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Thousands Hare Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. How To Find Oat. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let It stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set-; tling indicates an unhealthy condi-; tion of the kid- | neys; if it stains your linen it is evidence of kid ney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp- Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing It, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tellsi more about it, both sent absolutely free by mail, address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men tion readjng this generous offer in this paper. Home of Swamp-Root. MACHINERY ~jr Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmaife, D.D. tf Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 20.—In reply to the pessimists, the preacher In thla ;cnnon turns the brighter side of the picture of our national life and shows us that we ought to be thankful that we are living lu times that have under gone vast Improvement since the “good old days” of our grandfathers. The text la Psalm Iv, 0, “There be many that say, Who will show us any good?” The depredators, the carpers, the fault finders, the calamity howlers, the pessimists, who, like the blind fish of Kentucky’s Mammoth cave, cannot see the light of day, have an ancestral record as old as the human race. They belong especially to no one century or generation. Their family connections are not limited to the Caucasian race, or to the Ethiopian, or to the Malay, or to the red skinned American Indian, or to the Mongolian, or to the Jaun diced faced Chinaman. They are found alike In the poor man’s hut and the rich man’s palace, among the sailors on shipboard and the citizens on land. Like the Eskimos, they live among the arctic icebergs. They thrive well in tlie temperate zone. They bask In the boiling heat of the tropics. They are found among all social classes of COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS A SPECIALTY. (NaiNCa, BOILERS, OINNINO MAOHIH- CRT, SAW MILL AND WOOOWORKIMB MACHINERY. BHINBLE AMD LATH MACHINERY, CORN MILLS, BRICK MAKINB MACHIN ERY, KINDRED LINES GDBES MACHINERY COMPANY. Gobmbh, S. G. CURES STOMACH r HE body gets its life from * * food properly digested. Healthy digestion means pure blood for the body, but stomach troubles arise from cardessnees in eating and stomach ensorders upset the entire system. Improp- erly masticated food sours on the stomach, causing distressing pains, belching and nausea. When over-eating is persisted in the stomach becomes weakened I and worn out and dyspepsia I claims the victim. Thedford’s Black-Draught I cores dyspepsia. It frees the stomach and bowels of congested matter and gives the stomach new life. The stomach is quickly invigorated and the natural stimulation results in a good appetite, with the power to thor oughly digest food. You can build up your stomach with this mild and natural remedy. Try Thedford’s Black- Draugnt today. You can buy a package from your dealer for fee. If he does not keep it, send the money to The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Term., and a package will oa mailed you. THEDFORD’S ILACK-DMUGHTJ Alive or Dead we can supply you with as fine a turkey as you could wish to have. Let us know a day or two before Thanksgiving how large a bird you will require and we will send you one that will suit ex actly. •'(ve have made special arrangements for our supply of poultry and can offer somethig very choice. • JUThe usual variety of good meat is here, too. Come quick. The People’s Market. all nations of all times. Mythology placed a representative of the class among the Greek gods on | Mount Olympus. His name was Mo- I mus, the god of fault finding and mockery. Ho took pleasure In finding fault with men. He found fault with the gods themselves. He criticised Vulcan because after he had made : man he did not place a window In his breast, so that man’s thoughts could he seen by the passersby. He de nounced Minerva after she had built a house because she did not make the house movable. He found fault with Neptune because he did not place the horns of the beast he had created farther forward in his forehead, so that he could fight better. He kept on finding fault with everybody and everything until at last the gods be came disgusted and drove Momus out of heaven, because, said they, “heaven can be no heaven with a chronic fault finder around.” What the Grecian mythological gods said In reference to heaven with a Momus In It Is literally true. No soci ety on earth can be happy or content ed with a chronic grumbler around. And yet, coming up to the glorious cel ebration of our autumnal Thanksgiv ing day of 1904, we find our pessimistic Momuses everywhere. This Is the time when we ought to be making an Inventory of all our blessings, Instead of which these modern calamity howl ers are making a false collection of misanthropic statements. They are also making their pessimistic prophe cies. Not only are they saying that the world Is going to the dogs, but they furthermore assert that it has already gone to the dogs. “Why,” they say, “we have nothing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving day. ’Tis true there Is more money In the world, more than ever before, but we do not have it. Our social, civic and spiritual condi tions for the great mass of folks were never at as low ebb as