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DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK ? Kidney Trouble JIakcs You Miserable. «- Almost everybody who reads the news- pap s is sure to know of the wonderful ji cures made by Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, J| III the great kidney, liver C t-, li- anc ^ t)l a ^^ er remedy. ^ ^ ^ ^ it is the great medi- f i cal triumph of the nine- 1 J r tcenth century; dis- l covered after years of |i| scientific research by •V.a Dr. Kilmer, the emi- ' rent kidney and blad der specialist, and is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou bles and Bright's Disease, v/hich is the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec ommended for everything but if you have kid ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private pract'ce, among the helpless too poor to pur chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. K : 'mer&:Cr. Bing- lamton, N' Y. Th?. :gu>a- fifty cen. a^o dol'arsues a-e si.(d oy 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. Caltnage Sermon By Rev. Frank De Wltt Talmatfe. D. D. n mi*ot SwuiiD u-ot ' cn f'E sis. I/os Angeles, Cal., July T.—In this cennon ■tin- |trencher gives wholesome! warning against foolliardy risks ami evil companionships and shows that real courage does not rashly court dan- j gcr. either moral or physical, but rath er avoids it. The text is “Ecclesiastes xil, r>. "They shall he afraid of that i which is high.” What is the Biblical picture of my text? Mere physical decadence and mental decrepitude? Do we find here, as a dear friend of mine some time ago tried to prove to me, simply a half blind, deaf, toothless, stiff jolntet rheumatic, pad being wheeled chair or hobbling about on a crutch or j grunting and groaning on a bed of chronic invalidism.' Is he a nervous wreck, a white haired, timorous old patriarch, afraid of his own shadow? Is he a cowardly person, who, realizing! his own physical intirinitics with a dis eased mind, is conjuring up a lot of imaginative dangers if there are no real d ingers at hand? I think not. I believe that the writer is here pictur-j mg old but it is the noble, brave joint* led. helpless old man, around in an Invalid am! ! self reliant NOTICE! We want every man and women In the United StateB Interested in the cure of Opium, Whlskay 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 be sent you free. FOR ALL COIT TY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THI t-TATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST t N FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. W Young Men Wanted How would you like to secure a commission as an officer under Uncle Sam ? If you are between le ages of 17 ami ,>5 years, possess the necessary common school edu cation, are moral, persistent, and can pass the required physical ex amination send me four one-c‘eiit stamps to pay postage, and I will mail you a personal letter, litera ture, etc , that will tell you of the j qualifications required for positions ! leading to promotions of high rank as an officer in our army or navy. W. H. PHILLIPS, Louisville, Ky. Up-lo-Oate Market Your .'leat on Ice. S vi ft’s H ints, some nice, lean cured Hams with skm taken off, sliced thin, for breakfast, or some nice 1’ork chop or Pork Steak, or some line Kansas Citv Beef, go > 1 ami 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 Pe is. white and colored. Fresh Fish Fridays and Saturdays. Can fill your whole bill at our place. Goods delivereil on time. . Yours for business, U. VV. MeOlJIlVrc Phone No. 60. Residence No. 23. Flost Anything And a little’of everything is now being shown in my Hive: 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. THE HEGE LOG BEAM .SAW MILL WITH HEACOCK-KlNG FEED WORKS ExdlMKS A HD BoM.BHS, WOODWOBKINO Mackiheby, Cottoh Gihniho, Brick- hakiho ahd 8 hi hock ahd Lath Maohimeby, Corn Mill*. Era . Etc. G1BBKS MACHINERY CO.. Columbia, S. C. The qibbes shingle Machine fenses should lets In regular About him and plowing up the ground | on every side. A chaplain of one of i the regiments climbed up and took liH! position by Sherman’s side. "What are you doing here?" asked Sherman! In his blunt, grulT way. “Have you any message for me?” "No, general.’ answered the duplaiu. "1 merely came up to view the enemy’s position. If you are willing to face danger here I should be willing to do so." "I am here for duty's sake,” answered Slier man. "I am not here for curiosity. You have no right to uselessly risk your life. (Jo below at once. You are! doing no good here whatever.” What General William T. Sherman said to that chaplain I say to you with your children depending upon you, with | your store depending upon you, with 1 your church, in one sense, depending upon you. You have no right to run any useless physical risks. I'oolinh HIsUh. But, though this truth should be axi- 1 omntie, on every hand we lind men i trying to prove to tin* world that they | arc brave merely because they are fool ishly n*< kless. Some time ago I stood in Yosemite park, looking upon the; great Half Dome, rising nearly 5,000 feet front the valley below. There is a tndl running up to within three or four! hundred feet of the summit. Then the rock ascends almost perpendicularly to the top. As 1 stood looking at that | height a gentleman told me that in 1K75 n Scotchman made up his mind he would ascend to the top of the Half Dome. To ascend It would do no one any good. It would only endanger his own life. But ascend it he would. So he went an*l got a lot of iron pegs. He i would drill one hole into the side of the | Half Dome and then stick a peg into i the hole. Then he would crawl up and stand upon that peg and drill another | hole and shove in another peg until at ! lasY after days of weary work, he ! stood upon ‘‘that which Is high.” ‘‘Oh," j 1 said to myself, “how like the foolish j actions of that man are some of our ] actions! We risk our physical lives for j nothing. Down at the seashore we I swim away out beyond the life lines to make people think we are brave. We go ! fishing in cranky boats. We elimy dangerous heights. W<* ride fractious ! horses. We run needless risks to benefit no one.” Avoid that which Is high. | Be wise, and shun foolish and reckless ; physical dangers. Lovingly cautious should we he In reference to our phys ical life. Lovingly cautious, also, should we he In reference to onr good names. If j the gilt frame which holds the artistic : masterpiece is valuable, how much \ more precious must Rosa Bonheur’s ; “Horse Fair" he than the wood which ' holds the canvas of the great French animal painter? If the sotting of a | Jewel Is valuable, how much more val- | liable must la* the "T’itt diamond," : which Hashed from the golden hilt of the court sword which Napoleon I. j wore on the day of his coronation? If a man’s physical life is valuable, how much more valuable is his good name, by means .of which that physical life can he made of some practical good to his fellow min as well as to himself? And yet just think how qiiiekly some are ready to risk their good names as well as their physical existence! Danicer of Ila<l AHwocintlonN. In the first place, for a mere social preferment, they are ready to risk their good names by evil associations. Mon and women are always judged by the associates they have. You know tills fact as well as I know it. You eannot get around that statement. The oilier day the name of a young lady whom 1 was very anxious to have Join our church came up. Again and again I have said: "Is it not too bad that Miss So-and-so does not join our church and become a good Christian worker? Sin* seems to he such a nice girl.” A church officer of mine said: "Weil, 1 do not know whether she is a nice girl or no, but oik* thing I do Noi 1 hnow, she associates with rnen about this town who are everywhere noted for their immoralities and indecen cies -men whom I would not allow to associate with my wife or daughters. That does not speak very well of her Christian character.” Whnteouldl say? [ could answer nothing. Good men and good women, as a rule, do not make companions of bad men and bad women. And yet today that is Just what some of us arc* doing for social preferment. Like the Scotchman who risked his physical life by climbing the smooth rocks of the Half Dome or like that reckless climber who the S other day lest Ins life when crawling i along the edge of 1-7] Capltan fn old Yosemite, some of us are risking our good names by associating with evil companions and people of unsavory i reputation with whom wo are seen on the street and in social gatherings. But the narrow ledges of social heights on which many tneu and wom en foolishly risk their good names are not nearly as many or as narrow or us high us the dizzy and dangerous ledges along which some men are ready to risk their good names in order to win a prize of gold. Where there Is one man who Is ready to risk his good name for social success there are ten, twenty, fifty —aye, a hundred — men who are ready ty risk their good names for financial success. And those men are often ready to risk their good names when these names are their only capital In life. Oh, my friends, never allow your good name to be lipked to a shady financial enterprise. Never tritle with your good name by walking along a dangerous ledge on which your feet might slip and you may be precipitated Into the abyss of disgrace. My father many years ago Impressed this fact upon my mind. He said- “My son, as a minister of the gospel, In all proba bility you will never lie financially wealthy, but on account of your good engineers how the de name, unless .