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1 Cured of Lame Back After 15 Year* of Suffering. "I had been troubled with lame back for fifteen years and I found a complete recovery In the use of Cham berlain’s Pain Balm,” says John G. Bisher, Gillman, Ind. This liniment is also without an equal for sprains and bruises. It is for sale by Chero kee Drug Co. Every man flatters himself that he will finally whip his enemy and that he will give him a good one when he gets at him. Feet Swollen to Immense Size. “I had kidney trouble so bad th^t I could not work,” says J. J. Cox, of Valley View, Ky., “my feet werp swol len to immense size and I was con fined to my bed and physicians were unable to give me any relief. My doc tor finally prescribed Foley’s Kidney Cure, which made a well man of me. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. It is said charity begins at home. As a matter of fact, there is a good deal of complaint because charity does not begin at home. Numerous and Worthless. Everything is in the name when ft comes to Witch Hazel Salve. E. C. DeWitt & Co., of Chicago, discovered some years ago how to make a salve from Witch Hazel that is a specific for Piles. For blind, bleeding, itching and protruding Piles, eczema^ cuts, burns, bruises and all skin diseases DeWitt’s Salve has no equal. This has given rise to numerous worthless counterfeits. Ask for DeWitt’s—the genuine. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Before doing anything as a result of enthusiasm or excitement, see if your enthusiasm or excitement will not wear off. Stomach and Liver Trouble Cured. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures stomach and liver trouble as It aids digestion, and stimulates the liver and bowels without irritating these organs like pills and ordinary cathartics. It cures indigestion and sick headache and chronic constipation. Orino Lax ative Fruit Syrup does no; nauseate or grip and is mild and pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes. RATE REGULATION COMING UP AGAIN. GOOD DEAL OF HOWL ABOUT DIS CRIMINATIONS. It isn’t a bit cooler to be on the shady side of life. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro truding Piles. Druggists refund mon ey if PAZO OINTMENT falls 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. Misery may love company, but it is apt to draw the line at triplets. Used for Pneumonia. Dr. C. J. Bishop, of Agnew, says: “I have used Foley’s Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumo nia with good results in every case. Refuse substitutes. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. There are 14,000 pupils in the public schools of Atlanta. Best for Children. Mothers, be careful of the health of your children. Look out for Coughs, Colds, Croup and Whooping Coygh. Stop them in time—One Minute Cough Cure is the best remedy. Harmless and pleasant. Contains no opiates. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Whoever is a god to himself is apt to be a devil to his neighbors. Youths of eighteen always envy a mn with whiskers. Avoid serious results of kidney or bladder disorder by taking Foley’s Kidney Cure. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. FOimHONIY^TAR for children; safe, sure. Ho opiates The most brilliant gem that was ever taken from the earth would sot amount to much if there were no peo ple to appreciate its beauty and to vie with each other for its possession. The most spacious store, the most carefully selected stock of goods, the clever est corps of clerks will not avail unless people know about them. Knowledge of such things is spread in various ways. A passerby may drop in and be impressed. He may tell his neighbor, and he in turn may tell somebody else. That is one way, and there are some merchants who today think it is good enough. Modern develop ment, however, has sup plied in newspapers the best means. They go into ev ery home in the land, how ever humble, however mag nificent. Through them all of the information can be supplied, not to one, but to thousands. Are you a ing thi* paper to 4 jvu u mg UUB 1 tbe best suv&ntsgef i Not Even Railroad Men Deny that There Are a Lot of Abuses in the Matter of Transportation or Rates. Washington, D. C., Sept. 20.—Occa sionally a man gets rid of a poor horse by trading it off for one that is a good deal worse. Then be gets sore with everybody. There isn’t anything very striking in that statement, but it seems to apply just now to this matter of railroad rate regulation that is coming up for discussion again now that the silly season of summer is over. Rate regulation by railroad officers who at least know what they are trying to do seems to be the poor horse that the public thinks it has at the present time. Government regu lation of rates by a bunch of politici ans, who know absolutely nothing about the matter, is the hors<? they are trying to swap for.