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Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy KUneys Make Impure Blood. AH the bVoa in your body passes through your kidneys o-.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 thdr work. Pains, aches and rheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected Kidney 'rouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, ind 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. 1; used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly ail constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. if you are sick you can make no mistake by first doc'oring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer s Sw amp«Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of ‘he most distressing cases kidney tr eble. and Is sold on its me>-its by all druggists in fifty- cent andone-dollar siz es. You may have a sample bcttle by mail free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer Bt Co., Binghamton. N. Y. Home of Swamp-Root. Don’t make any mistake, but r* member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binghampton, N. Y., on ever? bottle. Some Worm. Are Curlona. The most curious creature of the worm family Is the dlplozoon, a aln- folar parasite which Infests the gills of several species of fish, particularly tbe bream. Each individual dlplozoou has two distinct bodies united In the middle so as to form a perfect St An- Crew’s cross, each half of the creature eontainiug precisely the aame kind of organa—via, an alimentary canal, a eenoua system, reproductive organs, ote. Passed Examination Successfully. James Donahue. New Britain, Con necticut, writes: “I tried several kid ney remedies, and was treated by o\ir best physicians for diabetes, but did not improve until I took Foley’s Kidner. Cure. After the second bot- tH< I showed improvement, and five bottles cured me completely. I have since passed a rigid examination for life insurance.” Foley’s Kidney Cure cuies backache and all forms of kidney and bladder trouble. Chero- kee Drug Company. Woman is the one problem that science can never solve. Notice to Our Customers We are pleased to announce that Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs colds, and lung troubles is not affect ed by the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs, and wo recom mend it as a safe remedy for chil dren and adults. Cherokee Drug Co. Those who win success by prac tice haven’t time to preach. E C. DeWitt & Co., of Chicago, at whose laboratory Kodol is prenared, assure us that this remarkable di- gestant and corrective for the stom ach conforms fully to all provisions of the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, L. I). Allison, Cowpens. It is easier to write silly letters than it is to mail them. For chapped and cracked hands get Do Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Secretary Bonaparte on board a new warship declared a 13-inch gun “the best possible advocate of arbi tration.’ ’ Millions of bottles of Foley’s Hon ey and Tar have been sold without anv person ever having experienced ar.v other beneficial results from its use for coughs, colds, and lung trou bles. This is because the genuine Foley’s Honey and Tar in the yellow package contains no opiates or oth er harmful drugs. Guard your health by refusing any but the genuine. Cheroke Drug Company. PLAN TO PREVENT RAILROAD REBATING Judge Gaynor Wants U. S. to Appoint Freight Agents. MAY HAVE TO DO SO, HE SAYS Hucli Olllcialn Not to Fix IlHtex, Sng- New York JiihIIcp, tint to See Tlmt All Pay Prcncrlliotl Hate, No More ami No I.ens—Declare* Fuvor- itinni In Freight Itatea Greatest Crime of Our Day nail Generation. Justice William J. Gaynor of the New York supreme court In a speech at the Economic club dinner In Bos ton the other night made a novel sug gestion for the prevention of railroad rebating, says the New r York Ameri can. Judge Gaynor's remarks were receiv ed with grave attention. “It Is my belief,’’ he said, “that the government should appoint the general freight agent of every railroad, and It may have to do so, for he, through his subordinates, could stop the abuse at once. “Some one will say, ‘Yes, but he could be bribed.’ Yes, of course, for that Is always possible. But let us remember that it Is not the rule, but the exception, for high officials ap pointed by the president of the United States or government to accept bribes. “As Hamilton said, contrive as you may, in the last analysis you have to repose power In some one, and I would rather see the power In this instance In the hands of a responsible and an swerable government official than In the bands of Individuals seeking their own aggrandizement. “I am not suggesting that the gov ernment through such freight agents fix the rates. I would leave that as It Is. The duty of such officials would not be to fix rates, but to see that ev ery one paid the prescribed rate, no more and no less.’’ At the outset of his remarks Justice Gaynor pointed to "the degradation of the national house of representatives from a deliberative body to a mere puppet of Its speaker and his commit tee on rules.” "Think of the great railroad legisla tion of last session being passed upon a discussion limited to a few hours in the house of representatives,” he said. “A discussion of six months would not have been too long to work out to the last analysis so great a subject, and the last analysis is what legislation should always be.” Judge Gaynor then said In part: “Let no one be under the delusion that there is any prejudice or hostility to honestly acquired wealth, however great, in this country. “It used to be a saying that you could hire half the people to shoot down the other half; but. while that is no longer true, owing te the education of the many and the consequent shifting o/ the center of thought from the few’ to the many, we must still consider the immense power of combined wealth, especially for evil. “Gladstone thrilled the people of Great Britain in ills last successful campaign by saying, ‘Let us put our trust not in titles nor in squires nor In peers nor in acres, but In the honesty and intelligence of the nation.’ Tin* same sentiment should throb as a live j coal in the minds of our public men. “There is no danger of the conflsca tlon of private property In this coun try any more than In England. But the aequisitmn of private property by ' the dishonest use of public franchises and the aid of cunning statutes is a very different thing. It is more than a j menace b> our r epublican institutions: j It is fraught with their destruction If suffered to coiitinue. The moral odium of it would in the end debase us all, ] and no base peojde can in the nature of tilings r**main a free, self governing i people. “It has been diflicult to get some peo ple tu understand that our railroads are not private roads, but our public highways, just as much so as our roads which run alongside of them. "Mr. Bryan recently suggested that the government should take over the 'iMi’nafls and run them. He based this >u the assertion that a railroad is a sitiopui.v .md that there shoul I be u « • rivate tmmupelies. His coneluslon Is sound, but I do not see that his pre mise is. although there is nothing nov *! or startling In his suggestion of gov •rnment ownership and operation when i hree-tif ths of the railroads of the vorld are owned and operated by gov ernment. “Anv favoritism in railroad rates s absolutely unlawful and always was. “The only new laws we needed on ‘hat head was to enable us to put in r-m ! railr aid offieials who should be 'ouncl guilty of sueli favoritism. “Inasmuch as we now have such laws the pro-eculion of the corporation itself, a mere name which has no phys ical body to be put in prison instead of the guilty o(il<*ials, is not having a good efeet ou tin* public mind, to gay the least. “It is the guilty railroad official, how- over high and even though he may ave arisen to a high pkye in the coun oils or government of the nation or f lie be only the local station agent in .1 village or tin* loneliest place, who should be prosecuted. Tills favoritism in freight rates is lie greatest crime of our day and gen •ration. •‘To allow one man or sot of men to ive their freight carried over the pub e highways at a rate so much lowct 'han that which their rivals in husi • • s are charg 'd as to enable them to n orsell such rivals and even drive iem out of business is so hearties, id so damnable that we shall be look i hack upon by our descendants an ! the future historian as a generation id to moral sense for having suffered toll a condition to exist so long. ‘‘.lust think of the public highway.. T a nation, open by law for all on qual terms, being used by the per ins in control of them for such a irposc! It is shocking! “It has done more wrong and worked ;ore evil than all of the ordinary rimes for which we imprison men ev ery day. It lias caused a deep seated •onvietiou in the community that we !o not convict our big criminals here as they do In England. “A trust Is a partnership or combina tion of competing corporations. By such partnership or combination com petition Is destroyed. This Is the meaning of the word In the public mind as applied to aggregations of commercial capital. Such combina tions were at first made by means of trustees, and that is how they came to be called trusts.” Judge Gaynor told how after the Standard Oil and sugar trusts had beeu dissolved by suits In New York and Ohio “some master mind, lawyer or layman conceived the notion of a corporation being formed with power to acquire and hold the share certiti cates of other corporations, of any number of other corporations without limit,” and concluded: “If there be blame, we are ourselves to blame, for we elected representa lives to our legislatures to pass these statutes. And the incredible thing is that all the while both the vc rs and their legislative representatives were crying out loudly against the trusts. Was such a spectacle ever before seen In the world? “Buckle points out that the commer dal reforms of the first half of the nineteenth century in Europe consisted in repealing the laws which had been passed to regulate and aid commerce and which were all sources of mischief Instead of good. Is this history to re peat Itself with us In the twentieth century?” The* < In istnius I1uk1«‘n. “Don’t you h< ar the Christmas bugles Blowln' far away? Cover up that curly head And dream of Christmas day!” But he wants to know this minute What the Christmas bugles say— “Coming on. Coming on: Sleep till dawn, Sleep till dawn!” And then the little curly head to Christ mas land is gone. “Don’t i ou hear the Christmas bugles When the Maze burns blue And the wind sings In the chimney And the tir- slugs too? They are M > all their sweetest. Sweetest no!- , for you. "<.'oming on, Coming on; Sleep till dawn, Sleep till dawn!” And then the little curly head to Christ mas land Is gone. —Atlanta Constitution. SCARE FOR FARMERS. Guurils Ilf [•llOollintIMF mill Griiiul 11 mil 1 'lit n immI . ious boar S Jl terrorizin g the is of tin* Bln in e school (1 istrict Itooua, Pit ... say s the Now York Calves and pips are killed in tlie ra ids of the boast* . and •ai instant •es eh iidron it. • boon Armed with shotgun i mi ri • fathers .• tud It irod iiu . o os- the childr en to itnd from s ohool. fearing that the little ones nitty be kill ed by the bears, which are becoming bolder each day. An armed guard is kept stationed at the little schoolhoti.se. the farmers taking their turn at doing guard duty. An organized bear hunt, to be partici pated in by the residents of the ad joining districts, is planned as the only way in which the dangerous animals can he exterminated or driven back to the mountains. Ilfttr Hunting StnteNiiuui. The mightiest bear hunter in all the west when 1’resldent Roosevelt Is not out there will he a member of the Wy oming legislature this winter from Big Horn county, says the Washington Her ald. He is the Hon. George B. McClel land and by his prowess has won the sobriquet of “Bear George.” He earned this title years ago when he and a partner killed twenty-three bears In six weeks in the Big Horn mountains, where bruin is extremely plentiful. Mr. McClelland stands more than six feet In his stockings, wears a blond mus tache and an imperial and Is credited with being able to ride “anything with hair on It.” He and the Hon. W. A. Richards, who will soon retire from the eommlssionership of the general land office in Washington, own a ranch In the Big Horn country, and, curiously enough, although the bears play havoc with the sheep herds of other ranch men In the neighborhood, they don’t bother the McClelland ranch. Hnmora of the Channel Crosutna. M. Santos-Dumont thinks that the journey from Paris to London will presently be accomplished by steerable balloon in two hours. It is possible, gays the London Globe, but for some time to come we shall prefer the jour ney of six hours by land and water and half an hour at Charing Cross waiting for somebody to ask us wheth er we have imported any French cigars or cigarettes. Run-down People BUYING CP '3TMAS GIFTS. facful Hint** For WurkltifE Girin to Follow. “The girl who works for her living does have a hard time gathering up her Christmas gifts unless she has a fine head for organization and knows where to shop," says Aimi Steese Richardson in the Woman's Home