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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 j comes you will need it badlv—you ! will need it quickly. Buy it now. It may save life. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. People would have more faith in a reformer if he would furnish proof of his sincerity bv beginning with him self. RATES AND CAR SERVICE PROBLEM STILL EXCITING INTER EST IN WASHINGTON. The pills that not as a drastic Little Early Risers, ache, Constipation, Early Risers and easy to act as a tonic, and purge, are DeWitt’s They cure Head- Biliousness, etc. are small, easy to take act—a safe pill. Mack Hamilton, hotel clerk at Valley City, N. I)., 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. Allison, Cow- pens. Some girls proceed to catch on and marry—then implore the divorce judge to help them let loose again. Two Battles Cured Him. “I was troubled with kidney com plaint for about two years,” writes A. H. Davis, of Mt. Sterling. la., ‘‘but two bottles of Foley’s Kidney Cure effected a permanent cure.” Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. During the courtship a young man is never out of danger till the girl says "No” three times. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. All druggists refund tl money if it fails to cure. E. \ Grove’s signature is on each box. 25 About the only fault the average wo man has to find with her past is that it’s too long. When you want a pleasant laxative that is easy to take and certain to ac . use Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver tablets . For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. President Backed Water on His In tention to Call Extra Congress, and is Changing in Attitude. Washington, July 12.—With the af termath of the post office department scandal in “our midst,” on account of the trial of several more of the graft ers, we are confronted with more of the nastiness that is constantly com ing to the front in this Republican ad ministration of the public affairs of the United States. There seems to bo nothing but grab, graft and steal in tliis Republican administration. It positively is getting to be so common here that it excites no comment when some man comes to you and says that something new and rotten “in the state of Denmark” has been unearthed. The latest scandals that have come to the light of day is the peculation ot some $5d,000.00 from the Smithsonian Institution by one of the trusted em ployes, and which the government will never recover because the surety does not cover the amount stolen; the sale of examination papers in the Marine corpse service; the sale of examina tion papers in the civil service and lot of other things that do not attract attention, because they are too small in the face of bigger things. The people of the country be too busy to regulate ” by their votes. They they will regulate themselves, because they constantly vote the Republican ticket until that part, entrenched in power, seems to believe that the peo pie are with it, no matter what does, that it owns the public offices of the country to exploit them as it sees fit, and its individual members worl upon the hypothesis that public office is a "private snap" and not a public seem to these things seem to think After singing the woman proceeds to to sleep. baby to sleep a talk her husband Sound kidneys are safeguards of life. Make the kidneys healthy with Foley’s Kidney Cure. Sold by Chero kee Drug Co. More women would go in for vocal culture if they could buy things for a song. A Guaranteed Cure for Plies. 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., £t Louis, Mo. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. stare a party ■sp< tage^ in that direction conservative people be amazed BANNER SALVE the most healing salve in the world. CURES STOMACH, T t HE body gets its life from 1 food properly digested. Healthy digestion means pure blood for the body, but stomach troubles arise from carelessness in eating and stomach disorders upset the entire system. Improp erly masticated food sours on the stomach, causing distressing pains, belching and nausea. When over-eating is persisted in the stomach becomes weakened and worn out and dyspepsia claims the victim. Thedford’s Black-Draught cures dyspepsia. It frees the stomach and bowels of congested matter and gives the stomach new life. The stomach is quickly invigorated and the natural stimulation results in a good appetite, with the power to mor- oughly digest food. You can build up your stomach with this mild and natural remedy. Try Thedford’s Black- Draught today. You can buy a package from your dealer for 25c. If he does not keep it, send the money to The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Term., and a package will oa mailed you. THEDFORD’S HACK-DRAUGHT Overworked KIDNEYS Mnrmjr'M Hnrha, (Ain 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. 