- I think the'’ are going to make a mighty bad trade if they ever succeed in bringing this about. I have come to this conclusion af ter looking over the cards pretty care fully and think on the whole we have got a hand that it will pay to stand pat with. One reason for this con clusion is tlie recent action of James J. Hill, president of the Great North ern Railroad, and unquestionably one of the greatest railroad men of the country, in voluntarily reducing grain rates so that the growers of grain along the line of his road can put their goods into the* market quickly, cheap- j ly and with better advantage to them ! than they ever before had. “Jim” i Mill is not a philanthropist. Hut “Jim” i Mill is long headed, far seeing, and ! knows a good thing for his road when- | ever it. shows up. It was he who said, .vith truth, that it was more beneficial i to his railroad to have a half a dozen I l itnilies settle on its line every week I than it was to run crowded excursion ! ;rains over the road every day. Of i course, that meant that the settler and | his crops would pay the road better I in the end than the temporary busi ness tin* excursions would bring. He is simply applying the same principle in this grain rate business. He knew there was a big market on the other side of the Pacific for the grain grow ers of Dakota and Minnesota and fix ed rates so they could set at that market in competition with the grow ers of the Pacific states and the Do minion of Canada, ft was business, of course, nothing else. It was just the same when he made a rate a couple of years ago on Pacific coast shingles so that Oregon and Washing ton mills could market their product in the middle west in competion with nearby producers. Now both these things were done voluntarily and it strikes me it would he a good while before any govern ment railroad rate making commission would not 1)6 allowed to do it. Other communities which were temporarily injured, would step in and make such a howl that the whole commission would run to cover. Not even the railroad men deny that there are a whole lot of abuses in this transportation question that have grown up by degrees and which have resulted in illegal benefits to the trusts of various kinds. But on the other hand there have been a heap of benefits to the producer, of which these instances of what Mr. Hill has done are good examples. The Soutn has been benefited by voluntary reduc tions of freight rates on cotton, made so that they could ship their-product to the Orient. The New Englauder got. the same benefit on his potato crop when there was a failure in the sup ply of the West and he had an over production to market. The Boston & Maine railroad voluntarily lowered its rate so as to get tnese potatoes to points where they could he marketed to the best advantage. A hundred other instances might be given of similar voluntary concessions .by rail roads for the benefit of the agricul turalist or manufacturer along the lines. If the government was in con trol of railway rates none of these voluntary concessions which were the result of business emogeneies, would | have been made. England and Ger- ! many have both snown its impossibili- j ty in their attempt to manage railway | transportation satisfactorily. There is a good do al of a howl about discriminations in freight rates that has no basis because there are j useful discriminations as well as dis- I c riminations that are pernicious, and people invariably forget the former and remember the latter. We could not have any of the useful discrimina tions—the necessary discriminations— if a railroad commission hail control of rates, and all suggested legislation, in spite of what its advocates may say, is hound to give to any commission absolute power over all rates. They can not make a change in one rate, in response to a complaint about that rate, without necessitating a change of rates in every community and on every line of railroad that enters Into competition in any way with the par ticular community making the origi nal complaint. If that is not absolute rate fixing I don’t know what is. That’s what makes me believe that it is better sometimes to keep the horse you have and whose failings you know all about, than to swap it off for ; an animal wnich you know nothing | about, and which is harder to manage than an automobile that is determined on a tree climbing experiment. * * • The action of the president in turn ing out Public Printer Palmer has brought to a crisis the tremble in the great printery. Mr. Palmer has d - termlne.i to ask for a congressional in vestigation when the congress meets in December and air the whole thing. If he gets tne Investigation it is going to make trouble for a whole lot of peo ple here who will lie brought Into the thing, who, otherwise never would be known In It. It Is going to.involve