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Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. AH,the b'ood in your body passes through your kldn*,ys a'.oe every three minutes. The kidneys are your blood purifiers, they fil ter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trcuble. Kidney ‘rouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney- poisoned biocd through veins and arteries. I; used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fifty-, cent and ore-dollar siz es. You may have a sample bcttie by mail Home of Swamp-Root, free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton. N. Y. Don’t make any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Blnghampton, N. Y., on even bottle. Wash Your Coffee. (National Magazine.) How many housewives see to it that the green coffee purchased from the grocer is carefully washed before be ing roasted? I have known many oth- erwico careful housekeepers to empty the coffee from the parcel in which it was bought, into the pan for roasting, never thinking that they are doing an unclean thing. Coffee is often dyed to give it a bet ter color, and aside from this, there is such a quantity of real dirt upon it that it really astonishes people who never washed it. Wash your coffee. Try a little KODOL FOR DYSPEP SIA after your meals. See the effect It will produce on your general feel- in" by digesting your food and help ing your stomach to get itself into shape. Many stomachs are over worked to the point where they re fuse to go further. Kodol digests your food and gives your stomach the rest it needs, while its constructive prop erties get the stomach back into working order. Kodol relieves flatu lence. sour stomach, palpitation of the heart, belching, etc. Sold bv Cher- obee Drug Co.. Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Still water doesn’t always run deep. There is the stagnant pond, for in- w stance. Does evil still, your whole life fill? Does woe betide? Your thoughts abide on suicide? You need a pill! Now for prose and facts—DeWitt’n Little Early Risers are the most pleas ant and reliable pills known today. They never gripe. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison. Cow- pens. Students in the school of expe rience are handed their diplomas by the undertaker. Makes Homelv Women Pretty. No woman no matter how regular her features may be can be called pretty if her complexion is bad. Ori- no Laxative Fruit Syrup aids digest ion and clears sallow blotched com plexions by stimulating liver and bow els. Orlno Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and pleasant to take. Remember the name Orino and refuse to accept any sub stitute. Sold by Cherokee Dru* Co. Even the girl with dreamy eyes is apt to be wide awabe to her matrimo nial chances. Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar is the original laxative cough syrup and combines the qualities neoessarv to relieve the cough and purge l he system of cold. Contains no ooiatei. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co.. Gaffney; L. D. Allison. Cowpens. tubscrlb* for The Ledger, 11.0° • year NEWS FROM THE NATION’S CAPITAL. OUR CORRESPONDENT SCORES THE TRUSTS. The Administration Awards Contracts to Trusts for Buildinq of New Bat tleship—Other News. Washington. D. C.. Julv 24.—Anoth er characteristic Republican stunt was pulled off the other dav that shows conclusively how this admin istration works In the Interest of the people and the people’s pocket books. The navy department recently ad vertised for bids for the armor nlate for th*> two new battleships, the Mich igan and the South Carolina. There were three bidders, the Carnegie Steel Company, the Bethlehem Steel Comnanav and the Midvale Steel Com pany. The two first named are in the steel trust and the latter is an Inde pendent companay that was formed to fight the trust. Previous to the year 1900 the trust had no competi tion and it compelled the government, the oeople, to pay it the sum of $545 per ton for armor plate. The Midvale Company then was formed and it cut the price of^armor plate to $438 per ton. and has been compelling the trust to come down in pri^s ever since until this last tilt between the steel giants, the prices asked by each of them were: Carnegie Steel Companay, $.!92 per ton; Bethlehem Steel Com- paany, $403 per ton. and the Midvale Steel Company, anti-trust. $345 per ton. thus saving the government over h:lf a million dollars on the price of the two battleship® <as against the two bids of the steel trust. But what happens? The officers of the steel trust rush over here to Washington and march down upon the Republican secretary of the navy, the aristocratic Mr. Bonaparte, and tell him that un less he gives them the contracts for the ships thev will put their steel plants out of commission and throw all the skilled workmen out of employ ment .and threaten that in time of trouble they will refuse to again put their plants to work, that the govern ment will then bp at the mercv of the Midvale