4$ 1.00 r-» 1-lottic. or direct from The Murray Drug Co.,Columbia, S. C. Kodol Dyspopsta Core Digests what you eat. trust. When, oh when, will the people get their eyes open to the facts that them in the face and turn down that has ever robbed them and despoiled them of their dearest hcrl- 9 if there is not something done soon then the good, of the country will to find the socialistic vote of the country increasing to such pro portions as to become a menace to the existing institutions of the coun try. for there is an old saying that when tilings get to a certain rotten stage they mend themselves. In case that saying be true, then it is high time that the conservative, right thinking people of the country come to their senses and put a stop to tliis peculation, robbing and graft by turning the rascals out of office. Unless they do so our government will lie swept from its moorings ant will enter upon the unknown sea or socialism to drift we know not. where. Now is the time to begin to think and the next election is the time to or forever after hold your peace when it is everlastingly too late. • * * • The railroad rate regulation prob lem and the refrigerator car service contention are still holding the boards here as matters of supreme interest since it seems that the president has backed water on his intention to call the congress in extra session in Octo her for the express purpose of having it legislate on those very subjects. It is given out now that there will be no extra session before the election in No vember, and possibly not at all, as is so close to the assembling of the regular first session of the 59th con gress. It seems that the president, is cooling off perceptibly in bis hot pur suit after the railroads, and that the interstate commerce commission does not appear to he so insistent that the private car line people be put under their jurisdiction, since the testimony before the senate committee on inter state commerce has been printed and given to the public. Some of that tes timony. as shown in my previous let ters, has knocked the tar out of the contention that the refrigerator car line people were robbing the shipners and growers of fruit. The farmer: and fruit growers are the people most in terested in this matter and what they have to say ought to have more weight with the people and the congressmen who have to deal with this subject than the howls of a lot of commission men. who, through the operations of the refrigerator car lines, are losing the opportunity to get commissions both ways and catch the shipper atm the buyer like the nigger’s coon trap, "a cornin’ and a goin’.” 1 am for the shipper and the grower * every time as against the commission merchants trust, and l believe all fair-mim.ed peo pie are of the same way of thinking The evidence then, of these shippers and growers ought to be of interest not alone to the pc-ople, but to thf men who make the laws, as all law ar<* supposed to be made in the inter est of tl} fi whole people and to benefit the greater number of them. Th< testimony of Mr. B. F. Davis, of Char tanooga, Tenn., beforfe the senate committe will be of interest. He tes titled that he was a fruit grower peaches principally, in North Geor gia, and had about 200 acres in trees and that he was here to represent the peach growers of his section and pro duced his credentials. Substantially he said: "We want to say that we are satisfied with the Armour car line peo pie, and we feel like we could not get along and exist in the fruit business without them, or something else equal ly as good. The peach fs something that has to be gathered today, not to morrow. It is something that has to have ice and prompt service. The private car line companies have givn us very prompt service. I will state further that a few years ago we be gan there with only a few cars In North Georgia, yet we ran up last year to 2,800 cars, and t hey took care of us all the way through. Last year we bad an unprecedented crop, one be yond our expectations, and for a few days we were hampered a little bit for cars. But we did not blame the refrigerator people because they seemed to be doing all they could. We got out of the hole without any great loss because of the refrigerator ears and the service, because when fruit is kept on ice it brings good prices. We are very well pleased with the charges. Of course we would like to get lees charges if we could, but that is a mat ter we have not figure! on. But what we do want, however, is the service, and we cannot afford to grow peaches in northern Georgia without the re frigerator people or some other com pany will give us the same or better service. We have no kick whatever on our service, from our standpoint. It is impossibleto send peaches to Boston or New York without refrige ration. The interest seems to me to be rather a mutual one between the refrigerator car company and the fruit grower. If they do not furnish the service, of course we go out of the business; and if we go out of the business there will be that much less tariff for them. As long as they will give us the service, that is what we want. We want service rather than low rates. Of the two, give us the service.” That is the kind of talk that should give law makers pause be fore they monkey with someWiing the people out in the country want, • • • Since the senate hearings on rail way rate regulations have stopped, the question uppermost here in the minds of the people who discuss it, is, whai will it all amount to? A prominent Democratic member of the house of representatives, who does not want his name used here for obvious reas ons, in discussing this matter with me a few days ago, said, in substance: “I think we will get mighty little in the way of railway rate regulation in the direction that President Roosevelt wants it. There may be a