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Thousands Ha*e Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. How 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 /c . 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 tl.e 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 ?nd the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-ftoot 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 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. By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talng^ffe, D.D. Home of Swamp-Root. NOTICE! We want every man and women in the United Statea Interested In the cure of Opium, Whlskoy or other drug habits, either for themselves or friends, to have one of Dr. Woolley’s books on these dls« ea.-es. Write Dr. B. M. W oolley, Atlanta, Ga.. Box 287, and one will be sent you free. r Jfj Witt's . Littl? Vb« fpp- '*■. ;* f • jii' 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 send me four one-cent stamps to pay postage, and 1 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 olficer in our army or navy. W. H. PHILLIPS, Louisville, Ky. Up-to-Date Market Your Heat on Ice. S vi ft’s Hams, some nice, lean cured Hams with skin taken off, sliced thin, for breakfast, or some nice Pork chop or Pork Steak, or some fine Kansas City Beef, 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, Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Beans and Peas, white and colored. Fresh Fish Fridays and Saturdays. Can fill ypur whole bill at our place. Goods delivered on time. . Yours for business, ju, w. jvicOTJir^isr Phone No. 60. Resideuo'' No. 23. 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 Shuford & LeMaster. FOR ALL COUNTY NKWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. The hege Log Beam - SAW MILIv WITH heacock-King Feed Works Enoikbs ahd Boilibs. Woodwobkinu Mwohimbby, Cotton Qinnino, Bkiok- UAKIMO AND 8 HI NO LB AND LaTH Machinery, Corn Mill*. Etc , Etc. GIBBKS MACHINERY CO.. Colttokbla, S. C. The Qibbes Shingle Maohine L Los Angeles, Uni., June 18.—In every large city in the Union there is a con siderable population to whom this ser mon peculiarly applies. The preacher voices their plea for the gospel, and urges that it he no longer rejected. The text Is Acts xvi, 9, “Come over into Macedonia, and help us.’’ “Nearby Macedonians! What do you mean?” says some one. “Is there any class of people living near to me who have not the gospel preached to them as it ought to be preached? Why, near ly all my life I have been living In one of our large cities. I have sat under some of the greatest preachers of the world. Surely all those who live near to me have the same kind of gospel advantages I have?” No, my friend, you are wrong. There are scores, and hundreds, and thousands, and tens of thousands who have not. Before I get through with my subject I hope to prove to you that my premise Is true, for today I am going to speak for the most part to those who have lived near ly all their lives in a large city. Where did you go to church when you tirst came to town? "Oh,” you say, “I used to worship in such and such a street. The great Dr. So-and-so preached there. But I moved away, and most of my old neighbors moved away long ago. The hoarding house ele ment crowded us out. The region where I used to live is now tilled with ‘room ers.’” Indeed! I suppose very few people are now living in your old street. “Oh, no; quite the coutrary,” you answer. “Where there used to be one family living In a house there are now sometimes twenty or thirty peo ple. Light housekeeping in many in stances has made each double room house a whole family.” Indeed! Then, with the increased population swarm ing there, I suppose your old church is crowded to the doors. I suppose your old Sunday school ! • Ive times larger than it used to ue and tin* church members have taken every pew. "No,” you answer. "I only wish that were true. 1 love that old church now more than I have ever loved It. But the trouble is the wealthy people moved away. Then old Dr. So-and-so got a call to heaven. Then the people who remained called a fine young man. hut lie .could not make the church go- IIe struggled on and on. They could not pay him a salary sufficient to live upon and ho had to leave. Now the old church has a very ordinary man in the pulpit. The seats are only a sixth full. The whole work there seems to be at a standstill. What is being done is done in the quicksands. One month the people arc there and the next they are gone. 1 am afraid the old church Is geographically doomed.” Your old church’s work geographical ly doomed? Whit! Can such a comli tion exist at our very doors? There are thousands and hundreds of thou sands of a city’s population swarming around those old churches. Shull all our best church strongholds be turned to secular uses? Such a condition must not exist. My theme today is a call for help for what Is termed the deserted church of the boarding house regions of u large city. I would make a plea not for the downtown church, which is situated In the heart of n business center of a great city. I hkve been pastor of such a church as that in Pittsburg, and I know they can he made useful and prosperous If right methods are adopted. I make not a plea for the church situated In the residential region. I have such a church as that In the beautiful city of Los Angeles, if a man does his work there. It Is not difficult to gather In the families. But I make a plea for the “halfway” city church, the church which Is not downtown nor uptown. 