they are today. Who will show us any good?” they cry, as the calamity howlers of my text cried in David’s time, thousands of years ago. Modern Times Versvs Ancient. Some of these modern fault finders are trying to m.Yfee our times out to be much worse than were the ancient times. I will pick up their challenge. They ask, “Who will show us any good?” I answer, “I will.” And I will show that the church of Jesus Christ is better today spiritually than the an cient church. I will show that modem governments are better and the homes are better and people In the mass are higher toned morally and better. The fact that a lot of chronic croakers at this Thanksgiving time are going around finding fault with things does I not In the least prove that most peo ple are poorly clad, poorly fed, poorly housed and under the merciless heels of despotic tyrants. As a rule, you will find that those people who grum ble the most have the least to grumble about. The Momus of political life declares that there is nothing in our national life to warrant thanksgiving. He says: “Modern rulers and legislators are self ish oppressors. They do not govern by God’s Golden Rule, but by force, fhe code of civilized nations Is immoral, merciless and unjust. It connives at the crimes of government and con dones the thefts of a province. Strong governments trample upon the rights of the weaker governments. Within those governments one social class places the yoke of tyranny upon the other social class. Within those gov ernments laws are not equitable and Just. We find that the poor man who steals a loaf of bread to avert starva tion is bustled off to Jail, as Jean Val- Jean was sent to the galleys with a twenty years’ sentence for stealing two loaves of bread to feed the gaunt and haggard and starving children of his widowed sister. On the other hand, a man like James Fisk, if he Is a big enough scoundrel to steal a railroad, can defy Justice, while a millionaire, like Edward Stokes, who shoots a Janies Fisk, has no more to fear from the gallows than a leopard has who slays a helpless fawn." “No,” say the living pessimists, “our modern govem- 'uents and their internal laws are all corrupt. There are none that doetb good—no, not one, not one.” ’Tls true, O carping critic and ca lamity howler against rulers and na tional laws, that modern governments are not all that they ought to be. This is not the age of perfection even In leg islative hall or presidential cabinet or privy council of the king. I’erlmps Eng land did not do rigid In her dealings with the African Boers. Possibly the United States government did not do right in compelling Mexico at the point of the bayonet to cede to her all of Texas, all of New Mexico, one-half of the present state of Colorado, all of Arizona, all of Nevada, all of Utah and the whole of California. We know that Russia, trying to steal Manchuria, and Turkey, In her massacre of the Arme nians, have been outrageously wicked. We know that Spain, In her cruelties toward Cuba and the Philippines, and the United States government, in its cruel treatment of the North American Indians, InRe done wrong. But though our modern governments in some of their dealings with the weaker nations and with their own weaker subjects may have been sinfully culpable the present governments are as far ahead of the ancient governments in right eousness and Justice as the brightness of mldnoon is ahead of the darkness of midnight. Enarland’s Wars Versos Rome’s. Compare the conquests of our day with the conquests of ancient times. Like the eagles of ancient Rome, the British standard has been unfurled In every clime. It waves over an empire greater than Rome ever dominated. What does England do when she con quers a country? Study her treatment of India. She immediately stamped out In India the horrors of infanticide and suttee. She immediately made the home safe and compelled man to re spect the liberties of man. She gives to her subjects of every land she rules civil and religious liberty. She makes it possible for every man to worship God In his own way. What England has done for India and her other colo nies the United States government Is doing for Alaska and the Philippines and Porto Rico. What did ancient Rome do when she conquered a coun try? Did she consider her conquered colonies a sacred trust? Did she care for their rights as carefully as she would care for her owu people’s rights? Oh, no. In ancient times the law of conquest implied the right to enslave and oppress the conquered foe. When Sclplo .Emilianus returned from his celebrated Carthaginian wars what did he do? He brought back with him 00,000 of his late foes whom he had not slain upon the field of battle and sold them in the common slave markets to be the chattels of the Romans. These men who fought for their country’s liberties now had to moan and wince and beg for mercy under the slave master’s lash. When Caius Marius made bis triumphal entry in Rome he handed over 140,000 Cimbrl as spoils for the slave markets. iEmillus Pau- lus’ conquest over the Greeks glutted the Roman slave markets with 130,000 captives of war, while the conquests of Pompelus and Caesar gave to Rome at least 1,000,000 new slaves. I ask you, are not our modern governments In their treatment of fallen foes more merciful and Jnst than were the an cient governments? Ancient Rulers and Their Tyranny. Then compare the administration of our rulers to that of the ancient rulers over their