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Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. TJnhca'ihy Xilneys Make Impure Blood. All the biv-oo in your body passes through ^rour kidn^y« or.ue every three minutes. The kidney's are your blood purifiers, they fil ter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney ♦r uble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, •md makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney- poisoned biocd through veins and arteries. 1: used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized, it stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fifty- cent and or*-dollar siz es. You may have a sample bottle by mail Home of Swamp-Root, free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer -fit Co., Binghamton. N. Y. Don’t make any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binehampton, N. Y., on every pottle. Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D. D. r elder. One of his daughters was the organist, the s ■ the ’ fn c< V It ( ( I Hr WnnllovV SKNT FU>:F: an LH i TiUUIIdi 0, users of morphine, — — 'opium, laudanum, elixir PAINLESS Los Angeles, Col., Aug. sermon the preacher rebul alent vice of loose ;unl < < ter a nee, and especially o business and social lit. . Janies Hi, 8. •T'till .i' Never did in pin * 1 ' verbal nrrov >:’ malic compa.\ my text, li to the c r i. chief. M' this nom of fine i some th.c one of think v and l< • aus \v< said a In ■ he.it and mu'.t tha the s. 1 V(. neck, biti* t. ■■ her in back. 1 ■ . • rear, pit .. and aflci - * away ove: 20. .jr <‘1( hat; < fathc: Tim d •k die "Is Then gradually • colt’s ick iuid ■ bit into • . • upon lier ii. 1 sec lier r id on the ground n-,. ;,o’. . and for miles run Uh* bid-. Then I see her tibdued until at last that Isanatorium treat- . „ _ ,ment. Address, I'r. AMD u. M. WuoM.KY, Whiskey mare. control. smelliti}. set.* like .1 »l»'s migtity war the battle from afar, UHo-te Mariiel Your Heat on Ice Hams wi»h , 1 «> t u • skin taken t curei •ft. sliced thin, for break*ast, or some nice Pork chop or Pork Steak, or some line Kansas City B *ef good and mellow, or Cher okee Bee.. Just as you like. Plenty of Irish Potatoes, Danish Cabbage, Onions and Sets, Country Produce when it can he 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, 1^. \V. XleOIJIIVIV Phone Xo.j6o. 'Residence No. 23. Host Anything ™"An 1 ajlittle of everything is * now being shown in my line: jjj All the new conceptions and ^ fads • “ . : :ss '..In Th3 Jewelry Line.. From 'the cheapest worth “having* to ,|tlie very finest 1 bj specimens and grades. Re- " ^ pairing done by an Expert. Thos. li. “Westrope. Next to Shuford & LeMaster. the few and the t TIB "BOSS** COTTON PKESS! SIMPLEST. STRONGEST, BEST THB Murray Ginning Syri-vm Gins. Feeders, Condensers, Etc. GIBBES MACHINERY CO ColtembiR, S. C. Girls and Boys Wanted To Make Money. Call at the Shoe Store any afternoon between four and five o’clock. Any boy can make from $1.00 to $3.00 a week. The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. of Opilllll.CO- faSrbooXof pa’r* nomad chief makes her his pet riding 'tlcularson homeor I mare. I see la^ tiually under perfect ' - - charger, and as 1 see all this transformation the author of my text says. ’•Behold, we put bits 1 to do me harm.” in tin* horses' mouths that they may obey us. and we turn about their whole body, * * * but the tongue can no man tame.” Then the author places us upon the deck of one of the Alexandrian corn sliips. He pictures one of those awful Mediterranean euroelydons that played -'ich havoc with the shipping of old, and which destroys so many ships of the present day. The wind is blowing a hurricane. The sails are whipped , into shreds. But though that ship is I tossing about la the mighty, heaving I billows trol of i single hand, moves the rudder to the right or to the left. Then the author jf my text says, “Behold also the fillips, which though they may be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very email helm, whithersoever the gov ernor listeth, * * * but the tongue i no man can tame.” Then he takes us away up in mountains. He gathers together a dried grasses and strikes a spark Ignites them. No sooner arc grasses atire than the evening winds fan them into a great conflagration, which sets all the forests of those mountains ablaze. Aye, for nights you can see them burning, as we have seen the mountain tires burning up in the V’irondneks or upon the Berkshire bills. Then he says, “The tongue is 1 •' little member.” It is almost as in- signifleant looking as a small spark. But “behold how great a matter a lit tle lire kindleth.” The damage which ; the tongue or the spark can do is in- flnite. Then he compares the evils of | the tongue to the awful ravages of physical disease—to those of hideous leprosy or cholera or the bubonic plague—“It deflleth the whole body.” Then, In the four words of my text, he compares the evil tongne of man to the poisonous fangs of a hissing ser pent. The reason I have drawn for you all these different comparisons, used in connection with the comparison of my text, is this: I want you to know that no symbol is too demoniac, no comparison is too destructive or too repulsive for the author to elte as a criterion by