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( dr / i Thousands Hare Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. ilow To Find Out. 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 *>-1 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 acK., kidneys, liver, bladder and every part |f the urinary passage. It corrects inability hold water and scalding pam in passing it. or bad effects following use of liquor, wipe 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. Tiie mild ?nd the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-tfoot 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 tl)e best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tells more about it, both sent absolutely free by mail, address Dr. Kilmer & Home of Swamp-Root. Co., Binghamton. N. Y. When writing men tion reading this generous offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. ^Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad dress. Binghampton, N. Y., on every bottle. /for ^ Sermon By Rev. Frank Ds Witt Talmage, D. D. j NOTICE! We want every man and women in the United States interested in the cure of Opium, Whiskey or other drug habits, either for themselves or friends, to have one of Dr. Woolley’s books on these dis eases. Write Dr. B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga., Box 287, and one will he sent you free. Risers QeWItt’s Little The laroeu a LttSe oills- Young Men Wanted Los Angeles. Cal.. Juno 11.—That our responsibilities are not to bo durked. but eheorfally shouldered, and that burden bearing is not an infliction, but j a blessing and essential to the right | development of charaeter, is the lesson of this sermon. The preacher takes his i text from Galatians vl, 5: “Kvery man | shall bear his owu burden.” •The World's Epoch Makers” is the ; theme of an extensive series of books upon the makers of the world’s history. But as the biographies of great men have made great books, 1 would tell you that the reading of those great books has been the turning point in multitudes of human lives. And I k^ow of no single biographer who has exerted greater influence upon the young men of our age and generation | than the late Samuel Smiles. His “Brief Biographies” and “Life of George Stephenson” and “Self Help,” with “Illustrations of Charaeter and Conduct and Industrial Biography” and many other hooks and pamphlets, have made it possible for his readers to walk hand in hand with the great ones of tho earth, from their humble begin nings to the time when they stood upon the pinnacles of the mountains of fame. Of all hooks which Samuel Smiles has written I do not believe any of them has influenced the young men to a greater extent than “Self Help. I remember when, as a young schoolboy, I found it in my father's library. I can remember just how that hook looked. I have not seen it for years. It had a dark red cover, with gilt letters. Though Its pages were printed in black ink, yet Its words wore to me em blazoned in letters of gold. That hook, ' above all other hooks which 1 read in boyhood days, taught me that the great est successes of life have not been won under advantageous circumstances, but by tin* hard plodders who worked on year In and year out. They worked In obscurity. They worked when others were unwilling to extend a helping do not care for e;ui or will do it leal burden. If you your body no one e!s< for you.” Importance of fare of llody. But, though phy -iea! health offers the foundation stones of the “temples of success” and the “temple of peace and happiness," it is amazing how men and women will deliberately go forth and ruin their physical frames. They would not treat horseflesh as they treat their own bodies. Horseflesh they look upon as valuable, and yet they do not seem to think that their physical bodies are valuable also. Some time ago I was riding through the country on one of the most famous stage routes of the world. About every ten or twelve miles the driver would rein in his team, and then we would get a relay of horses. I found that every little while he would stop the horses and give them time to catch their breath. Then 1 said: “I suppose it is a very easy matter to find drivers for this stage line. Tho pay Is good. The positions are absolutely as sured to the men as long as they be have themselves. Some of these driv ers have been In the employ of this company for ten. fifteen, even for tweu- ,y years.” "Oh. yes,” was the answer. "It’s easy enough for the company to get drivers, hut very difficult to get the right kind of drivers. A driver who is careless can ruin these horses in a few weeks. He will water them when they ought not