subjects. In ancient times the rulers had absolute power of life and death over the inhabitants of their kingdoms, ns a Roman subject at will could slay any one of his slaves and be held accountable to no law. We read in history how Nero, the Roman, em peror, used to revel in cruelty and out-' rage. No life was safe under the tyran ny of that monster. Any excuse served for the gratification of his lust for bloodshed. Even his own mother and his most faithful adherents fell victims to his insatiable brutality. But we do not have to go clear back to the Roman era to find the unlimited power over life and death of a subject vested In the hand of a king or a prince. In 1470, only a little over 400 years ago, Mo hammed II., the sultan of Turkey, summoned a famous Venetian artist, Giovanni by name, to paint the picture of himself and his mother. While a guest of the Turkish court Giovanni painted a picture for the sultan enti tled “John the Baptist’s Head In a Charger.” Mohammed looked at the picture a little while and then said: “Artist, I think your picture is wrong. When a man’s head is decapitated the cords and the muscles of the neck shrink and contract instead of expand. Let me prove to you that I am right.” With that the sultan drew his Jeweled sword out of its Jeweled scabbard, and, with a sweep of his arm. he cut off the head of a courtier who stood near him. As the bead fell at the feet of the artist the sultan said: “See, I am right. The cords of the neck always contract.” The horrified artist said, “Yes, your majesty, I think you are right.” Then, for fear of losing his own head, Gio vanni fled back to his home city of Venice and reported to the doge what he had seen. Is there any European country on earth which would allow Its ruler to do to his subjects as Mohammed II. did to his? We have our governmental Injustices, but today we have not upon any throne of the civilized world a Henry VIII. of England, or a sinful, de bauched Catherine of Russia, or a Nero of Rome, or a Cleopatra of Africa, or a Mohammed II. of Turkey. The people, the common people of every land, have asserted themselves and demanded and won their rights. Everywhere we find that governments are better than their predecessors. Even modern Turkey is an Improvement over undent Turkey. The governments are better and con tinually growing better. The churches are also purer In thought. They have higher Ideals of spirituality and moral ity than they ever hd before. It Is easy enough for men and women to sit down and criticise the pew, and crit icise the pulpit, and criticise the ways of raising church money, and criticise the choir loft, but I want to tell you that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ Is not only purer in thought, but that the leaders of the churches as well as the common people are purer in their spiritual lives. More Tolerance JJow. There is more tolerance nisi human ity in the modern church. In ancient tinus# no mercy was shown by the lead ers of tbe church to heretics. When they heard of Ineu who differed from the doctrines of the church they imme diately got together their thumbscrews and Instruments of torture. They start- ed forth with sword and spear and bat- tleax. They said, “If you will not be lieve as we believe we will cut out your tongue and blind your eyes and cripple your feet and bum your homes and slay your sons and daughters.” Read the history of the covenanters. Read the story of the massacre of St. Bartholomew at Paris. Read the his tory of the dark ages. Look at Charle magne trying to convert his kingdom by having the priests drive the masses into the water like herds of cattle and there baptize them by the wholesale. Christianity became a matter of polit ical allegiance. Individual conviction, spiritual purity, devotion to Christ, counted for little in those times. Men did not read or think. They accepted without question the dogmas of the leaders of church and state, some of whom were men without principle, openly immoral of life. Let us thank God that we did not live In those times. There Is still much to be de sired. We are still far from Christ’s Ideal, but as we read of those times of spiritual and moral darkness we realize how far the church has advanced. “Well,” says some one, “what is the good of going way back to the dark ages to find that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is better spiritually today than it was in the past? Why not try to draw your illustrations a little nearer at band?” The result is the same. Conditions In tbe early part of the last century were In startling contrast to those of today. The minis try In those times was largely made up of men who entered It not on high spiritual grounds, but as a means of making a genteel living. Their service was perfunctory and lifeless. Their moral character was often reprehensi ble. The highest places were held by men of genius but of Christless lives. The clergy of those times were men like Dean Swift, of whom it was said that “when he was in the pulpit he was so much a saint that he ought not to be allowed to go out of It, and when be was out of the pulpit his life was so evil that he ought not to be allowed to enter It.” With spiritual leaders so destitute of the power of Christ, what could be expected of the people? So lux were the ideas of the Christian church n hundred years ago that after a presbytery meeting it was the usual custom for the presbytery to adjourn to a nearby tavern, and