which to judge the fatal effects of the human tongue when It is evil. May God help me today to r.how yon son " of the dark dens and caverns in which this evil tongue of : inn, ns a serpent’s fangs, hides Itself. . >id where It is most able to strike Its deadly poison into the flesh and hearts of its helpless victims. A ViniHetlYc* Tonirne. The evil tongue of man. in the flrst place, is a vindictive tongue. It has ston*d up among its deadly poisons the accumulated malice, not only of days, but of weeks and months and years. Like the North American savage of old. It never forgets a supposed Injury which some one has done against it. it will go out of its way a hundred miles, a thousand miles, aye. It will stoajthily l!e In ambush for years, to get a suitable opportunity to strike. It is not like an ordinary snake, which will leave you alone unless you trample upon It, hut It Is like a panther stalk ing its prey. It Is like a hound on the track of a deer. It Is like a lioness following the man who has robbed her her whelps. It will pursue a sup posed enemy for miles and miles, and for jears and years, always seeking the right moment when it can bury Ita fangs in the hearts of Its foes. And when that time conies, like Rhylock. It will always strke for the vital pound of flesh nearest to the beating heart. Oh, the abject mercllcssness of a vin dictive tongue! You well know Its un forgiving. relentless nature; for It may be that such a vindictive tongue has been following you for years. It may have nurmol you, a minister, for a quarter of a century. When you took your flrst church you found tha choir loft In the viselike grip of an ♦nughter sang as • - m-in-lnw was • v .is an utter I i to do? You •ssful church .. y >u could run : of preaching. 1 •perutlon, you rs together ,e change iu Von gi»t it. but . of that elder’s never ceased to 1 everything he ,ir ministry. He ter you left his letters to distant 's the vendetta is ■ a ion after genera- imilies In southern • ' hililren of that old .1 pursuing you. Their never let up, although their li:’ ; now been dead for years, same poisonous tongue of hate may have been following you as a law- , yer or doctor or merchant or musician. You entered the town and put out your shingle or opened your store. You said to yourself, “Now I will he honest and square and work hard and build up a good practice or trade and make my name honored in this little community.” Work hard you did. ! Clients or patients or customers began to come your way. Then your ene mies began to collect. “Aha!” they ' said to each other. “We must stop this young upstart. He Is taking away j our money. We must prepare for him some lion’s den.” Then they began | to attack your moral character. They ; began to vilify your family. They de- I nounced you as guilty of every crime | iu the criminal calendar, and the pe- ■ culiarity of their enmity is this—It has gone on for years and years. The longer lived that hatred the more bit ter it is. “Yes," you answer, “that is true. Why, I have my enemies all over town! It does seem that the more I try to be good and the more my friends learn to respect me the more those enemies hate me and try Tlie Venoiuoum Cobra. My friend, I sympathize with you In that persecution. You say you do not bear your persecutors any ill will, for \ou have triimijilicd o.er their attacks. [ j •.in as you were once persecuted as a j | vitmg man, now as a well established i.i*reliunt or lawyer or doctor or min ster or wife Ar mother be careful that 5 you are not yourself using one of those poisonous and vindictive tongues. I j once read of a venomous cobra of In dia having been decapitated. As tbe people were stHiidlng around looking yet she is under complete eon- ; at the headless snake a native reached the steersman, who. with his | forth his bare foot and struck thq head. No sooner did bis foot touch the opened mouth of the snake than, by mus cular contraction, the poisonous fangs pierced the bare foot, and in one hour the man was dead. Has not the poison* oils fang of hate of that old enemy of yours, many years dead, entered into your life? Why did you make that mean remark about that young doctor or lawyer or minister or merchant the other day? Why did you slur that young man’s character who is trying so hard to earn a livelihood for his widowed mother or younger brother? As others in the past have burled their poisonous fangs of hateful jealousy in your heart are you trying to destroy dhers who seem to come between you and your success? Men, beware how you try to destroy your supposed ri vals! Women, beware how you attack that young woman! Her good name is her life. Hate not. Despise not. Others have wronged you with a vin dictive tongue. Do not retaliate, do not use the same weapons. But as I begin to analyze tbe poison of the evil tongue I find that it is com posed of many different sinful basic elements. Water, for instance, is com posed of a gas called hydrogen, and another gas called oxygen, (’homical- ly, the definition of water is H20. Sodium sulphate is composed of three different basic elements. Its compo nent parts are sodium, sulphur and oxygen. Chemically, It is written Nu2, SG4. Now, as I analyze In God’s great laboratory the poison of the “evil touguo,” 1 find it. first, composed