plant and that it then can charge what they please, thus doing just what the trust did before there was any Midvale Plant. And what did this Republican administration do? In ‘he face of the fact that the ad ministration would be repudiating the honor and good faith of the govern ment. and would be doing the Midvale Company a rang injustice not to give it the contract after it had taken its chances with the others. Mr. Bona- narte deliberately goes to worb and awards the steel trust companies half of the contract for the two shins, thus costin" the taxpayers of the country over a quarter of a million dollars. This is absolutely indefensible and cannot be explained away except that Teddy the Great, the idol of the peo- ole, ordered that the contract be giv en just in this way in order to pay some of his campaign debts to the people who help mt up the money to elect him. Didn’t I say in a former letter a few weeks ago that this Re publican administration was feeding the steel and armor plate trust with contracts? That’s why thev want a big navy, that’s why thev insist on building battleships and spending the people’s monev instead of buying sub marine torpedo boats for coast and harbor defense at one-sixth and one- tenth the price. This administration prefers to spend the people’s money by giving to the trusts that rob them under the system of high protection. Do the people like this sort of thing? Then keep on sending Repuhnicans to congress. * * * Reverting to the subject of subma rine boats discussed in my last letter: The United States navy submarines are furnished by the Electric Boat Company, of New York (formerly the Holland Torpedo Boat Comjnany), which company has successfully de veloped the submarine torpedo boat and who are furnishing these boats in numbers to Great Britain and all of the leading naval powers of the world. These contractors, knowing that they had solved the submarine prob lem. built a boat at their own expense, costing $236,000. The navy depart ment tested it thoroughly, and report ed that it fulfilled all the require ments of the submarine navigation as annlied to naval warfare. The navv department bought this boat, and paid .the builders $150,000 for it. Not very profitable for the pioneers of this great invention, you will say and a striking contrast to Carnegie’s armor plate trust who receive $500 per ton for their product. The submarine adopted in our navy is a cigar-shaped steel vessel propell ed on the surface by petroleum en gines and when submerged, bv elec tric power furnished by storage bat teries which .are charged by the pe troleum engines The boat Is submerged by admitt ing enough water into her tanks to partially overcome her reserve bouy_- ancy—(that is. her constant tendency to float on the surface)—then horizon tal rudders or “fins” are brought into play until the desired depth is reach ed. To come to the surface the oper ation Is reversed: the water admitted into the tanks for sinking the vessel Is blown out by compressed air pres- r ”re. and the rudders or fins steer her to the surface. When the boat sinks her motive n wer changes from the petroleum engines to the electric engines, this being necessary, as there can be no draft for an oil engine when the boat 1® below the surface. When the weight of the vessel is reduced by the firing of a large tor pedo. disturbance of the vessel’s trim Is avoided by an automatic compen sating device which admits to the tanks an amount of water sufficifent t'-' make up the weight of the torpedo 1 The crew numbers eight men. who suffer no discomfort, as the boat is thoroughly ventilated bv compressed air. One of these boats, with her full r rew, has remained on the bottom of the sea for twelve and one-half hours without any difficulty being exper ienced. One of the ingenius features of these boats is what is known as the “Periscope.” This furnishes eyes to the boat, although she is running sev eral feet below the surface. This in vention consists of a tube running in to the top of the boat through the "conning tower” or lookout, located on the top of the boat. This tube projects un above the top of the boat. It contains a series of mirrors, and the upper end is hood-like, and com mands a view of the surface. This view is reflected down through the tube, and the operator below can see what is above on the surface. The tube is about the diameter of an ordi nary stovepipe and from a distance is invisible. Good torpedo practice has been bad with the use of the Per iscope. * * * It is a far cry to the next Demo cratic national convention, but all the politicians w r ho come to the national capital are talking of nothing else but the fight that is two years off and the general consensus of opinion is that if the convention were to be held tomorrow William J. Bryan would be nominated by acclamation. Well, why shouldn’t he be? He is the inventor of everything that has been asked for by Theodore Roose velt: of everything that was passed bv the last session of the congress that was