senators and representatives and big newspaper proprietors all over the country wlio are the holders of stock in the Mergenthaler linotype ma chines. It is going to show up how the Mergenthaler people first got the permission of congress to ask the public printer to use his own discre tion to place in the government printing office the linotype machines and put hand workers out of a Job, It is going to show how the thing was done and the commission paid to a lob byist to get the thing done. I do not know that any man connected with the government work got a copper cent for placing in either the Mergen'haler or the Lanston machines in the government printery, but I do know that a whole lot of people here and mixed up here own stock in both com panies and that they did not pay very much for the stock. It is a nasty mess and part of the game of some of the Republican stand patters is going to he to keep congress engaged in inves- tigatioms all during the session so it can't get busy with the tariff, railroad rate legislation or anything else. The whole thing will be rich, rare and racy whne it comes and I am going to tell the whole truth about it all, and I care not whether it hits Democrats or Re publicans. Lets clean out the whole rotten outfit and give the peonle a chance. Will the people take a chance wftien It is offered to them? Chas. A. Edwards. Disfigured Skin Wasted muscles and decaying bones. What havoc I Scrofula, let alone, is capable of all that, and more. It is commonly marked by hunches In the neck, inflammations In the eyes, dys pepsia, catarrh, and genera) debility. It is always radically and permanently cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla Which expels all humors, cures all erup tions, and builds up the whole system, whether young or old. Hood's I'ills cure livt-r (IK: tlie non IrritatlnK and only cathartic to tako with Hooil'a S.irnapafllhs. <y AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Chinese Merchants Want to Boycott American Goods. Chlnkiang, China, Aug. 15.—We are having a little affair here in China which is of some interest, I should say, to even you folks of the city of Gaffney. The Chinese merchants have taken into their head that they want to stop the ill treatment of their fellow countrymen in America by Americans. The method they have adopted is to boycott American goods. The start of it was in Shanghai, but it has spread to a great many other places. Two placards have been put up here in Chinkiang, and I am giv ing below a translation of the second one, which may he of interest to show how other folks look at us. There are pictures along with the placard, representing a man and a woman kneeling before a customs officer, be ing examined, a picture of a police man boating a Chinese, and the last one showing a Chinese hanging up by the cue. The translation run- thus: “The picture shows how the Americans treat us Chinese. You re member that in the early days, when American was first opened, it was a desert, and the Americans being few. they were not. able to open up the country, but depended entirely on the Chinese who had gone to their coun try. (I hope this news is familiar to ye fathers of Cherokee!) These made roads, dug mines, prepared the lands, and did all tlie heavy labor, and everything they did was done well. The Americans gradually got rich, hut they treated the Chinese with every sort of cruelty, even a hundred times worse than they treat their cows or horses. Thou they ex pelled our Chinese, not allowing them to return; and now if we Chinese, whether scholars, laborers, or women, wish to go to America, the customs officials place us in a pen, like a pris on, and tell us to wait there as those who have the plague, and they tell us to wait till called for examination. The inside of this pen is dark and narrow. Moreover, they bring medi cated water to wash us with, saying that we are diseased. Meanwhile tne living place is damp and filthy, like a pig pen. "Please look at the picture and you will understand. On the right is the wooden pen, given to Chinese only, hut the Americans do not dare to treat the other countries in this man ner. Those vile policemen with one hand seize their cues and with the other beat them with a stick, and bring them in for examination, and if they lag a little he heats them. You can see the custom’s officials sit ting in the midst with his arrogant manner, and without any justice, tell ing the Chinese that they have not obeyed the law, and that they must return to their own country. No where else in tlie world do you see anything like this. The Chinese, af ter leaving father and mother and wife, and /expending passage money, and enduring many dangers, and not having previously thought of it. find it very difficult to enter the United States, ami are treated like savages and caused to return. What do you think? Ought