all the minis ters would there .openly drink their in toxicating liqnor tbe same os the ma jority of the sports of a race track would now drink. The assistant pastor of my Chicago church told me when he entered the ministry every minister of the presbytery which ordained him, with the exception of one, publicly drank Intoxicating liquors. Yet he furthermore stated that within a few years he lived to see all the ministers of his presbytery total abstainers and out and out temperance advocates, with but one exception. Among the records of a presbytery In the western part of Pennsylvania I have been told that one church elected one of its members an elder because that man on the day of the laying of a cornerstone of the church furnished a barrel of whisky, so that all who came to the corner stone laying could drink as much as they would. “Those Good Old Times.” I would sooner live In my present modest home than In tbe damp rooms where Mary, queen of Scots, had to dwell. And as for the habitations of my grandfathers and grandmothers, they were places no living man would now put up with for a moment. We sentimentally talk about the andirons of the old fashioned fire hearth. Did you ever try the luxury of one? Most of the rooms of the old farmhouses had to be closed in winter, because they could never be kept warm. In the bedrooms the ice would freeze In the pitchers. In the kitchens our grand fathers would be hugging the fires and burning their coat tails on one side of them while they were having a whole carnival of chills playing hide and seek on the other side of their physical anat omies. Then our grandfathers, for the most part, had the pleasure of dressing without any woolen underwear next to their skins. They had the luxury of malarial fever, scarlet fever and diph theria, which used to ravage almost every house on account of poor water and drainage. They had the luxury of sitting up In the house at night and using a small tallow candle light to read by when they were not too dead tired to read. As for me, give me less at the poetry of old times and let me eat In my hum ble home my three meals a day with some other food besides ham, and let me eat that food with a fork rather than be like Queen Elizabeth, who. upon her palace dining floor, made of cold stones, had her food placed before her on the table, so that she might ent the meats with her bare, greasy fin gers. But, oh, If the well people, physical ly and mentally, are better off from a temporal standpoint in this day than they •tfere In our grandfathers’ and | gfhndmothers’ times, bow much more | ought tho sick to be thankful unto him who la the Giver of all good gifts! Think of tin* merciful institutions which have Ikhmi erected for the In valids, called hospitals! Think of all the marvelous wonders which have been discovered or Invented by means of which pain can be driven away at tte point of the surgeon’s knife or cured by the physician’s prescription! Think of the merciful angel “anaesthe sia,” who comes to the side of the op erating table and lays the soothing hand of benumbment upon the twitch ing nerves and tbe agnizing brain! Tell me, O sick man, that this is not a better time to live in tliav. these times in which our grandfathers lived! No Dental Chairs Then. Then think of the mercies which have come to us through the dental chair. In olden times when a man had a toothache he would go to the village doctor or to the village blacksmith. The forceps would embrace the aching tooth. There would be a groan, a yell, a kicking of the sufferer, and out would come the offending molar. What was the result? Among our ancestors It was no exception to find a young man or a young woman of thirty-five years of age without a tooth In the Jaw. Think of the dyspepsia and after din ner pains wLdch were then caused by poorly masticated food. Some of us complain because we have not all tbe different kinds of food upon our tables we would like to have. But in olden times they not only complained about the few kinds of food they bad to eat, but they also complained about their sore gums with which they had to mas ticate that poor food. Many lives of our ancestors were shortened because prematurely, as King Solomon express ed it, “the grinders ceased, because they were few.” Then today make a big inventory of the blessings of the modem public school system of America. In olden times It was the exception for the son or a daughter of a home to have what Is called a liberal education. Yale and Harvard and Princeton, then dignified by the names of college, were In fact nothing more or less than modem high schools. These Institutions and colleges like them were very few and far be tween. Only here and there we find that a young man was able to go to one of them. The great masses of peo- : pie a hundred years ago were entirely uneducated. If you do not agree with this conclusion, go and study the old documents kept among the Revolution ary records of Boston. You can see them any time you go to Massachu setts. Almost without exception the men who stood by Samuel Adams and 1 James Otis in the struggle for Ameri can liberties were practically unedu cated men. But though a hundred or even fifty years ago the man who had a liberal education was the exception, the man of the generation which Is to come after us who is an uneducated man will be the exception. So perfect has our public school system become, so multitudinous are the American col leges of today, so