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Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor and cheerfulness soon disappear when 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 Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank DeWItt Talmatfe, D.D. Los Anjroles, ( al., June 4.—In his ser mon the preacher, drawing an object lesson from the insect world, shows the importance in human affairs ot honest, intelligent, unremitting indus try and the folly of those who belittle or undervalue it. The text is Proverbs “Come, sisters, we must get to work. Hurry up now.. We have so much work to do and such a little time in wbi h to do it. Be busy. Be busy!” The hu mau foot may have often crushed an ant in the pathway, hut I doubt If it ever killed an ant taking an afternoon n:ip. When an ant is slain in the eonu- tr\ road she is always hurrying some where e • try : ng to got back to her idve ;.f: • cis accomplished the 1 . of !• ntrney. She is work m ■ • < . nia ly working. She the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first ! vi - b) t he ant, thou sluggard, step should be towards the treatment of consider her ways and be wise.” these important organs. This unpleasant It was a hot, sultry afternoon in trouble is due to a diseased condition of the summer on the famous ( hautati(|iia kidneys and bladder and not to a'habit as grounds of New York when Bishop most people suppose. Women as well as men are mad" mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Roo* is soon realized. It is sold by druggirts, in fifty- cent and one dollar izes. You may have a >ample bottle by mail ree, also pamphlet tell- Home of swamp-itoot. | ng all about it, including many of the housands of testimonial letters received John II. Vincent knocked at Wilbur Phapman’s door. “Come In,” called tin* evangelist. In walked the founder of the Chautauqua movement in this country. He said, “Chapman, I want ! yon to go and hear a lecture this after noon.” “What on?” "It Is given by a { college professor. The lecture is en- i titled ‘My J'fiends the Gila Monster, the Horned Owl, the Opossum and the im. <i • won. t the dtai frosts a man to ,1 rts <>f ml the work Bat.’” “No, bishop,” said Dr. Chap- l rom sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer man; “I cannot go. I am utterly worn i t Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure ano out by speaking. Besides that, I have | mention this paper. la big inciting for to'night for which I Don't make any mistake, but re-! mus ‘ rf ‘" t . :ml p, T, pa ’T;, mnst 1( ‘! member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. ‘ mp ^°» ( hapman, 1 Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad-!' vil1 Il0t M off. You must come, dress, Binghampton, N. Y., on every There is a great treat in store for bottle. j you.” So, under the pleading demands — —■ . ■ - .i , of Bishop Vincent, he went. ' , ' “At first,” said Dr. Chapman after- Dr. W00Sl8y 5 S!S/;':‘- a ' ^ S, B away back in the audl- PAiNLESS AND Whiskey Cure FUtiE to ’ i!iorp!i: joplmn, l:ij«ii::iuin. | cnee, that I iniglit he able to slip away jeniru?orvf.V'ui-y,a tmseen. But as the speaker began to ilarpe book 'f pur- j talk about bis novel friends I became ticulnrson herreor 1 , . . . _• 5'saratorin’a tror 1 !- ! tuore and more absorbed. Lneon- ment. Address,Pr. sciouslv 1 went halfway down the P.O.Box^', i aisle and took a seat nearer to the Atlanta, ucjrvi*- 1 speaker. Then, as he talked on and — i..-. on, 1 crept farther and farther until I was In the front seat. There I sat for PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifici the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to itn Youthful Color, Cures scalp dwe *( .-• 6c hair lulling. y»c,an(l^l ^ if !>niggists FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM- For Rent. nearly two long hours laughing and : crying and learning the great lessons i of life from the lives of the most hum ble of God’s < features. I never l>efore realised that there was so much love i and affection and unselfishness and I i brain power In creeping things and loathsome reptiles and poisonous Ilz- PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE ! ards and repulsive rats.” •TATE AND EVENT* OF INTEREST Th< ‘ l !'