Companion for December. “The lirst thing to remem ber Is that the Christmas bargain coun ter is the dumping ground of the shrewd merchant. He tosses here til! the left overs from last year's uusalu bio stock. For this counter he buys up old wholesale stocks, auction lots and factory ends. Nobody knows the fail lugs of the bargain counter shopper better than does this shrewd merchant And he makes fit) instead of 5 per cent on every stile. Everything is runs /. [ and colors are garish. Moths have eat en into this, and dust has settled on that. But the woman who tries to shop against time does not notice these defects. “The later you shop the more impor tant it is that you go to a good store. Girls who work downtown should leave home half an hour earlier, go to a first class shop, tell the clerk frankly just how much they can spend, and unless my measure of the clerk in the first class store is wrong they will be wait ed on promptly and satisfactorily. But if you know you have only $1.50 to spend on a nouveau art pin for your chum’s belt do not waste the clerk's time and yours looking at ten or fifteen dollar pins. Be ns businesslike in your shopping as you are in the perform ance of your office duties and you wll. reap the reward of good and the bless ings of the unhappy clerks.” SCHOOLGIRL HAZING. Search For “Coign” In Molaxaea and Take “Polaon.” In a report to the Chicago board of education Superintendent Cooley of the public schools tells of the initiation stunts high school girls of one society compel members to undergo, says a Chicago special dispatch to the New York World. Here is the list, with high school spelling: Bend forward, hands touching floor without bending knees, a hundred times. Break egg ou her bead. Search for coign In molasses. Search for coign in flour. Eut unpleasant things. Pour water down sleeve. Take poison. Walk on corn or walk in molasses. Let candle grease drip on her hand. Brand her tongue. Brand her hands with India ink. Superintendent Cooley said, “I know of the case of a high school boy who had to go through a series of stunts much more outrageous than the list of girl tortures its a part of his initiation into a high school fraternity." Need VINOL the modern strength creator and body builder Many people right here in this vi cinity aro all run down and hardly able to drag about—don't know what ails them. A Horne Story. Our Dumb Animals tells a remark able story about the intelligence of a mare who saved her colt from death i by stopping a train on a railroad in i Texas. The colt had fallen with iM ; legs through a railroad bridge, and the I mother started down the truck to meet | the coming train. As the train came i up site stood on the track whinnying. Tito train stopped, anti then the mare trotted ahead of it as it moved slowly | to the bridge. Here the colt was dis ; covered and extricated from its peril ous position. The story was vouched for by the engineer, railroad men and | passengers in the train. “Such people need Vino], our cod liver pr eparation wit hout oil. whi i c ii contains in a highl y concent rat c d form all of the medict and stremr th- creating elements of cod liver oil ac- tually t: iken from fn •sit cods’ live hut from which the useless oil eliminab ed and tonic iron added.’ * We a .sk ev< rv nta n, woman a nd child in this vicinit v v rho is run dov vn tired an d debilitated to trv Vino! our offe; r to return n toney if it fa 11ie ciaimey Drug Co ■ He XV«n at Church. Saunders, the village slater, was a very poor attender at the church. One day the minister met him and said: “Come, now, Saunders, why is it you aro never at church nowadays?” “Never at the kirk?” replied Saun ders. “Ye’re quite wrung there, sir; I spent the halo o’ last week on the tap o t.”—Glasgow Times. FASTIDIOUS WOMEN insider Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic a ' essity in the hygienic care of the •rson and for local treatment of minine ills. As a wash its cleansing, nnicidal, deodorizing and healing talities are extraordinary. For sale Druggists. Sample free. Address he R. Paxton Co., Boston, Mass. TIiIm Win In 180(1. Says the London Times of May, 180< “A decently dressed woman was hn night brought out into Smithfield f» sale, but the brutal conduct of the bit dors induced the man who was, or pr tended to he. her husband, to refuse t sol! her; on which a scene of riot an confusion highly disgraceful to on police took place.” Subscribe fop The Ledger; $1 a year. The Kidneys