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** A MRS. CECELIA STOWE, Orator, Entre Nous Club. 176 Warren Avenue, Chicago, 111., Oct. 22,1902. For nearly four years 1 suffered from ovarian troubles. The doc tor insisted on an operation as the only way to pet well. 1, however, strongly objected to an operation. My husband felt disheartened as well as 1, for home with a sick woman is a disconsolate place at best. A friendly druggist advised him to get a bottle of Wine of Cardui for me to try, and he did so. I began to.mproveinafewdaysand my recovc. y was very rapid. With in eighteen weeks I was another being. Mrs. Stowe’s letter shows every woman ho w a home is saddened by female weaknes and how completely Wine of Cardui cures that sick ness and brings health and happi ness again. Do not go on suffer ing. Go to your druggist today and secure a $1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui. WlNEtCOfTOUl Save Money by buying goods from I. M. Peeler. I am now making a run on Shoes and will saye you money on them. I have just received a lot of the best inserted Steel axes, see them before buy ing. Groceries and all other goods at bottom prices. Give me a call. L M. Peeler. BRING THEM TO ME The (sold sen-on is ;i poru ediiML' How xlnut those lust winter suits th;*t tin too |;oiid to throw away. a:ui yet need hriKhtnninK' up a lit tie V Itlii N<> TH K M T<) MK and have t tiem ov.•rhauled—I'll tu ike them look fr sh and new Clean- ttiK- pressing an I tadoriti dooe liy an W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. • Xpert. Over W. I!. 'I’eleL’V-ph djiee <&- &>i u MA' corrmwvf Drop 11$ a Postal Card awl we will call for your laundry whenever and wherever you ap point -deliver it.too. when clean ed and ready to-put on a^ain. As to the eienn-iii''' and other o operation:- totalled as •‘launder ing.” there remains no question as to our ability and willip.fjness to do oood work. Pearl Steam Laundry. FALiMiAGE SERMON VjZ WITT VALMAGE, D.D.. I Pisfor of Jefferson Pr.rk Presby* (ci'i&ti Church, Ch.ca.go HP To 4 effsatt IT MEANS SOMETHING when you speak of l>eing up-to-date. It means that you will find Our Photographs “present time” pic tures in every way. They have that soft finish and delicate tone which ^tells of the touch of the ar tistic and the fidelity to the nature and de tails which the cam- era alone will not give. Hach sitter >8 carefully posed. None of the beauties of face or figure are lost. JUNE H. CARR 625 Limestone St. ’Phone 176. Residence 171 UMIYSKIDNEYCURE Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right Chicago, Dee. <>.—lu this sermon the preacher urges as a fitting commem oration of the Christmas time the heal ing of family differences and the put ting aside forever of all dissensions, in accordance with the spirit and teach ings of the sacred season. The text is Luke ii, 14. “On earth pence, good will toward men." Christmas day has the manger for its gem. with the home for a setting. I From time immemorial the eommemo- j ration of tiie birth of Christ has had its true and real celebration not so much in public festivity and church cere monial as in the family gathering around the domestic fireside. Other customs may change, new movements may transform our social life, but the Christmas family gathering maiutains | Its hold on society. The other day a convict was liberated from Sing Sing penitentiary. He had been imprisoned there for nearly thirty years. He was | pardoned, a white haired old man of sixty-four years. lie went in a strong limbed young man of thirty-five. Up to ItXio be had never ridden on an electric car; he had never seen the wonderful development of the telephone; he had never seen an automobile or tin* mar velous development of doing business through the typewriter, lie said that he was coming into a strange and a new world —not the world he left, but another he had never seen. But though many customs may change within a quarter of a century the cus toms of Christmas day neither change in a generation or a century. Christ mas day always has been and we hope always will be a family day. It is well that at least once a year the chil dren and the grandchildren, the broth ers and the sisters and the nephews and the nieces, as well as the fathers and mothers and grandparents, should be gathered within the four walls of the old homestead, and it is appropriate that the season for such reunions should be that at which we celebrate the ad vent of our Lord. Illood Thicker Than Water. But though God “xetteth the solitary in families.” though on Christinas day. abovi all other days, he would have us worship him in communion with our uitli and kin, though we should delight to prove that blood is thicker than wa ter. yet the startling fact remains un- eoutroverted that the grinning skeleton, which rattles its bones and clatters its teeth almost every Christmas eve in almost every family closet, is the hid eous skeleton of domestic strife. By this statement we do not mean that the father and mother and the