\n'i an* careful, some a* laid out. The hul- scheming juen will try to drug you into hailstorm were falling shady financial enterprises. Then you age which your I'ethcr and mine had when they drew near tin* end of their earthly career, it is not the pitiable old age of senile cowardliness, it is the farsighted, in spiring old age of caretaking cautious ness which generally conics from the bitter experience of misfortunes. To be cautions is not necessarily to be cowardly. To bo reckless i' not nec essarily to be brave. The reason some young folks are reckless is because they do not realize the dangers at hand, against which as sensible men and women they should carefully pro tect themselves. Let me illustrate. You call me up on the teleplion**; say: “Hollo! Is that you .* Will you take a drive this afternoon'. All right. 1 will 1m* up witli the car riage in twenty minutes." When you drive up with tin* carriage I see that you have a beautiful, high stepping, mettlesome thoroughbred. When 1 en ter tin* runabout 1 see you hold the reins tight. You speak gently and soothingly to your horse. By the tone of your voice and by the way you han dle the lines I know you are a good driver, and I feel perfectly safe. But supposing I enter your carriage and see you jerk the lines. Then you let them lie loose; then you halloo at the horse < r cut him with the whip. What do I do? Why. I simply get out of that carriage and walk home, not because I am a coward, but because 1 know that y >u do not know how to drive a midtlc- soinc horse. I know what that means. ! once rode behind a fractious colt, witli just sueli an Inexperienced driver as you arc, and I was nearly killed. ! have mor< respect for my neck and 1 iy life than to trust them in such iueompetent hands again. When 1 was a ycu.’ig man 1 did not cure what kind of a 1 >rse 1 rode behind or what kind of a d iver hail hold of the line-, ut from bitter experience now I know ■*!i*mt such dangers and give them a ver\ wide bnmjl. Such, I think, is th • • i-tinction of m> text. We see tlr* ■I! man not cowardly, but cautious; we see him afrai 1 of that which is big 1 because past experience has writt* ' over such places "Beware!” This is a danger sign. •‘Beware!” Be CautloiiH. But do we have to wait until old age before we become wiselj cautious? only is it the duty of all men to he! < "'eful amt rut no needless risks, but; it i 4 s certainly tin* duty of young meiv* to learn from old men the lesson of! "loving cautiousness.” There is so much—aye, so very much -depending on most of us younger men. Many of us have families of little children who are looking to us for their daily bread. We are also responsible for our useful ness which can bless all mankind about us. Thus, instead of telling my hearers to he needlessly reckless, I would tell those in youth and those in the prime of strong, middle life to be "lovingly cautious." Be cautious for your own sakes. Especially be cau tious for your dear ones and for tin* good which you may do for Christ and for the great outside world. No man lias a right to run any useless risks whereby his physical life might quick ly be ended. If duty calls you us a nurse or a surgeon to enter the contn glows ward of a hospital, then there you should go. If duty bids you shoul der a rifle and charge tin* enemy upon a bloody battlefield for your country’s preservation, then there you should go and fight. But. if duty does not com : mand you to endanger your physical j life, then you have no right to run any ! reckless risks. 0 Useless recklessness is not the sign of a sublime bravery, hut of arrogant and insipid stupidity. General Wil liam T. Sherman on Ids famous march from Atlanta to the sea powerfully- j taught tliis truth. For days and weeks and weary months Joseph E. Johu- , ston and he had been playing hide and j seek behind their opposing breast works. First would come the brilliant Hanking movement, then the brave charge, then tin* quick retreat and the readjustment ef tin* Uonfedorate lines and the building up of now breast works. One day the northern com mander was standing in a dangerous position on a certain fortification. He | was telling ids will be disgraced, as was my dear frioi d Schuyler t'olfax. win met his politic il death In the Credit Mobiliet scandal.’’ I'Bite of H<*hn>ler Colfax. Let me tell you how Schuyler Col- fix was politically ruined. He was at heart an h utest man. He was n promi nent member of the Christian church. For years his name was the synonym >f all that was good and true. My fa ther told me that If a thousand men I ml come to him and before a column ot Bibles a miif iijjrh had sworn that Schuyler Colfax was dishonest he would have denounced every one of them :.s n perjurer. He had known Schuyler Colfax for years. He knew he might be guilty of an indiscretion, but of an intentional dishonesty—nev-i er! What was Ids indiscretion? Some dishonest men were trying to organize! a fraudulent conspiracy under a guise I of building the Union Pacific railroad. The company ^was capitalized at SI?.