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Thousands Hare Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. How To Find Oat. 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 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 back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing tt, 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 .ook that tells more about it, both sent absolutely free by mail, address Dr. Kilmer fit Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Hon 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. dome of Swamp-Root. When writing men- NOTICE! We want every man and women In the United State# 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 theso dis eases. Write Dr. B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Oa.. Box 287, and one will be sent you free. Un-to-Dste Market Your Heat on Ice. .-> V [ l 1 i, ' 1 • t : 11 ' cured Hams with skin taken off, sliced thin, for breakfast, or some nice Pork chop or Pork Steak, or some fine Kansas City R -ef, goo i an 1 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 your whole bill at our place. Goods delivered pn time. Yours for business, U. W. Phone No. 6o. Residence 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 Ex 'ert. Thos. H. Westrope, Next’to Shuford & LeMaster. MURRAY IRON MIXTURE ^Now is the time to take a spring tonic. By far the best thing to take is Murray's Iron Mixture. It makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeling. At all drug stores *Ocs r-i t3ottl«s or direct from The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. T1H “BOSS” COTTON PUSS! SIMPLEST, STRONGEST, BEST Tnb Muhnay Ginnino Sy«t«m Sins, Ftsdars, Condsanrt, Etc. OIBBEJ MACH INERT CO. « Colombia, S. C. Girls and Boys Wanted To Make Money. lie all at tho Shoo Store any afternoon between four and five o’clock. Any boy can make from $1.00 to $3.00 a week. Tho R. S. Lipscomb'Shoo Co. Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frink DeWitt Tilmage, D. D. I.*- . Los Angeles, Cal., Ropt. 10.—In this sermon the preacher describes man's mission of helpfulness to his fellows and indicates the lines upon which that mission may be carried out. The text is John xl, 44, “Loose him and lei him go.’’ Never was human leader in closer touch with his followers than Jesus Christ. He walked and ate and slept with his disciples. lie was closer than that. He shared their Joys and sor rows and privations. He set them an example of self sacrifice, lie never asked his followers to make any sacri fice which he himself was not willing to make. If they wept, he wept with them. If they were a-bungered, he starved with them. When - he warned iboni that they might have to lay down their lives for ids sake, lie set them the example of martyrdom by yielding himself to the cross. One of the great est elements which bind a human heart to another heart is the willing ness of man to make sacrifices for a friend or a neighbor. In our own history we have seen an example of this fraternal leadership. George B. McClellan, the most popular commander the Army of the Potomac ever had, was beloved by his men on that account. Let me give you an In cident how tills devoted general gripped the affections of his army with links of steel. The northern army was making a forced march from Harrison Landing to Newport News. Toward the evening hour it was miles away from Its destination. The soldiers, marching four abreast, came to a small stream, not very wide or deep, but Just deep enough to wet their feet if (hey waded through it. Near to the ford a large tree had fallen, and the trunk had bridged tho stream. The soldiers, dropping into single file, were crossing over the tree trunk. This, of course, took extra time. The lines in the rear, marching rapidly forward, became congested. The whole brigade was becoming disorganized. With that three or four officers on horseback rode up to the ford. At once they saw the difficulty. Then one of those officers In the dusk cried out: “Wade right through, my men. Wade right through. Never mind about getting your feet wet. Wade right through." With that one of tho private soldiers surlily grumbled back, “Wade through yourself and don’t sit there on horse back with dry feet telling us how to grt wet." Hardly were the words out of the soldier's lips than this officer leaped off his horse and waded through, saying: “Come on, men! We must not block the line. Wade right through.” When tho officer turned Hie men saw lie was their sturdy little commander, George B. McClellan. They at once raised a cheer and waded through, and (he disorder In the rear ranks ceased. McClellan never asked his soldiers to do what he himself was not ready to do. The result was he was idolized by his army as but few men have ever been. When be was superseded some of the strongest of men wept as chil dren. rhrlnt SonKht Co-operation. But, though Christ never asked his followers to make any sacrifice which he himself was uuwillliLg to make, yet ns I study the miracles of Christ I find that almost without exception ho sought co-operation from those whom he would help. He was willing ^o feed the multitude with a few loaves and fishes, but he made