we to hate them or not? Besides this, there are many of our people in America who are mer chants, and these are constantly be ing seized and falsely accused of hav ing the plague. They then burn down their houses to keep the plague from spreading, and in this way many of these merchants are killed. To treat us in this manner is not just. After the houses are burnt they place them in the pens to he returned to China. Moreover they will not replace the losses forcing them to leave when they cannot. Lit. ‘go not able to go, come not aide to come’.) A great many have died by starvation. "There is another very pitiable af fair let us make known to all men. The children of Chinese born in America they will not allow us to bring back to Chine, saying that us they are horn in America, they are Americans. Thus they cut off the family line of prosperity. Do you i not think this is a thing that we lought to hate? "You, being all Chinese, can you j sit still and see your brothers in America suffer in this way? At this time America is strong and China is weak, and we cannot go to war with America, but there is only one plan for us, viz: To boycott American goods. By this plan we can stop this eruel treatment and our anger may i be removed. This is a very peaceful method. This plan does not Interfer ; with the treaties. We admonish all j Chinese to use their utmost power to avoid using American good. In this way we will force America to change I this evil treaty, so that outsiders may not treat us Chinese with disrespect. This is of the greatest importance.” The record of the United States In China has been better than any other ! country, and it was owing to the firm i stand taken by our government that : the area of the war was limited, an.l I it was largely the United States that ! kept China from being partitioned | among tho nations. America may be said to be the Saviour of China. Out of ♦b© indemnity received for the ter- ribl< business in 1900, America has returned a large sum of money to he expended for the benefit of China. But there is one blot, and that is the Chinese exclusion act. It is intended to keep out the undesirable class of laborers only, but there has been much fraud on the part of the Chinese in getting certificates, and the cus toms officials on the Pacific coast have not been always just, or kind in their treatment of Chinese who wish ed to enter. The Chinese certainly have a grievance on this score. It is beside the question to say that the Chinese themselves are more cruel, and have always been at heart more exclusive than the Americans, it is also useless to advocate the fact that there are over two hundred thousand Chinese in America, while, including missinaries, there are only a Ittle less than three thousand Amercajis. in China. America was not justified in treating Chinese in such a bad man ner. Enough facts have been brought to light to prove that they have been treated badly, though the above pla card has distorted the facts, and put them out of their proportion to other events. The placard is liable to cause a lot of mischief here among the ig- norant class. As yet there has been no antimissionary feeling about it that 1 have seen. It arouses evil pas sions an.l hatred against Americans, and we who are on the spot have to suffer more or less for the evil doings of the labor unions on the Pacific coast. The two things bought most by ;h<‘ Chinese are cotton cloih. and kero sene oil. They buy innumerable other things, but. these along with “good old North Carolina, cigarettes" l!i are seen everywhere. I hope these questions will speedily he settled, otherwise many of tlie cotton maim factories of the South are going to suffer, and we here will likely not es cape without trouble of some kind. 1 want to write you a letter later about our church work here. \Y. E. Crocker. The Amount Grows quickly after the first de- posit. Before the account was opened money was spent without thought. Now it is sent to the The Gaffney Savings Bank where it draws interest at the rate of Four Per Cent- Money deposited here cannot be taken by thieves*or de stroyed by lire. Our modern vaults will resist both. ,*T< * * $ The Gaffney Savings;Bank Pays Four Per Cent. Interest on all Deposits. Of ice in The National Bank of Gaffney. One Car Each nf Baggies and Wagans t ItT \\ / 7/ -VI THREE JURORS CURED Of Cholera Morbus with One Small Bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy. .Mr. G. \V. Fowler, of Hightower, Ala., relates an experience he had while serving on a petit jury in a murder case at Edwardville, county seat of Clebourne county, Alabama. He says: “While there I ate some fresh meat and some souse meat atpl it gave me cholera morbus in a very severe form. I was never more sick in my life and sent to the drug store for a certain choltva mixture, but the druggist sent me a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera anu di arrhoea Remedy instead, saying that ho had what I sent for, but that this medicine was so much better he would rather send it to me in the fix I was in. I took one dose of It and was better in five minutes. The second dose cured me entirely. Two fellow 1 jurors were afflicted in the same man- nr and one small bottle cured the three of us.