. ill f ot e “ rth re ' eal th ® , power of God s love and care, as well IN FOREIGN LANDS* TAKE AND ns greater things. King Solomon READ THE LEDGER. would Introduce to us oue of his little f -lends. He would have us use an ant bill for a pulpit. He would have for the preacher of the morning one of the ordinary. ' .cqJace, large mandl- * bled, many jointed, long nutennaed, six-room cottage six legged insects that we can see In to Mr. A. W. n l tnost every country bypath. He would tell us that the ant’s Intelligent lawn, SlKUle forethought, her persevering energy, ; ; ; ; : her many social affinities, her mortal hatreds, her sensitiveness to smell and color, her architectural genius with which she constructs the palace in which are to be deposited the precious eggs, her slaves and nurses who serve her in pence, her military captains who marshal her great armies In war. her care for the cocoons in which the grubs are developed into the perfect Insects, ns tin eatGrpil’ar unfolds the transfig ured life of a hutterlly. offer unlimited fields for gospel illustration. “Go to the ant, thou slmrgnrd, consider her ways and he wise." i’ rr * ; :: v in Hod's ocon- ■s; ■ n.e.ms a eon- ■ | li.\ ' -I us well as !• ''..li e ;i cnee. God i ihe snows of winter, a'o'. *.!!•> " lads, the hunger unless he meant God would not have made helplessness during infancy and childhood unless he meant a parent to work; God would not send sickness and helpless old age unless he desired all people to work during the strength and vigor of manhood and womanhood. “If any would not work, neither should he eat.” is’the Pauline Invective against sloth. ‘‘Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.” All nappincss and health, all mental, so cial, spiritual and financial progress depend upon persevering toil. The soon er our growing hoys and girls realize that they must work for a livelihood the better it will be for them and the 1 letter it will be for us who are caring for them during the years of their de velopment. lYu-emitiing toil, an essential for hu man life, i the first lesson the ant bill I Atlanta to tl •• sea. teaches us today. But the ability to i ra S ua alway i i.ir they. Yes. But study the ants ns sol ;cr - and su' n ssive members of their great eo-ope itive social organizations, lu a factory t! .■ c.'gs fit into each oth er. Because «,f this perfect fitting the great lealher bands move round and the .spL.ir tly, thi- elevators lift an 1 the '.alklng beams rise and fall, tin* h nit:.tvs strike and the wheat is gui ld and the wood is cut, and the .sc and tin : \ and (he saw and the 'hair and the stove are offered for sale by the city imucliantmeu. Because of this same ki d of perfect fitting of one i !!i’ - c .gs into the cogs of other m n a great inul; tilde of human beings hc- c»hies a united creature of life eatled itu army. Beal ye the words o? the centurion: ‘Tar I also aai a man under authority, liar.ng u.ah r me soldi •rs. and I say unto oiic, -Go!' and he goeih, and to another, -Come!’ and he conic,h. and to my s r ant, ‘Dn this,’ rail h doeth it.” Thus, while we find that men as well as wheels may bo set un der authority, wo find that ants are a! so set under authority. Those ants obey their leaders just ns submissively as the soldiers of the British army obeyed Lord Roberts in the Boer war or the American soldiers obeyed Lee <>r Grant during our late civil strife. When the commanding general of the ants gives the order “Forward, tn.ireh!” the great hosts of ants fall lute line. They tramp along in companiein regiments, in bri gades, in great divisions. They have their officers, their advance guards and their soldiers to protect the rear. When they bivouac for the night they seem to throw out their picket lines, as did \\ illiam T. SI ennau on his march from The ants of Niea- t In phalanges of make the right use of toil, to conserve | from four to six yards square. When energy so that the maximum of results ! these great armies of Invasion or mi- are produced from the minimum of la j Sration cease their marching and go to bor. to perform work so thoroughly and ! building houses they disband as quiet- intelhgently that it Is not useless and ! *- v an, l "’ork at the vocations of peace has to be done over, Is the second touching of my text. “Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.” does not allude any more to the ceaseless activity of the ant than it does to her marvelous foresight, with which she plans out Iter work and ac complishes her results. The ant uses her braiu as well as her mandibles or legs. She uses her eyes to set when- sh'> is going as well as her feet to walk. Study tin* ant as an architect or a builder. Some of us have stood lu awe before the archltee- as zealously as did the soldiers of the late civil wir when they disbanded after the famous Washington review. When these .\ms are living at the home hive each individual member of the ant community seems to have her appoint ed place. Snine ants are detailed to work upon the roof; some go foraging, while others take care of the ditches; some hunt food, while others stay at home and clean the eggs. Each ant is a small atom, h it each ant is part of u great army o. community, which moves and works in concert. And because tural wonders of the cathedrals and ! 