prevalent are libra ries everywhere, that an Abraham Lin coln getting an education by a pine knot will never again be known In American political life. Now every boy, every girl, can develop the brain to the utpiost. Now all our boys and girls, by the magnificent system of schools which we have, can fit them selves for any line of w r ork that they will. Oh, carping pessimist, do you not see any blessing today In the fact that you can educate your mind so that you can daily be the associate of the master minds of the centuries? Do you not see a blessing in the fact that Shakespeare and Bums and Scott and Irving and Motley and Prescott and Gladstone and Webster and Edison and Millet and Raphael and Angelo and Beethoven and Wagner and Thorvald sen can all be invited to your study desk any night you will, to paint, or sing, or chisel, or preach, or teach for yon? Education is not a mere affecta tion. Eudcation Is the wings of in spiration which lift a man up so that his horizon takes in all lands, all seas, all worlds and all ages. Is not the opportunity of developing the mind and heart and the life of man by education a great advance ment over the educational opportuni ties which were offered to the genera tions that are past and gone? Thus at this glorious Thanksgiving time I find the world Is not only grow ing better, but It Is better than it has ever been before. I find we have a better government, a better church, better homes, better physical and men tal men and women and better chil dren to take our places after we are gone. Let us thank God on this com ing harvest festival for what he has done for us. May we pray to him to give us strength to go on doing the work he has given us to do, and may the time come when our future work may yield even far greater harvests, mental, physical and spiritual, than the work of the past and the present have 1 yielded. In thanking God for the bless ings of tbe Thanksgiving day of 1904 let us also thank him that as this Thanksgiving is bettor than any Thanksgiving In which our ancestors lived, so we may employ all our tal ents and energies to make this world even a better world In the future than It is at the present time. We arc standlnK on the threshold. We are In th** opened door. We are treadlnK on a border land We have never trod before. Another year Is opening. Another year is gone; We have passed the darkness of the night. We are in the early dawn. We have left the fields behind us O’er which we scattered seed. We pass into the future Which none of us can read. The corn among the weeds, The stones the surface mold, May yield a partial harvest; We hope for sixtyfold. Then hasten to fresh labor, To thrash and reap and sow; Then hid the new work welcome And let tho old work go; T1 en gather all your vigor. Press forward In the fight. And li t th’s be your motto: “.for God and for the right!” [Copyright, 1904, by Louis Klopsch.J Disastrous Wrecks. Carelessness Is responsible for many a railway wreck and the same causes are making human wrecks of sufferers from Throat and Lung trou bles. But since the advent of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump tion, Coughs and Colds, even the worst cases can be cured, and hope less resignation is no longer neces sary. Mrs. Lois Cragg, of Dorchester, Mass., is one of many whose life was saved by Dr. King’s New Discovery. This great remedy is guaranteed for all Throat and Lung diseases I y the Cherokee Drug Co. Price 60c, and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Faith Is a thing that makes a wo man believe her husband is just love ly when she wouldn’t dare set a de tective on his track. Dttngor of s Cough. Pneumonia, grip, cold, bronchitis and nearly every other dangerous sickness of this kind is usually the development of a slight cough. Too many people are laid up and too many die from diseases where they could so easily knock that first cough in the head. Murray’s Horehound Mul lein and Tar cures colds. It just drops the bottom out of a cough. Every drug gists has it for 25c a bottle. Remember “Murray’s” and take no other. Regular 50c size. A man would rather feel than look well; a woman would rather look well than be well. Anxious Moments. Some of the most anxious hours of a mother’s life are those when the lit tle ones of the household have the croup. There is no other medicine so effective in this terrible malady as Foley’s Honey and Tar. It Is a house hold favorite for throat and lung troubles, and as it contains no opiates or other poisons, it can be safely given. Too often the price of liberty is prohibitory. To Cure a Cold in One Day take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25c. Gone Again! H. M. Johnson of the GAFFNEY LIVE STOCK COMPANY will be in from St. Louis the last of this week with another load of fine Mules and Horses. The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you courteously and maie your es timates for nothing. 1^. H k <■ r, Have a great deal to do with the effect of pictures. Many a good picture is spoiled by an inappro priate frame. In a few days we shall lie prepared to make F-* i t tr & m ees of every kind and size. If you have an engraving, painting or photograph you want framed, bring it here. We will frame it so as to produce the best possi ble effect. Or, if you have your own i i. ~ as to the proper frame we wi»l carry them out faith fully.^ W'e won’t overcharge either way. Jmrie H. Limestone Street. Phone 176. Residence 171