears out what I have said in this cor respondence, touching on the sincer ity of the president regarding rail road rate legislation. It proves to my mind conclusively that the whole thing is a farce, and that the presi dent’s strenuous announcements that he proposed to put freight rates un der government control, and make that an issue of his fall campaign, was either a mere blind to stave off tariff revision or else a shrewd piece of work to create an issue with which to further the interests of Secretary Taft as a presidential candidate, and if successful, to be used in building tin an impregnable Republican ma chine. The remarkable bill of health, which he gives to Mr. Morton in his U tter of June 12, has stunned railroad men. Nothing else. Every railroad man knows that if rebates were al lowed, as between the A. T. & S. F. R. R. and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.. Mr. Morton as traffic manager of the road must, of necessity, have been cognizant. It could not be otherwise. The red tape of railroad oflices is scarcely less than that of government bureaus. If rebates were given to the fuel and iron company, or anybody else, the checks and vouchers there for must, perforce, have passed through Mr. Morton’s hands. It is simply inconceivable that such things should obtain in the management of a railroad without the knowledge of the traffic department, as Secretary Morton was. Either the statement made by him to the president, and on which President Roosevelt’s white washing letter was based is untrue, or Secretary Morton was not a good railroad man .and that never has been asserted at any time in the many years he has been connected with the railroads. As a matter of fact his reputation among railroad men as a rebate payer was paramount to any other. That these rebates have been paid by officers of the traffic depart ment under Mr. Morton without his knowledge and .consent, and contrary to his direction, is simply impossible. Such a thing could not happen in any railroad office in this country and every railroad man is satisfied of it. Another thing which this remarkable correspondence develops is the fact that the position of the railroad com panies, that existing laws are suffi cient to punish any infraction of them is correct, is made evident to any one willing to see that fact. Messrs. Jud- son and Harmon have proved this so conclusively as to call for executive interference in order to protect an old and warm personal friend. The spec ial counsel found a way under the so- called Elkin’s law and the provisions of the Sherman Act to punish not only .the railroads but the officers of those railroads. And when the way is found, the president of the United States steps in and says it shall noi be used effectively because it happens to hit one of his friends. The crux of the whole matter, therefore, seems to be that the country has law enough to punish any offender among railroad men who may make rebates and dis criminations in favor of individuals or localities, but that, law is not, and has not been enforced to its extent, as the railroads claim. This strange correspondence would seem to indi cate further that President Roosevelt, at least, does not want it enforced. Such being the case, it is impossible to believe in the sincerity of Presi dent Roosevelt’s expressed desire to “punish the railroad companies.” as he is pleased to term it. for violation^ of the law. It would seem apparent instead that what he really wants is a power of absolute control over the companies through rate regulation so that they may be used to advance his political interest or those of his suc cessor in the presidential chair. It also agrees with my contention in previous letters that this whole rail way rate regulation agitation is only a device of the protected industries to stave off and smother for a time at least, all propositions for such tar- off revision as are now urgently de manded for the relief of the people and to supply the deficit now existing in the government treasury, and that President Roosevelt is a party to the scheme. If his back sommersaults and gyrations do not mean this then I am hunting for the man who can ex- 1 plain them to mo. People who think that Roosevelt is a little tin deity, should study some of his inconsistencies. Ho can sido- stop a proposition quicker than Hades can scorch a feather. Just watch him. best that they say to him before he comes here next fall to make laws. I gave a part of Mr. Hart’s testimony In my letter of last week. He is a grower of peaches and he went on to say: “Every dollar that has ever gone into those peaches the peach grower put in. He has to educate himself when he buys the land, and he has to nut monev in it when he plants his trees, and he has to put in the money when he kills the San Jose scale, and he keeps putting in money until those peaches land on the desk or the coun ter stall of some commission man. That is the reason the commission men are here. Did you ever consider when these commission men are talk ing to you that they never paid one dollar of these excessive freight charges or icing charges that they talk about? I do not represent the people of western Michigan, but I am here to say that we have a very long strip of country along the west shore of Lake Michigan that raises large quantities of fruit, and I am here to say that I voice the sentiments of 90 per cent, of the fruit growers of west ern Michigan when I say that the Ar mour service is the best service we ever had. I would rather pay $50 or $00 for the icing charges on their car to Boston, when in good condition, than to pay $5 or $10 for a poor ser vice and then lose a car of peaches.” Senator Kean, of New Jersy, then asked tho question: “Then you are satisfied with th° existing condi tions?” “We arc satisfied.” said Mr. Gur ney. “I want to say this further, that those rates are published, and every man knows what the icing charges are, what his freight is .and wc are perfectly satisfied: and, further than that, if you should make a ruling, or recommend the interstate commerce commission to make a ruling, that the charges are too high for this icing, and the Armour car people should say, ‘We cannot furnish it for less.’ why, it would ruin me and our whole country, because we would he com pelled to go to Chicago and Milwau kee and go into the hands of the com mission men, and there would be a glut there every day. We had the Armour car line four or five years, an 1 in 1899 and In 1900 the commis sion men, not the growers, made such a howl about it that the Armour car line would not come in and our rail road would not contract with them, anu 0 ” two years we did not make a cent. ' went to the Armour tar line ourselves. We appointed a committee to go to Chk 'go to get them to come back, and the. told us what they would do, and wt 'aid. ‘That is what we want.’ Now we get good service. Further, our road—the Pere Mar quette road—a year ago had only 110 refrigerator cars. Our town alone on the first of August would have every one of those cars out in five days, and where would we be? Now, when the Armour car company comes that way, why, you can get all the cars you want, and we get them wxien we want them.” There is the shippers and the grow ers of fruit side of this story that the refrigerator people are charging exor bitant prices for their service. It completely refutes the statements of the Commission merchant trust. The shipper and the grower ought to know what they want and congress ought to see that they get it. If congress goes to monkeying with this matter and places the shipper and the grow er at the mercy of the interstate com merce commission then it will he a piece of meddlesome Mattie business and a positive injustice to the ship per and the grower in the country. An honest man can come to no other conclusion. Charles A. Edwards. Impaired Digestion May not be all that is meant by dyspepsia now, but it will be if neglected. The uneasiness aft<T eating, fits of nerv ous headache, sourness of the stomach, and disagreeable belching may not be very bad now, but they will be if the stomach is suffered to grow weaker. Dyspepsia is such a miserable disease that the tendency to it should be given early attention. This is completely over come by Hood’s Sarsaparilla which strengthens tbewbole digestive system Fooling the Moon Man. (From the Detroit Tribune.) As they sat out on the old lawn she looked away to the summer skies. “Wouldn’t it be nice,” she ventured, “if the skies were ever clear?” “Of course not,” replied the roman tic young man. “What chance would Cupid have if there were not clouds to hide the moon man’s face occasion-f ally?” And the maiden blushed and said she did not care if the whole sky was overcast. You are Eligible to Attend The Annapolis or West Point MILITARY SCHOOL If you are an unmarried American boy between the ages of 17 and 23, of good habits and can pass the required physical examination, have a knowl edge of reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography and history of the United States. 1 nlike most schools, the government al lows you about $500 per year to defray all expenses. You receive a thorough military and academic edu cation, and upon graduation may resign or accept a commission as lieutenant with promotion in the regular service. Further particulars for four one-cent stamps by addressing, W. H. PHILLIPS, Louisville, Ky. CHOLERA INFANTUM. Child Not Expected to Live from One Hour to Another, but Cured by Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Ruth, the little daughter of Dewey of Agnewville, Va., was se-j riously ill of cholera infantum last | |ji%! summer. “We gave her up and did j jtyi not expect her to live from one hour! IWI to another,” he says. “I happened to : |t^j think of Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and got a I un tie of it from the store. In five hours I saw a change for the better. We kpt on giving it and before she ha.l taken the half of one small bottle she was well.” This remedy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. i With some people ment of an idea is feast. the entertain-j an intellectual No False Claims. The proprietors of Foley’s Honey and Tar do not advertise this as a I? $ 3 v it*J '■£ iw Always Within Reach ist he money to your credit in the Gaffney Savings Bank. But remember that it is your reach only that it is within; your written order is neceasary to obtain it. Burglars and thieves have no chance to get it. “sure cure for consumption.” They \ do not claim it will cure this dread complaint in advanced cases, positively assort that it will the earlier stages and never give comfort cases, without lung re Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. but cure fails do ( in to 3 mfort and relief in the worst j jLl! Foley’s Honey and Tar is | |Mj doubt the greatest throat and j iJv emedv. Refuse substitutes. _ * . 1 i The Gaffney Savings Bank would like to open an account with yen. One dollar will do for a start, your own pride will make it grow. We pay four per cent, inter est on all deposits. f The Gaffney Savings Bank. 5 Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. It doesn’t you have to pay to borrow trouble pay for the privilege. if I t:: $ V * * w V V v I 'i V 'i y v V V Ki V K' rv v y w v v >!< * >) i T en One Dollar Saved Represents Dollars S^ved. The average man does not. save to exceed ten per cent, of his earnings. He must spend nine dollars in living expenses for every dollar saved. That being the case he cannot be too care ful about unnecessary expenses. Very often a few cents properly invested, like buying seeds for his garden, will save several dollars outlay later on. It is the same in buying Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It costs but a few cents., and a bottle of it in the house often saves a doc tor’s bill of several dollars. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. aLA-Lh-bZ*- A. A A » A * A A—1»- Jx_A„i Money talks of its own accord, but a man makes every penny count. An Obliging Editor. In course of the conference held in Washington last year by the Ameri can newspaper humorists, some one told the following, declaring that Wil liam Allen White was the hero of the story. One day there strolled into White’s sanctum a man who was evi dently a politician. He edged confi- dently towards White and slipping a memorandum written by himself un der the eyes of the editor, said: “Say, old man, I’d take it to lie a great favor if you’d manage to put in the paper that I’m in town with my wife.