'hese ants do work and march in eon- One fine \ real cheap. Doffsiett's. Fine lawn, shade trees. :: :: :: % If vou want anything in estate come to me. :: : : : : R. L. PARISH, Office National Bank Building. Gaffney, S. C. Up-l3-9at3 Market Your neat on Ice. Swift’s il tins, some nice, lean cured [ Hams with skin taken off, sliced thin, for bre .kiast, or some nice Pork chop or Pork Steak, or some tine Kansas City Be.-f, good and mellow, or Cher okee Beef. Just as you like. Plenty of Irish Potatoes, Danish Cabbage, Onions and Sets, Country Produce when it can be got. Heavy and Fancy Groceries. Vpples. Oranges, Lemons, Beans ar 1 Pe is, white and colored. Fresh I -h Fridays and S turdays. Can fi’ i ir who i-bill atom place. Good -liver -d on time. d * irs for bud ness, \V. T IIV^ PhotK No. bo. '^Residence No. 23. r*'.7o> - - wsfr*etfsnmE:3*2 Young Men Wanted How would you like to secure a commission as an officer under Uncle Sam? If you are between the ages of 17 and 35 years, possess the necessary common school edu cation, are moral, persistent, and can pass the required physical ex amination sena me four one-cent stamps to pay postage, and I will mail you a personal letter, litera ture, etc , that will tell you of the qualifications required for positions leading to promotions of high rank as an officer in our army or navy. W. H. PHILLIPS, . Louisville, Xy. Host Anything And a little of everything is now being shown in my line: All the new conceptions and fads . * ..In The Jewelry Line.. From the cheapest worth having to the very finest specimens and grades. Re pairing done by an Expert. Thos. h. Westrope, Next to Shuiord & LeMaster. ‘•Bumj- i.n ho Ant.” „ Busy, busy, busy. “Busy as an ant” is :iu uid proverb. Whether she is ear ing for her eggs or finding the grubs; whether she belongs to a foraging par ty or Is going forth upon a war of con quest to capture the eggs of another hive, which eggs she intends to devel op into future slaves; whether she* is migrating from one part of the country to another or is building the walls and the hallways, squaring the chambers laying the foundations or arching the dome of a new house, the ant is al ways busy. She works during the day, she works during the night, she works while she eats; it almost seems that she works while she sleeps. Her ambi tion is not to find out how little she can do, but bov much .she can do. She works, and works, and works. Sin* keeps on working. To do something is tiie very breath of her existence. This proverb is axiomatic. You g> out for a siiimu — stroll and one of y >u little children calls; “Oh. mother, eo n and look. See these little black tilings What are they?” “Ants, my dear" you say. Then you sto ip over tha: hi ve and watch them. They aio- moving, a: ways moving. Some are busy house cleaning. If you could enter the ehuui her of an ant mound, you would (in 1 that each room and connecting hall way are absolutely clean. E cry par ticle of dust which once choked those galleries has been carried out, piece by piece, and deposhcil nfai*off, where it will not obstruct the open.ngs of tie* ant hill. Some of these ants are house cleaning. Some a e going after food. I Sonm are caring f r the grubs. But they are all wo.kng the ants are al ways working. Their working hours are simply unlimited. Sir Joint Lub- tioek, the fatuous naturalist, reported that he once watched a single ant who worked without Intermission or reluxa- 1 lion from G o’clock In the morning until nearly 10 o’clock at night. For sixteen hours that ant continued diligently at her task. You cannot dream of a lot of ants getting together, as do some meiF today, whose chief aim seems to be to fin 1 out how, little work they I can do In life anti what Is the maxi mum of pay they can force out of their employers for a minimum of la bor. oh, no. That Is not the nnfi way. No sooner doe# the sunlight crawl over the eastern hills than the aut hive becomes busy. The different ants sayt the palaces of the east. We, have seen walls and columns and domes and minarets and spires that are “frozen music in stone.” We have climbed the heights of Milan cathedral, whose tow ers and walls are peopled with almost as great numbers of apostles aud saints and martyrs and priests carved in solid stone as there are worshipers who ever gather at oue time before its sacred shrines. We have seen St. Pe ter's of Rome connected with the won derful Yatican and St. Mark's, more poetic than the Yeuetian canals. We have seen the marvelous conceptions of a Christopher Wren and the wonderful structure at Cologne, only a few years ago dedicated after