of the element of hate, and, secondly, of the element of falsehood. All through the Bible, the deceitful tongne is condemned by God. The lying tongue of man should he condemned by man. Yet today there are many professional men an 1 many merchants building up their • • dices or busi nesses upon a tiss lies. “ A I’rofcNnlnnul FnlNehood. A professional falsehood came direct ly under my observation, when, many years ago, I was preaching In an east ern city. One of my church officers i was taken down with lung trouble and had to go to Arizona to live. While there, his little daughter became very sick with heart trouble. The mother brought her back home. The father telegraphed me to look after them. I at once went to my family physician, one of the most eminent In the state, and had him examine the child. He looked the little girl carefully over, and this was hls diagnosis: “She has valvular trouble of the haart In Its most fatal form. She may live a year, but In all probability she will die In about six months. Within a few weeks dropsy will set In, then she will have to be tapped. The host thing you can do Is to make her as comfortable as possible, for she cannot got well.” I wrote to the father the result. At once he came home and sent for an other doctor. This other physician came In and said, T can cure her if you will give no full charge of the onse.” That physician knew ho could not cure her. Death had written Its flits') mark r.!i over t’ at child, but be es esc that other ph ’slclau said he con!*! c«re th child the new doctor became the atunuiug physician. He called twice a day for six months. The child T’O’.v worse "nd worse. Just as my family physician said she would. Then she died, as he had predicted. But on account of that false hoj>e which the other physician held out lie was able to get the patient and to se cure the fee. In business as well as in professional lift* men are guilty of “tbe lying tongue.” They He about land they want to sell; they lie about houses they want to rent; they lie about their stock; they lie about their furniture stores; they He about their horses; they He about everything they desire to get rid of. They keep on lying In a business way, Just as though King Solomon had never hurled his condemnation against business lies when he wrote these ter rible words: “The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. The robbing of the wickdd shall destroy them because they refuse to do judg ment.” O God. deliver us today from being merchants who are perjurers or lawyers who are. deceivers or physi cians who are falsifiers or men trying to sell their goods by Bceivlng their fellow men. O God, deliver us from the falsifier’s doom. “For without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers ami murderers and idolaters and who soever loveth and maketh a lie.” But the evil tongue of man is also a vile tongue. Vile in the sense that it is filled with all uncleanness. Vile be cause the lewd, the corrupt, the filthy, the defiled, the debased, the impure, the coarse, is often the type of the language In which It glories. Vile in the sense that the stories and the eom- muuieations it speaks are often unfit for respectable ears. Yet its corrupt conversations are not only heard In the notorious places of evil resort, but they .are also heard in tbe street and In so called respectable homes and among so called ladies as well as so called gentlemen. The XVroiiK Kind of Story. I walk down the street. There I see a lot of schoolboys gathered together. Suddenly a great guffaw of laughter is raised. “What are you laugh ing at, boys?” "Oh. at a story.” “What is the story?” “We cannot tell you. You tire a minister and would not be willing to hear it.” I go to the men's club, and there I find that the risque joke is oflen the one most appreciated. I go to the theater, and there I find that the filthy Insinuation is tin* one most uproar iously encored. I go info the home, arid there at many firesides the sug gestive story is the one that finds the most attentive listeners. This should not be; this must not be. The same words which Paul wrote to the Ephe sians lie is now speaking to us, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth.” That means, as Al bert Barnes once said, “Abstain from corrupt and polluting conversation.” As a young woman or a young man, a; a middle aged woman or a middle ig"d man. as an old woman nr an old man, do not say anything you would not be willing for the ears of your pare Christian mother to hear. But tin* vindictive tongue and the lying tongue and the vile tongue is also the blasphemous tongue. When talent in the the man of one talent in the Bilde went and hid his talent in the earth | he immediately commenced to put the responsibility on God. When you and I I do wrong and continue to do wrong, at once our evil tongues begin to find fault with the God who created us, j and with tin* Christ who wants to rc- , | deem us. One of the worst signs that your tongue is an evil tongue is when S it begins to talk about God as a cruel God, a merciless God, a mean God and a heartless God. Tin* vindictive tongue, the lying tongue, the lewd { tongue, almost inevitably becomes the blasphemous tongue. You cannot have a corrupt tongue without in the end having a blasphe