the disciples distribute the bread and the fish and collect tho fragments that remained. He was ready to give his disciples a great catch of fish on Lake Galilee, but he made them launch-their boat out into tbe deep and let down the net and bring tho fish to hand. He was ready and willing to resurrect tho dead Lazarus, but ho Failed upon the by standers to loose tho graveclotbes which bound him hand and foot. Not until thoy obeyed could the brother of Mary and Martha go forth free. What Christ did of old Christ is doing today. He Is ready to save men, but he ex pects Ids disciples to help him in man’s liberation, mental, financial, moral, physical and spiritual. I want to show how we can aid In the emancipation of helpless men, ns the disciples took off the graveclotbes of resurrected Laz arus to “loose him and let him go.” Christ bids us help liberate the in tellectual man who is struggling In his mental difficulties. He wants us to cut lsunder the old bonds of prejudice with which they are born and which are gripping them almost ns power fully as the officer’s handcuffs hold the criminal by his side. He would have us not laugh at or sneer at or ridicule the doubter and the skeptic and the atheist. He bids us not hurl our taunts at tho poor mental cripples who, with hot, blistering feet, are painfully limping over the awful deserts of blighting agnosticism. But he bids us go to our brethren in mental or Intel lectunl difficulties and kindly and gently and lovingly, yet firmly, lead them out of the bogs and the quag mires and quicksands in which ;’uey have fallen and in which they are struggling today. Oh, the awful trag edy of being mentally blinded and be ing unable to get a right conception of God! Yet there are thousands of men and women who by constitution of brain and intellect are natural bom dejubters. They suspect the sincerity of every good work, and therefore they nalunilly doubt God's goodness and i JVC. An Incident of Michael Ansrelo. Ail Inciuent In fhe life of Michael Angelo wed Illustrates how you and I have to eont.uually run up against and overcome men's prejudices. The Florentine master had already chis eiod some of his greatest pieces of sculpture, but, strange to say, there were a great many Florentines, ns there are men in our day, who could n »t see any perfection In any picture o • piece of statuary unless it was hun- i ivii ; of years old, so Michael Angelo, to convert ids critics, made a new st.due. He then broke off one of arms of that statue and kept it. .ien he stained the rest of the statue .nd burled it under one of the old churches and then had one of his friends find it. At once all the art critics of Florence gathered around this exhumed piece of stone and declared it was one of the finest pieces of sculp ture ever, chiseled by man. "Oh!” they cried. “Where can we find a modern sculptor able to mold a body like that?” After Florence had praised I Uiis statue for some months Michael Angelo came forward with the broken arm of white marble which he had kept in his studio. He fitted it on the exhumed statue and lie declared: "I can make a statue as good ns that. See, I have made this one myself! The broken arm is a perfect fit.” His crit ics were confounded, jis thoy well might lie, but as I road that story I did not condemu tlioso Florentines as many have done. I said to myself: “Yes, those men who criticised the rls lug sculptor were natural born doubt ers. There are some men who, by their natural mental makeup, find fault with everybody and everything; therefore, if we are going to lead men to Christ, we must learn how to overcome the Intellectual doubts, the Intellectual skepticisms, which trouble so many men concerning God. The Mrsterlea of the Blhle. And how many causes for doubts iu reference to God we see everywhere! Here, for instance, are all the doubts men have In reference to the mysteries of the Bible. Was there ever a com pass which needed to be surer or truer in the dark and almost impenetrable forests than the star of Bethlehem to guide the mental doubters out of the mysteries of God’s providenceV Here are all the mysteries of sorrow. The doubter perhaps has lost a little child or the mother of his children. He can not understand why God took his loved ones. Shall we pass over these mys teries of sorrow with a mere wave of the hand? Here are all the shortcom ings of (Iirlstinns which blind the doubter’s eyes. Perhaps some elder of a church inis cheated him In a busi ness deal. Shall not the doubter be talked to lovingly In reference to that matter and shown how there have been Judases among Christ’s professed fol lowers at all times? Yes, Christ wants to draw to his arms those who are mentally blinded. He would have us lead them as carefully as I saw tho other day a boy leading his little brother of eight summers, who was blind In both eyes, across a country field. As I saw these two boys going past me there were tears in my eyes for an especial reason. As they were passing I was told that only a year before that little boy's eyes were as good as yours or mine. But his own brother, who was then leading him, while hunting one day had acciden tally discharged his gun and shot his brother’s