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t Women as Well as 'Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the min'}, dis courages ^nd lessens ambition; beautvigor and cheerfulness soon disappear v/hen the kid neys are out of order ‘ or diseased. Kidney trouble has become so prevalent that it is not uncommon for a child to be born afflicted with weak kid neys. If the child urin ates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the - kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty- oent and one dollar Izes. You may have a {ample bottle by mail ree, also pamphlet tell- ng all about it, including many of the housanda of testimonial letters received l rom sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer ■ 'l Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure ana I leation this paper. Sermon By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage, D. D. Home of Swamp-Root WB WANT ALL INTERESTED IN MACHINERY to Hava our nam■ Bcrona them DURING 1905 Writ* us stating what kind of MAOHINERY you usa or will Install, and wa will mall you Free op all Cost A HANDSOME AND USEFUL POCKET DIARY AND ATLAS ON A LANGE COMMERCIAL CALENDAR Olbbes Machinery Company, COLUMBIA, 3. C. A STOCK OP Monss POWER NAT IBS TO BB CLOSED OUT AT SPECIAL PRICES Take WINE«r CARDUI at Home Are you a sufferer? Has your doctor been unsuc cessful? Wouldn’t you prefer to treat yourself—AT HOME? Nearly 1,500,000 women have bought Wine of Cardui from their druggists and have cured themselves at home, of such troubles as periodical, bearing u down and ovarian pains, leucor- rhcea, barrenness, nervousness, dizziness, nausea and despond ency, caused by female weakness. These are not easy cases. Wine of Cardui cures when the doctor can’t. Wine of Cardui does not irri tate the organs. There is no pain in the treatment. It is a soothing tonic of healing herbs, free from strong and drastic drugs. It is successful because it cures in a natural way. Wine of Cardui can be bought from your druggist at 91.00 a bottle and you can begin this treatment today. Will you try it? In cues requiring special directions, address, giving symptoms, Tbo Ladles' Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Mediclss Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. “figs'* Early Riser* The famous little pllles 0T«mu DO IVo. 32i Wrecks of all kinds repaiied quick Old vehicles made as good as new Rubber tops put on your buggies Know that your cash has its equivalent at my shop. Tell me vour wants; I will meet them. Ash, hickory, oak and poplar for your job Little breaks trouble make; I mend them Kindly I’ll meet you, genteel I’ll treat you. W. T. THOMPSON. J. M. Hambright In the Burnett Block, near McGuinn’s Mar ket, makes and does all kinds of repairing of Shoes on short no tice. Your patronage * solicited. Prices rea sonable. Good mate rial used. : : : : All Work Guaranteed. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 18.—In this bookmaking age, and particularly at fhe season when presses are turning out the largest of the year's literary output, the preacher In this sermon gives some timely advice as to the choice of books. The text Is Ecclesias tes xli, 12, “Of making many books there is no end.” Wendell Phillips for many years went up anu down the land delivering a lecture entitled “The Lost Arts.” That lecture was in most respects a glorification of the past. If, however, we should halo the present and deliver a new lecture entitled “The Found Arts,” almost without exception most of us would catalogue the art of book making as among the greatest of all modern accomplishments. In our ego tistic self complacency many of us have long supposed that the ancients knew but little about books. We look upon the great English and American and French and German and Russian libraries as modern developments which would be Just as Incomprehensi ble to our ancestors If they should sud denly come to life as would be the tele phone or the telegraph or the electric car or the modern steam engine. Thus, when some of us today hear the words of my text we are amazed. We say to each other, “What did King Solomon mean when he said, ‘Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness to the flesh.’ Were there many books In King Solomon’s time, or was he in prophetic vision hearing the bangings and the crashings of the modern twentieth century printing press?” No. King Solomon was not hearing the bangings and crashings of the modem printing press. He was listen ing, however, to the scratchings of the scribes’ pens. The bookmakers were then very busy everywhere. They must have been busy at that time. Homer, the greatest of all poets both living and dead, certainly lived and wrote not more than a few years after Solomon died. Thucydides, Aristoph anes, Demosthenes, Herodotus aud So lon, whose writings are placed among the classics of the ages, wrote their thoughts only a few hundred years after King Solomon lived. Five hun dred years before Solomon was born the Lord said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial In a book.” That Moses was well qualified for the task we have abundant proof. Long before his day men had written books, cumbrous pro ductions in baked clay, that as a boy in Egypt he had laboriously conned. The practice of writing books was contin ued, and the ancient authors had be come so prolific that the author of Ec clesiastes felt as most of us do in try ing to dig our way out from amic the avalanche of the literature of the pres ent day. “Of making many books there Is no eud,” the wisest of all men cried 3,000 years ago. “Of making many books there is no end,” we cry in the beginning of this twentieth cen tury. Myriads of books surround us. The Congressional library’ alone has over 2,000,000 of them. The new library building has accommodations for 2,500,- 000 more, making In all space for 4,500,- 000 books. Books, books, books, books, books everywhere—books In different forms as newspapers, books as maga zines. books recording the histories of nations, books as biographies, books In fictitious story or in novel form, books in rhythmic meter or as poetry, books In sermonic and theological disserta tion, books as essays! There are mil lions and millions of them—good books and bad books. Now comes the prac tical question. What shall we do with these books? They come to us to as sist or retard, to re-enforce or to ener vate us lu the struggle of life. How shall we use them? How shall we de cide which are helpful and which are injurious? Admit Onlr the Beet. A man’s library’, is the first place, should be like the sanctuary of his heart, Into which he admits only his best friends. It should have room for only a very few and a carefully chosen collection of books. These should be read and reread and read again. Like our dearest friends, they should enter Into the very warp and woof of our being. Their thoughts should become our thoughts, and their teaching should be translated Into the actions of our lives. They should not be mere person alities with whom we have only a speaking acquaintance. They should not be those half strangers to whom we have to be reintroduced every time we meet them away from our homes. They should become integral parts of our mental, moral and spiritual being. We should be so sure of their wisdom that we can accept them as our guides, to Inspire us to right thinking, right speaking and right acting. Rare indeed are such books! When they have been found, they should be treasured as more precious than gold, but let us not expect to find many of them. “A library to have only room for a few books? What do you mean by that assertion?” some one says. “Why, I always thought the more >ooks a man reads the better he Is educated, taking for granted, of course, that the books be reads are good books. My parents educated me along these Hues. When I was growing up my mother used to give me 10 cents for every book I would read. The result was I could read a whole book through In a couple of days. Thus in my time I have read all of the popular novelists. In the same way, by my rapidity of reading, l am able to some extent to keep abreast of the literature of this day. Oh. no; you are wrong. The more books a i an reads the more be knows. The less a man reads the less be will know. •Heading,’ said Lord Bacon, ‘makes a full man.’ ” Am I wrong? I believe today that oue of the curses of this age Is too much reading and too little thinking. Men and women cram themselves with a lot of mentally undigested literature in the same way that many people be come gormands at a dining table. It is not the amount of food you put Into your stomach that makes you a strong man; It Is the amount of food you di gest. We should think a man very silly who said: “I want to make my self a physical giant. I am therefore going to eat enough food for ten men. At breakfast I will have the cook bring to me three pounds of beefsteak and a dozen eggs and half a bushel of mashed potatoes, and I will sit there and try to eat them all. When dinner comes around I will try to eat a whole leg of mutton, and when supper comes a great big roast of beef.” What would happen? His digestive organs would revolt. His body would be rack ed with pain. Perhaps peritonitis would set in, and death would be the result of his folly; Llterarr Germamda. Now, as some gormands abuse their stomachs with too much eating, so some gormands for mental food abuse their brains with too much reading. They stuff their minds with whole piles of iudigestible literary food. They read and they read and they read. They keep on reading and never think or care about what they are reading. They read until at last their brains ab solutely