little chil dren living within the four walls of a house are necessarily unhappy or that most homes are not peaceful and loving. We do mean, however, that the fam ily name, taken in its larger relation, is not always a loving and harmonious name. We do mean by tins statement that after the father and mother have bean curried out to their last resting place, to sleep the sleep of death under a coverlid of snow, estrangements often arise between the married children. We do mean by this statement that many and many a home has been split from to]) <0 bottom on account of the second marriage of a father or a moth er. We do mean that today all over tin* United States brothers can be found at variance with brothers, sisters with sisters and cousins with cousins This nation is struck through and through with family strife. The Ap palachian mountains, where Kentucky, Tennessee. Virginia and West Virginia meet, have aptly been called “the land of the feud.” There families have bat tled with each other for generations. There the McCoys and the Hatfields have well nigh exterminated each oth er. Tin re the Howards and the Turn ers have fought each other to tin* death. There tin* wounded .John Philipotts shot dead the four Griitins, and he him self was found unconscious among his slain. But though the Appalachians can bo called “tin* land of the feud," the whole United States can truthfully h“ termed “tin- land of family strife.” If I were to enter your family homes and learn the inner secrets of those bomes In all probability there would be found not one family which among Its larger connections is not cursed with Internal strife. A I'n inlly Day. Christinas day is essentially a family day. Would it not be possible in the weeks before Its dawn for you to ar range your family differences so that on that day the old quarrel may be set tled and all the hard thoughts and hard words It has engendered may be for given and forgotten? I would suggest to you today some reasons why such reconciliation may be and should be effected. I would try, In the name of Jesus Christ, to have over the manger brother Hasp hands with brother, sis ter with sister, parent with dldld and child with parent. I would try to do this because when the Christmas bells are ringing their carol no man, no wo man, can so truly honor the newborn child called the Christ as by doing his or her part to fulfill tin* angel message of “Peace on earth and good will to ward men.” Family dissensions should cease, and immediately cease. Why? They hrfvc nearly all—aye. practically all—been caused by faults committed on both sales They have been caused by the p t calling the kettle black, the ket tle retaliating Dy calling the pot black, and at the same time both are r.i blinded by the hot fires of domestic dissensions that they cannot see that, each is black. It may not be clear who started the family trouble. It is enough to show that if both parties hud no* erred there would not have been con tinued domestic disturbance. Father and Son. Take, for illustration, the trouble be tween a father and Ids son. Every lit tle while we hear of the son of some prominent man bHog at variance with his father. An inkling of the trouble may get into the newspaper or be gos siped about tbe neighborhood. Some of us side with the parent. We say: “No math r what the father may have done, the son lias no right to turn his back upon his sire. He has no right to despise the parent who cared for him when lie was a little child and who ed ucated him and started him out as a young man into the world.” On the other hand, some of us side with the sou in stead of the father. We say that some fathers are mean and selfish and grasp ing. They never want to give their sons their rights. It is told of old Em peror William 1. of Germany that when the court artist painted a picture of the German court, with Crown Prince Fn doriek’s foot upon the lowest step of the throne. King William called the artist to him and said: “Take that boy’s foot off that throne step. As long as I am king 1 want to have the throne for myself.” But in all proba bility if you can get to the inside facts of that quarrel between the father and the son they can all be traced to a dis position in the father which has been inherited by the son. The father may have been a high strung, nervous, quick tempered, overwrought, overworked, impetuous man. The sou may have inherited the same fiery disposition. It is a scientific fact that opposites con join, not similarities. The positive and the negative poles work together lu harmony, not the electric wires carry ing the sunn* current. The reason the wife is able to live ba.moniously with the husband is that her nature is en- tpc times'* Uirough another’s spectacles Because every pair of family glasses, ns a rule*, lias a different lens and a different focus. Put Yourself lu Ilia Plaee. Just study for a moment the different tact for ten. twenty, thirty years, but after thp death angel calls one child he is very apt to come back soon for another and another untjl all are gone. When tin* family plot is once selected »nd a couple of graves dug therein the hearse gets into the habit of traveling In the same direction and the black horses to stopping at the same gate. Then the sad truth is that when death does come regrets may be piled in flowers mountains high upon tbe casket, brothers may weep over the dead brother, the hands may be press- back that he cannot i ed and the lips pressed and the fore- money. The country | head stroked, but the dead win hear ways the country brother and the city brother look at tin* matter of family , expenses. They can rarely appreciate ! one another's positions. The brother I living in the country hears thvt his city , brother lias a yearly income of $r>.