to he watered. lie will push-them hard when they should he allowed to go slow. He will feed them when they should not he fed. On the other hand, the longer some drivers handle their horses tiie stronger the horses become.” Then the driver lifted Ids whip and cut the forward off horse as he said: “That horse there is over twenty years old. lie Is a good, strong animal yet. That one by his side is only five. He is good for fifteen years of future service. The reason our horses last so long and do so much hard work is because we treat them right.” The reason many men's physical bodies give out and tumble into premature graves Is because their owners do not look after them and care for them. But as there are physical valetudi narians, so there are mental. As there are scores and hundreds of phys ical cripples who hobble around on y>ung man seeking financial employ ment. He knocks at the door of the world, and the call is sounded, ‘Come In! Want employment? What can you do?’ ‘Oh,’ answers the young man, ‘I am a laborer. I can do just what I am told to do, no more and no less.’ ‘Then as a common laborer crawl down into the lowest ditches of life, and I will give you just a bare subsistence for a livelihood, for I have to tell you every thing. You think nothing, therefore you -hall receive practically nothing for your toil.’ Another young man comes to the door and knocks. ‘Come in! What can you do?' ‘Well, I can do al most anything that I am told to do, hut I also have one finger that thinks. I am a skilled mechanic.’ ‘Go to yonder bench,’ says the world. ‘As you think a little, I will pay you a little more than the man who does not think at all’ Another young man knocks. ‘Come in! What can you do?' T can do anything that I am told to do, but I also have ten fingers that think. I am a musi cian.’ ‘Then, as a musician, go stijl ; higher. Sit ye at Ivory keys and play. | 1 will pay thee more than the mechanic, j hi*< uise thou hast ten thinking fingers.’ | Another young man knocks. ‘Come in! j What can you do: 'I can do anything I Unit I am told to do, but I can do more j than that. I can see what ought to be i done, and I am willing to lo it without I any command. 1 have brain that j thinks. I have ton linger* that think j and two foot that think. think all ! over my body. All that I wish is a chance to work, and I will work on until I become indispensable to thee.’ ‘Ah,’ says the world, ‘I need you. Go to work in my service and great shall be your reward.’ ” The Love Bnr«len of Home, But as Paul begins to strap the dif ferent loads upon a man’s hack, as the Arabs of the east weignt down their camels for the desert journey, and yet the man grows stronger and stronger as he hears these burdens, I see Paul lift another heavy burden and j place it above the top of the physlenl l aud the mental burdens. Th s last burden is the love burden of the home. ! When Paul says, “Every man shall bear his own burden,” ho also seems to say: "Every man, if possible, shall i cure for his aged father and helpless crutches because they have not taken | old mother. He shall care for his vlfe care of their health, so there are scores ami children. He shall look after his and hundreds of mental cripples, who ! helpless brothers and sisters. And In never have right thinking, robust, earing for fhese domestic love burdens manly, independent minds, because they have never made an effort to think. These mental weaklings are always depending upon others, or bor- How would you like to secure a commission as an officer under Uncle Sam ? If you are between the ages of 17 ami 35 years, possess the necessary common school edu cation, are moral, persistent, and can pass the required physical ex amination send me four one-cent stamps to pay postage, and I will mail \ on 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. 3T- W. H. PHILLIPS, * Louisville. Xy. £ ■BSSb hand. They worked, and kept on work- rowing from others, or trying to be Up-io-Date ilaiiat Your fleat on Ice. Swift’s II uns, some nice, lean cured Hams with skin taken off, sliced thin, for breakfast, or some nice Pork chop or Po-k Steak, or some fine Kansas Citv lleef, good ami mellow, or Cher okce lleef. Just as you like. Plenty of Irish Potatoes, Danish Cabbage, Onions and Sets, Country Produce when it can be got. Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Beans and Peas, white and colored. Fresh Fish Fridays and Saturdays. Can fill your whole bill at our place. Goods delivered on time. Yours for business, l w< W. Vlet^IJirSIV Phone No. 60. Residence No. 23. Host Anything Amt 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 Shuford & LeMaster. FOR ALL COUNTY NIW9, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. :3T the Hege Log Beam SAW MILL WITH heacock-King Feed Works ENOimn awd Boilbrs, Woodwobkino Machinery, Cotton Ginning, Bkick- HA KING AND SHINGLE AND LaTH Maohinekt, Coen Mills, Etc . Etc. OIBBKS MACHINERY CO.. Columbia, S. C. The OiBBES Shingle Maohinb ing, even amid neofl's and sneers. But they worked on with manly Independ ence until at last the world was willing : to acknowledge their greatness and to offer to these heroes and heroines Its tribute of praise. If a young man sets out to achieve I success In life, he must he willing to 1 serve* in the ranks and carry a rifle or mishcath a sword. Sofas on which to lie down and easy chairs in which to bunge are not stepping stones from which men mount to illustrious thrones. What Samuel Smiles taught in “Seif Help” Paul is enunciating In the words of my text. In the second verse of ibis chapter the apostle writes, ‘‘Bear ye one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ." That means, far as in you lies look around you aid ' ■ how many people you may be able to be!]). If you see a feeble old . oman coming home from market give her a lift whh her basket. If you see a 1 : bad man witli his earn* trying to fee! his way across n crowded thorough 1 vc g) and assist him. "Be eyes for the blind, as well as crutches for the 1 me." Always be ready to lend a helping hand to people* who are in need of help, ami for yourself make your own way, depending on no man for a free ride or a push tip the ladder of iTc. “Broaden your own shoulders," - ivs Paul. "Tighten your own girdle for the race of life." Do not turn your sword's scabbard into a milk bottle. Do not seek pensions instead of field service. “Kvery man shall hear his own burden." Every man shall try to lift his own pack. Manly independence in life is the theme. Do not waste any more hours or minutes trying to And 1 out how others can help you, but set yourselves to help yourselves. Train Your Unity. The physical burden you must hear. You must learn how to develop your physical nature. In the same way that the horse trainer makes a study of Ids horse and the dairyman his cows and the farmer of his field of oats you must look after the health of your body. You must learn what foods It Is best for you to eat, what exercise it Is best for you to take, what sunlight it Is best for you to blithe In, what clothes are best for you to wear and what amount of time you shall spend at your meals to properly masticate the food which has been cooked for your use. Mark this: If you do not proper ly look after your own health no other person is capable of doing It for you. As you have ta bear the pains and the sicknesses and the helplessness for the most part If your health is wrecked, so for the most part you yourself must look after and guard your own health. Your mother may compel you to put on your overcoat and overshoes when you go out Into n storm, but she can not restrain you from sitting In the dangerous drafts. She cannot always supervise your diet. She cannot keep you from chilling your stomach by drinking lee water when overheated. She cannot look after you and forbid you doing the five hundred little things you are accustomed to do and which are dally sapping away the foundation of your physical existence. Now, God comes to most of us In our youth and says: “Young man, here Is a good, strong, sinewy body. That physical body Is to he the very foundation of your success In life. Make the most out of that body. Look after it. Guard it. Develop it. Bear your own phys- I propped up by others. As children, | ; they started their mental training wrong. They have been very regular j in their habits. Ever since childhood 1 days they have been living mentally wrong. Mental Crl|>|>l«*N. We first met these mental cripples, j or mental dependents in our school- ^ i room. One of them was our seat mate, i If there was a hard problem in equa- ! tlons, or algebra, or trigonometry, he | always sat by our side, chewing the end of his pencil and looking around the room, until \v<* had worked out ! the answer, and then lie calmly copied ^ it off and turned in our work as his j own. In s. hool d. ys I had one of i those mental lecche by my side. For days and \ve**ks In* always copied my : 1 work. And wtiat was my surprise in I one examination. i.