refuse to do any Independent thinking. Their brains become like a great sponge filled with water, sodden and heavy and inactive, of no earthly use to anybody or anything. What you ought to do Is not to see how many books you can skim through, but how many books you cau master. “Look out,” says the old adage, “for the man who is master of one book.” Look out, say I, for the master of a few great books. Too much reading truly becomes a weariness to the flesh. Mr. Spurgeon in one of his sermons quotes the invective which Lucian in Disraeli’s “Curiosities of Literature” makes against those men whose pride is In a large library which they never properly read and therefore cannot profit by. “Such a man is like a pilot who has never learned the art of navi gation or a cripple who wears embroid ered slippers and cannot stand upright In them. Why do you buy so many books? You have no hair, and you pur chase a comb. You are blind, and you must need buy a fine mirror. You are deaf, and you will have the best music al instruments.” But the foolishness of buying a library of books for the shelf so that you can look upon their hand some bindings is not to be compared in its evil effects to the sin against the brain by too much promiscuous read ing. I protest against the “cramming” processes we have in our public schools. I protest against the “cramming” proc esses we have in our colleges. I protest against the lightning rapidity with which men and women gallop through their books in an evening's reading. Buy fewer books. Master those books. Read them over and over again and make them integral parts of your selves. The discordant voices around the tower of Babel could not have been more helpless to do good than are the babbling tongues of many books which have been hastily read. Better, far better, master a few great books than have a mere speaking acquaint ance with a thousand different books. . Myriads of books are coming forth with outstretched hands, claiming our welcome. We can only afford to take a few to our hearts. How Important, therefore, It Is for us not to invite into our sanctuary a bad book! How im portant it is for us not to let our chil dren read any bad books! And, above all, how important It Is not to have any bad books at all upon our library shelves or our sitting room table! But, though- all of us are very careful never to have a bottle of arsenic or strych nine or laudanum or carbolic acid In our medicine closet unless it Is con spicuously and clearly labeled “Poi son,” yet many will allow the most deadly of all mental, moral and spirit ual poisons to come into our homes in the shape of a bad book, unlabeled with any danger signal. We will suffer the evil virus of that poisonous book not only to be inoculated Into our own hearts, but also into the hearts of our loved ones. The InSueace of a Book. How many men have been ruined for time and eternity by the Influence of one bad book! Am I describing the experience of any of you when I Imag ine a scene of demoniac siege and con quest? ' For many years Satan was trying to batter down the doors of your father’s Christian home. Again and again he had charged upon that carefully guarded stronghold to cap ture your heart, but again and again he bad failed. Satan would come up to that front door and be would bear the family singing at evening and morning prayers, and he could not get in. He tried to entice you away from the straight path of virtue, but your Christian parents had surrounded you with so many pious Influences that H was almost an impossibility to break them down. At last Satan ticca me completely dis couraged. He called a council of war of all his fiends to plan for your de struction. Plot after plot was gone over and pushed aside as useless. But Just as the Si.tunic demons were about to scatter in utter dismay an arch fiend spoke up and said; “Let me try a flank movement on that home. Instead of sending any more of our stalwart emis saries of flesh and blood to that Chris tian household let me write n bad book and slip it in through th.* crack of the open door Into tint yhiing man's hands. In that bad' book 1 will open that young mans eye; to the pleasures of I sin. I will exeite all his evil passions. ! Before that .voting man’s eyes l will halo sin in as fascinating language as Lord Byron ever did in his autobiog raphy of Don Juan. In that book through a garden of fragrant roses I will lead that young man up to the very gates of hell. I will make him think lie is approaching the gates of heaven. Then, just at the right mo ment, when that tempting book is working Its charms, we will give that young man a shove and push him into the flames of the bottomless pit.” “Aha!” cried the demons exultingly. “Aha! We will capture that young man through the influence of a bad book.” O man, am I going beyond the truth when I state that your