mous tongue. A gentleman some years ago was riding on the Erie railroad, and just before the train passed over the bridge which spans the Hacken sack river he saw a large sign painted by the track for the railroad engineers. It read thus: “Shut You Ash Pan.” The gentleman wondered what that sign meant. Then he asked the reason, and this was the reply: “When the train crosses the river some of the live coals might fall out of the engine and land on the wooilen ties and burn up the wooden bridge.” Oh, yes, I said to myself when I read that story, it is well that the engineer should be care- : ful of the live coals of his ash pan, | hut how much more should man be careful of the live eoals of his tongue! , “The tongue is a fire.” Once let the live coals of the vindictive and the ly- i ing tongue and the lewd tongue scatter and they will fall down and burn up 1 the work that proceeds from Christ's cross. They will scatter and burn up Christ’s cjiurch and Christ's Bible and man's immortal hope. Blasphemy is the natural outcome of mau’s tongue poisoned with evil In hls dealings with man. A Dcprnved Tongue. But I cannot close this line of my talk without declaring that the blas phemous tongue inevitably becomes the tongue of a human beast of carrion. As soon as man gets out of touch with God he inevitably acquires a depraved idea of the human race. Like the buz zard which circles about in the heav ens over the hills and the valleys and the prairies of southern California wait ing for the horse or the cow or the sheep to drop dead iu hls tracks that he may pounce upon it, so the evil tongue of man seems to glory in the banquet of dead reputations, of evil re ports mid of debasing rumors which af firm that men and women have gone astray and become as bad as or even worse than ourselves. No example of the evil tongue is more sinfully suggestive than when i* party of men and women get together to discuss the overthrow of a fellow man. “Have you heard the news?" asks one ev't tongue. “No.” answers another evil tongue. “Tell It me. What is it?” “Why, you know Mrs. So-and-so, the daughter of our pastor. Well, she is being sued for divorce by her husband.” “Is that so? Well, I knew It would come! 1 never did like her father. He always pretended to Ik* so good that I felt there was some thing wrong about him. If that father had only lived as good a life as he pretended to live, his daughter would not Ckve turn«*d out us she did. Good for him! 1 never did like that daugh ter anyhow. She always thought she was better than any one else, and now to think she is nothing hut a hypocrite!” “Have you heard the news?” again asks the evil tongue. “No. What Is it?” Mr. So-and-so has Just failed.” “Aha! He lias! Well. 1 always thought lie was living be yond bis means. These men who send their children off to college and do not * ay their bills are nothing but thieves. Yes, he has got just what he deserves!” Oh, evil tongue, ready to put the worst Interpretation upon your neighbor's actions, are you here to day? Vile serpent, with thy deadly poison, thou art not destroying toy neighbor nearly as much as with hiss and rattle thou art proving to God thine own infamy and*thine own de pravity of heart. “The tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” Is that your tongue, O heedless man? TamluK <•»«* Tongue. But, though man cannot tame his sin ful tongue, thank God, the Lord God Almighty can tame it, and will tame it by the power of the Holy Spirit, if we will only let him. He will make the vindictive tongue the tongne of forgiveni'ss; the tongue of vllencss the pure tongue; the tongue of deceit the truthful tongue; the tongue of blas phemy the praying t mgue, and the tongue of condemnation the tongue of charity. It is said that many years ago in a hotel dining room the late i Dr. Anncsley heard some men cursing God and their follow m<*n at an ad joining table. The good doctor bade the waiter carry a glass of water to the blasphemers with his compliments. "What is that for?” they ask<*d. “I thought,” said Dr. Anncsley g-avcl;.\ "that you would like t > cool your tongues in it. after the fiery language you wen* uttering.” That may have been a Just rebuke. But if we to lay will thrust our evil tongues into ’in* "water of life” wo shall not only cool them, but by the power of the Holy Spirit we shall change them, nil, my friend, will you not today let God chaui^e your evil tongue into the tongue of purity, the tongue of prayer, the tongue of love and the tongue of gentleness? "But,” says some one, “how can God make this change?” I do not know how it is done, hut I do know he can do it and he will do it, if you will only talk with him and ask bis help. He can change your evil tongue in the same way that your t’hrlstian mother used to change It. You remember, when you look back to your boyhood life, how angry you used to get. 1 can see you now in one of your quar rels with your brother. Your little fists were clinched. Your eyes were flashing. Your breast was heaving. You had raised your arm to strike a blow when you looked up and saw your mother. She looked at you so tenderly and reprovingly as she said, “Charley!” first you could not an swer. Then the muttered imprecation left your lips. YoMr hand was low ered. Then you hurst into tears