< received a higher . mark than I. although his paper was ; mine, practically In toto. He was mentally capable, hut he simply would j not work. We find these mental weaklings or ! dependents everywhere around us in the world. You have one in all prolm- | bility in your domestic servant. She will do what you tell her to do, hut un less you furnish her your brain and thinking power she is of no more prac tical use in the world than a lifeless stick. Instead of rising a little earlier than the family and getting her work well under way she does not get up till you call her. After breakfast she just sits. Then you come to her and say, “Mary. I wish you would sweep up the parlor and dust tin* mantels.” ••yes, ma'am." Two hours later, going into the room, you Und Mary leaning out of the window and watching the children playing In the street. You say: "Mary, this is cleaning day. Can’t you do something besides stare out of (mlv the window? Have you swept the par lor floor?" “Yes, ma’am.” "Then why did you not go ahead end make up the beds?” “Because, ma'am, you did not tell me to do it, ma’am.” "Well, then go ahead and make the beds.” “Yes. ma’am.” Two hours later you come back from some shopping and market ing. and there you find Mary gossiping with the cook In the kitchen, and the front porch is dirty, at 1 the rugs are all askew In the halls, and the wash ing has not been put away. “Mary, Mary,” you cry, losing all your pa tience, “what Is the matter with you? Why are you sitting Idly there? Have you fixed the halls and cleaned the bathroom and put away the washing?” “No, ma'am.” “Wh. have you not done these things?” ''Because, ma’am, you never told me to do that, ma’am.” “Well, go and do them now.” “Yes, ma’am.” Now, Mary Is not a physical weakling. She Is a mental cripple. She Frill not take an Interest In things. She will do what she Is told to do, but not one thing else will she do. And, my friend, It Is your duty and mine to mentally wake up. It is our duty to prepare ourselves for mental toll. Having eyes with which to see. it ‘v our business to see. Having ears which to hear. It Is our business L hear. God expects every man to hear n physical burden. He also expects every man to hear a mental burden Beecher's llluslrntlon. Manly Independence in reference to the mental burdens we ought to hear, was well Illustrated by Henry Ward Beecher In a remarkable address he made some years ago. “Hero Is one 1 he is a Do developing himself and In creasing his own strength.” Who are the strong men of this town? Who are the giants physically, men tally, morally and spiritually? Are they the men who grow up with the idea that they would not ^ake unto themselves a wife and the care of cbil- dn 11 until great linanelal success was theirs and they could live in “Easy street?” Did they refuse to marry un til they cpuld take their brides to as tine a home as tiiat In which the girls’ fathers and mothers were passing the evening time of their lives? No. In evitably they are the men who had nothing to start with but two stout arms, a clear brain and a willingness to work. Hardly had they got a foot hold In business when they married. They married mostly on “faith, hope and charity,” for they had not much t*l>e in sight. Then came the children. And In these young men's struggles to provide for their little ones and to lift tlw burden of domestic love they de- veloped their strength to herculean pr ipoi tlons. There has been a great deal of fun made of President Roosevelt's denun ciation of those who would shirk the burdens of the homo and not marry when they ought to marry, but I be lieve Theodore Roosevelt is right. And I would furthermore state that one of the great reasons why I believe our forefathers were men of such sterling worth was because they not only be lieved In having a home, but they also believed that the greatest honor which could come to a man was to train up a large family of boys and girls for God. And did they not train well their large families of children? When Sam uel the prophet came to tho house of j Jesse to anoint one of Jesse's sons king | of Israel the proud Hither presented to the man of God his seven strapping hoys. But Jesse was not prouder of his sons than some of the noted New ! England divines were of their children. the other day I was reading over a list of tin* families of these theolo gians who so mightily helped to make this country what It is today. Let me read the list to you: Rev. Increase Mather had ten children. Rev. I’eter Hobart had eleven children. Rev. Sam uel Dan forth had twelve children. Rev. Samuel Treat had thirteen children. Rev. Edwood Taylor had fourteen chil dren. Rev. Nathan Birdseye, one of my own direct ancestors anil one of the most noted of Connecticut divines, had sixteen children. The great Rev. John Sherman had twenty-six children. Jonathan Edwards had twelve chil dren. Lyman Beecher, who was the father of more brains than any Amer ican who ever lived, had thirteen chil dren. These men as