1 plead for the church which Is surround ed by rooming houses and by the boarding house element—the “halfway church,” which is In a region congest ed wltb multitudes of people who have not the gospel preached to them as It ought to he. I make a plea for such a church beeau.se I have been pastor of one and I know of the almost lusur mountable obstacles which It has to overcome. The “Halfway Church.” The “halfway church” of the large city to he a spiritual success must have. In the first place, an earnest hand of strong, ahlebodied men and women who for the church’s sake are ready to help the minister and fill the official positions of that church. It must have tried gospel veterans In Its boards of elders, deacons and trustees. It must have able leaders In the Sunday school who know the Bible and are ready to stay by their classes under all condi tions. It must have these men and women, not as visitors, but as mem bers In good and regular standing, who are Identified with the church be cause there they know they can best serve their Lord and Master and there they will always bo In thel’* places. Why <1 » I put such an emphasis upon this plea f »r consecrated m<*n and wo men in the official hoards? a true church lender cannot he created In a day or a week or a month or a year any more than n lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, a prlniu donna, can he cre ated in a minute. Supposing I should enter your store some day and say. "('tine. Mr. Joins, let us take a trip to Europe and have a five months' va cation." ••Ob,” you would say to me, "l < I’icit g >. ! 1; ice no one with whom to leave the store.” “No one? Why, what are you talking about? Here are clerks galore. You have at least twen ty men and women in your employ.” “I know it,” you answer, “hut not one of them all is competent to take my place. They are all young men. 1 cannot make a merchant out of an er rand boy in a minute any more than you could make a Thomas A. Edison in a minute out of a young college youth who has just matriculated In the scientific school of Princeton.” Yet the strange fact remains that, though church work Is the most important of all work, the leading Christian men of a city will get up almost en masse and walk out of these “halfway churches.’’ Thus they will practically say to the minister who Is struggling there: “Young man, fill your session with a lot of young people who are utterly in experienced. Grab right and left for your Sunday school superintendent and teachers, no matter whether they know the Bible or no. We want to go and live on the aristocratic boulevards and go to a stylish church. You must get along as best you can.” Thus these leading men. seemingly without the least compunction, desert their gospel ship when it Is In danger of sinking. Don't Desert It. Is It surprising that these “halfway churches” arc destroyed when their strong church leaders desert them in this way? Let me today enter one of our large city churches in the residen tial districts and take away fifteen of Its powerful consecrated church lead ers. The next year have another fif teen depart, and so on year by year. Would not the spiritual work of that church be doomed? Yet this Is just what is happening to our “halfway churches.” The greatest difficulty fac ing such churches is not that the mul titudes are not near by to be reached. These multitudes by the ebb and flow of the “hoarding house element” come and go, hut there is always a multitude there. The greatest trouble is that the leading positions of those churches are not filled with experienced men and i women, with gospel veterans who stick there for the work’s sake. These “half way churehes" have not the spiritual leaveners to leaven the church loaf. O Christ'in workers, hi* ye men or wo men. you have no right to desert that “halfway church!” There you are need ed fifty, a hundred, times i tore than you are needed upon the church of the boule vard. 1 know of what I speak. It Is sim ply an impossibility for any clergyman to make a success of one of those impor tant "halfway churches” unless some of the Christian men and women who are now sitting uselessly In some of our wealthier uptown churches are ready to go down and help them. Again and again in these old “halfway churches” a new session of nine mem- 1 hers has been elected, and within six months half of them would he gone. These “halfway churches” must have the right kind of men and women for their official boards. More than that, they must have money sufficient for their work. Some of this money should be collected from their own people. Most of this money, however should and must come from outside sources. These churehes need it and must have it in the same way that a little child must have help from a father. Supposing I should say to tiy eight-year-old boy, “Son, you must new ! earn your living.” You would auswpr me: “That is absurd! Your hoy In time will he able to earn his own llv- i lug, but he cannot do it now." Tlte "halfway church” in one sense is th>! child. It can do a little for its owl ; support, hut not enough