having consumed i centuries In building. These transcend- ; cut buildings have lifted themselves up even as did the temple of King Solo- j mdh. Why? Every beam, every stone, bad its appointed place. Each part, as a small mite, fitted Into a great united wlmle. But as I stand todav before a «r VFesi 1.inster abbey or a St. Paul of London I emphatically assert that these siruti tires compared to the strength and intelligence of the tmild- t rs are not as wonderful as an ordina ry. everyday, coi.uiionplaoe ant hive we may see lu the country road. Iluiltlinw 11 Cathedral. To build the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York city blasting powder had to be used. The founda tions had to be excavated 6ut of solid reek. True. But the ants often build their hives by excavating the solid rock. The walls of Canterbury eatho- 1 ii.’.* -t be .<!. ■ d»«tcly straight. True, But no mason's plumb line ever erected straighter wails than the wails of an ant lull's chambers. 'The rooms of the Yrtican must lie arranged in orderly fashion. All fito chambers of an ant hill open .into long corridors. Each rm u has its cmiiiecting hallways. A well regulated cathedral must have Its p • -per system of drainage. The ant hive is so built that it will shed all wa ter. N 1 ruinslorin can deluge its cel lars. No water overflowing the river bai k can deurny its foundations. The .m-iont Romans always built their oities upon the hilltops for protection. Tie unis I'uiid their hives on high oi ccs, whore st nan and water cannot '•’d uerge them. The ant’s wisdom should bo emulat ed as much as her activity. Tin* Ara- 1 .Mis held the ant’s wisdom In such rc- ii< ( i that after the birth of a male cert they can devastate whole forests. . They can make the lions aud the ele- | pbautiue monsters turn and flee for their lives; they can build towns and - cities; they can he the uncrowned 1 kings of the fields. Every living erea- 1 ture stands in fear and dread of them. Value of Co-operation. Every industrious human life that Is . successful always co-operates with , other lives. Every ideal human or ganization on a large scale must be a perfect human ant hive. Everywhere i human talent should he specialized. What especial niche are you going •to fill in tin- great human beehive? Wlieu I go and closely examine the ! wonderful mosaic floors and walls and ceiiings of the Alhambra of the ; old Spanish Moors I do not find these . individual stones very valuable In themselves. Many of them are only | common pebbles that we might spurn with our leet in the street gutter. But when these common pebbles, as in- 1 dividuals, ar ■ cut aud polished and placed side l y side in contrast with other stones my form the beautiful I mosaics of t ■ Alhambra, which are one of the marvels of this century. You as an individual may not amount to much, but if cut and polidied and fitted Into the right niche for which you were intended by God you can be come part of the perfect walls of the Temple Beautiful, Like the ant, will you be a worker, living under an- j thorlty? Will you be a co-operative 1 worker? Mill you serve the commu nity In which you live by doing the work for which you are especially fit- | led by brain and body, as faithfully ; and willingly and wisely as the single ' ant performs her allotted task In a lu ■ at busy home hive? Tb ■ ant teaches man more than les- s in of activity aud wisdom and co op. ration. Some men may be active and worldly wise and yet have a heart as dead to all kindness and love as Is a suin'. Th ■ ant is essentially a spirit ual as well as a temporal teacher. She teuclies^tnan the laws of love and mer cy and gemlenc-s. She t aches these spi.'itna! hsscas more powerfully, I bo- iicv". t!i.hi any insect or reptile foend ; ill the studies of the biologists. Some yea vs azo. to prove whether auts knew .•ach other and cared for their own, a naturalist took two bottles and covered tb ir mouths with muslin. In one of these bottles he placed two strange maimed and the blind and the help less? When a stream of guld began to flow through your counting room; when you g it beyond th" awful strug gle for daily bread; when you bad mor" tb.in two garments in your ward robe, did you get down upon your knees and say, “O God, I thank thee that thou hast given me imieli. I thank ! thee that I can now give* t . others in th\ name. N i\v [ can lx <*;. < - far the blind and clothing for the naked and foal for the hungry an ! shelter for 1! homeless?” Did you, do you make that prayer? Like the ant, a"* ym tryiia: to protect .' > r popple from outsFe | dangers? 