-' 750.000. In order to induce a gullible j pronkers. public to take stock the promoters of sense to fids company came and said to Vice; President Colfax, "W^ will make you a present of so much stock for tin* use of your name, which will give us a standing in the community.” Schuyler Colfax, being a professional man and not a business man. was Innocently caught in tin* trap. He did not Intend to do any wrong. He thought the busi-: ness enterprise of building a transeon-1 tincntal railroad a worthy one. He thought the value of his good name worth tin* price offered. But when the scoundrelly promoters of this com-; pauy had filched the money out of the pockets of the American people and decamped the necumidated wrath of the people as a hurricane broke over Schuyler Colfax’s head, and he was ! driven into political oblivion. "Now." I said my father to me. "never risk your good name. Never lie drawn into ! any financial enterprise in the out- j i come of which you cannot as an honest ! man face the world wi;h clean hands." j Thus I say to you: Never risk your good name. Never risk it by evil as- j s(M*:ates. Never risk it in shady flnan-, I clal transactions tin* full story of j which you are not willing to tell the 1 world. Be cautious. Be cautious of | your name for yourself. Be lovingly ; cautious of your good name for your ! dear ones. Be lovingly cautious of your good name for the good you can ! do vour fellow men. Avoid that which not like a running stream of water, clear as crystal, which when you plunge your finger beneath the surface and draw It out there Is left no hole, but a clear, running, smooth surfaced stream. It Is like a beautiful vase which when ouce shattered will always show the scars. No man ever strengthened his gospel faith by reading a bad book. No man walks closer to Christ because he goes hand in hand witli a blasphemous, evil companion. Run no useless or dangerous risks in reference to your relationship with Jesus Christ. Avoid that “which Is high." But if we should be very careful thu( we, like Enoch, walk close to God, how much more careful should we lie that we ourselves by an evil example shoul 1 not lead our loved ones into dangero * spiritual places! Because you arc aid.* to row ou^ in a boat and leap over board and swim back to the shore it does not follow that your son will have enough strength to fight through the Because we are able in one ro through certain tempta tions unscathed that is no reason why those who are following after us will not fall if we lead them too near the dangerous precipices. CJotnc: Into Dfintrer. How far reaching is our influence in leading others to seek their temporal and spiritual death! I remember how. as a lad, my companions led me lifto dangerous places; not that I wanted to go. but I went because they went. I was born with a fear of that which Is high. I Inherited this from m\ mother. To look up at a tall building makes me almost ns dizzy as to look down. Yet. when a boy, again and again I have followed my companions over dangerous railroad trestles, span ning great rivers. When I looked down through the ties into the awful river depths In low 1 have been so dizzy and faint that, as I followed the boys, I got down, on my hands amt knees and prayed to God to give me strength to get over. Yet over* those bridges 1 went, across those dangerous trestles, because I was afraid my com panions would call tne a coward Four Facts For Sick Women To Considei Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound Has an Unequalled Recotd of Cures-?- Mrs. Pinktiam’s Advice Is Confiden tial^ Free, and alxoays Helpful \ is high. Run no dangerous risks. But we must not limit our theme here. B<* prayerfully cautious about j your faith In God and your relationship ! to (Jod. Be careful Unit you never do | anything to endanger that deep, ear nest gospel faith In Jesus Christ which you learned at your Christian mother’s knee. Be careful that you never go with those men and women who are accustomed to cast a slur upon the I cross or to joke about the divinity of Jesus Christ. Be careful also that you never read a book which will In any | wav sap vour religious vitality. I know 1 some people like to make the foolish : boast that they are strongminded I enough not to fear contact with evil | associates or evil books. Thomas Jef- \ fer-on in his old age* wrote a beautiful i ; letter to John Adams. It went some- I thing like lids; "I thank you for tin*; book you h.avc just sent. I have made i it the rule of my life for the* last fifty years never to be afraid to read any kind of book, and I shall study this one with pleasure.” But, though that sentence may seem to be 11 very brave statement. I believe it is a very foolisli ; one to make. There are books—evil books—which you and I should shun. They are Infidel companions you and I should fear. You have no more right First.