well as their lead ing parishioners, most of whom were fathers and mothers of large families, developed themselves and, I believe, became the strong men and women they were largely through the domestic loads they voluntarily set themselves to lift. When young men and young women shirk the duty of going to the marriage altar because the duties there are heavy they stunt their moral and mental and physical growth Instead of Increasing their stature thereby. A Mlnlater'n Lot* Burden. "Well,” says some one, “what does that mean? Do you mean that I must marry, whether I would or no, and bare a home?" Oh. no. If you do not *nnt to marry, I am not here to tell you to marry. But I am here to tell you that for your own good, strength and power, you should have a love burden. If you cannot have a wife and children of your own, then 1 would have you at least do as did Rev. Thomas Marshall, the great mis sionary Held secretary of the Presby terian church. He was one of the gentlest, sweetest, purest and loveliest men I ever knew. The first time he was to preach in my pulpit on mis sions, I sent word in a letter to him, which read about like this: “Bring along Mrs. Marshall and take dinner with us.” When he came over I asked, “Where Is your wife?" lie laughed his gentle laugh, saying, "1 have no wife.” "What, are you one of the most unfortunate of all crea tures, an old bachelor?” “No,” he an swered with a gentle smile, “I am not a bachelor.” Then in the quiet of my study, he told me the pathetic anil beautiful story of his life. He Is dead now. He is with his redeemed'wife. And so 1 feel no diffidence in telling this beautiful story. Many, many years ago, Thomas Marshall was a young missionary minister in a little western town. It was his first charge. He then built a parsonage and took to it a beautiful young girl as his bride. Time ^passed on and the young preacher dreamed his dream of joy. He thought the hap piness of his home was about to he doubled, quadrupled and infinitely multiplied. But what was hoped to be was not to he. The death angel and the birth angel locked wings. The young mother and her baby were hurled in the same coffin under the shadow of the little church she loved. There sat the old man looking In the fire after he had softly told the sad story. For a little while he said noth ing. I dared not arouse him. But at last he heaved a big sigh and then said. “But God was good. He has my wife and my baby waiting for me. But la* gave to me five babies besides.” “Did you marry again?” I asked. “No, 1 could love but one bride," he answered. “But a short time after a widow down the road was dying. As 1 went to her bedside I found that she had no one with whom to leave the care of her live ; babies. She had no money. So after the j funeral was over I bundled them all j uj)—yes, all the five children, and took | them to my h mie. and 1 have raised them all. And they are all mine. Yes. they are all mine!" “Yes,” I said, "and j the raising of that widow’s babies has | made you the noble man of God that you are.” An Imported Burden. O man, C) woman, have you not some | love burden to lift? If you are not | wedded and have no children of your j owu, can you not be a Thomas Mar- | shall? Can you not adopt some other people's children? Can you not be an Alexander H. Stephens? Though he had no children of his own and because on account of physical disability he 1 would not marry, yet In order to lift j the love burden he adopted and reared ; in his own home eighteen young men and fitted them for eoilege and for the world struggle. He always called them his hoys. Can you not do ns these no ble men have done? You must have some one near you to love If you ever develop your life as you ought. Never neglect the love burden. Never crush | the natural home interests of your heart. If you have no one to love by your own fireside, then, for God's sake and for your owu sake, import some : one Into your affections right away. The physical frame Is developed by burden beaming. The mind is developed by burden bearing. The heart’s affec tions are dev 1'loped by burden bearing. 