little ex tension of the powers of the inter state commerce commission as to the control of terminal and switching charges perhaps, but they will be giv on no absolute control over freight rates, no power to fix them for the benefit of Republican communities and sections at the expense of Demo cratic sections in any bill that the committee may report. Good Repub lican as Senator Elkins is, he won’t stand for that, even to help along Secretary Taft's boom for the presi dency taht President Roosevelt is managing. Many have come to the belief that the president’s position on this railroad rate question, is largely due to his desire to build up and trengthen the Republican machine, so as to make it invulnerable in the coming presidential campaign. It would take an army of clerks to do the work of r'te making if that power were granted ... commission. And it would not be a Democratic army that would be pressed into the service of collating the 25.000 or more changes in rate schedules that are made month ly. and that this clerical force would have to take care of. Civil service rules would not prevent the Republi can managers from filling this depart ment. with workers from the Republi can ranks. If this rate-making power were granted a commission, it is ex pected that sub-offices would have to be established in various cities throughout the country, for con venience of both the public and the railroads. In these good Republican workers would be planted. The ea«e with which an enormous machine could then he built up is apparent, and with the establishment of such a bu reaucracy, employing more people j than any other department in the country now has, it is very easy to see that the opportunity for ousting the Roosevelt wing of the Republican party from power, would be reduced to little less than an impossibility. Think of what a machine it would be to help along Taft’s ambitions. And the president would like to see the thing in operation before the delegates to the.next national convention are selected. It is all right to talk about the president’s love for “a square deal” and for the rights of the people, but it is also well enough to remember inci dentally that President Roosevelt is one of the cleverest and smoothest politicians that the national capital ever saw, and that he does not let any political opportunity slip by him that he can take advantage of. He’s as keen after them as he is after bear or bobcats. But there are other am bitious politicians in the Republican ranks who see his game and are anx ions to block “it. They will probably be able to do so at the next session of congress when the railway legislation will be threshed out. And the sena tors will draw the bill that will ht come the law. That’s where they have the newer to put the clutch on the president’s little scheme for his per petual controlling machine. And ’mob ably they’ll do it. for politics is hack of this whole business.” * • * In speaking of the matter of tariff revision during the next session of the congress, the Washington correspon dent of the New York Tribune, in writing to that staunch old Republi can paper has said some things that I marvel at the temerity of the Republi can organ which prints them. “From an entirelyv new and unexpected source” says the Tribune, "the president is assured of hearty support in scaling certain tariff schedules.” The “ablest managers” of certain protected indus tries are now clamoring for reform. The reason is not, as one might S|ip- pose, that they want a small cut by the “friends of protection’’ in order to ward off a heavy slash by the ene mies. That kind of life preserver is not what they are looking for. No, they think that protection under the Dingley act is in some case so hign "as to induce inordinate competition." The result is that “large concerns, whose business is menaced by the continual organization of small com petitors, are compelled to absorb the little fellows at extravagant valu ations.” That is. the tariff is so high as to defeat its real purpose. Tlue true aim is to enable the “large concerns" to control the business; and when tho> find their supremacy threatened, they must juggle the schedules so as to crush their rivals. Otherwise, they are actually forced to “absorb the lit tle fellows at an extravagant valu ation.” To subject the managers of a monoiK)ly to such an Inconvenience is an outrage. By all moans allow them to write the law to suit them selves. That’s the kind of tariff re vision this Republican administration would jtive the people. What do the people think of It? Charles A. Edwards. Disfigured Skin Wasted muscles and decaying bones. What havoc 1 Scrofula, let alone, is capable of all that, and more. It is commonly marked by bunche? in the neck, inllaiiimations in the eyes, dys pepsia, catarrh, and general debility. It is always radically and permanently cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla Which -xpels all humors, cures all erup tions, and builds up the whole system, whether young or old. Hood't Pill* cure liver 1IU: the iion-Irritating and only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. You arc Eligible to Attend Sad Hearts Are Out of Date. (Clinton Dangerfleld in The Delinea tor.) Sad hearts are out of date. We Ian? 1 ’, and jest, When we take wounds as well as when we strike. One cannot tell the conquerors on Love’s field— Victors