()(XJ. j Ho wants to borrow a few hundred dol lars to help stock the farm. The city brother may write afford to lend any brother cannot believe that a relative ’ having $5,000 income could not lend ! him a few paltry hundred dollars. But I the city brother who receives a salary i of $5,000 may be having just as hard a time to make ends meet as his coun j try brother. Some time ago I asked a brother minister of a large city church how he lik'd his present field. “Well,” he said, “of course I ought to be happy on account of its opportunities for use fulness; but, to tell the truth, 1 liked my country field far better, and I think I had there a larger net income. My present church gives me $5,000 a year. With it 1 have to live in a tine house, dress well and have my family dress well. When the year rolls around I have, practically nothing. But in the country, though 1 had only a small sal ary, I also had very small expenses. Besides, I had my garden, my horse and carriage, my cow and chickens. I had fun with them all, and at the* end of the year I was able to save $;}00. 1 tell you, the country minister thinks the city minister is rich, but the city minister knows tbe country minister is rich.” The man in one sphere of life can rarely appreciate the financial conditions of one in another sphere of life. Study the misunderstandings be tween the professional man and his sis ter. who is living a quiet domestic life. Such a lady says: “My brother never answers my letters now as he used to do. He never shows me those little courtesies of love I have a right to ex- DO YOU GET OP WITH A LAME BACK ? tiroly different from iiis and is its nat- poet. The last time 1 wrote him he sent ural complement. The father and the son wore continually irritating each j other. One night there was a domestic explosion. The father ordered the son ; from the house. The boy never came 1 back. lb* went to live in another city, lie plunged into a life of dissipation. The father blamed the son. The son blamed the father. But are there not grievous faults on both sides? Heal I-’iiniily Trouble*. Take, for illustration, that difficulty I which exists between the daughter and ' her parents. There are faults there just the same. Faults are on both sides. The daughter may have grown up to be the pride of the parental heart. She was tin* idol of her father and mother. They sent her Ao school and gave her every educational advantage that mon ey could procure, but while they were giving money and. seemingly, every advantage those parents were not care ful about the acquaintances their daughter was forming. They were not careful about looking up the records of the young menho were calling during the evening hour. The result of this parental negligence was that tbe daugh ter formed an affection for a young man who was not regarded favorably by tin* parents. They did everything in their power to prevent the marriage, but the trouble was that the parents awoke to the danger too late. The young girl was obstinate; she married against (heir will. After the daughter left home she felt that her husband and children were not wanted back in the place where the wife and mother was horn, therefore sin* docs not visit where they are not welcomed. The parents, in an unguarded moment, may have said that all their children want ed of them was their money. The daughter is poor, but very proud. At times she has not had food enough even for her babies. How much happiness it would give on all hands if a recon ciliation could be effected and if the parents, remembering that their negli gence contributed to the trouble, and the daughter, remembering that hard words, spoken in a moment of irrita- tion, should not weigh against long years of love and parental kindness, should come together again and agree to forgot the faults on both sides! What is true of the difficulties be tween parents and children Is also true of the difficulties between brothers and brothers, sisters and sisters. In evitably faults are to Is* foufid on both sides. Therefore what is the practical conclusion of all this trend of thought? You, () man, and you, () woman, have no right to complain about the injus tices which others have done against you unless you at the same time have done all in your power to atone