^stopping at the Blank hotel. You might work in something as to my being an eminent Kansan, or words to that effect. Personally, I don’t care a hang about this sort of gut; but—well, you know what the Wf.men are. And I’ll take one hun dred copies of the paper.” And the eminent Kansan lail be fore the editor a five dollar note. Then he took his departure. The next morning, to his intense amaze ment and disgust, he reads in White’s paper: "Mr. Richard Dash requests us to say that he, with his wife, is stopping at the Blank hotel; that he is an eminent Kansan; that he him self cares nothing for newspaper no toriety but that a society note would be somewhat, gratifying to Mrs. Dash. He adds that he will take one hundred copies of the piper for distribution among his friends.” A Smooth Article. . When you find it necessary to use salve use DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is the purest, and best for Sores, Burns. Boils, Eczema. Blind. Bleedim Itching or Protruding Piles. Get the genuine DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. A snail can easily distance the small boy who is sent on an errand. Indigestion Cured. There is no case of Indigestion. Dys pepsia or Stomach Trouble that will not yield to the digestive and strengthening influence of Kodol Dys pepsia Cure. This remedy takes the strain off the stomach by digesting what you eat and allowing it to rest until it grows strong again. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure affords quick and per manent relief from Indigestion and all stomach troubles, builds up the system and so purifies that disease can not attack and gain a foothold as when in a weakened condition. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Sour Stomach THE NAPOLEANIC TERM VICTORY ORGANIZED Accurately Describes the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N. J. . It is a company which does not meet competition; it beats it. Beats it'with an instructed and steadfast agency corp* by advocating those principals ofjequity which the company has consistently practiced for generations, in opposition to'all methods involving forfeitures. Beats it with low rates, high surrender values and large annual dividends, which bind the company to thrifty methods of management. While the'genius of an institution is always poorly interpreted by the facts of its history, the Mutual Benefit has sixty'years behind it, which will commend it to anyone who wants secure insurance' for its own sake; what is morally and mathematically his, and is willing that the other fellow should receive his own; his company'to be economi cally conducted as a genuinely^mutual organization without any en tangling alliances with other financial institutions. The Mutual Benefit, has satisfied generation after generation of policy holders. If you want the best insurance, see JONES J. DARBY, Agent. i $ * IK & Merchants & Planters Bank, GAFFNEY, S. C. Capital, Surplus and Profits $90,000.00. Very Pleasant. (From the Chicago Journal.) "What did that gentleman mean when he asked you if your environ ment was pleasant?” asked the young er sister. “Oh, he meant the things which were around me while I was in the country,” replied the elder one. “Well, Julia, I never heard man’s arms called that name before!” • • Kodol Dyspepota Cura Digests what you eat* Attractive as our Homes. Ten thousand Churches painted with L. & M. Paint, and are most at tractive. Liberal quantity always given free. 4 gallons L. & M. Mixed with 3 gal lons oil, will paint a house. \s a plea for the shipper and tlx* Wears and covers like gold, grower of fruit and his rights to mate' Don’t pay $1.50 a gallon for linseed contracts with the people who can oil. which you do in ready-for-use serve his interests best without the j paint. Interference of the law makers of the S Buy oil fresh *“Dm the barrel at CO country, the testimony of Mr. S. F. cents per gallon, and mix it with Gurney, of Hart. Michigan, is about Longman & Martinez L. & M. Paint, the best that was made before the j it makes paint cost about $1.20 per senate committee on interstate com- gallon. DeLancey Gregory, Fort merce during the hearings recently ‘ Plain, N. Y., writes: adjourned. My interest in this mat “Have sold L. & M. paint for over ter was excited because this has been 25 years, and everyone is surprised the cause of the man behind the hoe | to find how little is required to paint and -he has the right to have his side a big house.” of the story g( out to the peonle so I Sold by Smith Hardware Co., Gaff- No appetite, loss of strength, nervous ness, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. Kodol cures indigestion. This new discov ery represents the natural juices of dlge» lion as they exist in a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. Kodol Dy^ pepsia Cure does not only cure indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy cures all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. Mr. S. S. Ball, of Ravenswood, W, Va., says.— “ I was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years. Kodol cured me and we are now using It In milk for baby.” Kodol Digests What You Eat. Bottles only. $ 1.00 Size holding 2)a times the trial size, which sells for 50 cents. Prepared by E. O. DeWITT &OQ., OHIOAQO. A. N. WOOD, President. we Pay 4 Per cent, interest PerAnnum . Compounded Quarterly, IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Fire Insurance and Bonds Written, WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. that they may say to their members of congress what it seems right and ney; burg. Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacks- Qsie Minute GougSi Cure for Coughs, Colds and Croup. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing. call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C, R. R. BROWN, Vice-President. (’. M. SMITH, Cashier. The Gaffney Gifv Land and Improvement Co. Offers for sale' Itulldlnir Lots In this flourishing town, toiffney; also Farms n.ar by and In reach of the HcbooU of Limestone springs and of thin place. In iols'of st> to UK) acres u liberal lime rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm purpose* For 1 part ulars apply to J. V. SARRATT, Agent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter orf. walk or ride through or over the landsof thla company, culllm: and removing Umber or hshinK, huutlntt. under penalty of law. Subscribe for Tbs Ledger, Sl.00 a veer