—That almost every operation in our hospitals performed upon women becomes necessary through neglect of such symptoms as backache, irregular and painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, displacements of the uterus, pain in the side, burning sensation in the stom ach, bearing-down pains, nervousness, dizziness and sleeplessness. Second.—The medicine that holds the record for the largest number of absolute cures of female ills is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It regulates, strengthens and cures diseases of the female organism as nothing else can. For thirty years it has been helping women to be strong, curing backache, nervousness, kidney troubles, all uter ine and ovarian inflammation, weak ness and displacements, regulating menstruation perfectly and overcom ing its pains. It has also proved itself invaluable in preparing for childbirth and the change of life. Third.—The great volume of unso licited and grateful testimonials on file at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn, Mass., many of which are from time to time published by permission, give ab solute evidence of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice. Fourth.—Every ailing woman in the United States is asked to accept the following invitation. It is free, will bring you health and may save your life. Mrs. Pinkham’s Standing Invitation to Women.-Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink- ‘ ham. at Lynn, Mass. All letters are And received, opened, read and answered tlius. bv onr reckless actions, bv our by women only. From symptoms given, evil example, we mav 1m* your trouble may be located and the .. : . , quickest and surest way of recovery others into diunrerous spiritual *!: * es 0ut the vast % olum e of ex- where the\ will totter and fail hit * < p er i e nce in treating female ills Mrs. eternal death. Pinkham probably has the very knowl- Running into needless temporal and spiritual danger reminds me a great deal of that beautiful illustration Dr. Wise one** gave to depict the evil of seeking sin, instead of fleeing sin. Many years ago the flames of an awful conflagration were wrapping themselves about a home. Higher and higher they went. They seemed to mock and laugh at the feeble efforts of men to subdue them. Near by this home was an aviary containing nearly a thousand beautiful canary birds. As the flames crept nearer and nearer tin* owner, unable to remove them, opened the aviary door and let them go free. With stroke of wing the birds flew out and up. They were free, free as the stars, free as the air. But whatwas the surprise of the spectators as well as tiie horror of the owner, Instead of seeing the birds fly away to the woods they flew back to the flames. Round and round the leaping flames they went. They hovered about that con flagration, or flatten'd over that fur nace. until at last, one by one, their wings grew helpless and they dropped into the tire, until every songster was destroyed. When I re id that account of the de struction of thus * hundreds of birds i ; said to myself; "How like the sinner’s | j rescue is that story! Christ comes and opens the cages of < ur sinful lives md savs: "You are free. Flv away edge that will help your case. Surely, any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. to run any useless risks abouR your 1 to God. Fly faith In God by perusing bad books or j by associating with blasphemous and ; away to safety. Rut after we 1 sneering infidel companions than you have to risk your physical life or good name by that "which is high.” Let not the legendary course of the old saint be your course. Perhaps you have read about the temptation of St. Anthony c f Alexandria. Born to great wealth and social position, he gave away all and clothed himself In monk’s garb and went to dwell in hermit’s cell in order to purify his life for Christ. Then Satan enme to tempt him with ids hirelings. Satan filled Ids table with the costliest of wines and viands and said, “Monk, eat and qrink and make merry with me.” But Anthony turned his face to the wall end prayed to God to give him strength to resist the temptations of the flesh. Then Satan incarnated his devils in the bodies of the most beautiful of wan tons, who came to the cell and said. "Come and love me.” Then Satan ar gued with the hermit against the ex ’stenoe of a Christ and why he should yield to temptation until In