eyes were first opened to the sins of this world through the Inflneuce of a bad book? And am I going beyond my right when I state that one of the reasons, and the chief one, that you are not what you ought to be In Christian character is because every little while you allow yourself to revel In scenes of wicked ness and riot conjured up by the imag ination of some licentious author? There you associate with characters of that writer’s creation so vile that you would shrink from contact with them If you were Introduced to them In the flesh, but you are fascinated by the glamour with which they are clothed in bis pages. Wkat I* Your Bor Reading f But the fiendish heart of a bad book is not satisfied with slaying one mem ber of a family. Like the fatal colls of the serpent of a Laocoon, It would crush out the life of a father and the lives of his children also. O man, your spiritual life may be poisoned by bad books! Have you ever stopped to think that your children’s spiritual lives may be In the process of being poisoned by the same deadly fangs? What is your boy doing In the next room? “He is reading,” is your an swer. What Is he reading? “Only a book.” What kind of a book is he reading? Where did he get that book? “Oh,” you answer, “I do not know. I let my boy select his own literature to read. I believe he said he borrowed that book from one of his compan ions.” Do you not know what your boy Is reading? After your own awful experience many years ago in reading a bad book, from the evil effects of which I hope you may have recovered, are you going to let your boy continue to read that book? Would you, if you could prevent It, allow your boy to go with evil companions? Would you knowingly allow him at his tender age to wander down Into the vile haunts and look upon the immoral cesspools of our great cities? You are doing some thing as bad as that O father, you are allowing an unprincipled author to show your boy sin In Its most attrac tive form! Can you not see there Is something wrong in your boy’s book? Look at bis glassy eye and flushed cheek and labored breathing. There are seeds of Infamy being sown now In that young man’s heart which, if not stamped out at once, may grow up into a harvest of tares, which Satan and his demoniac hirelings alone will gath er. O God, help us to come to the firm, Christian decision of never inten tionally reading a bad book nor of al lowing a bad book to be placed In the hands of our loved ones! • I do not mean by this that the books we admit to our hearts and homes must be limited to distinctively reli gious books. We must read for instruc tion and for entertainment. Because a book is not distinctly a religious book that Is no reason why necessarily It should be debarred from coming to our reading chairs. Some books we should select because they are books of travel, some because they are the biographies of men and women who were the great leaders and makers of the world’s his tory. The higher the mountain peak upon which you stand the wider the range of your horizon. We should se lect some books because they teach us the geographical and geological or as tronomical or atmospheric or biological construction of the animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom, whether these studies be inside of the world or above the world or upon the surface of the world. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that In them is.” It is our duty to learn as much as possible about God’s creations If we can do so without curtailing the work for which God created us. But though we should select books of travel and of fiction, If the right kind of Ac tion, we should also select certain books as lifetime companions because first and last and Intrinsically they were written to teach us the duties of the spiritual life. We should read them because they were written to teach us how to love the Lord our God with all our' heart and soul and mind and strength, and our neighbor as our- * 1 selves. The Book* For Laymo*. “Limit my reading to books written ' for spiritual edification?” says some one. “That is unreasonable. You would not turn the home sitting room at night Into the class room of a theological pro- i fessor. You would not tell the whole j human race to study theology as If they were young men studying for the ' ministry. Why should a layman read such books as Cotton Mather's ‘Essay on Doing Good,’ or Law's ‘Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life,’ or Ban yan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ or Thomas a Kempis’ ‘Meditations,’ or Richard Baxter’s ‘Saint’s Everlasting Rest?’ | The only rest I could get from reading such books as those would be to go sound asleep over them. I might, per haps, stay awake for a little while in reading some of the light religious books, like Elizabeth Stewart Phelps’ ‘Gates AJari or Elizabeth Payson’s *Sf ’pping Heavenwood,’ but it would not be for long. No, I never did like religious books. When I read. I read for fun and for mental Improvement. You must not expect laymen, and es pecially young people, to read the same books as do the ministers.” Not expect laymen to read the same kind of literature as ministers? No. But I would have laymen use common sen^e in their selections of books. I would have them treat the brain in ref erence to its mental food on the same principle as we would treat the physic al body. You restrict your stomach to one kind of diet long enough, and you will starve your physical body to death, no matter what kind of food you may take. “What did your husband die of?” I asked a lady some time ago. “From starvation,” she answered. “He had an Incurable disease, but that disease did not directly kill him. We could only feed him on beefsteak and toast We bought him the very best steak In the market, but beefsteak has not all the ingredients In it to support life, and so be gradually starved and passed away.” Are you going to restrict your mind and soul to only one kind of men tal food? If you are a broker, is the full extent of your reading to be found in perusing the columns of stock mar kets In the morning newspapers? If you are a lawyer, are you only going to read about the forensic giants of the past who won their memorable vic tories at the bar or spend most of your time In studying yuar new cases? If you are a tired mother, when night comes and all the children are In bed are you going to simply while away your evening hours reading a novel and crying over some princess who never lived? With what books are you feeding your soul? I am not talking about the Bible now. What other books are you reading that are deepening and widening your Intellectual and spiritu al life? Are you reading any such books at all? The Greatest Book ot All. But, If It is necessary for us to read spiritual books for icental food, how much more necessar.’ Is it that we as Christian students should read and love that greatest <t all books which God has given to i s to be our guide! We have read how the great masters of literature love< their books. Dr. Gelkie tells us 1 nat “when Henry Thomas Buckle, f e distinguished his torian, was dying his last words on earth were, ‘My poor books; my poor books!’ ” When Leibnitz died he died with one of his precious books In his hand. When Death came to call Rob ert Southey be found him an old, white haired man, kissing and stroking the books he was too weak to open and too blind to read. Cicero’s greatest desire on earth was expressed In the words, “Oh, take all that I have, but leave me my books r’ Could there be a better picture than that which Cunningham Geikle drew of the love which these masters in literature bore their books? Should that love be greater than the love Christians ought to bear the book of books which God gave to us to show us the way of life? If spiritual books are essential for our mental food, should we not feed upon this book, which Is wholly divine? I want you to class books among the best of friends and the worst of ene mies. As Loyola the wounded soldier of fortune became Loyola the soldier of Christ by reading “The Lives of the Saints,” so I want the good books to lift you ami purify you and make you a gospel messenger among men. As bad books are the worst enemies of mankind, I want to enlist your help in fighting them at every step. “If ever the devil had an agent on earth, I have been one,” spake the dying author of a pernicious book. “Oh, that I could destroy that book!” I want you to fight these evil books wherever you go. I want you to see that your library shelves are cleared of the “lepers.” I want you to see that your children never are allowed to touch a bad book. And furthermore I want you, by the help of God, to scatter forth the copies of that one book which shall yet trample over all evil books, because It Is the “sword of the Spirit,” which shall never fall. May God teach us one and all to pil low our beads upon the promises and live as Christ would have us live, be cause we Igve the “old book.” If thou art merry, here are airs; If melancholy, here are prayer*; If studious, here are those things writ Which may deserve thy ablest wtt; If h-Oigry, here Is’ food divine; If thirsty, nectar, heavenly wine. Read then, but first thyself prepare To read with zeal and mark with care; And when thou readest what here is writ. Let thy best practice second It. So twice each precept shall be— First In the book and next In thee. [Copyright, 1904. by Louis Klopsch.] Fight Will Be Bitter. I Those who will persist In closing their ears against the continual recom- ! mendation of Dr. King’s New Dis covery for Consumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their troub les, if not ended earlier by fatal termi nation. Read what T. R. Beall, of Beall, Miss., has to say: “Last fall my wife had every symptom of consumption. She took Dr. King’s New Discovery alter everything else had failed. Im provement came at once and four bot tles entirely cured her.” Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Druggists. Price 50c and 11.00. Trial bottle free. Driving Oat the Men. The president of the Northwestern university in his report to the trustees of that Institution says the coeduca tional system promises to cause the disappearance of men students from all the schools in the Mississippi valley when it has been introduced. Figures are presented to show that the num ber of women students is increasing, while the number of men Is diminish ing year by year. The note of alarm thus sounded may be a little more em phatic than tha peril calls for, but the president of the Northwestern univer sity is not the first of the educational leaders of the west to call attention to the falling off of male students in co educational colleges. Hew Hampshire's Dry List. The towns and cities of New Hamp shire have come to vie with each other to see which shall have the most names entered on the famous “dry list” In vogue In that state under the provi sion of Its liquor law. Somersworth is now out with the claim that two recent additions give her a total of 180 mem bers and the leadership. A woman can always comfort her self over not having any money by going shopping. Danger of n 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 m 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. To save her life a woman can’t un derstand why an ermine boa doesn’t keep her knees from chapping. Coughs, Colds and Constipation, few people realize when taking cough medicines other than Foley’s Honey and Tar, that they contain opi ates which are constipating besides being unsafe, particularly for children. Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no opiates, is safe and sure and will not constipate. Cherokee Drug Co. The man doesn’t need much money if he has a reputation for being weal thy. 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. A fool may know when to stop talk ing, but a wise man knows when not to begin. The quick results of Acid Iron Min eral in the cure of Dyspepsia, Indi gestion and bowel trouble have struck thousands with wonder. Heals cuts, burns, old sores and all skin diseases readily. Trade A-I-M mark on every bottle. Sold by Druggists. A miser is a man who carries hk money in a purse that closes easiei than it opens. Sulphur Cures Eczema. Eczema is cured by Hancock’s Li quid Sulphur used with water accor ding to direction. It Is Nature’s Great est Germicide, and heals many other diseases also, together with cankers and sores of scalp, nose and throat. Pimples, itch and prickly heat suc- comb to It. Sold by leading druggists. Booklet from Hancock Lipuid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md. FOR Building and Plastering Lime, *Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIVE WORKS. CARROLL A CO., L< Telephone 57. AUDITOR’S NOTICE. To all whom this may concern: The Auditor’s office for Cherokee county at the court house at Gaffney, S. C. will be open from the first day of January, 1905, to 20th day of Febru ary, 1905, for the purpose of receiving returns of all taxable property and road duty for tax for the year 1905. All who wish to do sc may make their returns at the office during that time as the office will be kept open for that purpose. Mr. Geo. W. Speer, Mfgis- trate, will take pleasuie in taking re turns. And for the convenience of all I will attend the following places at the dates named below: Draytonvllle, Monday, Jan. 9th. Wilkinsville, Tuesday, Jan. 10th. Sarratts (cld store), Wednesday, Jan. 11th. Asbury (J. R. Littlejohn’s), Thurs day, Jan. 12th. Ravenna (Brown’s store), Friday, Jan. 13th. Webster (Mrs. M. M. Tate’s), Sat urday, Jan. 14th. Thickety (Smith’s store), Monday, Jan. Kith. White Plains (R. C. Lipscomb’s), Tuesday, Jan. 17th. Macedonia, Wednesday, Jan. 18th. Butler’s Thursday, Jan. 19th. Ezells, Friday, Jan. 20th. Maud (Linders’ store), Saturday, Ian. 21st. Cherokee Falls (Factory), Monday, Jan. 23rd. King’s Creek, Tuesday, Jan. 24th. Antioch (Church), Wednesday, Jan. 25th. Blacksburg, Thursday and Friday, Jan. 26th and 27th. Buffalo (school house), Saturday, Jan. 28th. Allens, Monday, Jan. 30th. Grassy Pond, Tuesday, Jan. 31st. All persons falling to make their returns within this time, the law re quires me to add 50 per cent. All males between 21 and 60 years of age except Confederate soldiers and those incapable of earning a support by be ing maimed or otherwise disabled, are deemed taxable polls. Please let all persons interested re member the d^ys of my appointments and meet me on those days. Yours very respectfully, W. D. Camp, Auditor.