and vanquished look so much alike! the mask un- Thc 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. Unlike most schools, the government al lows you about £500 per year to defray all expenses. Vou 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. the But sometimes when guarded falls One sees the actor's self behind part, And half holds those the wiser who, of old, Warfhed, unshamed, with tears a broken heart. CHOLERA INFANTUM. Child Not Expected to Live from One Hour to Another, but Cured by Chamberlain’s Co’.ic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Ruth, the little daughter of E. N. Dewey of Agnewville, Va., was se riously ill of cholera infantum last summer. “We gave her up and did not expect her to live from one hour to another,” he says. “I happened to think of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and got a bot tle of it from the store. In five hours I saw a change for the better. We kpt on giving it and before she had taken the half of one small bottle she was well.” This remedy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Lots of nu*n who figure on schemes to make millions would be surprised to find themselves in possession of $5 in real money. No False Claims. The proprietors of Foley’s Honey and Tar do not advertise this as a “sure cure for consumption.” They do not claim it will cure'this dread complaint in advanced cases, but do positively assert that it will cure in the earlier stages and never fails to give comfort and relief in the worst cases. Foley’s Honey and Tar is without doubt the greatest throat, and lung remedy. Refuse substitutes. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. 1*1 * 1MI THE NAPOLEANIC TERM W VICTORY ORGANIZED Accurately Describes the’tMutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N. J. It*i c a eompnny which does not meet competition; it beats it. Beats it| with an instructed and steadfast agency corps by advocating those imm • «—■ w 1 » 11; ■—■ - — ■ ~m. m 1 —hm’i — principals ofjequity which the company has consistently practiced for generations, in opposition tojall methods involving forfeitures. Beats rTwith 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 commendj it to anyone who wants secure insurance^for its ovvn 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 gcnuinely’mutual organization without any""en tangling'alliances with other financial institutions.^ T. ' jL **. The Mutual Benefit has satisfied' generation after generation of policy holders. If you want the best insurance, see*' 1 JONES J. DARBY, Agent. $ J --*■-** Walking is said to lie the host ex orcise a man can indulge in. Perhaps that is why so many men walk home from the races. One Ten Dollar Saved Represents Dollars Saved. 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 bottie of it in the house often saves a doc tor’s bill of several dollars. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. When a man stands at the marriage altar he gets as nervous as lie does when watching the bulletins of a baseball game. 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, Bleeding, Itching or Protruding Piles. Get the genuine DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison. Cowpens. Always o: in ist he money to your credit the Gaffney Savings Bank. But remember that it is your reach only that it is within; your w ritten order is neefcasary to obtain it. Burglars and thieves have no chance to get it. * »!« A well-balanced man part his hair or name doesn’t have to in the middle. 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 an 1 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 w'hon in a weakened condition. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. V! $\ f iKL 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 alljdeposits. The Gaffney Savings Bank. 2 Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. i 1 a A man seldom goes to a friend for a loan if he really needs the 'money. Subscribe for The Ledger, 91.00 ■ year. Indigestion Causes £ CatarrH of tHe ^ Stomach. For many years it has been supposed that Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestion end dyspepsia, but the truth is exactly the opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re peated attacks of Indigestion inflames the mucous membranes lining the stomach and exposes the nerves of the stomach, thus caus ing the glands to secrete mucin instead of the juices of natural digestion. This Is called Catarrh of the Stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Curs relieves all Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the stomach, protects the nerves, and cures bad breath, sour risings, asen& of fullness after eating, indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Kodol Digests What You Eat Make the Stomach Sweet. Bottles only, Begulsr size, $ 1 00, holdlnt times the trial size, which sells for 50 cents Prepared by E. 0. DeWITT ft 00-,Chicago, III. \. now . I Is the time for you to select a % BUGGY *n6 HARNESS | We have a complete line of ^ Baggies, Harness, Saddles, Wbips and Lap Robes, i We have a special proposition ^ FOR YOU. I Smith Hardware CoJ •GAFFNEY, S. C. : iUiUiUiUiiiiUiUiUiUiUiUiUittiUiUiUiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii One Minute Cough Guro If you want all the news of Cherokee county Subscribe for The Ledger $1.00 Per Year. iS I a ,. L±.