1. ke the ant, are you trying i to help tic* helpless and < are for those j who are nr i.ialiy. physically and spir itually doomed unless you come to tlmi ■ rescue? The thoughtful love of the ant f her sisti rs was be&utif i'i 1 by an incident in the life of the noted sage of Philadelphia, Benjamin I n ■ 1 I in. O111* day he discovered a number of ants feasting in a molasses pail. ii< drove them out and su ipmide 1 the j ! in midair from a hook in the center - i the eeiling. Much to his surprise, after I’rankiiii ha i been reading for awhile, he saw an overlooked ant which i* been hidden in the pail -rawl out ami ' climb up ihe handle to the string and up to tin* ceiling, aero 1 - the ceiling : : the side wall, down tin* side wall and disappear. A short time afterward t'n ' philosopher saw that same ant leading a retique ,of other ants. The procei sion followed her up the wall, over tb" i ceiling to the book, down the string. ! along the handle and into the pail of molasses again, whore she and hot friends gorged themselves with mo lasses lu.i.i they could hold no mare. In the illustration of the ant going to find her sisters that they might enjoy a meal instead of eating selfishly alone ! cannot you and I find a spiritual les son? “Oh. yes." says some one, “hut that ant did not have to divide her nma!. 1 .She had all she wanted. Why would she not be willing to let her sisters eat their till al-o? There was hanging from that rope a big pail of molasses.” True; true. But, my friend, have not most of us a big pail of molasses? If you and I should give to the hungry we would still have enough food left for our own tallies. If some of us 1 should clothe the naked we would still have enough warm garments for our backs; if some of us should he crutches for the lame we would still have our | own straight limbs which God has giv- , eu to us with which to walk and run 1 and leap as a hind upon the mountain side. Oh. like the ant. will you not be kind and merciful aud loving to your fellow men who need your sympathy and help? Hard Worker* the Females. But 1 cannot close without oue sim ple paragraph, to state that this ser moil of ali sermons should teach its lesson to our wives and mothers and sisters and daughters as no other ser mon I have ever preached. Have you not not.ccil how I have always used the feminine gender in speaking of the ant. “She dues this.” “She does that." “She does the other thing.” The reason I speak thus Is because the naturalist tells us that the little black ant we see in the roadway be longs to the feminine gender. Yes, the b ird workers of the ant hills are always females. No sooner is the nuptial jour; cy taken than the male .I;r disappears. So. when I come to he house of God. to the place when* Ghristian workers dwell, I find in evitybly that the wives and the moth er aud li. • .sisters and the daughter TWO OPEN LETTERS IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOMEN Mrs. Mary Dlmmlck of Washington telle How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Made Her Well. It is with great pleasure we publish the following letters, as they convinc ingly prove the claim we have so many times made in our columns that Mrs. I ary Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., is fully gnAB fiedtogive helpful advice to sick wome Read Mrs. Dimmick’s letters. Her first letter: Dear Mrs. Pinkham :— ! “ 1 have b • n a sufferer for the past eigh' years with a (.rouble which first originated from painful mein (mation—the pains were excruciating, with n.Janimation and ulcera tion of the womb. The doctor says I must have an opemtion or I cannot live. I do not want to submit to an oiieration if I can nossi* bly avoid it. Please nelp me.”—Mrs. Me Dhnmick, Washington, D. C. Her second letter; Dear Mrs. Pinkham :— “You will renumber my condition when I last wrote you, and that the doctor said I must have an operation or I could not live. I received your kind letter and followed your advice very carefully and am now entirely well. As my case was so serious it seems a miracle that I am cured. I know that I owe not only my health but my life to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and to your advice. I can walk miles without an ache or a pain, and I wish every suffering woman would read this letter and realize what you can do for them.’ —Mrs. Mary Dimmick.S'Jth and East Capitol Streets, Washington, D. C. How easy it was for Mrs. Dimmick to write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., and how little it cost her—a two-cent stamp. Yet how valuable was the replyl As Mrs. Dimmick says—it saved her life. Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands of just such letters as the above, and offers ailing women helpful advice- u- > MURRAY IRON MIXTURE 9?Now is the time to 4 take a spring tonic. By far the best thing to take is Murrxy’H Iron Mixture. It makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeling. At all drug stores r* "j I lot tits or direct from The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. if We Knew Anything are the leaders t here lu ( hristlau work .. As the ni' •I her rocks the cradle. j is t!ie child (' oveloped for God. It is 11). i* sister’s Christ inn life that lead* tut* brother to ( nrist. 11 1 s the wu.v in which a wife lives that decides the way the Int lives. O woman. :oiiay. with the ant bill .as my pulpit. I ask you will you not go to work for Christ? Will you not. here and now. prvr* f r» y isr rjr * YOTS rMl(l lives for the salvation of your fathers and brothers and husbands and son to God? Our powerful preacher of this morning is a priestess—the ant. Will you not plead with your loved on ‘s to bow at ( twist’s altar, which D a - low as the grave hillock, which i as low even as an ant hill? O God. give us one generation of women f u- Christ, and thou we shall have a whole world saved for Christ! [Copyright, I'CiD, by Louts Klopsch.] ants. In the second he placed two •hild they would place one of these lu- 1 rriendlv ants. Then the naturalist ! placed these two bottles In front of the entrance of an ant hive. At once the th * l> iv turn out as ciever and as wise ants swarmed forth by the hundreds. = the ant!” The human being who I Wlth their n' a »fi!bles they tried to i'".es not work with intelligent fore- l,rtak ,,irou 8 ,J tlK> niuslln covering of sec 1'iadi in the baby’s hand while they the earnest prayer. “O God, may tlniuglit is a useless and a dangerous worker. Fire and steam are alike po tent. but tbe harm caused by Impris oned fire may he greater than the good that is done by harnessed steam. Wlll- ingness to labor will not weave togeth er 11 carpet unless Intelligence has manufactured a loom and a shuttle. The intelligence of the ant Is startling ly signifliiiiit. It is as worthy of imita tion ns is her persevering energy. Snowsh ic< are useless In Florida. Cal ico dresses are an absurdity In the arctic. A ship’s keel laid In the center of tin western prairies had better be split up into kindlings. A telescope is utterly valueless except for the power of the lirnin which adapts the lens to the astronomer's eye. Be wise, Ik* wise! Consider the ant’s ways and he very Wise. Intelligent and wise architects are the strange ants aud destroy them, but for their friends they had not a stroke nor a blow. An Ant'o Tendernens. Not only will ants refuse to attack one of the members of their own hive, but if they find one of their own kind wounded or in trouble or blinded or crippled, then will the ants of some species, though perhaps not of all, ten derly care for that sick sister ant, as though It were a blessing so to do. Cripple an ant In a country road, and her sisters xvlll find her and tenderly carry her back to the hive and protect her there until she dies. They will care for her as tei i.-riy as the good physi cian cares for the sick soul. They will never leave her. nor let her hunger nor freeze with the cold If they can help her. O man. is one of the missions of your life to look after the halt and the ISerlli) E»tn Florae Went. There is in the Grelfswalderstrasse, Berlin, a regularly installed horse ; slaughter home, which Is under can* ful police supervision, with a veter- i inary surgeon in attendance to see that no animal Is kilted the flesh of which would be, by reason of disease or other cause, unfit for human food. In 1895 the whole number of horses killed In Berlin for meat was 7,2(17. lu 1900 the number had increased to 10.- 815 and In 1!<04 to about 13,000. Esti mating that an average sized horsi* will yield 290 pounds of edible flesh, there was derived from this source last year about 3.990.000 pounds of meat, which was sold for consumption in six ty-four shops which are specially li censed for that purpose.—From a Con sular Report. We KNOW a good HAIR BRUSH when g we see it. : : . If you’ll look through our stock you’ll he obliged to know that we KNOW howto buy Hair Brushes at prices that enable us to oiler some unusual bar gains : : : : : !fo*v th«* I'nltcd State* “la.” Now, by official usage, the United States “Ls” a nation. Indeed the most recent history of the country, that by Professor Sparks of the University of Chicago, announces as Us plan the st *- »y of how the phrase “The United States Is” was gradually developed from the "Fulteu States are.” The ex tent and significance of the change In dicated by the substitution of the sin gular for the plural verb It is difficult for the present generation to under stand—Kansas City Star. The Gaffney Drug Comp’y. Prescription Drnggisls' J. E. GREENE, Manager, Opposite Botb Hotels. 'Phone 50.