for the sins which you have, Intentionally or unintentionally, done against your brother! If you will go and honestly ask your brother to forgive you the wrong you have done him, In ninety- ninc cases out of a hundred that broth er will ask you to forgive the Injus tices he has done you. Then, as you are both ready to atone for the evils you have done each other, there will be no further cause for dotnestic strife. Try to smother the flames of family trouble by. asking your brother to for give you tin* wrongs you have done him. Try It. my friend. Try It. Try It before the coming Christmas festiv ities. Family dissensions should cease, and Immediately cease. Why? Because nearly all family troubles are caused by one member of a family misjudging the motives and position of other mem bers of the family. Because It Is al most Impossible for people In one splieup of life to properly appreciate the dltflcultlcH and the trials and the worries an the disappointments and the heartm os which are continually nagging an s'lpolng the lives of people 111 other sp > re t of life. Because It Is not easy fe one 1o read “the signs of me back a very sharp reply.” Yes, my sister, perhaps that is all true. But the reason you are angry with your broth er is, you. as a domestic woman, can not understand the nemnis exhaustion under which your professional brother is struggling. Perhaps the reason lie does not answer his sister's letters as he used to do is because he is a clergy man, a lawyer or a newspaper man. Day after day he sits and writes and writes and writes. The pen is always in his hand until the very sight of ink and paper has for him a repulsion. , Perhaps the reason the brother does 1 not visit the sister is because he has been unable to take a vacation for the 1 last ten years. Your difficulties with , your brother arc chiefly, my sister, be- j cause you cannot put yourself in his place. Fuiiciod 111 jiiNtici-N. Oh, that ibis coming Christmas we | would one and all try to focus our eyes j to our brother’s spectacles! Then a great many of the family troubles 5 would forever vanish from our dark- i ened horizon. The man who travels j about this planet with such a Christian spirit and goes from house to house— | from the palace of the rich to the hovel | of the poor, from the sumptuous pri vate office of the* merchant prince to the counters of the small salaried clerk ! —soon discovers that this world is not - altogether a mean world, a selfish world, a heartless world, but It Is a tired world, a discouraged world, a misunderstood world. If every mem- 1 ber of a family who has bitter troubles | and trials could realize that his broth- i ers and sisters along the great higU- i ways of lif<* are struggling under bur dens quite as heavy as his own—al though their burdens may be made up around it will in different kinds of packs and have silken cords around them instead of hempen rope—he would be more pa tient in his criticism of others, as he may hope that others will Judge him more charitably. Most of the seeming Insults by relatives to relatives are en tirely unlnthiitlnual. As every man hopes for mercy and pardon In the day of judgment so there should be forgive ness for one who offends another through Inadvertence and not through intention. The fancied injustices be tween relatives exist for the most part In the distorted imaginations of those who have no right to Indulge In un Christian and merciless judgments of relatives who really want to be friends ChrlatiuaN Rec-oncUliitlonM. Family dissensions should cense and immediately cease. Why? Because Christmas opportunities of future fam ily reconciliations may be very few. They may never come again. We arc Intensely shocked at the sudden depar tures of our great men and women. When Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army was killed on Oct. 2fi In a railroad accident the news was telegraphed from the Atlantic to the Pacific. We commented upon the beau tiful coffin plate which we saw and rend thus; “Born June 8, 1860, Consul Emma Booth-Tucker; Promoted to Glo ry Oct. 28. 1903.” We were Intensely shocked when King Humbert was shot and when President Carnot was assas sinated with a knife thrust. But why should we be so shocked at the sudden death of this man or that, as with the . not one word. He will not lift one eye lid. He will not smile one look of for giveness back to those who want to be forgiven. Oh, regrets, regrets! How often have we wept our regrets over the coffin lids! How often that word might have been chiseled as epitaph upon the tombstone of the dead! Re grets, bitter, heartrending, but useless regrets! Regrets, burning regrets in reference to our kith and kin who are gone. A lilunt Question. Family dissensions should cease. Dare any one. old or young, gainsay this immanent truth? But if this warn ing comes with mighty force to broth ers and sisters how much more should it conic to the fathers and mothers who are angry or indifferent with their chil dren! Many people arc apt to judge the