When they are weak, tor* pid t or stagnant, the whole system suffers. Don’t* neg* led, them at, this time, but heed t,he warning of the aching back, t,he bloated face, the sallow complexion, the urinary disorder, and begin treatment at once with Hood'sSarsaparilla which contains the best and safest curative substances. For testimonials of remarkable caret Rend for Book on Kidneys, No. 8. C. 1. Hood Co., Lowell, Man. How a cool headed American travel er squelched a bumptuous young Ger man is related of a tourist just retain ed from Europe. The cool headed man, a Connecticut Yankee, was on the railway platform in Heidelberg. Crowds of peop.e were hurrying In all directions, but the Yankee, who was trying to reach his family, felt that one man pushed against him with unnecessary roughness. “See here,” he said, turning to the offender, “yon stop josting me that way.” He had hardly expected his words to be un derstood. but the young man whom he had accosted drew himself up haughtily and said in excellent Eng lish. tinged by a slight German ac cent: “I am at your service, sir. at that’s something llbe it” said thP haughty young man’s. “You carry this grip of mine and take me to % good hotel. You’re just the man I’v© been looking for and didn’t know bow to And.” Cascasweet, the ideal medicine for the little ones. Contains no opiate*. Conforms fully with National Pure Food and Drug Law. Write E. C- DeWitt & Co., Chicago, 111., for the “Baby Book.” Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, L. D. Allison, Cowpens. It tabes a woman to do thing prop erly without knowing how. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup drives out the cold and stops the cough. Contains Honey and *Tar. Free from any opiates. Conforms to the National Pure Food and Drug I^iw. Pleasant to take. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co.. Gaffney, L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Villians in the play have to be aw fully bad in order to make “ood. Public Speaker interrupted. ■Public speakers are frequently in terrupted by people coughing. This would not happen if Foley's Honey and Tar were taken, as it cures coughs and colds and prevents nneu- monia and consumption. The genu ine contains no opiates and is in a yellow package. Cherokee Drug Co. Some run down reputations could not be uplifted with dynamite. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills quickly drive the poisons from the system and thus accord relief. A week’s treatment for 35c. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co . Gaffney, and L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Capt. Lafayette M. Ponton dropped dead in the lobby of the National ho tel. Washington, D. C. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new Laxative, stimulates, but does not irritate. It is the best Laxative. Guaranteed or your ... back. Cherokee Drug Company. Four teen 1 •hiladi •Ipliia icenHi i were placed on t r ial clt atged with engag- ing in a con spirac y to •aisc Pi •ices. • Danger in Aski ng Advi ce. Whet t you have T COU or c old do not as <. so m > one w ha . IS *■"» u od for it, as t here i s dam ■s'- I 1 * taking some unknown prt jparat on. Foley’s Hon- er and Tar cures cougi is. cold s, and prevent s one imoni a. T he gent tine is in a y •How pack a go. 1 tefiis 1 - substi- tutes. Ohero kee 1 >rug Compan y. Thro p in n were K111C •d and 14 in- j tired i n the oollap a new build- ing at Roche 3 ter, N. Y. Open the bowel s—Dt Witt's Little Early Risers are r'con muendi d and sold b> Cher okee Drug ( O •, vi affney, L. 1). Mlisoi , Cow pens. The Dixie’s 10 per cent sale began Saturday, December 1st. Everything in Our Line Going at 10 Per Cent Above Actual Cost. r u* * lave d e ^ ic * e d to place our large and varied stock of General Merchandise on the market at an advance of only 10 per cent above cost, is stock consists of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Outing, Sheeting, Calico, Ginghams and Worsteds, Lap Robes, Heavy Comforts, otton and Wool Blankets, Shoes, Shirts, Hats, Clothing for Men and Boys, Overcoats, Rain Coats, Pants and Overalls; and a beautiful in 5 of Lamps, Crockery and Glassware. In fact everything in this line "To I-i<3 ► 1* I lloforo I >0001111>or ^4tli At this unheard of low price of 10 per cent. We mean just what we say and will provu our assertion. You are most cordially invited to call and ge pn ces, it will save you money. Respectfully, LITTLEJOHN BROTHERS.