as you said: “Mother! Oh. mother! Forgive me, mother!” So with this evil tongne I of ours. If we only use it to daily talk with God, if we only use it to i pour out o;.r desires into bis ear, in stead of being the organ of hate and of blasphemy, it will become the or gan of kindness, the organ of gentle ness and forgiveness and mercy and love. Oh, my friends, will you not let God today conquer your evil tongue? Would that this daily habit of talk ing with God might become ours! I once read of a mother who tried to stop the evil tongue scattering its poisou by lier fireside by writing down, day after day, every evil say ing which she heard her children speak. Then, in the evening hour, she would read to her family the evil words of the day. That may be one way to halt the evil habit of a sinful tongue, but I believe tlie best way to conquer the tongue’s evil deeds is not to make u record of its faults and errors, hut to get our tongues in tli * habit, every hour of every day, of hav ing private conversations with God. When we are about to do something, we should lift up our voices Involun tarily and say, “Lord, would you like mo to do this?” When we are about to speak, we should ask, “Lord, shall I say this?” When we are about to re buke a brother, we should say, "Lord, shall I denounce this evil deed?” Then, with the close touch of our tongues with God’s car, God’s tongue will be come our tongue. Lord God Almighty, may we never tire of talking with thee! In Christ’s name, we ask thee to govern our speech, and then we know thou shalt rule our fives. Tame them, O God! Tame our evil tongues for thy divine service. [Copyright. 1905, by Louis Klopsch ] STOP, WOMAN! AND CONSIDER THE ALL- IMPORTANT FACT m That in address ing Mrs. Pink- ham you are eon- fidingyour private ills to a woman— ' a woman whose experi ence. with women’s diseases covers a great many years. You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private trou bles to a man— besides a man does not under stand—simply be cause he is a man Many women suffer in silence and dfift along from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immediate assist* ance, but a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing them selves to the questions and probably examinations of even their family physician. It is unnecessary. Without monej’ or price you can consult a wo man whose knowledge from actual ex perience is great. Mrs. Pinkham’s Standing Invitation, Women suffering from any form of female weak ness a re invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has todraw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your east. She asks nothing in return except your good-will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. If you are ill, don't hesitate to get a bottle of Lydia E. I’inkham’sVegetable Compound at onee, and write Mrs. Pink- ham. Lynn. Mass., for speeial advice. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women, you cannot well say. without trying it, “ I do not believe it will help me.” ■CJJJ 10^1 To I » 5:11110 Your pietim-s tastfiiUy irul artistically and yet at a mode ate price Is sometimes a problem. |•>rtilll us to s* Ive It. We make :::::: PICTURE FRAMES And we frame pictures We carry a lar>ie stock of mnuclinK's suitable for all kinds of pi* lures Prices range from 4 els. per foot up We will make and frame the pie- . lure or make the frame. The cost of framing will ce only slightly higher. A few half in**)i sxl(» oval frames In either ebony or gilt, lined with ai.-ss and backs at at* cents. : : : : : June II ilTT FOLEYSKIDNEYCURE Makes Kldoays and Bladdar Right An Interrupted Sermon. The Rev. Thomas McLeod, a Brook lyn clergyman, In a sermon In the Congregational church. North Adams. Mass., recently rounded out a slate nient by saying, “You can put that In your pipe and smoke It.” A woman who was up In front rose and iu tones audible all over tin* church said: “Sir. wo are not accustomed to such lan guage In this pulpit. Such words are more fitting for the race track thin the house of God.” Mr. McT.O'k’ paused for n moment, an 1 tho:i l* tartod mildly, “I have no objcv ui t women speaking iu meeting." Where upon the Incident closed and the dom Inle continued hls sirmon. No business can possibly be successful that is not adver tised. This is a sweeping statement, but it is true. There are come merchants in this community whose experience apparently contradicts the statement. The contradiction, however, is only apparent. If they have attained any degree of success they have advertised. They have let people know what they had to sell, what they were here for and what they proposed to do. Just in proportion to the thorough ness with which they have done this and met the conditions of their competitors they have suc ceeded. If they have .used the newspa pers they have worked with the best tools so far as getting pub licity is concerned. If they have worked without the newspapers they have been handicapped and have not attained the highest possible measure of success. A fertile seed planted in fertile ground, carefully watered, wul thrive and bear fruit A properly organized business, in any inhabited place, well adveni .ed will succeed. The kw of growth is as cert tin ana inexorable u. one case as the other.