sight away. “O God,” I said to myself, "can it lie that some of ns, by our own sins of commission or ‘■•ins of omission, have made some of thy children mentally blind to thy love?” Can it be that doubters and skeptics and agnostics and mental antagonists to God are resisting him today merely because we will not take away the bands which are blinding their eyes - because there is no one to uncover rhelr eyes—as the disciples of old took iff the bands from tho eye sockets of helpless Lazarus? O God, today give us more sympathy for the honest doubter! Inspire us with holy zeal to try to scatter these doubts away when ever and wherever they are! Bound Hand and Foot. But as I go up to the open tomb where slept the dead Lazarus I find that not only was lie blinded, but his move- inputs were restrained. His resurrect ed body has its graveelotbos bound around the arms and the hands, the legs and the feet and the stomach, as well as around the forehead, the Ups and the eyes. Indeed, so helpless was Lazarus physically that lie could not have stepped out of his crypt of the tomb, as you and 1 would throw back the bedclothes of a morning and leap out upon the floor, but bo must have had to give a lurch and roll out upon the stones of the tomb. Then he struggled to his feet and stood like n statue. Thus stood Lazarus’ resur rected body. As I go on up and ex amine tbe man’s bound hands and feet I say to myself, "Yes; how much In symbol does Lazarus look ns a man bound hand and foot with financial debt!” The man in financial distress sometimes cannot make one move if lie would. Bo I believe Christ’s Words, “Loose him and let him go,” have their application in reference to a financial liberation ns well ns a mental or in tellectual. How mush of a financial liberation many people need but few of us have any adequate conception. Financial liberation Is needed In (lie store. The temptations of business life are mighty. Here Is a merchant who has been left an executor of a friend's estate. For years and years lie has led an honorable life. But the bard times have come. The people who once bought his goods cannot buy them now, for they have no money with which to buy. “Oh,” he says to himself, “if I can only tide myself over this winter I know everything will come out right.” Shall he sur render? Shall he hand over to his < mlitors the store and walk out a bankrupt, or shall he borrow some >f the money of his friend's estate and put it into his business? It is all well enough for you to denounce the misappropriation of trust funds. But, supposing you were in that man’s place and your creditors were knocking at your door, what would you do? I fear you might do Just as thousands of men have done in the past who have been bound hand and foot with the graveclotbes of debt. You would be dishonest, as they were dishonest. The liuanclnl temptation would fling you. Poverty Versua Crime. Or take another view of the same subject. Supposing you are not a merchant, but a clerk or a laborer. On account of the hard times you have lost your position in filestore or the mine. Supposing you have tramped the streets day after day looking for work and never have been able to find it. And then, supposing hunger is beginning to gnaw at your vitals and the bitter cold to send its chills playing “hare and hounds” up and down your back, what would you do? You may have learned what cold and. hunger are when some time you were out hunting or tramping through the woods and you were lost. Y’ou re member how you tramped on and on until you became faint from lack of food, and perhaps your lips became swollen for water to drink, but there was no water, no food, no house in sight. How, then, did you look at life? Hoes a hungry man, a cold man, have the same chance for virtue and honesty and purity as a well fed mail and a warm man? Oh, my friends, if you and I ever find a time when we can relieve some of these financial distresses I believe we will take away a large per cent of the crimes and the dishonesties of the world. Indeed, I know what I say Is true. Most men are not dishonest for mere pleasure, but only when they Lave become brutalized by hunger and bo,Illy wants and financial necessities. The majority of men are honest at heart. This truth was forced upon me some months ago in a powerful way. 1 met one of tlie boys of one of the old farm ers of my Bushhill church, where I preached for two summers ns a theo logical student, thirteen miles from a railroad. From being a farmer's son he had worked his way through college and was traveling through the country in a camping wagon lecturing at the little towns and sehoolhouses upon the “Authraelle Coal Bells of Pennsyl vania.” As a lecturer that man had been everywhere. On the deserts, In tin* mountains, at mining camps and in railroad towns lie had spoken, lie hml camped alone iu ravines and by Mexican dugouts and by Indian vil lages. "Were you never afraid of be ing yttaeKe ! and robbed?" I asked him. “Never," said lie. "I started out years ago believing that most people were honest and that if you trust them they would not betray you. 1 have been among the cowboys and had Indians ride up to me upon the desert miles away from any human being, and I have never been molested. Further more, 1 have never carried a firearm, either gun or pistol. 