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. We have just unloaded another ear of Anchor Bunnies and we ask you not to overlook the many good points the Anchor Buggy possesses over others. We also have a car of Piedmont Wagons. Von know them; they have been sold here more than '20 years. R. M. WILKINS HARDWARE'CO. When a man gets married he is apt to think everybody should give him a present, hut how he hates to give wed- ling presents when his friends get married! No Unpleasant Effects, If you ever took DeWHt’s Little Earl- Risers for biliousness or con- stipation you know what pil] pleas- i ure is. These famous little pills j cleanse tin* liver and rid the system of all bile without producing unpleas ant effects. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. riie Oliie^tgo Typewriter’S30, CHAS. H. CARLISLE, Agt., SPARTANBURG, - - 8.0. is a candidate for your’of- fice. Elect it!! 'f jj* 3 ” "Machine at’' *•* an Honest Price, (Read tTTis froin "The House? hold." Boston. July ) “We have been using "THE CHICAGO" Typewriter and certainly find many fine points in this machine which are far in advance of .the old styles. It has every acvan tage of tlie old typewriters and several essential points which cannot he found in any oilier." VISIBLEWRITIN6 Gold J Medal Paris’Ex posi- tion.-T •• | $65.00’Saved in’Price!! l^Whew i! For information' and to see the ma chine call on Aug. 2" :i mo. CHA5. L. WALKER, National Bank.of Gaffney. Gaffney. S. C. But the fast young man is seldom satisfied with the place at which he arrives. Always Successful. When indigestion becomes chronic I it is dangerous. Kodol Dyspepsia | Cure will cure indigestion and al! : troubles resulting therefrom, thus preventing Catarrh of the Stomach, Dr. Newbrough, of League, W. Va., says: “To those suffering from indi gestion or sour stomach I would say there is no hotter remedy than Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I have prescribed it for a number of my patients with good success.” Kodol Dyspepsia t'ure digests what you eat and makes | the stomach sweet. Sold by Chero- 1 kee Drug Co., Gaffney: L. D. Allison, Cowpens. It is impossible for that man to de spair who remembers that his helper is omnipotent. FARMERS MUTUAL INSURAUGE l ASSOCIATION. OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, S. C. This'Association was organized March 22nd, 1N9S, with only a few members and a few thousan '. dollars insurance, 'which was transferred from the Companies of Union and York Counties, by policy holders livingjin those [sections of Cherokee County whichjwere taken from said o’.d'Counties. At the end of the third year the insurance in force aggregated 5190,750 00 Increase from March 2nd, 1901, to August 1st, 1005 127,154 00 Total Insurance in force August 1st, 1905 5317,934 00 Total amount of receipts for the whole period 54,353 46 Total amount paid out for losses 52,366 25 Total amount paid out for expenses, etc !,166]74 Amount cash on hand August 1st, 1905 820 47 Total 54,353 46 This Company is purely assessment, therefore purely co-operative aud mutual, and insures against loss of property by fire, lightning, cyclones, tornadoes or wind ' storms. It gives protection at actual cost. It complies strictly with its contracts. All losses are paid promptly. It’s policies are backed by over $500,000 worth of property. Now is the time to insure. J. EB JEFFERIES, R. M. GAFFNEY, Secty. and Treas. President. A Laxative Cough Syrup. “A cold or cough nearly always produces constipation—the water all runs to the eves, nose and throat in stead of passing out of the system through the liver and kidneys. For want of moisture the bowels become dry and hard.” Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar is the original Laxa tive Cough Syrup. It meets and cor rects tho above conditions, by actiqg as a pleasant cathartic on the bowels j —expels all colds from the system and cures all roughs, croup, whooping cough, LaGrippe, bronchitis, etc. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. It pays better to find fault with yourself than with tho weather. Are You Administrator and have the settlement of an estate? If so, request of the ludge of Probate that your advertisement be placed in ■ ■ ■ ■ r f-t 1 To Cure a Cold in One Day- Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if It falls to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature Is on each box. 25c. It has the largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District.