to be inde pendent of help. But, though our boards of home and foreign missions send their representatives to many dif ferent classes, they neglect, for the most part, these “halfway churches,” where every dollar Invested for Christ will bring the greatest returns ever found in Christian work. They Keed Looklnic After. The importance of financial aid for these "halfway churches” can best be Illustrated by describing the classes of people to which these churches appeal. ,T liey are not "dead beats," loafers and outcasts; they are, for the most part, young men and women-students, clerks and young married people. There are many who have known what better days mean, hut have lieen forced on account of misfortune to seek the cheaper lodgings of a town. Shall they not he looked after? Here Is one case: 1 am a fanner’s boy. “Goodhy, mother,” 1 say as I climb into the village stage which takes me to the city. “Goodby! Good- by!” Brothers and sisters wave as I disappear ov< r the last hill, which shuts out the old home and the familiar scenes of my boyhood. I am now heading for the city to make my way in the world. Where will I board? In a fashionable part of the town? Of course not. My salary Is only $d a week. I mtist live within walking dls- ! tance of the store. Besides that, each week I mnM si*nd a little money home to help father hire another hand to take my place on the farm. I cut down my expenses by sharing my room with a fellow clerk or I hire a small room In the hoarding region under the shadow of the “halfway church.” If that church does not appeal to me I will never go to church. Mark that! I demand as a young man good music, good preaching and Christian fellow- j ship In that church lest I drift Into the paths of sin. as thousands do yearly. And yet I as a young man can give, or. at any rate, will give, only a few pen nies weekly for the support of the church. Now, I believe In saving tht cannibal on the Kongo. I believe In social set tlements in the slums. I, however, do not believe in giving so much to the work in the slums and to converting the heathen cannibals that we have none left to give to develop the spirb uni life of the farmer’s hoy and the young girl clerk living almost wlfhit - a stone’s throw of our homes, under the shadow of the "halfway church” of a large city. General Lawton said in reference to the regular soldier, “These are not heroes; they are only regulars.” These young men and young women are our regulars. There Is nothing he roic about them. There is none of the glamour in work for them that then* is in converting cannibals, hut they are near to us, and they have an eternal future before them. What That Church Need*. The "halfway church” must have the best of music, the best of preaching, the best of church organization. It also must have money to alleviate such poverty and suffering as may exist among Its worshipers. It must he bread to the hungry and medicine to tin* sh-k; fire and clothes to the naked, and rent for the homeless as well as administer the "Bread of Life” for all. It literally must be all things to all men. For the Bible commandment distinctly and emphatically says that we should "do good unto all men, es pecially unto the household of faith.” And here the “household of faith" means the members of your own church. “What do you mean by that?” says some one to me. “Is the ‘halfway church’ to become a bureau of char ities? With It are you going to bribe men and women to come to church? If you do-, you will only reach men's stomachs and develop their mercenary spirit and not their hearts.” Oh, no, 1 would not bribe men to become Chris tians. But I would take care of them If they are members of the “halfway churches” and have been tripped up by misfortune. And, furthermore, my brother, if you cannot teach Christian men that the best friends they have on earth In time of distress are the members of their own churches, thosi men will after awhile cease to revere the church, and. perhaps, in time cease to love Jesus Christ himself. If the church of the Lord JesusChrist will not look after Us members, who will? Here, for instance, is that farm cr's hoy about whom we were talking. He goes to business one stormy winter day without his rubbers. He takes eold; pneumonia sets in. What is to become of him? He has no friends. He eats in a little restaurant five blocks from his boarding house. Shall he be hustled off to the county hospital? Shall he have no one to write to his mother and father, miles away? Hen* is a poor widow struggling to be bnub er, father and mother to her three little girls. Sunday comes around, am! there are no decent shoes in the house and no proper clothing. Shall that widowed mother not have those shoes provided? Here is a young husband taken sick. You call at the house and the wife meets you at the door with a shawl about her shoulders. It is freezing eold in that rodm. What is the matter? Coal is $10 a ton. No credit. The salary of that young man is stopped. Has not the “halfway church” a mission in every one of those homes? 