children harshly when domestic troubles arise between parents and their offspring. But as men and women grow older and have children of their 1 own they are more willing to blame tbe parent for the estrangement than they are to blame the child. Have you, par ents, ever tried to win back tbe affoe- ; tions of your children? Did you ever try to reenkhat cruel remark you once made to y^R 1 obstinate boy? That re mark cut into his heart as a surgeon’s knife buries itself in the flesh quivering upon the operating table. Have you, O parent, since that second marriage, which so trampled upon the love of your children, gone regularly to \*sit your children, as you used to do before 1 their mother’s death? Do you send to them the warm, cordial invitations to , come home and insist that they come with their families? Do you. the par ents, try*to instill into your children the thought that their father and their mother are absolutely dependent for happiness upon their boys’ and girls’ affections? Parents, let nr* ask you one blunt question. Supposing your children have done wrong—and in all probability they have—who ought to forgive first? Who ought to be continually forgiving until the old sweet relationships are re stored? Ought not the first forgiver, the chief forgiver. be you, O father. O mother, you who have been worshiping at Christ’s feet for forty years? Ought it not to be you rather than your child, who has not been a member of the church more than five years? Ought not the father and the mother try to show to their children forgiving na tures. no matter what those children have said or done? Remember the prayer you have been saying ever since you learned it at your mother’s knee, “Forgive us our trespasses as we for give those that trespass against us.” That means, “Forgive us, O God, as we are willing to forgive our children.” Peace on Earth. Cannot tin* parents who are estrang ed from their children realize that the years art* very few in which it is pos sible for them to have Christmas rec onciliations? When a child despises a parent, living or dead, that child must suffer the most awful agonies that can ever come to a human being this side of the grave. Bear, forbear, forgive and bo forgiven are the teachings, “on earth peace, good will toward men.” Before the next Christmas comes be impossible for some to forgive or to be forgiven. The casket maker Is even now manufactur ing a coffin. The gravedigger Is even now sharpening his pick and spade. The quarryman is even now cutting a tombstone. The bellringer is even now ready to toll a knell. Brothers and sis ters, fathers and mothers, kith and kin, stop and attune your family rec onciliations to the notes of the Christ mas song. Christmas days have not always heard the angels sing the song. “On earth peace, good will to men.” In 1069 William the Conqueror, to com plete his triumph over England, de creed that all the country should be devastated between York and Durham. In all that region every city, town or village was razed to the ground, and so literally was the order executed that a famine ensued in which 100,000 men, women and chHdre , perished. 80 many Christmases since 1069 have witnessed their slaughters of thousands upon thousands. Not the slaughter of life alone, but the slaughter of heart loves and heart affections between brothers and sisters and parents and children. May the Christmas of 1903 not be n Christmas of domestic tragedy, but of family reunions. 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A family in:'V exist in called settlement movement of the Inst quarter century?” an eminent sociolo gist and philanthropist was asked re cently. “The broadening of the mental horizon of the self styled upper classes.” was the prompt reply. “Many an In dividual learns life’s richest lesson from ‘the other half while he do- lu les himself Into a belief that he Is elevating his submerged fellow man. I believe In settlement work and all It stands for, and I encourage It whenev er I enii, for I think the social Phari sees sadly In need of the leaven It In evltably gives.” Look Out for Old Man Maness. M** Is coiulng kihI don’t ynu forKut 't. We are in the Hwlm—comeAtwIm wlthus. .lust let ux t'-ll you (rood Indies, wh .r we have got to out: Fresh Fork. Picnic. Armour unci Gold llruid limns. Dried Hoof. Holognn und all other kinds of Sausage, pure Fork Sausage when called for. Houshend cheeae pressed Fix’s Feet, Sliced Ham. tresh Fish every day In the week, and Men to Is-ui the world, cut just to-alt you. Weulsncurfy i. full line of Heavy nd Fancy Groce les: Fmlls and Vegetables of all kinds, tiysiers n ost any day yon wantlhem. Don't (oruet the place. .1 nst cal I t clcpteopo No. £) and the old man Maness will answer i|iilci< and deliver goods nromptly. We wain one thousand dozen Iteg* at once; also green Hide* W|i p ,y the highest price, cash. Don't fi>ri.>t*t the old man Maness. next, door to I. M Feeler and Carndl Carpenter & Dyers’ Grocery store. T he r!a ellable meat cutter. W. J.MANESS, Proprietor