of any peculiar interest to the people, and why should not the inventor of a machine be acclaimed bv the people as well as the man who us^s it? Everything that Roosevelt has advocated In his messages to congress that has been worth shucks to the people is democratic doctrine. It was advocated either bv a Dema- cratic national convention in the Platform, or else some Democrat has blazed the wav by a speech in con gress on the subject a long time be fore Roosevelt ever thought of saying a word in favor of anything that was passed bv the congress. A glance at any Democratic nation al platform since 1896, or the Con gressional Record since 1898, will prove the truth of my assertions. As long as a year and five months before Roosevelt ever said a word about rail road rate regulation a speech was made on the floor of the house by the Hon. John Sharp Williams, of Mlssias- inpi. the Democratic floor loader that read exactly as the message of Roo sevelt on the subject and nobody doubts that from it Roosevelt got much if not all the inspiration when he wrote the message asking congress to enact railroad rate legislation. If h n had stuck to his text and insisted o^ the same policy advocated by Wil liams we would have had a law that would have teeth; but he went back on all and everything that he had asked for and on everyboJy who had trusted him in the transaction. People seem to think that shoa : d Bryan be nominated by the Demo crats U'-'t Tetidv win b'' forced to run bv his party as the only man who would stand any chance to beat him. Those who know Roosevelt at short range know that if such a proposition is Put up to him, Teddy will accept it. no matter what he has said to the contrary, and many people believe that he is working to that end right now. It would give the people of the en*<fe country a chance to choose be tween the genuine thing and the pinchbeck. For if ever there was a piece of pinchbeck In the shapf* of a politician in the whole rang? of hu man history, it is the man now in the White House. And I speak advisedly when I say politician. He is one of the best politicians who ever sat in the White House, and one of the luckiest. He came as near being c-ag^ed from his pedestal upon which the oeople have placed him. when he tackled Tillman, Bailey and Chand ler, but he wriggled out of that pre dicament by jumping on the meat packers, whom everybody hate,and despise. He knew that fact and played on it for ailit was worth and the trick won. Everybody immedi ately forgot ♦ v> '> railroad rate incident and the fact that Roosevelt had play ed a double game and shown bad faith and in the end had surreodp-ed to the roads and gave them the broad court review, and at once began heap- lr~ praises on his hesd for hitting the hated meat trust. Have you ever thought of that? Do you remember that the two things followed on each other’s heels? Well, that’s the way he played it on the people and they swallowed the halt, hook and sinker. • • * The thing for which Roosevelt is pluming himself most, for which he tabes greatest credit, consists of oc topus chasing and trust busting. There are two brands of it—the chas- i*’" of octopuses and the busting of trusts that are odious, and the chas ing of octopuses and the busting of trusts that are popular. As vet Col. Roosevelt has only undertaken the first of these: he has not yet assailed a popular monopoly. The country c^n well excuse him. for he has had his hands full chastising the excre- able trusts and disciplining the loath some octopuses. As, for example, the railroads—whoever heard of a friend of the railroads in politics? Then there is Standard Oil, without one single friend on the political rialto from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande; from the -io Grande to Pu get Sound. As for the meat trust, 'ev erybody is cussing it and trying to invent something to say about it that is meaner than the limitations of the English language will allow to be farmed into human speech. The to bacco trust—without a friend! Adul terated food—without a friend! Rot- gut whiskey—without^a friend! The insurance knaves—absolutely without friends, though the New York Su preme Court has decided that it is not illegal for them to take of their customers’ trust funds to buy votes, if the votes are in the interest of a virtuous party, for it is given to a ’»arty of great moral ideas to work iniquity that the righteous mav tri umph and the uncircumcised be dis comfited, and things like that. Now, there is an octopus in this land of ours—the head devil of the whole lay out. viz.: the tariff octopus. This is a ver” popular octopus. It can muster an immense majority in either wing of the fifty-ninth congress. This is the octopus Col. Bryan is anxious to smite hip and thigh, and it was “no- rated around” that Col. Roosevelt had a rod in pickle for it tha‘ was to be bursted under the monster’s belly in the closing hours of the late mo mentous session: but. like Gen. Beau regard at Shiloh, the president ap pears to have argued that it was glorv enough for one occasion, he had already got out of octopus chasing and trust busting, and perhaps it was. for the whole country w->s applauding his exploits in behalf of democratic policies. Charles A. Edwards. negro dies of wounds. Shot on Excursion Train and Died in Abbeville. Abbeville. July 24.