1 tell you it has, and, further more, 1 tell you that where there is one case of poverty which should be alle viated in the boulevard church there are fifty—aye, a hundred—eases of dis tress under i e shadow of the “half way church.” Christ told the Phari see to go and * a good Samaritan to the Jew who nad fallen among the thieves. ('hrist also tells the ’’half- way church" to be a practical financial helper on its Jericho road. lliiHt Alvrnj* B«* Open. The "halfway church” must have consecrated leaders too. It must have outside financial aid. It must also have u church building which is open every night of the' week—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday as well as Sunday. It must appeal to Us people through their social as well us their spiritual natures. Two preuchiug services on a Sunday, a midweek prayer meeting and a short hour for Sunday school will not be the work of a "halfway church.” Four weekly sessions of prayer and praise service cannot suc cessfully cope with saloon and billiard Hid dance halls and low variety thea ters which compete with the vim and tke vitals of a "halfway church’s” par ish. The way a church should be conduct ed for the boarding house element is entirely different from how one should he Conducted for a residential district of | boulevard. Let us compare them. ‘ Htw are you, Mr. So-und-so? Where arciyou going tonight?” I greet you thii In the electric car on your way hone from business. "Oh,” you say, "I jam going home. I am going to «>d»l the happiest part of my daily exiitence with my family. I am going to Dead an evening at home witli my wifr and children. Come up and take dimer with me.” “Yes, I will,” I an- I swir. We alight from the car on a fln^ street. You say “How are you" to Imost every one you meet. Hen* all he neighbors know each other. A den wife greets you at the door. Your ehi Iren come romping through the hall at tie call of dinner. When the dessert is nisbed we adjourn to the library or i tting room. The games are brought out or the piano Is opened or the In tending hook Is read. That Is the way youspend your evenings. Every Influ euct of your home is an Influence for H*w about the evenings of that i>oor turner’s son who Is hoarding under Ge shadow of the “halfway church?" Hr ins one small hall bedroom. If he stun there too much at night the land- la</grumbles at him for wasting the gn* After he has eaten his supper if he does not find his enjoyment in the ebifiii or some of its connections in all probability he will find It In ways he night not to find It. The “halfway chinch” must have for its young per : pleidaces for debate, places for musi- j ifentertr those young people win drift off and drift away and be gone forever. Let Them Have Fan. I am today pastor of a church of the boulevard. I would not conduct my church any differently from the old fashioned, conservative way of my forefathers If 1 could. But I want to tell the pastors of the “halfway churches” in the hoarding house dis tricts of a great city that if I was again pastor of such a church I would do entirely different from what I once did. I would change my policy entire ly and make my church attractive to the young men and the young women who live in those boarding houses. My present principle of raising my chil dren Is to let them have all the games, all the fun. all the friends, they want if they will only play those games at my home. My principle of carrying on | a “halfway church" would be to koi*p j the young people at the church or in the lecture room all 1 could. I would | preach on Sunday Josus Christ just as | earnestly as God would give me pow- ; er. Then on week nights I would have i stereoptlcon lectures. I would have : debating societies. I would have read- ! iug rooms and libraries and social gatherings. In other words, as the sa- i loons of those regions tight for my | young men and women at all times ; and during all the week nights I would j fight for them day in and day out uls >. j May God today give our "halfway ! churches” grace enough to throw off I the old hidebound, conservative lines ! of church work and tight sin along the j linos upon which alone sin in those i boarding house regions can be suecess- ' fully fought. Social affiliation must go 1 side by side with spiritual upliftment. Lastly. I remark that these "half way churches” need the very best min- j isters the world affords. They need the ablest in brain power, in organiz ing power, in preaching ability and in oonsivrati >n. Our presbyteries should select ilu* finest young men who i come out of our seminaries and .ay: "Here, young men. we want you for a ’halfway ehun-h.’ We will support i you. We will not simply put you in charge of a ilmreh and then let you starve. We will stand by you after you are installed. While you work we will see that you have something to live upon. Then the strong young men of our seminaries will enter these "halfway pulpits" and consider they are on tin* h uior list of tin* gospel war riors of the ages instead of among the unfortunates who are making a failure of life because* from au outside stand point their churehes seem to be going down. Lydia Em Plnkham's Vegetable Compound is a positive cure for all those painful ailments of women. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Com plaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflam mation and Ulceration. Falling and Displacements of the Womb and con sequent Spinal Weakness, and U pecu iarly adapted to the Chang* of Life. Every time it will cure Backachom It has cured more cases of Leucor- rhoea than any other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels Tumors from the Uterus in an early stage of development. That Bearing-down Feeling, causing pain, weight and headache, U instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circum- I stances it acts in harmony with the female system. It corrects Irregularity, Suppressed or Painful Menstruation, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostra tion, Headache, General Debility. Also Dizziness, Faintness, Extreme Lassitude, “don’t-care” and “ want-to-be-left-alone ” feeling, excit- abilitj*, irritability, nervousness, sleep lessness, flatulency, melancholy or the ‘‘blues.” and backache. These ar® sure indications of Female Weakness, some derangement of the Uterus. For Kidney Complaints and Backache of either sex the Vegeta ble Compound is unequaled, You can write Mrs. Pinkham about yourself in strictest confidence. LIDIA E. Pl.NEHAI MED. CO., Lraa, one to me, look after then what on l 1 rtnlnment. where tin i— - places yoi|g people can assemble, or else ‘‘Well,” says sonu* I posing you do not ’halfway churches,' happen?" 1 will tell you by reciting I to you a simple incident which occur red during one of my travels. We win j riding over tin* hiils of Palestine. At J one of the villages we entered the word was passed around, "Some Americans are here; they can cure us." Then, just as in olden times, these people brought to nu* their sick. "But 1 can not cure them," I said. "I am no doe- i tor.” Then I turned to my dragoman i and said, "What becomes of these sick people when they cannot find a doc tor?" “Oh,” he answered, nonchalant ly, "of course they die, that Is all; they die." How do they die? The same i as one of my muleteers nearly died when going through the heavy sand. ! After we had been out about ten days in* was taken very sick. He became so sick he could not sit upon his horse, but wo had to ride on; there was no place to stop. He would ride along a little while, swaying like a drunken man. Then he would fall off. We would put him back upon his mule and try to hoiu him there. Then he would again fall off. If he died, he would have to die, that was all. What will become of these young ; men and women about the "halfway churches” If we do not save them? They will spiritually die. Instead of being brought to the feet of the Master they will drift out and many of them will j become gamblers and debauchees and drunkards and outcasts. Many of them will land up in the degradation of the slums. Many of them—aye, per haps most of them will he lost forever. The work of the downtown churches is important. The work of the boulevard church Is also important. But the mightiest work on earth which is given to any church to do is given to the "LuL’v, ay church," which touches, for the most part, a class of young people at the vitally important time of their spiritual lives. May God help those churches aud help us to help them in the name of Jesus Christ. During the late civil war In a certain battle the Union soldiers had fought all day long and were completely ex hausted. One of the Indiana regiments was almost ready to mutiny and turn and flee. But In the dark hours of the night one of the officers calli*d to his men as he said; “Boys, look! We are tired, but look at those nurses- those women far out to the front—caring for our sick and dying. They have been working just as hard as we. Let us continue to be as faithful ns they.” May you, O Christian workers, in the difficult "halfway churches” be the spir itual met;us not only of saving sinners In your own churches, but of inspiring us who are faint hearted to go forth with renewed energy to save souls where God has placed us. No fearing, no tlonbtlmr thy solfllers should know When h* j r<* stands his country and yonder his foe; On,* look at th<* bright sun, one prayer to the sky. One glance where our banner floats glor ious ns high: Then on, as the young II »n bounds on his pr«y: Cet the “\eord flash on high; fling thy scabt) ird away! Roll on. like the thunderbolt over the pl'ln: Wu co.no back In Cory or como not u^aln. rCopyrli.hr 1CV. by* Louts Itlopsch ] MURRAY IRON MIXTURE Now is the time to, take a spring tonic. By far the best thing to take is Murray's Iron Mixture. I r makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeling. At all drug stores 30^5 f-k lEEJo 111 or direct from The Murray Drug Co., CoiuiTtbia. S. C. ACCOUNT OF FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS. The Southern Railway announces very low rate of one and- one-third first class fare for the round trip (minimum rate fifty cents) from i all points in territory south of the Ohio and Potomac: and east of the Mississippi rivers, inclutiin- St. Louis. Mo. Tickets on sale July 1st. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. with final limit July 8th, 1905. Tickets to be limited to continuous passage in each direction. For full information consult ticket agents, or R. W. Hunt. Division Pas. Agent, Charleston. S. C. Protect Yourself Against loss by accident, sick ness, fire, storms, and leave your family comfortably ‘ ‘fixed’’ when you die, by investing in an INSURANCE POLICY. I .represent the best companies D. C. ROSS. The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. 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