1 never locked up my things. But I'd go away from my wagon for days at a time, and when I came back I always found my goods just where 1 left them. If you believe people are honest and trust them they will not betray you.” So say I. From a rather varied experi ence I feel sure that most people want to do right. If men do cheat, forge and steal Inevitably you will find that they were first led astray because hun ger or cold or financial exigency of some sort drove them to crime. God Inspire us to help those who are with out work to get work, and those who are without food and clothing to get food and clothing, and those who are in financial difficulties to weather their few months of financial storm. Help that man financially. Do you not hear the wordS of my text, “Loose him and let him go?" God will save that man in financial distress if you disciples will do your part. We must save men morally as weli as help them intellectually and finan cially. I apply that word “morally" to all that is most vile and corrupt In human nature. I do not, however, ap ply It in tho sense Hint you and I [ should go into the city slums and lift up Hie social outcasts, although their | rescue should and must be done by tbe proper Christian workers. But I do apply it in Hie meaning Hint we should i reach out a helping hand and keep I men and women and young hoys and girls from slipping over Hie precipices of moral ruin. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred this can he done if we only place around Hie young folks tho right kind of Christian assocla tlons. The Leaaon of Heredity. There are many Influences which de- telop the moral life besides environ ment. I believe absolutely and em phatically in heredity. The reason the domestic dog circles around two or three times before he lies down to sleep at the kitchen stove Is because Ills wild ancestor In the eastern woods or on western prairie circled around In the same way to track down Hie leaves or the grasses before he lay down to sleep beneath the campfires of the glit tering stars. The reason Hie Jew is the shrewdest and most successful buyer and money lender of the world Is he cause for centuries ho was downtrod den by the gentiles. He could hold no real property. If he was a landowner his estate was confiscated at the whims of his neighbors. The o.ily means of livelihood opened to Bhylock was that of a trader and money lender. The reason the American Indian is what he Is today Is because the wild, romantic life depleted In Fen 1 in ore Cooper's "Leatliorstooklng Tales” is dill iu his blood, and the redskin seems to he unable to anchor bis existence to a farm and change his wigwam to a stone fireside. But, though I believe much in prenatal influences, I also be lieve much In environment. If you and I place- Hie- right kind of associates about our young folks we can inevita- I lily save them for God if we will. How powerfully this truUi came to me a few weeks ago! Our last nation al holiday of Fourth of July was a very busy one for me. I was working hard In my study, in order to hasten my departure for the country, when a dear friend of mine called and, against my protesting voice, carried me off on an automobile ride. For miles and miles we left Los Angeles nehlnd until we came to one of the great reform schools of our state. The steady throb of the engine was stopped, and we entered the buildings, situated in one of the most romantic places I ever saw for a state reform school. The flowers were there; the green hills were there; Hie harvest flehlfc and the orchards were all there, hut as I went through that institution my heart grew sick, for I said to myself, “Nature In all her beauty is here, b»»'. child life in all its sinfulness is here also.” Then I said again; “Supposing one of my daughters should he taken out of her Christian home and in the most 1 critical time of life la? compelled to associate with these wayward girls, ! how would she turn out, what chance for good would she have? Ah, little, very, very little chance!” And so. my friends, If by Hie help of the Holy Spirit i you and I are going to save the young people we must throw about them the right kind of Christian companionship. We must woo them to the church fel lowship. We must make our young i people's meetings so attractive that the j saloon and the billiard parlor and the dance hall and Hie low theaters cau- ' not successfully beckon them for i six nights of the week and we preach to them only on Sundays. We should cling to the young folks of our cities. We should go after them and hold to them all the time. The Sunday school teacher who never finds an evening to visit her pupils during the w<*ck will never have pupils who will have time to sit at her feet on Sundays. The young people of your church who never Invite the strangers to their houses or visit them In their rooms or arrange semisoclal gatherings for them In the church will never have the newcomers crowding their services. Klntlneiia to the Weak. But, lastly, I remark, we must try to liberate helpless men during their time of physical Infirmities