—Dan Wardlaw, colored, was shot by Will Davis on an excursion returning from Atlanta. Ga., on Julv 18th. Wardlaw was shot near Middleton, Ga.. and was taken from the train at Abbeville, where a few days later he died. The coroner’s jury, after a session of two days, in which there were many adjournments, reached the ver dict that Dan Wardlaw had come to his death from gunshot wounds at the hands of parties unknown to the Jury. The question is whether Davis will b" tried In Georgia or South Carolina. The mortal wound was given In Geor gia. near Middleton, and the death oc curred in South Carolina, at Abbe ville. An interesting question is the ve nue. A man who is worthy of his hire cannot be blamed fo- looking higher. HABITS OF THE RICH. Samples of Millionaire Extravagance in the Metropolis. (New York Press.) Zola, in his youth, before fame came to him. wrote some stories about millionaires, wherein it seemed to him he exaggerated shamefully in his descriptions of the costly homes 'nd habits of the rich, but la»«r on when Zola became a friend of mil lionaires. he found that his accounts of their extravagance had fallen far short of the truth. In the same wav stories about the extravagance of American million aires that sound like exaggerations may also fall short of the truth. Here, for instance, are some facts that an interior decorator of New York sup- nlied the other day. They sound ex treme. but let Zola be remembered. A man bought for his hall twelve antique marble columns at Pompeii. Finding that he could use only eight of the columns he had the remaining four destroyed, although he was of fered for them twice what he had paid. He h^d paid $5,000 apiece. Aubusson carpets, with a pile three inches thick, are often made to order at a cost of $40 a yard. Such a cost, though, is nothing beside what is or dinarily paid for antique rugs. They, measured b v the yard, often cost $500 or $600 a yard. Ghairs of ivory inlaid with wood are occasionally sold at $500 apiece. One millionaire’s piano cost $150,- 000. A five-inch band of ivory, four years in the carving, runs around the case, which was deconated by Everett Shinn. The gold and silver plate of one household requires an ex^'-t to look afto- it. The naan is a goldsmith, and his salary i s $2,000 a year. Billiard rooms sometimes cost $50,000 to furnish. The tables and cues are inlaid with ivorv and gold. Certain wines—Schloss Johanes- berg. for instance, stamped with the crest of Prince Matternich—are sold at private sales to millionaires fo $t0 and $50 a bottle. Automobiles of ninety or more horse-power, made to order, will cost from $30,000 to $40,000. Some million aires keep a dozen or more *uto;no- blles. with a head chaffeur at $4,000 or $5,000. a year salary and two or three assistants at $25 a week each. Then there is the ocean-going yacht, which cannot be maintained in the most modest way at a smaller annual expenditure than $25,000. ARGENTINA’S LEVEL PAMPAS. Tremendous Open Stretches—Won derful Wagons Fifty Feet Long. (Consular and Trade Reports.) The pampas of Argentina, so far as being absolute level is concerned, are said to exceed anv other laree area in the world. One railroad runs for 175 miles without an inch of curve, and it might have continued in the same wav for 30 miles farther. That is indicative of “the real thing” in level land, according to the correspon dence of the Los Angeles Times. The people are said to be perfect ly willing to use American machin ery when it has been proven to them that it win do more work with less men than the English. Over and above the steadily Increasing value of land, jncident to the growth of the country, landowners are said to be doubling and trebling their wealth every few years. The wagons used are said to be 50 feet long in some cases and from 12 to l5 feet wide. The hind wheels will be from 12 to 14 feet high and the driver’s seat 20 feet or more above the ground. The horses used at times number as manv as three score to a wagorv The principal idea of such a large wagon is to have some thing that will not be engulfed by the mud or dust of the bottomless roads of the pampas, and it also has its economical advantages in a country where men are scarce and horses plentiful. “Soft as An Angel’s Whisper,” (National Magazine.) The flower-pied field with Sabbath hush is still; Soft a 8 an angel’s whisper flows the stream; And in the far blue distance the green hill Like some rapt Buddha dreams. The orioles in hedge and cover stir— Quick flames of fire that flicker all day long; And in the orchard trees the tanager Throbs like the heart of song. Summer, like Lotus princess of warm blood. Weds with the sun god bright and beautiful, And with her lover loiters where the wood Spreads like Nirvana cool. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Han surpassed all other medicines, in merit, sales and cures. Its success, great an It has been, has ap parently only just begun. It has received by actual count more than 40,000 testimonials in two years. It purifies the blood, cures all blood dis eases, all humors and all eruptions. It strengthens the stomach, creates an appetite and builds up the whole system. It cures that tired feeling and mskes the weak strong. In unnal liqnid form or in chocolated tablets known as SarsatabS. 100 doses SL The Wit of the Fox. Charles James Fox, the famous Eng lish advocate of a century -ago, and his secretary. Mr. Hare, who lived with him, were both noted for their impe- cunlosity, and their creditors spent much time in dunning them. One morning before daylight there was a violent ringing at the door, and Mr. Fox, going to the window found a group of creditors below. “Are you fox hunting or hare hunt ing this morning, gentlemen?” he asked. “Come, now. Mr. Fox,” one of them called up, “tell us when you are go ing to pay that bill. Just set a late, and we will leave you in peace.” “An right,” was the reply. “How will the day of judgment suit you?” “Not at all,” said the creditor, “We’ll all be too busy on that day.” “Well,” said Mr. Fox, “rather than n ut you to any inconvenience, we’ll make it the day after.” Some cunning men choose fools for their wives, thinking to manage them, but they always fail.—Johnson. A woman only needs to have a stickpin to be able to talk about her jewels. A sweet breath adds to the joys of a kiss. You wouldn’t want to kiss your wife, mother or sweetheart with a bad breath. You can’t have a sweet breath without a healthy stomach. You can’t have a healthy stomach without perfect digestion. There is only one remedy that digests what you eat and makes the breath as sweet as a rose—and that remedy is KODOL FOR DYSPEPSIA. It is a relief for sour stomach, palpitation of the heart, and other ailments arising from disorder of the stomach and di gestion. Take a little Kodol after your meals and see what it will do for you. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaff ney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. A pessimist is a man who thinks other men are as cranky as he is. It is always well to have a box of salve in the house. Sunburn, cuts, bruises, piles and bolls yield to De- Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Should keep a box on hand at all times to provide for emergencies. For years the standard, but followed by many Imitators. Be sure you get the gen- iune DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Milk of human kindnes® i® never run through a cream separator. Bronchitis fop Twenty Years. Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville, 111., writes: “I had bronchitis for twen ty years and never got relief until I used Foley’s Honey and Tar, which is a sure cure. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. Don’t expect to tower above your neighbors by standing on your dig nity. Children like Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar. The pleasantest and best cough syrun to take, because it contains no opiates. Sold bv Chero kee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Many a man begins his charity at home by cutting down his wife’s al lowance. Sound kidneys are safeguards of life. Make the kidneys healthy with Foley’s Kidney Cure. Sold by Chero kee Drug Co. Even the girl’s father might over look a young man’s shortcomings if it wasn’t for his long slayings. Two Bottle* Cured Him. ’ “I was troubled with kidnev com plaint for about two years,” writes A. H. Davis, of Mt. Sterling. la., “but two bottles of Foley’s Kidnev Cure effected a permanent cure.” Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. i r Great Sacrifice of Summer Goods! f wa m V 1 A £ A a WL W ■ ■ A ** *> % rn m ammmm m a 10 and 15c Zephyrs and Crepes at 6 l-2c Cash. 12 1-2 and 15c Battistes at 9 l-2c Cash. 25c figured Mulls at 19c Cash. And many other things to go cheap. 10 and 12 l-2c Quality Percals at 7 l-2c. Ladies’ and Children’s Slippers to go at 20 to 25 per cent, discount. This means 25 to 33 1-3 per cent, saving to you. Think of it. You can afford to buy these goods if you don’t want them. New, fresh stock. CLOTHING! We are in the Clothing business again and can do you good on this line. Men’s Suits from $3.50 to $15.00, Boys’Suits from $1.25 to $5.00, Youths’Suits from $4.50 to $7.50. Straw Hats and Felt Hats bought at prices 33 1-3 per cent. off. These are great values for the price. We have just received 68 cases ofChildren’s, Ladies', Boys’ and Men’s Shoes. Our reputation and the Manufacturer's is back of all these goods. Our competitors will tell you that they will give you just as good Shoes as W. J. Wilkins & Company, don’t accept that, but come to us where you can get the best. None better at the prices. ::::::::::::: W. J. WILKINS COMPANY