great ag ouy of mind and body St. Anthony swooned dead away. The hermits came and found him thus and took him away. But no sooner did St. An thony open his eyes than he said: “Take me back. Take me hack to my cell.” And when they took him back and left him there alone and he again saw the Satanic tempter St. Anthony cried out, saying: “Aha, thou arch fiend! Didst thou think I had fled? So here I am again, I, Anthony, to defy thee! I challenge all thy malice. I spit on thee. 1 have come back to combat thee.” Beautiful story that, though there is not the best of gospel teaching In that legend. The Wny to Reatat. The Bible says. "Resist the devil, and he will flee away from you.” But the same chapter also says. "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” And one of the cash st ways we can draw nigh to God Is t*> run away from temptation Just as fast as we can. Our faith In God is uot always like pure gold. It is more often like a clear, beautiful, flawless diamond. Bring your diamond to * near the hot flames of the chemist's retort, ami "ou change it into black, lusterless charcoal. It Is to heave gun to sing a little and to tes -piritual strength we answer: nay; do uot make me fly away. by me warm my dor hot flame of sin.” And come to the tires of Infamy. \Ve seek needless temptations, and thus we are destroyed forever. < )h, my friends, floe temptation as you would lice eternal death. Christ will save you If you cling to him. Christ will never save you If you de liberately, intentionally and stubborn ly associate with evil companions or seek needless spiritual dangers. By the shortcomings of your past life zealously guard against the tempta tions of the future, not only for your self, but for those dear ones who are by your side. [Copyright. 100L by Louis Klopsch.] ilden plumage by yon ' / wk 'vbf^'KSMi . . .. '< „ V' 8 -'** S$>f ~ OBSERVE Our Pictures closely and it will be seen they are different in many ways from the productions of the ordinary galleries. Our Photographs have life to them. They are almost speaking likenesses yet have all the soft ness and richness of a painting. The new ‘‘Foto- Fad” folder style at $3,00 per dozen, is an exceptionally good value, and one of the latest novel ties. Agent for the cele brated Premo and Hawkeye cameras. None better regard less of price. Films,* plates, paper and va- vjjp r i o u s supplies in stock. JUNE H. Phone 170. CARR Kes. 1T1. Youiik DcutlNt'n ItiiKlncNN Stroke. A young man with ingenuity enough to warrant success recently identified himself with a Mil.Yankee church ‘hat boasts of having one of the largest congregations In the city. He made himself generally useful, offering to sing In the choir, teach Sunday school, act as usher or do anything that would help the good cause along. He was finally asked to serve In the capacity of usher, which he did with great alac rity. As he passed the collection box the minister noticed that he handed Winthrop CoiRge Scholarship and Entrance Examination. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col lege and for the admission of new stu dents will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7th, at 9 A. M. Applicants must not be less than fif teen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 7, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson be fore the examination for scholarship application blanks. > Scholarships are worth $100 and each person a slip of white paper. At free tuition. The next session will first the minister supposed they were the euvelopes in which the money for specified purposes Is usually inclosed, hut after a few Sundays of assiduous work on tho part of tin* usher the min ister decided to Investigate. He dis covered that the young man was a struggling young dentist and was handing out his business cards. The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army is at work In 40 countries and colonies, speaks 31 languages, bus 7,210 corps, “circles” anil societies, 13.403 officers nn<l cadets, employs 2,MO persons and has 15,330 local officers. It has (»3 period icals in 24 languages, with an issue of 1,208,000. There are 044 Institutions for its social work, and In twelve mouths the army supplied 4,573,300 beds and 7,213.500 meals. open September 29, 1905. For further Information and catalogue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. 5-16-2mo-pd. WATER USERS TAKE NOTICE. On account of a scarcity of water, patrons of the city water works are hereby notified that they must not use the city water for any other pur pose than domestic. Stop all lawn sprinklers, watering the garden, etc., until notice is given that water may be used for such purposes. This order Is Imperative and unless obeyed may cau 8 © a water famine. W. B. DuPre, Supt. Advertise in The Ledger. It Pays.