as well as dur ing their time of physical strength and good health. Of all times during which we can most appeal to helpless man the best Is when he Is lying upon an Invalid's bed or In times of agonizing sickness. Sometimes a strong man or woman is not easily susceptible to once let tho strength once let the brow he- feverlsh, once let the to retain its nourlsh- the slightest kindness, as a rule, will bring tears of gratitude to the eye and words of thankfulness to tin* trembling lip. But, though the sick bed is Hie greatest and best of all pulpits over which to preach, how few of us ever embrace the opportunity to minister there in God’s name as we should! Indeed, as horses will nearly always shy and run away from a sick horse which is lying upon the ground, so I think well people, ns a rule, shun and fear sick people. “Why do you not spend your sum mers In Asheville or the Adlrondaeks or in Colorado or In Redlands of south ern California? Are they not beauti ful places ?” I ask you. "Yes,” you answer, “hut I cannot stand the sick people. Wherever you go In these places you find them there, weak and pule. Coughing, coughing, coughing, appalling coughing, is continually heard on all sides. Sickness is to me j very depressing. Why, I dislike to look even at the windows of a hospital. I As for going through a hospital, 1 I would no more do* It than I would enter the operating room and see a | surgeon cut off a man’s leg.” But, my friend, did you ever stop to think that j as others are sick so some day you may he sick? Then will you not need comfort? Week In and week out some of these invalids have to Ho in bed with no callers. No one comes to 1 bring them a flower or utters a word of prayer or speaks to them even one word about Christ, yet by their very ■ sufferings these sick people are In Just right mood to reach up and take Christ by the hand, if you will only show j Hiem how. But before 1 close I bethink myself i of one fact. Perhaps you are not yet ' fitted to go forth on these errands of gospel mercy. Why? Perhaps you are today hearing God’s voice which spoke at the tomb of tiie dead Lazarus and yet you yourself are sitting or stand lug before me hound hand and foot with the graveclotbes of past sins. Then, my friend, will you let me re move them In Christ's name? Will you let me take away that sin of the hand, that sin of the foot, that sin of the eye, Uiat sin of the Up, that sla *f the heart? Paul, Hie chief of sinners, was once bound as you. Will you let me, in Christ’s name, speak unto you the words of hope? Then, like the good Ananias of old, I will say unto thee, blinded with sin, "Brother Haul, Broth er Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, whom thou hast teen on the Damascus road, hath sent me Hint thou mlghtest receive thy sight and ho filled with the Holy Ghost." In Christ's name your eyes may he opened. Then you will lie ready for his service. Will you here and now consecrate your life to taking off the graveclotbes which are binding sinful men as you yourself were once hound helpless in the vlsohke grip of sin? [Copyright, IMS, bv Louts Klopaeh.] Indigestion Causes Catarrh of the Stomach. For many years it has been supposed that Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestion and dyspepsia, but the truth is exactly tha opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re peated attacks of Indigestion Inflames tha mucous membranes lining the stomach sod exposes the nerves of the stomach, thus caus ing the glands to secrete mucin Instead of the juices of natural digestion. This la called Catarrh of the Stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cura relieves all inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the stomach, protects the nerves, and cures bad breath, sour risings, a sense of fullness after eating, indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Kodol Digests What You Eat Make the Stomach Sweet. Bottlesor.ly. Regular size. $1.00, holding 2H times the trial size, which sells for 50 centa Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO-, Chicago, IN. ProtectYourself e e e kindness. But leave the arm, come hot and stomach refuse incut, and then Against loss by accident, sick ness, fire, storms, and leave your family comfortably “fixed” when you die, by investing iu an INSURANCE POLICY. I represent the best companies. a a a D. C. ROSS. For Sale. One 163 acre farm, splendid land. 4 vacant lots, as pret ty building lots as you will find in Gaff ney, for $250 and $300 each. 2 vacant lots three blocks from Lime stone street, for $100 each. 3 nice houses and lots close iu. 1 house and lot $325. Others we will be glad to show you any time. No obligation to buy. Robertson & Gullick. FOLEY&KIDNEYCURE Makaa Kldnaya and Bladdar Right No business can possibly be successful that is not adver tised. This is a sweeping statement, but it is true. There are gome 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 advertis d. 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, wifi thrive and bear fruit. A properly organized business, in any inhabited place, well advertised will succeed. Tbe law of growth is as certain and inexorable in one case as the other.