1 How emphatically true It is that the | spiritual life and (he Christ power are J developed by burden bearing. Indeed, : so universal is this law when applied to our relationship with Jesus Christ that j I defy you to find one man who is truly | I a spiritual man or a spiritual woman l who is not every morning, noon and i j night cheerfully, willingly and gladly j carrying the spiritual burdens for Je sus Christ. What says the Bible? “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take tip his cross and | follow me. For whosoever shall save ! his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find It.” Have you been developing your spiritual life by placing your shoulder under a heavy cross to carry It for Christ? Have you been trying to win eternal life by consecrating your phys ical and mental and love powers to tin* service of the Master? A Futber’E I.i*«i»i»n. The spiritual burdens we must all lift if we are to fulfill the command ments of the text. And yet, to hear some people talk one would suppose that Christ’s sacrifices and tho conse crated lives of our Christian parents and Christian wives and Christian daughters are all that we need to win our salvation. Others may work for Christ, but it Is not necessary for us to lift any spiritual burdens. Is that true? Listen to the lesson taught lu this sto ry. Some years ago, a father was very sick. He said to his little daughter who was waiting upon him: “Helen, it is time for me to take my medicine. Will you get it and pour out for me Just one teaspoonful?” The daughter did as her Christian father asked. “Now. my daughter, that medicine is very bit ter. I wish you would drink It for me V" “Drink it for you, father?” said Helen. “Why, I cannot drink that medicine for you. It would do you no good If I drank It. You will have to drink your own medicine, as the doctor said.” "Won't It, my dear? Won't the medi cine do me any good If you drink It?" said the father. “Then, my dear, If the medicine you take cannot do me any good, neither by the law of salvation can you take from Christ my spiritual redemption and life. If you want to be saved you must go to Jesus yourself aifcl he saved." Good theology, that. Good for the beginning of Christian life. Good in reference to its applica tion of Christian burden bearing. You cannot work out my spiritual salva tion. I cannot work out yours. “Ev ery man shall hear his owu burden. [Copyright, IWOB. by Louis Klopach ] Nervous Women Their Sufferings Are Usuell^ Due to Uterine Disorders Perhaps Unsuspected A MEDICINE. THAT CUKES Can we dispute the well - known fact that American women are ner' vous ? How often do we hear the expres sion, ‘‘I am so ner vous, it seems as if I should fly ; ” or, _ “ Don’t speak to [AtrsMEShot^olk™ '' Little things *• — - j you and make you irritable; you can't sleep, you are unable to quietly and calmly perform your daily tasks or care for your children. The relation of the nerves and gen erative organs in women is so close that nine-tenths of the nervous pros tration, nervous debility, the blues, sleeplessness and nervous irritability arise from some derangement of the organism which makes her a woman. Fits of depression or restlessness and irritability. Spirits easily affected, so that one minute she laughs, the next minute weeps. Pain in the ovaries and between the shoulders. Loss of voice; nervous dyspepsia. A tendency to cry at the least provocation. All this points to nervous prostration. Nothing will relieve this distressing condition and prevent months of pros tration and suffering so surely as Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs. M. E. Shotwell, of 103 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: ‘‘I cannot express the wonderful relief I have experienced by taking Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. I suffered for a long time with nervous prostration, back ache, headache, loss of appetite. I could not sleep and would walk the floor almost evErv night. “ I had three doctors and got no better, and life was a burden. I was advised to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and it has worked wonders for me. “ I am a well woman, my nervousness is all gone and my friends say I look ten yean younger.” Will not the volumes of letters from women made strong by Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound convince all women of its virtues ? Surely you cannot wish to renaain sick and weak and discouraged, exhausted each day, when you can be as easily cured u other women. MURRAY IRON MIXTURE Now is the time to^ take a spring tonic. By far the best thing to take is Murnty’s Iron Mixture. It makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeling. At all drug stores 30^-2 frX P3O 111 or direct from The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. Scott’s Powders By the use of this pow der peaches, pears, plums, cherries, berries of any kind, fruit juices and such vegetables as tomatoes, beans, etc., can be pre served WITHOUT THE USE OF AIR TIGHT CANS. This powder is perfectly harmless. One 2oc package is suffi cient to preserve 40 pounds of fruit. The Gaffney Drag Comp’y. Prescription Druggists J. E. GREENE, Manager. Opposite Both Hotels. ’Phone 50.